The Arkansas advocate., 1834-04-18
ROCK, GA. T.) FRIDAY, APRIL IS, 1884.

u regard, not to local advantages but to the safety and advantage of the whole eoun- I try. He could not concur in the opinion that It was ridiculous to place for. for de- fence Of our territory in the hean of the Indian country. On the contrary, this was the very best means of preventing Indian aggression. They would never attempt in- vasions or depreciation, with 2 United States force III their rear, and in the immediate vi- cinity of their towns.
 Mir. HuBBARD remarked. that fe would submit few remarks to the consideration of the Committee. Before Before he he proceeded, however, he would, in the outset express a strong desire that the Committee should go through with this bill, and, on rising, report 1t to the House. The public iaterest re- quires this at our hands. The public ser vice is now actually sufleting for want of the appropriations provided this very bill
 The gentleman from Ohio las urged some objections to this particulara appropriation, for the purpose of extending and repairing the barracks at Fort Gibson, on the ground that the other appropriations contained in this bill, having relation to the same sub iect-matter, were sufficient to enable the Government to put in repair the barracks connected with this fortifeation. The gen. tleman is mistaken. If any reliance is to be placed upon the communications made by the Secretary of War to the House and to the Committee of Ways and Means, this appropriation IS necessary for the purpose designated. The gentleman from Vermont had made an objection to the isem, on this ground that 1t was too large. He very dis tinctly admitted that tie proposition Of the gentleman from Arkansas ought not 10 re- ceive favor; that, if any change whatever in the location of the fortiiieation should be made, 1t certainly should not be removed to the east upon the lire of Arkansas, but that 1t should, and probably at some future ! time would, be removed still further west
 He entirely agreed with his friend from l Vermont upon the subject of the location ] of Fort Gibson: but he differed with him as to the amount required for making the necessary barracks at that point for the ac- conmodation of the officers and soldiers 0 the Army who might be qnartered there.- It does seem that some reliance should b' placed on the explanatory eommunicat!oi
 which had been received from the Secreta
 " of War, and which had been read t the Committee. It is there sxpressly stat I ed what would be necessary to erect per manent quarters at this point, such as wouI
 be necessary for the proper use of the Ar my. The Secretary has expressly stated h,,ro hnt sand dollars would be required; but he doe
 not ask you for such an appropriation; h only calls for an appropriation necessary {, put in proper repair the barracks for the ac
 commoda'ion of the dragoons ordered there
 in addition to the troops previously station
 ed at that fort. It is necessary that tn,
 works should be extended. in order to an
 swer the purpose. Stables are indispensa bly, necessary for the horses used by th
 corps, and every consideration of policy of justice, and of humanity, combine Tn ia vor of extending the works and rePallin
 the barracks at Fort Gibson, for the du
 protection and preservation of the publi
 property, and for the due comfort of thos
 who are in the public service and he fel
 assured, that less sum than that named i the item under consideration would not sui
 flee.
 The gentleman from Kentucky oppose this part of the bill on entirely diaeren
 grounds. He has ably sustained the amend
 ment of the gentleman from Arkansas
 He contends, in short, that Fort Gibson
 not in the right position in reference to tn
 white settlements that 1t cannot afford tn
 protection to our own people that 1t would if it was carried to the west line of arltan sas. In this he (Mr. Hubbard differed en tirely from the gentleman from Kentucky : What is the object of this fort, and of tn other Notifications, erected near your iron tier? It is to give security to our own Peo pie. To excite the fears of the Indian DO pulatien: to stay the violence of savage fe rocity. And. in his judgment, these object
 would be more effectually accomplished, b
 keeping your forts little in advance c
 civilization, little ahead of our own jur!s
 diction, than they would If located directl.
 upon the line which divides our own iron
 the Indian country. You do not hear o depredaiions committed by the Indians re siding between these forts and our own set dement's. No, sir. The establishment o these forts, armed and supplied with all tn means of offensive and defensive operations in the midst of the Indian populatIon-see'
 hy them, and known to them, cannot fail t keep them in check more efiectually than the same forts were erected more remot'
 from them, and nearer to otsr oaea settlements
 It is, as before remarked, for the protection
 of our own people against Indian depreda tions, that these forts have been kept upoi
 our frontier. And if he could be satisfied
 that they were not properly located, he would
 20 as far as any one to put them where the.
 should be for the most ample protection ant ] security. We arc bound to provide fo