The Arkansas advocate., 1834-04-18

arc ..>ii ;.s:.tesea and nronerly provided at all times, and at all points. He had no donbt the troops could be usefully and pro- perly employed, as the infantry arc, in con- stractiass posts, barracks, NC. necessary for their accommodation, but an approprIa- ton was always made 10 assist their exer- lions, and he was ready 10 vote for 1t m the present case, and hoped 1t would be cx- tended along the whole iine oi the frontier, and he hoped very soon to sec T plan sub mitted by the experienced gentleman at fhe head of the War Department.
 Mir. GAMBLE now moved that the Com mittee riae, but the motion was negatlved-- ayes 65, noes Sl.
 Mr. CLAYTON again advocated MT. BE- yIER's amendment, and went more partic- ularly into an explanation of the geographi- cal position of the two points referred to in the debate, insisting that 1t was absurd 10 place Fort upon the iarlhest inc oi the tribe against which 1t was to protect the country. Such Fort might protect the i. Cherokees but not the people of Arkansas.
 EIr VINToN considered this as the best of reasons why the post should be nain- taned where Ii was, iti. tic Gherokees had ceased 10 be warlike tribe, and one of their chief objections to going West, bad been the dread of their more savage neigh bors, to remove which objection, the Unit cd States had promised to protect them.
 Mr. GoRHAM would receive the Seere- tary's opinion as conclusive in relation to inc inportance of this post, but whether it was to be permanent one or not, was for Congress 10 determine. He was opposed to removing the Fort, but not prepared at present, to say that it ought to be perma- nentiy fixed there. As middle course, he proposed an appropriation of l5,oo0 dol- lars.
 MT. GlLMER, again adyerting to the pa- ciiic character of the Choctaws and Che rokaes,A Aeontended that, If any fort was wanting t this vicinity, il ought to be on the West and not on the East of those tribes. that 1t might protect them from the warlike assaults of the Greeks, the 0sages, and above all of the Pawnees, those Arabs of the American desert. A garrison here would answer the farther purpose of pro tecting the trade between Missouri and Santa Fe--a trade of already great, and every day increasing, valne.
 MT. WATMoUGH went into some farther explanations in reference to his previous remarks, in which he utterly dlselaimed any attack upon the character or military attain ments of the Secretary of War. As 10 himself, at the age of seventeen, under democratic Administration, he had entered the service of his country. He should not say what had occurred when he was in the service, save that his exertions had been given to defend the sound republican prin- ciples of Jefferson. His own course and principles had been invariably, sternly, and unbendingly democratic. Could the gen. teman from New Hampshire say as much.
 Mr HuBBARD replied, and explained what he had before said. As to the princi- ples of the gentleman from Pennsylvania, If they had been so purely democratic as the gentleman declared, all he could say was, that the gentleman has given most miserable evidence of it.
 The question was now put on Mir. SE- vIER's amendment and negatived.
 Mir. H. EVERETT then offered the
 
 to strike out the words "extending the works and erecting additional also the word sstwenty,' and to modify the clause so as to make 1t read "for temporary repairs of the barracks at Fort Gibson, Arkansas, 5000 dollars;n which was agreed to.
 On Friday the debate on this same con- tested item of the bill was renewed, in con- <..rs,,oaao oc Ntr C,rrpp,e .,,ot,<,, +., ,4..l,a out and insert an amendment for barracks at Fort Smith.
 He urged his amendment with tie same ardor he had manifested in Committee of the Whole. He adverted to the time when counties had been erected west of where the line now ran, and the country was in the course of rapid settlement; to tbe con- test between Georgia and the United States Government in relation 10 the Greeks and Cherokees: The belliserents, he said, had been bought of, by giving them land in Arkansas, the fourishing settlers were skiclxed off, and the Indians brought in; and still the garrison left at the old station. These Indians, he said, had gone there un- der irritated feelings, and still cherished tie greatest hostility toward our Government The fort was needed, not to protect them, but the people of Arkansas. He spoke doubtfully of' their advances in civilization; and openly secuted the idea of giving them government. He supposed they were to have Indian Delegates on that floor too. = X beautiful spectacle 1t would be! If such was the plan, he believed he would go back among them, and try and get himself elect ed.
 Mr. H. EVERETT thought the Delegase, oll his own principles, ought not to vote against the item as amended, since, 1t did not interfere with his own plan of a
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