Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1836-09-08
ExTRAcTs FROM
MIR. CLAY's SPEECH,
Delivered at Woodford, Kentucky, on the
29M Of August.
EXTRACTS FROM
29M Of August.

Six Senators only, embracing most of the
administration leaders, voted against the
deposite bill. II was amusing To- witness
their long faces and awkward predicamcnts.
There stood Mr.. Wright, one of them with
his project tu dispose Of the whole surplus
by an invcst tnIent Of IT in the debt OF u few
States which had issued Stock. This would
have conferred no benefit upon the States
generally and would have ten.rd t" aggrand-
lzc two or three States only (his own sIu"ng
thcm) or tie foreign stockholders OF the debt
created by those States. There stood Mr..
Grundy, another Of the six, with his PROJECT
to evaporate the surplus in locomotives on
railroads, under the honest administration oi
Amos Kendall. There stood tie Senator
from Missouri, (Col. Benton( wI'h his projects
10 exhaust the surplus in arms, armonries,
standing armies and iortiicotions, the latter
planted on the coast SO thick that. as was
Justly remarked by his Colleague (Mr. Crit
tendcn) you would never br out of hearing Of
a cannon from the bay of Passamaquoddy to
the Balize There stood the new Senator
from Mississippi Mr.. Walker) not exactly a
leader, but candidate to be leader, with
his project, which aimed rather to prevent the
accumulation OF any surplus hereafter, by re-
ducing the Price of the public lands 10 "a mere
nominal sum, ut Il period when the uncxam-
pied amount sold demonstrates that the price
is not too high.
It.was impossible to contemplate this wo-
stricken group of leading Senators, without
mixed feelings Of pity aud rIdIcule, the lat
ter however greatly prcdommatIng. They
stood alone with their glory. Their follow
era had all left them, to follow the people,
who demanded the distribution. They re-
minded him Of an anecdote which he had
heard duringthe Presidential contest between
AI A ta,l Al hans
not in the most commisseratIng spirit, he
could not resist the temptation to tell It To
the Senate. lie would repeat II here. Whilst
that contest was in progress a Convention
had assembled in Baltimore TO promote the
election of Mr.. Adams. 4 raw lrlsinnan,
who had just arrived in the United States,
being near where they met expressed a wish
10 90 in and see what sort of looking persons
the members were. He accordingly went in
md remained some time. and on coming out,
being asked how he liked their appearance,
he said, by Jasus they are set o! very d0ccm
looking gintemen; what pity It is that they
lave not some constituents. Now, he could
not agree with the Irishman, in bestowing
the compliment upon the personal appear
ance of the Senators referred to, but he en-
tircly concurred in thinking that they had no
followers, nor constituents III voting against
the depeste bI!i.
1t was repeatedly denied by one of those
leaders, during the session, that there would
be any surplus. But since it's close. in an
official document published by the order of
Congress, the Secretary of the Treasury ad-
inlts that The surplus on the lst of January
next, will exceed twenty-seven millions of
dollars. II ought to be near torty-six mil
lions, " the amount due from the old Bank Of
the United States il brought, as it may be
brought, into the dvsible fund. But sup
posing it only twenty seven millions, the pro-
portion of Kentucky vii! be about one mill
lion and half.
Mr.. Clay animndvertcd upon the conduct
of the present administration toward the In
dian tribes. 1t had been productive of fraud,
violence and injustice. by treaties or pre-
tended treaties made with them, both the u.
States and the Indians had been defraudcd
out of lands of immense valne, under the
forms of reservations, which had gone 10 en-
rich individual speculatOrs. BY our Ill treat
ment of them, they are goaded into acts of
desperation; and then the sympathies Of the
white people are appealed to on account Of
Indiuu depredations. The object Of this poll
cy is to remove them from one side OF "A river,
where they are surrounded by the whites, to
to the other side, where they will soon be a.
gain surrounded by the whites. And before
tins process Of removal is completed, whilst
1t Is yet in progress, the States IN whose
ncighborhood, west of the Mississippi, they
are placed arc calling upon the general gov
eminent for protection against the danger ol
Indian hostitios. Already two regiments
OF dragons have been raised permanently
for that purpose, and at the last session bill
passed the Senate TO augment the standing
urlny by an addition of four thousand men,
and the chief argument urged for it was the
concentration OF the Indians west of the Mis-
slsslppi. Thus permanent charge Of greet
annual amount Is fastened upon the country
to carry out this policy. Taking that in view,
the cost Of Indian treaties Of Indian wars,th
consequence of the policy, and ther expen-
ses, Mr.. Clay believed that the cost Of this
removing policy would not fall nue., short of
fifty millions OF dollars before it was hnally
executed.
He spoke of the Cherokee treaty ratified
mt the last session of Congress. No vote of
the Senate. since he had been membe had
given him more pain or excited more surprise.
Gov. Carroll ofTcnnessee and Parson Sche-
merhorn "a disgrace to the pious and honora-
bic profession of which he was ulember
had been Jointly appointed 10 treat with the
Cherokee nation, composed, according to Il
report of the Secretary at War, of about iS,.
600 souls. Gov. Carroll could not attend
and the whole business fell into the hands o
tire Porson exclusively. The Cherokees IL
general council in September last, appointed
n committee to treat. With them he did no;
treat, Instead OF treating with them for the
purchase Of the Cherokee country, he made
proclamation that he would at specified
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