The Arkansas advocate., 1836-06-03

we should liRc to know now much land will be sold in Arkansds for the next five years, if such bill passes.
 The Gazette makes a great noise about di- yiding the surplus revenue among the States. Will it be so good as to tell us who introdu- ced bill into the U. $. Senate in 1927, s.for the distribution of a portion of the revenue of the United States among the several States which Bill provided that the Secretary of the Treasury should divide among the several States, i'll the ratio of direct taxation, five millions of dollars on the 1st of January 1928, and five millions on the 1st days of Ja- nuary, in the years 1920, 1850 and ISL and who made long speech on the subject on the lst day of February, 1927? Was it not the Honorable .Mahtoa Dickersda, then Senator from New Jersey, and now a good Jackson man and Secretary of the Navy! This uproar about Clay's land bill is all Judge. We were once opposed to it, too simply because we thought it unconstitution- ala further examination of the subject has must be adopted by which to get rid of the surplus revenue, and of all of theia, this IS (it appears to us,1 the best foI the new States There are three plans proposed. One Is, tc expend it in fortiRcations. Suppose that is adopted. Nearly all the Notifications, and Eall the navy must be built upon the seaboard We shali come in for but small share Sl00,000 at the utmost will be all that Gov ernment will expend upon our frontier. Be plans of Notifications. Increase the navy ii you like, to any extent-bot where is the use of many fortifcations. England's bulwafks are her walls of oak. Let ours be so, too except few of our most important hafbors. Even if we fortify the whole seaboard. it will take le0,o00 men to garrison all the forts. If we build forts, we must increase our stand ling army.
 Ahother plan is Grundy's bill for investing (in fact.) the surplus revenue in rail roat stock. Who will get it all by this plan Arkansas will get none--or at least but 5 small sl,,re. Besides if Jackson sticks to hi, principles, he will veto the bill
 I The third is Clay plan. By this the new States get 10 per cent. over and above thcil regular share. The amount which would fall to Arkansas would establish system o common schools throughout the State, ant construct many important and much needed roads.
 ! 1.-the surplus revenue is to be distributed let 1t be in way as beneficial to Arkansa. as possible. Jackson himself has recon inended this plan Of Clay's--and only vetoed it on constitutional grounds.
 The Constitution of Mexico established ; system of common schools throughout tht eountry--even in the Terrltories-and tht teachers are paid by the General Government There are two of them in Santa Fe, one com mon school and one Latin school-where any
 boy, rich or poor, can be educated at the
 expense of the General Government. Ws
 would rejoice to see the same thing in oul country. It is shanfe' that the Republic Q
 Mexico, which We stigmatise as barbarou. and benighted, should be so far beyond us 1T this particular. We, for one. would like tc see Congress establish the common schoo
 system in every State, if it could be don, } constitutionally, and pay the teachers. If i , cannot be done, divide the revenue among tn, States-and we, with our share, wifi giv, the people of every county three or four com mon schools, whose teachers shall be pai' : out of the common funa- An educated peo