Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-04-26

MIR. ASry moved To suspend the rule for this day, for
the purpose nj proceeding with tho consideration Of the
bill authorizing the President to accept the service OF
volunteers, and The bill Tor the better protection Of the
Western Iontirr which agreed to- ayes TO- noes 40
The House again went into committee, MIR. Mullen
berg in the chair. Thu former bill again taken up.
The amendment Of MIR. Mckay agreed TO as mod
fed.
The question required upon the amcndmcn. Of ME-.
Ashley, which proposed 10 raise additional regiment
Of dragons.
Mr.. Ashley said infantry were Of little use TO put into
the woods against Indians, but they serviceablc
and necessary occupy tho posts; and in %.
to fall back and project the frontier The war in
Florida showed the truth of this assertion Mounted
tho only kind of troops put into the field
against the Indians but it be supposed that
one little regiment, however brave and skrul they
might be- could protect that frontier extending from the
Lakes TO the Gulf of Mexico. In Florida hundred
Indians kept an army engaged lhere Of some two or
three thousand; then that being tie case he asked how
many would take to keep at bay the Western from.
tiers fifteen or twenty thousand warriors. The CO.
vernmrnt was bound, he said, 10 keep f'rce among
them 10 keep them from committing dcpredalions upon
each other, and upon the frontier inhabitants lie ad-
yoca,ed his amendment at length, and urged the
speedy passage Of the bill.
Mr.. Granger to give his assent 10 the general
purposes Of the BILL but particularly 10 tho amendment Of
the gentleman from Missouri. lie remembered, when
the que stion Of removing those Indians from the abodcs
and scpuchrcs Of their fathers first raised argu-
ment in its favor and one that had recommended itself
10 him with more force than any other, the fact that
they would be removed from the vices which civilization
threw around them; that they would be taken 10 a
try where broad hunting grounds would be secured to
them and that there they would follow the chase they
had been accustomed to do in the land of their fathers
lie remembered too, that those who then viewed the
subject calmly and as it would SEEM wise
ly, prophescd what had since happened. But he cons
dccd there was but little 10 fear. No man had higher
confidence in the armed fecmen Of the United States
than he had when called into acon but he did no.
slider that the in which The carried on in
Florida had been the best for putting it down The In
dian cared nothing about honorable warfare; because he
had been taught from his youth to take advantage He
would in fact possess himself of your camp before you
had moved from it ten miles One word in RELATE to
wha. had been said by his colleague, (Mr. Canbrccng)
It seemed that panic must be kept up somewhere,
and he supposed army would next be raised TO pro-
,ect US from the invasion of Santa Anna.
Hlr. Cnmbreleng observed that he had said nothing
about invasion by Santa Anna. What he had said was
that in the case Of Santa Annas coming to frontier
it might stir up the Indians to commit depredations.
MIR. Granger regretted that bis colleague should have
connected Santa Annals name even with Our frontier
Indians. He said, if his blood-stancd flag should ever
be brought our territory that its folds could be
seen, the valley of the Mississippi and Ohio and the