Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1838-02-17

the puOllc lands, Sucn as no other Sen
ator used, and which would almost in
credible to relate. "Lawless intru
Idcrs' Island robbers and inter!opers'
-"as mucl, robbers as if they hao
broken into the Treasury, and taker
the public money, or as if they had ia.
ken the public ships, forts and arms
-sfrauds upon the Government" etc
Such were the epithets which West.
crn Senator bestowed upon the citizen:
fof the new States who have settled or
the public lands. OF course, this Ian.
guage could not be heard by the Sena-
tors from those States without being in
dignant!y repealed; and repealed it was,
with spirit and success which must
be gratifying to all good citizens, and
especially TO the neritorious cultiva-
tors Of the soil who were thus assailed.
The debate will speak for itself, and
will be highly honorable to many Sen
tors who vindicated their conrtituents
from the infuriate and heartless attacks
of MI. Clay. When it came to the
final vote, he found himself in mis-
cradle minority Of twelve votes! We
believe it has seldom occurred that Mr..
Cay has exerted himself SO much to
defeat measure. His innate opposi-
ton 10 the settlers was stimulated on
this occasion by political considera-
tons. Mr.. Van Buren, had recon-
mended the measure; it was, therefore,
an administration measure, and as such
drew forth new attacks. 1t was sup
ported by the Democracy, as Demo
crntic measure, and as such was further
opposed by him. 1t was death blow
to his distribution schemes; and that
vexed him. Finally, it was favorable
to the western farmers, and Of these
Mr.. Clay has proved himself the unre-
lentingenemy ever since the year 1920,
when he was the most violent of all
the opponents to the reduction Of the
price of the public lands from So to
81 25 per acre. He also attacked the
Graduation bill, and the Presidents
of that bill; all of
which was the natural consequence Of
his present position as the champion of
the Federalis!s, and Of the English
Bank of the United States in PhiIadel
phia, and, therefore, the natural oppo-
nent of every thing that is favorable to
the Democratic interest. In this point
Of view, all the laws which aid the Ear.
mers and cultivators of the soil, are
odious and offensive. We repeat, the
debate will speak for itself. 1t will be
read with profound interest in all the
new States, and portion of it will
command retention in every State
We speak Of that part Of the discus
sion which grew up on MIR. e,'';':,cck's
motion to exclude foreigners from the
rights of presumption. The question
gave rise to an animated debate, and
from the manner in which Mr.. Clay
took up the cudgel for Mr.. Merrick's
motion, and thanked him for making
the motion, it was evident that The mo-
ton was prompted by himself, accord
ing to his usual artifce Of pushing for
ward theirs to make the motions Of
which he does not chose 10 appear open
Iy as the author. Mr.. Merrick's
motion to exclude foreigners from the
benefits Of the bill, was decided by
yeas and nays, and shared the fate
which it must always receive when
Republicans are in the majority: it was
triumphantiy rejected. The speeches
Of the Republican Senator'S on this
point, are worthy Of themselves and Of
line occasion. They denounced it as
Federal doctrine-as the renewal Of
The odious spirit Of the cxecrable alien
law Of l79S las an attempt to curtail
the mere acquisition Of properly by
and therefore more delcsta-
bic than an attempt to limit their poll
Lical rights. Finally, it was shown
that this motion 10 exclude foreigners
from the. rights Of presumption. was
made and supported by the men and
The party who were in favor Of giving
10 another description Of foreigner, 10
vit: the London capitalists, the COM
handlers Of the currency, the revenues,
and the polisies ofthe United States;
from the party who gave to an aristoc-
racy Of foreigners the first and second
national bank, and now wished TO give
them third bank, and with it, power
10 govern the Government Of the Uni
ted States.
( P.S. We had prepared the account
Of the, Saturdays proceedings on the
presumption bill for our paper Of this
IMondav1, night. "A the CLOSING scepo