Piney Woods planter and Amite union literary reflector. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1838-1838, 1838-06-02

ton and reduction of the price of public
lands, as it passed on the 18th ult. Clay
is acting in conformity with his settled
policy to oppose every measure anywise
calculated to benefit the new states of the
west, voted against this bill, because by
reducing the price of government lands it
will give the poor man an opportunity to
provide a home for himself and family
facilitate the settlement Of the new states,
&c. 1t is bill of great Importance to
Mississippi, and we are much indebted to
the exertions of our able senators Walker
and Trotter, for its passage through the
Senate. Mark ye, people of Mississippi,
Henry Clay done his best to defeat your
Senators in procuring this measure so be-
nefcial to you. And this same Clay is the
man of whom the Natchez Courier, either
from ignorance, or moved by the same
spirit that actuates some of his brother
Wings, says ''We said ON the Odd and Oath
that he was and is a great favorite on the
cotton plantations of Mississippi" He
may be ga great favorite" with the feder-
alists and bank-men about Natchez, who
voted for John Quincy Adams, the arch
friend of abolitionism, in 1928. Adams to
them was without "spot or blemish," tho
they were told that he was an enemy to
the institutions of the south. Clay aided
in making this "puritan of New England"
President, for which he received the office
of Secretary Of State, and is more clearly
proved to be an abolitonist than Adams
himself was, hence, rv~I~- l. - r.
GREAT favnrita'' with tho editor OF the Cou-
rier, with whose spirit it is we'll known,
that truth is totally incompatible, but he
is not, nor never can be ga great favorite
on Cotton plantations of Mississippi,n
while those who live upon them retain any
remembrance of the past, When they
can forget his hostility to the interests of
Mississippi, when they can forget the evils
the tariff has inflicted upon them, when
they can forget his opposition to pre-emp-
ton laws and laws for the reduction OF
public lands, when they can forget ''Clay's
Land Bill" then, and not till then will he
be ''a great favorte on the cotton planta-
tons of Mississippi. We live among the
cotton farmers, and have heard more than
one wing here, when asked if he would
vote for Clay, say ''d--n me if | swat
low that"
A Bill providing for the reduction and
graduation of the price of the public
lands.
BE 1t enacted by The Senate, and House
Of Representatives. ofMe United States Of
America an Congress aSsmbled. That
from and after the thirty-frst day of
December, in the year eighteen hun
dred and thirty eight, all the public
lands of the United States which shall
then remain unsold, after having been
offered at private sale, at one dollar
and twenty-five cents per acre, for five
lsars, shall be subject to entry at one
dollar per acre; and all lands which
shall have been So offered for ten years. !
shall be subject to entry at one dollar
per acre; for twelve months after the
said thirty-first day of December eigh- t
teen hundred and thirty-eight, and af-
Ter that time the same shall be subject $
% entry at the price of seventy-fve
cents per acre; Provided, That no one +
person, under the provision of this act, =
hall be authorized to purchase more
han one sectiou; Provided also, That $
10 one shall be prohibited from enter "
ng any quantity, as heretofore, of the c
ands embraced by this act, at the price S
f one dollar and twenty-five cents per $,
ere. =,
A writer, whose name we know not, sc
oserves that the sons of the poor die tn