Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser., 1842-10-22


CLAIMS IN THE NEW PURCHASE.
The only persons who have the right
to drive settlers off the new purchase
are the Governor and the Indian Agett.
The idea that other government officers
than these have this right, or the right
to prosecute our citizens, is erroneous.
With the exception Of the traders now
settled in the country, one man has as
good right as another 10 any claim he
may make, whether he be private cltl-
zen or a public officer.
II is presumed that the township claim
laos, adopted here at the first land sales,
will govern in the new purchase, and
that every citizen will be protected in
his claim against the bids Of spectators.
or The bullying Of mammoth specula-
ting company.
| Companies that lay claim to whole sec
tions, townships and counties, ought to
be and We doubt not will be excluded
from the benefits Of the claim law sys
tenn. !.
Certainly no claim can be made with
any proprie,y previous to the ratifica-
tion OF the treaty. Claims made after
1 that time will doubtless hold good unaer
the claim law.
i Any claims now made BY mere mark
ing will be worthless, unless the per-
sons making them are fret upon the
J. ground after the ratification 10 defend
them.
! This we take to be the spirit Of the
l,tclaim law system, which had for its orig.
inal object the protection Of the settler
against the bids Of the speculator-and i,
] will be but carrying it out fairiy4to
bring it to bear sagainst a company ol
spectators who baud themselves togeth-
er in advance to drive and ffigh,cn the
single citizen from his rights.
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r AMERlC M FUR COMPANY, &c.
r The Hawkeyespubfishes the correction
: VIII ich we made in our last relative to the
g failure Of the. Anne rican- Fur Company,
and also the CORRECTION which we madssin
5 regard to tho course which we were in
8 formed the traders wouldtpursue relative
: to the recent treaty, and says: ."rhe first
: paragraph does justice to company
0 which that paper 1.-THE Gazette] has oil a.
J. long held up as being the most obnoxious
e monopoly that ever existed. The secon
i paragraph does justice also to individuals
d whom, as traders attached to the fur com
v pany, that paper has always till now bit
j, tcrly opposed, as its files will show"
ri Now we presume the future files Of thi.
e paper will show the same sthing-opposi
: tion to the Fur ComPany-for we do be
It lieve it most "obnoxious monopoly
# and opposition to ali concerned with IT,
y But shall this prevent us from rendering
!. them even handed justice9 Can we no
il correcta misstatement in regard ,to them
:. without exciting the, special wonder o
# their organ? That paper will be in fet
n Of error snlpng as Il makes q cri!ercer
LOT itself for the judgment Of others. A
o Ileastitis not the design Of this paper {
k persevere knowingly and wilfully in
. sefies Of misrepresentation. =
II 1T was published in the Eastern paper
= that s.the Amcrican Fur Company ha
u failed ldr large amount. That pub!ica
,r17ion VAS transferred in substance to II
. columnssof this paper. twas gcneralI!!
i. funderstsed tha. sePicrc Chotean, jr. AM
5 o.btrs Of ST. Louis, were still part Q
n fthat company.
III Subsequent TO the publication We wer
d Informed that the ST. Louis bSanch ha,
i some time since withdrawn from the ol,
}. eon1pany, apd we corrected the statemen
i accordingly. But by so doing we by n
! meeans withdrew our s'opposition' iron
II Sthis .sobnoxious monopoly" We cannc
y see that i, is loss obnoxious now thar
= formerly. Tie change il the compan.
y - has made no change in It's operations a
1 mons the lndians. We therefore see n
y reason 6resasing to "hoid them up i
e their old snds:obnoxi56s'' deAsupity. Tn
editor of tks Hawkeye, on the contrlry
g may not only see. bta feel, very sub
% staptial reasun for holding them up ANON,
D his angels of purity. We beg him TO b
in no trepidatlUn lest we fall into the geo
graces Of these gentlemen--fors such il
u sol our intention, as we have no favor
!: to ask. To him bepnll the "honork ant
'el emoluments' Of the office he holgsOndo
,s1them.
10 With regard 10 oss-sccond correction
n, in which we .sdid justice also TO indivi
I'll duals, whom, as traders attached to th'
is company, we have always bitterly op
il posed" we have this to say--that tha
I correction was. accompanied with an ex