Arkansas intelligencer., 1843-07-29

take and destroy all liauors found in the country
trary to law, but this man. .clothed with little brief
authority with contempt the law OF Congress-
the regulations anc instructions of his superior and
medies the evil in "a way consonant with his arbi
trary and despotic temper.
We ask why does he not proceed against these ntru
ders and whiskey Sellers awfully1 Why does he
pie upon the rights and interest of others he ,nnocen
within his prescribed limits ~ Let him answer Let
him account to an indignant public> We call upon
him to answer why he thus contemptuously tram
Piles upon the laws Of land Laws that We all
pect and obey. He is our instrument-our servant /;
and he must think because he ARA we'd in silks
and ne iinnen." and decorated with lace and tinse,
that he is not responsible u.s. for his acts We call
upon him to account to us. for his conduct; and we
will ring our demands into his until he answers
yea ! come.'
The Colonel opens his third clause with the fatest,
mixed up and what he thinks, doubt, the most
logical and unanswerable arguments that were ever
offered by an officer of his high rank to dull, unlet-
tered set of plebians We must here MENTION that the
best evidence of the unlauness of the act is the ef
fort Justify himself before he is complained of and
the weakness of the argument that he offers.
He says that the land of the Dragon Cantonmcnt,
and far beyond (how definite, how scrupulous)
required for military purposes in
try" Most sapient Colonel! So tho balance of
the Cherokee Nation and in the treaty of 1928 the
Government sold it to the Cherokees. leaving
of tOo miles wide, and sir miles long,, for military
purposes at Fort Gibson-not the Drogoon Canton
nent, for was not built until 1884. Here this
pcdantc tyrant referring treaties sustain himself
but here he fails. and then he supposes." 1t is ad-
mitted that left for military purposes
but he has. without treaty, extended its limits. The
treaty of 1928 to the Cherokees peaceabe
possession Of the whole country and they have right
to erect ..buildngs sheds within inch of the
line and argument offered in tho Colonels order
will sustain him in denying them this right. We will
further remind him, if he has documentary evidence
before him, that in the Of 1872 whom the no.
torious Mason, another petty yrant of the stripe
stretched his authority beyond the limits of the
serve"-when he threatened to burn " buildings and
Sheds belonging to Cherokces the Secretary of War
ordered him to off the lines of the and to
keep tho military within its limits. We think that
when the military finds the neghborhood Of the Chero-
kee nation is annoyance to them. it is time to
move not the Nation from them, but the Post from the
Nation Move it into the State, where it will receive
watchful care.
The4 tn clause attacks the rights Of American
He orders that additions ,oiH be allooed
buildings already up, in these prescribed limits This
clause points to buildings being erected by licensed
traders, Messrs Alexander and Dickson, and Mr.. Run
yan--AMERICAN CITIZENS--men of respectable
standing and probty of character have under the
ap of Congress- been licensed to locate and trade with
in these prescribed limits by the Agent of the Che.
rokees, who alone has the right grant, reroke
eel licenses to place thern thore. Ai.Plaoo them
and not Col Davenport. Blu. the agent
ed his back upon the country. this petty tyranncal
.,sIz.
by authority.
We wish readers to understand that VIC are not
the advocates of gamblers and whskey sellers, but
we defend the ajesty Of the lawsthe rights inter-
ests and feelings Of American citizens and of the In
dams on this frontier. We the determined enemy
to usurpers and tyrapts We with graspng ambi.
tious officers We will be found fighting for our
free and republican institutions and when sec off
whether military civil. far from the supervision
of the Government which sends them here, trampng
upon the rights Of citizens, their soveregns and mas.
tiers, using their delegated glory themselves
at the expense Of the people, voice shall be raised
The interest that take in the peace this from
tier and of establishing friendly with our
red neighbors. besides feelings of justice,
and duty, make it incumbent upon to notice when
an officer who is placed among them for the purpose of
promoting peace and establishing friendly intercourse
with them, fails to do his duty and instead of per-
forming this duty, pursues a course calculated to en-
bitter the feelings of the Indians against the whites
SOW among them the seed of hate and mty--we will
always be heard calling upon the Government to move
this officer before he ignes fame that he cannot al
lay The rights and feelings of Indians dear to
tom as they to and it is duty, from policy
and humanity, to respect them.
The conduct Of Col VIM. Davenport, United States
Army, justly entities him the detested appelation
Of a PETTY TYRANT. a -
Our remarks may appear personal---very. are: and SO
were those that were made by the press when the
tor Arnold betrayed his trust. =
Important rurnor contraiieted "A friend writes Us
from Washington city, that he is authorised state
that Bob Tyler DOES not take pepper sass upon his
meats at dinner Woarc happy to hear it, for take
the uery same upon our mutton
A splendid composition. The Charleston Mer.
curry says that Bob Tyler has written letter to Dan
OConnell, in reply to from the Repeal Association
of Ireland. and very complimentary letter it is.
Greens.-The Philadelpha Forum gives the reasons
of Young Tyler's visit to China. 1t says ho has
heard that the ocusts will mp every thing green
the country this year,
Bob where are you now?" 1t is time to be off.
The National Intellgencer the course of some re.
marks about the pckpockcts who operated in Baltimore
citv during the Wait of the Pres;dent =. 4. W..