The Arkansas banner., 1844-07-03

and defeat, by unlawful eoob;. competition at the public saIes a'lo prescribed by law. And ss g6s. CHARGE or PIRACY? tas Az. a man who commits an overt t''u ~, VI such as the Senator (Er. Clay, %s' 9a but pirqte2 He did not say ,sl, ilas roJbersj but he characierizs5 'lal bers, assimilating their supposed ,i'. '. q sei@reeof tte public fork fgps5 ns5 to a Pfnadcring of he pa51ie Sra Ta q what is this but ROBBERY Q, atgl2 { S according to the circumslanoell m lA no force, in despoiling the e., its property? 0'e1a
 App. Cong. Globe, page 55. Iss
 By the National intelligence so'S planation of Senator Yoane. tL aa eonclasiVely proved, that N T, 'lsls 7, terized the Settlers on the nnbi;, 0ia
 As LAWLESS RABBi,F a
 As a set of PIRATES.
 As gang of THIEVES,
 As band of ROBBERS.
 If he did not call them by ,1,.. gave them thesa characters, and e' n he would not be deteTed E frots pe9 duty in resisting their claims br by any considerations personal .' He moved, as we have seen. an requiring MT. Van Buren to hawai-. 9l removed thereafter. To show baa ' would have gone, we copy from m1S, ia' Intelligencer of the 9th FebrDorr. " l54 of a discussion which took n3.a l' him and the lamented Senator Iis, souri on the 21th day of January iqs
 eAIr Linn said, that 1t was s4,9s " to suppose, you could by legaI po,. or military force, arrest the onW,,5 of our free and restless population n. onward t has rolled and oaparl continue to roll, until t reached lbs of the great Pacific Ocean, where i, mulated masses would sit down sn ! that there were no more worlds h The American population have andssI consider the wilderness as their n. their inheritance. Whocould orwni say 10 our people, thus fur shalt tbo no farther? No man is worthy tob dent of the U. States, no man can B dent of this Cheat Republic who M tgran enough to order, by military 7 these people to be driven off the h5| had reclaimed from the wildernessuH| owned in common wibh the peoD. United States
 "8Ir. Clay of Ky. said can itbe that this government cannot protee! porty of tlle people of the Uniad l Gan these settlers hold possession \ the aehole force of Ais gopcramr.l REGULAR ARMY, t4e as;ilj;fid ass;ijtfid, ul ] command of the President lfh1 so with the public domain, how soa be the same with all the public H Sir, hope il is not truel trast6s1 will be able to project their propeFa
 Will not the people of the WeseaI generally agree with Senator Linn, ' @aa WORTHY 10 be Presiaeap vs TYRANF enough 10 order the aRE9. ARMY" into the new settlements ai sess the occupants of the land AT POINT or TIE BAYONET2 S emPtionofs, SHALL such TTBN Presidents II 50, give your yoies la BY CLAY.
 But this man would have you belF he only eoneWTed with Mr. Van Bn this point: Hear what the equiyocaii didate for the Presidency said on tl January lS3S, as reported in his 6Ya tellieencer, viz:
 "Sir,a said lEr. Clay, .when l hs thus far lin reading Ar. Van Buren's N l thought our Chief Magistrate woa cue of the property of the people Union. But when had followed hi tle further and pcrceired ftat hs hadt aH the jFILD LgEE,N'TY0.NS emption dnd graduation, and oH &l, TANGLED NOTIONS of @licil heard So much ia yeafs past, l aln paired Qf him.
 His attack upon MT. Van Buren 1 ill favor of the presumption law, wa more violent than Is here reported; ] is enough to show, that so far from ring on this point they were direciyf
 But Mir. Clay says, he was noIoPp the grant of Pre-emptions upon ina ment of the land question, and as q points to his vote for a propositoh by Mir. Crittenden in l840, unitng emption system with q scheme for g the States the moneys arising from of public lands, and 10 his distribal of the Extra Session in l84l. What RY CLAY sansctioning what he had and so vehemently denounced as a ot. plisader, piracy, and roJ5eyl Ciay approving of the seizure of the
 a n-seRais, the public ships, and of the iH the Treasury z It is even soil be believed.
 But let us see aehen Mr. Clay befal ling to join the atieves, robbers, andl as he substantially called the settlers public lands. These denunciatlon' ''SqHatterS'' and of the whole prlc pre-emptions, were al the Decembei Of Congress in 1832-38. Priortoil Mir. Clay had FIVE TIMES reported Senate his plan for giving away the ? of the public lands, viz: on the December 1892, December lola December 10th 1891, December zs. a and December 18th 1886. IN M OF THESE BILLS WAS THERb EMPTION CLAUSE, CT aay PoeS, He protection of actual seiilers' :. i. considered them but robbers and DIN