The Arkansas banner., 1844-12-25
SPEECH OF COL. J. G. WALKER.

OF THE SENATE
 On He Report of Inc Joint Select Committee appoint
 cd 10 re-arestigate he conduct of Col. fl. II. Sc.
 Uier in the Sale of He State Bonds.
 MT. Walker said:
 MR. PREsIDENT-l have not often troubled the Senate with long speeches and hope l may not-but feel it my duty on this important occasion, to make few re- marks. think owe it to myself, my coun- try, the Senate, and particularly to my friend Col. Sevier-because the Democratic party to which l, and my people belong, has been indirectly attacked through an attack, unjust and unprecedented, upon Col. Sevier, one of the leading and highly worthy Representa- tives of the party. And l owe some remarks to the Senate, because may probably throw some additional light upon the subject mat ter of the Report, upon which they are about to act.
 Sir, 1 consider the issue now before the Senate, one between a Report made by a committee at the last session of the Legisla- ture, and a Report made by joint committee of the present session, on the same matter, which has been adopted by large majority of the House.
 In deciding the issue-belore we give our judgment as to which report is correct, for they differ widely, we must look well to all the circumstances connected with the reports and particularly should we consider the source of the two reports, and the motives which in all probability prompted the fra mers of the one to which this is refutation.
 Mir. President, will here state that it is my solemn csnviction, that the report of the committee of the last session, in relation to the conduct of Co.,. SEVER, as agent for the Bank in the sale of the State Bonds, which was adopted by the House of Representatives, was conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity! l will mention no names, but, SIT, will so identify certain characters who had hand in perpetrating an unjust attack upon Col. Sevier, that you will hardly fail to un- derstand my allusions.
 believe, sir, that the whole project was concocted by that great captain general of whiggerry, the immortal SABlNus. The gen. teman who was once fond of floating on the smaller waters of Tennessee. The gentle man who was once fond of riding over the plains of Mexico, on descendant of the animal that our savior rode into Jerusalem Him who was once travelling to the North but returned to the south, and afterwards taught the children their A. B. C.-the young idea how to shoot The gentleman who is doubtless entitled to great eminence as 6 lawyer, having read Blackstone's commen- taries on the laws of England, Chitty on plea- ding and some work on bills, together with Robertson Crusoe, Sindhad the Sailor, and 8 host of novels before he was admitted to the Bar-and afterwards became the devoted friend and attorney of the Real Estate Bank at almost no salary at all. The heroic gen. tlenan dug the grave of Democracy in Ar kansas, but failed to bury her by about 45OC fighting cocks.
 And now Mir. President, as to who brough forth the enormous Report of the last sess, ion-iust picture to yourself a Falstafl of { man. who was once dealer in goods, ther dealer in pills, then Hot Spring number ont ] next the nominee of the ;Whg Caucus lo Governor. and finally Hot Spring number 900 i Next picture to your imagination ser epant major, who was once flaming minis ter. and great phiosopher-then gave him self ID to pleasurable propensiies, was or that account cast out from among the saints and become a lawyerTallerwards an adlunc of old Hot Spring, and now politically de funct
 Again, sir, behold corporal captain, once a little hoy in the State of Kentucky, ant next little Lawyer and small politician II the State of Arkansas and adjunct the 2d o old Hot Spring.
 Now, sir, having adverted sufficiently tc the source of the Report of the last session