The Arkansas banner., 1844-05-01

new States should receive the sama % as on the 18th August, MT. McRopr,,. ~ amend the Bill, by striking ont M' hundred housand acres, and inserts
 provision ;-" There shall be gr,a',
 the States of Illinois, Indiana M;os.
 ARKANSAS, Louisiana, Mississippi Disal ,'
 quantity of land which, together rri pi,1 ~ such State has already received, ss,,. s 2
 10th sections for school purposes, shah 11 the quantity granted by Congress to q
 Ono; vlz-to the State of Illinois fos,
 nlnety-two thousand acres; to the Sts,.
 two hundred and eighty-eight tbons,s1 the State of Michigan, one million aD1 s thousand acres; to the State of Mis.0a.
 and forty eight thousand acres; to tba s. KANSAS, ONE MILLION and frt, a to the State of Louisiana, one m;p;os
 seven thousand acres; to the State os ,r one million and ninety-fve thousand :,
 State of Alabama, six hundred and so,..' s4' sand acres and' similar quantity to tbi Ohio shall be granted to each State tb.,
 ter become member of the Federal T..
 Here was the occasion-thet time and os for the friends of the new States to sbonP ship and make it valuable. Bnt ,va. | Clay on this occasion-where wac q:
 the West.' who is held up as the swon :. peculiar guardian of western intesest,, m, tain this amendment-did he vote to a. States this additional quantity of land, voted to give Ohio million of acres. h.. was proposed to give the same quanttyo ' how did he vote? The answer is reco,d., Journals of the Senate-he voted asai,,s Arkansas off with only half million ,s had voted .tor giving million to Obio
 The vote stood-yeas l9, naw B T.. voting against it.-[ See Senate Jouraol ,1. 1841, page 161.
 In the foregoing remarks, and reference, limited oursei1 10 lew only of the instsn. during the extra session of 184l, wherein proved himself to be hostile, in feelnc t,a ests of the settlers on the public lands ,,| New States generally. We could cite na, for every step and circumstance of the r ceeding, from the inception to the final or ton of the Distribution measure, are bt manifestations of that hostility. The fries Clay will still exclaim-he is a Wes., and therefore he must be friendly to s. l States. But this is all talk, on their pat speak louder than words.'' And here ,n recorded in the Journals of the Senate Wl not be denied nor defended; acts which hl with the indellible mark of hostility to the Il the public land, to the interests of the Ne, and to Arkansas particularly
 The friends of Mir. Clay claim that h, our gratitude for giving us half million of land-What does he deserve for depririar has done, ofthat quantity? They claim tha serves our gratitude for giving us our pres emption Law-what does he deserve for n us from obtaining one much more liberal q fcient' What does he deserve for prps from obtaining ttoetve and c half per cent ia len per cent. upon the sales of all public aaa our State? What does he deserve for dem of the advantage of graduation and reda the prices of the public laHft4 lands, tftcr tv7 H7 in market certain number of years Wha deserve for opposing and defeating the pm to give to the new States all the public ant their respective limits, after said lands have market certain number of years
 These are questions to be answered bY pie. And they will be answered, at the poll
 We feel that we have made out our casei tained the charges which we preferred az, Clay. Thus, we proposed to shew, from lhe tic records of the country:
 lst. That MT, Clay did not give us our ton Law, willingly; but that he was com to do so, as an indispensable condition to age of his darlinszlPist'1bution Bill; and that ter he had, from Tompulsion admitted the ton feature, he made it as restrictive as he c resisted and defeated every one of the numi forts of the Democrats. to render 1t more i the settler, and more beneficent in its opera
 
 2nd. That so far from giving Arkana million of acres of land, he has actually, by and influence, depriUed her of just that { Have we not established both of these prop We submit the answer to every candid man, Whig or Democrat, who can understand appreciate facts.
 We shall have more to say on this, and subjects, hereafter
 THE MAILs.-We need scarcely excas to most of our readers, for the great death which is exposed in our paper of to-day. had no mails from the East since our last; unimportant ones from any quarter, so Ho0 been the country in every direction. NGd  look more promising for the week to come
 THE ARKANSAS RIvER.-We have to higher rise in our River, than fhat of ten d being now little below the memorable oVti 1883. It is variously estimated here from inches lower than the high water mark cfiI while below Pine Bluff, greater increase has covered all the timber marks of any overflow. We will not venture to predictin in of distress and ruin which must result to oa Planters, from this great disaster, at tlls I' season. It is source of general regret an pathy and will be greatly augmented Oy that there are no cotton-seed to be had on u by those who may be fortunate enough 10 for second planting. The rise was ae inches last night, and is still increasing.
 Nor has the rise been confined to our klfu friends in the South have been equally Il as will be seen below; .,
 From He Washington Telegraph, 9 M !
 RED RIVER has been swollen oy '