The Arkansas banner., 1844-05-22

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 Senators in the Congress of the United States, with regulations as spotless as any. Senator Young said, by way of reioinder to Mir. Crit tenden, who had attempted to deny, or ex- cuse Mr. Clay:
 Mr. President since commenced these remarks, in defence of the position l occupy in this debate, an extract from the speech of the Hon. Senator from Indiana, Mr. Tipton,J on the bill of last session, has been placed III my hands, containing Mir. Clay's osen decla- ration as to what he did say, and for the pur- pose of showing that l did not misrepresent him, in attributing expressions to him, which, it has been jnlimated, he did not utter, beg leave to read the extract to the Senate.o
 Gen. Tipton said, < will repeat as nearly as l can, what was told me yesterday, and if l go wrong, he, Mr. Clay, can correct me l understand that he denounced the settlers on the public lands, AS A LAWLEss BANDITTI OF LAND ROBBERS, nltjustly graSPing at Hte public heaSurc.n Here AIr, Clay rose, and said he would repeat what he did say on the occa- sion referred to by the Honorable Senator from Indiana. 8zg- HE DID SAY THAT THE SQUATTERS ON THE. PUBLIC LANDS WERE A LAWLESS RABBLE: THAT THEY NIGHT AS WELL SEIZE UPON OUR FORTS, OUR ARISEN AIS, OR ON OUR PUBLIC TREASURE, AS TO RUSH OUT AND SEIZE UPON THE PUBLIC LANDS =Et Mr. Y oung concluded by say ing, < 1t is for the Senate to judge, whetherl havemisrepresentedh him or not. Whereupon, MT. Linn, Senator from Missouri, observed in an audible voice, IF IS TRUE, EVERY WORD%OF IT'D
 This would be amply sufficient, gentlemen, to show Mr. Clay's feelings towards the set tiers upon the public lands. But as I would not, were capable, abate the tithe of hair from his just reputation, l offer additional evidence.
 In 1888, when the pre-emption bill was under investigation in the Senate, Mir. Clay proposed the following amendment:
 sSSec 2d. find De t titrther enacted, That all settlements upon the public lands subse- quent to the first day of December, 1887, shall be and hereby are strictly prohibited; <; and the President shall be, and is hereby au- thorized and required to cause all persons, who may settle on public land, subsequent from" This amendment was rejected in op- position to the vote of Mir. Clay and his friends Had he succeeded, 1t would have turned out of house and home many an honestman after having been induced to make l the settlement because of the policy of the l government for a series of years previously. ] It would have stopped the tide of emigration, and the damage the State of Arkansas would have sustained under its operation, would have been incaIeulable.
 This, gentlemen, will be sufficient to sa- tisfy all, that Mr. Clay never entertained a friendly feeling towards the settlers upon the public lands; but that his hostility was vio- lent and uncommon. It is acknowledged, however, that Mr. Clay did denounce the set tiers as .trespassers,3 but that the passage of the bill, distributing the proceeds of the sales ofthe public lands among the States, by which Arkansas received 500,000 acres of land, is amply sufficient to oblterate all his former sins. 1 declare 1t to you as my candid opin- ion, that if there IS one act which ought 10 make l Mir. Clay more unpopular with the people of this State, than any other, 1t Is the act dis trbuting the proceeds of the sales of the pub lie lands among the States. For 1t was not only made the excuse for the passage of the tariff of 1842, but t deprived this State of her rights-it deprived her of 540,000 acres i of land, which will most clearly appear from an amendment offered to the bill during its discussion, by Mr. McRoberts, viz: EeThere shall be granted to each of the States of llli- nois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, quan- ] tity of land which, together with the amount such State has already received, exclusive of the 18th sections for school purposes, shall be equal to the quantity granted by Congress to the State of Ohio; to wit: To the State oi l Illinois, 492,000 acres; to the State of lndi- ana, 2S0000 acres; to the State of Michigan, l 1.37,00G acres to the State of Missouri, 1,48,000 acres to the State of Arkansas, 1,40,000 acres to the State of Louisiana, 1,97,000 acres 10 the State of Mississippi, 1,95,000 acres to the State of Alabama, 672,000 acres; and a similar quantity to that granted to Ohio, shall be granted to each State that may hereafter become a member of the Federal Union: Proridcd, That if the said quantities shall be found to be inaccu- rately stated in this act, then, and in that case, the true quantities to be granted shall be as certained at the general land oflice.n- Sea- ale Journal, D, 161. This amendment was voted down by Mir Clay and his friends; and therefore, this State deprived of more than half million of acres of land, which this amendment proposed to give ill addition to what she received. Why was this donc?- What has Ohio done to give her higher claims upon the government than the State of Arkan- sas? Does she from her position require more aid; Certainly not. This State has as much territory as she-this State has more public lands within her chartered limits-her frontiers are more exposed, and consequently, she is entitled to greater bounties in order to secure her speedy settlement, and thereby enable her to project herself from the hun dred thousand Indian warriors on the wes- tern borders; yet, the same rights granted to ] Ohio. were denied her by Mir. Clay and his