The Arkansas banner., 1844-07-03

lucky proclaims, that these settlers should be driven from the public lands, hope that the Senator from Kentucky will be permitted to lead the army which is to perform the work of expulsion and desolation; that he will lead the forces which are to drive from
 their homes and consume the dwellings of these hardy pioneers, whose only crime is
 this: that they desire to secure, at the Go- vernment price, the farms they have selected, and cleared, and cultivated, against the over
 bidding of capitalists and specGlators. And
 when the Senator from Kentucky unlurls his
 banner, and calls for recruits for such pur- pose, can he obtain one, even in the Stale of
 Kentucky, for a service so odious and de-
 testable?''
 App Cong Globe, page 142.
 Mr. Clay followed Mr. Walker, but denied
 nothing he said.
 portion of what he did say, IS thus re-
 ported, viz:
 Mr. Clay said "We have been told of the
 extent of the evil, of the number of squatters
 who have got on the public land and the difficulty ot removing them: and that tbere- fore there was necessity for passing this
 law, 10 give them the lands they have un-
 justly seized on. Do we, said Mr. C.. live
 in a country of laws or not:"
 
 Glow was it with that White House, now Fso amply furnished-with that famous east
 room, and the little man who occupies so
 small a part of it? Suppose a. pre-emptioner was to go there and say, 3lr. President, this
 house Is too large for you am an indus
 tfious cultlyator, one of the bone-and-sineW
 41gi
 house. Would he net have as much right E to squat down here as 10 squat down on the
 public lands;o
 App. Cong. Globe, page 143.
 What can be more contempmous than these expressions relative to the SGttersi But, says MT. Clay ill one of his letters, an explanation took pacea at the next session
 of the Senate, ''0n which occasion a Senator from Illinois, Mir. YoungI acknowledged
 that he had 5Hferred the exceptonable ex-
 pressions from the tenor of my speech, and
 that had not used tbam7
 Now, here is the t'expanation" which 1 Mr. ' oung madeas reported at the time, viz: Senafe, Jun. s, I839 Mr. Young of llli- nois "I'he Senator (5Tr. CHttenden,) asks, | why 1t is, that his colleague Mir. Clay has, alone of all others, been singled out as the } object of yituperation by the friends of this measure; why the whole fountain of their f bitter waters has been poured out upon his { devoted head; and why il Is, that he alone [ IS to be offered up as sacrifice upon the altar Z of Western interests, for having done what he considered 10 be his duty in respect 10 the : greater interests of the Union. Sir, if the ? Senator from Kentucky Mr. Clay stands 1. 4I,;. l, debate, l would ask his honorable colleague, 2 Mr. Cittenden1 grt0 Ptaced him i1 tbat coR- 2 duioa? Has he not, abope ail others, at aH
 fines, and upon ell occasions, when the sub
 jeet Of the public lands has been the topic of { discussion, takeakhe lcaa in deuouneug these } 'LAWLESS INTBuSI0NS' upon the pable z domain, as he is pleased 10 term them2 Has he not in fact, 10 use his own expression, : battled it'fer days together, .softafy,' If not } 'dt0as,' against our pre-eaption and gradua- 3 ton bills, when scarcely man of lis party l would venture 10 the rescHe2 These things conS-dered, MT. President, and how can it be matter of wonder or surprise to the Sena- tor, AIr. Cfittenden4 that his colleague should . be met by the Senators from the new States, upon the ground he himself has seen fit to occupy, so far in advance of his associates,
 as 10 have left them almost out of sight be- hind him: Mr. President, during the pro- gress of the debate on the pre-empton bill, #at the last session of Congress, the honorable 7 Senator from Kentucky }Ir. Clay1 indulged : in expressions towards the settlers of the 7 new States who had gone upon the public lands for the purpose of procuring homes for , themselves and families, which, in my opin- ion, they did not deserve; and as they were , repeated on more than one occasion during that protracied debate with the utmost de- 7 liberation, took note of some of them al the time that they were uttered, n tte precise l terms employed by tbe speaker as ] under f stood him and as l wish 10 recur 10 these 3 expressions, for the purpose of sho~ning r how far, in this respect, the honorable Sena- for (AIr Clay) may or may not have been
 misrepresented, as is supposed by his honor
 able colleague Mr. Crinenden) { aeU refer { 10 Hcm aS { look H,em dolfq, and leave the , Senate to judge whether we of the new States, or the honorable Senator's colleague, have had the most cause to complain of misrep- ,. resentaton. 65-The honorable Senator Mr. !, Clay said, when discussing the merits of
 the pre-emption bill, and of those who were to be benefited by it's provisions, in the de- bate of the 27th of January last, according to my memorandum, that he kne3e of ao ialc or principle of pfopriety, which authorized us to give away the public lands as bounty ; to the poor; as 6otaty for the riolatioa Qt tte zam; that he viewed it (the pre-emption : bill4 as a license 10 C set of LAWLESS IN TRUDERS to go upon the public domain, : and prevent it's sale in the manner prescribed by law; that he looked upon the whole sys-
 tenn of pre-emptions as a SYSTEM or
 BOUNDLESS, SCANDALOUS, FRAUDU- LENT SPECULATION that t was ftlI of fraud, ABOMlNABLE, EXECRABIE
 FRAUD; a system that TAINTED, COR RUPTED aad PUTRIFlED ceeIy one agdo
 toucded #; 93-that these men (the settlers
 upon the public landsl might with eanal nro-