Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1844-03-16

Clay, We remember that we wrote to friend 1t
this plaes informing hin of5De language then
used BY him towards our settlers, all of whom
were then Is Mr. Clay sneeringly calls them)
sSQUATTERa Tire public lands;' and it win
be seen by reference to the columns of this pa
per, published in October, 1889; that, in reply to
an article in the sslIawksys'' (then "Patriot')
we there fixed this charge upon Mr.. Clay; and
we would not now trouble ourselves with re-
newal Of the evidence, but for the fact that the
wings Of Iowa have settled down upon Mr.. Clay
and his principles a. being the 'swatchword"
for their fight for the coming contest, and for the
reason that the then citizens of this Territory
comprise but about one-fourth ~ present
voters. Besides, a we have said before, Mr.
Clay has seen fit to write all over the country to
Tom, Dick and Harry, for the purpose Of de-
ceiving the people in regard to his former acts
and course--not forgetting even the poorsSQUAT-
TERS' Of Iowa.
Having fixed beyond controversy, the charge
Of his having abused the settlers, we will pro-
coed further to show his opposition 70 their in-
terests, the interests Of the people Of this Terri
tory, and to our foreign population.
On January 9th, 1898, Mr.. PRENTISS, q
Senator from Vermont offered the following
amendment to the above presumption law.
".vor shall amy person haze amy right,
or Be entitled to patent, under or BY virfse Of
thas act, srsthosd paying, IN addition to the
statute nsaasnsuns price, AT LEAST oNE-HALr
OF THE REAL VALUE OF THE LAND ABOVE
THAT PRI E, not including improvements,
to be ascertained by three judicious disin-
terested appraisers under oath, to be APP
pointed by the Register Of the land Office in
the district where the land is situated"
Which amendment was negatived by vote Of
81 to 10-Mr. CLAY and other wings rotimg
for It
What would have been the effects of this
amendment here in our own county had il
passed? How many of our farmers whose LANDS
are worth 10 and 20 dollars an acre--and made
thus valuable too, by their own labor-would
have been compelled to have sacrificed them all!
Will men who have been thus situated be now
Influenced to give in their adherence to man
who voted for such measure? We opine not.
| This bill was passed to the third reading by q
vote of 26 to l2-Mr. CLAY, with 10 other
wings, and one democrat Mr.. Roane, of vir-
ginia,) voting in the negative.
| The bill was further debated, on the 29th and
and 3Oth Of January, by Messrs. Webster, Full
ten, Lyon, Walker and others in favor Of 1.-THE
two latter of whom charged Mr.. Clay in his
presence with having denounced the settlers as
Gland pirates, .planderers" and ssrobbers," &C.,
Se.,-and by Messrs. Bayard, Calhoun and Clay
in opposition to it, and was finally passed by the
FLOWING vote:
YEAS.-Messrs. Allen, Brown, Ben
ton, Buchanan, Clay, of Alabama, Cuth-
burt, Fulton, Grundy, Hubbard, King,
Linn, Lumpkin, Mouton, Nicholas, Niles,
Norvell, Pierce, Rives, Robinson, Sewer,
Smith, of Connecticut, 7allmGdge, Upton,
Walker, Webster, WI ts, Williams, Wright
and Young-3O.
NAYS-Messrs. Bayard, Calhoun,
CLAY, Of Kentucky, Czayt n, Crltienden,
Davis, Mexican, .Mcrrick NJ IRIS, Pretiss,
Preston Roane, R bbins, Smith, Of Indiana,
S mhard, Spencer, &cit and Wallis.