The Arkansas banner., 1850-11-26

 pleie five miles at aach end Of the roads proposed from Little Rock to Memphis. and Van Baren.- Every Legislature wonid be importuncd for apPro- priations to complete an enterprise foo grand too magni6cent to be left unfinished. An odium will be cast upon those who advocate the bill, from which they will moi easily excuse themselves He feared no squandcrng dissatisfaction fl t were left to the people themselves. He opposed the bill because t was unjust his section of ths coantry, it buried the whole North in the swamps of the Mississippi
 Mir. Rector replied at some lengths be saidi "He had hoped something better from the gentleman. Mir. McCnin); he had hoped thai the interests, not only of one section of the country, but of the whole State. the universal good would have been eonsi- dsred, and that these sectional interests would have been forever shut out from their deliberations. He hung his head with modification and humiliation tO find that. at this crisis of the coun ntry, when nor theru aggressions required 80 much greater union and unanimity in the whole south, any gentleman on that floor willing to array portion of our State against tho othet to stake the North against the South. and nveigh against bringing slave labor in competition with the honsst yeOmanry of the North. He asked if the gentleman was infected with abolitlouism. whether he affiliated with Se- ward, Hale, &c or whether the peculiar interests of the dear people, whom he represented, para mount to the welfare of the whole State, or, if to maintain his position aud propitiate future political prospects in the blessed townships he represented the gentleman tMr. McClain) was willing to sacra-
 fee all else, to shut out all considerations of public policy. and hold them nought in the balance with his own individual popularity in his immediate dis trict1
 He called attention to the restrictions and obliga. tions imposed by the act of Congress by which the donation of 500,0c0 acres made. He asked : Have the intentions of the law been fulfilled, or have we utterly disregarded the letter aud spirit of the lawf It Is really ridiculous to appropriate the proceeds of this fund to township purposes and then say that the law has been faithfully complied with.
 All the fund yet collected has been disbursed among the counties. and no one has yet ridden over the first bridge mile of road built with these prc ceeds. According .o the old bill, 10 pay the officers and expenses of attending o the disbursement of the fund will require $ is.0 600 per annum. Six or se- years will suffice to put it all in the pockets of the Commissioners and the lawyers they may em. ploy. The expenses of the present bill will be but S3,ooO per annum. B. thIs bill large portion of the amount of the proceeds i given to the North He was not welded ,o any particular portion of the country, or any particular plan oi improvements. = He was the advocate of the benefits of the whole | State, the entire interests of the country, he denied that the old law had any advantages or that our hopes and expectations of rs good effects would ever be realized, and shuald conventions be held, the expenses attending them would soon swallow | up the whole fund, mol stump would be removed, | nor one single thing doae to ornament or elevate | lNso Ia had vf.Il..x l of the people of Arkansas and believed that they were opposed to ali such buncomoe-izing and ban. boozling. He was wiling 10 make a sacrifice of his personal interests upoa the altar of his county He believed that the Legislature behind the peo. pie, that they have been and if the old act of distribution is retained that they will be behind the people, behind even Texas. and California, be- hnd every thing long tue all powerful arga- ment of the North against the South, and the abom
 nable town of Little R 'cs was permitted te have so rnuch weight and importance.
 1 In many in the bill now presented, the South had been excluded. II had been complied in liberal spiri and with tse disposition to do some- thing for the good of the Stale at laSe To elevate I the moral standing of the community He wished this lund to be applied in way 10 be effective and wohl 20 for any measure that would procure this object. Ol5 farmers m the North suffering daily for want of the iacliies which would be afforded by the improvements contemplated by this bill He was willing to rely upon th- intelligence the sober second thought and patriotism Of the Senate. They woald discard all petty sectional feelings, and pre- indices snG support any vitaIiy affecting l ihe interests of the whole. II. hoped they would come mp in mpenetrabls phaanx -fo put down every disposition 10 denag 'gue and bamboozle, and would support bill to m ike some Internal Improve. ment Of general character.
 Mr Berry moved thai that the committee rise and ask leave to sit aglin, which was granted. FRIDAY, Nov. 9. SENATE Mir Mcclain presented the memorial of James Champlln, relative to lhe education of the blind askinr annrnnriniinns for inc of