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Glilt'ring, and gay, and fair,
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glassy
eye!
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jt I know that
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mast die!
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My lone, still, dreary
Eve after eve the sun prolong!
His hour of parting light*
And seems to make my farewell hoots
Too fair, too heavenly bright!
I know the loveliness of cartfa
I love the evening sky,
And yet I should not murmur, if
They told me I must die
v
room,
A lonelier find stiller one
Awaits me in the tomb!
cut no soft breeze will whisper theiv
No mother hold my head!
ft is a fearful thing to be
A dweller with the dead.
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My play-mates turn aside theif
When parting with me no|r
e nurse that tended me b^c,
Now Soothes my aching brow.
Ah! why are those sweet cradlcd hosn
Of joy and fondling fled I
Not e'en my parents' kisses n$w
Could keep mc from the dead!
Permanent Prospective Pre-EmtfMen Iaud,
DEBATE IN THE SENATE.
TUESDAV, Jan. 5, 1841.
Mr.
CRITTENDEN,
ot
Kentucky, Gen. Har-
son'gjjew Attorney General, offered jhe following
amendment to the pre-emption bill, which Tie sup
ported in a speech of considerable length:
Provided, That no person being an alien,
shall be entitled to any privilege or right of
settlement or pre-emption granted by this act,
exeppt only such as shall previously have
made in due form of law, the declaration ofin
tenlion, required, by the naturalization laws of
the United States, to become a citizen of the
said United States."
Mr. BUCHANAN went against the "whole
and each of its parts. In relation to the first
clause, lie held that the foreigners who pene
trated to the Western frontier of our vast
country, and there settled upon and cultivated
a tract of land, presented the clearest proof,
and that by the most decisive actions, of his
intention to becomes* eitizen of the United
States. How can it be contended that this was
no proof of such an intention? The whole
conduct of such a man manifested that he was
determined to live and die by the soil. In what
devotion to our institutions, than iolKiv*
transferred his home from his native country
to the far West, and there to have felled the
forest and crected a dwelling (he would not
say log-cabin, for lie had no reason to be par
tial to that name.) for himself and his family?
He thus acquired, not the title to the tract of
land which he had selected, hut merely the
right to purchase and pay for it at the Govern
ment price, in preference to all other persons.
If he should prove unable to do tnis, his labor
was all forfeited. Mr. B. could assure the
Senator, that from such aliens as these he need
apprehend no danger of foreign influence.—
These pioneer farmers were not the men from
whom lie had any Miing to dread. He should
never consent to destroy the title of such a
man, after he liad paid for iiis land, and thus
to render all his toils and privations unavail
ing, merely because through negligence he
might not have gone to a court of justice, and
made a formal declaration of bis intention to
become a citizen of the United States, before
his actual settlement commenced. No.
never!
His judgment ar his feelings would equally
revolt against such an act.
He (Mr. B.) could not understand the oppo
sition which had been manifested in certain
quarters to foreigners, who had sought a ref
uge and a home in our country. Had they not
materially assisted in achieving our indepen
dence In the days of the Revolution no such
jealousy was felt towards the brave Irishmen,
Frenchmen, and Germans, who, side by side
with our native citizens, had fought the bat
tles of liberty. On the contrary, he had no
doubt, it was from a grateful sense of these
services, that it had ever been the settled poli
cy of the government to allow them to pur
chase our vacant lands upon tiM same terms
with the American citizens.
Waa there no reason for pursuing the same
policy at the present day Was it not clearly
our interest as a nation to permit such emi
grants to purchase and possess our vacant
lands, and thus establish a line of defence on
our frontier against the incursions of the sav
age enemy This was a wise policy which
he trusted might never be abandoned.
But the Senator [Mr. Crittenden] made light
of the danger from the hordes of savages,
which, wisely or unwisely, had been collected
on our western frontier: and he thought it was
degrading
to
ed'and
American citizens to be protect-
detended by any foreigner not yet nat
aralisil*
eir n
States, wit
and wounded prid
riowards them naturally in
any time, at all times there wa
a united war being waged by the&
ges against our frontier settlements. W
all know that it is the nature of the Indian
,brood over his vengeance, and to strike th#
most dreadful blow when his enemy least ex
pects it. Was it not then clearly the policy o
the Government to increase the number of in
habitants on that frontier? And if an Irish,
a German, ofra*French emigraat thought pro
per to settle there, was he (Mr. B.) to be cen
sured for having declared that their bosoms
would become bulwarks against the incursions
of our savage enemy? These brave men
would always be ready to die in defence of
those possessions which this Government had
permitted theni first to improve and then to
purchase.
But the Senator thought it would be degra
ding to Americans to resort to such a deface.
Mr. B. well knew that the blood of DoVjwlas
could protect itself." He knew that our own
citizens could protect their country but how
they could be degrded by fighting in the same
ranks with foreigners, as our revojutionary
forefathers had done, be was utterly at a loss
to conceive. This wa.* a species of exalted pride
which he did not understand. And this too,
when these foreigners, united with our own
citizens, were defending their common posses
sions and their home's.- It was certain that
such men would become citizens as soon as
they could under cur naturalization laws but
if any of them, either ignoranlly or from neg
ligence had omitted to make a formal declara
tion of their intention to this effect, he would
liever deprive them of their pre-emption, nnd
drive then* from their home? for this reasoij.—
He could not, therefore, give his support to the
firt clause of the Senator's intendment On
the second clause of the amendment He should
say nothing, as lie did not deem it necessary,
and would not, therefore, protract the debate,
into which he had entered with much reluc
tance.
Mr. CRITTENDEN, in reply to Mr. Bu
chanan, defended his position with ztal and
ability, denying thnt it was introduced through
a feeling of hostility to foreigners, but at the
same time boldly asserting that it was* the
policy of the government not to confer equal
privileges upon the foreigner and the native
born citizen.
Mr. BUCHANAN would slay a few words8'
in reply. The Senator from Kentucky is a
good logician, and, unless he were closely
watched would gel the better of his antagonist
even in si bad cause." His sophistry upon the
present occasion consists in attempting to in
ter from my argument that I was in favor of
substituting an actual settlement upon a tract
of the public land for the declaration of inten
tion required of every foreigner before he can
hecolne an American citizen. It would be
very easy for the Senator lo triiimph, if lie
were permitted to substitute his own forced
inference for my own express declaration to
the contrary. With this view, lie triumphant
ly asks if I would be willing to change our
naturalization laws by rendering a residence
on our vacant la: ds (equivalent to the declara
tion of intention which these laws require?—
Now, I ask him in return, have I ever said
that I would Have 1 ever intim-xted such an
intention? On jjie contrary, have I not ex
oressly declared that I would not grant to any
foreigner
"TiPliUlflts
UTH-|UEIJ u..n i wuuiu iiui IU
er.
Whilst
Kentucky, deny to the foreigner the right to
the pre-emption which he has fairly acquired
by the dangers and privations encountered in
making a settlement on our remote frontier,
1 would not, for this reason, confer upon him
the high political privileges of an American
citizen. The Senator's argument, therefore,
in this particular, falls to the ground. It has
no foundation, in any thing which I have said,
to rest upon. The right of pre-emption is one
thing but the high privilege of becoming an
American citizen is another and entirely dif
ferent matter.
And what, after tU, it tfikis great privilege
of pre-emption? To what does it amount?
What is its intrinsic value It is merely a
contest between the speculator and the actual
settler, as to whether the former shall be per
mitted to purchase the spots of land improved
nnd rendered valuable by the toil of the latter.
Our experience has demonstrated that the av
erage excess of the price of the public lands
advertised and sold at public sale, in pursu
ance of the President's proclamation, is not
more than two or three cents per acre above
the fixed price of the Government at private
sale.
What, then, is the privilege granted to the
settler who goes into the wilderness, clears
away the forest, and there establishes his
home? Does this bill offer such a man a do
nation Not at all. Does it grve him the
land as a bounty No such thing.—-The pri
vilege that it confers is tiiat he shall pay lor
his land the price fixed by law, which may be
less, by two or three cents per acre, than it
would command at public sale and that after
lie lu« paid
for
uished
L-HJ '"v.
it, he shall hold it. And why,
at Ibis fate day, for the first time in
your
tory, should you make an odious distinction,
in this small matter, between the settler who
had drawn his first breath on the other side of
the Atlantic, and the American citizen? No
such distinction had ever existed heretofore,
and
no
in'
es
tor
sire
questio
towards
or shall set
pricniples of
thif»^ more. Ffi
policy to permit
tie upon the public
the first time, esia
against them in a
now, at this late
policy of the country, hi?
shall pursue the system adop
of our predecessors.
.xuy
set
.sMiidiimiJaws ,jllCr „oi'
I should not, with the Senator from rana liprn ^iwl pvprir U'hprp nunhl I,
his­
complaint had ever breu uttered by
those interested,
that
this tntiiag privilege
had been conferred upon foreigners. If the
Senator had carefully read the history of his
country—1 mean on this particular point—I
myself have not, but the fact
has beeu
me by one who has-—what
But the Senator has asked
willing to accord-ithese privilege
"so jealous o£ foreigners holding a
in a petty litt^p hank." This questio1
ende ivor to answer. Sir, said Mr. B.
the class of foreigners who do produce
in my mind—they excite my terror.
BSNTON Yes, the millionaires."] These'
are not the men who fly from poverty and op
pression abroad, and settle in cur country to
share in its toil as well as its advantages.—
They are not the poor pre-emptioner* of the
West, who have indissolubly fixed their fate
with ours, and have no other human hope bul
to live and die upon our soil. No sir, no.—
Very far from it. The foreign stockholders
in our banks have uo intention of becoming
American citizens. Their object is to increase
their'own fortune by the spoils of our land, to
suck our young life blood .r the purpose of
strengthening -and invigorating the decaying
institutions of other countries. They seek to
acquire a political influence over us that they
may turn it to their own advantage and our de
struction. Of such a foreign influence I con
fess that-1 am jealous, firmly believe that
the day on which you sUftll establish a new
national bank in this country, with a capital of
one hundred millions of dollars, and with the
power of spreading its branches over every
portion of the Union, and more especially if
you shall permit foreigners to hold the stock,
will be the darkest and most portentious which
has ever shone over the Republic. From that
day we shall most probably forfeit not only our
liuerly but our independence. Ycu will then
concentrate and fortify a central money ipower,
foreign and domestic, in this countr^, which
will exercise a controlling, an overwhelming
influence over its destinies. Senators them
selves may live to rue the day when they call
ed such a vast, such an irresponsible power in
to existence. It is sncti a foreign influence
that 1 dread, and not the "log-cabin men" of
the far West, (I thought I never should have
used the expression,) whose fortune and whose
fate are necessarily identified with that of the
country, ll is the foreign millionaire who
seeks lo control the politics of the country for
interest and
kS to Control ttie politics ot III)
purpose of .promoting his own
tlt9^nlgWnfe,
CfWm
W!rwTropmm£
cans here and every where ought to be jealous.
The Senator has said, and he appeared to
place some stress on the argument, that some
vast country beyond the Rocky Mountains
might be settled by foreigners under this law,
they might sell it out to every body and any
body they thought proper. But this country
could not be settled under the provisions of
the present bill, until the Indian title should
be extinguished, and when the Indian title
should be extinguished in that region, Con
gress may then establish such la.ws lor its set
tlement as may be suitable to its condition.—
The Senator has gone far away for this argu
ment. It will be a long time, notwithstanding
the sanguine expectation of some Senators,
before this can become a practical question.
Before that day it is probable that the Senator
and myself will have passed from the thesitre
of public action. In regard to this remote
question, which has been invoked as an argu
ment to affect the present interests and policy
of the country, he would answer in the
words of the other Senator frcm Kentucky,
[Mr. CLAV,] on a late memorable occa
sion. When he was appealed to a few
days ago to inform tl|e country what he intend
ed lo introduce as a substitute for the Inde
pendent Treasury, in case he should succeed
in repealing it, his answer was, "suffi jent lor
the day is the evil thereof." We must not
look too far ahead. When the time shall arrive
for ^onsideriiig the Oregon question, I hope
there will be wisdom enough to settle it aright.
We are yet far'on the eastern side of the
Rocky Mountains and hordes of Indians oc
cupy the intervening space.
MR. CRlTTfcNDKN said of
course it must
be natural for him to desire to escape as soon
as
lie could from any contest with the Senator
from Pennsylvania it was one in which of
course h6 could hope to gain but little. Yet
he did
noi||lmii
gistrate
an intention
would
have found in relation to these now despised
forei40#r»?
if
Si
he
than
V: Ate-
the
it to have been such very bad
logic that 111
she i Id have imputed to him the
sentiment ofprgfcrring a settlement on the pub
lic lands
to written
declaration before a ma­
as «test'on
the part of
a
to become
True, it
was not
to alter the
furnish-
insist that
oib&r, ami if
the one for the other The
foreigner of
an American citizen
in
terms
that he proposed so
law, but Uie
Senator certainly did
the ott»«et^forded
better evidence
so, why not substitute
Senator would
not,
of ooorae, oppoi» the obiawing of the bett*ti*
was nol
feared.
fear that he lii
but as a matter of princip!
The Senator, however, was lei
deed, cf those formidable Europel
aires who come among us only to dr^Tn our
strength and suck our blood. While the Sen
ator was speaking so feelingly on this subject,
he could not but be reminded of the Spanish
proverb
44
Many a man who comes for wool
goes away shorn." He thought that some of
these European capitalists could perhaps.tell
him so. The gentleman was much' terrified at
.the thought of itie millionaire who sat in his
splendid place in London, the owner of some
stock in an American bank. The Senator
seemed to apprehend that, like an electric rod,
this little amount of American bank stock might
prove the conductor to such amount of foreign
influence as would electrify the whole laud,
and threaten to blow up all our institutions
and yet the honorable Senator was going to
vote for a bill which would place an English
man, a proud and haughty Englishman, who
considered that allegiance to Q'jeen Victoria
was his chief glory, and her authority the only
one to which a Briton ought to bow, on the
same footing with the native born American
citizen. Of the influence ofysuch men here on
our soil the Senator entertained not the small
est apprehension, but seemed, on the contrary,
rather disposed to cherish and increase it, to
fortify tl by privileges, and nurture it with all
aids and appliances which law could supply.
Such men lie invited to enter the bosom olour
land lo become lords of the soil hut the man,
who,
kept
ii three thousand miles distant, with
all the brjjadjee^o between him and us, hiir
TTten5?imtor reared greatly. Well, hei(-Mr.
CRITTENDKN) would not dispute the matter.—
Some men were so constituted thai that ap
peared very formidable to them which gave
other men uo uneasiness at all, and one might
as well dispute about tastes as to argup with
-..men's fears.
As to the question of a National Bank with
a capital of a hundred millions, which the Sen
ator told them was to subvert American liberty,
and make us all the slaves of a great moneyed
power, he would not now enter but he might
as well tell the gentleman at once that he should
rejoice iu the day, and he believed the Jay had
come, when a great and overwhelming major
ity of the people of the United Stales had be
come satisfied that a National Bank was the
only effectual remedy against all those suffer
ings under which they had been groaning for
the last twelve years. He (Mr. CRITTENDEN)
was for a bank of the United Staees not for
a Banl? with a capital of a hundred millions,
governed by English Millionaires, but a Bank
made and constituted by the people of the Uni
ted States, owned, regulated and influenced by
themselves but he repeated that he would
no: now go into that subject. The question,
and the only question at present to be decided
was, whether we would put the foreigner, who
made no declaration of his intention to become
an American citizen, on the same footing with
our own citizens. He required some evidence,
and he asked only for the smallest modicum
of evidence of the man's intention lo become
an American citizen. Give him but this pre
liminary requisite, and he was willing at once
to include that man in all the benefits of the
bill.
Mr.-BUCHANAN said that the Senator
ficm Kentucky should not transfer this battle
to the west of the RocKy Mountains. With
his good leave we shall feeep for the present on
this side of tbeui. The present contest was
cn the Indian frontier, and regarded tho rights
which foreigners ought to acqyire by settling
and cultivating lands within the limits 4
existing States and Territories, and not beyond
the Rocky Mountains. And now, after all this
discussion, what was the difference between
the honorable Senator and myself? Why, sir,
he has come more than half round. He has
now become a good pre-emption man, and it
in favor of granting the right of pre-emption to
all foreigners, provided they have declared
iBttttiu w bMOM AiNfiMB gaumm*1
r'
our
its wife
fs done me injustice in MM.
never either said or insinuated
proclaim to the world that we
ITJreigners to con.*. 7
tt»«y might protcct us from ..
Tat I did say was, that it had long been'tUB
tational policy, and one which I considered
sound and wise, to encourage the settlement
of our frontier as speedily as possible and if
this should be done in part by foreigners, then
in the hour of danger, their bodies would be
our bulwark against a savage foe, just as sure»
ly as the breasts of our own citizens. I can
not vote for his amendment, because I am un
willing that an ignorant.man, who may have
acquired an equitable title to a pre-emption,
shall forfeit it for want of having gone through
a legal form.
Mr. CRITTENDEN. 1 am anxious toes
cape from any further participation inthiscon
troversey but, according to the usages of the
Senate, as I have offered an affirmative propo
sition, it is necessary and proper that 1
should
have the last word. The only disingenuous
thing which the honorable Senator has said is
contained in his last remark, that lam coming
round, and, if my amendment prevails, shall
vote for the bill. No I am not committed to
vote for granting a pre-emption to any body.
Mr. BUCHANAN. 1 did not say that the
Senator would vote for the bill, for I am sure
he will not. I said he would put foreigners
on the same footing with American citizens,
if they would only declare their intention to
become suel*
FLORIDA—A Totrcmwc Scerrs.—We have
just read an account of the cruel murder, by
a
party of Indians, of Mrs. Montgomery, wife
of
Lieut. Montgomery, of the Army. Contrary
to^instructions froth the war department,
and
til opposition to positive orders, issued by
the
commanding general, forbidding any escort
to
be sent from post to post, under thirty men,
a
wagon was despatched from Fort Micanopy'
to Fort Wa«*ahoota, with only eleven mounted
infantry, under command of Lieuts. Sherwood
,and Hopson. As the morning was fine, Mrt.
Montgomery rode out with theirs About
hour after ttieir departure, some of the horses
returned to Fort Micanopy, without their riders,
and shortly after two soldiers rode up and
an«
nounced that the party had been attacked,
and
Mrs. Montgomery and Lieut. Sherwood and
several soldiers killed.
The garrison immediately sallied out,
within three miles of the fort found the
ing corpse of Mrs. Montgomery, with
dier still breathing, lying by her, with
strength enough to say to her agonized
who threw himself on the ground by his wife's
bleeding body-—" Lieutenant, I fought
for your
wife as long as I could." Lieutenant Sher
wood was well mounted, and might, it
is re
ported, have escaped, but
be
ble would
an
and
bleed*
a sol­
just
husband
s
would
don his fair charge. This
believed, was committed by
ces for the residence of ladies.
son which renders it improper for
on board of ships of war, might
husbands to posts of danger.
to be left free in moments of emergency,
out the uneasiness of having
not aban­
barbarous act, it is
a
band
of the cru­
el and blood thirsty Mikasaukies.
'lite frontier posts of Florida
are not fit
pla­
The same rea­
them to be
be urged
against their being allowed to accompany
their
Officers ought
with­
to protect help­
less women and children.
Tfiis unfortunate lady
had been only thrift
weeks in Florida,
and but lately married***
Globe.
FUGITIVE SLAVES.—An Upper Canada pa
per says, that withio the last four years
than 12,000 runaway slatt* Nve made
escape to Canada from (hi (Kilted States.
more
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What's your opinion of Old lip I** ftskei
a friend of ours during the late PretHfamtia)
canvass of a loafer notorious for his
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Hitelily.
Why, sir,** said he," if Gen. Hamsoil
as much about hq}f of the sublunary
lion as the other half knows abo0 feMfcjp
cuum would result,
whereby
come
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Aim
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contact with ImmjjFrtfr
according to ttieinatifatiea
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