Arkansas Times and Advocate from Little Rock, Arkansas • 2

The Committee wan tw I unanimous THE ADVOCATE. Mr.CLAYnrVnZr! and entreated the Sanateto un8iet owardHhimtheaccuSmAtJ leaving his name off the P.rop06'ti The Senate nrocCfem'Heo. LITTLE COCK, MARCH 87 1835. Oigt thlagt rightly, touchinQ th weal of the Common." EDITED BY ALBERT PIKE. tssssssssi- 1 i G3rThe Office of the ADVOCATE has mittee, when it was found for Senators were elected-Z 8 fo1 gum, Kino, of mentj and become a despot under the title of Protector! It was because Napoleon was popular, that he became First Consul, and afterwards Emperor and had Washington been of the same stamp, he would have perpetuated a monarchy in this free country.

If any man becomes so popular, that the people will not scrutinize his acts, our liberty is in danger it liesln the power of that man's hand. If he is virtuous, we may still preserve it if he is a man like ordinary men, we re lost forever. Above all, we are in danger when the peoplo choose to believe more in one man than in their united representativeswhen that one man Governor-President or Dictator, can oppose the wilf of those representatives, and be still support leen removed io the new ortefc burning, re tently occupied at the Timet printing office, THE HON. GEORGE POINDEXTER. In Swate, February 21, 1835.

The Chair laid beforetho Senate, the following letter from the Hon. George Poin-dexter, the following terms: Washington City, Feb. 31st, 1835. Sir: I address you as the presiding officer of the Senate, on a subject involving a criminal charge, highly injurious to my moral character, and which, if true, ought to cause my expulsion from the august body of which I am a member. An article in the form of a letter from a person in this city to his correspondent in New York, has found iu way into the public prints, and lias already been widely circulated throughout the country, alleging "that the Administration was possessed of depositions taken from three individuals, who swear that Richard Lawrence, the assassin, was seen by them in the private room of the Hon.

George Poindexter, the two days immediately anterior to his. attempting the life of Gen. No one, I presume', sir, can mistake the purpose for which these depositions have been procured. The evident design is to fix on and nearly opposite the Male Home. OrA.

H. Ruthbhfobd, Esq. is author! 1 Washington county, to On this llith day of Fell sonally appeared Wid the subscriber, ajustice of for the countv ille at the threshold than to have privately exhibited them to any one. report of the committee of investigation," however, has completely exculpated Mr. Poindexter, and the charge recoils with double force on the hoads of those who made it.

We quote from the National Intelligencer "Mr. Smith, from the Special Committee to whom the letter of the Hon. George Poindexter was referred, stated that the Committee had concluded their labors so far as cgards the taking of testimony, but as the evidence was voluminous, and would require much time to copy, and as it was understood that the Senator had refrained from taking his seat until the examination should have been closed, he was instructed by the Committee to report, that not a shade of suspicion rested on the Hon. George Poindexter, in relation to that charge. In this report all the members of the Committee concurred.

As soon as possible a more full report would be made, i The report was received by a simultaneous burst of applause from the galleries. Mr. Poindexter resumed his seat." ed to act as Affent for the Advocate, in the Holv Ef nii I Clark county. We hear more complaints concerning the Western Mail. We are informed, and from tieponent, seen Richard UVr'l mM nator Poindexter's dwellWu 6N authority not to be questioned, that none of ed by the people There is one power, and Half street, and th therefore, which should never be conferred attempt to assassinate the pSbe1 upon an Executive officer It is the Veto power.

That good may arise at times from roin( exter me the most infamous of all crimes, that of iicua' in dexter's passage in conversation its exercise, there is no doubt but it is doing STEWaI having been an accessary before the fact to an attempt to take the life of the Chief Magistrate, by the hand of an assassin! A charge Vtfv-' -i," "AVID ST and sworn to befo, and year before writiPn DAVID cur papers are received at Short Mountain P. 0. Crawford county, except now and then, by mere accident. We know that the fault is not in the Contractor or the Mail Rider. It is in some Postmaster on the road and unless the matter is speedily remedied, we will our own cost have an investigation made into it.

We cannot afford to lose subscribers very week or two because Postmasters are delinquent. If we can discover the man, whoever he may be, who delays our papers, re aietii evil that good may come, It is letting loose an unconquerable fire, which may at first warm, and afterward devour us. The Veto so monstrous, and so repugnant to the tenor of my past life, resting simply on the authority of an anonymous letter, in the columns of a ROBERT CLAKE, 1 -Justice of the District of Coiumbia, 1 Washington counts to 3 power is essentially anti-republican. It is monarchical. It is saying, in effect, that, From the Arkansas Gazette.

TO THE EDITOR.) Washington Cily, Feb. 23d, 1835. Sir The bill, containing an appropriation of jifly thousand dollars to on the work upon the raft of Red river, one single man is more capable of judging u10 Aulu uay oi f'ebmarv Iff for and governing the people, than the whole or them, he shall suffer to the utmost the Rlihsrnh'oi- r.y J' inepcaee the countv 'i extent of the law." Holy EvangelistoTAIgh The nominations of Wu, S. Fulton and body of a representation. In some instances it may be so, but principle is slavish, injurious, and abominable.

The same arguments by which we defend the Veto power, would be used by the serfs of Russia to show Lewis Randolph, as Governor and Secreta and a Half street, nnrl Ik. i tary of this Territory, were confirmed I the newspaper, might well be placed to the general account of the calumnies of the day, which have oflate been so freely cast on me, and as such, would scarcely merit contradiction from me. But the investigation which I have thus far given to the conspiracy against my character, lias enabled me to trace the authority on which the statement in the letter referred to was founded, to a member of the House of Representatives from Rhode Island, and the depositions therein spoken of have have been taken at the instance of the President himself. Having ascertained these facts, I deem it to be a duty which I owe to myself, to my constituents, to society at large, and tothe Senate, to ask the appointment of a special committee, clothed with powers to send for persons and papers, and to inquire into the truth or falsehood of the charges imputed to me, having relation -to the Chief into Senate of the U. S.

on the 23d ult. and we be i. "wiium; ttiCIUXgo Sena! uuudc a-im return out atrain at ont "to must ent times; and lieve the commission of Governor -Fulton and forty thousand dollars io improve the navigation of the Arkansas river, this day passed safely through the committee of the whole upon the state of the Union, and is now.pending upon the question of engrossment, and may be considered as safe. I made an ineffectual effort, this "morning, to get up the bill granting ten sections to complete the public builings and the bill to take our census, with a view to a State Government. We have but three days of the session remaining, to pass original bills.

By the nartinilnrhr why they should obey the Autocrat. We should uever put a sword into the hand of any man, wherewith our life, and what is dearer uu lue 1 1 previously to Lawrence's has arrived. He is now absent from ibis place, on a visit up the river, but is expected still, our liberty, may be endangered. We ate the President of. the United St.

this deponent, seen the said Ilichard rence go into Senator Poindexter's and return. MOlt i are slaves, as soon as the will of our representatives is set at nought we are no longer free our boasted republicanism is a dream. Better far better suffer some wrong at the Subscribed and sworn to and year before written. joint rule of the two Houses, the last three Executive Magistrate of the nation, that, if ROB'T. CLARK, J.pJ hands of our representatives, than be righted by any one man.

Have we not all read the iound guilty, I may jio longer disgrace the seat which I occupin this body. Correspondence of the U. S. Gay i nave tne honor to be, with srreat respect. fable of the horse who was at war with the Washington, Feb.

8, your obedient servant, lown bo soon as the health of his lady, who has been quite indisposed, will admit. We as yet have heard nothing of the new Secretary, but he will undoubtedly be here shortly. The steam boat Neosho, which passed down on Tuesday had on board a detachment of Dragoons on their way to join their companies at Fort Leavenworth and at Des Moines. They were left at Fort Gibson, on the sick list, last fall when their companies went on. The s.

b. Lafourche, which arrived here the same had 170 U. S. soldiers, bound for Fort Gibson. They have recently been recruited in the northern States mostly in Maine.

They were under the charge of ujiu i wuuiu ii possime, send vou 5 I business days are confined to the consider-tion of bills which have passed one house or the other. We have got upon our calendar, some five or six hundred bills, which will not be considered at all and among the number will be some of our Arkansas measures. But I yet hope that I may be able to do something more for the cause of Arkansas, before we adjoum. If so, I will apprize you of it. -Yours, A.

II. SEVIER. uniuaiuu.o urn. xnnaitwou stag? He permitted a man to mount him, for the sake of taking vengeance his vengeance was gratified, and he was enslaved for life. So we may be bridled and saddled a.

Washington, Feb. 21, 193.3. Hon. George Poindexter: In reply to your note, which I receivcfthis impracticable to do this. But, as most important bill which is likely lo at this session, I have determined lo i morning, I am at liberty to 6tate, in answer to the interrogatory which you have propoun and at first we may derive some benefit from it but depend upon it, at the end we an abstract of it, as it now stands, ail ded, "in whose hands did you see the affida pass the benate shall be ridden down as vits of which you speak, that the affidavits ugh.

1. spinning vyommissionj were by me read at the House of the Presi the General Post Office, (by the PreJ dent of the United States; they were handed POST-OFFICE CHANGES. Ezra M. Owen, to Postmaster at Dogwood Springs, (the name of which In another column our readers will see a and Senate, to superintend the coll to me, in his presence, by a mend of his, by letter from the Hon. George Poindexter, Se rne returned to the and were put office is changed to Thomas.

Gales and Sea ton were, on Saturday, of all the debts, and pay them inl Treasury, to audit the acconnts of the master General, and fixes the: at $3,000. into his hands by the affiants themselves, as I have been informed by him; and I am fur nator from Mississippi, to the President of the Senate, requesting that a committee of ther authorized to say that other testimony Pulaski county, vice Ezra Owen, resigned. Henry Roberts, to be Postmaster, at Lake lHort, Chicot county, vice S. it. Gil-more, resigned.

the 28th ult. elected printers to the Senate of investigation be appointed to inquire into his of the kind is expected Sect. 2. lovioWthaHlie-Sifel conduct in the affair of Lawrence, who at- Your very ob't. servant, the V.

S. for the -ensuing Congress. There were eighteen ballotings before they were Johs Maxwell, to be Postmaster at the. Treasury, shall receive from the missioner, certified copies of accour it. 1 tempted the life of the President.

It appears Arkansas Post, vice James II. Lucas, that Mr- Dutee J. Pearce, a member of the oeDtors, ana cause sun to be commei elected the vote then for Gales and Seaton, 27 Blair and Rives, 14 Duff Green, W. A. Rind, blank, I.

making quarterly returns. House of Representatives from Rhode Island, Sana, 'N. Elmore, to be Postmaster hnd ffppn finmt aftirlnrits Rfrrif-mfr ihnf the nffl- vua wi'T-awniw imievTWO nayFTtimn-Hpjj, loriii UaacUwri resigned. The Hon. John Davis, i Sect.

3. Allows the Commis two clerks at $1750 each; eight each and the messenger at $800, anm Sect. 4. Allows the Solicitor S. Ye' u.

Ryan, to be Postmaster at DUTEE J. PEARCE. The letter having been read by the Secretary, -v Mr. Clay rose and said, that the communr-cationuitiich-luMl j.ust been read, could inspire no other sentiments in the bosom of every Senator present, but those of the deepest regret, lie had hoped, when he Saw the article to which the letter of the honorable Sen-ator referred, newspaper, that it was without the siiglitestfowidation; and he was unwilling yet to believe in the possibility of the truth of the statement contained in the accompanying letter. Thatex-parte affidavits, Mouth oj 'Arkansas, vice Charles Mapes, diately preceding the nttack going to Mr.

Poindexter's house, and in secret consultation with him that the affidavits were in the Treasury, beyond his present esta'a niftnf. AnD lurlr at tlTM anrlfwnrl viiv xav.i. ui UUU III" of Massachusetts, has been elected to the Senate of the United States, from that State, in the place of Mr. Silsbee, whose term of service expired on the 4th of this month. Mr.

Davis was opposed by Mr. J. Q. Adams, and as the election is held by the two Houses se hands of the President that he saw them at at $700 each, annually. hec.

5. Provides that on the I0t March next the Postmaster General resigned. James W. Doss, to be Postmaster at Miller Coitrt House, vice James 1). Harding, resigned.

Jlrk. Gaz. Helena, March Mississippi Lands. We have never witnessed, in any country, such a rage for lands, as prevails at the present time for the lands on, and adjacent to, the Mississippi. It appears that they are deliver over lo the commissioner, all the President's house, and that he was au-tliorized to say that further testimony might be expected.

The course pursued by Mr. Poindexter is one which will reftect great credit on him, and is bound to bring disgrace parately, there was for several days no elec containing the accounts of the Post Ol and all papers relating thereto, and sf ments of all sums due, and on his accusers. He met the charge boldly, same day shall deliver to the Solicit implicating the character of a Senator of the United States, should have been draivn without notifying him without the slightest intimation that they were to be taken and that they had been procured at the instance of the Chief Magistrate, and put on file to be used by him, when and how he might think proper, was. not to be believed but upon the highest and most authentic evidence. He would say it-was not possible for him vnt tn r.mVit just beginning to be correctly appreciated.

the delinquent accounts for suit tionthe Senate electing Mr. Adams, and the House, Mr- Davis- In the mean time, Mr. Adams made some remarks Hi the House of Representatives of the United States, regard to the subject of our French claims, which were construed by the Senate of Massachusetts as savoring too much of a hostile demanded a committee of investigation, and refused to take his seat until that committee Sec. 6. Directs everv Postmaster, al end of every three months, to render ao.

had reported. Many of the papers charge count to the Commissioner, and pay the President with using this means to break the balance as the Commissioner mi Mr. Poindexter down, for the purpose of gra the statement, imposing as was the form in nature, and the next day after the arrival of rect. Neglect for one month after quarter, renders the wPogtpjilf f6f M' which it was presented. It was iinnnsslMr.

tifying a malignant personal hatred which these remarks at Boston, another trial for the received in his office for any one qual election of Senator was had, when it appear- for him to credit that any human beinnr could a putti tor injuring a'tellow- citizen without notice without the smallest opportunity to him, to procure affidavits from ed that Mr. Adams received but three out of Neglect for two successive quarters, 1 R.ir.h account, to be punished by the whole number of votes in the Senate, and persons unknown, and put them away, to be he entertains towards him. We are not, however, prepared to believe this we cannot believe that Gen. Jackson, with all his violence of feeling against Mr. Poindexter, would resort to this underhanded, illiberal, and cowardly course of hiring men to perjure themselves, as it is supposed from the report Mr.

Davis having a majority of the House IT IV I a used on some subsequent occasion, when it was of course elected. tn Via ncnountot sucn oa might be impossible to contradict their statements, or to adduce any exculpatory evidence. He was most reluctant to believe it, and quent in the hands of the Solicitor fo Sp fi. Postmasters, where tne rfio a year or! would not believe it, but upon higher evidence than that which was exhibited, respectable as it was. It was sufficient however, To a people who are about entering upon a State Government, and framing a new Constitution, to define the powers of the Executive will ever be a difficult and responsible of the committee a short abstract of which which will be seen below these affiants have done for the gratification of that feeling.

wards, to be appointed by the Pres. to form the basis of an inquiry. And the com and with the advice and coosem munication which had been read called upon" All others to Bnt in one respect we think the President taskJ A State, although only a portion of JNo doubt can be entertained as to their intrinsic value, and it will not be long before the banks af that noble river (the Mississippi) will be crowded with an industrious and enterprizing people. It is found that a large quantity of the Mississippi lands will fal! into the imndt of large specutators, which is the only circumstance that jean occur to impede the progress of tleir settlement. Thousands of acres are duly being entered at the Land-oftic3 at this place, and we hope that the most of th? lands which have been entered, will be settled and improved.

Herald. The Baliimore Patriot, of the 27th, publishes a letter from Washington, dated the night of thi 26th, which says "Congress will pass resolutions declaratory of their firm determination to abide by he Treaty no restrictive measures will be adopted, as any prohibition, or augmentation of duties would be an infraction on our part, and while we scrupulously fulfil all its stipulations, we can with propriety demand that the French nation, through its Representatives, do not violate it. The Constitution frigate proceeds immediately after the adjournment of Congress to France, to await Mr. Livingston's orders. Should the appropriation be made Commodore Elliott will procded to take command of the Mediterranean Squadron should it be rejected, Mr.

Livingston will return in her, and our fleet be ordered to cruise in the open Seas in single ships. Mo. Hep. pointed by the. Postmaster Ge has acted wrong and that is, in showing these affidavits to gentlemen privately, at his own house, so that knowledge of such papers lionds to be nereauur "1UV -Sec! 9.

Directs the mode of leg contracts. 10 uo u.v.. being in existence should first come to Mr. Poindexter through some of the New York manner. Proposals to be opened a -tA in tho mesence oi 3 papers.

If he in reality believed that Mr. Poindexter was the instigator of this act, and "1 I. Assistant nnnr.n nnd the commiss had obtained affidavits to establish it, he the nation, should act upon the same principles which would govern it, if it were a nation within itself. Every State is, in some points of view, an independent sovereignty, and excepting the powers and rights which it delegates to the General Government, it has lost none ofjts among which reserved powers and privileges, is that of regulating its own internal government. Although, therefore, there is no danger tnat a eingle State will become subject to one man, white our Union exists, still the form of government which it adopts should be purely republican, and the powers of its chief trate should be well and carefully defined.

It is in the common course of human events, that power should concentrate, and at length should have laid such proof before the Senate, or got some of his friends in that body to do it, and not have thus secretly exhibited them to individuals, thereby injuring the character of Mr Poindexter, without giving him the chance of defence. "It was due to the Senate, solicitor 01 mo rncts tot be separate for each route, co ra separately made. Nocta-gS solidation bids to be received. ofthe book in which the bids a to be lodged with the comm.s 30 days after tho letting, which are accepted; and copjJ tracts within 90 days, tog original proposals. 1 he reg cr obe open for pub cinspecho" ly after the lettings.

No co have any compensation until he executed his contract, Stc. tne Senate to perform a most painful and unpleasant duty and 'this, when there was a remnant of but seven or eight days before the termination of the session, and the close of the official existence, at least for the present, of the Senator who stands implicated. The time, therefore, within which the investigation was to be made, it was much to be regretted, was extremely circumscribed. Short as itunfortupately was, there could not be two opinions as to the course which the Senate was bound to take. Its duty to its own character, demanded the investigation.

If it were possible to believe, and it should turn out on the investigation to be established, that the Senator had the slightest participation in the atrocious attempt to assassinate a fellow citizen, and he the President of the United States, the Senate would be called upon to perform tho painful duty, indicated by the Senator himself, of purging the body of such an unworthy member. On the contrary, if the result of the inquiry should be, as he must believe it would be, to establish that there is not the slightest, foundation for the charge; or if, as he must also hope, there is no ground for the allegation that the President has cx-parte affidavits, implicating the Senator, he would stand acquitted, and be in a condition to discharga the high duties, appertaining to his station, It was duo therefore, to the country, to the purity of the Senate, and to the cause of truth and justice, that the inquiry should be instituted. Taking that view of the matter, on the spur of the occasion, (for the communication had como upon him at rather an unexpected moment; and he could have wished that some other Senator had taken charge of it,) he would move that a Committee bo appointed, according to the request contained in the communication. and to the country if that body contained a member so lost to humanity that he would prompt an attack on the person or life of the Chief Magistrate of our country that it should immediately be made known to them, and that individual expelled his seat and gather into the hands of one man. It is a tragedy which has been often acted on the Sec.

10. Whenever" at n'Onfl CW j. even if it was only suspicion, that suspicion should debar him from his seat until the mat to be given in the newsp pc, fJ great theatre of the world, that one man, chosen as the constitutional ruler of a free people, has become an unlimited despot. We see it in the history of Santa Anna who, under the mask of republicanism', has become and will continue the tyrant of Mexico. It ter could be investigated.

But it may be proposals to be recei said that the proof was not strong enough to Sec. 11. Provides snall none that The proposition ofMr. Senator Kent, of Maryland, to amend the Constitution; so as to reduce the absolutism of the Veto upon bills that have passed Congress, which the Constitution now allows to the President of the United States, yesterday came up for consideration in the Senate. Mr.

Kent, delivered, in support of it, an effective speech of some length, which we shall take care to report at large hereafter, and which, in fact, deserves to bo widely circulated. After which, in consequence of the lateness of the Session, leaving no sufli-cient time for the thorough discussion of a question of so much importance, the resolution was ordered to lie on the table, with the understanding that it was not to be called up again at this Session. JYulional In- extra anowaHttB, gt warrant its being laid before the Senate. We answer, if it was not, it should not have lowed un ess pr v- is another Jesson to teach us the dangers of been made ana issue been privately circulated and we would re and SDOcifying an overpowering popularity. When one man is looked upon as the people's friend the people's representative the stride is not units tne n0t Rpftf.

12. Oiv in the ireucral post oui. C3 treat to despotism. Had Oliver Cromwell mark, that it would have much moro become a man of Gon. Jackson's high character for chivalry and honor, to have informed Mr.

Poindexter enemy as ho is that such charges were in circulation against him, and thus those' lired 13. Sum requ.i"- sr, riot been a man of immense popularity, and the acknowledged friend of the people, how of tile general post o.lice. bo appropriated by law could he have dared to devolve the Parlia Unvo given hiufthe chaiico to hive met them ictiigcncc).