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To the Frecmen of Arkansas FELL0W- GITyZ EMS.
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Intelligence from various quar- ters of the Territory, combined with

 what l have seen myself, leaves no doubt O the peoples solicitude fof. competi- ton at the ensuing election for Congress. In a government like ours, TO evil can possibly result from the nnnaber who tender their services for public employ meat. If no other good results from q competition for the honor serving you, If will at least producea free discussion of the several topics connected with goHr most important interests.

 With speh views Of the subject, tie partialily of my friends has induced me to tender my name to your consider Iation, as q candidate for Congress from this Territory. Ny feelings and duty unite, in prompting me 10 visit ard dis enss freely, with the people fin the lin1- ited time between this and the clection) all subjects interesting to them, in their relation with the Federal Government. In the mean time, it is perhaps q duty 10 lay before them my views and opin- ions on the most important subjects of interest to them.

 Connected with the I4and-oflice at this place. fer the last seven years, 1t has for that time been alike an obligation to the general government and the people, to devote my attention sedulously 10 the land laws of the country-to mediate between the government and the peo- pie, when rigorous measures or instrue tions were adopted: and ultimately, to adiudicate and decide upon their rights, growing out of the several laws enacted by Congress, for the benefit of the peo- pie.

 In my reflections on this subject t has occurred to mo, that Congress might Dc induced to pass a peraaanent pre-en3ptlon laa, giving to each settler the right of purchase at then,inimuos price, whatever that might bc it the time, to the extent of ono quarter section, after cultivation and residence thereon. for two success sive years. h this way the government would offer a security to the emigrant and citizen, that theirlabor, the improve meAts upon which their families depend- ed for support, should not when the land was surveyed and sold. be at the mercy of the heartless specuiator; and thus would be indirectly invited. from the South and West, hundreds, if not thou sands, of enterprising men, who are only restrained by their poverty and their conviction of inability to purchase. at present. the soil they would he compelled to improve and cultivate. for the sup .port of their wives and children. The lberality and munifeence of Congress, in thcirlast pre-emption law, justify the most sanguine hope, that they would not be deaf 10 an appeal upon this interest ling and important subject. Could the passage of such a law be obtained. with Ia subdivision ofthe quantity now offered |atpublic sale-say into forty, instead of eighty acre lots. as itsnow stae ds--and q reduction ofthe price Of Public Lands,