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afN5i AfeSANs taa's1- should God spare his life and health, to speak more fully, on the subject, and endeayor to expose this SYSTEM OF INlQUrrY.n

 In the Nahonal Intelligencer of the 5th February. 1858, the proceedings of. the 27th January are published, and in them we find the following, viz

 0Br Tiptoh. will repeatas nearly as l can what was said yesterday, and if go wrong, he lbIr. Clay) can correct me. l undorstandtha he denounced the settlers on the lands as lawless banditt of land robbers, nniustly grasping at the public treasufe.n

 ''lIere Mr. Clay rose and said that he would repeat what he did say on the occasion refer red to blythe honorable Senator from Indiana a211z5-Eie did 8ag Ihaf tte SQUAT'TERS on the Pu5lic lands eere . LAWLESS RABBLE; :; Aaf teg might as nell SEIZE UPON OUR FORTS, OUR ARSENSAS, OR ON THE PUBLIC TREASURE, as 10 rush out and seize on tbe public Hands,"

 ss.ur THptou resumed. The Senator ad- mits that the expressions used by him amount cd to what have repeated.o

 By Mr. Claws own witness, therefore, t is proved, that he called the settlers on the pub lie lands, without discrimination, "SQUAT- TIERS, ,o A LAWLESS RABBLE;o and said ''lhoy might as well seize upon our forts, our arseaa7s, or on He public b'caSre.o What is that but to call them PUBLIC ROBBERS:

 The report in the Globe varies very little from that in the Intelligencer. It includes the .public ships" in Mir. Clay's comparison, and represents hnn as saying that"the mbole pre-empfion system paftffed aud corrupted aH il ioached9

 Mr. Claws abuse of the settlers created q great sensation, and was severely commented on by the friends of the bill.

 MT. Clay Of .aiabama, said ''he did not know to whom the Senator from Kentucky alluded; but, if that Senator escaped the de- nunciatons of the hardy pioneers of the west, whom he had charged as yiolators of the law, trespassers who had seized upon the public property, and whom he had stigma tized as perpetrators of the most disgraceful frauds, in terms so injurious to their charac- ters and feelings, he would be fortunate ill.,

 She Cong Globe, 1837-8, page l43.

 aH5 Seaate, Jdauarg 27, 1S38.-Nr Nor veil said, lie Senator from Maryland seemed to suppose that this bill proposed 10 give a bounty 10 the pre-cmption settlers upon the public lands. This was amistake. The bill gave only preference to actual settlers upon these lands They were obliged to pay the Government price for them They were the pioneers of the new States--the cultiYators of the soil-the defenders of the country against Indian aggression. It was to them, in great degree. that the west was indebted forits carly advances in settlement, cultivation. and civil ized comfort. They had made the wilder ness blossom as the fose-the desert smile with gladness and joy. Was it proper to denounee suchmen as hcartleSs tresPasSefs, faUdais1a SpeeNldtor$, robbers ot tbe pebEc lands, as they had been denounced by the Senator from Kentucky, AIr. Clay.

 Appendix to Cong. Globe, l29.

 Mir. I Youne of Illinois said, sYes, Sir, 1t has been emphatieally said by an honorable Senator, fbIr. Clay of Kentucky,4 that they might as well seize upon your forts and ar senals, your ships upon the ocean, or plum der the money in your treasury, as thus to seize upon the public lands, and appropriate them to their use in violation of law, and against the just rights of the nation.' Sir, the honorable Senator much mistakes the character of this people. There is not, Mir. Presidett, more peaceable, orderly, indus hious, hospitable people to be found in any country.15

 App. Cong. Globe, page l3l.

 s'Senafe, .jan. 29, 1888. Mir. Lyon. Yet these States have been denounced by the Sen ator from Kentucky (BIr. Clay,) 'as land pi- rates, 'plunderers, 'robbersl' Dothey deserve such epithets Whom have they robbed Certainly not the Government. They are ready to pay for the lands they occupy, al the Government could have sold them for, had the policy of the Senator from Kentucky been adopted, and the settlers kept of those lands. They had committed no waste, injured no one, either the Government or any individual. They hayein truth been of service to the Gov emment, by giving additional value to lands lying in the neighborhood of their improve ments, and thus enabling the Government 10 sell those lands at an earlier period than ii could have done had their improvements not been made"

 App. Cong Globe, page 128.

 AIr. Clay followed MT. Lyon, and did not deny that the terms HAND PIRATES,o and "ROBBERS,n ex- pressed the ideas he intended 10 convey as to the character of the settlers on the public lands. 4 part of what he did say is thus re- ported, viz :.

 lIr. Clay of ky. Following Mr. Lyon Sir, said c. will meet them with the laws of the country. Let the lands be exposed 10 public sale, and afterwards at private sale, and then put ill force, if necessary, the exist ing laws, and REMOVE these LAWLESS INTRUDERS from the property they have forcibly appropriated to their own use. What right had they to the public domain more than any other description of PLUNDERERS to they may seize upon Anauction- ger has his warehouse broken open by lalr- less body Qf armed men; one man seizes up on bale, another upon hamper, and an- other upon something else, and says he las a right to ii at his own price When other persons come to auction, and say, Mr. Auc- tioneer, why not give me these goods on as chpan terms as thaSe upnt}nnau ,,.hf bavo