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GOV POLK AND TIE gPRE-EMPTIONERS8

 AND OCCUPANTS CLAY's COURSE.

 One of the earliest acts of Gov. Polk, after becoming member of the General Assembly of Tennessee, in 1923, now more than twen- ty years ago, was to take the side of the rights of Occupants and dPre-emptioners who had set tied on the public lands. He took this stand, ill favor of securing them in their rights-the fruits of their toll, labor, and enterprize-in decided, open and active course of conduct, and adhered to 1t in his whole subsequent time of legislative service in the S.ate Legls- lature first, and afterwards for fourteen years ill Congress, as is abundantly proved by the Journals ofboth bodies The Journal of the House of Representatives of the Tennessee Legislature will show, atpage 32o, that on the. 27th of November, 1893, as chairman of q committee, appointed to memorialze Con- gress OH the subject of the Western lands of this State, Gov. Polk made an able and labor ed report to the House, accompanied by re- solution, instructing our Senators and Repre-. sentatives in Congress to procure the passage of law, tie main object of which was to secure the occupants seated on our racaat funds, in the right of pre-cmption aa acqut- ring aad completing thsir tafes. The same policy, in regard to the frontier settlers on the public lands, in all the States and Terri, tories of the Union, met with his approval and support during his whole legislative career. How unlike-how totally different, has been the course of Mir Clay While Gov. Polk was fol the terms most farorable to the settlers, Mr. Clay was for ejectiag ttem froma7l rights. The following article lrem the Indiana S:ate Sentinel, quoting the Journal of the Senate ot the United States truly, gives vivid and true accountsof Mir. Clay's course. How, under such circumstances, MT. Clay can hope for the support of Western, South-westerli, and Northwestern settlers, is to us strange and inexplcable The article referred to IS the following .r

 THE SQBATTERIN.T THE WHITE HOUSE.

 We make the following humorous extract