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 MR. HENRY CLAY'S WAR UPON SET THEIRS ON PUBLIC LANDS, Ills LAND Pr l RATES AND ROBBERS :"--iiiS EFFORTS } TO GET A LAW PASSED ID HAVE THEM i REMOVED AND DRIVEN OFF BY MILITIA KY FORCE.

 l MT. Editor When the bill Ito grant pre- emption rights to settlers on the public lands, , was before the Senate on the 27th day of Jan uary 1888, s.On motion of Mir Clay, of Ken tuckvn

 '.To amend the t.lt by adding thereto the following sectienn "sec , And be t further enacted that ALL SETTLEMENTS UPON i THE PUBLIC LANDS SUBSEQt LENT TO THF. FIRST DAY OF DECEMBER 1857, SHALL. BE AND HEREBY ARE STRICT LY PROHIBITED; AND THE PRESl- i DENT SHALL BE AND HEREBY IS ALL | THORIZED AND REQ UlRED TO CAUSE ' ALL, PERSONS WHO MAY SETTLE ON 1 PUBLIC LANDS SUBSEQUENT TO THE I DAY AFORESAID TO BE REMOVED THEREFROM'

 s.it was decided in the negative, yeas 2 :a mays 23.'' Mf. Clay called for the yeas and nays upon, and Voted for his propos cd amend- ment to the pre-emption bill as above stated Senate journal pages lSl and ls2

 The above quotation is taken from thejour- nal ofthe Senateoithe United States and no one can or will pretend 10 deny the truth of the TuV0Td. .-=-----==-

 Thus we sec that aIr. Clay sought. not only to prohibit any man from settling upon public land, but that he proposed and voted for the passage of law requiring tte President of the United States to REMOVE, by military torce, ALL PERSONS WHO SET TIED upon the public lands after the first day 0 December, 18s7.

 For all settlers on public lands to be de- nounce as A LAwLEss RABBLE, LAND PIRATES AND ROBBERS, was sad enough but had MT Clay succeeded in passing his law to have all settlers on the public lands removed, his mili tary force, thate would have been still worse: and had he taken command of the militia " array himself to remove the settlers and their families from their homes which they had made in the wilderness, where would he have found his force ?-among the freemen of Arkansas mo mot even one of his po- litical leaders here would have joined his standard.

 The Democrats prevented the passage of this edious law proposed and voted for by Mr. Clay; and to the Democrats whose prn- eiples are founded ill justice, the settlers, whom Mir Clay would have removed, are in- debled for the quiet enjoyment of their homes Yet notwithstanding all this these people are called upon to vote for MT. Clay ito vote for candidates who are in favor of Mir. Clay for President, and thereby acknowledge that they are lawless rabbe; and that Mir Clay was right in trying to have them removed from their homes by military force and that they approved of the policy of Mr. Clay and of his friends who so strongly recommend him.

 Whether the people can be so easily dup ed We will see.

 A NATIVE OF THE WEST.