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Senator ME Oady 44aS NSoSt-21N'2 rafe2 lie didnot say that they were fo00eIsj I51t he cIaracleri4ed them as robbers, asslhi- Iaring their supposed offences to c setS4f9 2 he DHIFc foris and arScaalS-to PiaReeI- iaeof He public TreasHrg ; and what IS iillS but ROBBERY orLARCEAI Y, according 10 tbe circumstances of force Orno force, ID des- polling the Govenment of its property

 App. Cong. Globe, pnge 9, I6a6--9

 By tbe National IntelligeHeer and the eX- planation of Senator Young, therefore IL Is conclusiyeIy proved, that Mir. Clay chafae- terized the Settlers on the public lands

 As a LA}YLI1SS RABBLE.

 As q set of PIRATES

 As a gang Of THIEVES.

 As a band of ROBBERS,

 If he did not call them by HieSe aagleS, he gave them t5cSe characters, and proudly sald, he would not be dctemed from doing his duty in resisting their claims by manaces or by any considerations personalto himself. Removed, as we have seen, an amendment reqaaf#g Mr. Van Buren to lave the Settlers removed thereafter To show how far he would have gone. we copy from the National lnteIligen- cer of the 5th February, 1888, part ot dis cussion which took place between him and the lameAtad Senator Linn of Missouri on the 27th day of January, 1888.

 "3Er. Linn said, tbat it was utterly idle to suppose, vou could by legal enactments or military force, arrest the onward course of our free and restless population. Onward onward fl has rolled. and oa2car3 1t would continue to roll, until i reached the borders of the great Pacific Ocean, where is aceamu- lated masses would sit down and weep that there were no more worlds te settle. The American population dc, and ever will, con- sdef the wilderness as their property, theIr inheritance Who could or would dare say 10 our people, thus far shalt thou go and no iarther2 No man is worthy to be President of tbc |. States, no man eaa be President oi this Great Republic who would be tyraat enough to order, by military violence, these people to be driven off the lands they had re- claimed from the wilderness which they own- cd in common with Che people of the United States.77

 Mn Clay of Ky. said: Can il be possible that this eoYerement cannot protect the pro- perty of the people of tAe United States Can these settlers hold possessienagaiQs inc 2rb0fe f0rr6 of ai5 GogerH@slH, THE REG ULAR ARMY, #e Hiltita, under the com maud of the President: IGthe ease isso with the public domain. how soon will Ii be the same with all the public property Sir, hope itis not true! | trust the people will be able 10 project their Propeftz'

 lFll not thc people of the Western States generally agfeewith Senator Linn, that sao nan WORTHY b C Presiar8t'' would be TYRANF enough to order the IRREGULAR AB4IIo into the new settlements to dispos- sess ttLAnreupants of the land AT TIiE POINT OF THE BAYONE1s3 Say pre- cmptioaefs, SHALL snch q FYRANH' be President? Fso, gi4e yoaf votes for HEN RY CLAY.

 But this man would have you believe that he only ceneumed with Mr. Van Barca on this point: Hear What thc equivoeaiiag eaa- dida!e for tbe Presidency said on the 21th January, 1888, as reported ia his fayorite h. teliigeneer, viz

 "sr,n said Mr. Clay, '.wheu had gone thus Gar in reading Nr.Fan Barea's Message l thought our Chief Magistrate would take care of tbe property Of the people of the Union But when had followed him lit- tIe further and pereetped that be bad aaopied aH ltc fFILD ATTENTIONS ef pro cmptioa and graduation, and af He .S'EU- TANGLED MOTIONS ?f eliet 5ec hat Hheard so much ia years past, ] alm0gt des paired qf bim."

 His attack upon AIr. Van Buren for being in favor of tle pre-emption law, was muel more violent than is here reported; but heH is enough to show, that so far from eoRcla- ing on this point they were directly at issae

 But hlr. Clay says, he was not opposed tC the grant of prc-emptions apona liaal settle ment of the laad question, and as evidence points 10 his vote fora proposition offered by 4Ir. Critcndcn in l848, uniting apre-emptiof system With scheme for giving the State. the moneys arising from the sales of the pub lie lands, and to lis Distribution Act of the Extra Session in 1S4l What! HENRY CLa sanctoning what he had so long and so ye- hemcndy denounced as a scheme of p7uHder pirac8 and ro55erg Henry Clay approving of the seizure of the public arseaals, the pub- Hc shiPs, and of tfie @oaeg ia liz Treasury / ! Il is even so-if he is to be believed.

 But let Us see arHen 3Ir. Clay became will ling to join the Hicrc2, robbers, and pirate&, as he substantially called the settlers on the public lands These. deuuneiatons of the s.sqt.attcg8" and of the whole principle Of pre- emptious, were at the December session of Congress in 1S37-38. Prior to that time, Ar. Clay had FIVE TIMES reported in the Senate his plan for giving away the proceeds of the public lands, viz: on the 1lth of De cember, l832; December 18th, 1883; De- eember 18th, 1884 December 29h, 1895 and December 18th, 1896. IN NOT ONE or THESE BILLS WAS THERE 4 PRE- E}IPFI0N CAUSE, or aay Procjsioa for He protection of ociaa7 seitlcrs He Then con- sidercd them bulrobbers and pirates, unwor- thy of protection. But Mr. Clay had beenfof years vainIy striving 10 SEIZE ON TIE MONEY IN THE TREASURY HIMSELF, to aid in making him President through a plan 10 throw i into the hands oi q little aTis- tocucY in each State; and in the hope of gel iQg the aid of the frontier people in his Schems of piauder, he turns-round and at temDtS fO FtfY TIP tho settlers 5cjtb a ,,7o,,3 e,