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[From the Journal de* Debate*.]
TIIE E N G LIS [^MINISTRY.
Extracts from our l*apers by the Canova.
PARIS, APRIL 14.
We hare never, ceased lo believe in.
the triumph of Mr. Canning. Our pre
dictions are completely fulfilled. The
English journals of the 12th, which have
reached us by express, announce that Mr.
Canning is nominated Prime Minister,and
First Lord of the Treasury, offices which
arc ordinarily united.
The Retirement of Mr. Peel is that
which has tuosi surprised us in the revo
lution which h<)s just taken place in the
English Cabinet. We never believed in
the existence of a serious rivalship between
$r. Peel and Mr. Canning, and an arti
cle which we have quoted above from an
English Journal, proves that the general
opinion of England did . not recognise, as
we have repeatedly stated, any difference
between those two Ministers, except on
the question of Catholic Emancipation.—
Perhaps Mr. Peel,out of delicacy,thought
• himself obliged to follow, on this occasion
the fortunes of his ancient patron Lord
Eldon. The next arrivals, in informing
us, with certainty,of the choice of the suc
cessors of the Ministers who have resign
ed, will fix our judgment in respect fo the
causes of their retreat. But we affirm,
already, that in France, as in England,
every wise man will concur in rejoieijng at
the elevation of M. Canning: it is the tri
umph of ra iorial ideas throughout Europe.
[From the Constitutionel.] j
The highly important question of the
English Ministry is at length devided': the
question was a complicated one ; it was
determined.whetherifie.English Ministry
should be Anii-Catholic or Impartial.—
Lord Wellington atid Mr. Peel felt they
£ould no longer support the burden of an
Anti-Narional Administration, and ihey
yielded place to Mr. Canning. This is
an example bv which our Ministers w.ou!d
do well to profit. If our congregationists
had any modesty, they.would rejoice to
see Mr. Canning, the advocate for the E-
mancipation-of. the Irish Catholic, at the
Helm of affairs; but then Mr. Canning
protects the Constitutional liberties of the
Porliguese^—that is a crime which our rcli-
giosi cannot pardon.
[From the Quotidicnne.]
Great joy to the camp of the Liberals;
.great joy to the office of the Etoile, & the
Cabinet of M. de Villele ! Mr. Canning
is nominated Prime Minister! The Lord
Chtuicelihr, the Duke of Wellington,
End Bathurst, Mr. Peel, the Earl of
Westmoreland, Lord Bexley, and Lord
Lowfher, that is to say the whole of the
men who yet preserve any sound ideas of
order, and .aristocracy, have given in their
resignation ! Mr. Cannuig has been cal
led on to form a new Ministry;it is thought
that he will recall Lord Granville, the Am
bassador at Paris, his most intimate crea
ture, and that lie will give to Mr, Huskis-
son, the representative, par excellence, of
the radical party of England, a more ele
vated position. At all events, the retreat
of some of Mr., Canning’s colleagues, is a
very remarkable fact, and one which marks
the spirit in which the new Ministry will
be performed. How far does Great Bri
tain mean togo, in ’hits placingat the head
of her offiirs, a Minister who has made ap
appeal to revolution, and who has insulted
all the Crowns in Europe ? It is of no
use to tell ns that Mr., Canning is not,
himself a Radical, that his opinions are
not revolutionary. Under his present cir-
. cunisfanqes, Mr. Canning is not merely a
man, he is in himself a system—he enters
Upon office as the man of a party. It is
Radicalism that bears him oh—Radicalism
"will sway him. There can bn no donbt
of that. 4 Witness the joy of the English
newspapers devoted to that way of think
ing. Can Mr. Conning go on for any
length of time ! This is what the first dis-
pusrion will show us. The retreat of the
whole of the Statesman who composed the
cabinet will multiply his difficulties. We
have not foro-o*ten that already the opin
ion of Mr. Peel has triumphed in one
grave question even in the Commons ; a
fortiori, what will it do in the Lords. The
opposition there is likely to be so power
ful, that we doubt, ifMr. Canning will lfh
Tfble to obtain a vote on one important
question, such, for example, as the Corn
Laws. We mav be allowed to remark on
. t ho disinterested ness, c we are bold to say
the patriotism, ofthe seven English Minis
ters who have given in their resignations.
In England, Statesmen comprehend the
forms of Government and do riot look on
their office as a property which they are
enjoying. This lost circumstance ought
singularly to diminish the jnv of the Etoile
on the nomtoation of Mr. Canning; for
the seven Ministers who are gone, what
an example do they give—what an augu
ry !
[From the London Courier.]
The conduct of the King, during the
late crisis of his Government, has exhib
ited ahat union of firmness and moderation
■which is the best security for the Nation’s
Welfare. Tils Majesty was placed in no
ordinary situation. He was not abandon
ed by bis confidential servants from ,mo-
to seek, was the advancement of the pub
lic good, by supplying a single vacancy in
the Ministry, in such a manner as might
enable those who had hitherto enjoyed his
confidence to retain that confidence for
the common welfare. His Government
might be composed of discordant materials
on one single question, as was, indeed, no
toriously the case ; but there was no more
reason why this question should lead to its
dissolution in the year 1827, than in any
one of the last twenty which have prece
ded it. It was not, like some former Ad
gulate their conduct, we should regard
him who acts towards another as Gen.
Jackson is represented by Col. Benton as
acting towards him, on this occasion, as a
man with few of the qualifications which
belong to a man oPtionor. But this opin
ion we are not authorised tq form in rela
tion to Gen. Jackson, unless we could re-
ceive with implicit faith, the allegations
made against him iu this circular of Col.
! Benton’s; and Col. Benton’s strange alii -
j ance with Gen. Jackson, at this moment, is
; calculated to make us doubt in which of
ministrations,. made up of the leaders of,i,the characters, the accuser or friend of the
opposing parties held togellier only by mu
tual forbcarauce, and, therefore, calcula
ted to fall to pieces at the first shock of ri
val pretensions. It had acted well and har
moniously together, for an extended peri
od of time, during which, changes in Some
ofthe most important principles of our na
tional policy hadbeeen effected, and yet it
could act .together no longer, when the
comparatively triy^^^ytange of a Prime
Minister was to be^^B'd into effect.
Was this a resit^^wltich his Majesty
could have been prepared for ? or, with
respect to which he could have determin
ed upon the course he would pursue ? So
little, we have every reason to believe did
lie make the nomination of a Premier, in
the first instance a question of personal
consideration with himself, that he left his
Ministers free and unfettered to settle a-
mongthemselves, whoshculd betheirhead,
when it was no longer pnsrible to indulge
the hope that the noble Earl w»<> had hith
erto presided could resume the reigns of
Government. It may be presumed how
ever, both from the delay that intervened
as well as from the consequences which
have finally resulted, that this arrangement
was/ound impracticable. It wastberf, pro
bably, that his Majesty felt the necessity
of exercising his prerogative, from a due
regard to the paramount interests of the
country,the government of which could no
longer be left without an acknowledged
and responsible head.
We profess not to know the secrets of
the Royal closet; but looking at the sub
jects merely in an argumentative point of
view, we feel warranted in asserting, that
his Majesty has no just or reasonpble
grounds to conclude, lhat, by the specific
appointment of Mr. Canning, he should
alienate from his presence those confiden
tial servants who had with Mr. Canning,
so long, and, we are free to admit, so ben
eficially, administered the public affairs.
He had not endeavored to thrust upon
them a doubtful or obnoxious individual
on the contrary, he had selected, from a-
nmng themselves, the man whose superior
talent had invested with no common splen
dor the career of their own administration.
Nay,.more ; his Majesty, in placing Mr.
Canning where he now stands, must have
felt that he was onlv acting in accor
dance, with the national sentiment.—
His colleagues must have been as lit
tle ignorant of this fact* as bis Majes
ty himself; and when, therefore, tbev re
fused (always excepting Mr. Peel, whose
situation has nothing in common with the
other members of the late - Cabinet) to act
under Mr. Canning, they determined up
on a stop which bore as much the charac-
teifofdictatingtotheconntry at large,how
it should be governed, as to the king how
he should be allowed to exercise his own
prerogative.
If ever the free Sovereign of a country
was placed in a situation which called up
on him to assert the rights of his crown
and dignity for the common good, his Ma
jesty has been so placed. He was told, in
effect—you shall not consult the public
voice—you shed! not be at liberty, while
so consulting the public voice, to execute
your own wishes—we are your Majesty’s
Government—arid will remain so ; him,
whom you would give us as our leader,
though he possesses your Majesty’s entire
confidence—though he is looked up to
by the country, with equal confidence—
though foreign States, wherever the name
or policy of England js known and oper
ates, entertain the same sentiments—
though even we ourselves are forced lo ac
knowledge we could not go on without
him ; yet, for reasons which are our own,
we are determined not to form a part of
his Government..
This, \ve say, was, in effect, the lan
guage addressed by the seceding Members
of the Cabinet to their Sovereign, and
the practical replication which the King-
lias given to it, by nobly supporting the
Minister of 1tis choice, in defiance of such
a proceeding, does and must, entitle him
to the gratitude of the country.
General, he is most entitled to credit.
What roust we think ot the hightriinded-
ness and sincerity of a man who will form
a league of personal and political friend
ship with one who has attempted his life,
merely for the purpose of overthrowing
an Adminstration against .which he has
thought proper to array himself? The
whole course of Colonel Bentou, taken
in connexion vith this unnatural associa
tion, convinces us that to advance his own
political interests, he can compromise his
private feelings, forget or forgive the deep
est injuries, and throw the mantle of obli
vion over the deadliest insults and inju-
Taking the narrative which is thus giv
en to the wprld under the sign&tiire of Col
onel Benton to be correct, what can we
think of GenerafJackson’s respect for the
laws of his country and the usage of men
of honorable standing? Coupling this
affray with the affair of the Tennessee
millitia men, to which we have recently
adverted, and of which much yet remains
to be said, c’an our readers acquiesce in
the character of benevolence and human
ity claimed for General Jackson by his
friends; or can they bring themselves to
consent to the ele»ation to the first office
in the gift of the people, of a riSpai who in
one case has either grossly misunderstood
the law of the land, or has disregarded it,
to the destruction of six of his fellow cit
izens; and in another instance, has upon
FROM THE NATIONAL JOURNAL.
COL. BENTON & GEN. JACKSON.
While surmise and conjecture have
been busily engaged in speculating on the
circumstances and feelings which may
have wrought so apparently close an union
of opinion and purpose between Colonel
Benton and General Jackson, there has
been some curiosity discovered as to the
causes of rhe previous personal alienation
which existed between them. The lapse
of fourteen years had so far dimmed and
defaced the impression of the scenes in
which these individuals were pitted a-
gainst each other in a contest of life or
death, that but few seemed able to revive
the recollection, of ‘the circumstances.—
In the number of the Kentucky Repor
ter, however, we have Col. Benton’s own
narrative of what he calls, and with truth,
if this statement be correct, “the most
outrageous affray ever witnessed in a civ
ilized country,“'which was addressed in a
circular to his friends in the fall of 1813.
Presuming that the details of this occur
ence are accurately given, we cannot con
ceive that they can be so changed by anv
explanations or palliations, as to bedr out
the testimony given by "the Nashville
lives which practically involved the expo- Committee, on the “benevolence and hu
dienev or inexpediency of any g r Pat po-
Jitical measure ;-.he was not, himself, com
mitted to a party struggle with h\s Minis
ters ; he had not one single personal ob
ject to serve, or one personal wish to grat-
-^fy.; the oaijf tedEe sought, or could have sound courage, and correct principles
inanity” which are said by them to con
stitute the prominent traits in the charac
ter of General Jackson. As far as we
can understand usages of social life, and
the rules by which men of elevated minds.
the authority of Col. Benton, incurred the
guilt to be ranked with men of the most
desperate and sanguinary habits and dis
positions?
Franklin, (Tenn.) Sept; 10 1813.—A
difference which had been fur same
months brewing between General Jack-
son and myself, produced on Saturday,
the 4th inst. in the town of Nashville, the
most outrageous affray ever witnessed iu-
acivilized country. In communicating
this affair to my friends and fellow citizens
I limit myself to the statement of a few
leading facts, the truth of which 1 am rea
dy to establish by judicial proofs.
1. That myself and my brother, Jesse
Benton, arriving in Nashville on the morn
ing of the affray, and knowing of Gen.
Jackson’s-threats, went and took our lodg
ings in a different house from the one in
which he staid, on purpose to avoid him.
2. That the General and some of his
friends came to the house where we had
put up, and commenced the attack by
leveling a pistol at me, when I had no
weapon drawn and advancing upon me at
quick pace, without giving me time to draw
one.
3. That seeing this, my brother fired
upon General Jackson, when he had got
within eight or ten feet of me.
4. That four other pistols were fired in
quick succession; one by Gen. Jackson at
me; two by me at the General; and one
by Col. Coffee at me: In the course of
this firing, Gen. Jackson was brought to
the ground; but I received no hurt.
5. That daggers were then drawn.—
Col. Coffee and Mr. Alexander Donald
son made at me, and gave five slight
wounds. Captain Hammond and Mr.
Stokley Hays engaged my brother, who
being still weak from the effect of a severe
wound he had lately received in a duel,
was not able to resist two men. They
got him dotyn; and while Capt. Hammond
beat him on the head to make him lay
still, Mr. Hays attempted to stab him, and
wounded him in both arms, as he lay on
his back parrying the thrusts with his na
ked hands. From this situation a gener
ous hearted citizeu of Nashville, Mr Sum
ner, relieved him. Before he came to
the ground, my brother clapped a pistol
to the breast of Mr, Hays,to blow him
through; but it missed fire.
6. My own and my brother’s pistols
carried two balls each; for it was our in
tention, if driven to arms, to have no
child’s play. The pistols fired at me
were so near, that the blaze of the muzzle
of one of them burnt the sleeve of my
coat, and the other aimed at my head, at
little more than arms length from it,
7. Capt. Carroll was to have taken part
in the affray, but was absent by the per
mission of Gen. Jackson, as he has since
proved by the General’s certificate; a cer
tificate which reflects I know not wheth
er less honor upon the General or upon
the Captain.
8. That this attack was made upon me
in the house where the Judge of the Dis
trict, Mr. Searcy, had his lodgings ! So
little are the laws and its ministers respec
ted! Nor has the civil authority yet ta
ken cognizance of this horrible outrage.
These facts are sufficient to fix the pub
lic opinion. For my own part, I think it
scandalous that such things should take
place at any time; but particularly so at
the present moment, when the public ser-*
vice requires the aid of all its citizens.
As for the name of courage, God forbid
that I should ever attempt to gain it by be
coming a bully. Those who know mfe‘
know full well that I would give thousand
times more for the reputation of Crog-
han in defending his post, than I would for
the reputations of all the duellists and
gladiators that ever appeared upon the
face of the earth.
THOMAS HART BENTON,
Lieut. Col. 39tk Infantry.
^VIVE LA BAGATELLE.
A few days ago we noticed the estab
lishment of a new paper in the town of
Portsmouth, under the title of “ The Pal
ladium without knowing the course
which it intended to steer iu these stormy
times. It has since shown its flag—and
we are happy to hail it as a zealous and
able associate in the defence of the prin
ciples ofthe Old School. \et its Editor
is not only a reasoner, but a Wit; and
gives us some “ smack of his quality” in
the following neat jcu <Tesprit. There
are some strokes in it, which might well
be spared—rbut satirists are wont to claim
some immunity for their pen, on account,
of their wit. Such was the privilege
plead for the author of the Horse race—
and there is no doubt that the Editor of
the Palladium will be very happy to
avail himself ofthe same excuse. As the
Collector of his Ship News has, however,
made one ot two mistakes in copying his
Marine List, it is but proper to correct it
from the original Log-book:
MARINE LIST.
“ Arrived at this port yesterday, the
Richmond Packet, Enquirer, Capt.
R , in three days from Richmon/,
with a valuable cargo of Political Intelli
gence. There had been a dreadful hur
ricane in Political Bay—and much da
mage had been sustained by the shipping.
The schooner Intelligencer, Gales,
was seen scudding before the wind, blit
the Gale blew so tremendously', she was
obliged to jibe, and set in for a northern
port. The mate of the I. (Mr. Seaton,)
was swept overboard ofi Johnson's Island,-
in attempting to make soundings; he was
fortunately, however, picked up by the
Steamboat Equivocation * The I. was
run foul ofby the Schr. Telegraph Green,
of Washington, in March last, and was
obliged to discharge part of her cargo,
which was generously taken on board the
T. The Telegraph spoke a day or two
previously the Schr. Journal, Force, in a
leaky condition, having been considerably
damaged in endeavouring to get over the
Tactic Shoals! The T. also reported
that she spoke the brig Excursion, off
“ Opposition” Inlet, having on board
Messts. Van Bttren and Cambreleng, pas
sengers, from a voyage of discovery—all
well—they reported the Ship Crawford,
as being still lying in Private harbor, un
seaworthy.
“ The Enquirer spoke, off Point Look
Out, bound to Point no Point, the clip
per-built Privateer, John Randolph
She had lost her main boom off Tyler's
Island, and had been literally blown
“ sky-high.” She was in the act of being
towed into Port Charlotte, by the Schr.
Self-Preservation, Capt. Crump, to re
pair damages. The Ship Calhoun, was
seen off “ Literal Construction” Point,
with a Mix'd cargo—experienced a tre
mendous blow near the Rip Raps, but
succeeded in getting safe into Jackson
Harbo:—she is waiting orders to proceed
on her voyage.
“ The Enquirer also reports that on
the , she spoke his Puritanical Ma
jesty's Hermaphrodite Brig Combination,
Admiral Clay, Commanding—with his
Majesty and all the Royal Family on
boatd, bound to Port Presidency, origi
nally from Panama—she had experienced,
a continual succession of Southern winds
since she left Port, and was obliged to put
into one of the “ British Colonial ports”
to provision. She was in a lamentable
condition, having lost her rudder, and, was
completely at the mercy ofthe wind arid
waves—the crew was in a mutinous
state, and she was constantly annoyed by
the Gun Boats along the coast. The
Captain of the Enquirer thinks she will
never get into Port, as she (having West
India Sugar and Molasses on board) will
be ordered off tinder the “ Non-Inter
course Act."
“ The Enquirer, also saw, on the 3d
May, a small tow boat, which, it was un
derstood, had sailed on the 1st, (it being
her first vo age,) with “ Democracy,”
painted on her stern, - supposed to be the
“ Palladium” of Portsmouth, but could
not ascertain her destination.”
than one man’s receiving such distinction.
The bravery of Hull, Perry, Decatur,
McDonough, Scott, Brown, and fifty oth
ers, was as severely and honorably tried
as that of Jackson; and for aught that ap
pears, their talents for civil rule were in
no wise inferior to his, —yet gratitude
has. never been required to transfer them
from their appropriate places to others de
manding totally different duties. No dan
ger that new menaces this country is, in
our opinion, more to be deprecated, than
would be the election of Gen. Jackson to
the presidency upon the grounds solely of
his military success. No fact would argue
so plainly md conclusively, that the insta
bility of tie people-was too great for the
security and continuance of a form of gov
ernment, c fall others requiring civil vir
tue for its administration.—If the Ameri
can people are to be dazzled, like their re
publican predecessors of Europe, with the
lustre of military glory, if the bravery of
a chieftain is to make him a-popular idol,
and the “pomp and circumstance” of war
are to run away with the sober sense
of a people, who must govern themselves,
the augury from such omens must be da-k
and fearful. It is not from any particular
distrust of Gen. Jackson’s intentions, or
integrity, that we anticipate danger to the
republic—it is from the precedent of sur
rendering to mere physical qualifications,
the guidance of the most arduous of civil
duties.—There is nqucli point in the home
ly illustration of this principle which has
beeen lately made ; that of superseding the
pilot of the ship by the gunner.
sundered—when Old
AUGUSTA.
MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1827.
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and it is hoped all Advertisements will be
handed in, at least, by 12 o’clock on those
days.
The Hon. Wst. H.' Crawford has
been appointed Judge of the Northern
Circuit, iu place of John M. Do.oly, dec.
Our
Editorial Brethren are retiring
from their arduous dutiea, either tired of
their discharge, or having made their for
tunes. Mr. Meacham has left the Geor
gia Statesman to be managed by Mr. Bur-
ritt, and the elder Robertson has left the
burden of the Savannah Georgian on the
shoulders of the younger brother. We
wish we had made our fortunes ; if then
we could not soil out, we would give our
establishment to some poor fellow, who
had a head and heart, but no money.
Hamburg was sold on the 4th instant,
by the Sheriff of Edgefield District, South
Carolina, to Mr. Henry Shultz, its enter
prising Founder, for the sum of Fifty-five
Thousand Dollars.
MARINE LIST CORRECTED.
The ship Crawford is not unseaworthy,
as reported above ; but is rapidly refitting
for sea, and is expected to sail in a few
days for Senate Harbour in as gallant a
trim, as when she first came out ofthe
hands of the builder. She has as noble a
bearing as any vessel afloat, and carries
the heaviest metal.—The clipper-built
John Randolph from Roanoke is sound in
all her timbers, she has been fresh-rigged
in a new and excellent navy,) and, by ar
chitects who know from experience how
admirably fit she is for service. She is
destined (with the blessing of God 1 ) to
Congress harbour in the District of Co
lumbia. Captain Crump is appointed by
his respectable Owners to a new and ho
norable command for his manly and praise
worthy conduct.
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES.
Gen. Jackson.—We are not disposed t"
have the affairs of the United States con
ducted with reference to what “ will be
thought of us in Europe;” to adopt this,
or forego that measure, for the sake of
Shrewd Answer.—A woman asked a
doctor whether taking-snuff was not hurt
ful to the brain. “ No,” said the doctor,
"for he that has any, will not take snuff.”
reputation with other nations :—as a peo
ple, w*e live for ourselves, our institutions
and our interests are peculiar, and to their
perpetuity and security every other con
sideration should yield. After all that can
be, or has been said, the “claims” of Gen.
Jackson to the presidency seem to rest in
his being a well meaning man, and having
gained a victory at New Orleans. “Grat
itude,” say his partisans, “ Gratitude to
the hero who has filled the measure of his
country’s glory.” “ Let not Europe jeer
us with the truth, that our republic is un
grateful.” If gratitude to victorious war
riors must be displayed by their elevation
to the most responsible of all civil emi
nences, very many who merit it quite as
much as Gen. J. will be most ungratefully
treated, from the bare impossibility of more
We condense the following information
from the Edgefield Hive:
The Decree of the Court of Appeals,
of the State of South Carolina, in the case
of Henry Shultz against the Bank of the
State of Georgia, has been pronounced
in favor of the complainant. The judge
ment obtained by Shultz against John
M’Kinnie, which the Bank charged to be.
fraudulent, has been declared to be a fair
transaction; & the mortgage on the A ugusta
Bridge, Negroes, &c. given by John and
Barna M’Kinnie to the Bank of the State
of Georgia, for 90,000 Dollars, to be null
and void, for 40,000 Dollars; and as for
the remaining 50,000, it would probably
appear by the ordered reference before
the Commissioner in Equity, “ that for
so much of the mortgage as may be good,
it has been satisfied." It is said the liti
gated points, which hung up in the Courts
the other cases, in which Mr. Shultz was
interested to the amount of 150,000 Dol
lars, have been virtually decided by the
present decree, which has given additional
strength to the old equitable principle,
that copartnership property is first liable
to pay copartnership debts.
Age is torn
the green resting spot, where he only
gered with the pleasing hope of soon j 0 .
ing his fathers, and opens hig dimmed ev
upon other Heavens and another Ear
in the lonely solitudes of an uficultiva
wilderness, the day is fast approach
when these sacred ties and sympath
must give way to State Rights, and y\,
to the considerations of natioual policy,
Unnatural and cruel as it may seem and
felt, the Cherokees must soon eir
leave the land of their birth, whose i Dv ,
titure they received from the J ian .i
Heaven, or in rime make such arran-
ments with the States and the Unit
States, asf will pprmit them to remain
their native soil, the denizens of civil;
tion and future citizens of the States
Could our voice reach them, we wo
urge the consideration of this subject
their proposed convention, and the p
priety of immediately taking the neces
ry steps to bring the United States <fc
States interested, to some conclusive i
derstanding on this head. As matters n
stand, the Treaties with the United Stari
in our opinion, render unlawful they ext
sion of cur jurisdiction over the I n <j
territory. If they do not become citizt
ofthe States, they will be.obiiged to
their lands to the United States, and leJ!
them. It would be folly for them to
fuse to sell ; for in particular as resp
Georgia, the United States are obliged
contact to extinguish the Indian
within her limits. Tite best arranges
then, is for the Cherokees to make a tij
ly contract with the States of Tennesst
Alabama, North Carolina, and Geor IS
for their admission as citizens.
The population of the Cherokee
tion amounts to between 14 and 15,0 ^
persons. Many of these are so attaclMl
by the arts of civilization,'to the count!?-
that they would prefer remaining, unio
any circumstances ; but it is probable til,
nearly half of the nation are still so weT
ded to savage life and its amusement
that they might be easily induced to en|%-
grate beyond the Mississippi. Let
the whole territory bo purchased by tl
United States for the use of the respc§
live States, on the condition, which if
States would certainly not reject tF
those who genainod should receive a s:f ■'
ulated portion of theij- land in its futi
distribution, and bo admitted to the ri j>/■
and privileges of free citizens ofthe St:;
All difficulties which ace likelv to arise
this subject, tvoul l be thus easily and a
cably avoided to the mutual advantage!
all three parties. There are about
000,000 acres of Cherokee land—‘
emigrate, and pursue their wild occupy!
%
The Cherokees lately lest two of their
principal Chiefs, Path Killer and Hicks.
Instead of proceeding to fill the vacancies
occasioned by theirdeaths, the Hiwasseari
says, they are busily engaged in preparing
to assemble a convention of delegates to
form a constitutional government. What
will be the result of this political move
ment, we will not pretend to say ; but, we
think, their deliberations would be more
profitably turned to a different subject-
one, which in a few years will be forced
on their consideration by imperious ne
cessity. Hard as may be considered their
lot, they must soon deliberate “ which of
the two to choose,” a total removal from
their country, or- their incorporation as
citizens with the State governments, sub
ject to the laws of the respective States,
within whose jurisdiction they may fall.
Humanity will have nothing te do with
their situation. - It is an individual, not a
national virtue. Only one of these alter
natives, a removal, is absolutely free to
their choice; and however much the heart
of philanthropy may bleed, when power
thus causes all the tender traces of youth
ful recollection to be obliterated—when
the strong associations of manhood are
tions beyond the Mississippi—deduct i
for females and allow four children
each family ; those who would rotn;i|
would he entitled to draw, in anv futi’
land lottterv, not more than two miil'r
of acres, allowing them even as much
640 acres for their individual shares.
States then, would have 8,000,000 ac.|
ofthe best land in the southern section
the Union, besides the accession of If..
dian subjects, and the final settlement-
those embarrassing questions which Jm
likely to agitate the United States on t ®
subject.
Civilization has so improved the c
dition of the Cherokees and attached ti
to their country, that we cannot sugc
any more humane or reasonable plafl&j
avoid the difficulties which must grow !sfj|
of our relations to them. Who has po*- •; ‘
to erect their lands into a territory of tit®
United States with, a view to their ultimf %
admission as a State into the Union ? ®
soil belongs to the States-, and part ofthe
territory is important to some of then.'-i/'
The States would, therefore, not corSf%
to such
an arrangement ; and if 'Hip
would, it would not be advisable. Thff**
are smalj Slates enough in the confedeLf*!
cy. The small are jealous of the pov|||j
if the large ones, and the large Stal
d}slike the equality ofthe small ones,
do not wish to see this adverse spirit
tending the theatre ofits operations,
whole Cherokee territory would make
a very small State,-and it would be de:
fute of those great outlines of natica
importance, which the small States of 4
Union generally possess. It is cut ’ r
from the great Highway of Nations, api?
without those great channels for its
merce, which would increase its weallFj
and respectability among the other nte4^
bers of the confederacy.
As they will not be allowed to remaS
where they-are for any length of time, ;
would be useless to discuss the project * si
an independent Republican GovernrnC'f^*
among themselves, which they seem to
preparing to originate. Their separaij
and distinct existence in the midst of civ
lization,and in the territory of the Sta
has been too serious an evil both to the
selves and us, to be much longer tolerate
and tve do not know of a more ration
plan than the one which we have soi
perlectly attempted, in the hurry of«'
business, to sketch—one which will