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GEORGIA COURIER. J, G. M’WHOEIER HEIffRY MEALI3IG, PUBLISHERS. „ Term.—'Tlii* Paper it published every Monday »nd Th.irnlav of.rrnoon, at $■'> ibl per anmnn. payable in ad vance, or *6 00 at tbe expiration of the year. . 1JT AJxerlisenfoU not exceeding a »|tiare, inverted tne ftr^t time ortiU I-2 cents, and 43 3-4 cent, for each con- (i nuance. [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. 05 s * The GEORGIA COURIER will be regularly issued on Mondays and Thursdays, precisely at 2 o’clock, P. M. 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