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WE ST ERN <*EOR<4 S AN •
Borne, Marcia 3, SB3§,
The following named gentlemen will act as
Agents for the Western Georgian.
Howel! Cobb, Esq., of Athens, Georgia.
E. M. Johnson, Esq., of Gainesville, do.
S. Ripley, Esq., of Jefferson, do.
A. Erwin, Esq., of Cumming, do.
John S. Bell, Esq., of Spring Place, do.
IL M. Avcock, Esq., of La Fayette, do.
Turman Walthall, Esq., of Cedar Town,
Paulding County, do.
Leroy Pattillo, P. M. Monroe, do.
Charles Murphey of Decatur, ds.
The absence of the Editor this week, will
serve as an apology to our readers, for oui
scanty editorials. He will be at home hereaf
ter, and make amends for his temporary ab
sence.
We insert in to-day’s paper, a letter addres
sed by the lion. Wilson Lumpkin, to the Ed
itors of the National Intelligencer. The ef
forts of our vigilant aid talented Senator in
Congress, to procure the publication of ccitain
papers, written by Mr. Elias Boudinot, a ful.
blooded Cherokee, in the columns of the Intel
ligencer, was unsuccessful. The Editors, with
characteristic zeal, were unwilling to dissemi
nate any intelligence in favor of the tieaty
with the Cherokees —the policy of the Adminis
tration—or the sacred cause of truth. I hey
have long struggled to keep the people of the
United States in ignorance, in reference to the
true condition of the Cherokees. To Mr. Boss,
and his confederates in Congress and else
wYore, the columns of the Intelligencer have
always been open for any and every thing they
might write or speak against the treaty with
the. Cherokees ratified in 1835. But when any
effort is made by the friends of the Administra
tion, or even the intelligent Cherokees them
selves, to expose the mischievous designs of
John Ross and his party, the Editors decline
its publication. Can a party that resorts to
»mrhn rmrrsij ever secure the confidence of a
free people? I trust not. Well might the}
quail before the graphick pen of Mr. Boudenot
—one, who not only feels the degradation that
awaits his countrymen, if Congress should sec
ond the efforts of Mr. Ross, their designing
chief; but ably and efficiently exposed his
wicked designs, partially concealed, as they
have heretofore been, under the thin veil of
false patriotism. Sufficient however, has been
said to oxcite enquiry on this subject; the peo
ple arc now alive to its importance, and error
can no longer prevail, although the arbitrary
Editors of the mighty Intelligencer, should thus
decree.
Eon the Western Georgian.
Mr. Editor —lt is admitted on all hands,
that we have arrived at a crisis in the affairs
ofthe Union party.—And wc have been brought
to our present condition, by an injudicious se.
lection of individuals, to represent the party
before the people. This want of discretion, on
the part ofthe members of the Union party,has
been displayed in a two-fold manner. In the
first place, they have sought to gratify the am
bilious aspirations ofthe bustling demagogue,
rather than to seek out meritorious individuals
whose retiring modesty, have always placed
them in the rear of fawning sycophants. In
the second place, they have uniformly select
ed their candidates for high and responsible
stations, from those counties and sections of
the State, where the Union party have ever
been in a very lean minority. The correct
ness of this position is supported by the char
acter of our present delegation in Congress—
most of whom, although worthy and talented
statesmen, cannot carry with them the major
ity ofthe people in their immediate vicinity,
on any great and exciting polit cal question.
The Cherokee counties or the great Western
Georgia, although recently organized, possess
cs as large a population of enterprising citizens,
as the same extent of territory in the older set
tled parts of the State—And the unanimitv
they have hitherto presented in our delegates
to the State Legislature, in political sentiment,
is nn anomily in tl»c state of parties, hitherto
unknown in the State of Georgia or elscw ’..ere.
And this has been effected by the united efforts;
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of a few patriotic citizens, who have sacrificd
their all upon the altar of their party. But,
what has been the conduct of that party to
some of these same individuals? In 1835,
when every member of the Legislature from
this country urged the claims of Col. Z. B.
Hargrove to the bench of the Cherokee Cir
cuit, the Union party in defiance of the wishes
of that community to whom they were so
much indebted for their success, elected a man
contrary to their wishes, and in many respects
obnoxious to them. Again.—ln 1837, Col.
Wm. N. Bishop, one of the props ofthe Union
party in this section of the country, —one who
has braVed every danger to promote the inter
ests of his party, having been called by the
partiality of some of his political friends, to the
situation of Teller ofthe Central Lank, as a
partial reward for his many exertions to pro
mote their principles, and a hue and cry was
made from the mountains to the sea-board,
that the State-house was polluted by the pres
ence of one of our worthiest citizens. Can a
party continue permanent that thus chastizes
her own sons for devotion to her best interests?
The sin of ingratitude cannot be stigmatized
in terms sufficiently infamous, to servo as a
beacon to politicians and statesmen, who may
attempt to run hereafter for the golden prize
of victory.—But the Union party oi Georgia,
can never hope for success, until they have
confessed this error, and proffered to these cit
izend and this section of the State the amende
honorable.
Can we augur any thing in the present signs
of the times mure favorable to the views of the
people of this section of our country? Do wc
see any calculations on foot, to conciliate this
section ofthe State, for the wrongsit has suf
fered at the hands of the Union men? So far
from it, if the press may be considered as the
organ of a party’s intentions, the rights of this
community will again be trampled on, and the
claims of our worthiest statesmen disparaged
at the approaching May Convention. In view
of these things wc would call upon the Chero
kee counties to prepare at an early day, to send
members to this Convention, who have both
the disposition and boldness, to claim for this
community their just rights. It is only neces
sary for us to unite, to accomplish any thing;
and by doing this we may rescue the Union
party from that vortex of ruin, to which they
have been rapidlv approaching.
ROME.
For the Western Georgian.
Wetumpka, Ala., Feb. 7, 1838.
James A. Wright, Esq.:
Sir—Suffer me, through your paper, to in
form the Stockholders in the Alabama and
Coosa Rail Road, of your region, that the
Board of managers for the present year, have
entered upon their duties, determined to pros
ccutc with all their power, the important on
terprise undertaken. We now have 48 han »
hired by the our road.
They arc now on the last part ofthe third
mile. Wc want one hundred hands at pres
ent. The wish of the Board is, to graduate as
near as they can, one half of the road the pre
sent year; and as oar surface is very favora
ble, it can bo done, with prompt support by the
stockholders. Our plan of hiring hands, in
stead of letting the work to contract, is a great
saving. The average cost of what wc have
done is 12 cents the cubic yard—being about
one half the cost of roads generally. We al
low stockholders to put in hands to work out
their instalments. As many false rumors arc
afloat about our work, 1 say officially, that
more economy cannot be evinced in the man
agement of any road; and that there is needed
no better proof, than that we arc accomplishing
more than any other company known, with
the same amount of money expended.
Be arc much indebted to you, sir, for the
notice you have taken of our work. lam au
thorised by the Board tosay to the stock-hold
ers in your region, and to any who may w ish
to become so, (as wc yet lack .stock) that five
per cent, is now due on the capital stock; that
five more w ill be due the fust June next, and
that ten more will be due the first of January,
1-29—making in all twenty per cent.
The following plan has been adopted by the
Board:—Let each steck hclder give h.’s prom-
isory note to the Wetumpka and Coosa Rail i
Road Company, payable in the bank most con
venient—here wc say the Montgomery bank.
Let the first be due the Ist of Juno next, and
embrace the first ten per cent.; and the sec
ond the Ist of January, 1839, and embrace the
second, Some do us the favor to have them
endorsed so that the bank will discount them.
Will you, sir, print for us some Blank Notes,
and give them to the President and Cashier of
’ the Western Bank of Georgia, who I under
stand are friendly to our road, and who arc
hereby authorised and empowered to take
notes from stockholders, and from those who
wish to become stock-holders, and deposite
the same in said bank for collection. I trust
: there arc many of your wealthy citizens who
will lend us their aid. The gentlemen above
alluded to, will please open a book ofsubscrip
tion to the capital stock of our road. Should
any of the stockholders be disposed to make
their notes so as to be discounted, we should
like to have the earliest informa'Jon, as we
greatly need funds. We can complete the
road in two years, if we can have- the. co-op
eration of the wealthy citizens on the upper
tributaries of the Coosa; and surely we have
a right to expect it, as wo arc alike interested.
Who can calculate the value ofthis stock,when
we know that our road must be a great thor
oughfare for travellers, and the transportation
of an immense amount of produce and mer
chandise? Os what value will it be to the land
holders and traders all along its whole length,
and up through your country into East Ten
nessee?
Your obedient serv’-t,
J. D. WILLIAMS.
President of the Ala. <_)• Coosa
Rail Road Company.
Extract of a letter from the lion. Wilson
Lumpkin, to the Editors of the Nat. Intelli
gencer, dated
Senate Chamber, ?
Washington, Jan. 31, 1838,
Messrs. Gales & Se vrox:
Gentlemen—l find the columns ofthe Intel
ligencer ofthis morning’s date, chiefly occu
pied by the publication of the memorials, and
other writings of Mr. John Ross & Co. remon
strating and protesting against the justice and
validity of the Cherokee treaty of 1835. 1
am familiar with the contents ofthese papers,
and am apprized ofthe plausibility of their con
tents, when exhibited in an e.r parte form, and
to persons who are unacquainted with all the
circumstances and facts connected with the
subject.
1 feel it a duty which I owe to the country,
to my government, and to the individuals who
are implicated by these publications, not to
I permit this delusive statement to be handed ;
! down to posterity, and that in the columns of'
I the Intelligencer, without an effort to counter- ,
act what I deem to be mischievous error, and I
to place the subject.in its tiue light before the I
public.
hi order, therefore, that the readers of the
Intelligencer, now and hereafter, as well as the
i historian who may collect materials from the
’ preserved files ofthe newspapers ofthe present
day, may find the means of making up a cor
‘rect decision on this subject, 1 have, therefore,l
respectfully to request of you, as faithful jour- i
nalists, to publish in the Intelligencer, at as ,
early a day as practicable, the reply ofElias
Boudinot, as rc-pubhshed by order ofthe Sen
ate, being Document No. 121. This reply of,
Mr. Boudinot, although not written as a reply
to the particular papers now published by you
at the request of Mr. Ross, will, nevertheless,
be found a most conclusive refutation of all the
most important grounds of Mr. Ross, contain
ed in the memorials and papers referred to. '
Moreover, Mr. Boudinot’s reply will exhibit
Mr. Ross in his ttue character, and give to the ■
i public the most clear and correct view of the
: subject under consideration, of any publication
which I hate seen.
Should any cause whatever prevent ycur
compliance with my request herein contained, I
1 then have to request tiiat you will at least
publish this letter, in order that those who
may rend and examine the files ofthe Inteili
! gencer after the present generation shall have
! passed away, may find this letter as an index
. to point to a more correct history of facts than
1 that which is contained in the memorials and
papers of Mr. Ross.
Moreover, other and strong considerations
tend to enlist all my sympathies in behalf of
the Cherokee people, and to avert impending
evils which threaten them, and io promote their
present and permanent welfare. Therefore, 1
wish 'to weaken the mischievous influence
which such publications as these memorials,
and papers are calculated to | roduce, if per
mitted to go to the world uncontradicled.
These publications ten 1 to affect the inter
est of the Cherokee people most injuriously,
by misleading and enlisting the feelings of per
sons of character and influence, and thereby
cause such persons to encourage the Cherokee
people in a continuance of their opposition to a
treaty, upon the execution of which therr tem
poral salvation chiefly depends.
I am, gentlemen, very res: ectfully, your o
bedient servant,
WILSON LUMPKIN,
of Georgia.
Extract of a letter from Washington to the '
Editors ofthe Georgia Constitutionalist, dated
February 5, 1838.
I listened with great pleasure, the other day,
to the eloquent and fervid speech of your dis
tinguished representative, Gen. Glascock, in
the debate on the appropriation to carry on the
Florida War.
It was an exciting and animated scene. Mr.
Wise of Virginia, had opened the debate with
an exceedingly vehement attack upon the Ad
ministration, the gallant men who arc fighting
the ruthless savage, and the exposed and al
most defenceless people of that harrassed re
gion. lie seemed to exult in the hope that the
appropria-.on would be withheld, and the In
dians be permitted to goon with their butche
ries, until they should force the government to
yeild to them the soil. Mr. Biddle of Penn
sylvania, a federalist, followed on the same
side, and assailed without measure, the fair
lame of the gallant Jesup; and then added a
vile insinuation, that if the question of aboli
tion was ever brought to a head, by which he
evidently meant a servile war, it would be ow
ing to the unreasonable and unjustifiable con
duct of the south.
It was left for Gen. Glascock to repel both
these ipfainous assaults, and nobly did he per
form the duty. Though I have often heard
him in his happiest vein of off-hand, manly el
oquence, I never listened to him with more sa
tisfaction; a feeling which evidently pervaded
the whole house.
I need not describe this happy effort, which
was the prompt impulse ofthe moment, for you
will see it faithfully and fully reported in the
Globe, and will doubtless transfer it to your
own columns. It is certainly one of the best
specimens of ready eloquence and reply, of the
whole session—and was delivered even more
1 smoothly and emphatically than it reads.—
Wise writhed under it, ns his morbid sensibili
ty for the murderous Indians, was traced in its
close affinity to the fanatic spirit ofthe north,
that feds no sympathy but for the colored race.
You will perceive the point of this from the
fact, that Wise of Virginia, was following the
lead of Everett of Vermont in this mutter.
There is here matter of deep reflection for
the South,,and the speech of Gen. Glascock
has touched the right chord. Agitation is the
grand object of the federal opposition. They
have purposely deranged the currency, and
now resist the sub treasury bill, and every o
ther measure calculated to restore confidence,
for no other reason, but because their party
feeds and grows upon the distresses of the
country. Whenever she is prosperous, they
are in a decreasing minori-y. When they can
embarrass her and check the operations of the
government, they hope to gain enough from
the disaffected, timid and credulous, to give
them the power they lung to w ield, for subjec
ting flic people to their plans of consolidation,
abolition, and a monied despotism, under an
United States Bank. Mr. Biddle o! Pennsylva
nia, who gave this hint of a servile war at the
South, is* brother of Nicholas Biddle the Pres
ident ofthe U. S. Bank—and well he merited
the castigation he received al the hands of
Gen. Glascock.
I Mr. Biddle’s assertion, in allusion to Gen. J. i
' that a blow was aimed al (leu.Scott from behind
which struck from his arm his sword, was most
happily retorted on him. “I las he not himself,”
said Gen. Glascock, speaking of Biddle’s cow
ardly attack, “this day aimed a blow from be
hind, at the character, honor and reputation, of
Gen. Jesup? Is not the blow aimed too at a
time when he is periling liis life in (he service
ofhis country?”
It must be gratifying to the friends of Gen.
G. —who has Ihe feelings of a soldier,and knows
how to defend a bravo one when traduced—
to sec this speech so fully and fairly reported.
That gentleman is careless of his reputation as
a public speaker, an 1 rarely revises his speech
es for the press. In the present case, he has
done so, at the solicitation of his friends. lam
not even a personal friend of that gentleman
and know him but slightly; but as a spectator
here, or as an American, I feel a pride in every
manly effort to defend the reputation of brave
men, the honor of the south, and the good and
glory of the country. None of these will ev
er lack an able defender here, while Gen Glas
cock is a member of Congress.
I regret to see an intimation that he may not
again be a candidate. He was almost unan
imously elected for the present Congress, and
1 earnestly hope his services will not be lost to
the country, though he may desire the rep'ose
of private life.
The course which parties arc now taking,
renders it. more essential than ever to the in
terests of Georgia, to sustain the administra
tion. The hopes of the agitators rest with the
opposition party, and the strongest impulse gi
ven to federal and abolition opposition to Mr.
Van Buren in the north, springs from the
stand he has taken in defence of the institu
tions of the South.
From die Washington Globe.
BL A SPIIE M Y AND OU 'l' R A GE.
The country has suffered deep mortification
from the repeated occurrence in Congress of
scent s which would degrade the bar-room of
a tavern. The shameful violence and blas
phemy with which certain Opposition members
insulted a committee of the House during the
last winter, has now found its way into the
House itself. There is scarcely a day that in
sult is not offered to the House, or a violation
of its decorum committed, by the vulgar audaci
ty of some one of the Federal party. The
presumption of this party has broken all!
bounds, under the idea that the dragooning in
and out of Congress has tamed the spirit ofthe]
Democracy ofthe country, and that Federal
ism owes the assumed conquests it has been •
celebrating to the thumb.stretes of its banks,'
enforced by the swaggering insolence of its-
press-gang, and the bravado and bilfingsgate
of its attorney orators. Indeed Federalism be
gins to crow again, as it did in the time of the
black cockade.
At the close ofthe contest for the seats oc
cupied by Messrs. Claiborne and Gholson, Fe
deral frenzy was excited to the highest pitch.
When the Speaker discharged his duty, and
gave the casting vote to leave the question be
tween the claimants to the people of Mississip.
pi, Mr. Wise mounted his high horse, and de.
dared that if he were in the place of Mr. Pren
tiss ho would present himself to be sworn—
that if the Speaker refused 'he would swear
himself, and take his seat, and that if any man
dared to execute the order ol the House, which
denied him a scat, he would make a judicial case
ofij-, meaning, we suppose, that he would cm
ploy that weapon in the House which he onco
informed it he was prepared to use in its com
mittec.
Mr. Prentiss, we understand, caught the
spirit of Mr. Wise, and in a most overbearing
manner, declared his intention not to acquiesce
in its decision, but that he would press his
claims at the next session, or whenever cir
cumstances induced him to believe he could
succeed,
We would not recur to the contemptuous
conduct which is so well calculated to dispar,
age the dignity of a body which it should Be
the pride of every American to maintain, if it
were not to point the eye ofthe people to the
master spirit, who doubtless feels a deep in
terest in degrading the character of a Demo,
cratic Congress, and who, from the sway he
holds over his party, ought to be held respon.
sible for its systematic attempts to effect tiiat
purpose. Mr. Clay, throughout the contest
for the scats of Messrs. Gholson and Claiborne,
was busy round the bar of the House, exert
ing all his influence for Prentiss and Word, and
encouraging the violent party zeal manifested
by his adherents. He was there at the last
moment; and when the Speaker gave his cas--
ting vote, Mr. Clay, with eye and gesture di.
reeled towards him, •exclaimed, “Go home,
Goa damn y(h;1 where voir belong.” Whe
ther this was intended fur the Speaker, and
meant to imply that he was unfit for the sta
tion he occupied, or was intended for the ex
pelled members, one of whom stood near him,
wc cannot conjecture. Several members who
heard him differed among themselves as to the
application of his remark, but none as to the
, expression itself. Not being present ourselves,
we have obtained a statement of the fact, pre
cisely as it occurred, from a gentleman who
will vouch for it, if necessary, and prove it by
the members whose names arc given by him.
The statement is as follows:
‘•Being called on, I deem it my duty to state,
that yesterday, in the House of Representa
tives, immediately after the Speaker gave the
casting vote on the Mississippi election ques
tion, the honorable Henry Clay, looking in
the direction ofthe Speaker, exclaimed, “G’o
home, Cod damn you! where you belong.”—
These epithets were uttered just as the Speak
er gave his vote. Mr. Clay was standing near
the western entrance to the Hall, and close to
the bar of the House. I was standing within
five feet of Mr Clay. Mr. Chaneev of Ohio,
sitting in his seat, was so near Mr. Clay, that
he heard bis remark, and immediately commit
ted it to writing. Mr. Gul up of New York
was standing near, and heard the same re
mark very distinctly.
Washington, Feb. 6, 1838.
Correspondence of the Aiii»ustn Constitieionnlisf.
Fort Clin, h, (Fa.) Jan. 16,1838.
Gentlemen—ln my last I attempted to give
you an account of a battle on the waters ofthe
Walker Sassee or Cow Creek, near the Suwa
nee, on the 26th December last; since which
time, we have been scouting, day after dav,
between those waters, (a most dreadful place,
truly,) composed of hammocks almost impene
trable. by cither man or beast: muddy water,
vines, briars, brambles, thorns and saw palmet
to—through many of these have wc passed, at
the risk ofthe lives of both man and horse, —
many, aye many, are now lying dead and dy
ing upon those hammocks, melancholy objects
ol the ingratitude of man to the most noble of
animals. On the 10th inst. wc set out from
Fort Fanning, down the river Suwannee; on
the eleventh, early in the morning, we struck
a fresh trail, pursued it about three miles, and
discovered an Indian with a rifle on his shoul
der, he made in'o a hammock, we surrounded
and then charged it on foot, (the aJvanco
guard,jjhc Indian finding himself safe gave tho
war-hoop two or three times, and attempted to
hide, but we were soon upon him, he did not'
fire,nor did he attempt it,-the day was very wet
and cold. As soon as he was taken, he said,
“mo good friend, me good friend”—he was
then tied. He gave us to understand that bis
family was about half mile ofl’in the hummocks:
we followed him, and wo were very soon up.
on them; surprized and took five women, eight
children, and one negro boy about 7 years old,
without firing a gun. This, 1 think, was very
wise, prudent and humane in (ihe old blue fox)'
Gen. Nelson. I was in their midst when they
wore taken, and I felt no fear, much less a
disposition to shoot innocent children. We
had to put back to the fort, with all possible
speed, being destitute of corn for our horses,
and subsistence, the wagons not being able to
get within 30 miles of us. No white man in
all probability ever went by land (mud and
water) down to the mouth ofthe Walker Sas*
see. If we had had supplies and could have
reached the mouth of that stream, we would
have made a good haul “right sure,” as there
is no doubt but that there arc a great many
Indians between those waters —so we under,
stood from the little negro boy whom we took
on the eleventh instant. I give it as it was
received— you can take it Ibr what it is worthy
Wc are very scarce of provisions at forts Fan-