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Jooks in vain for those which in the great sys
tem of succession must neecssarijy somewhere
«,r other bo sinking towards decay. They are
mt last discoverer), but tlieir fate is not allowed
•to disfigure tho cheerfulness Of the scene, and
they,are seen enjoying fthat may. literally be
termed a green old age. The extremities of
their branches break off as they die, and when
nothing is left but the hollow trunk, it is still
covered with twigs and ( leaves, and at last' is
gradually concealed from view by the young
•shoots*, which, born under the shelter of its
branches now rise rapidly above it, and con
ceal its decay. A few places tire met with
which have bean burnt by accident, and the
black desolate spot, covered with the charred
trunks of tres, resembles a sconorin the human
world of pestilence or war. But.tho fire, is
scarcely extinct, when the surrounding trees
all seem to spread tlieir brunches towards each
other, and yotuvr shrubs are "seen rising out of
the mound, while the sapless trunks are evident-
ly'mouldering into dust.
The rivers all preserve their course, and the
whole country is # in such beautiful order, that if
cities and million* of inhabitants could suddenly
be planted t>t proper intervals and situations, the
people would have nothing to do but drive out
their cattle to graze, and, without any previous
preparttion, to plough whatever quantity oT-
ground their wants nrglit require.
FOREIGN.
LATE FROM ENGLAND.
Liverpool dates to the 2(ith of March have
been received at New York.
The revenue had fallen off tho last quarter,
about five hundred thousand pounds sterling,
compared with the same quarter of tho preced
ing year.
Tim price of Cotton at Liverpool had de
clined a fraction. i
An animated discussion took place in tho
House of Commons on tho 12th March, on
the propriety of abolishing corporal punish
ment !u tho British army. Mr. llumc said, in
Yv r orteuiburg, corporal punishment had been
suppressed by tho present King. The soldier
was corrected by confinement,, and sending to
tho depot. Corporal punishment in tlio A-
merican army had been suppressed for twelve
years, although they continued the system in
tlieir navy. In spite of this cessation of corpo
ral punishment, tho American army had gal
lantly competed with our best troops in the late
■war. Ho (Mr. Ilurne) would assert that not
one in a hundred of the soldiers flogged ever
-afterwards recovered his previous character.
On another occasion Mr..Humo said—there
appeared to bo n complete dissolution of gov-
■crumcnt business; lie supposed they were wait
ing for some new minister to tell them what
they were to do.
A mechanic of Exinomb, (England) has con
structed a model of King Solomon’s Temple,
in shell-work and m numl, containing 985 wui-
dows, ll lowers, 385 pinnacles, 188 pillars,
formed of 150,000 English shells; The mo
del is four feet ten inches in lcng.h and, three
feet seven inches in breadth.
Advices from Madrid to Paris, by express,
are to March 11.—The Portuguese troops
•having advanced in threo column*, the insur
gent divisions of Migessi and Monte-Alojre
penetrated into Spam by Altelia, Noso and St.
Anne. They were not allowed to pass the
frontiers till after they had laid down their
arms on the Portuguese territory.
The division of Telles Jardao was disarmed
on the'Spanlsli territory, into which it had just
penetrated towards the right, by a place named
Constantine.
Orders have been sent to General Mormet
that the arms laid down on the Spanish territo
ry are to be immediately delivered up to the
Portuguese authorities on the frontiers, on
■their giving a receipt for them.
• ' • London, March 17.
Spain is far from pursuing tho only prudent
policy now left open to her, in acknowledging
tho independence of the new states, that reports
have been current for some days, of prepara
tions actually on foot for recovering the pos
session of thorn; and it is given out that Gen.
blondes, who served in Columbia, is in one of
the Canary Islands, collecting a force fdr the
invasion either of Colombia or Mexico. These
reports however, we do not consider entitled to
the smallest credit. The preparations alluded
to, are supposed by well informed persons to
be intended fur Cuba, tho complete protection
of which island is probably all that is aimed at.
The London Sun ef the 17th says: The
Spapisli army of observation has fallen back a
short distanco from the fruntior. Various caus
es for this movement are assigned. The.real
cause of the chango of position of tho Spanish
troops is probably to be traced to the appro,
hension of some act taking place, if they re
mained close to the frontier, which might com
mit the government of Spain before all its pre
parations were complete. As soon as they
aro, wo shall hear of no more rttrograde move
ments.
London, March 24.
The Etoile has nn article from Trieste of the
10th inst. confirming the defeat of tlio Greeks
upon Alliens. Bourbacki, and two hundred of
the prisoners, were executed by order of Red'
cliid Pacha. *
Mr. Gordon is said, in a letter of late date,
to be at the bead of five thousand men, better
appointed and disciplined, than any that have
yet taken the field in the cause of Greek liber-
garb beforo the police of Liverpool, on tho in
formation of Captain Duff, of brig Laura of
Now York, with whom she had for abont a
year sailed in tho capacity of cook, has been
married to that yjullctn.ui in Liverpool. Her
true name was Hamilton. She has resumed
femalo attire, bat threatens, if affairs are not
well conducted on board, she will turn Jack
Tar'again, and take command.
Colombia.—Tho late accounts from this'
country represent it as being ia a most deplo
rable condition. Bolivar, ar wo learn by a
passenger in the brig Athenian, was at Cara
cas—poor, almost pennyless, and in by no
means en enviable situation. Santander, on
the other hand, is stated as being farther in the
interior, rolling in Wealth—havin': obtained the
control of a considerable portion of the British
loans. At Cartliagena, great distress prevail
ed; the frigates had been dismantled, aud tlieir
crews discharged in a starving condition. Tlio
misery of these, added to that of others in the
place, drove thorn to commit robberies at eve
ry hazard—oven in tho open day. Our in
formant was attacked in a street in that city,
at an early hour in the evening, by a sturdy
fellow, with a knife, who demanded his money
—but the prompt anil unperturbed conduct of
the person he assailed, and the weapon he dis
played in return, compelled him to m ike a pre
cipitate retreat. In a word, tho fortunes of
Colombia appear to be at tho very lowest ebb.
0 ur next account from this unhappy country
will be looked for with the deepest and most
painful interest. A fearful crisis is evidently
tit Imwl.—N'cw York Gazelle.
DOMESTIC.
MACON.
Mondav, Ma>j 21, 1821.
« Our Cou.M/jr—Our whole Country."
The Editors of the Recorder, it seems, are
not yet “done with tho Telegraph," notwith
standing the bitter reflections it furnishes them,
and the twinges of conscience it excites. Their
contortions in arwlcavoring to remove tho hate
ful images that crowd upon their alarmed ima- we|)t wa| faitI 'f ully executed; that Cousin
filiations, ©vincc the terror with winch they be- Q e Qj.gr 0 ^as a captious assuming fool; that his
annual messages to the'^Legislature might here
after go to that body ina crude and indigested
tween this State and Florida, would .throw jn-
to that territory a narrow strip of hind winch
has hitherto been considered as belonging to
Georgia, his excellency the Sallow Dwarf of
tho State House issued his mandate, directing
the immediate suspension of the survey, which
of course xvas instantly obeyed. It is added
that he reproached his Cousin Tom of being so
ignorant of geometry as not to be properly qua
lified to distinguish a square from a circle, and
to bo unfit for the running of a fence round a
aornficld: that the latter retorted, that the place
of departure at which the boundary line had
been begun was the true one according to sun,
chain and treaty; that the survey so far as it
hold them. It is ever so with a guilty con.
science—the imagination is always its worst
tormentor.
In the last number of that paper, we find
nearly a‘column devoted to our attention, but
so full of falsities and absurdities, that to notice
them at all is almost unnecessary. With the
Editors personally we have nothing to do—wo
care nothing for their opinion, and have as lit
tle regat d Tor their friendship as for their prin
ciples. As we wish however to get along
smoothly through the world, we are disposed
to treat our cotemporaries with courtesy, when
their deportment seems to demand it. Person
al disputes are seldom interesting to the public,
form; for he’d be hanged [jumping] if ho ever
again would correct one of them, or give a
dollar to pay the taxes of the poor devils about
Fort Barrington for'tho purpose of getting him
votes again at the election of Governor.—We
hope the story is exaggerated—that little ot
nothing has happened'beyond a friendly ex
postulation, ending in a cordial shake of the
hand—and ihat the country may continue to
receive the benefit of Cousin Tommy’s lite
rary labours through his assistance to Cousin
George. Will the official Recorder illumine
our ignorance?
To the Editor op the Telegraph:
The ill health of your correspondent, ‘‘A Demo-'
* , , . , . . crat of 1818,” devolves on me the drudgery of noticing
and wo have no desire to crowd ours upon tlieir ■ gome remarks, by the Senior Editor of tnc .Southern
notice. The cpntroversy with Mr. Grantland 1 Recorder, on the article furnished by that writer, in
„ , , . , ... , your paper of the 7th instant. My acquaintance with
was not one of our seeking—and tf in the pros- I your author, together with my privity to His produc-
if itnnnlonsRiir truths are hmuo-ht home tion and knowledge of the facts in substance which it
contains,—with one exception,—converts my etten'
hourly expected,
operations. The Neapolitan General Church
(an Englishman) and Mr. Lambton, the late
member of Durham, have sailed from Naples
to join tho Greeks. . '
• The discovery ship Ilccla, Capt. Parry, was
ready to sail from Deptford, March 25, on a
voyage to West Spitsbergen, and the North
Pole, and was expected to take Iter final depar
ture from Sltcerness, or tho Noro, the first
weok in April. She has a complement of 64
men, and carries provisions for 19 months.
William Brown, the Sailor.—The eccen
tric young female, who was brought up ia a
From the Port Gibson Correspondent.
A tragical event happened in Greenville,
Jefferson county, on last week, which displays a
horrid jnsimico'of moral turpitude, to which a
young m.tn, just entering into life with every
promise fell a melanrholy victim. We shall give
tho particulars as we heard them, and in doing
so shall mention names. Tlto feur of wound
ing the feelings of her felatives would withhold
us from tlio disclosure, did wo not feel it a du
ty to expose vice when it appears in such a
horrible shape, and had wo not sufficient knowl
edge of mankind to know, that the errings of
individuals taint not, in the estimation of socie
ty, the character of their relations.
A Mrs. Cable who has for some lime kept
tavern in Greenville, received into her house
as a boarder, Mr. James Gray, who had lately
taken up his abode in tho place, and had open
ed a store and was appointed Post blaster.—
Ho was a young man of nn amiaMc disposition,
and of modest and retiring deportment—jus}
such a character as is likely to bo decoyed from
virtue by tho desiging. Mrs. C. frequently
made advances, which he could not but under
stand, and finally yielded to. He continued
an illicit connection, till the admonitions of his
friends induced, him.to break it off and change
bis boarding. She had frequently urged him
to marry her, Which he refused to do; and this
last conduct of his raised her jealousy to the
highest pitch, and she declared to her servant
girls that if he did not yield toiler wishes, site
would kill him the first opportunity. Accor
dingly on his return from Now Orleans, whith
er he had been on business, she sent for him,
and with this dirpTul intent, prevailed on him
to stay all night. Towards morning, and when
lie was asleep,-she' appears to have got up, laid
her burial drpss.proviously prepared on the ta
ble, took One pistol and shut him in the back of
tho head, and .httit deliberately laying down on
the boil by bin), placed another to her forchond
and blow off tlio whole of tho upper part of her
head. They wore found in this condition the
next morning, bv the neighbors, who had to
croop through tho window to get into tho room.
Hero was the working of jealuosy on a vindic
tive hellish disposition. Here is an instance
of viCo, risen to its acme, in its influence
over human action; nnd should warn us to
bo extremely cautious how we indulge tho ton-
donees of our pdturc. Wo cannot look through
the vista of /ears to flip end of life, but we can
conjecture to what end such an indulgence may
lead; if it wore possiblo it might be even worse
than hers. Sho-muy once have been virtuous,
amiable, loving and beloved; anifshe finally be
came so cliaugcd aud callous as so be regard
less even of self, and sacrificed herself to effect
his destruction.
Kaskaskia, (Illinois,) April 4,
Tho celebrated. Prophet, brother of the no
less celebrated Tccumsoh, is now at Col. Me
nard’s, with a number of Slmwnees, on their
way to select their country west of tho Missis
sippi. This Proplict was tho master spirit that
regulated and called into action the energies of
tho Indians in the las. war; who, notwithstand
ing, has since been taken into the favour, and
lived undor the protection of our government.
He has yet great influence oyer the minds of
his tribe, and though ho has promised to behave
himself, and be.true to this government,it may
ho apprehended, in tlio new theatre on which
ho is now placed, with all his faculties yet ap
parently unimpaired, nnd feeling, as he must,
tho same hostility to us ho formerly entertain
ed, that with the materials ;here placed to his
hand, ho will work out something, by tho assis
tance ofwbuh ho can obtain his former un
bounded influence, and when opportunity may
offer, to give it tho snmo direction.)
Chtrokttt and Osages.—Wo loarn, from
several gentlemen, who passed down tho Ar
kansas;'last week, from Fort Smith and Can-
tonement Gibson, that all apprehensions of
hostilities again breaking out between the
Cherokee aqd Osage Indians have subsided;
and the prospect of an amicable adjustment of
tho difficulties which have for a long time ex
isted between the two nations, is quite as gdod
at present, os at any former period.—Arkansas
Gazette.
Tho frigate United States, Coro. Hull, ar*
rived at Now York on the 22(1 tilt, from a three
years’ cruise id the Pacific ocean, not having
lost an officers since she left the United States.
eculion of itunplensaut truths are brought home
to his recollection, lie must lay the blame to
his own improper interference in matters, he
seems to know nothing about, or if he does,
wishes to conceal the facts or give them an ini-'
proper coloring.
Having higher game in view than the editors
of the Recorder, we did not think it necesia-
ry ourselves, to reply to their remarks of
the 30th, which were mostly personal, and but
little connected with the subject under dispute,
vifc: the inconsistency mid anti-republican
ism of Berrien, Forsyth,&.c. Our not answer
ing their abuse however is no proof of our be
ing confuted by the sophistry of those gentle
manly editors, Tlio charges stand as wo stat
ed them, sud we believe can be substantiated by
facts. Judging from their own words, one would
suppose they were pretty near “confuting and
confounding" themselves. According to them,
Forsyth and Berrien not only have been fede
ralists, but continue so yet. In the Recorder
of tho date abovementioned they say: “As du
ring tue war wo find Berrien and Forsyth
now," &.c. And in their last paper they ad
mit their former federalism in these words—
hear them: “The truth we believe is, that
Berrien [and Forsyth] DID NOT approve op
the war at tho time it was made”!!! And as
nobody disapproved of the war but federalists
and Hartford Conventionists, the conclusion is
irreslstiblo that Berrien & Co. must have been
either the one or tho other if not both—and
continue n6w as then!
Mr. Grantland would have us to believe, that lie
never solicited Gen.. Clark or any other Gov
ernor for favors of any kind. It is in proof
though, that ho has solicited favors, exclusive
favors too, and has been refused. If not, why
did he continue to heap abuse upon Clark for
not giving to hitu the printing of a certain Di
gest; after-it was known that another person of
fered to' do it for something like a thousand dol
lars cheaper? Why also did Governor Mitch
ell o.dce “render himself obnoxious to this snmo
Mr. Grantland, for not giving hint a similar job,
in preference to others who did it for a smaller
sum? 'i_ ■ ■
Mr. G. inquires very candidly, "can the
character of a public journal be elevated, or the
cause of any party be promoted by the total a-
bandonment of Truth, and an open and sys
tematic perseverance in propagating palse-
nooD.” .We supposo he refers to his own de
vious course; and as he has pursued it, accord
ing to his'own statemeut for “eighteen years,"
he ought by, this time to be.able to judge of its
expediency.' For our part we have over con
sidered.dia political examplo of Mr. G. as one
that ought to be avoided rather than follow
ed. In the course we have marked out for
ourselves,'we have endeavored to dovelopc
Truth, os far as may be, and support and dis-
seminato genuine republican principles, let it
please or offend whom it may. And if in tho
course of our remarks the feelings of those are
sometimes touched who have prostituted Truth
and Principle, and sacrificed Honor and Pa
triotism for the soko of ambition—we cannot
help it. W' :
A severe Hailstorm from the North Wests
passed over this place on Saturday afternoon,
doing in its course, considerable injury to the
growing crops. ‘ . ‘
Jphn Randolph of Roanoke, is said to be in
such a state of health at present, as to preclude
the hope ofhis.ever being able to take his seat
in Congress.
'
COMMUNICATED.
UPROAR IN THE PALACE.
It is rumoured, that, on learning the line,
which tlie commissioners on the part of Geor
gia and the United States were running be-
deem, from imputation so serious, ohoIn
chief leaders of his party, if truth would '’
rail him? But since your conversion t 0 "/
ern federalism,” you are, perhaps, sir,
to trust to the word of any. of the old m,
of Savannah who wore democrats durins
war. I will remove tho objection; and’ 1
give you a referee of congenial feeling: 1 *
rien himself, who dare not doty my statem
Tho story related, by* “a Democrat of jg!
of Berrien wearing homespun in his elect,
coring journics succeeding the war, is, to
knowledge, substantially correct; and 1'
misinformed, if the low country Journdi sr t
fore cited can be induced to express a dish
of the fact, or even to sa^that ho does no, i
it to he trite. You must now h'egia tof tl u
the correspondents of the Telegraph fo,
somo claim to credence; and it shall be *
province to fix it firmly in your recoils^
though I had designed myself fora higher c
test; but the serf shall not dash dirt at my p.
when I push at the vitals of his lord. ...
Towards your sections and angles od iJ
chart of Crawford, you are afraid to look; n|
breath's not a whisper concerning your tr®J
from democracy to federalism: disunion sJ
jts probable concomitant, a servile war,
as cautiously shun, as if the angel of dual
armed with lightning, stood over the sub : crt|
to destroy every votary blasphemously ( s,1
voring to approach it: and 1 am disposed!
respite you for a time. ]
But on domestic manufactures ydni have t(4
impudence to quibble, admitting that in r j
they ought to be protected; but in peace, t J
And why not? Becnuse a tariff impoveraiiJ
the Southron and enriches tho YnttkerJ
What, sir!—does tho tariff inhibit tho fibrkJ
tion of goods in the South any tnoro than d!
growth of cotton? If the Yankee guitars
from manufactures, why not tho South. J
Is not labor, with tho except ion of a few tnjj
cheaper in the South than tho North?—arei
fuel and streams as plenty, the soil as proli
the genius of the people as apt, ami the,
materials as abundant and cheap? If “the pod
farmer finds it difficult at the end of tho yearJ
make the two ends meet," is it the wayfcl
him, to obtain a mitigation of his hardships, J
pay itpoh iiis staple article the' carriage of id
thousand miles, four commissions tft least,as|
a duty at tftn dodr of the work shop, to'kvil
converted into a shir} or pair of breeches, wfed
tlie same operation could bo, just as wpil aal
much more Expeditiously, performed at tk]
corner of his fence, and afford employment t
his poor neighbors, instead of feeding afoiii
population ami adding to tiie warlike resound
of a foreign government?—If sfleh bo your w
triptism and economy, may God keep the pw
pie from your Visijprti and kiudueis. But, J
should your policy prevail, how are wetoM
poet manufactures to flourish in war? Willed
-nvest capital to any ex:eut on the assume
of protection during the precarious conti]
ance of hostilities' with the - prospect of certd
ruin on- the return of peace? Such howtwj
is the consequence ef four Casuistry; and tk|
I have no doubt that you recaivodiwwj
from the Sallow Dwurfof the Capital,-U a|
t ies with i: too thmy marks of its nativity*
to lie traced to tlie mild and miasma of Sap
Tho interest of die “poor-firmer” butt
enters into deliberation there, as UtsS
cy considers his hordes of Ourang OutaitjsVi
badly qualified to become manufacturers, d
England fully as able to furnish plains dud ch
naburgs as the United States, aud as mbielfj
serving of custom;—besides, the island is tclfj
rably situated for smugglingshould war im
happen. Such considerations may weigh sistj
thing with persons abstracted from’thei
by feelings and interests, but with me jtfl
At ontrtme, you confess, that your voice us
Tor manufactures,-but that was during the »r-|
Let me ask you, sir, if since the war, to
18f5, 1816, 1817 and 1818, the time wN
Berrien assuhied occasionally the fashiotalq
homespun coat, you did nqt very fashion-!-:
urge tho very fashionable doctrine of ceco:-
aging domestic-manufactures, till the fcM
able apothegm, “in the midst of peace, p -q
pare for war," became so quaint in your tnosil
that many of your now fashionable MM
prayed 'fervently that yon rinight ipeedly H
ceive.a fashionable apotheosis? Yes, sir;—J'*!
have been, like tho Old Vicar, quite const'll
in following the fashions of the.timos! D je |
truth alter? Does it, liko you, have it* ph ssS |
and changes? No. Than I shall steadily p^l
sue it, and spare no changeling that crouejojl
path. • • , I
You tacitly pdmit, sir, having abujodwj
slandered General Jackson, but deny ItatnSI
ever DECLARED him to “he spotlc«»|
blameless, tho only man in the United SB*I
qualified to discharge the functions app« ttl> j
ifig to the First Magistracy." The subsr.t>j
tion of one word for another not synonimw*’ I
meaning is worthy of your understanding, “I
should savoyou, did your grey hairs leave^Jl
hopes of reclaiming you from tho crooked 1 '*
you of political inquity. Yon wen pot
to accomplish an impossibility, “to prove n no- with tho DECLARATION, but the
gStivC,” itminnluwl IVn. — . ,.v7 ktl l—W|
bwiuaiiiR.—ivnu um. vAvvjniuii) vuuvviiw V
tion to the subject into an obligation rendered imperi
ous by friendship, truth, and a regard for the welfare
of the country The exception in reference is the
charge against Mr. Sen/on Orantlnnd's having solicited
tn aidsliip under General John Clark. As tliisflllege-
ment was solely founded upon positive assurance
given in your preseuce to “A Democrat of 1812,” and
which yon believed to be true, its proof belongs of
right to the informant. It is almost superfluous to'
acquit you of the uuthorship, as the idiom, arrange
ment and spirit bear such evidence of another origin,
that no man having any discrimination in language,
will suppose the production to he your’s. Your sole
agency iti the matter was the printing—I hold tiic
manuscript, and find that you did not even exercise
the Editorial Privilege, to niter a word, a point, or a
letter. You will insert in your paper the enclosed ar
ticle, not as a favor to me, but di yonr duty to tiie pub
lic. PADDY CARR.
To Seaton Grantland, Esquire,
Senior Editor of the Southern Recorder. ... * -
You wish, sir, that incidents of former years
should not be admitted in testimony against
your party; and contend covortly for the prin
ciple, that the past has no connexion with the
present. The establishment of such a point
would evidently be of some importance to you,
and charity might lead me to waive the sub
ject were not involved in it matters of paia-
mount' concern to Georgia in particular, and
liberty in general; but^sir, as the dearest rights
of man have been assailed by had'characters
under insidious and 'treacherous pretens'ons, i-
cannot be in justice termed illiberal in 'hose re
solved to maintain immunities.founded in rea
son ami nature, and sanctified by their fathets’
blood and their fathers’ wisdom. I shall there
fore not accede to your wishes, by foregoing the
benefit in politics of that which is considered
the only sure guide in every science, the expe
rience of other times, but shall use it with a con
stancy not to be abandoned from fear, nor
yielded to the effects of guile.
It is iD vain, sir, that you confound Mr. Bart-
let with his-correspondents, or chqrgo the lat
ter with not having during the war done as
much for tho country as Mr. Berrien. Both us-
sertionsaro as absurd as they are false. The vari
ety of stylo is sufficient evidencoofadifference in
authors, and when a detail (if military services
beepmes requisite, Berrien himself shall “boar
witness.” Until they claim distinction from
tho people for benefits rendered, such detuil
would, however be superfluous, and closely al
lied to egotism. All that can be expected
from us are truth and reason; and before I let
you go finally, your ojivn feelings shall advise
you to wliat cxtnnt my pretensions t* those
qualifications reach. ‘ •;
In charging Berrien with having, in a pub
lic harangue made at Savannah, denounced
tho war as unjust and opposed the march
ing’ of two volunteer companies from that place
to Florida, for the security of our southern nnd
western frontier, I purposely introduced the
name of the gentleman then commanding tho
Republican Blues, as a referee whose veracity
could not he questioned, should your skepti
cism or hardihood inclindyou to doubt my state
ment, knowing well that his participation in
that act of devotion to his country’s safety, as
well as his efforts to effect a dry cultivation a*
round Savannah with a view to diminish the de
structiveness of life* had left upon his memory
on' impressiou of die collateral incidents -too
permament to bo erased by tlio flight of years.
Though this reference could not euable you
it supplied you with tho means to com*
pass nn equivalent in reason, had my state
ment contained evasion or implied falsehood;
hut you have as cautiously eschewed the au
thority, as if pollution lurked beneath It and
certain extirpation preceded its approach.—
Had this reference been however withheld, it
would in you havo been prudence to have con
sulted tho Savannah papers, which it is not to
be supposed would pass over in silence any
misrepresentation of o man that has of late
been in their estimation so essential on tho
floor of Congress to tho cause of Georgia.
As toy charges in thc-Tclograph against Ber-
ridn reached Millcdgevillo early in the morning
Of the 30th of April, they must at the further
most havo arrived in Savannah by tho 4tli cur
rent, and yet the papers of that city, which ap
pear daily, have not as late as the 10th, attemp
ted to question them or extenuate them. Can
this arise from ignorance of the facts advanced,
or disinclination to do him justice? Did not
the oldest Journalist in that placo go to East
Florida as a volunteer officer? <3an it be pre
sumed that lie either has forgotten the circum
stances connected with so memorablo an epoch
•f his own life, ox that he is indisposed to rc-
ING;. and as deeds speak this most impre s,l f
language, jt Is, tq establish the fact, W73
cessary to contrast Seaton Grantland ol M
to Seaton Grantland of 1818. On ,,rj
of August of that year, Seaton Grantland V 1
CLARES, that ,J
“Tbft “hero of Orleans,” like Commodore J'l
appears to be intoxicated with papular applet^vj
seems to act upon the absurd belief, that“M**". j,
wrong." tie lias taken upon himself to dccia\.
field, matters which belong exclusively to the J
and to Congress. Ho has repeatedly durtgtf**/L
live orders, and lias more than qxicotrampU*a-ijj
damental principles of our government
has, in short, played the part ofa'miltoy
exercised the powers of n DICTATOR, ,fl , .kjo-l
Now, sir, as you havo never retracted M
[ linion and yet pretend to bo a man of tm J
over of tho country, it follows as a n ccf ^1
consequence, that a character so P ec£an
dangerous would not receive •PjjjTj
tion and sorvices for the Presidential y|
if any other man in tho nation c 01 ^ 10 . j
you believe, tho prerequisites to dsicWrgji
duties—while, on the other hand, tho #^|
with which you have, for tho last »>*
collated and republished every thing 11 '
your judgment, cxculpatos him and
frotn-(lie chargos circulated by b*s CB