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V n.UME XI.J
ivMuauj-.n wixu
MY PIHTP n G 1 ~!EU.
NEWS OFFICE, , ?
March 10, 1325. S
A e remind our subscribers,
that the terms of this paper ar -
pavab'e in advance, nr S4. navab’e at <h e ’ <
of the vrar We T*qnv ‘hem at the same
tme distinctly to tha . ““
yequire the c>mp. lance of those term*, m jn s ’
tkc o ourselves, and to ’We subscriber* who
have ‘ “Vromlv and rfcc-vr'y supported the
p.n**r liates for a I’-erJlsing’as her
Accounts doe if not pa and nr hqi. 1
da t;d previous to Viav term of he Interior
Court, shall indiscriminately be pot in suit; a ‘
measure vre will be led to adont *n justice to
ottrselveg, and to our advrr isinp tr ends who
have enabled os logo on with our business by
punctual payment.
/Tjf® WR arc requested to an
boo-ce JOHN HOLIDAY, Esqr.
a* a candidate at the next election
for Clerk of the Inferior Court*
June 18. 1825.
VWHMa> gMpa-n"HMaMS Ml * a • ■ n ■————mtmmm
s** We are requested lo announce i
OV RTON WINGFIELD, Esq.
a a candidate at the next election
for Clerk of the Inferior Court.
June 24, 1825.
Mm ~*” ‘ 1 “ runt
Washington Lodge.
rs HE rremb rs of this lod?e are
r requested to be punctual at a
regular meeting to be held ar the Ma
sonic . all. on the first Tuesdry iu
August ned. as business of import
ance will have to bi transacted.
By order,
W. F. HAY, y,
July 11. 1825 29- St
’ ■ ■ miin bij j
Frtkn the Georgia Journal.
Official Papers.
Executive Department, Geo.
MiUedgeville. B th June, 1825,
Siu : I wdl thank you to inform
snr i! in a conversation held at my
ivques? with Col. Lumpkin you sla
ted to him that the evidence submit
ted to yon did not furnish even pro
bable cause to suspect the Indian
.Apent as guilty under the charges
exhihi’ed against him in my letter
f the 31s? ultimo As I intend to
communicate immed??,*ciy with your
government on this cubje-jt, I wish
y u to he very particular in the an
iwer you may think proper to give,
tha ‘he pos&jbtli'iv-of mistake op
misapprehenaidn may fie avoided.
Very Respect full v sir, > " r ,
‘*• O. SI. TROUP.
Maj. Andrews* ;
Special Agent, U. S.
MilletlgeviUe. Gen. , j
June the B th, 1825. \ j
Sir: I am honored by the re 4 ‘
ceipt of your note of this evening] j
Col Lnmpkio has misapprehend]
-ed ry rrnWfcs greatly, (t',e 1 feel
wtbfcd he h incapable of misfep,
rcsen’ing them.) if he supposes I
bad formed any opinion as to the
guill or innocence of the Indian A
gent. or would form one, until I
Was placed in possession* in an offi- J
eial manner, of all the evidence to
be obtained from every quarter, and
had thoroughly examined it. The
Conversation I hud the hoor of 1
holding with the Colonel, which, it
appears, was at the request of your
Excellency, was long and desultory:
I eao only at this time recoiled the
result, viz. that, until I was furnish*
e.i. rifi ••tally, with the documents
feod evidence re.fei.ml 10 in the lat
tOi p *.•( of your let
ter of tbe Slsi utf.. I did not tmn
lioer myself at liberty to form any
opinion —not even as to the proprie
ty f a suspension Agent.
* ibe attention of vour Ex
ecllency to my fetter of ihe 3ist of !
May, by which you will perceive* 1 |
expected to be able to furnish
m Agent, in case his suspension
de ivied on, with a copy of the
ges and specili. at ions made against
Imii* immcdsrt cly on his Sietug
periled, that he .n*ghl he ‘-enahlfd‘
** Cos tleieod himself before his gov- ‘•
“ t rnmattf. with as little delay’ l l
** possible:” and iltat hs tusjpeu - I
sioci wool J aLo <Jf pgftd >o fhc I
ens state oi among the j
ludtaus. 1 has course your Excel- ;
leney will do me the Jnjptce to he- 1
(ieve. is in stria-1 aCcoriliitice with |
ffi 4 ‘ instructions ol my goveryujje'H.
1 tlclujetl ujj j
V
The Washington News.
WASHINGTON, (c-eorgia) SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1825.
><► a s .iMI a RU • *ogoic ti
of the receipt of yourlao er the
31st ul*.,) waiting to be furnished
with the document and
promised in it. So soon a* i t-bidl
he honored by its receipt, (if Geo
Caines shall have arrived) l will
immediately proceed to execute the
intentions of tSie President, as made
k;iown to your Excellency.
I have the honor to be, with the
highest respect and consideration,
your Excellency's most obedient ser
-1 vant. s’
T. P. ANDREWS,
! Special Agent.
To His Ex: Geo. JT. Troup
Governor of G or.ru, >liii-.d^evil!e.
Executive Department..
MiUedgeville, 16m June, 1625.
Sir: In ouiuplta.ice witii a ii.;so
lution of the Legislature of the
biale of Georgia, I pla* e you in
possession ot the report of a com*
j mitiee—the resolutiou* which fol-
(be evidence which sup
ports them, it) tiie of the A
geai for I Mian Atluics, whose con
duct in i-omiertiou wi?U the latedis
turba ces in the Creek Nation, h£s
been recently a subject of inve&ii
gattou before that Legiuiature,
Very respettuiiy 9
G. VL TROUP,
j Maj. 1, P. Andrews*
Special Agent.
Executive Department,
MiUedgeville, UtfiJune, 1825.
Sir: Io tae conversations heid
with yourself and Gen. Gaines in
reia ion to the obje- ts of your mis
s were pleased to express a
desire to receive from myself, any
views or suggestions whieli might
usefully contribute to itie results
which were most desirable; These
in passing, have been hitherto frank :
ly giver—as it is determined tbatV
of?e or gotu of you will proceed to
atle nT^umnspa ventlon of • itc? Indians
about to be holden at Broken Ar
row anti the Indian Springs, it be
comes my duty co disclose to you
in a special manner, the opinions en
tertained of this first and most im
portant movement, so that if mis
carriage follow, the Councils of
Georgia will share in oo degree the
responsibility y)f that miscarriage ;
it is known to be one of your ob
jc. ts, to elicit from the Convention
the >ruths connected witiAhe late
nod present disorders in the Nation;
a devHoperaent which the Councils
of Georgia cannot fail to regard
with very deep concern. It. has
beer* more than once asked of you
| therefore if preparatory to this
j movement, if did not seem to y u as
indispensable suspend the Agent
j from bis functions under theautho
, r *ty vested in you by your Govern
ment. The answers given have
been received with pain and regret,
because they indicated an intention
taforbearNhe exercise of the p.iwer,
at least for the present, whilst, it is
i plai dy foreseen that the present is
; R ,e °*dy moment, at which the exer
cise of it would be of any value to
you or ton* in the fulfilment of the
objects of your mission, and for
this very obvious reason. The A
gent in virtue of his official power
exercising a controlling influence o
ver one portion of the Nation, has
already assembled that portion, and
you see in the morning’s paper by
what a formidable and imposing ar
ray\o*rChiefs ho stands exculpated
and acquitted. Now Sir, I appeal
to yoar good sense to inform me of
what ayail will be the contemplated
convocation aod catechising of the
Indians, the Agent holding to his
-•.omrnission, and wielding hisaoous
'turned p nvers. Is it to he believed
that iioder like circumstances they
will reconsider fheir miiiutes aud
after lheir verdiot? Not so—in mat-
of this kind they have sa
gacity and shiewdoess, and a de
cent legat'd for* the opinions of the
Wjfriu. Not oh
jec* is the of truth,
jif is hoped that yoti will suffer no
[pbfr.aeles to lUijk'Je your course to
4i4-f?te most foriarchie of ail stands
yaav 9 V'* imptMsi
t iiai tlfain test ray of light
i? k y° u when it is k-iowo
that mXrspite of ail that has trans
pired q£ iovegtig^s
t:uh# ox evWttce abd of exposure.
tin Agci.f is pr* *t> if to tin* Indians
it! his r*>l>o9 of Ermine, yet sustain
ed hy the Government of the United
States, as if his purity were spot
less. and his name unsullied—the
same in authority as he always has
been—the samjf wifnm they behold
in prospect to he their leader thro’
new trials, their counsellor in evil
times ad the Supreme Director of
their destinies in all times. Can it
he presumed, that under such clr- |
f|U instances, the Indians will speak!
(byou withou! restraint? The Doc- |
unsents of incontesfihle authority j
placed i your possession, prove to j
you that they will not. No sir, (lie j
way to (he accomplishment of the !
ends ol your mission is open—sus- j
pend the Agent.—make atonement j
to the friends of Mclntosh for the
biood shed by the guilty instruments
of white men—restore the friendly
(.bids to their political rank and
power, and my word for it, you will
* find truih, and enough of if. for
every purpose, peace, reconciliation,
aud union.
With great respect and esteem,
G. VI. TROUP.
! Maj. TANARUS, P, Andrews ,
Special Afcenf.
Greek Jgrncy, Flint Diver, June JB th, 2325-
Sir—l have the lienor to ac
knowledge the receipt of your Ex
ceilenry’s letter of the 13th ir*f.
accompanied hy a ropy of the evi
dence against the I dian Agent, ta
ken before the Committee of the
Georgia Legislature. I have not
yet received an official qopy of the
documents your letter
ol the 31st May, the liber
ty of urging your ExcelleneV to
iurnigb me with hem as |oop as j
possible. I avail tnyscfr of this!
opportunity to attention of |
your Excellency, especial man*
eer, to the DeceasiPy of furnishing
(be Agetit of the General Govern
ment, as speedily as possible, with a
ny additional testimony which you
may wish to offer against the Indi
an Agent; I hope to get through (he
examination of (he evidence offer
ed and to he offered by the Agent,
to rebut that with vyhiob I have al
ready been furnished, in about three
weeks: The urgency, indeed neces
sity, of having any additional testi
mony which may be offered against
hm, hy that lime, or as soon there
after as possible, w ill be apparent;
a* a fair examination must form the
wish of your Excellency as it does
that of the President and of the Se
cretary of War.
I have to acknowledge also, the
receipt of your Communication of
the 2.4 th inst. which was handed to
meat the,moment of my departure
for this place from Milicdgevitht: I
am perhaps, unfortunate in enter
taining different opinions of the
matters to which it relates, and par
ticularly as to the importance, the
justice or necessity of suspending
the Agent under present circum
stances. After an attentive exami
nation of the testimony taken by the
committee, and some already shewn
to mo by the Agent, and as no spe
cifications have been presented, I
did not think that the suspension
was demanded on the grounds eoa
-1 templated in my letter of the 3ist
of May and by the Government.—
I did think the determination of die
General Government and of its A
gent, being, as your Excellency has
very justly remarked, “the ascer
tainment of truth,” that the pros
enec or absence of ihe Indian Agent,
j at any place or under any circum
stances, would be immaterial in ihe
fulfilment ol that deierminaPon. I
had a hope also (hat as your Excel
lency is seen to speak, in d/übung
language, of all guilt in that nffi.
eer in jout Message 3d ir>at.
being alter the charges
against him;—that aTTJe has been
acquitted generally of one of (he
charges, by the adopted report of
the Legislature;—having still the
appalling influence and power of the
Executive and Legislative branch
es of u ?e Government against Ittirh
and (hat ioo, on testimony avowealy,
arparte ; he would not have
to . ompia n duriug his trial, of ant
ae _jt on li,e l ,art ana,l
migu( appear 10 partake of eppres
siou. Yuur fixed opinion as to Ihe
’
necessity ol Ins suspension, aed the
manner in which, that opinion is
communicated, will compel me to
that course, in courtesy, and to con
vince your Excellency and the peo
ple of Georgia, that the General
Government is determined not to j
suffer even a supposed difficulty to j
be in the way, and to leave uo course |
untried which may elicit die free
unbiassed testimony of ail persons-,
this even towards a man who has not
been so far as the investigation has
been pursued by (he authorities of
Georgia, ‘♦informed of she nature
arid cause of the accusation,” or
‘•confronted with the witnesses a
gairsSt him,” or had “compulsory
process for obtaining witnesses in
his favor—as required by the sacred
instrument which guards the right*
of ai!.” I
I observed before leaving Mil- I
ledgeville, that parts of the testimo- ‘
I laken before the Committee of
the Legislature, had been published
in the newspapers; anJ it was cur
rently reported that the balance was
to be shortly made public. The In
dian Agent being u officer of the
General Government i presume,
(and Irons expressions in the report j
adopted by the Legislature,) mat
ihe main object of tne examination ,
was to place the General Govern
ment in possession . f the evidence!
If such is the fact, your Excellency
will not, I feel assured, think it. im
proper iit me, as the Agent of the :
Government, to remark, that I trust ;
you wjii consider i\ asXlue ia eour- •(
tesy to the General Government,
and in justice io j.be party accused, ;
that the evidence takeo by the com
im|tee, and now m* the official
i charge of your Excellency, avoV
cdly exparte, should not fie spread
; before the public, and public opio- j
ion thereby forestalled before the
Agent ha* had an opportunity of ;
defending himself, or the General
Government an opportunity of ex- I
amining the evidence adduced by 1
either party. The frankness which
your Excellency has uniformly in
vited, emboldens me to make this ,
suggestion for your consideration.
With ihe highest respect and
consideration, I ’remain your Ex
cellency's most obedient servant.
T. P. ANDREWS,
Special Agent.
To his Excellency George M Troup,
Governor of Georgia, Mijic-dgcville.
Executive Department,
Milledgeville, 18.7* J une, 1825.
Sir—From the course recently
pursued by the Agent in procuring
from the Chiefs of the hostile In
dians, under (he influence of his of
fice, and Irorn the Missionaries, their
attestation to his innocence, the
Commissioners appointed under the
authority of the Legislature, are
directed to proceed to Broken Ar
row', to participate in the councils j
to be holden there on (he 25th it£flf|j
so (ar as they have for their
the collection of facts and (level- ;
opemeot of truths as connected with
the late disturbances in the Nation,
and the charges exhibited by this
government against the Agent cf
the United States for Indian Affairs.
They are instructed specially to a
vohl any interference, unless .•solicit
ed, with the poliiical arrangements,
or negociations between the United
States aud the Indians, which ap
pertain exclusively to (he relations
;hr.d interests subsisting between
(hem, & to which the state of Geor
gia is no party. It is hoped and
, expected,(hatthis measure will meet
your concurrence and approbation*
With great respect, &e.
G. M. TROUP.
Maj. T. P. Andrews, .
Special Agent.
Executive Department,
JlliUedjrfzJ'.le<&Qth June, 1825.
Sir*-I havemiis moment receiv
ed your letter of the 18th Insiant,
dated at the Creek Agency. The
printing of the Documents and evi
dence having relation to the disor
ders in the Nation* and to the cbjMr
ges exhibited by this govorntifenf,
- will he completed i*4tf onderffcod,
in the cpturae qf.-tih fr djLy;
eopy will Be forwarded for y/,ur use
in iff te morrow. *,
The U iail4sioners authorized
by the to take further ,
I .k * i
• cs* i; 11 < > 11 y v.i!|, for
i p !, o'*e-'d :’>r:liwiili to
j hie dispatch.
| .Y)u have widely mistake-i
you believe that any d'ipoijiion
: isis here to withhold from the A/-
I ample means oi jus *
I t? 1 V?• • g h.'rnseil to hi<*
muon less* .my desire tor (he perior-r j
oiaoce ot an h<‘l on your part, thai 1 J
i vvouid savor ol pp*'es>io;i—on (iobl
contrary, this government desireS
(bjit the fairest opportunity shuil bel
afforded the accused, of pudLing aim
every description of
which may be ‘available for hnjPZZm
pi f e vindication, fice from
utucles or V vi. } 4 ju
ipighl have the power to interpose!
It was in this spirit hai mv in*
siriiotions to llie Uommkgioo were
drafted, and altiiougii it was known
that (he Agent bad disclaimed (an
authority of ihe gaveiome t of
Georgia to interfere, aiwl tha. *>ere*
fore there was little probuhuity o-jj
, hi* seeking me henefii of a (lai-stetfl
; lar ittsiruciion; oeve-rtheless uo i-B
giruction has beer which will
admit him at his punuure u bejiiej
! seat at the investigation on.om parti
and to exercise the right of iajj
examination freely. Moreover, n
can add wi h gicat sincerity, rial itl
wiii give rue pleasure at any iiie r ‘
to contribute aid* and f< ilfiies to
; Id* detence; tor wlisievfii|l mavbe
j%tbeve ol tiie guilt innoi'cnce of
| (lib Ag en * i H ud, that uue and all
ot uspfor the boaor tfl” ouf ownifu*
man nature, W add gladly see hiire
i viodtcated aud justified’ agdiusi such /
cliurges a have bean preferred by j
this government. Whilst, how
er, this assuraoce is given, it
erthelcss true, (tyit you have p.
tnuoii the sente
; iny message,
your consituetiou* of it, i npli t
j ‘luubt of (he guiii of the Agent -
No such doubt exists, ic was no
said that the Agenl eommiitci
crimes, because it Vas not intended
to say so; it eooogh that iho
’ Agent had been with the
*commissio| of them; aud J avin*
j exhibited me charges, I presumed
you would not have be*cn insensible
to the indelicacy of the ‘ accuser’ •
passing sentence upon the accused.
But whilst this was purposely avoi
ded there, I cun very freely make
known to you here, that, if instead
of passing upon the guilt or inno
cence of the aroused, l had been sta
j my belief from the evidence
even now disposed, aod exparte ay
it may be, I w. u!d have said with
out hesitation, that with respect to
the one charge, I believed him ?uij.
j ty of that, beyond ihe possibility of
i refutation; and (hat with regard
; (he other, lie was so far
j only as lie was not present a'dHJf
Ltime and place inflicting the
his hands. J
| site views of the
to have yielded a bufi, I
gracious assent to the I
the Agent, and indeed to tlV I
little the language of comp
injury miglu by possibility
faom it to the accused. Be
drd Sir, that tins act of suspend
is in no respect personally grat ’JjM
ing to me; nor were feelings of an™
kind, connected with my suggestion
of the propriety of i% but those
which yourself mu3t have indulged
j for the successful fu’fit orient of the
; objects of your mission. I repeat
i what was bes re alledged in support
j of that suggestion, that it could not
| be conceived how it would he possi-
I hie for you to make any, the least
j advance to the auaiomeut of truth,
I or to the pacification of the
j without it, as a firt r.ini iadisperAa
j hie measure. The friendly Chiefs
/bad already given your* gov err meat
i to uuderstand that they would ne.v
----! er consent to commit
gain to the protection of the Agent;
I and you were almost preeut to w.t*
nc.lhat b. vi. ; ■ b ‘ ■