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tbit mimion to England wa* Mt
Mr. Van Boron; his friend* ‘
wns pressed on him by I
that it was retoctamly
earnest solicitsiMns-Of friend* who tnnre
. satisfied it would promote M* ova repo-
•etftfr. aad redound to the honor and wel
fare of jfWRMtion. 1 will not fellow, fur
ther, ihs'Mnaiof’s lead. Long known to
me as * fimiiclao and a* a man, acting to
gether in the hour of political adversity,
when wo HH leal all hot oor honor—a
witaess pf his movements whoa elevated to
power, Sad in the possessioa of the confi
dence of the Chief Magistrate, and of the
great majority of the people, 1 have never
witnessed aught in Mr. Van Buret, which
requires concealment, palliaiiMiorcoforiug
■never any thing to lessen his character
ns a patriot and as a man—nothing which
ha might not desire to sue exposed to the
scrutiny of avery mom her of this body,
with the eslm confidence of unsullied in
tegrity. He is called an artful man—a
giant of artifice—a wily magician. From
whom does he receive thee* opprobrious
names! From open enemies and pretend
ed friends, la tho midst ef all the char-
gas that have bean brought again*! him,
ia shapes more varying lluiu those of Pro-
taus, sad thick as the autumnal iayyes that
strew tka vale ef Valsmbrosa, where is the
false friend or malignant enemy that baa
fined upon him one .dishonorable or de
grading act t If ianocent of artifice, if
gaveroed by a high sense of honor, and
regulating his conduct for elevated prin
ciples, this is dot wonderful; hut. If the re
sult of (hill, of the ore eslare artem, be
mast be mormcanaiag than tha Devil him
self, to hare thus avoided the snares of en
emies nod (be treachery of protended
friends.
It is not possible, Sir, that ho should
have ascaped, bad he been other wise than
pure. Those, ignorant of his unrivalled
knowledge of human character, his pow
er of penetrating into (he designs, end de
feating the purposes of his adversaries,
teeing his rapid advanse to public honors,
and popular confidence, impute to nrt
wltal is the natural result of those simple
causes. Extraordinary talent, untiring in
dustry, incessant vigilunce, rite happiest
icmpor which success cannot corrupt nor
disappointment sour ; these site the sour
ces of his unexampled success, the inn-
"ic arts—thh artifices of intrigue, to which
only ho has resorted in his eventful life.
Those n-ho envy his success, may learn
wisdom from his example.
Having disposed of the catnloguoof the
'Semlor from Mississippi, let mo advert to
■ be grounds occupied by a little army Of
objections on the other aide of this Cham-
bvr. flow many sacrifices of feeling to
duly, nre we not about to wiluass—
lira liueorahlu Senators of Maryland, Con
necticut, Delaware, Musstichiwett*, Ohio,
mid Kentucky, are cunsiruined by duty to
vote against his nomination—nod nil, on
public grounds—no.private feelings: Oh
no t nothing like it t public duly against
privuta feeling, is the order of the day.—
And what is ilia dreadful public crime ho,
Mr. Van Bureu, has committed 1 Hear
—Sir, hear. He bat degraded the coun
try by giving instructions to the Into Min
ister of Great Britain, Mr. Me Lane, about
tbn West India Hade. Wltal instructions!
(Jan ii be those on which tbn net ef 1830
passed-« .oso which bare bean among
our iiia -d document* for these twelve
mouths, forming part of tho President's
communication to Congress of fanuary
t b*| dm Eqgkrth Government to our Govern-
M H kaseto-” ^Cve n-whee wo were eelonige, <
we vrere ret been* by British Mhvf 5
Pretirerefe aaforn wpeckHy tanned ia
them.*' fered: fo m pnmihta that the
lata admkdatraiire did ret btww awact of
ParliamoM affecting important ‘interests.
Where were all iaur accredited Minister*
and commercial agent* m Great Britain,
that thin government was not informed of
this measure, known in all Europe, and
token advantage of by most of tne pow
ers interested in it. Bet it was not olfi-
dally communicated to us. Well, Sir,
vu il officially communicated 10 any other
Government,'interested in Hi contents es
Teobviit*.
mm** * t •**"**?"»•**«*•
Tlie Brttisb Government, I apprehend,
would hare eonaidered such a communica
tion a gross reflection upon our accredit
ed agents. 11 would have compelled them
to say, in effect, We communicate to you
an act, snppming your agents are too neg
ligent Of their duty' to Send it to Joe.
What were oar Ministers and agents a*
bout, how wore they employed, that they
did not tend to their Government this
important information t
But tho last excuse is worst than nil,
even when Colonies, we were nol beam)
by net* of Parliament in which we were
not named *|>*einlly.—What a discove
ry : and it is concluded from ibis wise re
collection, that we are nol note bound to
take notice of nets of Parliament not sjie-
dally and officially communicated to ns.
I Imagine we aro not bound by tliem, com
municated to us or not, but we are bound
to know all thoso touching oor interests,
and nnv administration is severely repie-
henslblo for ignorance of them, and for
failing to attend to those that bear injuri
ously upon the interests of the people.
The net was, however, at last known, ami
when Mr. Gallatin presented himself to
negotiate, whit instructions to wnvti' all
claims that were formerly presented, and
hud prevented nn arrangement, he was
tauntingly told, you have lost your day in
court—tho privilege, tkt boon, offered,
bad not been secured by accepting the
conditions: we have taken our course, ne
gotiation is not our plnn. Well Sir, what
said the edministrution, of which flu- hon
orable senator; from Kentucky, formed a
part. There Was mi act of Congress, re
quiring, on the slottiing ol the British
West India port* against ux, an interdict
iry Proclamation. Smarting under this
taunting refusal 'to negotiate, what was
done t Tlie execution of an act of Con
gress positively directing the proclama
tion, was sus|iendnd by Executive authori
ty fur twu months before tho meeting of
Congress, and during the whole succeed
ing session, to sue if Congress, who had
tuien prevented during Ike preceding ses-
aiou from legislating—the administration
preferring din eclat ot a negotiation—
could ant Icgislstn the Executive out of
die difficulty into which ha had placed! the
country by uegligcuco, or, if the Senator
from Kentucky pleases, ignorance of .ibe
act of Pailiniiient. We all know how
that effort determined. The two Houses
disagreed about tint mode of effecting tho
purpose; both, however, willing to taka
tlie privileges on tbn conditions proposed
bv Great Britain. The Senate passed a
bill—tlie House, under tho influence of
the Senator from Massachusetts, amended
it. and the question Was, whether one or
the other oblique path should be trodden.
The session terminated without legislative
emetoienr, and then,’ and not till then, the
18311 Have those honorable gentlemen proclamation of interdiction was issued,
who are now so shocked at the public de- Thu*, Sir, smarting under the tannt of' the
gradation, to eager to punish the author
of this national disgrace, been sleeping at
their post*—no ere to cry oat, to ring the
alarm at the daagvra to which the public
honor waa exposed—too out tu interfere
to prevent the United State* from being
placed at tho foot-stool of tho Britiab
throne t Quietly witnessing the consum
mation of tho crime; passing an act with
tho knowledge of these instructions, to
secure tkt keen, which they now ate was
begged in the ream of parly from the Bri-
tfoh crown; wc are now electrified by
bant* ol Indignation at shin first set of
degradation in tho history of American
Diplomacy. What • spectacle is here.
New long 1a it Waco he who ires the In-
strumeet to bow os down before Greet
••stain, uni* unanimously confirmed to, a
past-<ojf honor and important trust: Nut
the hu«*meto by whom be ams ordered
to act, in to boor tho .euefoluneel. Tho
aether of tho instructions, ho by whom
they-were given, ia wo high toJbb reached
of present; the authors of t|m crime, ho
who order ad it, escapes—he who com
mits H, by order, goes fire; bn wji° coo-
veyst ie order, answers foFbqttt,eedwp-
on hie hand falls all ibe redigwutioo of
three ioceaaed Senators acting* upou pub-
ding- upon pub
lie gtounds, and reluctantly pertortiling a
rawrut.—nssHtui. —duty i! I
Well, air, to this degradation. It it
freed in the instructions to Mr. Mr Lane ;
and to make out their case, tlie liouera-
bio Senators ‘from Massachusetts sod
Kentucky, have given us a sketch of the
history of the West India negotiation.—
Both brought dowu their narratives to tho
taunting reply of Mr. Canning tu Mr.
Gallatin,-given during the late admiaistra-
tion. From this poiiH,< both these lloo-
erablo Senators found it uonveuient to
ahde—as, sir, to leap over nil intervening
uvrnts to the wiatiuction* to Mr. McLaee.
With permiamna, l. will fill «p this little
unimportant clmsm—The term* of the
Bii-i-h act at Parliament not havioghocn
accepted by tha United States, American
veaaelr were ear.U.ded, by an order io
council, from the British Watt indie porta.
Why than important interest was neglect
ed. ma have been just told by the Seee-
tor fritti Kentucky, “ the late adminlstra-
tion. were ignorant of the act of Parka*
mam - until it was casualiy sees by them.'
Briiislt Minister, our admittiatratioh left
tho whole trade in thn Itnada of Great
Britain for six or eight mouths,—(Ought
to cover itself from censure liy invoking
legislative interpnattiou, ami then, was
compelled to apt on the suspended statute.
The iuterdict being proclaimed, the'trade
Stood 0)M>a the Vetv advantageous footing,
according to- thn Senators judgment,
which we have lost by the negotiation.
Notwithstanding we were enjoying such
eminent advantage!, the late sdntmistra
tiOn, i«t Spite of the taunt, directed' Mr
Gallatin fo try again to procure whnt - is
Dow disparaged, by opening the door of
negotiation slier it had been shat in his
face. He wae again repulsed. But this
humiliation was not enough; Mr. Bar
hour was sent to London, and he too had
(tie instructions, and went, cap in hand,
knocking at the closed door for Regoeis-
tion. Sir, he knocked at tha door of the
British Ministry, uader circumstances hu
miliating in tlie extreme. If a gentleman
should go a' second time to a house,.-the
proprietor of which, speaking from his
window, had directed his porter to dee*
him 1o tho visiter, hie visit would have
been somewhat like Mr. Barbour’s second
coll. Vos, Sir, yet the humiliation wee
vain-—tlie second as fruitless as the lint.
Such was the condition of this question
when General Jackson was placed at the
head of the country. One of the firstob-
jects ot hi* admiofottatiftn wa* the reco
very of the British West India Trade, ah
arrangement ot it Upon terms of just reci
procity, satisfaction to -both parties, sml,
therefore, promising to be permanent.—
Mr. McLane was selected to go to Eng
land, and these much abused instruction*
prepared by the la<e Secretary of State.
Let it b« remembered, Sir, these sre in
structions from the President of the Uni
ted States, to the American Minister, ne-
ver intended for the eye ef the British Go
vernment, and which In no other conntiy
but ours, would ever have seen tlie light.
Tho opening of this negotiation wasihe
chief difficulty. Toremove it, two grounds
nre taka*. It will bo remembered that
oor retina! to accede to the terms of tho
act of Partis mint, wre made the ground
of ret using to treat with Mr. GaNatin and
-as tho Britiab fogislRUon. 1
difficulty, aft** a fair mad
‘tit* transacts*^ three regfiHimm are pre
sented to ■*, Mclioae to bo ertmad re
far as fir might dim it mdfm wad fro*
per it to do. If tboNrilfob persist io re
fusing to hear yea, on this subject, remind
them of tha ttr—malretrs that have oc
cur ted ; of the difference of opinion a-
mottg ourseivre oo H: of the abandoi
mem by the adminietration of thoso pri
tenees that -tied prerented an adjust
ment ef it-: that limy are not again to be
brought forward; that tha past adminis
tration was not amenable to she British
Government, nor aav oilier, than the |r-o-
pin of the United Stares, who bad passed
upon all their acts. Say to the British, if
it makes pretensions formerly advanced
the pretext for still declining to negotiate,
the sensibility of the American people
will be deeply awakened. That the tone
oi public feeling, by a course so unwise
and untenable, will ba aggravated by tita
knowu fort that Groat Britain hid open
ed her colonial ports to Russia and France,
notwithstanding a similar omission on their
parts to accedu ia limn, to tha terms
i>r»-d by tho act oi Parliament. And
this, Sir, is represented is the language of
entreaty, ee the begging of a boon. This
menace of the public indignation; this
declaraiiun that thn lata* administration
rr.es neither to be censured or praised by
foreign nations; was amenable for their
conduct to no earthly tribunal bat the peo
ple of lira United States, is tortured into
a claim of privileges, on party grounds
for party purposes, and as a disgraceful at
tempt to throw u|Ntn a previous adminis
tration unmerited disgrace, for the sake
of currying favor with a foreign power,
and that power of all others. Great Bsit-
sin. Great Britain could uol resist this
frank ami often uud manly appeal. Com
milted by their concession in faver of
France uud Russia, and the Ministry dis
tinctly told by Mr. Me Lane, that he would
not remain if they declined negotiation,
or placed their refusal upon any other
ground than an open declaration, that their
interests could not permit them to enter
into a reciprocal engagement with the
United Stales, tlie English Cnbinct relur-
(Mtitlv yielded ; and then came the most
odious feature in this transaction, that
which has sharpened the intellect of tho
opposition to-discover dishonor, in truth,
and a want of dignity, in a Trank opposi
tion of liters, its crowning success. Mr. I
Mel.tine and Mr. Van Huron, under Gen.
Jackson, succeeded in effecting an object
of public solicitude, that Mr. Adams, uud
Mr. Clay and Mr. Gallatin and Mr. Uar-
hour could not obtain. The country was
humiliated by thn preceding administra
tion without success; hence the charge
against Mr. Van Bitten; hence, the over
whelming anxiety to |irorc, that the suc
cess ol the late negotiation has been pur
chased by humiliation. The British Cab
inet desired not to make the arrangement;
it interfered with groat local interests, mid
if they could, without a manifest ami oii-
joet distinction to our prejudice, they
would have declined admitting the Uni
ted Stale* to the privileges granted to the
other maritime power*. Not satisfied with
his condemnation of Mr. Van Buren’s in
structions, the Senator front Kentucky at
tempts to sltew us by referring to nnnther
letter of instructions, how this affair lhotili
have bet-ti conducted consistently with his
idea* of national tumor and dignity. The
letter from which he has read lr< the Sen
ate, extracts, is I think, siguctl il. Clay,
Will the Senator tell us who is responsi
ble fur it t If he is, then he exhibits him
self in the singular position of a man tri
umphantly contrasting the work of his
own hand, with that of a rival author.
The Senator knows that there were two
other instructions, written by himself, of
a subsequent date, one to Mr. Gallatin af
ter Congress foiled to legislate, ami ano
ther to Govrrnnr Barbour, neither of
Ifitli is before us, ami therefore, nol to
be coutrnsted with Mr. Van Buren’s work-
! am content to abide by the result of a
cOatraxt of the instructions he hoe con
demned, with those he has quoted. Let
ttswee how tin- gciiiloinan’s letter will stand
thn test ol exsminstioc. Mr. Gallatin, he
says, wns nut iuslrutled to abandon a right;
we were to he at liberty at a autre con
venient season tu resume iu Mr. Galla
tin waa to give a strong proof of our de
sire to coueiliata by a temporary conces
sion of what we had previously claimed
throughout the whole negotiation. Was
Mr. Gallatin instructed to say to the Bri
tish Government, this is a temporary con
cession } No Sir, lie was authorised 1 to
ware the claim and make an arrangement,
•n the Britiab basis. Put this into, plain
language, and wltal was il; strip itj of di
plomatic, drapery and verbiage, it is net-
- liter more nor lees tlmn an abandonment
of a pretension which though we hed
supported by argument, we were revolved
not to enforce by (tower. Sir, this cov
ering up of a plain truth is the common
trick of diplomacy, it deceive* no one, and
had Mr. Gallatin presented these concil
inlorj concessions, they must have been
received as a virtual and loud abandon
ment of OHr pretensions. The honeyed
words of i iglit, waived from a conciliato
ry spirit, and with this hope of correspon
ding friendly dispositions, would have been
received with a sneer, lurking ia the offi
cial—artificial smile of a—thoroughbred
diplomatist. Tho Suaaspr insists, howev
OX, it was a right and not a pretension. If
it was a right, why wa* it waved v or sur
rendered !•— For conciliation sake. Why,
sir; we ware the offended party— £u| ‘
tauaiod us. Eugbod had re
til the United Stale*.—Such is thu view
who have favored, as with (Mr epmioO
re this subject. ’ The present Ad minis-
trattoa waived an right for coacOialwa
sake; sacrificed no principle. It stood
upon tha truth, and the truth only; and
whatever may he tha custom of others,
and tha ordinary usages of diplomacy,
the Axhdioistratioa Was right. Nations
fold themselves iathe robes of falsehood,
and swell end Strut iu vain—to preserve
an air of dignity and decorum. Nn na
tion oter was just toils own character,or
preserved its dignity, that did not stand at
all times before tha warld, iu ilia sober
nod simple garb of truth. Sir, the char
acter of mu diplomacy lias undergone' a
marked change ; we are no longer pre
tender* to skill and artifire; all our wiles
are foci* and rt aeons, all our artifice,
truth nod justice. The Honorable Sen
ator tells us that this instruction is false,
or else it proves Mr. V. B. to have been
criminally ignorant ol what il was hisdu-
to know.
How does he msko .this appear i he
allege* that Mr. V. B. chnrged the^ate
administration with being thi first to ad
vance tlie pretensions it subsequently
abandoned—and this he declares is untrue,
thn pretension was set up before the late
administration cams iato power. Now,
Sir, as I read this paragraph, Mr. V. B.
does nol chsrge the late administration
with being the first to advance this pre
tension. The Senator will recollect ibis
is n letter to Mr. McLane, whose person
al knowledge is appealed to, and who must
have understood the writer as alluding to
a fact of general notoriety, the words aro
•• those who first advanced,” ifc. have
subsequently abandoned. Cun any man
mistake the meaning—the meaning per
fectly in accordance with the fact 1 Tlie
pretension wns advanced by tbe use of
the futoous elsewhere in our act' of Con
gress. An act known to have been
penned by Mr. Adams who had previous
ly occupied the ground covered by it,-in
his instructions to Mr. Rush. It was Mr.
Adam* who first advanced and abandon
ed this ground. The credit or the odium,
whichever term belongs in justice to the
net, attaches to Mr. Adams, and so Mr.
latnUdge ol that perse*, « tassjj perl,
tt’terrr.fT.
I sax, vefy'respectfully, yeur’s, #r.
John Foearra.
film. Mr. Brands.
V . IFmfisqgtm, »■ Tt*. IBM.
In—In answer to my note by Col.
Cw*on, you stale th*t you did not know
that I wae the person referred to fig Go
vernor Poindexter, as having held e eon*
vettstimt' with the President. It being
now mode known to yeu that I wns the
person; I wish lo inquire whether you fee!
yourself at liberty to disavow the appli
cation of those remark* to me.
I am, respectfully, See.
John Brancii.
Hon. John Forsyth.
• —— ■.
WasUngton, Feb. 7tk, 1839.
Sir—Your note of tiiii morning informs
me that vou were the person referred to
by Mr. Poindexter iu the observations al
luded to in our former notes, and inqoiries,
whether I feel at liberty to disclaim the
application 10 you of my remarks in re-
ply,
Having submitted tho subject to some
of my friends who unite in thinking that
the inforenee from the observations pf
Mr. Poindexter, under which my remarks
were made, that the conversation referred
to had been confidential, Wns not warrant
ed. and satisfied that the view of t|to sub
ject is correct, t have no hesitation in dis
claiming the application to you of the
charge imported by these remarks of hav
ing repeated a confidential conversation.
I ant, respect fully, 6c c.
Jon-v Forsyth.
If on. John Branch.
rank uiiultllw piled, but those which have
alreadybeenjoi*Mluc*d to thu notice ofy our
EkceHsncv, nredwtmed sufficient to show
faf whose Wig their late Governtneat
had been instituted, and who at this tim®
■re mist interested iu iu ro-esttblishmeut
aed peipetuity. ’
I. W. A HANFORD, Sets Agent.
BANK OP THE UNITED BTATES-
!* tho Houee ot AegMMMiwe,
the United States, on the 10th inst. Mr.
M'Duffie, from tho Committee of Ways
and Mesne, iatrodheeff a Bill to renew
and modify the Charter of tbe Benk of
the United Slates. Tbe following is a*
abstract of the bill:
Section 1. The act of April 10th, 1816,
shall bo continued in force fur twenty
years from March 8d, 1806, wills s reser
vation to Congress, of the power, M any
time after ten years, from the last men
tioned date, to repeal this act, on giving
t hree years' not ice ofsuch intended repeal.
Sect 3. The President shaft appoint
one of the directors of each of the breach
es of the bank, ie the tamp manner to. he
npw appoints a portion of lb* directors of
the mother bank.
Sect. 8. Any officers of the mother
bank, selected by tbe board ef directors,'
and disignated to the Secretary- of the
Treasury of tho United S'ates, shall be
authOrized'to sign and courttnrffSn notes,
which shall be binding on the bank, in the
same'-manner es if they bud been signed
and countersigned by the president aud
principal cnxhier..
Sect. 4. Tbe bank is prohibited from
issuing notes which ore not, upon the free:
nf them, payable at the office from which
tltey are issued; and from drawing drafts
or checks nf twenty dollars, ot less,
"j Sr--:t. 5. It must fnrnish, annually, on
Mr. Carson respectfully requests those ,t le , M January, to the chief officer uf the
Editors who have published tho rem-'uki [treasury of each State where a branch shall
or Guv. Forsyth on Mr. Van Buren’s be located, n fist pfita Stockholders resi-
.I....a .1 T.l 1 i * .!•
nomination, to publish also, this corre
spondence.
MINCELL AlfEOUfl.
GF.NF.ALUQICAL 8KKTCH.
Of certain persons among the Obcrokces.—Impri
mis, of John lloss, Principal thief, frc.
Tlie account published of this individu-
McL. could only have understood it, and i at, lust year, by the Missionaries, may be
so must tho Senator from Kentucky, if I n-lied
he examines with a des'ro to understand
it in the spirit of the author. Thera are
considerations connected with Mr. V. B.
if I deemed il consistent with bis honor,
that I could present to those that hear me,
that would not foil to make n deep impres
sion upon their minds. But I ask no re
membrance of hit forbearance, no recol
lection of his magnanimity, I appeal to
no one to imitate his mildness and cour
tesy and kindness in his deportment here,
nor to judge him, as lie judged his rivals
for fame and power. I demand for him,
nothing but justice— harsh—liursli justice.
From tho National Intslligoocsr.
The subjoined are copiesof notes which
have passed between Governors Branch
and Fousytit, through our hands, as the
friends of those gentlemen.
/ SaMURL P. CARSON,
WtLl.lAM S. Archxr.
JHn—l I
Mr. Iirisw, kotb-of whom smut peeper
ed re offirss arrsRgaassni by recbroca
” It was not officially xoMonirated by 'legislation: taking the act wf Parliament
— tugland
refused
once, twice, thrice to negotiate, end yet
so coeciUale Eogtsauf, we were waving a
weii grounded right. For what purpose
were mo thus coociliatia* I To place the
trade or its preseai footing, to the greet
injury ef the eevigeueo end semes nrt*
on a correct, so fdr as relates to
Washington, Feb. 5th, 1839.
. . .....—• have rend the primed report of
r"' j our speech,prepared by you for the press,
purporting to he the remarks which you
made in tbe Srna-e ill secret session,oo
the nomination uf Martin Van Buron, at
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni
potentiary to the Court of St. James.
The notice which you lake of a conver
sation referred to in tiro debate by Mr.
Poindexter, Senator from Mississippi, re
quires that I should ask of you to slate to
me, explicitly, whether you did or did nol
kuuw, or had reason to believe, at the
time you wrote out your speech for publi
cation, that I was the “ somebody, one
'of the late Secretaries’’ to whom yon re-
1 fer ns the volunteer repealer of confiden
tial conversations with the Chief Magis
trate 1 Your reply to this communication
will regulate my future uctiou on this sub
ject,
I am, respectfully, yours, dec.
J.no. Branch.
Hon. John Forsyth.
Washington. February Stk. 1832.
Dbar Sir—Although perfectly satisfied
with your verbal declaration, on reflection
since we separated this morning, I think
it indispensable that the concluding para
graph in tlie inclosed lutter should bo omit
ted, or that your remarks re me on the
subject of il should be io writing before
yxn answer to il is transmitted to you. I
return it to you to adopt either course
jhat may be most agreeable to you.
1 I am, dear sir, very sincerely,
John Forsyth.
Has. Mr. Carson.
IIooss or KevassixTATivts,
February Clk. 1839.
Dbar Sir—If the simple interrogato
ry contained in the letter of Governor
Branch would be more acceptable to you
without tho paragraph with which it con
cludes, I sai authorised, si his friend, to
state to you that that paragraph may he
considered as stricken from his note, not
deeming it essential to the snlntaaco of
his enquiry. Very respectfully,
„ Saxi. P. Carson. .
Hon. John Forsyth.
**• S.—Your note was not banded ine
till this day, since the meeting o( the
House.
his being only 1-2 Indian. His father
was a Scotch tory who was compelled by
his infamous practices, during our Revolu
tion, to take refuge among dm I inlians,
with wltoni lie enmiucted himself hv inter
marrying a half brcc.l, horself in part of
Scottish extraction. By her, lie Imd be
sides John, the Principal Chief, Lewis,
considered the wealthiest mua in the Na
tion, and Andrew, oue of their Supreme
Court, thus uniting iu themselves more
power and influence than any other family
in the Nation.
C’oody, one of their delegation to Wash
ington last winter, is of tliesanio stock by
his mother's tide, (being grandson of old
Uo»,)ami is only 1-J6 Indian. Ills fath
er of course is a white man, aud although
he has resided many yours among the In
dians, yet 1 have uot learned that it has
been the result of any other circumstances
than his preference uf savage to civilized
society.
Of their Hational Marshal Lynch, I
learn that his grdudfather (paternal) was
a white man, who was neither an mifit nor
an unwelcomo guest among tlm Indians,
and that he in return manifested his reci
procal esteem of llieir character by con
necting himself with one of their half
breed women, ilis posterity have con
tinued tn intermarry among the whites, un
til the Marshal is well high purged of his
ludinn blood.—1-8.
Of their National Treasurer, Martin:
He is, I ant iuformnd, the descendant of a
brother of the former Agent of that name,
(Iron* Vir.,) and probably no greater crim
inality can attach itself to his fulber, than
his having improjieily I'anciotJ a handsome
half breed during hi* stay iu tho nation.—
Probably less than 1-4 Indian.
Of their Judges, tho Adairs, (red end
black head Wat, so called) oue of the Su
preme, the other of their Circuit Court:
dent therein, with the amount pf stock >
held by each; and-the Slate* may tux (lie
real estate oftbe hank within tbeir limits,
ami the stock held by their ciliZebx, to tho
same extent us they may tax other real es
tate snni stock,held ia ieppsiwre'U*nqw
"fr* . ■ ■ U.jSE-flCaAW
Sect. (I. The btinlt to pay an anr *
tcrest of — per cent, op oil dnjj
United States, money therein.
Sect. 7. It Shall not establish i
bank, after March 3f.J
consent of Congress. ' ! , : fM’
The bill was rtod ttrice, committed n
a Committee of the Whole on the State ot
thu UnioR, and 2000. copies iff the bill
and report were ordered re hw printed.
Tyler
* !(.—•
Sir—I have received your now
Caraun.
Thu remark* of min* re which
puiat my atteatino, were amde w answer
to Mr. Poiadester, aad intended re apply
to thn person refer red to bp bis*; without
From tbs Nstieasl lateHtgsscer Feb 15.
Congressional Analysis,—.The Jtonc'U
yesterday resumed the consideration of
Mr. Clay'S resolutioti,-and Mr.
concluded his s;ieech in opimsitioiil
Mr. Knight-followed-on the othfe- aifip,
and spoke about an hour. Mr. ffitundy
expressed hit retention,.of Addressing tho
Senate to day on tho subject. The. ((foil,
resolution from the House, inviting cerffiitf
individuals (heroin named re be present at
the Commemoration of the 22d inst. was
laid on the table, with the understanding *
that the joint Committee of arrangements
should invite the presence of any persons,
at their discretion.
In the Htrntt of Representatives, Mr.
Jarvis, from the Cummhlae on th* Pub
lic Buildings, reported a resolution direct
ing the Clerk of the House to procure
dm execution of a full length- portrait uf
Gen. Washington,.to be placej) in tho
Hall of Representatives. Mr. Jarvis,
from the same Committee, reported 1 a re
solution authorising din Presidtnt of tho
United States'to procure Use execution, in
marble, of a full iauglh. pedestrian statue
of Washington, lobe placed in thu centre
of (he Rotunda of the CapitoL . Qn (no
tion of Mr. Adair, a joint resolution was
adopted, inviting the president of the U-
roll ton, the. Judges of the Supreme
of tiio United Suites, and the fains
Hi! '
fit non
Washington, to tiu
tquies contemplated or!
On motion of Mr. Bales, of Mail)
Their forefathers (paternal) were from
Ireland, and probably had the tame rea- a joint resolution was adopted directing’
son for attaching themselves to tbe Indi-' the Prcsideirt pfthleSenate aiul tho ffpeak-
ana, as induced others during our troublos
into an alliance with the tomahawk and
scalping knife—less than 1-4 Indian.
Judge Hanitl't father was a celebrated,
Mississippi free-hooter, who desisted onra
when he could uo longer practice his rob
bery and piracy upon Hut stream with im
punity. He afiorwaidi sought sn asylum
in the Cherokee mountains and identified
himselfwith the Indian* hy taking to him
self oue of their squaws.
Richard Taylor, one of their Delega
tion at Washington last winter, is a full
half breed, his parents on either side bear
ing that affinity to the Indian, and were
theraselve* (in part) descended of the
“■Loyal Scotch.”
•Judge Ridge is an Indian, and sop of
of Major Ridge, the most eloquont orator
in the nation;—but Is* has neither the tal
ents, eloquence, nor the energy of his
father. He it remarkable, alone, for the
inveteracy and malignity of hit prejudi
ces against us, end in point of moral words
he bee not more elevation of character
than the wildest savage in the Nation.
Boom Fiona, his friend aud former coad
jutor in disturbing tlie affair* ef a neigh
bouring Tribe upon a certain
bet little
than 1-4;
community of sentiment, and identity _
r.ttiqgsm, Feb. 6tR, 1832- ™ws, it may he trtdy mid that they am
by Col. " par aobile fimtruaa." Fittar ioatrameatt
le Indian Mood,—prebnMy loss
I; but from siadliiade of character,
nity of aentiamm, and identity of
lean not be selected hv the Nation when
yoAj it has a job to he performed by trick, for
gordemam, or downright tilfoay.
Numerous other instance* of coosan-
gomity with tho whiten, and of high Official
sumed tho c
ment Bill.
Mnine, to amei
44,309 for 44.
greed to— Yea*
cr of the Huiiae of Rapiiescnta tires to make
application to the-rehuives for the remain*
of Mrs. Martha Washington, to be inter-
Aiijerat jon of the Apportion -
ho motio'i) pfillr. Evans, of
‘ L JwL'liy |ttl}*litu;ing
hi (he ratio, was a*
. fQjfttt Mr. Polk
moved to recommit the kill to e Bulge t
Committee, with instruction* to inrert
47,700 'us the ratio. Mr- Doddridge
movetom lay this motion on she table; lost
Yeas 92, Nava 1Q7. Mr. Patton moved
to amend the motion by- substituting
50,000 for 47.700; lost. Yea* 36, Nays
142. Mr. Boon proposed 49.000; .Ms.
Cooke, of Ohio, 49,500; MR. Wilde,
60,000; and Mr. Heistnr, 31,000—in lieu
of 47,700. These amendoMiit* were se
verally negatived by decided majorities.— ,
The question was drew taken or klr.
Polk s motion to rtfeohsmir, with instrec-
tions, and carried in tho afirawtiva ,
Yea* 104, Yaya $1. Tho Bouse then ad
journed.
AReport wu yesterday made upon the
Tariff subject, hy the CwrnmHam ol Ways
r± M .I"i..~ C0 -r ,iW • Mttiore-
doeetiw duties on imports As there
part «• from the pen of Mr. McDafffo, we
oeednotmyiFilgoahfoowg., BFhetfoie.
rVP*' .""I**** ** will