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great.” Now Beber. as be strolled
through the streets olßaisorn, heard
by chance the proclamation of the
intended execution of Giaffar, am!,
suffering himself to be mingled in
the crowd, he entered the large
court, where the Sultan and lus of
licers were assembled. When the
order was given for the appearance
of the culprit, what was the surprise
of B#ber, to see in the person of the
malefactor the knavish jewel mer
chant! “Shall I also accuse him?”
said Beb :r to himself, “do: let not
the hand strike him already down!”
As this rejoinder passed through the
brain of Beber, his blasted arm be
came whole and sinewj’; the last of
bis infirmities was cured, and now
was Beber a healthful and a com
plete man. Preparations are now
made for instant execution; the Sul
tan remains obdurate to the prayers
of the condemned, who bow walks
to the fatal spot, round the circle
made by the Spectators: as he is
just finishing his circuit, he stops
short at Beber, and pointing him
out, shouts aloud, -‘Commander of
the Faithful, here is the culprit—
here is he who sold me the jewel-!’,
The ceremony of death is tor a time
suspended; arid Beber, arranged at
the throne, briefly describes to the
Sultan his meeting with Giaffar; how
he had been despoiled by him of his
jewels, and otherwise ill-used by
him. "Jewels, dog!” exclaimed
Giaffar; “vvpre they not withered
flowers?” Answer, slave!” thun
ders forth the Sultan. “Comman
der of the Faithful,” replies Beber
with good heart, for he sees at this
moment the Moth with the Golden
Wings hovering over him, “thej
were jewels when I give them into
the keeping of Giaffar, albeit his
wickedness may have transformed
them,” "This is invention, slave,
think you we nro to be fooled with
tales of the genii; take you the buds
and the cobweb, and then own your
treachery ” These articles are giv
•n to w lionn sooner touches
them than th y become, one hv one.
a jewel, enclosed as before in a hag
of silk! All the court are astounded
at the feat. “This, however,” said
the Sultan, “may he the art of some
damnable magician.” ,‘lndeed, your
highness,” replied Beber, “I am none
I know of know power', save those)
of moral good ami evil ” “And is it j
your power of good that transforms j
flowers into gems?” “Let it be tri-'
cd,” replies Beber, “by making Gi-j
aft'ar touch a jewel; we shall then j
see what arts he mad use of with
your poor servant’s wealth.” “It is
well, come hither slave,” says the I
Sultan to Giaffar; “touch with your
finger the diamond in my turban.”—
No soonor is it done than the stone
turns into a blighted lily; and the
Multan, frantic at the change is rush
ing with his drawn scimitar cn Giaf
far, when Beber, throwing himself
before h.-ni, exclaims, "Defender of
the Faithful, let me stnad between
your greatness and your wrath:" and
Beber touching the withered flower,
it, again becomes a diamond.
All the court are paralyzed with
astonishment; and the Sultan is a
bout to question Beber, w hen sud
denly a beautiful palm tree rises at
tho foot Os the throne. The Moth
with the Golden Wings settles on a
largo palm-leaf, which is instantly
plucked, and found to hear the fol
lowing words, which were read
nioud by the order of the Sultan to
the assembled people:
“I speak for my mistress, the fairy
Gczcrt. Ask not, oh Sultan! the
reason of this mystery; for known,
that in the hand of tho good and faith
ful, the hud of the rose bccomcth a
ruby; whilst the finger of the wicked
maketh a diamond as nought. I was
in pain, and a captive, and the poor
man gave me freedom; his tender-
ness have been his reward. To try
the feeling of man, I put off my form
and took that of an insect. 1 have
found » vil and cruelty in the great:
1 have found love and mercy in the
lowly. Oh fc'ultan! he who for sport
tortureth a fly, would, but for the
Jaw, tear away an arm. Oh Sultan!
Jet the merciful be rewarded, the
guilty punished, and let this precept
be ever in toy mind, and in the souls
of thy people: —That in the hand of
the good and saiths ul, the bud of the
rote, becometh a ruby; -whilst the fin
ger of the wicekd maketii a diamond
as nought."
Scarcely has the oflicer finished
reading, when the leaf escapes from
his hand in sunlight; the trunk of
the palm-tree becomes a pillar of
water, spouting off and falling in the
shape of branches and leaves It
lias ever been approached with ven
eration by the people u! Bassora, and
is called by them the Fountain of the
Fairy Moth.
A few words will now close the
tale; Giaffar was delivered into the
bands of the executioner, and Bo
ber was dignified with riches and
honors by the gratitude of the Sul
tan. ,•
Vrom the N. Y. Eaquier.
Pennsylvania. —The committee to
whom was referred the resolution:-
nominating General u
candidate for the in
Pennsylvania, Lave reported that ii
is,inexpedient for the Legislature 1
to. acton the subject. The reasons
are conclusively given in the follow
proper in the opinion of your con -
mittee, would not be calculated to
give any additional force to the
claims of ANDREW JACKSON 111
Pennsylvania. Happily, the claims
f ANDREW 7 JACKSON do not re
quire any extraneous interference to
strengthen and support them, rest
ing on higher grounds, supported
by the almost unanimous voice ol
the people of Pennsylvania. You
Committee are of opinion, that the
non-adoption of the resolution can
not, in the slightest manner, injure
the prospects of that distinguishes
man. It cannot be forgotten, that
the people of Pennsylvania first in
troduced to the public ANDREW
JACKSON, as the candidate for the
presidency of the United States, and
in the election which followed, gave
him the r undivid and support! Your
committee feel themselves authori
sed to say, that Pennsylvania will
not be found retrograding, especial
ly when it is known that the pros
pects of Jackson are brightening in
every section of the republic.”
From the Netv-Vork Enquirer.
President —One of the most impor
tant points in making a change in
our present rulers, at the termina
tion of the constitutio al term, was
to guard against a plurality of candi
dates opposing Mr Adams. Thi
defeated .Mr. Crawford’s election
We are happy to have it in our pow.
qr to state, from unquestionable
-ources, that the opposition to the
present administration, will settle
down definitively on Gen. Jackson,
as the strongest candidate, and that
no encouragement at this crisis will
be given to any distinguished person
age to take the field, and jeopardize
tiie very safety of the republican
party. Success in the approaching
contest is of such vital importance,
that pefsonal attachments and pre
judices must he surrendered on the
altar of patriotism. General Jack
son is probably too warmlv eulogised
by his friends, and is much calumni
ated by his enemies, It is safe to
say, that lie is a man of sound sense,
undoubted integrity and patriotism,
and great moral and personal cour
agu ; free from dangerous ambition
and corrupt practices ; decisive in
his movements, and courteous in his
manners ; a friend to state rights, and
a republican in principle and prac
tice. There can be no danger in
electing such a man the President of
a free people
Much has been said, and will be
said, ol New-York, which has an im
portant part to play in the drama—
we may say a controlling part. We
have no apprehensions, from the pre
sent appearance of affairs ; but this
is always an uncertain state—and if
no secret and impolitic movements
take place; if a union of republicans
is encouraged, and all jealousies, dis;
trust and personal objects discounte
nanced, we hazard nothing in saying
that New-York will go for General
Jackson.—llis great services dur
mg the late war, arc remembered in
a state which bore the brunt of that
contest.
Bachclors. —Although wo hav
declared our firm intention to re
nounce “single wretchedness,” yet
wc feel some compassion for the poor
race ot Bachelors whose society we
intend to forswear, and therefore
state that the committee will be
ready to report in a day or two,
when they can obtain a room large
enough to contain the poor devils,
whose had cause is it to be advoca
ted. Wo hope the ladies will be
invited, as they have a deep and
tender interest in the question—and
we hope the committee have intrea
tea the Legislature, should the hill
pass, to exempt those from taxation
who have been thrice refused, for at
least their case is a forlorn one.
JY. F. Enquirer,
Gentlemcn: —While lately on a
visit to Niagara, and looking over
the book that is kept at Forsyth’s
for scribbling on that subject, I came
across the following, which I think
peculiar, as to theft and concise
ness.
“Scenes of Niagara; As long us
waters roll, rapids dash, cataracts
hurl, and rainbows play, thy tre
mendious eloquence will be heard!—
Jhou hast for ages thundered, in
stupendous poetry, the language ot
Nature—the sound of immortality—
the revelati not the Diety. Here
Power stands awfully revealed: but
at last, even thy voice will be hush
ed, and the glories of thy rainbow
fade forever!”
FOR THE CURIOUS.
The Satellites of Jupiter, at a
mean rate, are Eclipsed at tbe fol
lowing periods—viz.
D. h. m. s.
I. Sat. in 1 18 28 36
II Sat. in 2 13 17 54
HI Sat. in 7 3 59 36
1111. Sat. in 16 18 5 7
Required to find how often these
| Eclipses wdi happen, in respect to
each other: In other words, how
often is their an Eclipse among the •
fsntelhtes, and how many, m everv
year.
FATTENING swine.
GEORGIA STATESMAN, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1527.
into meal. It is an advantag to let
the food for swine ferment a little,
but not become very sour, before
• hey are fed with it. made
A meal and water, ir ixed with boiled
potatoes, is excellent for
Their lodgings should be dry, warm,
and kept clean To prevent measles
and other disorders, and increase
their appetites, a little
now and then, given in their dough,
is useful. Change of food is ad
visable in stage of their exist
ence. They should receive their
meals with regularity They shoulu
liways have as mu’.li food as the\
will eat up clean, but never nior
than that quantity. li the issues in
their fore legs siKuld be stopped,.
th- y should he rubied open with a
cob. —-V. E. Farmer.
ON DRESSING POTATOES.
Where tli so useful roots art
boiled for the purpose of feeding
-.wine, or other animals, they should
be put into bags, or sacks, leaving
room for them to swell; and wne.
ufficffniiy boiled, the sacks should
bAaken out and left to dram, for
the water becomes so strongly im
pregnated by the poisonous proper
ties ol the roots; as to be lugldy de
trimental to animals in general This
*vill account for the disappoi tmeut
ot those who fed pigs with pota
toes mashed with water in which they
-ave been boiled. VYhen prepared
agreeably to the above directions,
potatoes become a most beneficial
(bod for pigs, but they are by far less
lUtritiuus in the raw state, for the
poisonous quality not being drawn
out by boiling, it cou teracts the
benefits ot tho farinaceous qualities
of the root.
trom the Neiv-England Firmer.
PROFITABLE FARMING.
Mr. Richard Hildreth, ol Sterling
having some business with me, in
the course of conversation described
to me the Manner in which he man
ages his farms. His system is so
simple, so successful, and so easy
to be imitated, that the communica
tion of it to the public will probably
be beneficial as well as interesting
llis farm consists of sixty-five
acres in the easterly part of Ster
ling, on the old road <rom Lancaster.
The soil is good. From two and a
half to three acres are annually
planted with corn and potatoes. lie
raises about one hundred bushels of
corn, at the rate of sixty bushels the
acre. Os Course the quantity of
potatoes lie raises must be small.
He also raises a small quantity of
spring wheat.
lie keeps eleven cows, and one
yoke of oxen, besides swine, but no
horse, lie has no hired men, ex
cept in hay time. lie paid the last
season, about thirty dollars for help.
His mowing ground is about four
teen acres.
His butter is sold to marketers at
his door. His calves are sold alive
at his door. His whole time is there
fore employed in cultivation. Ilis
skimmed milk is given to the swine.
The produce sold from this farm
the past season has been as follows :
Butter, g 300 00
Hay 100 00
Pork,about 150 00
Calves, about 70 00
Amount, 820 00
He values his farm at $ 2500, his
stock at $ 600 ; in the wiioie goUOO.
The interest of capital, tiler- fore,
is $ 180 00
Wages paid in hay time 30 00
Taxes, say 19 00
£229 00
Lrorn £620 deduct 229, leaves
1? 391—0 r£32 58 cents per month
lor his labor. lie has a small wood
lot at some distance, so that he pays
no money for wood. The produce
of his farm used in his family has not
been considered in this account.
By not keeping a horse, he saves
probably, not less than one hundred
dollars a year. By having a small
farm, and selling his produce at the
door, he is able to do most of his
work himself, and thereby avoids
the miserable and ruinous system of
keeping hired men, who may be la
zy and unlaithful, without diminish
ing their wages, and who by their
wages often make more from the
farm than the owner. The facts al
so suggest the advantage of applying
the division of labor to farming
Perhaps marketing should be at a
distinct occupation.
JOS TUFTS.
Charleston, Jan. 8, 1827.
FLORIDA CANALS.
Joseph M. White esq. Delegate
from Florida, has addressed a long
letter to General Mercer, Chairman
of the committee on roads and ca
nals, on the project for improving
.hr Navigation m and across Eat;
Florida.
In the first place he makes some
statements concerning the-proposed
< .tiial across that peninsula. To il
lustrate the importance of such a J
work, he enquires, what would have |
been the value ot a natural naviga- j
t»le passage in that direction ; anil!
I now iiiiich blood and treasure i-ur I
government would have been will |
mg to expend lor the right of using j
in case the country had fallen into I
i*>« bands id a foreign power. The
■AltfiHaimLyJUi or two millions, there- 1
the advantages such a plan promis
es. He says it was % favor.t doc
trine with Mr. Jefft r-on, that the
posse-sion of Cuba was essentia! to
the United States, to preserve the
communication between our eastern
and western waters; and states on
good authority, that Mr. J. decl.ired
a year or two before his death, that
his gun-boats were recommended
with a view to such an acquisition
The important po-ition occupied by
that island is obviovs;'but it is a
great recommendation to the canal
proposed, t.-at it would render our
commerce* almost entirely indepen
dent of Cuba.
la case of the construction of the
canal between the Atlantic and Pa
cific oceaus, which Mr. White Ininks
will fir-t or last bo effect and, the Flo
rida canal would secure to us every
nivantage we could desire with re
-pect to the former: For the Unit and
States would have the power of ex
cluding foreign ships from their uw.
territory, and obliging th m to go
round the peninsula. Mutual int -
rests would undoubt dly strengtiie
the attachment between this c. unlry
anil tiie Republic of Central Ame
rica
The bay of St. Joseph, north ot
Cape- St. Bias, in West Florda, is
perhaps the most valuable h irbor in
ihe United States, south of the
Chesapeake, excepting that of Pen
sacola. Tnat the surveys have dis
closed mini rous advantages. St.
John’s river is navigable lor large
merchantmen a great distance for
vessels oi 30 tons to lake George,
and for steam-boats as far south as
28 degrees and 30 minutes. Fur
th*.- first hundred mile- from its
mouth it is two miles wide on an av
rage, and frequently expands into
lakes four miles across. The river
flows almost the whole length of its
course, through public lands. The
country is covered with pine, cypress,
live oak and cedar—“unequalcd in
quantitfcjind quality in the the United
States; %nd when the soil is clear
ed, it is favorable to th cultivation
of sugar, oranges, lemons, limes,
olives, rice, kc. It is said that
$ 10,000 would open an inland tide
navigation from the head of the St.
John’s to South-Carolina.
With regard to the navigation a
long t le eastern coast of the penin
sula, he remarks that a safe and
convenient route already exists, aid
ed by a little improvement, from St.
Mary’s to St. John’s, within Amelia
Island ; and three cuts in different
places, amounting in all to only thir
teen miles and a half, would open a
line of navigation from St Mary’s to
Tortugas, a distance of five hundred
and eighty six miles. The excava
tions would be through low sand
banks, and might all be performed
for fifty thousand dollars. This
would extend the navigation by
steamboats nearly a thousand miles.
The reasons why Florida has re
ceived so few settlers, are the de
vastations it suffered in 1812, and
the want of an arrangement in the
land titles. About twelve hundred
thousand oranges are annually gath
ered at St. Augustine, and about the
same quantity in its vicinity. Some
trees which arc supposed to be one
hundred and twenty years old, now
yield four thousand oranges a
piece. Nineteen twentieths of the
supply of this kind of fruit for the
United States arc however imported
Irom tore-ign places, although Florida
might furnish the whole amount, and
that at great advantage : for two la
borers in an orange grove of ten acres
will produce as much as forty on a
sugar or cotton plantation. Mr.
white also shows that tobacco, silk,
rice, cotton, vines, kc. kc. could bu
cultivated in that country, to the
greatest advantage.
On the subject of opening a com
munication between tho Appaluchi
cola, through St. Andrew’s bay, to
Chatawatchie, he says that two cuts
of two and four miles would accom
plish t‘e design ; and that a third
cut of four miles would open it to
New-Orleans—the whole expense
not exceeding one hundred thou
sand dollars, and the steam-boat na
vigation opened by it being about
three hundred and fifty miles.
The immense advantages promis
ed by these project , Mr. While
contrasts with the comparatively in
significant works provided tor by the
government last year, in the bill to
provide for “ improving certain har
bors, and the navigation of certain
rivers and creeks ”—V. F. D. ddv.
The Billiard Ttsbu.—-\\'t copy the follow
ing article from tb Catauba Journal, • iiich,
if true, is a sufficient explanation of the cir
cumstances attending the purchase of a Bil
liard table, by Mr. Adams. We the more
reaili'y give publicity to this explanation be
cause the election of Gen. Jackson to the
Presidency needs no support from injustice.
He lives in hi* own fame—He builds not ~is
pretend,ins on the lolly or f.ults of oUicrs.
Our nation has witnesseu and ucknonlcdg and '
bis worth:—his patriotism, his dcm.ion to
our country, and his indexible int. gnty, will 1
be more amply . cknowledged by ids feiiow I
ciUzens at tiie ele. lion of tbe next president. |
We agree with the editor ol the
N . ( . JournH *. that the afl.nr of the
Billiard Table is a “small matter.”
IK intelligent and uuprr ju .iced on n
it has so been considered Irom the
fir-t; even the warmest o| position
inen in Congress were ashamed 1 f it,
when this “small matter” exnii J the
vent tire to say, t hat some of those wh<
liave since descended to the use o!
such means to sustain a hollow op
position to the administration wi’:
hereafter be ashamed of it them
selves. W : do not say that sue
will he the ca e with the editor of
the N. C. J urnal—far be it from
us ; hut we do believe he will haw
cause to be ashamed of it.
But admit, for a m .mont, that th"
President, or his agent, has beta,
guilty of the unheard of extrava
gance of paying the vast sum of
fifty dollars ! for a Billiard Ta
ble ; has he don any thing mori
i ian comply with the intentions ol
Congress ? C Tigress have built a
palace for the President, and he i
compelled to live in it—ilie splendi
pile wa planned, and has ben fin
she I. under their superintendanc<
—and in the plan of the buddi' g, a
we have been informed—( nd if on
information he not correct, toe ver
utelligent editor ->f the N O. J-ur
mil can doubtless set us right)—on
apartment was expressly appropriat
•and lor a Billiard room—this root
has been but recently finished, ho
I- now labelled, ov. r th door *' Bi
iard Room /” If, therefore, a B
hard Table has hjen placed in tire
room, is not the verv intention o
Congress fulfilled? Who, then,
to blame, if there be any Mane ?
Surely Congress, and not the Pre'-i
--dent. Admitting then, that a B
liard Table has been purchased will
the public monev, where is the ju
tice, where the magnanimity, i
charging Mr. Adams, on this account
with keeping a gambling house,oren
couraging gambling? The charge i
unworthy anv gentleman—it is be
neath contempt. The moral charac
ter of no man in the country; we car
not who he is—stands fairer than
that of John Quincy Adams—it has
never been sullied by gambling, nor
by any other aberration from stric'
morality, his enemies have never
ventured to impeach it ; they can
not do it : can the same be said of
numbers of his heariless unu un
blushing revilers ?
We do not, however, admit that
a Billiard Table has been purchased
and paid for out of the public funds,
the formidable account with its long
string of items, published in the N.
C. Journal, to the contrary notwith
standing. So much of this account
as relates to the charge, was copied
by Mr. Carson into his speech, with
the additional article of “dry goods,”
which so puzzled the intelligent
member; we arc not, therefore, in
debted to the editor of the N. C.
Journal for this information. But it
has been stated, on good authority,
that the item of the billiard table
was incorporated with the public ac
count through the mistake of a clerk
and that the truth is this:—Mrs
Adams, who has been for some time
in delicate health, was advised by
her physician to exercise at billiards;
aud her son, while procuring furni
ture for tho presidents house, purchas
ed a smail billiard table at auction,
aud paid for it out of bis father’s
private funds; and in making out
the pubi c account, the cierk, thro’
mistake, put in it, that for the billiard
table. It was (hen r ported to Con -
gress, and Mr. Carson was horror
struck at the gambling propensities
of the President! He is doubtless
peculiarly sensitive of such a sub
ject. Tho foregoing explanation
was published some monts since ;
and if it has ever been denied, the
fact has not come to our knowledge.
In addition to this, Mr. Johnson, a
member of Congress, from Kentuckv
has publicly denied that the billiard
table was paid lor with the people’s
money ; his word we consider en
titled to at least equal weight with
that of the editor of the N. C. Jour
nal ; for “sure we are—to borrow
the language of the Journal, for
which we make duo acknowledge
ment —“ that it the intelligence, the
respectability and the veracity of
the two gentlemen ba compared to
gether, Mr. Johnson will lose nothing
in the comparison.”
We know nothing of Billiard Ta
bles, having never seen one—in this
respect,the editor ot the N. C Jour
nal doubties has the advantage of u
—he can therefore, we presume in
form us, whether, on the supposition
that a billiard table has been ptirciia:
ed, in compliance with the inten
tion 01 Congress, fifty dollars was an
extravagant price tor it ?
We have now done with the sul
j ct for this time ; but we trust our
readers will • xcuse us, should we
recur to it once more, as we hope
to be enabled to do. I has beei
swelled into an importance which ;
is hir Ifom meriting, by the perse
vering efforts ol an opposition tha:
has nothing solid to pest upon ; anti
we therefore (eel some little desire
o reduce it, as we hope to Jo, to its
original i.isigi ific ce.
A man midwife in Irela and. wa
knighted by the Duke ol Kuthiim,
[ w b. n be was L' rd Ln lilt nani oi lit. .
j country. The Duke was in the i.a
I Int, when drunk, of knighting evci,
J one that Struck hi .aucy. 'I he Ins,,
in dwile evi n thought hiUiseli ei.titl
ui to higher honors, as appears Li
s' me ver-es h composed on tin
occasion •
“Hi* Gi act bui madryf me a knight—
I sho dd have been a Lard by right;
An 1 tbi n tin Indie*’ cry wnuki be,
-—Li -Lent .' deurLviU! utuvtr 0.e.”
Volume 11.
SSISIJ
statesman
MONDAY FEBRUARY, 19, 1837. ~
accommodate our t\cs‘ern sub
scribers, we have changed the day dt our pub
lication from Tuesday lo Monday. By this
eh ngc they will receive their papers from
*»o to four days sooner-than by the former
arrangement.
O r advertising customers will please
n l.c, the change, and forward their favors
n Saturday.
THE NEXT LAND LOTTERY,
’laving been often solicited, the Editors of
the Georgia St itesman hare finally determined
to iblish the official List of Fortunate Draw
ee in the ipproarhing Land Lottery, provid
-150 Subscribers shall forward us their
i tines o or before the expiration of the first
eeks drawing, nr the first day of Mareh
w ensuing. The List will be printed week
!v, »n an imperial octavo form, and sent to
Jiseribers with scrupulous regularity, until
completion of the drawing; and if any
•raVrs arc lost by mail or the way of con
'-yanee, such n mhers to be made good witb
any additional charge.
jo TERMS : —To subscribers of tbs
■ r orgia Slat, sm in. 52.00 in advance.
To non subscribes, $ 3,00 in advance.
In no case will the list be sent before tie
money is p id.
Editors of papers in this state who
will give the above two or three insertion*,
ball be intitled to a copy.
Farida Canal. —Time will not allow us to
nter into a particular disc ssion of this topic.
The article under this head, in another col
on, is fII of interest and good sense. We
i mum nil it to all the lovers of real improve
ment- The arguments are sound, and the
deductions convincingly just and weighty.
The Math with the Gold Wings.—This is
a vision of romance which may amuse the
reader for an hour, and perhaps, repay his
perusal with the appropriateness of its moral.
United States and Georgia. —Under this
head, the Washington papers of recent date,
from which we have made copious extracts,
contain much that concerns the Authorities
and people of Georgia, more deeply than any
other topic which it has been our duty to
notice.
Aware that the details of this matter, how
ever prudently managed, will again agitato
our community into a general and hasty ex
citement, we shall forbear at present, our
own opinions, and confine ourselves chiefly to
a simple record of facts. In pursuance of
this design, we have given to-day the Presi
dents Message to both houses of Congress
upon the subject of the surveys, made and
stdl going on under the Executive Authority
of Georgia in the Creek Territory ; that is to
say, West of the boundary line of the treaty
made and ratified ai Washington—together
with the letters of the President through tho
Secretary of War, to the District Attorney
and the United States’ Marshal at Savannah,
and tohis Excellency Governor Troup. These
letters end dispatches are borne by J. B.
Vinton, a Lieut, in 'he United States Army,
who has been especially delegated for that,
purpose, as also, to carry dispatches to the
Creek agency.
These commissions, and the language of
these letters, wear a determined aspect. No
thing could be more so. The President sends
an officer to the Governor, and tells his Ex
cellency that “ the pretensions under which
these surveys are attempted, are in direct vio
lation of the treaty,” and that the President,
charged by the Constitution with the execu
tion of the laws, will feel himself compelled to
employ, if necessary, all the means under bis
cont rol, lo maintaia the faith of the Nation,
by carrying the treaty into effect.”
The language of the message is equally
unequivocal ami peremptory. “If the Legis
lative and Executive Authorities of Georgia
should persevere in acts of encroachment up
on the territories secured by a solemn treaty,
to the Indians, and the laws of the Union re
main unaltered, a superadded obligation, even
higher than that of human authority, will com
pel the Executive of the United States to en
force the laws, and fulfil the duties of the
Nation by all the force committed for that
purpose to his charge.”
If tin Authorities of Georgia, or its agents
have violated any i„w of the land, why, it
may asked, should they not be held a
rneanable ? If the Constitution has delegated
lo the President and Senate of the U. States,
the power to form treaties, then is the “Trea
ty ot Washington among the Supreme Laws
of the Land,” anil cannot b rendered void;
or violated with impunity. That this law
has been violated by the Authorities of Geor-
gin, can Du doubted only by those who deny
its existence. The considerations which have
induced the President 111 tills instance, to em
ploy the mildest remedies which the case ad
mitted, arc not only reasonable, but such as
every individual must approve. “These sur
veys have bi en attempted, and partly effected,
under colour of legal authority from tbe state
of Georgia. The Surveyors are, th.tr iJen,
.lot to be litiveu in the light oj individual
.mu. soiitury transgressors says tbe President
11 Ids message, and art accountable only, *0
uould add, as agents in an unlatcjut act. It
a party of Indians, under authority ol tne
l.iulc Prince, commit a trespass upon our
frontiers, we bold tbe individuals amcanable,
. Unever be tbe guo te..n onto oi .beir com
mission, although ne justly condemn tbe
Coief who sent them ? Precisely in ihisatti
uut wc view the survey irs, who hare trans
gressed the provisions of the Treaty, under ao
t.iurity of Governor Troup.
ibe question, whether the Old, or tbe
.sew Treaty, sh-.li be considered tbe law °f
the Ind, and “carried into effect''according
ly, rrfiigl to be ai.s ered in terms 100 puuir
to admit of doubt. If the word of a “ Lnitod
ol.lies’ Pr. sidinf may be taken, i: will soon
r“ be recorded [Treja/uit!} Uiai Gw-i j—
-Ithan thih one jot, or one tittle of the
ws shall fail, in nlurion to tbe Trtaty of
ehington. The subject is imee mort be
ipre Congress, and we think there *an be n"