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•EORGIA AND THE UNITED STATES
Report of the Select Committee in the House
of Representatives, March 3, 1927'
(Con eluded.)
The right to regulate trade and
intercourse with the Indians, was
one of the first federal rights exer
cised after the commencement of the
revolution. On the 12th July, 1775,
it was resolved by the Continental
Congress, "that Commissioners he
appointed by this Congress to super
intend Indian affairs on behajfof these
colonies,” and the Indians were di
vided by the same resolution into
the northern, mi Idle and southern
departments. In the latter depart
ment the Creek Indians were in
cluded.
By the articles of confederation,
Congress had the exclusive power
of making treaties at that time, and
it is believed at all times the only
mode in time of peace in which the
relations with Indian tribes have
been conducted by the United .States:
Congress had also the power of
‘ regulating trade, and managing all
affairs with the Indians, not mem
bers of any of the States. Provid
ed, that the legislative right of any
of the states, within its own limits
he not infringed or violated,” This
express prifviso, and the proviso ini
jdied in the words, “not members of
any State,” were t heSources of much
embarrassment under tlio old con
federation. Georgia particularly,
claimed the right to treat with the j
Creek Indians concerning peace,
lands, and the other objects that
Usuahv form tlio matters of Indian i
treaties ; and, in order to establish j
her right so to do, she by the treaty j
of Galphinton, in 1785, stipulated i
that the Indians ofthe Creek nation,
were " members of the state” of
Georgia. In what sense they could
have been "members of tin; state,” ,
this committee does not understand ;
and the right of a state to enter in
to those treaties with the Indians,
Vas strenuously resistcd,hy Congress.
At I-ngth the constitution was a
rlopted.—The treaty-making power
was again vested Iho United States.
A treaty duly ratified became the
supreme law of the land, “any thing
Jii the constitution or laws of any
State to the contrary notwithstand
ing.” By the confederation, the
powers of the congress in regulating
trade, and managing affairs with the
Indians, were limited, (as has just
been observed) by the proviso “that
the legislative right of any state,
within its owl limits, should not be
infringed or violated "" No such
limitation is found in the constitution
of the United States. 'Phis omis
sion was’not undesignedly made. It
was one of the changes expressly
introduced, to prevent the continued
collision of Federal and state pow
ers, which had so long existed to
the injurv of the public. The grant
of unqualified power to regulate com
merce with the Indians, thooxclusive
right of repelling by force, their hos
tile encroachments, and the exclu
sive power of treating were neces
sarily so many infringements upon
the jurisdiction of the individual
states and upon the power of the
state legislatures. If any authority
bo wanted to confirm these principles
it may be found in the 42d number
of the Federalist, a paper written by
Mr. Madison Comparing the pow
ers grant ;d to congress by the pre
sent constitution, with those et the
confederation, he says, “the rogula
• tion of commerce with tlio Indian
tribes is very properly unfettered
from those limitations in the articles
(^confederation,whichre.«der the pro
vision obscure and contradictory.
The power is there restrained to In
diting, not members ot tiny state, and
is not to violate or intringo the le
gislative right of any state within its
limits. What description of Indians
are to be deemed members of a state
is not yet settled , and has been a
question of frequent perjdaxity and
oontention in the federal councils.
And how the trade with the Indians
iipt members of a state, yet residing
within it's legislative jurisdiction, can
he regulated by an external authori
ty, without so far intruding on the in-
tcrnal rights of legislation, is abso- j
lutely incomprehensible. This is not;
the ouly case in which the articldu of
confederation have inconsiderately
endeavouieu to accomplish impossi-!
biiitics, to reconcile a partial sover-1
eignty in the Union, with a complete 1
sovereignty in the states ; to sub
vert a mathematical axiom hv ta
king away a part and letting the
.whole remain.”
To tho constitution of the United
States, thus designedly trained on
these points Georgia became a party
and thereby relinquished, it she pre
viously possessed it, ail power to
treat with the Indians, and all right
to exclusive jurisdiction over them.
The powers conferred upon the
general government, in reference to
the Indians, are to he viewed, not*
more as conferring authority, than
as implying and imposing burdens.
Wuh their exclusive rights in rela
tion to the Indiaus, devolved on the
United States the groat duty of de
fsndiug the States against savage
violence In the discharge of this
duty, is laid the foundation of the
m jiary establishment of tbc United
Biales. The tirst armies raised after
the Union, who struggled in their in
fancy, alone and unaided, against
uumerous and powerful tribes of
savages, have been charged with
perhaps the greatest single item of
public expenditure, in the tulfilment
of the trust and duty of carrying on
the relations of tho Union with the
Indians. But the power and the
burden must be reciprocal, and the
State which claims the right, by un
controlled legislation, of causing an
Indian war, cannot reasonable call on
the Union to sustaiu the burdeu of
carrying it cn.
The firs? law regulating the inter
course with the Indians, passed af
ter the adoption of the constitution
was approved July, 1790. After
prohibiting the Indian trade to all
but licenced persons, it gave to the
President the power to make such
order respecting the tribes surround
ed in their settlements by the citizens
of the United States, as to secure
an intercourse without licci.ce, it he
deem proper ; and the same law de
clared that no •-ale ot Indian lands
to an individual or a state, whether
having the right ot pre-emption or
not, should be valid, unless made
and executed at it public treaty, held
under the authority of the United
States. The duration of this act
was limited to two years, nn:l anoth
er law was passed approved Ist March
1793, by which the surveying oi
lauds belonging to any tribe, by mark
ing trees, or otherwise, was prohi.
| bited. Allpurchas sand grants of
land, or claims or titles to laud “not
i made by treaty or convention, enter
] od into pursuant to the constitution,”
•were declared to “be without validi
ty in equity or law." This act, limi
| tod to two years, was supplied by
that of May 19, 1796, by the first
. articTu of which the Indian bounda
ry line was declared aud defined
j from the mouth of the Cayahoga
j river, on lake Erie to the St. Mary’s.
1 At this time the Oconee formed the
boundary lino between Georgia and
the Creeks By this law, the pro
hibition of surveys is specifically
re-enact gd, and all right, title, and
claim of whatsoever nature or kind
of persons settling or surveying lands
secured to Indians, by a treaty, is
vested in the United States, or con
viction ot’ the offender. This law
was limited to three years, and its
irrovisions-were substantially re-en
acted by that of 3d. March, 1799.
By the law of 30th March, 1802, the
previous legislation on this subject,
was re-enacted, without limitation of
time, and has remained to tho pre
sent dav, and still exists unrepealed.
It is not known to the committee
that, until recently, either Georgia
or any other State, has since tlie a
doption of tho constitution, exercis
ed or claimed the right to treat with
independent tribes of Indians, ex
cept by authority and consent ofthe
United States, or has exercised any
act of legislation over them, or has
claimed to do any act or thing for
bidden by the law of 1802 The
committee believe that the State of
Georgia has not only acquiesced, un
til lately, in the v iidity of this course
of legislation, but that her intelligent
and prominent citizens have giv-.-n
it their express sanction.—ln the
talk of Messrs. Campbell and Meri
wether to the Cherokees, in 1823,
those gentlemen say, “the sovereign
ty ol’the country which you occupy
[a r.ousiberublo part of which is in
tho State of Georgia] is in tho U
nited States alone ; no state-or for
eign power can enter into a treaty
or compact with you. These pri
vileges have passed away, and your
intercourse is restricted exclusively
to the United States.” In a letter
dated March 10th, 1824, addressed
by the Georgia delegation of Sena
tors and Representatives tot he Se
cretary of War, the committee un
derstand the dclegaron to say, that
the Cherokees are to be viewed as
other Indians, as porsons suffered to
reside within the territorial limits of
i tho United States, and subject to eve
|ry restraint, which the policy and
1 power of the general government re
i quire to Ire imposed on them, for the
interests of the Union, the interest
of a particular state, and their own
' preservation.”
From these considerations the
committee arc brought to the'conclu
sion that the property in, ar.d juris
diction over the lands occupied by
the AJreeks, within the state of Geor
gia, arc not exclusively possessed
by that state, but are subjected to
the riglihj guarantied to the Creeks,
or reserved to the*United Slates by
tlih constitution of the United Stati,
the compact of 1802, by the pro
visions of law, or by treaty.
It remains only to usK, whether
the occupancy ot’ the small portion
of lands now in controversy is reserv
ed to the Creek nation, and oiMHiat
right Georgia claims to survey it.
Georgia claims a right to survey
it under the treaty of the Indian
Springs, hut the Committee are of
ophnon that no right nox title, could
vest under that treaty, for the 10l-
Jewing reasons, in brief:
Jst, That treaty was negotiated
not only contrary to instructions, but
on a basis expressly forbidden by the
Executive, when previously submit
ted for bis sanction
2d. The treaty at tho Indian
Springs was concluded by a party ot
GEORGIA STATESMAN, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1827
3d. The treaty was concluded by
a minority, not merely of the princi
pal Chiefs ofthe nation, but by a mi
nority of the Chiefs present, and
without regard to the protest of the
Hoad Chiefs, made by their repre
sentative, both before and af the mo
ment of executing the treaty.
4th. Supposing the Commission
ers authorized, and the Chiefs em
powered to treat, such authority and
power could, in no circumstances,
extend beyond a cession ofthe lands
occupied by the Chiefs treating, and
those who empowered them’ where
as, by the treaty of the I.idian
Springs, a small party assumed to
j themselves the right to cede away
| nearly all the lands occupied by the
nation.
sth If the Creek’nalion was a par
ty to the treaty of the Indian Springs,
then it has been declared null and
void by the two parties to it, viz: the
United States and the Creek nation;
if the Creek nation was not a party
to it, then it was no treaty at all, for it
purports on its face to be negotiated
with the Clerk nation.
For thc3o reasons, on which the
Committee art prevented for wsnt
of lime from enlarging, they are of
opinion that, by a treaty like that of
the Indian Springs, the Creek nation
could net be divested of its right of
o;cupancy, nor Georgia vested with
a right of possession, and that the
lands West of the new treaty line
having never been ceded away, are
reserved to the Creek Indians by the
treaty of Washington, and that the
survey of them is contrary to law.
The Committee, however, are
happy to add, that the inconvenience
resulting from this circumssnnce is
much les3 than was apprehended.
In a letter of Governor Troup, to
Messrs. Cobb arnd berrien, dated 4th
March, 1826, itjsstated that, “unless
all the sources of information her:
shall prove erroneous and deceptive,
tiie State (if the validity ofthe new
treaty be admitted) has been de
frauded of one million of acres of her
best lands.” Bat if the Western
boundary of Georgia were run, ac
cording to a rigorous construction of'
the compact of 1302, it would pass
in some points East ofthe Chalta
houchie, and thus give her" a boun
dary which sho might consider less
advantageous than the line drawn by
the treaty of Washington. If the
Western bouudary line be run accord
ing to the interpretation put upon
tiie compact by the Commissioners
of Alabama, it ufould leuve Georgia
less than she now claims, lint grant
ing the cx parte line, run by the
Georgia Commissioners, to be the
true West rn boundary ofthe State,
the quantity ot unceded land, by the
only computation the Committee has
seen, is 198,632 acres, and that of a
poor quality, being about one nine
ty-eighth part of the lands, the Indi
an title to which, the Uuited States,
in 1802, covenanted to extinguish for
Georgia, as soon as it could be done
reasonably and peaceably.
The small quantity of land in con
troversy, and its trilling value, ren
der it probable, that the Indians will
igree % to cede it. Inasmuch as the
quantity depends on the direction
which the line" between Alabama
and Georgia may take, it were to bo
wished that this line should he first
run. It appears, itowever, that the
Executive, from an earnest desire to
meet the wishes of Georgia, has in
structed the Agent to urge the
Creeks to a cession of all the lands
East of the line, which Georgia lias
established for herself. The pre
liminary steps for this cession re
quire no appropriation; and the Com
mittee deem it inexpedient, b}' now
making an appropriation for tho fi
nal purchase, cither to fix on an inad
equate. or an unnecessarily large
sum. It is tho result of the best
vk <*■ which the Committee have
been able to take ofthe suject, that
no legislation upon it is at this time
necessary.
In conclusion, tlie Committee brg
leave to observe, that they have giv
en to this important subject all the
time and attention they could com
mand, at this advanced stage of the
session. They have felt how many
great interests arc concerned in the
subject. The powers ofthe Union,
and the manner in which they have
been exercised; the rights and inter
ests of a sovereign State, and the
•protection due from the strong aud
the prosperous, to the feeble rem
nant of a once formidable race.—
Notwithstanding the collisions of
opinions, which can nrely be avoid
ed where sucli interests are involved
the Committee think it may with jus
tice be averred, that, in the general
result, while die Constitutional pow
ers ofthe United States have been
asserted, the great objcct s'Hjfeired
by Georgia have been attained,^and
the public sentiment of tho world
has not been disregarded, .which re
quires a tenderness and moderation,
m disposing ofthe rights of those,
wirom Providence has placed, with
out the means of resistence, at our
discretion.
Such arc the views which the Com
mittee had prepared themselves to
submit totbc House. By the mes
sage and accompanying documents
vestqjday referred to the Commit
tee, it appehrj (if the Governor o
Georgia correctly represents the
other authoritcs and People of the
■ I ~l , ,
been hoped. To the letter of the
Secretary at War, informing the Gov
ernor that the President, in conse
quence of the remonstrance and ap
peal of the Indians, would feel him
self compelled, if to em
ploy all the means under his control
to maintain the faith of the nation,
by carrying the treaty of Washing
ton into effect, the Governor has re
turned a direct defiance. Instead of
submitting the decision of the ques
tion to the tribunal provided by the
constitution, he has issued orders to
the Attorney and Solicitor General
ofthe State, to take all necessary
and legal measures to effect the lib
eration of the Surveyors, who may
be arrested, under the .authority of
the Government ofthe United States;
and has directed them to bring to
justice, by indictment or otherwise,
the officers ofthe ynited States, or
others concerned in arresting the
Surveyors, as violators of the peace
of Georgia. lie has ordered the
Major Generals of two divisions of
militia to hold the regiments and
battalions within their respective
commands, in readiness to repell
any hostile invasion ofthe Territory
of Georgia; and he has declared, in
substance, that he shall regard the
attempt of the United States to sus
tain the Indians by force, (which if
will become their sacred duty to do
should all other means fail) in the
occupation of the lands resciVed to
them by the treaty of Washington, ae
an attack upon the Territory, the
People, and the sovereignty of Geor
gia.
The Committee will not take up
on themselves to express any opin
ion on tiie subject of counsels, so
much to be deplored. They have
no apprehension that tho People ol
Georgia will engage in violent col
lision with the Union, tor the purpose
of sustaining a title to a small strip of
barren land, acquired under an in
strument, whicli, by a very large ma
jority ofthe other House of Con
gress, sanctioned by an dmost unan
imous vote of this House, has been
declared “null and void." If, how
ever, it is necessary to Amtemplatc
so disastrous an event, the Commit
tee trust the law of tlie land will be
maintained, and its faith preserved
inviolate. The Committee recom
mended the adoption of the follow
ing resolutions;
Resolved, That it is expedient to
procure a cession of tiie Indians
lauds, in the limits of Georgia..
Resolved, That, until such a ces
ion is procurred, tho law "of the
land, as set forth in the treaty of
Washington, ought to be>maintained,
by all necessary Constitutional and
legal means*
A LARGE SQUASH.
BRIGADE ORDERS.
H. Q. Savannah 24th Feb. 1827.
When we are awfully told by the
President of the United States, that
he will be compelled, under certain"
circumstances, by an obligation
‘even higher than that of harnan au
thority,” to use the “military arm”
of the Union to prevent the enforce
ment of a law of a State, passed un
ler the guarantee of a treaty ofthe
Union, solemnly ratified and promul
gated as the supreme law ot the land
by the proper authorities, whereby
rights have been vested in the State
which no human authority can di
vest it of but by the slioug arm of
power: when the Executive of the
State tells us that “Ho will resist
to the utmost any military attack
which tlio Government of tho Unit
ed States shall think proper to make
on the territory, the People, or the
sovereignty of Georgia” —it is, indei and
time to stand upon our defence , and
having assorted our rights, to pre
pare to maintain them. We will
not, then, wait for further orders.
The Colonels under my command
will, therefore, forthwith have their
regiments in ths best possible at
titude of readiness to meet the worst
statd of things which may grow out
of any attempt to prevent the right
to pursue the ends for which our
Government was instituted ; to es
tablish the sovereignty and indepen
dence of the States, and promote
the welfare and happiness of the
People.
ED. HAT!DEN,
Brig. Gen. Ist Brig. Goo. Militia.
[Quere. —Would not*:he General make a
good Governor himself?—He lias before this,
evinced several rare qualifications.]
A VOICE FROM NEW-YORK.
GENERAL JACKSON.
The states friendly to the election
ol General Andrew Jackson are right
•n supposing that the indications ol
NewjYork promise an auspicious re
sult. Things are daily shaping their
course in that direction, not in a
udden, hasty manner, 4 calculated to
produce reaction, hut with delibera
tion and steadiness of purpose.—
There are few who took an active
part in the election of Mr. Crawford
who are not now equally zealous iu
of General Jackson. The prom
inent friends of Mr. Clinton are
squaly decided on this point, aud il
'he canvass is conducted with mod
eration aud tirmuess, with union and
good foci mg the entrio vote of New-
Virginia.—Hot sister state, fair
Virginia, has been tossing up har
head, and turning up her delectable
nose any time these last forty years
at the younger members ot the A
mcrican family, jis if she alone of all
ihe sisterhood, possessed purity and
virtue—We have always kuown that
like Queen Betty, in honor of whose
single blessedness she received &cr
name, she wasgiven to scolding—but
as to any fauxpas of her ladyship, we
were not informed. The following
toasts, however, of Mr. Randolph,
given at the late public dinner in.
Richmond, seems to tell a most dis
reputable tale ofthe elder sister:—
Virginia. —The Son who will not
stand by such a Mother—must be a
Basiard.
Now, however, it may suit the
personal views ofthe Honorable gen
tleman to place the bend Senister in
his brothers shield, we cannot but
think it a graceless act to slander his
own mother, by sucb gross insinua
tions.
U. S. Gazette.'
Great Rail Road. —The Legis
lature of Maryland have incorpor
ated a company under the title of
the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road
Company, with a Capital of g.j,
UOo.OOO, to construct a rail road
from Baltimore to the Ohio—a dis
tance in the shortest line about 350
miles. The Corporation of Bal
timore arc expected to subscribe
for half a million of the stock; one
branch ofthe City Council hav
ing already passed a resolution,
which will, it is said, have the coa
hrmation of the other brauch, au
thorising such a subscription
The State reserves to itself the
right to subscribe a million ot' dol
lars.
Liberality. —The citizens of Cien
veland, Ohio, must teel obliged to
the editor of a New-Hauipshiro pa
per, now before us, for the uncom
mon generosity he ascribes to them.
Hu says they have “ seut 12 pounds
ol' pork, and 8 of beef, lor the relief
ol tho Greeks.” A sufficient couvoy
has gone out, we hope, to protect it.
The editor ofthe Baltimore Patri
ot has been favored with tho follow
ing interesting extracts of a letter
tr„ui a gentleman m Europe,( who
has the beast means of acquiring
the most correct information,) to his
friends in Baltimore, dated 26th Jan
uary ; —Whether his predictions are
well founded or not must soon be
r- alized.
“My unconquerable persuasion, is
that War must break out erelong,
and that France and England must
be parties. Every effort will be made
oy England to involve us, some way
or other. Iknow, that a policy to
this effect has been agreed on and
laid down iu England several years
ago, as the policy to be observed
witu respect to us, whenever any
new war should occur. There was a
policy adopted then, and it will be*
followed, not to allow us to enjoy a
profitable neutrality, aud to re-be
come the factors ol’the world They
move overy spring to deprive us ol
another indefinite term ot progress
ive, uucxampled prosperity. —They
will not ailowde a renewal of Joana
then’s tnriity, nourishing system of
paddling his own canoe, and pick
ing up grists all over the nul-pouds
ofthe world, and o! effect mg in some
twenty years, what other nations
have required centuries tt> accom
plish. i tell you my good lric-nd
J know tnis. England will have e
nough on her hands in Europe, aud 1
shall not be surprised, if, under her
present pressure, she may not be in
earnest in accommodating every
cause of difference with the United
Slates—indeed I have some reason
to believe that she will.
“There must bo War—all Europe
is alive for it-especially the French :
they arc indiguaiit at Mr. Canning’s
audacious language in his afterwards
subdued and mitigated speech. The
English are detested every where
on the continent, and no where more
than in Portugal, the Portuguese
ask tho British officers, what the
devil brought you here! Who wants
the English to be meddling in our
affairs ! You may be assured that the
Portuguese neither understand nor
want Don Pedro’s Constitution. The
English are as well aware of that as
are the French or Spaniards. Again
I say, there will be War.”
**tTlic Grech Supply Ship. —*ho ele
gant ship Chancellor, Cant. Bark
hauled out in ihe stream yesterday,
and will probably sail to-day, with
provision, kc. for the Greoks. Mr.
Miller, of Vermont, who vv,as three
years in Greece, and eighteen months
in active ervice, goes out in the ves
sel. lie will have, the charge of
the supplies, aud pay attention to
their distribution. The cargo is said
to be worth aboat SIB,OOO, inclu
ding the freight and insurance, which
have been paid. It consists princi
pally of corn ineal. flower, rice, and
the like articles. May prosperous
gales attended her! We have al
ready stated that a second vessel
will be despatched as suou us practi
cable, in which Lieut. Carpenter,
ofthe U. 8. Navy, who has just re
turn from the Mediterranean, will go
VOLUMU 11..
The Tallipot Tree. —A leaf of this
extraordinary tree has lately been
brought over from the Island of Cey
lon, of which place it is a native, and
is now in tho possession ofthe Rev
Richard Fletcher, of Hampstead.
The leaf is iu a good State of preser
vation: it measures fully *ll feet hi
height, 16 feet across ifs widest
spread, and from 38 to 40 feet in
circumference. If expanded us a
canopy, it is sufficient to defend tt
dinnerparty of six from the rays of
the sun, and in C.-ylon is carried
about the by natives for tho puL
po«t.
La to Intelligence. The case of
Charles L. Smith vs, P, Franks, the*
Editor of the“lndepondence Bal
ance.”printed at Philadelphia, for a
’ libel published in that paper against
Mr. Smith has been lately tried and
determined at Nisi Prius. before
Judge Duncan. The Jury gave a
verdict ot ten thousand dollars dam*
ges for the Plaintiff being the whole
amount claimed in plaintiff’s declare,
tion.
NEW YORK, March!) (k
Jin unwelcome Disclosure. —
greatest political misfortune of our
country is, that while the South
rons in Congress cling together to
a man, there are almost always
treacherous members enough from
the North, to give the actual min--
ority the ascendancy. And when
speaking upon this subject, we
have more jfchan once had occasion
to lament that Mr. Van Bureu
should so frequently sacrifice the
great interests ofthe notih to tis
southern predelictions. Such,
however, is the fact, and we have
now before us another instance, of
a more formidable character than
transpires every day. A member
of Congress has just put into our
hands a volume of docunents by
which it appears that in the Geor
gia controversy, when in the Sen
ate in secret session last year, Mr.
Van Buren was the active partisan
of Gov. Troup, in his cruel op*
pression of the Creek Indians.—-
We are aware that|ieiv|will believe
sucha thing possible, &?we should
have doubted it ourselves, upon
any testimony short of ctfficial.—
Fortunately we have thattestimo
ny, and we are informed that hk
publication has given no little un
easiness to Mr. Van Buren. On
the 60th page of the volume of
documents before us, (entitled the
Reports and Resolutions of the
Legislature of Georgia, with ac
companying documents,) at the
close of a long fetter from Mr
Berrien, one of the Georgia Sena
tors, to Gov. Troup, giving an ac
count of his labors in the Senate
to defeat the new treat}', we find
the following paragraph:—
vl cannot conclude this letteu,
without stating to you, that wc
have, in all this affair, received
a frank and cordial support from
Gen. Harrison, of Ohio, from Coh
Hayne, of South Carolina, from
Mr. Van Buren, of New York, and
though last, not least, fiom Judge
White of Tennessee.”
The next document in the book
is Gov. Troup’s answer to the
foregoing, which concludes as
follows:
“Do me the favor to present my
best thanksto gen. Harrison, ۥ!..
Hayne, and Mr. Van Buren, and
judge White, for their able and li
beral co-operation with you, in the
cause of the weak against the
strong ; aad, as I trust, ofthe just
aginst the unjust. ’’
Here, then, is Mr. Van Buren, a
Senator from New York, and thfc
only northern Senator who dared
hazard the experiment, if they had
a disposition to do it, when in se
cret session, aud as he fondly sup
p *sed, secure from the eye of his
constituents, leaguing himself with
Gov. Troup in his atrocious de
signs upon the poor Creek Indians,
and his daring opposition to the su
preme laws ofthe land! Not only
this, but he receives the thanks for
Irs services from this same Gov.
Troup. The manner in which
his precious secret was disclosed
was this : During the session of
Congress which lias just closed,
the Georgia delegation brougtit
forward a bundle, of documents
which they, without careful exam
ination’ moved to have printed,
which motion was adopted. Mt.
Van Bruen, in the mean time,
knowing that it was only in secret
session that he had directly be
trayed his constituents, felt snug
ly secure, until the documents
came printed upon the tables,
when lo ! it was fbnnd that by some
strange fatility, -the confidential,
letters of Mr. Berrien andJGov.
Troup had been accidentally shut
tled among the papers, and hem
the secret was disclosed as limb
os life J—JV*. Y .Com. Adv.
In the Philadelphia case ol Harris
v*. Lewis, in which ths jury reudsred
n verdict for the Plaintiff of SIOO.
the cost will arroiirrt it r? suM P