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FROM THE CHARLESTON COURIER.
PERTNESS is very apt to be the ac
companiment of youth, and is therefore
excusable. I may be ignorant, grievous
ly ignorant, of politics! economy—I do
not pretend to know much of it—and I do
consider those who pretend to bo awfully
profound upon the subject, to be “ wise
in their own conceit.” But facts do not
deceive me ; I happen to know that fe
males whose infirmities do not enable them
to work in the field, and all females in bad
Weather, maybe very well employed in
spinning, weaving, carding, &.c. and in the
fact that in many, and indeed most parts
of the stale, the females do clothe their
families with domestic fabrics, is to me
conclusive, that, without (diminishing the
market crop, industrious planters may al
ways prevent being imposed upon by high
pri e ! woollens. I am far from approv
ing a high tariff on any article, because I
do not like hot-bed plants of any kind—I
am not fond of precocity.—I think that if
commerce, agriculture and manufactures
are suffered to find their own level, each
will, in imitation of nature, progress i rad-
uallv, and produce none of the convul
sions of sudden operations. I, however,
have no objection to sec my own country,
growing in wealth, and possessing a diver
sity of soil, habits and wants which will
ho the sources of a vast interchange oi
commodities. I am happy in the reflection
that the day may come, when the Cotton,
Rice, Wine, Oil and Sugar of the South
will be exchanged for the manufactured
articles of the nothern and middle States.
•—Surely under a government adminis
tered bv the Representatives of the ma
jority of the people, our internal com
merce would he liable to less fluctuations
. than when subjected to the caprice and
cupidity of foreigners. Being thoroughly
averse to the Woollens Bill, and every
species of extravigant forcing of any kind
of labour, I.am equally disposed to calm
The agitations, which some wily poli'ici-
ans have produced, an 1 which are engen
dering the most bitmi hostility between
citizens of a common country. If the av
arice of the Nor'h and West induce
some of their leading men to force their
manufactures prematurely, the avarice of
the South - ill produce a recoil. But why
use these irritating epitnets, why not say
that the representatives ot each quarter ol
the union, representing the peculiar int r-
esf.t of their constituents, will maintain
them bv every argument which learning
and good sense can sorest ; that, after
all, it is not likely that a majority of the
Representatives of our free country, will
enact or persevere in laws which prove
1m u3t and oppressive, t suggested a peace
ful remedy for the Woollens Bill, and in
timated what I believed to be common
sense, if it is not agreeable to the invaria
ble Rides of Political Economy—that a
high tariff on foreign woollens will imme
diately excite a Domestic competition
which will reduce our negro cloth to the
lowest possible price—that the established
factories at the North have too much sa
gacity not to know that they have more to
fear from domestic than foreign competi
tion. The only sensible argument used
bv those who oppose the tariff, because
they believe it will take money out of
their pockets—is this—that we must buy
B itish Wool, or England will not buy
our Cotton and Rice ; and this is one of
11 the truest maxims of that science” call
ed political economy—a science best un
derstood by those who are incapable of
managing an ordinary househould. But
test this only argument ; Great Britain
now prohibits almost all tlie productions
of our agriculture—Provisions are only
admitted when starvation stares them in
the face; Carolina Rice pays a duty of
near three dollars a hundred. BiU will
England get testy and not buy our Cot
ton? No, she will patiently bear any
tariff—she fears us—she well knows, that
restriction is a game at which two can
play. Our tariff on Cotton is not only
driving her manufactures from our mar
ket, but is taising us up as a rival to her
self iu other markets ; lot her refuse to
take our Cotton and thus lower its value
here, and iho immediate consequence will
be, that our own manufactories, by get
ting the raw material cheaper, will under
sell Great Brittain, in eve>y market; and
the want of our competition and supplies
will increase the price of raw Cotton in
England, and if England does not buy,
F.anco will. To fact, England dare not
exclude our Cot on ; and in truth the cla
mour against our tariff has been raised in
a great degree bv die agents of English
roaiuifictorics, who have contrived to en
list a party here, to prevent the ruin which
the irrenressible growth of our country
threatens. The same reasoning applies
to die woollen manufactures. England
alone, has to fear their growth. The
planter ins nothing to apprehend. Home
Consumption will keep down the price of
all he wants pa buy. But there is a pre
vailing error among our planters, which
their good sense must rectify. Among
the instances of the “ profound acquain
tance with tl.e truest maxims” of this fa
mous science, political economy, which
distinguish the l ife Resolutions, one set of
gentlemen attributed tho low price of
Cotton to our tariff of 1824. It might as
well be attributed to the appearance of a
comet. The true cause is obvious, tho
cultivation has exceeded the demand ; not
that less is consumed, but more produc
er!. There is as ranch raw material in
Waltham Cottoa Goods, as if they wore
woven in England, and as less money
will buy them now, there is no good rea
son why as much should not he consumed.
In fact Cotton lands are boundless. Our
Rice planters have nothing to complain
of. They get fair prices for their crops
and supylies are as cheap as ever, and Cot
ton planters have no other remedy than
economy. They must raise their own
Corn and Wool, and make at home as
as much doth as possible ; they must be-
co me farmers, and not depend upon the
sales of a crop to buy the common neces
saries oflife. Cotton has had its day—
if the tariff was repealed, and the cultiva
tion continued to extend in this country,
in South America, and Egypt, the prices
would be kept down. It is immaterial
whether the raw material is manufactured.
I only wish to satisfy cool thinking men
that we have no reason to excite out blood
on ihe occasion. If South Carolina
should dissolve her connexion wi.h the
Union, it would not raise the price of Cot
ton, as long as a whole wilderness is year
ly white with it. For myself, I feci that
the only danger of any tariff is to he ap
prehended by the manufacturers them
selves. They would be healthier if al
lowed to take their natural growth ; a
protecting tariff is an unnatural stimulant
and reaction may follow. The majority
of the people are consumers; our laws aie
made by the majority, and of course, ar
gument and experience will accomplish
all wo desire. That experienced men
have been deluded into the belief that
their local interests require them to resist
unto blood; and that bitter local jealousies
have been fomented, the whole aspect of
public affairs proves. That few, very few
of the sedate practical planters have united
in this uproar, is well known. Mere the
orists have worked upon tho passions of
the inexperienced, and it becomes the du
ty of those, who still look forward to a
long continuance of our happy union, who
still remember that in her darkest liour^ of
distress, our brethern of the North freely
shed their blood in the defence of the
South, and that side by side they have
maintained the glory of our common
country—not to yield too easily to the
suggestions of sectional antipathies, or be
beguiled by the syren notes of heedless
aspirants for public office SENEX
—q©©—
Erotn the Middlesex Gazette.
COM. DECATUR.
In looking over a parcel of communica
tions and other documents, which were
laid aside for further consideration, we
laid our hands upon a letter written to us
two or three years ago, by an author of
some celebrity, who has since deceased.—
A part of it was intended for publication ;
and as his death makes it improper that
it should go before the public in its origi
nal state, we have taken the liberty to
make such erasures as are absolutely ne
cessary.
“I have recently enjoyed the gratifica
tion, amusement and intelligence of an ac
quaintance with a Ship-Master who was
captured bv H. B. M-ijestv’s squadron, so
long stationed in Gardner’s Bay in ihe last
war.
“ This gentleman informed me that he
was detained as a prisoner, with five or
six other masters of vessels which had been
captured, on board the flag-ship of his
majesty’s blockading squadron. That
tliev were treated bv the Commodore with
uniform urbanity and politeness. Mv in
formant was waiting for the arrival of his
agent, with the suni demanded for the ran
som nf his vessel and cargo.
“ The enemv’s squadron was in a dis
persed situation and numerous tenders
and barges were taking in water from a
shore at some distance from the Commo
dore’s ship. We discovered a flag of
truce coming on board the Commodore,
and all of us who were prisoners, were or
dered to an apartmrnt below. As we i
were about complying with the order, an
express, whose countenance indicated the
deepest solicitude, as well as a consmous-
ness of guilt, came on board from the truce
boat. The express, the traitor, or in
whatever capacity ho was to he considered,
was taken to the Commodore’s apartment,
where his officers were immediately con
vened. After a short interview, the ex
press was dismissed from the ship in the
truce-boat, and we were restored to our
usual privileges.
“ A scene of greater animation—ofac-
tivity—ofexertion—was never presented
to the eve of any beholders, than was now
before us, who were prisoners. We were
totally ignorant of the cause ot all these
“ notes of dreadful preparation.” Signals
were made to the tenderanil barges, which
instantly left the watering ground. They
were immediately made from ship to «hip ;
and the bay was whitened by British can
vass. We cast our eyes toward the little
city of New-London, which fell a victim to
the traitor Arnold, in the war of the Rev
olution. We then turned them toward
Port Griswold, where the gallant Col.
Ledyard, & numerous veterans of Grot
on were murdered by the Gothic hands
of'barbarians. Our feelings and appre
hensions were such as to sett he power of
description at defiance. We anticipated an
immediate attack upon the town, and the
squadron which Com. Decatur had pre
viously left, and who was then in the Pre
sident Frigate, at New-York, about to
sail.
“ We were relieved from our solicitude,
when we saw tho whole squadron, except
the flag-ship, put to sea round Montauk
Point; but expected to hear of some in
teresting event from without Long Island,
nor were we hut a very short time disap
pointed. It was announced to us most
triumphantly, and with every mark of ex
ultation, that the Endymion, Capt. Hope,
had captured the U. S. Frigate President,
Com. Decatur. Our mortification was ex
cessive as we knew that Com. D catur,
when blockaded in the Frigate United
States, had challenged the Endymion,
which Capt, Hope declined.
“ It has already been shown from the
most authentic materials, that the Presi
dent gained as complete a victory over the
Endymion, as the Lnited States did over
the Macedonian, and that “ he surrender
ed, not to the Endymion, but to his majes
ty's squadron." This was the hero’s lan
guage ; and his sword was presented to
Com. Hays, who, in admiration of his
gallantry, immediately returned it to him,
who had wielded it so gloriously.
“ The circumstance of an express arriv
ing at this juncture—the immediate sail
ing of the squadron—and the consequent
capture of the President, shows pretty
clearly, that, in the bosom of New York,
as well as in New-London, there was
some foreign or domestic traitorous em-
missary. By the latter, he was prevented
from escaping with his squadron—by in
formation obtained from the former, he
was surrounded by an irresistible squadron,
| and lost the President Frigate.
“ The gentleman who communicated
j these facts, stated to me, that from what
j they noticed, and what they heard, he and
i his fellow prisoners were well assured that
{ the “ Express” received an immense sunt
j for communicating the intelligence that
| Decatur was under sail. He may be now
' rolling among us in wealth, the price of
; his perfedity. If he is, I take the liberty
! of saying to him, as to those who enjoy
any portion of such wealth—“ May their
j pillows be pillows of thorns—may their
j sleep be agony, and may they ever be de
prived of tears to appease the gnawing of
guilt, until they confess it; and become
i the subjects of human justice, and, if so
decreed, of divine mercy.” j
We have never seen tit is incident in
prim, and every circumstance relating to
this once brilliant ornament’of our Navy,
j and the loss of that fine Frigate, tlie Pre-
; sident, ought to be known. The venera-
blo Alexander Murray presided at the
Court Martial which tried Com. Decatur,
impressively declared, in tho report of the
trial, “ The enemy gained a ship, the vic
tory was ours.” As Com. Decatur’s gal
lant father declared that his children “were
the property, of our country,” so his sur
viving countrymen ought, to consider his
character as their property, and defend it
as such.
MR. CLAY ANS> GEN JACKSON.
We lay before the reader another letter
from Mr. Beverley. The Editor of the
Telegraph complains of a suppression in
the publication made by Mr. Clay, or his
friend Mr. Hammond, and that Mr. Zane
had been prevailed upon to give an im
proper certificate. If the Telegraph
means that the second letter from Mr.
Beverley to Mr. Zane, complaining in
strong terms, that a copy had been taken,
contrary to his expectation, we ask how
could Mr. Clay obtain a copy of that let
ter to accompany -his publication, when
the second sentence of it announced that
Mr. C. had left Wheeling? If the firs:
letter of which Mr. C. did take -a copy,
was not fully published, that is another
quest on. Tho copy of Gen. Jacksoti’s
letter is verified by the certificate of
Messrs. Noah Zane, Moses M. Chaplin,
Morgan Nelson and W. S. Peterson.—
And the copy of Mr. Beverley’s first let
ter tflh’-JV'Jr. Zone is said to have this cer
tificate appended to it under the hand of
Mr. Za ne: “ A true copy of Carter Be
ne 1 ley’s letter, enclosing the original letter
of Gen. J. to Mr. Z.” This certificate
is objected to as untrue, and being ob
tained with improper motives. Mr. Be
verley’s fust letter appears not to have
enclosed Gen. J.’s; it announces its re
ceipt and character; and seems to have
been intended merely to obtain through
Mr. Z., Mr. Clay’s denial. That it did 1
not enclose the letter, is manifest from
the answer returned by Z. requesting the
loan of it, and the certificate of Mi . Hol-
ll.ngsworth, that he, subsequently, carried
the letter in person to Mr. Z. The Te
legraph says, that Mr. Clav resorted to
this artifice “t cover over the manner in
which he intended to char e Gen. Jack-
son with becoming his voluntary public
arm er.” Such a supposition reflects os
li tie ci edit upon Mr. C.’s understanding,
as upon lvs morality. The certificate is
certainly ac nrect. Mr. Z. is a man of
too much respectability to have signed it,
except inadvertently; and can doubtless
expl iin it. Did he or Mr. C. write the
certificate? The letters were copied
while Mr. Hollingsworth’s demand for
the restoration of Gen. J.’s letter was
pending, and tho Steamboat actually wait
ing fot Mr. Clay; and the operation was,
of course, a hurried one.—Rich. Enq.
wheeling, va. 11th July, 1827.
Dear Sir: A gentleman from Lexing
ton, K\., has just informed me that Mr.
Clay mado a publication of the copy of
Gen. Jackson’s letter to me, surreptitious
ly obtained by him as it was.
The public have already been informed
how he got hold of it, and how much the
confidence reposed by me in an old gen
tleman here was abused. My letter, it
appears, was at once given up by him to
an unlimited use and abuse of Mr. Clay
and his partizans; and even when I sus
pected Mr. Clay to be engaged in the act,
through a friend, I peremptorily and posi
tively demanded an immediate restora
tion of the letter confidently loaned to
Mr. Zane, at his earnest solicitation. It
was, notwithstanding, refused to me, and
that in the most insulting terms; and, in
deed, it was withheld until ihey had per
fectly satiated themselves with every use
and abuse they could and did make of it.
Many overtures have since been made,
to induce a complete reconciliation with
Mr. Zane. He has endeavored to excuse
himself for it, by saying that he took the
liberty, because of our intimacy with one
another. His age and his infirmity alone
precluded me from advancing further with
him in the business; and I can and do
readily believe, that he was wrought upon
most insidiously to do what he is now ex
tremely sorry foi. The proceeding, how
ever, has had a severe influence against
Mr, Clay and the whole concerned in it;
for the public even here, (hitherto much
devoted to the Administration,) are per
fectly aware itihat neither the Secretary,
his friend, or coadjutors in the measure,
have done themselves any credit, lhose
who think correctly, and judge apart from
prejudice and partiality, view the whole
subject as utterly abusive o f the principles
of confidence, and as tending to debase
public morals.
It is pretended by the violent partizans
of Mr. Clay, (those immediately engaged
in transcribing the letter,) that he h d no
share in it. It is, though, too well es
tablished here, that he positively detained
the steamboat, in order to get the copy
he did get; and the very immediate use
he made of it on reaching Lexington,
abundantly explained the whole concerted
plan. A denial is already made ol there
beiDg any plan or concert among them ;
but circumstances must demonstrate facts;
and the public have already pronounced
it as a course replete with incorrectness,
to say the very least of it.
I took occasion to explain, by letter to
the General, their conduct. His great
openness and frankness upon all occa
sions, arid his entire willingness, express
ed in the letter he wrote me, (already be
fore the public,) to bring the circumstance
to a prompt issue, will, I hope, be some
mitigation of the great displeasure that
might otherwise he felt by him for this
gross and unjustifiable abuse of his letter.
If you should deem it proper to give
the public this communication, in addition
to what you have already published from
me, I shall thank you to do so.
Very respectfully, vour o’bt serv’t.
CARTER BEVERLEY.
To Gen. Duff Green, Washington.
Columbia.—Wo have been favored by
a friend with the perusal of Bogota papers
to the 11th of May. Although this is ten
days later than the date of General San
tander’s letter to Bolivar, the public, from
-ill appearances, must have been entirely
ignorant of such a step having been taken
by the vice president. He has been the
rallying point of the advocates of the
Colombian constitution; so much so, that
suspicions have indicated him as the in
stigator of the revolution lately effected
in Peru againt the Bolivian constitution;
and the political pamphlet, from which
we made some extracts a few days ago,
has been by some attributed to his pen.
It is very strange, therefore, that he should
call on Bolivar to resume the authority he
lately offered to resign, for the purpose of
putting clown by force a movement in sup
port of the constitution of Colombia, of
which he has so long been the champion.
The wonder is increased by the secresy
with which he appears to have conducted,
for the papers furnish no reason to sup
pose that he was suspected of having chan
ged his opinion. It may be that he will
say he disapproves of the conduct of the
Colombian troops, because it is a miluary
interference in civil concerns. This
would bo a sound constitutional reason; but
who should he have concealed his inten
tions ?
It is not improbable that Santander,
being hard pressed by circumstances,
judges such sacrifice preferable to civil war,
and that he thinks that nothing but Bol
ivar can prevent it. Difficulty seems to
be threatened in case Bolivar’s influence
should be withdrawn. Paez knows he
could have little to hope for if the consti
tutional party came into power, and he has
a strong and well disciplined army. Car-
thagena letters complain of general Mon-
tilla’s arbitrary measures, whose ambition
and abilities are well known, and the com
mandants of several other departments
seem to be restrained only by the over
awing influence of Bolivar. That San
tander’s motives are disinterested and pa
triotic, no one, we think, will doubt.—
N. Y. D- Adv. July 18.
Queen of Wurtemburgh.—This prin
cess who lately arrived in England with so
much statelparade, it will be recollected,
it tho eldest daughter of the Lite King
Geo. 3d. It was she who, when Napo
leon was at the height of his career, did
the honours of her husband’s table,when the
French emperor visited the dominions of
this king of his making, although her fa
ther was at that raomen) waging war a-
gainst him with all his forces. The broth
er of Napoleon has since married the
daughter of this sister of the present king
of England, and has by her a son, who in
certain and not improbable events, must
become the monarch of England, unless
deprived of the throne by an act of Par
liament. The world after all, therefore,
may see a Napoleon wielding the sceptre
of Great Britain. Not less probable or
certain than that a grandson of the present
Emperor of Austria (also a Napoleon,)
should finally goyern tho French empire.
Nat. Adv.
The affairs of Turkey are evidently
about to become a leading interest in
Europe. The accounts from' Vienna,
mention that great activity prevails there
in the department of foreign affairs, and
that it is understood, that the proposals
made by England and Rusiatothe Porte,
relative to Greece, are about to be enfor
ced by the great European powers. We
have invariably stated that it was useless
to expect that the Divan would be indu
ced to acknowledge the independence of
Greece, and that if the powers of Europe
were resolved to rescue that unhappy coun
try trom the grasp of her oppressor, they
must do so by the force of arms. This
course is, it appears, now to be adopted,
and considering the means with which
Turkey can resist, itis to be expected that
the struggle for Grecian Independence
will not be long.—London Paper.
The Council House of the Creek Na
tion has been removed from Broken Ar
row to Watumpkah, “ falling water,” a
beautiful water fall of twenty feet, on Lit
tle Uchie, fourteen or fifteen miles from
the Chatahoochy.—Macon Telegraph.
AUGUSTA.
THURSDAY, AUGUST, 2, 1827.
Mr. Carter Beverley is again before the pub
lic, endeavoring to make an impressien that Mr.
Clay and his friends, in copying Gen. Jackson's
letter, have been guilty of most outrageous con-
| ( ] uCt « utterly abusive of the principles of con
fidence and as tending to debase public morals.”
As for ourselves, we cannot see how Mr Clay's
( conduct, in copying Gen. Jackson’s letter, is re-
i p re hensible. It was sent to Mr. Zane, at whose
house Mr. Clay was expected to be, under the
i expectation, and wish, no doubt, that Mr. Clay
should see it, and there deny the truth of the.ac
cusations it contained; for his enemies affected
not to receive his former denials, without his
signature, as coming from him at all. Mr. Clay
did then deny the charges in the presence of
many gentlemen, anil took a copy of them, that
he might give a more permanent as well as in-
! dio-nant and sweepiug denial of the whole accu
sation. There was much propriety in his pos
sessing the explicit charges, for his reflection
! preparatory to his returning his answer. It
| WO uld have been probably two weeks before this
letter, if ever published, would have reached him,
and it was necessary in a matter so deeply inter
esting to his character, to give it at once a prompt
and indignant denial. By copying also the pre
cise letter of Gen. Jackson, in his own hand wri
ting, all future quibbling about what was or what
was not in the original, was prevented; and a
certificate of that copy’s correctness is given w th
names attached to it, which will at once silence
all those insinuations, which Mr. Beverley’s
canting about “use and abuse” would be other
wise calculated to produce.
It is difficult to foresee, what is to be the end
of this business; but we are much disposed to
believe, that if it had not been for Mr. Clay's
taking a copy, we should not have seen the pub
lication of Gen. Jackson’s letter at all. The
prompt and sweeping denial of Mr. Clay was
unexpected by Mr. Beverley and his advisers—
They looked for something not very explicit,
which would onab'e them to keep Mr. Clay’s in
tegrity doubtful; but when the copy of that let
ter was in Mr. Clay’s hands, they had no other
alternative but to give it to the public. If Mr.
Clay had had no copy of the charges against
him. and had given the same sweeping denial to
any and all the allegations against him, the let
ter would probably never have been thrown be
fore the public by Mr. Beverley or his friends.
It seems most likely that it was to be kept in re
serve, unless Mr. Clay, by a prevaricating sort
of half denial, should enable them to bring this
“ battering ram” of the General’s friends to the
attack with a reasonable prospect of better suc
cess than it is now likely to have in its attack
upon the reputation of two of the first citizens in
oar country. This is no doubt the secret of Mr.
Beverley’s soreness about the copy, evidenced
now and at the time of his first publishing the
letter. If he intended to pnblis • it, why this
anxiety about Mr. Clay’s getting a c pv ? and
where is the difference between the capt which
he voluntarily permitted Mr. Clay to make in his
brain by the perusal, and the one made in “ black
and white,” only that the Litter would more faith
fully record all that was in the original ? Mr.
Clay had a right to a copy of the charges against
him, that he might give them a deliberate answer.
To continue the court-house language, which has
so often been brought to illustrate the darkness
of this subject, we would say, declarations are
usually filed before answers, and copies served.
Although a great deai of rain has fallen here,
there must have been very little above us, as our
river ha3 been very slightly affected by it. By a
gentleman who has lately been in the upper
country of Georgia, we are informed that crops
are very indifferent, having been injured by the
long dry weathei. It is said to be the same case
in South Carolina. Rains have been very partial,
some sections of the country having been visited
with tolerable seasons, and consequent good
crops, while in the immediate neighborhood,
farmers were endeavoring.to reap some advan
tage from their co n by cutting it down and eure-
ing it for fodder. Cotton has not suffered so
much, requiring less rain for its growth and ma
turity. We have but little doubt that there will
be many thousand bales raised that will not com
mand 15 cents per bale.
SUMMARY.—It is said by the U. S Tele
graph, that Mr. Buchanan, of Penn., is the
member of Congress alluded to by Gen. Jackson
in his Beverley letter.
A general failure of the mails going to Charles
ton, is expected, owing to the roads being ren
dered impassable, the streams being swollen and
many of the bridges swept awav.
Joseph Gales jr. one of the editors and pro
prietors of the National Intelligencer, has been
chosen Mayor of the City of Washington.
A conspiracy to change the government of
Hayti has been discovered, four ringleaders shot
and all again become quiet.
The Miiledgeville Statesman is calling the
Post Masters pretty generally to account for ne
gligence in performing their duties, and some of
them are very plainly accused of more than ne
gligence. It is the duty of Post Masters to in*
form Editors of papers immediately if their pa
pers are not taken from their offices by subscri
bers, and the reason for their refusal, If the
Statesman has received ill usage at their hands,
let the guilty suffer. We are so young in this
business that we have nothing to complain of,
but on the contrary, are bound to return the
Post Masters generally our grateful acknowledg
ments for their kind and polite attention to our
requests.
Col. Brearly has selected, for the first site of
the emigrating Creeks, 3000 of whom he ex
pects to remove in the course of the ensuing au
tumn and winter, a spot on the north bank of the
Arkansas, immediately west of the territorial
line, and about eight miles west of Fort Gibson
He has made arrangements for the erection of
buildings for the accommodation of the first
emigrants. The deputation say the country ex
ceeded their most sanguine expectations, and is
better inited for their purposes than any they
have seen.
Our Boston friends seem to have a multitude
of notions concerning the proper persons to fill
the vacated seat of Mr. Webster. No less than
Blake, Mr. Gorham and Mr. Henshaw. Their
respective friends range themselves under their
banners, as Republicans, Federalists and true
Jacksonites. Success to the most worthy !
Our friend of the Hancock Advertiser, j n
speaking of the health of Mount Zion and th e
prospects iu that quarter, could not have bee,,
far from afloat when he penned the following-.
“ We have roaring health, thundering crops an ^
oceans of rain.”
FOR THE GEORGIA COURIER
Messrs. Editors—I was not a little mortified
that part of your excellent lecture to correspond-
ents, in your last number, where you impute to
“ Civis,” the having charged General Jackson
with falsehood. I can readily conceive how. i E
the hurry and confusion of that chaoSj an editor's
office, the mind may misapprehend a distinction
which it may have been the misfortune of the
writer not to have presented with the desirable
perspicuity. Your own feeline’s, strongly as von
have expressed them, cannot, I am sure, recoil
with greater sensitiveness than my own. from anj
attempt to impute direct falsehood to such a man
as General Jackson ; and I am confident that, or.
a careful revision of the article, you will perceive
no such charge to have been preferred bv me
At all events, even should you still honestly per-
sist in your original construction, 1 am confides-
your sense of justice will not jjrfu.se me the oy.
dWt.
portunity of endeavoring to ccflWiteract the i®.
pression which may have been made by yonr
remarks, when I expressly disclaim, as I nowdc
the meaning therein imputed to me. So far then
from having charged General Jackson with false
hood. I most implicitly yielded mv belief to even-
fact he has stated. Did I question tho truth of
the fart alledged by him. that a certain commi.
nication was made to a frierd of his. by some
friends of Mr. Clay ? Far from it. On General
Jackson’s simple statement. I believe this fact
which I would, by no means, have believed, on
the vague fatherless rumour of the day. I would
not have believed it, even on the most positive
statement of many a newspaper editor that I
coaid mention ; hut on General Jackson's state
ment of the fact, I believe it implicitly. It must
have occurred to every one. who has taken any
interest in this matter, that Geneeral Jackson is
by no means prodigal in his statement of facts;
for even the fact that the communication in ques
tion was made to General Jackson’s friends by
the friends of Mr Clay, he does not affirm posi.
tively. but only as being so informed by hi*
friend. I therefore yielded mv unqualified belief,
on General Jackson's own naked and unsupport
ed statement, to the only fart which he allcge.-
positively. and for which his own individual ve
racity is pledged. No. sir. General Jackson r
the last man I cou’d have thought of charring
with falsehood—but I did impute to him a wan:
of candor and ingenuousness; and. far from re
tracting a particle of what I have uttered, that
charge I now reiterate in the most unqualified
terms. I am willing now. for argument sak". tr,
believe that General Jackson did honestly md n-
ligiously believe in his own nt : nd. that Mr. Play
had driven the alleged bargain for office If
Generd Jack-on (even in th : s case, the stronce t
which can possibly be su posed in his Invert
could see nothing in the peculiarly delicate rela
tion in which he stood to the accused party, to
forbid his joining in person, in the crusade against
him, particularly where there was evrn a possi
bility of himself being in error—he it so. T.r:
him. if he ca r stifle such suggestions join in tV.il
cry, with the whole opening pack. Let him leave
to the zeal and ingenuity of his friends the 'ask
of reconciling such a course of conduct w’th that
lofty disinterestedness which thev have imputed
to him, and let him step forth into the piih’ir
arena—le' him strip to rhe shoulder, for the work
of detraction—let him mingle in the frar. and
‘‘set his foot a- far as who goes farthest’*—Ld
him state his belief, lie has been a judge— let hurt
give ex cathedra, his reading on rirewusteitial
evidence—let him argue—let him st-tr> G-ts
within his own ; h„t !«-' Hm not en-
courage inferences to be drawn from thr -
which he knows are not c r^ct.—Let him r.o*
state those facts that the public may dr • ..,rh
incorrect inference- This w as thn gravamen of
my rhargo. I cha ged dis' genuv've-- -rt
falsehood—I charged a want of candor, rot a vio
lation of truth. I do not renuire O-m .Turk-on
to art nn to that beau ideal of heroic generosity,
which his friends have taught us to look to. as
the rule of his conduct If the overw eening par
tiality of friendship has officiouslv set nn for him
a standard of action which, so long es tho imper
fections of mortality adhere to him. he mav find
it inconvenient to conform to. we have no ohicr
tion indulgently to lower the standard; but surely
Mr. Clay has a right, in this eoiifroversv. to re
quire at his hands, the common candor which so
ciety requires from even the most every day mar.
that mav be blundered on in the stree* Now. j
according to these principles, w hat was the course
plainly indicated to General Jackson, unde*• thr
circumstances? Even admittino- that he had |
been teazed into this disclosure by the prv : ng
importunities of a guest, should he not have said
to him, “ Sir. you ask me for all I know in rela
tion to this affair. In candor I have told you all;
but that same candor requires me to say to you,
howsoever you may pursue this charge of cor
ruption against Mr. Clay, in the main, yof in this
particular. of his having been privy to the over
ture made to me,
"Taint not your mind, nor let your soul conceive
“ Against him ought.”
For I know there is nothing in it. I am satisfied
of iG My friends at Washington were not back
ward in investigating the matter—no stone was
unturned—Heaven and earth were moved for the
purpose of connecting him with it, but all to no
purpose. It was from this s’rong conviction,
that I did not blazon this intelligence to (he Se
nate. It was for this reason that I could not
lend a helping hand to poor Kremer, that imbe
cile, yet faithful creature, who would almost
have laid down his life for me. when I saw the
wild wave of public odium drifting him away into
insignificance and contempt.” The question, as
it regards the candor of Gen. Jackson, is not, did
he believe Mr. Clay to be guilty generally. bu :
did he believe him to be so in the particular in
question? Did he believe him “verily guilty in
this thing ?” Did he at the time he disclosed the
fact in question to Mr. Beverley, believe that Mr
Clay teas privy to the communication made to h s
(Gen. Jackson’s) friend ? Did he state a fact,
which however true in itself, carried along with
it, a deadly presumption against Mr. Clay, which
presumption he knew to be unfounded ? That
he did so. was what I imputed to him. That he
did, at the period of the conversation with Mr
Beverley, know Mr. Clay not to have been privy
to the communication in question. I do honest!;
and conscientiously believe. I believe if as I do
my existence. I believe it for the reasons I have
already stated. As to the soundness of those
reasons, that is not now the question. I can only
say they are such a= carry conviction to my mind-
For the present. I am principally interested in
explaining mv last communication ; and f cono
dently appeal to the candor of the reader, whe
ther a charge of a violation of candor, and not o;
truth, on the part of Gen. Jackson, be not the
fair inference from the whole scope and teiof
of that article.
CIVIS,
FOR THE GEORGIA COURIER.
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ltd. 3.
As Col. Campbell has declined the fa
vor intended to be conferred upon him by
the people of Georgia, I, consequently,
decline to continue my examination of his
claims to the Executive chair. The step
taken by Col. Campbell in this instance,
confirms my opinion expressed in No.
that he js destitute of political firmness.—
Let the matter now rest. Capt. Mattheff
Talbot, of Wilkes county, is now the cap”
