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GEORGIA COURIER. j. a. mrwHO£U'4ii AND H2NRY MSALZZ^a, PUBLISHERS. 77r»».«.—'This Paper i» oubli-!.»'l every Monday and Thursday afternoon, it i’> 00 per annum, payable in ad vance, or $6 Oft at the expiration of the year. TT Advertisements not cxceedinsr a square, inserts, 1 the first time or 62 1-2 cents, and 43 3-1 cents for each con- li nuance. 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. m 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”