Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

GEORGIA COURIER. “form,'* to publish a statement furnished to them by another member of Congress, a. ATWHORTER fiEsmY mealing, PUBLISHERS. 7r.rmt.~This Paper is puWished every Monday and Thursday afternoon, at $5 00 per annum, payable la ad vance, or $0 00 at the expiration of the year. C Advertisements not exceeding a snnare, inserted the * rst time or G- 1-2 cents, and 43 3-4 cents for each con tinuance. Front the National Intelligencer. THE FAST ROOM.—No. 1. Tho more reflection an honest man bestows on the fable published in the Richmond Enquirer, concerning the East Room of the President’s House, the great er must be his difficulty in endeavoring to reconcile the conduct of that print with rhe plainest obligations of morality. On the 4th of last January, an extract of a letter appeared in it, dated “ Wash ington, January 1st, 1827,'” of which the following is a part, viz: “ This being the “day on which the President’s House is “ thrown open to all visiters, I went, a- '• rr.ong others, to pay my respects to " him* or rather, 1 should fairly confess, “ I went to see *the East Room, for the furnishing of which ivn had vo- M ted twenty-five thousand dollars, at the “ last session of Congress. I was anxious " to see how that amount of furniture “enfold be stowed away in a single room, “and my curosity was fully satisfied. It “was truly a gorgeous sight to behold, “ but had too much the look of regal mag- “ nificencc to be perfectly agreeable to " MV old republican feelings.” Then af ter some profound calculations,, in the style of a certain soi dit political econo mist, showing, among other things, that the furniture of the East Room cost the price of 20.000 acres of public land, enough at 40 acres each, to furnish homes for 5,000 poor families, tho writer says, “ Witli these reflections I left the East •“ Room, made my way to the Presence “ Chamber, paid the debt of a lowly “ obeisance, and retired. The house was “full of company, but i saw very few of 41 the unprincipled Opposition.” The gross falsehood of this story was soon exposed in different prints. In a supplement to the National Intelligencer, of March 5th, 1827, was published Mr. Francis Johnson’s speech, delivered in the House of Representatives on the 16th of the preceding month, and containing -fho following passage, viz: “ Some time “ ago I saw a publication in that print, 14 [i. e. the Richmond Enquirer,] purport ing to be a letter from a member of “ Congress, in which the writer slated 41 that lie had just then returned from the ‘‘President’s, where he had been. If .'■* was New Year, and he had been in the * 4 East room of the house, and he spoke 1 of it as being most splendidly furnished v -‘ out of the $25,000 appropriated'at the " last session. A T oio every m mhr.r of this “ House does Xnow, that, not one cent of “that money has been drawn from the “ Treasury, and every man anti woman, ” boy and girl, who was at the President’s ” on New Year, knows that there was no '*furniture in the room except a few oi l ” chairs, and an old settee or two, altoge “ thcr iporth but a very few dollars. Now •" it is impossible to my mind that any “ memlei of Congress could have written “such a letter ; I have no thought.or be- “ lipf that anv member did write it. The “ Editor has been so credulous as to suf- “ fer himself to be imposed on by some “anonymous writer, or he has wittingly* imposed it on his readers. What could 11 have been the object for the publicn- “ lion ->f such a letter, I cannot conceive', “ unless it was to add to that excitement, 11 which had been already created there “against the President.” » On the 27th of April, the Editors of rhe Enquirer published, professedly “ with great pleasure,” a letter signed “Fair P.lay,” addressed to them in the Peters burg Intelligencer. “JFair Play” here qunied from the Washington letter, as published in the Enquirer; called the at tention of ihe Editors of that paper to Mr. Johnson’s speech: nnd very properly added—” I think it a d'Tty you owe your "country and yourselves, to fprret out M this impostor, who has palmed this trick “ upon you, a..d drag him before the pub- “ lie. If this be not satisfactorily explain- " ed, it will go abroad the settled opinion M that the Virginia opposition to the pre sent Administration is bolstered up bv correcting tho “alleged errors” in the letter! They were told by a third mem ber of Congress, standing in his place in the House of Representatives, that the statement in the letter was false, and yct^ .on the field of honor, as it is called. If refused to avail themselves of this infor mation, accompanied as it was by an ap peal to the whole House for its truth, because he had not, in their opinion, treated them with “courtesy!” As to their objection, that “Mr. Johnson is an intemperate pattisan, whose statements are apt to take the color of his own feel ings,” it is really too peurile for notice.— Could the Editors possibly believe that Mr. Johnson would venture to assert in his place in the House of Representatives, that “every member of the House docs know that not one cent of the twenty-five thousand dollars, alleged to have been expended on the East room has been drawn from the Treasury,” unless such were the fact I Would any man who was not an idiot, utter a falsehood which must be exposed as soon as spoken ; and especial ly when, by writing a letter from Wash ington, and having it published in a pro per “form," he could publish a lie safely! In regard to Mr. Johnson’s “ want of courtesy” to the Editors, it did not, had he been guilty of it, furnish them with the least excuse for omitting to contradict the falsehood of which their press had been made the vehicle. But in point of fact, no such ** want of courtesy” existed.— Mr. Johnson expressed a very natural be lief tint no member of Congress wrote the letter; and then stated that the Edi tors had either been imposed on by some anonymous writer, or had themselves imposed on the public. I am not aware that any alternative supposition could have been made. ANTI-CRAFT. —*•£•***- From, the Tuscaloosa Alabama Ccntincl. PAIR FIiAY. “O! wad some power the giftie gie us To sec ourscVa as others see us! It wad fra mony a blunder free us And foolish notion ' What airs in dress and gait wad Ica’e us And e’en devotion! BURNS. “ intrigue, fraud, and management.”— To this manly appeal tn their candor, the Editors answered: “The account to “ which the writer refers, respecting the “ East room, was forwarded to us, as it “ purports, by one of the most intelligent “ami distinguished members of Congress. “ He has sever vet seen fit >o re-touch his “ statement, and corre -t his errors, if he “ has made any. Another respectable “ member of Congress subsequently sent •* on a statement to correct the alleged “Errors in the first; bat on account of “some difference of opinion as to the ” form in which this last communication “ should appear, it was never publish- “ed—and upon applying for it recently, ” it is found that the letter containing it “ has been destroyed. We should have “ noticed Mr. Johnson’s remarks at the “time they were published; but Mr. J. •is an intemperate partisan, whose state- " ments are subject to take the color of “ his own feelings; and besides, in the “ remarks in question, there was a marked “ want of courtesy to the Editor of this. “ paper, which prevented our paying him “ the respect of republishing his remarks.” Now, surely, this is most extraordinary language. The Editors can publish an extract of a letter from one member of Congress, without any scruples as to what „jorm” it should appear in; (for it is not presumable that the 'writer insisted that his name should accompany .the, publica tidJT) And ye* refused on the ground of It is not only in dress, in gait and in de votion that we “ see oursel’s” differently from w hat others see us. In politics also wearo remarkably indulgent to ourselves and to our own party, and pass over a thousand foibles without censure, or speak of th*m as virtues, which others view in a very different light. We are apt to claim for ourselves privileges, and exercise them, which we esteem extremely unreasonhle, if not wholly unpardonable when exer cised bi? "onr opponents. It is thought, Toi“ instance, highly im proper and reprehensible by editors and others opposed to the Administration of tho general government, that Mr. Clay should m;Tke speeches in his own defence at public dinners, in Pennsylvania and at different places in Kentucky. I> is said iO bo highly indelicate, and a prostration of the dignity of his ot7.ee; so much so *hat he is . ailed the travelling, speech- making. and electioneering Secretary.— And yet it will not be denied that he has assailed without intermission and without mercy, for tho last two years, by the united talents, energy and invention of his political opponents. What must the Secretary do ? Why he must forsooth, maintain his dignity and keep his mouth shut. And what then ?—will he close the months of his enemies by that means ? Not a', all. They will say that his silence is, in effect, an acknowledgment of his guilt. But a few weeks since, the accu sations of an anonymous -writer wore spoken of as having received confirmation —as entitled to be taken for confessed, becauso they had not been denied under the signature of Mr; Clay. He may say, with Pope, 1 A dire dilemma! Either way I’m sped: If ha is silent, his guilt is taken for grant ed ; if he replies to his adversaries and denies their charges in the most public manner, he is accused of electioneering, acting the demagogue, and sacrificing hi* dignity. To contend that he ought to be silent, under the imputations that are made against his character; comes with a bad grace from his accusers: it is as much as to sav, “ we do not deserve notice : we are nothing but an empty, windy, bluster ing, and “factious opposition,” which he cannot descend to answer, without sully ing his own dignity. Mr. Clay, it seems does not thrnk so contemptibly of his as sailants, especially since Gen. Jackson has become their leader. But Mr. McDuffie, who is “a good man and true,” who is opposed to tho Admin istration— >vc beg pardon—we remember now that it is the Administration that is opposed to him—he, although he has suf fered no extraordinary persecution, can make speeches and eulogize his own course, and condemn that of others.— without being guilty of the least improprie ty. Mr. Clay in defending his vote in the election of President seemed to be under the necessity of speaking of tho relative pretentions and qualifications of Mr. A. and Gen. J. for that important office. But he did no? do this without meeting with a reproof even from Gen. Jackson himself; but as for Mr. McDuffie, he may assail the President and Secretary in as bitter a tone as lie pleases, and hold them up to the contempt and indignation of the people ; and it is ail well enough—he belongs to our party : “ to the pure all things are pure but as for the Coalition—they al ways go wrong by design, and never do right by accident. We do not make these remarks because we think Mr. McDuffie wrong in brldlv calling in question the integrity of Messr^Adaggs apd. Clay if he thinks them corrupt or dishonest. Let corruption be exposed, and dishonesty and intrigue unmasked. But let us not in onr political disputes. abandon all liberality and reciprocity ; but rather “ live and let live:* if it w bd right and fair that the one party should accuse, it cannot be unfair that the other should defend itself. If we must have hard fighting, there can be no reason that the parties should not have fai t play. Let the principle of equality and equal rights be regarded as scrupulously as they would be between two combatants the one party be allowed the use of the rifle, why should the other be restricted to the pistol! and if the use of a rest be permitted to the one, why should not the same privilege be extended to both ? If a severe political battle is inevitable, let us have an open field and no dodging. The ease of Captain Reed appealed to by General Jackson to prove that General Washington was as cruel and as lawless as he has been, is no par allel to that of Harris and his companions in arms. In the first place, it was Col onel Lee, and not General Washing‘on who issued the orders to shoot deserters. Suppose for a moment we do the immor tal memory of Washing’on the injustice to concede that he issued the orders al luded to by General Jackson, they would not in any manner extenuate his arbitrary and inhuman conduct. The deserters ordered to be shot were seized passing by stealth from the American camp to that of the enemies, carrying with them their arms and equipments. The Tennessee Militia surrendered their arms, took re ceipts for them, from their officers, and publicly left the camp ; not to go into that of-the enemy, but to retai n to the bosom of their own families. The Deserters were regular troops, and it is not pre tended they had served out their times. The Tennesec militia had served out the whole of their time, &, had always publicly avowed, from the law and the opinions of their officers their right to go home. It is indeed a desperate caso if after a search of many months, this is the best excuse which can be offered. The precipitancy of General Jackson is much and justly deplored, why did he not refer the matter to the President— there was no hurry—tho enemy had been defeated and peace was made—why then hurry these American Militia to an ipno- minous death and premature grave ? Why did not General Jackson give time for his own k ndly feelings to come into play!— If he had we now feel assured that this dark, and bloody page would not blur our history. The General’s order which di rected theexeeutiou of the six militia men in four days after its receipt, also contain ed these words—“ M :jor Genera! Jack son approves the proceedings and sen- “ tences of the court, and orders them to “ be carried into effect.” This was in re- “ fcrence to nearly two hundred Militia “ men, who had been ordered to have one “ half of the hair of their head shaved off “ close, and to be drummed ootof camp.” Wo now learn, from the certificate of “ Adjutant General Hart, that each and “ every one” of those men, was honora bly discharged. Why then, we repeat it was General Jackson so precipitate ? If “ He had taken time these wretched men, “ might also have been each and every one of them honorably dsscharged.”— They might now be happy husbands and fathers. Widows who jiavc been bowed down to the earth with affliction and toil to maintain their orphan children might, now be happy mothers &. wives. Instead of curses, ther lips would be pouring forth blessings; and the praises and thanksgiv ings of those who were made orphant would be ascending to the throno of hea ven to prepare a place for him who had spared their father’s life. What a pearl above all price was here cast away.! General Jackson pronounces the letter of Harris, published in the Democratic Press to be a forgery. It would be better to prove the assertion than to raise doubts. It is admitted that Mr. Harris wrote, and General Jackson received, one letter from him while undei sentence of death. Why are not the American people furnished with an authenticated copy of that one letter, that it may be compared with the one we have published ? There was a time when the praises of the Hero of New Orleans resounded thro’ the columns of the Democratic Press, and when it was among the foremost, we will not say the ablest, of his defenders, against a hoft of assailants, who are nowhisparti- zans—men whom lie would have hung un der the second section. Then Gen. Jack- son would not hear tho Democratic Press spoken of slightingly or disrespectfully.— Then he could kindly furnish materials for its columns, we now write with some of them on onr desk, signed in his own pro per hand writing. These days Have pass ed away. The milk of human kindness has curdled in his bosom. We could not, with uis lifo and actions, end abundant evidence of bis unfitness, support him for President of the United States, and there fore we are now, even by the General, spoken slightingly of. Be it so. We feel proud and honored by his good opinion, but we are not humbled in our opinion by any changes in his. When we defended him, when we lauded him, we did our duty. He de served to be defended and merited our highest praise. The day wo trust will uever come when our tongue and our pen shall not be prompt and ready to praise, even to the very echo, the Hero of Or leans. We would be blind to his faults— we would conceal his errors—magnify his virtues—do willing homage to his gal lant services—and shout aloud’ our joy and gratitude to the protector of Beauty and Booty. But when that protector, forgets that he has’ resigned, from a con sciousness of his own unfitness,every civil office, he ever held, listens to the voice of flatterers and aspjres to the chief Magis tracy of his country, our pen freezes in our ink and our tongue cleaves to the roof of our mouth.—[Democratic Press. we leave the fact of such a letter having been written into a district in Kentucky in order to answer its purposes in a close ly contested election, and to- them we leave the consideration of other circum stances that conflict with previous letters of the General, which condemn in others any such participation in defence of them selves or accusation of others. We have only oue observation to make in reference to the Letter, which is upon that part of it wherein the General says that the record, in regard to the trial of the Militia-men, either is or ought to be on file in the Department of War. The fact, we believe, has been ascertain ed, that the record of the trial is not in the Department of War, aud the friends of General Jackson know that it is not. They perhaps da not know what we now state—that the record was transmitted to the War Department at the time, but was returned by order of the then President (who probably did not much like the complexion of it) to the State of Tennes see, and we believe to the Governor of the State, under whose order the draft of the Militia was made. Mr. Madison is one who, we hive good authority for saying, could not look on blood and car nage with composure, and who conld not, of course, approve of this slaughter, in cold blood, of militia-mcn, whose only crime, at the worst, was a mistake of their duty. He therefore, probably declined placing among the national archives the record of these proceedings. Certain it is, that they were returned to Tennessee, and arc in possession of the friends of General Jackson, though possibly un known to him. One word as to the letter of Harris, published in the Philadelphia Democratic Press, about the alleged forgery of which there 1ms been much said. That Latter we always supposed to be the effort of imagination, intended to embody in form what might havo been the natural reflec tions of the Baptist preacher on being or dered to bo shot. Some of our contem poraries have put a very serious construc tion upon that composition. For our selves, we have not been able* so to regard it. This Mr. Harris, we learn from Gen. Jackson, did write a letter to him before his execution, which letter did not move the General from his purpose. That Letter, if it be in existence, would at once settle the question, whether the fictitious image of it, as committed to paper in Philadelphia, bears any resemblance to the original. We should like to see the original letter. And, though we have not copied the supposititious letter, it ap pears to us to be rank affectation in anv one tn suppose that its being of that cha racter weakens its force as an argument against the military execution which it deprecates.—Nat. Intelligencer. " P. S.—It will be recollected, in the Revolutionary war, at a time of great tri al, General Washington ordered deserters to be shot without trial. Capt. Reed, un der this order, having arrested three, had one shot without trial, and his bead brought to the General ; but he, General Wash ington reprimanded Reed for not shooting the whole three.”—Gen. J. Letter. - Now m irk how History speaks of this affair, in the person of an eye and car-wit ness to all that passed : " The army was posted on the Hud- above West Point; it was just before we stormed Stoney Point. Col. Lee was sit ting at a table writing. An officer came in and reported that more of the men had deserted across the line to the enemy.— Col. Lee, ('the celebrated commander of the Virginia Legion.) without an instant’s hesitation, or withdrawing the pen from the paper, gave the orders‘to shoot ev ery man that was detected deserting to the enemy; and send their heads to head quar ters.” The order was given to Lieut. Reed, who was in command of the ad vance guard; the same Gen. Reed who commanded in the battle in which Sir Peter Parker was killed in the late war, & is now lying on the Eastern Shore of this State. —The order was issued but a short time before three men were detected in the act of deserting, pursued, taken close to the enemy’s line, and brought in. Reed ob served, that according to orders, ho ought to execute all three of them, but that °he Would not do so. He would make an ex ample of one of them. I think, on exam ination, it appeared that one of them was a German, one a Frenchman, and the o- ther an American. Reed inquired which of the three dshoul die ? 11 was unanimous ly agreed that it should be the American. In him the atrocity was the most aggrava ted, because it was his native country he was deserting—he was shot. His head w»3 cut off and sent to head quarters, a- greeaiily to ordeis. But no man could be more mortified dnd provoked than Gen. Wash ington was at the sight. So far from countenancing tuch a proceeding for one instant, Col Lee was immediately arrest ed, and tried for his conduct, and it was with extreme difficulty, indeed, popular as that officer deservedly stood with the army that he was preserved from being broke for the ofence," Slat. Col. yean. drawn, wc admit, before it could have as sumed the form in which it appears in the Statesman. To shew how much authori ty these gentlemen have for the declara tion gratuitously imputed to Mr. Trim ble, we annex that part of his address from which the declaration was probably man ufactured “Apart from personal or local prefer ence, it was the clearest, case that could have been presented to a Statesman, so far as Kentucky and her interest are con cerned. Adams, compared with Jackson, is the best qualified to fill the station.— In taking him Kentucky has secured the friendship and good will of all the Eastern States. Her friendship with Ohio and the other Western States is unimpiared.— No jealousies have been created ; no heart burning or ill will. Had she gone for Jackson, she would have failed and lost her only chance of attaining equal weight and influence in the Cabinet and Presi dential Councils ; a thing of much impor tance to the Western people at this time.— She would have displeased Ohio, by sepa rating from her and acting against her, and her second choice, after she had done her best to have our first choice elected : And thus Kentucky, instead of growing stron gcr and stronger, would have waxed weak or and weaker than she was formerly.— She would have aided the enemies of Mr Clav in putting him down at a time when his services are most wanted. In fact, she would have put herself down, and him with her, and sacrificed her best and high est interests in a hopeless effort, made a gainst her better judgement. She would have put it in the power of the Southern States to strengthen and amalgamate the cotton and commercial prejudices hereto fore existing, and in force against us, to the great injury of the agricultural atid manufacturing interests of the middle and Western States. The south would hav had the ascendency, as heretofore, in the Cabinet and in Congress. Internal im provements—roads, canals and bridges— all the aidsofagriculturc and interior trade so much desired and wanted, would ha been under the control and management of Statesmen who havo hitherto opposed them- 2. Resolved, That as a means of complishiog this object, wewill use manufactured from cotton, particular, the articles of cotton bagging, Collo ; J l clothing for our slaves, and for such ar .,' cles also of our own clothing as n, a y deemed suitable and adapted to our / mate provided they can be abtained r. reasonable terms. 3. Resolved, that we will promote ,i, manufacturing interest generally, thr 0o ^ the United States, and that we will { preference to articles manufactured i D 3t . section of our country, to the exclusi 0c ^ foreign fabrics of the same quality aB j prices. 4. Resolved, That as a further m c -. of advancing the agricultural prosperity } our country by increasing the consult-, tion of our own produce, we wul fo^ ourselves into a society for the encoura^. ment of domestic manufactures by wards and premiums for such goods as manufactured of cotton and suited to country. 5. Resolved, That a subscription pa- e . be forthwith circulated for this purpe^ and that the subscribers now present, pro.' ceed lo the election of a committee t, draft a Constitution for the Society, : be reported on the first Wednesday i- December next. 6. Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to procure subscribers. 7. Resolved That the adoption of sin-;, lar measures be recommended to our f e >. low citizens of the adjoining counties. 8. Resolved, That the proceedings ( * this meeting, attested by the Chairnia:. and Secretary, be published in the papers of this citv. 9. Resolved, That this meeting now adjourn until Friday, the 3d of August next. JOS. E. DAVIS, Chairman. Henry W. Huntingdon, See. Gen. Jackson's letter.—Under its pro per head will be found another Letter from Gen. Jackson concerning the exe cution of the Militia-men, during the )ate war. To the reflection of our, readers The following has been repeatedly published in tho Boston Statesman as “David Trimble’s declaration,” We copy it as it appeared in its last dress, in the Statesman of the 17th inst. “ When we got to Washington, we found that Crawford was out of the ques tion. Wo ascertained that if General Jackson was elected, he would nofappoint our friend Clay Secretary of State. WE THEN ascertained DISTINCTLY, that if Mr. Adams should be elected, he would appoint Mr. Clay his Secretary of State. Under these circumstances we de termined to vote for him.” The reputed declaration of Mr. Trim ble was republished in the Statesman of the day after they acknowledged the re ceipt of Mr. Trimble’s Address, from which this declaration must havo been drawn, though sometimes more thaq wire- PUBLIC MEETING. NATCHEZ ^MISS.) JULY. As some of our fellow-citizens at a dts tance, might possibly be induced to sup pose that the meeting of Planters and other citizens held in this city on Wed nesday last, was of a political character solely for the purpose of aiding the policy of President Adams’ administration, with respect to the encouragement of Agricul ture, Internal Improvements and Domes tic Manufactures, we will simply observe that tho meeting was attended by citizens of all parties. Joseph E. Davis, Esq was unanimously called to preside over its deliberations, a gentleman known to be of the “ opposition.”—It certainly must be a satisfaction to every American Patriot, to see that notwithstanding tho peoyje of this country may differ as to men yet they will give to measures all the met it and all the support they deserve. The third proposition of the resolutions was opposed by Dr. Wm. N. Mercer, and supported by R. J, Walker, Esq. Mr Walker stated that the object of the meeting was to increase the consumption of cotton, and that in no way could that desirable end he more effectually attain ed than by encouraging the domestic mar ket. Within a .few years a new pur chaser has arisen for the staple of Missis sippi, the American Manufacturer. Thou sands of bales of cotton are already man ufactured by our countrymen. How shall we increase the demands of this new pur chaser, is an interesting question to tho cotton growingstates. We will increase then greatly by introducing articles mantifac tured out of cotton into more general use among ourselves; but will we not increase the consumption to a still greater extent by inducing, If possible, the citizens of the non-cotton-growing states, to unite with us in bringing tbe article into more general use amongst themselves. But a small portion of tbe citizens of the mid dle states clothe themselves in cottons.— If we can induce them to adandon the silks and linens introduced from abroad, and wear articles manufactured out of American cotton, by American manufac turers wc gain, much. Let us then meet the citizens of the non-cotton growing states in a spirit of amity, and concord, and wo will induce a reciprocal feeling. Let us purchase all articles of the Ameri can manufacture when we can attain them at a fair price, and the erroneous idea that the different states of our confedera cy have diverse and hostile interests will vanish before the test of practical experi ment. At a meeting of the planters and other citizens of Adams county held agreeably to public notice, at the Citv Hall of the City of Natchez, on Wednesday, the 25th of July, 1827. Joseph E. Davis, Esq. was appointed chairman, and Henry W. Huntington, secretary. The object of th.i meeting being an nounced from the chair, to bo tbe forma tion of an association for the encourage ment of agricultural and domestic man ufactures, the following resolutions were introduced by Stephen Duncan, and be ing separately put, where carried, viz:— Whereas, under the present extended and improved state of agriculture the sta ple of our country is likely to be produced in greater quantities than can be consum ed ; and whereas, unless the growth and consumption of cotton can be brought nearer to atrtquality tbe price must be so reduced, as not to afford a fair profit to the grower, and embarrassment and distress must ensue. 1. Therefore, be it resolved, as the sense of this meeting that it is essential to our prosperity as agriculturists and as citizens, deeply interested in tbe welfare of the country, that the raw materials should i>p promoted and encouraged by all the means in our power. AUGUSTA. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1827 It would be a work of unceasing labor, and requiring both more time and span than we can spare, if wc were to notice all the misrepresentations and errors of those papers which advocate a different side from the one to which we are not attached. We shall not attempt if, bet endeavor to give the most moderate nnrt decent articles which we find in the cor* rection of erroneous statements. We arc surprized to find again so nuir'i of the pa pers occupied vviih the Harris and ii:o East Room letters. General Jackson hi himself condescended to notice the fur mer, and we gave his' letter in a late Courier. Our readers will find bnij^tliese matters again discussed on orr inside prjv We wish we conld always sift the truth from so much falsehood and misrepresent* ation, as daily is thrown before the pnh« lie. If it were always true, we should 1>p done with it afier having once state,d i', but to be constantly having to recur t< subjects that are old and disgusting, and putting matters to right after wc had al* most forgotten their existence, is one o! nhe most unpleasant duties of our station. But what can employ the mieds of such men as Bines, Ritchie, Gales, and Gene ral Jackson, we would not venture tosay ; would be uninteresting or unimportant?: our readers. We did not perceive till too late, that in that part of the Dialogue on the Tariff, where the constitutionality of protecting domestic manufactures is maintained, pro hibiting is used instead of protecting, if several instances. \V o have so often given up onr judge* ment to our wishes, on the affairs of Greece, that we look with distrust on alt intelligence from that quarter. If any good news has ever reached ns of their triumph for a moment over their relent less enemies, it has been followed imme diately with some terrible reverse. If the cloud of their misfortunes has been for a moment illumined with the glory of their xploits, it has been only to exhibit in more dreadful contrast the darkness of the storm which is to f ilow. fiut yes* terday on the saergd plains of Athens, the actions of Karaiskaki and his brave com rades shed a glory on their country, like the light of their fame had suddenly burst from the tombs of their ancient heroes; but alas ! although it cheered for a time the desponding hearts of half the world, it was destined to die away like the flicker ing gas which flits over the mouldering remains of common mortals. The brave Philelhcooes who stood by kb aide ha^ been cast to tho vuhurea o» the plains and his own brave heart although i» rests in glory by the side el Better* and Byron, is but a clod of the valley. It may be that the news is true, that the Treaty is signed in England, by whirji Greece is to be set free, and forces to carry it into effect are now on their way tothis oppressed country. Some doubts exist as to tho manner in which Col. Tatnali’s vacancy is to be fill ed, whether by tbe General Ticket or District System. It is alleged on the one hand, that Col. Tatnal! was elected by the First Congressional District, and bis