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SATURDAY MORNING. AUGUST *0.
Tlie following gentlemen have declined
the nomination as Aldermen A. B. Fan-
pin, Jacob Shatter, Geo. Shicb.
During a severe thunder shower yester
day, the western part of the Baptist Church
was struck by the lightning, which tore oif
four or five of the weather boards. We
ha vo not hoard that any person has been
injured.
City Council.—Council met on Thurs
day, being the regular day of meeting—
Present, tho Mayor; Aldermen Harris,
Bulloch, Densler, Gumming, Milieu, Mi
nus, Wayue, Slock, Gaudry, Jackson and
Morrison.
The committee appointed to report the
Views of certain lot holders as to the pro
priety of opening the streets loading to the
Marsh: and the committee appointed to re
port on the propriety of consolidating the
several acts incorporating the city ofBuvan
nan &c. received further time.
A communication trom tho Board of
Health was received slating that the amount
of money placed by Council at the disposal
of the Board was expended and that ob
jects of charity wero making calls for re
lief upon them, upon which a resolution
was passed appropriating one hundred doll
ars for that object.
The usual order for the election of four
teen Aldermen in September, was passed ;
and requesting the City Treasurer to at
tend with his Digest, to carry into ef
fect the act of the General Assembly, pass
ed 20th Dec. 1824, entitled an act more
particularly to define the qualifications o,
voters for Aldermen of the city of Savan
nah.
A bill for the relief of Peter Favard, and
• bill granting an additional salary to thu
Sexton, were passed.
The following extract of a letter from
Charleston, to a gculleinamn this city, was
read 4
“ The Varioluid is common, perhaps in
creasing in tills city. I think you will do
well to keep it out of Savannah by all means.
It could easily have been subdued in Char
leston at first, but no efTorl was mada by
the faculty or the police, and they now
(eem to consider the effort hopeless. In
deed, I know not, at this season of the
year, what could be done with the sick.”
Other information was received from in
dividuals who had just left Charleston, of
the prevalence of the disease there.
Considerable debate ensued upon a re
solution introduced alter tbe reading of the
above letter, laying a quarantine upon ves
sels from Charleston, when Council ad-
Jburncd to 4 o’clock, P- M- next day.
Friday, August 19.—Council met pursu
ant to adjournment. Present, the Mayor,
Aldermen Harris, Bulloch, Wayne, Millon,
Cumming, Jackson, Densler, Millcn, Mi
nis and Gaudry.
The roots of tho mulberry trees having
been found injurious to the water of the
city, it was resolved, that the Street and
Lane Committee be required to remove all
trees of that description, at a seasonable
period, which, from their proximity to the
pumps and wells may prove injurious to the
water.
Ob motion, it was also resolved, that tho
Exchange Committee bo requested to con
fer with the Post-Master, on the subject of
the removal of his office into the Exchange,
and to report thereon.
The subject of the Varioloid in Charles
ton was then taken up; but some differ
ence of opinion appearing to be entertain
ed the following resolution waB offered by
Alderman Harris, and passed :
Resolved, That the resolution now be
fore Council on the subject of the Vario
loid, and the enforcement of the quarantine
laws between the port of Chajleeton and
this place be postponed, and the Mayor is
hereby requested to obtain from Charles-
ton particular information in relation to this
disease, and to report at the next regular
meeting, or any special meeting of Coun
eil, as he may see fit and proper on the oc
casion.
x General Lafayette and the President e
tbe United States, arrived at Washington
on the 11th inet. from their visit to Virginia
The Conrt Martial on the case of Com.
Porter, came to a decision on the 11th inst.
The sentence will not, of course, be made
fcpown until approved of by the President.
VMM
The Darien Gazette notices a cotton'
plant from St. Simona, entirely leafless and
with but three bolls, as , proof of the havoc
tftbn caterpillar.
By an arriaal at Ni.rfldk, we learn, that a to North S' d South Amorfca-<and the bill
very violent hurricane was experienced at furthor regulating the trade ofthe Colonies
Gaudaloupe, Dominica, and Barbadnoa, on lied boon read a socond time ii the House
the Soth ult. Ono town in tho firmer was of Lords.
levelled with the earth, and the damage to It was expeotad that Sir Robert Wilsen
tho shipping was considerable. One Eng- would be restored to his forinir rank in tho
lisk and throe or four American vcbbcIs ann y-
were driven on shore at Dominica. Anti- The w,r in Indi ‘ ta h » ve bce "
gua escaped. i brou 8 hl vor J' noar t0 • A
- : letter has been received by his relatives in
In the report of tho Board of Health of' Both, from an Officer in tho East India Corn-
Charleston, a case of yollow fever, (Capt. pany’s service, stating tlie capture of the
Taggsrl) is among those enumerated. The, ]{j n g B nd Queen of Ava with immense trea-
Port Physician, however, states, that the cure, in a fort where they had taken refuge ;
disease was intermittent fever, contracted 'the native troops snfferejl great lose. The
state government, cannot be surprising.—
That the state of Georgia should derive an//
benefit under tho administration of George
M. Troup, ie a sufficient mason for sacrili
cing our interests, and humbling us at the
footstool of every inferior in-trument of
make, wa# communicated to him, he observ-1 agent tins availed himself of Indian i • ■
ed tiiat the Indian* would bo fools if ny, so that no objection can be 1
hey did not accept it;" but when he learn-1 Tlius Benjamin Hawkins writes/ I
r '—- — L ,J ir Troun under dais imi, a«.o / , *™iit. I
ivriterVshafe of prise money, as Lieuten
ant, is estimated at £iaooo.
at Aquin, sixty days previous to tho depar
ture ofthe vessel from that port.
The Charleston papers of Wednesday, Latest trom FhanIe.—The ship Cad-
annnunce the demise of General Ciiari.es nms Capt. Allen, arrival at New-York on
Cotes worth Pinckney. the Sth instant, from Htvre, furnishes dates
• " - from that piece to July let.
y e s ip j jj ur Mr. RilusKing arrived at.
Liverpool in the ship Pacific on tho 26th.
Latest fbom Enolanii.
Bragunza, at New York, London papers to
the 22/1, and Liverpool to the 23d June, are
„ , ...... lie was to stay there a fow days, to recover
received. -Cotton has again declined—An , . „
. from theoffccts of hisvoyugo, having suffer-
interesting review of tho mnrkct, will be
found under our Commoreiai head.
The intelligence trom Greece, by tins ar
rival, is important and highly gratifying
ed much from sea-sickness.
Capt Allen visited Gen. Lafa.'atte’p family
and left them all well.
, , Tlie most interesting intelligtnce by this
1 he most flattering accounts ofthe victories
ofthe heroic Greeks, are confirmed. The
Egyptian fleet had^been destroyed and its
army defeated. The following intelligence
which is repeated from other sources, is giv
en in n letter from Trieste, of the 7th June,
ptiblhiaed in the London Courier :
“ A Message of Joy for the Hellenes—I
wrote to yon on tho 21st of May, that re
ports were spread here of many victories
gained by the Greeks, but I would not relate
them to you before tbe confirmation arrived.
Now, however. I can tell you, as certain
and free from all doubt, that on Wednesday diug at Tampa Bay, tor a supply of troops
the 6th [18th] of May. towards midnight, I n , anmng the Indians °u
j | ^ , .. 6 . . • ot. Johii’d. 1 here had been a disagree uvnt
and at day-light on Thursday, tho 7th [19th] ■ between the Indians and Spaniards,in which
the glorious and holy day ofthe assumption,-several on both sides were killed. Col.
the brave Greeks burned the whole of the: Broolte in,m °' l »“ e| y 8e "‘ a detachment of
. , _ , sixty mun, who marched eighty nules over
remainder ofthe Egyptian fleet in the port bo bad a road that eight days elapsed in ac-
of Navarino. At the same time, the troops coniplwhing the journey, being sometimes
under tho President Conduriottis nnd Ma-! "P * he " n ^ ks i 11 w “' or - An express ar
' rived jusl before Capt. B. started which an-
vromicbaelis toll on < he Egyptian army, beat nounccd that the object of tho expedition
it completely, and made themselves masters liud been accomplished, and guud order res-
of theit camp. Fow, very few, Egyptians ["^forth'lvith. 1 detacllinent would re '
escaped to Mudon. This glorious and un-
arrival is the confirmation ofthe glorious
success ofthe Greeks me/di mel in the Eng.
lisli papers. Navarino was laid to have
capitulated.
Lord Cochrone arrived at Pertsmouth on
the 27tli June from Brazil, and was welcom
ed with enthusiasm by the populace.
Disturbances have broken out at Madrid.
Gen. Canterac bail arrived at Bordeaux.
Pensacola, July 30.—Capt. Baker of
the Schooner Florida, from Tampa Bay, in
forms us, that Colonel Humphreys the lndi-
Aguut, had applied to Col. Brooke, comman
ed tho election of Governor Troup, he said nor Troup under date I Oth April ,? ? u,f t.
explicitly; 1 that he had prepared the Indians gent said that me and my brother a 4 ‘
to cede a part of their lauds,” or “ that he Hawkins, ought to collect the Itidi
power. This foiling was exhibited in bold had it ail fixed," distinctly intimating, how- General M’lntosh was gone to Wa.t,f * 1 " 6
rolief, in the assertion of tin- Agon;, that ever, that as Troup had m en elected Gov- and burn down his houses and dent 18l “'*
“Georgia should obtain no lauds whilst ernor, he must not expect success to attend property, because of his dUpositimw
Troup was Governor"; it has been acted any application which might be made to the the land." n to »t!l
upon up to tho preaont moment by that par- Indians, while ho (Troup) was in office."— A letter of Samuel Hawkins to •»,=
tv, with which the agents ofthe United His whole conduct after this, was in con- shows the mode in which the trade hM 1 ®'
StateB, and foreign missionaries (see Com- sonance with this declaration. i the two Crowell’s and tlie Indians i!! ■ 6
pore) enemies to our rights and inter- Henry Crowell, a trader in the nation, [on in connivance with the Agent. Till? 6 *
ests, introduced probably fur the purpose, expressed himself to tho same effect to Col. ter pays tho annuity ofthe Indian, j,!,'
have actively co-operated. How different Williamson, in answer to a question as to bills, although requested to furnish *'**
was the conduct of the friends of Troup on tho causes ofthe failure of the treat) at change—tho chiefs are then told | lv t] T®' 1
another occasion. The treaty of 1821, Broken Arrow—“ he stated as one, that he tlier, that the amount of five dollars i, 11
which was concluded by a smaller number was opposed to the treaty; that no land will bo given, but that the remainder
of Chiefs, and in point oflegality might with should be obtained under the administration he taken out in goods—which wi-re
more reason have been opposed or mvalida- of Gov. Troup." ‘‘ ‘ ,!l •
ted, wsa concluded under the administra-1 In presence of M'- Fay, he also said,
tion oftheir most violent enemy John Clark, “That if he (Gov. Troup) wore to attempt
but they nobly co-operated in the cause for to punish the Indians, he (Crowell) would
the benefit of Georgia, and no objection was leave his wife, family and property, and go
raised—now the reverse is tho fact, and be- over to the Indians, head them, and go iris
cause the treaty has been concluded by 1 death with them." These were the precise
meuns ofthe talents and exertions of Troup, 1 words of Mr. Crowell.
Aw opponent* are prepared to sacrifice lhn| The sub-agent, appointed in place of
‘ -- ' ’ Walker, was actuated by the eutno feeling.
Ho said at tlie house of Henry Crowell, “ if
they, til? Indians, should come to him for
advice, while Troup was Governor, he (the Agent) by saying 'that—‘- we have"" 11
should advise them not to sell their landfp" morn bind fbr ante « e L >
—Evidence of O. II. Beuzal before Commit-
interns of Georgia and the U. S. and cool
ly to behold her host friends savagely
slaughtered. This is the very spirit of fac
tion.
After the conclusion of tire present trea
ty, tlie opposition and jealousy towards M’
lntosh, wero ten-fold enflamed, for the
sole purpose of destroying it, until they
resulted in the murder of the aged M’ln-
tnsii, Tuslunnugguu and Hawkins- We
say murder, for tho act was not warranted
by any law of the Indians. Thu illegal pa
per which was prepared at tlie Pole Cat
Springs, by the iuflueuce of tho Alabama
Indians, was cited ns authority for the act
on the part of the hostile Indians, which
denounced death upon any one who should
sell the lands. No otirer has been produc
ed or has been discovered by tlie agents of
the Government or by the Commissioners of
Georgia. This law was not one ofthe na
tion—it was not passed ns is required in
the Council of the Nation—it did not re
ceive tlie signature of M’lntosh—it possess
ed no more authority over the whole na
tion, as the friendly Chiefs justly observe,
than tlie law of a state would possess over
the whole United States. The manner in
which M’inlosh and the others wero de
stroyed, also negatives tlie idea of its be
ing as has been stated, an •• execution.” It
was done without trial, nnd in darkness,
and to prove that justice, was not the ob
ject, his property was wantonly destroy
ed, his entile shot, and his family driven uy
the light of their own dwelling, naked and
without a shelter, into tlie fields. It was a
murder, couimilted in tho madness of savage
rage, under ihe high excitement created
for the purpose of defeating the prospects
of Georgia.
This event created, as might be expected,
a high state of feeling in Ihe statu of Geor
gia. goaded as she had bficn, by tlie repeat
ed disappointment, and convinced of the
mint I
tlie highest price. This is tbudi^!!* '
is not to be surrrondered for a trifle “
The same person states explicit],, ,i„
11 during the time,he U.S. commit
were endeavoring to effect a trealv m p
Mitchell, Hninbly came to the eqitaro .„a
toid the Chiefs early in the morning" 4
the Agent had sent him to tell them
the Commissioners would have io m ,
them, and it was the Agmit’s wish that fl,!
all should be of one mind, and answer il,
commissioners as they had promised t.
When the party marched trom Cantnn-
expected victory lias freed Navarino from ment Brooke, the Indians in ‘lie vicinity as-
tbo enemy. We have also learned, as cer- 8,mbled in » re . al numbera ’ evincing a dispo-
tain, that Mehemed Ali, the Satrap ol Egypt su^cGng it tTbeV movomem Imstfle to b " 8lil ' l y of °»“" t the United States
is dead. If it be not true that he is alrea- ‘hem. and they could scarcely be persuaded which had toeu ial£d for the
dy dead he will die on learning the entire S i Turn tCTe 'cJSiZ ^‘Th'*
destruction of his formidable expedition, able distance; when, becoming convinced °"™ r f 11 ! ‘” at ?V ,h l C ?™ [ * °'! th ?
which we have confirmed from all quar-
. committed any act of violence.
> > the circumstunces attending the treaty, and
after mature deliberation, and a careful ex-
ut„ „„„„ . ! animation ofthe evidence, made an able re-
We have seen a letter from a gentleman noT , racninim , nl ii ni , the removal „r rJ„h.
11 The Friend of the Laws, No. 108, relatee
the taking of Odysseus, who at the head of '3"^“”™“" I port, recommending the removal of tho ob-
course
by Goura, to iay down his arms at Arta.au- ^'inVharg^f ^ “ who ^t^g ^
di. This traitor has been conducted to Na- him with great cruelty. The lad is about ' rsucd b (he gtat of <^ r ,f a b y all thu
.fijiearso ag ^s—a^ t deal m ? k „ * notice a "part tff.hoev
intelligence, .and calls -himself Thomas ^
poll di Romania.
“Onthe 24th the equally famous plain of Wood's. IlessyB that hveame to Cliarles- „„i,i; ,, , ■, , - .,—
Cheromea was tho tlieatre of a new victory ‘on From New-York with bis father, wlm |j rawn frnm docunieuts^ublishjlf by'order
ofthe Greeks. The Barbarians had many m ‘ r placeunder t ho care ““f Mlrs. 'IVncr! fa'' IffereSro'rebut'th^t^ti uvidel,ue .
killed and wounded." until his father’s return from Havannah — , T k "°k' V
Spain continues in a state of anarchy- Hi. father did not return, but died in ) any. it must be ot ? a most coDclusiJe^har
Bunds of robbers ss tl.ey arc called, commit dead,“that he has'Xothers, but tbatUiat! f" 1 " *? tbe < j ' Bnenil Government
depredations of tho mhqt alarming character he has two sisters living with an uncle and bee „ f 0 ; u6tit - Col.Crowell^f
whilst tho regular truoops refuse to march «unt. in New-York, near the Catharine , jd { against him. I shall
Market. 1 lie uncle, lie informs is by trade b(3 ld - it _ al , f n0 , v c ,r„ t „nd for, is. tl.at
tint Georgia Legislature wero warranted in
unless paid their arrears. The greatest , . , , P
r b a chairinaknr. Any further mtormaiion cun
misery pervades the country, and the fever bo obtained at this office.
.V. r Out. Aug. 9.
is appearing in many pluces. In Andalu
sia the people were starving, corn being be
yond their means of purchase. Fifty miles AJf APPEAL
from the province it is only atone fourth of TO TIIE PEOPLE OF THC U.VJTED \
its price in Andalusia, but us nine out ten of
the convoys fall into tlio hands of tlie Con
stitutionalists, little can be obtained.”
In addition to these internal commotions
and misery, it appears by letters from Ma-
STATES.
UV A GEORGIAN.
11 General Santander," tho most formidable,
had recently taken six or seven merchant
men.
In tho British House of Commons, Mr.
Huskisson said, he had on a former occasion
submitted to the house various reso
tions relative to the importation of
requesting his removal, end t.Uat sufficient
grounds appear to justify the belief that he
was tlie most active iu preventing tlie fulfil
ment of tlie treaty, and iii his endeavors to
defeat the interests of Georgia.
The motives of tlie agent throughout, in
his opp sit ion to tiic treaty, according to ihe
emdeiue given, appear to have been his ha
tred «f M’lntosh—his opposition to the Gov
ernor of the state of Georgia—and, no
doubt, tlie interests of himself and his con
nexions among the Indians.
Thus we find him expressing himself in
NO. V.
In my last I gave a short history of the
Creek Treaty, which it is now broadly asser-, 6
laga, that the Colombian privateers, were ted must be sot aside; but much as we have the following strain, relative to M’lntosh
every day capturing Spanmsh vessels. The experienced heretofore, we do not believe and the friendly Creeks, “Damned cowards,
that bo daring an outrage will be committed I always hated them—I still hate them
upon tlie feelings ol Georgia. It was sent worse and worse—any people that would
by the President to tlie Senate with all the 8U Her one man to sell ilndr nation, ought to
documents, from which that statement is i ,]je and go to hell. I once put that fellow
made out, including tbe protest ofthe agent j (meaning M’(ntoBli) down, where he ought
and a perfect knowledge of all the circum- to remain—but the Big Warrior ond Little
stances attending it, and was ratified by that; Prince reinstated him. I hope tlie Big
body. ] Warrior is now in hell for it, and that the
Since the conclusion of the treaty, it ap- Little Prince nmy soon tiillow him.” &c.—
pears from the remark of Mr. Henry Crow- Jesse Coxe's evidence before Committee of Ee
certain manufactured articles from foreign! ell, brother to the Agent, made to Mujor gislature.
countries, in which it Was not his intention ! Wi[liamson, nnd who gave it in evidence On another occasion, after tlie murder,
beliire the committee ofthe lost Legislature: speaking of the Indians, lie said—M’In'osh
that the Big Warrior, before tbe treaty was was killed in pursuance of the laws, and
concluded, had advised his adherents in. “damn them, he wished mure of them had
Georgia, to soothe M’lntosh, tor that he been killed, for tho balance would then he
had the right to sell tlie whole territory, more easily governed ”—See John C. Ken-
which was delegated to him by power 'of l nedifs examination before the sume\Committcc,
attorney in 1817 ; so that hi- signature a- Upon another occasion wo find him in
lone was sufficient to its validity. But pla- presence ot Timpouchee and Micliee Bar-
cingthis out ofthe question, tho history nard, expressing himself thus, in reply to an
we nave given of the treaty, we conceive, observation of M. Barnard, that if M’lntosh
places it on grounds, as to validity, which
cannot be shaken.
Those who argue the corrupt character
of this treaty, pretend to be the exclusive
friends of the general government—but
tbey seem to forget that, admitting its frau
dulent character, it was the work of tho
United States and not of the state of Geor
gia, and that if tlie charge of corruption
rests any where it must rost on tin- lnte ad
ministration, and especially upon our pres
ent Vice-President, then Secretary at War,
and whose business it especially wus to at
tend to its progress and termination. But
to propose any very considerable alterations.
In the great article of cottons, he meant to
make no alteration in the duty then propo
sed of 10 per cent, on importation, nor in
the duty of IS on woolens. The duty on
ships built in the colonies and broken up in
England would be reduced; the present duty
duty was 50 per cent., and which was the
cause of the huge timbor ship from Canada
not having been brokeu up there. The res
olutions were agreed to.
Mr. Humo had introduced his motion
respecting the Established Church of Ire-
and, and concluded his spooch with two re
solutions, the substance of which was—1st.
That church property was public property,
and disposable by the Logisiature for the
good of religion the community at large ;
2d, That the house would, in tj|e course of
next session, inquire whether the establish
ment ofthe Church of Ireland was notout
of proportion to the servicos performed.
Mr. Huskission had introduced a bill into
Parliament to reduce tho duty on newspa
pers. A bill to establish Packets from Va
lencia, at tho southern extremity of Ireland,
sold the lands he would be killed—“ that if
M’lntosh was to be killed, it should be done
before the lauds were sold."
Another reason for the indefatigable ex
ertions of the agent, against tile treaty,
and a principal one, was opposition to Gov
ernor Troup, whose election opornted
reat citange in regard to the acquisition of
the lands, in which he is joined by his
brothers and dependents to the full. This
tee.
Hambly’s motive for opposing the treaty
at tlie Indians Springs, appear to have been
to save tlie agent from a dismissal by the
Government, as may be seen in the evi
dence of Major Williamson. Hainbly, the
interpreter, also distinctly stated to Mnjor
W. that he had defeated the treaty at Bro
ken Arrow, that he once thought the Com
missioners would succeed, that he had used
every effort to defeat the treaty, and had
prevailed. Hud this treaty been concluded
all the subsequent difficulties would have
been averted and the life uf tlie aged
M’lntosh saved.
But the letter of W. Greene Macon,
throws so much light upon tlie objects ul
the agent, anil the cause of his hostility to
M’lntosh, and his efforts to defeat tlie trea
ty, that we must copy a considerable part
of it. It is addressed to Governor Troup.
We are awaro that in tlie refined language
of tlie agent’s brother, this loiter lies
been termed “ all lies;” but we have seen
no prbnf to the contrary. Mr. Mncon is a
respectable citizen, and said to be related
to the venerable Nathaniel Macon, of North
Carolina^ He observes as follows ;
You, sir, will rocolleculiedifftciiltythiit
happened between Col. Crowell. Chilly
M’lntosh anil Stiuton. in July, August ami
September, 11123, concerning some goods of
the two luttcr, that wore sized hy tlie Agent
and carried to Thomns Croweil’s at Fort
Mitehcll, on tlie Clinttahoochie. I was at
T. Crowell’s a few days after tlie seizure
was made, and on the day that the Little
Prince nnd two other Chiefs met at Thom
as Crowell’s to consult, as I understood, on
he circumstances of Gen. M’Intosh’s refus
ing to deliver Stinson to a guard that had
been ordered out by the Azint, and had
that day returned to Fort Mitchei! without
him, after tho consultation of these Chiefs
was over, and they gone, Bradtord Crowell
told me that ho had heard it reported that
Gen. M’lntosh had ordered Chilly M’lutosh
to collect a force, and rescue the goods out
of the possession ol the agent. I had a
lame horse and had been detained there
nearly two days; but as soon as my horse
was able to travel at all, and long before he
was able to carry me well, I left there and
when I arrived at the Agency I stopped
from early in one day until after breakfast
the next—and while, I related my disagree
able situation at his brothers in cuusequence
of tho appurent difficulty between him, tlie
■gent, and .M'Intusli, about tho seizure uf
tlie goods, tlie agent frequently express
ed himself iu the harshest terms against
Gen. M’lntosh, and swore with bitter oaths
that he was a scoundrel; that lie ought to
be put to death ; and that his cup was near
ly full, and d—n him when it got full, he
would have revenge on him, that he really
wished he might attempt to rescue tlie
goods or commit any violence whatever,
that it would be a good opportunity for him
and that lie would then step him, and show
him his measure was full; that M’lntosh
was urged on by D. B. Mitchell, and if an
opportunity offered he would put it out of
his power to have sucli instruments to in
fluence him- This was a part of a conver
sation tliut lasted tile greater part of the
time I staid, and such expressions as I have
related, were often made use of by the
agent, and many of the same kind by the
assistant-agent H. Crowell, one of which I
will relate. While talking on tlie subject
of Stinson’s establishing a store at Fort
Mitchell, he observed that the people must
be d—n fools to think that they, the Cro
wells, came there for any tiling else than to
make money—money was their object and
they would have it—that Col. Hawkids had
the greatest opportunity in the world to
got rich, but he treated the Indians like
children. Whenever a stipend was sent to
the Indians, Hawkins always paid them
in money; they did not do so, for their
greatest want was homespuns, and tliut
they always paid them in homespuns, and
put tho money in their pockets. Iii making
this communication, I have no ends to an.
ewer but justice, for I am personally friend-
ly with Col. Crowell and his brother, and
conceive it my duty to make this communi
cation to you, which you may use. as you
may think propor.”
Crowell resides in the Creek Nation,
when his two brothers Thomas and Henry
are traders. The first, no doubt, expected,
in case of a removal, to lose his situation,
and the others were desirous, by every
means, to avoid a removal to a distant part
of the country, where their gains might,
perhaps, be decreased, or where they mignt
not be as comfortably situated, as where
they then were. When the influence of a
government agent, which among these ig.
norant savagos is immense, with the efforts
of his sub agents and interpreters, is taken
into consideration, together with the power
moro land for sal>\
Benjamin Haw i ,s in a letter to Go*e,
nor Troup, dated in August lost, states thu
since the treaty, he had been at ihe Creek
Agency, and that in a conversation with m
Agent. Col. John Crowell, the latter
him (Hawkins) ” when he went heme ij
tell the Chiefs of the Upper Towns that if
they listened to tho talks of M’lntosh, that
he would sill them and their lauds in | es
than a year, and told him that lie must ter
every thing ho could against Al’Iiitnsh.”
Let any one reflect one m audit on the
effect winch expressions snrli as we have
quoted in reference to M’Intusli. comim
from tlie Agent, to whom tlie liidinris m
accustomed to look up to as a guide h]
protector, in connection with his wno| e
Conduct, and say whether they were r»t
imprudent, improper, nay, taking ell tie
circumstances into consideration, hijiij,
crimininul—and wihethersuch un indiuta,
governed hy such passions, Bhould not he n-
moved.
Throughout t he whole of the transitr-ihei
following this treaty, the stole of Goor ;1
has boon i rented as|n refractory colony,
Thu Special Agent of the U. H. hail m
sooner arrived than sotting iiuiiBolf up u
the judge and dictator of the sovereign suit
of Georgia, he suspends tho Agent iu toms
equally insulting to the lust Legislature a.J
in the Governor, whom lie accused uf ua-
constitutionality and injustice in llu-ir |ir.t
oeedings ; expresssing himself at the some
time, as perfectly satisfied ofthe Agealt in
nocence, from the very evidence we him
quoted, nnd before lie was possessed el' i
tittle of other evidence. This tusult wu
promptly and justly resented by a auspen-
sion ofintercourse with ono who had proved
that ho canto not for the purpose ofjiisiiu',
but to place the Governor and people nil
Georgia ituhe wrong, am) to outrage theit
feelings.
His filial anwser to the Governor, ic
which he complained that the persecute
hud been transferred fr;m the Agent ta
the Special Agent, wss perhaps to litre
been forgiven from one whose self im
portance had been sn cruelly mortified—i
The U. 8. government at tho time they ap
pointed Andrews, had it in their power it
reconcile every difficulty—a decent rapes
for the feelings of tlie people ofthe Slareo;
Georgia would have been reciprocated kill
pleasure and affection. But after his per-
msjure declaration in favor ofUrowoll.il
was evident tiiat the affair had been Retried
at Washington, and tiiat tile hope ofj,:sl.cq
was extinguished.
But if the letters of Andrews to the »
thorilies of the state ho considered re. ,v-
licnsiblo, what shall be said In tho k''. i
of General Gaines. No mail was iiiur,
spected by this community oil Ins miivt,
than General Gaines—nor from mIm
mure wss expectud. We were cousidirtl
by Andrews as a refractory Colony—be:
Genera! G. lias treated us as a couqtierd
and enslaved people. Tlie freedom ol'ino
people of tlie United States hangs by a tiler.-
der thread, when every Agent of the Go
vernment 'holds it in his power to [beard
and threaten the independent members of
it: In his letter announcing tlie arrange
ment betweeou the two parries of the
Creeks, iic has used a threat whicii lie un
not authorised ta use—he was not uiitlioi-
ised to act " not in concert with” l ho ao-
tiiorities of Georgia. Such orders lie non
has under certain circumstances, but it
yet to be seen whether he is to enforce
them, His last lettor whicii rendered n
necessary to suspend the intercourse of I Ins
stnte with him, is of a cliuracter totally
unnwortliy of him. It is a tumid and o-
borod epistle, in which he choosci io
understand n plain expression in a some
neither warranted by fuct nor inference.—
No candid man can for a moment s»P‘
pose tiiat the expression “malignant villainy’
nor the phrase “ no matter now obtain- c
applied to Marshall's certificate was imen-
tied to apply to him—it was intendedtc
apply to Crowell, nnd the minor ti
ters m tlio drama, who were at the roomml
using every means to defeat the attorn, 8
of Georgia to obtain tho means of viuoicsf-
ing herself. What, the disertation in
celebrated letter on tho maxim ofthe Eng
lish law “ tiiat the King can do no wrong,,
or tlio name of his Aid-de-Canip, hae to
witli the matter in hand, I have never «•
covered. Tlio whole production ia wd 1 ‘
one as' no General should dare to 1 .
dross to the Governor of an iiidepcao®
state. But it is of a piece with all the PjJ'
ceedings ofthe General Government toi
state of Georgia. The whole proceeds?
in the Creek nation, have been of a
acter disgraceful to the government and '
just to tne state. Every effort has «
made to prevent tho possibility of obtom l
evidence to substantiate the charge* ®
against the Agent, and the most unjonio'
ble means resorted to, to prevent the G
missioners of Georgia from [forfiirming
duty with which they were entrusts J
tho slate,
Any one who has read the d
Documents given by the Commissions
Georgia,appointed loobtain evidence m
Creek nation, must be satisfice lh
most studied efforts have hi®" f 8 . 1 *®i i-olt
feat the objects and to add edditwniil iw
to the authorities of Georgia J ne ^
missioners were desirous of e«®»
is fully proved hy the evidence of Colonels j possessed over them by traders, to whom
Campbell and Morriwether, the Commia-1 they are indebted, it is not surprising that
siuners. To the first lie stated in substnnee, i they should have been so successful in de-
.... soon after the election of Governor Troup, -feating the objects of the Government, and
faction and passion are blind, and defeat: in 1823, that “ he had had the thing fixed, after the conclusion ofthe treaty, in work-
tlieir own objects. In their anxiety to injure, and (says Mr. Campbell) 1 think added, ing them up to deeds of desperation, by lan-
the Htate of Georgia, they inflict the most i tiiat we should have got tne land below the guage such as the above and such as has
cutting reproach on the administration, un-1 federal road, but that the result of tho elec- appeared in the different newspapers of the
der whom the treaty was prosecuted to. tion had operated a change in his feelings Union* It is a coalition, under the peculiar
completion. | in that regard. n To Col. Morriwether, he circumstances of the caso, such as is not to
That in this state tne treaty should bo i declared at Broken Arrow his conviction be despised, as we know by experience.-*
opposed, and endeavors made to defeat the * “ that an exchange of territory and a remo- In the correspondence of the Indians, with
attainment of a valuablei territory, to those i val *o the west of the Mississippi would es- t e Governor of Georgia, every proof ia %».«*..»*>.-~ r -ainoou 1 *-
who know the violence or the party oppos- * sentially benefit the nation—>and when the • >0^11 of | ie exertions ofthe agent against vilegf ofinterrogating the 1° ,*?. /wenl
ed to the present administration 0 f the; proposition wo had kudo* ot intended to M’iutosfii and the cession of lands. The cil. They were insultingly told
the Indian Chiefs, Missionaries, prh ,
countrymen eepei^r. imff to I* jn Coim
and Indian