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the dish, and without disturbing each oth
er, fed together; after which the dog, eat
and rat lay before the fire, while the raven
hopped about the room. The landlord, af
ter accounting for tiie familiarity which
existed amoung these animals, informed
lusguest that the rat was amoung the most
useful of the four; .for that the noise he
made had completely freed the house
from rats and mice with which it had been
infested
The Creek Controversy.
Executive Department, )
Tuscaloosa, 23d Oct. 1633. \
I have received to-day express from
Hon. P- T. Harris, one of the Circuit Court
Judges of this State, sundry documents estab
lishing the fact that all attempts by the civil
officers to investigate the circumstances in re
lation to the killing of Owens have proved un
availing, and that the process of the Court
lias been set at defiance by the commanding
officer at Fort Mitchell* t transfer copies of
p.'C whole of these despatches, for the con
sideration of the President, and respectfully
request that you will advise me of his deter
mination on tiie subject, at an early period.
I have the honor to be, with great respect,
sir, vour obedient servant,
JOHN GAYLE.
lion. Lewis Cass,
Secretary of War, Washington, City.
RresF.Lt Coott-House, 17th Oct., 1633.
Sir—To your Excellency, as Chief Magis
trate of the State of Alabama, I enclose copies
of a correspondence between the Solicitor
General of this Circuit, and the commanding
officer at Fort Mitchell, the affidavit of the
Sheriff of this County, the affidavits of two
gentlemen hy the names ofßurton and Couch,
(both of whom reside at or near Fort Mitch
ell) the attachment which issued for the ar
rest of Maj. Mclntosh, for a contempt of the
Court, with the Sheriff's return thereon, and
the bill of indictment against David Manning
and others, for the murder of Hardeman
Owen. By an examination of the letter of
Maj. Mclntosh, it is obvious that the soldiers
who were present at the killing of Owen,
were at Fort Mitchell when that letter was
written ; and tiiat the persons for whom sub
poenas issued, were secreted at the time the
Sheriff was permitted to search within the
Fort for them, is established by Burton’s and
Couch's affidavits. From all the papers
herewith sent, you will perceive that the pro
cess of the Court is set at defiance, and that
without some assistance, we shall have to
submit to the military authority which has
been established at Fort Mitchell. You can
readily imagine, if the officer commanding,
refuses to give up the soldiers as witnesses,
that wc cannot expect them to be surrender
r,i to the mandatory process of the Court
when that process is intended to bring them
before the civil tribunals to answer to the vio
lated laws. He lias already determined “that
the soldier who shot Hardeman Owen was iu
the lawful execution of his duty,” and from
this decision there can be no appeal, unless
the arm of the State is put forth to protect the
Courts. It need not be stated to vour Excel
lency, that the common soldier is but the mere
machine in the hands of the officer, and you
can, without difficulty, see that there is too
much reason to believe that the apprehensions
of the Sheriff' are too well founded. You
will also perceive, that the posse condtatus is
entirely insufficient to afford adequate pro
tection to the Court and its officers. It only
remains then for your Excellency to apply
the proper remedy, and place at the disposal
of the Sheriff a sufficient force to command
respect to the laws. Until this be done, or
the United States troops removed, it will he
in vain to attempt to enforce the criminal
laws in any case where they may he resisted.
In closing this communication, I will only
add that the Court has received every aid in
his power from Col. Pickett, wiio has been
diligent in ferreting out the testimony, and
active in his exertions to bring to justice
those who have been charged with the :nur
tk-r of Owen.
I am, with great respect,
Your ohed’t serv’t,
P. T. HARRIS.
f spy ts a Idler pom Cot. Pickett to Maj. Mclntosh.
Russel Cornr-lIoi’SE, Ala., Oct. 14, 1833.
Sit—l am advised through tlie medium ol
the “Globe,” at Washington City, the official
v 'inei the administration, and from other
t. i . . . com
high and respeetatim odL'."'that <..... (
mantling office.' at Fort Mitchell has been in
structed to afford to our civil authorities, all
proper facilities for putting the case of the
killing of ilardcman Owen in a train for legal
investigation. The Circuit Court of Alabama,
for the county of Russell, is now in session,
and a hill of indictment against the perpetra
tor or perpetrators of that act, will this day
he prepared. In pursuance of those instruc
tions, I have thought proper, from a sense of
duty, to ask at your hands the aid requested ;
and to facilitate this object, that the detach
ment of soldiers who were present at the kill
ing of Owen he delivered over to the Sheriff
-vs this county. The reasou why this is
deemed necessary, is owing to the difficulty
of ascertaining the name or names es the per
son who committed the act, as no one was
present, it appears, hut the tile of 6oldicrs —
or this may be dispensed with it you will be
good enough to furnish the State with the
name or names in question, and with the wit
nesses who will prove the fact-
Respectfully vour ohed’t. serv’t.,
' \VM. D. PICKETT,
Solicitor Blh Judicial Circuit
P. S. Accompanied herewith, is the Globe
ol the 24tli August last, containing the article
alluded to—an answer is respectfully request-.
cd. \V. D. P.
Fort Mitchell, Ala., 15th Oct., 1833.
Sir—ln reply to your communication of
yesterday, informing me that you have been
advised through the medium of tire “Globe,
at Washington City, the official paper of the
administration, and from other high anil re
spectable sources,that the commanding officer
of Fort Mitchell lias been instructed to afford
to our civil authorities ail proper facilities for
putting the case of the killing of Hardeman
thven in a state for legal investigation, 1 have
to inform you that I have received no instruc
tions relative to the case above cited, and I
apprehend 1 will not, from the single fad
that tho soldier who shot Hardeman Owen
was in the lawful execution of hi* thffy.
must therefore decline your imitation to de
liver to tin*Sheriff of this county the detach
■tent of soldier* who were fieteni a* tin* nw
. OEORGIA TIMES, AND STATE RIGHTS’ ADVOCATE.
that Owen was killed. Had any officer or
soldier of my command unlawfully used
violence or committed anv offence against the
persons or property of any citizen of°the Uni
ted States, such as is punishable by the known
iaws of the land, no one would have been
more ready or willing upon legal application
duly made to use their utmost endeavours to
deliver over such accused person or persons
to the civil magistrate.
. I am, s'r, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant
J. S. McINTOSII, Maj. Bt.
T u* IX TV 4 //* ln S antr 'J Vomg.
1 o M iu D. Pickett, Esq.
Solicitor Bth Judicial Circuit.
The State of Alabama, > Circuit Court, Oeto-
Russell County $ her Term, 1833.
To the Sheriff of said county, greeting:
you are hereby commanded without delay to
take the body of Maj. James Mclntosh, if to
be found in your county, and bring him
forthwith before the Hon. the Judge of the
Circuit Coart for the county „f Russell, now
in session, to answer to said Court for a con
tempt of the same.
Herein fail not, and have you then and
there this writ with your endorsement there
on. Bevil Lucas, Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Russell county, this 15th Oct. 1833.
The State op Alabama, ) Circuit Court,
Russell County, < Oct. Term, 1633.
Persona!!; appeared Edmund Crowell,
Sheriff of said county, in open court, who be
ing duly sworn, deposeth and saith that on
the 14th instant lie had placed in his hands
by order of said court subpoenas for Frank
Barger, James Emerson, James King and
David Manning, officer and soldiers of the U
nited States Army, under command of Maj.
Jus. S. Mclntosh at Fort Mitchell, in s a id
county,that t lie proceeded to tlie'quartersof the
Major and told him he had certain process
for the individuals above named, and wished
to serve them. 4 H is reply was‘Til be damned if
I give up a man.” After he had put up his
horse and returned, the Major upon ascer
taining the papers were not to take the per
sons, but meiely subpoenas, affiant was per
mitted to search the Fort, hut could not find
any one of them. That he succeeded in ser
ving the subpeena on Lieut. David Manning
out ot the Fort. *//e replied, “I shall not
go.” That on the 15th inst. a capias in the
nature of an attachment for contempt of said
court against the sad Major Mclntosh, was
placed in my hands hy the clerk of said
court; that he again proceeded to the Fort
and the place where the Maj. was,and told him
he had a capias to take him to court. lie
replied, “You shall not touch me,” at the
same time saying he had not treated the
court with contempt, and that said court had
no authority to take him. That the reason
lie did not attempt to take his persru when
he had the capias was, because it would have
endangered his life hy so doing. Tiiat lie is
satisfied any attempt he may make to serve
process on said soldiers, or upon the said
Major will be resisted and prove useless.
That the power of the county is insufficient
to execute process on said persons, situated
as they are with arms and protected by the
Fort.
ED. CROWELL, Sliff. R. C,
Sworn to in open court, Oct-, 17th 1833.
Ido hereby certify the foregoing to be a
true copy from the original on file in my"of
fice. B. G. G. A. Lucas, Clerk.
The State or Alabama, ) Circuit Court,
Russell County, $ Oct.Term, 1833.
Tiffs day came Eli Couch in open court,
and niaketh oath that he resides at Fort Mitch
el ; he knows Sargeant Francis Barger, Jas.
King and James Emerson ; tiiat niey are
soldiers in the Fort, and under the command
of Jas. S. Mclntosh ; that he has seen them
in the Fort within one or two days past, and
almost daily for the last live or six months ;
that they are generally there on duty ; that
when he went with the sheriff of Russell
aounty with process against them that they
were absent from the said Fort while all the
other soldiers, he believes, were present.
Swo nto in open Court the 16th October,
1833.
B. G. G. A. LUCAS, Clerk.
The State *r Alabama, l Circuit Court,
Russell County. $ Oct. Term,lß33.
This day came Samuel C. Benton in open
court, and maketh oath that he lives at the
Fort and knows Frank Barger, Jas. King,
and Jas. Emerson, soldiers of the Uuited
States army at said Fort,under the command of
Maj. Jas. S. Mclntosh; that he has seen
. or someone or two of them there as
ll '“‘ - ->*l, ■ 'hat they are there gen
late as the j " Isl ” J , f ime
crully on duty and hive Deci. lor so --
past.
Sworn to in open Court, 16th Oct. 1833.
B. G. G. A. LUCAS, Clerk.
The State of Alabama, ) Circuit Court,
Russell C-ounty, $ Oct.Term,
I do certify the foregoing to he true copies
of originals nowon file in rny office.—Oct.
17, 1833. B. G. G. -A. LUCAS, Clerk.
[Among the papers communicated to the
Governor, and hy him transmitted to the War
Department; is a copy of an indictment
found bv the grand jury of Russell county, a
gainst James Emerson. James King, Frank
Barger, and five oth-ers unknown, for the
murder of Hardeman Owen, and against Da
vid Manning and Jeremiah Austill, for the
inciting to the commission of said crime;
which indictment, being a formal law-paper,
we have not thought it necessary to publish.]
B. G. G. A. LUCAS, Clerk.
Issued 15th October, 1833.
The State ) Sheriffs Return.— l
vs . V went to the Fort and
James M’lktosii. j called on defendant.
He swore I should not touch him. lam satis
fied if I had made the attempt it would have
been at the risque of my life ; that defendant
was commanding officer of the Lort, and had
sworn on yesterday he would not surrender
up any one in tlie Fort.
1 E. D. CROWELL, Shff. R. C.
Oct. 16,1833.
The State of Alabama, ? Circuit Court,
Russell County, $ Oct. Term, 1833.
1 do hereby certify the within attachment
and endorsement is a true copy from the ori
ginal on file in my office,
0 B- O. O. A. LUCAS, Clerk.
Oct. 17.
Our Law Con teamed.
It will 1« seen from the correspondence
j arid affidavits which, by peitnission of the
! Governor, we now lay before the public, that
j 31 aL Mclntosh w ith his soldier* nt Fort Milch
j c || |pis treated the law* of the State and it*
court* of justice wtlli ibv most aovercifn com-
tempt. The Grand Jury of the county of
Russell, found an indictment againsi Janies
Emmerson, James King, and Frank Barger,
soldiers at Fort Mitchell, and five others un
known, for the murder of Hardeman Owen :
and against David Manning, Lieutenant, and
Jeremiah Austill, as having instigated and
commanded the perpetration of said crime.—
But although the giand jury upon their oatli
found this to be “a true bill," Major Mcln
tosh decides the whole mutter at once,'and
informs the Court, without putting them to
the trouble of a trial, that “the soldier who
shot Ilardcman Owen was in the lawful exe
cution of his duty.” He swears that he will
not give tip a man in obedience to the pro
cess of the court, and when an attachment
for a contempt issues against himself, he w ill
notsufler the Sheriff to touch him, si ting at
the same time that the court had no authority
to take him. In this case too, as in the other,
he decides the question which the court pio
poses to try, informing them that he had not
treated the court with any contempt. Ilis
subordinates follow his example, and when
they are served with process, requiring thorn
to attend cuurt, they inform the officer flatly
that they will not go. It is difficult to speak
ot such military insolence and maintain one’s
equanimity of temper. If the State tamely
allows the commanding officer of a little hand |
of soldiers thus to abet murder and defy law
within our borders, she is indelibly disgraced.
If our civil tribunals are thus to be sneered
at by men who assume consequence because
they have epaulette on their shoulders and
guns in their hands, it is to he hoped that no
fourth of July Orator will insult us hereafter,
by telling us that we live in a land of liberty
and law ; that life, liberty and property are
protected hy our admirable institutions ; and
that the military is rendered wholly subor
dinate to the civil power. If we are at the
mercy of a deputy Marshal of the United
States, and if his Acds of death and those
of his soldiers cannot he inquired into, let us
understand our condition and acknowledge
it at once. What will those papers that have
shown a disposition to justify every act of the
most remote agent of the Federal Govern
ment now say to this open defiance of our
laws and of our court 1 Will they tell us that
we ought to pocket this insult to the .Stale,
and humble ourselves before Maj. Mctntosh ?
Let them so inform the public if they choose;
and then with a composed countenance, uti
scorehed by the blush of shame, let them call
themselves State Rights Republicans and the
friends of law and order.
It will be seen by the Governor’s letter,
that he has transmitted copies of these docu
ments to the Department of War, that they
may he laid before the President. What the
President may determine we know not; but
it may be well to give him the opportunity to
approve or disapprove of the conduct of Mr.
Mclntosh and his coadjutors. We are not
dependant however, it is hoped, on the will
of the President for the execution of ti e
State laws, and the support and protection of
our courts of justice, in the rightful discharge
of their appropriate functions.
We know not where this matter will end;
but wc never felt le3s disposed to abandon •
the rights of the States than at present; and
we doubt not that most of our readers feel the
same desire to maintain those rights, and
thereby to secure the blessings of lihety and
law to themselves and this posterity.
Ala. Intelligencer.
TIIE TIMES.
~ §
WED.YESDAI, Nov. «>, is«a.
IT The Friends and Advocates of
State Rights, from all parts of the state, are
requested to meet in Milledgeville, on vVednes
day Evening the 13ch. of tins month.
The Legislature convened on Monday last -eve.
ry member, we believe, in attendance. In the Sen
ate, Maj. Jacob Wood, of Mclntosh, was elected
President.—The vote stood,
For Maj. Wood, of Mclntosh, . - 49
For Dr. Daniel, of Chatham, - - 34
Scattering, ..... 3
John A. Cuthbert, E q. was elected Secretary,
over the late incumbent, by a majority of one vote :
For John A. Cuthbert, ... 45
For Iverson L. Harris, - - - 43
Blank, I
James C. McGibony, of Randolph, was elected
Messenger, and Moses L. Barron of Clark, Door
Keeper. *
In th* House of Representatives, for Speaker—
• , cock, of Richmond, - -80
General Go.- „ r ,. , fi a
Asbury Hull, Eaq. 01 ■ ari '’
For Clerk
Joseph 11. f'turges, . - - *92
Wiley Williams, .... 85
Blank, . r . - 1
Aaron Brooks was elected Messenger, and Thomas
W. Davis, of Jones, Door Keeper.
We understand that the U. S. Marshal has post
poned the removal of the settlers, until after the
15th. of January next.
Alabama and flic Federal Govern*
meat.
The controversy between Alabama and the
General Government is daily assuming a more
interesting character. \\ e have been waiting
with an anxiety, that is shared by all the friends of
State Rights in the Sputli, on the progress of
that contest where the sovereignty of the State
itself, is staked upon the issue. In accordance
with the usurping spirit always manifested by the
Federalists of this county, Gen. Jackson [who
is now the acknowledged head and leader of that
party] has put forth a claim on the part of the
General Government, to the jurisdiction of the
lands in that State, lately occupied by the Creek
Indians. A claim for the maintenance of which,
an order lias gone forth, that the settlers he re
moved from those lands by force. \\ e would not
pause to prompt any generous advocate of liberty
upon which side his feelings should array him’
because his judgement will mo*t surely condemn
the use of tiie sword for the decision of legal
questions. The jurisdiction of the lands in ques
tion is claimed for the General Government by
the President, and maugre the sophistical reason
ing* of the late Attorney General and the inge
nious letter <Jf the Secretary of War,our intellect
is too obtusr U> perceive on what substantial
grounds such a preposterous claim u> based.--
Tbt. State authorities with alruineea that w solar
highly creditable to her functionaries, have nobly
resisted the establishmcntofa principle that would
permit twe Sovereigns to sway the same territo
ry. The question of jurisdiclion is not and can
not be a mooted one to any person, who consid
ers the constitution of the United States as
something else than a dishonored and obsolete
sheet of parchment; who holds the doctrines of
State Rights to inculcate something more than
the permission to implore and petition for the
recognition of our rights, and who feels that the
“ SOIIS of sires,” who poured their heart’s best
blood, a libation on the sacrificial altar of this
Union, are not likely to listen to th ■ precet ts of
liberty, that are enlorced by the bayonet’s point
In 1«19 the Territory of Alabama was creeled
into a Staleand admitted inlo the Union upon the
save footing with the original States, in all re.
spects whatever. From hence we date her exist
ence as a sovereign State, anti certainly the juris
diction of the soil is incident to sovereignty, ui
least, so we were taught to belive when our own
Troup boldly put back the interfering arm of the
Federal Government from its grasp at power
within the limits of Georgia. But say the col
lar presses, the advocates of the Federal Govern
ment in this matter, there were certain stipula.
lions entered into between Georgia and the United
States in relation to this very ’and 1 Can any
stipulations to udffch the State of Alabama was
no party, affect the exercise of her sovereignty in
its appropriate sphere of action 1 Is it declared
in the conslituton that the original States can be
bound by any compact in w hich they have no
voice 1 “Isit so nominated in the boo l.”
\\ hy we should be insulting the intelligence
of our readers to answer these questions for them*
If then the United States have no right of juris
diction over these lands, by what aufftorilv does
the U. States Marshal threaten the peaceful citi
zens ot Alabama with the levelled weapons of a
hireling soldiery 4 Why is it, that their roof
trees ring with the alarms of war, and their walls
re-echo to the soldier’s tread 4 Why are they to
be thrust rudely forth from their hard earned pos
sessions, their homes destroyed, their hearths
made desolate by the ruthless arm of military
power 4 The act of Congress, passed March
3d. 1807, is triumphantly quoted to justify these
high handed measures of oppression. Thai law
was enacted (as can be seen by a reference to the
act to prevent settlements on lands ceded
or secured to the United States by treaties made
w ith a foreign nation, or by a cession from any
State to the United States.
It may perhaps he contended with some shadow
of truth that until the year 1819, this law migh l
have applied to the public land- in the Territory
of Alabama; but when that Territory became a
State, the territorial laws of the United Stales
ceased with their territorial jurisdiction, unless
re-cnacted hy the sovereign authority of ihe State-
Besides it is not in reference to the public lands'
that the Marshal has issued iiis authoritative
proclamation. These very lands are held as the
property of the citizens of Alabama ; when the
jurisdiction of the State was extended over that
portion of the territory, the Indians w ho were its
occupants were invested with certain privileges
of citizenship. The protecting mantle of the
State authority was cast around them, and if they
have been injured, an appeal to the laws of the
State will afford relief. If the laws of the State
had been found incompetent and admitting tlia 1
the United States were clearly possessed of the
jurisdiction of these lands, are the laws consti
. tutionally enacted hy its authority so feeble in
their dignity, that they must be upheld by military
power, superceded by the orders of a military
-ffieert Nay are the w isdom and competency of
its judicial officers at so low an ebb that the Mar
shal or his deputy, may law&illy arrest, try, con
vict, semeno and execute a citizen of the State,
without even the brief mockery or a 1 .1
court martial? These are our own deliberate
Convictions on a matter in which all who love lib
erty and the Union should ftel deeply interested ,
but we have a faction that has fastened itself on
the body politic, and claims to be the exclusive
advocates of Union, the unwavering and consis
tent supporters of the President, who loudly
trumpet forth the rectitude of his opinions. The
President is right, let no man gainsay him 1 The
Federal Union upon examination has found the
right of the Federal Government to the entire dis
posal of the unappropriated lands in Alabama, to
rest on the clearest principles. If the Federal
Union means hy the term “ unappropriated lands’’
the lands in question, we do not covet Ihe astute
ness that could arrive at such a conclusion.—
Speaking of the intruders the Federal Union goes
on to say, “ if they refuse to withdraw, they are
subject to that mode of expulsion which has been
’engestablished, and which they knew to he in
force at the time ?f theirinUh'-ion.” This “ mode
of expulsion” iJelsevvhere explain,.• by the ; “e
print in another part of the same article, to mean
'• tiy the employment of military force.” It is
peculiarly gratifying to us to he able to state that
the Federal Union and the faction it is attempting
to form, if such be their opinion too ; have en
tirely mistaken, not only (he law in this matter
hut the views of the President too.” In proo*
whereof we submit to their perusal the following
letter :
Department of War, )
Office Indian Affairs , May 1, 1333. (
Sir:— lnconsequence of an application Irom
several of the Gherokees, I leave been instructed
hy the Secretary of War, to call your attention
to my letter to you, of March 15. 1333, and to say
to you that the provisions of that letter relate
sole to those portions of the Cherokee country,
within the States of Tennessee and North Caro
lina, an I over which the laws of those Stales have
been extended. Tee views of the President up
on this subject have been to often and too publicly
expressed to leave any doubt of the course which,
iu his opinion, might to he pursued. And this
explanation would have been considered unneces
sary, had not some of the Cberokeee intimated
different views. The President yet thinks, as he
lias always thought, the Executive has no constitu
tional right to apply Militaiy force to remove per
ions from any part of the Si aUs of Georgia or Ala
banut,
l am, Sir, very rosnectfully.
*Your obedient servant,
ELBERT HERRING.
Col. IL Montoomkhv.
W e think it somewhat strange that the “r/. «/•-
estprinciples" which have been so suddenly dis
covered by the Federal Union in October, should
have escaped the sagacity and penetration of the
President and hi* advisers in May !
-** nticuiML
I In Milledgenll*, on the morning ol the 4th mat.
by It. Stubbs, Esa.* Mr. Robert K. stsppy, t»
Mu*# Mary L*u u, Ist! ol coun'r.
[From the Richmond Jeffersonian.]
The llxpovitiott.
Dear Sir : 1 have read the late exposi
tion ot Jackson’s Proclamation which Mr.
Ritchie procured from Washington : and
though I cannot but believe that such despi
cable trickery most sooner or lat r bring
ijs author* into deeper disgrace with an in
telligent pubis;, I am yet prepared to felici
tate the Republican Party 011 the change of
tone assumed by the managers c f this mad
and profligate administration. It obviously
indicates that the war against Ftat” Rights
has been a disastrous one ; and that J tekson
and his Federalists have been driven in con
fusion ami disgrace from the field. But
though offers of peace are now made on
terms sufll *ieiitly <!•-grading, yet as they pro
ceed 110111 the slraitness of circinnstaanccs
in which the Van iJuren camji is placed, I
would advise yon to be 011 your guard, and
not (rust too much to the. worthy friendship of
him who has played so treacherous a part to
v*ards those who brought him into power-
He is a mere tool in the hands of Van Burcn
wiio will make him dance any jig which may
advance his corrupt ambition.
After all that lus been said and written on
(lie subject during the last ten months, we
now find out I that the principles of the infa
mous Proclamation,are in very truth the prin
ciples of tiie Virginia Resolutions of ’OB !! So.
that there must liure been some misappre
hension on the part of Mr. Webster, Mr- O
tis, iV Cos., when they so inueli extolled
them ; lor surely it is a netv thing for that
Party to extol the Virginia Resolutions. It
must also be considered anew thing for the
l*Hl\en-LFS OF THE PItOCLAMATIOx” (i. O.
the principles of the’9B Resolutions,) to he
“The Principles of New England,” as
was victoriously inscribed on the triumphant
arches during Jackson’s late, pilgrimage to
that Holy Land. Wo must bo becoming a
very weak and credulous People, or Jack
aim's keepers would surely not attempt to
loree such stuff down our throats.
This late extraordinary Expose ofllic Proc
lamation throws a flood of light on the past
policy and present position of Mr. Van Boren
and his Coilar-men. When that Proclama
tion was written you may rely upon it that
the fate of Republican principles had been
discussed and finally decided on in Washing
ton. Van Bnren believed that lie had thrown
so much odium on State Rights by the dex
terous t-se of the word Nullif cation, that he
that lie could give them the coup dc grace
forever. 7/is hlmv was powferful, and given
at the very nick if t : ii,c; ami iiad they not
been founded in truth, and thus impregnable,
he would have pros’rated them forever. Every
circumstance was propitious to his scheme,
lie had carried on a successful war for some
time against them, tinder the name of Nulli
fication, backed by the trailer, Jackson,
whose popularity was almost overwhelming,
//is cabal at Albany had induced that crea
ture, Lumpkin, to sink the rights and digni
ty of Georgia, in order to clear the wav to
make the blow. The cry ol" Union ! Union?"
was caught op and echoed by two hundred
bribed Presses. 'The case itself,upon which
the issue had been taken, involved consider
ations arid difficulties extremely perplexing
in themselves ; anil every thing seen cd to
promise an easy and certain v ctnry. 'The,
office-seekers, and fair-weather folks, had all
gone’ over to his side.—Harrison G. Otis ami
Jlilin Forsyth put on their armour together.
Tristram Burges and Andrew Stevenson rat*
into each other’s arm’s—and the great Lion
of (lie East took up and hugged g ntlv to his
bosom our little Lamb of the South—that is
to s»v, Daniel Webster kissed the soft, bash
ful lips of our B!oa.!y-Bill-y Rives. Oh,
what happv greelmpS tmd glorious prospects,
had these
Well, all tiling ß luffug made ready—the
Federalists being all satisfied—and the Re
publicans, (Heave" save the mark!) mightily
pleased and all P ,e hired Presses being
...uitß. the counter sign—out came
the infernal project, the Proclamation. For
syth thundered—Webster lightened lFay tit
sneezed—Rives ratted —Stevenson epistolaf
ized—Wavne squeaked— big Blair blustered
—Kendall scribbled— little Blair hello-ved
like a bull calf—Bennett squealed—Oros
well liicctipcd—Mtmiford stocked —Ritchie,
in his haste to leap off the fence, ran to the
iop of tiie paling through the seat of his
breeches, and being suspended upon the
“doctrinal points ” between darkness and
day-light, shouting all the while, "Hurra for
our side ! and cverv gallows-bird of the Ad
ministration fl ipped liis wings in eestacy.
To change the stvh', I have no doubt that
Ihe Southern Leaders of the Van Burcn Par
ty were consulted, about the Proclamation,
and tint they approved of its principles. ■ It
is highly probable that Ritchie knew the
grounds assumed, and that lie recommended
them to be taken. Ills equivocal and preva
ricating course in regard to the Paper when
it first appeared—his denunciations of all
who advocated if, — bis selections of all such
au.-lcs as supported its principles, and the
repudiation 01' »d"!t as did not,—together
with liis subsequent support ol tm, "**< ncip. 1 a
and policy of the Bloody Bill, —all go (o
show to what point he was steering. 11c ob
viously thought that he bad so far weakened
the cause of State Rights, that they must
tumble before the staggering blow of the
Proclamation. This was his hope, as it ivas
certainly his policy. liis "some doctrinal
points ” ivas merely intended to let down the
principles of the Republicans as softly as
possible ; and thus to carry with him *0 the
camp of the enemy, as many as he could.
That the attempt was to amalgamate the two
Parties.—or rather to sell the Republicans
lo the Federalists,—there is no doubt. The
proceeds of the sale were to be placed to the
credit of Mr. Martin Van Burcn.
In accordance with this purpose, wc
shortly after find the President dejure,fasten
ing^on to the North to arrange the particu
lars of the Contract, and to execute the
Deeds in duo form*—But sad to relate, the
Federalists would not agree to purchase un
less the proceeds ot sale were placed to Mr.
Webster’s credit.- Fo, here the matter came
to a dead halt. Jackson swore that 3 l(’ff,b()o
of the proceeds must go to Mr. Van Bnren,
with a contingent remainder over lo Mr-
Bloody Bill*# Rivc-s ; mid the balance, after
deducting Amo* Kendall’s commissions, as
Trustee, and @6OOO out-fit for a certain
1 "Franklin of the American Press" bring in
Richmond, to constiluto a secret service
lurid, to be used among the underlings as
1 occasion might require. On the other band,
! the Federal Leader* stood firmly up for their
I kith and kin; alleging that, its they badsn*.
j twined tin* Proclamation which bad upa« t tin
* Republicans, limy were entitled to liavo
choice of .the loaves and fishes. On this the
“ Gincral" became like a “roaring Lion.”—
swore lie would go back to Washington and
have the Proclamation exposed —and accor
dingly, back lie cam-.- in a towering passion,
j Kendall wrote to Ritchie anil the Corps , in
j forming them that the Federalists bad rc
j fused to come into measures agreeably to the
- Deed drawn by Mr. Vatv Burcn ; and tl’al
therefore (hey must full back on the .South
—on those whom they i adffiettayed and sold;
otherwise they ivouiJ lose both sides. lie
instructed Ritchie to call on the Globe for
>omc netv reatlings of the Proclamation
which lie was then preparing for the Press ,*
nd which would do away all the fears and
jealousies of the Southern People—That it
was highly important that this should be
done, for that the Reptftfficans were getting
very uneasy , and as the Federalists had rc
fused to join with Mr. V an Burcn, tlia soonci
the Administration made a counter-march,
tiie better. lie also gave instructions, tiiat
as the move must now be on the South, and
as the United States Bank was unpopular to
tiie South, it was necessary, in order to gain
credit with the People, to raise a tremendous
hue and cry against the Bank.—“ This,”
said the wily manager.“will make the Peo
pie believe that we are going for them, and
will he an off-set to the misconstructions of the
Proclamation. Besides ice want the mover/ to
put in the hands of our men ; for Biddle
won’t let us use it for tiie good cause. You
must raise a terrible cry against the Bank—
for vve arc determined to take the money in
our hands at all even t#—We must have it.
As to the Proclamation I have a great many
new farts to publish about it. The “origi
nal draft ” can ho in mV hand, you know,
ind as Livingston is four thousand miles dis
tant, lie must be inane the scape-goat Leave
that to me—i’ll make the V irginia Resolu
tions oiit of it, clip and elear-board.”
It would be needless to say how promptly
these instructions have been obeyed. Ritch-,
ie had been taught by sad experience, that
the blow lie destined fer the Republican.
Party had fallen on liis own head ; and that it
was absolutely necessary to expose the Procla
mation in the South ; ort-lsc that he must
go doivn instead of the Party he bad be
tray od. So lie thundered away on the Bank
in order to get up a counter excitement, and
then called lustily for the Expose. It came
—and thus, after ten months’ hard study, v.c
have t!)C truc»jneaning of the great Procla
mation, to wit : that it is identical with the
V irginia Resolutions of 17981! Hurrah for
Jackson, Van Burun, Amos Kendall, and
Thomas Ritchie!
Such, Sir, is iu brief, the business these
-fellows have been upon for the Last ten
months. They have been out courting the
foul embraces of the North, and their over
tures of further and fouler prostitution ha
ring been rejected—they now come back to
the beds they had deserted and defiled.' And
how should they he received 1 ! W ith the “cur
* sos II de, and the hisses of Scorn.” Watch
them. They went out as Traitors—they
will come back as Spies.'
The great Van Buren Machine reminds
me forcibly of the Steam Efigine and Pump
which they use here to raise Salt Water. I
have- been recently engaged in attending to
the setting-up of one ; and the machinery
iu its operations niid effects, not unlike that
which Mr. Van Burcn has set up. In ad
vancing liis purposes, ho makes Jackson play
the part of Boiler —Croaiyell the Steam
Chest —Kendall the Fly-Wheel —Blair Ihe
Piston —Lewis the Pitman —Rives the Sli
ding.box —Stevenson the Press-pump —and
Ritchie the Puppy. Thislast is a short leath
-1 r-moOthed tube whose valve plays -either,
one Way or the other —up or down, just as,
the Press-pump requires ; unit serves to
force the water at a distance into the feistern.
—Ritchie’s Enquirer answers precisely the
same purpose, iu carrying out his ilouble
totigucd principles among the people. I hank
Heaven the infernal Machine seems at pres
ent to he sadly out of order. You will hear
from.inc again. Yours, &lc.
Kanawha Salines, Oct. 15 th 1833. . .
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