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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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