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WESLEY.
Chrislian Advocate and Journal
This paper, from its extensive circula
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been seen, and felt and acknowledged. It
has been hailed from every State in the
Union as the harbinger of better days.
And while it has earned the tidings of
creat joy into many t fami ! ies, it has started
lie inquiry in many a mind, “What must
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v ke. The object of this paper is to pro
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-ti conducting the dej-aiHfiM'ts ilevotid
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I our bretheren. But when we take into
| consideration the fact, that this paper is
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cates and maintains the peculiar and dis
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i when it is known that it is the only medi
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acquaintud with (lie progress of the good
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—that through its pages they not only
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per; and that the proceeds ol this paper
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Brethren, we do believe that this paper
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mer in every Methodist family. All that!
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ber, set themselves about the work with
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Editors Advocate Af Journal.
♦This paper being the properly as well
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ses, the Editors hope to be permitted to
speak out boldly in its favour, without in
curring the charge of egotism.
INDIAN OUTRAGE.
From the Alabama Journal.
Montgomery, Feb. 12.
On the Bth iust, a few miles beyond
Line Creek Tuskina , one of the prin
cipal Chiefs of the Creek Nation, ar
rested the United Stales’ Mail, and
delayed it, as the passengers state,
about three, hours. YVc appre
hend that the General Government
Will take such measures as will teach
“this savage that he. shall respect her
sovereignty, at least • Wc expect that
this case will create a good deal of ex
citement, and will furnish another apt
occasion for addressing quite a num
ber of Memorials’ to Congress, by
those gentlemen who have evinced
such a lively sensibility in behalf of the
Southern Indians, who are but little
removed from civilization and Chris
tianity. But we apprehend the hypo
critical condolence of sm h disorgani.
x'ers will be destined to be thrown un-
Ider the table. The passengers were
The celebrated performer, llorr Cline,
and associates Andre Cline and Geo,
A, Minns, on their way to New Or
leans.
| Upon the affidavit of the passen
gers, process was is-tied against Tus
j kina, and placed in the hands of the
! Sheriff Tje Sheriff foAiiid him in the
nation, at TriplctOs accompaui-
Warrenjton, February 27, 1830.
ed by several other Indians, and ser
v?d the process on him. He refused,
however, to consider himself the Slier
itT*s prisoner, and could not be pre
vailed upon to accompany him. The
Sheriff deeming it unsafe to attempt
compulsion, returned w ithout him and
has summoned to his aid the troops of
cavjilry under the command of Cap.
iaiiß Henry and Abercrombie, who
shut this morning for the Nation. We
appiphenu nothing serious from the
!matin’, as the Indians will scarcely
slant out in Tuskania‘s defence.
Tuslania is the head man of the Na
tionJand the son of the late Big YVar
rior.
Tlie particulars of the transaction
will be fully understood by reference
to tiic affidavit of the gentlemen pas
sengers, who politely permitted us to
take the following copy;
“As the United States* Mail was
pursuing its route from Fort Hull to
Line Creek, an Indian, whom we af
terwards understood was Ttiskina,
met (he stage and desir and the driver
to stop, which we of course, did not
comply with; on which Tuskina turn
ed his horse and followed the stage,
accompanied by another person who
appeared to be an interpreter, but who
shortly afterwards left him.—Tuskina
kept up with the carriage for nearly
two miles, and then made a short cut
towards another part of the road, in
Which time he drew a large pocket
knife, and when the stage came to
where he was, he endeavoured to turn
the horses, but not succeeding, ho rode
to tin* Jr.it side of tli© driver, and made
an attempt to stab him, in which lie
would have, doubtless, succedcd, had
not the driver, very promptly, jumped
from his box. Ho immediately told
the passengers he dared not drive on,
as Tuskina would stab him. The
horses were stopped by the sudden jerk
of the reins, and the Indian sat on his
horse near the wheeler, and telling
the driver in a very authoritive tone,
♦stop,*.swearing, 'God dam your soul ,
stop. He asked the driver It’ he knew
who he was, and also asked the dri
verß name. After a delay of about 10
| minutes, a gentlemen came up, who,
we afterwards learnt, was Col. Young
of Alabama, who endeavoured to act
as interpreter, but could not do so but
very indistinctly, as he was not suffi
ciently acquainted with the language,
lie told us that Tuskina said, ‘that the
whites were injuring him; that they
| sought his life they wanted him to go
iout of the country; that he had suffer**
cred long enough, and the man should
| not proceed;’ii was his country, his
ground, and his property, and there
it should stay, and not pass through
! any more.’ During this time he made
Iscveral tlircatning attempts at the dri
iverwith his knife, and likewise at
tempted to run at one of the passen
gers, of the name of Herr Cline, but
was prevented by Col. Young; who
said, on Herr Cline‘B asking if such
was likely, that probably a present
would have some influence on him, and
; Herr Cline took from his neck a very
handsome silk handkerchief and gave
him. This, in some measure pacified
Tuskina, who afterwards said that he
had nothing against the passongers,
but it was Walker, and that neither
mail nor driver should proceed. Col.
Young proposed to go for an interpre
ter, and Tuskina said he would wait
the return; during which time the pas
sengers were left iri a state of dread
-10l anxiety and not daring to offer re
sistance, from the various groups
who were constantly, in different pla
res, around us. In the mean time a
number of persons came along with
waggonfl, whom the passengers entra
ted to stop, but Tuskina commanded
them to go.--The passengers at length
took sotno crackers and cheese from
out of the carriage and presented
some to him, of which he partook, and
on their explaining to him they had no
drink, he sent a boy who was with him
away, au tUy thought for some. Af
ter a short time the boy returned with
two other Indians, with whom Tuski
ua had some conversation in his own
tongue, and they appeared to be argu
ing the, propriety of his conduct; after
which, Tuskiua desired the passen
gers to go on, shaking hands with
them, and desired the driver to get on
his box and go, which was immediate*
ly done—the Indian watching us until
we were out of sight. The detention
was three hours. This occurrence
took place on Saturday, February 6th
1830, about five miles from Line
creek, between the hours of noon and
three, P. M. It is the general opinion
of the passengers that Tuskina must
have been sober, from the circum
stance of his refusing some gin that
Col, Young offered him. The only
passengers in the stage were Herr
Cline, Andre dine, and George A;
Minns.”
CONGRESS.
THE DEBATE IN THE S A e 7
From the Correspondent ol the
Philadelphia Gazette.
Washington Ci ry, F* b. 6, 1830.
•. “The debate in the Senate upon Vtf.
Foote’s resolution continues vith unabated
Spirits. 4 fortnight has already been
corsumed in the discussion, and it is now
to all appearance, no nearer termination
than it was a week ago—on the contrary,
every new speaker seems to add some
new element of excitement of his own,
or revives the agitations of fo r mer con
flicts, and thus, instead of narrowing, toe
field of controversy becomes daily wider
and more discursive. The orininal points
in dispute appear to have been wholly
lost sight of, in the conflicts and collisions
which have arisen upon other collateral
issues. These have multiplied in number
and increased in interegt*until the Senate
themselves and their numerous auditors
appear to have actually forgotten the pre
cise question to which these speeches are.
by parliamentary courtesy supposed to
apply. No man ignorant of the nature
of that question, on entering the Senate
chamber, and hearing such frequent and
vehement appeals to some of the strong
est feelings of public men—State pride,
party fidelity, and patriotic resentment,
charged and recrimination, assault and de*
fence, accusation and eulogy, listening to
profound discussions from the most dis
tinguished men of the country upnn the
most abstruse and complicated questions
of State policy and constitutional law in
which our whole political and diplomatic
history and the history of all patties and
party conflicts from the days of the con*
federation down to the present hour,t
could possibly have supposed that so ma
ny momentous and exciting subjects could
have arisen upon so simple a proposition.
The powers of the government; the origin
and history of the Constitution, the rights
of the Btates, the purchase of Louisana,
the free navigation ot the Mississippi, sla
very and colonization, the tariff, Fed era*
lism, the war and the Hartford Conven
tion, subjects with the very names of
which the idea of intense excitement ia
always connected, were severally brought
up and discussed under the forms of a
motion to postpone a resolution of inquiry
into the survey of the public lands.
You will of course understand that the
adoption or rejection of that resolution is
the least important object of the debate. It
is the indications of the future policy of
the government on the engrossing subject*
of the public lands, and the movements
and views of parties in Telation to that
subject, connected with ulterior views qf
partizans, which make the discussion so
interesting and important
The party in opposition to the adisini^
No. 3.1.