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Raving sixty days notice thereof, in one of he
Kile parties of this State, and at the door ot the
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| thee foi the sale of Personal Property must
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■ Viihpe'to the Debtors and Creditors of an Es
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If ur t of Ordinary for leave to sell Land, must be
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■all bo made thereon by the Court.
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It PPIJCATION will be made to the Inferior;
I \ Court ui'liibb county, when sitting lbr ()rdi-l
Knrv purposes, fo? leave to soil the real estate of
Bliplirirs of Ibigh McLeod and Joseph Clark, dee.j
■or the benefit of said heirs.
ISABELLA CLARK, Guardian. I
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§ Foctr muntb<i after dat\>
I A PPLTCATION will be made to the honora
-1 l\ ble dm Inferior Court of Monroe county, when
Isittinofor ordinary purposes, for leave to sell the
Brea] t-slate of Catharine Dnucey, late of Jetlerson
■:asuty, deceased. All persons will please take
lactic., and file their objections, if a;>\ they have,
I GEORGE W. COLLINS, Admr.
I Vr '-tin
■ . Itf mini strut or s' 1 Safi’.
H/tV the first Tuesday m July next, will be sold
■*7:iefere the Court house door in Harris coun-
Hty, under mi order of the Inferior Court, one lot
■of Land, No. 18G in the ‘22d district formerly
■Muscogee now 1 luiris county. Sold for the hen-
I. fit of their heirs and creditors of Benj* Buckner
■ late ofPrtnam Ccurty, deceased. Terms made
■ knownci tiie dey of sale.
PARHAM BUCKNER, Adm'r.
I April 25th 1631. 4-tf
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AMBROSE BABER.
JAMES T. PERSONS.
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j a “ New and richly ornamented Map" of the State
ot Georgia, is at, this time compiling the same a
moflg the Golden Regions of Hall, Habersham,
U. and that said Map is soon expected to be
sought out by a writ of habeas corpus.
, , 1M O. GREEN.
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*■ *"* ri-S J i r ~ r 77W .rr THIN OFFICn
Political.
“The price ofLiRERTvis eternal vigilance. ■’
RESIGNATION OF TIIE ATTORNEY' GENERAL.
From the Telegraph of Thursday, June. 23.
Washington 15th June , 1631.
Sir : i herewith tender to you my resigna
tion of the cilice of the Attorney General of
the United States. Two considerations res
trained me from taking this step at the mo
ment when your communication to the Sec
retary cl the Treasury, announcing your de
termination to re-organize your cabinet, first
met my eye. There was nothing in the re
tirement of the Secretaries of State and of
War, or in the distinct and personal conside
rations w hich they had assigned for this meas
ure, which made it obligatory upon or even
proper for me to adopt a similar course.—
Such a step, with any reference to that occur
rence, could only become so, on my part, as
an act of conformity to your will. You had
felt this, and had announced your wishes to
the Secretaries of the Treasury and of the Na
vy, respectively. I had a right to expect a
similar communication of them, and conform
ed to the wishes and opinions of my fellow
citizens of Georgia when I determined to
await it. An additional consideration was
presented by the fact that I had been charged
at the moment of my departure from this
place, with the performance of certain public
duties wiiieh were yet unfinished, and my re
port concerning which you did not expect to
receive until my return. I was gratified to
learn from yourself that yeftr had taken 1 1 >';■
[same view oftliis subject, having pi,..t pea yd
the communication of your wishes to me un
til my arrival at this place, without expect
ing in the mean time any com:*n?nic lion
from me. It is due to myself furthc rto state,
that, from the moment when I saw the com
munication referred to, 1 have considered
my official relation to you as terminated, or as
subsisting only until my return to the city
should enable me to conform to your wishes
by trie formal surrender of my office, which
it is the purpose of this note to make.
I retire, then, sir, with cheerfulness from
the station to which your confidence had cal
led me, because I have the consciousness of
.laving endeavoured to discharge its duties
with fidelity to yourself and to the country. —
Uninfluenced by those considerations which
have been avowed by that portion of my col
leagues who have voluntarily separated them
selves from you—totally ignorant of any want
of harmony in your Cabinet, which either has
or ought to have impeded the operations of
your Administration, I perform this act sim
ply in obedience to your will. I have not the
slightest disposition to discuss the question
of its propriety, it is true, that in a Govern
ment like ours, power is but a trust to be used
for the benefit of those who have delegated
it; and that circumstances might exist, in
which the necessity of self-vindication would
justify such an inquiry. The first considera
tion belongs to those to whom we arc both
and equally accountable. From the influ
ence of the second you have relieved me, by
your own explicit declaration that no com
plaint affecting either my official or individu
al conduct, has at any time reached you,—
You have assured mo, that the couiidei#e
which induced you originally to confer the
appointment upon me remains unshaken and
undiminished, and have been pleased to ex
press the regret w hich you felt at the separa
tion, which circumstances, have, in your view
of the subject, rendered unavoidable. YYm
have kindly added the assurance of your con
tinued good wishes for my welfare. You will
not, therefore, refuse to me the gratification
of expressing my earnest hope, that, under the
influence of better counsels, your own and
the interests of our common country, may re
ceive all the benefits which you have antiei
pated from the change of your confidential
advisers. Avery few days will suffice to en
able me to put my office in a condition for
the reception of my successor, and I will ad
vise you of the fact as soon as its arrange
ment is complete.
I am, respectfully, Sir,
’ Your obedient Servant,
JOHN MACITIERRON BERRIEN.
To the President of tho United States.
Washington, .Tune 15, 1 SOI.
Sin: I have received your letter, resign
ing the office of Attorney General.
in the conversation which I held with you,
tho day before yesterday, upon this subject,
it was my desire to present the considerations
upon which I acted in accepting the resigna
tion of the other members of the cabinet, and
,o as/are joy, iji regard to yourself, as well
MVfO\, JULY 9, 1831.
ship of power, with which I am clothed, call
jed tor it Vs a measure c< ,u ■. ice io those who
had been alike invited to maintain near me the
relation of confidential advisers. Perceiving
that the 1 jnr.atiy in feeling so necessary to
an efficient ndministratien had tailed, in a
considerable degree, to mark the course of
this; and having assented, on this account,,
fo the voluntary retirement of the Secretaries
of State, and War, no alternative was left me
but to give this assent a latitude co-extensivc
w ith the embarrassments which it is recog
nized, and the duty which 1 owed to each
member of the cabinet.
In accepting your resignation as Attorney
General, I take pleasure in expressing my
approbation of the zeal and efficiency with
which its duties have been performed, and in
assuring you that you carry with you my best
wishes for your prosperity and happiness.
I am, very respectfully, votir obt. servt.
ANDREW JACKSON.
Joiin M. Berrien, Esq.
P. S. You w ill please to continue to dis
charge the duties of the office of Attorney
General, until you make all those arrange
ments w hichyou may deem necessary, which
when completed, and I am notified thereof by
you, a successor w ill be appointed. A. J.
Washington, June 22, 1831.
Sir : In conformity to the suggestions con
tained in my note of the 15th inst. I have to
inform you that the arrangements necessary
to put the .office of the Attorney General in a
condition for the reception of my successor
arc now complete.
The misrepresentations which are circula
ted in the newspapers on the subject of my
retirement from office, make it proper that
this correspondence should be submitted to
the public, as an act of justice both to you
and to myself.
I am, respectfully,
Sir, your obedient servant,
JOHN MACPIIERSON BERRIEN.
To the President of the Uniced States.
Washington, June 22, 1831.
Snr: Your note of this day is received, ad
vising me, “in conformity to the suggestions
contained in my [your] note of the 14th in
stant. I [you] have to inform you [me] 'that
the arrangements necessary to put the office
to the Attorney General in a condition for the
reception of my successor are now complete.”
For reasons assigned in your note, you fur
ther observe “make it proper that this corres
pondence slioldd be submitted to the public,
as an act of justice both to you and myself.”
1 am sute I can have no objection to your sub
mitting them as you propose, as you believe
this to be necessary.
1 am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
ANDREW JACKSON.
John M. Berrien, Esq.
The following paragraphs from the Globe in
reply to the Telegraph of the preceeding eve
ning, demand a place in our columns:
“A correspondence, of a private nature, be
tween Messrs. Eaton and Ingham, appears in
the Telegraph of last evening, It is to be re
gretted that cirum3tanccs sometimes occur in
the private relations of life which make stlch
appeals necessary. The merits oftbiscontro
versy, like all others of a private nature, we
shall leave to the decision of the public, with
out any comment from us.
“We are, however, requested to state that
the account given in the Telegraph of a collec
tion of persons in the Treasury Department,
with the view of making a personal attack on
Mr Ingham, is utterly destitute of foundation.
“We are further requested to state, that
Major Eaton did, without any attendant what
ever, seek a meeting with Mr Ingham, having
first sent him word of his intention ; in which
he failed, simply because the object couia not
he effected with violating tho sanctity of a
private dwelling.”
From he U. S. Telegraph.
Washington, 2lst June, 1831.
The President of the U. States.
Rib : Before 1 leave the city, it geems lobe
as to them, that they imply no dissatisfac
tion with the manner in which the duties of
•he respective departments have been per
formed. It affords me great pleasure to find
that you have not misconceived the charac
ter of those considerations, and that you do
justice to the personal feelings with which
they are unconnected.
I will only add, that the determination to
change my cabinet was dictated by an impe
rious sense of public duty, and a thorough,
though- arnful conviction, that the steward
due to the Government that I should perforin
a painful duty, imposed upon me by the c
vents of the last forty-eight hours. It is not
necessary for me now to detail the circum
stances which have convinced me of the ex
istence of vindictive personal hostility to me
among some of the officers of the Government
near your person, and supposed to be in your
special confidence, which has been particu
larly developed within the last two weeks - ,
and has finally displayed itself in an attempt
to way-lay me on my way to the office yester
day, as I have reason to believe, for the pur
pose ot assassination. If you have not al
ready been apprised of these movements, von
rnay perhaps be surprised to learn that the
persons concerned in them are the Secretary
ol V\ ar and the Acting Secretary of. War;
land that the Second Auditor of the Troasua
ry Register of the Treasury, and the Treas
urer ot the United States, w - ere in their com
pany ; and that the Treasurer’s and Regis#
tor’s rooms, in the lower part of the building
of the Treasury Department ; and also a gro
cery store between my lodgings and the of
fice, were alternately occupied as their ren
dezvous while lying in wait ; the former af
lojding the best opportunity for observing my
Approach. Apprised of these movements on
my return from taking lea v e of some of my
friends, I found myself obliged to arm, and,
accoinpaincd by my son and some other
friends, I repaired to the office, to finish tho
business of the day, after which I returned
to my lodgings in the same company. It is
proper to state, that the principal persons
who had been thus employed for several hours
retired from the. Department soon after I en
tered my room, and that I received no molest
ation from them cither at my ingress or eg
ress. But, having recruited an additional
force in the evening, they paraded until a
late hour on the streets near my lodgings,
heavily armed, threatening an assault on the
dwelling 1 reside in.
I do not present these facts to your notice
for the purpose of invoking your protection.
!8o far as an individual may reply on his o wn
personal efforts, I am willihg to meet tbit*
peril; and against an .assault by numbers I
have found an ample assurance of protection
in the generous tender of personal service
from the citizens of Washington. But they
are communicated to you as the Chief Magis*
trate of the United States, and most especially
of the District of Columbia, whose duties in
maintaining good order among its inhabitants,
and protecting the officers of the Government
in the discharge of their duties, cannot be un
known to you.
I have only to add that, so far as I am ill*
formed, all the persons engaged in
countsnance to this business are officers to
the Government, except the late Secretary of
War.
I have the honor to be respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
S. D. INGHAM.
TIIE EX-OFFICIAL CONTROVERSY.
From the Globe, of Jnnc 23.
The gentlemen implicated in Mr. Ingham’s
letter, which we insert, have furnished us with
the call made upon them by the President, and
the several responses made by each of them. It
is strange that Mr. Ingham should charge men
who have borne pure and unsullied characters
through life with lying in wait to assassinate
himthat he thould, by a direct communica
tion, call upon the President to interpose his au
thority upon the occasion, and leave the city him
self before the information he gave could reach
the Chief Magistrate, to whom he appealed to re*
dress the imputed wrongs. Mr. Ingham was
himself the only accuser and witness to whom
the President could refer, to make good the charges
against die public officers; and it was very ex
traordinary that he should make an investigation
necessary, and abandon the city before the° indi
viduals charged could have an opportunity of
convincing him, by proving the real state of
facts, how much he had wronged them in his
suspicions.
llut was it respectful to the President to makra
allegations which, if true, involved the dismis
sion of several of the prominent officers of the tie*
Departments, without enabling him to ascertain
the facts on which it was necessary to predicate
his conduct 1 Mr. Ingham knew, from tho course*
held by the President towards the officers engage
ed in the affair of honor in Pennsylvania, that bo
would not tolerate violence on the part oftlios®
connected with the Government over which he
presided, and that he would feel himself bound
to prosseeutJ an investigation into tho charge
made by him. Mr. Ingham was apprized tluj;
Major Eaton had ceasad to act as a public officer,
on the day he demanded personal satisfaction for
the insults with which he pursued him. Thp
motive of the attempt made by Mr. Ingham tp
implicate several prominent officers of the Gov
jemment, as conspiring to
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