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About The Democrat. (Columbus, Ga.) 1830-18?? | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1832)
•'•l/i * \ 'i .<t>.\ll.\ATlO.\; SivEi CiiOF Miv FORSYTH’S si eecii O.i the nomnutti a of Mr. Vuu Butch. [. untlndeii Iran our last j Sudi was the condition of this question Vhen Gca. Jackson was placed it the he ‘d <>i the country. Uite of the lirat objects of his administration was liic re covery of the lintish West India Trade, an arrangement of it ujiori terms of past reciprocity, satisfactory to both parties, and therefore, promising to tic permanent. Mr. McL.n.e >. ns selected to go to Eng land, and these much abused instructions prepared by the lute Secretary of State. Le. it be reiueinhered, Sir, those are in structions from the President of the Uni ted States, to the AuiericaH M mister, ne ver i.itended for the eye ot the British Government, and which in no other coiiu try hut ours, would ever have seen the light. The opening of tics negotiation was the chief diiliculty. To remove it, two groun is are taKea. it will he remem bered tii.»t our refusal to accede to the t» rtns oi the act of Parliament, was made the ground in refusing to treat with Mr. Gallatin aiid Mr. Barb mr, both ot whom went prepared to offer an arrangement by reciprocal legislation; taking the act of Parliament as the British legislation. To obviate the dilficuity, alter a fair and full h story of the transaction, these sug gestions are presented to Mr. McLaue to be pressed so far as ht might dean it use ful and proper so to do. If the British persist in refusing to hear you, on this subject, remind them of the circumstan ces tint have occurred; of the difference I of opinion among ourselves on it: of the aba lJonwent by the administration of : those pretences that had prevented an ad justment of it; that they are i ot again to be brought forward; that the past admin istration was not amenable to the British Government, nor any other, than the peo ple ot ihe United States, who had pass- j ed updn all their acts. Say to the Brit ish, if it makes pretensions formerly ad vanced the pretext for still declining to ne ' mate, the sensibility of the American people will be deeply awakened. That the tone of public feeling, by a course so unwise and untenable, will be aggravated th * known fuct that Great Britain had o peued her colonial ports to lltissia and France, notwithstanding a similar oniis sioa o:> iheir parts to accede in time, to the terms offered by the act of Parlia ment. And this, Sir, is represented as the la gunge of entreaty, as the begging of a boon. This menace of the public indignation; tins declaration that the late administration was neither to be censur ed or praised by foreign nations; was a inenable for their conduct to no earthly tribunal but the people of the United States, is tortured into a claim of privile ges, on party grounds for party purposes, and as a disgraceful attempt to throw up on a previous administration unmerited disgrace, for the sake of currving favor with a foreign pow-er, and that power of all others, Great Britain. Great Britain could not resist this frank and open and manly appeal. Committed by their con cession in favor of France and Russia, At the Ministry distinctly told by Mr. Mc- Lane, that he would not remain if they declined negotiation, or placed their refu- sal upon my mher ground than an open Joel atatio i, that their interests could not per nit tiiein to enter into a reciprocal en go.a-o. and with the United States, the lioglis!* Cah-.net reluctantly yielded; and then . true the most odious feature in this transaction, that which has sharpened the intcli ct of the opposition to discover dis honor in 'ruth, ami a want of dignity, m a frank exposition of tacts, its crowning success. Mr. McLane and Mr. Van Bn- i ret , nudar Gen. Juokson, succeeded in eff ig an object of public solicitude, Mr VI tins, and Mr. Clay and 'lr. Gal la. m an I Mr. Barbour could not obtain. The. country was humiliated by the pre cehog administration without success; hence the charge against Mr. Van Buren; hence, the overwhelming nnxiely to prove, that 'be success of the late negotiation lias been purchased bv humiliation. The British Cabinet desired not to make the arrangement; it interfered with great lo cal 11tercets, and if they could, without a in i'iif st and unjust distinction to our pre jn l ee, i!n*v would have declined admit ting th.: United States to the privileges gr ii ra f!ie other maritime powers. N >' • ■■ -fied with his condemnation of Mr Vii Bui'-.i’s instructions, the Semi tic- Vatn Kentucky attempts to shew us by ref rrug to another letter of iustruc tioas, how this aft’tir should have been co > {acted consistently with his ideas of nut an and honor and dignity. The letter from wV ; , !| he has read to tin* Sen i*;*, extra ***, is I think, signed 11. Clav. Will tli Senator tell us who is responsible for if’ fi* he is, then he exhibits hiins *lf m tie - larular position of a man triumph autlve.o itrasting the work of his ow;. baud, with that of a rival author. The Se (tor know* tha* there were two other insane' ions, written hv himself, of i stfl*- seq r* it date, one to Mr. Gallatin after Congress fail *d to leg slate, a -id nno’her to G iv-rnor B ir'iour. neither of which i* before us, and tin refore, no* to lx* con tras* I vit!i Mr. Van Boren’* work. I a i- to abide bv *-h<* result of a c ’• ! iu i I'trmnent* Ir* bn <*o-!- de h 'hose he lias quo* I. Let u* i th ge i'lcm i*s I't'er will *du • of •rami*’ ’**on. Mr. G il lilt' •, 1 V*. a i« no* in - - »n ahan d<# <t ** 1 *v • wit" *•> t• e *'•- r*v i* n mm- ••* . was*. * >r-'■ a• », Mr. Gallatin w as (ogive a stroi.j* proof of our Jesire to conciliate by a temporary con- Icecsio.. of mi.at we uad ed throughout the whole negocial.uu. j \Y a. Mr. Gallatin instructed to say to the ; British Government, this is a temporary j concession ? JXo Sir, he was authorized to ! wave the claim and make an arrangement ou die British basis. Put this into plain i language, aud what was it; strip it of di plomatic drapery and verbiage, it is nei ther more nor less than an abandonment of a pretension which though we had sup- j ported by argument, we were resolved j not to enforce by power. Sir, this cover-! uigitpofa plain truth is the common trick of diplomacy, it deceives no one, & { hud Mr. Gallatin presented these concili-! atory concessions, they must have been, received as a virtual and total abandon ment of our pretensions. The honeyed i words of right, waived from a conciliato ry spirit, and with this hope of correspon ding friendly dispositions, would have been received with a sneer, lurking in the official—artificial smile of a—thorough bred diplomatist. The Senator insists however, it was a right and not n preten sion. If it was a right, why was it waved ! or surrendered?—Fe>r concilia'ion sake. I Why, sir, we were the offended party.— England had taunted us. England hail i refused once, twice, tliriee to negotiate, A yet to conciliate England, we were wa ving a well grounded right. For what j purpose were wt thus conciliating? To i place the trade on its present footing, to j the great injury of the navigation and commerce of the United States.—Such is j the view now taken by several honorable ' Senators who have favored us with their opinion on tins subject. The present j Administration waived no right for con- ! dilation sake; sacrificed no principle. It stood upon the truth, and the truth only; aud whatever may be the custom of oth ers, and the ordinary usages of diploma cy, the Administration was right. Na tions fold themselves in the robes offals* hood, and swell ami strut in vain—to pre serve an air of dignity and decorum. No nation ever was just to its own char acter, or preserved its dignity, that did not stand at all times before the world in the sober and simple garb of truth. Sir, the character of our diplomacy has un dergone a marked change; we are no lon ger pretenders to skill and artifice; all our wiles are facts and reasons, all our artifice truth and justice. The Honora ble Senator tells us that this instuction is false, or else it proves Mr. V. B. to have been criminally ignorant of what it was his duty to know. How does lie make this appear lie alleges that Mr. V. B. charged the late administration with being the first to ad vance the pretensions it subsequently abandoned--and this he declares is untrue the prefenson was set up before the late administration came into power. Now- Sir, as I read the paragraph, Mr. T. B. does not change the late administration with being the first to advance this pre tension. The senator Will recollect this is a letter to Mr. McLane, whose person al knowledge is appealed to and w ho must have understood the w riter as alluding to a fact of general notoriety, the words are those who first advanced, &c. have subsequently abandoned. Can any man mistake the meaning—the meaning per fectly in accordance with the fact? The pretension was advanced by the use of the famous elsewhere in our act of Con gress. An act known to have been pen ned by Mr. Adams who had previously occupied the ground covered by it, in Ins instructions to Mr. Rush. It was Mr. Adams who first advanced and abandon ed this ground - The credit or the odium, whichever term belongs in justice to the act attaches to Mr. Adams, and so Mr. McL. could only have understood it, and so must the Senator from Kentucky, if he examines with a desire to understand it in the spirit of the author. There are considerations connected with Mr. V. B. if I deemed it consistent wi'h his honor, that I could present to those that hear me that would fail to make a deep impres sion upon their minds. Bit I ask no re membrance of his forbearance, no recol lection of his magnanimity, I appeal to no one to imitate his mildness and cour tesy and kindness in bis oeportment here nor to judge him as he judged his rivals for fame and power. I demand for him, nothing but justice—harsh—harsh jus tice. Culture of Silk. — M'Honergie, of Philadelphia,makes the following estimate ofthe profitsofcultivatingthe Silk worm. It certainly presents strong inducements our farmers in this region where the mul burv and the silk worm flsurishes so lux uriantly. A a acre of ground will produce 90,000 pounds of leaves—which, if sold, on the tree, at a half a cent per pUimd, will pro duce 460d01l irs; or if soi l delivered, at one cent, produce 990 ilollais. —This would produce thirty-sev>*n hundred pounds of cocoons, which At twemv-five cents per pound (with the moth) is 925 dollars—tiie saui>’ quantity well reeled produces font hundred and twvntv ponn.l of raw silk, which at three dollars i*er pound »he price ol Clmi.a silk liere, unk. > 81209; if however, reeled mid fiite-l »i»r the European market vvotfiii produce ;it 87 ner pound $2500. Treatment of bnr ■ and per-ms —T!ie stomach pumn bus been gii'-e< s' .llv ost <1 » M mcherler to dis<*h irge the o-u'er fro n -i bodv winch fi -d la •' a (oosuler i '»!•• *un«* -a *h' water *d was i't • on* * > ( i-ire 'v Iffi-li Hot s'oinjl tii's and fr etious were ti. -d. tfter the »• »*»*r was and slo !'».-<!, •«..•! the pat s « •i Iv "> covered. Tins n* u vulu u»lc titseov* ry. Messrs. Clay aud fol lowing is an extract ot a letter tram Washington in the N. \. American Ad ! vocatc: 1 must give you an account of the re markable explanation which in the course of the speech, took place between Mr. Clay and the Vice President, relative to the opinions of the latter as to the con stitutional objection to the system not argumentivciy, but historically. It was he said, an objection of recent origin e ven the Senator from South Carolina, in las long and elaborate argument embra cing the whole subject, forgot that objec tion, till alter his speech was delivered. The constitutionally of the tarifi’ w as not denied he believed, in the celebrated ex position from the pen ot the distinguished citizen of South Carolina, who fills the Chair of this body, dec. Mr Calhoun rose and said he w as couqielied to remark in reply to the reference to Ins opinions that lie considered a tarifi for protection as unconstitutional. Mr Clay was sorry to hear if It doubly grieved hiiu as ail instance of the changeabieiiess of human nature; for, if he remembered aright the Chair had expressed no such opinion in the great debate of 1810, m the other House. Mr. Calhoun replied, that was a tarifi* tor revenue, not protection, the constitutional question was not debated. No sir rejoined Mr. Clay for it teas nut then considered debatable. There must be some mistake in the a bove statement—or Mr. Calhoun could scarcely have forgotten the ground lie took hi 1816. The substance of bis speech on Mr. Kandilph's motion to strike out the minimum valuation on cot ton goods, m April 1810, is now before us. W e see nothing m it about revenue —hut all about protection. For in stance. Circumstanced as our country, is can these stand the shock of war? Behold the effect of the late war on them When our manufactures are grown to a certain perfection as they soon will under the fos tering care of government , we wilt no longer cxptriei ct those evils. To give perfection to tins state of things it will be necessary to -add as soou as pos sible, a system of Internal Improvements and at last such an extension of our navy as Will prevent the cutting off our coas ting trade' The advantage of each ts so striking as not to require illustration, es pecially after the experience of the recent war. It is thus the resources of this gov ernment and people would he placed be yond the power of u foreign war mate rially to impair. To this distressing state of things there are two remedies ami only two, one m our power immediately, the other requir ing much time and exertion, hut both con stituting in his opinion the essential poli cy of this country he meant the Navv and domestic manufactures. By the former we could open the way to our markets; by the hitter ice bring them from beyond the. ocean and naturalize them in our own soil. Had we the means or attaining an immediate naval ascendancy he acknowl edged that the policy recommended by this hill, would be very quest! liable but as it is not the sact —as is a period remote with every exertion and will probably be more so from that relaxation of exertion so natural in peace when necessity is not felt, it becomes the duty of the House to resort to a considerable extent at least so far as is proposed to the only remedy the protection oj our manufactures. Another objection has been made which he must acknowledge was better founded that capital < inployinei.t in man ufacturing produced a greater depen dence on the part of the employed, than in commerce, navigation and agricuhurt . It is certainly an evil, and to be regret ted; but he did not think it a decisive ob jection to the system, especially w hen it had incipently politicial advantages which in In* opinion, were more than a coun terpoise to it. It produced an interest strictly American , as nint h so as agrirul lure. In this it had the decided advan tage of commerce or naviagation; and the country will from it derive much advan tage. Again; it is calculated to hind to gether more closely our widely spread republic. It will greatly increase our unitu.d dependence and intercourse and will, as necessary consequence, excite an increased attention to internal improve meat a Subject eve'ry way > intimately con nected with the ultimate attainment of na tional strength and th< perfection of our political institutions. He regarded the fact that it would make the. parts adhere more closely that it won hi form a now and most powerful cement, far outweigh ing any political objections that might he urged against the system. In his opinion the liberty and union of this country were inseparably united. 'Phis was in 1816—Mr. C. maintained a similer doctrine in 1824—w hen he was in favor of the protective system-—de claring tlmt as soon as the hui I hug(M un nfactiires) w-ts rinsed the scaffolding might be removed.— Richmond Enq. The report of tin intended, abdica tion of Louis Pit lltppe, is not confirm ed. The Bill iu the V> *a Legislature, r dative to the I! mni ’ Free N<-groes, has passed the boiic tlelegates, 79 to 41. The Meih'- Ihi,. of Di* YV t rimtoii, hv Gm»ie s' • I *i \'i w-York, an l is dto be"' tUy a'ity of flip fume ofthe si i tesie e . and the gcui'M of tile pupil of IdUtOSu. FOiiMOW. LATEST FROM EUROPE. By the politeness ot Cnpt. Easterly, ol the ship Robin Hood , from Havre, we are furnished with the Journal du Hav re, from the Ist to the 14th January, in clusive. London dates to the 11th January had been received at Havre. Creation of Petrs. —A London date of the 11th announces that the Ministry had determined in Uokincil, that anew creation of from 45 to 30 Peers should be made. Lord Dunhiven Lord Gornians town, Catholic, Lord Lismore, and Lord Rosmore ure named as the Irish Peers. The rest of the iie\v Peers will be Eng lish, with a few Scotch. The Cholera •—lt was currently repor ted at London on the 11th, that the Choi era had reached Edinburgh and that it was daily making dreadful ravages at New-CaStle aud Gateshead. The accounts from the country were I distressing numerous workmen being! out of employment, anti new comma- ! tions apprehended, in various, quar- j tefs. The Belgium Pacification.-*- The Jour- 1 mil Des Debate announces, seemingly officially, that a delay had been deman ded, by the continental powers of the ratification of flic 24 articles, and tie Lon don Courier says that a delay of 15 days will probable he acceded to' It was remarked that at the French K ing’s hall on the 12th Jan Mods. Pozzo tli Borgo remained but a few moments, M. D‘Appo»y was received coldly, and Mr. Granville with marked fa vor Gen. Lafayette was restored to full health, artl received visiters. The brother of Cassimc-r Perrier had left Paris for London. Russian couriers arrived at Paris on the 12th with despatches to the Spanish Am bassador, and was immediately sent on to Mardrid. lie is said to have brought assurances that Russia was disposed to sustain Don M igitel and that Spain c ould without apprehension join forces with Por tugal—as France and Germany were too much occupied with their own difficulties to bo able to oppose the intervention of Spain, It is supposed that w hile the in tentions of tin* Northern powers are care fully concealed from the constitutional governments, they arc fully disclosed to the absolutes —and that Ferdinand is a vvare of the very point of time w hen Bel gium Will be attacked bv Ki 'g William of Holland and France by the Northern powers. Extraordinary suit in Prance. —Tl;e P-.ris journals contain at considerable S'-ngth, ai, account of a process or law • Cause of the muse singular nature that j was ever laid before the public. I’. is an action in nullity of a will —that is, an action to set aside the will and testament of the last member of the illustrious House of Bourbon-Coude, made in favor of a young Prince of the House of Orleans, the youngest son of the Duke of that name, now Lotiis-Philrp, King of the French. This is the object of the action in a civil sense; hut in a moral one, it is ueiiher more nOr less than to accuse the present King of the French of conniving with the mistress of the late unhappy old D*ikc of Bourbon to induce him to make a will against his own wishes and inten tions in favor of this youthful branch of the stem of Orleans. The will is sworn to have been made under repeated acts of menace and violence on the part of the women, hut was no sooner executed, than the most cutting and painful reflections followed, and harrowed up the bosom of the testator. He even mediated and had planned an escape from the clutches of his shc-gaoler when somehow or other he d ! ed. The mistress obtained immense logac.es aud bequests' The House of Orleans will enjoy the principal estate unless the effect of this most important law-suit be to establish the nullity of the will, and so to strip the chief of that house not only of its new and vast acqui sitions, but of all title to the respect of mankind.—What may be called the in culpatory part of the jifocess, is ali that has appeared yet. The depositions on the side of the legates have not been heard nor indeed lias the defence of the will been opened. Wv.-iumutoV, Feb. 17. In the house of representatives, the apportionment hill was read a third time and passed by a vote of one hundred and thirty, to fifty-eight. The letters of the president of the Senate and the spea ker of the house of representatives to John A. Washington aud George Washington Farke Custis, on the subject of tin- re moval of tlm remains of George Wash ington and Martha his consort Were laid before the house by the speaker, together with the answers ol those gentlemen that oi Mr. Custis intimating his acqnisccnce m the request of Congress and that of Mr. John A. Wash iigt.ni respectfully ob jecting to the removal. The lull for the settlemen* of the South Carol;mi claims was order' and to he engross'd for a third reading • v a vote ol 199 to 4c,0" oinet'd mrnt to strike off the interest on tin- sum* , advanced having been previously rejected without a division. The house ou motion of Ms. McDuffie, went at a hi e hour ,n --to a committee of the whole on ihe mm. j of the Union \L. Wiv»»c in the .-hair took up the pension, Naval Foft.jiei.tioi, Anpro|*r.i« <m lull- ami *h» hm il .orear .;i bill. The blank* Were fdhd up and tin bills com id, rH „„.i ordered to In* MfMtwn-d (or u t ding, 4, ! five o’clock Utt bou*« adjourned. * * HI aii'i.fi v)(’|* iT. SATUKDA \ . MARCH ii.~l-.SL~ REMOVAL OF THE l.\i); M e congratulate our rea l - r l( | t | K . public on the prospect of. • eedy and |>eaceal)le removal of ail th Crjek In dians from ibis vicinity. TANARUS, e county held at Watuntpka lust week, after much opposition from oue of the chiefs, result ed iu the determination to st ud additional delegates to VV ashington, to join those already there, vested with foil powers to treat for the disposal of all the remainin'* lands held by the tribe iu Alabama, and for the removal of the whole nation west of the Mississippi, FOR Till, democrat. Mr. Editor— From i-iy infancy [ have always been dr-f*;d , interested j :i contemplating llu> eh., .--ter ml his'o. ry ofthe numerous A! jiitriunl race, the j red men ol* our couiiu-.v. whose on ,'n ; yet remains envelloped in so inn jtevy and obscurity. In an c ur-.;oh ! which 1 recently made to the Cmiii , Ground of Ihe Creek Tribe at 'V *,-•„_ Ira; having learned that they w j n | all probability negotiate a tre.n -. i, , I the general government, for oh ? I lands between the Chattahoochee „ud Alabama. Business and curiosity in duecd me to be present ut th* grand j convocation of the chief-, head men ur.«l warriors ofthe nation, consisting ns it was believed of not less than five hun j dred. 1 was gratified and rewarded for the time I spent among them, not j withstanding we were submerged in water fr»m our first launch into the for j Cst until our return. Whilst there, I was determined if nos sibleto learn something ptrsonuby, of the history, manners and eusi; . of this truly noble and once f.,table people, as it might be the lust *i.ie, la vaited myself of the know! V of sev eral aged and venerable nand with the aid ol an experienced '.i xister and the information of an intelligent gentleman for upwards of thirty years i conversant with their habit.® and cus tom*. I have gleaned from them -ho j following facts. & should you deem me i result of my investigations of sufficient ; interest, you can give ; ul-licity to t* ,rt • through the medium ci'your paper Toe origin ofthe name Greek is u i ' certain, the tradition is, that it v. s given by whits people, from the no.as ; her of cneks and water n u .es in the j country. The Indian name is Jlusi o gee, the g is always hard in the creek ■ tongue. Mute,get ac. ivk a:,d Muttogul ; g-e the creeks, Ckttehee a Cherok;. e.,d ! Chelolculgee tin* t berokees. This people earn, from the west; ui v haVe a tradition, that there art in :.e fork of Bed riter west ofthe Missis- ,ij j two mounds of earth, and that at : -is j place. Ihe CusetUil.s, Cowetuhs .ad (Jhickasnks found themselves. Being barrassed by wars with the red nrd' ms they crossed the Mississippi, aid Gree ted their journey eastward!j, pass'd the Falls of Tallapoosa above Tuckti butche, they made a settlemen* below the Falls of Chattahoochee and spread out from that point, to Ocinulgve, i/co ne.*, Sa annah, anti downwards on the sea co:vst towards t'n u leston. Here they first saw white people, and were by them compelled to retire to tin r pie sent settlements, and .. . tne t tiera ble chief justly remarked, *ur "i: ia | thernow wishes us to most: stilt sis, i<er, ! until he will force us into the (DbaifuL tuiiuily) or great Pacific Ocean .: - f.’ jHe rose from the bench, the t e from his tomahawk pipe curin g . and . a pair of fierce looking mustachios/nt i die same time his coimtencucc wrs ; suddenly illuminated with rage and nil the impassioned vehemence character ! istic ol an orator of the wooijs, a tear i trickling down bis withered cheek, t\- | claimed, "1 will never surrender a foot ! of land until forced to do it, and then i said he, 1 will take a reserve, and my • bones shall bleach on the land of my nativity, before 1 will ever leave it.” I learned from this chief, that the Semi nole*, are of tiie creek tlecewf. their name signifies Wild People, they eor.- j aist of emigrants of refugee* from cer | tian of the other towns. Their oour try men call them wild people, because ' they left the old towns and went abroa V where they made irregular settlements, j They inhabit a tract of country border j >ug on the gulf of Mexico, in Florida, | invited thither by the plenty of game, | the mildness ol climate, the produetivc , ness of soil and the abundance of food ! for cattle and horses It is surprising bow little they raw j subsist on: in times of great scarcity, ( a ncl from hard necessity, they have dis covered two substitutes for eo'i HU>iJ food which 1 was told they lived on foe weeks together, the first is the rent «l* the China briar: they prepare ir by pounding the green roots in u mortar, then suspending them in a co u se ctr.ll>, water is poured on theta; tin* separates - farinaceous substance, which is pre cipitated to the txntom of the water. I ms sediment, baked into cakes or boil ed into gruel,sweetened with honey or alone, is an important nrth-h -f food W illi ihe Greeks. The hog potato which gio >s in the swamps is another substi tute, it resemble* very much the Irish potato, and is prepured in >■ similar manner. 1 lie ( reek Nation is composed (as l was informed by the agent Go,. < row 'll) of .>« towns and i.jO vi lhges. «/ llie/M* W are oil Hie waters of the * but taiiooeliee and on the waiters of Can ’•a f*. I allapoost). Neab- diet* is th" b 'd chief of the wltob* Muscogee .\«- lion, and Tu Aronh b< ad chief of wd I e • ,'|»cr Tow ii**, nod is the son of If." big Humor. Opofby doholn i. lb. fj <ii the nulio , nr wreut unaln' c es -*f Turk do,le '|*l,ere were »t*«* ..aiong (net * fl;- t p.a ti obirfy aftlM- ted my oh*, r tn.o o. ; ,oi,*ed out to by a friend. The first
