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UPON AN EDITORIAL ATICLE HEADED “THE ARMY,”
PUBLISHED IN THE COURIER At ENQUIRER OF
2Gth July, 183 G.
The article is offens ve in the language used,
and incorrect in the statements presented, in
reference the difficulties between General Scott
and General Jesup.
But for the injurious character of these mis
lateinents their correction ought he leil to the
anticipated investigation, or to the voluntary ac
lion of Gen. Scott, who will, it is hoped, indig
nantly contradict imputations upon a brolher offi
cer which he well knows to be untrue.
A brief sketch of the facts will at least suspend
public opinion until official inquiry shall exhibit
a conclusive exposition of the questions in issue.
While there was yet n probability of bringing
the Seminole war to a close, Gen. Scott was
directed to give his attention to the Creek diffi
culties. Some time after, these d.(Acuities grew
more serious, and General Scott being deemed
fully occupied by the, as yet, unchecked Semi
noles, Major General Jesup was, on the 19th
May, specially charged with the direction ot the
Creek war.
He met at Augusta, Ga. Major General Scott,
who had left F onda, where much certainly re
mained to be done, to assume the command in
the ('reek country. Gen. Jesup willingly cun
sented to lake ihe sco-.>J pr-oa ded wi'b
flen. Scon to Columbus, and thence to Tuskecee,
Ala., and assumed command, on ihe 9th June,
of the Western or Alabama frontier, Gen. Scoit
reserving to himself the immediate command ol
the Eastern or Georgia frontier.
The editorial assertion, that Gen. Jesup, “as
soon as he found that Scott had been ordered to
conduct the war against the Creeks, * * • de
termined * * * to procure the recall of his
superior officer,” is not merely incorrect in every
particular, but the extreme reverse is truth.
So far from desiring the recall of Gen Scott,
ho willingly served under him, and next to his
solicitude for the public service was his anxious
desire to enable an old brother in arms to recover
in Alabama the military reputation lost in Florida.
Even in the heat and excitement of the colli
Bton with Gen. Jesup, Gen. Scott frankly recog
nized and acknowledged the cliivalric courtesy
and self sacrificing spirit which had marked his
conduct from the moment of their meeting at
Augusta.
As the collision is at present purely official, it
is to be regretted that the partisans ol Gen. Scott
should render the discussion personal. For this
error they will merit the censure of the distin
guished individual they mean to serve.
Reluming to the sketch of operations, wo find
Gen. Soon’s plan of campaign announced to be,
First, To man the south and south-east frontier,
to prevent the Indians from passing to Florida :
Secondly, The first being accomplished, to
unite the disposable forces at the south line and
sweep northward through the Creek country.
Asa preliminary port of this plan, Gen. Jesup
was directed to move southward to Irwinton,
with such force as he should succeed in raising,
and, there uniting with Gen. Scott’s lorces,
move northward.
The number of troops needed to sentinel this
extended line of some hundred miles, the time
required to raise, organize, equip and station
them, their probable inability when stationed to
effect the proposed, and the intervening unstrayed
progress of Indian barbarities, were considera
tions lost on none but Gen. Scott.
It is unnecessary to examine this plan in detail.*
Had all the means been in readiness, and had
they been energetically and rapidly applied, it is
possible that the result might have been success,
ful. As it was, all felt is inapplicability.
The frequent alarms, the excited state of pub.
lie feelings, the eager restlessness ol the volun
teer troops, and above all. «lie devastations daily
reported, called imperatively lor immediate and
effective action.
The mede of operations kept in view by Gen.
Jesup was, to strike the enemy at once, to check
barbarities upon the whites by forcing the Indi
aits to delend their own families, and instead of
forcing them from Florida by sentinels posied
from Columbus to Flint River, and from Irwin
ton to Montgomery, to seek them in their camps,
find, fight and capture them.
Anxious to secure the country and Gen.‘Scott
himself from the evil consequences of a plan
which there were neither means nor time to ex
ecute, Gtn. Jesup djtcnnincd to protect his
frontier by prompt movements upon the Indians,
in ns far as it was possible to make them without
disobeying the orders of Gen. Scott.
On June 9th he assumed command of (he
Alabama troops, the disposable force being seven
hundred volunteers under Major General Fat
terson.
The friendly Indians were ordered to rendez
vous, the warriors to join as auxiliaries, their
families to remain at the rendezvous and be fed
by the Government. The hostile and doubtful
Indians in the vicinity were disarmed and placed
in charge of friendly Chiefs.
12th June.— Pursuant to Gen. Scott’s order,
he started to Irwinton, taking in his route the
camp of Eneali Mico and Eneah Mathla, where
the hostile Indians were concentrated with their
families, property, plunder, &o.
Eneah Mieo’s camp was broken up : the Chief,
with a portion of his band, came in to a friendly
camp, and asked to be treated as hostiles dis
armed.
15th June.—While on the march, Eneah
Mathla, the active head of the hostile party, was
apprehended by an advance scout of friendly
Indians, four hundred of whom joined on the
13th.
17th June.—Approached within five miles of
Eneah ,'fathla’s camp—was joined by eleven bun
dred and fifty Indian warriors.
The singular order from Gen. Scott “to cease
all offensive movements” was here received.
Confident that it Gen. Scott knew his force and
position, he would desire him to improve the
sought for opportunity of striking the enemy,
Gen Jesup despatched an express with a letter,
from which the sentence below is extracted, and
on the morning of the IBth June, pushed forward
to the enemy’s camp.
General Jesup to General Scott in reply to
first letter forbidding offensive movements:
extract
“Campon the Hatciieechhubbe, i
Five miles from Eneah M ithla’s Camp, >
17ih June, 1836. }
“I would have struck the enemy to night but
for your letter; if he is not struck to in rrow
morning he will escape for the present; but the
force 1 have in the field is sufficient to pursue
and reduce him.”
T e answer reached Gen. Jesup in the just
deserted camp of Eneah Mathla, when active
pursuit was alone necessary to entire success—
containing a peremptory repetition of the order
to cease instantly all offensive operations.
General Jesup gave directions for large
reconnoitring patties to hold the enemy in check,
and hastened in person to fort Mitchell,, eigh
teen miles distant, to see Gen. Scott. The !at.
ter having left for Columbus, a second express
was sent to him, with a letter staling frankly
Gen. Jesup’s opinions, and earnestly entreating
him (Gen. Scott) to adopt a different and more
efficient course. The question of its publlca- 1
tion is referred to Gen. Scott, who can thus
satisfactorily answer some of the offensive im- 1
putatiuns upon Gen. Jesup’s motives. I
The memoranda of this date by the writer re. 1
fute the charge attempted to be made against t
Gen. Jesup, of taking a position in which’sub
sistence and forage could not be procured. Be
sides that taken from the enemy, eighty thou- '
sand rations ordered from New Orleans by
Gen. Jesup, before he left Washington City
arrived 18th Juno, five days before his rations «
were exhausted, within eightenn miles of his I
camp, and a considerable quantity of forage, ti
pursuant to his previous directions, was -
ded and ready at a point twenty miles distant, * a
•Gen. Jesup was understood to disapprove the dp- it
I.ay in executing the plan, not theplan itself ' f.
19th June.—Gen. Jesup returned to camp.— 1 h
The reconoitring patties brought in several pris- j b
oners, and certain information of the hostile j
parties. This information removed the only s
serious objection that had been made against c
Gen. Jesap’s opinions, viz : that lie would force
the Indians across the river toward Florida, o
Directly the rbverse had actually occurred.
The parties ou the river preparing to cross, c
fled inwards to the swamps, under shelter of the d
main body ; in a few instances leaving their t
families in their flight Some of them were t
brought in with the prisoners. 1
20’hJune.—Gen. Scott continued unshaken
in his resolution that the enemy should not be t
beaten, except by the regular course ot his own i
“plan of campaign,” 1
The communications earnestly urging a <
change of this determination, had elicited only I
replies of the most exceptionable nature.
As the orders were well known to all, an of
fensive movement could not be made without
avowed disobedience ot orders, and this in a
camp only preserved from mutiny against the
“unaccountable firmness" ol G< n. Scott by the
most strenuous efforts ol the officers.
Even It ad Gen. Jesup determined to disregard
repeated and peremptory orders, it would have
been impossible to attack and effectually con.
quer the enemy before an order for his arrest
could have reached him from Gen. Scott (only
28 miles distant.)
Thus compelled to inaction, he sent out some
ol the prisoners to summon the enemy to sur
render, and kept the troops in position to enforce
the summons. The consequence was, that on
tho 22d three hundred hostile warriors laid
down their arms, and one thousand of the hostile
party surrendered themselves unconditionally
prisoners.
The position of Gen. Jesup presented no al
ternaiive. He could not remain under die com
mand of one who had alike disregarded the
good of the public service, and 'ho persona!
iodine nod professional reputation of those
who had labored most zealously and efficiently.
In three days alter assuming command, Gen.
Jesup had marched upon the strongholds of the
enemy, with a volunteer fore not greater thin
Gen. Scottcould have called together at any
point ol the Georgia line ; had cheeked the de.
vastations, and effectually secured the Alabama
frontier; had raised an auxiliary force of fifteen
hundred It.d'an warriors, from materials alike
accessible to Gen. Scott and himself; had seiz
ed the principal chiefs ; broken up the hostile
confederacy ; taken ani disarmed a potion of
the hostiles ; and on the eve of closing the war,
is arrested Irom doing it—because (orsooih Gen.
Scott’s plan ot operations prescribed a later day
and a larger force (facing North instead of
South for effecting it.)
In these measures Gen Jesup had been
greally aided by the judicious arrangements of
Governor Clay, and ably seconded by the prompt
and energetic efforts of Major General Patterson,
his officers and troops, and by the active and
efficient corps ol Indian warriors he had called
into the U S. service. By these the advan.
(ages had been obtained. And being thus halted
in their consummation, Gen. Jesup determined
to ask to be relieved, and to place the imrm-di.
ale command of the Alabama troops with the
sta'e officers.
June 20th.—Gen Jesup made full report of
the operations of 2d Army Corps, and closed
with the following paragraph :
extract.
“ Camp Hatcheechubbee, )
20ih June, 1836. £
“As I was placed on this service by the ex.
press order of ihe President, I shall apply to
him to be relieved, and shall demand a Court of
Inquiry.”
“ I shall a wait your order as to the disposition
ol force,” &c. &c.
The channel of official communication was
, through Gen. Scott. To make the application
thr< ugh him to the President would have been
indelicate, if not improper, especially until it
was seen whether he would or would not
arrest Gen. Jesup for his advance upon the ene.
1 my.
s An official communication direct to the Presi.
dent, or through any officers of the War De.
parment, must have, in substance, preferred
charges against Gen. Scott, and rendered neces
sary Ids immediate arrest.
Y Desirous of withdrawing hi nself from the
j duty with the least prejudice to Gen. Scott and
the public service, yet without admitting he was
in error, he perceived and determined to adopt
. the only mode that would relieve the subject
from all embarrassments, viz: expressing to the
I President in a communication which was ot no
j necessity official, his desire to be relieved. This
could only he done through a mutual acquaint,
ance—it was so done—by letter of same date
’ with that to Gen. Scott just quoted.
t The President thought proper to render this
, letter an official document, and as such it is to
be considered.
, The documents forwarded by Gen. Scott, in.
eluding his letters to Gen. Jesup, attacking him
| with the severest censures, and in effect prefer.
ring the most serious charges, were then before
, the Government, were considered by the Presi.
| dent, and on Gen. Scott’s own showing the de.
cision was ptob.ably founded.
The Editor’s assertion, that the communica.
tion to the President was “a stab in the dark,”
“an atiack upon Gen. Scott,” “an attempt to
procure his removal,” can now be understood
and appreciated.
Gen. Scott was advised on the 20th that ihe
application to be relieved would be made. As it
was not sent through him, he knew it was an
unofficial communication, and should have up.
preciated the motive which induced Gen. Jesup
to thus decline preferring charges against him.
Gen. Jesup’s opinions of his errors and delays
were fully, emphatically and earnestly urged up
on him.
The papers containing the whole correspond
ence were placed by Gen. Scott before the Go.
vernment; his recall was the revulsion of his
! own atiack on Gen Jesup, or rather the inevita
ble result of exhibiting the circumstances.
The request to be relieved having been made,
Gen. Jesup left Camp Hatcheechubbee to report
in person to Gen. Scott. Illness, the conse
quence of excessive fatigue, stopped him at Fort
.Mitchell, and the writer, a member of his stuff,
was ordered to Columbus to communicate with
Gen. Scott.
In the course of the protracted official conver
sation with Gen. Scott, the considerations bearing
upon the unpleasant difference were mentioned
and discussed, especially those having reference
to Gen. Jesup’s request to be relieved. The
occasion being presented, it gave the writer great
pleasure to bear witness to the unvarying tenor
of Gen. Jesup’s expressions and conduct towards
Gen. Scott, and still greater pleasure to hear
them gratefully acknowledged by- him.
The subsequent withdrawal by Gen. Scott of
what was personally offensive, reduced the dis.
lerences to questions purely official, and until de
cided upon by the Government belore which
Gen. Scott had laid them, both officers continued
in the performance of their respective duties.
23rd June, 2d Army Corps.
Hostile Indian prisoners were brought to Fort
Mitchell and retamed there nine days, to enable
the civil authorities (of Georgia particularly) to
identify and demand the offenders against their
laws.
24th June, 2d Army Corps.
Gen. Jesup, with a detachment of Alabama
volunteers and Indian warriors, seized Jim Hen
ry 7 s party, the chief and a few only escaping,
Ist Army Corps.
On the same day Gen. Scott moved south and
commenced active operations pursuant to his plan
of campaign—without having received the arms
and ordnance stores for which he had been some
time waiting. |
OnJuly2d he reached Fort Mitchell—having 1
by fatiguing and difficult marches swept the coun- 1
try, as proposed in his plan, from the south north- *
ward, and captured one Indian and one Indian ‘
negro. 1
2d Army Corps, (
The chief Jim Henry taken by tho Indian
warriors, in the vicinity of Gen. Patterson’s camp. ’
sth July, 2d Army Corps. '
A detachment of six hundred men passed into c
the camp where the hostiles had taken refuge. *
All, with the exception of Neahmicco and thirty a
men, escaped. Having ascertained their routes "
—nine hundred of them were taken on the 9th 1
and 10th July. c ’
Twenty seven hundred ol the hostile party, n
including eight hundred warriors, and including a
forty criminals delivered to the civil authorities, r<
tavc been taken, sent west and are now proba. o
ily at their destined homes. S
Their capture closed the Cieek war. The f
subsequent riifficu ties have grown out of causes r
connected with the removal. t
The incidents of the war are mentioned with- <
out any intent to c'aim credit for any individual 1
—especially not for Gen. Jesup, who in his olfi i
cial reports, has assigned the merit of what was
done hy the army corps he commanded, to the
officers and soldiers ol the Alabama troops, and
to the officers and friendly warriors of the Indian
bands who composed that corps.
It is doubtless true that the successful issue
was aided and hastened by the tone Gen. Jesup
assumed towards the Indians, from the day when,
to enter upon his command, he with an escort of
one hundred and twenty men, pushed through
the heart of the enemy’s country near the camp
of Neahmicco, where were six hundred hostile
warriors, to the time when his orders were (and
are) obeyed by the Indian chiefs with the punc
tuality and promptness of military discipline—
by his measures for raising an Indian force for
separating the friendly and the warriors from
those decidedly hostile—and by Ir.s exertions as
commanding General of the corps.
The Georgia troops, however restless under
the inaction imposed on them by want of arms,
and by Maj. Gen. Scott’s -plan ot campaign,”
have nobly redeemed the time th ,n lost, bv their
conduct in the Creek country, ami more recently
in the contest with the Creeks, some of whom,
in consequence of the late orders for removal,
are endeavoring to make their way to Florida,
across the line whose defence General Jesup con
filled to Gen Sanford.
The foregoing remarks answer the abusive ar.
tide of the Courier and Enquirer, in all things
except the inapplicable epithets which I regret
to find in m appeal to “officersof the army” by
a person who has served long enough in our
ranks to have learned a different language.
I close these remarks as tho Editor closed his
article, by saying—they are respectfully suhmit
icd to the public, in order that the officers of the
army may properly appreciate tho conduct of
Maj. Gen Jesup.
J. F. LANE,
Capt. U. S. Army.
Creek Country, August 8, 1836.
CHOLERA.
[From the Charleston Patriot.]
The following letter from a distinguished Phy.
sictan ol Philadelphia, written four years since
when Cholera Asplnxia prevailed in its worst
forms at the North, is published now for general
information, as clearly explaining the character
of the disease and its appropriate remedies. Dr.
Meys had, we understand, the most extens ve
experience in its treatment, both in Canada and
the United States, having been one of the two
Physicians sent from Philadelphia to Montreal
to ascertain its history and cure.
By means of very extensive observations, made
both m Europe and America, it has been cleariy
established that the disease called Malignant
Cholera, is ushered in by diarrhoea or looseness
of the bowels, which continues generally seve
ra! days before the Cholera attack takes place;
and rarely lasts less than 18 or2o hours. Pre.
vioos to the occurrence ol the severe and more
dangerous stages of the maladv, this also is as
certaincd that the premonitory staue is curable
whf never it appears ; that there is little danger
to any well-informed and prudent person ot per
ishing with Cholera, even where it prevails with
the greatest violence.
You may rely with the utmost confidence upon
the truth of tl.e. e assertions, established as they
are upon the observation of many thousands of
cases. Nevertheless, this important truth can
never warram you in neglecting those precau.
tions against an attack of diarrhoea, which your
own experience would p lint out with sufficient
clearness. If you avoid diarrhoea, you wll ob
viate even the danger of being seized with Cho
lera. If you should have diarrhoea and neglect
it, or treat it badly, you wi 1 be very liahie to
Cholera, if living in an affected district.
I shall advise you to make no change in your
habits, except it be to abstain from those vege
tables which occasion a flatulent digestion or are
prone to acidity.
Many persons are apprehensive ofan attack of
Cholera by contagion. For my own part, I as
sure you. that it unaffected with Diarrhoea, I
would as leave sleep, or live in a Cholera Hos
piial, as any where else, and should never con
sider myself in the least danger without the pre
monitory or warning stage I have mentioned. I
leel the utmost confidence of the truth of what I
now say ; viz. that you never need fear to be
attacked with the disease, because you may ban.
pen to hold an intercourse with patients labouring
under it ; for I conscientiously assure you, it is
not contagious in any sense. In many of the
cases of Diarrhoea preceding Cholera, the outset
is very mild, not causing more than three or four
evacuations from the bowels in a day . the purg.
ing increasing in frequency as the irritation he.
comes more intense, and being at length attend,
ed with a good deal of griping dysenteric pain.
If the attention of the patient should be called to
the first symptoms, of disotder of the bowels, lie
would be able to suppress or wholly remove it, by
abstinence from all fool and drink, rest and mod
erate warmih, and particularly if these means
should be aided by the composing influence of
a dose of Laudanum, say 30 drops, or an Opi.
um Pill of 1 grain weight. In fact, it will be
found that 1 grain o. Opium, taken very early,
will effectually allay the irritation from any per.
son, who avoids perpetuating or aggravating the
disorder by improper food, exercise or exposure
to the air Opium, indeed, is, in this state of
things, the best remedy, and should always he
resorted to, since no valuable time is lost in mak.
ing the attempt by so simple a process ; but
where the Diarrhoea is fully and decidedly
formed, other measures must he adopted.
The effect of the repeated ev icu itions in Di
arrhoea, is to leave the bowels entirely free
(rom their feceal contents, the discharge be
coming gradually thinner and paler until they
resemble rice water, or even spring water—
the ex sienceof this colorless discharge is the
truest mark and the most dangerous occurrence
in Malignant Cholera.
The fluid consists of the watery part of the
blood or what is called Serum: and cannot be
lost in any considerable quantity, without leav.
ing the blood so thick that it is no longer fit for
circulation, through the delicate vessels or
channels of the body; it becomes in many cases
actually grumous, and will not flow even from a
wound in a pretty large vein The loss of this
Serum brings on the stage of collapse, and the
collapse is either greater or less m degree, as
the patient has lost a greater or less amount
of the Serum of his blood. The gradual dimi.
nution of the Serum, is accompanied with
Cramps, Vomiting, Coldness, Blueness, and ihe
shr.uking of the body, which marks this dtsea se
so peculiarly and distinctly. He who permits
his Diarrhoea to go to the extent of producing
colorless discharges, is to be accused ot igno
r .nce or carelessness, and, in either case has to
blame himself only. You will be sale in taking
one of your Opium Pills marked No. 1, provided
you should find yourself seized with slight dis
order of the bowels; and may confidently expect
to be freed from it, provided your attention is
properly directed to the oilier circumstance
mentioned —I mean to abstinence, rest, and
warmih, &c. But as it might happen to you
to have a more serious attack o’ Diarrhoea, I
shall proceed to advise you as in that case—if
instead of a slight attack of Bowel Complaint,
you should be seized suddenly with repeated
evacuations attended with griping pains, you
should go to bed and take two of the Pills mar.
ked J\o. 2, and in tiro or three hours afterwards
take half an oz of Castor nil, with one or two
teaspoonfulls of R. Rhubarb, and if there be
much pain or any increased heat of the body,
loose 8 or ten ounces of blood (rom the arms,
and apply a large cataplasm of mustard over the
upper part of the abdomen. If the Pills and
Castor Oil should not evidently operate in a
seasonable time two more of the pills remedy
to be taken, tube followed within an hour by a
dose of the Oil and Tine’. Rhubarb.
Under the use of these remedies, the Stools
will probably he found not only less painful, but
will be of a more healthy kind ; in consequence
of the more abundant secretion and discharged
Bile. When the medicines shall have operated
a few times, 2 grams of Opium, or 2 Opium Pills,
may be taken (or the purpose of quieting the
Bowels, and if a former dose had proved ineffi.
facious, it will probably be less so now that the
otedicine has done its office— You are well
tware that when blood is drawn and remains at
est, in a basin, it separates into two portions
one the clot or cake, end the other the water or r
Serum. When the Serum has fully separated n
from the Clot, the latter is very firm and solid— c
now you are prepared to understand, that if a
man discharges from his Bowelts in an attack ol i
Cholera, 100 ounces of Rice IV ater, or Serum, t
his Blood will become thick and cannot circulate t
in many of the smaller vessels or channels but i
I have seen more than 100 ounces of Serum or
Rice Water discharged in no very long time.
The Collapse so much spoken of, depends on
this loss of Serum—and the Collapse is greater
as the loss is greater. A few grains of some
dnig or nostrum will not be sufficient to check
these Serous discharges when they once are fair
ly begun. Drugs are not to be trusted —such
as would be sufficient or capable of influencing
the system, would be nearly as dangerous as the
malady itself.
There is a rush of the fluids towards the bow
els, with a lendency of the Serous parts to ex
hale from its surface—this rush inward must be
checked or counteracted, and an outward or su.
perficial determination is to be raised in its stead
—it is best checked by bleeding—the loss of 10
or 12 ounces of Blood in any early stage, will
check it in a vast majority of cases, particularly
if favored and assisted by Mustard Cataplasms,
freely applied upon various parts of the surface
of the body and limbs, which suddenly andpnw.
erfully counteracts the inward rush of the fluids,
or draws them away from the bowels towards
the furf-ices inflamed or rendered painful by them.
CHARLES O. MEYS, M. D.
IRELAND.
Mr. O'Connell- Agitation.
London, July 2,183 G.
My dear Barrett—Announce my address to
the people of Ireland for your paper of Wednes
day. I had hoped to be able to send it off this
day, but I find I cannot complete it before Mon
day.
We have been insulted as W'ell as outraged by
“iho lords;” but we have in ourselves resources
to enable us to overcome every difficulty. Let
us, however, recollect these mailers—
-Ist. That we diminish our own strength and
give additional power to our enemies by acts of
violence, or by any violation of the law.
2d. That one portion of the population of
Ireland—the Catholics—aided by the liberal
section of the Protestants, but opposed by the
then more numerous and active Protestant as
cendency (action, achieved emancipation.
3,1. 'I hat the ascendency faction is now com
paraiively weak and powerless; the popular par
ty has extended ns basis, and includes in its
composition much Protestant and Presbyterian
wealtli and intelligence.
4th. That nothing can be done without com
bination and an unity of action; but every thing
can be achieved by them. •
I will more fully develops my plan in the
letter I promise to send on Monday. It will
■ include the organization of “ The General
Association of Ireland.” The objects of that
association will be two.fold:
i Ist. To procure by law a complete municipal
reform in Ireland, on as large and effectual a ba-
I sis as that originally proposed bv the ministry.
2d. To procure by Jaw such a statement of
> the tithe question as shall be fully satisfactory
to ihe people ot Ireland.
> The association to be dissolved so soon as
both these objects are obtained.
The association lo be supported by an “Irish
, rent,” on the same basis as the Catholic rent.
It is, indeed, only ihe more necessary at pres
i ent, as the number of per ons unjustly and ille.
r cally aggrieved under the tithe system is very
f great, and these persons must be relieved,
i I will give rny advice and my plan in detail
in my.next letter. I need ?ay nothing to rouse the
r honest resentment of the Irish people. I would
t rather restrain within proper bounds the mad
dening influence of the just indignation and sca
. thing scorn of the Irish natn n at the insolent
t insult w hich has been basely inflicted upon us.
j Believe me to be yours very faithfully.
DANIEL O’CONNELL,
r Richard Barrett, Esq.
O'Connell to the people of Great Britain.
; I.ETTER 11.
“Justice—Justice for Ireland.”
f There is an old proverb which says, “One fact
is worth a ship load of arguments ” I will give
[ yon the fact of value. It is my own case.
I have a residence in Ireland—it is in a parish
called Kilcrohtaie, in the county of Kerry. The
parish is in length about seventeen miles, the
[ breath from three or four. The present popula
[ tion is 10,154. Os ihese the r e are Caihol.cs,
■ 3,090; Protestants, IC4.—Of these Protestants
. there are 87 consisting of “coast guards” and
r police, with their families. These persons are
, not, properly speaking, parishioners. They are
. employed in the public service, removed at stated
periods; in short, strangeis, being in the parish
■ only for a particular purpose and for a limited
time.
The Protestant parishioners, therefore, are
only 77. Bat reckon them all, and the case
stands thus:
Catholics, 9,990
Protestants, 164
The rector of this parish is the Rev. Mr. Long
field. He has been rector for the last ten or
twelve years ; I believe he has not been as many
days in the parish. I never saw him ; and the
only service ho ever did me, was leaving his
usual residence at Bath or Cheltenham, and
corning to an eletion to Kerry for the purpose of
voting against me—that is all.
His composition for tithes out of the parish
amounts to 500/ per annum, or thereabouts. He
lias also three or four glebes. There are two
parishes according to the Catholic division. We,
the Catholics,. cheerfully support the Catholic
clergymen of both.
The case then, is lh : s :I,as a Catholic, have
to support my own clergymen, to build my own
church, and keep it in repair. The parish is
poor, and the principal burden of these falls on
me; and now the Rev. Mr. Longfield insists
that, in addition, I shall pay him 50/ a year for
tithes; and because I deem this demand, as it
manifestly is, most unjust and unreasonable, he
causes a bill to be filed against me in the Court
of Exchequer, hands me over to a voracious at
torney to mulct me in heavy costs, and then,
forsooth, tells me that the relgion which stimu
lates him to and sanctions this gross and palpable
injustice is better than my religion.
I do not believe it, Englishmen, I do not be.
lieve it! I think my religion better than his; and
therefore I never will pay him one shilling—no,
not one farthing. He and his attorney may
I seize my cattle, my corn, my furniture; they
may distrain my tenants; they may sell, carry
away, or destroy—l never will pay one penny.
It is an unjust demand. I will not resist the
law, because like so many other monstrous ini
quities, there is law for this also; but I repeat, I
never will pay him one shilling—to him or to
his use nut one farthing. Come what come may,
I never will pay him one single farthing.
This is mv statement of fact. Here we are,
in round numbers, ten thousand catholics, called
upon by our religious principles to support our
own clergymen—called upon by law to support
the clergyman of, say two hundred protestants,
which clergyman goes off from them altogether,
and leaves them to a curate at 701. a year badly
paid.
Is this justice ? Is this honesty ? I ask eve
ry right thinking Englishman to make it his
own case. I dddress each Englishman individu.
ally; I say to him—that there are ten thousand
protestants, of whom you are one : that there are
also two hundred catholics, with whom, of
course, you have no community of religion.
There is a priest appointed by or for these cath
olics— the protestants are called on, you are cal
led on to give that priest three or (ourglebcs and
all your tithes. What would be your answer ? I
will tell you. It would be a denial—a refusal.
The terms of that refusal more harsh probably
than it is necessary ; but it would be the refusal
of honest indignation.”
Let me add. however, that in the case of the
Catholic there is a feature of greater strength
and more distinctness. It is this ; tithes were
instituted, these glebes were set apart, not by
Protestants for Protestant worship, but by
Citholics for Catholic worship They were
• ■urs ; we assigned them for our purposes—he
purpose of the ten thousand. —The force of law.
or rather the law of the force, has unjustly torn
•hem from the Catholics, whose property ihey
were, and given them to the two hundred Pro
testants, whose property they are not.
Take then this gigantic injustice as yea find
if—this multitudinous injustice—and tell me,
Englishmen! Britons ! are you surprise that Ire.
land is not tranquil, whilst this gross, glaring,
monstrous injustice prevails?—an injustice the
more insufferable because it is sustained by
cant and hypocricy in the name of religion.
Englishmen ! would you bear with patience
a similar injustice, it the case were yours? 1
tell you what, the Scotchmen did not bear it;
they turned out on the mountain’s side, and nev
er allowed the sword to rust in the scabbard un.
til they banished this iniquity from Scotland, and
until they succeeded in directing tiie payments
made by the people into the hands of the elergy
who administered to the spiritual wants ot that
people.
Well, the Irish are at present more moderate
—less would now content us ; we desire to have
tithes totally abolished ; or if any part remains to
be levied, that it shall be applied to the purpos.
es of giving education to all classes of people.
We do not at present demand the glebes lor the
residence of the pastors whom the people pre
ler. But I candidly acknowledge that, as
the contest con inues and grows warmer—as
the proieslant clergy idem fy themselves with
the wholesale slaughterers in the field, and with
the more vexatious and exasperating villany ot
the exchequer attornies—as the ideas they ex.
cite are of the Rathcormaes, red with the blood
of the sons of widows, or of "he odious exche
quer rebellious writs —all connexion with reli.
gious institutions is forgotten ; and the Irish Jug
gernaut of plunder and massacre stands promin
ent, as demanding those sacrifices which we
formerly thought were only made to a meredif.
ference in religion. The time is, from those
causes, r ast arising when a compromise will be
imp sa:b!e ; aid those who now refuse an ami
cable and moderate arrangement, will have to
blame themselves when a similar arrangement
shall be rejected indignantly and contemptuously
by the people of Ireland.
Englishmen ! I call upon you while there is
time and ooportunity, to rouse youtselves to ob
tain justice to Ireland. On Monday, the day on
which this letter will be published, the Lords
will consummate another measure ol injustice
and iniquity. Foolish and dishonest men will
stand between Ireland and her rights, and in the
madness of their absurdity, forget the near pre
cipice down which the aroused indignation of
millions of Britons must infallibly and speedily
hurl them.
My next letter willjbe addressed to the people
of Ireland—to the shrewd, sensible, intelligent,
generous, and brave people of Ireland. They de
serve to be your bro.hers and coequals ; because
your liberties have not recently been, nor ever
again shall they be, in jeopardy, that you may
not reckon on the ready, active, and zealous co
operation in your cause ot your Irish fellow
countrymen.
I have the honor to be, your faithful serv’t.
Daniel O’Connell.
Langham Place, June 25.
[ From the Columbus Sentinel.]
“Gen. Watson of Columbus, one of the elec
tors put upon the Van Buren ticket, has request,
ed that his name shall be taken down, on the
ground that he wis opposed to him as a member
of the Clarke party, and that he has seen no
■ reasons to changi the opinions he then enter,
tamed; and besides t!-:e General was very well
content to leave a fulling house. There is not
the slightest doubt as to the total deleat of the
Van Buren party in Georgia.”
The foregoing precious specimen of veracity
we copy from the Mobile Chronicle. And we
scarcely know why, either. To contradict any
thing the Nnliifiers say at this time with regard
‘ to the election—or any ol the candidates, with
the hope that they will give the slightest aiten.
, lion to truth and justice, is to show oneself ve.
[ ry ignorant of the course they have laid down
I for beating Mr. Van Buren, and guilty of a ere.
dulitv worse than puerile. We happen to know
the cause which induced Gen. Watson to with,
draw his name from the Eectorial Ticket, and
know that it is entirely different from the one
above stated; and that the paragraph is conse.
qnemly, as far as relates to Gen. W. wholly des.
titute of truth; as we believe it is in regard to
the prospects of the Van Buren party. Gen.
Watson is now a private citizen, and it would
be unmannerly in us to bring him before the
t public without his own desire. Nor do we con.
sider it necessary. Gen. Watson had goud and
sufficient reasons to satisfy himself that he
( ought not to run, and he exercised his undou it
_ ed privilege of refusing to do so. But we are
proud to hail him as a staunch Van Buren Re.
publican, with us heart and hand. He will vote
the Van Buren ticket at the ensuing election.
1 and afford his heany co.operation to the friends
I of that gentleman. So much lor the Chronicle
news of Georgia politics. Now we have not
the most remote idea that the editors of the
I Chronicle will put themseves to the least iron,
ble to correct their misstatement. If they do,
it will certainly be an unusual course We shall
see.
As to Mr. Van Buren’s prospects in this State
we do not care to say much about them until
the election is over. But —it rh • Nullifiers do
not get worse beat this bout than they have ev.
er been before, then we are not of the * children
of the prophets.” Thai’s all we have to say
now.
BOSTON. Aug. 20. — The Frigate Independ.
er.ee, —Tins fine frigate was taken out of the
Dry Dock, at Charlestown Navy Yard, and haul
ed round to the adjacent wharf lo receive her
masts, on Wednesday. The operation of float
ing her out of the Dock was very interesting, and
attracted the fixed attention of more than a thou
sand spectators, of both sexes. Governor Ev
erett and family, and several other gentlemen
and ladies, were on board, as was also Commo
dore Downes, who assumed the immediate di
rection of the excdtng and critical operation.
Man/ specta’ors, stationed abaft in the receiv
ing ship Columbus, had a favorable position for
observation, and the remainder, entirely sur
rounding the margin of the Dock, formed a con
tinuous, yet ever mutable and picturesque bor
der, as sei n from the decks ol the Independence.
About half past eleven, two small vents were
opened in the dick-gates, and two others near
the bottom of the Dock, and suddenly the waters
leaped in, at each aperture, like bounding ani
trials, each counter current gush'ng against the
others, till the whole body of water was lashed
into a milk.white foam. As witnessed from the
stern ports, this furious conflict of the current*
—boiling, dashing, and then dying away forward
—was an exceedingly animating spectacle.
Gradually the water arose above the inlets, and
the turmoil subsided, and at 12 o’clock the
“shores” which had hitherto supported the fri
gate began to drop one by one from their posi.
tions, and glide alongside. She floated in b
feel of water. As soon as the waters within
and without were in equilibrio—2o feet deep—
the bridge on the gates was cleared of specta
tors, the gates thrown open, and the frigate
dropped out without perceptible motion. Noth
ing could exceed the case, regularity, and sim
plicity of the manoeuvres by which this result
was effected. Every thingj was in time and
place.
Notwithstanding the large number of persons
present—some ol whom collected on the steps
descending into the Dock, and were within im.
prudent proximity to the frigate—not the slight
est accident or incident occurred to mark the
gratification derived from the spectacle.
The Independence was hauled up about a year
since.—She was'hen a 74, but has been razeed
and almost entirely rebuilt, and is now only a
double.banked frgato. but mounts sixty thirty,
two pounders. She is considered to be superior
in every respect to the old fashioned seventy,
fours—being deeper between, decks, yet present,
ing less surface to the fire of an enemy.— Stales,
man.
London Police. —London, tinder the nolice
system of Sir Robert Peel, is the best governed
city in the world, and yet the police man has not
a weapon in his handv. Politeness"—Address
is the weapon with which he acts. If two per
sons are quarreling, and a crowd is gathering,
he steps up as an uninterested party, and calm
ly asks, if he cannot settle the difference, with
a let me be the Judge, gentlemen, or sir.”
Knowing all the regulations of the city, a word
from him is law with the coachman, and a sign
from him, a single motion of his finger, will
keep in order a line of carriages a mile long. 1 1
a stranger seeks to find out a place, or a citizen
an obscure partof .he town he accompanies him.
or directs him with pleasure. Thus the police
being made polite and useful, becomes popular
too. Their moral strength is double that of their
physical power.
AUGUST A, OA.
Tuesday Morning-, September G. IB3C.
KTWe publish, in this day’s paper, a ticket for
Members to represent Richmond County in the nest
Legislature \V e wish it to bs distinctly understood,
that this ticket, as it is composed, cannot receive our
support. We shall lay before our readers lha rea
sons which lead us to adopt this course.
I Kr The Mails. —For a week past the arrival of the
Northern Mail has been very irregular. On Sunday
we received papers that were due here on Friday
and Saturday, and yesterday we were again with no
mail north of Camden.
SKT It seems to us that the next legislature will
have to ascertain how one of the resolutions appen
ded to the report on the expediency of a survey of
the Savannah River Bank, with a view of damming
out inundations, &c.came to be inserted in the print
ed copy. If no such resolution passed the legislature,
and is not appended to the enrolled copy, how did
it find its way to the copy delivered to the printer?
This is not a subject of great import nice; but it
should, nevertheless, be investigated, in order to
prevent hereafter interpolations in the laws and re
solutions which might lead to or produce serious and
injurious consequences.
We received the following letter by yesterday’s
mail:
Executive Department, Geo. )
Mdledgeville, Sept. 3, 1836. )
Messrs. Guieufy Thompson, 1 have just lead an ar
ticle in your paper over tbs signature of“McAllister’’
upon the subject of the appointment by the Governor
ol an Engineer to survey the river bank, and the
adjacent swamps, with a view of damming out the
inundations of the Savannah river. McAllister
says, “Ills Excellency lit > Governor was authorized
by resolutions of the legislature at its last session, to
employ an Engineer to survey the river bank and
the adjacent swamps, with a view of damming out
the inundations of the Savannah river. Ido not
know that the appointment is yet made, but as the
survey must be commenced now to be in lime with
a report for the next session, 1 presume that his
excellency will authorize the examination to be rna le
forthwith.”
It is true that a Resolution authorizing the Gov
ernor to employ an Engineer for the purpose speci
fied by McAllister, is to be found in the printed re
solutions appended to the laws of the last sess-on.
But how it came there, is a matter of surprise to me;
for no such resolution mas passed by the Legislature,
or approved or signet by the Governor.
The joint committee of the Senate and House of
Representatives of the las! session, appointed for the
purpose of taking into consideration the utility
and practicability of saving the swamp lands on the
Savannah river, by means of embankments oro’.her
vvise, after making a lengthy and detailed report
upon thesubject, concludes in the following words,
“In consideration of which your commute respect
fully recommend the adoption of the following Re
solution—
Resolved, That it would be a work of great utility,
and that it is practicable, to save the swamp lands on
the Savannah river, from inundation by means of
embankments.” This is the only resolution append
ed to the report or passed by the L-gislature upon
the subject. Neither the report or resolution re
quired any action, and therefore,as in all such cases,
was not signed or approved by the Governor.
The enrolled Resolutions wih the great seal of
the slate affixed thereto, are now on file in the Secre
I tary of State’s office.
Very Respectfully, Gentlemen, your obedient
’ servant, WM J. W. WELLBORN,
Secretary Ex. Dep’t.
i ‘
Our readers should be apprised o r an infamous
1 misrepresentation going the rounds of the opposition
t presses, that Mr. Woodbury, the Secretary of the
Treasury, had written a b-tter to Mr. Waterhouse,
of Massachusetts, in which it was slat d that it was
the dele, ruination of Gen. Jackson and his advisers,
to prevent the distribution bill from going into oper
tion at all hazards. This falsehood was staled in
Boston, by the Atlas, printed at that place, and re
peated by many other opposition presses. Well; the
i letter of Mr. Woodbury Ins publisher], and does
it warrant the statement of the Atlass ? We leave
our readers to judge for themselves. This letter ap
! peared in the Boston Courier, a paper supporting
Mr. Webster for the presidency, but the editor of
| which, more l.beral and honest than the editor of the
Atlas, admits that there is nothing in that letter
which may not pass very innocently between a man
I and his friend
1 The following is the letter, as copied from the
Boston Courier, to which we have added the com
-1 rnents of the editor.
THE LETTER.
Washington , i*th July, 1836.
Dear Sir, —Yours of the 2d inst deserves my
best acknowledgments for its numerous useful
suggestions.
The naval bill, as to Adm.rals, did not get
through both Houses, and our friend Elliott, with
some other gallant fellows, mua; longer feel the
pangs of hope deterred.
Our overflrwing Treasury, which is so often
prayed for, will, I fear, prove a curse. But my
1 best efforts will he given to execute the late law
faithfully, though I have many misgivings as to
its fatal influence on the sound relations hereto,
fore existing between the stales and the general
government.
The President wishes me to express his thanks
for your kind remembrance of him. he leaves
this city in a few days for Tennessee.
I believe the ensuing presidential election is
to be unusually quiet, and I will not allow myself
to despair of the Republic, however portentous
may be some of the signs of the times.
Should we become involved in a real or quasi
war with Mexico, the surplus may never be di
vided, or will be soon recalled. At all events,
the whole will be wanted in 1842, if not earlier.
Five millions are to come off the present Tariff
in 1841, alone.
Mr. Adam’s health has not been good the lat
ter part of the session; but I saw Mrs. Adams
quite well at church last Sunday.
Truly and respectfully,
Your o »’t serv’t.
LEVI WOODBURY.
Hon. Benj. Waterhouse.
Cambridge, (Mass.)
This is the letter—the whole letter—and no.
thing but the letter. Doctor Waterhouse frankly
and unhesitatingly authorized us to publish it, on
our remarking that the publication seemed to be
demanded as a matter of justice to himself and
the writer. We pretend not to know the mten
lions ol the President and his advi-ers, official
or unofficial, in regard to the disposition of the
surplus revenue ; we presume that the Deposite
Bill meets with little favor in the Cabinet. But
whatever their intentions may I e, it is pretty cer.
tain, from the President’s letter to Governor
Cannon, that he does not desire a Mexican war.
Whether the Secretary’s Letter to Dr. Water
house affords sufficient ground (or the charges
involved in the extracts we have made as obove,
every reader will decide for himself. For our
self, we can only say, we do not perceive any
thing in it that may not pass very innocently be
tween a man and his friend without subjecting
the writer to a charge of indiscreetly betraying
important secrets.
( reck War.
We publish by request some remarks on the
prosecution of the Creek war, and ihe differences
arising from it, between General Scotland Jtsup.
Liverpool Steam Packet.
We learn (says the New York Commercial Adver
tiser) that ibis vessel, which has been so long talked
about, is now rapidly building; her frame is up, and
her machinery in progress by Mr. Paul Sabbalon.—
She will have two engines of 150 horse power. Every
thing is under contract to be finished about Ihe first
of November. She is to be called the Despatch, and
will be commanded by Cupt. Cobb, to whose energy
and perseverance will the public be indebted for Ihe
first steam boat to run between this port and Liver
pool. Capt. Cobb lias recently made a lour on the
canals, and we understand was much gratified with
.he management of the boats In those waters.
NEW COTTON.
Since our last we have received twenty six bale#
Cotton of the new crop, the quality of which ww
fair and good fair, which were disposed of ns follow:
4 bales at 20i cents.; 13 at 20; 8 at 19, and one bale
has gone into store.
Onr Relation!* will) France.
The Globe of August 29, says: “We are gratified
to learn,through a gentleman of high standing in Paris,
and one intimate with the councils of the King, that a
Minister is shortly to bs sent to this country’ to re*
slurs our diplomatic relations, and at the tame tirae>
the cordial and kind feelings which ought always I*
subsist between the two nations.”
Cholera In Charleston.
The Courier of the 2d inst. speaking of ihidF
disease, says—” Although Cholera
has been officially announced as existing in
city, we are happy to say that it has not escitecH|
that panic among us, which is thought to havJH
contributed much to its extension and fearful ral -
vages in other places, and that it seems to har JB|
put on a type of comparative mildness, yieldinglp
readily to prompt treatment. It has thus faffil
been almost exclusively confined to the coloredjflil
population and intemperate white persons,
has generally been owing to indulgence in
per food. Little or no apprehension need be en«> -
tertained by those, who adopt prudent precau*
tions in reference to diet, and dress, and against
exposure. Our citizens remain firm at theif
posts; and we have much confidence, that the
skdi of our Physicians, will, unler the blessings
of Providence, vanquish the disease.”
3bo following are the daily reports of tbs ,5
Board of Health received since our last, from
w.iich it will be seen that there really exists no
serious cause for alarm either on the part of our
citizens, or those of Charleston.
OFFICE BOARD OF HEALTH,
1 o’clock, P. M. Sept. 1.
The Special Committee of the Board have to
report for the last twenty four hours, three cases
ol Cholera; two under treatment— (he other
dead, of the eleven cases reported yesterday,
four more deaths have occurred. The cases re
ported are all Blacks—of the eleven cases repor
ted yesterday, two were white, and nine blacks.
By order. THOS. Y. SIMONS, M. D.
Chairmen Special Committee.
A. G. Howard, M. D. Clerk.
Svpf. 2,1 o’clock. P. M.
The Special Committee of the Board have to
report for the lost twenty four hours, seven cases
of Cholera; six under treatment—the other dead,
one white, the remainder blacks. Ol the three
cases reported yesterday as under treatment, all
have died. By order.
THOS. Y. SIMONS, M. D.
Chairman Special Committee. *'
A. G. Howard, M. D. Clerk. <
September 3. 1 o’clock, P. M.
The Special Committee of the Board have to
report for the last twenty-four hours, seventeen
cases of Cholera ; two white, and fifteen blacks
—two dead, the others under treatment. Os the
seven cases, reported yesterday two more have
died—the others are convalescent. By order.
THOS. Y. SIMONS. M. D.
Chairman Special Committee.
A. G. Howard, M. D. Clerk.
I o’clock, September 4.
The Special Committee of the Board, report
for the last twenty four hours, ten cases of 6ho
i lera. Two white, eight blacks—one dead — of
i the 17 cases reported yesterday, four more have
> died. THOS. Y. SIMONS, M. D.
Chairman Special Committee.
A. G Howard, M. D. Clerk.
Appropriations, \ew Offices, tic.
In compliance with an art of Congress, passed .ht
Ihe last session, the Clerk of the House o Represen
, tatives has published in the Globe, a report contain
, inga statement of all appropriations made during
? the session, of the new offices created, and rhe
. salaries of each, of the offices, the salaries of which
, have been increased, and the amount of such in
r crease, &c. From this report, which is too lung to
; be published in our paper, we have taken the follow
r ing abstract:
, Recapitulations of appropriations fur 1836.
Civil and diplomatic expenses $4,210,516 77
Army 4,607,298 72
s Fortifications 2,907,645 95
- Navy
Pensioners 455,454
Indian department 1,862,108 74
Indian treaties 6 38 67
Suppression of Indian hostilities 5,020,000
i Delaware breakwater, harbor and
I rivers 709,884 42 _
Improvement of certain harbors 403 100 41 ’
Miscellaneous 5,398,492 73
Private claims estimated (per Trea
sury statement) 220,000
, $38,342,293 71
Deduct this sum for Territory of
Wisconsin, having been twice
appropriated, viz; in 11. R. 216, I
and S. 92. 25,000
Amounting altogether to $38,517,298 71
And if 81,500 000 appropriated
lor the cities of the District of
Columbia, and which is not
payable for many years, be do
ducted ; and the $3,130,000
appropriated for the Post Of
fice, which is payable only out
of the receipts of Ihe Depart,
ment, be also deducted, the
arnout of appropriations for
1836 would then stand at $33,866,798 7|
United States and Mexico.
We published some days ago a letter from
the President to Governor Cannon of Tennessee,
respecting the requisition of Gen. Gaines for
1000 men from each of the States of Tennessee,
Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana, we now
subjoin the letter of the President to Governor
Morehead of Kentucky.
Hermitage, Aug. 7. 1836.
Sir:—Arriving at this place on the evening
of the sth instant, I was made acquainted with
the requisition of General Gaines on the Gov
ernors of Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, and
Louisiana, for 1000 men from each State, The
letter of General Gaines and the proclamation of
Governor Cannon, of Tennessee, made known
the basis of this requisition. Regarding the
reasons assigned by General Gaines as not con
sistent with the relations which we have main
tained with Mexico, since the existence of the
civil war in Texas, or with tiiose which it is our
duty and wish to cultivate with that Govern
ment, as long as it observes good faith and
friendship in its intercourse with the United
States, I feel myself called on to inform you
that that requisition has not received my appro,
bation. and that I trust, if the men called for
have been brought into ihe field, you will forth,
with cause them to be mustered and discharged
and await for further orders from the General
Government in respect to any other requisition
fur the militia.
The 10.000 volunteers authorized by the late
act of Congress have been apportioned among j
the States and Territories nearest to the thea- Si
tre of actual or apprehended hostilities from 1
the Indians. They are considered sufficient 1
combined with the regular troops, to maintain 1
the peace of the frontier, and to terminate the
war which now exists with the Creeks and |
Seminolea. AM of them have not been brought 1
into the field, but General Gaines was notified '
thai 1,000 volunteers in Arkansas, and 1,000
in Missouri, had received orders ro be org’ani.
zed and held in readiness for one year’s service
should the emergency arise making their em
ployment necessary on the frontier now com
manded by him. This circumstance makes the
present requisition ol General Gaines still more
unaccountable, particularly as it is believed that
our western frontier is’now tranquil. • Under
these ircumstanccs, you will please cause the