The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-04-22 00:00:00

CHARLESTON PAPERS.

INTCRESTING-FROM WASHINGTON.

We are indebted to oar friends at Washington foe
the following political news. Tee views which they
famish of the late Treaty with Simi., are interesting
to all dosses of readers. We rejoice at the cession
of the Florid's. The advantages are great and in.
Wresting. The loffeence sod command which it gine
us over the Indians; the occupation of such a long
Tine of coast and the ports which it 'elbows's; the
smile cosnmaod of all the rivers which flow frrm one
owls territory into the Gulf, through all their went;
she stop which it pats to smuggling, to the Slave
Trade, to foreign emissaries ; the Iliad which it se.
cores, *Rh the valuable live oak it produces; these
a,lvantages are almost incalcolablo. From St. Lew.
twice to (be Gulf of Meeks is now ours ! Besides
the embarrassments from which It relieves us In our
,eletloos with Spain, on account of the anastborised
acts of Gee. Jackson,. tho heart-horning, which it
heals eves IPA that Power, and the firmer founds-
!
linos me which oar peer* repose. list as it settles
the foreign qu.stion which arises from General
Jacksoo's roc. edlogv,"us it remotes the embarrass.
menus which were argod with so much effect to ar.
I rest an enquiry into General Jackson's course, Co
may now look at the domestic view of thsoqaestioe
alone with greater freedom. Spain is quieted ; bat
is the Constitution satisfied ! Shall the predo.
mioaney of the Military over the Civil Power be still
calmly submitted to?

IRON A FRIEND,
" Dated Washlngtnn, Fe►. 24.
44 The Treaty with Spain will relieve the Esecu.
lire froT all the ntipleatant questions which our re.
Wines with Spain might have produced. 'the Re.
port of the Committee of the Senate (in relation to
General Jackson) contains only s tine of facts,
end opinions applied to the facts, without concluding
with any specific resolution. It is drawn op by Ge.
neral Lace& of Pennsylvania, a man of strong
mind; and the Report is more entitled to attention
from the boldness of the style and manner than the
puns, of it. hollow, or the harmony of its ttriode.
It will not, l thick, be discussed. It is long, era
embraces several new docowients not heretofore pre.
seated to the Public, pertlcelarly the orders of Ge.
nerd Jackson to General Gaines for tilting St. Att.
gamine.
" All the papers on the subject of the correspond.
VIM between General Jackson and the Governor of
Georgia, aro before the Public. if in the year 17V8
such a course had been adopted towards the Gower.
nor of Virginia, the ofScer might have considereJ
himself forteeate to escape With his life. The tale•
and bees.), of our system of Government depends
on a preservation of all Its parts. The State Go.
veroments are charged with a eery important part of
the powers of Government.
" I. All questions respecting property between
citizen and citizen &peed entirely on the State Ae-
Oodles. No controol is given by the Constitution
to the General Government over this subject.
" S. Al questions affecting the liberty or life of
the citizen fur offences committed within the body
of the State belong esclosively to the State Govern.
men t•.

" 3. In short, the most interesting geestioes con.
fleeted with the tiro, liberty, sod propeity of the
citizen, were intended In he left elelusively with the
State (i•o►ernments. Tri.great object In . st•blirhing
Ilse fed.•rsl Gu►rrnment was to give signer and
force to thenational eaertlons against foreign enemies.
" A disposition, I fear, eai•ts to transfer as many
of the powers of the State Go►ernments as by the
force of steamed eJnstrertions and other means can
be wrested iron them. On thepsrt of the Esecuti►e
no mach disposition has been manifested In the con.
strecti•in of the Cun4titetion of t►e Chafed States.—
On the contrary, the 'upend heretofore when does
beim, to bit character, mod is :oasis Pet with It.r for.