Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-07-02

ers Of the government. limo other lnotir.
for its insertion can be suggested, suit.
cient one is found in the desire 10 remove
all doubts respecting the right to Iegi.iats
on that vast mass of incidental powers
which must be involved in the coBstj,u.
ton, If that instrument be not Il splendid
bauble.'
The court then does not give to these
words any greater extension than is allow.
ed 10 them by Hdmpden.
The three general propositions laid down
by this writer as containing those grea, and
fundamental truths which are to comic,
the supreme court OF error, have now been
examined. The first is directly affirmed, 4.
the last admitted, in the opinion so much
reprobated. The second contains in il.
self no principle, which that opinion con-
troyerts. Yet the Quotations arranged un-
der it, and the aspersions, alike unius, and
injurious on the supreme court of our cour.
try, which are intermingIed with those quo.
ialions, have been noticed in some detail,
because this was necessary to the correcG
underst 'nding of this application to the
subject unier discussion.
A FRIEND OF THE CONSTITUTION.
Detroit, June H.
Three or four days ago, Waogan, the In.
dian who made the deposition before Geo.
M'Dougail, Esq (ihe substance of which
was given in our last, was found dead
few miles up The river Rouge he was
scalped, and his scalp was hanging on
stick, which was stuck in the ground near
his head. The circumstances attending
bis death, as they have been related to US,
are as follow Waogan was quarresome
and mischievous Indian, and was, as The
Indians say. constantly usig his endea-
vor. TO promote quarrel of some kind
After the affair on the river Rouge, which
re>ulte,! il the death oithe young Tonqul,h,
his behaviour WAS very insoient o the rela-
tiyes OF the dece 4sed, whom he stgmatIzed
as COW ards for not revenging the death Of
their kinsman, and advised them to seek
revenge Ii is further stated, that he and
one or two others, whom he had msled,
stole from the surveying party in the vCini.
tv of the river Rouge their provisions, and
once or twice took them away iorcibly
Thi, conduct OF Waogan alarmed The
well-disposed Indians, and they came to a
determination, al er bret consultation, TO
put him to death. and the sentence was eX-
ecuted Immediately.
This circumstance shows, in a very con.
elusive manner, that the Indians desire 10
1--we in amiiy with the whites. and tina, they
are capable of toreseeing, and greatly fear,
the consequences OF quarrel with them.
Ii is therefore to be hoped, tnst rejudices
which may exist against the Indians, will
not lead any white man 10 insult them, or
to the commission OF any act which may
tend TO do away the sentiments with which
they are now impressed in relation to the
whites.
Last Sunday evening, three men lett this
place in boat for Crosse Isle; when OPP
posite Petite Cote, on the Canada shore,
the wisd compelled them 10 lay TO, near
the shore. at this place they were hailed
by man in the service OF Capt. Elliot. who
we believe is revenue officer. The man
boarded the boat, and was informed by the
boalmen that they had only wagon and
some provisions Oh board. / he man wss
some what intoxicated, and left the boat ap'
pare n,Iy satisfied. He went TO Capt FL.
lot, who ordered him TO desist from trou5.
ling the boatnlen. Soon after, he returned
to the shore and ordered the men to come
on shore or he would shoot them and on
their eiusing, he fired his gun al then, ana
wounded two very badly f; a buckshot pas
sed through the jacket OF the third. lns
man Immediately escaped to the woods
but has since surrendered himself at hi
place. He proves to be an American de-
serter. The offence having been commit
ted out Of the jurisdiction Of our courts
the man can only be punished here Tor bis
military crime of desertIon. 1t IS much
be regretted that some reciprocal arrange.