Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-03-26

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at bis taking a seat in the next congress"
The wanton killing Of an Indian ought to
| be visited with the severest punishment.
By an act of this SORT, perpetrated IN the
latter end of January, by person of the
name Of James Thompson, on an Indian
belonging to the Fox tribe-all the settle
ments on the Salt river are thrown into the
utmost alarm, from the certainty of being
visited by the retaliation which Indian law
| assigns as the punishment due TO murder.
unless the offender shall be apprehended
| and brought to justice, with which the IN
| dams have declared they will be satisfied.
National Intelligencer.
From the National Entelligencer.
REPLY 10 the STRUCTURES on the RE-
PORT of the COMMITTEE of the
SENATE.
(Concluded.)
In postscript to the structures, tits sta.
ted that Gen, Jackson told member of the
committee that be was willing TO go be-
fore them and disclose all the documents in
bis possession.
fgen. Jackson did say this to a::member,
II must have been designed as an insult to
the committee and to the Senate-he must
have considered that body in the light of
subaltens in the army, and she therefore
condescends TO tell them thathe Is uilliag 10
appear beforetheir committee.
That committee was vested by the Sc
nate with full power to call every officer
in the government before them, and it was
not necessary for the general TO have given
this evidence of his great condescension,
to have put them in mind of the extent Of
their powers or their obligations Of duty to
the Sen3ie.
The reasons for not calling general
Jackson before the committee. were of
different character, arising from the peculi-
ar situation in which he officially stood,
and his connexion with the subject of en-
quiry. But, il the general was willing to
disclose other documents to the committee,
why were not those documents transmitted
to the executive department OF govern
ment and filled in the war Office, from
W they might have been obtained or,
awe left TO presume that General Jack
son is in possession of facts of an official
nature, that he will moi conde,cend to lay
before the president of the U. S. to whom
he should feel himself responsible for his
conduct?
There is one charge in the structures that
applies exclusively to the chairman OF the
commt,ee-that of being partner with
the contr tctor-the fallacy of this charge,
as well as its deliberate design TO infict
private i"jury on man, whose only offence
was an independent discharge Of official
duties, is fully proven by the annexed de
position of the contractor himself, Colonel
Benjamin G. Orr, who is now the mayor of
the City of Washington.
| SHALL now close these observations,
which have been extorted from me by the
peculiar and virulent character of the
Structures in question, and the source from
whence they emanated. 1t is hoped, 70
the honor of the nation, as il is the first,
that il may be the last occasion thu may
occur, to impose similar duty on member
of the national legislature that in future
no military officer of government, eithe
humble or ex, lied, will so Tar lose sight of
the duty and respect due to the civil au-
thori,ies Of the.nation, as to fail into SINH
lar errors-and, if reason were for mo-
ment allowed to assume its empire in tbe |
minds of the most violent among them, il |
would be discovered, that inevitable dis
grace to the individual concerned would
be the consequence Of such measures, rer-
haps the prustration of the army, whose We.
ry existence does and ought to depend on
conviction in the public mind, that the |
military department of the government is
subject to s. subordinate TO the civil powers.
Fhile this principle is practically oh
served ty the officers Of tie army, that
will be found useful, but,
once abandoned, the army becomes dan
gerous to public liberty, and ought aud
should be reduced. !