Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-02-16

was one general burst of indignation
throughout the continent. Faction itself
was silenced, and the firm and unanimous
determination of all parties was, to fight
until the last man fell in the ditch rather
than submit to such iguominious terms.
What contrast exhibited between the
cotemporaneous scenes Of ebert and OF
Fort Jackson: What powerful voucher
would the British Commissioners have
been furnished with, if they could have
got hold Of that treaty The United
States demand, The United States de-
mand, is repeated five or six times. And
what did the preamble itself disclose
That two thirds of the Greek nation had
Ibeen hostile, and one third only friendly
Ito us. Now, he had heard (he could not
vouch for the truth Of the statement) that
not one hostile chief signed the treaty.
He had also heard that perhaps one or
two of them had. If the treaty really
were made by minority Of the nation,
ii was not obligatory upon the whole ma
ton. 1t was void considered 10 the light
of a national compact. And, if void, the
Indians were entitled to the benefit of the
provision of the ninth article of the tTea-
Ity of Client, by which we bound cur
lselves to make peace with any tribes with
Whom We might be at war, on the ra,ifiea-
ton of the treaty, and 10 restore to them
their lands as they held them in 1871.
Mr.. G.. said he did not know how the
honorable Senate, that body for which he
held SO high respect, could have given
their sanction to the treaty of Fort Jack
son, SO utterly irreconcileable as it is with
those noble principles of generosity and
magnanimity which he hoped TO see this
country always exhibit, and particularly
towards the miserable remnant of the alb
origines. 1t would have comported bet
ter with those principles, to have imitat
ed the benevolent policy of the founder of
Pennsylvania, and to have given TO the
Greeks, conquered as they were, even if
lthey had made an unjust war upon US,
, 1.-THE trifling consideration, to them an ade
: Iquate compensation, which he paid for
their lands. The treaty, Mr.. C. said
he feared, had been the main cause OF the
| recent war. And if ii had been, it only
Iadded another melancholy proof to those
with which history already abounds, that
hard and uncomfortable terms, extorted
s Eby the power Of the sword and the right
q lof conquest, served but TO whet and slim
e Inlate revenge, and to give to old hostiIi.
I tiles, smoihered, not extinguished, by the
4: EpreteDded peace, greater evaporation and
; Imore ferocity. A truce thus patched up
. with an unfortunate people, without the
E means of existence, without bread, is no
: real peace. The instant there is the
! slightest prospect of relief, from such
Harsh and severe conditions, the conquer
! led party will fly to arms, and spend the
last drop Of blood rather than live in such
] degraded bondage. Even if you again
! lreduce him to submission, the expenses
incurred by this second war, to say
! nothing of the human lives that are sa-
: lcrifced, will be greater than what il
r would have cost you to have granted him
: liberal conditions in the first instance.
4 This treaty, he repeated it, was, he ap-
} lprehended, the cause of the war. 1t led
: TO those excuses on our southern borders
(which began it. Who first commenced
I Them it was perhaps difficult to ascertain.
e. There was, however, paper on this sub.
ject, communicated at the last session, by
I the President, that told in language SO pa
thetic and feeling, an artless tale--a pa
{ lper that carried such internal evidence, al
/. least, of the belief of the authors of il
that they were writing the truth. that he
, would ask the favor of the committee to
allow him to read it, should be very
: unwilling, Mr. C. said, to assert, 10 regard
1 to this war, that the fault was on our side
0 but he feared it was. He had heard that
E very respectable man, now no more, who
e lonce filled the executive chair of Geor.
. lgia. aud who having been agent Of Indian
e affairs in that quarter, had the best oppor-
| tuoity of Judging of the origin Of this war,
: deliberately pronounced it as his opinion,
$ that the Indians were not in fault. MIR. C.
lsaid that he was far from attributing to
Gen. Jackson any other than the very
slight degree of blame which attached to
; him as the negociator of the treaty Of Fort
Jackson. and which would be shared by
those who subsequently, ratified and sane
toned that treaty. But if there were
even doubt as to the origin of the war,
: whether we were censurable or the Indi-
ans, that doubt would serve to increase
, our regret at any distressing incidents
which may have occurred, and to mitigate,
in some degree, the crimes which we i'm.
pate 10 the other side. He knew, he said,
that, when Gen. jackson was summoned
to the field, it was too late to hesitate /;
the fatal blow had been struck in the de-
struction of Fowl Town, and the dread
lfnl massacre of Lieutenant Scott. and his