Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-01-15

- 'S'i ioulueu, that the n, Is
yves "'ii not from their mere love of w,,b
be'he aggressor in any.
We take it to be popular error tb.,.
savage delight Indians are supposed ia !. "e
in war, is the stimulus which leads ths~ ~'s
resort to it. On the other hand, iftbei, A.
positions be fierce when excited, we ber.
that their hatred Of the whites, and tbs;,I
tiities upon them may be traced to ac,n'I s
OF, in fewer instances, imaginary WRONGS
Appended TO the report is return &c F.,
army. There are GIT commissioned off,
and 1857 non commissioned officers and ~;
vates-making in all 1884. The norbe.
division is estimated at 4,o83-the soutbsrn
at 1868. (Philadelpb;a nu;"
From the Nt.o, York Daily .advertise,.
Of January 10.
Unpublished few days since, a suU
mary Of the debate which took nlaco !.
the house of Representatives of the Iroi
ted States on a bill TO COMPENSATE IL.
militia who ser, ed under General lori.
son, in the late Indian war. far f..
loss OF their horses, &c. during tbat (
campaign. The bill, among other rea'
sons. was opposed on the ground. that
the troops mentioned in it were rsi.eJ
by the authority of General Jack,on
and without any law of the {. Stairs
authorising him thereto, and of Course
as they we're not legally called into The
service, they ought not to be paid + !
will be easily perceived. that this cues
ton has a most important constitution.
al bearing. In the first place, the war
was undertaken without any authority
from Congress, in whom alone the now.
er of declaring war exists. In the Sc.
cond place, the President directed Gen.
Jackson to call upon the governors Of
adjacent states for the requisite number
of men for the service, instead of which
he proposed to the militia of Tennessee
to volunteer their services. which they
did. The oppositior therefore went up.
on the ground of general want off
power in all concerned. We now ad.
vert to this subject, for the purpose Of
noticing sentiment delivered by a mi. |
litary gentleman, in the course of the
debate, which ought not to pass without
animadversion.
Mr.. Smyth of Virginia, said-"it has !
been said by some gentlemen, that the
horses for which compensation is now
was lost in an illegal war;
That is a mistake. If gentlemen will I
examine the act, entitled san act to in.
crease the pay of the militia while in
actual service, and for other purposes"
passed on the 99th day of April, 1918,
and which will DO found at page ga of
the acts of that session they will find
that Congress declared the war. lie
that act it is declared that the widows
and orphans of the militia, called into
service. in prosecuting said war a.
gainst the Seminole Indians, and die or
be killed in service, shall have pensions.
Here is an acknowledgement of the eI.
isting state of war between the q. States
and the Seminole Indians; and such
recognition is the only declaration Of
war necessary to be made by Congre"
in any case"
By the constitution of the U. States
Congress alone have the power OF decla'
ring war and We presume 1t is tor tns
want of such declaration. i'll the case
lnder consideration, that the Seminole
war has been called an illegal war;
BY the doctrine here advanced, however
a war may be commenced without 'he
benefit or sanction of congressional 3
authority, it may be undertaken oy !.
President on his own responsibility, anu
prosecuted for any supposeable PERIOD
and then if an act of Congress can DC
obtained, in which an incidental recos- 4
alton of the existence of such war
it is sufficient. this all I'M
,ortant requisition of the constitution ~
and tine war becomes as legal
md constitutional as if he declaration
lad been originally made.
The short history of this war IS as
ollows On the 3Oth of October 1917
he Secretary of War wrote to Uen'
Gaines, at that time commanding th'
lrmy on that frontier, approving OF tn'
of the troops from rol
Montgomery to Fort Scott. Inc SAM