Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-08-30
TUESDAY, AUGUST so, 1925.

serve the chain of intelligence in relation to
the unhappy state Of affairs in Georgia, we CO.
pyfrom the Milledgeville Recorder o fthe 10th
instant, two additional letters from Governor
Troup to the President of the United States.
They are long and offer very little that is new,
but as we have kept way with the controver-
sy thus far, we shall probably crafty many of
our readers by continuing to publish, in er-
tenso, every thing that the subject elcits.
The first of these letters, under date of the
26th ult. covers the Report ofthe Commission
ers appointed by the legislature of Georgia,
and is a mere epitome of that extravagant pro-
duction, interpolated here and there with a
few of the biting, or rather snarling sarcasms,
so peculiar to his E~xcellency's taste and Ia
Tents. -Ihese interpretations, he strangely in
forms the President, are intended to elucidate
document that carries with it, he saws, its
own commentary, and that might, he pre-
sumes, be more satisfactory to the National
Government without the accompanying eluci-
dation.
His Excellency denies that General Gaines
has made peace with the Indians, and boldly
maintains that an offering of blood for blood
must fulfil the law and usage of the country,
before q safe and permanent paciication can
be established. An ephemerl peace, he
owns may be patched up by force or menace,
but he contends that the catastrophy will only
be the more bloody.
His Escellency closes this letter by touch
ing delicately, and with studied obscurity, on
the subject of the forbidden survey. He begs
to be permitted to say, that for the grati6ca-
ton of a few mercenary and sordid characters
in the Indian country, the President threatens
the most Hsgrant injustice to Georgia; but his
Excellency speaks no longer of standing to
his arms, ne does not renew the expression
of his determination to pursue his purpose at
the hazard of having il recorded that "Georgia
uass" nor does he even adhere to his early
resolution of running the line between Geor-
gia and Alabama, regardless of the wishes of
the latter State. He now tells the President,
that having corresponded with the Governor
of Alabama onthis subject, and having receiv-
ed IN assurance that the Legislature of that
state will, Immediately on its meeting in No
vember, cordially cooperate with Georgia in
running the line; and seeing, likewise, that
there is a difficulty in ascertaining the precise
point at which the line will commence the
running is postponed to meet the acishes and
expectations ofMe State Of .Rlabcma.
In respect TO the Creek lands, he says that
the survey win, in the first instance, extend
no farther West than the Catahoochie, the
act of the Legislature leaving it discretionary
with the Governor to run to that river, before
the boundary line between Georgia and Ala
bama shall have been ascertained. But to
what end this discretion viii be exercised, his
Exccncncy forbears to mention, leaving US to
infer, however, from the qualmish manner in
which he treats the matter, that for once at
least, he means to manifest his confidence in
the wholesome philosophy of Sir John Fal-
staff.
The second letter, dated the 9TH inst. is de-
voted to the investigation ofGen. Gaines con-
duct, and is, indeed, although addressed to
the President, little else than afeehle anu fret
fl rejoinder to the Generals letter of r~etalis-
ton, which caused the unfortunate suspension
of his functions as Miaistess Pisnipotentiuy to
the Court Of Georgia; for such the Governor
seems to have considered him, when his Ex-
cellency thus expressed himself to the Presi-
dent Of the United States:
"Be persuaded, sir, that whenever hereaf-
ter you silall think proper, (not decelving'
yourselves or u.s. TO send gentlemen to re-
present you before this Government, OF
the character given 10 those by the letter
ofthe Secretary of War OF the 18th May, they
viii be received, and respected as officers Of
the General Government would be by the
most friendly State. of the I'm
II may be gathered, not only from the Go
vernor's letters, now before us, but f;om the
Introductory remark. of the Editor of the Re
conde', that the crying sin of the General is,
MS having used his pen with too much dexter
ity, in what the Editor calls ''his silly, imper-
tnent, and ~eleetioneering letter of the 18th ul-
tmo," for which be is threatened, with the
following provision from the rules and arti-
cles o war:
"Art. 5. Any officer or soldier who shall
"use c~ontenptuous or disrespectful words a.
"gainst the President ofthe U. States, against
"the Vice-President thereof, against the Con-
"gress ofthe u. States, the Chief Magistrate
cor Legislature of any of the United States in
(which he may be quartered, ifa commission
led officer, shall be cashiered, or otherwise
punished, as Court Martial shall direct, if
"a non commissioned officer or soldier, he
shall suffer such punishment as shall be in
Voted on him by the sentence of Court
Martial"