The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1825-09-14
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Coz. TFoup, in one of his letters to Gen.
Gaines, took occasion TO say,
''On the part of the government of Gcor-
gia, the will OF its highest constituted author
ity has been declared upon the most solemn
delihoration, that the line shall be run and
the survey executed. 1t is for you, therefore,
10 bring it to the issue.-It is for me TO re-
peat, that, cost what it viii, the line will be
run, and the survey effected. The govern
ment of Georgia will not retire from the posi-
ton il occupies to crafty the agent or the
hostile Indians; nor will it do SO, trust, be-
Z cause il knows that, in consequence of disobe-
dience to an unlawful mandate, j. may very
soon be recorded that 6 Georgia was"
Since receiving the letter Of the Secretary
of War, enclosing Gen. Gaines orders, the
srOrthy, temperate, and Excellent Gov. Troup,
falls TO abusing the President of the U. States
personally-but says nothing about running
the lines. Georgia yet IS, and .iov. Troup
as.-The next election will, we suspect, make
it a matter of history, that-Gov. Troup 7vas i!
The Gov. won't communicate with Gen.
Gaines. No! his dignity will not admit it..
But he can, contrary to all usage, direct his
communicat tons personally to the President,
and abuse the first magistrate with impunity,
who cannot consistently, even were he dispos-
ed, reply.
The following are extracts from the second
letter, the whole of which makes two columns.
/" With regard to the Grst letter Of Gen.
Gaines, TO which have called your atten-
ton, he does not seem to have been content
with addressing letter SO unexceptionable to
the head of this government; he assumes the
authority to order its publication on the allie
cation of some pretended and underlined ma
licious falsehoods in circulation, and which he
makes a foundation Of an appeal to the pub
lie; an appeal more censnrable than that for
which the gallant and meritorious Porter is
now answering before Court Martial assem-
bled by your order"
sThe General is correct in one Of his posi-
lions. and being in the right himself, he puts
you in the wrong, and so conspicuously, that
YOU stand on the insulated emiRence an al
most solitary advocate for making and break
ing treaties at pleasure"
''Gen. Gaines proceeds to manifest his res.
pect and compliance for the Chief Magistrate
of sovereign State, by informing him that she
has been greatly deceived by persons in whose
honor he placed reliance, but who were un'
worthy of his confidence )" thus taking upor
himself the responsibility to decide for the
Chief Magistrate one of the most delicate o
all question connected with government ant
sovereignty, viz. the question who are worthy
of trust, and who among the public servants
are or are not entitled to his confidence. lns
little time. Sir, with yoftr conattmdncs, anC
encouragement, Gen. Gaines would have
dictated the appointments TO Office in thi
State, and, may be, the least hesitancy or re
pugnance to comply with such dictation
would be subdued by parade of Unitee
States troops.''
6 In maintaining correspondence with thu
Government of the United States, have no
permitted any false considerations Of dignity
or any false estimates of forms and coremo
MES, which usually govern diplomatic inter
course between States, to interpose the leas
difficulty SO far from it, have cheerfully de
scended to the level of every thing which j
pleased you to employ at any time as you
representative or organ, from the clerks Q
your bureau up to your Major-General b.
Brevet, and have acted and treated with then
as equals.''
Gov. Troup, thess sancho Panza of Geo.
ga," has invented an excuse for, postponin
the survey, as the Legislature of Alabama
which State is interested, will not sit unit
November! He has notified the government
of the u. States of his decision.
GEN. GAMES has addressed tart reply I
the last letter of Gov. Troup, in which he in
forms the Gov. that he shall address him
whenever hls official duty makes it necessary
Notwithstanding his non-intercourse letter.
We have only room for the conclusion, whic
is as follows:--
D." have approached the State authorities
not as foreign Princes, but as brethren of on
great political family, whose fair fame has al
ready attracted the admiration Of every civil
lied country, and whose example has led t
the establishment of liberty in South America
and promises TO aid in its final extension an
permanent establishment throughout every ma
tion of the world. Such institutions shoul
not be sported with. A public officer resolve
10 act the part of bold man, when he ha
lost the character of wise one, may some
times, perhaps, innocently amuse himself i
attempts TO pass of the turbulence Of his thun
dering words for force, and the frenzy of hi
party zeal ior.fre; but when he thus write
himself into great passion about nothing, an
when he permits himself to utter threats in tn
face Of such institutions, and gravely appeal
TO his comrades and co-workers,n and say
unto them shaving exhausted the argument
we will stand by our arms;'' we (the people
involuntarily call to mind the ludicrous ide
Of RIGHTEOUSNESS personi6ed in the act
$ tweakins justice by the nose, and the bah
beating the nprse''-and it becomes gray
question to determine whether TO smile or b
serious at such eccentricties.
WASHINGTON, sEPT.'9.
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