Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-11-29
VOL. xxH... NO. 60.


his recall. arrest, trial and punishment were de.
m nded ofhis Government. The Executive of The
STATE would have been warrantedby the public Law
and practice of nations in case fragrant, TO have
ordered him 10 leave the territory OF Georgia, anu
TO have enforced that order. IL was iin,vl,li- To
resort TO a measure oihsrshness or severity how
ever justihable. Tie United States Goveramert
itself Is not less tenacious its own dignity than
others. 1t has az least on one occasion interdicied
intercourse with Foreign minister of first grade
representing European power of frs, rank for
merely contradcIing 1t abruptly; audkthe equally
meri'ed treatment OF another minister, representing
hrst rate power Tor appeals to the people from,
theii Government Is well known 10 you. More re-
Gently the gallant Porter has been punished by his
Government for insulting the petty authorities al
Foxardo, and for making appeal from that GO
vernment through the public prints much less ex-
ceptonable than that made By this officer in the
publication of his letter of the 10Th July. Whethey
the constituted Authorities of Georgia are of more
or less importance than those of Foxardo in the
view of the General Government will be seen in
the answer OF the President The answer OF the
President 10 the demand of the Governor of Georgia
Tor his recall and arrest is little credtable 10 the
functionary from which it comes, satisfactory 10
the one 10 whom it is addressed
The president is bound by every constitutional
obligation execute the laws. One OF these laws
declares that "any officer soldier who shall use
conelnptdous or disrespeclful words against the
chief magistrate or legislature of any of the states
It a commissioned ofhrer shall be cashered'' The
President acknowledges this officer to have used
contemptuous and disrespectful words, for which,
his conduct Is simply dsappToved, and he is inform
ed that if the Governor of this State had not pre-
vousy used toward MIN offensive language tie dc
mand would have been complied with. So that, &C.
cortling 10 his construction OF the President his
military officers may conduct themselves Is they
please ln the jurisdiction of ii pecve states
mo matter bow exceptionally, and the least
apprehension or censure by the chief magistrate OF
State Is their sufficient warrant TO rotor in abu-
sve and insulting language, and TO crafty their
Teseptments, even at the expense of the indepeA-
1euce of the elective franchise constructor
which makes the law nu.lity, because plivile-
ses he military officer do that which lut Tor the
Jaw ne might legally have done--insult the chief
magistrate OF a State as he would insult a private
CITIZEN Tor any real or imaginary grievance pri-
vile2e which the law Intended to prohibit to
him. But the fact assumed by the President as true
is not true. Nothing offensive vas written 10 this
officer before he had three several times Offended
the dignity of th, Government: viz. by his appro-
baton of the offensive of the letter c the
other Special Agent, by his dsrespcctful treatment
OF the commissioners, and by his procurement and
publication of tire false statement of Marshall and
Edwards. This exposition OF the law b. the Exec
utive OF the Unised States, will satisfy you OF the
eSPediency OF depending your measures TO-
defence against the rope ition of such outrages.
| The Governor of Georgia denies the right OF the
President TO excuse justify ris officer in the yio-
lation OF law of the United States, which he is
bound to execute, because of any act or supposed
act of the Governor which is in violation of no
law. The President by such excuse or justifica-
ton takes the place Of the A gent and when in one
of his authorized communications he says +" there
| is no part of his duty which the President more.
anXousy rursues than that of lai!l aiming the most
scrupu!ous decorum in his official intercourse with
the state authorities, liGe OF conduct from which
no circumstances however aggravated, have or will
| tempt him TO depart" lie only means that what he
does not choose 10 do by himself, lie " ill do by his
| Agent.
The published addresses of the different Agents
are submitted with the rest, only to shew the unity
of feeling, sentiment and action which has slgnaZ-
ed the department of United States officers OF every
grade, IN their intercourse with the Coy ernmeat OF
! Georgia. 1t be submitted to no loager-the
sovereignty, Independence and digny of the State
must be mantsined and to support them, you must
depend your means. | advise you, there
fore, to have recourse TO those means: no matter
whom You place in authority, all strangers must be
compelled to respect in their exterior demeaDouT
least, those authorities. The sacredness OF the cleo
tive franchise he protected by regarding every
private person not a citizen OF Georgia, who inter
eGe5 with that freedom an alien and stranger
violating right OF sovereignty, and exposing him
self 10 punishment If an officer of tie United
States, rot being a citizen Of Georgia, he renders
himself the more obnoxious from the double capaci-
'
officer repre-. entiug bis Government in diplomatic
character before this Government, he can he made
anendbie under the sanctions OF your own laws
and the laws and u>ages cf nations for offences com
miitcd against eithct and this end you have only
to define the character of the offence and to pre-
scribe lie Punishment.
! In the expose OF the Stale of our relations with
the Genera! Government, other grievances minor
and secondary IN importance adyefted to, not
for the purpose Of accumulating wrongs into for
niJable mass, and making appeal the louder and
deeper 10 the justice of that Government, bat to
satisfy fellow citizens that if we have complained
IN vain, we have not complained without cause anil
that our cup os bitterness Is almost full.
The militia claims for services rendered thirty
years ago, i'll defence OF the State against Indian
hosites, by authority OF the Ge ieral overnment,
yet un.atisfel although constantly urged, whilst
similar claims OF oier states, but of more doubtful
Justice have been recognized.
The claims of orr citizens against The Creek ma
ton nd..itici by The Treaty OF the Indian Springs
OF 1927 TO the an,oun, Of ESQ 900 dollars al houeh
rendered for larger amount, have been curiailei
by arbitrary rules prescribed by The Unitc States
for The settlement Oi them to 90 GOO dollars, by
which she place. ia her treasury in defiance Of
dir repeated IcmoHsrsrcea $50 900 dollars, thus
dcprving the claimants Of hcueht 10 that amount,
which according every rational siruct on %
tie instrument intended by 40 tic pafiic, 30 10
TO enure 10 hem Only, aud which, could not Jy any
construction be carried TO the credit OF the United
States. To our repeated remoa-tralcc. against
this decision, it has been answered, hat he uecis-
ion was made and could not be reconsidered
The Government Of Georgia bad reason 70 cx-
pcct that tie Unijed ates would not refuse their
s-J r,-orcr,tion in rtt,ri,, IS 10.