Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-09-16


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GEN. GAINES AND GOVERNOR TROUP.
Gen. Gaines and Gorcrnor Iroup. We pub
l,h to-day the letter of General Gaines, IN reply 10
that of Cove rnor Troup. which announced the in
ten,ion OF the latter any further corlespon-
,lence with the former; and add to the letter,
some testimony publi4hedn the Georgia papers, in
relerenQe 10 the authority for making the treaty
In regard 20 the correspondence between the Gov
e,nor and the General, confess we should have
been sa, if the latter had adhered throughout TO the
calm, dispassionate and dignihed temper which
characterized his early correspondence with the
Governor The tone which he Governor assumed
awards him ought TO have been disregarded. He
should have recollected that lac was sent on spe-
cal specific, and delicate business, and II wo Id
have been better, conceive, ii he had, IN iiliill
.ng his important trust, disregsTdcd whatever he
considered personal towards himself, AID passed
over the supposed prov ocations OF the Governor in
silence Il does not look well we think, howev-
er last he aud Others may consider his resentment,
10 see him bandying tart and cutting retorts, ciever
as they may be, with filling the Governor sta
tion; nor it be agreeable spectacle to any dis
passionate person 10 military oiicer oil The
General Government warmly lec,uring the Execu
live of a State, how ever indelensibe the language
of the latter may have been towards him. IL would
have been better, we hunbly conceive, ii the Cen
era had left the defence OF his conduct, to his well
established character or 10 his superors. 1t would
h we been more discreet and more consistent with
tru. dignity As well a. propriety, have passed by
whatever was personally offensive TO him in the
letters OF the Governor. Nat ht
THE Editors of the Nat. Intellisencer Lad not
seen the following :
HEAD QUARTERS, EASTERN DEPARTMENT,
.EiNedgeriHe, August 20, 1925.
SIR l have received your communication.
through Mr. Secretary Pierce, with two papers pur-
pcr ing 10 be copies of letters from your Excellen-
CIV 10 the President Of the u. States, bearing dale
the Goth July and 9Th August, wherein, 1t appears
YOU are pleased 10 write at me and OF me not
outstanding your ayowel resolution not TO write
me.
To this wise expedent, 10 preserve the immense
weight oil dignity under which your EXceency lab
ors L can have Objection take tbs occasion be-
fore noticing your assumed Z" tacts AID argument"
70 assure GU that have authority ,whaeve Iron:
Inc President of the United States, or Department
OF Var, to write speak TO you upon any other
than public and official subjects-such as have,
with perfect frankness and cordially, communities
ted 10 Tou previous the receipt oil your letter oil
the l7th Jolly. In that letter, you will recollecl,
you so fr lost sight OF your own proper sphere OF
action as to attempt to give me what you term g a
semitic rebuke." You ihus, then, laid aside the
wanted high themes of your brilliant pen-the
Federal Government, the Federal Judiciary.
.stofe rigbts, YaEoo claims, &c. Sc.-and leaving
nil these great matters stand or move in tie Sc
nara and distinct orbits in which the federal and
sa,e constitutions s. laws have wisely placed them
yo,; have dies, ended" rather hastily as it would
seem, to unauthorized personal anmadversion and
rebuke,'' touching certain Official duties conhded
In rcpelling the personal censure and menace con-
tanned what you have termed your So mild rebuke,
have acted on nv own individual responsibility.
without any authority, that which is impant-
ed in the breast of every upright man, civilized and
savage, and which is known 10 the virtuous and
wise, as the first lato Of Rdture"--a law which
aulorses the free use OF the bayonet against the
highway robber OF money whose weapon is OF
deadly hue and the free OF tie pen against tile
Official robber Of reputation whose known weapon
ia the ueri. I hayo n.onoJj ana Out Ilt,le pro-
perry of any kind, that would command money
and therefore have no occasion 10 guard against
the highway robber; the little store OF wealth oil
which an master consists, of an untarnished repu-
,at;o, with some testimonials Of applause, geneE
,ousIv and spontaneously bes.ow ed on me, by the
National and some of the State Legislatures, of
which Georgia is one; and by which she and they
have secured my lasting gratitude and strengthened
the ties of friendly feeling and broheTy union be-
tween u.s. This little store is highly yauedby me. Ii
ismy oyn-rny all. 1t will be held in trust by me,
for NV children and my country and it is therefore,
nv right and bounden duty TO preserve and defend
:, II ,vould be criminal in me to neglect 1t . N o
earthly law can impair the higher law oil sell de
fence and self pre-ervation
Nv letters of me i4th 10th, and 22d, June, and
,,ose Of the list and 10th July, have convinced my
fdeods whose good opinion value most highly,
~ 80, uniform and earnest desire 10 abstain from
collision with you; and, in my answer TO yours oil
,Lc i7th July il is known that your suggestion oil
,te haste in which you wrote, induced me to de
cInea reply for a week, aud until your letter made
r.. aopearance, as usual ia newspaper, doubtless
81, .nnr nermission. If, in mine Of the 18th July,
- bicb you complain to the President, or in my
Al IF The 18th OF this month, should appear that
,,og,,re q, a defective education should have i'm
,lsoted In me little spice OF that Knight errGntTy
tor ,vbich your Exceency is 50 much renowned,
,nd ia, should thereby have been tempted TO
6yeok lance NTH you IN something hte yow
o,o1 proper styfe. ] cannot but hope That my
faylt. in this case, IN following your example and
quoting your own expressions, (the only iaoit "lu
svhich can possibly be chsrged) VII, be pardon
Cd bv The President and people ofthe United states
nj ,Sbose wisdom and justice and inaSnanimlty
booe had the most undoubied proofs. 10 your
Fxreliency,I have apology to oiferi propose,
Ln,vever. that in our future correspondence, after
d;.oaing your futile charges against me- that you
sod nav confine ourselves 10 our public and Of
fe;,l d,,tics. When these are accomplished.
Isreby promise, should you desire IT. TO correspond