American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1825-08-23
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.,


; sWledeeritte, 18th June, 1895.
oT' nave this moment had the honor to re.
celve your communication of the 14th inst on ,bs.
subject OF the survey Of the ceded country and ,h
RAINING oil the dividing line belween Alabama apes
Georgia, and 10 which you request, lhas in conform
ny with the expressed will OF your Cove Dmt nj
Doth the survey and the running of the line may Re
'oroorne until the period arrives at which the re-
mova OF the Indians is RI quired''
| ~ would give me great pleasure 10 be able 60
comply with any request made by yourself or yoay
government. You would make none that did n.t
10 your own approximations seem reasonable and pro
per. AS, however, there exist two ;ndependen.
parties to the question. each is permitted TO dsc,de
Tor itself; and with all due Difference to yours.E
must be permitted to say that my apprehension "a
the right and OF the wrong, leads to the oppo.
site conclusion; the conclusion to which the Lepis-
lature OF Georgia. upon mature reflection, recently
arrived, by an almost unanimous voice, and wluc,
was made the foundation OF my late commusie atios
to the Secretary of War. and my more recent pu~
to you upon the same subject
would deeply lament if any act proceeding ftona
myself should cause the least embarrassmen, To-
yourself or to your government, especially consid-
ering the critical relations in which the United
States stand to the Indians and the great it.eress
which the government of Georgia feels in their ear.
ly and satisfactory adjustment but it cannot be ex
pected by your government that important interests
tionate abandoned by Georgia, because Of any EN-.
oarrassments which may arise in the intercourse
and negotiations between the United States and la.
dams set too Just value your high character,
to believe that'you would willingly create them--E
am equally persuaded that none will be suffered 10
exist which can with proprieiy be removed and
know you viii pardon me when take The liberty OF
saying, that those to which you refer ought not to
exis, for a single moment.-Upon every principle
and practice OF diplomacy, the particular instruction
OF your government which has given rise TO these
emoai easements, ought at this moment 10 be taken
and held as no instruction at all Tor it is now
known TO you that what purporis ia be an instrnc-
lion, was gwen upon infoi nation which was besy-
ed to be true, bot which has turned out TO be false
and the presumption is irresistible that the state Of
things being changed, your government. far iious
desiring to press the execution, would gladly with
draw the instruction. and that without mourning any,
the least responsibility, you at perfect liberty 10
consider II Withdrawn. 1t is not for ME to instruct,
but to derive instruction from you in every thing
connected with the military arr ; and you know az
well as !, that no principle is better settled than the
one which justfes disobedience to po-i,ve orders
under change OF circumstances ] say that the
bad Its origin singly in falsshood i'm
posed upon your government by its own Agent
and that but Tor that falsehood, the instruction would
not have been given. You have the proof OF it il
common sense, and the documents and evidence
more proof look into the gazettes Of ycsc, day. where
you will find Council OF hostile Indians assembled
BY the Agent, procaiming by reclamation his M
nocence OF the de ath OF nosh, because that death
followed not from the survey, but the law of the
Nation. Your government is informed by the Agent,
that the hostile Indians are in array against u.s. be-
cause the government OF Georgia nterfered TO pro.
cure the consent to the survey-The same Indians
esfy 70 the ialsehood of the declaration, and the
lllemma is, that If the Agent is TO be believed in
he one Cases the Indians cannot be in the other.
You see, therefore, Sir, plainly the result. The
government OF the United States identifying itself
n all things with the Agent, assumes for granted
What is false issues in consequence thereof, pc.
emptory order to this government to forbear an
ct which it feels it is its right and duty and inter-
st 10 perform. The fasity is made known 10 the
icer instructed to carry that order into effect the
licer feels it be his duty to proceed i'm the
utlon OF the order, Notwithstanding the change of
circumstances which produced il. On the part of
he government oil Georgia, the will OF its highest
onstituted authority has been declared, upon the
most solemn deliberations that the line shall be rum
nd the survey executed 1t is for you, reforc,
bring it TO the issue; it is for only to repeat,
hat, cost what il will, the line will be run and the
lrvey effected The government OF Georgia will
OF retire from the position it occupies 10 crafty
ne Agent the hostile Indians nor will il do so,
trust, because il knows, that in consequence of
TO an unlawful mandate, it may be very
BON recorded thai 6 Georgia was''
Suffer me to say also, that your government, has
cted very precipateiy and unadvsediy IN this at
ir. After receiving The notice of my intention to
rake the survey, it interposed no objection though
had time TO do so. A considerable interval eaps
!. and it receives false information from the Agent,
pom which it issues its peremptory order; soon
ter 1t receives further false information from the
me Agent, upon which it issues other orders con
rmatory Of the first, and which you seem to consid
final.
But for my direct and active interference, hosti,;-