Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-11-22

a right already decl'red to be so, BY the supreme
power oithe State but would have made dishon-
cradle surrender 10 stronger power with the sword
suspended over his head. Whils,, therefore, tie
Governor would in this respect have treated the
mandate oil tie President as unlawful he did not
hesitate as soon as the contemplated reference OF
the treaty 10 Congress for alleged intrigue and
'reacher, was officially known to him, TO post
pone the survey until The meeting OF the legislature;
NOT because that reference was lawful but that its
ie@alli - ';FS'ity was not so appropriately a
question Tor his decision for that of the legisla-
ture.''
As 20 the course which Georgia should pursue
the Governor observes:
Having submitted in detail narrative OF the
events 10 which our relations with the United
States have given rise, and exposed the motives and
principles which have governed the conduct of the
Executive throughout, il is left TO your wisdom TO
decide upon the measures nocessar, and proper to
sustain thehonor and defend the rights and indcpen-
dence OF me State II is confidently believed that
neither the Constitution, the pubic Law; or the
usage oil nations will justify IN abro-ation of the
Treaty. ara II is recommended TO you, therefore,
in any and every TO consider as heretofore the
ihdlan claims to the territory eieciually exin-
gushed by II, and that whether the survey be sus-
pended or not, to order the Occupation OF il on tie
day stipulated IN that instrument, in the same man
ner as you would have done If its validity had not
been questioned.
In relation 20 the CherO,ees, he observes:
in the correspondence submitted to the I.e-
eiSla'ure at their late extraordinary session. will
be found the repeated & final resolution of the Chero
keeS never 10 abandon the territory they occupy
within our limits. This resolution NAV be .atsfsc-
tory 10 the government of the United States--it
cannot be so 10 you. Having taken theirs, it re-
mains for you TO take yours in doing 20 no time is
to be lost. Your better Judgment will suggest and
approve the remedy. Whatever it may be, re-
commend In you adopt, early and energetic
measures for the removal OF all white persons and
Others, not Indians, inhabitng that territory, with
the exception only of such are necessarily en-
ployed in the service ofhe United States under the
power granted to Congress TO regulate commerce
with the Indian tribes''
As 10 Gen. Gaines, the Governor saws: The
Executive OF the State would have been warranted
by the public law and practice of nations in a case
so hsgrant 10 have ordered him 10 leave the terrific
ryot Georgia, and to have enforced that order. 1t
was unwilling TO resort to measure of harsh
ness or severity however iustiGable''
g The answer OF the President To the demand
OF the Governor Of Georgia for his recall and
arrest is as little crediahle to the functionary
from which it comes satisfactory to the one 10
whom it is Addressed
" The President Acknowledges this officer TO
have used conternptuous and disrespectful words
for which his conduct is simply disapproved, and
he is Informed that if the governor of this state
had not previously used toward him offensive Ian
guage the demand would have been complied with"
He argues against this doctrine, and adds
= But the fact assumed by tie President as true,
Is not true--No'hing offensive was written to this
oGcer before he had three several times offended
the dignity Of this Government viz by his arpro.
baton of the offensive terms of the letter of the
other ;. Agent, by his disrespectful treatment of
the commissioners, and by his procurement and
publication OF the false statement of Marshall and
Edwards. This exposition of the law by The EX-
ecuive of the United States will satisfy YOU of the
expediency of depending on your own measures
Tor defence against the repetition of such ouirages
lie concludes his message thus g If the United
States choose TO rely on these and Georgia taking
ell OF her fears shall make an nglorous surren-
der OF her rights, what will remain of the fruit of
her toll and blood and public virtue, bot consol-
dated government in which the sovereignty and in
dependence of The States being merged, nothing
is lett her but the pow er of municipal CORPORA
uon 10 settle the s'ri.es and contentious of indv-
duals within the freedom of il By encroachpeni
on The one side, and acquiescence on The other,
every day brings US to this result and if we
cannot find safety in the first principles OF the Con-
siitution, we find il no where
The whole Message, however, will be, as soon
as possible, laid before cur readers
Alter it read Gen. Harden submitted sew err
81 resolutions, which alter reciiing the theory of lie
Federal Constitution, in relation 10 the powers and
duties OF the general government, conclude with
the following Re-outon
1T is, therefore, further resolved, That the
Senators and Representatives of Georgia, in the
Congress OF the United States be and they are here
by requested and advised to stard firm to the SUP
port OF the Rights of the States ana 10 oppose
at The very threshold, every the least attempt, to
encroach upon them by the General Government.
always remembering that" it is against slow and
silent attacks that nation ought TO he particularly
on Its guard''--in which course of conduct they
may implicitly rely upon the ardent and steadrasi
support OF the whole body of freemen of Georgia,
who are equally and alike disposed to risk all that
IS dear to them, in the support and defence of the
Union and sovereignty IF The siates.''
The National papers at Washington The Intel
ligencer and the Journal) have hunied up more
accurate copy of Mr.. Everett's Address 10 hi.
Spanish .HCjesty. The Integencer speaks of il as
copy " which is Rndou6tedly aufhentie:'' and
heads II with the word " official The journal
speaks Of its copy as being " translation of his
Speech. on the accuracy of which reliance NAV be
placed" We infer. therefore, that The Official
Copy nov published is translation Of the Spanish
Address; which ought, ofcouse, 10 nave been given
with the transiaon for this other reason too tb,t