Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-07-26
TUESDAY, JULY %, 1925.

TUESDAY, JULY 2e, 1925.
We publish to-day from the Milledgerilie
Recorder the complete chain Of the late cor
respondence between Governor TRour and
Major ANDREWS, the Special Agent of the
General Government The Major has acted,
in this affair, strictly in conformity with his
known oharacter-mild, concihating and cam
did; but when duty requires it-frm and in
flexible.
lie has treated the Governor as he desev-
ed, and has nobly resolved to stand resolutely
between the prosecuted Crowell and the
powerful faction that corruptly seek to de-
stroy him. He promises that strict justice
shall be done, and we have no manner of doubt
that he will honorably and satisfactorily re-
deem his pledge.
The correspondence, though very long,
will repay the trouble Of reading.
VIII DC hhot wv. AAcNP, o."
one Of his incorporate communications to the
Legislature of Georgia, imputes to the Attor-
new General of the United States, the express
sion of the following sentiment, said to have
been uttered before the Supreme Court at its
late term, viz.-"7hat Slavery, being ineOnsis-
tent with the Ia,rs of GodG'adef Nature, cannot
erisi." This the Governor gives as fact, as
sumes il to be the sentiment of the administra-
ton, uttered through its organ, and charges
the General Government with aiming at con-
solidation, and meddGDg improperly with
delicate matter which belongs exclusively to
the States.
The National Journal ofyesterday, contains
q correspondence between Mr.. Writ and
Chief Justice Marshall, Judge Washington,
Judge Duyall, Judge Thompson, Mr.. Emmett
and Mr.. Wheaton, the reporter Of the Court
all of whom positively contradict the Govern
or's information. Judge Marshall says that
the Attorney General denounced the Slave
Trade-not Slavery; the practice of making
Freemen Slaves-not that of holding IN slave
nv those who were born slaves. He thinks
it impossible that the Attorney could have
limited at any interference Of the Government
of the Union with slavery in the respective
States; because, such q hint, however remote,
would have excited his attention too strongly
to be entirely forgotten.
Judge Washington de clares that he has con-
sultedh his memory and carefully examined his
notes; and does not hesitate to say that no
such proposition was advanced before the
Court, nor any other, from which the imputed
sentiment could be dedueed. Judge Duvall
replies nearly in the same language as that
used BY the Chief Justice; but adds concur
sive evidence that the Attorney General was
not influenced by the Executive in any thing
he might have said. ''You commenced your
argument" says the Judge, "by the observa-
walton that you had no Instructions from the
Erecutire relative 10 THIS case. And YOU added
that you understood thct no complaint had been
made 10 the Erseuiire By The Government Of
Spain, ~cf Portugal"
Judge Thompson. nor Mr.. Wheaton, has
no recollection of any expression that could
give rise to Governor Troup's imputation, and
Mr.. Emmett, having read the Governors CON-
munication, pronounces his statement to be
wholly incorrect.
Should his other charges against the Gene
raj Government and its agents be no better
founded, (and it appears, indeed, that they
are not, we hope that he will hereafter be
less credulous, and more cautous,-that he
viii take care that cause exists for war, before
he again throws aside argument, and calls on
his deluded followers to stand by their arms
North Carolina Banks.-From an article in
the Raleigh Register, We perceive that the
Branch Bank Of the United States at Fayette-
vile, in North c arolina. has received such In
structions from the Parent Bank, as will, in all
probability, soon induce the monied institu-
tons of that State to nay specie for their notes,
or to give some other equivalent that will
make them worth their par value to those in-
to whose hands they fall. Experience has al
ready informed many of ourreaders, that these
notes have, for several years, been at dis
count Of from to 10 per cent, and that much
inconvenience and loss have resulted there
from-particularly to the trading community.
This depreciation is supposed to have arisen,
not so much from any embarrassment in their
affairs, or inability to pay specie, like other
institutions, as from the sordid policy of max
ing large dividends for the the stockholders,