Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-08-09

In tie expression of this hope / am act,iatcd by
10 other feeling than thai OF an earnest desire 10
lev ote my best efforts towards amicable adjust
rent of the existing differences with the Indians
upon just principles, regarding the interests of the
State in all respects the the interests of
the Union or General Government; thew are in |
fact the same different parts of one great ANNA
ted body, through which the vital principle of life
must circulate with equal freedom, affonns equal
health and equal vigor TO each, essential TO the
preservation and efficiency OF the whole body.
Coz Ir0up TO Gen. Gaines, l4h June.
DEAR SIR 1t may be important 10 YOU to
know before you communicate with your Govern
and proceed TO meet the Indians in conv ention
that the laws OF Georgia are already extended over
the ceded country, and OF course that it is my boun-
den duty execute them there. The statutory pro-
visions this subject will be found in the papers
of the morning, and in the entitled an act "to
dispose OF and distribute the lands lately acquired
&C."
Gou. Troup to Gen. Gaines, 18th June.
SIR l have this moment had the honor to re-
ceive your communication of the l4th inst on the
subject Of the survey of the coded country
and the running of the dividing line between
Alabama and Georgia, and in which you reques,
that In conformity with the expressed will OF your
government, both the survey and the running of the
line may be forborne A" until the period arrives at
which he removal of the Indians is required
IL would give me great pleasure to be able TO
comply with any reques, made'by yourself or your
government. You would make none that did not =,
| to your appfehensions, seem reasonable and
proper. AS, however, there exist two ndepend-
ent parties 10 the question, each is permitted de-
eide for itself; and with all due Difference 10 yours,
| | must be permitted 10 say, that my apprehension
of the right and of the wrong leads me TO the oppo-
site conclusion; the conclusion 10 which the Lee
gislaiure of Georgia, upon mature reflection recent
| ly arrived, by an almost unanimous voice, and
which was made the foundation of my late commu-
nica,ion to the Secretary of War, and my more re-
cent one to you upon the same subject.
| Iwould deeply lament If any act proceeding from
myself, should cause the least embarrassment to
yourself Or to your government, especially consid-
| erng the critical relations In which the United
States stand 10 the Indians, and he great interest
which the government OF Georgia feels in their ear
iy and satisfactory adjustment; but it be ex-
pected by your government, that important inter
ests to be surrendered, and rights deemed un-
questionable, abandoned by Georgia, because of any
enbarrassments which may arise in the intercourse
and negotiations between the United States and
Indians. set too just value. on your high cha
racter to believe that you would willingly create
them. | am equally persuaded that none will be
| suifcred TO exist which with propriety be re-
n'c"ed, and know you will pardon me when take
the liberty OF saying that those 20 which you refer
ought not 10 exis: for {: single moment Upon
iicular instruction of your government which has
given rise TO these endorsements, oueh, at this
moment 20 be taken and held as no instruction al
all; tor 1t Is now known 10 you that that purports
| to be an instruction. was given upon inform alton
which was believed TO betrue, Tut which has turned
out to DE false, and the presumption is irresistible
that the state OF things being changed, your
ment, so Tar from desiring TO press the execution
would gladly Withdraw the instruction, and thai
without mourning any, the least responsibility, you
are at perfect liberty to consider it withdrawn
II Is not Tor me 10 instruct but to derive instruction
from you, in every hing connected with the mill
,ary art, and you know well as I that no princi-
pie Is better settled than the which jashes dis
obedience 10 positive orders under change oil
circumstances. say that the instruction had IL
origin singiy in falsehood imposed upon your go
vernmen; by its own Agent, and that but for that
falsehood, the instruction would have been Civ
Ell. You have The proof of il in common sense, and
In the documents and evidence conn ected with the
late ts;;::hances-If you want more proof look 10
10 The gazettes of yesterday where you will find
Council of hostile Indians, assembled by the Agent
proclaining by reclamation his innocence OF the
death of Mcintosh, becausethat death follow ed not
from the survey, but the law of the Naiion. Your
governments informed by the Agent, that the hos
tile Indians in array against US, because the 20
yernment Of Georga interfered to proc re the con-
sent the survey. The same Indians testify 20 the
falsehood of the declaration, and the iileinms is
that If The Agent is TO be believed in the case
the Indians cannot be In the other. You see there
fore, sir, plainly the result The government oil
the United States identifying itselfin ali things with
the Agent, assumes for granted what is lalse--is-
| sues, in consequence thereof, peremptory order
10 this government to forbear act which il feels
is its right and duty and interest TO perform. The
lasity is made known TO the officer instructed to
carry that order into effect The officer feels it TO
be his duty To proceed in the execution Of the order
notwithstanding the change of circumstances which
produced it. On the part of the government OF
Georgia. the will of its highest constituted authori-
~ has been declared upon The most solemn delibera-
ton, that the line shall be run, and the survey
cuted. Ii is for you, therefore, TO bring it TO the
issuelt is for me only 10 repeat, that cost what it
will the line will be and the survey Effected
The government of Georgia will not retire from the
position it occupies TO crafty the Agent the hos
tile Indians; will it do so trust because it knows
that in consequence of dsobedience 10 an unlawful
mandate, it may be very recorded that 60 Geor-
| gia was"
| Suffer me 10 say also, that your government has
acted very precipitately and unadvisedly in this
affair. After receiving the notice of my intention
TO make the survey, it interposed objection, tho
! il had time to do So A considerable interval
elapsed, and it receives false information from the
! Agent, upon which il issues it's peremptory order.
Soon after treceives further false information from
the same Agent, upon which it issues other orders
confrmatory of the first, and which you seem TO
consider final.
But for my direct and active interference ,hostili-
ties would have Immediately followedthe death Of
Mcintosh, and OF character inveterate as to
put at defiance any interference whatever, even on
your part. Your power, not your influence, might
have been available to be sure, but your power
not here; and for preserving this peace, you know
what respectful testimonial have of the thanks
OF your government, couched in most delicate and