The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1825-12-21
the Legislature of Georgia with the late
message Of Gov. Troup -


Executive Department. Geo.
.Miledgeville, 31st .4ug. 1925.
SIR-In the enclosed Gazette you will
find another insolent letter, dated the
10th inst. addressed by your Agent,
Breyet Major General Gaines, TO the
Chief Magistrate of this State. Having
been betrayed by his passion into the
most violent excuses, he is presented
before you al this moment as your CON-
missioned officer and authorized agent,
with corps of regulars at his heels,
attempting TO dragon and overawe the
constituted authorities OF an independent
State, and ON the eve of a great cleo
ton, amid the distractions Of party, TAX
ing sides with the one political party
against the other, and addressing cleo
pioneering papers, almost weekly, 10 the
Chief Magistrate, through the public
prints, couched in the language of con-
tumely and insult, and defiance, and for
which were / to send him TO YOU in
chains, would transgress nothing Of the
public law.
The same moderation and forbearance
with which | have endeaVoured hereto
tore to deport myself in my intercourse
with you, and from which, | trust there
has been in no Instance departure but
on the highest necessity, have restrain
ed me from resorting to harsh or often
sive measures against him. You will
see, however, if this officer has been
thus acting by your authority or coun-
tenance, you have anawful atonement
to make, both to your cotemporaries and
to posterity. But if, contrary to either,
he has assumed the responsibility, il is
expected that your indignant Reproduction
of his conduct will be marked by the
most exemplary punishment which the
laws will enable you TO infct. de-
mand, therefore, as the Chief Magistrate
of Georgia, his immediate recall, and his
arrest, trial and punishment, under the
rules and articles of war.
Very respectfully.
IN. TROUP.
The President Of the U. States.
Letter from the Secretary Of Var TO Gen.
Gaines.
General enclose you copy of a
letter from Gov. Troup, in which you
will see he has demanded your arrest
for having violated the articles of War,
by your several letters of 10Th and 2lst
of July and the 10th and goth of August
last, addressed TO him, and which you
caused TO be published. The President
has decided that he would not accede TO
this demand. enclose you my reply of
this date TO Gov. Troup.
There is no part OF his duty which
the President more anxiousIy pursues
than that of maintaining the most scru.
pulous decorum in his official intercourse
with the State authorities, line of con-
duct from which 10 circumstance. how
ever aggravated, has or will tempt him
TO depart. He feels it incumbent on
him 10 cause every officer of the Gov
eminent to pursue similar course.
He has, therefore, seen with regret,
that in the letters published, which,
though not transmitted to the Depart
nent, he presunes are authentic, pur-
porting TO be from you to Gov. Troup,
you have permitted yourself to indulge
tone, whose effect will be TO destroy
that harmony which the President is so
much disposed to cherish, and the pub
LEGATION OF which is calculated to influence
those differences which moderation and
orbearance could not fail to allay. In
communicating to you the disapproba-
ton Of the President, as well for writing
as publishing those letters, and his in
junction that, in your official Intercourse
with Gov. Troup in future, you abstain
from every thing that may be deemed
offensive, am directed TO add, as an act
of justice to you, that the President sees
in the serious charges made against you
by Gov. Troup, and the publicity given
them, and which the letters complained
ofwere intended TO repel, circumstances
which go far, in his opinion, 10 palliate
your conduct; and without which palia-
ton, the President would have found it
his duty to have yielded TO the demand
of Gov. Troup.
have the honor 10 be,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed) JAMES BARBOUR.
Maj Gen. E. P Gaines.
From the Baltimore Americana