Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-10-14

all of his desperate deeds with the sword, after
The manper of bravado, should be dreaded as a
Hannibal or a Barbarossa.
"'rha: the governor of state should assume the
right to make against Indian tribe, in perfect
peace with, and under the protection OF the United
States is assuming responsibility that trust, you
will be able to excuse to the government of the Uni
! ted States TO which YOU will have to answer, and
| through which had recently passed, promising
the aged that remained at home my protection, and
| taking the warriors with me in the campaign, is
unaccountable Us streH g but Ut Is still more
strange that there could exist, within the United
! States Cowardly monster IN human shape, that
| could violate the sanctity of flag, when bone by
any person, but more particularly when in the hands
OF superanuated Indian chief, worn down with age.
Such base cowardice and murderous conduct, as tins
transaction affords, has not its parallel in history
| and shall meet with its merited punishment.
You, sir as governor of state, within my military
| division, have right to give military order
whilst am in the field; and this being an open and
violent infringement of the treaty with the Creek
| Indians, capt. Wright must be prosecuted and pun
ished for this outrageous murder, and have order
ed him to be arrested and confined in irons, until
| the pleasure of the President of the United States
is known upon the subject, Ii he has lett Hartford
| before my order reaches him, | call upon you, as
| governor Of Georgia. TO aid In carrying into effect.
my order for Il arrest and confinement, which trust
! will be afforded, and Capt. Wright brought 10
| dign punishment for this unparalleled murder. II
is strange that this hero had not followed the trial
Of the murJerers of your citizens, it would have led
TO Mickasucly, where we found the bleeding scalps
Of your citizens, but there might have been more
danger in this, than attacking village containing
! few superannuated women aud men, aud a few
| young women, without arms or protectors. This
act will, to the last age, fix stain upon the char
acter of Georgia.
| ANDREW JACKSON.
To this runting philippe, Governor RAbUN made
the following very proper ana spirited reply, which
elected long correspondence, distinguished on the
| one part by excessive violence and arrogance, and
on the other by that gentlemanly and manly doport-
ment which goes TO prove, that hero is not al
waysa bully, and that soldier is not always gen
| tleman.
SIR,--I have lately had the honor to receive
| yours Of the 7th OF Nay, founded on Il communica
| lion from general Glascock, relative to the attack
| recently made on the Chehaw village. Had you
SIR or gen. Glascock been in possession of the fact,
hat produced the affair." il is to be presumed at least
| that you would not have INDUCED ia strain so IN
| decorous and unbecommg-l had on the 2lst o
| March last stated the situation Of our bleeding
| frontier to you, and requested you, IN respectful
| terms, to detach part of your ovcrwhenin, force
plies and would order out more troops to which
you have never yet deigned TO reply. You state IL
u very naughty tone, that " as governor of a STATE
within your military division have no right to gv
military order whilst you IN the field
Wretched and contemplate indeed, must be sit
uaon if this be the fact when the Liberties OF the
people OF Georgia shall have been prostrated at the
feet of military despotism, thcn and not till then
will your imperious doctrine be tamely submittedto
You may rest assured that ifthe savages continue
! their depredations on our unprotected frontier,
shall think and act for myself in that respect. You
demand, that "capt Wright be delirered IN irons 10
| major Davis, your agent.' II you, sir, are unac'
quainted with the fact, beg leave to inform you,
| that capt. Wright was not under your command
for he has been appointed officer in the Chatham,
county militia, which had been drafted for the spe-
cial purpose of assisting gen. Gaines 10 reducing A.
nl.lia Island. That object having been accomplish
| ell before our militia had taken the field, gen
| Gaines soon their organization was completed
assumed the right of ordering them to the frontier
without even consulting the state authority on Tho
subject, capt. Wright at that tme being IN state
debility failed to march, and Of course was not mus
tered into the service OF the United States-he
however, followed on 10 Hartford where hndlns
himscf not likely TO be received into the service
the United States, rendered his services to command
the contemplated expedition, which Were according
ly accepted; having violated his orders by destroy
ing the Chehaw villcge, instead OF Hoponnis and
|
directed) had previous TO receiving your 'enland
! ordered him to be arrested bat beio-e has appre-
| hension agreesbly to my orders, he was taken 10y
| your agent and afterwards liberated by the civil
| authority 1 have since had him arrested and con-
fined: and shall communicate the whole TRANSACTION
10 the President of the United States fer his decision
together with a copy OF your letter."
There arc no. however any acts Of the Generals
which so plainly discovers his true disposition, a
those connected with his extra official acts during
the Seminole War; and as slight sketch of hi
conduct during that period may be acceptable &c
our readers we will present one. The Treaty o
1914, with the Creek Indians, caused much dissatis
faction among the tribe, and was the cause OF col
lectiug band OF fugi.ives, who took refuge in thu
Floridus, that territory being then in possession o
his most Catholic Majesty, Ferdinand ofSpain.--
That they were hostile, originally to the people o.
the United States, cannot be denied but that hos
tility probably would have been allayed, but iol
foreign emmisaries who had located themselve
among them, and by art and stratagem, excited
their vengeance against the border settlers. Among
these unprincipled cmmisaries ALEXANDRA AR
puRrYNor and RoBERT c. AMBRIsTRR, were
the most notorious and conspicuous.
In this posture ofaffairs, the Executive consider
cd it necessary, for the protection of the Southern
f.ont;or 10 ,.,abI;sb N chain of forts. which wa,