The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1826-05-04
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Esq has politely forwarded us the Report
Of The Engnfers appolrtrd Ia survey the
several routes fer road from Washington
City IL New Odran. II enablrs us tn
furnish our readers with no information oil
importance additional to the abstract oil
It's principal features which We published
last week. We perceive by it, howevtr,
thai thu Middle route offers two directions
for consideration and therefore may be So
I"cted,wlthout necessarily taking lnLyuch-
burg. The route which strikes CharIoites-
lille and Lynchbnrg is called the Up
per section OF the Middle route and thai
by Cumberland c. II. Milton, &c. the
ioWer section. The Engineers evidently
however. give the preference to the Up.
per section. bill has alrpadv been re.
ported II Congress on this subject an.
th0rlsing the President To appoint three
suitable persons not residents of either oi
the States interested, who are To make a
more minute examination of the Western
aud Middle Routes, tthe Eastern route be-
ing entirely out of lhe question: & futh-
with TO mark and lay out the road, on that
route which may appear to have the
strongest clailn. This is certainly the
wisest plan that can be adopted as il
would he Impossible for Congress to de-
termine the question undrIstandingly, e.
ven with all the lights which might be fur
nahed by reports of Engineers, &c.
.4nother Missouri case !-Franci, Larche
Of Louisiana, during the present srssuu Of
| Congress, presented a petition praying re-
Enumeration for slave who was pressed by
Gen. Jackson into the Uaitcd States SER
vice at the battle of N Orleans, and killed
The committee of Claims, to whom the
matter was referred, made the following
| Report;
THAT this is a claim for the value of a
! STARE, belonging to thr petitioner, impressed
l0to the service of the Unitrd States, by
Gen. Jackson, in the defence of New Or
leans, and alltdgrd Ia have been killed by
cannon shot, while IN that service
Without stopping 10 deny ~ admit any of
the facts by VIII the petitioner supports
! hl- claim, thr committee recommend its
'"j"cti"n upon principle.
The emergency Justified the impress
! nent of every moral gent, capable Of
contrib utln. 10 thu dttenc- Of thr place =
!
and slave, ~ well ~ the slave to defend his
master II would by the height Of mus
tee To call npon fhr free clllzens OF States
many hundred mills distant from the point
ssssiled, TO pour out their blood, and Sac
rifce their lives, for its drfrnce and AT
the same time, exoneratr from hat service
its own physi and moral furcr. Men
were wanted, and in that capacity the
slave was put in requisihon. The master,
too, might have been called, upon. and his
sons, and hia hired servants, as they were
in othe, parts of thc country, aud where
sous and fathers, and husbands, fought and
died, without having their lives valued, or
compensated IN money"
As might have been expected, this Re.
port, so novel in the grounds assumed, and
80 dangerous in the principles aVowrd, has
excited in Congress no ordinary feeling !:
aud We hsza'd nothing in saying that #
u should be sustained and go forth 10
| the nation as the settled rule nv which
questions touching the right Of property in
our slaves arr To be- .dJudicatrd, it will
| raise a ttme, If discomfort, from the Ma
| ryIand to the Rocky mountains. which il
| will be difficult to.allay, unless our sober
minded brethren of the North should be
aroused in time TO the propriety of Curhing
me ian"uclsm "i some oil the'r Ill-advised
neighbours. How often are they To b. told
| that, in touching this subject, they are h0-
dlns 'shlen match 10 magazine OF
powder, mat IN relation TO their slaves,
the southern people VIII not hs dictated
10 Ihdt thr Federal constitution, To
k.,k h.. IL
"nlFn the NoTth'fn S'ates aSstnteu win
their eyes open, recognized the Southern
slaves asproperty; & that they have lost all
right in future, of saying one word on the
s"hl'ct we hesefch the mort ern alots
to beware no" they touch this tender
| chord. We btafech them to beware by