The Litchfield County post., 1827-08-23
From the United States Gazette.

feelings of the leading, wealthy, and really
influential men here; and that there is great
reason to fear, speaking moderately, that if
the woollens bill passes, some of the South
ern States will be driven to extreme meas
ures. New-York is not aware of this, nor
sufficiently alive to the consequences; for,
whatever be the measures, they will produce
a cessation Of all commercial intercourse be-
tween the North and South"
A cessation of commercial intercourse be-
tween the North and South, lndeed-has the
writer of the above note ever heard compu-
tation of the cotton which the north purcha-
ses from the south. This threat, though it
should have emanated even from men as
high as Troup and Giles, has been before
heard, but what availeth it!
The ST. Louis Commercial Advertiser gives
the following as the probable effects of the ex-
petition Of Gen. Atkinson against the hostile
nations of Indians:
In the first place, it will have the immedi-
ate effect of restoring the people at Fever
Mines to the mining operations, from which
they have been interrupted, and prevent the
consequences, absolutely ruinous to many in
diyiduals, if these miners, amounting to sew
oral thousand, should be stopped in the midst
of the expenses which they have incurred,
and the works which they have began. A
bove seven hundred thousand weight Of lead
WAS smeIted there in the month of June last,
and an equal or greater quantity is expected
to he made during each of the summer and
fall months if the works can go on. The mi
ners are the lessees of the government, and
are entitled to protection from it, in their re-
lation of tenant and landlord, as well as in
their character of citizens of the u. States.
In the next place, the village of Prairie du
Chen, consisting of about one hundred fam
lilies, will be saved from massacre, and will be
re-Occupied by our troops. This village,it is
well known, has been the great Indian tho
roughfare since the Mississippi was first dis
covered by the French near century and
half ago. 1t is a position absolutely neceasa-
ry to be held by us. Iii the centre of all
the communications between the Upper Mis-
sissippi and the lakes, and had been occupied
as military post by the French, and after
wards by ourselves, for almost century, I'M
til 1t was abandoned one or two years ago.
During the late war it was taken by the hos
tile Indians and Canadians. Last March was
a year, a family was massacred there, and a
mother few weeks ago. In the third place.
the presence of these troops will enable the
annual supplies of provisions for the post at
the falls of st Anthony, and which are now
stopped on their way, to proceed to their des-
tination. and will reopen the communications
with that post which are now interrupted.
Finally, the presence of Gen. Atkinson and
his command will prevent the peace of the
country and general Indian war, from be-
ing committed upon the unauthorized acts
of Individuals who may associate together,
makeinrcads upon the Indian territories with
out due knowledge of the innocent and the
guilty, and thus be the means Of bringing on
war even if one is not now intended by the
Indians themselves. The presence Of Gen.
Atkinson will of course put an end to unau-
thorised expeditions, and in his sound discre
ton and high responsibility, the country will
have the best guaranty that war will not
take place, unless produced by the determin-
ed hostility and infatuated folly of the Indians
themselves. With respect to the causes of
the late outrages on the Upper Mississippi,
we are glad to have it in our power to say,
that they have no foundation in any thing
done by our citizens to these Indians. The
murder of the family at Prairie dw Chen, the
attack on the boat in the Mississippi, and the
hostile demonstrations at Fever Mines, are
all unprovoked aggressions without the re-
semblance of reason to justify them. They
grow out of the permanent spirit of hostility
which preyades the principal part of the
Winnebage tribe, andwhich has prevented
them from ever making treaty of peace s.
friendship with the United States. They are
the only Indians within our limits who have
refused to make such treaty, and have al
ways been our open enemies in every war,
and insiduous ones in peace, aud will con-
tinue so until chastised into good behaviour.
The farce of giving up some malefactors
who are not to be punished, will signify no.
thing. 1t is fact which exemplifes the fol-
y of such magnanimous forbearance on our
part; that the murderersa who were given
up for the massacre of the family at Prairie
da Chan in the spring of the last year, were
aelually in confinement at the Falls of ST.
Anthony, and not yet released when their
countrymen destroyed another family in the
same place this summer, and attacked the
boat returning from that post with the son
of the commanding officer (Col. Smelling @in
it killing two, and wounding six of the men
on board