Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-11-22
From The National Intelligencer.
TIE SIX MILITIA MEN.

THE SIX MILITIA MEN.
we said, when we the other day inform
M, readers that the proceedings Of the Court
V,ru,l al Mobile, towards the close OF the war,
had bsen fouGd IN one Of the apartments OF the
A9;u,ant Generals Office, that we would pubs
Tsb them if allowed to do so. The having
made this promise, makes Il necessary for us 10
saw, that we have applied for a copy OF those
proceedings, thus lar without success. The
DEPARTMENT perhaps has an ohJec ION tc CIV
ing hem, through the newsp 'pers, to he pub
bc: which we do not mean 10 find fault WITH
". have little doubt that they Ill come before
,hr Pconle, ere long, through some Channel 81
other. when II will be seen whether or not the
Nashville Committee, IN scltctlTS one OF the
six Cases as sample of The whole, took The
mos, or the least eXcc2tlonablr one. For our
selves, W. are SO we'll satisfied with what we
alrady know, from the Generals discreet de-
iepders at Nashville, that VT want no further
Ell cn.c Of needless shedding of the blood oil
those militia men. This, L., i he rememhere'i,
We do not, nor ever did, charge upon General
Jackson as a crime-but Us proof conclusive
that he is liable TO error of j"dgment on tbs
m S, solemn occasions: for ~ha, occasion could
BE- more solemn Than one Nhlch involved the
lives of six ftIInw-meu, for merely const"uc,
Iise crime, if crime at all? During the whole OF
Ire three years OF the war, when mIihia-men
deserving from camp was the ooeurr-n.e "i
every day H. almost every State In me Union
no other instance occurred of'a mill la>man
beng shot. The Gaze at Mobile stands ny 1t
self: and may-it ever stand alone. In That
case not one but six men were shot, and that
too no, for deserving posts, nor Tor gong over
to the euCmy, but for going houc when Ulcers
A ia, no IaOa
time Of s. rvice had expiled. We do no, ms an
h.wever to dwell on this case: fnr in nth, be-
Ing as little able as Mr.. Madison was 10 look
on blood aud Carnage with compo sure, we have
no pleasure in contemplating It,
The regular reader OF this paper may reco'-
lect tha, we stated, some time ago, when The
procecdincs of this court martial could not be
found in the War Department, that we had
good authority for saying that President Madi-
son had, when they were first received, directed
these proceedines TO be retu,nsd ,oTenn"ssee.
Oar informant on this head had better right
10 know how they were disposed OF than per-
bans any other individual whatever. We are
not We, certain tina, his information TO US was
not correct: for, though returned TO Tennessee
at that tine, they might have travelled back 20
Washington under the General Order, issued
AFTER the war, which called for the transmission
70 the War Office of all records, Sc connected
v III the service, aud thus found entrance
where they were originally refused or, The copy
Of the proceedings now found may be the du.
pica'e Of that returned; the probability oil
which supnosition is confirmed by The pubiiea'
ton on the subject which was some time ago
made 5y the Nashville COMMITTEES: Tor, III
their exposition Of The matter, the Committee
nnhHSh certain extracts from the proceedings
Gtlhat Court, which Mr.. DoHelson "a relative,
We believe, Of Gen. Jaokson,) eertihes, are
correctly copied from THE ORR GINAL PROCEED
MGS Of The Court" (which he says were put mo
MS hands, about two years betOre. by (olonel
butler, late Adiutant General OF the Southern
Cvlslon, on his removal to Florida. ii me on
gaG! proceedings were still in the hands OF ten.
Iackson's friends in Tennessee, IL was oil course
no Cause Of surprise that they should not oe
found in the Department OF War: and from the
accidental finding Of copy Of them, there Is no
proof tia, the other aud original copy was NOT
returned 10 Tennessee, in the manner already
HaIed, by the order Of Mr., Madison.
e,lii, however, there is 4 possibility that Inc
memory Of our informant mis hit have drceiSeo
a.9: AMI II may have been Of some ofher Iour'
"'-rlial that The original Proceedings were re-
'-'hed to Tennessee We have not seen MIN,
W W as 10 make further inquiry upon the saolec''
We gave our Information as we received IL,
>'N' u there be any thing wrong IN II, VIII
T,sesIiaky correct it. That some Proceedings
Courts Martial actually were returned 10
''aessse, We have no doubt, and II they were
- nose Of the celebrated Court held at MO
we should be glad TO know what they were.
"e are not misinformed by our CORE spondeh'
re are some very curious documents oi tna'
~ ~. 70 be fond In that quarter OF the country
"'a the Original proceedings" came from