Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1827-11-17
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SOLTTIC.AL.

GEM: JACKSON AND Il SEMINOLE wAc
re ask the attention of every candid aud ever,
.eii'c'ihs rnan, who feels an interest in the welfare ~
ms country, To the following extract Grc,r , Rom,
iHaue III Tie Senate OF the CnI;ed States, by a commit.
Tee, on the 13th December, i8la-on IN. cnnJu,, ~
G'h' Jaci'aor, IN relation 10 the Seminole War. Cen.
i-acooh' II fennsy ivania, one OF thc most stcadEasr
republicans IN The United States, was chairman of ilat
committee.
Let every voter ask himself the question, whether
me man WAC has tins set the constitution. IaYs and
personal liberty at defiance, is worth To be The chief
magistrate of a free and vir;uous nation.--.Nat. .fdc.
III Is WIN regret that the committee are cofnpcIlei
10 declare, that they conceive Gen. jackson TO have
diSregarncd tue positive orders OF the Dcpartmar, of
War, the constitution, and laws. That he he -.
upon himself, not only the exercise Of those no,yers
"e'ega'eu 10 congress as the sole Legislative authority
OF Tue nation, and to the President and Senate nc IL ~
,a'es 'o'he appointments; but of TIC power which hal
oaen expressly reserved 10 the states in tbc ,nnoip,
mem OF HE oiiiccfs OF the militia, A power The more
variable To The states, because. as they had surrender,
ed la the General Government the revenues md ,h.
sicai fore" of tho nation, they could only loo,r IN ,io
officers Of the militia for security arainsi tho pos,;ti,
a"uss o' we delegated po%crs. The committee find
Inc melsncii"ll fact before thCm, that military officers
even al tins Caiiy stage of The repntlir b,vo ,.;,I..t
The shallow al authority. raised an army of NJ l,,r,
S,'uo men, and mustered them into the service OF the
United States. 30 officers have been Amounted and
Their ranks established from an Indian ~brirad,ur gen
crai, ho9n To the lowest suhaI,e:n OF a COMPANY. IT,
whom were these officers accountable for their CON
""c'. Not 10 the president of the United States. for
II vii he found that IL was not considered necessary
even To furnish him with Il list of their names; and not
until The p3y rolls were made out and ravment deman
aef' were the persons known To the Department of
var. And III THIS place IT is proper 10 observe. that
Zen. jackson seemed 10 consider those olioere of his
own creation, competent to- discharge all the functions
oi oHcers appointed by the authority Of the general
or state governments, for we find five OF them detailed
afterwards To sit on 81 general court martial, on a trial
al life and. death. Night not, on the same urincipIes
Geo. Jackson have tried, condemned and executed
any oHicer OF NC Georgia militia, by the sentence Of
n court martial composed By officers created by him
and holding their assrIcI authority By the scnor of MS
will?
Your committee will discharge his hranci, CT the
SuhJsct 10y observing that consistently with the char
acter anu genus OF our government. no officer. how
ever high ar exalted his station, can be jys.ifed of an
infraction oS the constitution. II is an offence agajos,
The sovereignty of the nation; this sovereignty being
vested IN the grea; hody Oi the people. The consliiu-
ton is the written expression of their will and ab,ve
The controI OF al! the public functtonaIins combined.
aud when the instrument has been violated, the peo-
pie alone have power TO grant the indemnify of it's III
traction, ana all that can be said in favor of the
officer who transcends his constitutional powers. must
De taken, net III Justification Of shc act. but in mifiea-
ton OF the enOrtDiiy CT the offence commiftrj WI
t'is view, OF the subject, which they conceive TO be =
correct one, the committee have in VAIN soun ht for an
excuse for the commanding generate
"AY"THEn WITNESS CoNvIcrEp OF TArsEnooDn
Amos kendall in his letter addressed 10 EIr. Ciay. amour
other things. asserted the following:
about the same time, your frirriIs stated in cnnycrsa-
ton, and Y"Vr Editor, Charles Hammond, Published in his
1fhrp"ptr. that the differences between you aud General
jackson were rccumciledp
Nv. Charles Hammond, SIN his parcr,,; OF tie 16ln mir
comes out with tiT following fat and uucnuivcc.l dcuia,:
'In the year 1921, | had nothing To do with anv news
paper whatever, andHeithari IN the character of E{iior, or
Correspondent, made any such publication, as is nc,e al.
~!cgHd."
III s'ranec, that when witness after witness, is ,abu,,cA
aud refuted, that others viii venture their reputation on
the plank OF Il ialschord, aud srhcf themselves n be found
gully Of PERJURY. What witncss will ap9ear nryto Cop,
on gentleman deponents, we are ready for you ali! The
more faisehoods you utter, the brighter are our prospects.
lhlLcnGry Cattt.