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which recently suggested no ideas hut of sav- age tribes, or a savage wilderness, now re- mind us of civilization, of enterprise, of gainfIl commerce, inland navigation, and ex- pensive works fpublic utility. It must be confessed, Mir. w. said, that his client openly aided and abetted that course of proceeding which had produced these results, and was producing others Ofa like nature. It could not be denied. All the world knew it. If there were guilt in it, his client was notorious ly, and beyond the power of contradiction, guilty.
 One more remark, of preliminary sort, Mir. Webster said, he wished permission to make. Perhaps it might not be that there was much in It, in these days of the rule and reign of abstract principles and metaphysical theories. Still it might be worth just the mentioning, accidentally, and, as it were, by ] the way, that those, on whom this breach of the Constitution had been perpetrated, and whose rights had been wantonly invaded, by his valued uncle and client, did not seem greatly to complain. Indeed they did some thing more than bear their injuries with pa tience. They were so ncOnsiderate, so per verse, so strangely blind to their own inter est and happiness, that they absolutely welcomed the usurpation,& hailed 1t with joy and exclamation. The chains, thus imposed on them, and which the Doctors of the meta physical school tell them are chains of iron, cramping their limbs and their liberties. they regard only as links of social, municipal, commercial, and political intercourse, more precious and valuable than chains of gold.
 It would be remembered, MT. w. said, that this was the Ohio case not the case of the Dismal S,camp: though in that case, also, he believed, the money had been receiUed and expended but, to preserve the principle invi- Olate, it was received under sort of nretert, namely, that furnishing the means to do a thing was no participation in the doing of it. Bat it acas received. The good dollars were all counted and paid out at the Treasury i; and he had observed that this case was very seldom quoted as one of the mischievious pre- cedents. There had been much less frequent mention oft, he suggested, than of the llli- nois Canal; nor did its passage through con gress draw such briny tears down venerable and patriotic faces, as flowed conspicuously at the last Session, when the harbor, piers,& 1 lighthouse bill travelled its way through the two Houses.
 Here, as the learned Counsel seemed to dwell 80 long in his preliminaries, the Court intimated they must rise, but said, after the manner of Lord Chancellor Eldon, that they would hear him, further, another day, and in the mean time carefully read over all the papers in the cause.
 And so the Court was adjourned until the next time of meeting, and the labor of our Reporter ends for this day. God save the United States, and the people thereof, who constitute this honorable Court
 l From Ghs Ns,o- York Ame,icon.
 1 Gen. Jackson aud the Miiitia.-It is, perhaps not generally known, though as indicative of the real nature of Gen. Jacksons pretensions which are strictly of a military character, to support for the presidency, it should be that great efforts are made to obtain, and much reliance is placed upon, the favor of militia soldiers and officers and sOldiers-as such not in their capacity as citizens, not as farm- CTS, mechanics, or professional men, interest ed in the preservation of civil order and free dom, but as soldiers, banded together under leaders, with arms in their hands, and with military glory as their incentive. The hero 1 of New Orleans, not the Statesman, is tke cry, and amid the clangor of arms, and the ! rustling of banners, and the swelling of mar tial minstrelsy, all arrayed to do honour to the chieftain; the still small whispers of req son, the warning voice of all the past, the prophetic misgiving of even Jefferson for the future, all are attempted to be silenced. Under these circumstances it cannot be mis- placed to callthe attention of the militia in particular, and of OUT readers generally, to the treatment by Gen. Jackson of certain militia under his command at the close of the war. In doing so, we shall not, we trust, be understood as upholding any sickly doctrines about the hardship of enforcing discipline a. gainst the militia when in service we too well know its value-we have had too much occasion to see it's necessity to commit any such blunder. But we do mean to say, that in the case we are about to refer to, if the official documents do not Lie, there was, under all the circumstances of the case, uncalled for severity, nay, unjustAable cruelty,in the ex- cautions ordered and fulfilled.
 Briefly then to the facts; Six militia men were by order of Gen. Jackson carrying into effect the sentence of a Court Martial, shot on the 26th of Jan. 1915; eighteen days after the battle of New Orleans, and ;hlrty two days after the signing ofthe treaty of peace between the U. States and Great Britain. The circumstances which led to their con- demnation and death, and the degredation of their companions, are thus stated:--
 A detachment of Tennessee militia was drafted by order of Governor Blount in May 1874. They arrived at the place of the rendezvous on the goth of June. The pri- yates were told by their oflicers-A Captain Str0ther and lieutenant, whose name is not