American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-11-23


,l,er ,ay informed our readers that the proceed
."s If tbe Court Martial at Mobile, towards the
liza If the War, had been found in one of the a.
.,,tments of the Adjutant Generals Office, that
~ ,,uld uublish them if auwcd to do SO. The
,,;no made this promise, makes it necessary fot
/, NV, that We have applied for copy Of those
,rncccaipns. Tins far without success. The De
',,,m,n, perhaps has an objection TO giving Them
,nnn.h the newspapers, to the public; which we
10 MT mean to find fault with We have little
,oubt that they will come before the People, ere
nur through some channel or other, when 1t will
Le Seen whether or not the Nashville Committee.
n selecting one Of the six cases as sample ot the
While. touk the Inust or the least cxceptionabe
ma Far ourselves, we are SO well satisfied with
what We already know, from the Generals discreet
defenders at Nashville, that we want no further
,;dcpcc Of needless shedding OF the blood Of
Those militia men. This, let it be remembered,
we do ln, nor ever did, charge upon General Jack
syn as a crinc--but as proof conclusive that he is
liable to error Of Judgment on the most solemn &C.
casions for what occasion could be more solemn
than one which involved the lives of six fellowmen
|,r merely constructive crime, if crime at all !!
j)nrinn the whole of the three years OF the war;
when militia-men deserving from camp was the
occurrence of every day i'll almost every State in
the Union. no other instance occurred OF militia
mans being shot The case at Mobile stands by
itself: and May it ever stand alone IN that case
not one but six were shot, and that too not tor
deserving posts nor for going over to the enemy.
hut for going home when officers OF rank informed
them that their legal time of service had expired
We do not mean. however, to dwell on tins case /:
for. in truth, being as little able MS MI. .uodison
was to look on blood and carnage with composure,
we have no pleasure IN contemplating 1t.
The regular reader of this paper may rec0lec'
1bot, f,I limos " %
inns of this court martial could not be found in the
War Department. that we had good authority Tor
"a, ING that President Madison had, when they
we're first received, directed these proceedings to
be returned to Tennessee. Dur informant on tins
head ha, better right to know how they were
disposed of than perhaps anv other individual what
ever We are not vet certain that his information
TO Us was mt correct: for though returned 70 Ten
,lesscc at that time, they might have travelled back
to Washington under the General Order. issued
after the war. which called for the TRANSMISSION to
ne War Office Of all records, &c. connected with
the service, and thus found entrance where they
we're originally refused, or, the copy OF the proceed
inrs n,w found may be the duplicate OF that retur
NIL the probability of which supposiion Is conlr-
med bv the publication on the subject which was
some time APO made BY the Nashville Committee
for, in their exposition Of the matter. the Commit
tee publish certain extracts from the proceedings
Of mat Court. Wnicn MT. DOHetsOH IA reiltlNc WE
believe Of Gen. Jachson,) certifies, +" are correct
:. " copied from the original proceedings OF the
. Court which he saws were put into his hands,
about two years before, by Col Butler, late Adj
tant General of the Southern division, on his re.
moval to Florida 1.-THE original proceedings were
still in the hands Of General Jachsons friends in
Tennessee, it was of course no cause OF surprise
that they shuuld not be found in the Department
Of War: and from the accidental finding OF copy
If them, there is proof that the other and origi-
nal copy was not returned to Tennessee, IN the
manner already stated, by the order of MIR. .Hadi.
Sln
STILL however, there is possibility that the
memory of onr informant might have deceived
him and it may have been OF some other Court
Martial that the original Proceedings rctur-
ne,i Ia Tennessee. We have not seen him, 50 as
70 rake further inquiry upon the subject We
ave our information as received it, and, it
mere be any thing wrong in it, will chceriully cor
rect it. That some Proceedings Of Courts Martial
act laly were returned to Tennessee, we have no
dru)t and ii they not those OF the celebia-
tcl Court held at Mobile, we should be glad 10
know what they " ere. five are not misinfurmed
l'y correspondents. there are some very curious
dncaments Of that SORT to Sc found in that quarter
ri the country which the original proceedings
came from Nit. Iatrl. Nor. 81.
ELECTION RETURNS.
,Ne,U FORK, Nor 17.-By the mails Of the two
last DAYS we have received some additional returns