Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-05-16

mos. and an attack on the liberties of the peo-
ME" And he subsequently adds-"l have
carefully perused this letter, and like It's tenor
and spiri!!..''
Without stopping to enquire, Jas feel
strongly inclined to do to VIVA, dreadful con-
dirion the universal prevalence OF tins SPIRIT
would reduce the country, Will content my>
self with examining momen', the ex'us''
or rather Justification thus put forth. Mr..
Dinsmore, the "upslar agent mad oeeh acn"g
ten wears under the authority oil law requiring
The passports which SD much interfered with
Jackson liberty The enforcement 81 the law
in this respect, tending as it did both 10 prevent
the escape Of fugitive slaves and the Kidnapping
Of them for the purposes Of sale, met with the
decided appreciation Of a large portion OF The
community, and drew forth from the Legislative
! Council Of the Mississippi Territory the ap-
proving resolution TO which haze before
| alluded. Now, If we allow ourselves seriously
10 enquire after pro,ooalion-as though one
might possibly be found 10 justify, or even ex'
cuse, a threat, put into wiring, to commit the
crimes of arson and mu;dvr-w.st VS. there
in This case, making every reasonable allowance
| for human inirmity, to ra!sr such a.temoest IN
rbe bosom OF General JaCkson? No'hl'g but
the simple execution Of a law Il he United
Statrs-a law which, although il mg't have
interlered with General Jackson's ner"s', or
with his ideas nfliberty, had, Notwithstanding,
been proved 10 be decidedly beneficial 10 HE
interest Of the public
But i, is said the agen, disobeyed his in.truc-
| lions. Admit This 10 be true, and can il, IN
der the circumstances of this ase, or under cir
cumstances even much less exculpa,ory, form
! IT. The mind OF reasonable man any excuse,
much less anv Justification, for the incendary
threats 50 often repeated in this letter? But
who. let i, be asked, is General Jackson, that
I've should denounce an officer for disregar ding
his iu,,ruc lions? When did he ever OBEY an
order of his superior, when II suled his ineli-
nation to disobey il? And how many times
would he have been roasted alive, if I've had lad
an Andrew Jackson to de al with, instead oil an
indulpent Government And yet Andrew Jack
son-O shame.-Andrew Jackson pours out
his wrath ard Indignation upon humble lndi-
an Agent for a supposed disobedience oil or
ders!! He raves al the "tyranny" OF this a
gent; and vet in this very letter, las we'll as IN
his whole life,) he exhibits the most incontes'i-
ole evidence that he is, in feeling and principle,
himsrlr the veriest tyrant on earth.
But the fertile ingenuity OF Gen. Jaekson's
apoloeis,s has invented ano her excuse for this
ATTEMPT TO connect it with an Indian massacre
which took place in Tennessee about months
before i, was written. After quoting part Of
the letter to Mr.. Campbell, (thr whole they dare
not publish,) they say. "This letter was dat
ed a: Nashville, in October, 1912, not long after
The families Of Marley and CrawIey had
been murdered at the mouth of Duck river, *
refers 10 the fact that fifteen Of the murdcrers
had passed near Kaskaskia 10 Join the Prophe;.
One Of the editors was a resident 81 Kentucky
at the time, and we'll recollects the strong ex>
citement felt by all classes at the improper
conduct IF fhp apent Surrounded a. he was oy
The indians subject 10 hi, influence, and whose
character was at that time eeuivocai, his acts
of petty .yranny..".was seriously felt" SC.
New, wha; have these murders to do with ST.
las Dinsmore? They were committed in Ten
nesser several hundred miles north Of the
Chocktaw Agency, S by portion of the Creek
tribe Of Indians inhab'Ing the west part Of
Georgia, nearly an equal distance east Of that
agency. And yet the editors OF the Telegraph.
though they DO not, in express terms, say that
"the improper conduct Of lhr agent" had any
come ciion with the murders they had just men.
toned connect the two subjects in such man
ner a. plainly shows that they intended TO pro-
duce such an impression. 1t is an arti6ce wor-
Inv Of the cause in which il is employed.
But the most extraordinary apology for Gen.
Jackson, remains to be noticed. BY dash
of the pen, his authorized indicators, the
Editors Of the Telegraph, convert his incendia-
~ threats into harmless representation to the
Secretary of War, that "lte people" were so
incensed that they would probably resort 10
measures of violence against the Agent, unless
prevented by his removal! "He saw" say they
"a storm gathering over the Agent" and that
sunless he was removed, the people would 6e
excited to burn down the Agency House. He
wrote to his representative in Congress, encos.
ed the evidencet Of the agents misconduct. *
urged him to apprize the Secretary Oft state
of the public feeling" "What argument was
| so well calculated 10 keep down the voluntary
action of the people, as an assurance that their
grievances had been properly repre- sented. -
"As well might riot be charged to the indivi-
dual who points out to the incensed popuiace
proper legal redress Of a grievance, as TO chares
the excitement produced by the conduct Of
D:nsmore 10 Gen. Jackson"
What an example Of mi'dncss and wisdom!