Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1828-08-13

SciIc'Soh, III HIS message 10 congress OF J8n.
22d, 1900, thus speaks of the movements of
Burr in Tennessee.
".Not a2prised austI Gerry lately that a,fq
ooafs acre building or the Cumberland, the eff.
feet OF the proclamation had been trusted
to, Tor some time In Tennessee. But on the
18th OF Dec. similar communications with
those OF the neighboring States, were des-
patched by express to the Governor, and Il
general officer of the Western Division of
the State, and on the Esd of Dec. onr conf
DENTAL agent left Frankfort for Nashville, tc
put into activity the means of that State also
hut, by information recei.ed Yesterday, |
learn that on the ED of Dec. Mr.. Burr des-
sendcd the Cumberland with two boats
merely OF accommodation, carrying from
that State no quota towards his unla wful en-
tterprise."
| Here It - placed beyond all doubts that
the PRESIDENT was not appraised, until very
late, that any boats were building on the
Cumberland, or that any hostile movements
were making in Tennessee. Gen j., though,
by his own assertions, fully upprised of the
movements OF the consprators, and alarmed
at the threatening chara cter of their pre- pa
ratons, gives no information to the Execn-
tive of the Union; but after the bubble had
burst, after enquiry was wide awake, wrote
an ambiguous letter to the Governor of N. Or
leans; and his followers have the harelihood
to assert, "that he scas the first man to gipe
tie dtGras"M!-When the facts L have here
collected together are compared and under
] stood, 1t seems to me that the letter of Nov
IL, to Gov. Claiborne, may be regarded as a
strong corroboratire evidence of Jackson's
guilt. But there arc other views to be Ia
ken of this subject
In the proclamation of the 27th Norem-
BIER. the President Eecit':s, that sundry cit
: lzens are setting ON foot an unlau full and
, CRIMINAL expedition; 'tthat for this purpose
they are fitting out vessels, i'll the Western
: Wuters ofthe United States, collecting pro-
visions, arms, military stores and other
means; are deceiving and seducing well
meaning citizens, under various pretences,
to engage IN their criminal enterprises; arc
organizing, offering and arming themselves
contrary to law &c And in the same
proclamation, after warning all concerned.
20 desist and Withdraw themselves, under
I the legal penalties, the President proceeds:
S>.and hereby enloiD and require all officers,
civil and miliiar.y, Of the United States, or
I OF 2ny OF the States or Territories, and es-
peclally all Governors and other executive
authorities, all judges, justices and other of
ticers OF the peace, oil military officers of tts|
army and 7paVg Of tie L. !Staies, and orricEns
OF THE MILITIA, to be vigilant, each with
in his respective department, anil according
&c his functions, IN searching out, and bring
ing to condlgn punishment, all persons.en-
gagged N such enterprises: in seizing and de-
tanning, subject to the disposition of laws,
all vessels, military stores, or other means
i provided or providing for the same
In the quotation already made from the
PRESIDENTS message, il Is seen, that the effect
! OF this proclamation "hnd been trusted to for
some time tD Ie'oecssce,' consequently there
No, Il, IL.
there as early as Dec. 22, if not earlier. !
Yet General Jackson, then General of the |
militia. one to whom the proclamation was
specially addressed, received Burr an inmate |
III his house, where he remained from the
l4th OF Dec, TO the Esd of the same mo nth
and then departed With two Of the very YES
sells prepared for the expedition, denounced
by the proclamation as criminal and uniaw-
FIJI Does not all these necessarily involve
Gen jackson in strong suspiciona
| have already shown that public alarm
existed at Cincinnati as early us Oct. 18th;
that, on the 5th of Nov, Burr was accused
at Frankfort, and on the 18th of Dec the
state OF Burr's preparations at Nashville was
known at Knoxville. A letter written ut St.
Louis, Nov. 9, I SOC, published in the Wcs-
tern World, and rcpublished in the Western
Spy, or Dec. ! ,, 1906, contains the fol-
lowing passage: Great CONSERVATION pre-
walls throughout the Territory, in consc-
qucncc of some communications of Colo
mel Burr containing military commissions for
T the purpose of cndcavoring TO dislnember
the Union" When, on Dec. ID, Gen Jack
son received Col. Burr as an inmate of the
Hermitage, it IS here made manifest that
he was subject Of distrust, apprehension
and alarm, through the whole Western
Country, from PitSburg to st, Louis; and if
VIC take the Generals own letter to Clai-
borne, dated November -, 1906, that be
was himself appriscd Of the true character
to Burr's conspiracy. 7 ask how it is posi-
bic to reconcile the conduct Of Gen. Jackson
e towards Burr, in reteiving him, IS deser-
wing and honorable man, with the duties of
; a good citizcn7 1t is Only by regarding him
? rs party concerned that his conduct is re-