Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1828-04-08

W. and capture aud make prisoners Of all and erery
description Of persons, together with their crafts,
vessels, goods, &c. although the United States were
| then at peace with the whole civilized world.
| For having ordered to be brought on shore and
hanged two Indian Chiefs who were perfdlously Ell.
iiccd and ensnared on board Of United States YES
sci BY means of false coors and a friendly foreign,
jug, within the dominons Of the King of Spain with
whom our government was on terms OF peace and
amity-one of the said Indians being the Prophet
Francis. the father Of large interesting family, and
one of his daughters having at the risk Of her owr
life, saved the life Of Georgia Militaman
For having, in April 1913, in violation Of the
principles of all law and humanity, and on neu
trail territory, ordered to military execution, two un
fortunate Foreigners in Florida-one of them Am
briser soldier shot 10 death against the deiiberat
and declared sentence of the Court Martial, which
adudged him only to suffer fifty stripes and twelve
months confinement at hard labor the other, Ar
buthnot, found trader among the Indians il
Florida, and as peaceable inmate in the family o
the Spanish commandant at st. Marks, within tn,
II Spanish Territory. was hanged!
d For having in time of peace and security, ant
therefore IN Uiolation Of The 65h rule of the first
the articles Of ,car taken the lives of those unhap
ply men without hau,og first laid the proceedings 0
their trials before the President of the United States
whose sanction was necessary before their execu
ton could lawfully take place-thereby having dc
prved the Chief Magistrate of the merciful exefcs
E of his Constitutional prerogative of pardon, whic
there is every reason to believe would have been
: tended to those hapless victims of unauthorized AM
! unwarrantable military rigor.
For having sent armed force of twenty sol
diers TO take the Spanish Governor Callava. an
commit him to prison. not Tor any military offence
= but for refusing to deliver to General Jackson's Oh
% der, papers relative to private property, whc
might have been obtained without a resort to sue
a harsh extremity for in East Florida, about tn
+ same time, papers which were similarly refused, wei
L quietly obtained by Governor Worthngton, by sin
u ply sending Sheriff to take them without the en-
r ployment of an armed force.
VI For having as Governor of Florida, exercsir
y military authority. nsulted the majesty of the law
IN time Of profound peace by dragging before hi
T. and threatening with punishment the civil magstrat
in the person of Judge Fromentin,-an officer col
y missoned by the President of the United States
a. and for having brow-beaten and heaped unmerit
as reproaches and Uulgor abuse upon him, merely
Or cause the Judge, considering it to be his duty VIII
of an application had been made to him therefor, hi
~ dared to allow writ Of habeas corpus in the ca
n. of the imprisoned Governor, Callava.
a. For having 6anished several Spanish Officers, r,
dents and property holders at Pensacola, because
lit their having published article in the DewspaI
1t questioning the accuracy of the Interpreters W
had assisted in the examination of Colonel CallaN
&c who could not speak English
ce For having arrested and imprisoned two of tho
en- officers, ubeots OF neutral and friendly pow
who venured to return in short time to 10
Of after their affairs, and who remained in confnem
tie, until their having been communicated to
be President Of the United States, he at direc
Use their discharge after they had suffered mpris
lad ment of upwards of three months
OF For having, when he was Governor of For
determined that the right of trial IN jury did
tkatt
pit Of justice was to be regulated by the monarch
the laws and usages Of Span as declared by his o,
,la1lces for the organization of the FOrdas-altho
tce by the Constitution which is the supreme law,
ge extends the whole OF the territory belongn.
the the United States. it is expressly declared that g
trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachm'
'est shall be by jury.''
sh- For having questioned the power of the Presid
Mr. of the United States to give instructions to the Ju
in Florida, commissioned by the Executive, and
acts having claimed the right to exercise all the poa
the exercised under the King of Spain at the time
ere country was coded, although many of the said p
for were uttei repusnant to the Constitution, wi
fish .'secures the blessings Of liberty" to all the pei
rise of the United States.
lea For having IN May 1918. grossly nsulted
Chief Magistrate and civil authority of a sover
re- State, in the person of Governor Rabun of Geor
g it who had presumed in virtue of his Constitute
rein powers to give an order to some Militia Office
lrch his own State not under the orders or c0ntr
re- General Jackson in consequence of which, G
int- RAJ jackson addressed this insulting declarato
,cH, him 6 Tou Sir, as Governor Of a State, within
ash military Division. hare no right to give mill
E. order ,ohilst / am IN the. feld."
e IN For having offered indgnity to the Secretar
cted War IN the very letter which assigned his rea
his for dlsobeylng an order for the disbanding OF
ndi- troops, and for having placed his own authOri
ming opposition to that OF the War Department
For having usurped the absolute control o
rnors armies under him in time of peace, by directin