Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1828-02-16
POLITICAL,


FRoI THE MARYLANDER.
Ger. JGcSOrS crLelieS.-We wish tie reader NOT IN be
startled the title given 10 this article The cri
sis requires that things should called by their prope
names:he honor of the country, and permauence of
our happy form of government considerations too
sacred nature III our estmaton, to he jecpared by
false motives IF iclicacy. The official faults Of en- Jack
SOM Ike those OF all other men, conceive
objects OF criticism; and while shall refrain from viola
ling the sancuaries of private individual we shall freely
Investigate the iSdeeds of those, have abused the
power with which they had been invested Had General
jackson remained in private life, never would have al
tempted to drag his enomtes into light; but should been
willing TO assist in throwing the mantle of oblivion over
fe he has however thought proper 10 aspire Ia the
Office within ihe gift Of the people it right tina the
should know how dangerous epositay of their liberties
he might prove Having promised thus much, we sha II
give an extract from his letter to General Piuckuey,
tine 28I of March, 1914 On the preceding day General
Jackson had found at Indian village AT the bend of the
ialHpouse, about 1900 Indians, with their sguacs and
CHGeH, "runnIUg about among their nuts" The foow-
ing IS an account of the sauguinary which took
paCe; is Gen JaCkSOIs own, and therefore mis-, he 70
reived sufficient evidence against himself He SAYS:
"DEFERMINlNG TO EHTERMINATE them, detach-
ed Gen. Coffee with the mounted men, s. nearly the whole
OF the Indian force early on the morning of yesterday
the river miles below the
osuToUnd the bend in such manner as tina; none Of
them should escape by attempting the river" The
result ne then deaiis:--"f5c hundred and y seren rerc
tJE dead on tie Peninsula and great number of them
Aed by the hsrSemfn in atemDfng 10 cross The r;y,
II ~ BELIEVED THAT NO MORE THAN TEN EsCaprn
We coNTIHUEDto DESTROY many of them tCE,o lad con-
cenis9 themselves under The 6as Of he ri,cr ,i;i
3JsUsnted by HE night THIS MORNING WE KILL
ED IS WHICH HAD BEEN CONCEAIFDn
We ask yau pause and reflect that the above tra,ic
narration Of Codbooded and mercess cruelty Is taker
iron" an official commune alton made by General Andrew
Jackorand that after being the chief actor i'm this
table butchery, and fixing HJelibe stain upou the
Character OF ou country for humanity, he has arii-
MOD to ask those whom he thus dshonored to lend tn
selves 10 sambouS purposes, and by their sanction ofh
conduct adopt 1t their We all recolect the scosa
ton created throughout this land when we bea ri Tia,
the battle Of the River Rai5n, Countfymen had hoo.
murdered by sdr0gc allies of England while Bons oo
Ell On without raising from the tonaba,,,
a"t scaiPng knife those who had sprung from the same
stock as themselves We rccoect that the VENGEANCE r
THIS nation then invoked against the British for
y overlooking those horred transactions, the rc,I NJ
which had filled every breast with unspcaka BILE sorrow
;aat they were will attempt to deny how much
f"re was Cen JaCkSOn: they pleaded in exteuua,; =
tHgjr crying sin, tat, the Indians being so much noe NJ
'sGoGs than their troops they could not control them,
"'i sn can plead Gen. Jdc;sonhe has nothing 10 offer In
I"i On OF his outrage upon humanity, nor does ne AZ,
iH 20 conceal his determination 'O III mi
"' ,'ie miserable exposed his fury. His crime
gas c"n"isa.ys-nat Of the British ouissye-ihey per
" .i uutore they ought to have doaebut he a5-
S''ut1y 90" what he ought 10 have done.
let as Gecapiulate:luc General, fer s'esrnp f,yis
WIN 9"'posofe' We cannot say through the vi bi ensuing
lHe Tragedy we speak Of awo.e 10 the noninr surrognded
by be cogyscs Of five hundred scygnyD fel1 crea
tfS i' cause, by way Of worthy af,e.pecc evtoe, obc
NV W ragged from their conceanents, and pt n death in
90" Jood Nc cannot boast OF more than cou,r,or se,s
Diiy, but must think that witness snch an ac, i1
make ours little cold also What are the Cor,,,i.
woris--these "hIS morning killed sixteen which ia
been ceRccaed'-and the who acts and speaks ,,,,
-Tno has haifas much blood mon his ccns-, ncc a W.