Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-04-09

will naturally require At all events they will No, ho
more severe they will be treated with humanity Their
gnts nave Always been respected by the state govern
mcnt; witness the number Of white persons who have
oeen vigorously prosecuted and punished for violation
OF ther persons and propcrty-Winess the successful
issue OIL .e cause oil their reserves, than which none
could nave met with more violent observation-disclosures
now lew oil them have ever been punished by our
courts Have they ever come among us without re-
ceivng our ready charity, and kind hospitality! The
reproaches against Georgia for her unjust o the
Indians, to say the least of it, is undeserved and could
our Northern brehern know the truth of this natter we
should have been spared their unkind censures.
Ii Is true they deprived of many privileges that
belong to the CITIZEN but their condition precisely the
same in the Test OF the states They have never been
put upon the same footing amy tohere and II is great
ACT OF insincery towards Georgia. and fatal deuson
70 inc indians to attempt to inspire such belief And
cannot be expected that Georgia will submit to any
ns 10 which other states have not submitted. 1t Is
uo we nave said they shall be witnesses against
wn'e men; thsis municipal regulation and is entirely
w Wv" concern, subject to no other scrutiny than
ia' "ich refers to the wisdom of any other regua-
@ we may be censured for our folly but we usurp
PPo The same authorities that exclude slaves inf
ue convic and idiots from giving testimony in courts
Vi Justice, on account of defect of moral principle,
can 10 the same thing towards any other class Of per-
@ whom they in their judgment, may deem to be Ia
V"ng under the disability, and are answered.
oe TO no one but ourselves. With regard to other pr
vneges, the Indians cannot expect to be placed upon
,hc same footing with citizens do not al
low that to enlightened foreigners much less wander
Term here or elsewhere reproachully. This is pre-
rogatve that belongs 10 all governments, and must be-
exercised under that sound discretion which suppos.
ed TO rest in every weregulated society That power
IN government which prescrbes five years to alien
before he shall be entitled to the rights of citizen,
could place limit of fifty years to the privilege;
nay they could deny it altogether, and where is the
greater injustice in exercising precisely similar pow.
er I'm relation to the Indians, people much less entitled
to such right either from moral improvement in
teecuai elevation. No! the truth is whenever they
deserve II they will receive it, but this must always
be ieft as is every other social rule, to best
Judgment. IBalf. Gaz
The late destruction by fire of the Court House, In
Hartford county, N c. containing all the public docu.
ments OF the county, and the records Of the courts 10
one oil the most remarkable instances Of wanon deli
berate and as Glanced wickedness with
winch the annals OF crime have recently been marked
1t was the work of ncendary and the object was to
destroy forged bond supposed to be filed there upon
which an Indictment had been found against him, tho
trial OF which was 10 come on in neighboring county
in few days.
Ii is singular instance of rerbuve Justice that Of
all the papers contained in the Office deeds mortgages
evidences of titles and the records of all the courts
oo'n superior and county, the only papers which escap-
ed destruction the identical documents, which III
was the object of the ncendiary to destoy. The trial
having been removed TO another county, the clerk had
taken them for the purpose of making copies.
The circumstances under which the forgery COM
mitted, are also very singular. The criminal, whose
name is Wright Allen, had upon settlement of accounts
with another, received his note for ten dollars which
note was afterwards paid, but not destroyed Allen
added the word thousand in the body of the note and
some years afterwards sued the drawer for the Of
$4,000 Upon the trial, the forgery evident.
that the Judge stopt the cause, and ordered him into
custody and an Indictment for the felony found,
on which he had been bailed for trial. Hence his
gerness to destroy the evidence, and his resolution to
burn the house which contained il.
The discovery of his agency not less singular
The trampling of horse leaving the town about
o'clock in the morning, had been heard just before the
alarm OF fire. Suspicion having been excited, pursuit
was made, and the perpetrator, negro, overaken
at Murfreesborough, distance of about twelve miles
from the fire. he having been delayed by losing the d
rect road. He confessed the fact, and charged this
Allen as his employer He had been promised t,oenty
dollars and suit of clothes, for burning the Court
house. Allen and his accomplice, accordingly, were
committed TO answer the offence GIb.
(The substance of the above is taken from the Nor
folk papers)
FAYETTE, (Mo) March IL. The Ioway prisoners
engaged in the ARRAY with the whites in the northe m
part of the county of Randolph, in July last were dis.
charged by the Grand Jury of that county last week.
Monitor.