Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-03-30
FRIDAY, MARCH so, 1889.
TcoMMuNIcATED.

Nr Edifor-Whether 1t be prudent, alter
the decision of the Supreme Court, to bring the
subject of the imprisoned Nfissionaries-for there
are two of them-before the public as a matter
for discussion. is, to say the least about it, ex-
ceedingly questionable. II. however. it be touch
ed at all. the object should be Peace" and the
mode Of treatment such as is best calculated to
secure "peace." But is this the tendency OF
your correspondents remarks IN the Gazette OF
Yesterday Will it serve to allay the excitement
in Georgia, to insinuate that the Missionaries
were obstinate even unto bloods Wiii II conci-
late respect to the decision OF the highest court
in the land, to assert, that they 'placed them-
selves where they knsD they would become %
noAiOus To the laws OF the state, ana instruments
Of increasing excitement" Will the ha5f -sno-
ib,rsd suggestion, that the Missionaries were
consciously doing as much harm as good. tend to
sober down the minds Of men, powerfully exclt-
ed. TO the submission of citizens obedient to law!
Suppose such insinuations were based on truth
would they, even then. be calculated to ensure
peaces Judge ye But are they based on fftah!
If so, then the charge will lie with double force
not only against the first Missionaries that were
ever sent out e. the original Apostles. but
the great and glorious Saviour Of the World MINI
self!
This subject ought to be better understood
The Missionaries went to the Chez okee Nation,
because they were invited by that Nation: ma
ton not only at amity with the United States,
but, IN some sense, under the protection OF the
United States This latter Government not on
" sanctioned the procedure. but even approprI-
ated funds tn encourage and sustain It, The OBJ
iect was in the highest degree benevolent, and
its results were beginning TO be glorious. There
Was no excitement when the Missionaries "plac-
cd themselves there" They did not - h,op''
that there would be- How co6ld thew They
were in nation which had invited tbem-a ma
ton At peace with the world--a nation to which,
the Supreme Court being Judge, Georgia had no
more right, at that time, than It had to France or
Spain. Was it obstinate, then, in them not to
remove at the tictation of Georgia.: Were they
bound to swear allegiance to State within whose
bounds they were not aborings Georgia had ne
more right to make such exactlons from them,
than it had to command the removal or allegiance
of the Missionaries on the Sandwich Islands or
in the Burman Empire. And must thew be OBJ
nosious to the charge of conscious workers OF
sedition'' for asserting right which every honest
man, other than Missionary, would have been
appauded for asserting. Nor were they called
upon to remove by the benign influence OF the
Religion which they professed to teach. Let such
a principle be once admitted, and every Mission
ary on earth would have to remove; Georgia
or some other Nation would saw, as was said o
the Apostles, these men are turning the worle
inside down." and must therefore be put out d
the way. Paul asserted his hits as Roman
Citizen-Worcester and Butler have asserted
theirs as citizens Of the United States. More
they have not asked-more is not desired by then
friends. But let them not be robbed OF these
because thew happen to be as Paul was-a pooI
Missionary, JUSTICE q fhAoh.