Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1832-10-18
POLITICAL.

The Grand !Signor's appreciation q the
course pursued by General Jackson, ~ith
some useful hints for his. future government,
published for the consideration Of The Amer
ican People.
From the New-York American Of the l7,h ult
1t must be IA circumstance of general
wonder that the enclosed letter, which,
from its date, appears to nave been writ
ten more than six months ago, has never
yet been published. The Editor of the
Newly York American, who is laudably
attentive in gratifying the public with ev-
cry novelty IN politics and literature, will
not hesitate, as l presume, to give this
original document an immediate insertion
in the columns of his excellent paper
Stauboul, the 2Oth day of the 9TH moon,
I2O9,h year Of the lIeg;ra, and according
to the Christian style, the 10th Of Fcbrua-
ary, 1892.
The Refs EGcnd;, principal Secretary q
The Ottoman Empire. to The Secretary of
Stale Of The United Siaies Of America.
Since the signature of the commercial
Treaty which now connects our two
Suites together by the ties Of friendly
intercourse, the Grand Signor, the great
protector of the law brought down from
Heaven, deigns to cast a look across the
seas to your rising country. Your pub
lie papers aie sent regularly to the Sub =
lime Porte, and ] am directed TO present
to the Sultan and to his sage Divau,
transIations of every article that concerns
you as nation. The name of your H.
.lns,riouS Chief may be seen now and for
ever in the same instrument, side by side
with that of our august Emperor. The
Sublime Porte, therefore, not only feels
AN interest but finds himself as it were as
sociated with that name in every mark
of reverence that it receives and the
Ottoman government would rejoice to
learn that the leaders of the American
people will continue to have blind con
fidence in their Chief, rather than to en-
tertain the least dstrust of President So
conspicuous, for many extraordinary acts
of his administration, above all those
Presidents who have preceded him. II
is then with much delight that the Sultan
sees him sustained by an influential par.
ty, whether he have done right or wrong
acted wisely or otherwise, for the more
power he exercises, and the more he as
Stimulates himself to the divine Sultan, by
him he will be considered more worthy
of his friendship.
There is, however, a thorny subject
one of great difficulty to be surmounted
and which has caused much embarrass
ing deliberaton in the mind ofthe Crane
Sgnor, before he could, with all his wis
dom and experience in the proper man
agement of Empires, come to right con
clusion in matter of so much importance
to the dignity Of your Chief Magistrate
Occupying, as do, in the Councils O
the Sublime Porte, an Office similar I
that which you fill with so much abilit
in the Cabinet of the President, the hon
or of communicating to you the decisiv
opinion Of the great Emperor of the O'
tomans, devolves upon me. 1t is the
with. all that respect which | entertai
for your profound knowledge in the law
OF your country, and for your perfect &C
quaintance with those Of nature and {
nations, that impart to you the result {
the serious meditations Of our sage En-
peror and his divan on the subject of tn
Cherokees.
Ifit be true, as the Sublime Porte
informed, that the country Of those Che
okee savages abounds not only in ferti
lands capable of producing every thin
for the comfort and enjoyment of its il
habitants, but that it is also blessed wi
rich mines of gold, the object Of the CO
etous envy ftheir neighbors, and alreat
the cause of some efiuson ofhuman bloc
il all this be true, the lands ought to
taken from that uncivilized tribe of hu
ters. They are incapable of cultivatiI
their fruitful soil, and they have neith
the industry or the science necessary
extract the precious metal bedded wi
rocks in the bowels of the earth. Yo
great advocates IN favor Of the inconte
tible rights Of the Cherokees, talk of Il
primitive, aboriginal title Of that on
powerful nation, title, moreover, SECT
ed to them by your own treaties. b
what says St. Austin, one Of the prom
nent fathers Of your christian faithI j
strenuously maintains that you are I
bound to keep faith with heretics and
fdels, because all things belong to I
faithful by divine right, and there is I
thing to which heretics can have any
tie. He consequently holds il as an I
tablished maxim that contracts made