Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-11-01

papery has demonstrated any Truth plainly than
that Of the importance Of the Union itself. Il h that
plan Of elecng the President 10 radically and runoosy
defective Radically because the business Of Psesident-
making Is about swallow up every thing ese All the
great interests OF our widely extended country are to DO
supported or abandoned to be cried up or cried down,
bought Sold snapped tied together, split asunder
make weights In this traffic Tho sober. deliberate
wishes Of the people csnnO, take Its way; but s lust
OF power controls this thing and 10 made operate
OF the government, apparently the most
from il. Its hardly necessary say that this 10 rsdi
caliy wrong. snd in time, aud very time,
ainous. This evil hss long been seen, and
~ deplored; ami many remedies have been devised.
Cnueuses aud Conven'ons. Legislative nominations. and
thousand other great aud little wheels have been set in
motion, collect and isry embody the public sen
ncnt; but all Of them are either managed by few,
what Is nearly as bad are suspected because they
liable There is one, aud only remedy Tor ell
this. IL for the people form their opinions Of home,
ssrre'; them a. the po sy direct vote. This ed s.s
people themselves; no choice effected the rst
trial. It accompshes object almost as impatient. feir
nomination of candidates by the people For taking the
two highest the only candidates, at the second trial.
choice 10 then certain We think the people Of the Unit
in this particular; and the mischief. Of the rs-eshily OF
the person second Of Office experience has
rendered perhaps equally manifest. &c"
ALABAMA.
This is Of the great topics of the Iay-and NO
continue to lny before readers all the nfOrma-
ton we are able to collect upon it, Every view
Gun take Of it-every new fact which receive
from Aabnma-or from Washington, satisfies us,
have recently grown up; that time and moderation
are necessary adjust it the public satisfaction
and that any thing like violence precipitation, in
either party, may do incalcuable mischief Both
ought to bear and forbear. Ought not Governor
Gayle to summon his Legislature, soon rs posi-
BILE, to lay all the facts before them-and avail HIM
self Of their best advice in directing the movements
Of the State at this critical emergency Governors
Hamilton and Hayne did not upon their
spOnsibity alone. They had the aid not only Of
the Legislature, but OF a Convention-and should
the Governor Of Alabama, in case Of greater per-
pexiiy aud perhaps of equal importance, resort
to the same oracle for advice?
We lately threw out the idea Of sending Commits
sioners to settle the acts-and to confer with the
authorities OF Alabama, upon the Ia,Os of the
In reply to these suggestions have the following
articles from the Globe, which we hasten to lay bo-
| fore readers.
! (F,om the w. Globe ofoc 2s.1
The Richmond Enquirer takes up trsnsciens in
Alabama in It's usual conclisory spirit We wish, most
sincerely, that there mode Of accommodate
possible consistent with the continuance Of the settlers
the lands But while the Indians insist upon the execu-
ton OF the treaty in good at and demand the
Of all the intruder. in conformity with the law especially
referred to ia the tresiy the President has really alter
native, but to carry its siipulaons into effect
N"o" 'e"s. 'Aa' "e ooseI""eh' nc au'ninises, not
competent to make treaties na'much has not power
TO execute them.
The Richmond Enquirer says:
Gas We learn om the Correspondents between Tho
Secretary at War and Governor Gayle the parties
agreed either about the Jaets the Io tho The
Governor the accuracy the information which
the Secretary has Obtained and also utoprets the Acts Of
Congress in very different Is It not therefore,
the duty OF the Secretary under these circums,ances
pause in his ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS three
telgent Commissioners forthwith TO the Greek Country
ascertain the real character Of the Irudes they are
called and the justice OF the complaints whch made
the Indian Chie-conier with the Governor OF Absms,
upon the best mode OF removing these complaints by tho
agency OF the State LawsaDd at all events take time for
completing the surveys aud selections andsand per-
haPs Of adjusting all disputes by the said
Mississippi"
There certainly no room for difference with regard to
the facts between the Governor and Secretary, and
The Commissioners OF the United States who were on
the land the Secretary and all the officers unite in esta
b''hng the intrusion and wrongs Of which the Indians
complain But d the allegations not true, still the
Indians have right under the treaty require the
ova OF the truders and have done again and again;
and in such terms as 10 leave the Executive alternative,
but to perform his duty, acknowledge that he is
ing in good faith, or in the power to performit. We
by the ch-f.. and from IL the public will discover that
even now after two crops made and gathered by the
settlers, justice done TO the Indians they will still have
reason to complain that il is late and reluctant
With regard TO the difference between the Governor and
Secretary as to The law, the objection Of the former 10 Of
such character that to recognize it. is in effect resign
the public domain. II settlers onI, re moved when
they assert title, then they might keep poses sion for
ever by insisting that they had no tie-Such con,truc
ton Of the law would protect the worst sort of inudsrs-
persons holding possession OF the Government lands
It's WILL and at The same time declaring that they had
right 10 hold but would hold in defiance Of the lawfu
authority requiring them remove-Such an inierprets.
ton would make most dangerous Agragisn law, and
governor Gayle to restrict general law TO the particular
case which pointed out the propreiy OF its 10
equally absurd The law Tor the al of inruders by
military force from the Government lands has been acted
on by every successive admnisti alton.
IL was never supposed aPpean any rsse
mJdcf any more than il does 1 its terms. And having
been called into reqnstion, wherever intrusion made il
necessary was specially referred TO in the Greek Tres
W. as assuring Indians OF summary relief against
ger they aPPrehended for their atoms in cediDr
their lands to the Government cannot ser there
lore, with what Propety Governor Gayle object
The application OF the law TO the present case when If
the statute in fact Obsolete having been made sii-
p"aon oil the treaty. is obligatory as il had been
rcenacted Tor the special truth the pus-
t'oh I'D question has every sanction give moral and
legal obligation When Georgia coded the Tertiary to
'he " D. she made condition OF the transfer tina, ''fbs
utmost good Jdh shall oirays be observed fotpo,ds the
Inddns her lands and property shaH nsrer be taken
from mem githom their consent and in their propeyfv
r'ghs and liberty, they shall be invaded or dis
fWoed unless ~ just and LAWFUL tcar authorized by
CongTess The intercourse Of 1902 and the act Of
1907 against intrusion, aud the treaty made for the bene
TT OF Alabama and under the auspices Of presents
ve' ss well as her compact with the u Sistes arc
all designed TO carry into fleet the condition on which
Georgia reliDquished her title edsted Of every
STEP 10 the various mutations which the Indian Isbts
have undergone. We think en that the reason.
ing oil Governor Gay is of sufficient aside this
long established policy long train OF legislation con
hrIned by successive presidents well as the late treaty.
Chief Magistrate Is not who will be deie,
the performance OF his public trust by any parade and
mastering OF military array, TO prevent The true ob,sr.
vance and complete execution Of his duty,
Documents referred to in the aJope article
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