Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-11-22
THE GOVERNMENT
THE STATE OF ALABAMA.

F. S. Kew, ESQ, Of Washington City. Spe.
cial Agent, appointed by the United States Gov
ernment, in reference to the affairs Of the Creek
Indians. passed through this place towards the
point of his destination, on Saturday last.
We understand that the President highly GEN.
sures the conduct of the officers at Fort Mitchell
in Conforming the civil authority OF Alabama;
and has ordered the culprits to be delivered over
for trial. We are furthermore informed, that
the Agent will Immediately locate the Indians
within prescribed limits, and that the territory
will be surveyed into townships, preparatory to
its sale; and, in the meantime, the Alabama set
tiers will be permitted to remain in the country
not 10 the immediate possession oil the Indians
thus, at once settling the whole controversy be.
tween the u. States Government and Alabama,
by the former withdrawing, in toto, the preten.
siOns hitherto maintained.
Alabama, has thus, by the mere shew OF the
position which she declared herself ready to as
sumo, indicated without difficulty her charac.
ter, and the rights OF her people; and we congrat.
ulate her, on the peaceful and prosperous result,
as well as the country, on the evidence which this
affair furnishes, that the Government has not yet
reached the hopeless point Of making up in OBJ
s,inacy, what may be wanting in right. and by
the virtual acknowledgement, thus forced from
the Federal Government, that State sovereignty
is still something more than name
MHedgeUiM Journal
The reader will please to understand that the
Editor of the Recorder, from which the above is
copied, is a thorough going " State Rights" man,
in the acceptation in which that distinction is un
derstood in the South. The motto of the paper
is no such old fashioned one as f. pluribus un,tnl,
or, United ,1e stand, diu,ded zee fall, but. ih
broad characters displayed, " State Sovereign
ty." For ourselves, we see no cause for con.
graduation of the State Of Alabama upon her at
titude. or upon the Government of the United
States withdrawing, in toto, III it shall do SOY
the +" pretensions' to cause its treaties and laws
to be respec ted. Wat. hieA
We copy the following paragraph from the
Globe of this morning. 1t is somewhat obscure
and ambiguous, but il it is intended, as we sup
pose, to convey the impression that the Execu.
tive has not yielded in any degree to the powers
assumed by the Governor Of Alabama, We can
not reconcile it with the last instructions OF the
Secretary of War to Major Mcintosh and Mr..
Kew, the Government Agent or Messenger. The
Marshal was originally instructed TO remove the
intruders from the Indian lands. AMI the troops
OF the United States we're employed for the pur.
pose. Governor Gayle denied the right Of the
freslutnt 10 OrueT TemOSdl, duus III us pIO-
clamatioD, called upon the people to aid the state
authorities in resisting it. Major Mcintosh is
then instructed to interpose no obstacle to the
service Of legal process. issuing from the Courts
Of the State of Alabama, against himself or any
officer or soldier under his command; and an
agent is despatched from the seat of Government
with similar instructions to the Marshal. We
do not see how the intruders are to be removed
from the lands. if the State Courts have the right,
as they have the inclination. to arrest and impri
son the persons engaged 10 effecting the removal.
1t may be the determination OF the Executive ul
timateIy TO accomplish the removal-but there
certainly has been temporary yielding to the
difficulties iuterposed BY Governor Gayle.
Baltimore GaS
Several Of the opposition prints (the Richmond
Wing, aud Moderator. among them.) have ven
tured to assert that the ORDERS with regard to the
OF the intruders from the Creek lands in
Alabama have been counternanded This is al.
together erroneous the documents to be referred
10 Congress will shew. The original Instructions
ipon this subject, are at this moment in active
process Of execution. The persons employed in |
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