The Arkansas advocate., 1833-11-27
From tte Riehmoad Enq,a1,el..

1faasactions in .4iabama.-Agreeably to our promise, we this morning lay before our readers the very interesting documents and other statements, which shed some light upon the embarrassing relations now prevailing between the Fedora! Executive and the State of Alabama. We most ear- nestIy beseech both parties to practice all the moderation whiehit Is possible for them to exert. If blood should be shed in this unhappy controversy, to what fearful re- sponsibility will the real aggressor be held, by the present and all future times! As we learn from the correspondence between the Secretary of War and Governor Gayle, the parties are not agreed, either about the facts or the law of the case. The Cover nor contests the accuracy of the informa- ion which the Secretary has obtained, and also interprets the acts of Congress in a very different sense. Is 1t not, therefore, the duty of the Secretary, under these cir cumstances, to panse Tn his movements; despatch two or three most intelligent com missioners forthwith to the Creek country ascertain the real characters of the h. taders, as they are called; and the justice of the complaints which are made by the Indian Chiefs confer with the Governor of Alabama upon the best mode of remoy- ing these complaints by the agency of the State laws-and at all events take time for completing the surveys and selections of lands-and perhaps of adjusting all dis putes by the negotiations, now said to be on foot, for removing the Creeks to the west of the Mississippi? We know of no event which would cover the friends of our federal institutions with so deep gloom as the actual collision between the federal and state authorities in this instance, and the shedding of the blood of our fellow citizens, in civil contest between the troops of the United States and the military of Alabama. Here IS President of the U. States who has distinguished himself by his manly vindcation of the rights of Georgia in the case of the Cherokee Indians.- We should expect from him course ia relation to the Creeks which may manifest his strict respect for the rights of Alabama,
 Here also is a Governor of the State who has avowed himself one of the most deci- ded opponents of nulIifcation, in the whole Southern country. Who are better calcu- lated to settle this dispute than these two citizens! to respect on the one hand the sacred and inaiienable rights of the States, in relation to State jurisdiction over the h. dian tribes; and on the other, to avoid all rash and hasty recourse to violent moas- ures against the agents of' the United Statesl Ne put 1t freely to all, that if under such favorable circumstances, a direct issue should be made up between the two; ifblood should be shed in this civil war, bow much would it gratlty the enemies of our federal system, who predict the machine Is too com picated to play freely, and that the parties must inevitably clash with each other! and what disconsolation would it not impart to the real friends of the republic!
 We confess We are not pleased with the state of things in Alabama, as they are eA- hibited in the papers before us-but we will not yet permit ourselves to despair of 8 moderate bearing in both parties, and a happy issue to this most unexpected con- test. IL has burst upon US like flash of ightning-after the storm in South Caroli- na had passed by. We shall rejoice If 1t vanishes without doing any further mischief.
 It escaped us yesterday, that 1t was pro- posed by the Editor of the Richmond En- quirer, that Commissioners be despatched to the Creek country, .io aScertaia the real character ot the iat,uders, as they ore eaii- cd, and the justice of the complaints aehich are made Jy the IadiGa Chiefs, and confer ,piih the Gorernor of .4iabama upoa the Besi mode of remousag hese complaiats,n &c. &c. We ought to have informed the Editor of the Enquirer, tbat Commission-