Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1836-08-25
THE PRESIDENTS LETTER


The order Of the President, disbanding the for
oes called Tor by Gen Games, has received the II
UNIVERSAL and unqualified sanction Of the Nhig
Journals which shows, as indeed has been SIEVE
raj times the since Gen. Jachson's election,
that their opposition to the administration is not,
AS has been alleged iactious and discriminating,
but that, on the contrary, its opponents are always
willing TO applaud, when they are not compelled to
condemn.
We looked, with some curiosity, tosrc what the
leader of the Van Blrcn force, in Virginia, would
say on the reception OF Gen. Jackson's letter,
which were sure, from his course ON the
MeSico-rcSian question, would grarei him pretty
dent chagrin, and OF course,
"Just hesilates dislike
Hing To wound, and yet afraid to strike"
lie says,-Ohe Enquirer, We mean, )--on the
reception of the Generals order;
We give very important Letter from the
President, disohareing the Tennessee volunteers
called for by Gen. Games. If what we have
heard about Urrea's employing the Cheerokees be
true, those troops may be wanting. This does not
seem to be known TO the President. II the Cher
okees take the field, we shall regret the recall Of
the volunteers"
II what we have heard be truc'-ayo there
lies the rub-it II be true. But who believes it 7
Repeated, day after day, by the Ieuida mint in
New Orleans, which coins talsohoods for the A.
mcrican market, " as fast as the arabian gum dis
ills its medicinal drops, none but the ignoran, and
the crcdulous can place any confidence in IA state
ment SO mantcstly improbable, not to say absurd.
correspondent lthe National lntclIigcncer says ::
"Nrw OnLrANs, Jrly %, 1886.
e No confidence is due TO great deal OF pre-
tended information respecting Texas, which YOU
will find in our city papers. The story 81 TIE
risit Of Cherokee chiefs at Uat0mords tor the
purpose of making a treaty ruth the Nercans,
.ios been got mp entirety for eject The Chero-
KEGS, as well as the Choctaws, are an agricultural
people, and are the last amongst all the Indians
TO come forward upon such an occasion. They
possess fine farms and numerous herds of cattle.
None OF the chiefs could leave home without the
resident, Agent reporting them 10 Government !;
nor could such secret be kept from the Agent
as their negotiating with the Mexicans. The
whoie is pnrf tdbricdtion. II the Mexicans
intended to stir up the Indians, they have numcr-
tribes around them, wild and bloody enough,
and would have no occasion 10 send into Alkan-
sas, nine hundred miles from Matamoras. for A.
merican Indians to lieht Americans, or, more pro-
perry speaking, Texans"
We do not see, even were the rumor true, how
ever, that Gen. Gaines, 'sho had cridcntly not
heard Of il, would have been thereby Justified in
his call for more troops.
The Enquirer, too, must be mistaken in sup
posing that the President Mas not aware of these
reports. They have been current for weeks, and
of course reached Nashville before they we're re-
ceiyed in Richmond. We think II certain that he
had beard of then, and knew them TO be false :;
or, if he believed thcn we suppose he came to
the conclusion that the employment of Indians by
the Mexicans, would no more Justify our interior
cnce against TINT government, dian the employ
ment OF Indians by the TEXANS, should such a
thing occur, would Justify in cspousing the cause
Of their advcrsares.
The country has reason to rejoice that Gen.
Jackson was at the Hermitage, rather tlan in
Washington city on the 9TH Of August. Remo,-
ed from that secret and corrupt Influence which
has 50 long swayed his councils, and left 10 the
action of his strong mind and to the advice of
the sound principle avowcd in orc of his Annual
Messages, as regul aiing his intercourse with for
cign powcrs--and he will receive the thanks OF
candid men of all parlies-in1ecd OF all men, cx-
cept the spccuiators who, through the instrument
tally of Gen. Games, hoped 10 employ the armies
of the United States in the conquest of Texas, in
violation of our neutral obligations and of every
principle of honor and justcc-con,idoralio
which weigh nol feather in the scale with them,
so lhat they secure the lands which they have
bought for IA song. and which, in the event of the
final expulsion of of the Nlexicans from Texas,
they expect TO sell for mi lions.
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L. Does the Richmond Enquirer intend Sc
,iousiy to dcuv that Van Buren, opposed to
the War! II il does, to quote lis own language,
" il is vain to expect truth or Justice" from that
quarter, in any matter affecting the interests OF
Van Buren, In June, 1912, War was declared
In the November following, the Presidential cleo
ton, which turned crci"sirciy upon that question,
came on. The candidates were James Madison,
BY whose recommendation War had been decar-
ed-and Dewitt Clinton, who WAS brought out by
the Peace party, the Blue-ligh and Boston
fedcralistS then called themselves. Whom did
Van Buren, support Mr.. Baller, his cerlifyer-
general, tells us that he was decided" in support
of Dewitt Clinton Did he expect to carry on
l. h. M,,li-