Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-01-18


suit your own convenience in sitting or
standing-by pleasing yourself, you
will crafty the Court"
To Lieut.. Morris. What amount
Of hard bread and bacon were at Tam
pa Bay when Gen. Scott"
Gen. G. 81 feel myself, Mr.. Presi-
dent, constrained ono 0 to protest
against this lawless mode Of procedure
Gen. NJ. again urge upon you,
Major Gen. Gaines, the Importance OF
complying with the desire of the Court
in this matter. Your case, Sir, is not
before us. You have nothing to do
with the matter pending, as 1t now
stands. You must not interrupt u.s..
Gen. G.. lin a loud voice. May 1t
please the Court, / wish to be heard a
moment. / do not desire to retard It's
operations, but | wish to protest for
mally against the illegality with which
it is, and has been conducted. The
ninety-frst article Mr.. President"
Gen. M. General Gaines, submit
your views to paper, and they will be
reqarded-do so now, or any time after
the adjournment of the Court this NOR
ring will do" :,
Gen. G. "No, Sir, will do it now"
Proceedings we're accordingly u
pended to enable the gallant old soldier
to embody his views, at the completion
of which he commenced another ad'
dress to the Court, but was again inter-
rupted by Gen. Macomb.
Gen. G.. 81 wish, Mr.. President, to
convince this Court, and the Country,
that the whole tenor Of It's proceedings
is al war with law, usage, and reason;
and"
Gen. M. General you shall not be
longer tolerated in these %gratuitous ex-
pressions. The Court will confer
Clear the Court"
The crowd, with the two Major GEN
erals, repaired to an anti-chamber, and
there awaited the second result of the
arbitration. Whilst there, "a feeling of
profound regret at the unfortunate eau
SEES of the estrangement of these two
eminent soldiers, irresistibly pervaded
us. The champions of Republican
America; those to whom the present
generation ofour countrymen ever look
with patriotic exultatlon, were now,
without a fault of either, exhibited to
public gaze as gladiators in the pollti-
cal arena. There they stood, on oppo-
site sides of the room, encircled by
their several friends, and occasionally
eyeing each others manly form, with
other, | trust, than embittered reflec.
tons. Favorites of the nation, who
breasted the bayonets of gallant old
England, side by side, and together
planted the Star-Spangled Banner of
their admiring countrymen, where
once proudly and gayly and Wanting
ly noated the standard Of St. George.
Leaders of "forlorn hopes" whose
names are patronvmics for hundreds of
their youthful feIIow.citizens, and at
the recital of whose achievements the
STRIPPING feels the first impulses of mill
tary ambition! Where, and what are
they now 0FKnights on the political
chessboard Of the upper and lower cab
inets.
On the re-opening, the Court, through
the President, announced that the pro.
test of General Gaines should be incor-
porated with the proper documents.
Gen. Gaines then read his acquiescence
in the decision of the President of the
United States, in relation to Gen. Ma.
comb, and after the transaction ofun-
important business the Court adjourned
until tomorrow at IL A. M.
The opinions of the Court, as ex-
pressed to Gen. Gaines, were deliver
ed by Maj. General Macomb, in a Ian
guage and manner highly creditable to
his talents and %urbanity. He urged
upon his brother officer, to whom he
stood in a relation altogether unsolicit>
ed, an adherence to a course, the expe-
diency and propriety of which his own
judgment must approve, and one which
the rules of service absolutely exacted.
p. S. General Gaines has publicly
expressed his determination to prose-
cute the inquiries now pending, to their
utmost extent, and bring the actually
guilty, fairly before the world. In
this, he will be seconded by the hero
Of Chippewa.