Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1841-03-17

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d istrators, and thus to save as much as po
/, sib'e OF their debts from the wreck ofour 70
Z tunes.
b In the next number Of our paper, we wi
e continue this argument.
9 We copy the following from the New Yor
Il Journal of Commerce. 1t is from the brolhe
0 of Alex. Mcleod, nowimprisoned' at LockpoI
!, N. Y, and waiting his trial upon charge Q
. murder and arson in the affair OF the steam
D boat Caroline.
f We lay before our readers the importan
, consequences involved in the affair have ex
Y cited intense interest.
KiagSos0n U. C., Feb. ls4l.
To the editors IF the Journal Of Commerce
Gentlemen-I have received in the Kings
ton Chronicle of yesterday letter signed aus.
tice and peace" on the subject Of the Caroline
extracted frim your Journal together with
your remarks on the same subject, both Of
which so much pleased me, by their just views
Of the case, and the spirit of candor in which
they are written, that | cannot refrain from
| laying before the public, the following state
ment of facts.
With the right or policy Questioning the
Caroline, have Little or nothing to do. On
this side of the line, the right is questioned by
few, and have little doubt the time is not
far distant when it win also be acknowledged
by the thinking aud impartial amongst your
own citizens. Be that IS it may, pub ic opin-
ION. on either side is evidently not proper tri-
bunal for the dicision ofthe question; but from
the singular position in which my brother is
placed in connection with this case, his friends
must take deep and painful interest, and this
must be my excuse for thus intrudng upon
you; for although it were folly in me 10 sup
pose can to anyextent influence mems minds
IN the matteriyetl consi,lerit my duty to give
plain, unvamished statement in regard to my
brothers alleged participation in the act for
which he stands committed as far as am
abe, and to correct certain miSstatements
which will be'hereafter alluded to.
On the % December 1897, my brother and
myself, and thousands besides, were az Chin
pewa; for the purpose and with the determine
ton OF defending our country against an attack
from several hundred of rebels and pirates as
sembled on Navy Island. In.the course ofthe
day, small steamboat was seen plying be-
tween Schlosser and the island, evidently b.
sy in the cause of the occupants. She was
rightly conjectured to be the Caroline, which
1t was well known had been getting ready for
the purpose'for several days before, at Buffalo.
Any patriotic mind can easily conceive the
feeings which the sight of this boat and her
occupation.engendered in the minds of our peo-
! pei, and deep and loud were the imprecations
| against her; but not word Of the attempt at
capture was made public, and certain am nv
brother was not one OF those to whom it was
made known, or very probably he might have
been one of the party. But in the evening,
from the want of accommodations at Chippe-
wa, he rode down to Stanford, "a village four
miles from the former place. where he staid at
Attends house til next morning.
l went to the quarters of some acuuaintances
volunteers from this town, where Law down
for the night, but was awake about midnight
by one of them who said, 1--WE must turn ont
There is something going on" We did SO
and proceeded to the mouth of the Chippewa,
where fire was being lighted -Immediate
4 ly we observed on the opposite shore vessel
on fire, partially at first, but soon in blaze,
and moving down the river towards the falls.
It was the Caroline. She had met her fate.
What the full consequences may be, time must
tell | remember well, while watche,i her
hurrying on to destruction, and felt that her
fate was just, likewise thought of the III feel
ing she was likely to occasion, between two
nations, consideringthe cause which the Am
We
barely passed onto complete destruction. when
her captors landed where stood, from sever.
al boats. Had my brother been.there I should
have seen him; but confess did not look for
him. never thought of his being. there, and
: there he was not. He knew nothing OF the
burning of the Caroline till next MORN
ing, andif am not mistaken, he knew it first
I from me. ! he rise Of the rumor of his beino
there, can only account for thus: be was &C
tive, and sufficiently daring to assist in that
which IN either of onr Natives would be only
thought common s'cutting out affair" and
J had been round the Island that dav in a boat.
J along with several who were really at the de.
stroying Of the boar. Had he been there.
feel certain thatno fear ofconsequences would
have made him deny it; but to be stiomallsed
as murdurer on one side, and fooIlshIy ladu.
ed by some as hero on the other, on account
ola transaction IN which he had no share. can
be any :hing but pleasant
II has indeed been asserted that he boasted
OF being 1.-The burning Of tire boat. To those
who know him and the circumstances, I need
say nothing. To those who do not say It is a
gross falsehOod.
lie has been blamed too, by many, for law
ing himself to an arrest by entering the Uni
ted States: but what had he injustice to fear /!
lie had been vaguely accused, without cause,
OF helng guilty ofwhat we consider no crime,
and was this sufficient TO prevent British
subject from entering the United States on his
lawful busiuessg II Is true sirue blu had been
found blythe Grand Jury Of Niagara county IN
the early part 80 against one Angus Mcleod
but he was not the person, and though arrest
ed on this indictment in August last, was duly
liberated after short confinement Bot the
perseyering enemies Of all good subjects to the
British crown. the aPatriots" Of tie frontier.
bad not done with him, and on again visiting
Il Buffalo, or rather on his return, he must be
again arrested, and by an accumulation Of the
most gross perjury, and against the most d.