The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1845-10-11

he awahs-~Thenps"ns s""t W '" wv" F'"P'"
Of Mississippi on tho cbIshsssw bill. II s"noon'
eed, lie starts 10 his feet. and IN The language
NJ Tho same author whom he quotes 30 elective
~ upon me, he cf'esi
.AnpeIs and ministers Of grace, defend us'
Ne thou 4 spirit u health of goblin damned
tifng with Ihee airs rom Heaven, ~ blasts nom
| 1telii
liz Thy inients wicked, ~ charitable,
Thou Genet IN such ques',onaple ebape'
That vii, speak 10 thee w call shee,'
no, friend. no, f,ls and good meaning public
man, seeking to defend ihyself and leaving 9th.
ers 10 take their own positions and defend them.
selves in their own way, bu, III call the "l'ar'
and aais tho stain Of dshonor upon thee. And
forthwith, heated and excited by the remarks Of
otbers--goad cd by the comments Of editors sup.
posed to be- omical TO him-despairipg Of tho
favor Of the people; without enquiry Of a care.
| ul examination into the sentiments and feel.
ngs Of the address, he draws his sword and
makes furious and most uniustifable effort to
visit upon my head the wrath which he had
treasured up for all his enemies, and TO tear
from me my good name. Evidently defeated
IN argument, his senstiveness drove him to
madness, and he wanted TO fight some bodys-
In desperation, he is prepared for the worst; he
singles me out and wishes to whiewaah his
reputation in my blood.
Fellow citizens: In ell this matter know you
will agree with me that am in the right, and
few words will place me fairly before you.
Upto the Sd of March last, DR.. Gwin end
myself were in the habi, Of daily personal inter
course. On tina, day, made my speech on the
Chickasaw billiard from that hour, he refused
to salute me az gentleman. Here, u had
done him wrong, he ought to have called on me
to repair that wrong, and not have nursed his
wrath up this late hour. Last spring, when ne
published his first card avowing himself the
Chickasaw agent, and contending that the bill
was an honest and innocent affair, he sent
mutual friend to me with his publication. AT
first declined to read it, but on the request oil
this friend, did so, and told him TO say to DR..
Gwin that had no objection to his publishing
anything he pleased on the subject Of the Chick
e asaw bill-~that 1 would neither express an!
e d;ssen, from. nor assent to his publication. II
q August last. he met me in Aberdeen, and sen
me word that he desired to adjust our d'fteren
z cos and become friends. To this proposition
a rrruurru. And after consultation OF mutua
?. friends. agreed to make publication soon al
ter reached home, in which would deny hav
" ING made any aIluson to Mr.. Walker IN M
J. speech. and therefore, that did not intend as
10 matter of course to charge combination be
. tween him and DR.. Gwn. Over and over agar
, it was repeated that could give up, not one j.
~ or title Of my position. No man expected I
. DR.. Gwin never had the audacity to askit; an
IN should have scorned myself, if could ha'
,g harbored such thought with view to hay
,e made any man my friend. Such then were tt
feelings with which wrote that address, d.
u" termination to make known every thing pc
tai tanning to this bill.
he "No,hing exsenuate,
- Nor set down aught in mal'ce,'
~: to do Justice to myself as well as all the parti
concerned intending to attack no one, and
old lieving the whole truth was demanded by
IN people. The reply of DR.. Gwin is not an app
to your sober judgment, but course, want
and indecorons assault upon me. He answ'
'ta- each ore of my arguments by pronouncing
49,, false, and sums them up in general class
~. "enormous lies." But hope you will b
pirit with me. while analIze his several position
the and then will leave the whole matter with yo
amp In my address, object to the principle
the bill, because it implies that Congress a
ana the Executive Departments are indlsposed
near deal justly with the Indian. He admits
,,,,a argument, and asserts as a fact, well known
'""' me-that Congress aud the Executive Depa
goD, ments are indisposed to deal justly with
must Indian. | do believe that Congress has be
d he . uu;oh ~ .hany Iases - aSs"s
rent gress has an instructive fear of Indian claim:
n;tv not from an indisposition to deal justly by
Indian, but because they are unwilling, un
OF seeming kindness, to the Indian, to minister
and the voracous appetites Of the hordes of Ind
=. spectators, who ,nfest the halls of legslatio
- "' object to the precedent set by the bill;
lion. cause, if the Chickasaw nation is permitted
AT. sue the United States, other tribes will be Ell
tied to the same privilege. He says, "it is ia
Elk that such precedent was established in
). he Ibill"-then instances the Cherokee and Oh
80 oeitaw commissions, to try the validity Of Ind
90 " claims. There is the greatest possible diff
y al. ence between the cases:-These commissi
rsop. were established for the examination of il
vidual claims, and for the ascertainment Of
Inn dividual rights--because il was impossible o
stir. erswise to obtain the proper evidence on VIII
dan, Congress could form an opinion. And, thou
such acts have been deemed absolutely nee
tue sary to arrive at justice, yet, God knows,