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NEWBERN, N. C. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1821. .. . 1, . . ; - . i PUBLISHED WEEKLY' BY, JVATSOJST MA CHEN; At S3 per annum half payable in advance FROM THE NATIONAL GAZETTE. It is our intention, wtth regard to the calumnious charges which may be made against either of the candidates for the Presidency, to publish the direct refuta tions of ihem tat shall be issued. El very American should wish to keep clear of stain the characters of men whom the nation has so much exalted and honored c the desire a d endeavor to blacken themj would be V wrong to the country as well as an outrage upon chanty, truth and honor. In pursuance of these ideas, we copy this morning a recent letter of General Jackson concerning a part of the case of the six militia men. No mind, not utterly depraved, will reluse to con demn such an expedient, as the forgery of a document for the purpose of aggra vating the odium with which it has been attempted to invest that case. - While e ven the slightest doubt hang over the do cument in question,, as to its authenticity, it ought not to have been circulated. The end does not sanctify the means, in po litic anv more than in other branches of ------ . human action. Forgery and slander do not properly belong to the cause .of Mr. Adams: patriotism, fact, reason arid de corum are our true auxiliaries. j From the Kentucky Gazette of August 3. Robertson Springs, July 26, 1827.' : Dear Sir : Your letter of the 22clinst. was handed to me, late last evening, and A IKOICU iu nitonii ink. iuvuiiic9j i . - quested, in regard to the case of Harris and the other five3 militia men who were executed at iviooii.e. , ? r The regiment to which these unfortu nate men belonged, was received into the service by the order of the general government,1 was mustered" for a six months tour, and was paid accordingly, for said service, as will appear by the muster and pay rolls, and by colonel Pipkin's report to me. These rolls,1 with colonel Pipkin's report the procee dings and sentence of the court martial detailed for the trial, and all the circura stances connected with the subject, are," or ought to be, ! on record at Washington city, where, I have'no doubi, Mr. Buck ner has had a foil opportunity j of exam ining them. , I confidently assert, ' that ihey stamp the allegations of Mr. Buck ner with falsehood. ' v The letter which Mr. Buckner now makes use of, in order to injure my char acter, is well ascertained to-be a forgery. It was first published by Binns, editor of the Democratic Press, purporting lobe a letter Irora the. unfortunate Haris to me, TVntv this man never cum to hnf nno !ffpr In me, that I ever saw, or heard of before this publication, and in that he acknowl edged himself to be guilty of the enor mous crimes charged against him, and sta ted his willingness to meet the just sen tence of lheCourt. If Mr. Buck ner was as desirous to cull the truth from the ar chives of the nation, as" he is to pluck from me my hard earned reputation, he would have seen that General Winchester, who commanded at Mobile at the time that this Binn's .letter is dated, made sev- ' era! communications to me after that date, and before he had any knowledge that the battle of New Orleans had been i foueht. Does riot this circumstance shew , the impossibility of Mr. Harrhi having this knowledge1! at the time stated, , and still more that he could have gained it in time, to have made it a ground of appli cation for mercy The letters of Qeneral 'IVinchester to me. show that he did not receive intelligence of the victory until ihc I7h January; this forged letter gives the ;oteIhgence to Mr. Harris two days lelore. j . Strange indeed, that Mr. Harris closely confined in jail should be so much fffilllsr iniormeu man ine commanuani jr td aivt me Vreat pleasure to send Son printed copies from the documents in my possession, ,?ro;uy. crrimcu, what rhave here .asserted; but it is im possible that Uiisf cat htf .done within so horta neuod as that rtfsted. I trust, however, that' 4he staternf here made will he sufficient: with a!.! .honourable' men, rto counteract the false, ihiprssions sought to be forced upon the ree?ien of Kentucky, by. Mr.; Bockner. y As a public or private mail, speafcirr of .transactions wh'ich xoncero the reputa tion and characters of others, every man Jy feeling should remind him, that he oughtta beguided by established fa cts .not by the . hearsay, of a party ; s and when he thus produces facts? 0" the .least plausible? ground upon which to bot tom such .charges, as those which , you biava ronotA I nmAit mVSelf tO be at " awwv v.va rtwvsw J , .ell thnp read v to meet him at the bar Of ray country.'-. ' ; , .'. ' ' ' . It may bO proper to remark in concla--.sXoa, tbattue fiuding of the court, proves conclusively that those men were legally in service or "otherwise, that they must have been acquitted. I approved of their condemnation, because they were Ihe promoters and ring-leaders of the mutiny and desertions committed at a period, when the safety of our Southern frontiers was threatened at a period, which cal led for the most energetic measures, and when every nerve of the government was stretched in the defence of our liberties. When they violated the. law in s uch a n atrocious manner, the public good deman ded their sacrifice. Had they ha ve done their duty as faithful soldiers, their coun try would have rewarded them : with its protection and gratitude. f l am, Sir, your most obedient servant. ANDREW JACKSON.' William Owens. ' P. S. It will be recollected in the Re. volutionary war, at a time of great trial, General VVashington ordered deserters to be shot without trial. Captain Heed un der this order, having arrested three had one shot without trial, and his 1 head brought to the ; General ; but General Washington, reprimanded Reed for . not shooting the whole three. Gen. Green near Dudley's mill, South Carolina, says Gordon's history, bad eight men hung, on one pole for desertion. Johnson's life of Green say s five, without court mar tial. -Fonly approved of the preceedings of a court composed r of men who - were the friends and neighbors of those to be tried bv them; ' Respectfully, ANDREW JACKSON. . Nashville, July 17, 1827V I, Ro bert W. Hart, Adjutant General of the first Brigade of. Tennessee Millitia, in the late Southern War, do certify ; that I was at the Encampment, within three miles of Mobile, in 1814, when a Court martial, of which Col. Peter Tipkin was President . was organized for the trial of certain militia men, who deserted from Fort" Jackson, under the command of Col. Pipkin that I remained at Mobile and the neighborhood until the 'business of the court martial was completed, and . for sometime afterwards. I was present at the execution of the six ringleaders adjudged to suffer the sentence of death ; but 1 do certify that that part of the sen- tence of the court martial ordering the one I half of the heads ISf a large number of the nfTonrtorQ tn ho fihavpH. and the nfifVnrtere to be drummed out of camp, never wa? carried into effect, said delinquents hav ing been pardoned by General Jackson, in obedience to which pardon each and and every one was honorably discharged, f: R. W. HART, Adj. Gen. in the U. S. Service TRUE ELOQUENCE. I The April No. of the "North American Review, contains an able and highly inter esting article on the subject of " employ' ing Indians in civil warfare ; n which the ingenious writer takes up the charges brought by the London Quarterly Review against our government, for supposed wrongs and cruelties against the primitive people of this country, and repels them with becoming spirit, .and in the most clear and satisfactory manner. - We have only roorabr-the . annexed specimen of mm m . V a f t ' IV 1 1 ii nrcAV 'r eonfimnnfff Inn1 Tuoltnrro i towards the Indians, and his fine genius . . ' . . . : in composition The talk of. Mr. Madison to the In dians, in 1812, at the commencement of the war, contains sentimentsso hono rable to himself and his country,, and so l appropriately and beautifully expressed, that we shall submit to our reaaers a pan of this interesting document. It may be considered as the manifesto of the Ameri can government, establishing the princi ples of its-intercourse with its aboriginal neighbors in the critical circumstances, which imposed new duties upon both. And the contrast between this course, and that pursued by the British government, must awaken reflections hete and else where, which although tardy, may yet be useful. 4 -";V :, ' ' . v ! " The red people who live on the same great Island with the white people dfbe eighteen fires, are made by the same great Spirit out of the same earth, from parts of ' it d:ffering in color only.. My regard for all of my red children, has made me desirous that the bloody toma hawk should be buried between the Osa ges, the Cherokees, and the JChoctaws. J wish also that the hands of the Shaw-nese- and the Osages should be joined in my presence, as a pledge to cherish and obseive the ' peace, in ade at St. Lewis. This was a good peace for both; Jt is a chain that; ought to bind them I fast in friendship. ' Neither blood nor rust should ever be upon - it.' ' -'-J-': : " l am concerned tbat tne war has ? so (bo been kefrttip b the Sacs and Foxes s. I now tell (y red children here present; that this it bad for both parties, j They must put ynder my feet their evil irjlent'mns a gainst each other,' and heneelhrward live in peace and good will ; each hunting on their own soil. 1 - j A father ought to give good advire to his; children, ad it Nis the duty of his children to, heaTketito-it. The people composing the eig'hteeK fires, aFe i great people. You have traveled through their country. You see they cover the land, as the stars fill the sky,-and are as thick as the trees in your forests Nrwlfh standing their great potter, the British king has attacked them on Jie great water beyond which he lives. , in robbed their ships and carried away thy people be longing to them. Some of iiem he mur dered. He has an old grudAf against the eighteen fires, because ! whey he tried to make them dig and plant fori his people beyond the" great water, nrj for them selves, they sent out warrjois. who beat his warriors ; they drove fi the bad chiefs he had sent among thdn, and set up good chiefs of their own. The eight een fires did this when they Ijad not the strength which they now have. Their i blows will now be much heavier, and f will soon make h im doith i; uMice. It happened wnen tne thirteen hres, now increased to eighteen, forced the British king to treat them as an independent na tion, one little fire did not join them.' This he has held ever since. It is there that his agents and traders plot quarrels and wars between the eighteen fiies and their brethren, and between one red tribe and another. Maiden is the place where all the bad birds have their, nests. There they are fed with the false tales against the eighteen fires, and sent out with bloody belts in their bills, to drop among the red people,' who would otherwise re- main at peace. It is tor the good of all ' the red, as well as all the people of the eighteen fires, that a. stop should be put to this mischief. Fhur warriors can do it They are gone and going. to Canada for this purpose. - They want' no help from their red brethren. They a re strong enough , wijhoo t iUThe.JBr itishi'l' are weak, are doing all they can by their bad birds, to decoy the red people into the war on their side. I warn all the red ! people to avoid the ruin this must bring 1 upon them. And I say to you, my chil- ; dren, your father does not ask you to join hlS WamorS. bit Still On VOUT SeatS, and be witnesses that they are able to beat their enemies, protect their red friends. This is the fatherly advice I give you. " I have further advice for my red chil dren. - "You see how the country of the eighteen fires is filled with people. They increase like the corn they put into the ground. They all have good houses to shelter them from all weather ; jood cloathes suitable for all seasons ; and as for food of all sorts, you see they have enough and to spare. No-man, woman or child of the eighteen fires, ever per ished for hunger. Compare all this with the condition of the red people, They ' are scattered here and there in handfuls. " Their lodges are cold, leaky, and smoky. ' They have hard fare, and often not nrntrh nt it; ' ' ' ; ' " Why : this mighty difference? ,The reason, my red children, is plain.; The white people breed cattle and sheep. - j They plough the earth, and make it give Ihom pvcrv ihino thpv want. I hav unin and weave. 1 heir heads and their hands make all the elements and productions of nature useful to them. Above all, the people of the eighteen fires live in con stant peace and friendship. No Toma hawk lias ever been raised by one against another." Not a drop - of bloodl has ever touched the chain that, holds them ; toge ther as one family. . All their belts are white belts. ( It is in'your power to be like them. The ground that feeds ' one lodge by hunting, would feed a great band by the plough and the hoe. The Great Spirit has given yon, like y our white brethren, good heads to contrive, strong arms, and active bodies. Use them like your white) brethren j not all at once, which is difficult, but by the little, and little and little, which is easy. Especi ally, five in peace with one another, like your white bretbrenW the eighteen fires ; and like them, your little sparks will grow into great firet. You will be well fed, well clothed, dwell in good houses, and enjoy the happiness for which you, like them, were . created. The Great Spirit is the friend of men of all colors, lie made them to be friends of one another The more they are so, the more he will be their friend. These are words of your father to his red children. The Great SfHrit, who is the lather of us , all, ap proves them. .' Let them.; pass through the heart. Carry them home to , your people. . And as long as you remember this vislf to your father of the eighteen fires, remember these- are bis; last and 1 VvatTTVAM W f agains the Osages and Iowa From the Norfolk Herald, i ; i - A REVOLUTIONARY RELIC. During a call which the U. S North- J Carolina made at Citaduella, in the Island 1 of Minorca, in April 1826. one of her i bfiictrrs picked up in a shoe-maker's shop in that place, a curious relic of our re vo lution, namely, a picture painted on glass, j and well executed, dated London.! 1775, clesigripd by the tory artist to ridicule the j patriotic spirit which had begun tq show itself in the then colonies, in resisting the usurpations of the mother country .N It jwr.fort.ii br artpreseritation ot M A society of Ladies, at bdenton, in worth .Corofiwa," convened for the purpose of entering into a compact to abstain from the use of tea and British manufactures. That such an article' should have been found in such a place, is not lessataatter . of curiosity than the picture itself, of . which the following is an accurate: des- cription : The picture represents on its left, the Lady Moderator, " fat, fair and forty," gorgeously attired according to the fash- ion ol the day, seated at the, end of a table, with an uplifted mallet in her right hand, as if in the act of calling to order a British officer-who is attempting to rav ish a kiss from the fair Secretary, . seated a little way on to her right, whose youth and charms would seem to be an indispu- table warrant for ! such boldness--though : she punishes it by puncturing his aud- cious hand with the sharp point of her , pen. On the left of the Moderator, is seated a lady of a remarkably modest de pif-anor, and by her dress supposed, to be of high quality, who appears to be blush ing at the scene we have just described. Behind the chair of the Moderator, stands a tall hard favoured female, stricken in years and coarsely habited, but with a cast of countenance expressive of j great fortitude and resolution. Through this group is seen the round black, face, thick lips, and flat nose, (with their accompa nying vacant good natured smile) of a female domestic, who is handing a china ; ink stand towards the table, upon a pretty f cocquelico waiter. The front of the pic ture shews an elderly matron in a snuti- - Cot bo rrtl-stl tTrirr- bonnet, who has just risen from an old fashioned mahogany chair, and bending over the table, seems to be writing on a large scroll containing the following pat riotic and spirited resolution : ! " We the Ladies of Edenion do hereby solemnly engage not to confirm to that pernicious custom of drinking Tea, or that we the aforesaid Ladies, will not promote the wear of any manufacture from England until such time that alt Acts which, tend to enslave this our na tive country, shall be repealed " ' .On the right of the picture, three la dies, whose appearance bespeaks them a mong the " beauty and fashion?' of E denton, are seen emptying the Contents of their tea cannisters into a couple. of hats, of the olden, cut, which are held by a sly, smirking old codger in a ' brown coat and; red perriwig, perhaps charged by these patriotic dames with the office of consigning the hated emblem j of Brit ish tyranny to the bottom of the Albe marle, or "to the flames. In the back ground, a merry old Joan cloaked and hooded, is seen already in possession of a succedanium for the- interdicted , article, which she is quaffing from an ample chi na punch bowl, with -an ( expression tf great satisfaction, while her neighbour, with the long eared cap and gypsey hat, arid a hair beseeching, half, upbraiding physiognomy, is extending a hand dis engage it from Her insatiable lips. -In the foreground are two prostrate tea cannisters, dishonoured by a dog, which is licking the cheek of an infant at play on the carpet, as if in toen of approba tion at seeing the child upset a waiter of tea china. , ! The picture is marked "plate V." and must have been one of a series of the same description. The officer who dis covered it immediately purchased it from the mender of soals. whose property i it was, and presented it to Com. Rodgers, J who we understand intenas io prcacm it to the Governor of North Carolina 5 a destiny which it well merits, however humble its pretensions may be as a work of art. From the Liverpool Albion. . SKETCHES UF. MADEIRA.; ; Nam'd from her woods, which fragrant bow ' ' ers adorn, v " To fair Madeira'? purple coast we turn; , ' Cyprus and Paphos, vales the smiling loves Might leave with joj for fair Madeira's groves A shore so flowery, and so sweet an airy Venus jnoight build her dearest temple there.' : Camotn's Liisiad. Canto 6 I Madeira, when closely examined, may be said to consist of one large mountain, whose branches rise every where from the sea towards the centre of - the island; and there appear to unite in one point, ti e height of which has betrr calculated at something more than a mile above the level of the water.' : ; V - .Almost every where the Island presents an appearance beaujiful and picturesque, eVen beyond imagination). In some parts immene rocks & lofty precipices, whose bights, when traversed, cannot fail bring ing to. recollection the poet's sublime des cription of danger : " Whose limbs of giant mould, ; What mortal eye can fix'd behold ? Who Stalks his round nnd hideous f6tm Howling amidst the midnight storm, Or throws him on the ridgy steps. Of some loose hanging rock to sleeep." These are contrasted with deep excava tions, and perpendicular chasms whose sides are in some places bare, in others clothed with ap infinite variety of alpine plants ; in other parts are seen jutting ridges and beautiful valleys, intermixed nritlt nvlantiva tirl lnU7Q atiti rnv!np. rnn. 1 1 II IV IfW I W V .l....!., taining vast torrent of water and innu merable cascades ; the whole affording a greatly varied and sublime picture of the majestic works of nature. The u scorching heat of summer, and the icy chill of winter," are here entirely unknown. Spring and autumn seem to constitute the seasons; and flowers and fruit are produced in regular succession during the whole of the year. This island grows a small quantity of corn, which is fine and large-grained ; but, owing to the vineyards, it is scarcely equal to two months consumption ; the inhabitants are, therefore, obliged to im port large quantities of c rh, flour, and rice, from NorthAmerica, in exchange for their wives. Potatoes, yams, eddoes, cucumbers, and melons, water-melons, and pompions are produced in great abundance ; onions, also, grow to a surprising degree of per fection ; I have, indeed, seen them of an : immense size, and so mild, that it is as common to observe the peasant eating them raw, as it is in England to see him eating pears or apples, and, apparently, with quite as much relish. Of the last mentioned fruits there are many varieties, generally well flavored, and T some of fliem uncommonly.. large.. -:. rz.zJ , r -JuXILtrn rirnnoes-'liind Idninn trrnw to a great size, and afe rnrsoine seasons, verv Dleniiful. The Madeira oranee, when completely ripe, is without excep. tion the most delicious fruit I ever tasted. Cherries,1 plumbs, nectarines, apiicotsv and peaches are 'lound in vasl variety and abundance. -Indeed, the fruit lst mentioned is so very pientitul and so 1 it lie regarded, that it is a common practice of the natives to feed their pigs with it, to which, perhaps, in a great measure, the goodness of the pork may be attribu ted ; for although it is not so fat as that of England, it infinitely exceeds ours in flavour. - Strawberries,! red and white currants, bilberries, and raspberries, g;row in cool situations, entirely without cultivation; and in the gardens of this island are found many plants and trees, which are natives of the tropical regions such as tne guava, uauaua,- jjuiucgaiiaiv, Mg, mango, andjpine-apple, which flourish al most without culture. The sugar cane is now but little cultivated ; this branch of commerce has been tiansplanted to the Brazils ; but the small quantity that is manufactured, I have been told, is un- commonly fine, and possesses a smell similar to that of violets. Flowers carefully nursed in our green houses, grow wild in the fields ; and the, hedges are composed of honey suckle jasmine, roses, myrtles, and geranium, continually in bloom. In the meadows, the violet, fleur-de-lis, and lupin, and va rious other flowers, spring up spontanea ously, and by their fragrance and varie- ( gated hues, yield a delight to the senses IUUI MM V". w , I J J to. The road sides are nearly overrun, with the pricklv pear, or Indian fig, which grows to a very large size, ana is com mon all over the island. The forest trees consist of the chestnut and walnut, which flourish in great luxuriance and beauty ; . they' grow where the vine will not come to perfection; but are equally useful to the inhabitants, and their fruit sometimes : forms an article of export to England. The pine, too, is generally cultivated on the higher grounds, and grows to a size Mffi.ntiv lare for domestic purposes. There is, also, a large tree, , called Yin hatigo, the Laurus Indian ofjhe Swedish naturalist; it grows in coot siiuauoiis, and near the rivers, its wood bears a stricking resemblance to mahogany ; this is said to be a very long-lived tree. In the wild' and deserted garden of a ruined villa, on the outskirts of Fuuciial, I remember to have - sten one of ; these trees, which was so.large that three of us, with arms extended, ctuld not encompass its trunk; This noble tree; which was then flourishing & likely to exist puny years, the natives say, (how trul I kuofvr not,) wasi growing, and of a good aizey when the island ww fiut discofc(J.
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