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TT . m : r . J . v t t - -r t J - " .- r- - - t ' ' " - - ' I V - -. -. '-i r iv- K . DEBATE 0S; THE SEMINOLK WAR. v-ch interest bn excited on ihU, -..iKtion. in relation to the conduct of Gen- . . l . mnn trhifh m vprv lonc ahtl Debate has taken place m Congress, orjer to Rive onr readers a view of the niments pro anu cun, ptv b. - n able Speech on each ide, lowing is ofwr.the General. - fr. Clat, (Speaker) rose. InJ rising to address you, sir, said lie, on the very interesting suajeci woicn nor cngrtjcs the attention of Congress, I roust be al lowed to say, that all Inferences, drawn froto the course whichlt will be ''my :pam ruj 3aty to take in thK discttssioB, of uii -fncn(jlinessto either the Chief Magistrate 0f the country, or to the illustrious jnilitn ry chieftain, whose operatiohs :are under ;n vesication, .iU" be .wholly "unfounded. Towards that distinguished Captain, who has shed so much glory oa our country, vhose. renown constitutes so.-great a por- rtver can have, any other. feelings man 1 . fF '! ' 1 thos1 ot the most proiounu respecr, anu lif the -utmost kindness. . VVitn.Uun tnv acpnatntance is very immejd, but, sntnr as it has extended, it has-been of -the most amicable k;nct Tknow, said Mr.' C. the cr'tives which have been, and which will hr:in be, attributed to me, in recard V- t ie o her exalted personnre atliided Tf.ev nave peen, ana win ne, uniouucieu. I havt- no interest, other than that of see ing he concerns of my country welf And jj-ppily administered! -It is infinitely more gratifying to, behold tin; prosperity of my country, advancing, by Ithe widont cf tbe measures adopted to promote it. thnn it would De to expose me error?. wV ic'i may be commi if there re. any, litle as had been his experience in public Wfe it had been sutliccn to te icn irnt. that the most feumole station is surr.iunci- ed by difficulties and embarrassments. Kather than tnrow obstructions in the way cf th president, he would precede iim. and pick- out tliose, if he cwild, vVich might jostle mm in nis piogress he wouTd sympathise with-mm in lus em barrassments, and-, commisserate with him inJ-is niisfcrttuies. . It v;as true, that it had been his mortification to differ 'with frat evntleman on several occasions, tie xr.ieht ugain .reluctaritly ponipellcd to ilfT -r.with him ;. out ne wotua, witn tne etxot sincerity,. a sstne tne commutee, t.'t be had formed no resolution, 1 Come mdtrr-o engagements, and. that 'he never d frm any resr.Junoa, or contract snv enaeeii'ent, for svstemHlic opposi tion to if is administration, or ta thct t:;r other.Chief Afttg'strate. , . ; ' Mi', i;. wpged leave turtner .to premise, that the subject uncier consideration pre- S"nteil two distinct aspects, susceptible, fa his judgment,' of. the- most clear and J precise discrimination. . The one he j would call its forcgn ;the other its domes- tic, aspect. In regard to. the i first, he j would say. that he approved entirely cf j tle conduct of his government, and that! Spain had no cause of complaint.! Having violated an important siipuiauou oi ine treat' of 1795, that power. had justly sub jected herself to all, the - consequences which ensued upn the entry into her do minions, and it belonged not to her to com -plain of those measures which reunited from her breach of cntract ;, still less had she a right to examine into the con siderations connected' with the domestic aspect of the. subject; -' What were the propositions before the committee r 1 uei hrst in order was that reported by the military committee. "vrhich asserts the disapprobation of this House of the' proceedings in the trial aud execution of Arbuthnot and Ambris ter. The second, being the first contain ed in the proprsed amendment, was the consequence of that disapprobation, and tcntemplates the passage of a Uw to pro hibit the. execution hereafter of any cap tive, taken by the army, without the apr probation cf the rresident. Ihe third Proposition was, that-tbis 'House lisap- proves of the forcible seizure ot the bp;ui- - ' . i f wi tjosts- as contrary to orders, ana in Elation of the constitution. The fourth Proposition,, as the result of the las:, is, that a law should' nass to prohibit the March of the army of theUnited States, cr aRy crrps of it,' into any .foreign .'teni tory, v;Jir,ut the previous' authorizntion of Cmigiess, except i'be in fresh pursuit rf a deieatcci enemy. . The first and third wtrc cenerni protiositions, ; declaring the ."euse of t o House in regard to the evils 'pointed cut; ar.dnhe second and fourth pr poked the legislative remedies against the recurrence of those evils.;'.- ( . ' ' j t h wuld he at orce ncrceived. Mr.1 C. Pv.tions, that no other censure was prb PcstU gainst General Jackscn himself, : n w,at was merely consequential. His ame even did ,not, apbear ' iii any one of eresc!utons.- The Legislature of the .JJttoirr, m reviewing the state of the.U and considering the events which l rri .lransp,rcd smce its lavt njeeting, trft P 4"icular occurrences, of the t kr S Iromenc i! many it-pcct;. had Ktn piace reaLr ouP southern-bprder. uLbt d that the Housei'hacl hoi theri V- y an a-u' interferejicwith oi!! 01 the Elive, to gal, juVi:r t"iUiiiU. I UC M. iVSitltlit, in. his message" at the opening of the ses sion, communicated the yei information on , which it is proposed to act. ". He would ask, for what purpose ? .That we should, fold cmr arms, and yield a tacit acquies cence, even if we supposed:that informa tion "disctosed alarming vents, jnot'mere ly. as it regards the peace of the. cotyitry, but in respect to its constitution and cha- I racter r Impossible. In communicating these papers, and voluntarily calling the attention or congress to tne .suoject, me President niust himself have intended that we shoftld apply anjr remedy that we might be able to devise. rrHaving the sub ject thus regularly and fairly before us, and proposing merely to collect the ense of the - House upon certnin ' important transactions which it discloses, with the view to the passage of such laws as mayi be demanded by the public interest, he repeated. that there was no censure any" where, except such as was strictly conse quential upon our legislative action. The supposition of every new law, having for its object to prevent the recurrence of evil,, is, that something has happened which ought not to have taken place, and no other than this indirect sort of censure "would flow' from the resolutions' before the committee. ; , iHaving thus given his view of the' na ture and character of the propositions nu de' consideration, Mr. C. said he was far from intimating, that it' was not his pur ooso to go into a full, a free, and a tho-n-siigh investiga' icn of the facts and of the principles of law, public, municipal and p'nyifutipnal, involved in them. And, VvMIst he, trusted he should speiik with the decorum due to the distinguished om ic.-fslof the government, whose proceed .inirsiwercto.be examined, he should ex- er isc the independence which belone-ed mm as a miresentHtivo r,f the representative pople. in freely and fully snbmittinp- his senti- nxnts. . In r.oticintlie p;:inful incidents .of this war, it vas impossible not tq inquire into its origin, j He feared that would he found Ooh-cibe famous "treaty, of Fort Jackson, VMichKlfd in Au."uvt, 1814 ; and he asked the indulgence of the Chairman thatthe Clerk inrght read certain parts of that tr aty. ( Hie Cleikof the House having cffordinglv rend as requested,' Mr, C. proceeded He had never perused this The passages read by the Clerk were as Vh?rea an nnprovoVed, inhnmanand san truinary wr.r, waired by the' hostile. 'Greeks a gainsttheU S, hath beeiV repellal, prosecut ed snd determined, successfully on the part of the said states, in conformity with principles of uational jti-i?ce -ind honorable w:.rf;?rs; and whereas consideration is due to ther'etitude of proceeding dictated by .instnici ions rclal inc; tothere-estaJblihrnentof peace ; beit remem bered, that,' prior to-iheconq'test of that part of the Creek na1 ion, hostile to the U "States, uur.befie-.s n$rgpessioni had been committed njrains the peace, the property, and tlie lives. ot citizens of the US auu those ot the Creek nation,-in amity with her, at,. the mouth ef Duck river, Fo--t Minims, and elsewhere, contrary to, naona! fai'h, and the regard due m an ar;icle,of the trctj' concluded at New York in the year 1790, between the two na tions : that the U S. previous to the perpe tration of such" outrages, did,' in order to en sure future amity and concord between the Creek nation and the said states, :n conformi ty with the stipulations . of former treaties fulfil, with punctuality and good faith her. engagements to the said naiin : that more than two thirds of the whol e number rf chiefs and warriors of the Creek nation, disregard ing, the genuine sp.rit of existing treaties, sutTered th mselves io be instigated to viola, tions of their national honor, and the respect due to a part of their own nation, faithful to theU S. andthe principles of hymanity, by imnostorstlenominating themselves prophets, ana by the duplicity and misrepresentation of jnrc-.gn emissaries, whose governments vare at war, open or understood, with the United States. ' . .' ' ;" . - Art. 2. The U. S, will guarantee to . the Creek nation the integrity of all their territo ry eastwardly and northwardly of the said line, described in the first article q be run and described as mentioned in the first arti cle. ' " ."-'... -' k Art. 3. 1 he U. S. demand that the CreekJ nation abandon all communication, and cease to noid any intercourse, with any British or Spa-ash post, garrison or town ; and that they shall not admit among them airy agent or tra. der, who shall not derive authority to hold ; commercial, or -thrr intercourse Ayith hem, i by license tronvthe President, or authorized ? ageh:of ihe U. i5tates , i Ar 4. The U. S demand an acknowledge.; I ment of the rig!it to establish military posts i and trad'ng houses, and to open roads wjthin ! the territory guaranteed to the Creek nation by the second article, and a right to the free navigation of all its waters, A t - : Art. 5; The U.S. demand that a surrender j be immediately made, of all the persons and properly tax en irom tne citizens o the u. st' the friendly part ofthe Creek nation, the Che- f rokee,-. Chickasaw and Choctaw, nations, to f the 'respective owners ;: and the U. S. will I cause to be Immediately restored to the fr- j me'rly hostile Creeks all the property taken i troovtnem since uieir suomission, euner.Dy t!ie U. S.or by" any Indian hatibns in armty with the,U. together vith all the prisoners taken t from, them during the war.' ' , Art. 6. .The U. S. demand tlie caption and surrender of all the prophets and insiigators of war, whetlier' foreigners .tr natives, who have not submitted 'to the arms of the U. S. andbecdme parties to these articles of capit instrument until within a few cdays past, and hehnd read it with the. deepest ttior tificatbn and regret. A more dictatorial spirit he had neyer seen, displayed in any instrument. He would challenge an ex amination of all the records bf diplomacy, not excepting even those, in I the most haughty period of imperious Rornewhein she. was carrying) her arm's iatb lhe bar barian nationa that surroandetl her ; and he did not' believe : a solitary instance: could be found" of such ah inexorable, spirit of domination, pervading a compact purporting to be a treaty of ACE ';It consis.ted of Hie most severe in d hutnilia ting detnands-of the surreMerj of. large territoryof the, privileegf j making roads thron'gh even what was: retahied--of the right of establishing trading houses of the J obligation of delivering into our hands their prophets. And all this of a wretched; people,; reduced to the last ex tremit)pof distress, whose miserable exis tence we had to preserve by a voluntary stipulation to furnish them with bread When even did conquering anddesohuipg Home fail to refpect the altarsj and the gods of those whom she subjugated j. Let me not be told that the e prophets were impostors, who deceived the Indians.' They were their. prophets the Indians believed and , venerated them, fand it is not forNus to dictate a religious belief tq them. , tit dues not belong to the holy cha racter of the religion wh'ch we profess, to carry its precepts, by force of jt he bayo net; into the bosoms of other people. Mild and gentle persuasion was ihe 'great instrument .employed by the meek, foun der of .our religion. We leaveto the hu mane arul benevolent, eff n ts of the reve rend proft ssors of Christianity to convert from barbarism those unhappy-nations yet immersed in its glor m, Ru , sir, pare them their prophets .' Spare their delusions! Spare their- prejudices' 'arid superstitions ! Spare them even j their re l.igiou, such as.it is ! from open and cruel violence. VVben, sir, was that? treaty, concluded ? On the very day after-.. the protocol was signed, of the first confer ence between tiie American and British Com rmssioners, treating of peace, at Ghent. In the course of that negociation, pretensions so enormous were set up, by the other, party, that, when they were promulgated iu this country, there was one general burst of 'indignation through out tiie.- continent. A Faction itself was si lenced, -andf the firm , and unanimous de term i nation of aH pjtrties was, to fight un til the last man fell in the ditch rather than submit to such ignoniiuious termsi What a contrast is exhibited Detwecn the contemporaiieous scenes of Ghent and of Fort Jackson ! What a powerful, voucher would the British Commissioners have been furnished with, if thev would have got hold of -that treaty ! The 17: States demand the Uni.ed States demand, is re peated, the for six times. And what dui the Preamble itseh disclose? That two; thirds of the Creek nation had been hos-! tile, and one 'third only , friendly to us, Now, he hkd heard (he could lnojt vouch for the truth of the statement) that not one hostile chief signed the, treaty. He had also heard that perhaps one or two oi'theni had. If the treaty really were made by a ininority of the nation, it was not obligatory, upon the whole nation. It Was voidv considered in the light of a na tional compjact. And, if void, the Indians were entitled to the benefit nf thp nmvi. sion of the" niuth article? of the treaty of Ghent, by jwhich we bound ourselves 'to make peace with any tribes with whom we miht ble at war, on the ratification of the treaty, and to restore to them their lands as they held them in 1811. !. IVtr.C. said he dicf not know how the honorable Senate, that body for which he held so I high a respect,, could have .given - their sanction tO; the treaty of Fort JacksqnVso utterly irrecohcileHble as1 it is with those noble principles of generosity and mag nanimity which he hoped to see his coun try always exhibit, and particularly tor wards tiie miserable remnant of,theAbo rigines. It would have comported better with those principle s, to have; inated the; benevolent policy of the founder of Pennsylvania, and to have given to the Creeks, conquered as. they were, even if they had made fan - unjust war upon us, the triflingcQnsideratioo, to them an ad equate compensation, which. .-he paid for their, landsl That treaty, Mr. C. said, he feared, had been themain cause of there cent war; t'And if it had been, it only add edi another melancholy proof to those with ; which history already aboundstTiat hard and unconscionable, termsextorted by the power of, the swoVd apcf the right of conquest, served but to whet and stim ulate revenge, and1 to give to old hostilities, smothered, not extinguished, by; the pre tended peace, greater exasperation & more ttlatidrt, if ever they shall be found within the territory j guanlnt eed to' the' Creek; nation by the second article. ,V'J '"".'' XKxW 7. The Creek nation, being reduced to extreme Svant, and not'at present having thfi.meaps of subsistence, the U,S. from mo tives of humanity, will continue to ftirriish gratiutouslyj the necessaries ot life, until the crops of corn can, be considered competent to yield the nation a supply, and will establish trading houses hi tlie nation, at the discretion ot the resident ot the v.-bi aiKl at such pla. ces as he shall direct j to enable the nation by industry and economy, to procure clothing. teroti Ai truce finis patched 'up with an Unfortunate people; without the means oi existcuce, wiutuui. uicw,is uu peace. 4 The instant there is the slightest prospect oi reiiei, irom suyn iiaiau . ohu severe conditions, the conquered party will fly Warpns.fand spend the last drop of blood ? rather, than live in suth degraded bondage, j Eveoif you again reduce him. to submission, tne expenses , inuuricu uy this second! waiy.to say nothing ot theiiu maij Hives that arev sacrificed, v will be greateh than what it would have cost ypii to have granted him liberal conditions in thf first instance. This treaty, he repeat ect it, waJ ihe apprehended, ' the cause of the War. it led . to those excesses ori our southern borders which began ' it-'Z Wlio flrsti c6mnienced them,, it!" was perhaps difficultto scertain; There was, howe-i yer, a paper on mis suojeci, viniuu; I ted at the JaSt session, by tlie President. .ilat ijuu, ill IttllgUilgC feeling, an artless tale a paper that car- ried such j internal evidence, " at least of the belief of the authors of it ' that they v were riting the truth, that ..he would ask the favor of the; committee, to allow him to read it. ,I should be very unwilling; Mr. C. said, to assert, in regard to this waff that the fault wa3 on our si le ; but he jfeared .it was. : that very respectable m:m He had heard now no more. who once filled the(Executive Chair of Geor and wno, naving ueen aent o Indian : Affairs in tliat quarter, had the best opportunity of judging of the origin of this war, . deliberately pronounce it as his opinion Ithat the Indians we re.; not in fault. ;Mr. C. said that he was far from attributing. to Gen. Jackson any other than the yery slight degree of blame which attached to him as the negociator of the treaty of Fort Jackson, - and which would be shared by those who subsequent ly ratified and sanctioned that treaty. But if there8 were even a doubt as to the origin of thjq war, whether we were ceiv surable or the Indians, that doubt wbuld serve to increase our regret at any dis tressing incidents which may have occurr ed, and to mitigate, in some degree the crimes, which we impute to the other, side. The following is the letter from ten of the Seminole towns, that Mi C. read. ; ? ' To the commanding otficcr at fort Jfaiokin. t Dear Sir:Since the last war, after yoii sent word that w'e miist quit the war, we, the Red people, had come oyer, on this sde. The white peoplhaye carried al the r d people's catile off. After the var, I .sent to all my, people to let white people alone, and stay ' n this sideof the river ; and they did so : but the white people still continue to carry" off their cattlei Barnard son was here, arid t inquired of fiim what was to be done and he said we must go to the head'man ofthe white people, and complain. I did so, and kh ere was no whi' e head man, and there was no law in this caseJj "The .whites first begun; and there is nothing; said about that ; but: grf at complaint made about what the Indians do. This is nowthree vears since the white peo ple killed three Indians since that they have killed three other Indians, and taken tWeir horses, and what they had i and this summer they killed) three more ; and very lately tliey killed one more. Wesen,t word to the white people that these murders were done, and the ans wer wasj that they were peopre that were, oik-laws, and we qturht to pro and kill tium The white p ople-kihed pur people,first the Indians ihen took satistact ion. I here are yet three men that the red people have never ta- k en satisfaction for. You. have wrote ;that there were houses burnt ; but we know of no such thing being done ; the truth in' such ca ses ought tof be told, . but tbis appear? other wises Onthat side of the river the wlnte4eelin2:ar and sympathies he has abbealed people have killed five Indians; but.there is nothing sajd aboiit that; and all thit the In dianshave done is brought up, All the mis -chief the white people have done, ought; tp be. told to, their .head man. When there is -any thin? idone you write to us ; bnnever ' . . . . t . , ; l . .L. . . write tu your neau man wnat iue wiuie peo pie do. When the red people send talks, or write, they always send the truth.' You have sent to us for horsfS,nd we sent all that we could find ; ibut there, were some; dcadV It appears thai ah the misch let is laid on th is town :bu tap the misch.ef that has been done by this town is two horses ; one of them; is dead, and the other wasent back. The cat tle, that we are accused tof takmg, were cat tle that the white people took from us.; i jDur young menw:nt and brought them back, with .i e. u t i Tl, .. ! tne same iiiarivs , uriniaa, ucic were suint: oi our yOun;nieh out hunting arid they were Jtilled ; 6theis went to take satisfaction; and the, kettle otone pt the men that was killed was found in the house where the womaniand two childicn were killed;" and "they suppos ed it had been her hasband whp had killed the Indians, land took their satisfaction there. YVe are : accused of killing.uj Americans, and but slincethe word was sent i u&that so on ; but s peace waa made, we stay at home and meddie with no person, ; You have sent to us respect- mg the DiacK Dfopie on-. me ouwany fiver t we have iiothng to.owifh them, r We do pot wish j our. country deioIa.i.eji . by an army passing through it, ior the ;ipc.ft-o:'Of other people, j i he Indians havesfayes tJvere also ; a kreat I rftariy of theni, ' W hen we have ai opportunity we shall applv to, the English flr Uiem ; but we cannot gtt thejn now, '.-if This is what we have to say at present. Sir, I conclude by subscribing royseit your humble servant, 8tc. September the X Iiq dayj 1817. -r 1 N B. There are ten towns have read this letter, and this is the answer. ,' ' -. - vA true copy from the original ' ;. 1 -1 . WALUKLr Aid de tJacjpv He knew, be safd, that, when Gert. Jack - --on was suuimoneir 10 iiie.rjeia, it was too late" to h hatj beein Struck in the" destriictioti of Fowl Twn jand 1 the dreadful rin i assacre, of Lieut. Scblt v andhiSvdeachment ;''-and the pnly duty i ' which femairied to him wastd terminate -rj ihis'liinhappy-cpn1test,T' f y''-''-. -f. . v The- first circumstance wuich m' the course of his perfbrming that dutvv fixfil our. attention,; had, r. saidi filled KhW 1 with regret ; vjjtwas the execution of tfe v Indi m chiefs.f iloy,;he 1 ipome into our possession. K-Was it ; jty .be k course of fair, and open, and honQrabte ' war j' No ;,bu'tiby. means of deception- : i 'I ) by hoisting foreign colors on thetafFfromi ": 1 1 which start andifripes should uif one " nuv lioaeu. vAuscjnarea, tne,inaian j-. r .were iiR.cii. uii Nii;rc,,iuiu wuiioui Ccre-'t ,l I mony,,. and - without ' delaptyereiiung.- ; f'.' Harig an Indian !jVc,i5iri:whd are civi- -lized, and can comprehend and feel thwB J-1 effect of -moral causes and cbnside'rattorjsT attach ignominy to that mode pf death . . And the gallant, and refine'dand'high minded man, seeks by all possible meana ' -to avoid it. ; But, what' cares ah Tndiati- , whether you hang or :shoot hiih?;? 31ie ! ( moment he is icapturedlie is CohsidetedV1 ; by lils tribe asidisgracedVif not lpstpThey ' '.", too, are indifferent about the manner in.r j which he 13 despatched. But, -M-,:C.."said,Vv:: he regarded the occurrence with grief for , f other and Jhigerconsiderations; i jtt was the'urst' instance that he knew of, iri' the; .! ' annals of bur country , in y hicH retaliation.. " ' by Executing f Indian captives. Had ever J been deliberately pradtised. There may f uavc uccu cAtcpiious, out ii mere were, they inet with contemporaneous condem-." 1 nation, and have been reprehended, by the : just pen of impartial history . gentleman fro in Massachusettss may; tell 4 me,f he pleases, what he 'please about ' ' the tomahuwk and scalping khife-boufe Indian enormitiesr and foreign miscreants and inceudiaries. 1 1,- too,' hate them ; from my very soul I abominate vtKem Buty l V loyetny couniry,; ; aiid its, constitution 3 I love! liberty 4iiid satety,5 and fear; military " despotism more even than I hate", these; monsters. f Thej gentleman, in the course ; ofiIs remarks,;ailuded to the State from which I have the honor to come. ;! Little sir, dos he know of the high and magna- . nimbus sentiments-of the, people if Hhat . state? if he supposes they will approve 'of: . the transaction to which he ieferred.- Braye and gerieroulv humanity toWds a" fallen foe constitute one of tbefr ftoblest ' characteristica Amidst all the struggles ;" forthat fairland between the natives and , the present inhabitants; Mr.' C. said--he defied the gentleman to point' out one 'in- , stance m vhich a Kentuckian; had staiti-r ed his hand by -nothing : but his . high sense of the f distinguished' seryjces fand . exalted merits of Gen. Jackson pre vented"" his, using a different 'termthe execution; ot an unarmed and prostrate capfive--Yes, said Mr. C xhere ;was onersolitary exception, in which a man; enraered at be- holding aii Indian pisoher who liadbeea celebrated foi his ?eribrmif ies'.i and who h:J . naa tiescroyea some pt ins Kindred plun 4;. ged hiss word into his bbsonii The wick- , , ":; ed deed was' considered As an abdmiiiabfe ' ' ; outrage; when it occurred and tfiehanie 01 tne man nas oeen nanuea aown to tne execration of posterityV thus to retaliate'on'tbeaboricui.ilm etbrs Aof the country ; and," unless I ani uiicriy-ucycivcu, it iay ye snewn mat lu ' does hot xiPutJbelqr said Mr, C. ;alloHy hie tri 1 make the gentle- f inan'-from Massachusetts a' little better acquainted f with those jeople, t!o whose throutrh their rebresentatiw. niivinc thW through their representative. During the late war With Great, Britain, CoK Camp- ' fkXli under the com band ofiny hnhorable .; friend ifrorti Ohio, (Geiu Harrison). waS placed at the head of a; detachment cdh sistingichiefiy, he beliered, : pf ' Kentucky 7 volunteers, in onler to destroy the' Missis sinawaytowns.j TheyjproCeededficper- ' formed the duty, andttook, some prison- -e.rs.k And here is evidence of the manner in which -they treated theni. (Herei Mr,. C. read the general orders Issued on the v return of the detachment.) M hqpej sir, the honorable gentleman will be bow- able better tb appreciate.the character & cch iddct of my gallant count rym eh f than he appears hitherto to haVe done; . . y" - ; ViBut,sir, 1 have T said that vou 'have ho , right to: practise' under color of VetaliaJ r " ii C0(ltinlied on fourth jiaJ ."-; , - The following is mVextrict wftich Mr " C-read..'-'."r '- -r''O " "."- ' 'l.-V . ." ' .1 '..; But the character of this gallant detach- T rnent, j exhibiting, as it rd,"berseerahce,' for- titude nd bravery,15 would howevety';be in- complete if in tli e midiif of victory, they hd . forgotten.' the' feelings, vJf hurnanitjr.'Itv U f . with the s'peresi pleasure tliat the1 general ; b?s h eard, that he most, puhctu.il obedience .vkvp'id' M his onfers. m not only sarng all v thi Vornen and chiklrert;-- txu't H sparing $ the warrior whtf ceased to ' resUt ii ind that even' w h e? ? y gorou ij'. att acket by the enemy, ' t.ne ciaim? 01 mercy preyMiea over every . ue pfi their bin danger, and ;tlils: heroic band respected the jive of their pr;siers tliet .l?accm'iht- of .nitmlttred nnpctnce be t the fahen and Uie helpies?, .nor trie id t r the other be paid Jbr the scalp ot a inai. "; fTtd ''enettiy.' " ' :r, '; ', ": ; 'pette i 'in the record of 41 :avea againstoiir; . v b l Aioive Mie.- mt'iCfdier fJ: .w j I lie example of his goVeniment, av I dii rddte v?QwiHiot braiedfcgaia r ' ' '1 t- Tar 5i ' i i I: I i ",f;J I- Hi f ;1 .Ii ti I r r i '? S :y. 11 . f. MIA
The Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Feb. 19, 1819, edition 1
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