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IV.

. consideration becomes the

wUen ids itmi-mn.vj, Vas owing to the acknowlLmoctency of Spain to

Astipulation of her treaty ' u., retraining: the hos-

of the ocinwco, iit c United States were comto take up arms in their

lefence. sucn WJ5 UiC jc our cmvernment to-

CV 01 l,u o ' ,

to the general commanding

quarter, expressly roroaae -Vi Snnrmh line.

to enws vw j inhibition was repeated by a

j order. But, as it was ap-

that driving tne inuians ,2 the' limits of the United was doing nothing effectuextioguish the war, since,

jJJng baCK WlUlin UlC mima loridi, they; were still .at

with all the means .or in I innrwanr which

possessed at . the; commencef inutilities, a third order

Lsued, which authorised the

fricaii general, u uic-miumi ildoresent themselves, in bo-

Uonci the. line, to cross it,

attack tnem. -ouuruj anv.i

ig this order a massacre was nitced'bv the' Indians, which

anstrated that no alternatives

:left for the United States, to leave our frontier exposed

hemercvof the savages, or to

fy the war into Florida, and

s to do, tor bpain, what sne bed herself unable to do for self, by terminating by farce hostilities of these savages.'

Fourth order was, therefore, is-

a to this etfect, to the Amerj-

general ; but, by the same or- , he was expressly command-'

if the Indians should take ret under a Spanish fort, not to

ick them in that situation, but

I report the case to the departnt of war. Such has been the

pcy observed by the United

tes towartls Spain ; and no

pjuent order, it is under-

bd, has been issued, to enlirge

iutttonty ot the American

liery.

a attacking the posts of St. rks and Pensacola, with the.

tot Barrancas, cen. ackson,

is understood, acted on facts, iich were, for the first time.

wght to his knowledge, on the mediate theatre of war ; facts, 'iw, in his estimation, impli

ed the Spanish authorities in

ft quarter, as the instigators and

xiliaries or the war ; and he? measuics on his own responlity, merely. That his operans proceeded from motives of purest patriotism, and from 5 conviction, that, in seizing d holding those posts, .he was Mified by the necesity of the Kf nti . 1 1 A.

anil was advancing me ucat crests of his countrv. the char-

j 7 ter of general Jackson forbids a

,uot. Of important facts alleg-

Dy nim, satisfactory proof, it understood, has hcen alreadv

niished to the president, and oof of tlif ntlier facts is con fi-

fntlv evnprtffi. If is Hillirnlr tn

jhnit the belief that acts, so tof'y regardless of the amaicable tU'ions between Spain and the foiled States, so directly repugto the stipulation of the teaty above quoted, and, iu

themselves, so hostile and even cruel, will be wowed md a'dopicd by the king of Spun. W.; trust that they were The mere unauthorised acts of his agents. But should they contrary to all rational expectation, be so. avowed an adopted by that sovereign, there can be little doubt that the means of annoying us from tha, quarter will ere long be taken from him, by the decision of the competent authority, to be restored no more. . . . . In the mean time, as congress only, have the power under 6u constitution, of declaring war and had made no such declan tion against Spain, it is under stood that the president does not conceive himself authorised to retain the Spanish posts, inasmuch as such retention would be an act of war. It is on this ground, we understand, that the resolution has been taken to restore the posts, and to demand from the king of Spain the punishment of those oflicers, whose improper conduct led to their seizure. . The president, no doubt, sees, in common with his countrymen, the great advantages which the United States would derive from the entire possession of the Floridas; but, confessedly great, as these advantages would be, he is not willing to gain them, but b; the sanction of an act of conjure To have retained these posts A der present circumstances, wo

certainly have, had the eclat ox

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ing a strong measure: but we h. never to see a president of t United States disposed to b stronger than the .constitution of his countrv : for that is the

palladium ot interests far . more , sacred, and of infinitely higher import to the general cause of human liberty, than any acquisition of territory, however vast or advantageous. - Notwithstanding, this unexpected, collision in the Floridas, we trust that the relations of amity between the two nations will be preserved ; nor can we abandon the hope, that their differenccs may yet be settled, on fair and honorable condition. We may.'cven .indulge the hope, that the incidents which have grown out of the Seminole war, however. adverse their tendency may have appeared to be, may contribute essentially to produce that hippv result. Spain must see, and has practically confessed, her incompetency to maintain her authority in the Floridas, against the Seminolcs and foreign adventurers ; and we hope she will see that it will be much wiser for her to cede those provinces at once, than to attempt to hold them on the impossible condition of fulfiling her treaty with us ; or, on the condition now brought home to her, by experience, of subjecting herself to perpetual collisions, and eventual losses, which she may now. avoid with ease and honor to herself, . Nat. Int.

New Orleans, jfuxe 26. William Wyatt was executed yesterday afternoon, in pursuance of his sentence, for the murder of

capt. Cornelius Driscoli on the

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