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have been cited, is the unlimited power of taxation which is vested in the general government.

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this a case of confidence? Would the people of any one state trust those of another with a power to controul the most insignificant operations of their state The objection of this unlimited power, which the government? We know they would not. Why then argument seeks to remove,is stated with fullness and should we suppose that the people of any one state clearness. It is, "that an indefinite power of taxashould be willing to trust those of another with a tion in the latter (the government of the union) power to controul the operations of a government might, and probably would, in time, deprive the to which they have confided their most important former (the government of the states) of the means and most valuable interests? Ir the legislature of of providing for their own necessities; and would the union alone, are all represented. The legisla- subject them entirely to the mercy of the national ture of the Union alone, therefore, can be trusted legislature. As the laws of the union are to beby the people with the power of controuling mea-come the supreme laws of the land; as it is to have sures which concern all, in the confidence that it power to pass all laws that may be necessary for will not be abused. This, then, is not a case of con-carrying into execution the authorities with which it fidence, and we must consider it as it really is. is proposed to vestit; the national government might

If we apply the principle for which the state of at any time abolish the taxes imposed for state obMaryland contends, to the constitution generally,jects upon the pretence of an interference with its we shall find it capable of changing totally the cha-own. It might allege a necessity for doing this, in racter of that instrument. We shall find it capable order to give efficacy to the national revenues; and of arresting all the measures of the government, and thus all the resources of taxation might, by deof prostrating it at the foot of the states. The Ame-grees, become the subjects of federal monopoly, rican people have declared their Constitution, and to the entire seclusion and destruction of the state the laws made in pursuance thereof, to be supreme; governments." but this principle would transfer the supremacy in fact to the states.

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The objections to the constitution which are noticed in these numbers, were to the undefined power of If the states may tax one instrument employed by the government to tax, not to the incidental privithe government in the execution of its powers, they lege of exempting its own measures from state taxmay tax any and every other instrument. They may ation. The consequences apprehended from this tax the mail, they may tax the mint, they may tax undefined power, were: that it would absorb all the patent rights, they may tax the papers of the cus-objects of taxation, "to the exclusion and destructom-house, they may tax judicial process, they may tax all the means employed by the government, to an excess which would defeat all the ends of government. This was not intended by the American people. They did not design to make their government dependent on the states.

tion of the state governments." The arguments of the Federalist are intended to prove the fallacy of these apprehensions; not to prove that the government was incapable of executing any of its powers, without exposing the means it employed to the embarrassments of state taxation.

Gentlemen say, they do not claim the right to ex- Arguments urged against these objections, and tend state taxations to these objects. They limit these apprehensions, are to be understood as relattheir pretentions to property. But on what princi-ing to the points they mean to prove. Had the ple is this distinction made? Those who make it have authors of those excellent essays been asked, whefurnished no reason for it, and the principle for ther they contended for that construction of the conwhich they contend denies it. They contend that stitution, which would place within the reach of the the power of taxation has no other limit than is found states those measures which the government might in the 10th section of the 1st article of the constitu- adopt for the execution of its powers, no man, who tion; that, with respect to every thing else, the pow-has read their instructive pages, will hesitate to ader of the state is supreme, and admits of no con- mit, that their answer must have been in' the negatrol. If this be true, the distinction between pro- tive. perty and other subjects to which the power of taxation is applicable, is merely arbitrary, and can never be sustained. This is not all. If the controling power of the states be established, if their supremacy as to taxation be acknowledged, what is to restrain their exercising this control in any shape they may please to give it? Their sovereignty is not con-by the general government. fined to taxation, That is not the only mode in But the two cases are not on the same reason.-which it might be displayed, The question is, in The people of all the states have created the genetruth a question of supremacy; and if the right of the ral government; and have conferred upon it the gestates to tax the means employed by the general go-neral power of taxation. The people of all the vernment be conceded, the declaration that the constitution, and the laws made in pursuance thereof, shall be the supreme law of the land, is empty and unmeaning declamation.

It has also been insisted, that, as the power of taxation in the general and state governments is acknowledged to be concurrent, every argument which would sustain the right of the general government to tax banks chartered by states, will equally sustain the right of the states to tax banks chartered

states, and the states themselves, are represented in congress, and by their representatives exercise this power. When they tax the chartered institutions of the states, they tax their constituents; and In the course ofthe argument, the Federal'st has these taxes must be uniform. But, when a state taxbeen quoted; and the opinions expressed by the au-es the operations of the government of the United thors of that work have been justly supposed to be States, it acts upon institutions created, not by their entitled to great respect in expounding the consti- own constituents, but by people over whom they tution. No tribute can be paid to their worth which claim no control. It acts upon the measures of a exceeds their merit; but in applying their opinions government created by others, as well as theto the cases which may arise in the progress of our selves, for the benefit of others in common with government, a right to judge of their correctness themselves. The difference is that which always must be retained, and to understand the argument, exists, and always must exist, between the action of we must examine the proposition it maintains and the whole, or a part, and the action of a part and the objections against which it is directed. The the whole-between the laws of a government desubject of those numbers, from which passages¦clared to be supreme, and those of a government

which, when in opposition to those laws, is not supreme.

But if the full application of this argument could be admitted, it might bring into question the right of congress to tax the state banks, and could not prove the right of the states to tax the bank of the United States.

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1. Whether, since the adoption of the constitutio of the U. States, any state has authority to pass bankrupt law, or whether the power is exclusively vested in the congress of the U. States?

2. Whether the act of New York, passed the third day of April, 1811, and stated in the plea in this case, is a bankrupt act within the meaning of the constitution of the U. States?

4. Whether the plea is a good and sufficient bar of the plaintiff's action?

The court has bestowed on this subject its most deliberate consideration. The result is a convic S. Whether the act aforesaid is an act or law im tion that the states have no power, by taxation, or pairing the obligation of contracts, within the meanotherwise, to retard, impede, burden,or in any man-ing of the constitution of the U. States? ner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by congress to carry into execution the powers vested in the general government. This And, after hearing counsel upon the questions, is, we think, the unavoidable consequence of that the judges of the circuit court were opposed in opisupremacy, which the constitution has declared. nion thereupon; and, upon motion of the plaintiff's We are unanimously of opinion, that the law pas-counsel, the questions were certified to the supreme sed by the legislature of Maryland, imposing a tax court, for their final decision. on the bank of the United States, is unconstitutional and void.

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On the first question, the supreme court were of opinion, that, until the power, contained in the con. This opinion does not deprive the states of any stitution of the U. States, to pass uniform laws resources which they originally possessed. It does throughout the union, on the subject of bankrupt not extend to a tax paid by the real property of thecies, be exercised by congress, the states have aubank, in common with the other real property with-thority to pass a bankrupt law, provided such law in the state, nor to a tax imposed on the interest contains no principle violating the 10th section of which the citizens of Maryland may hold in this in- the 1st article of the constitution of the U. States, sitution, in common with other property of the which declares that "no state shall pass any law imsame description throughout the state. But this is pairing the obligation of contracts. a tax on the operations of the bank, and is conse- This opinion, of course, rendered it unnecessary quently a tax on the operation of an instrument em- to consider the 2nd question. ployed by the government of the union, to carry its On the 3d question, the court were of opinion, powers into execution. Such a tax must be uncon-that the act of New York, which was pleaded in this stitutional. case, (and which not only liberates the person of The judgment of the court of appeals of the state the debtor, but discharges him from all liability for of Maryland, is therefore erroneous, and must be any debt previously contracted, on his surrendering reversed, and a mandate be issued to that court di-his property in the manner it prescribes) is an act recting a judgment to be entered for the plaintiff in

error.

State Insolvent Laws.

FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.

or law impairing the obligation of contracts within the meaning of the 10th section of the 1st article of the constitution of the U. States. In delivering the judgment of the court, the chief justice stated, that, as to what was intended by the framers of the Great interest having been excited respecting constitution when they used the terms “any lawimthe recent decisions of the supreme court, on the pairing the obligation of contracts," it would seem subject of the state bankrupt and insolvent laws, we difficult to substitute words which are more intellihave obtained a statement of the points decided by gible, or less liable to misconstruction. A contract the court, the accuracy of which may be depended is an agreement in which a party undertakes to do on, and which we now lay before our readers. The or not to do a particular thing. The law binds him opinions at large, with the cases, and the argument to perform his undertaking, and this is, of course, of counsel, will very soon appear in the 4th vol. of the obligation of a contract. In the case at bar, the Mr. Wheaton's Reports. It would be obviously im- defendant had given his promissory note to pay the possible to include all these in the compass of a plaintiff a sum of money on or before a certain day. newspaper; and we have, therefore, limited our-The contract binds him to pay that sum on that selves to a brief analysis of the opinions of the

court.

day, and this is its obligation. Any law, which releases a part of this obligation, must, in the literal sense of the word, impair it, Much more must a law impair it which makes it totally invalid, and entirely

The first case on this subject which was heard and determined by the court, was that of Sturges against Crowninshield. This was an action of as-discharges it. sumpsit against the defendant as promissor upon It was not necessary, nor would it have been safe' two promissory notes, both dated at New-York, 22d for the framers of the constitution to enumerate March, 1811, for the sum of $771 86 each, and pay-particular objects to which the principle they inable to the plaintiff, one on the first of August, and tended to establish should apply. The principle the other on the fifteenth of August, 1811. The de- was the inviolability of contracts. This principle was fendant pleaded his discharge under "an act for the to be protected in whatever form it might be assailbenefit of insolvent debtors and their creditors," ed. To what purpose should the convention enupassed by the legislature of New-York, the third merate theparticular modes of violation, which should day of April, 1811. After stating the provisions of be forbidden, when it was intended to forbid a?!? the act, the defendant's plea avered his compliance Had an enumeration of all the laws which might viowith them, and that he was discharged, and a certi-late contracts been attempted, the provision must ficate given to him the day of 1812.

To this plea there was a general demurrer and ioinder. At the October term of the circuit court, 1816, this cause came on to be argued and heard on the demurrer, and the following questions arose,

have been less complete and involved in more perplexity than it now is. The plain and simple déclaration, that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts, includes insolvent laws, and all other laws, so far as they infringe the principle the convention intended to hold sacred, and no far

Interesting Law Case.

FROM THE NEW YORK EVENING POST.

ther. But, the convention did not intend to prohi- | purported to discharge the debt, was unconstitutionbit the passage of all insolvent laws. To punish ho- al; and that the circumstance of the debt being connest insolvency by imprisonment for life, and to tracted subsequent to the passage of the law by make this a constitutional principle, would be an ex- which it was attempted to be discharged, made no cess of inhumanity, which would not readily be im- difference in the application of the principle. puted to the illustrious patriots who framed our constitution, or to the people who adopted it. The distinction between the obligation of a contract, and the remedy given by the legislature to enforce that obligation, exists in the nature of things. The reNew York, March 13.-A very interesting applimedy may be modified as the legislative wisdom cation of the decision of the supreme court of the shall direct, without impairing the obligation of the U. States, relative to the constitutionality of state contract. Confinement of the debtor may be a pu- insolvent laws, was made in a case brought by John nishment for not performing his contract, or may Stuyversant against Jacob Barker, and tried yesterbe allowed as a means of inducing him to perform it. day before Mr. Justice Bartlett. Stuyversant, the But the state may refuse to inflict this punishment, plaintiff, demanded from Barker, the defendant, fifor may withhold this means, and leave the contract teen dollars, deposited by the plaintiff in the dein full force. Imprisonment is no part of the contract, fendant's bank. Barker, the defendant, admitted and simply to relieve the prisoner does not impair the deposit, but interposed a set-off against the its obligation. plaintiff's demand, of $53 13 cents, and claimed the The court also intimated that it had been con-balance.-A respectable jury of the 6th ward was tended at the bar, that this construction of the con impannelled to try the cause. At the trial, the folstitution would extend to statutes of limitation and lowing facts appeared in evidence. In 1817, the laws against usury. The court did not think so. Sta- plaintiff opened an account at the defendant's bank, tutes of limitation relate to the remedies which are and after a short interval overdrew the bank $52 12 furnished in the courts. They rather establish that cents, and then obtained a discharge from all his certain circumstances shall amount to evidence that debts under the insolvent act of this state. Some a contract has been performed, than dispense with months after his discharge, he made a deposit of its performance. But, if, in a state, where six years $15 in the defendant's bank, which the defendant may be pleaded in bar to an action of assumpsit,a law applied in part payment of the old account. The should be passed declaring that contracts already in plaintiff produced his discharge in evidence, and existence, and not barred by the statute, should be his counsel insisted that it was a full bar to the de construed to be within it, there would be little fandant's set-off, and that the plaintiff was therefore doubt of its unconstitutionality. So with respect to entitled to the amount deposited. The defendant's the laws against usury. If the law be that no person counsel insisted, that the discharge was void, the law shall take more than 6 per cent. per annum for the under which it was obtained being unconstitutional, use of money, or that if more be reserved, the con- inasmuch as it impaired the obligation of contracts, 'tract shall be void, a contract made thereafter re- and that the defendant had, therefore, a right to apserving 7 per cent. would have no obligation in its ply the deposit to the old debt. His honor, the juscommencement. But, if a law should declare that tice, charged the jury strongly in favor of the plaincontracts already entered into and reserving the le-tiff-but allowed them, on the suggestion of the degal interest should be usurious and void, either in fendant's counsel, to take the constitution of the U. the whole or in part, it would impair the obligation States and the state insolvent laws with them into of the contract, and would be clearly unconstitution- the jury room, and directed them to find for the plaintiff the amount of his demand, if they considered the law constitutional, and for the defendant the balance due him, if they considered it unconstitu

al.

The court stated, that this opinion was confined to the case actually under consideration. It was confined to a case in which a creditor sues in a court, the proceedings of which, the legislature, whose act is pleaded in bar, had not a right to control: and to a case where the creditor had not proceeded to exe. cution against the body of his debtor within the the state whose law attempts to absolve a confined insolved debtor from his obligation. When such a case should arise, it would be considered.

Of course, the 4th question was resolved in the negative.

tional.

The jury retired, and in about twenty minutes returned a verdict for the defendant, Barker, for 38 12, being the balance due.

Tallmadge, counsel for plaintiff-Anthon for defendant.

Foreign Articles..

The old queen of Spain, mother of the "adored Ferdinand," and the queen of Wirtemburg, are deceased.

We have London dates as late as the 21st of Janyary. They do not contain one prominent item of The next case which came on for argument on news, though there are a number of interesting misthis subject, was that of M'Millan against M'Neill.cellaneous articles in them, which shall be notice.l In this case, the debt was contracted in the year at leisure. 1813, in the state of South Carolina, both the parties then residing there. The debtor removed to Louisiana, and obtained his discharge in 1815, under the insolvent act of that state passed in 1808. In 1817, a suit was commenced against him, by the creditor, in the district court of Louisiana. The discharge under the law of that state was pleaded in bar; the plea was determined to be insufficient; judgment was rendered for the plaintiff; and the case was brought, by writ of error, before the supreme court of the United States.

ENGLAND, &c.

London, Jan. 21. This day at half an hour after two o'clock, the lord chancellor entered the house of lords, and proceeding directly to the table, received the oaths as peer of parliament. Soon after the noble lord retired for the purpose of putting on his robes, and returned to the house, accompanied by the arch bishop of Canterbury, the duke of WelThis court determined that the case was not distin-lington, the earl of Harrowby, and the earl of Westguishable, în principle, from that of Sturges against moreland, who, with the noble and learned lord,actCrowninshield; that the law of Louisiana, so far as it led as the royal commissioners.

The gentlemen usher of the black rod was then commanded to require the attendance of the house of commons at the bar, to hear the prince regent's speech read.

The commons soon after appeared at the bar, preceded by their speaker, when the lord chancellor, on the part of the commissioners, read the following speech:

"My lords and gentlemen,

"We are commanded by his royal highness the prince regent to express to you the deep regret which he feels in the continuance of his majesty's lamented indisposition.

"In announcing to you the severe calamity with which it has pleased Divine Providence to visit the prince regent, the royal family, and the nation, by the death of her majesty the queen of the united kingdom, his royal highness has commanded us to direct your attention to the consideration of such measures as this melancholy event has rendered necessary and expedient, with respect to the care of his majesty's sacred person.

"We are directed to inform you, that the negocia tions which have taken place at Aix-la-Chapelle have led to the evacuation of the French territory by the allied armies.

"The prince regent has given orders, that the convention concluded for this purpose, as well as the other documents connected with this arrangement, shall be laid before you: and he is persuaded that you will view with peculiar satisfaction the intimate union which so happily subsists among the powers who were parties to these transactions, and the unvaried disposition which has been manifested in all their proceedings for the preservation of the peace and tranquility of Europe.

"The prince regent has commanded us further to acquaint you, that a treaty has been concluded between his royal highness and the government of the United States of America, for the renewal, for a further term of years, of the commercial convention now subsisting between the two nations, and for the amicable adjustment of several points of mutual importance to the interests of both countries; and as soon as the ratifications shall have been exchanged, his royal highness will give directions that a copy of this treaty shall be laid before you.

ty's forces, and those of the East India company, (native as well as European,) rivalled each other in sustaining the reputation of the British arms.

"The prince regent has the greatest pleasure in being able to inform you, that the trade, commerce and manufactures of the country are in a most flourishing condition.

"The favorable change which has so rapidly taken place in the internal circumstances of the united kingdom affords the strongest proof of the solidity of its resources.

"To cultivate and improve the advantages of our present situation will be the object of your deliberations; and his royal highness has commanded us to assure you of his disposition to concur and co-operate in whatever may be best calculated to secure to his majesty's subjects the full benefits of that state of peace which, by the blessing of Providence,, has been so happily re-established throughout Europe."

SPAIN.

A London paper intimates that the marquis of Casa Yrujo has determined to end the contest in Mexico and South America at once, by sending out 40,000 men to different points-to raise the funds for which he projects the cession of the Balearic islands to Russia-the Canaries to Holland, Cuba to England, and Porto Rico and St. Domingo, with the Phillippines, to France! A tolerably extensive scheme-and that's all.

Great consternation prevailed at Corunna, on ac. count of several privateers being on the coast of Galicia.

The Lancasterian system of education has been translated into Spanish, under the patronage of the king of Spain.

The British government has restored to Spain, a Spanish schooner which had been captured by the Union, a Venezulean privateer, and afterwards carried into Falmouth by a revenue cutter.

CHRONICLE.

last, on which day, Mr. Justice Johnson delivered Supreme court. The court adjourned on Friday the opinion of the court in the case of certain goods taken out of the Spanish ship Caradad, affirming the decree of the inferior court, restoring the goods to "Gentlemen of the house of commons, "The prince regent has directed that the estimates the ground that the privateer, by whom they were the possession of the Carthagenian captors, upon for the current year shall be laid before you. "His royal highness feels assured, that you will originally captured, was cruizing under a commislearn with satisfaction the extent of reduction which and was not fitted out in this country, nor had comsion from the republic or province of Carthagena, the present situation of Europe, and the circum-mitted any other violation of the strict and impar stances of the British empire, have enabled his roy-tial neutrality which is maintained by the United al highness to effect in the naval and military estab-States, in the present war between Spain and her re

lishments of the country.

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volted colonies.

General Jackson was to partake of a public dinner at Winchester, Va. on his way home, on Saturday last.

The mail between Baltimore and Philadelphia is now carried in the Union line of steam boats and stages,--by which its expedition and safety, while the navigation remains open, is greatly promoted. Flour is said to be selling at New Orleans at $5 per barrel

Another mail robbery. The mail from Boon's Lick, &c. to St. Genevieve, Missouri, was recently robbed. The robber had not been taken when the account came away.

"His royal highness commands us to inform you, that the operations undertaken by the governor general in council against the Pindarries were dictated by the strictest principles of self-defence; and that in the extended hostilities which followed upon those operations, the Mahrattah princes were in every instance the aggressors. Under the provident and skillful superintendance of the marquis of Hast- The large oxen, noticed in our last, have been ings, the campaign was marked in every point by weighed alive. The weight of the largest was 2960 brilliant achievements and success; and his majes-lbs. of the other, upwards of 2700 lbs.

Green peas were sold in Charleston market on the 6th instant, at the rate of twelve dollars per bushel.

Counterfeiting. As soon as we get room, we shall | last. Taking into view the strength of the Semibriefly notice the different accounts we have receiv-noles and their adherents, as reported to you by ed of counterfeit bank notes, for a few weeks past. gen. Gaines, and the aggregate of his strength, reIt is a terrible list!-A New York paper says-It is gulars and militia amounting to but 1800 men, rumored that one of the banks of this city has receiv-which cannot possibly afford a like number of ef $50,000 of counterfeit money, and that another has fectives; considering likewise that the greater por. discovered a deficit of about $100,000. tion of his forces are draughted militia from Geor Etiquette and patronage. We are pretty rapidly gia, who may apply for their discharge at the exadvancing in European manners. We saw it an-piration of three months from the time they were nounced a few days ago, that a distinguished gentleman had taken "a formal leave" of the president -the kissing of hands, of England, will come next; and now we see in a Washington paper, that a certain play-actress is to do certain things "under the patronage of the hon. Mrs. Bagot." We are not pleased with such notions, and many other like them which we see and hear of. As our manners retire from republican simplicity, so will vice prevail, and bypocricy lead to posts of honor and profit. We have already some men who are called courtiers; if the appellation is justly bestowed on any, and whether it is or is not we do not know, the people may rest assured that they are, (in plain English) villains. It is only a second name for the same thing. Mobile, Feb. 15.-We learn that on Monday last, the 8th inst. Pensacola, was delivered to the Spaniards; that the American troops took up the line of march for fort Montgomery immediately after; that the American citizens who had located themselves in Pensacola had one month allowed them by the Spanish governor to remove their goods, &c. in case they did not conclude to remain in the province.

NOTICE TO NAVY PENSIONERS.

first mustered, and who may be disposed to claim this right and abandon the campaign about the time I could reach fort Scott, I have deemed it both prudent and advisable to call from the west end of the state of Tennessee, for one thousand volunteers, mounted gun men, to serve during the campaign. With this force, in conjunction with the regular troops, I can act promptly, and, with wi h the smiles of Heaven, successfully, against any force that can be concentrated by the Seminoles and their auxiliaries. Viewing, however, the lives of our citizens as too precious to be risked in a contest with savages, with the odds of two to one, unless where real necessity demands the exposure, I have therefore written to the governor of Geor gia, to continue in the field, the one thousand men required by gen. Gaines.

The result of the appeal I have made to the pr triotism of those brave men, in West Tennessee, who have so often followed me to the field of danger, will be known by the 19th inst. and I hope to leave this for fort Scott, on the 22d; of my movements and success ir. raising the mounted volunteers, you shall be advised.

Navy department, 15th March, 1819. It may appear to the government on the first For the renewal of pensions under the late act of view, that mounted men are the most expensive; Congress, entitled "An act for extending the term of but when we consider the rapidity of their half pay pensions to the widows and children of cer- movements, the amount of quarter master's extain officers, seamen and marines who died in the penditures for pack horses, baggage wagons, and public service," it is expected, that widows, claim-other means of transport indispensable to footmen, ing such renewal, will produce the deposition of in this instance saved, mounted gun men, as auxiliasome respectable person, proving their actual state of widowhood; and, in cases of inter-marriage, of a child or children, under the age of sixteen years.

Seminole War.

DOCUMENTS ACCOMPANYING THE REPORT OF THE SE

NATE.

ries in such a campaign as the one contemplated, will be found to save both blood and treasure to

the United States. The volunteers that have been invited to the field, are of tried materials, and such as can be relied on the day of danger and trial. With respect, &c.

(Signed)

ANDREW JACKSON. Maj. Gen. Commdg. Hon. J. C. Calhoun, secretary of war.

Department of war, 10th February, 1819. I feel myself much at a loss for correct topograSIR-Agreeable to the request made in your let-phical information of the country occupied by the ter of the 8th inst. I now transmit an extract of Seminole Indians, and particularly of that portion general Jackson's letter of the 10th of August last, which may possibly become the seat of war. Should and a copy of gen. Jackson's order to gen. Gaines, there be any maps, plans, or charts, of the country of the 7th of last August,in relation St. Augustine, a alluded to, in the secret bureau of the war departcopy of the order to general Gaines, of the 1st of ment, you will oblige me by having a copy transSeptember, and an extract of the answer to gene-mitted to fort Scott as early as practicable. ral Jackson's letter of the 10th of August, 1818; (Signed) which comprehended all the information required by the committee.

I have the honor to be, your most obedient ser-
J. C. CALHOUN,

vant.

Hon. Abner Lacock,

chairman, &c. &c. senate U. S.

(COPY.)

Head Quarters, Div. South, Nashville, 12th January, 1818. SIR-I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your order of the 26th ult, which reached me last night; its contents are duly noted, and will be promptly attended to.

I have received no late advices from gen. Gaines, although I have for some time expected the return of the express sent to him on the 24th of November

(corr.)

A. J.

Head quarters, division of the south,
Nashville, 13th January, 1818.

SIR,-Being advised that the assistant deputy quartermaster general of general Gaines' brigade, has resigned; and being unadvised as to quarter. masters funds within the 7th department, I have to request that necessary funds be forwarded to quartermaster general Gibson at fort Scott, whom I have ordered to meet me at that place without loss of time.

Should the one thousand volunteer mounted gunmen attend to my appeal to their patriotism, I shall send on a confidential agent to Georgia to have the necessary supplies for them procured and forw.rded by the quartermaster, if any there, to fort

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