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were convicted of having ercited, and cORRiUed at the nutiny charged, were simply dismiss ed from the service. Six unfortunate vic- tims, as has been stated, were condemned to suffer de0th, and about two hundred others were sentenced to make good the time they had lost, and at the expiration of their ser vice, to have their heads shaved, and to be drunImed out of the camp!

 In the midst of the congratulations of vic tory when every heart was elate with honest pride, and confident anticipation, these delu- ded men-when danger was past, and their example could no longer injure, were sent to execution. It was remorseless and bloody deed.

 It is, we know, said, in defence of Gen. Jackson, that his agency in this matter was merely official--and it became his duty to order it carried into effect Not so-Gen. Jackson might have disapproved the finding of the Court. He night at any rate, have suspended the sentence of excution, and re- ferred the matter, as no peril was emminent, to the President. But that day, MT. Madi- son, could not. as Gen. Jackson has since said, look with composure upon blood and carnage" and perhaps the General thought it safest not to give his brother soldiers the chance of mercy, which such disposition held gout. He therefore shed their blood. Moreover, it is on record, that Gen. Jackson is not always so observant of the findings of Courts Martial, as to abide fsimplicitly by them. When the Court that tried Arbuth- not and Ambrister refused to touch their lives Gen. Jackson annuled the proceedings with single dash ofhis pen, and ordered the prisoners to instantsdeath-of his mere will, and good pleasure.

 The official record of the trial,the sentence, and the order for execution, have been re- gently published in the Washington papers,& bear out this summary of the transaction. We shall, probably, hereafter republish them Tn order that those among our readers who may prefer Gen.Jackson, shall at least,not do so for want of knowledge ofhis character and acts.

 The detachment to which the men belong ed was stationed in the Creek Country. The law of the United States, actually in exist ence until April 1874, did limit the service of militia drafts to three months and it is prob able, that this detacment and it's officers were lgnorant-indeed, it is solemnly averred that that they did not know of any law authoriz- ing their detention in service more than three months, from the time ofreaching the point ot rendezvous. At any rate, it was proved that the refractory men acted under such an impression; and that as soon as they be- came doubtful of the step they had taken, they We're voluntarily returning to their camp and it was on this voluntary return, that they were made prisoners-subsequent ed-dishonored-and executed

 1t IS, too, with that irreverence for the character of the unequalled and unapproach- able Washington which has led to more than one comparison of living soldiers with him l; sometimes said that Washington had caused militia men to be executed during the reyolu- tionary struggle. Thisoslander, for so it must be called is completely put at rest, by the annexed communication, written by one ! who is, as he signs himself, private militio- man, and whose cautious and discreet charac- ter are vouchers to us, who know him, for the accuracy of his statements.

 For the Ne,O- Fork Ame,fcon. In the labOured yindicatiOns that have ap- peared of the conduct of Gen. Jackson in causing six militia men to be tried and shot for assertion, the conduct of General Wash ington in the war of the revolution, has been quoted in his justification. The instances given appear to me to be unfortunately selec- ted-viz. the one at Fort Schuyler, where it is said thirty men went off in body, and "being pursued, 16 Ofthem were overtaken, and thirteen of the sixteen were instantly kill led" And the mutiny in the Jersey line, in 17sl, when about one hundred and sixty of that line mutinied, and laid down their arms three of the ring leaders, were selected, condemned bya court martial, and two of them executed.

 As to the affair at Fort Schuyler, would remark, that no knowledge of the apprehen- sion or killing of the men was brought home to General Washington, at least, not till after the deed was done. And as to both of the instances which the friends of Gen. Jackson quote in his justification, do we not meet the infererences attempted to be drawn from them when we say, that they were cases of military execution done upon regularly enlist ed and educated soldiers.

 If the inhuman conduct of Gen. Jackson could be justified by inhuman conduct in oth- ers,and if his friends seek for such iustfca- tion in the annals of the war of the revolution, they mast find parallel cases and furnish us with them from examples of military execu- ton done at chat time upon militiamen. Such instances may possibly exist. If any are found, let them be brought home to Washington before he is instanced in SUD- port of the conduct of Gen. Jackson.

 But am confident none such will be found. The militia of the revolution were never subject to all the seventies of martial law. They were called out for emergencies, were kept together by their patriotism, and dispersed q may almost say,) at their own