Richmond Enquirer

The following paragraph, which we find in the last number of the Georgia Courier, if intended for a jest, is, we must say, a very scurvy one; if for a fact, a very revolting one.—Nat. Int.

[From the Georgia (Augusta) Courier.]

Is it possible? Can it be believed? In the face of this community, the William Seabrook, Capt. Dubois, with Governor Hamilton on board, on leaving our wharf on Saturday morning last, hoisted the United States Flag, Union down, with the revolutionary tri-color flying over it!— The indignation we feel in common with an insulted community, does not allow us to speak another word concerning such an outrage.

CHARLESTON, Jan. 2nd, 1833.

To the Editor of the Mercury:

I notice, with mortification, a paragraph in the Georgia Courier of Monday last, in which it is stated that the community of Augusta have felt themselves greatly outraged by the American Ensign being hoisted, Union down, on board the Steam packet Wm. Seabrook, which I have the honor to command, on leaving Augusta on Saturday last. I now beg the favor of you to insert the following explanation of that circumstance.

The blunder was committed by one of the men in hoisting the flag, but was immediately corrected, on discovery, and before the boat was out of sight of the city. Neither myself nor any one connected with that boat are capable of offering an indignity to the American flag. I regret exceedingly that the mistake should have attracted so much notice, or been the subject of such great misconstruction.

WALTER DUBOIS

The Augusta Courier, asserted that the revolutionary Tri-color was raised above that of the United States, which, it appears, was not the case.—[ED. MERCURY.