The Virginian

GOV. TROUP'S MESSAGE.

In relation to the manner of Gov. Troup's message as contrasted with the elevated and dignified bearing of President Adams, we find the following just remarks in the National Journal: -

The whole of the message of Governor Troup is now in the hands of our readers, and we cannot doubt that it has been perused by them with feelings of surprise and regret, corresponding with our own. It must, indeed, be equally a source of wonder and concern to every sedate and intelligent citizen, that neither time nor reflection, nor yet the calm dignity which has marked the conduct of the President of the United States, in reference to this unhappy controversy, has had the effect of cooling that warmth of spirit and tone which so strongly characterized the address of Gov. Troup, delivered at the special session of the Georgia Legislature, during the last summer. The same ardent temper, the same impetuosity of feeling and phrase, the same disregard of personal and political respect, mark both the messages which have been delivered on this important topic.
The conduct of the President of the United States on this occasion affords a fine and striking contrast to that of Gov. Troup - dignity opposed to passion - calmness to vehemence - logical replication to personal invective. Had it been possible for the Executive of the Union to have so far departed from the consistent wisdom of his whole administration and the unsurpassed excellence of his customary style, as to have repelled violence by equal violence, and thus to have entered upon a contest of verbal recrimination, - what a train of pernicious consequences might have resulted! What a spectacle of humiliation would have been presented at home, to all intelligent and well feeling citizens! What mortifying exhibition should we have presented to the eyes of those foreign aristocracies which regard our progress with envy and fear, and anticipate our fall with hope and delight! From such evils the wisdom and discretion of the President only has saved us, for to such results was the tendency of the language adopted by the state governor.

We are deeply concerned to find Governor Troup still pursuing the same injudicious course of personal disrespect. If grievances exist, the path to redress lies through argument, carefully digested and discreetly applied - not through the opposite path, which is shunned alike by reason and courtesy. Few persons will be induced to believe that in the government of the U. States, any prejudice exists detrimental to the wishes or interests of Georgia, - much less any settled purpose to disregard or injure them. They who form a different conclusion look through a misty or deceitful lens, and must, ultimately, surrender their errors to the convictions of greater experience and more correct observation. Whatever excitement exists, in connection with this subject, is to be attributed exclusively to the undue heat which pervades the compositions of Governor Troup; and which is no less abundant in this last, than in his former communications on the subject of the Creek treaty. In referring the whole subject to Congress, the President has given the most unequivocal proof that, without being driven from his correct course by the violence which has characterized the official publications of Governor Troup, he is determined to keep steadily in view the interests of truth and justice, and to afford no pretext for an accusation that he has either given new cause of offense to Georgia, or forgotten for a moment, the interests of the citizens of that state, the propriety of his own course, or the dignity and duties of his station.

Governor Troup has transmitted his message to the legislature of Georgia. - He seems still disposed "to stand by his arms" - displaying the same spirit he has so long and so mischievously manifested. The message reminds us of an anecdote lately related to us, characteristic of the governor. During the late war the war department ordered 6000 muskets to be sent to the south, which came under Gov. T's inspection. He wrote a flaming letter to the department, complaining that the muskets had no touch-holes. But it turned out all a mistake. The locks had become somewhat rusty from the moisture of the hold of the vessel; but a little oil removed the rust and found the touch-holes all there. The governor was too hasty.

[Winchester Republican.