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quaito.FROM FLORIDA.The St. Augustine Herald of theSlst 'list.received by the last mail from that suffering Territory, ittruishes us some details of anticipated operations hy the army under Gen. Josup's command. a9 also further particulars of events heretofore registered. Our aim being to be a faithful chronicler of events, so interesting though so discouraging to the American Reuder, wc insert (apparently) at times the same intelligence already noticed, hut, if our readers will examine for themselves, they will find that our extracts, being necessarily made from more than out* paper in the Territory, convey intelligence, not before fully developed.In addition to the extracts, which we subjoin from the Herald, the *followiug report in the same paper, will excito all the sympathetic feelings of our nature, and make us envy those brave volunteer* and regulars, who have respectively quit the endearmeuts of home, uttd adhered to their country's service, however discouraging at present that service, rather than let the bloodthirsty savage stalk, unsubdued, o'er the fair fields of Florida, stained hy the heart's blood of helpless women and children. While penning these few reflections, protected as we are, from the inclemency of tho season hy a warm hearth mul enjoying a peaceful home, our thoughts wander to the hanks of the Ouithlacoochy, or are arrested hy the war whoop of tho savage, heard, in imagination, echoing through the Wnhoo Swamp, while our gallant forces are wading shoulder deep in defiance of their rifles, to their very lair.Will no wreath await the hrowsof those men. who, to sustain the honor of their country, have not only exposed their untried constitutions to hard-ships too often of a fatal character, but lias braved the Lion in. his Den. In a civilized warfare, the (eats which have been performed hy a Fierce, a Herbert, ail Ashby, ami other gallant men, would not only have elicited, (as have been done,) the favorable notice of the Executive, as Commander-in-Chief, but swords would he voted !»y the Representatives of their grateful countrymen, as a badge to distinguish them through life—a legacy, in death, to their children, and children's children. The wounds of tho Grahams—of Ridgcly, and other heroic spirits w ould M plead trumpet-tongucd to their countrymen (through their official organs) for the highest honors of the Republic. For these arc the men who, with the Hheltotis, the liris-haines, and others, of South Carolina,—the Jcr-nigaus and tho Robertsons, the Watsons, the Rakers, and others, of Georgia, and the no less gallant Louisianians, Alabamians and Tennc*-amsins, have braved the perils of a Florida or Georgia hammock, the hogs of their swamps, to track the Seminole and the Creek to their hiding places and teach them that their cruelties shall not puss unavenged.The next intelligence may be that the Indian tomahawk lias pierced the brain of another defenceless woman. Think you,|Georgiaus—think you Americans, that such scenes would he enacted brfurr high Heaven, could :he spirits of au 1 £ a hh, a Dapk, a Basi.ngfr, ho ever present to shield the defenceless—to direct the energies of the American soldiery.If those spirits have departed, a Pierce, a Warren, a Herbert, a Mills, et multi alii, still live, and will we trust soon be found at the heels of these savage blood hounds.—I av. (ico.
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Milledgeville Georgia Journal
Milledgeville, Georgia, US
Tue, Feb 07, 1837
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