Cherokee Phoenix

FROM WASHINGTON.- It is stated to us by intelligent gentlemen of both Houses of Congress with whom w

Published June, 26, 1830

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FROM WASHINGTON.- It is stated to us by intelligent gentlemen of both Houses of Congress with whom we have conversed during their stay in this city, that the signs of the times at Washington portend anything but peace and tranquility to our present ruling powers. We are credibly informed that the dissatisfaction with the Administration among the Western members was loud and violent, and that of the ten Jackson members who came to the federal city from Ohio, eight have returned with a determination never to be again found fighting in such ranks.

In relation to the Indian bill, we have the best authority for saying that the bill would have been rejected by a considerable majority, if the members had received any premonition as to the stand the President would take upon the Maysville Road Bill. The decision was carefully concealed, lest it should endanger the passage of the Indian bill; and in the mean time, all the machinery of party was put in motion to induce the friends of the Administration to subserve the views of the Executive.- It was boldly avowed by some of the party, that they would never have yielded their private judgments to the solicitations of their party friends, could they have dreamed that the President would succumb to the South, and abandon his former established principles, for the purpose of vainly endeavoring to pacify South Carolina and Virginia.