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' EORGIA, LOUISVILLE: —Pubhlhed every Tuclday, by AMBROSE LAV, at 3 dollars per ann. payable halt yearly.
STATE cf GEORGIA. j
MESS A O E
Cf his Exct'ency. GOVERNOR]
JACKSON , to boJi Ikvfes of
the Jegjhtuu.
Fellow Citizens of the Senate, and*
0 j the Koujec) Rffrefnis lives f
THE political year under
t hp law of the nth February
loft having orce more revolved,
] cheat Tully perform the ccmßi
mtional duly of the executive,
in giving } ou infer matron of the
ft.itc of the republic, and an
account of the Efl year s admi
niftration ,
The vat iouspofitiotis in wore h
the flale was placed during the
political ) ear 1798, gave room
for apprehenfron that her htu
at on m 1799. would h*ce been
rendered unpleafant hsd
a right to expeft, from the threat
ening afpe6l of European affairs,
our expolcd maritime and weß
ern frontiers, and c ur vicinity to
the Indian tubes, hoflilicy from
fcveral quarters, indeed duting
th|e fitting of the leg flmure in
February la ft, appearances on
the part of the Indians were
menacing, one man by the name
of Moreland was killed, - and
fcveral horfes were Rolen by
them from the fettlers on the
A’atamaha and Ocince, and
this profpeft was rendered more
alarming from the condudl of
fotne of cur own people, who
Hole feme horfes from the In-
I have the fatisfac
tion of a flu ring you, that not
withflanding this unpromiffing
commencement of the year,
owing to the exertions of the
cf the United States in the
Urrck Nation, added to the ex
enrons of the Rate executive,
and the harmony which has pre-
Vai C( 1 between them, in their,
icfpeftive endeavors toieflrainl
|hc laurlcfs, and to do mutual,
pm ire—the late adminißration
IAS en; led as peaceably, and as j
,ee rorn Indian depredation'
expence, as muft former!
', ears * I he principal part ofj
; ex pence has accrued to the <
a!f *i horn an of policy
" nr juflice, in paying the Chcc- 1
, avv ki p g for a horfe Rolen from
il!rr h t f he purfuing and rak- ■
the thieves who Hole him,
[ ec °vcring and fending back
7° !her ft olen horfe taken by 1
, at th e lame time. The 1
'•'■cumenu muked No. 1, will
n \°r t J h ‘ it . this as been'
r e , nCed wilh great advantage, '
iof^V efpCaed . the repuration '
pr'» e • US to jtdlice, and her :
hcr ;? ~n 8 b -‘ c k the property ofi
& ; ? stikenb^
tiijr c °f' fbis expence, and
iijt 3 an ala:in
THE LOUISVILLE GAZETTE.
r l U £ S t) A V, November 12, 1799.
REASON siNF> TRUTH IMP IRI'IAL GUiDE THE WAY.
; on the frontier of Montgomery,
I•o / 1
| which took place and broke up
] feme fettle inerts in September
llaß, together wi:h fupplyirg
than with ammunition to Rand
their ground, amounts but to
1 the fum ot three hundied and
fifty eight dollars fi ity cents
and one half, uhi- h is every
cent expended for Indian de
fence during the laR two years
adminifiration, and from this
is to be deduded the amount
Tales of the Rolen horfe, which!
had found his wry back to the 1
nation through Gre<ne county,)
where the thieves were appre
hended, and was fe' Ured by the
Chet haw King, and Tent down
as the property of th<" Rate w ith
feme of our citizens flo en horfes.
feme weeks finer* Ihe Maim
in Montgcme y Toon blew over,
and the report ol major Ham
mond, with the papers marked
No. 2, will (hew it to have been
of little or no importance.
Colonel Hawkins I have little
doubt, would previoufly to this
period, have returned a confr
dcratle portion of our citizens
propcity in the nat on, had not
an unfortunate aver hen to run
ning the boundary line,between
the United Stales ar d the Spa
nifh tcuifory, feized the Semi
iiola tube cf Indians, which
required'his ablencc from the
nation, at rhe critical period ol
the Bufketuh, The cop) of his
talk to three of the mother
towns with other inform, lien on
this head marked No. 3, very
fully manifcßs his intentions,
and whilß it acknowledges the
rcadinefs of Georga to do ju(-
lire to the Indians, pofuivcly
calls on the Indians to do juflice
to her.
Major General Pintkncy vi-j
filed the feat of government in |
April LR, and communicated
to me a letter Lom his Excel
lency the Governor of South-
Caiolina, informing himascorn
tnandirg Officer of the troops of
the United States in the louth
ern department, that a number
of had crolfed over the
line, run between this Rale's
ordinary juiifrhdlion and the
Indians, by the agent of the
United States, in January 1798
I feized the opportunity to pom;
out to him, the fettlers fi natron
who were left out of the line by
that running, and who had pre
vioufly ihcreto hcncßly acquired
pofleflion. bv legal grants from
the Rate, whilß that part To left
out was generally acknowledged,
even bv the inch ns ffiemfclves,
to be within the bounds of the
(late of GccgL Hit loiter
(incc to me, and captain lay*
Li's tepott to him, copi:s G*
which a?e marked No. 4 will
evince to you that he has been
as lenient in the cf his
otdetson fuch occafions, rs the
government of Geoigia or the
fo-rncr feltlers of thofe lands,
could have wifhed. Kot cue
of (hem has been dißmbcd, and
the recent feitleis who were f om I
South-Carolina only, have been!
! rcn:oved.
No treaty has as yet been nc-
Jtided to the Hate executive, for
jthepmpofc of recovering bad
j1 hc fe lards; nor has any it for-
I tnation reached the departn ent,
j of a treaty to obtain for the Rate,
j the TalafTee county* Pcihaps,
ard it is piobable, that, it has
| been deemed impolitic to at
.T'tcmpt either, until the fouthetn
1 • r '
| boundary line between the Uni
ted State s and Spain (hall be j
|completed. Hut it is ceitain,
that a Irw paßcd the legiflaluie
of (he union at its lafl lelfion,
makirg an appropriation for a;
treaty, as appears by (he decided '
vote ot the houlc of rcprelcn-j
tatives, for the expiefs purpofe j
of itfloiing TalafTee county to j
the Rate, and wbi<h was found
ed on (he rtpoit of a .committee
thereof, which declares (lint they
knew not on what prircip'ts
that county was taken lr< in us
by the treaty of New-York, a
copy of this icport will be found
matked No. 5, and it is to be
hoped that the liberal and juR
intentions of the legiflaiure f will
be put into execution by the ex
ecutive of (he utiion, by his or
dering a ticaty, as loon as policy
may wairant it.
Our commtßioners, under the
ad to cany the 23d le6iion of
the fir ft article of the confuta
tion into operation, being one
| of them a fenator, and (he oihcr j
| two icpielentatives from this <
Rate to the ( cngiefs of the
United States* and their times
of feivice having hut lately com
menced, have had as y el no op
poitunity of convening in Phi
ladelphia, and communicating
(heir powers of fale, of our
Weßern territory to the Umtedl
States. The fcfFion is now ap
pioaching, and they no doubt
will ptocecd to the important
million, with that zeal and fide
lity, towards the Rate, for whn h
rhv.ir characters have hitherto}
been marked. R nat the fale.
may be accompliflied, ought to j
be the finceic wilh of every I
friend to Georgia, and the United
States—it will do away ail con-j
teniion for tciritory, and cue
of uneafinefs, bttween them —
prove an immenfe fund for the'
reduction ut the d be of tuej
United Stares, ar d Irnally cx-j
I cingu'fh a'l latent hopes wf g; alp- •
irg (peculation, which has for
fbme yeais pad pervaded the
union, to the diferedit of (he
nation, and the ruin of indivi
duals.
It is faid, that the lands thro*
which ihe boundary line between
us and Spain runs, and far above
it, are of a poor piney quality.
This if tme, and the United
States claim (hould be tfl iblifh- *
<d, v, Inch however in mv opin -
ion never can, nor will lie, hut
by a fair puichafe of the light
of Georgia, confident with the
equity and juflicc of a gie.c
nation, and agreeably to the
rtides o( the confederation and
confiitntion of tlie United States,
by which (he claims of ear it
particular date to leiriroiy, arc
guaranteed to them. Vet it may
1 he doubted, it the commdhoneia
c! the United States, from horn
this infoitnation is faid to he
derived, arc proper judges ot a
| yine foil in a toulhcm climate—
' among curfciver, it is well
i known, that large tra&s of this
; kind of land, produce good
I crops of wheat and corn, and
ardwer very well for coilon, an
article, which is rapidly advanc
ing to the head of American
exports, and which (called Geor
gia cotton) is taking the lead
and preference ot "that Qapie,
lin moil forego markets. A
ftaplc, whir h deferves the foflcr
[ ing hand of the union, and me
rits its attention and encourage
ment,- Suppohng it therefore
pine 1. nd, it is ncvcnhclcTs of
incalculable value to the union.
Above the mouth of the Yazoo
river however, (hould Georgia
(by an arbitrary hand, or an ex
tra judicial authority, which I
wiil no: admit an idea of; be
deprived of the lands below if,
| ( ongrefs can have no pcffible
pretenfions cr claim, and this
country* is acknc wit dged to be
as well wooded and watered, as
any in the union, and the cli
mate far fu peri or.
Hut it is uncharitable to fup
pole, that after the liberal a6l of
(Georgia, for a (ale of all her
Wcflem territory to the United
Mates, that any narrow policy
of preventing the population of
this growing, and important
(late, (houJda6luatethegcncr.il
[government, to refute an acrrl
(ion to the terms therein held
Jonh, 'lhe lands rcquntd an
pa t compenfation, a(Fc6l only
a few Haggling towns of I? -
diaris, and by no means interfere
with the bulk of ihe C eed; Na
(n-.n, and the Cum as the
remaining equivalent, is by no
mean* e Q:L»itant, in c ompuhou
to llic value ot what Georgia,
iclinquifties; and is a m«ic tr.ilc.
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