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v< t. I.J ' 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. [N T j. t,