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jfoc'cftc violumuiaa rpufrum. GENTLEMEN, T r s, ;iK many and repeat’d aitac on mycha k A. rul'-r, wliich ruvvlias prompted, and in- ‘d malice m..iurri\. will l iiopr, cxcutc to th • ewidid and dilintfrcllr.il, for requeu ing your inicrtiou ol tfir following’ papers. To mv fellow ciii/.cnr, wind. - r- , -iulen'.f lias afforded them an opportunity ol knowing my vondiift, for one third of the time Georgia has Keen fettled, this may appear twmccel.ary and ampropav. —My apol<>t;y to iliem is, th.it ther* arc (hangers continually leaving Savannah, for foreign parts, who may lie forcibly imploded Ly the drfignuie iufnuntioiiv w!u< h ire daily lubricated by interfiled individuals, againit me, and who may carry prcj-udie.es, which they may deem truths, againil my charafi -r,to the diUcreut. comitrics to which they belong. Thole papers will fp"ak tortiiemlclvcs, with rrfpcft to my eonduft, during the American re volutionary war, in controls, and at home. Tlicy will anfwrr the charge exhibited aguinfl me, lor receiving as a gift of my country, the de’r and grateful aekiiowl-ilgement of my ftr vie.es, the lion I’- I live in, which altho’ ont of the moll limn file dwellings in the city of Savan nah, is magnified into a palace, for services laid by my enemies, to have been never performed; my plantation which it is said, was alio given me/I purchased and paid for, as other pur chalers did. It is well known, that I was not in the Lcgiflaturc, when the House wasprefent ed to me, and l never solicited it. Without the moft diflant intention of wounding Judge Pendleton’s feelings, who mofl affurcdly if the t'rfl judge cf his own conduct, as he was plea fed to mention my name in a late address, I I cel invfelf obliged to add the, certificate of Major Mitchcl, explanatory of the Judge’s observation, ;.s to my declining Vicing concerned in the pur t hafe of our western lands, by declaring “ it would create enemies.” —The Judge solicited me twice to become conCcrncu ; the fit'll time at the confifcated files, the lafl asftated by Ma jor Mitchcl.—The conversation there Hated is the hit, arid what p.tifed at the latl e.onverfa- Xion between the Judge and myfelf. Mr. Wcr cat’i outfit olunt ‘r’ih > roceedingfromhimfelf and published in mv able ice to meet the cormnif iienters at Lonmglle, mull take off every im preflionas to my being concerned, or iny wiih ins to be concerned. A publication has also recently appeared un derthr fignatureof James Gunn, which 1 muff be permitted to make a few observations on, in which he affects, that I was the occasion of •'Vic refolutioiis againll him.—l have no wifit to avoid ihe violence cf Ins temper, when 1 de clare the assertion unfounded. I notice this merely to prove how many untruths are abroad J cfpcfting tlie proceedings of the anuullSng le gifiature —I was not even on the committee v/hii'i brought in the re feint ion againll him, and i>i the shape it entered the house ol repre h-iiMtivej, it was ait imphi-'hment <f James Gunn, to the Saute of ihe United States.— A member horn Wilke’s penned it, and a member from Chatham seconded it, and neither of them I be lieve will deny it, if he chuffs to interrogate t item. - - I laid not one word until called on by Air. Watkins, for my opinion as to our poWcr. - 1 did not think we had the power, and I was again tailed ontor an amendment. —I moved it, •nd Mr. Watkins seconded it, and it was unani i*ollfly carried, and lo entered on the-journals. The word unanimous was the next morning ex j.uinged, at th- rcqncli of. Mr. Watkins and Mr. A‘. inlolph , and lo it now ftanus on the journals. I deny tint I haw been aftuated by reffut ment againll James Gunn, ju any vote I liave given refpefting the ulurped act. —Measures, and not men, have been my cbjett. and I nev et i onlidered |ames(runn as the principal mov er.— I deny that any improper Reps were tak en in the committee, which took, the informa tions, and of which I was chairman ; and which committee was widely different from the com mittee which cenfurcd James Gunn, nor was any information concealed.—One of the gen tlemen who swore agaiiifl him, was concerned ■ in the purehafe, and had liberty to alter his oath two or three time'?; and the informations of the rest are poiitive, and not liearlay. unitfs from himfelf, and they are ready to atteil the lame before any tribunal. As to the common cry of tliofe concerned, that the annulling law was my work, and I should he hurt on the {core of my country's charafcler, if I could bring mylelf to believe it, I refer your readers to the presentments of the font hem circuit court, for the di Uriel of Georg- < is. wherein the LourUille afi'embly have ref •■rived the thanks of this grand incjueil of the v. hole, ilate for their proceeding*.—This does not prove, as James Gunn lays, that the tide of opinion is rapidly changing, or that the people of Georgia areas yet funk folow,as to have de fer ted their rights. JAMES JACKSON. STATE of GEORGIA. In General Assembly, Monday ay th July, 1782. I lie Committee on petitions report, on Col. J.iekfon’s Inter reipecling pay for his Dra goons and Infantry.—“ With refpeft to the Dragoons, there is a resolve palled in their favor.” “ IHA I Col. Jackfon’R Infantry be allowed compleat suit ofCloathes, and one huihefof Salt, to each man, in confideiation of the gal lant and faithful services they rendered their country, under their Colonels command.— Which was agreed to. Slate House. Louisville, ) 2fith April, 179 b. \ The Journal of the General Assembly, of the State of Georgia, being in my jioffeflimi, I do the above to be a true extraflt therefrom. THOMAS JOHNSON House of Affenhiy , 30th July 1782 WHERE AS Lieutenant Colonel Jackftm, hath rendered many great and ufeful l'crvi s to hu country, lot which he is entitled to ihe notice and attachment of the Legißature : Re it , therefore resolved, That the lioufe which liore- I tolore belonged to Mr. Tatnall, m Savannah, be y granted to Colonel Jackion, as a mark of the < .’iiic entertained by the Lcgiflaturc, of Ins mer its- Extras!Jem the Minutes, JOHN WILKINSON, C. G A. ‘ Lokg-Cani, btij February, 1787. Dear Sir, T.> DER.S 1 ANDING that font? fr .vc been taauc on you*- military reputation, Columbian iKtifrum, bv fomc of you: enemies in Georgia, it is with (it.cere tffralure and fatUlaftion, that I have it in my power to fend you the inch)led certifi cate -having been witnt is to what is there de clared. -Adept my fmcere wiihts, for your bappineU arid welfare and am with much nljn-ft, Dear Sir, Your moft obedient fen-ant, Andrew Pickens. Gen era! Jackson. I hereby Certify and ‘d-clare, that Major, blow Genera)) James Jackson, and a party of Georgia militia, were under my command, at the adlion of the Cowpens, in South-Carolina, on the 17th of January 1781, and that the laid militia acquitted themielves equally well, with the other forces in the field. On that memo rable day, Major Jackson, afted as iny Brigade Major, and by Ins example, and firm aftive conduct, greatly contributed to animate the troops, and enfurc the luccefs of the day. I further declare, that General Morgan, was high ty fatisfied with Major Jackion’s conduct, and am certain that it mull have b'-cn owing <0 ac cident ormittake, that hisnamewas not return ed to Gongreis, as one of the officers who par ticularly iignaiized themselves at the Cowpens ; the Major, having in the face oi the whole ar my, ran the utmoll risk of his life, in lacing the colour* of the 71th Brit IHi regiment, and■ inter wards introducing Major M’ Arthur, com manding officer of the Rritiih infantry, as a prisoner of war, to General Morgan. I further declare, that Major Jackson’s con duCl, during a severe tour of duty in North iCarolina, in the lace of Lord Cornwallis’s ar my, whilfl the brigade, I had the command of was attached to the light troops of General Green’s army, was fitch as merited, and gained, not only my approbation, but that of Major General Greene, who determined from that pe riod, 10 give Major Jackson, the command of a State Corps, which was loon alter railed, by direClion of General Greene. At the luge of Augulla, Major Jackson’s ex ertions, in die early period of the liege, laid the ground work for the reduction of that place. He led one of the advance parties, as Captain Rudolph, did another, at the ftonn of Grierlc.ns fort—and had the command of a moving battery, at the time of thejunender of Fort-Ceorge, in which he conducted with hon or to himfelf and country. Certified, 6th Leh. 1787. ANDREW PICKENS, Brigadier-General. Phil.ydelhia, lft OClober, 1783. Jlcnr Colonel, WILL you be so obliging, as to call upon Mr. Ilowley, tor the light of a letter to him i?li, Mr. Clay, and Mr. 0 4 Brian, relpecting the 500 acres of Pine barren disjunft, which was tacked to the purcliaie of Richmond, or Alexander Wright’s eltate,at 41. fterlingper acre. I had but juit made llie difeovery, when I was leaving Savannah, and put a sketch of it into your hands, as you were on your way to Au guffa, the latter end of June, or beginning of July. Should you, alter perilling that letter, meet me in idea, 1 am confident you would iupport it ; and should you be of a contrary opinion, I am well assured, that you have pub lic Ipirit and candour enough, to declare it. 111 either case, believe me to be with sincere cftccui, Yciut moft obedient, and very humble fen-ant, Anthony Wayne. Col. Jackson. Esute. —General Jackson, commanded General Wayne’s ad-ounce, the whole time General Wayne's army was before Savannah. > Extract of a letter from the Hon. Major General Greene, to Col. James Jackion, dated Februa ry 28, 1785. Dear Sir, II A\ I\ G always felt for you, from our enr lic.t acquaintance, a lemi incut of friendfhip : ; md ellccm, and having ever flattered myfelf, both from your public and private conduit, that you were linpreifcd with similar senti ments. 1 cannot omit to fatisfy you, that my conduct is influenced by just principles rcfpcil ing Signed, NATHANIEL GREENE. CINCINNATI SOCIETY. Savannah, in Georgia, Oilobcr iqth, 1780. ■ “I OR the faithful and military services of I Brigadier-Genera! James Jackson, who distin guished Jiimff-lf during the Revolution, the so ciety are d.lpoicd to lltew him every mark of their friendfhip and refpeft, Therefore, Rcfolvcd, nem. con. that he be admitted an honorary member of this iocicty. flic society then proceeded to the election, when they imanimoufly elcited Brigadier-Gen cr.il Jackion, an honorary member of the Cin cinnati Society, inthe fta'te of Georgia.” LACHLAN M‘IN TOSH, President. A true extrafl from the minutes. JOHN HABERSHAM, Secretary, C. S. of Georgia. House if Assembly, Augulla January 7, 1788. Sir, 1 have the honor to inform you, that you are clotted Governor of this State. Your ap pointment by a large majority of the Ilouff, evinces the great confidence which the reprefen tativesof the people- repose iu you. I he critical poiturc of oui affairs, renders it peculiarly neerffary, that the Chief Magiitracy of this State, Ihould be filled by a perion of experience and approved patriotiiin. \ our repeat ‘d exertions in the service of vour country, leave me no room to doubt, that vou will accept the office which has been thus, honorably conferred on you ; and that you will dt(charge the duties of this important trust. in iuch a manner, as will give general fatisiaefion. I have the honor to be. Sir, \ our obedient humble let v ant, N. BROWN SON, Speaker. His Honor James Jackson, Efjuitc. Note. —General Jackson, refufei the Govern ment, the only injtar.ee m Georgia. April 19, 179 x. Sir. IV Ethe Mayor and Aldertnrn, pftheCityof Spvaunahj and ffamiets thereof, iu the nani and I behalf of ourf-lves, and fellow citizens, congra tulate you on your return to Georgia, and to your domeftteenjoyments. Fully lenfiblc of your services, andimprefled with a desire of teftifyiug our approbation of your conduft in the Congress of the United States ; werequ-. ft you. fir, to receive our thanks for your palriotic exertions, and the inm at tachment which you evaJfc-nced to the intfreft of the Southern States in general, and ol this State in particular. k We regret that you have been deprived the opportunity of continuing your services to tbe State, in a public chara&tr, as we are affined that your couduft would have been uniform inthe support of our rights. By order of Council, THOMAS GIBBONS, Mayor. James Jackion, Liq. G E O R G I A. to House of Reprefentatn ‘%, Dec. it, 1791. R ’.SOLVED,’! hat the approbation an l thank* ofthis leciflaturc, be communicated to General James Jackson, a representative from the county of Chatham, for his exertions in bringing for ward to public invefligation, anattai k on the lib erties and privileges of the citizens of this flee, in the last election for a member, to leprelent this stale, inthe Congress of the United States. Extractf r om the M vuter, JAMES M. SIMMONS, Clerk, In Senate, Dec. 23, 1791. Read ana concurred, 1 TIIOMAS WATKINS, Secretary. Savannah, 18th April, 179)7. I certify that I was in company with Gene- j ral Jackion and Judge Pendleton,- on the Bay, I a morning or two before the General left this, I to n’ttend Congress, in 1794, when the Judge | took the General on one iit-i\ and they com er- -I ied together, eight or ten minutes—that they J then parted, and the General joined me, anil .1 informed me, that the Judge had been propo- | ling Hi him to become concerned in the Yazoo j file—that he the General, had told the Judge, I that he had never engaged in such bufmefs, and J had affiiled in breaking down the Ya/.00 aft S oi 1789, and that if he now became concerned, I fucli contrary conduft mud. or wouid create \t him enemies. The General further observed; 1 that to get delicately offwith the Judge, he I had made a plea of having no money to spare, j and that the Judge had told him, that no mo- j ney would be wanted, or required of him, only | his name—but that he the General, had poiitive- I ly declined. I further certify, that I have had I repeated and divers conversations with the J General on the iubjeft, and that he has uni- I formly reprobated the iale, as injurious to the I state, and repugnant to the rights of the people. I Chat the lafl conversation I had with the Gen- I ral, was on the Bluff, in Savannah, in company I with Benjamin Maxwell, Esq. where Judge I Pendleton’s proposal was again mentioned, by j the General, to both of tis, and the General vc- I ry earnestly pressed us as representatives in the | Legislature, to llrive every thing in our power I to oppose the falc. The foregoing may not be the very exaft J words of the General’s observations, but the J fubilance was as herein expressed. DAVID B. MITCHELL. I J State of Georgia, > I Bryan County. J BEFORE me, Joseph Stiles, Esq. perfonaj- I ly came and appeared John Wcrcar, who being I duly fwornmaketh oath and faith, that he nev- ] er {old Mr. Clayton, or any other perion or I persons whatsoever, either at Louisville during I the fitting of the convention, or at any- other time J , or place, that General Jackson was or wished t to be concerned in the purehafe of the Yazoo I or western lands, or that he ever authorifed I him, this deponent, to offer a million of dol- I lars for the laid lands-on his, General Jackson’s | account, or any other account whatsoever. I And the said deponent upon his oath declares, t that any- and every report to that rffcft, is utter- I ly lalfc. This deponent further declares, that I he knows Jackfon to have been uni- j formly oppolt’d tiVM.he tale of the lands, from I the firil falc of them in the year 1789, to the I present time, which every conversation he has | had with him, and letter received front hint on | the lubjeft unequivocally evinced. JOHN WE RE AT. I Sworn the 21 Jl day cf April, 179(7, before me, JOSEPH STILES. J. P. j *** It is hoped that the Po inters at Augufla, I will have impartiality enough in their compojition , I [0 rtpubiijii the for egoing. j IVm. Ezctug Q Thomas M'Call , j Having entered into PARTNERSHIP, 1 undvr the FIRM of EWING & M‘CALL, Will carry on bufmefs at the (lore hith- I erto occupied by the former. WH E R E they have for Sale, 1 4-j.ths and 7-Sths Irish linen j in boxes well assorted, striped blankets, I white and coloured Welch plains and J Kendal cottens, checks, India cotton I handkerchiefs, chints and cotton(hawls; I bandanoe, black iilk, and printed linen I handkerchiefs ; elegant chints gown I patterns and furniture, caflimer and j fwandown veil shapes, ribbed cotton I breeches pieces, ladies and gentlemens I cotton and worked hole, tablecloths, I both coating, flaxen and tow oznabrigs, hats assorted, English muilard in boxes of Sand 12 dozen; Madeira wine in pipes, half pipes, and quarter calks ; old Port, Sherry, and Teneriffe ditto ; sweet Mountain ditto in pipes and half pipes, Northward rum in barrels, pipes inboxes suitable for the African trade, fine white fait in baikets fit for family use, Florence oil in boxes of z-\ dozen, white and brown soap in final! boxes, bohea tea in cherts, a few hoglhcads green and blue edged Liverpool ware. All the above articles will be fold verv j kw for calh or produce. I jfat’ iije Co’umliau Messrs. Powers Sc Seymour. /GENERAL J A CKSON, having V> cauied his letter to me, (in anfwcr’ I to ic-y application, to know whether lv* was the author of a piece signed Grac- I thus, and whether a personal invective I contained therein was intended for me ) to be published ; I trust the public will I peruse with candor such a detail of j events, and such a relation of fafts, as 1 shall lay before them relative to this bu j nefs. I mull confefs, J was aftonifhe-J to find, that this man,-who had made it J his business to keep the citizens of Georgia at fever heat; and whole dc figns wereoppofed by so many persons, would wantonly interfere with me. He appears tube ambitious of adding to th* I number ol: those, whom he has already injured, in order, that the catalogue of Ins enemies, might be fwclled beyond the ufaal portion of any individual Emulous to transmit his name to pof- I terity—-he is not choice about the means, and holds virtue cr vice, equally calcu lated for such a deep intent; fatisfied with tins only consolation, that he has the a-rof inducing the public to believe his private quarrels to be theirs. As I deemed the Generals publication an in decent, unprovoked and ungentleman like procecdure, Ithoaghtfpropertoob tam an explanation, as I would have fat- him Oi the impropriety of his con— duH, I hoped he would have acknow ledged his error ; and put an end to an unpleasant tranfaftion. But no Gen eral Jackson claims the right, (whenev e. lie has exhaulled his virulence upon Fis antagonist) to turn round, as if to whet this appetite for slander; and abu- 1 fes mdifcriminately, any man he can re cobcdt ever to ha\e been acquainted witn, whether such person is in, cr out of his way. His publication was such tnat, aitiio I was fatisfied tlie observa tions again ft me were not true ; yet he so designated me, by his expression, brCi. under the roof ot the man he takes for Gracchus. 5 ’ that I could suppose he meant no other person than mylelf, hav ing spent about four years in his office. I did beiieve according to his general rule of calumny, he was remindm -- me of my misfortunes. Thus he writes of his antagonist, “a poor consumptive object, as if rewinding a man of the ’/lilting hand of Providence, was stain ing any point of argument. I held that it was unneceflary to fatigue the public, by the publication of a correspondence between the general and myfelf, and concluded it was proper, only for me, to fay that I had noticed his illiebral at tack, on my character, ami done every thing in my power to bring forward,, tfhis marauder ol private reputation. However, as I am again obtruded on, the public, by General J ackfon, through the medium of your press, J flvall lay before the well difpofedpart of the com munity, the whole correspondence be tween us; and endeavor to make fomc applicable comments on the General T futile production, To General fa clef on. Sir, IHE publication in yefterdavs pa per, under the. signature of Gracchus, I conceive Contains a personal invedive again ft me—l therefore demand whether you are the author of that publication, and whether such an invedive, was in tended for me. I am fir, your Obedient Servant, JACOB WALDBURGER. 20th April, 1796. To Mr. \l aldhutger. S I R, I HAD this morning, a very extra ordinary epistle handed to me, by Cap tain Robertson, under your signature ; demanding whether or not, f am the author of a piece, signed Gracchus, and which you fuppolelo contain a personal invedive against }Ol rlelf. What right you have to make tl is demand, I am at a loss to find ; but bb this as it may, I 1 suppose that I posies! the fame right to retufe the demand, v/hich you have to nia 7 e As to the personal invedive,. which you please to l ake to yourfelf— am I to become anf.y/erable for it, and to give you solutions jof the meaning of any anonymous authlpr, to plafier vour confidence. It appears that there mult I be fome foundation iois the invidive you complain of, when yJ>u are so ready to take the personality (to yourfelf—l, fir, have had iny share on personal invedive, poured forth again ft/me, from the 80l- Centinel, to / MddiHan’s dirty profs, by the partly you belong to—and fome, fir, on your own account. I have been charged in! fomc publications, and j in which it is noli improbable you might No, 20,