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Vol 1. uve lent a hand in the composition, vith giving you public property —Zu- ?eibuler* plantation. —Had you poilcf- Vd the generosity, your affected valor jvould seem to imply ; you would before this dav, have given the lie to the a tier-, ti , n . 1 have not noticed, this, nor a thousand other indecent attacks, your party have made on me, because, I know the falfehoods they contain, can never affect me. Since we are however, on the fubjeft of the piece you allude to— and if you apply any thing therein mcn ‘tioned, of ingratitude from you tome— -1 ihall not go about the buih, to inform*’ you, that I think it fits you —I took you, fir, a little boy, and treated you with all the affeiftionofa parent, and •maintained you without reward, with the bed my house afforded—how did you return this parental conduct—you ibarcely got clear of my office, and 1 be lieve previous to your leaving it, your leagues against me were formed, when you deferred the man, you have fre quently contefled was a father to you, to break down my character and reputa tion.—Ha . e you not since, acknowledg ed this ingratitude towards me, to differ ent perfoas, and made the intention you had formed of procuring Zuberbulers of tate,your plea for doing so.—Did you not acknowledge this ingratitude to me, in the chair coming from Governor Tel fairs, a (Turing me with tears in your eyes, that you esteemed me as your fa ther, that you had got loose from the base party, mentioning Mr. Gibbons particularly —and that I might affine myfelf, ycu would keep so. I suppose, fir, that you may be so angry at this plain truth, that you may think of a challenge —to cut it short, and prevent your wafting paper on the occaiion, be pleated to remember, that if I enter the lifts, it cannot be with an ungrateful boy, who may with to repair a fluttered chunkier. I (hall not avoid any proper invitation. To keep my word with Captain Robertson, i have taken this no tice of you —any further correfpondcnce is inadmiflible. I am, Sir, Yours i3 c. JAS. JACKSON. Savannah, April 20, 1796. To General Jackson. S1 R, YOUR publication under the signa ture of Gracchus, of which 1 wrote you, contains falfe declarations —your letter to me in explanation, alio contains mat ter gruffly talle. If you meant an ap peal to truth, you would not have avoid ed a further correspondence. Captain Robertson, therefore will name a time and. place, to give me fatisfaclion. It you think to continue your general abule of characters, either young or old, under the pretence of seeking your own ob icd, you will find your error; you are not left liie lolc judge of a proper invi tation. lain Sir, Yours GV. JACOB WALDBURGER. April 20th, 1796. I have already said, in a former pub lication, that my friend, Captain Ro bertson, informed me, that the General* would not receive my letter, in answer to the one he had wrote me ; and thus my friend was obliged verbally to address him, and deliver him a raeflage, that he had a challenge from me to him, and while he was repeating that, he desired the General to meet meat ten o’clock the next morning, at the Jews burying ground, with piltols—the General mov ed into the’ house, and would not hear any complete meflage from me. The General fays, “ what right you have to make this demand, I am at a loss to find—but be this as it may, I suppose that I poffiefs the fame right to refufe the demand, which you have to make it.” I take it whenever a writer looses fight cf the merits of his case, and having waited his invective against his antago r.ift, he fnould cease writing, thus to lengthen his publications, and tieze the> pubiic. He has no right to drag in any’ citizen, out of mere sport, to feed hisap ’ petite for übufe. On this principle, I demanded of the General, whether he was the author. If he was not the au thor, any further application on the score of iatisfabtion, was unncceffary. If he ” was the author, I-had a right to demand Ids reasons for attacking me. Because Givis, and many other writers had writ ten fe .erc and true things against him, I cannot admit this was a fufficient reason lor the General to slander me. What the General means,by faying, “as to the per sonal invective which you please to take to yourfelf, am I to becomeanfwcrable for it, and to give youloiutions of the mean ing of any anonymous author, to plaifter ) our confidence ?”—I am at a loss to de termine. If he does not know what fart, I took iri the great qucflion of the Columbian #lufeum, weflern lands, I will inform him, that while I was in the legislature, I opposed the sale, and without boasting of my ex ertions in this buiinefs, I do believe, that 1 did prevent a sale of the land in thefef iion preceding the sale of the territory. I never doubted, nor did any other mem ber, that the iegiilature had not the right to fell ; but I thought the sum offered tor it, was inadequate to the value of the property. Upon this principle, I opposed the sale, and the applications were rejected. Upon my return from New-York,in the year 1794, I found that I had been left out of the legiilature, and having occauon Shortly alter, to go to Augusta, I difeovered the legiilature were difpolcd to fell, and I ultimately became one of the purchalms; but I ne ver attempted to influence any member to vote contrary to his original in ten- ’ tion. I said to several members, if I were in the legiilature, I ihould oppose the law, if the price offered did not meet my opinion of the value of the land ; and for further evidence of this particu lar, I appeal to James Jones, Esq. a member from Sure ly then, 1 was an innocent purchaser, and I have since parted with ail my in terest under this law, to one of the Gran tees, who knew more of the business than 1 did. Thus I was a fair purchaser, and made a fair sale, nor do i feel any anxiety or uneaftnefs about the business; nor do I in need of General jack fon’s trowel! to plaifter my confidence. The General in his Letter, mentions Zuberbulers Plantation ; every per son knows that I claimed a part of this estate, under the general principles of law—tiiat the will was in the face of a Statute of Great Britain, of force in this State, and that therefore the heirs of the deceased were intitled to the pro perty. I took the opinion of two gen tlemen of the law, at the head of the profeffion in Georgia, and they were of opinion, that I was entitled to a part of the estate ; and while I was contempla ting a suit at law, the legislature unex pectedly interfered, destroyed the will, and gave the property to the Chatham Academy, with this express clause : “ lie it therefore enabled by the authori ty a for.Jaid, That the said estate, known and diltinguithed by the name of Zuber buler’s eitate, in the said County of Chatham, be immediately from and af ter the palling of this ad, taken by the Sheriff of the said county of Chatham, and put into the pofieffion of the Trus tees, hereby appointed for the said Aca demy ; and it fhail be lawful for the said trustees, or a majority of them* to apply the nett annual proceeds of the said estate, towards creding the laid Acade my, and carrying the intention of this ad into full effed, and if there is any other property belonging to the said es tate, except the plantation fettled near Newington Village, adjoining lands of David Rees, tiie fame {hall be fold for specie, twenty days notice being firit given of the Idle thereof, and the monies a riling therefrom, ihall be applied to-, wards ereding and supporting the said Academy : Provided neverthelels, that nothing herein contained ihall bar the claim of any person, who is legally the heir of the laid Zuberbuler.” And altho’ the right was referred, yet every legiilature more or less looked at this estate until the feliion of 1791, when I was able to fix it by law, in the heirs of B. Zuberbuler, where 1 think a jury would have placed it, if the legis lature had never interfered. M his was the memorable feliion when General Jackson was pursuing Judge Oiborne. i really did not know that General Jackson had received any perlonal in vective", on account of his agreeing to veil the estate of Zuberbuler in the heirs; and if I had, I could not have come for ward, and given “ the lie to the aller tion,” because, to the belt of my recol lection, he assented to the law of 1789, and I am certain, consented to the last act palled in 1791. I served about four ’ years to General Jacklon, as an articled clerk, I was firft placed under his care by my guardian or half brother, Mr. vDavid kcaii of South Carolina, who died Ihortly after, and I articled myfelf. I resided for fome time, at a boarding house, but on tire Generals own motion, and I presume tor tire convenience of ha ving me constantly in his office, I diet ed at his house. Many perfon* would be led irom this paragraph oi his letter, to believe, I was a common pauper, it is therefore necessary to mention, that inv mother had a handsome competence, and I had a property of my own—the remains of what had been left me, of my paternal estate, by the effect of war, and the rapacious dilpofition ol an execu tor. I was clothed by my mother, who was my natural guardian, and who had aifo my property m poileffion, and never received one {hilling from General Jack son in my life. At the period I went to live with the General, there was hardly a choice at the bar. It was im mediately after the conclusion of a gene ral peace, and but few* proleHional gen tlemen w*ere at that time in the Hate : as a great part of my property lay in the hands of thofc unwilling to yield it up, J deemed a knowledge of law in difpenfible, in the acquirement thereof. That 1 served the .General mod faith fully he cannot deny ; and I anr free to acknowledge, he treated me with atten tion : As to my ltudies they were en tirely governed by the honourable George Walton, who.was then Chief Just ice of the Hate.—This gentleman v lun arily offered me his /firvice, and , is the General began the profeffion with sßlackftone’s commentaries, and one or two more books of no value or estima tion, I was altogether supplied from the library of Col. Walton, to whole unre mitted attention I confidcr myfelf emi nently obligated. The fricndfhip and good opinion of tins valuable man, I have retained. I feel at this moment, the firft glow of gratitude for his care ful fuperintendance of my earlier days, and I attribute to him, those fuccelfes which have followed my exertions since that period. It is rather extraordinary that the General Ihould accuse me of forming leagues against him before I left his house, in 1787, when in November, 1790, he wrote me the following let ter: Savannah, Nov. 21,1790. Dear Waldburgcr, I was in hopes I Ihould have heard from you, refpetting the matters I pla ced in your hands, and your legillative deliberations. Tam happy to learn the unanimity which prevails, as the resolu tions which you may enter into, and fome affiiredly ought to be made, will have the greatest effeft. I have heard with pleasure and fatisfaftion, that you have cut no mean figure in the pre sent feliion. It was however, no more than I always predicted of you,at fome pe riod or other, and you need nothing but application to alfift a genius to raise you to any thing you with. I Ihall thank you, if you have approved my conduifl, to support mein the next election—ma noeuvres arc already on foot—-I am just about failing, and therefore mull allure you, that I am your sincere well wisher. JAMES JACKSON. My compliments to Mrs. Waldbur ger. It is notorious, that, I did support him in his election, and it is equally well known, that when the General was elec ted Senator, we were both in the legis lature from the fame county. At his request I again took a decided and very active part in his favor, and my enemies cannot but acknowledge, I was fufficient ly influential to have done him great in jury, had I been fodifpofed, When I was free from serving the General aad come upon the theatre of life, on looking around I found that he had, at different times disputed with a number of the refpeftable people of Georgia, and [did not think it ingrati tude or treason, for me to afifociate with any persons I thought proper ; nor would I avoid any man, because he had denoun ced him. The General did not seem disposed to render me that support which 1 had anticipated from his profeffions; and my pride would not permit me to hang about the office of any man, to aft in a lubordinate condition, alter I had been liberated. I was very young and had to contend with many difficulties.— I chose not to make his enemies mine, he was always engaged in fome violence or other, and I did not think it necessary to follow him in every excess he was guilty of. It is very extraordinary, that the General Ihould feleft for my confeflions, the high road and in a chair coming from Mr. Telfair’s.—He has thereby deprived me ot an opportunity of confuting by any colateral testimony, his alTertio'n. I can therefore only fay, that I do not recoiled any fuchconverfa tion ; and am very certain, none such ever took place ; ncrr do I know why he Ihould fix it to Mr. Gibbons, as I ne ver served a feliion in the lame branch of the legiilature, with that gentleman. It the General had written plain truth, and in such a style as was confident with my opinion of a gentleman, I Ihould not have troubled myfelf but lie firft insults me grossly to the public prints, and then by way of defence lor not meeting me, defeendi to downright abuse, and aggravates the in jury he meditated. The’General lup poles,l meant to eftablilh by calling on aim, “ a fluttered reputation.” Ido not conceive, tiiat fighting every body who-might be difpoleJ to ir.fult one, is indilpenfable to the character of a gen tleman. In what consists the inestimable value of General Jackson ? If he has served the public in the late revolution— I laa he not been amply compenfatcd by large ~ donations of public property, and hi* vanity highly fed, if not fatisfied by honorable appointments ? what right* has the General to claim traniccndant merit for his exertions ? What was his lituation before the revolution ? Had he any ellablillunent ? Had he a permanent; reputation in society i What had lie to loose ? His exillence ! A Ample proper ty. It required a convulfiqn in civil society ; a revolution indeed, to give this man any thing, like the consequence he arrogates to himfelf. A? to his ser vices linec the war—Did he not exhi bit an account against the Hate, for hi* ollentatious vitits and lupplies, rendered over great Ogechee, as Brigadier Gen eral, ill the hrft Indian alarm, after hi* appointment, and took advantage of hi* popularity, as a member of the legisla ture, to ieduce the public will, to make a facrifice of one hundred pounds toeach of the Brigadier Generals, that he might: be included, v, ithout attempting to make proviihm lor those who hud merited much tor their exertions on the fron tiers, in such gratuitous difpolition ? And did he not attempt to derange the resources of the ftatc, by bringing for ward another account, of about hiteen hundred doll rj, whi.e a member also of the legiflature,for his lervices, as Brigade Major of the militia, during the war and this, eleven years after the evacua tion of Savannah, by the Britilh troops* and a long while after, the mistaken zeal of the Hate, had 1 o well remunerated him ? thereby ■ opening a door for all other militia officers, to claim their pay as continentals; and tranimitting to a race unborn, the misfortuncs.which orig inated from the concession of a whole community, to the grasping disposition of one individual. This, as the public servant of the peo ple, I opposed ; and for this, and l be lieve this only, he became my enemy.— I regret, Mcilrs. Printers, to hold forth any man to the world, in thefc odious colors : But I alk my fellow citizens* did I Hep out ot my domeftio walks, to interfere with the General’s politics ? Long in the habit of pofleffing ill health* I only consulted the welfare of my tam-. ily and friends, obliged to transpose my felt from place to place. I had not been, under my roof, more than a week, when I was accwfed of ingratitude, and railed* traitor—epithets too harlh, not to meric fome attention. I had carefully avoided faying ought of the General—l had no personal enmity towards him I well knew the difadvanfhge of conten ding with a mar, I once served : But I call on the candor of the enlightened pare of society, to judge of the aggravation in your last paper. The General, not content to vent his malice, by the publi cation of such a letter as he wrote me* has the address to find another fubter fuge.—“ He fays, I amfmarting under the lalh of Mr. Seagrove’s whip,” and seems to exult at being such an adept in profound difeoveries—here too, he deem* me not a fit objeft to fight, being under such a difgarcetul imputation. Th®. tranfaftion the General alludes to, took place in the summer of 1788, when L was really but £ boy, altho’ a member 1 of the legislature. —Time had almost ob literated the wrongs 1 had then buffered, and it pains meat this moment, that in doing myfelf justice, I must review a tranladlion, which was very disagreea ble, but in which I did my part. —The following certificate, will elucidate the whole t ran faction. Savannah, 7/A May, 1796.. I do certfly, in the month of Augufk 1788, I bore a challenge from jyir., Waldburgcr, to James Seagroven £j c , t . who refulcd to meet the forme.r -and that thereupon, Mr. Waldburgcr, polled him in the customary manner, at one or two of the moll public places in A<uguf ta, where this difpufe arose. I further certify, that Mr. Waldburgcr, aided with great propriety and firmnefs (in my opinion) on that cccafion. SEABORN JONES. , / I now leave this hero of the day, to the conjolat'ion of his own feelings , if he is not rendered lnfenfible by a common warfare on,the human race. If he lias 101 l the sweet consolation, which refuits from the amiable dilpofition of a nume rous family around him, it would not be amiss how soon the great Author of na ture, consigned him to his original con dition. J ACOB WALDBURGER. (fT For further intelligence, fee Sup plement, 79