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VO-L.UME XJ
fcLI.SHrn WfcMCI.T,
HV I'HILfP C. GUIEU.
I CT NKW ARRANGEMENT.
As “Xj>'nr tie* !ias diHcovrred to us the little
k attention pa;d ‘o printing dffbts, and the
\ <4 fficul-y and expense in cllrctin& such <leb f ß;
|2cus a few only 0..n be called liberal in paying
j punctually wha* they owe justly, to tbe printer,
\ have, after due consideration, come to this
\conclusion, ilia l we oi'oht hot to give credit
y<V* are compel led, therefore, to adopt anew
j)lan In consequnceof *bjj determination,
ur terms shall in future be,for the paper three
dollars per annum, if paid in advance—four
dollars, if paid within six months—and five
and ijlars if paid only a’ the end of the year
F>r advertis< mcr.tg, they are to be paid in ad
vatce sheriff *ales excepted which are to he
PM qoar'erlv The above rules shall he
stricly observ'd, and no one need apply who
M not ready to comply with them.
,’V, -e n ts per square
lor t ieh Rt insert too, and 62 4-2 Ccins
each xlitiviuat ion.
Washington Tavern
the subscriber
HAS iHely (uken the house for
merly occupied by Mrs. Cor
belt, fronting the main road leading
from Alberts, through this place,to
Augusta, anl situated near the
Public Square. Hie bouse is fined
up in neat order lor the reception of
eoimrany. His long experience itt
tavern keeping, he deems, will be a
suffi en assn*ante to those who
may call on him, that the best the
country affords wi : l be served up
for them In excellent ordt r. The
bar will he plentifully supplied with
choice liquor ;ad his stables v eil
fillet!, and under the direction of an
experienced ostler,
Samuel B. Head.
Washington, Wilkes co, 1
January 23d. 182*. J
D. Meigs & j. M. Hand,
Hutu! g famud <i connection for the
purpose of transacting a
Vv arehouse
And Commission Business ,
}£E TECTFULLY so icir the
patronage of their friends and
the pub ic i heir W are Hou-e i
situated opposite that of Mes r- R.
Malone & Co's upper end of Broad
Street and is new spaciou and con
venient and from it situation, af
for s great security from fire The
subtcnbeis wi 1 abo attend to rece v
ing and forwarding any produce or
merchandise confided to their care.
Daniel Meigs.
Jonathan M. Hand.
Augusta, Decembers!.
-a First hale
JACK,
IT T ILL sad the Spring season
▼ “ at my house in A ilkes coun
ty. at the low price of DOL
LARS the season —and TEN DOL
LARS to iusure.
lsham Branham.
March iO. 1824* It—*f
Adminstrator’s Sales.
PURSU ANT to an order of the
hon. Inferior court of Greene
coumy, ittinga ac urt of rdinary,
will be <old in the town cf Greenea
borough, on the first Tue day in \-
Tril next, that va liable tract of land
knewn by he cull Nhoal tract, con
taming 750 acre?, with one half of
the ferry boat and landing attached
thereto Merchant & farmer’ would
do well to view the premise . as
there is no situation in the up coun
try better calculated to wield a capita
to greater advantage and with more
success. Aso at the same time and
seven likely neg oes. Term*
tev*de known on the day, by
Wm. C. Osborn, adrn’r
Jan 27, 182*. 10— tds
AGUhEABLY t au ord *i* of
the Honorable C urt cf Ordi
nary of Elbert county, will be sold
at Elbert Court House, on the first
Tuesday in April next, within the
lawful sale hours, the following pro
perty Cos wit:
1 wo nesro men,
O p 7
Peter, and Ned; sold for the benefit
cf the heirs and creditors of Job
iHtr.moiid, sen. deceased, a credit
jUtiiil the 25ih December next.
Lucy Hammond. adm’x.
January 16,18**. &
The Washington News.
WASHINGTON, (Georgia; SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1824.
AGREEABLE to an o dero the
Inferior court, wi be old at
Elben Court Hou*e on s he fir t
‘ Tue day in pril next, ah the c aim
; and title of the estate of Thomas
r Gardner, decea ed .to a tract of iand
* in aid county, lying on the water of
the Braverdam creek and Ray creek
Ann Gardner, adm’x,
* January 0 182*. 3 —tds.
Agreeably t an order <>^
the eouet of Ordinary of O
’ gleinorpe county, will be sold at
■ Lexington, in said county, ou the
; first Tuesday in April next,
! One tract of Land,
lying -.i/? theooun* ♦ aforesaid, on tbe
waters of Long creek, adjoining
Wilson Brooks, Mrs. Bailey, and o-
Ibers, and containing 202 1-2 acres,
more or less; being the real estate
of Samuel fluting, deceased, and
to be sold for tbe benefit of the heirs
and creditors. Terms made known
on tbe day of sale.
James Huling, aclm’r.
January 27, 182*. s—?f
ON the first Tue day in May
next wi 1 be sold at the court
house of \a ilkes county,
Two Negroes,
a boy named Jeffrey about 15 vears
of age and a girl named Lavina a
bout nine y ars old - for the benefit
or the heirs and creditors of Patience
Crenshaw, decea ed Terms made
known on the day of sale.
Thomas Guest, adm’r,
March 1, 182*. 10—*t
N the first Tuesday April
next, wi 1 be sold at the Court
hon e of Oglethorpe county.
Two Negroes
Jemima nnd Dariu*, belonging to the
estate of Matthew Phillips, deceased,
of 6aid county for the benefit of the
heirs and creditors. J erms made
known on the day of sale
John Harper, adm’r.
Feb. 17, 182*. B—3f
WILL be sold on Saturday the
24h of April next at the late
residence of Tabitha Burton, deceas
ed in Elbert county, all the property
of said deceased, consisting of one
gig, crop of cotton, corn and fodder,
cows and ca ves, stock of hog , ba
con one black mare, and sund y ar
tides too tedious to mention
made known on the day of sale
Leroy Burton, adm’r.
March 6, 824. ll—tds
MINE months after date applica
tion will be made to the honorable
the Inferior Court of Wilkes county,
while sitting as a Court of Ordinary,
for leave to sell the real estate of Lew
is McLendon, deceased, in the county
aforesaid, for the benefit of the heirs
and creditors of said deceased
Nelson Powell, ? , ,
1 Francis McLendon, j rS ’
1 January 30th 182*.
Lxeeutor’s Sales.
ON the first Tuesday in April next
will be sold at the Court House
I door in Wilkes County, all the real
I estate of Benjamin Taliaferro, late of
, said county, deceased ; consisting of
3 Tracts of < and,
i one containing twelve hundred acres,
I more or less, lying on Broad river,
the same whereon the said Taliaferro
died ; one containing five hundred
and eighty six acres, more or less, ly
ing also on Broad river ; and the oth
er containing three hundred and fifty
four acres, more or less, also lying on
, Broad fiver, and purchased by the
said Taliaferro of lsham Watkins
The above land to be sold in pwsu
anceof an order of the Court of Ordi
. nary of Wilkes County, passed at the
January term of said court in eighteen
hundred and twenty four Terms,
notes with good security, the first
note payable the first of April, 1825,
the second note payable the first of
January, 1826, and the third the first
of January, 1827.
Joseph A. Green, ex’r.
January 30, lfU*.
ON the first Tuesday in May
next, will be sold, agreeably
to an order rtf the court 01 Ordina
, ry of Wilkes county, at the Court
; House of said county,
Fourteen Negroes ,
consisting f|nen, women, hoys and
girls, belonging to tbe estate of Jo
seph (’ohroui deceased, fur the oe
nefit of the heirs and cretinors
■ Terms—twe4e moths rredit, the
purchasers gimtg hoods and appro*
t ved securisie4
> Joshiu Morgan,
Surviving K.vecihnr.
March 12,1MM>. 11—tds
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; O ffi cial B ocuraent.
MASB/\ UI'ETTb* CLAIMS.
To the Senate an * n f Repre
sentatives of We United'ninths,
I herewith triosmit to Congress
certain doeum ! tilvrelating to a claim
of Massa‘buHet<s. for services ren
dered b* ibe miiitilof that State, in
the late war, and for which payment
was made by the From the
particular circumstances a*tending
this claim, I have tho f ght it proper
to submit the suet to the consid
eration of Congress.
In forming a jusv estimate of this
claim, it will be necessary to recur
to the cause which prevented its ad
mission, or (be admission of any part
thereof, at an earlier day. It will
be recollected, that, when a call
was made on tbe militia of that state
for service, in the Sate war, under an
arrangement which was alike appli
cable to the militia of all the States,
ami in conformity with the acts of
Congress, tbe Executive of Massa
chusetts refused to comply with the
call, on the principle tha< the power
vested in Congress, by the Const! u
lion, to provide for calling forth the
militia to cxe- ute the laws of the
Union, suppress insurrections, a< and
repel invasions, was not a complete
power l*>r those purposes, but condi
tional, and dependent on tbe consent
of the Executives of she seven*!
states; and, also, that, when called
into service, su*‘h consent bring gi
ven, they could not be commanded
by a regular officer of the U. States,
or other officer than of the militia,
except by the President, in person.
That this decision of the Executive
of Massachusetts was repugnant to
the Constitution of die United States,
and of da gerous tendency, especial
ly when it is considered that we
were then engaged in a war with a
powerful nation for the defence of
our common rights, was the decided
opinion of this government; and
when the period, at which that de
cision was formed, was considered,
it being as early as the fifth of Au
gust, eighteen hundred and twelve,
immediately after the war was de
clared. and that it was not relin
quished during the war, it was in
ferred, by the Executive of the Uni
ted States, that the decision of the
Executive of that State was ahke
applicable to ad the services that
were rendered by the militia of the
State during tbe war.
In the correspondence with the
Governor of Massachusetts, at that
important epoch, and on that very
interesting subject, it was announced
to him, by the Seere ary of War,
that, if the militia of the slate were
called into service, by the Execu
tive of the State, and no? put under
the commando!* the Major General
of (be Uuited States, as the militia
of the other States were,the expense
attending their service w uld be
chargeable to the State, aod not to
the United States, it was also sta
ted to him at the same lime, that
aoy claim which the State might
have for the reimbursement of su h
expenses, could net be allowed by
the Executive of the United Stales,
since it would involve principles on
which that branch of the govern
ment could oot decide,
Under tnese < ireudistances, a de
oisiou on tbe claim of the State of
Massa- husetts has hitherto been
suspended, and it need oot be re
mark* and, tha the suspension has
proceeded from a conviction that it
ivould be improper to give nv sanc-
tion, by its admission, or by the ad
mission of any part thereof, either
to the construction of the Constitu
tion contended for by the then Ex
ecutive of that State, or to its con
duct, at that period, towards the
General Government and the Union.
In January, eighteen hundred and
twenty-three, the Representatives in
C ingress from Massachusetts and
Maine suggested, by memorial, that
the constitutional objection could
not apply to a portion of tbe claim,
and requested that the accounting
officer of the government might be
instructed to audit and admit suck
part as might be fiee from that ob
jection. In all cases where claims
are presented for militia service, it
is die duiy and the practice of the
accounting officer to submit them
to the Department for instruction as
to ihe legality of tbe eiaim: that
is, whether the service bad been ren
dered by order of the competent au
thority, or otherwise, under circum
sJaur.es to justify the claim against
the .Slates, admiring that
tbe evidence iW?. w, *ppori of it should
be satisfactory. Tb *!>*? request
there appeared ao well foundklloh;
jection, under the reservation as to
(he constitutional principle, and, ac
cordingly, an order was given to the
accounting officers of the Treasury
to proceed in auditing the claim,
with that reservation,
In conformity with this arrange
merit, tlie Executive of Massachu
setts appointed two citizens of that
state commissioners to attend to ihe
settlement of its claim, and who* in
execution of the trust reposed io
them, ha*e presented to the account
ing oftuer of the Treasury (hat por
tion, comprehending the services of
the fifth division of the militia “f the
stale, which has bceo audited and
reported for consideration, subject
to the objection above stated I
ftsve'csaminrid thi report, wi h the
documents presented by the Com
missioners, j*nd am of opioiou that
the services rendered by that divi
sion were spontaneous, patriotic,
and proper, necessary for seif-de
fence, to repel, ia some instances,
actual invasion, aad, io others, to
meet, by adequate preparation, in
vasions that were menaced. The
commissioners of the state having
intimated that other portions of ser
vice stood oo similar ground, the ac
counting officer has been instructed,
so auditing the whole, to do it in
such manner as to enable the De
partment to show distinctly under
what circumstances each portion of
service was rendered, Afhetner vol
untary, called out byHjnvasion, or
the menace of invasion, oT by public
authority • and, in such case, wbe
iher ihe militia rendering such ser
vice was placed under the authority
of the t nited States, or retained un
der that of the state,
L affords me great pleasure to
state, that the present Executive of
Massachusetts has disclaimed (he
principle which was maintained by
the former Executive, and tbai, in
this disclaimer, both branches of the
Legislature have concurred. By
this renunciation, the slate is placed
on the same ground,io this respect,
with the other stages, and this very
distressing anomaly in our system is
removed. It is well known that the
great b<*dy of our fellow citizens in
Massachusetts arc a?, firmly devoted
to our Union, aid to the free Re*
publican principles of our govern
ment, as ur fellow < itizens of the
other states. Os this important
truth, their conduct, io every stage
of our Revolutionary struggle, and
in many other emergencies, bears
ample testimony ; and, I add, with
profound interest, and a thorough
conviction, that, although the diffi
culty adverted to, in the late war,
with their Executive, excited equal
surprise and regret, it was not je
lieved to extend to them. There
never was a moment when the eoufi
dem*e of tbe government in the
great body of our fellow-citizens of
tbat state, was impaired ; nor is a
doubt entertained that they w re, at
‘ all times, willing and ready to *up
pori their rights, and repel an inva
sion by the euemy.
The C iiim*io<iers of Massachu
setts have urged, in oomptiau’ C with
their uuiraetieas; the payment ts
so much of their claim as applies to
the services rendered by (be fifth
division, which have been
and I should have no hesitation i t
admitting it, if I did not think, un
der all the circumstances of thw
case, that the claim, in all its parts,
was cognizable by Congress alone.
The period at whi h the constitu
tional difficulty was raised, by tho
Executive of the state, was io tha
highes* degree important, as was tiio
tendency of the principle for which
it contended, and which was adhered
to during the war. The puhlie
mind throughout the Union was
mucu exceited by that oc<turreo> e,
and great solicitude was felt as to
its consequences* The Executive
of tbe United States was bound to
maintain, and did maintain, a juil
construction of the Constitution : its
doiog which, it is gratifying to re
collect that the most friendly feel*
ings were cherished towards them
brethren of that state. The Exe
cutive of tbe State was warned, in
the correspondence which then took
i place, of the light in which its con
duct was viewed, and of the effect
it would have, t > far at related to
“hfe of the Executive of tht
UnitedSt claim w!m*U
might afterwards oe by
the sta*e to compensation
services. Under these circumstan
ces, the power of tbe Executive ot
the United States, to settle any por
tion of this claim, seems to be pre
cluded It seems, proper, also, t hat
this claim should be decided, on full
investigation, before the Public, *ha6
the principle, on which it is deci
ded, may be thoroughly understood
by our fellow citizens of every state,
which an be done by Congress a
lonc ; who, alone, also, posses* the
power to pass (he laws which may
be necessary to carry such decision
ioto e ffcct.
In submitting this subject to Ilia
calm and enlightened jnlgmem off
Congress, ‘ do it with peculiar satis
faction, from a knowledge that >on
are now placed, by the course off
events, in a situation which will ena
ble you to adupt. such measures, a*
will not only comp • t with the sound
principles of our government, but,
likewise, be conducive to other the
highest interests of our Union. By
the re un* iatioo of the principles
maintained by the then Executive
of Massachusetts, as has been done
by its present Executive and both
branches of the Legislature, in tbo
most formal manner, and in accord
with thesentiments of the great body
of the people, the constitution is res
tored, in a very important feature—
that connected with (he public de
fence, and in the most important
branch, that of the militia, to it*
native strength. It is very graiify
ing to know, that (his renunciation
has been produced by the regular*
orderly, and pacific operation of oup
Republican system, whereby those,
who were in the right at the mo
ment of difficulty, and who sustained
the government with great firmness,
have daily gained strength until mis
result was accomplished The point!
on which you will have to decide,
are what is fairly due for the ser
vices which were actually rendered?
By what means shall we contribute
most to cement the Union, and give
the greatest support io our most ex
cellent constitution ? In seeking ea*U
object sepai at el v, we are led to the
same result All that can be claim
ed by our fellow citizens of Massa
chusetts is, that the constitutional
objection be waived, and that they
lie placed on (he same footing with
their brethren in the other states—
that, regarding the services render
ed by the militia cf other states, fop
which compensation has been made,
giving to the rule tbe most liberal
construction, like compensation be
made for similar services rendered
by the militia of tbat state,
1 have been led to conclude, on
great consideration, that the princi
ples of justice, as well as a due re
gard for the great interest* of our
Union, require (hat ibis eiaim, ia
the extent * roposed, should be acce
ded to. Essential service was ren
dered in the late war, by the militia
of Massachusetts, and with (he most
pa riot ic motive*. |t seem? just,
tbertfere, mat they sUeaid ha
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