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His excellency the Governor ]
for the time being , and his j
successors in office r *
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Shadrach Radford. . „
GEORGIA, 7 To the sheriff of
Hancock county. 3 Hancock county ,
GREETING.
HE RE AS by an ad of the
legislature of the state of Georgia,
passed at Louisville on the twenty
fixth day of June, eighteen hun
dred and fix, entitled 44 An ad to
* dispose of and distribute the late
4 ct flion of land obtained from the
• * Greek nation by the United States
* in a treaty concluded at the city
* of Walhiugton, on the fourteenth
‘ day of November, in the year one
* thousand eight hundred and five,”
it is among other things, by the said
ad provided,. that “ Every free
* male unite person, twenty-one
4 years of age and upwards, being
4 a citizen of the United Stales and
4 an inhabitant of this state three
4 years immediately preceeding the
4 passage oi this ad, and paid a tax
4 towards the support of goverment
4 (hr luffing such as may be absent
e on lawful bufmefs) (hall be enti
-4 tied to one draw.”
44 Every free male peffon of like
child or cffiifdren under
4 the age of twenty-one years, shall
4 be entitled to two draws.”
And whereas it is enaded by a
fublequent ad of the legislature of
this state, that 44 It shall be the du
4ty of the cierks of the superior
4 courts, whenever application is
4 made for that purpose, to issue a
4 feire facias in the name of the go
-4 vernor for the time being, and his
4 successors in office, against any
4 person or persons who may be
4 charged with having made faife
4 or fraudulent returns for the pur-’
4 pose of obtaining draws in the lie
4 land lotteries of this state.”
And whereas application is made
by Mark Gonder, of the county
and state afore fa id, who hath char
ged and averred, that Shadrach
Radford, of capt. Isaac Birdfong’s
diftrid. in the county and state a
forefaid, did, under the aferefaid
ad passed the twenty-sixth day of
June eighteen hundred and fix,
fraudulently and contrary to law,
give in his name in the county and
state aforefaid, in said Birdiong’s
diftrid, for two draws in the last
land lottery of this state and there
by fraudulently and contrary to law
did draw and obtain a grant for a
lot of land (to wit.) number one
hundred and twenty-three, in the
tenth diftrid of fithe then) Baldwin
county —when it is also averred,
that the said Shadrach Radford at
the time of giving in his name as
aforefaid, for two draws as afore
faid, had not been an inhabitant of
the said state, for the term of three
immediately preceeding the
passage of said ad, as required by
the tenor of the fame.
These are therefore to command
you the said AenfF, that by good
and lawful men you make known
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Washington, ("GeorgiaJ Printed weekly for Sarah Hilihouse.
to the said Shadrach Radford and
all persons having any interest in
the land in question, that he, (he,
or they in their proper persons be
and appear at the Superior court
to be holden in and for the county
of Hancock, on the third Mondav
in February next, and to come for
ward and make themselves parties
in the cause, and to answer the al
legations, and {hew cause ( if any
they have) why this adion shall
S not proceed against him, her, or
j them, in the name of the governor
for the time being, and his fuccei-’
fors in office, and the proceedings,;
I which may have been hid under
i the faife or fraudulent re-urn or re-
I turns, or the grant ittelf ( il the
! grant is i {filed) shall not beset afiuc
and made void. As in default
thereof the court will proceed as to
justice shall appertain.
fViTjpzss the honorable Charles
• Ta it enquire , judge of the said court
this twenty-second day of December
in the year of our Lord one thousand
i eight hundred and eight.
| ALEX. MARTIN, elk.
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j . Speech of the Hon, W. H. Cr a w-j
I*ord, tn the Senate of the United
| Spates lion- Mr. EillhousAs resclutim
to repea It he embargo.
(Concludedfrom our last') ]
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Mr. President, the gentleman
from Connecticut has said the re
peal of the embargo need not pro
duce war, unless, indeed, Bonaparte
; makes war upon us; that we have
still a lucrative trade open to com
mercial enterprize; that for the
support of doubtful rights he is
not prepared to go to war, but
: that he will defend neutral rights
well established, and will not aban
| don them ; yet the gentleman fays
j that war is not neceffarv upon the
! repeal of the embargo.- (Here
! Mr. Hißhquse denied aim explain
-1 ed the repeal of the embargo not
j necefiariiy to involve the nation lor
neutral rights not clearly eftabliA
ed. Mr. C. read his words from the
: National Intelligencer ) I aik gen
! tlernen when, we are told by G.
| Britain that we shall trade with no
other nation but herftlf, or in o
; ther words, that we shall not trade
with her enemies, whether this is
a violation of neutral rights clear
ly established ? I can draw no o
ther conclusion, than that in the
j opinion of this gentleman, the or
; ders of council do not infract neu
j tral rights. If he would defend
neutral rights, but will not go to
war on the repeal of the embargo,
on account of the forcible execu
tion of the B n d(h orders, it would
appear that he conceives they do
not violate our rights. If the em
bargo fails to produce the repeal
of their orders and the French de
crees, war must be referred to. There
is no middle ground. You must
submit or oppose force by force.
By way of ridiculing the embar
go, the gentleman from Connecti
cut states a case, that if one of his
neighbors tells him he flail not
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1809.
trade with another ; and that other
lays he shall not w ith the fit ft, he flie
in a paftion and fays he will not trade
with either them. This the gen*
tleman fays is a-species of magna- 1
nimity with which he is not acquain
ted But, fir, let us fee what kind •
of magnanimity it is with which he
is acquainted, and which ht wishes
this nation to practife.
France fays you fliali not trade
with Great Britain, and Great Bri
tain fays you fliali not trade wiih
France, unless you firft cotne into
my ports and pay me tribute. We
lay we believe our trade is very irn- :
portam to both of them, and we
wiU rt-t nude with the one of the o
ther of them. But the gentlemen
fays, repeal the embargo; there is .
a lucrative trade wide open to com- j
mercial enterprize, not prohibited {
by the orders oi council. Sir, by i
this course of conduct we should j
difeever a servile fubmiflion to the j
will of one nation, and a pitiful I
enmity to that of the other. This, j
fir, is magnanimity with a ven- i
geance ; this is that species of mag- i
nanimity with w hich I wilh this na
tion to be, unacquainted. When
in the. relation of colonies we rciifi
ted an attempt to tax us; and the
trifling tax of three-pence upon tea
„ Iffikwffip a flame which and: A. dyed the J,
t political bonds by w hich we were
united to that nation. I
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Sir, we are told that no man in 1
this nation will think of paying tri- 1
bute ; but, fir, if we permit a for
eign nation to control us in the ex
ercise of our national rights, are we
not ready to pay tribute ? And does
one man in this nation believe that
tribute will not in fact be paid, if
the embargo is raised without adop
ting fohre move efficient mode of
coercing the belligerents into a res
pect for our rights.
We are informed by the gentle
man from Delaware, that the ports
and places from which we are not
excluded by the orders, take about
four-fifths of the domestic produc
tions of this country. This gross
calculation may be nearly correft,
but it is calculated to make an er
roneous imprefiion on the public
mind. By examining the tdtirne
ny offered to the houle of commons
in England about the last of March,
they all declared, that if the en-bar
go was raised and the orders of
council remained in force, that
more than half of their exportations
t< this country would cease. That
before these orders were adopted,
they had facilities of lending their
manufactures as well as foreign pro
ductions into the continent, by the
agency of American ships, but
when questioned how it was done,
they refufsd to answer. But of
7*5,000 hhds. of tobacco, tuat are
railed in this country, not more
than 15,000 are confirmed in G.
Brirain. What then w r culd become
of the other 60,000 ? Where is it
i to find a market w r hen the orders cTs
council are in force? The fame
! thing may be said of various other
articles. Sir, if the embargo is
raised ia the prefeitf ftafe of things.
and we attempt to trade under the
operation of these nefarious urdtrs
and decrees, the matket in Great*
Britain will soon be so glutted, that v
many of our mo ft valuable art cles
w ill not pay the frtight. These de
ductions are fairly drawn from the;
depbfitions of the inoft eminent
intelligent Briufh merchants, wha h
have been pubidheo in our new’ p>./*
pers, and deserve to he read by e**
ver'y man in this nation —theft: de*
positions support the dechnarion,,
that a large proportion oi the pro-*
ductions of this country, oftenii-*
bly Ihippcd to England, was. m t
confu med tr* ■ ** - x a. ■ y *
into the continent.—Some of thefe*
merchants fay they had nor fait
ships into the continental ports but
a few days before the publication’
of the orders. They are ail tinanh
mo us in declaring, that these or. •
ders cut up by the roots ail hope’
of further commercial connexion'-
with the ports of the continent *
Sir, we are deluded if we believe :
that the commerce which cars be ?
carried on, in the prefint state of
things, will pioduce any tbin<; out
dilgrciCe and lols. The gentleman
from LMavuue rrcfl m . r
placing more confidence in the de- f
pofitions* of the Briufh m. rchaots^
jhiss fuhleff, than I do F
ftatemehts. ,• Tljhe n!enis, aU
though I know lb., v were rv.""t fb
intended by that geh tie mall, are
calculated to delude the public up
on this important point, it is rhew--
Fire highly necessary that this ex
planation should be made.
Permit me to observe, that on
the fubjedf of Britilh aggressions on
our commerce, a great change ha?
taken place in the opportents of
the embargo. Two or three years;
ago, meni'orials upon rnenw iials^
were prefemed to congr-ls- up- -n. •
the fubjt Cl .oi anew puncipie .
troduceu ifttQ the aatm aey/
.
courts. laa ill rad two p^.Cbfge^ nil
the rncmpria'l from the cmiy t .
ton, ( vlr, C. read.) In the
of these pit if!’ > es, the meTUor;uh%W
expressly fay they puts b\ the in--
juries committed 0:1 their trade by
the cruizers of France and Spy in.,-,
and proceed to those of G. Britaih,*
because they far exceeded them in
r.urnber and amount. In the se
cond, rht-y fay that a ptrfevyiance
in this unjust principle vv.u*d trod
to involve this nation in tv Eu
ropean war. It it only ne< ff v ’
to contrafi this wit’ *r -,c
of the gentleman from hw ff-ehuf -agd
and of the gentleman from
neCtk'ut, to ddcover, rirat z&jflt
was exprtffe! and felt
memorial was w
in relation to the
at the prefint day. I m
obfervatiou. beo
it in the de<j™rr> t e
v ion hifore ur, i{:
ob# uv.
I think it of* n . hep. re -
quire which of- the beS'.ig --rent 1.
tions. has d<’he ns moft injure,
there M a difference in the
C#‘lfHdrv, there is noiw i■ t ; J
tfiKicns ot tl parties, aiul I
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