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SATU RDA Y, March 24, 1787.
THE
GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE
O R
INDEPENDENT REGISTER.
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FREEDOM of th« PRESS, and TRIAL by JURY, to remain inviolate forever. Constitution of Georgia.
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IN COUNCIL, March to, 1787.
(Concluded from our lust.)
Mr. Nathan Bulh,
Qi Do you know of any waggons belonging to any one
brigade, that have been returned in any other brigade ?
A. I know of no waggons being returned but in the bri
gade to which they belonged.
Colonel Sanders being sworn, fayeth,
That he was the firll Officer at Camp, and that he was par
ticular in observing the conduft of the Quarter-Master-Ge
neral with refpeft to waggons; that he found him very at
tentive to his duty in receiving and difeharging waggons;
that with refpeft to his making partial payments of money,
he called on the Quarter-Mailer-General for payment for
neceftarics which he had procured for the use of the troops,
and that the Quarter Mailer-General informed him he could
only pay agreeable to rotation; that there were numbers be
fore him, and when it came to his turn he ihould receive his
money ; and upon the whole he never saw or difeovered any
thing in the conduft of the Quarter-Master-General, but
what was consistent with propriety, and that he was always
very particular in his vouchers and receipts,
Qi Did you ever fee a lift of waggons polled up in camp
at Shoulder Bone ?
A. I did fee two; which agreed as to the number of
waggons.
Did the Quarter-Master-General keep a greater quan
tity of waggons in camp or on detachment, than what was
really neceftary ?
A. No. The number of waggons employed were not
fully adequate to the duties of camp; the Quarter-Master-
General was frequently obliged to call on the Commanding
Officer and myfelf for our baggage waggons.
Q. Do you know the number of waggons in General
Clark’s brigade l
A. No.
Was it customary when waggons came into camp
with forage, tcc. to detain them longer than was neceftary ?
A. I attended particularly to this business, and found
that the Quarter-Master-General never did keep any waggon
longer than was absolutely neceftary, and in my opinion dis
charged some when they ought to have been detained.
Do you know the number of waggons that were poft
eft up in camp ?
A. I believe the number were between sixty and seventy,
but cannot fay positively.
Benjamin Netherland being again called on, fays, that the
lift of waggons polled up in camp by him, contained thirty
eight or thirty-nine waggons and no more, and that he never
did set up any other lift whatever.
After having gone through the evidence both for and against
the Quarter-Master-General, and hearing the Attorney em
ployed by the Court in behalf of the Hate, and examined the
books and papers of the Quarter-Master-General,
The Court ate of opinion y That from Mr. Netherlands fi
xation, being only a Brigade Quarter-Mailer, he could not
ppffibly be acquainted with all the different stations, and num
ber of waggons employed in the Quarter-Mafter-GeneraPa
Department, and that the difference in their returns is pro.
perly accounted for to the Xatisfattion of this Court.
Be it therefore Ordered, That John Appling, Esq. Quarter-
Master-General, be and he is hereby honorably acquitted,
v and restored to his former rank and situation, inverted with
all the powers he heretofore held, as if no such charge had
ever been brought againrt him.*
JAMES MERIWETHER, Secretary.
Mr. Smith ,
PER Ml T me for a moment to make tome few observa
tions upon the tobjeft of ignorance and felf-interert, twin
brothers. —On reading tome of your late papers, I difeovered
a kind of petty quarrel between Curtius and An Augufia
Merchant—Curtius sets out like a fiery comet, blazing with
the fire of freedom, calling upon his fellow citizens to rouse
from their lethargy, guard their liberties, and beware of the
intriguing Merchants —Surely if, when those Gentlemen were
supported in the cabinet by tome of the greatest men in the
world, and in the field by fifty and tometimes sixty thousand
of their chosen veteran troops, and yet could not effeft their
favourite scheme, they cannot at this time be supposed com
petent to any dangerous purpose, for they are really no more
than tenants at will—Although they live in our country, we
can remove them at pleasure, and the day may not be far
distant, when necefiity will oblige us so to do. Curtius then
all of a sudden comments on the wisdom of our Legislature,
a blefling, which, to be tore, we experience in a very emi
nent degree. Methinks this Gentleman must have been pay
ing a visit to Bacchus when he began this quarrel. Nor could
the Augujia Merchant be less remiss in his devoirs to the an
cient Monarch, for he begins his answer, or rather defence,
with equal warmth —He firft appeals to all liberal minds for
the refleftion cart upon his country ; secondly he feels hira
felf extremely opprefled by the return of his brethren from
the opposite fliore, who, he fays, flew from their colours in
the hour of calamity, and consequently cannot be entitled to
an equal share of the plunder ; thirdly, he fays he owes mo
ney in another country, and in his conscience cannot think of
offering his creditors Paper Money in payment; and, finally,
prays to be acquitted from the odious charge of extortion, for
that he is not the man, but one that will now fight for his
country, &c.—The Georgians have lenity, yet, I trust, they
have difeernment too; and if to, lam confident this Gentle
man will be found guilty among others of his profeflion.—
He has said in his defence that the Planters firft set him the
example; this I deny—for it is a well known faft, that there
are very few Planters in this state, who make more tobacco
than will procure them, byway of barter, the common ne
cessaries of life and clothing for their Negroes ; and as to the
price which they might require for the remainder if any they
had, this could be deemed nothing more than a mere specu
lation, which the daily sluts uation of paper money would
atfually toggeft to every man of common sense. But Ido
predift that this poor opprefled fellow citizen, called Paper
Money, who is thus so ungratefully treated, and who foorten
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