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ATURD AY, January 5, 1)^8^ GEORGIA t>TATE GAZETTE K •"* v t" <*.'*•-«' * I • . ♦ I OR indep'endent register. I 4F j ',5 *2 f' i * j r - FREEDOM of the PR E S and TRIAL by JUR Y, to remain inviolate lorever. Lcnjitiuuon oj G tctgih. Kr*"* - mmrnmmmggmmmmm aMBM— mammmmmrnmmtmturn Maß>Ba U U G U S TA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State \ E£dys y Articles of | Intelligence , Advertijements , £sf*. w/// be gratefully received , tf/wi every kind of Printing performed . . Jt- • - , , _ . > ' ■■ L_ -1- ■■. ■-■■■■■. ILL. Jft [ Wajhington, Wilkes County , Nov . io, 1787. Mr. SMITH, zequeft you to publish the following letter, which, (that no injury may be done to the sentiment and intension of its author) is a literal transcript of the original. HENRY KARR. Greene County September qtb 1787 1 Plea/e your honour I am Tory that my firft letter to you is a piatter of dispute amongst ourfeives but as I SSce Some thing of our good Cetizens Agriev- I find myfelf Bound to inform your honour Some thing of rhe Curcumftance of the Mat ter —after the murder was Commited in this country by the Indians I as Liet Colo was or dered by Colo Karr to call for the firft devi sion of fix companys to go on a Scout over the River*two of these companys did get no tice in time one of those companys that got jotice turnd out neither oftker nor private ifter my return I made a report of defaulters foraeof them ware tryd by a court tmarcial none of them were find—Except a Mr Bar- . nard and a Mr patrick one lived witlhin four mile of the ocone and the other within fix md as I had Difcreminate power to turn back any such as lived near the frontcers—l ftiould ajßually have turned back the aforefaid Mr lirnet and Mr patrick—had they mett at the ice of randevoufe unless it had a been their :afure to go and yet I exped their property ar will be Executed and colo Karr who Ex- " les these finds had never cauld on those com nys however Defaulters altogether— not ithftanding said company lyes altogether on jechee—Now I beg your honour in your fdom would mitigate said finds at least un you wuld get fartTieer information as I am *ll afliurd it. would give fatisfadion to the eateftpart of the Inhabitenfe—reports Seem try Alarming and our fromeer but poorly rniftied with men provision and Amunition >lo Karr has removed hitnfelf into wilkes >unty and Disposed of his poftions and pro rty in this county —and Stiil aflame the mmand to the great Diflatisfadion of the habitence' of this county Nothing has hapend 1 this quarter —if you har our has any thing >m the nation Alarming I would beg for count of it I aip Sr yr obt sorge Mathews H S Ab Landers george Mathews Gover commander in Chief Lieut. Col. ABRAHAM LANDERS. SIR, A T this period, when the Bate of my pg\ country requires union of sentiment, find reciprocal amity, to pervade and infiu- Jence the bread of every citizen, it is with I e*pofe to the public eye the fore- / h e I going letter which will appear to be the re sult of a mind governed by qualities direftly opposite to those I have just now mentioned ; but as the preservation of my life is not more valuable to me than the approbation of my * fellow-citizens, I find myfelf impelled, by i an irrefiftable impulse, to lay before them the misrepresentations of malevolence which pri vately attacks me ; moreover, it is my duty, as afting in a public capacity, and I confider ; myfelf lefponfibleto them for that part of my conduct which flows from my employment as an officer. Previous to the ele&ion for officers for Greene county in the year 1786, you 1 old me you were informed I intended to offer mvfelf a candidate for said county, to which you urged me with a fricndftiip and earnest ness, adding, that you intended to offer your felf, and proposed to give me your interest on | the occasion in case I would give'you mine. I replied it was not my intention to engage myfelf that year in a military capacity, far ther than what I (hould confider my duty as a private person, and to make any effort to in fluence men in elections was repugnaut to my principles. How far your apparent withes agreed with your real ones will presently ap pear ; for though, no doubt, you were an xious to reap fuccels by means of my interest, it will be obvious you never intended I (hould gain any by yours. However at the pressing desire of rhe principal inhabitants of rhe coun ty, who honored me with a tender of their fuffrage6, I was induced to declare myfelf 3 candidate, and the election was determined in my favour by a large majority, notwithstand ing the inliduOus intimations of some, who represented me as a man unfit for a superior command, whose principles are too dcfpotic and inimical to republican government, and. who will have his orders unconditionally obeyed. But, as all my orders, had they been executed, tended to promote public se curity, it is evident, my motive was the pub lic good; therefore, no good member would grumble at obedience, were he a friend to his country, or even to himfeif.—But that which causes hesitation, relay, divisions, aud animosities, proceeds not altogether from the 'd-;potijm of the officer, (as it is termed by some, which good men would call punftnali ty) it originates in the clalli of PUBLIC GOOD with particular ii.tereft, personal indo lence, party influence, and family aggran dizement ; to which add mean spirited pride, that enemy to necessary subordination, with out a uniform observance of which good go vernment cannot exist. In the summer of the aforementioned year, (1786) I had directions from Governor Tel fair, General Twiggs, and General Clajke, to order you out to the frontiers on a recon nomiug party, and in obedience to their com mands 1 fem you orders suitable to the duty , which you were to perform. You tvld the officer who delivered you the order*, it waa not I who was to be obeyed ; it w.?« you. That I had no right to command as I lived out of the county ; it was >ou who ought tocom m nd ; and accordingly you began to exer cise command ; for you ordeied the officer never to fli«w you my orders again, nor at tempt to put them in execution.- Here th© man, to whose bread ti ue patriotic virtue is a ft larger, fat ifices the service of hi* country to perl'onal dillike, or to the vain w th of being considered and eftatliflied full colonel of the county ; but here you overthot your mark, for you deligned to gratify your spleen or pride, or both, b* contemnitw the i era as mine, not considering vour contempr of them extended to the aforementioned gentle men by whose authority I gave them, atad your crime was of the greater magnitude, in proportion to their fapeiior authority and rank. In conlequence of this mifeondufc E a reded you, and you continue - in aneft until the time of the alt Indian t eatv, when, ar the mediation «»f certain gentlemen I reftmed you. It here follows in its place r<> mention or ders given by me to Major Philips, to march ' to the frontiers with what men he cou rt raise, and dedroy all Indians he should fall in. with. Mr- Barnard or Barnet, whom yon mention in your letter, hearing of this expe dition, publicly declared he would oppoferhe* p oceedim * of this party : In tonfcquencc of this deck; .tion, be was directed to continue „ at home, that the operations of the parry might not be obftnitfcd. However, to this direc . t ion he paid no a* ertion ; but at the frme time that Major Philips fell »n with a company of the enemy, Mr. Barnard appeared to | ;o tca them, made ready, refenred It piece, and fwoie he would fho' the firft man who would at cm > to kill an Indian. This is well attelW by Major Philips’* party, who in consequence of the above opposition re turned, and nothing was done. Here, fol lowing, also, you give a fpccimen of your duplicity, unfyffiematical conduct, and, of your afting without anv fixed principle; for though it is evident that gall is nor more rtif agreeablc to your palace obedience is re pug- am to youi will When I give order*, yet, you deftred orders of me in picfence r s Mr* Fuz atr ck and Captain Grifbam, in n edi- a r elv foil- wmg the failure of the aforemen tioned expedition, and fetn.wplv rcmrr:fe rated the fl te of thecountrv, favirg “ What fliall be done ? If nothing is done, we (hall fall a fr-crifue to the Indians.” ‘*ocb *rre your expreffiops, reiterating your desire that I should give you orders togo again! l the ene my. Now, who wotfhl not fuppofr you willing to afl with atdor ard vigour under any legal orders in the service of vout coun try t but lu-Vv far fticb a fuppufition accord* with your true leutiments, your conduit haa made appear, anu it will presently become 09E6 couJJpicugui* However, I iffiued wf [No. LXVII.J • * 1 t• i . .