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THE LOUISVILLE GAZETTE;
AND
REPUBLICAN TRUMPET.
VOL. ll.]
GEORGIA, LOUISVILLE:—PubIiIhed every Wcdnefday, by AMBROSE DAY A wi?f v » i ”
and FRI.i TING tn all its variety, is executed with ncatnefs and dilpatch.
STATE of GEORGIA.
MESSAGE
Of His Excellency GO E'ER NOR
JACKSON, to both Hcujes of
the Legiflature.
fellczo Citizens of the Senate ,
and of the Houfe of Reprefen
tativeSy *
TI IE period is again arrived
at which it becomes my duty to
jay the fiate of the republic and
an account of the laft year’s ad
minillration before you.
The war which has for fo ma
ny years defolated Europe, Hill
continues, and is likely fo to do
until the pride and perfeverance
cf one of the two great rival
powers Ha ail yield to the gallant
condufl and determination of the
other. The United States have
happily evaded a part In this
dreadful contcft, in the courfe of
which, millions of fellow crea
tures have been facrificed to the
manes cf royalty, and the ambi
tion oi individuals. But, altho’
we have hitherto efcaped this
declared warfare —a warfare al
moft as deftrudlive has been
waged on our commerce by
both thofe powers, and on the
perfons of our citizens by one of
them; torn from their country,
their cleared: relatives and con
nections, they have been im
pelled on board Britifh fhips of
war, compelled to fight their
battles, and to afiill in the conti
nuation of this plundering fyftem
agamft the Hates they belonged
to.—Should, however, the arm
ed neutrality fo much talked of
prevail, we have room for hope,
that that haughty nation, which
■-prclcnt rules the ocean, with
-f r flat trampling under foot
f,ie law s of nations and hofpitali-
T as fhe lifleth, will foon be re
f-'iced to the necefilty, as fhe
at the clofe of our glorious
evolutionary war, to relinquifh
tne kingly contcfb, and reftore
Uace to the world, for which
u ‘ e fnends of humanity muff
E int > and even the defpots of
, Uro P e appear to figh. Satiat
e V; ith blood, Ruffia, Prufila,
a fie r ted Aufiria, have
withdrawn from the coalition
“pinfi rcpublicanifm ; Britain
e me keeps up the flame, and
it by depredations on
trade of all nations. Al
it cannot be the interefi
r; l ‘ c United States, that either
thofe powers fhouid altoge
-oreak down the other, it
Mainly is their interefi: that
,Ihould check each other,
y daat fomc limits fhouid be
. t 0 die maritime power of
w^°fe fbips proudly
ti fe pthe ocean from the north
to fouthern pole, and
WEDNE S D A Y, November i 2f 1800.
I IRERTt IS 01 R MOT'/ 0 ASD TRUTH Ul’R GUIDE. -
whofe politics, inimical to every
principle o! government but mo
narchy, would lead her to exter
minate from the catalogue of
words the term republic. If we
have to fear, it is from her, and
the nature ot her government;
and had the coalition fucceeded
in breaking down France, there
appears more than bare probabi
lity, that our happy form of go
vernment would have been next
attacked. It is aflerted, and with
feme colour of authority, that
an influence exifis in America,
partial to Britifh rule, and ready
for a monarch—indeed, the con
fpiracy of governor Blount,
fiified in the enquiry after great
expence ; the million of Mr.
Bowles to the Creek Nation, to
which he was convoyed by a
Britifh (loop of war, and where
he fiill is, or hovering with the
tomahawk on the frontiers of
Georgia—The governor of Ca
nada’s addrefs fome time fince
to the northern tribes of Indians,
and a variety of other circum
fiances, warrant a fufpicion, if
not belief, that feme plan was in
agitation, hofiile to the confti
tution and liberties of the United
States.—lt is on the other hand
declared in the papers, that the
Britifh minifier has allured our
government, that Bowies is not
Supported by that power; but is
it ufual for fhips of war to be
employed in the efcort of a mere
adventurer ? whether, however,
this be or be not the fa6l, it is a
duty w r e ow r e our country, our
felves and pofterity, to keep a
watchful eye over our republican
rights and conftitutions, and to
refill every monarchical impref
fion or influence, which we have
reafon to lament there Ihould be
room even for fufpicion of, as
being in exifience among u;
an influence hofiile to our inde
pendence and our rights, which
were purchafed at the expence
of oceans of the blood of our
fathers.
The papers and information
refpedling Bowles, to which
your attention will be more im
mediately drawn, as being more
interefiing to this than to any
other fiate in the Union, toge
ther with my proclamation, if
fued in the month of July lafi,
forbidding his enlifiing or raiflng
men, which he attempted to do
within this flare, will be found
in the bundle marked No. i,
and among them a mod inlolent j
letter to myfelf, proffering ami- j
ty, and future correfpondence ; i
thinking no doubt, as I have j
mentioned on this fubjeft to the
fecrctary of flare of the United
Stares, that as I was fligmatiged
as a jacobin in the papers of
Georgia) and feme of the other
dates, I mud he prepared to join
any party hoftile to the United
States. It to be of republican
principles, and to enjoy my
own opinion of public meafures,
and declare that opinion freely,
conditutc a jacobin, I do not
deny the charg *, for I am one ;
they were principles middled in
to me in the trying’hour of
1776, and I trull I lb all never
defect them.—But if to fupport
the United States, which was
done by that proclamation, and
my offer to the agent of Indian
affairs, as well as the govern
ment of three, or even five thou
fand Georgia militia, to crufli
general Bowles, conflitute a fe
deralift, then am I a federaliff.
The richefl monarch of Europe
is too poor to purchafe my
principles, or to dice my firm
adherence to the conffitutions
of our country.
The documents marked No.
e., K ing extracts of letters from
the cornmifiioners appointed by
this (hue to treat with comrnif
fioners of the United States, ref
pe&ing aceflion of our Wedern
Territory, and a copy of their
minutes will inform you that no
thing has as yet been concluded
on between them. The propo
rtions of the latter a copy of
which you will find with the mi
nutes, were of fuch a nature as
our cominiflioners were not au
thorized to ait on, and not a lit
tle furprized to receive. Thofe
proportions and an ail of Con
gress, under which the United
States commifTionersderive their
powers, deferve your mod fe
rious confuleration. The ail
entitled “ an ail fupplemental
to the ail for an amicable fettic
ment of limits with the date of
Georgia, and authorizing the
edablifhment of a government
in the MiflilTippi Territory,” is
I humbly conceive, as well as the
ail to which it is fupplementary
a violation of the rights of Geor
gia, and a conditional infringe
ment, inafmuch as it edablifhes
a government within her limits,
independent of her authority,
and without her ednfent, contra
ry to the ninth article of confe
deration, and perpetual union
which provides that “ no date
dull be deprived of territory for
the benefit of the United States,”
which engagement is ratified by
the fixth article of the federal
condition, and the third ftdion
of the fourth article whereof
further declares “ new dates mav
be admitted by the Congrefs in
to this union, but no new date
dial! be formed or eredlcd with
in the jnrifdlclion of any other
date, date be formed
by the junct ion of two or more
Hates without the content of tho
legillature of fuch Hates as well
as ot the Congrefs,” and again
the Congrefs fhall have power
ro difpofe of and nuke all need
ful rules and regulations rcfpcdb
ing the territory cr other pro
perty belonging to the United
States, and nothing in this con-
Hitution fliall be lo conflrued as
to prejudice any claims of the
United States or of any particular
Hate.’' The twenty third feltion
ot the firfl article of our flatr
conflitution is in perfect unifon
with the articles of confederation
and the conflitution of the Uni
ted States, where it is “ provi
ded nevertliek Is that nothing
herein contained fliall be eon
timed fo as to prevent a fair to
or contract with the United
States by the legillature of this
Hate of and for all or any pare
ot the Weftern T erritory of this
Hare, lying weft ward of the river
Chatahoochie,” and it is again
provided, that “ the legillature
may give its confcnt to thCcftab
lifhment of one or more govern
ments wed ward thereof.” Is it
ncceflary for,me to afk the Icgif
laturc of Georgia if fhe has no
claim of foil and jurifdi<slion to
the territory eftabliflied into a
government by tliat aft ? Is it
not exprefsjy included within the
limits of Georgia by your lam!
law's, by other laws of force, and
further, by the faid twenty third
feftion of the rtrll article of the*
conflitution ? Is it not evident
that if Congrefs have aconftitu
tional power to ere<sl the territo
ry claimed by Georgia on the
MilTiffippi, into a government
without her confcnt, that they
have a right to form one on the
Okmulgee without that confent,
or even on a cavilling principle
that the charter of Georgia ex
tended no further than the Ala
tamaha, to erect Glynn and
Camden counties into a territo
rial government ? If it be faid,
that Congrefs alfo claims the
MifllfTippi Territory, ought not
thofc clafhing claims find to have
been adjufled, and then the go
vernment eflablifhcd ? Is it juft,
is it magnanimous in the United
States, with the ftrong arm of
power thus to evade the claim
of Georgia ? It may alfo be faid,
that it is provided, that the rights
of Georgia fhall not be impaired
by that aft. But is not its very
exiftence an impairing and vio
lation of them, and the principle
dangerous to all Rate rights, and
oppreftive tothe inhabitants over
whom the government unconfti
tutionally prefides ? As well
might a man in private life enter
another per fans houfe, keep pof-
[No. 93,