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•’v/vaVcait, January 2.
/7 numnm : meeting cf Repub
lic an LititehU Major Brown
elt&tci to the Chair ,
Col. Tatnall, Major Harden,
William Bulloch, Efq.
Meffrs. Giafs Shaffer,
appointed a committee to wait
on the Governor with the fol
lowing addrefs , and to receive
his anfwer .
7b his Excellency James Jack
son, Governor cf the State cf
Georgia.
SIR,
While the republicans of Sa
vannah affcmblc to addrefs the
firft magiftrate of Georgia, with
that dignity and moderation
which have diftinguifhed them;
they cannot but felicitate them
fclvcs on an occafion fo favou
rable to the indulgence of their
feelings.
Living in a land of liberty—
poflefling all the advantages
which political regulation can
communicate to a people—and
deeming the franchife of unre
ferved expreltion of opinions
among the moft eminent of thofe
advantages: Conceiving alfo,
that the faft of our Handing in
all the relations of freemen, im
pofes the moft folemn duty on
Us, of boldly publifhingour fen
timents to the world, with re
gard to the Conduct and prac
tices of thofe to whom we have
delegated our power j we have
convened, fir, to announce to
you the fenfations, which your
adminiftration—your principles,
and the attacks of your enemies
ha vc cAckcd, and the impref
fions they have damped on our
minds.
Firft, fir, we hold in high ve
neration, thofe principles, which
from the dawn of our revolutio
nary conteft, down to the pre
fent moment, have invariably
marked your public life.
Amidft the turbulence of the
times—the perverfion of natio
nal charafter—the ufurpation of
authority, and the conflicts of
factions, we rejoice, fir, to fay,
that we have not difeovered in
your meafurcs the Imalleft apof
tacy, from the great caufe of rc
publiranifm, or the fmalleft de
religion of the natural and equal
liberty of mankind. Both have
been the beacons which you
have fleered the veffel of the
republic (and like an able pilot)
avoided the numerous fhoals &
quicklands, the Scylla, and Cha
rybdis in your courfe.
We have in the next place to
declare our difapprobation of the
Billinggfate attacks againft you,
which have recently appeared
in our papers; but indulge our-
Fives with an expectation that
as they muft unqueftionably have
emanated from a fourcc unfriend
ly to republicar.lfm— from men
Ep* for a monarch—you will
confider their calumnies, as your
heft panegyric**- their animofity
as the beft indication of our re
gard.
Laftly, permitustoaffurcyou,
fir, that we likewife hold in high
eftimation the general features
of your adminiftration, and that
it is our conviction, you have
di ft barged the duties of your
truft in a faithful upright man- !
a manner conducive to I
1 tfie ihterefts and happinefs oi
this ftate —and in a manner be
coming the firft magiftrate of a
free people.
Receive, fir, Our warmed
wifhes for your health and fafe
ty.
William Brown Chairman.
To which the Governor returned
the following anfwer.
To the Republicans cf Savannah.
Fellow Citizens,
THE very candid and affec
tionate manner in which you have
exprefled your approbation of my
principles > and the general fea
tures of my adminiftration of the
ftate government, cannot be o
therwife than highly gratifying
to me, as a public fervant, and
as an individual citizen.
Had I not received this hon
orable teftimony of fijpport,
however—fhieldcd as I am, by
a confcious reClitude of con
duct in adminiftration, and be
lieving as Ido, in the propriety of
the meafurcs which have in gen
eral been adopted by the ftate
for the fecunty of republican
principles—for the check’, g
monarchical influence—for the
breaking down monopoly and
fpcculation—and for calling to
account public peculators and
defaulter—The lowed: of Bil
lingfgate abufc, with which feme
of the papers of this ftate have
teemed, flowing from the chan
nels of di[appointment and ma
lice, would have received from
me the only treatment which it
has hitherto met —filcnt and meft
profound contempt—-convinced
as you juftlyobferve, that calum
ny from fuch impure fources will
ever be confidered by the good
and enlightened of fociety, as the
beft panegyric on the objeft of
their grofs abufe.
It is not however on myfclf
alone, that this grofs abufe has
been fhowered—for the fupremc
branch of ftate government —
the legiflature has been coupled
together and libelled with the
Executive—the reprefentatives
of the people, chofen to exprefs
and fignify their will, have been
indecently charged as the crea
tures of the Governor—thus
driving to imprefs on our After
dates, and foreign countries an
idea, that the government of
Georgia, is a mockery of rule ;
and republicanifm a political de
lufion. On this ground, I con
fels my utmoft fatisfaction in re
ceiving your falutary and coun
terafting addrefs—which muft
and will prove to the dei'cerning
world, that as well in the com
mercial capital, as in all oilier
Jiarts of the ftate, government
is refpefted ; and that the re
public is not only purely attach
ed to the principles of 1776,
but perhaps more united as a
political fociety, than any other
in the union—in faft, to the
virtuous perfcverance of her ci
tizens, in the choice of repre
fentatives; and to the fteadv
and rigid execution of the truft
repofed in the legi flature for five
fucceffive years, in defence of
the rights of future generations,
and in oppofition to the mono
poly of empires, by a few in
dividuals within her limits; and
which blafied monarchal and a
riftocratical expectations, may j
veil tic impute*} atl ttiat the
bailee and difappointed ambi
tion of a debated and trifling
faction could invent or fugged,
to the injury of the date and
her government.
Requefting your acceptance
of my humble, though finceic
thanks and affeftionate regard,
and my bed wifhes for your
public happinefs and domedic
felicity.
I beg leave to fubferibe my
felf, your tervant and fellow ci
tizen,
JAMES JACKSON.
Cedar Hill, Dec. 31ft, 1800.
To the Dijmijfed and Impeached
Ex-Treafurer.
How now Major ? By Hea
vens ! worfe and worfe. What,
fkulk behind the curtain, fhnnk
(in Saturday lad’s paper) from
your proofs—while you wrote,
and fo jcfuitically worded the
opening, the clofmg ard the
middle note, as to make the
publication appear the volunta
ry afl and deed of the editor of
the newfpaper.—lt wont do,
come forward man, the compa
ny you introduce is fully good
enough for you—and do not
forfake them ; but you are not
the fird affidavit monger who
has lurched his poor gulled
affiidavitmen , tho’ its the fird time
fince you “ embezzled and lock cat
of the public treafury the 9950
dollars 5 a cents, that you were
known to he touched with any
thing like fhamc ; and well may
you be alhamed of now handing
to the public, things , that you
rode up and down, and fent
your crimps round and round thcT
country to pick up, and the
which you have ever fmcc car
ried in your pocket, hawked
about to every comer and goer,
and to three fucccfTive legida
tures, all of whom treated your
attempts at perfecution with
filent indignation. Your affi
daviters mud feel themfelves
afliamed and confounded, when
they read how they were taken
in by your runner, who drew up
and read to them their declara
tion, and fertilely inventive , made
them fay they had committed a
robbery; perhaps tho’ all the
erafures and interlinings, were
not there, when he run it over
to them. Now Major, fully an
equal number of honed citizens
w ould draw up, in their own plain
fimplc language, their affidavits,
dire&lythc reverfe to what your
adlor has drawn up thefe 1 and
thus we fhould be at iflue ; but
you have expofed them enough
—and I wadi my hands of all,
but yourfelf and your coadjutor
and bofom friend the tory, lieu
tenant-colonel William Melton,
of C ireene i and really I would
as live take tlic jay fo, of either
of thofe negroes which you got
in part of your plundered 9950
dollars 52 cents as that man’s
verification, his believingly fug
, gedive affidavit is thoroughly
congenial with his own innate
depravity, and was it worth
while, fhould be confronted
with rcfpevflable evidence ; but
that would make the fellow
think himfelf of confequence.
The interrogatory to Major
Adams, founded in the Repub
lican Trumpet of fhe 26th No*
■ f .
vcmfc er, asfttorn tc ‘—and fE-j
its involving ycur emL zzter, ,,/
which your counlel,did nor v, :g
to be expofed in open court
was not read there—but vtr
(lands good again ft you.—A:4
now fir, having gone over your
contemptibly called proofs, ah
though I do not juftity recrimi
nation, yet, when a man begin*
to throw (tones, wholives'ma
glafs houie t by all the laws of
laughing he dtferves correction
by the red cf retribution —and I
(hail again tf hurlindilcriminata
ly” a few truths on the public
conduct of MeiTrs. Major Ber
rien, and Lieut. Col. William
Melton. —To inveftigate you:
private life condudl, might in.
tangle where I want not to touch
—a queftion or two to yourfelf;
was it not fir, the month of
May iBco, or five or fix months
after you were di(graced from
office, before, on the treaftry
books, you gave the tax collec
tor of one of the counties of the
(late, credit for the taxes for the
year 1797 and 1798?!! land
Major Wynne of Bv.'ke, had
not credit until then, for tax ou
flats in 1798 s the journal entries,
neverthelcfs, you dated in No
vember 1799; under date the
28th of January 1797, you ac
knowledged a depofit, by John
Collier, Efq. of Oglethorpe, oa
account of William Hay, Efq.
now deceafed, but then clerk of
the fuperiof court of Oglethorpe,
and in February or March iBco,
when your acknowledgement of
receipt, was prefented you, did
yen not jay Mr. Hay had credit
for the (urn on the treafury
books ? and when that was pnih
en falje , by examination of the
books, did you not refund the
money ? I am of opinion that
Thomas Carleton, Elq. as clerk
of the inferior court of Greene,
has not credit on the books of
the Treafury for monies paid
you two or three years back,
and for which, perhaps he holds
your receipt—in fhort, I fee no
other way of coming at a real
(late of your defalcations or
embezzlements, than by a gen
eral advertifement to all public
collegers, clerks, &c. to come
forward and fay what they have
1 paid to you.
Thus fay the legiflature, the
high fovereignty of our coun
try, in 1799, before you verc
turned out of the Treafury.
In the Hcuje of Representatives,
Tucfday , November the 1 <yth,
i?99* . .
“ Refclved , That it is the fenfc
of this* houfe that the monies in
the Treafury of this (late, are in
a dangerous flotation from the
condudl of the prefent Treafu
rer and that the committee of
finance be, and they are here
by authorlfed to demand, and
take into their pofleffion the keys
of the Treafury of this date.”
Extra!. 7 from the Journal,
G. R. Clayton, for
Hines Holt, Clerk.
The following copy cf the
articles of impeachment will
teftify what the late legiflature
thought of you, and by which it
appears you are charged w r it:i
an <f embezzlement of 9950 dol
lars 52 cents,” and a “ diretr
violation cf your faired oath cf
cjpec."