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*4- ?*r . r--- •’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."