Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1804-10-22


propoicd, as tending to their preferva,ion, tho
templated the dettrutsion Of our naval power,
add thus thought to crafty the delife 81 his
f5ul for he muil have been fenfib'e, openly
to contend for rs abolition wort!a ruin his po
polarity. Ifhc were i'ncere 1T rs recommend
alton, the plan mutt have been the offspring of
heated imagination, the Vagary Of 2 ,l,iordered
brain. SO ferrous however was the preillcnt. 10
fervently did his head seem with the project
that he caufcd climates OF ,he expenie TO be
made, and ,ranlmitted 60 ,onprels. Hero they
met with igf reception by perfons ct every
political ,lef,ription. Even the warmeft fricnds
of tue Executive reioiced to fave Their patron
from the lafl, Of ridiculS, BY quickly forcing the
buiinefs iron, the houic. Democracy for once
has the merit of Joining federation in refrain
ing intanhy, deilgn of waiting the finances
of the ration in the attainment Of chImcrica!
objects.
After Mr.. J,G;rfon had inGruGted his friends
in congrefs to violate the Contribution by depriv-
ing the Judges of their office, and the judges
IN obedience to luch intruetions were removed
they petitioned for their ialares and the aiilgp-
ruent Of rev duties, hoping in the cooler mo-
ments Of the Administration, the Con..isutioD,
if nos the;rfcIyes, would meet with attention
But party fprit was vet deaf TO The voice or
initice. When the law, ehabli.l,ing the Judi
ciary was repeated. II was then the doctrine
Of rs enemies, that the ialary and Office we're
disin6t that, though the office might be taken
auay, the i,lary NUT be fu5iea fer future
confederation. After the former, which the
Copitit alton had guaranteed during good be-
Al. al t,to
were one; OF judges could be entitled 70 nc
compensation, as they had performed no fer
vice. Such defence only hare Mr.. letferion
and his friends for violation OF me deareft in
.erct ef the nation, when may inflitt on it io-
calculable evils. Let the marion judge for their
fitn-ls for continuance in Office.
The claims Of the fate of Georgia TO the
Mi!liGppi Territory in contequence Q! a report
in her favor by Mea,s. Nadifon, Gailstin, and
Lincoln, were again mode, and allowed by Con-
yrefs. fay, ogna .yaar becauf- fhe had made,
and offered to relipquiih them TO former
Copers IS for ,ooc dollars to do which now.
the prefent have agreed to give her one million
two hundred and fifty thoufand dollars. Whe-
Their this FUN was given for vel! founded
claim, or to help democratic filter State, we
fhall examine Georgia has built her claims on
feveral grounds, meme of which has the lcait CO.
lor for iupport excepting one. In 1902 the
crown 9! Great-B,it ain granted charter to the
Earl OF Clarendon and feven others, OF what is
now North and South Carolina, then includ
ing Georgia, and bounding them Wesf on the
South-Seas. This abfurd grant pahed directly
through the French Province OF LouiGana and
the spaniih Province Of Mexico and frou, this
circumitance alone mutt have been void, Ii
was however furrendered in i72o, by ieven out
Of eight proErietors to the crown. AS early as
7o2, what has tince been the Mifhhppi Terri
tory, was an integral part of We.t-Florida as
high up asthe Matches, and, as iach, feat :s:cm
bers to the aEembly of this Province. 1t con-
tinued under the government of England, un-
til ceded to Spain in 1884,, and confirmed to
her by treaty in 1883. InI73,, King George
ed. thought proper to create out OF South-Cafo
lima new Province, called Georgia, which was
given to truttces on certain conditions, and was
bounded on :" the Savannah River to the Eat,
and extending along the fca coat to the river
Altamaha, and HsfqUara, fram The hraai Of th99'f
ri0erf yspet7i7ey, to the Soutb-Seaf" This there
fore may be confdered the origin of the Gcor-
gia claim. The gran, however was ipie fatto
void as paGng through and including the terri
tory of otner nations. But it was about eight
cen or twenty years afterwards furrendered by
the truaces to the crown, and remained Brit
in Province with its preient limits, ar lcatt at
ter 1854, until it became independent by our
revolutionary war. This furrender was maize,
before the Miaiappi Territory became part of
Welt. Florida and therefore after the crown
had annexed this Territory to the latter, and
confirmed it to spain, the CLAIMS of Georgia
mutt have been detroyed, had not the grant, by
which they accrued, been 9oid for no other
graz, was afterward made. This is all her
claim, unieis ihe acquired one by declaring her
own limits. Thcie ihe mighr have made as
well TO include the United States, as this Terri
tory Equally as proper would It be for us to
purchaie of Bar cur oquu bonyss. as for Congreis