The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-09-15


n ps of the Fate. They had in great meaf,re
executed their fwinding fehegne, and numbers
OF their dupes were already. nilead of curling
their own credulity, iriincerely and iufolenily
accuiing the per.idy of Georgia.
Thus was a blot made which never can be
completely expunged from the page ofAmerican
hiftory. It's local, howevet, & rs vet ftains but
one fna fpot of that fair fleet. Shall we then,
the representatives of the American nation, in
f1uenced by the csmours of fharpcrs and the
complaints of their dupes, by paiiing the bill
before us, by rejecting the counteraSting refolu-
tons propofed 10 us, extend it over the whole
hope we ihal not trut we will, by adopt
ing the one and rejecting the other, diminfh the
unfeemly fpot, 70 that it fhal fcarcely he offeu-
five TO the eye of the reader of difant futurity.
If we do not, it NUT appear 70 that eye deeper
than any fain of venality in the annals of that
nation, which affects 20 believe that corruption
is politically wholefome biscker than any blot
of deception, exaetion or rspine ever thrown
UPON that page by the unnatural alliance of
Chriitian avarce with Mahometan cruelty a.
gainft that devoted country, in the oppreiiion of
which the vices ofthe crofs have been combn-
ed with the crimes off the crefcent in 70 much
as we declare public and private morals to De
the only pillar which can fupport our fyltem,
while they openly avow the deire of gain 10 be
the mott valuable fpring of human action. Let
US not thew to day that this belief is feisned
Let us demonftrate it to be ferrous. Let us go
farther, and diiplay the fame tendernefs for the
future reputation of the American people of our
time, which we Individually feel for our own
private fame hereafter. We may afterwards
yield to the impulfe of charitable feelings, and
relieve by moderate grants of land land land
only l hopes thoie claimants, who were
entirely innocent of this fraud, and lincerely
Ignorant of its preparation. That inno-
cence and ignorance, or the contrary guilt or
knowledge of the fraud, may be collected with
comfortable certainty by attention to the times
and places where they ar. named on the written
evidences OF the pretended claims as thoie
mutt difplay the information about the origin of
the traniaetion, which might have been, and
therefore probably was, pofeGed by the pur-
chafers. Some atonement was due from the
fate of Georgia for the perfdy of 70 many of
her exalted citizens. She has acknowledged
that it was due; fhe has provided for making it
( by placing five millions of acres of land in our
hands, as a fund for that pirpofe. The talk
of applying that fund we have voluntarily affurr-
ed. Is it pofIible we fhouid cody refoJve in
performing the confidential fervice, to infulf,
mott grofsly to iniut, that rcipeStable fate, BY
T granting part of the fund 70 men whom it has
ftigmatized; whole conduct 10 this affair it has
fclemnly pronounced infamous, and whom its
representatives on this hoorcontinue, by the part
they take in this quefion ftil 70 denounce? 1t
is not poiible, finely, We ADD give tfiis infuit
TO the fate of Georgia; we know lhe muft have
intended, that if not an actual determination, at
leaft an excluon of all the parties to the origi-
NAL fraud, and all notorious propagators of the
mifchiefs oft, fhould be carefully made. What
would we think ourfelves, of trutees who
fhould 70 conitrue an inftrumeut of trut, as to
beftow upon the robbers or incendiaIics them
felves the bef part Of donation placed in their
hands, by charitable perfdHs, for the relief of
fufferers by robbery or by fire truft we fhal
apply the fund for the relief of the real fuffer-
ers. know it to be both ample and apt enough
I for that purpofe; and l hope the United States
will not be forced to contribute to farther and
unnecefary aptitude, by a large creation of
! flock, for an indifcriminate indemnity: A flock
/ it is true, apparently to be redeemed through
| the proceeds of the lands granted By Georgia,
but really to be paid directly from the treafury;
as thofe lands will remain unfold, or an eqiiiva-
lent portion elfewhere NUT remain 70, tin pc
Rod immenfely beyond the time of payment of
+, the principal of it.
| Ircpeat that ] with to fee the real fuferers
| relieved by grants of land. l truft we will re-
! vive the hopes of thofe good parents of New
England we will reaore' the happy deftny of
their injured children but I cannot think we
| fhall content to admit to lhare of the bounty
or Georgia, along with them, the wicked con-
trivers of their difreis. Thofe eagles in human
form, although they were driven with difgrace
! from the gigantic prey at which they had auda-
cioully aooped, have borne of no fmal fflare
| of fpoil in their rapacious taons. have been
afured that fome what more than million of
dollars has been really amai1ed amongt them
all by their fraudulent fales, aud that of the half
million which was paid to Georgiafor proper
| ty worth then forty millions, and rapidly rffng
in value, till checked by late occurrence, FIVE
.iS;th parts have been viii them with
| her permfTion from her treafIry, where it Law
defpifed and untouched, as polluted traih. Not
yet glutted, theynow threaten, infolentlythrest-
en- to return to the r4fcued prey, and under az
fumed, for ought know innocent names, bold-
ly folicit ten millions from the nation as the price
of their abandonment of il. Nay they have be-
come 20 Fabulous now, that they difdain any
portion of the prey itlelf: they require their in
demnity for it, having been forced out Of their
talons, in American flock ! Yazoo flock ten
millions of Yazoo itock Heaven preferve our
ears from this frightful foundI That of Alge-
rne tribute hasalways been 20 difrefingto mine,
that I have often wilied the nation would ri)k
fome Of its Blood to purchaie the eternal fppref-
lion of It. When once they become liable 20
be afiailsd in paiiing the walls Of our treafury,
by the hideous note of Yazoo flock from that
moment they mutt become for ever caous TO
all tones which conyey che inf1my of NY COUP
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