Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-03-07

then fuppofed to have been paid by
the companies. According to the
ftatemcnts Originally made of the whole
quantity Of land contained in the pur-
chale, which ash before faid, proves to
be very near double the land compa-
tnies would receive from the citizens
of Georgia, who clearly had a right to
Ifubfcribe on the original terms, a price
per acre nearly double to that which
they themfelves would have to pay, &
|thus have profit on the citizens of
Georgia for the difference in the
quantity of acres contained in the pur-
chafe ariiing from the falfe ltatement
which reduces with relpect to the
fpecuIators the actual price of land to
little more than onecent per acre, while
| it remains at two cents and one third
, with relpect to the citizens of Georgia.
! However great may have been the de-
parture of the Legislature of Georgia
from the interea of their con!tltuents
on this location, it appears evidently,
that by the exprei1ion 'original term
they underltood that their citizens
lhould fubleribe, ifthey chole to the "a
! mount oftwo millions, upon terms i'm
liar to thoGe Of the land companies. 1t
! appears evidently that they did believe
| that they we're telling the land OF the
fate at the rate of two cent and one
third per acre, Whit in fact, they re-
ceived but one cent and one iixlh,
| which upon the whole is confederation
merely nominal.
To the multiciplity ofthe radical de-
| fects with which the title ofthe compa-
MES claiming under the act of feventeen
hundred and ninety-hve abound, the
! advocates of the claim ofthe N. Eng
land Mllllillppi land company fay that
none Of thofe who compoie their COM
pany had any participationin the fraud,
they are laid to be bona 6de purchafers,
perfectly ignorant of the fraud which
may have been praeiled by thofe of
whom they bought. They are repre-
tented in their memorial and vindica-
ton, as plain farmers, mechanics, &c.
who have made what they pofels, by
the clolea application to induitry.
Sir, l Hand among thoCe who arc
the mott ready to acknowledge that the
inhabitants of New-England are con-
fpicuous for their indutry, but l am
ltewile of opinion, that they are not
Iefs noted for their ias ac;ty in their
attendance to their interef, and in the
art Of making good bargains, view
them as being fully competent to cope
in dealings with the Inhabitants of the
fou,hera Rates; that they fhou'd no,
have heard Of the notorious fraud
which hath taken place at the paging OF
the act Of 1895, is great caule Of
afoniihment TO me; that they ihould
have made z purchafe to the amount
Of eleven millions Of acres, without
making enquiries iuhicicnt to dilcover
what a!,nolt every body knew though
out the United States, if pofiibie, in
creates my altonilhmeht. For my
part having never thought of purchal-
ing any land from the Georgia land
companies, made no inquiry about
the acts of tie Legislature of Georgia;
yet the corruption was 70 fragrant, the
fraud 70 notorious that it reached my
ears (oon after it was pai1ed. A gen
tIcman from Virginia (Mr. Randolph
hath juff!y obderved, yeiferday, that
the prehdent of the United States had
in his addrefs to the two houtes of con-
grefs at the beginning of the FELTON, Of
1908, taken mott direct notice Of the
at of Georgia. pailed in January of
! the fame year, as tending to dangerous
consequences. Certainly fuch folemn
communications of the frit magifrate
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