Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1805-1805, 1805-04-08

tnult pats who return by land after carrying
down to NewOrleans and Natchez the produce
of the laborof the people cf the tates Of Femme
Zee, Kentucky, Ohio, and the wctern parts Of
Virginia and Pennfylvania, where many of them
are robbed, fome murdered, and all have TO
fufer hunger and want of the comforts of life
in wilderness, which viii ever remain will
dernels, while the CONTEXT continues, as the gov
eminent are ienhble the claimants under the
Georgia grants cannot be kept out Of pohellion
of their lands one moment after the Indian ii
tie is extinguilhed. | have rea(on to believe
they will not ex,ingulih the Indian title while
the conteR continues. | with could be con-
WINGED thar this fire Of contention has not
been blown up by fome envious politicians,
mersy to KEEP back he gr07vtb 9 the 7urfera coaa
Try; an acdulition 20 the ftrength Of which, by
the caaern owners throwing at once large
furplus population, their ir1dutrious farmers, in
TO the beG part of the weltern country, would
BY no means be pleating tothe great tobacco and
cotton planters Of the louth, who every day look
forward with terrier for the time when they
will be undertook by the weftern people; be-
heving, as do, thar no tubfequent act of Geor-
gia, euclid have any effect on the title given by
that fate in 1903, and feeling the claimants
pofe1Ted of papers ihewing right as well au-
thenticated as any know Of, to which papers
every man placing faith in the governmental
traniaCtions Of this country, has an undoubted
right to give credit, fhoud have but FLY DIFF
charged my duty to the conttituents had with
held any ef-rt in my power to get this compro-
naife, 70 intereting to the weftern country,
completed.
was very much furprizcd laf year, to fee
Mr.. John Randolph oppofe this reaionable and
neceAary compromifc with all the zeal Of all en-
thuGaltical, honeit inexperienced young man,
and great orator. After the principal had
been fettIeG by comfortable majority of the
Hcuie, his eloquence prevailed in favor of a
poitpOnement until the then next felton,
The fubiea has been again revived in the
Houfe Of Representatives by an application on
the parr Of the claimants for law to be pafed,
authorizing trial on the merits of the claim
they, at the fame time declared that they would
be fatisfied with any realonable compromise
This application was, or the motion Of the fame
MIR. Randolph, referred to the committee Of
Claims they reported in favor of 4 comprsnliie
that report paflng through the committee
Of the whole Houfe W it'll little or nc oppoGtion,
fancied we were going to get through with
This perplexing buGnefs in an eafy way, honora-
bic and fatisfactory to the nation. In this was
extremely disappointed. Mr.. Randolph, in his
oppofition, added to the zeal oratory and elo-
duence he n1anifefed the year before, Orislrnce,
55vet7iUe, PstaleHce, and calnmny, PECULIAR
TO HIMSELF, fuch as nerey c5aid haze ben
c0urta1aacef in the National H9pjS Of Rebyejfnta-
tiUs5 in any man, 7u55 zOa5 nat favored by bayty
predjudice, partially and local attachment He has
been aL17ued to reflect mott feverelY on the Sec
rotary Of State, the Secretary of the Treafury
and the Attorney General /; He has been agawea
10 charge the majority Of the Houie of Repre-
fentatives, TO their face, an intent to commit the
mott audacious and fragrant rs55ery He bqj
Z charged the head of one of the departments of
the government with c0rrHpting the members, and
one Of the members, Of the Houle with attcmt-
ing to corrupt another, when that officer cal
led for an inveitigatiou of the charge, Mr.. Ran
dolph's friends, as if TO Eyee1him from the oaigm
chat mutt be attached to fuCh ngf9u1ded charges,
eppoied the inusfigrti9H requeitea by that Off
Ger and the member who was your reprelen:a-
tive
On no fubiea has there been more plans ia
ken BY inhammatory fpeeches, baccba,zaliap toalt-
ing, and iying@ newt paper publications TO n,fead
the public mind, than on the Georgia Claims
1t feeemed to BIZ intended to reprelen: the ma
jority of Congrefs, as about to give away to a
Pracel Of unprincipled fpeeulators whole re-
gion, large fiction Of the U. States, property
of great national confequence, while the truth
is, the majority Of Congrefs, for the peace and
honor of the nation, have been willing to luffcr
fet of men, CmoitIy from the Eaitern States,
who, if they are fpeculators have always pro-
noted the tettlement Of every country they have
been concerned in, by iettling it, not with poor
wretches tenants. but with thofe who own the
foil and till it with induRryl-to hold about one
eighth of property they honefly purchafed
and paid for long before the United States had
any claim to ia Purchace the u. States
made without paying cent for il, or being O.