The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-03-08
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ana tramptd under loot Shall luitlce I've dri-
ven weeping from our walls, and vice & COR
ruption here rear their henous heads forbid
it reafpn, fol bid it God. But they have high
authority their lide. The commifiioners
who made the articles ofagrSemcrt and cellion
with the Rate of Georgia recommended it 70
they did ; but ak you under what circum-
itances In the report they made on tllis lub-
jet and containing this recommendation, they
expressly fate the fa9s which ! have iut de-
tailed, and conciudo ny declaring thst ''cnder
all circumstances which may affect the cafe and
had come 20 their knowledge, the claimants
could not fupport their tite upon WIZ: data
therefore has this compromife been rcc1m-
mcnded-as great as thefe gentlemen ra, :,
and as illutrious as is their character mi fer
vices TO their country, and IS great 4" - -
regard and in this article Yield TO 10 man
yet it is incomprehenGble upon what principles
iuch conclulion is drawn, from fuch premiics
the claimants Lave no title, yet they ought 20
be provided for, they have cheated the govern
meut and therefore ought 70 b. rewarded, they
have proftrated the faret ofthe focal virtues
but they are entitled then to compensation,
they have acted with the m0it uDbounded pro-
iligacy and mmoraity, nevertheless, they matt
be noticed and encouraged they have ipecu-
lated, therefore mutt have money. Is this
Houfc prepared ailent 20 iuch reafOniDg and
to accept fuch fytem o. policy? A man to
| entitle himfef to jultice, ought to have clean
hands and pure heart. With a very i'll grace
does he ak for equity, with bribery IN his hands
| and perjury and corruption in his heart and
fhaIl horde cf fpeculators BE- the peculiar OBJ
iects ofCongrciFDnal bounty? Shall they be
the feleGted and ch1ien few Whole maghanaity
and virtue ihall be rewarded with uULouTGed
wealth. Permit menow, Mr.. Speaker, afterhaV!ng
fadf much uponthe general uettOn, 70 examine
it more infinitely and in detail. One particu-
lar cafe before us deferves peculiar attention,
it is that known formerly BY the name of the
Georgia Miiiiiippi Company, now the New
England Mifiiiippi Company. Too well
| known in its old Jockey dr, +, it has changed
its livery, and after having seen driven from
the fporting fields of the .ou.h, it has takenu
its reidence in the ear the theatre OF is fu-
ture career. The agents for this company
have written large pamphlet in yindicatlon of
their claim, and every member has been fur
niihed with copy as an entertainment FOX his
evenings icfure, and pious employment Of his
flhhath's holiday. In this book it is itated that
the New England Company hnthed their con-
tract and took deed from the Georgia Com
pany or the 8th day OF February 1895. lis
| is the very day the annuIling law received The
eX scutivc ianction in the fate of Georgia,
wonderful coincidence of circumstances, it
feems alnolt providentia, but how different
the employment, the AHemby of Georgia
lcompleating an act, the proudsit boat of their
political life, which polteyity viii prafe and adj
mire, while the New-Engiand company,
were planning cunning, and exteniive fchernes
of speculation, and which we are told have
been but too fuccefSful in their effects. That
the widows and orphans ot men of wealth
are now chewing he crutt of poverty from
this accurfed bulincfs. This is the melancholy
effett of this haneful influence of fpeculation.
snd we are called upon 10 suiniff5r the very
PATTON, and by our imputed righteoufnefs to ex-
patate the fms of this ruinous vile & detructve
traniattion, and that we iha by ianctiryng
their claims fix ftigma on that glorious mo-
nument of Georgian honefty, the annulling law.
But to return, will thefe people after thefe
things tell us they are innocent purchafers
without notice for a valuable confederation,
bona JfGe paid yes, they have told us 70, aud
told us 10 too by lawyers, for of this Description
are their agents, and who have admitted that
il is not necehary to prove poitiye notice, a
constructive one being tufficient. Where old
theie people reiide, i'll the town of Bottom in
the fate of Mailachuietts. Are they ignorant
no, they are the belt informed men in the ftate,
and mott of them public characters, and vet
had no knowledge of what was paling in the
fate of Georgia, or in Congrefs, which then
fat at Philadelphia. The newspapers of the
Gouth couldnot penetratethe frozeHregi
north, yet the polluted laws Of Georgia could
travel there. Permit me modeflly to ak the
agents, who are profeiiional gentlemen, if the
company upon the mott correct contraction of
the doctrine were not pendentelite purchaiers,
did they not buy a law iuit, and ought they
not to abide the decifior' The legislature Of
Georgia convened in he month ii November
1895, aud Immediately took up the fubiect,
and on the very day of the deciiiDn Is ,he deed
made to the PurchaferS; was not thetef re the
cafe pending when the purchaie was made. If
am aiked bow could people in Bottom know
what the aiiembly OF Georgia were doing, /
anfwer that the purchaitr ought to take care
the doctrine of latent equity, 10 much relied up
on by the claimants, does not apply here a. in
individual cafes; if man has an equity which
he docs not ai1ert, and an honeft purcbaier in
terPoies 1t, he IT, fuppofed guilty of neglig nee,
by which a third perlon may be injured, and
therefore he is not permitted to diiturb the ho-
nett purchdlcr, for the belt OF all reaflns, that
when one of two innocent perGons nlnt fuIer,
it ought TO be him Whole act permitted the in
jury. But fuppoie fut had been commenced
aganft the iira grantees in tie f4te of Gcor-
gia, in a court of common iudfprudence as
early as November, and on the Ssh day Of the
next Fcbru1,Y t was delermi cd dsauG the
grantees, and The pateu. ordered to I've canceIi-
ed would not ;he purcnaers ia BJuon be
bound byit M legal gentleman viii ,oBtro-
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