Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1805-07-06
FROM The AURORA.
THE YAzoo SPECULATION.
CoNTINuRp

This comprehends great variety ofin
cideutal rights aud titles, some peculia,
to the United States.
4. those that nppertairi to the relation.
that exist between the aborigines
and the u. States.
2. Those thar relate to the FORMER nos
SCISSORS in right of war or,rea,y.
). Those which peculiarly depend or
the principle and laws Of the confe
Iteration.
The first OF these collateral obiecfs o
enquiry in it itself alone, contains prin
cip'e fatal TO the pretensions The specu
lators. This is founded on the rationa
principles of morality and on the sountles
principles OF received law, that The Dorai
mum Pernn1, or the real properly OF III,
soiilsin ahe community that is he FRS ane
acsuai known possessor. (See Mnlar or
banksp. 65, and dissertation on the I'M.
bieuity OF the English constitution, parl
sec. 80 What lawyers denomnate the
zee sinsffe, can be derived only from those
who possess the Dominican Yeruns. or real
property; orin other words the sovereign
authority of the state can alone ALLEVIATE
the title TO the soil or 10 any part of il.
Those harbarous doctrines are now secuted
from civilized society, BY which the color
OF acomplexion, or toffaith deprived
one Class OF human beings of their na,u-
raj rights, and vested in another The pri.
viiege ct asnrping whole regions of the
earth, and despoiIing and ravaging natl
ohs' The Spaniards who f 81 invaded
tue countries of Florida and Mississippi,
assumed to themselves the sovereignty OF
the soil, and the right 10 extitpate the ma.
ives. Their teuurs was recognised in
deed by their SUCCESSORS. tie Presch and
+ gtsh; hu, under the more beniena.c
apfpices 81 q republican government the
oarpaTnus ts,ure mas been spntne3 from
US, and the rights Of nature recoesr izsf in
the descendants of the primitive occa-
pssts Of he soil. To lac eternal bono,
ct the American republic, possessing the
power 10 conquer, and TO ex,irnaie, The
power has not been deemed Justification
ot iis exercise; the maxims of peace and
CIVILIZED liberty have superseded force :
instead oil the edge OF the sword and tones
oi cannon and niusquetry, they have been
courted az men treated with as eouals
and accommodated with the means OF so.
ciai comfor, and civilization instead az ba
voc and murder.
Applying hese glorious attributes ne 20.
publican policy and ins,ice to ,he prinei
pes ~ right, rs involved in the case Of
he Yazoo regfon. the government of the
United States has recognized by treaty.
'nd bv repeated purchase, the Dou;nf,ts,
verum in the aboriginal natives of the land
and from them obtained the fee simple or
a more enlarged right, transfer OF the
sovereignty.
IL was a part of the earliest policy of
The confederation, arising out Of experi-
ence and the circumstances Of the conn
re- that special care should be taken to
guard against disputes between states. cnn.
e. rnlng territory.-Hence BY Art. TX. Of
the ooniede elton under which IN reyaIu.
ilenga aicb eyed $, cial provision vested
,,he determination Of any such differences
IN the supreme power OF the confedera.
ton, sec. 2and g.
In Inc federal constitution, established
after the individual commonwealth. had
been organized in peace, under their seye-
raj constitutions the same spirit of gene
" 'otph % iOuDu ~ ATT. Nv, sec.
3. IL provides for the admission or ney,
states but declare that no new state shall
BE erected within me jurisdiction ofthe old
&c without the consent Of the legislatures
.ot the stsles concerned Gs zueH 0s of con
sress. That congress shall have power
70 dispose Of and nske ne-dfui rules and
egv'ailons respecting the territory or o.
her property. &c. and nothing 10 preiu-
Ice v claims Of the u. S. or any psrli-
cular stare.
7 was uniformly understood during the
evolution, that the lands which wer, MOI
in occupancy of the United States at the
revolution, but within the luits defined
at the peace Of 1888. were stili subiea 10
The authority Of the aboriginal natives and
that although right was recognized BY
foreign nations in The United States tn The
obsolete sovereignty, thar in relation To-
The y. States, this title announced only to
t,e- ,n,hnoH in favor OF the United States,
and 10 an exclusion Of all other powers
who we're parties in the contract.
In the language Of the law, VIC obtain.
ednot the Zee but the exclus We right IN Dur-
chaae The Dor5f1i,sz, 7ye,,,,, go. =. ~, /.