The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-08-27

scrcs caoh CT Tor certain number az acres the .e-
pon-n, dces NOT rreciiely recoec, which iad cerri-
Gates did NOT mention that AIRY be raid for
fbesr. They were ligned by NofIaniei Pea1leioa,
chairman. lie heirves that afterwards the fai Viii
kinon flowed the deponent .7r, Printed certificates
from the lenneiee company, one iron, the Ceo,gia
COMPANY. for iy fx ftogIand acres, igned by Tame,
Csan, Matthew M'Allifer and George Walker ne
believes and szpo printed certificates from the Ce.,y;a
A7iBTei company; that the iad Wlkinfon informed
che deponent the Erit written certificates had been
gwen up, and that he had received the at two prn-
| ted ores i'll lieu thereof
(SigradJ DAVID GLEN.
| JAMES SIMMs efar. one Of the representatives
ircr' the county Of Columbia, being duly fvorn, faith
that ne mad frequent converfatons with Roberts Tho
mas eq member of the iena,e of this fate, at the
iat felton, ct the Legislature Augula that the de-
ponent did frequently, during that FELTON,, and whl
TIE ACT Tor the dipolsl OF the weRern territory was
in agitation, adviie the fad Roberts Thomas no, to
vote FOR the ale of the lands tina, the fad Thomas
lad there was an opportunity of making fon,e,hine
very clever, and he did for it, he would
the depoueut told TIE faid Roberts Thomas, that tia,
purehaiers would deceive him ard after he had voted
IN iavor o. It he would get nothing to which the
.aid Thomas replied, he would take core to make
himieit iseure before he gave his vote.
ne deponent further t.ith, that during the Ian
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dilpofal Of the weaern lands was on the CARPET,
raj Gum called on the deponent ard told hin, that he
was iear.n the bill would be lo0.-Luke Mann eCo
member OF the ienate, the deponeut underhood
that day, voted againf the bill; Gum then faid.
| SnnsI iuppoie from " hat !. have heard Won are a
poor man, and you now have an opportunity of ma
KING icnlethng handfore for yourfef and family If
you will prevail on Mann vote for the bill 7 will
give you $4,000 Of land The ,leponent further
iaith, that the iaii Gum told the deponent he womb
give the fame If he would get Mr. Wood fenator.
to vote fer it, any other member of the fenate :.
that he was IN company with Mr.. John King and
| Mr. Samuel Wright, too members Of the fame fa-
nate At their quarters in Anguta-that ronver{a
ton aroe about tine fate Of the wcnern lands the Il =
porent eSprerg himfelf orpofed thor ,,eat:,re
lard John King and Samuel Wright told the deponeu,
ne ought nor 20 oppofc it, for he might make fone
thing clever if he would come into the meaiure. or
WORDS of that nature.
(Siraray JAMES slAfAfs.
| HENRY C. Caldwell, efJ. being duly f,yorn
faith that during the fitting of the lan convention ar
Louiivle, The deponent had conversation with ecr.
raj GHrn. when the faid Gum aed the deponnet who
was to he governor next year; the deponent Eaid he
heard jHaee Stt5 mentioned, the fad Gum hook his
head and aid it would do thar Stith had been I'M
gratefui TO his poor relations, for that he had made
great deal OF money BY tie I6eeakat,or and had not
general Gum, how much ipdge Shtb had made bv
that butines, gen. Gum anfwered Thirteen fLoulgrS
doH0rS The depouent then afsed the faid Gum If
the laid Stith had garr tie Lare to which qene-
raj Gum gave no direct anfwer hut fad be rad cugno-
ri TO 0s J"4ge Still Thirteen Bouaa dollars f, bis in
fHenee in pang tie iaqo far tie jboh of fbe kauat
that if the law paiIei Stith was to have the r,oney
that the law had paed and that in confequenoe he had
gwen HIM draught for the money and he either had
| received or would receiveit
| fSgnedJ HENRY G. CALDWELL.
| Here we have beiide Judge Pendleton another
| fudge Smith brought upon the tapis; men
who are always in the " nut of morals" could
hardly be expected TO be trcbolsa for 5000
dollars. "Man is man" faid Uriah Tracy !:
oman is man" faid general Gunn-thev were in
innate acquaintances; we fhall prefentlv fee
| fome who illufrate this flblime Connecticut
truifn,--" man Is man''-the tranrlation Of
which in the Connecticut iiiom is " mankind
are all fcoundrels," ard that therefore, he who IS
| the mott fagitious villain, is the greateff man
the ducples of this fchOol, are entitled to all the
credit due TO their fyftem of ethics; and in that
tchool Ta&oo Ejaculation mutt have been conf
dered as prodigious effort of genius and ia
Tents. We fbal clofe the teftimony with one affi-
davit more, though we might give erea. many
others, all of the fame tenor:
! JAMES M'NnIL, efq. member of the reprefen-
tative branch of the laf Legislature and now a MEM
Der OF fNdfe being duly fworn, faith that in ihor
pace Of time after se adjournment of the la legia-
ture, he was in the town of Augula in company
with Andrew inns, who told him that he was one of
the ahociaes eonemPlatedn an aa psfTed by the A.
forelaid FELTON,, for dpofpg of part of the wenern
territory of this fate that the purchaiers and their
afiociates reduced 70 the neceity of pang
dit in favor Of Roberts Thomas then fnafsr Of Ham
cock county, Allocate, for the full amount of
egbt clear ars, Of land 7vitbom Biz Paying one eig
o' THE fame zobere6y hey did procure TIE vote anf in
ey5F Of him tie aiS Tlemas, in pafing the aforefaid
act That after the Legislature adjourned the faid Ro
berts was alarmed and did propofe to fell or let his
eight mares aforefaid, revert to the grantees and
their ahociaes for fun not efs than hyee nor more
baH fOrtboyard dollars, which propoal was aceeded
to, and that he, of the aociltes, was called on
for his proportionats part of the aforefad fn which
be ddpay; whereby the claim of the aorefad Roberts
was thereby extnguied for and in behalf of the gran
tees and their afociates, words to that effect
(Sigaed, JAS. M'NEII,
Thefe affidavits explain the preliminary feps.
they unfold the iuiquity, and character of this
amazing fraud.
We fbaIl Isv before Our re1derc ,rofbar - &,