The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-10-17
NETWORK, October s.
MORE OPPUGNATION.

IA: i,i5i, eis may undrrtand
the nature of the conflict between the Rates of
North Carolina and Tenaf1ee, it NAV be me-
ceffary TO lay before them fuch information Al.
has come within our knowledge. In the wear
1889, the fate of North Carolina, finding her
geographical furface too extenfve for the Dur.
pofes of efficient legination, as it then embrac
ed an area of not leis than $4,000 fguare miles
coded TO Congrefs that part of her territory
which is now called Tenaffee Tor, as it is vulgar
1y fpelled TenneGee) reftrving to herfeIf the
right of making titles to fuch lands as had been
located, or fhould thereafter be located. and
ofrtceiving to the ufe of the fate the entry mo-
ney for the fame. The ceiIion with its con-
ditions was ratiied--The territory S. w. of
the Ohio, (now called TenaTee) was erected,
and the bufinefs of the land office relied on Fl.
lently, without any approximations being enter
tanned by the Legislature of N. G. that there
was prodigious herd of field mice, who were
continually eating large holes in the land
In the year '97, Governor Martin, then Sc.
nator in Congrefs, wrote to the legislature, that
he had difcovered fome tranfactions of the foul
eft iniquity respecting the entry of the lands
that chain of fpeculators from the Atlantic to
the Mififfipp were Realins TIE land, and de-
frauding the Fate of the money which fhould
be paid for it, and that the Secretary of State
himfrlf (Col. Glafgow) was the commander of
the band.
In that Gate the grants for land are figned and
ifiaed by the Secretary.
The Legislature clofed their doors on the re-
ceipt of this letter, and came to refolution di-
re6ting certain number of their body, attend
ed by the police of the city of Raleigh when
they were then fitting, to feizc inftanty fuch of
the fufpected perfons, as were then in town.
The committee did their duty. They feized
the Secretary--and his fon.in-law col. Donel-
fon--Wm. Tyrrell, and great many Others !;
fome of Whole names will be mentioned prefent-
1y for although we touch not private reputa-
tion, we fhal always feel proHd graduation in
exporting the public delinquent.
This Tyrrell had moh capacious nav,
raving appetite for land which could not be ap.
peafed, although he were to fwallow WORLD
lat the time he was taken, the whole room
was ftrewed with grants which he had jut
filled up, ready for the lignature of the Secreta-
ry. You could fmother this man to death by
laying on his head only one half of the grants
which he had thus made out for himfelf con-
tanning 5000 acres each land for which he had
never paid the fate one Gxpence.
A board of commiflioners to enquire into
thefe enormities was efabliihed, and on ballot
it appeared, that Judge Locke, Mr.. Gather,
and Mr. Edward Graham were elected they
purified the Object with talent and integrity,
and found that the Yazoo Ejaculation, whole
ftruefure Mr.. Randolph thought proper to call
gigantic, was, compared to this, mere bigmy.
In the mean time the perfons concerned, who
were among the moi powerful men in the two
Rates, endeavored Ivy every means in their
power, to detroy the evidences of their guilt
The commiiiioners held their office in the State
Houfe--the State Houfe was fired--but the fire
was extinguihed, and the perfon who attempt
ed the conhagration was executed. The State
IIoufe was alto entered in the night by a fervani
of MIR. Tyrrell, who threw down from the
commiifioners' room, a trunk Of papers belong
ing to his mafter--an alarm was given, and the
feryant was detected and hung.
The governor ordered guard, TO prevent
further alarm, but the commilfioners, wearied
with the toll Of travelling through fuch a
mountain of infamy, and fufocated with It's
ftcnch, funk from the high Ration with which
they had been honoured, and retired to the
more peaceful engagements Of profefiional life
A new board was infanty eaabli(hed, aud
MenIs. Gather and Puryiance were eleeed