Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1806-12-09

S. That, of course, the sea coast, on AN
extensive line, was to be seized and
occupied.
6. That Offers of homer and emolument
were to be held forth for adventures,
and to every description of persons
from all parts of the world.
Thisvast and dazzling project was COM
mnnicated to very few--but we know TO
fphom IT Spas communicative can prove
1t, IT the great culprit should be brought to
the bar or national justice. The readers of
this paper know we have never hazardcd
declaration of this nature, withou. dssur-
ance doM5iy sure: the executive of the u
mon is fully possessed Of the facts.
Bat as the extremes at which the rapaci-
ous Sc reasonable seizure of the Yazoo sDe-
cniation is placed from the erection of
new empire, NAV shock the judgments of
men who arc either not accustomed to re-
fleet, or who look TO others 70 reflect for
them, we shall endeavor TO pursue the clue
WATCH unites these extremes. and therein
reveal the intermediate members which u
mite and make them one.
IN our cities there are, and ever will he
IN large opuie.ilt cities, a number o. men
or desperate Observation-Disclosures reduced
by extravagance-by gaming--5y the fai-
lure OF complex specrlation--by bankrupt-
cy-oy toriegn ccntaminstions-bv hostility
to the goYernment--by vicious and irrcgu-
lar habiSs-jsf iastruntcnts f,. am darisg
enfeiAf'ze, in which their despair may find
a resource for hope or tc,1uiaatio7.
These n,9n are always easily known
and never difficult to be attracted 5v man
Of social and persuasive manners--whcre
f,,- -. e
access and firm hold-Inen with that kind
of honor which is proverbial even among
fhteucs, which unitcs and chestsns and
sanct.fes as it were the approach and the
corporation in treason.
In the territories Of the United States. the
bslcful spirit of inordinatc shccuiuffon in
tands---that rapacious spirit of accumulate
on or immense tracts Of land, such as first
infected the Roman patricians, and inaa-
med the Roman people to seek, by an a.
gTarlan law, the security oflihertv against
the all cevcuring influence OF partial mo-
nopoly-such spirit Of specializing rapa-
city throughout the nation. has formed
mass of cdr''~5iffon in every state of the u
Mon, winch menaces the safety Of the na-
ton, and pointed out to the great conspi-
rator the resources from which he was to
draw the fuel for that fame which Gran
ger said would soon rise In the western
country.
lnthe new settled countries of the Unit
ed States there are hundreds of persons
who hold lands for (Which they haze nor
tad.
There are others who hold lands for
which heavy state taxes are due.
There ere others whose titles to lands are
bad, and some precarious.
mere are others who are discentented
because they arenot elevated to power or
place in the general or state governments,
whose toseins engender discontent and are
prepared for revolt.
To these men of every description the
overture. OF spccious and daring incendi-
airy ccnld never be mistaken OF misapplied
Mr.. Barr who has beep,a shscuiafoi- up
m the most COMPREHENSIVE & aI7y1ys over-
zone scale, was better qualified, perhaps,
than any man in the country to Enoyv and
obtain the symhathg Of such men.
He made journey, last year to Kentucky
in search of these materials.
His friend, Jonathan Dayton, was a;so in
the western country
The intrigues of the Spaniards, and the
British, to dismember the western country.
seventeen years ago. pointed out the ready
means to ascertain the quantity of similar
disaifection which yet existed.
In tennessee, and in the Mississippi ter
rltory, the same means have been resorted
TO.
But it viii be natural Suggestion to the
rejecting msn--fIow canthe occupation OF
the Yazoo-and the separation of the Wes-
tern country-and the radiance of state
taxes, and the assurance of doubtful titles,
be combined in one project?
The question is certainly reasonable
But the cone1tnty is not the less in confor-
nifty with all the experience of mankind.
Inc personal object of Mr.. Burr must
be considered as the primary one. Ii i.
, to be supposed that either his saeoeitv or
his cunning would suffer him to unravel his
whole sheme to many--perhaps not to a
dozen persons--ITc kaoa that one man
Of celebrity he has proposed one shrctes OF
PROJECT, the erection Of new government,
be- end the Ohio.
NE atso knoTU, that to another gentle.
man much more distinguished and efninen,
IN the eyes Of the country, and the world, he
suggested another proiect-which extend.
ed even so far as the seizure of pero Cruz
Neither of them would listen to him with
patience.
THERE'S nothing incongruous in the two
! projects-nor in that of seizing the Yazoo
rs connected with them.
The only matter which Mr. Burr want
ed was to collect the force--with the re-
qu'site stores, arms, and funds-and when