The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-10-05
lGbe Gnqutrer.
! RICHMOND, OCTOBER S. 1910.
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
\ THE YAZOO DECISION.
No. IL
FOR THE ENQUIRER

No. ii
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mo sooner had the Act of January z, 1895,
:, been promulgated by the Georgia Legisla-
ture, than one universal burst of Indignation
broke forth among the people. The degra-
ding and unsxamped crime committed by
their Legislators took a strong hoid.upon the
public opinion and that virtue which, IN a
new and agricultural state can only be sub.
dued by ignorance, was instantly put in mo-
tion to vacate this gigantic fraud and con
sign to merited infamy, those of their legis
lators who had baseiy sold themselves for
, God. The. grand jures of the state, every
where presented the act, and its infamous
authors (a); convention of the people
which met in the ensuing spring, was strong
.y addressed on the subject. and its table
groaned under petitions, memorials and re-
monstrances. implcr;ng that body to pro
claim the fraud to the world, and to annul
the sale. For some cause, however, not
known to the writer hereof, that work was
turned over by the convention, 70 the, succe
ding legislature. This act of january z,
E95, has been aptly Compared by an elo-
qyrnt member OF Congre SIS, Co ) in point
of:a,rocity. to the South Sea bubblesin Eng
lanl, or the Mississippi fraud in. France !;
hl;iin truth. it far exceeds either of them !:
In toInt OF Dotoriety, and the violence of the
scnsation it created. 1t has been li,.ened, by
another. able and intrepid opposer of this stu
pendors fraud &c to tt,e famous stamp
act OF Britain, or the act for blocking UP
the port OF Boston,. As we'll might a citizen
oil Richmond have averred his ignorance, in
the summer OF 1903. OF the rumor of Buyr's
treason, when, h.; was actually upon his tri
al therefor in,the capitol as a citizen of
Geo'gia 20 havsSpfetended ignorance in the
winter or spring of 1895 either of the re
fort of the monstious fraud, which brought
that act into existence or of the actual verify
thereof. There was no honest man in that
state, who did not know of, believe, Il con
denim the transaction s.
But the knowledge OF these facts was not
confined to the people Of the state of Geor..
gia. Although the venerable Mr., Findley,
espousing this iniquity in Congress, has
qui5bled AID prevaricated, b, saying that
he had never seen a Georgia Newspaper,
until he came to Congress Cd u il does not
follow that the important facts now ID cues.
non, had not been transplanted into the
newspapers, which even that gentleman was
IN the habit of reading it does not fosssu,
one OF the mosl interior situations in ATne-
RIGA, had not seen a newspaper Of the state
OF Georgia, the same was the case with those
rapacious land mongers, in the own Of Dos
ton, who had embarked their whole fortunes
IN the s;upcnaous speculation, ON which the
columns OF those Gagettes would be occupied
We Cannot, therefore, impute either an ig-
norance or an apathy, on the subject of
Georgia newspapers to the purchasers in
question, especially as the before mentioned
Copenants in their Deeds, and the message
of President Washington, to be hereafter
more particularly stated, gave them warn.
ing, that they had risques and dangers TO
encounter.
There are certain facts and principles
vhiShevery court of justice must judcially
know and act upon. There are certain no.
torlous AID historical facts, which are as
welt known TO the courts, as even the prin
cipies of the law itself. No court of Justice
can shut its eyes, for example. upon the facts
ut the uDexampled circulation of newspa-
pers in America. of the perpetual trans
plantation ot important articles from one TO
another, and OF the great stercourse which
EXISTS between the state Of Georgia, and the
highly commercial town Of Boston neither
ought the Courts to permit parties itgtnt
before them, 10 cut them out of their know
ledge, bv garbling the STATE of faces contain
Fl IN the pieadings of a case depending be
fose them, whether fe,gned or real. Nor
can aeyscourt il the Union, affect an igno-
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