Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-01-14

was sanctioned by or connected with ~
govern zen. The presumption, too, =,
any su'hority ever having been given lnr
such an establishment, is strongly rep.
led as well BY its piratical character. .,
by its itirerant nature for the first =.
,itior, at Galveston. vas abandoned IN
Or about the 5th of April last, for a.
near Maiaso.ds, upon the Spanish terri.
tory and al later period tits last vas
abandoned and transfer made to Ame.
liza Island in Eas, Florida ; post which
had been previously seized by persons,
Who appear to have been equally unau.
rhorised. and who we're at ID. time Of the
said transfer, UPON the point, it is he.
iieved, If abandoning their enterprise,
from a failure II resources, which they
expected to have drawn from within on,
limits, in defiance Of our laws. There
exists, on the part Of these sea rorers, an
organised system Of daring enterprise,
supper tea by force of arms and it !. OIL.
Iy by a co.. responding S, stem Of COERCION
that they can be met aud constrained to
respect the rights OF properly aud ID.
laws Of nations. /, is deeply to be re.
GREETED that practices Of such cl arsc.
ter. within our immt dat neighbol hood,
and even wi,hiH our juIi,dictiOral limits,
should Lave p evli'ed unchecked Ter 50
iorg time more especially as one ii
th.lr immediate consequences wss to
give OCCASION to the illicit introduction Of
slaves from The coast Of Africa into Il csc
United States, and thus to revive 4 traf.
&c repusnart to humanity and to all
sound principles Of policy, as wei! as Sc.
verely punishable BY the laws ci The
land.
BY tie 9TH section Of the act pro.
hibiting the importation of slaves,
passed in 1907, the President is fully
authorized to employ the naval furts
to cruize OH any part Of the coast Of
the United States, or territories there.
of, where he may judge attempts will
be made to violate the prov isIoEs Of
that act, in order to seize and bring
IN for condemnation all vessels Con.
ira, ening its provisions, to be pro.
ceeded against according to law.
BY the joint resolution OF the Sc.
nate and House Of Representatives, Of
18th January, 1911, and the act Of
the same date, tie President is fully
empowered To occupy any part or lie
whole of the territory lying cast Of
the river Perdido, and south Of the
the state of Georgia, in the event If
an attempt 70 occupy the said terri
tory. or any part thereof, by any 70.
reign government CT power, and by
the same resolution and act, he may
employ any part Of the army ard navy
of the United States. which he may
deem necessary, for the purpose Of
taking possessions and occupy ing the
territory aforesaid, and in order 10
maintain therein the authority Of the
Uni cd States.
Among the avowcd projects Of tic
persons who have occupied Amelia
Island, was that of making the con.
quest of East and West Florida, pro-
fessedly fer the purpose Of establish
ing there an independent government
and the vacant lands in these pro.
,inces have been, from the origin Of
this undertaking down to the latest
period, held out as lures to the cupid.
ty Of adventures, and as resources
for defraying the expenses of the cx.
petition. The greater part Of West
Florida, being in the actual possession
of the United States. this project in
volyed in it designs of direct hostility
against them and, as Tie express
object of the resolution and act Of
l 5lh January, 1911, vas TO authorize
tho President TO prevent the province
Of East Florida from passing into The
hands of any foreign prser, it became
The obvious duty Of the President to
exercise the authority vested in him
by that law. 1t dies not appear that
among these itinerant establishers Of
republics, ard distributors Of Florids
lands. there is single individual in
habitant of the country, where the
republic was to be constituted. and
whose lands were to be thus bestowed
the project was therefore an attempt
10 occupy that territory by foreign
power. Where the profession is in
such direct opposition to the fact -
where the venerable forms. by which
a free people constitute frame of 60
'ernment for themselves. are prosti-
tuted by a horde Of. foreign freeb0of-