Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-02-21
Moon ihe Caorg:a JoarnnI.l

From the GEORGIA. Journal
| Tie Collectors Agent having failed to com.
| ply with the acquisitions of General Gaines,
| Tor subsisting the United States troops and
\ the Georgia militia under General Giaseock-
and the commanding General having found il
| lmpractcable To obtain funds without submit
| tag 10 discount, unauthorized, and as he
| conceives, i;npr0per-and believing it to be
| unsafe To discharge any part of the militia,
while the frontier settlements of this state are
menaced by the savages, has applied TO the
Governor, we understand, for the lean Of ten
| thousand dollars, in addition to the sums alrea
Idy advanced, for the purchase of ratious and
other supplies. 4 begins to he time, we think
! for the General Government from whom little
| II any, money has yet been received, TO attend
| to this subject. IL is enough for GEORGIA to
| furnish all the miiIia. without being obliged
| also to supply the requisite funds for carrying
! on the war. General Gaines, we are informed
Is fully authorized" to follow the hostile lndi.
ans over the line. and attack them within
Florida, unless they shelter themselves under
4 Spanish post"
Thar part Of the above paragraph which
relates To the imputed omission Of the
government 10 furnish funds, we noticed
in our last, by stating that ample funds
tad been RENTED 10 supply the army
with provisions, transportation, &c..
These of course had not arrived, when
the paragraph in the Journal was penned !;
on which ii NAV be remarked, however,
that the War Department could not know
the deficiency uniil informed OF it, and
that when apprized of Ii, provision was
promptly made TO meet it, III the manner
already stated.
That the people of Georgia should be
so severely taxed by acquisitions on their
militia, we are sure is SUBJECT Of a. much
regret TO those who administer the gov
eminent, as If is IL us and TO all with whom
we have couversed on the subject. But
II Is an vilWiihOui remedy, resulting from
the geographical position of the state, by
winch the enemy IS brought to its door
Those militia nearest to the theatre of
hoSilitieS became liable TO be called out
10 aid i'll terminating them; not however
all from Georg "a, for Tennessee has with
alacrity volunteered TIE quota which
would otherwise have been detached from
that state. 1t would have been desirable,
indeed, that that force which is educated
and Injured TO war, and maintained at the
public eXprnce, should have been exclu-
svely employed in this service, instead
of the husbandman and the artist being
called forth from their peaceful occupa-
tons t. traverse painless morasses, and
penetrate the Indian covers.
But who does not see, that is impossi-
BILE, out OF "a military peace establishment
so small as that of the United States, TO
concentrate al a poiut in the extreme
South, with the necessary dispatch, three
or four thousand men from tie extreme
north, from Peoria, from Detroit, from
the shores Of Ontario, from the garrisons
which fringe The ocean Besides, that TO
do so would not leave To the posts IN
those parts of Tie country even suifici-
emf number Of men 10 take care of the
public property. There is a detachment
of the regulars with Gen. Gaines, of
what number we do not precisely know,
but sufficient we presume TO form nu-
cleus TO the Militia, vino must, from the
nature of our Institutions, forbiddug d
large standing army, be relied upon 10
furnish the principal part OF the force re-
CURED on sudden occasion. When call
Ell out, how evcr, il appears to us. If should
be TO remain IN the field till the occasion
has passed away: under the system
which regard TO the domestic private
ons of the militia men has suggested, of
short terms OF service, the militia are
discharged at the moment they are most
tat for service.
With regard to Gen. Gaines instruct
ons, it he have such as are referred 10 by
the editors Of the Journal, we are sorry
to see them so publicly disclosed be-
cause the publicity may itself defeat the
object of the instruction. Nat. Iat