Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-06-17

but he will not on this account believe that make
light OF the Union. would offer up my life with
pleasure to sustain it for single day. The fearful
consequences constantly in sight keep us in state
OF agitation and alarm. strive to slave them of
and is for this, that language is employed, sick
enins to the heart, and most offensive to a vast
portion OF the common family. Who can help il
wheh tney see wise men engaged in plsytuness
and pastime like this, INDUCING their whims and
oddities and phantasies, and causing this Union to
remble upon bauble?
With regard 10 the expenses attendant ON our
measures of defence of which YOU are instructed TO
say nothing until those measures are submitted TO
you IN detail, have 10 congratulate YOU and NV
sell 'hat they VIII be so nconsidcrabe IN amount as
not to CAUSE much trouble anxiety to either of US
w mist took the precautionary measures TO make
safe the women and children upon the frontiers.
remembered very well that we had been pleading at
your treasury Tor thirty years for similar expenses
incurred In defending ourselves against the same In
uians. ieel much more anxiety about the expen-
ses which may be incurred by the friendly ones,
who have sought refuge within our settlements,
which they are quite willing to defray from their
own scanty means, but which Justice and humanity
require you 10 defray for them.
Correspondence between the Deputa.ion from the friendly
Greeks and the Secretary Of War; Washington our nc
MILLEDG EvILLE, May 3I.-The first sales of
public lands IN Florida, commenced on the 10th
inst at Tallahassee, near which place the Town
ship OF 23,oiO acres granted by Congress TO G en-
Lafayette, has been recently chosen by his agen,
Col. MKee, a member OF Congress from Alabama
who thus gave TO the lands in this quarter n Pre-
ference over all Others. The public lands offered for
sale were adjoining those Of Lafayette and around
The Seat OF Government, but they sold low in con-
sequence OF singular instruction from the Treasury
Department, directing the Receiver OF Public
Y - HStr 1af al,
notes OF certain banks, including those of Lo lsiana
and Alabama, and excluding the notes Of specie
| paying Banks in South Carolina and Gcorsiai Ey
this KIND OF management, persons who attended til.
sales with Georgia and South Carolina notes were
| excluded from purchasing, which lessenet the COM
petition, and caused the lands to sell generally a,
the minimum price of dollar and quarter an acre
Can Mr. Southland, the acting Secretary OF the Trea-
sury, be Ignorant of what every body else knows,
That the Banks of this State with single exception
and those OF South Carolina, without exception,
| pay specie Tor their notes? That the Bank notes
excluded by his direction taken in the Branches
| OF the United States Bank at Charleston and
Savannah, and are quite as good if not better
man the notes of the Alabama and Louisiana
Banks! III he knows GSs, and in lis sua-
ton 1t would be objectionable ignorance not 10
know 1t, what motive could have influenced him
10 issue an order so prejudicial to the public in
'erest, and operating partially and unjustly on the
citizens OF those states who were most likely to
purchase Florida lands?
But suppose some convenience to the Treasury
may be contemplated by the reception of certain
notes at the Land Otce and the rejection of others
equally good. U'hy tCas not this made knO1pn
an time TO alio,c all tcho ,pished to 5uy. faiy.
chance Of doing 1t? In Georgia and Carolina
nothing was easier than the cony ersion OF Charles
ton, Augusta and Savannah bank notes in, the kind
OF money receivable at the Land Ofiice--but not so
at Ial!ahassee-there, FIFTEEN per cent was de
manded Tor changing the notes of banks which in
charleston or Savannah were of equal value No
notice was given OF the kind of money required at
the land othce until day two before the sale,
and then, for the first time the gentlemen who had
attended at Tallahassee with South Carolina and
Georgia notes, heard with surprise and Indignation
that their money could not be received! The
Receiver was bound TO obey his orders but at whose
instance and for whose profit were such instructions
gwen! When exceptions of bank notes, so little
to have been expected, had been determined ON ,yiv
Were not the people at large informed Of it by a
pubic notice! The matter requires explanation
mat there has been neglect of public duty, or
something worse, is manifest Our Officers q GO
vernment should be only honest, but free from
the suspicion Of corruption.
The following has been forwarded to As from
Florida, as copy of the instructions under which
the Receiver of Public Monies acted:
~ "lte' from me treasury DeS art
ment, to the Receieer of Public .ilonies IN.
Florida.
SIR-in payment for public lands, you are au-
tnorsed TO receive, in addition 10 specie and bills
oil the Bank OF the United States and its branches
the notes OF the incorporated banks in the cities OF
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
richmond, and of he specie paying banks IN the
states OF Louisiana and Aabama--the notes OF anv
nank however, are only TO be received 20 long as
such banks discharge their notes in specie on de-
iiaiio. Recorder.