Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1832-04-05

| blood Of other States She refused to do it
j The State retained the territory within hel
| grasp, and when the pre- emption right wa'
| at length yielded, il was at the expense &c
/ the Union Of many millions Of dollars. A:
| the law aud the Constitution Obliged them "a
| do. they sold the pre- empticR right on con
4 dition Of the payment OF million aud a
| Quarter of dollars, the discharge Of the claims
| which previous purchasers had upon them
| for monies advanced, and the extinguish
ment of the Indian title They had received
| since the whole equivalent in money and
land. to an amount in all oftwenty five nal
| lions o( dollars; they now had it in posses
sion. under contract made but twenty four
DAYS after the passage of what was called
| the intercourse law.
Georgia had received her twenty five mil
lions from the Union; and would any gen.
tleman make him believe that that State, in
! violation OF all justice & OF the laws OF the
| Union, would set the Government at def
| apcep Would she break the agreement
| while she held the consideration on which
| that agreement had been madep He would
never believe the calumny He said no
thing about Alabama or Mississippi. He be-
lieyed there were many men faithful and
true in all those Statesmen actuated by
the noble spirit of true patriotism; and who
would consider such an assertion as foul
reproach TO their name
A gentleman from the State OF Alabama
had told the House that she was embarked
in the same cause, and whatever the House
might do with regard 10 Georgia, it would
do at the same tiuse against her. And he
had farther said, that the memorial urged
Congress TO wage war against three OF the
States. Mr.. B said. it was not so. Nor was
il any thing like this. On the contrary It
was but fair to send the memorial TO Com
nittee of the Whole on the state of the IN
ion The u. States held rod over no one
The House would wait. ifthe memorial was
thus referred, to see the effect OF the man
date of the Supreme Court the Nation was
waiting for this 1t waited not in hope, but
in the perfect assurance that Georgia would
do her duty II was no violation OF her SOW
ereignty to abstain from carrying INTO elect
an illegal sentence against the missionaries
1t was merely the fuliilment of her own So
lemn agreement The House had every as
surance that Georgia would do her duty
Let the memorial, then. go to the Commit
tee. when il might be cailed up at any time.
He could not but deeply regret that the
gentleman from Georgia had broached the
subject with that fury Of spirit. the corrus-
cations of which the House had witnessed
more than once He could not agree with
the gentleman as to the manner IN which
the memorial should be treated. When he
and his fellow members stood 10 that House,
they did not stand on an eminence so high,
or behind shield so impenetrable, as to es
cape the voice of supplication or remcn
STRANGE from the most inconsiderable Or hum
BILE citizen. The gentleman might think
that he dwelt too far in the regions oil the sur
to be reached by the cold and icy complaints
of the North But a citizen OF these Y.
States, in whatever portion OF the Union he
might live, was entitled to be heard IN that
House. If he addressed it in respectful terms
Fer the gentleman to call request, SO ex-
pressed, and so presented. an act oil imper
tincnce, was departing FAR, very far, from
that high dignity with which every gentle
man on that floor had been entrusted by his
constituents. TO turn about, and 10 make
him who complains the offender, was spe-
cies OF eauiyocation which lowered the gen
tleman in the presence Of the whole Amer
can people. Any gentleman whe treated
petitioner in that manner, mlstieated him
self, aud in SO doing he was very sure the
gentleman misrepresented his constituents
Georgia. he was well assured. would not DO
so The Legislature Of Georgia herself would
have treated memorial from any citizen,
however humble, if not degraded by vice,
with respect.
The citizens of Georgia had been called
high minded and chivalrous, and they well
deserved to be SO designated But, would
high minded and chiyalrous State treat with
contempt and contursely any one who wore
the form Of human naturep Never Yet,
the gentleman, in the name OF Georgia, had
done this. The people of Georgia were not
the hot headed inconsiderafe people that
gentleman had represented them to be. II
was not specimen of the Georgia charac-
ter that that House had had before it lie con
fidently appealed to the House whether
there was any thing in the conduct OF the
other members of the delegation from that
State TO warrant the belief that that gentle
man had given to the House OF Representa-
tives a fair specimen Of the temper or the
manners Of Georgia. He should be sorry to
think so. He would not believe that Geor
gia felt as that gentleman represented, nor
that she would treat this Union. and the ga
cred bond which held it together. IN this
manner that that gentleman was pleased to
suppose. Nor would she treat the opinion
ortne Supreme Court Of the States with
that sovereign contempt he seemed so much
pleased 10 anticipate The decision oil the
Supreme Court, the House had been told,
! would be condemned by the weli-edncated
portion OF the people Of Georgia Sir. the
iawless Bedouin, who lives upon bis sword
: who tracks the traveller over the Arabian
desar.. and mingles with the sand the blood