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Resolutions which originated in the House of Representatives. 1819 153 (1819)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0126 and id is 1 raw text is: RESOLUTIONS, &c.. REtSOLUTIONS, ^Which o'riginated in the House of Represeitatives4 IoUSE Or REPREgENTATIVES, Saturday, 11th Deceinber, 1819. T his '.verilency the President of the United Statcm. ie ine'oritl, rewmonstirance and protest of the Se- 'rite ad uLmse of RIresentatives of the state of Geor 11a in eneral AXcssemily met, Yontie memorialists air impelled by a sense of duty which they owe theivielve.s and the people of Geor-ia agin to call the attention of your excellency to a subject ini which they consider their best and most permnanent in- tieets involv'ed. I has been the unfortunate lot of our state,- to be embroiled in the question of territorial rht, haloost from tihe commencement of her existence. Vhe feeling excited by such varmtl and succession of contest, have been hihtened and agravated by inconve- niences amid exposures incident to our frontier situation. To alleviate this condition-to circumscribe our extent of settlement and become more defensible; and finally, to settle the questions of tevrilory, limits and b6mndaries, were the prevailing inducements to the vast relinquisht ment made by Georgia to i lie United States in the arti- cles of a-reement and cession of 18902. Abstractedly from ti-ee induceients, it will not he contended that otlier comiderations could have produced tihe effect.- The period has now arrived, when in the opinion of your mnemiorialist, th subject is no longer to be regula- ted by the riles of policy and convenience, but has as- sunwd the move delinite and sutbitantial shape of positive right. R has lon'. been the desire of ueorgia, that hemr settlements should be extended to her ultimate limits- that the soil within her boundarie's should be subjected in her control, and that her police, organiization and go- veri:nent should be lixed and permanent. For the fuli- Iii.n.eit of the desires we have waited the tide * or we*t. IU

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