[1398] Robert Watkins.
[1399] See Report of the Commissioners, Am. State Papers, Public Lands, i, 132-35.
[1400] The "Yazoo men" carried two counties.
[1401] Chappell, 126.
[1402] The outgoing Governor, George Mathews, in his last message to the Legislature, stoutly defended his approval of the sale act. He attributed the attacks upon him to "base and malicious reports," inspired by "the blackest and the most persevering malice aided by disappointed avarice." The storm against the law was, he said, due to "popular clamour." (Message of Governor Mathews, Jan. 28, 1796, Harper: Case of the Georgia Sales on the Mississippi Considered, 92-93.)
[1403] Am. State Papers, Public Lands, i, 157.
[1404] Ib. 158.
[1405] Am. State Papers, Public Lands, i, 158.
[1406] The punctilious Legislature failed to explain that one hundred thousand dollars of the purchase money had already been appropriated and expended by the State. This sum they did not propose to restore.
[1407] "Or his deputy."