The Virginian

GOV. TROUP

We lay before our readers in another column, this precious document—a document replete with sentiments as liberal and anti-patriotic in themselves as they are harshly expressed. What great grievance has Georgia sustained from the general government, that her officers should put on such airs, and assume an attitude of hostility and defiance? Have her complaints been listened to with indifference: Or have her interests been overlooked and neglected— The events which have recently transpired are the best answers to these interrogatories To what was the recent Creek Treaty owing but to the continued solicitations of the Governor of Georgia made to the General Government, and the determination more than hinted at by this same Gov. Troup, to take forcible possession of the Creek lands and drive its unfortunate holders, formerly the undisputed masters of the soil, from the homes and the graves of their ancestors, beyond the Mississippi, if it could not be peaceably obtained Having obtained his object, (we have too much reason to fear, by suborning a few of the most insignificant Chiefs to sign a treaty to which the Indians themselves were opposed, and having witnessed the fruits of the intrigue in the death of its prime agent, he has no longer any thing to complain against the General Government on that score, and therefore raises from the ashes new embers of discontent and seeks to fan them into a flame But the people of Georgia, we hope, will frown upon his exertions , and, in the ensuing election, evince their disapprobation of his career, by a sentence of banishment from office. somewhat less honorable than the ostracism of Aristides