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TERRITORIAL PAPERS
’b’f’Congress,' we'cannot l>ut believe that claims of the poor Cultivators of the soil on the waters of the Mobile to be rescued from Oppression and Robberies committed on them at their very doors will at length Awaken the indignation and command the active energies of a Government truly impartial and paternal.
Resolved unanimously that the continued obstructions by the spanish Officers of every navigable stream from Pearl ■‘River to Georgia the frequent denial of the use of the great high ways of nature to American Citizens residing on the Alabama, Tombigby, Mobile and Paspagolg, .and ruinous exactions with which, when assuming the smiling Countenance of peace and conciliation they har-_ -rass the_people of the Territory too severely to be longer tolerated, and that in the opinion of this Assembly the whole Country from Georgia to the Pearl River will be entirely abandoned to Indians and Spaniards, or that both the ties which bind Citizens to their Government and the dictates of Providence and society will be too feeble to restrain the Oppressed from making one last and desperate effort to rid themselves of their Oppressors.
Resolved unanimously that the most effectual..way Jor the Federal Government to defend. this_Country is, to encourage .its population, and that in the Opinion of this Assembly it would be both wise and Economical to offer donations of land to new settlers in this Territory.
Resolved unanimously, that we_will_at the first call of.Govemment. devote ourselves and our property to obtain possession of the whole Territory east_of the .Mississippi-which belongs by__Treaty_to the United States.
Resolved unanimously that a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to each house of Congress, to the Delegate of the Mississippi Territory and to the Printer of the national Intelligencer.
Representatives Chamber	John	Ellis	Speaker	of	the
Jany 27th 1807	Hrnise of Representatives
Attest B. R Grayson Clk
Council Chamber 27th Jan7 1807	Joshua	Baker
Atteste Joshua Downs, Secy	President of the Council
[Endorsed] 9b Cong: L. 2d Sess. Resolutions of the government of the Mississippi territory. 1S07. Feb. 24. To lie.37
11	Senate Journal, IV, 156.