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.Mr. Burges, of Rhode Island, in lis re- ply to MT. Clayton's speech, made tho fol- lowing remarks

 "What State in this Union had received more benefit at the hand of This Govern ment than Georgiag When she had but handful of inhabitants; not more than 20, ,OOO at the time of the Revolutionary

 War; and though she never sent more, than three or four hundred soldiers, to the Army of the Revolution, and for three years none at all, still she was protected. by the army. of the Union from the power of these red men, whom then she dreaded, though now she despises them. Since he had been member of that House, Gcor- gia had been paid large sums merely for having defended herself against these ln-s dians. When the country came triumph ant out of the Revolution, at the time when Virginia, with liberality not be paral- leled, surrendered up her immense Vest crn territories for the public good, and when New-York, with liberaliiy scarcely inferior, gave np an empire to pay tho debts of the War, Georgia refused to fol- low the example. She was entreated to greIinquish the land which had been won, not by the sword of Georgia, but by tho valor and tue blood of other States. She refused to do it. The State retained the territory within her grasp, and when the pre-emplion right was at length yielded. it was at the expense of the Union many mil- lions of dollars! As the lawand the Com stitution obliged them to do if, they sold the pre- -emption right on condition of the paymenIpfa . million and quarter of dol- lars, the dischargs of The claims which pre- Eyions purchasers had upon them for mon- ! ies advanced, and the axtinguishment of the Indian title. They haveasince receiv-

 the whole equivalent in money and land,

 to the amount in all of twenty five millions of dollars; they now have it in possession, under contract made but twentystn days after the passage of what was called tho intercourse law"