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to make compensation to Miller & Whitney for their discovery, take up 
the patent right, and release the Southern States from so burthensome 
a grievance. 
“ Resolved, that his Excellency the Governor, be requested to trans- 
mit copies of the foregoing report and resolutions, to the Executives 
of the States of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee, to 
be laid before their respective Legislatures, with a request of codp- 
eration, through their Senators and Representatives in Congress.” 
Popular feeling, stimulated by the most sordid motives, was now 
awakened throughout all the cotton-growing States. ‘Tennessee fol- 
lowed the example of South Carolina, in suspending the payment of 
the tax laid upon cotton gins, and a similar attempt was made at a sub- 
sequent séssion of the Legislature of North Carolina, but it wholly 
failed, and the report of a committee, offering a resolution, that “ the 
contract ought to be fulfilled with punctuality and good faith,” was 
adopted by both branches of the Legislature. 
There were also high minded men in South Carolina, who were 
indignant at the dishonorable measures adopted by their Legislature 
of 1803, and their sentiments had impressed the community 80 fa- 
vorably with regard to Mr. Whitney, that at the session of 1804, the 
Legislature not only rescinded what the previous Legislature had done, 
but signified their respect for Mr. Whitney, by marked commendations. 
or ought it to be forgotten, that there were in Georgia too, those 
who viewed with scorn and indignation, the base attempts of men led 
by unprincipled demagogues, to defraud Mr. Whitney. ‘The Augus- 
ta Herald of January 10, 1805, mentions the transactions in South 
Carolina in the following manner. 
‘Our readers will no doubt recollect that the Legislature of Soutli 
Carolina a year or two past, purchased of Messrs. Miller & Whitney, 
the patent right of using the Saw Gin in that state, for the sum © 
fifty thousand dollars. In this contract, Mr. Whitney was obliga 
ted within a stipulated time, to furnish the state with two models for 
the Saw Gin, of the best size and make according to his opinion, !F 
separating cotton from its seed. From some unexpected circull- 
stances, the models were not furnished in due time 3 and some gf 
misrepresentations having been made to a subsequent Legislature of 
that state, and considerable improper exertion having been made '0 
persuade them that Mr. Whitney was not the original inventor of the 
Saw Gin, they rather precipitately passed an act fora resolutions il 
pending the execution of their contract, and directing a sult to 
