JSNES 2: A House Divided

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Vol. 5, Issue 2 - 1804

Governor Milledge Opens Door to Emigrants, Refugees

With Ireland and central Europe ravaged by war, Governor Milledge has pushed a series of humanitarian measures through the state Legislature aimed at helping those poor souls displaced, impoverished, or made homeless by the horrors of warfare. The Sanctuary & Solace Acts, as they have been popuarly termed, open the ports of Georgia to all people fleeing the devastation of the war in Europe, and provide immigrant families with forty acres of frontier land and basic supplies, under a land-grant policy similar to that already in place for Georgian citizens. It is hoped that families and individuals victimized by the European war will take advantage of the opportunity, helping to settle and civilize Georgia's western frontier, and bringing their skills and expertise in crafts and agriculture from Ireland, Germany, and the Habsburg realms. While Milledge has been criticized by certain reactionary elements within the heartless Federalist policy for exposing Georgia to non-English settlers, the Governor has defended his actions by pointing out that Germans and Irish are quite nearly white, and altogether preferable to both the Negro slaves which are imported daily, and the Cherokee and other Injuns that his administration is working to rid the state of.

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^Some of the first German immigrants to reach Savannah
 
The states dealing with the Caribbean front (south) needs to send reinforcements to solidify our gains. Since this front is under Federal leadership (we just send the men to go under their command) we do not have to do any of the planning. it would be best to send regulars or elites as conscripts may not be suited well with being outside their state.
 
We need a strong coast guard to prevent the British from landing again while at the same time focasing our remaining militias in a position to quickly stop any sucessful invasion.
 
Because of the interest on our debt, Georgia is currently unable to raise further troops for the war effort. What forces we do have will be defending Savannah and the Georgia coast from British raiding.
 
Connecticut petitions to take over the Canadian campiagn from New York, since their plans have caused unacceptable losses in the Northern Front.
 
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Vol. 5, Issue 3 - 1804

Militia to Spare Assimilated Cherokee

With General McIntosh being reassigned to the force defending Savannah, the standing orders for the militia in the West have changed. While the two divisions fighting in the northern and western reaches of the state remain under orders to remove, relocate, or otherwise neutralize all resistant and hostile Injun tribes, the new commanding officer on the Injun front has issued a directive ordering that assimilated, slave-holding Cherokee farming families be spared relocation or elimination. It is believed that the new militia command wishes to gain the favor and willing obedience of the civilized, agrarian, slave-owning Cherokee, who generally sympathize with the land-owning, slave-holding class of Georgian white planters.

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^Civilized Cherokee slaveholder in the central Georgia; the hopeful future of the finer Injun races
 
Virginia petitions that the Federal government be held resposnible for planning and executing military actions, as is the Commander-In-Chiefs duty, and as such federal control of the military forces currently engaged at war (much as the entire Carribean front is) be enforced. All states retain the right to send and return forces from war as they pelase, but all forces in foreign lands be considered under federal command.
 
OOC: But some one's got to write the order set...and I'd rather not leave it up to Josef cause he will make it interesting by adding a twist to anything he does...
 
OOC: I guess that could work....
 
Georgia supports Federal strategic command in wartime campaigns, and asserts the right of every State to lend and withdraw their troops from all combat actions at any time.
 
North Carolina would like the states to be consulted before the federal government executes plans involving state troops.
 
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