Men concerned in the Yazoo land frauds.
1796. [I was informed] that the Yazoo-men (as they are called in this place) were making every exertion to prevent General Jackson from being elected a Representative…. The people appeared to be of the anti-Yazoo party…. The Yazoo-men played a deep game, well knowing that it would be useless to start a full ticket of Yazoo-men in this country, as the people are violently opposed to all speculators, but particularly the Yazoo and Pine Barren.—Letter from Savannah, Ga.: The Aurora, Phila., Dec. 5.
1805. Much less could [the state of Georgia delegate her right] to a few Yazoo men.—John Randolph in Congress, Jan. 25: H. A. Garland, ‘Life,’ i. 203 (1851). See also pp. 66–7.
