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VOL. II.
ATHENS, GEORGIA,
SEPTEMBER 7, 1833.
NO. 25.
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From the Lady's Book.
TO JULIA.
Oh, there are eyes wlioso-living light
Sccnifl kindreJ to another sphere,
Aa if twin rtan had loft their bright
And distant home, to wander here:
Yet btill they shine as coldly on,
As if to ho adored alone ;
But thine, thine aro the gentle eyes,
Both love and homage from us stealing,
Where minglo all love’s witcheries,
With rays of beauty and of feeling :
Their azure depths, through dcw-like tears,
Still glisten with a light more tender,
And thine unspoken hopes and fears
Now light them up, now dim their splendor.
And gracefully the chosnut hair
Is braided on thy placid brow—
Oh, may time's withering touch forbear
To cloud its snow so stainless now!
What thought upon thy dimpled check
The varying tints of beauty speak,
As delicate as those which rest
Upon the rose-bud’s opening breast—
It is not these, though fair thou art,
That win thee love from every heart!
Not these—wo know by many a token,
How quickly boauty’s charm is broken.
The perfumed lily of the vale,
Gleaming amid its shadowed leaves,
Tho pearl of flowers is scarce so frail
As the light spell that beauty weaves.
But thou lias! tnoro to grace thy youth :
Tin' spirit’s gentleness and truth,
In evciy soul-lit smile, »ve see.
Unstained ns aught of earth can be.
Thine in tho pure and lofty thought,
That hath from heaven its impulse caught—
Thine the warm heart that fain would bind
In bonds of love, all human kind.
These are thy jewels—and they twine
The link that draws all hearts to thine!
S««.
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state of my health induced my mother to send
me to Bermuda, where I arrived in the mouth
of July; and just twelve months afterwards,
she came over with her whole family, and re-
mained till Nov. 1785; when she encounter-
ed a long and boisterous passage, in a wretch
ed sloop, to Virginia. This laid the founda
tion of that disease, which deprived me, two
years afterwards, of the best mother that ev-
cr man had.
My sojourn in Bermuda was of essential
service to me in many respects. It was a
respite from the austere rule of my step fath
er, and the tyranny, hardly tolerable, of Mur
ray ; and I acquired a temper, not to brook
tamely ther unreasonable exactions. There
was a good country-gentleman’s library in
old Mr. Tucker’s house, where I staid; aud
here I read many sterling English authors.—
Your father and myself were always book
worms. It was a sort of bond to the affec
tion that united us. Our first question at
meeting, was, generally, “ What have \ou
read? Have you seen this or that work ?’—
By going to Bermuda, however, I lost my
Greek; I had just m.istered the grammar
perfectly, when I left Williamsburgh. Walk
ing rouiid the house, (it was a circular iron
railing that protected it,) of Lord Botetourt’s
statue, l hud committed the Westminster
grammar to memory, so as to be able to repeat
every word of it. The pendulum of the great
clock which vibrated over iny head, seemed
to concentrate my attention on my book,
My Bcrmudiau tutor, Ewing, had no Greek
class, and would not take the trouble of
teaching a single boy.
After our return, we went back to Wil
liamsburg!) ; your father continuing to board
with Murray, but attending Mr. Wythe in
Greek, Mathematics, and 1 think Latin also.
Soon afterwards he entered college. We
were at the grammar school kept in the old
capitol, which has been since pulled down,
to save the expense of repairing the hall,
where Henry spoke and independence was
declared. The shocking barbarity of Mur-
: ray towards my brother Theodorick, drove
From the New Y- rk Commercial Advertiser, 6/A nit. . f rom t j, e 8C hool, (our mpther was then
JOHN RANDOLPH, 01' ROANOivE. j in N. York for her health,) and soon after, I
[We give as our leading article tor this j e ^ j t> Having spent some months at home,
evening, the auto-biographical letter of the we (Theodorick and myself) were sent in
we were
Doct.
late John Randolph, of Roanoke—oiniit.ng j ji arc h 1787 to Princeton, where
some few expressions of harshness, which : j 0 j ne d in the summer by vour father,
might, perhaps, wound tlw feelings of survi- Witherspoon, in order to make the most out
ving relations in Virginia. * It was written in I of us> put Theodorick and myself into the
1813, to his nephew, who afterwards died g r mma , school, although we were further ad-
we believe, in England. It was never inten- Vlli;ce ,| th n aiiv of the freshmen or most of the
ded for the public eye by the writer; but Sophomores, in this subterranean abode of
with the very few omissions wc have made, j uo , ge an( J misrule, I was pent for five long
book. Devoted to pleasure and “fun,” as
he termed it, he not only set me a bad exam,
pie, but with his dissolute companions abso
lutely prevented me from reading. Often
have they forced the door of my study, and
tossed the books over the floor sometimes out
of the window. In two years, he under
mined hU constitution, and destroyed his
health forever; and after lingering a long
time a mere skeleton of liimself, he died at
Bizarre, just before the birth of your brother
St. George. My gu urdian—for under the im
pulse of the ascendency lie had acquired over
me, 1 had chosen Mr. Tucker as such—wus
so scanty in his supplies, that I became ne
cessitous ; of course, unhappy; and (why
should I conceal it ?) gradually fell iuto the
habits and wa . of life of mv unfortunate broth
er,—with inis oitierencc, that I continued to
read, but books of amusement only, enervating
and almost destroying ray intellectual pow,
ers, and vitiating my taste.' Y’our father was
married on the last day of the year 1789; and
in the summer following, Theodorick and I left
N. York for Virginia. In consequence of
iny mother’s death, her husband left Matoax,
to reside m Wiliiamslmrgli; where Edmund
Randolph, just appointed Attorney Geu. of
the U.S., at that time lived. He proposed
to Mr. Tucker, that I should study law un
der him : accordingly I wentto Philadelphia in
the month September, 1790, the year of the
removal of Congress from New York. I had
seen the old Congress expire, aud the new
one rise like a Phoenix ftom its ashes. I saw
the coronation (such in fact it was) of Gener
al Washington in 1789, and heard Ames and
Madison, when they first took their seats on
tiie floor of the House of Representatives,
Congress met at Philadelphia, aud Mr. Ran
dolph was too much cugrossed by politics and
his own necessities, to think of me. He too
embezzled the funds which Mr. Tucker en
trusted to him for my use. Had they been
faithfully applied, they were inadequate to my
dcccut support—only $400 per annum. For
what cause I know not, Mr. Randolph put
into my hands, by way of preparation tor
coarse to law, Hume’s metaphysical works,
1 had a great propensity lor that sort of read
ing. The conduct and conversation of Mr.
Tucker and his friends such as Col. Jones
and Beverly Randolph (every other word an
oath) had early in life led ine to regard reli
gion as the imposition of priestcraft. I soon
became a deist; and, by consequence, an
atheist. (I shudder whilst I write it; although
ray intentions were pure, and-1 was honestly
seeking after truth.) I say “by consequence,”
because I am convinced that deism
... ... , , ,, uecessd-
we cannot perceive the least objection to its j , ri0 itlis, and in September was transferred j rily leads by the fairest induction, to that
er, as much money as would defray the ex
pense of my journey ; and in January, 1796,
went to Charleston, (leaving you an infant
in the cradle,) and then'to Savannah, to see
Bryan. I returned in May, and a few weeks
afterwards, whilst I lay ill of billious fever,
at Petersburg!), your father, who had left me
convalescent, although 1 immediately relaps,
ed, was, in the most strange and mysterious
manner, snatched away from us not a few
weeks after he had reached his own house.
He left considerable debts of his own, (pro
duced as I have before explained to you,) and
ray father’s whole estate was under mortgage
for a heavy British debt. Unpracticed in
business, ignorant of the value of property,
I made a compromise with the creditors, and
saved much of the estate, that must otherwise
have been sacrificed. On you and St. George
my affections and hopes centered; and in you
I had the sweetest companions, and most du
tiful children. In 1799, chance threw me
into public life. The rest you probably know.
I omitted to state, that in the winter of
1792—3,1 spent some weeks at William and
Mary’s College, and made a slight beginning
in mathematics and natural philosophy.
These are but hints and dates, an outline
that I will on some other occasion fill up.—
With this superficial and defective education
I commenced politician. I can truly say,
that except from my mother, who taught me
to read, I never learned any thing from one
of ray preceptors. I must make a further
exception in favor of Cochrane, with whom 1
was for a few weeks only; I think not more
than five or six. The little that I know, has
been self-taught, picked up from the most
desultory reading, and chiefly from an inter,
course with the world. When I took up my
pen, nothing was further from my thoughts
than to dash off this loose and imperfect
sketch. Take as it is. Of the books that
I have read with most pleasure, and profit
too, I reckon Shakespeare, Milton, Pope’s
Homer, Don Quixotte, Chaucer, and Robin,
son Crusoe. Tliis last was, I believe, the
second book I ever read. Voltaire’s Life of
Charles IX. was the first, and ought to have
been named above. My Mother pointed ray
attention to the Czar, and I may say, “ Vid,
eo meliora, etc,”
Enclosed 19 a draft for $300. May it af
ford you pleasure and profit. I wish it were
a cypher more. I am as ever,
Your fond uncle,
JOHN RxYNDOLPH, of Roanoke.
upon. It is best to follow fashion in a small
degree, at least so far as not to distinguish
ourselves from our fellow men. But when
From the Washington News.
perpetually, and is never established long
enough to gain a name, when it destroys the
health, and too seriously lightens the pocket,
when it endangers character, then it is time
to put forth the declaration of Independence.
But after all, such slavery is not so hurtful
publication. The fling at Dr. Witherspoon, ; to ihe co (| e „ e , with habits acquired in that
will in no wise affect that great and good | 6C ; 100 i by no means propitious to studv. At
man’s memory. It was obviously the malig., Christmas, Theodorick and I went to New
nant petulance of a dissolute school boy, j York to spend what little money we had
thwarted in his purposes by being restrained j hoarded for that purpose; (little it'was, since
in his pocket money;—it is a flaunt daily re- j Witherspoon’s necessities drove him to em-
peated in the case of every similar guardian, j bezzle our funds;) and were recalled in a
Probably the charges against Mr. Tucker *
and Edmund Randolph are no better found-
conclusion. My late friend Joseph Bryan,
was placed by Major Pierce Butler, then in
the Senate from South Carolina, also under
the direction of Mr. Randolph, to road law.
The Attorney General had no office, and we
were to road at onr rooms such books as he
pointed out. After getting almost through the
political*
Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Monroe, Mus~
cogee, Newton, Pulaski, Rabun, Richmond^
Taliaferro, and Warren Counties.
with evidences usefkl to au the vptex
AND MIDDLE COUNTIES OF GEORGIA.
„ ri „ 1T , 1 . 1 „ * “k you to look at the following table,
nor commonly so obnoxious as the slavery to 1 1111 ^ Teat ^ y° u w® injured and de-
which prejudice subjects us. As we free I b ^ „ P ro P osc d plan of.the late Con- •
ourselves from prejudices and found our opin- f coua ty has 3,367 five white
ions upon judgment, we become free men. I "***•*•£* 13 entitled to two represen.
Prejudice makes more slaves than tyrants.— 1 abves * ■ e , new P™ will give her only
Prejudice has more victims than masters have. on . e ; re P res ®”^ atlve » and ^ eave * 215 /rf her free
Prejudice and ignorance Commonly go togeth-1 W ll * e V°P^^ lon unrepresented.; whilst Glynn
er: they are companions. Prejuice U ig- 622 fre . e wh , lte ,nhablt f nw
norance’s instructed Prejudice imposes edicts, I w hat Butts is to lose) now has one—
and hundreds obey. Prejudice forms opin- and under the n , ew l£ m 18 ba r e . one r fP re *
ions, and many are their slaves. Prejudice se J ntat, ^ e 5 to Butts * T . his 13
refuses lessons, and is established in its own ed t0 th ? P eo P 1 ®’ as ®? apportionment of rep-
self.conceit. Indeed the prejudiced man is re3ent f on ’ under »/«• white and
he whom you can do any thing with, provided man y boaest ^publican citizens, have .-taken
you flatter his prejudices. Thus it is easy to U P ™ th i he P lan ’ becaU3e 11 “ ^^jepublt.
see that Freedom as well as slavery is of va- can ’ . £* £. we l
rious kinds. Thatmanmeritsthehighappel- z ® n8 look at this plan dosely. If h be based
lation of a Freeman, afree citizen lho forms °? ^ popdatton only, and the county
his own opinions, and who knows how he of GI y Dn ^h 622 white persons te to have
formed thel-who investigates what he acts ? ne representative how many ought Butts to
upon, and who acts for Wmself-who takes have w,th h " 8 ’ 367 white Population ? An.
the best means of gaining information and ™ ! J 8 * h ° neSt n ™. t0
fears not to proclaim what his opinions are. sa y the apportionmen of representation
Our country needs emancipation* from party “ ™ ad ? tchde poptMton ^one? It is
slavery as much as from ne«£o slavery. For no f r J ht f “ d the 0U S ht to unde *
the first enslaves body and soul, and the oth-1 ce *I ! . „ . „ , , P
er but tho body aloae. It ta as much (he fa. £ ^nCompbcllcoanyhaa a free
terest of the dare master here, aa the slave whtte popalataom of 8,893, and has now too
master there, to keep us all in bondage— ” em ^ K ’ I ? nd “J? tave fatt one, leawng 12.
Emancipation is as desirable here aafherc. 4 Tl' 1 " ftec wh '“™"=P'c*n,?d.
—Portland (Maine) Ai.tOi.or. "“ h * " l ? lt0
v ’ J of 667, now has one, and is to. have the same
Grandilocioence.—A young New ffamp. I number under the new plan. By an equal
ed.]
December 13, 1813.
You shall “know something of my life
few days by a letter from your father, enclo- J first hook of Blackstonc, Brvan and myself
sing one from our mother, which summoned abandoned a profession, for which neither of
us had been qualified by a regular education,
and commenced men of pleasure,—plunging
into the “gaiety that tills the mouth with bl.is-
phemv, -the heart with wo ” In July, 1792,
I returned to Virginia, from want of means
for remaining ip Philadelphia. In this town,
on my way to Williiunsburgh, 1 wus taken ill
with the scarlet lever, aud brought to the
brink of the grave. So few charms had life
us to her dying bed side. We hastened
home, and saw her for the last time. In
January, 1788, she died. The sun rose and
nay, every thing, my dear son, that it can be set; the rivers flowed ; the order of nature
desirable or profitable for you to know. It is 1 went ou. This seemed to me at first unnat-
a tale not devoid of interest or events, and ural and shocking. My mother had been a
miclit be wrought up into a more engaging faithful executrix of my father’s will, a faith-
narrative, than ninety bine out of a hundred j fijl steward of the effects committed to her
of the hasty volumes which minister to the j charge, in trust for her children. She left
mental green-sickness of our misses and m ts- i clear accounts and money (not a small sum) for me, so strong was the disgust that I haJ
ters. Like yourself, I was left by my father in hand. In May, 1788, Theodorick and 1! token to the workl, that I was indifferent as
an orphan, when too young to be sensible of were sent to college in New York ; and your J to the issue of the disease. Reaching Wil-
my loss. The first thing that I can remem- father came on here to attend the debates of j liamsnurgh, 1 saw, for the first time, Mr.
ber, is, finding myself in my mother’s family, the Convention, on the question of adopting “
the pin-baskrl of the whole house. I think | or rejecting the federal constitution of 1787.
that I can recollect some circumstances that j This visit gave rise to the attachment between
must have happened in 1776 ; but I distinct, himself and your mother which terminated in
ly remember events which took place in the , their marriage about eighteen months after-
year following. I shared my mother’s wid-! wards.
pwed bed, and was the nestling of her bo- j Your father joined us in New York. He
fiom. Every night after I was undressed, : was in his nineteenth year and the most
and in the morning before I rose, I kneeled j manly youth and most elegant gentleman
down in my bed, and putting up my little that I ever saw. Mrs. Bingham of Philadel-
hands, repeatod after my mother the Lord’s phia, used to send him invitations to her par-
pmyerand the “belief;” and to this circum- j ties, and he often went from New York to
stance I attribute some of my present opin. that city to them! Yet he was neither de
bauched, nor dissipated. He was regular,
studious, above low company of any sort, “ the
great vulgar, or the small;” his “ apparel,”
ions. I say present, because they lay loug
dormant, and as if extinguished within me.
In the autumn of the year 1783, my moth-
*ar married St. George Tucker. From that, according to Lord ‘ Burleigh’s advice, was
*day there was a change in my situation. The J » costly not fineand you might see in his
first blow that I ever received, was from the i old attendant, Syphkt. whom he carried with
'hand of this man, and not a week after hi?: him to New York, that his master was a gen-
union with my mother. At his instance, I j tlcmnn. Columbia College was not yet re.
wa3 sent at the age of nine to the school of 1 covered from the shock of the revolution—it
Walker Murray, (who had been his fellow-j was just emerging out of chaos. The Pro-
- student at College,) in the county of Orange; j fes^or of Humanity, (Cochrane, now in the
then, und perhaps yet, a wild and savage coun
try, inhabited by the coarsest, the most igno
rant, and vicious of the human race! A new
world was opened to me. Our school fel-
lows, (your father and unde Theodoric were
at the some school.) were, with the exception
of one or two gentlemen's sons, adepts in ev-
ery species of profligacy—vulgar, brutal,
savage. Our schoolmaster was the most pet
ulant and malignant wretch in creation. We
had scarcely the necessaries of life; without
. -an opportunity to acquire any thing more than
as much Latin, as sufficed to furnish out
bold translation of the ordinary school books.
Indignant at his treatmcnCyour father, hardly
■thirteen years old, determined to desert and
go home. From our step-father, we looked
■tor nothing like sympathy or tenderness. My
brother was deterred by his expostulations
from executing bis purpose. Muttay trims-
college of Nova Scotia,) was an Irishman,
educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and a
most accomplished scholar. With him I en
tered as a private pupil, paying eight dollars
a month, (out of my own allowance for clothes,
Ac.) for the privilege. I had devoted the fall
vacation at Princeton, (1787,) to an attempt
at regaining my Greek; and now (July 1788)
burning with the thirst of knowledge, (which
I was not permitted to slake at the fountain
of Nassau,) and 'emulous of literary distinc
tion, I sat seriously to work, and was greatly
. encouraged by my tutor, who was or affected
| to be amazed, at the rapidity of my progress.
To my irreparable loss, he left college about
two or three months after I had entered ray
self os his private pupil. Your father’s re
turn to Virginia left without n friend.
“ Where,” you will ask, “ was my uncle
Theodorick ?” Alas! : my poor brother dif-
' tsrredhia flchQol to Williamsburg, and .we J fered in evety, respect from your noble father.
Tucker’s new wife. *
I snail never lorget the chilling coldness of
my reception. In a few days I set out for
Bizarre, and was once more restored to the
society of the fondest of brothers.—The
events t’ at soon followed, are those which I
have already related to you, and which you
say most truly, can never be forgotten. In
July, 1793, 1 again returned to Philadel.
phia, at my guardian’s instance, to while away
the time of my minority; and after encoun-
tering the horrors of the yellow fever, (which
broke out a few days after my arrival, and
drove my friend Bryan to Georgia,) I passed
the winter less unpleasantly thau the two for-
mer which 1 had spent there, and left the
right angled city in April or May 1794. In
June I came of age. The crop of that year
was destroyed, and also that of 1795, by the
flood. Sly guardian shewed me no accounts,
paid me nothing for the profits of my estate
during a minority of nineteen years, and I
found myself overwhelmed with overseers,
blacksmiths j and Sheriff’s claims of several
years standing. This reconciled me to the
sale of Matoax. Urged by vour father,
made liis house (at his request) my home,
and lived the life of a mere lounger.
The society of your father, the conversa-
tion and company of T. Thompson, ^(for
was half ray time in Petersburg,) did not
rouse my literary ambition. I rode about
from one race field to another; and whilst at
New Market races, my earliest friend, (your
father excepted,) Henry Middleton Rutledge,
son of Edward Rutledge, and nephew of the
celebrated Johu Rutledge, of South Carolina,
caUcd at Bizarre, on his way to Charleston,
and not finding me at home, left a letter, in
forming me of his intended voyage to Europe.
I knew Rutledge iq New York; we were in
College together, and I burned with desire to
See him Once moire. My giiardian had al
ways frowned upon .my wish to travel; and
now I had not the means of indulging the in*
Slavery is of all kinds.—In our efforts
to emancipate another section of the country
from slavery, we forget to emancipate our
selves from the many and various kinds of
slavery which keep us in bondage. There is
the slavery of parties of which we say no-
thing—that slavery which, with many, is as
imperious and tyrannical as the despot’s edict.
There is the slavery of custom, which sub-
jects us to a thousand troubles. There is
the slavery of fashion, which makes us ridic
ulous and absurd, and leads us to expensive
iudulgencies. There is the slavery of preju
dice, which makes us the victim of ignorance
and delusion. In short there are numerous
kinds of bondage other than that, and no bet
ter than that which the negro slave pays to
the white man. When the mind, the soul,
arc iu slavery, the case is much more lamen
table, and in a free country more dreadful
than when the slavery is that of the body, or
of service due to the master.
Let us speak of party. All men of warm
feelings will divide into parties. It is natu
ral, perhaps desirable in a free country, so
that the outs may watch the ins, and keep
them frugal, and careful and honest. But
when party makes a slave of the partisan,
party is as much of a curse to such a slave,
as the (lower a tyrant might have over him.
That man is a slave to others, who has no
will and opinion of his own when he is called
upon to cast his vote, lie is a slave who
does not think for himself but who suffers
others to think for him. He is a slave who
suffers and obeys the dictation of caucuses
and cabals, when such dictation conflicts with
his own sense of right and wrong. He is a
slave who goes with a party on all occasions,
even when that party goes wrong, and sets at man
defiance the principles of common honesty
For slavery is of all kinds and all degrees;
and though a white man may not own a white
man, yet he may own his vote, own his opin
ion^, own his services and his hurrahs and
his plaudits. Thus Bonaparte had thou
sands of white slaves.
In a free country there may be many, ve
ry many white slaves. The^man who dares
not express his opinion because ho holds an
office,’ is in many senses a slave. He is a
slave to his situation, the servant of another,
who exercises an irresponsible influence over
his will, and who commands his political ser
vices as powerfully as the Southern planter
commands the agricultural services of his ne
groes. The only difference is in the service.
The service in one case is in the field i in
the other at the ballot box, in caucus or in
drumming np. The Slave’s mind is at liberty 1
But the mind of such an office holder is in
thraldom.
The slavery of custom imposes upon us ma
ny restrictions. It may enslave the mind.—-
It often does enslave, the body, and put us in
the power, of others. But a moderate atten
tion to custom we would by no means repudi
ate. It is the most innocent slavery to which
we are subject, and often such subjection
useful.
shire lawyer, made his first speech to a juiy, I ratio Campbell ought to have Jive representa-
as counsel for a fellow who had stolen a horse tives.
collar. He knew that the jurymen were I 3. Carroll has a free white population of
more likely to be influenced by thundering I 3967, and now has two representatives, but
words and unintelligible nonsense, than by I under the new plan is to have but one, lea.
any facts stated by the witnesses, and he ac-1 ving 896 of her free white population uhrep.
cordingly determined to row their reason up I resented ; whilst Randolph, with a free white
salt river, and give them a touch of his quali. I population of 691, now has one, and is to keep
ty as a special pleader. What success he I one representative. By the same ratio, Car-
met with the reader will judge from his exor-1 roll ought to have nearly jive.
dium. 4. Pulaski county has a free white popula-
« Gentlemen of the Jury,” said he,«I gaze I tion of 2996, and now has two representatives,
upon you as the children of reanimated na- j and is to have but one, leaving tp>45 of her
tore, breathing the divine breezes of the odo-1 free white population unrepresented—whilst
riferous heavens that surround the constella-1 Bryan, with 724 free whites, (less than Polos-
tions ! Ye are not like the cold-blooded re* I ki loses) now has one, and is to retain one
gicides that overran and revolutionized revo. I representative. By this ratio, Pulaski ought
lutionary France with the region like blasts j to hove four.
of tempestuous whirlwinds, nor the fire-en-1 6. Rabun has a free white population of
gendered war-brands that threw the snows of I 2982, and now has two representatives, hut
Russia into a thaw and levelled Moscow in I is to lose one of these by the new plan, and
the imperceptible ruin that must amalgamate I also have 831 of her free whites unrepresent-
the wonder-stricken senses of admiring na-1 ed. Montgomery, with 946 free whites, now
tions from Constantinople to the peak of Ten- has one representative, and is to be allowed
eriffe ! I cannot indulge in high flown lu- one still. By this ratio Rabun ought to have
cubrations when 1 am speaking to men who I between three and four representatives,
know all the glorious refulgencies of human, j 6. Taliaferro has 3105 free whites and now
ity in a more classical and legislative capaci. I has two, but is to be cut down to one repre.
ty than any that ever graced the Medes, the sentative, which leaves 954 of her free whites
Persians, the Scandinavians, or the Phoenici* j unrepresented. Baker, with 977 free whites
ans; therefore, I will with modesty, confine I (about the number Taliaferro loses) now has
myself to this glorious consummation, that 1 one, and is privileged to hold on to one rep.
every natural generation should live without i resentative. But by this ratio, Taliaferro
aggravation, under every deprivation, and I ought to have more thau three,
never suffer themselves to be annihilated by I 7. Muscogee has 3106 free whites, and
the simultaneous, obnoxious, deteriorating I now has two representatives, but she is to
and abominable combination of incendiaries I lose one of* these, and the representation of
who accumulate but to separate and degener-1 955 of her free whites. Ware has 1063 free
ate those who never should be iaanimate.— I whites, and now has and is still to have one
But my countrymen, hear me and don’t be representative. By an equal ratio of repre
blind! If I could mount the winged pegasus Uentation with Ware, Muscogee ought to
with the most “ rapid velocity,” I could fly have three representatives. But Ware seems
over Mount Helicon, and travel the land of to be entitled to a representative for what
Egypt, to emancipate and elucidate all that! Muscogee loses!
can reveberate to substantiate the emacula-1 8. 1 YVarren with 5043 free whites, now ha9
tion of all that puts you at present into con- three representatives and is to have but two;
stemation.” I leaving 740 of her free whites unrepresented.
I McIntosh, with 1077 free whites, now has
Dangers of mistaken sympathy—-A | ^ an( j (3 to have one representative.’ But
fellow who lately murdered hi3 wife without jf the new plan was in truth based upon free
the least provocation, being asked what could I w hite ptipulaltion alone, and made unequal,
induce him to commit such an outrage, made I Warren would be entitled to near.five repre-
the following reply: I sentatives. ' .
“Why, the fact is, I am a very ambitious I 9. Richmond, with 5,558free whites, now
and, having no opportunity to gain | j^g three, but is to have only two representa-
fame by fair means, I thought I would take I tives under the new plan, leaving 1256 of
this method; for I saw how the moment a I her free whites unrepresented. Irwin with
man committed a murder, he became an ob-1 j086 free whites, 200 less than Richmond In
ject of public attention; the newspapers were J ae s, now has one, and will still be allowed
full of him; his appearance and dress, the I one representative. By an equal ratio, Rich-
color of his eyes and hair, and the most insig- mond should have more thanjiee !
nificant particulars were described, just as if j 10. Newton has 8101 free whites and now
he wns a great hero and had saved his coun- j has, and will be yet allowed three represen
try. Then the ladies 9llran after him, atten- j tatives, though she loses, upon an equal ra-
ded his trial, shed tears, and fainted away; 1 fl 0> ( 0 f 2151 free whites to a representative,)
so that he had all the attentions and sympa- j t h e representation of 1667 of her free whites,
thy of a martyr. Besides all this, he was J j$ U ( Appling with 1227 free whites less than.
pretty sure of being converted at last, and dy. J ^ thrown off in Newton, now has and will con
ing a good Christian, which he very likely J tinue to have one representative. An equal
would not have done, had he been a moral I ratio would give to Newton more than double
man and a peaceable citizen. r l hu3 you I her number of representatives,
see, that murder is the shortest cut to glory
in this world, and salvation in the next!”
The Valve of Married Men.—** A little |
more animation, my dear,” whispered Lady
B, to the gentle Susan, who was walking lan- ]
guidly through a quadrille. “ Do leave me two is to have but one representative.—-
to manage my own business, Mamma,” reph- ^ equal ratio would give, Monroe nearly sev-
ed the provident nymph; «I shall not dance | ^ representatives! ’ ' " **• *
11. Monroe has 9723 free whites, and
| now sends four, but will only send three rep
resentatives under the new plan, and will
I leave 3270 of her free whites unrepresented!
j Camden has 1441 free whites, not half the
I dumber cast away in Monroe, and now sends
roy ringlets out of curl for a married man/ —
ts
“ Of course not, my love; but I was not
aware who your partner was.”
“I have been gunning.” “Did you get
any thing ?” Yes: I got—
12. Habersham has 11),262 free whites,
and now hits, and is proposed to have three
representatives, leaving 3,867 of her free
whites unrepresented. Stewart has 1,371 free
whites, little mow than one third of what
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