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1 ccrflje ferment of* a free) i» preferable t» the torpor of a despotic, Uorernment.)) VOL. II. ATHENS, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 7, 1833. NO. 25. $o.etr$>. 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««. f»taccUant>. 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 mi