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About Augusta herald. (Augusta [Ga.]) 1799-1822 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1808)
AUGUSTA HERALD. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 180 S. THE legislature of this state we under stand were to close their session on Tuesday evening last—they have passed we understand about seventy acts. The alleviating act, as it has been called, passed in June last, we are told is repealed , and its place has been suppli ed by another, which permits the courts to be again opened, and suits to go on as usual to judgment—and after judgment, the defen dant on the payment of one third of the amount due, and entering security for the re maining two thirds, is allowed to stay execu tion, lillthe 25th day of December next. The impeachment of the Fraction selling Commissioners has been concluded, and they have ad been found guilty on some of the charges exhibited against them. Obadiah Echols was pronounced to be guilty on the Ist, 2d, 3d, 6th, 7th, and Bth of the former articles of impeachment, and ol the Ist, 2d and 3d of the new. Reddick Simms, guilty of the Ist, 2d, 6th, 7th and Bth of the old articles, and the Ist, 2d and 3d of the new. Francis Flournoy was found guilty of the 6th, 7th and Bth of the old articles, au4 of the 2Aand 3d of the new. ■■’he sentence of the high court of ■rent was—That Obadiah Echols should be dis missed from any office be may now be hereafter prohibited from holding any office oi'honor, trust or profit, under this state, or any county thereof, during his natural life. That Reddick Simms should be dismissed' from any office he may now hold, and be here after prohibited from holding any office of hopor, trust or profit under this state, or any county thereof, during thirty years. That Francis Flournoy should be dismissed from any office he may now hold, and be here after prohibited from holding any office of hon or, trust or profit, under this state or any coun ty thereof, during twenty years. That they, Obadiah Echols, Reddick Simms and Francis Flournoy, pay eighteen hundred dollars for cost incurred on the prosecution ; and they stand committed until the. same is paid. If the writer in the last Chronicle, un der the signature of Philopatriae, is really of opinion that the embargo was, or is, as wise a measure as he pretends to think it, we have not the vanity, or even the wish to suppose, that any arguments of ours will change his sentiments. The President himself declares the embargo to have been a mere experiment which has occasioned serious inconvenience to tour citizens, and he acknowledges also, that the experiment has altogether failed in produ cing the effects he expected from it. Our minister in France in his correspondence, it is jM-etty well understood, has considered the em bargo as no Way calculated to benefit our coun try, and in England it is little thought of or re garded ; as far as official documents can lie re lied upon, it has produced no good abroad , and every part of our country bears testimony to its injurious effects at home—if under these circumstances the Chronicle writer considers the measure a wise one, he has certainly a light to his own opinion, but he will excuse us we hope, for being utterly unable to view his opinion as much wiser than the measure he admires. Proceedings founded in wisdom are expected to produce, and will almost invaria bly produce good—but a measure which even in theory promises ho advantage, and itl practice is found highly injurious, may in deed be called wise by its advocates, but the common sense of mankind, will in time, do ample justice to this species of political sa gacity. But we are told, that not one of the opposers of the embargo, “ has attempted to analyze it,” nor has. given “ in detail any reason” for censuring it. We do not know what this writer would call analyzing the embargo. It has been tried in the crucible of reason, it has been tested in the furnace of public dis enssion, and has gone through the tedious pro cess of a twelve months examination, aiid eve- I ry possible effort has been made to resolve it into its primary principles, arid to discover its secret excellencies, and yet we believe the most skilful chemist , in the United States, has tK>t been able to discover in it, a single valua ble or salutary property. And if this analysis is not sufficient to satisfy this speculative writer, and if he has not as yet discovered any “ reason in detail ” against the utility of his favourite measure, we recom mend to him, to peruse the speech of Mr. White, in our paper of to-day, and the ex tract under the New-York head, and if these do not furnish him with <JI tails sufficient to convince him of his errors, it will be needless for us to attempt his reformation. As to the opposers of the out substitutes lot it, were tut this, their j advice v.ould not he taken ; tfle win have Ton tl,e national ship upon wiil J sooner suffer her to Le d ished to fWslps, thkn j listen to the councils oi those wiio !iaRH| seen and pointed out the danger, and skill would have kept them floating upon the « full tide of success and steered them to their wished for port in safety. It has become the fashion, for the superficial politicians oi the day, both those who are in, and those who are put of office, to talk of the difficulties ol the nation, and to ask how they are to be reme died, as though political difficulties had never before occurred. If these gentlemen are not able to carry their recollection a few years Lack, we would advise them to take up Ram say’s Life of Washington, or any other work of the kind, and they will there discover, that the United States had as great difficulties to encounter under former administrations, as any they have since experienced ; but there .. - was then wisdom enough in the cabinet to ex tricate the country from its embarrassments, without committing the dignity of the nation, impaling its respectability, or checking the in creasing prosperity of its citizens.—Had a Washington continued to guide the helm of state, our country would still have continued flourishing and happy. But this writer tells us as an offsett to the evils of the embargo, that the manufactories of our country are increasing—we lejoice in sincerity at the success of every manufac turing establishment, but manufactories es-! tablished oryffie destruction of the commer cial and agricultural capital of tjie nation, afford but a coor evidence of general prosperi ty. A merchant or planter who is ruined by the Embargo, is but little relieved by being told of a manufactory of shot at Philadelphia, or by being informed that “41oth sells warm from the factory at eight dollars a yard,” when it takes as much of hisproduce to pay those eight dollars, as it formerly took to pay for four or six yards of cloth of a superior quality. But “ Connecticut, New-York and Virginia,” we are told “ are improving their sheep”— shee/i indeed, may, as tar as we know, be improved by the embargo—though we strongly suspect that some of them have already advanced so near to perfection, that all attempts at their further improvement will be useless. But ad mitting all the benefits, which it can he pre tended, that the woolley flock will derive from the embargo, we are by no means convinced that these will by any means compensate for a very general fleecing of our citizens. The fact is, in defiance of all attempts to disguise it, that the present difficulties, distress es and misfortunes of our country, have in a great measure been produced by the misman agement of the present administration—this truth it is in vain to deny, it must and will be extensively known to the present generation, and will be universally u .credited by posterity. The effects which the proceedings of our ru lers would j ) oduce were long since predicted, and events have abundantly verified, the fore bodeings of many of the substantial friends and patriots of our country ; and It has become as clear as the noon day sqn, that we must sooner or later, return to the policy which made us great, or our Fathers have bled in vain, and the American Revolution has been effected for naught. AFTER ten days consideration, the Chro nicle editor seems at a loss whether he had better accept Mr. Jefferson’s definition of Tory, or adopt ours—he finds if lie takes the Presi dent’s he is himselt a Tory, if he takes curs, that the Chronicle has never yet been under the direction of a Whig. But though he does not seem to know Where to place himself, he very gravely tells us that Dean Swift w'as a Tory. Now Swift lived and wrote in England upwards of one hundred years ago, and as he is pronounced 15 have been, what the Chronicle editor calls a Tory, we here find admitted what we have before hinted, that this editor knows nothing about the meaning of the terms of po litical distinction which have been generally used in this country. We will therefore in form him, that there is no English Dictionary extant, that defines the meaning of the terms Whig and Tory, as understood, and clearly comprehended by the great body of the Ameri can people, during the revolution—but as lie did not come into this country till long after the revolution, he may be Recused for only being able to comprehend particular terms, according to the English definitions. As however, we have now got the Chronicle idea of the word Tory, and as by his own explanation it includes the editor of that paper, there can certainly be no objection to his using it whenever he thinks proper—though we cannot but think that if he were to call himself a “ Land-Lottery Patriot” —it would be the most appropriate distinction he could adopt. The Chrenicle editor thanks us that we are not sorry, that those who came under the crimi nal laws of England have escaped —to this ci vility he is not enly welcome, but we congratu late him upon the good fortune that secured him a retreat to our shores—and we should have been truly glad, if his first editorial la bours in our country had been better calculated than they were, to give our citizens a favoura ble opinion, of his talents and his principles. With respect to “ the Chronicle indclgen" cies.” these certainly cannot occasion any un easiness to us, nor would we if we could, lay an embargo upon any spiritous liquors bound to the Chronicle port of entry , as we well know if supplies qf this kind were once interdicted, the public would soon loose an editor, whose place could not l>e completely supplied on this side the atlantic—but still we shall net we trust be required to believe, that an alliance with the bottle, makes any individual either a patriot or a republican. The question upon the non-intercourse resolutions, had not been taken in Congress on Jbe 7th instant, tlrfMjlte of our last accounts ■pom Washingtojjfl j|||L ilichmtnd the jol- J mermen 'Co*ise&fyidP'flor thmrar 18^9. It seemsTßmjßHHHHMppnington city arrived here she immediate raising and of ten thousand militia to be held to march at a moment’s warning is all alive as to the use intended hasty call. Citizens of Virginia 1 are you ready to turn out ? We know that your answer is, Yes, in defence of our country we are always ready , but we know that you, like us, will accompany the declaration with this question—For what are we to equip ? is it to fight the French, the Eng lish or who ? Would to God that we could an swer you. Be it then known to you, that the order has come from the secretary at war, to " J our executive here, unaccompanied with a sin gle reason ! No object is assigned 1 it is the peremptory order from the war office ! Citizens of Virginia, we wish not to alarm you unnecessarily upon any ocdfckm whatever, but we venture to say (and as wffig as we are at liberty we will speak and write) that even Bonaparte himself has never called out his • militia, without assigning a cause accom panjing the cull. Good Cod ! are we come to the despotic crisis when we are ordered to prepare for battle and our officers not even deign to inform us who our eneui) is ? You, our fellow-citizens will pause and ponder, and then with us, will shed a tear over our fallen liber ties ! Spirit of Washington whither hast thou fled ? we beseech thee to intercede for us once more ! Our national offences against thy ad vice have been many ! We have enstranged ourselves from thy laws, and there is no help in us ! We beseech thee to intercede with ■ thy God, that he will have mercy upon us ; for we are floor indeed, and miserably perverse ! Change our national hearts, and place us once more in the right way ! Washington City , Nov. 27. A. rumour has been current in this magni • ficent metropolis yesterday and to day, that in . consequence of despatches which Mr. Erskine has received from Halifax, he yesterday had i an interview with the president, and that li tre 1 is now a probability of an accommodation of our i differences with England, and a war with France. I am unable to trace the rumor to, i any source deserving attention. Thus much, - however, is true, that Mr. Howe, a special rnes i senger, has arrived here from Halifax with despatches of some kind for Mr. Evskine, and ; that after receiving them, he made a visit to the'presidential palace. What was the nature , of the interview, and whether it was any thing . more than a visit of ceremony, 1 believe is un know. , During, the anxious solicitude which at pre sent pervades the country, it is to be expected i that numerous extravagant reports will be cir : ciliated, many of which may probably be tra ; ceil to motives of interest, and others toinordi hate credulity. The fact is, that nothing is here known of the views and designs of the cabinet of the palace except what appears in the public acts of their agents in congress ; and judging from these the country has every thing to fear and very little to hope. Monday Evening, Nov. 28, 1808. It is now pretty well ascertained that the de spatches which Mr. Erskine received on Satur day contain nothing,interesting to this govern ment, or likely to change in any respect the i state of our foreign relations, or the plan of domestick operations which have their origin i in the presidential palace. It is supposed that 1 the communincations received by the British i minister relate solely to the military expedi tions fitting out at Halifax. (U. li. Gaz. RUTLAND. NOV. 21. Embargo Ejects—ln C.anada. A respectable merchant from Quebec in forms us, that “ the exports from Canada , in the articles of Pork, flour, Pot and Pearl Ash es, See. since the commencement of the Em bargo, have exceeded those of the preceeiling eight'yeais.” Thus it appears that our philo sophical Administration have helped the Brit ish against whom the Embargo is professedly aimed, to eight times the amount of their usual trade, increased their revenue, and diminished the resources of our own country—Well may the merchants of Quebec toast *• Mr. Jefferson and the Embargo," SPECIE. It is calculated that since the Embargo Laws were passed, more than Fifteen Tons of Gold and Silver have bem carried through this town to Canada, for the purpose of purchasing Bills of Exchange on England. What a blessed thing the Embargo is—it prevents the specie of the country from lying “ unproductive in the public vaults.” A gentleman who arrived here on Saturday, in 21 days from Cape Francois, informs us, that an express had arrived at tbwCape, bring ing information, that Gen. Ferrand had sur rendered the city of Saint Domingo to the British, and that it was garrisoned with troops of that nation. Humana, it was also said, was taken by the Spaniards. The surrender of the former was a voluntary offer on the part of Gen. Ferrand. The war between Ghristophe andT’etion still raged with unabated fury. The former had been successful latterly, particularly in the de struction of Petions’s naval force. (Norfolk Ledger , Dec. 5. We learn by the arrival of the Spanish ship Maria, that the day before she left Havana, news reached that place, that the city of St. Domingo had been taken by the Spaniards, and that General Fabrand, the French com mandant, had shot himself, in consequence. It was also stated that the Governor of Cuba had received a message from Gen. Christo phe, importing that he would surrender that part of tiie Island of St. Domingo, which fie possesses, to the officers of Ferdinand VII. provided he should think proper to take pos session of it in the name of that King. (Char. Cour. AUGUSTA ASSIZE OF BREAD, For December , 1808. The price of Superfine Flour being six dollars per barrel. The 12 cents loaf must The 12y cents loaf of weigh 2 lb. and 9 oz. fingjlour 2 lb dl3 oz. J7n do. Ilb V K oz. 'Mtkgi do. llb.&t.oz NmvnL VffiSf&KBERT, Cl'k. A Fresh Supply of Garden Seeds, Ftr Salt at the AuguHa B<*k jbnt. P. Le Tellier, W.D ENT IST.' Ladies and Gentlemen who wifli flkxoerience the benefif.% to he derived Ircm will do well to apply in- ,js m '* to ieave town on Thurs- N. B.^|F’residence is at Calffrey and Buffinc. D cfftiber 2a- 2 - “ Ihe Private Academy” UNDER the rlireftion of the Rev’d JOHN R. i HOMPSON, a. M will be opened Lit llie reception of Pupils upon Monday, [an oarv 2nd, 1809, at the the corner of Revnidri and jackfon S'reets, T;te terms of tuition, payable quarto!y in advance, will be for C'sflici!, and Mathematical ~ bfrdenrs : : : : : g* 00 *' ,r 'j le **i tl Evgiijh claf* : : 500 For Second ditto : : : : ; \ OQ With 50 cents per quarter for fuel, for the winter months. December 22. • 2( . , 03* i he Students of the Richmond County Academy, will be publicly examined on Friday next, commencing precisely at 10 o’clock in the mcrnfng.—The parents and guardians of the Students and thole citizen* wholtel anintereft in the literary improvement <>f the riling generation, the nope of our coun j !r .V, are refue«fu:i) invited to attend. %* *he Fruftees will please meet in their room at ball pafi 9 o’clock of laid morning. By or Jet ts the Pre/devt, THOMAS BARRETT, Cl'k. December a*. M'KINnF^^CoT HAVE RECEIVED, A CONSIGNMENT OF 650 Sacks Salt, two bulhels ench,and 52 Calks Rhode-Isiand Stone Lime, Whi h they cfLr low for cash. 1 December 22. a * t 2 . line 4-4 Linens, In Twelve to Thirteen Yard Pieces. the subscribers, Have Receive J on Ctmftgnment, a small QUANTITY OF Fine 4-4 Linen. Which they offVr by the piece on very low terms for cash. FRASER & CAMPBELL. December 2.2. 2 j FOR SALE, Awery elegant Northern made 'Fop Snlkey, With plated Mnah'inw* and Harnefs,—An. ply to BARRETT &* RMS. December p. 2. y Cotton Ware-House. THE Subfcrlbers beg leave to inform their friends and public in genera), tbar they have made a large addition to their W.ire- House, for the reception cotton —and hope from their attem n'» *hc inte rAt of tliofe who may favor them w-th heir bufinefj in that line, to merit a contioaau a of the public pat ronage. Barrett & sims. December 22. 3 f 03* N O 1 I C E. THE Subscribers to the BACHELORS BALL, held at Calf Frey & Bnfiins on the 16th tuft, are to call and pay the amount of their Subscriptions, to A. CAM FIELD, Tteaturer, December 22, 1808. it 25 153* Notice is Hereby Given , TO all persons who were at the la'e Regi nieDial Court of 1. quip-, found guilty of default, at the parade on the 31st day of OSlober last, 1 hot unless fettlementi be had with the Pa* Miller, within tbirtv days from the date hereof, executions will immediately thereafter be iftued again# ail delinquents. December 22. 2? 25 __ of Jugufla, fer the fit ft day of reet, Samuel Gray, BRISCOE. 25 ! THE House and Lot in Green Street, occu pied at present by John Hill, pclTelßon to ; be given the firfl January next.—For particu lars apply at the (tore of JOHN HILL & Co. ' December 2a. 25
