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VoL. I. THE GEORGIA JOURNAL. -i- .. » * MILLEDGEVILLE, TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1810. No. 21* PUBLISHED nr SEATON GRANTLAND. (PRINTER TO THE STATE,) ON JEF FERSON STREET, OPPOSITE THE NORTH END OF THE STATE-HOUSE. ’■TERMS DOLLARS PER AN HUM, ONE HALF TO BE PAID IN AD VANCE ADVERTISEMENTS WILL BF. THANK FULLY RECEIVED, AND PUBLISHED AT THE CUSTOMARY PRICES. Substance of the observations made by Mr, Crawford, tifion the passage of the bill for fitting out fcfc. all the frigates belonging to the United States. (Continued.) The gentleman from Virginia has &ljenff’0 &ale. On the first Tuesday in Ap- - next in the town of Clinton, between the usual hours, WILL BE SOLD, 101 1-4 acres of Land, in the 11th district of Baldwin, now Jones, it being part of Lot. No. 108, in said dis trict, taken as the property of James Du» pose to satisfy Hubert Reynold’s and Co’s, exccution.—Conditions Cash. Jas. Riley, D. S. J. C. February 27 !£r tds JEAGMSTAVEiiflf The Subscriber informs his friends and the public in general, that he has purchased the house formerly occu pied by Major Edwin Mounger, where he intends to continue his for mer line of business, and hopes by due attention and industry to merit their patronage. Roger Olmstead. >Illedgeville, Jan. 9,1810. 11—tf SALT. The subscriber expects in a few days to hare a quantity of salt at the boat yard, which will be sold from the boat at one dollar & 'thirty'seven and a half cents per bushel J. W. Devereux. March S. 19 ♦♦ CONGRESS. that time the Secretary pf the Navy =ir til this event should happen, he was doctrine of non-resistance & absolute dependence. Mr. L. tookaviewof the according to my information, consent opposed to measures which exhausted ted to manage the nayd establish- tmUreasury without adding to the mil ment with 8 900/XXl, arilfc upon that consent the internal taxes were re pealed. If we are at liberty to con trast the expences of the navy of any two years by way of establishing the charge of inconsistency, let us take and substantial defence of the nation. the present and last year. Did we FOR SALE—-for cash, A young female servant, as likely and valuable a* any in the State. Apply to the Printer. March 6. 19 Holt’s Ferry. All persons travelling on horse-back, may cross at my Ferry for half price. Thaddeus Holt. March 13 20—tf Estray Mare. Came to the Eagle Tavern, Milledgeville, on the 5th in*t. a Sorrel Mare, about fifteen hands high, 7 or 8 years old, short switch tail, a star on her forehead, and snip on the nose. The owner is requested to come forward pay all expences and take his pro perty. Roger Olmstead. March 13. *0—tf reiterated the old maxim “ That to call into service the whole of the n.a- be prepared for war is the best me- vv last year ? Is the necessity for thod ol preserving peace,” and has this measure stronger now than at declared that he should vote for this that time ? No man will venture bill upon that principle. This max- the assertion. The expenditure of im has the authority of great names, the navy was last year 8 2,379,267, It may be true to a particular extent, and if this bill passes, it will rise this If these preparations are of such a year to 3 1-2 milions. The gentle-, nature as to make the nation invul- man from Maryland, (Mr. Smith) nerable, it is true. But, sir, when has no apprehension of war, and yet the preparations amount to the equip- votes for the bill upon principles ol ment of five firigates, and the nation economy—but he is only for repairing agaiust whom these preparations art the vessels, and not employing then*, made, can launch 1000 vessels'of while the gentleman from Virginia war against us, who can seriously intends to repair and employ them, urge this maxim as.a justification ol One gentleman says, the sum appro- ihe measure ? It is in vain for us to priated includes not only repairs hut contend upon the ocean with a nation rigging, &c. and the other, says, that who expends annually more than the sum is more than sufficient.— 8 300,000,000; a sum six times grea- The report of the Sccretav of the Na- ter than the whole amount of our ex- vy proves that this sum is for repairs ports. The charge of inconsistency onlv...and another report shews that against those who oppose the pas-8 130,000, were last year transferred sags of this bill, has been but feebly from the article of provisions, to the supported. By way of enforcing this article of repairs. If the same thing charge, we are told that when this does not happen in the present case, government was in the hands of fede- it ought to excite surprize ral gentlemen they fancied it was too We were told the other *iav bv the Week and attempted to legislate en- gentleman from Connecticut, (Mr. ergy into it, by creating a navy, and Hillhouse) that he hoped this bill encreasing the standing army. The would receive a unanimous vote people could not be made to feel or The same gentleman objects to the perceive this want of energy ami expence of the bill for the organizing turned them out of power. The re- 20,000 volunteer militia. This ex publicans, says the gentleman, who pence will not exceed 8 500,000 while succeeded them, like the pendulum the frigates,the object of his affection, of a clock, very naturally vibrated to will cost more than double that sum. the other extreme, and. have nearly To use his own expression in relation succeeded in legislating energy out to the volunteers, a high sounding of the government—That he was op- measure might receive my vote if it posed to both extremes. Sir, it is not was not an expensive one : but, for me to decide whether the gentle- § 12,000,000 or 1,300,000 is too large man from Virginia has alone been a sum to throw away in vaporing in consistent, while the restof his friends the present exhausted state of the have vibrated from one extreme to treasury. The gentleman from Con the other. The gentleman is certain- necticut and his friends are acting ly incorrect, when he says the naval consistently in supporting this hill, establishment was reduced and fixed The)* are supporting a system which upon its present looting hv arepubli- &alc. WILL BE SOLD, on the first Tues day in April next, at Monticello ii the county of Randolph, betwefen the usual hours, One lot of Land, ■Number one hundred and twenty, in the 17th district of Baldwin, now Randolph county, levied on as the property of Zachariah Haste’s to sa tisfy an execution in favour of Abed- nego Wright; property pointed out by the defendant.—Conditions Cash. y. Evans, D. S. R. C. Februaty 20.17-—ids Notice. NINE months after date I fhall apply to the honorable the Inferior Court of Wilkin- fbn county, for leave to tell tlie following tracts of Lmd, (lying near the mouth of Little Black Creek, in the 3th difkrict said Wilkinson county) viz Lot, No. 303, No. 234, No. 233, and one half of Lot, No. 234. Alfo, about 100 acres on Reedy creek, Warren County, all belonging to the efiate of JelTe Matthews, deceased, for the bene* fit of the hehs and creditors. JACOB MERCHANT, Adm • Warren county, Jan. u», tsio. I2 ~8mf Notice. Application will be made to the honors ble the Inferior Court of Baldwin County after the expiration of nine mon ‘™ leave to sell the undivided half of Lot, INo 196, 5th diftrict of Wi’kinson, now Bdd win, sold for the benefit of the heirs and January 9, 1309. Wanted to Hire, A NEGRO GIRL, from 14 to 15 years of age Apply at this office. January 30. : i4— tf can administration. The navy whicn was created by a federal administra tion was by that administration redu ced to what they called a peace estab lishment. In this situation it was found by the Hite administration; who so far from running into the ex treme stopped short in the salutary work of reform. It will be recollect ed that at the downfall of the federal administration, the most gloomy pre dictions were uttered by the advo cates of a sinking causrt—every thing sacred—every thing venerable—eve ry thing in fact which links and binds society together, was according to federal declamation, to be trodden under foot, and torn asunder by their successors, whom they branded with the odious epithet of jacobins. Un fortunately for the cause of reforma tion, at this precise time, the hopes of the philanthropist and patriots were blasted in i ranee. The blind fury of their unprincipled dema gogucs, their jacobinical leaders, un der the specious pretcxtol reform,had trampled upon every institution in that country, which was held dear by the people, and the last ray of hope, that rational liberty would be esta blished in that nation, had perished forever. Under these circumstances the new administration, cautiously guarding against the charge of inno vation, stopped short of their duty. They ought to have amputated this fungus of the body politic, and restor ed it to a sound and healthy state. This was not done, and the na tion has consequently spent about 8 12,000,000, upon it. But we are informed that the navy in 1800-1 was larger than it now is, although our revenue was then interior to what it is now. If we refuse now to put in commission and service all the ves sels which were not sold in 1800-L, we stand convicted of inconsistency But, sir, is the revenue greater now than at that period, or has the whole of the public vessels then retained, ever been put in service, from that yekr until the present time i Let the records of the nation decide* At owes its birth to them. They believ ed, and no doubt honestly, that a government which relied for support only on the utsity of its measures, would he weak anil inefficient. They endeavored to strengthen it by crea ting a system of patrohage, and for that purpose the navy was built, and for that purpose and that alone, is it calculated. But the time when this navy was built; and the purposes for which it was ostensibly destined, enabled them to reason more plausi bly in its favor than we can for the additional expence called for by this bill. They intended, to employ it against France, where it would he efficient to a particular extent. We intend to employ ours, il it is to be employed at all, against Great Britain, where will be wholly inefficient, and worse than inefficient. But, sir, our naval force is not to be employed at all, if the two positi ons, attempted to be established in 'my previous observations, he correct. If we do not intend to declare war, nor expect it to be declared against us, what apology have'we for incur ring this er.ormous expence ? What apology have we to etiibark in war expences, when w« intend, and expect to be at peace ? Gentlemen who think with me, who believe that we shall not have war, and that so far as depends upon our own actions, we ought not to have it, will do well to reflect that when our fleets are equip ped, and armies raised, we must cm ploy them—we mU3t go to war to justify ourselves to the nation for the exorbitant expences which have been incurred by these means. Mr. C. said that the observations he had made as to the expence of this e- quipraent, rested upon the supposition that we are not to have war. In this supposition the gentleman from Vir ginia acquiesces at least to a particular extent. If the nation should unfortu nately be involved in war—it ought to be prosecuted wUh vigor, as well offen sively as defensively. The energies and resources of the nation ought to House tf Representatives: Mondays February 26. COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. Uie House resumed the considera tion of tlic amendments of the Senate to thef bill concerning commercial in tercourse with G. Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes. Mr. Mumford expressed a hope that the House would not concur irt the amendments of the Senate ; tor they had struck out all that part of the hill which was good for any thing. Government, he said, was instituted fo'r the protection of life, liberty and prpperty. If the House adopted the onal insults bill as amended, they abandoned the protection of property-—and if they refused to protect commerce, the liberty of the citizen would also be unprotected, as it had been violated for seven years past. He s:tid he him self had been a witness of the lacera tion of one of our citizens in such an inhuman manner that he had expired under the last castigation inflicted on him. This was in punishment for an attempt to regain his liberty*. Pro perty afloat on the ocean could be defended by insurance ; but the liber ty of the citizen could not be insured. Mr.M. called upon gentlemen, in the name of the seamen, who looked to the government for protection, to a dopt some measure for their security. His system, he said, was that of con vov. It was not a system of to-day ; his opposition to the bill as it went f rom the House had not been an op position for opposition’s sake ; on the one hand he had opposed it, but he had offered a substitute on the other. The bill as amended, Mr. Mumford said, was a tacit acknowledgment to the belligerents that we have been al! in the wrong for seven years past and that they have been wholly right; fk in proportion as we receded, they would certainly advance. For him self, he wanted nothing of the belli gerents hut common justice ; but, if the nation would not assert its rights at this time, we should indeed be come hewers of wood and drawers of water, lie said he was in favor of the Embargo originally—he believed it a wise measure, and had no doubt it had saved a hundred millions ofdol- lars to the nation ; and, if power had been put in the hands of the President to enforce it, there would have been none of the smuggling which was now complained of. The fault lay in trust ing too much to the perfectibility of human nature. Laws never were made to restrain good men but to bind rogues ; and some law there fore was necessary to carry them into effect. Mr. M. quoted the Journals to shew that the hill to authorise the President to employ the naval force to enforce the embargo had been post poned indefinitely. He mentioned this because the violation of the em hargo system had been charged on the merchants generally, whose cha- vartous injurious measures and de crees of the belligerents and of the measures adopted by the U. S. incon sequence. Had the state of things altered since these measures were a- depted ? Had there been the least relaxation i He quoted the proceed ings of the Senate and House of Re presentatives twelve months ago, when, by a majority of one hundred 8c twenty one to tfco, this House' had resolved “ that the United States can not, without a sacrifice of their fights, honor & independence, submit to the late edicts of G. Britain and France.” And now it was proposed to submit to those very edicts—yes, to go be yond that submission—for since that time the nation had received additi- Mr. Love said he wish ed, however, more particularly to call the attention of the House to the substantial question of a dereliction of the spirit of our essential rights of property* and liberty. The bill as sent from the Senate now merely contain ed that resistance which tne legisla ture thought proper to oppose to the aggressions of British fleets or crui- zers entering our harbors and com mitting premeditated or wanton as saults and violations of our jurisdic tion ; but contained no other resist ance. If the House were to acquiesce in the amendments of the Senate, the bill would be such a recognition of the assumed rights of the belligerents as, by the law of nations, could never hereafter be controverted. He said it was a principle that a weak nation, when an irresistable force was em ployed to aid the views of a greater, could submit wihout disgrace. But was that the situation of the United States ? Should it be left to posteri ty to say that the present generation were unable to support their rights, when they had a milion of men into whose hands muskets and bayonets could be put, and a solid capital which would produce five hundred millions of dollars ? Posterity might blush for the degradation of the present generation if the hill passed, but could not urg^ in their excuse the plea of weakness. The principles of the bill as it went to the Senate were the last stage on this side sub mission. If resistance had never been Attempted, the omissiou would not have displayed so much weakness as it would now to withdraw it. What would he the consequence of now re ceding from resistance ? According to their former declarations, Mr. Love said by such conduct the House would acknowledge their submission. There were numerous instances re corded in history, whicn tested the position that non-resistance sanction ed usurpation. What was the fact in rtdalionyto the rule of *56 ? It was then for the first time that Great Britain had advanced the principle known by that name—and what, (said Air. L.) do the writers of the present day, what does the author of War in Disguise tell you ? Whv, that neutral powers had assented to the principle by submitting to its ap- racter he defended from a charge of plication. And, if we now adopt being habitual violators of the laws. dw amendments of the S nate, pos- rhere might be bad men amongst them, as there was in every class of society, but that was no reason to im peach the integrity of the whole. He hoped, before the House should con sent to the amendments to the bill, that they* would fall upon some sys tem to defend the liberty of the citi terity will be tolj diat we re cognized and sanctioned the principle, bemuse we submitted to it in pract'ce. Mr. L. next spoke of the prices of produce, of which so much was said, k of the improbability of their being better until tranquility should be in some measure restored in the Eti- his own property ; but when he re turned home, he could not bear to be called on by the fathers, mothers and relatives of these impressed citi zens to know yvhat had been done for their relief, and not have it in his power to answer them satisfactorily. Mr. Love declared his belief that since tjie formation of the constitu tion the American Congress had never been called upon to deliberate on so vitally important a question as that now proposed to them, which in fact involved a dereliction of the principles of the declaration of inde pendence. He said he had not been a warm advocate for the bill as it wentfromthis House; he had thought it a recession form the high ground He said he could take care of ro P tan wo,W - .Could the U. State- remove all restrictions on trade, could they restore peace in Europe, then and not till then might our citizens enjoy the benefit of a free commerce, it the news this day received were correct, Great Britain must follow the example of France in rescinding her decrees, or must abide the conse quences of a war. with us. If she Joes not want war with us, he said site would promptly recede, and then something like a fair price lor pro- duce might be expected. But it was useless to expect a fair price wmlst England was the only nation with whom we could trade and we were excluded from intercourse with al most all the continent. Before he was called upon to re- heretofore taken ; but, as returned, iijpeal the non-intercoursc, Mr. L. sait. be put ina state of requisition; but un- appeared to him to be bottomed on theme wish***! to see some measure pro-