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ligion is required by the Constituti-
m to quality u man for a seat in this
bouse, and such qualification is dis
pensed with by a declaration of
rights, the provision of the Constitu
tes house to suppose it possible that
they could ever assent to such ab
surdities. For all know that perse
cution in all its shapes and modifica
tions is contrary to the genius ofoui
lion must be altogeter inoperative, government and the spirit of oui
as the language of the bill of rights is laws ; and that it can never produce
THE POWER OF MUSIC.
When Ovpheua went down to the regions
below,
Which nun are forbidden to »ee,
lie tun’d up hi« lyic, as old hiftuiit* (hew,
To set his Euridicc free.
All hell was aftonifh’d a person so wise,
Should rafhly endanger his life,
And venture so far—but how vaft their »ur-
prize,
When Kiev heard that he came for liia
wife '
To find out a punilhmrnt due to his fault,
O'ul Pluto long pnzlied his brain ;
BuJ hell had not torments fufficient, he
thought—
So he gave him his wife back again.
But pity succeeding foundplacc in his hear'?
And, pleas’J with his playing so well,
He took her again in reward of his art,
8uch power had music in hell !
ANIXOOTi: Or VOLT-AIRE.
Voltaire having written a seven
satire upon the King of Prussia, ii
so nettled him, that he never could
forgive it. Upon hearing that the
hard was at Leipsic,he told Count de
~ r i on<; °1 his Aid de Camps, that
he could confer a singular obligation
on him : The Aid de Camp, who
said he only lived to obey his Majes
ty, was told, the object was to pro
perly requite Mr. Voltaire for the
obligation he had conferred in tha.
satire, i lit. hint was sufficient, the
Count flew to execute his Sovereign’s
pleasure. He repaired to Leipsic,
and waiting one morning upon Vol
taire, he complimented him upon his
extraordinary merit, and inquired if
lie was not the author of that parti
cular poem, to%hich the bard very
innocently replied, yes : “ Then Sir,
said lie, it is a scandal to the judg
ment of the present ago, that you
have not yet been properly* recom
pensed for it. I have a commission,
Sir, to reward you liberally for this
production, and have too great a sense
ol its value, anil too much generosity
to deprive you ot any part of your
due.” Having said this, lie caned
him very severely, w hilst the unfor
tunate hard in vain pleaded for mer
cy. The obligation being thus re
quited, the Count drew up a receipt,
in the following terms, which he in
sisted upon Voltaire’s signing,on pain
of farther corporal punishment:
“ Re reived of his Prussian Majes
ty, by the hands of the Count de
, one hundred bastinadoes, very
judiciously applied, lor having wroti
ll satire upon his said " Majesty, in
full of all demands, witness my
hand,
VOLTAIRE.”
Speech of Mr. Jacob Henry in the
House of Commons in North Caro
lina, on a Resolution to vacate his
seat, on the allegation that “ he
denied the divine authority of the
.New Testament.”
'I hough I will not conceal the sur-
‘ that all men have a natural and un
alienable right to worship Almighty
God according to the dictates of their
own conscience.” It is undoubtedly
a natural right, anil when it is declar
ed to be an unalienable one, by the
people in their sovereign and origi
nal capacity, an attempt to alienate
it either by the Constitution or by
Law, must be vain and fruitless. It
is difficult to conceive how such a
provision crept into the Constitution,
unless it was from the difficulty the
human mind feels in suddenly eman-
ipating itself from the fetters by
•vhich it lias long been enchained :
nd how adverse it is to the feelings
md manners of the people of the pri
nt day every gentleman may* satis-
v himself by glancing at the reli
gibus belief of the persons who fill
he various civil offices in this state ;
there are Presbyterians, Lutherans,
Culvunists, Menonists, Baptists, Tri
uitarians and Unitarians—But as far
us my observation extends, there are
fewer Protestants in the strict sense
ol the word used bv the Convention
than any other persons ; for I suppose
hat they ment by it the Protestant
Religion as established by law in
England.
For other persuasions we see hou
ses ol Worship in almost every part
ol the state, but very lew for Pro
testants ; so few, that indeed I fear
that the people of this state would
ior some time remain unrepresented
in this House, if that clause of the
Constitution is supposed to be in force.
So far from believing the truth of
the .19 articles, I will venture to as
sert that a majority of the peopl
have never read them. If a man
should hold religious principle in
compatible with the freedom and
safety of the state, I do not hesitate
to pronounce that he should be ex
cluded from the public councils of
the same ; and I trust if I know my
self no one would be more ready to
aid and assist than myself. But I
should really he at a loss to specify
any known religious principles which
arc thus dangerous. It is surely a
question between a man and his ma
ker, and requires more than human
attributes to pronounce which of the
numerous sects prevailing in the
world is most acceptable to the Dei
ty. It a man fulfils the duties of that
religion, which his education or his
conscience has pointed to him as the
true one, no person, I hold in this
our land ol liberty, has a right to ar
raign him at the bar ol any inquisi
tion.—And the day I trust is long
past w hen principles merely specu
lative were propagated by force; when
the sincere & pious were made vic
tims and the light minded bribed into
hypocrites.
The proud monuments of liberty
knew that the purest homage man
could render to the Almighty was
in the sacrifice of his passions and
the performance of his duties ; the
ruler of the nmvf'fcn tirnuLl
any other effect, than to render mer
hvpocritesor martyrs. When Charle
the 5th, Emperor of Germany, tired
of the cares of Government resigned
his Crown to his son, he retired t<
a Monaster//, where he amused th<
evening ol his life in regulating the
movements of the watches, and en
deavoring to make a number keep
the same time, but not being able to
make any two go exactly alike, it led
him to reflect on the folly and crimes
he had committed, in attempting the
impossibility of making men think
alike ! !
Nothing is more easily demonstra
ted than that the conduct alone is the
subject of human laws, and tha
man ought to suffer civil disqualifi
cation for what he does, and not fo
what he thinks. The mind can te-
ceive laws only from him of whose
divine essence it is a portion ; He a
lone can punish disobedience ; for
ho else can know its movements,
or estimate their merits ? The reli
gion I profess inculcates every dutj
which man owes to his fellow men ;
it enjoins upon its votaries the prac
ticebfevery virtue, and the detesta
tion of every vice ; it teaches them
to hope for the favour of Heaven ex
actly in proportion as their lives are
directed by just, honourable and be -
neficient maxims....This then gentle
men is mv creed ; it was impressed
upon my infant mind, it has been
the director of my youth, the moni
tor ol my manhood, and will, I trust
be the consolation of my old age.
At any rate Mr. Speaker, I am sure
that you cannot see any thing in this
religion, to deprive me of my seat in
this house. Solar as relates to my life &
conduct, the examination of these 1
submit to with cheerfulness to your
candid and liberal construction.
What may be the religion of him
who made this objection against me,
or whether he has any religion or
not I am unable to say. I have ne
ver considered it my duty to prv in
to the belief of other members of this
house, if their actions are upright &
their conduc just, th rest is for
their own consideration not mine
I do not seek to make converts' to
my faith whatever it may be esteem
ed in the eyes of my officious frienu.
nor do I exclude, any man from lm
esteem or friendship, because he ano
I differ in that respect—the same
charity therefore it is not unreason
able to expect will be extended to my
self, because in all things that relate
to the state and to the duties of civil
life, I am bound by the same obliga
tions with my fellow citizens
does any man subscribe more
ccrely than myself to the
“ whatever ye would that men should
do unto you, do ye so even unto
them, for such is the law and th
prophets.”
^(jeriff’d <§>alc.
On the first Tuesday in April 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,
t being part of Lot, No, 108, in said dis
trict, taken as the properly of James Du-
posc to satibfy Hubert Reynold’s and Co’s,
execution.—Conditions Cash.
Jus. Riley, D. S. J. C
Fehruarv 27 18—tds
5»!jcrtff’d ^ ale.
WILL EE SOLD, on the first Tues-
ay in April next, at Monticcllo in
die county of Randofph, between the
usual hours,
One lot of Land,
Number one hundred and twenty, in
.he 17th district of Baldwin, now
Randolph county, levied on as the
property of Zachariah Easte’s to sa
tisfy an execution in favour ol Abed,
nego Wright; property pointed out
by the defendant.—Conditions Cash.
y. Evans, J). S. R. C,
Februar y 20. 17—td s
Cincinnati.
Savannah, Wcdnsday, fnn. 17, 1810.
At the request ot a number ot the
members of the Cincinnati Society
of Georgia, they convened at the Ex
change, ageeably to notice. It ap
pearing that the funds of the Socie
ty are in a deranged situation, arid
as the opinion of the members pre
sent, that a special meeting be held
at the Exchange, in the city of Sa
vannah, on Thursday the 22nd day
of March next, at 10 o’clock in the
forenoon, when an election will take
place lora President, V ice-President,
Treasurer and Secretary.
All persons having in possession
papers or any documents relative to
the society, are requested to attend
with them, and all the members
within the state are particularly in
vited.
Resolved, that notice be published
in the papers accordingly.
E. White.
February 13. Id—7h
.stale.
WILL BE SOLD on the first Tues
day in April next, at Monticello,
Randolph county,
The lot of Land,
No. 154, in the 17th district of Bald
win, now Randolph county, one bed,
one cow, one marc, and one chest,
levied on as the property of Zabed
Hearn and Moore Bagiev, to satisfy
an execution in favour of Lcvvelling
Williams.
P. Fitzpatrick, Sheriff.
February 27 18—tds
EAGLE TAVEJiJN.
%
m
The Subscriber informs bis 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.
Mlledgeville, Jan. 9, 1810. 11 —tf.
nor
sin-
maxim
100 Dollars Reward.
Strayed or stolen from the plantation ol
Capt. Samuel Tinsley, the latter part of laft
h, A ROAN HORSE, eleven years
between fourteen and fifteen hands
strong made, with thick mane and
trots and paces, but goes roughly.—
branded, hut the brands not recollect-
If strayed, a liberal reward will be 8i-
n his being delivered to the subscriber
living near the mouth of Little river. And
if stolen, the above reward on conviction of
the thief.
Hines Holt.
anil Baldwin county, March eo. 21 tf.
Who
Eslrav Mare.
considering himself bound'
rulcsol politeness, .vhich according be afflicted; and that novemnic.it.
to my sense ol propriety, should haveWre only concerned about the ac-
edh,n,,„ g ,ve me some previous i„- ,i on s and conduct of n.a
timation of his design, yet since I am not his speculative notions! IV
,.n ; '!“ i scu fV°"' V 1 ': 1 !">«« u. 1 feels himself soCaltctl ..
I!l, 1111 ,1C " - ,t a ul t u ‘ re-hove his fellows as to have a right to'C*' 1 ’"? tv Eagle "Tavern, Milled,rville,
^ dictate to them their mode of belief r j i? 1 L ,n * t- * Sorrel Mare, about fifteen
Mr. Speaker, know Shall this free country set an evim- h . ,gh ’ 7 , or 8 .>’ ear9 old » 8ho « switch
dif* >li>rlnt.nt'i.. n -f-t r . tail, a star on her forehead, and snipon the
" osc * The owner is requested to come
forward pay all expencesand take his pro
Roger Olmstead
20—tf
solution.
I certainly,
not the d
not the design of the ilechntim, „f„i , V' uuu J r , an exam-tail, a
Rights made bv the m'nnl,. At' ' L of persecution, w hich even the nose.
. I °P e °* this returning reason of enslaved FuroDe ^ orwai
" ” ......I.iijy.ui - turn
44-ih section ot the latter instrume
declines that the declaration ol
ought never to be violated on
pretence whatever. If there
< onsccrate great and fundamental "" ? onsclcllCL ' in chains, & fasten con-
rights and principles, which even the' T UP ° n ?® m,m! ,n s l ,lte ot the
Constitution emmt imp' ir for h • S.T Tf "V-T"’ & of ,hos *'
impair , toi the ^ habitudes which are blended with
lit;every pulsation of the heart ? Are
rights you prepared to plunge at once from
a any the sublime heights of moral lecisla-
gloomy ca-
ignorance r
Hnr ir.iv • r | from vour shores &
. . Z d,t: dm d^& "-oryoueconstitutions,
ration of rights must be
th'e 'const U u t i on asVht^* Cons tin u i on - f U subscribe to the same dog-
is to a Law r it t„,» “” “T 11 a,n„n~st the vt
reels it absolutely mid eonci'usiveiv j ,Lcts mto whicll we are tlivid
l..l.en,heUefi u U,er ro ,::|rfe^S£^ a ^J
apparent difference between the 3'cTn’s of
instruments, they ought il possible to Will you driv '
he reconciled. li„, if,here i, a final'from ih “sh
,hc Who do no, lav their oblations or
considered!,he same altar, observe the same , i
_March 13.
l’OR SALE—-for cash,
A young female servant,
as likely and valuable a« any in the Slate.
March 6 . Apply to the Printer
Holt’s Ferry.
All persons travelling on horse-back,
may cross at my Fern/ for half price*.
Thaddeus Holt
March 13
20—t
Wanted to Hire,
V NEGRO GIRL, from 14 to 15
wars of age Apply at this office.
January jo. t f
Executor’s Sale.
WILL EE SOLD, on the first Tues
day in April next, agreeable to an
order of the honourable, the court of
Ordinary of Clark county, at the
court-house in Putnam county,
One tract of Land,
containing 202 1-2 acres, lying and
being in the fourth district of Bald
win county, now Putnam county,
known by number 124 in said dis
trict for the benefit of the heirs and
creditors ot Joshua Browning, de
ceased.
Tr.RjiPfmade known on the day of
Sale, by
William Browning, Ex r.
Margaret Browning, Ex’x.
Fe bruary 6. 15—tds
JUST receTved,~
Andfor sale by Anthony Dyer & Son
Old & Genuine Liquors,
VIZ.
Cogniac Brandy,
Holland Gin,
W. I. Rum,
Whiskev.
ALSO,
Hollo Ware,
Tin Ware,
Hyson Tea, &c. &c.
March 6. 19
The Elegant Ilorse,
S A L T.
The subscriber expects in a few days to have
a quantity of salt at the boat yard, which
will be sold from the boat at one dollar &
tbirty-sevenand a half cents per bushel.
J. W. Dcvereux.
Maich «. j 9
Notice.
The Subscriber, has appointed
THOMAS HIGH, Esquire, his
agent for the collection of debts due
him by note ; and HORATIO L.
^ OOS1 ER to settle his unliquida
ted accounts, of which all persons
concerned, are requested to take no
tice.
Charles Williamson.
December 12. y t f
Brigade Orders.
Eritfadier Generals Quarters,
BRYAN O’LYNN,
(Imported by Governor Turner in the
fall of1803, J
WILL STAND the ensuing season
at my stable in Grecnsborough, at
Twenty Dollars the season, (to com
mence the 1st of March and end the
1st cf August)—notes forthe season
payable the 1st of December, to be
sent with the mares; Thirty-five
dollars to ensure a mare will be with
foal ; should the property of any
mare be changed, the insurance w ill
be demanded. If a m. re insured
should not prove with foal, the mo
ney will be returned. Ten Dollars
the single leap, to be paid down
with liberty to continue the season
by the payment of Ten Dollars
more. Good and extensive pastu
rage gratis, and the greatest care
shall lie taken to prevent escapes or
accidents, but I will not be liable for
either. Wheat lots well enclosed
for mures with young colts—servants
sent with mares boarded gratis. If
requested mares will be fed with
grain at the market price. Where
my one becomes responsible for five
mares, the season will be Sixteen
dollars each. Fifty cents to the
groom in every case, to be paid
down. (For performances and pe
digree, see bills.)
Benjamin Weaver.
Greens borough, J 13—2t
Jan. 23 1809. J from 1st March 12t
FOR SALE,
at this office, Fifty Reams
Medium printing paper,
of good quality Price S4 50 cts.
per Ream.
February 20. 17 tf
For Sale,
An elegant
Fowling Piece.
Enquire at this office.
November 28. 5—tf.
Notice.
NINE month* after daw I fh*|| apply
the honorable the Inferior Court of V\ ilkin.
Milledgevile, Xov. 9*>
Charles Wil
on account of his removal to the citvj Li,,1( ‘ Black Creek.' io" th- 5th d-ftret *aid
of Savannah, resigned the apnoint-' Wilkinson cownt U v ' z ■ L, ' f . No. 3^3, No.
Maine rhnrl.'.. U' u* ^ 1 county, for leave to sell the following
niajor Chaiks \. dliamson, having|tracts of Lnnd, (lying ne the mouth of
Brigade Inspector in his room; the heirs and creditors
therefore, all persons concerned, ai
hereby required, to respect and o!x
him as such.
JACOB MERCHANT, Adm*
Warren counLy, Jan, i/., isiq. is-omf
JOHN SCO TT, Erie'. Gen. a goo 1
Oil. /■>...* . 7 , . r, . 0
Far Sale,
8th Brigade, 3d Divison J
the Militia of this state.
November 28. 5 t f.
P p
l 1 N T 1 'JS C.
JiJDIXG HOUSE.
Enquire at this office.
January 2. 11—d
2?tanh
Neatly executed at this OJJicceyor SALE
'Em;i
AT TIII •> OFFICE