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F01-TTTCA.Ii, ♦•ROM THE COLUMBI AN CENTINEL. NUMBER I. !rmircd within the gloomy recesses o' a dung-- n groaning responsive to th< clinking of their chains ; or turned Inshore friendless and pennyles^ in e strange land, without the reinotesi (probability of ever again treading (their native soil!—This fellow-citi zens is not a highly coloured picture (of our situation—It is not more ex- A refer- To TITF, PEOPLE OT GEORGIA Tellnv-Citizens, At a time when the whole civili-|travagant than the reality zed world is convulsed to its centre jicnee to the common journals ot the when in the conflict for supremacy, the sacred right of neutrality, is dis owned alike by the “ Mammoth of the Land and the Laviafhian ot the Ocean —In fine, when America our common country is insulted, wronged and even despised by those tyrants who have deluged the plains of Europe with the blood ofher ill- fated sons; one of the people—an obscure unassuming individual pre sumes to address you on a subject of the most interesting consequence to \our welfare and happiness The right of exercising at stated nnd convenient periods that supreme influence which the people possess in the government, by continuing their faithful, or removing their unfaith ful •servants, is what principally dis tinguishes a Republic from a Monar ch’, a government of the People from the government of a Tyrant. Tlii;. right, at all times inestimable, ir. bv the concurrence of circumstan ces, as important as they arc deplo rable, rendered peculiarly interesting at the present eventful period—A jrcriod when we must exist by the most strenuous exertions only, or re lapse into a state of worse than colo nial servitude. The political tem pest which has for years past desola ted Europe, and threatened the ex tinction of neutrality, has at length reached with its baneful influence the peaceful shores of America.— Great Britain and France in their zeal to destroy each other, seem bent upon the extirpation of the whole human family. They are in deed hostes humant generis. Our hitherto extensive commerce second only to that of the proud mistress of the Ocean, has fallen an unresisting dogs .var were let slip upon you by your then unnatural parent, your now in exorable enemy ; and the horrid In dian yell, excited by intrigue, was sounded within hearing of your wo men and children ; When an inva ding ai my marked its desolatingjfy -an execution in favor ol Henry H course through your country' with Strickland and others. For Sale, A House and half acre Lot, situated on Wayne street, near tt>e m?.y ket ; atpr'fent oenr- pied by Doctor Gil son. a Hou*e art! . , , wa. j l ■!!■! I, --W? half acre I or, joining kiniton county, levied on as tnc pro- the above. For terms apply to Messrs. Hill perty r ot Scott Montgomery,to satis- aiu t Ponce of Augufta or to A. M. Devereux. Tues- couit- house in Wilkinson county, between the usual hours, One Lot of Land, No. 351, in the 3d district of Wil- . m, "•****• day will verify the statement. Such then is the state of the nati- fi rt and blood, and a triumphant na- . . ( Also, Lot, No. 358, on—All these outrages and wrongs v y flushed with the pride ot conquest;^ t ^ e district, River Swamp are unappeased ; our repeated over- hovered around your coast; did y‘ )U vL an d, levied on as the property ot tures have been answered only by [could you then have supposed that Scott Montgomery, for the use ol A. repeated injuries. And will you A-io the degenerate year ot eighteen! Strickland and others, mericans ! Descendants of the mar- hundred and eight, there could be tyred Heroes of the Revolution, con- found Americans, ^ Representatives sent to wear at this stage of vour ex-imd Senators in Congress, base e- Milledgeville, March 20. Cl—tf Also, Lot, No. 143, Notice. There WILL BE SOLD at the Plantation of Doctor Henry Winder- weedle, dec’d. in Wilkinson county, at Public Auction, on the 24th day of August next, the following property, in the 23d district in said county, l e *, v ; z . Q ne Mare, bridle and sad- voke'nuugi, puuue.v v« uc.u.c vied on as the property of Joseph B.;^ Two Heiffer Yearlings, one ri- )iral- Britain, that inhuman power which J ont [ 8 ’ tosatisly Josuh Durdens rx-dj n g Carriage, and Harness, one ' h‘ U 1 1 ... tvio Kvr ornnefa. rr« • » n’l istence as a nation the iron yoke nough publicly to declare that Great- of oppression which you once so g lantly threw off ? VVill you by suf-jwas then “ transporting hither large feting the repeated insults & wrongs,swarms of foreign mercenaries to of Britain and France, tacitly invite [complete he» works of desolution & into this land of equal rights and pri-jdeath,” had “ done us no essential in- vileges the common enemies ofliber- A nd that two years alter- ty and offer upas incense on the wards, in the still more degenerate P APUll’P* altar of royalty, your Repub-|year of eighteen hundred and ten, a'wiLL BE SOLD on the IstTues Ijcan Constitution, and Declaration [majority ot the Representatives ot the people in pursuance of that doc- of Independence and Rights l I! vou are prepared for this, summon quickly to your aid the passive phi losophy of the degraded Italian ; prepare to prostrate yourselves with abject servility beforefthe footstool of despotism, & worship in the image ol some princely tyrant your ro\ al lord and master. But let us reverse the picture. Are you resolved to make a firm and vigorous stand in defence of your independence ? If this be your determination you will have unple scope for its exercise in the choice of Representatives to Con- 'ress-at the ensuing election. Un- ler circumstances like those I have been describing Fellow-Citizens,you will be called upon on the first Mon day in October next, to relieve, as far as the citizens of Georgia can be instrumental, your country from her present unparalleled; and unremitted difficulties. The public sentiment which has too long remained dor mant, will then I trust be audiby ex- the se licensed pirates. That com mercc which once whitened every victim to the unrighteous edicts of pressed in the election of men who will watch over with diligence, & maintain with energy your violated sea with the American canvas; r, gb ls * Independent Electors! Spurn which under the banners of neutrali-|‘ rom Y n " r Pf^ence the temporising ty, wafted to every port the products!'™ tc, b lhe tune saving sy cophant, •y, is now,alas!likeLuci- lwho w °uld “ patch up a compromise of our industry, . , - . fer son of the morning, fallen from its between honor and interest, necessity high estate,never I fear to rise again. and advantage* ns disgraceful as it is Each of the belligerents have in their contemptible. Let a sense of \our turn given us ample cause for war ^country’s wrongs fire with indignati- but the “ thoughts” and actions G f on your bosoms, and point with vi- our Representatives have notwith- S or )' our energies on that momen- trinc would degrade once Indepen dent America iato a state ol absolute and unqualified submission ; into a state, taking all things into consider ation ten-fold worse than the coloni al dependence from which she had just emerged ? I will not pursue these melancholy reflections. Geor gians! the crisis is an awful one. Big with the fate of freedom and mankind, it behoves you to be on ,our guard, and commit the sacred harge of vour liberties to men if intelligence only ; to men of unimpeachable honor and undoubted integrity. Care not what men call themselves ; ascertain what they re dly are. Judge of their professi ons by the general tenor of their ac tions. Let this only question be asked ; the only test required by Washington and Jefferson ; “ Is he honest. Is he capable, Is he faithful to the constitution If he be real ly all these, not if he only seems to re them, he is a true and genuine republican, a Patriot in the most li beral sense of the word. Such a man will never desert the cause of Liberty and the People. Such men in my opinion are BIBB, TROUP, FORSYTH fc? CLARKE. The merits and pretensions of the respective candidates shall he noticed in a succeding number. GEORGIANCS. ecution. Returned to^rne by aconsta |Silver Tobacco Box, ere Silver ble. Conditions,CASH. I Watch, one Gold Diamond Neck- Ueddick Bell, Shf. lace and Ring, Two Smooth Bor’d August 1. 40 tds. Guns, and sundry things too tedious to mention. ‘Terms will be made kown on the day of sale. Meritt Ethcredge, Ex’r. N. B. Qn the dnv and place a- bove-mcnt:oned, \>ill likewise be of fered for sale, some medicine. July 11. 37 5jSl—6t. day in September next, at the court house in Laurens county, between the usual hours, One Lot of Land, No. 40, 22 1-2 acres, lying in the 1st STATE OP GEORGIA, Laurens County. district Wilkinson, now Laurens'. , W “ E ^ EAS ' he . wi , d ™ of J°. h ." 1 ^‘ ,ac “ , . . * . late of this county dee d, ha» applied to me county, levied on as the propel tyol f or letters of udminiltration, on the tftate James Branswill, to satisfy two exe- of the fait! rfrceafrtl. Thefe are therefore cations in favor of the StAte. ALSO, to Cite and admonilh all and lingular the Q ne kindred and creditors of the faid deceafed, r, . | c. FT- J ;to be and appear at my office, within the T Factional olirvcy Ol Ecind, time prescribed by law, to Ihcw caufe if in the 18th district Wilkinson, now any they can, why faid letters flinuld not Laurens countv, No. 242, containing l,e K r * nt(, d. Given under my band this 61 acres, taken as the property oH 6t 1 a ^° -I u y* ,81 o- 1 ^ - A. Love, c. c. o. Dissolution. standing been “turned on peace.”— 1 day.—Invoke the pallid corpse] Co-partnership of Thomas & ° • <•• ot Pearce and the murdered seamen * 1 Encouraged by the exertions ol her u ‘ * .“''r ,, j V, *|ScuRRY is this dav dissolved by mu- loval «hM subject., COMM! all'those indebted to Britain perseveres in her naval war- "lent against the unfeeling cowardly fare upon our rights. Her unjust' vretch « who w ° uld “ hr,nk . a PP alled .vstem of impressment and search is fr f om a contest for the maintenance enforced with circums'ances of ri- of >' our independence. We boast gor and cruelty hitherto unpreccdcnt- much even now ot nat,onal mde P en said firm, whose notes or accounts d. She has blockaded our ports, dence, a term on which the Ameri- cattuied our ships and destroyed the ton S*» e once dwe t w,t , h P tculiar Hies of our people. She has let loosej force propriety ; but where is the upon the Atlantic, the common high- 1 ™" who sincerely believes whatever wav of nations, swarms of merciless!^ ^ fancy, that the United States privateers, to harrass our trade, and ar , e independent ? Is a nation devour the products of our land.| whost * naval lea S ue . , or sovereignty “ She has constrained our fellow-ei-i™)' eVi r - v da X be violated with ira- tizens taken captive on the high seas” pumty.even by a Inpolitan Corsair, to enter into her service, to fight her battles against their will, and perhaps eventually to turn their arms against the liberties of that country which had assisted in independent ? Is a nation whose Representatives, time-serving dema gogues, arc too ignorant and cow ardly to support a wise and magnani- they had assisted in establish-" 10115 administration m boid and vi- i„g: and nume rous other infringe- S° rous measures—who one day re- merits of our sovereignty, which if s , olveon a permanent system, and are now due, will make immediate payment to Jett Thomas, and those whose notes and accounts become due next fall, produce will be taken at the market prices. Jett Thomas. Richardson O. Scurry. The Business in future will be car ried on by the Subscriber, under the superintendance ot Richardson O Scurry, who will receive payment 8c give receipts in my name JETT THOMAS July 27. 40—3t. Petcr'Rowlett, to satisfy the States execution. ALSO, One Fractional Survey of Land, No. 322, 189 acres, 17th district Wilkinson, now Laurens county, le vied on as the property of Horatio Marbury, to satisfy James Meriwe ther’s execution. ALSO, One Lot of Land, lying in the 1st district Wilkinson, now Laurens county, No. 182, 22 1-2 acres, levied on as the property of John Barnbanec, to satisfy Collin Alford’s execution. ALSO, One 1-2 Lot of Land, No. 363, 101 acres, lying on the East side of said county in the 2d listrict Wilkinson, now Laurens county, taken as the property of Leo nard Greene, to satisfy the State’s execution. ALSO, One Lot of Land, No. 362, 1st district Wilkinson, now Laurens county, levied on as the pro perty of Jeremiah Welch, to satisfy an execution in favor of Bedford Brown. Conditions, CASH. ISAAC KIRKSET, Shf. August 1. 40—tds. Auguft !. 40— 4 AGREEABLE to an order of the Court of Ordinary of Hancock county, WILL BE SOLD, on the first Tuesday in September, at the Market House in Milledgeville, 406 Acres of Land, lying in Clarke county, on the wa ters of Ellison’s Creek, adjoining the lands of Wilson, McCisic, and o- thers, sold as part of the real estattt of Andrew Borland, dec’d. for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said deceased. Alexander Borland, Abraham Borland. J u b' 4. Administrators. Notice. All perfons hiving demands on lhe eftate of Robert Tait, late of Hancock county, deceased, are requested to render them to me duely attefted, and thole indebted to said eftate, are requested to make immedi. ate payment. Appleton W. Roseter, Ex’r. July it- a?—tf. &ljeriff’&altd. VVILL BE SOLD on the 1st Tues day in September next, at the court house in Wilkinson county, between the usual hours,the following Tracts of Land; Lot, No. 311, in the third district of said county, levied on as the property of John Lewis,to satisfy the states’execution, and others. Also, Lot, No. 9, in the said district, levied on as the property of Joel and Ford Butler, to satisfv,the states* execution. Con ditions, CASH. Arthur Burney, d. s. August 1. 40 tds. FOR SALE, at this office, Fifty Reams Medium printing paper, of good quality Price 84 50 cts. per Ream. The Subscribers, Return their thanks to their friends and customers for the liberal support ...v...,.... v, u . p- V i --j , . - , i •. it . they have had in the FACTORAGE suffered w«h impuuT.y, will justly ,h ' "gy'g a " d L„i COMMISSION LINK, and degrade us from the proud list ot 811 s la ■’ 111 open en . a would beg leave to recommend to sz . , r ,-, ~ , independent nations. g ^ 1 ^ France on the other hand is equal- ons Kel *| ow . Citizens , which v w Ul ? loUNGER ’ who has ,v u ed Wldl tbom ;On the first Tuesday in September V unjust and inexorable. She too h;u . e to answcr bv r votes at the !‘«r several years, and they take plea- next , at the court-house in the county 'as not been wanting in inanifestat.-U Rl ,. in£ , Comrressionnl .lertinn. Th. !sure m announcing to their friends, 0 fH andolp h t between the usuai hours WILL BE SOLD, 20,000lbs. Deer Skins, levied on as the property of William 1 has ons of hostility. Our great comm fi i! capital which was rashly aban doned by Congress, and as impru dently risked by our merchants, to the mercy of the merciless j has only served to enrich the coffers of the imperial despot.—Where are our merchantmen which once opened their sails to the prosperous wind and boldly put forth for sea ? Burnt]' lensuingCongressional election. Thel, , ,uu “ , u 8 f , U5 ’ tr present Congress is, I repeat it, with iU “ the >' h ? v , c «*» “” fid ™ ce the exception of a few spirited and !" h,m ' and doub J not b,,t l,c wd ' do ' enlightened individuals, amongwhomf st,cc to ,h " s '-' ’ ,ho ma >’ en,rust thcn ' I delight to number Crawford, bus,n “ s to h, ’ D care Bibb, and Troup a weak and tem porising body. They deserted in the hour of peril the restrictive sys tem, without having resolved on an [efficient substitute when they had so- tn uinl^’ determined that the only al- Sturges, Burroughs Butler. Savannah, June 5. 32—tf. & Commis- ditions, CASH. upon our own coast, or rottmir ml. .*■ r. . r? , i 6 ternative were “ Embargo, li ar, or French and Spanish ports, they will g lf t, n fi Sji i on » T } never return to cheer with the bu- sv hum ol industry the cafe-worn , , • . / * • ther a pa.uck \ war u erchant!—\\ here are our seamen, ,■ • , . * . . e . /. , . ! were al raid to resort to ; and if our brethren, Citizens ot America? Deprived of the navigation of theii vessels which were condemned with out even the formahti of a trial, the\ ere either forced into t service ol their plunderers grown rich on tht spoils oJ their honest industry ; im- The embargo as I have already observed was repealed or ra- thev their resolution was founded on truth, the nation is in a state of the most abject and acknowledged s^mission. C* gums ! Are you satisfied with the situation in which Congress las left the nation; srlf-abased, in F actorage sion Business. The Subscriber will enter into the above line of business, in the Store al present occupied by Messrs. Sturges, Burroughs and Butler, on the first o July next, and solicits a share of ih business of his friends and the pui> lie. Henry H. Moungei Savannah, June 5. 32—tf. School Rooks For Safe t' t/iis Office. Hammet, to satisfy an execution in favor of James Dick, h Co. and pointed out by the defendant. Con P. Fitzpatrick, Shf. July 25. 39 tds. STATE OF GEORGIA, Laurens county WHEREAS William Pdman hai apple ed to me tor letters of adn.iniftration on the Eftate of John Pitman, late of this county dec’d. Thele are tt.erefore lo cite and ad monifli ( all and singular the kindred and creditor* of the faid deceafed,to he and ap pear at my office within the time preferi bed by law, and (hew caule if any they can, \vt y fjid letters (hoiild not he granted. Gi- ':n under my band, this 25:h day of July, 10. A. Love, C. C. O. Auguft 1. 40—3’ + Ten Dollars Reward. DESERTED on the 8th inst. from a detachment of my company near the confluence of the Ocmulgee and Weofanhatche rivers, JOHN SILVEY; he is a native of Virginia, 5 feet 6 i-2 inches high, fair complexion, blue eves, light hair, and by occupation a Black-smith. The above reward will be paid to any person, who will ap prehend and deliver said deserter to me, or any commissioned officer of the United States’ Army ; or con fine him in jail and give information, so that I get him again, and all rea sonable expences from the place of apprehension to that of delivery, or confinement. T. A. Smith, Capt. Commandant. Tort Hawkins, July 25. 39 ft. Ten Dollars Reward. RANAWAY from the Subscri ber on Friday the 20th July, a negro woman, named HANNAH, about 30 years old ; she is of a yel low complexion, and when spoken to has a down look ; it is supposed she is at this time lurkigin or about Mil ledgeville. Whoever will deliver her to me, or secure her in jail that I get her again, shall receive tha above reward. John White, Capt. Putnam county, Aug. t, 40—2t, BLAMK iFfiEBS - El.EG ANTI. Y PRINTED, IFOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.