Newspaper Page Text
180
charges it routaineJ, anJ how was he to bo so
pressed without being furnished with a copy!—
After copies IfaJ been taken of both letters,
thev were compared and the geti leinen who
h id trausenhed Beverly’s letter to mo, append
ed a certificate that it was a true copy, and I
subscribed it under the impression that it bare
ly certified as to tho fidelity of the copy. My
in cution was to certify as to the truth of the
copy taken, and whether General Jackson’s
loiter was stated to have btvm enclosed in, or
announced by Beveily’s leitcrlo me, is surely
a matter of no consequence.
Mr, Beverly in his loiter published in the
Telegraph, before alluded to, complain* that
tho confidence ho reposed ill me was abused,
and asserts, than my age and infirmity prevent
ed him from “advancing further irith him in
the business1 claim no exemption by rea
son of age or infirmity to the call of any gentle-
nan. How 1 should have acted had the youth
ful Mr. Bevei ly, who is my senior by many
years, advanced further with mo, it is unnecessa
ry now to say! I would ask, not Mr. Beverly,
but any gentleman who thinks correctly, and
judges apart from prejudice and partiality, in
what particular havo I abused Mr. Beverly’s
confidence? All who will take tho trouble to read
Mr. Beverly’s loiter tome, before referred to,
w II perceive that ho voluntarily made a tender
of Gen. Jackson’s letter, and must have calcu
lated that I would submit it to Mr. Clay for
the purpose of obtaining his sentiments upou it,
and as it “was all a public matter,” did not pro
priety and fair dealing require that Mr. C.
should have a copy of tho charge* which “await
ed his denial." In addition to h-3 written ac
cusations, Mr. Beverly asserts that I committed
a breach of confidence by permitting Mr. Clay
even to see the General’s letter. The absurdity
of this i* so glaring that it requires lie comment
to render it more so. Mr. Beverly further
complains that General Jackson’s letter was at
once given up by me "to tho unlimited use
and abuse of Mr. Clay and his partisans."
This is a sheer misrepresentation. The letter
was given up to Mr. Clay alone, «tnd read by
no one else until it was given to my relation to
be copied. Mr. Bovoriy speaks of the many o-
vor! ures which ha fancies were made to him, to
imluco a complete reconciliation with Mr. Zane.
Tilts is mentioned for the purpose of sustaining
a ridiculous assertion, that I was wrought upon
most iud luously to do what I am now extreme
ly sorry for. That is, sorry for having suh-
iniuetl the letter to Mr. Clay, and given him a
copv^fit. This statement has nat the shadow
of tilth or probability to support ir. From the
time' I received General Jackson’s'lo'tor, up
to the moment of sending the copy to Mr. Clay,
I had consulted no person, nor had I received
tho advice of any ono. All I did from tho
commencement to the termination, was mv own
act, and I am alone responsible for it. So far
from being sorry for what I did, my most delib
erate judgment approves of it, and under tho
same circumstances, I would do the like again,
and confidently appeal to tho public for tho
correctness of my conduct.
But Mr. Beverly bis obtained some new
lights as to my conduct in this transaction.—
How else can I account for his change of lan
guage in regard to mv agency in this matter?—
The following certificates shew, that after he
had been fully apprised of what occurred at mv
house, ho expressed his satisfaction with the
course I had pursued: vet, in a few days after
h* writes the letter to General Green which 1
h i ve been reviewing. In one particular, I am
aware, that in the eyes of tho ieorthy Mr. Bev
erly, I committed a groat error. I did not send
for him io bo present nt tho time I presented
General Jackson’s letter to Mr. Clay. Had
th'*s gossip been present, peradvenniro, we
should havo had no denial from Mr. Clay; he
would have been so astounded as to have boon
incapable of uttering a siugto sentence.
■NOAII ZANE.
Wo horobv certify, that after the copies of
Gen, Jackson’s letter woro taken by Mr. Zaoo,
and before the da'o of Mr. Beverly’s leitor to
tho Editor of the Telegraph, dated tho 11th of
July, 1827, we heard M* Beverly say, that he
was satisfied with regard to tho conduct of Mr.
Zone in taking tho copies of lite letter above
referred to. W. F. PETERSON.
SAM. II. CllAPLIN.
Wheeling, 10th Aug. 1827.
Noah Zunt, Esq:
Dear Sir: 1 was in company with Mr. Car
ter Beverly when he. received your letter of
tie 29'h Juno last, enclosing to him the state
ment of the Hon. Henry Clay’s denial, at your
house, of the charges made against him in Gen.
Jackson’s letter to Carter Beverly. When he
hud rend your letter and tho statement, I ob
served to him that I hoped he was now satis
fied—he answered in the affirmative and said
ih it things were now as they ought to Jie and
niipaarea in high spirits; provious to your en
closure to him of the statement referred to, he
expressed much satisfaction.
Respectfully vours, &c.
. JOSEPH CALDWELL.
August 10th, 1827-
MACON.
Tuesday, September 18, 1821.
it Our C-untry....Our ulwlt Country."
Macon continues healthy,—few cases of fe
ver being in the place, and not ono malignant.
It is gratifying to wi nes* with what enthusi
asm the cause of Talbot and Union is supported
in every part of the state. The merits of the
consistent statesman, the upright and inflex
ible patriot, are duly appreciated by the peo
ple; and not withstanding the exertions that
are made to misrepresent his character and
belittle his services, we are bold to say, that
they will be at lengtli rewarded, with the
highest honors within the gift of the state.
So strong is the popular current in favor of
Talbot for Governor, that in some parts of
tho state the, name of his opponent is sel
dom mentioned. Politicians may declaim,
editors may vapor, and baggarts may snigger
as they will—it all will not do—lie cannot be
rootod from the affections of tho people. His
popularity is too firmly fixed, to be endanger
ed by sucli malicious endeavors.
Talbot iu the East.—Letters from Chat
ham, Bulloch, M‘Intosli and Lihorty counties,
speak in the most confident-manner of what
the result of tho ensuing election must be in the
Eastern Circuit, and affirm that on the lowest
calculation Talbot will receive three-fifths of
ilia votes. The trimming policy which the
Savannah Republican is now following, adds
weight to the intelligence. That violently
partisan paper finds it now judicious to bo so
moderate as to allow the insertion of Talbot
essays in its columns!
Jackson and Talbot Barbecue—The barbe
cue given oil tho 14th instant, at Mrs. Manning’s
Spring, witli'n a niilo of Clinton, Jones county,
was attended by eleven hundred and thirty-
fire citizens. The resolutions, adopted with
out one dissenting voice, were such as migli
have been expected from tho freemen of tha'
county—-energetic but dignified, patriotic but
just; and though the quality, abundance and
variety of both solids and liquids Woro such as
might induce o xcess, not an instance of ino-
briety occurred, nor an angry .ward uttered;
but as much decorum was observed as though
tho paople had convened for religious ptirpo e*.
So much for tho friends of the Union, of Jack-
son and of Talbot ill Jones county. Tho
proceedings in our next.
Cotton.—A few bales of tho new crop were
brought to M icon on the 12th instant, and sold
at from eight to nine and a half cents.
Wo are authorised to announce tho honora
ble .Thomas U. P. Charlton, of Savannah,
is a candidate for Congress io supply the va
cancy occasioned by tho resignation of Colo
nel Tattnall. !Io has been and is a firm and
consistent friend and supportor of Andrew
Jackson.
FOU SALE
T HAT well known TRACT of LAND, 1; _
in Muscoeee, No. 155, (one hundred and fifty,
five) in the tenth District, adjoining Raker’s.
CHARLES R. WYNN.
sept 17—3t—47 Forsyth, Monroe courf.y,
GEORGIA—Monroe County.
ORDINARY COURT,
September Term, 1827.
VW3HIEREAS r.ichard Levis hu made application
\U to this court, in term* of the law, requestin]
that Thomas Johnson and Polly Durham, executor am
executrix of Thomas Durham, dccensed, be directed
to execute titles to the said Lewis for lot number two
hundred and ninety-six in the fourteenth district of
Early connty. agreeable to a bond given by the said
Durham for that purpose.
It is therefore an motion ordered by the Court, That
unless cause to the contrarv be shewn in terms of the
statute, the said Thomas Johnson and Polly Durham
will on the first Monday in January next be directed
to execute title* accordingly: and that this order be
published according to law.
A true copy from the minutr* of said court, this 3d
• ■ ' r.ft27. JOHN POWELL, o.c.c.o.
f 10 .310am. ■ 40
September, ft
September 1
BEANES
TOR ALE AT THIS OFFICE.
CORRESPONDENCE.
“A Citizen” Io the Friends of the Union in
Monroe County, was received too late to appear
in to day’s piper, but will be published in our
next. “Looan” will be inserted at tho samo
Many calls from difforont parts of the country
having boen mado for our paper containing Mr.
Forsyth’s patriotic and grateful eulogium ou
tho services of Gen. Washington, and not hav
ittg had it in our power to meet them, wo think
it proper to republish the urticle as tho only
method of supplying the information dosireJ:
From the National Journal of March lsf.1827.
“IN CONGRESS.
House or Representatives,
Wednesday, February 28, 1827.
Tito following resolution offered yeasterday
by Mr. EVERETT, was taken up:
Resolved, That the Clork of this House bo
authorized and directed to purchase tho set of
Revolutionary Medals formorly tits property
of General Washington, to bo deposited in
the Library of Congress, provided tho ex
penso of the same shall not oxceod $500, t<
be paid for out of the contingent fund of this
House.
In reply to a question from Mr. FOR'
SYTH.
Mr. EVERETT statod, that this was a set
of medals struck in Paris, by order of the old
Congress, and this set was presented to Gen.
Washington. It belonged to some person uu«
known to him—-not to the individual who in
Iteritcd tho greater part of tho property of
General Washington, and was offered for sale
by public auction, in consequent of the pres
sure of circumstances. The dies from which
theso medals were struck are lost, so that it is
not posiblo that they caa be multiplied.
Mr. BURGES said, he was willing to obtain
these pieces of silver because they belonged to
Washington, not because they commemorat
ed any service of his, for these required not
to be engraved on metal.
Mr. FORSYTH suggested, that there was
nothing in the revolutionary or subsequent
services of General Washington, to induce
us to set to high a value oh any thing which
had been in his poscsssion. He felt as much
gratitude to General Washington as any man
ever did or ever could feel, but he was not
disposed to m tke purchases of this kind. He
objected to the manner in which this resolu
tion comes before us. The library is under
ihe control of a joint committee, and every
thing relating to it was effected by a joint re
solution.’’
FOB THE MACON TELEGRAPH,
Pons Assinorum, alias Georgia Journal..
Genius being a natural endowment of rare
occurrence, its absence is no reproach; and as
extensive knowledge theoretic or practical de
pends in general less on the merit of its pos
sessor than ou tlte circumstances in which birth
or accident may have placed him, ignoranco
of arts and science is no indication of depravi
ty. Illiterate people of very ordinary capacity
may enjoy the full measure of happiness alotted
to human nature: they may bo ns serviceable
to the country as the son of science or the war
rior whoso wreaths are empurpled with the
blood of a thousand victories; and, ill the faith
ful fulfilment of their duties, they are of right
entitled to all tiie respect that the most enlight
ened mortal can properly receive. Tho only
rational distinction in society is virtue; and to
this attribute, neither wealth nor power, geni
iis nor famo is essential. But when persons
of this character, either for the sakp of lucre or
to gratify a most preposterous vanity, assume
qualifications of which they are destitute and
without which they would ho equally respecta
ble and useful, the essay at deception Incurs
contempt or derision. In some instances how
ever tho individual lias so little left to his op.
tion, that while the dissimulation receives une
quivocal condemnation the person practicing it
is more an object of pity than aversion.
Precisely in tho latter fixture, iho junior pro
prietor of the Georgia Journal stands before
the people of Georgia. Originally dull but
temperate, slow but assiduous, he is well quali
fied to waddle, undistinguished, along the path
of common life, and perhaps to share in the
highest manual honors of a printing shop. For
more abstruse or complicated business, he has
neither by nature nor education any solid pre
tensions; but chance, often paramount to the
buoyancy of intellect, has placed him, in a sta
tion of some responsibility; and though now
and then beset with the nominal discharge of
functions beyond his comprehension, ho is, like
sumo o her patient animals, willing to abide
both scoffs and jeers, rather than quit tho man
ger, and lead a life of less plenty but more in
dependence. His task however is usually
when his partner is at home, he slinks in
to what may comparatively be called delecta
ble nothingness—extending his exertions no
further than to placing his pewter characters,
turning his screws, or presenting accounts for
payment. No sponsorship of narcotic vapid
ness or septic defamation then interferes with
his pursuits or disturbs his repose. His cere
brum is then tranquil, peristaltic motion takes
tho natural direction, and the excess of vascu
lar circulation goes towards his toes. He then
respires a genial atmosphere, and pours out
his soul over his blacking puffs and pieces of
spoon metal. But no happiness is perfect.—
There is an ichor of the mind as well ns of the
body, and its contact is more corrosive. In
the absolute of his partner, his huo changes;
and unlike Domitian, duty compels him to put
on the purple, and strut the pageant of editor
ial imperialism, goadud and checked by a re
gent. Indeed, such mockery and parade arc
outrageous'to his feelings; and it cannot but
awaken sympathy in his behalf, to see a plain,
dull sort of a good meaning man exhibited, by
a sneaking, dirty, halfwitted but presumptuous
fellow, iu a plight more ridiculous if possible
than was the baboon left by Captain Cook at
Otaheito and raised by tho uatives to chieftiau-
ship, which though presented With ihe baton of
jurisdiction and an Indian wife, would still rest
his rump on the dirt, catch fl es off his haunch-
os and chew them. But ho who fuses orpimont
must expect to now and then smell arsenic.
Though with nothing of tho soldier about
him, except a certain something resembling to-
ry regimentals, and suited to enrage cows and
tin kies, this automaton is made, in4he Journal
of the 7th ult. to boast thnt should he be- assailed
by the Telegraph, he would moVitcr imposuit
manus or loss gently, “chastise" tho writer, if
it suited his convenience or humor! A most
summary way this of exhausting tho argument
of peace! But the placid looking sweetly dis
posed little soul had been assured hy his Men •,
tor that there would bo no danger in fathering
tho threat, as the porson against whom it was
intended was “a bit of gentleman," “a half
tha junior proprietor into a puppet and his pub-
i- - • ... - ..aLi.Ia aC aillinntt mu) misrHiiffi#
1812. Afrer this period, will it bo
licaiion into a vehicle of silliness and misrepre
sentation without u parallel iu tho Southern
States, they and the language in which they are
couched havo neutralized the Journal as to tho
present canvas. Still it is to bo regretted that
the harmless proprietor should bo thus caused
to assume language and sentiments which he
ways he adverse to any cause which he wishes
to subserve.
I shall now examine what ho offers in de
fence of John Forsyth’s federalism, which was
disputed, until denial sank under the mass of
evidence. The Journal now admits that John
has never sought to conceal the federalism of his
early life, aud attributes it to his being “sedu
ced by the flattering attentions of the federal
gentlemen in Augusta, for many of the federal
PfeteodbJ
that he sought iho mansion of Montic*U 0 ,
cultivate tho friendship of tho venerable I
whose administration ho had stigmatized a , i*
“reign of political delusion,” and his opiuiu
as “the sp> relations of modern philosophy!
And not a single circumsiauce can be noi*,] J
show that Madison either countenanced |-
can "neither cvmpiehend nor an .lyse; but ti.private or hudod him in public. MuJ
can not grieve any friend of tho Union and |* ,s true, .appointed him m ; miter to $p :ii
of freedom that the incendiary publication ( bu . 1 thedailure of the principal object oft|J
said to have a greater circulation Ilian any o- mission, after a putulent and indecorous Cor J
ther in the State should be put under the sn- respondanc* °f MVen‘Wn nwnths, safficj
iMirvisurship of a stulified, irritable, half lettered establishes the fact, that that confidence
pedant whose blustering officiousness must at- wofuHy misplaced.
r • ■ ' Though now in the seventeenth year of
public services, not an eminent measure of n . J
tional utility can be traced to his author,),; j
nor an instance of self-denial or disinteresiejl
magnanimity can bo found to checker the djj
gust which impartiality is sure to expi-rie ac ,|
on a review of iiis alternating unmanly finesse!
and boisterous arrogance. Changeful and,
cendiary in sentiment, clamorous yet ign 0l
... -. in council, treacherous in friendship aud i
leaders then were finished gentlemen.” In the dishonest in contract, ho possesses
Journal, this is indeed a determination to the
surface, which, were it not for the chronic in
veteracy of tho disease, might bo expected to
procure a favorable crisis for its columns. Still
tho declaration is good evidence, for common
falsifier as the Journal is, it cannot be reject-j _ ... -
ed in witness either a’gaiust itself or against tho; May ■* continue its bitterest exertions in fak
cause with which all its hopes and fears are hood and absurdity: it is worthy the clausa it|
blended. Well—lie was seduced in early life [ has espoused; can do no injury under its pre.|
single qualification for important office, nor*
single virtue to give him a legitimate title u
tho esteem of an honorable man. It is ( 0 )
expected however that moil of his propens,,
ties will continue to be supported by the Jo^j
nal: for buzzards havo a gout for septic matter.!
to federalism, from what? As but two parties
were then known in the country, it is clear
that it was democracy which lie abandoned, and
that the abandonment was not induced by any
intrinsic excellence in the principles of federal
ism, but by tho citrinsic lure of mixing with
the wealthy—not by any regard for the rights
and happiness of the people, but by the selfish
consideration of personal interest and the in
dulgence of overweening vanity. Ho thus, in
his teens, gave evidence of unprincipled apos-
tacy, ami wore it'not for positive testimony to
tho contrary, the Journal would establish his
second abjuration before ho had reached mm-
hood. This second revolution iu creod cer
tainly forms an opocha of his life too notable to
be misreraembored, but it was at period and un
der such circumstances, as to give his conver
sion, in the judgment of many discerning persons
at that time, a sinister and time-serving aspect,
and what was then a manor of probability and
calculation. has by bis subsequent conduct been
authenticated as uncontrovertible truth. He did
not renounce federalism before or at tho peri
od ho arrived at manhood as tho Journal avers.
Ho had reached that stage of life previous to
1802, when ho toasted “the oldest child of fed
eralism;" and he lost as tho federal candidate a
seat in Congress in 1810. Here is proof thnt
eight years of manhood, study and experience
were unable to wean him from the glare of
pernicious principles and tho “finished gcnJo-
raen” of federalism, or to awaken a kind or li
beral feeling in his bosom towards the cause of
liberty and nature. As tho belief cannot be
harbored (hat, before the latter juncture, his
head had not selectod and bis heart approv
ed tho leading tenets of his virtual and perma
nent faith, when he is seen, in 1811, bogging
political promotion from his late opponents and
branding the sentiments of his youih and man
hood as heretical, the mind manumitted from
the vehemence and turbulence of those days
by a lapse of sovrmtoen years, perceives, in
this recantation, within a year after his unsuc
cessful effort to rise with his principles, noth
ing but desporato aiubitiou driven by defeat to
unmanly and flagitious deception as the only
method of obtaining distinction and powor.
Accordingly, ho is found, during the session of
Congress before last, arraying himself with the
Administration, and, in tho true spirit of old
blade cockade federalism, voting against giving
tho election of President to the people, and
at the expense of his constituents’ interest, sup
porting Executive measures, until all the va
cancies at foreigu courts had been filled, and
ho understood in a manner not to bo misinter
preted that the Puritan and Blacklegs thought
his co-operation unworthy of purchase.
Again: last yoar, in his monody on the
death of the elder Adams, he commends as a
“learned and elaborate defence of the Ameri
can Constitution," a book written by the de
ceased, which lays it down as n maxim that
Vfirst magistrates end senators had hotter bo
made hereditary at once, than that the peo
ple should be universally debauched and brib
ed, to go to logger heads and fly to arms every
a jurist," “Counsellor Qttbble Von Puzzle-
cause,” and thorefore would never call upon
him to redeem his promise.
He is now caused to imagine a new enemy.
The pleadings of “Von Puzzle-cause’^ are
drowned in his auricles, by tho deep intona
tions of a “blood hound." Gasconade is now
evacuated, coporeal chastisement forgotten,
and "with no hostile feelings" ’lie editor of
the Telegraph is besought to “muzzle" the
dread animal, or oxtract his teeth; else that
monster, magician, ulcliyraist, that “elaborates"
uud shoots “ante-tenths" of the poisoned ar-
rows discharged by tho “Telegrnp legion
will bo exposed in the nudity of his wicked
ness by a personage that has obtained some no
toriety in n pamphlet of many pages. It must
certainly be granted that the exposure of such
a sui generis is a matter of much moment, and
would givo an interest to tho columns of the
Journal beyond what they have had for years.
Operations against him ought to bo carried fur-
further: for the liberty of a sanguinary alchvm-
ist, who equals in power nine-tenths of a legion
of devils, is incompatiblo with the safety of
His Excellency, Heir Apparent, and the other
Oligarchs. The Hancock Troup, if convert
ed into a guard royale, would be unable to pre
vent him from tossing into his alembic our
whole nobility and transmuting them into plain
unassuming republicans, bent on the country’s
weal and the equality of the people—a fate to
them more terrible than extirpation. Their
threats, it is apprehended, will prevent no
correspondent from writing and publishing on
any subject of a public nature. Threats will
not compass their object. Besides converting
sent administration; and while it enables tk
braying animals to amuse themselves in pass-1
ing the stream of politics unseen, has an inde-f
feasible claim to the title of Pons Assinonm
SANCHO.
hand at nisi prius," “a still smaller fraction of year;" and contends “that the English consti-
tution (king, lords, and commons,) is, in theo
ry, the most stupendous fabric of human inven
tion;" and that “it is the true policy of the com
mon people to place the whole oxecutivo pow-
et in one man;" and that “tho poor are destin
ed to labor; and tho rich, by tho advantages of
education, loisure, and independence, are qual
ified for superior stations." Such are the prin
ciples which John Forsyth terras a “learned
and elaborate defence of the American Consti
tution!"
To his formal avowal of these ultra tory
principles, may be addod a deed of black in
gratitude and heiuous defamation. Last win
ter in the Congress of the United States, ho
declared, that ho could seo nothing in tho sor-
vices of General Washington during the revo
lution or subsequently, to authorize Congress
to give five hundred dollars to purchaso nation
al memorials of his worthiness!
Hore then we have his federalism in boy
hood, his federalism in manhood, and his fede
ralism in old age—and as it were to fiuish the
climax, his foul aid ungrateful slander of a man
“Who lived and died as none can live and die.”
Yet the Troupers will have it, that he is a
firm and consistent republican, who would fore
go every comfort for the interest of Goorgia,
and relinquish lifo to maintain the equality of
rights in her citizens!
With regard to the statement of tho Journal,
that he enjoyed the confidence of Jcfforson and
Madison, I have no hesitancy in saying that it
is a flagrant untruth. Jefferson retired from of
fice on the 4lli of March, 1809, and Forsyth
did not abjure federalism until two years after
ward} oar obtain a seat in Congress until
FOR THE MACON TELEGRAPH.
“ * • * This outward sainted deputy
Whose sallow visage and deliberate word
. Nips youth o’ the head, and follies doth emnevr
As falcon doth the fowl—is yet a devil:
His fdth within, being cast, he would appeir
A pond as deep as hell.”
Man endowed with moral and physical ait,
butes of the highest ordor, beeomes, when u
fettered by vice, a proud monument of the;
tv and wisdom of a wise and bouificent ermtor.j
In the consciousness of superior intcllecta
powers, his towering ambition is bounded op.lyl
by the cxtent.of his mind, and tho brilliantef-|
forts ofhisFonius controul all tho-inferior [
tions of animated nature.
But when, with all these superior en-lor^
nients of mind and porson, ho yields himselftb
willing pander of brutal passions; when hob
comes tiie hardened and fiend-like assassin,tbit
seeks to destroy the reputation of his fellow b
ing*; the groveling worm that cringes bens;
the tread of manliness and honor; when I
would sacrifice every just principle of his m-
ture to gratify a_ fooling of revenge worse tins
brutal,—the eveilasting stigma of infamy, tk
embittered stings of conscience, and the fin-;ci
of scorn should follow him through life, i
rend his heart with a torture proportionate »a
unhallowed a crime.
These remarks apply with peculiar force t
some miscreants who infest this place, and wbi
to gratify the most foul and malevolent passion 1 ,
which it wore mockety to call human, biff
been in the almost daily practice of writin:
numerous letters addressed to gentlemen of big!
standing and respectability in different paitso
this state, in which the most vulgar shn
and personal abuse'wore heaped upon thcnl
that a corrupt aud vicious heart could inveasr
to theso a forgod or ficticious name is usuabyj
signed; and by abusing tho facilities sfforJi
through the post olfico department, they st'J
circulated,—leaving the individual to pay the
oxpeuso of postage, without tho slightest W
of redress from the law. - *
The venerable silver hairs-of ase afford m|
protection against the m.diguity of this foul«
mon. Like tho midnight assassin, ho _stabs a _
reputation in tho dark; and the Infirmities anl|
diseases which are caniequent to advanced «IW
he uses as a reproach to his victims—ch-irg>s{L
them with brines of which they never drcttiHI
and which, should he dare to utter where to I
finger of the law would reach him, would ho.t|
him from tho station which ha attompts tono.JJ
in socioty,into lasting and merited infamy. WI
as soon would he ba found robbing at at
night on the highway, as publishing the
ous venom which is thus covertly throws
The lint and most glaring of these slnw«*l
ous epistles, was addressed to the editor oftWI
Darien Gazette, no doubt with the expectant I
of its being published. In this, many gentle-j
men of high s-andiug and responsibility
beslavored with his foul venom. It met WI
fate it so well deserved from the gentun 10 , I
whom it was addressed. O ihers, teeming I
tho most foal and slanderous abuse that a w.c-l
ed and corrupt immagiuatian could l | n ' e ’_’l
were addressed to many respectable geDtlemc |
in tho upper couutios, soon after the fourta
July, who seem to have excited the be®'™
miscreant by their independent soutimenu«
that occasion.
The name of the slanderous libeller ne«|
only bo exposed to meet the just indignation I
every honest citizen- He is already nwr !‘v‘|
and the mask shall ere long be torn fr° m I
The hypocritical garb with which ho at>* n) r I
to cloak his criuies.and beneath whith he n®PI
to wince with the greater security, sbaN
its merited exposure, and unveil n hwrt c Fyl
bio of tho blackest and most sacriligiou* w-
that over disgraced the name of man.
"Truit not those cunning waters of hu
For villainy is not without such rheum;.
And he long traded in it, makes it seem
Like river* of remone
FOB THE MACON TELEGRAPH"
LABOR—a disqualification—aua 1 *’
It was not with surprise that I found 8 * I
ter in the lust Messenger contesting tb® ,..l
trino of natural equality and equal CIV1 ',£
in ovory citizen, in tho United S.ates, u ' .
intellect und not rendered infamous by « .1
nor did it Como unlooked for, that hel* VJ
to sustaiu his objection by a distortion » n , 0( .
application uf maxims, and an array of »7
ities irrelevant to tho point in issue; as to I