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y, i i!i!l>itUy !j iiwiLii.i ui Ci luC
triumph f the republican arms,
a-d that Bolivar would succeed in
hi* gallant fettempt at liberating
pfiu. By a fotier, dated at Trux.
llfo. 13 h May, Vil ; k, we find an
offi i.i H'-ruunt of the total defeat
ol a targe division of be r >yal ai my
in I pper Pent; the royalist com
ma tie* was defeated and taken pri*-
one**, and ihe troops,’ after the coni
l)at, went over to ‘he rcoubifoan
stand “5. .W dveate.
[ ’(.ommunr cations .J
IVJ:. GdfcU
try our reader?, particularly those
abmt Washington, would ne~mit
tb o 'n el ves to be called off a moment
fro m *be threadbare ad unprntTa
ble subject of polities, a young man,
would fcke the lib-cry of making a
Tew mj"gestions upon a subject -*hi*h
he * ‘• sulers as having a most impor
tant bearing upon their present and
future aouvepienee and interests.
I have ■•*•>: lo .g resided in this
tow tad may, therefore, by ao in
terfere ice in its arrangements, ex
pose nvseif to the charge of pre
sumption Be it so—l have au a
polngy at band, which i at least
satisfactory to myself, my motives
are well intemlt and.
Within a f w days, I have heard
jt ca ually uien'ioned, that the
<! f.mmissioners of the Male and
Female Academics, have it in non
tempi:* ion to purchase more eligi
ble -ite* for the accommodation of
their suliools. At lh* first iolitna
linn of the .'kcheme, I w s m'Ht sen
sibly siru'At sdh its proprje-'y and
b r*u<v. and be n f examine if
the more I *in “oofiriteed.
q’b inoposj*im* l . >d■■o I ‘stand I < he
thi h -O) (lon ise fitiA present hud
ditg by sale, nod > vest *>e pro
ceeds, together wfoh euch sumiS as
the neighborhood mav eniifoi-Mitit,
ji pu* base of those eligible and
pV tot. belonging to the estate
of ~r G"* (fib. The property thus
a qmred* w -uh! f course belong
to he public, and would afford avti-
Wn a u*omtT> f 'duton * rb*?th ide
ntics v ?! *,n addit ooa. cbiircb. It
-w-iu and he ioHultiog to he i?cder
st Jfog of h’ enlightened a commit
pity ah this, tu offer arguments in
Support of the proposition. Suh
An i> quirv, would necessarily hud
to comparisons, mortifying to our
pride; I shall therefore avail my
self of so gtod ao annlogv, not to
attempt it. The propriety of the
schema befog matter of universal
as-eat, its practice ilily eems t> he
all that requires demonstration,
and upon this point. I have had the
humbling mortification tw hear
doubts expressed, whether a con
Iribution oauid be chatt ed snfffoi
ent to effect the object. For my
own pact I entertain no §u>*h doubts,
and shall for the present regard it
e* a slander up in the liberality, as
well as god sense, of the neighbor
hood. I know not the extent of the
C-immis* funds, hut if they
had no funds at all. I should hr.pe
and believe that individual munifi
cence would tff ct the enterprise.
it i* matter of congratulation,
that the interests of our academies
are in the hands of a Board of Trus
tees who a*e at leant distinguished
for the zeal with which they dis
charge their duty. They are labo
ring in au important and, responsi
ble trust, without enjoying any more
of the fruits of their efforts than
many other o<embers of tire same
community.; Our academies are
common property —:he rising gene
ration ate comaiou property, at)d
it ought to be the pride, as it is cer
tainly the du\v. of every individual
to conserve the interests of both
What I have said, would derive
no additional weight by being sub
scribed in my rer.l came. If ‘ou
will give u* room in par useful ga
z**He, I th übt not hut that 1 shall
obtain volunteer aid in so good a
cause. * 1 confess that my pridt
would be greatly flattered, if seme
virtuous lair one would draw her
maiden pet* and make the conquest
sure. A YOUNG MAN.
Fiiday morning, 3d August.
f Aristides concluded. J
To the People of Georgia.
It is evident to my mind, follow
citizens, ihat a delusion presaging
great evil to the g n r i re puli i an
interests of the o ton, |>reva:ts with
man* of you. Jbe cry which is
daily heard in reiaiioo to the Bresi
dc*’f*%| rlec.ion of“aoy mao but
Grawtoid” i* ominous of injury to
the leading interests of the south
ern country—w is a cry of rash
ness, of desperate madness, and
forth *des ill eoosequences to the
republican family, a id the particu
lar interest of the state of Geer
gia. It is virtually saying, “we
will not have ibis titan to rule over
us.” let the consequences be what
they may, to ourselves, and to the
nation. Such perverseness so well
calculated to paralyze the efforts of
the gieat republican party. My
view* of a proper course on this sub
ject would be different—if the
choice of the constitutional electors
should determine io favor of Mr.
Adams, 1 will accept of him as my
president—if Gen. Jackson be the
choice, 1 will accept of him —I
would be governed by the will of
the majority ami without complaint.
If Mr, Crawford shall be chosen, I
will be very highly gratified, be
cause I am firmly of the belief that
the preservation of the republican
party entire, am! the confirmation
of the rights of the9taleof Ge P .
gia, as well as of those of e.vervstate
io the union, will be cherished and
: maintained by him. The great
claims of Geo. Jackshn have been
sounded io your ears, for many
months. The imposing character
of his military talents has been ex
hibited in its highest colouring. Hi*
energy, his activity and his valour
have each been urged to you as a
reason why he should be chosen
your President. Gen, Jackson’s
military cba?;a <er is before the na
tion, and is duly appreciated. His
civil and poliifonl character has but
lately been developed. It is now
konwn to the astonishment of the
American people, that be advocates
an Miunlgamniion of parties—an
u ion ts the federalists in the gov
eirnmeiH o, a republican people—
fhU he nropngcg <o rake that lass
of politic, in* into confidential ffi e,
frbo Win .. r power opposed the ad
mission of r*-puhli. ans to the most
inconsiderable • (li es—Tha* he pro
poses to set against be poll, y and
practice of Mr. Jefferson, by divi
ding the hoboes of government Vath
those who oppose its crdinintsira
tiMo*— nd, finally— that he t\d?d
---<??* the rew *a; iff of duties, so par-
iy prejudicial to the southern
interests But I need not allude
to the t eputed claims of Gen jack
son for the presu!e r ey. It is not
Gen. Jackson who wii be support
ed hv h:se who dwell ** hi* distin
guished merit. | The cop sequence of
disunion and distraction among you,
my fellow cidzccs. will be the elec
tion of John .Mums to the presi
dential chair The arrangement
has b?n made, and is f\in drawing
to a crisis, by which Geo Ja. kson
is o give place o Mr. Adaius, who
will be supported for the presidency
by all the federalists and new sdiooi
republicans. Yes. country men, I
assure you (and the result will prove
my assurance to be well founded)
that all the cry of “Jackson—
Jarkso,”is hut to blind you to the
merits of your own neighbour and
destinguidted statesman, Mr. Craw
ford— it is intended, by seizing upoo
the noblest rein of civil virtues, to
lead you beyond the object you tie
sire, to one that you wdl be disap
pointed in, when obtained. By the
name of Jackson t is in tended to
lead you to adorns f mul by this
m asure. to frustrate the ardent
wish I know you all t possess, of
giving your suffrages to a mao of
established republican principles.
Fellow cinziu s. I wish you to hear
in mind, fh&i many >f -hose of you
who now say you supp >rf Gen. Ja< k
son *ov tie presidency, said uot more
than twelve months ag,< Mr Craw
ford ought to be the President—in
three rootqtis more,these persons ad
voc&ted the claims of Mr. Calhoun,
and presumptuously gave to Mr.
Calhouo the suffrages < f the pet pie
<if Ger.rgra—in another three mouths,
they agree with their northern plan
ners that Mr. Calhoun shall give
way. and that Gen Jackson shall be
supported by the people of Geor
gia | What does this lc{,k like—sta
bility or consistency ? No. It ap
pears as if some poiiih-ai managers
in Georgia were transferring the
suffrages of the people of Georgia,
without their eoos.en* | It appears as
if the people of Georgia had bceu
diverted from their attachment tu
Mr. Crawford, nod pledged io Mr.
Calhoun. By whom ? not them
stives* but by political manages s !
That auerwants they had been
transfers ed from Mr. Calooun ad
{hedged to Geu. Jackson. By
whom ? not themselves , but t y po
litical managers! Aud now, be guar- j
’ tied, fellow-eitizeni, of the third
4rade. Many of you, I am satisfied,
had Dot noticed the repeated and
extraordinary changes that had
been made for you , in order to ob
tain the election of any man but
Crawford. 5 ’ You did not recollect
that you had been claimed by Mr.
Calhoun first, and then by General
Jackson, and now to be transferred
to the federal candidate for the pre
sidency! I caution you, beware of
the third change. \ know it will
be asserted by mauy that this is all
a humbug, a scare-crow, to alarm
you without reason—and they will
say ** you must hold on to Jackson,
for he will not give place to Adams”
I assure you it is not humbug ; it is
no idle tale—it is truth ; and very
shortly you will learn, that “owing
to a desire for unanimity among the
people* (Jen. Jackson has det lined
being a candidate for the presiden
cy, and will accept of a vice-pcesi
denry under Mr. Adams.” But he
not deceived by the lovely sound de
sire unanimity. You must have ob
servifd that many w'ho twelve and
six months ago, spoke of Mr. Adams
m harsh and severe language, now
polish their accents with great care
and mildness and even connect him
with Gen. J.-M-ksion as their second
ehoice, without any compuncticK !
‘Their object is to have hut one can
didate for the greater certainty of
putting Mr. Crawf.ird down—nod
this candidate is to he John Q Ad
ams, the mao whom almost every
federalist unites in supporting For
the presidency. Will you. then,
who are now friends to Gen. Jo k
soo, agree to such a compromise as
thi*? Aill you ageee that a repub
lican vote shall be pledged to a fed
eral edidau ? Will you agree tha
ynur votes sul! he transferred to
Calhoun, to Jr kson, and then to
Adams, for m* other purpose than
to keep down the avowedly reptthli
caoHidafe ? I hope not. Mr Craw
ford is claimed a* the republican
candidate. For he was selected by
the republican, party iu the, name
tttHmer that Mr. jeffrs*n' Mr.
Madison and Mr. Monroe were se
lected by them ; and lie is support
ed by none hut republicans. I al
ii w that Mr. Adam* is claimed by
Kta :y a? a republican—hit* i* is
generally admitted, that i* ifco6. be
was a federalist of the Boston, stamp;
that while he was an avowed frder
alist, he acted strongly, aod wrote
bi*terly against republican measures
and principles-^'hat since he has
beer* a p> fessed republican, he has
written nothing to express his at
tarhfoept to hlican doetrioes,
or in do away the impression his
former wriiieigs had made against
them. He has b"en called by the
federalists an apostate—bu i if they
bdieved he was now at heart and
z rlousiv a republican, it is oot pro
he waufd receive their sup
p rt—.for apostates hear a had name
a id character among any pecple and
every part'.
GeOc Ja kson, I repeat, will oot
be a candidate for the presideney.
All who try out for “artp man but
Crawford.” will of course fall into
the nu'iks of Mr. Adams, who is the
federal candidate, and will be ever
ready to establish I Ipse pr*es>dency in
his own family alone—who already
manliest g jo public a*d private men,
au arbitrary and dictatorial man
ner, that strongly reminds one df
the odious alien ad sedition laws *f
the elder Mr, Adams when he was
President.
I know many of you would rather
neglect your personal friends, thao
support Air. Adams for President of
the United States. I ask you then
t he aware! and in case you find
yourselves to he marching into a
ntuze, se ure for yourselves, a safe
retreat, and a President of your
choice. ARISTIDES,
“ Ju%tifia” introduced my name
before the public unnecessarily and
improperly. He * ame out as the
advocate of Mr. Graves. Il‘he has
been handled somewhat roughly, he
must attribute it to the proper and
legitimate cause, to wit, to his own
lolly and imprudence. IF “Just i
tia” had been better a quainted
with “ the rules which should gov
ern men in their iot< rrourse with
each other,” lie would have avoid
ed meddling with other people’s af
fairs.— But no, he must thrust bis
head in. Now if he has got a light
rap by so doing, he certainly has
richly deserved it. I trust in fu
ture, that he will shew that he is
better acquaint’ and with those rules ,
that he speak* of, and that while I
ain contending with an enemy io the
open field, he will no! keep up filing
at me from behitidlhe press.—“Jus
titia” 9ay9 he defies the attacks of
the ‘‘Clark party,” What has the
“Clark partj” to do with it? 1 know
ol no other party in this controver
sy, than Mr. Graves, his seeret
frieud “Justitia” and
W. C. LYMAN.
ujLu miii —i—urn u .11 n- “ ~~
From the National Advocate.
National Politics.
We observe daily a falling off a
mong the friends of Mr. Adams.
The approach of the Presideotial e-
Eeotion compels these to think oo
the subject who have not heretofore
bestowed any reflection epon it.
The result oftheenquiry is strength
ening the friends and oause of Mr.
Crawford.
The following article we know to
have been written by an impartial
and disinterested person—one who
is moderate in his politics, and ra
ther inclined towards Mr. Adams.
He is one among many others sim
ilarly circumstanced, whose opin
ions have undergone a change:—
To the Editor of the Nat, Advocate .
I have not been an unobserving
spectator of the recent proceedings
at Albany, nor am I unconscious of
the extreme excitement which ex
ists in the northern and southern
sections of the United States, upon
like subject of the approaching Pre
sidential election.
Considering it as past a doub<
that the question will lie between
Air, Crawford and Mr. Adams, K
must confess that my ow-t mind has
not been defi itively made up a9
hetweenthe.se two gentlemen. My
leanings have been towards Mr. A
dams k§ a northern mat—other
things being equal, I should eer
tainiy prefer a President from our
own part of the country; but still I
am aware, Chat the subject is coo
important to justify an indulgence of
much sectional feeling. The Pre
sident of the United Slates ought to
know neither north, south, east nor
west, except us constituent portions
of the republic, and claiming Ilia
patronage only as members of one
great political family, whose indi
vidual interests are to be consulted,
only so far as may comport with the
gOi<d of the whole. It is conse
quently the duty of every citizen to
make a sacrifie of bis personal pre
dilections, so far as may be neoes
sary for promoting the eleotioo of
such a man.
While urging what you deem the
superior claims of Mr. Crawford, I
have honored the re <peciful manner
in which you have hitherto spoken
of Mr. Adams, and if any iking has
enlisted my sympathies peculiarly
in favor of Mr. Crawford, it has
been the unmanly style iu which
certain prints have chosen to bear
down upon him. Their viahof vi
tuperation seems tn have been pour
ed out most particularly upon h>B
head—not spariag His fouling* as a
gecilem<i—not yielding so far to
the common sympaties of our na
ture a* to regard the heavy provi
dential calamity which has resied
upon him in his grievous sickness
for several munis past, hut from
whi h I am happy to perceive he is
now nearly recovered—and as little
respecting the sanctuary of his do
mestin abode. Surh things ought
net to be, and “ they excite our spe
cial wonder.”
It ha* fallen to the lot of the wri
er to have had some personal ae
quaintan e with Mr. Crawford, and
he has been much conversant with
the Btate of Georgia, and intimate
ly so with those parts of it where
Mr. Crawford first established liirn
self in life, and where h attained
tu that eminence at the bar, which
may be said to have been the step
ping stone whence he took his first
flight towards the elevation which
he has lung si ee held in the eye of
the nation. With an exceptiou of a
minor proportion of the Clarke par*
tv, as if is usually called, hut wbi< h
has now gone to the “tomb of the
Capjieis,’* ar.d in whose eyes Mr.
Crawford’s great sin was his having
breasted himself against the iaiqui
tou* Yazoo law, no man stands high
er in his own state for probity, for
high minded and honorable feeling,
and for republican simplicity, t
ven his most bitter opponents have
Qrt denied him the meed of an high
ly e lightened mind—the native
strength of which enabled him, at
aa early period of his life, uopatron
ized, without property, and a stran
ger to the state, to burst through j
obstacles at which of* •ijfivyo a;
ties would have shrunk, and uhi'vfi
would have kept them in chswurii,;.
Whether either of the two ge ntlr’
men is *hc best which the country
will aficrd, seems not to be now i! o
question; but the publio voire hav
ing pretty dialiuotly announced that
the choice is to he between these
two, we have to aet in reference to
them, taking them for all in all, as
we find them. Ido nwr however
think that it is departing frem eon
; sistcncy to say, th*t of rwo irrn,
who in other respects may havee
qua! claims, it is more desirable to
elect the ono \vlu< has gone straight
forward in an even and consistent
course, than the one who has oscil
lated between both parties am! Isas
been occasionally found infhoraj&ks
of either. In this particular <the
pchlic will draw their own line'of
as between the two can
didates,
1 w ill console myself that neither
j of these gentlemen will harm the
public, but that either of them will
administer (he government essenti
ally upon the principles Whirli have
actuated the present administration.
But Ictus reform from this person
al abuse, and rather eongratuiato
ourselves that the government is es
tablished upon so firm a basis, and
that we have so many men
are adequate to give a sound dir\*a
tion to its operations. I have no
objection to a manly struggle by the*
friends of the parties for their re
spective candidates, but let us ceaso
these intestine feuds;—-if the pre
ponderance of publio sentiment b
in favor of Mr. Crawford, let him
come in without these invectives*
which are calculated to lacerate the*
feelings of any gentleman.
I address myself merely as one of
the people, interested in the com
mon welfare: l hold no office—l ne
ver held one—nor do I seek one*
whatever dynasty may rale over os.
But 1 do address yon a9 a lover ©Y
bis native country, of its peace, its
prosperity and its glory. It rests
with ourselves whether the latter
shall ever he <arnLhed in our hands *
A Citizen of New Fork.
From the Boston Gazette -
A good lad}'—we knew her well
when she had grown old—-in i775*
lived on the seaboard about a day’s
march from Boston, whore the Bri*
tish army then wa9. By seme un
accountable accident, a rumour was
spread, in town and country, id
and about (here, that the Regulars
were on a full march for the
and would probably arrive in threts
hours at the farthest. This was
after the battle of Lexington, and|
all, as might well be supposed*
w 9 in sad oonfusion-—sumo were
broiling with rage and full of fight*
some with fear and confusion, saint*
h*diug their treasures, and others
flyiog for life. In this wild mo
moot, when most people, in snipe*
way or other, were frightened fifom
their property, our heroine, wha
had two sons, one shout nineteen
years of age, and the other about!
sixteen, was seen by our informant*
preparing them to discharge theio
duty. The eldest she was able to*
equip in fine style—she took hep
husband's fowling piece, “ made fop
duuk or plover,” (the good man be
ing ah ent on a coasting voyage to
Yirgima) and with it the powder
horn and shot bag; but the lad
thmki ig the du k aud goose shot
net qu'te the size to kill regulars*
his mother took a chisel, out up her
pewter p*> os, and hammered them
iuto slugs, and put them into his
hag, and as he set off in great earn
est, hut i nought he would eali ofie
moment and see the parson, wfVu
said weil done, my brave boy—-God
preserve y u—and oo he went io
the way of his duty. The young
est was importunate for his equip
but nis mother could fiud no
t ling t* a m him with bu< an old
rusty sword; the boy seemed rather
unwilling to risk himself with thi*
atoue, but lingering in (he street*
iu a state of hesitation when his
mother hus upbraided him: “You
J >kn li#####, what will your fa
ther sau if h-ars (hat a child of his
i afraid to meet the British, go a
l*rg, oeg or borrow a gun, yon will
find oue, child—some coward, I
dare say, will be running away*
tuen take his guu aid march for
ward, and it you come hack and I
iuar iiave not benaved like a man, (
shall carry tae blush on my far.e to
the grave.” She then shut the
door, wiped the tear from her eye,
and waited tho issue: they joined
the march*