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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*
