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JEFFERSON & ADAMS.
Zebulqn, Aug. 11, 1826.
At a meeting of the citizons of
Bike county, co vened at the Court
House in the Town of Zebulon, on
the 11th ult. for the purpose of mak
ing suitable arrangements in honor of
the deceased patriarchs, THOMAS
JEFFERSON and-JOHN ADAMS.
Dr Hugh F. Rose, was called to the
Chair, and Major John H. Brodnax,
appointed Secretary—when the fol
lowing Preamtde and Resolutions
were submitted and unanimonsiy a
dopted. . •
Whereas, It has pleased Divine
Providence to withdraw from the
scene of their earthly triumph, the
venerable patriarchs, Thomas Jeffer
son and John Adams, under circum
stances peculiarly interesting and im
pressive : and, whereas, they have
conferred signal benefits on their
country, the one being the author of
the Declaralion of Independence, and
the other its most able and eloquent
supporter: and wliereas the whole*
term of their lives evinces that they
were ardent patriots and devoted
friends to human liberty. .
Therefore, To testify our gratitude
for their many public services, and
the deep regret with which we, in
common with our fellow citizens, feel
penetrated for the loss our country
has sustained in their death,
Be it Resolved, That we will wear
crape on the left arm for the space
of fifty days, as a testimony of res
pect to their memory.
Rholved, That the proceedings of
this meeting be signed by the Presi
dent aftd Secretary, and forwarded
to the Georgia Journal and States
man for publication*
HUGH F. ROSE, Pre'st
John H. Brodnax, Sec'ry.
EULOGIUM
DELIVERED ON THE DEATH OF
JEFFERSON & ADAMS,
Br ALVA WILSON,
A CITIZEN OF PIKE COUNTY.
We have assembled, fellow-citi
zens, to pay a tribute of respect to
the memory of two distinguished
Fathers of the ‘Republic, Jefferson
and Adams the friends and compa
triots of Washington, after a pro
tracted lif, of usefulness and glory,
have at length been gathered to the
mighty dead; and a whole nation is
clad in the habiliments of mourning.
The weeds we wear on this solemn
occasion, are not barely the outward
trappings of sorrow, which cold in
difference assumes in obedience to
the requirements of custom ; tht-v
are the genuine insignia of that heart
felt grief that gratitude breaths forth
as the testimony of its respect and
admiration for the moral virtues and
signal services of the deceased.—
Can there be a spectacle of deeper
moful interest, than that which our
country at this time presents ? A
people in tears at the tombs of de
parted greatness, is a sight fit for
angels to gaze on. Can genius body
forth in the form of langange, any
eulogium that will speak their praises
with a force and energy like this ! In
the comparison, the loftiest efforts of
eloquence are feeble and powerless.
Fancy can coin no imagery within th
wide range of nature or of art,, that
will so gloriously illustrate their fame.
How different the end of these great
men, from that of Kings and Scep
tnred Etespots! They sink to the
grave unhououred and unwept, and
are by the side of parasites who bask
in the sunshine of their smiles and
fatten on their bounty; and remem
brance dwells on their memory only
to invoke imprecations and curses on
their names. Like them, those we
mourn, once held the reigns of em
pire and controlled the destinies of a
mighty State; but the power they
wielded was exerted solely for their
country’s good: that country res
pected and honoured them in life,
and now bedews their hearse with
the tears of sorry and regret. Her.
the rulers of tuitions might learn u
lesson of true glory. They might
learn how far the fame of manfully
asserting the just and uualienable
rights of human nature exceeds the
bloodstained trophies lawless ambi
tion exerts upon the prostrated liber
ty and ruined happiness of man. At
t he tombs of Quincy and Monticello,
they would feel how vain, amkworth-
Icss arc the pageantries of royalty,
when compared with the love and
esteem of happy and admiring mill
ions. Such are the sublime lessons
which the lives and deaths of Jef
ferson and Adams might teach the
Princes and Potentates of the earth.
The event which has assembled us
together, fellow-citizens, would at
any time have been deeply affecting
to the American people—But the
astonishing coincidences that have
marked its consummation, impart to
it an Interest and sublimity which has
no parallel in the annals of the wurld
—On the proudest day of their glory,
when the loud paeans of liberty rung
from one end of their country to the
other; when their names hung on a
thousand tongues, and their patriotic
services were exultingly recounted
in the grateful hearing of twelve
millions of freemen, amid the celebra
tions, the rejoicings, the bonfires and
illuminations, one of them half a cen
tury before, predicted what would
mark that day in ajl future ages, they
left the sound of their earthly tri
umph, and rejoined the spirits of
Washington, of Franklin, of Warren,
and of the host of Patriots who had
preceeded them, in the realmsofrest.
What a glorious transit from life to
immortality—lt will look in after
times like the fabled fictions of the
ancient muse. Such a dea h was
alone wanting to complete the mea
sure of their fame. It is now full
Nothing can tarnish or affect it. It
is perfectly beyond the reach of time
and accident. Nothing has ever hap
pened like it, nor probably ever wil!
again. It will stand isolated and
alone on the page of, history—tht
wonder of the present and of future
dimes. May we not look upon an
event so out of the ordinary channel
of chances, so perfectly unique, as a
Heaven directed omen, presaging
good to our country ? The fourth
day of July will now be still more
memorable and interesting. The joy
and exultation to wh ch it has here
tofore given birth, will be tempered
and chastened by a sentiment of sad
ness that will hallow it in the estima
tion of freemen to the latest posteri
ty. With it, their names are made
completely identified, and whilst the
blessings it commemorates are cher
ished and preserved, will be honored
and remembered by their country
men. ,
The sketch that I shall be able to
present you my audieuc , of the lives
and characters of these Patriots and
Statesmen, will be meagre and im
perfect indeed. The pen of a Plu
tarch is alone fit to write their eulo
gium. The world would then pos
sess a picture that might bear a com
parison with the portraitures of the
most distinguished sages of antiquity.
Yes : our Jefferson and Adams are
not inferior to the first of Grecians
and of Romans in the proudest days
of those Republics. They possessed
all the constituents of genuine great
ness, lofty patriotism, inflexible inte
grity, daring resolution, and minds as
solid as they were brilliant. Their
virtues and talents would in any day
have enabled them lo attain the high
est station in society. They seem to
have been born the benefactors, not
only of their own but of
mankind at large - and the political
principles they promulgated to the
world, will, in the progress and ful
ness of time, redeem and disenthrall
them from the powers and principali
ties that now oppress and trample
them under foot. What have not
those principles already effected ?
They have swept away the lawful
ness of the feudal institutions, and
revealed the legitimate foundations
of civil government —They have dis
sipated the slugglish calm of Des
potism in which the human faculties
had so long slumbered, and made
men every where sei.sihle of the rank
nature intended them to occupy in
the scale of creation—They have
prostrated the factilious distinctions
of birth, iu which pride had entrench
ed itself, and demonstrated that all
men by nature are equal. Such are
some of the glorious results they
have been instrumental in producing
—results that are rapidly changing
the whole law of society, and pre
paring man for the attainment of that
moral and intellecl ual elevation which
Deity designed him to reach. But
however proud we may be of the
wide extended sphere of their use
fulness and fame, it is the services
!hey rendered their own country, to
which the mind on this occasion most
naturally directs its contemplation.
!u them, we shall find ample
br indulging the warmest gratitud<
and admiration. In the incipient
Hse tibi erunC sites, pacisque iinpouere morem, pareere subject is et debc Ware superbos. — Virgil.
MILLEDGEVILLE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1826.
stages of that contest which finally
eventuated in the dismemberment of
these States from the British Empire;
though scarcely entered on the thres
hold of manhood, they manifested
that devoted attachment to the prin
ciples of liberty, and gave promise of
those splendid talents that crowned
their maturer years They boldly
asserted the rights of the Colonists,
and no less boldly denounced the in
justice and oppression of the British
Parliament. Their manly opposition
to the measures of the crown at this
early period, rendered them obnox
ous to royal vengeance; Sbme of
them was debarred a seat in the Pro
vincial Assembly. They watched
the fluctuating policy of the mother
country, with the most fearful appre
hensions that she was meditating the
destruction of trans-atlantic freedom;
and when they saw her openly avow
ing her tyrannical designs and trans
porting her armed slaves to our
shores, they exerted all their ener
gies, and all their talents to enkindle
a common feeling of determined, and
indignant resistance. Adams was a
member of the first Continental Con
gress : the most able and efficient of
that august body—he was soon joined
by Jefferson, his illustrious compeer,
who seconded his exertions with an
ability and patriotic ardour equal to
his own. They were, my audience,
the master spirits of the Revolution:
the one fanned its flames iu the North
—the other in the South. Next to
the immortal Washington, America
is most deeply indebted to them.—
Whilst he had her armies in the bat
tle-field, they directed and infused
her national councils; they Animated
their countrymen by their example
and their eloquence, and nerved them
with resolution to strike for political
liberty.
In that memorable transaction that
forever dissolved our allegiance to
the British Crown ; Adams and Jef
ferson acted a glorious and distin
guished part.—ls not the first movers
of that daring measure, they were its
most strenuous and eloquent advo
cates. —They were the two first nam
ed on the committee appointed to
draft the D duration of Independ
ence, and the sub-committee by whom
that duty was performed :—and if the
glory of penning that sacred instru
ment be exclusively ascribed to the
one, we must give to the other an
equal share of honor, for the zeal and
ability with which he urged and
pressed its adoption upon Congr ss.
In support of the oaths they had
taken, they, and their fellow-actors
in that grand and imposing scene,
pledged “their lives, their fortunes,
and their sacred honors;” and had
Britain triumphed in the sanguinary
strugle, they would have been the
first victims tyranny would have im
molated on her blood-stained altars.
To be fully sensible of the moral
firmness they displayed, contemplate
lor a moment the condition of the
colonies at that alarming period—
want, disease, apd the sword, had
reduced the armed patriots, who
breasted the storm of tyranny, to a
feeble remnant —destitute of all the
necessary munitions of war, victory
-eemed to have winged a retDrolcss
flight from the standards of liberty,
ami many of her ardent Votaries
looked upon the contest as hopeless,
and in anticipation, already deplored
tii bondage of their country.—Des
potism exulted o’er the fell ruins she
had made, and fondly dreamed of
thrones and scepters in the vast
regions of the west —In that gloomy
hour, unawed by the dangers that
surrounded them, and seeiug, as it
were, with a prophetic eye, through
the mist of the present, tne bright
ness of the future; they fearlessly pro
claimed their country's freedom.—
History furnishes no examples ot sub
l.mer heroism, nor of more disniter
ested self-devotion. The conse
quences that flowed from the De
claration of Independence, were felt
then, and are no>v seen in our unex
ampled prosperity and glory. Dis
solving the bonds of colonial depend
ence, it exhibited our countrymen
battling for national existence. It
gave new impulse to their xertions,
and fired their bosoms with a more
daring and resistless valor; and final
ly, by the alliances it enabled them
to contract with foreign states, gained
us a name and a place among the
ifee and independent nations of the
earth.—Had the public services of
Jefferson & Adams, terminated here,
they might'justly have been consid
er and the founders of American lib
erty, and their names would have
been ranked with a Gustavus Vas'-a,
a Brutus and a Tell—but hapily they
lived to increase the weight of our
obligations, and if possible, the bright
ness of their own home.
During the whole course of the
re volution, they were zealously and
actively employed in stimulating flic
exertions of their fellow-citizens, am!
in devising means to sustain thcr
country in the unequal strugglu.-t-
For seven years, to the entire might
of their private fortunes, they de
voted their time and talents to one
department or another of the public
service.—Whilst Jefferson was aid
ing in the National Councils or kindl
ing by his eloquence the inextin
guishable fires of liberty—Adams
was sent by Congress as ou>- public
agent to several of the *Europca»
Courts. The address and ability
with which he executed his trust,
raised the American character a
broad, and was instrumental in pro
curing powerful assistance and sup
port to our Cause/' He was likewise
one of the commissioners who, at the
close of the war, signed the Treaty
of Peace with Great Britain which
contained the formal recognition of
our independence. I have thus brief
ly sk tched some of the prominent
ac*s of the departed sages in those
times that emphatically tried the
soul. The picture is imperfect in
deed, but 1 trust it contains some
sades of moral greatness which,
should -siake us proud th - original
were our countrymen —its defects
vour memories can supply ; for their
virtues and their deeds of glory are
graven on your hearts—on their na
tive states, Adams and Jefferson
conferred signal benefits. The one
wasinstruinental in giving to Massa
chusetts a Constitstion, replete with
(he soundest maxims of political wis
dom, adapted to the genius of the
wants of a free people—the other
abolished the form of aristocracy
which had taken root in Virginia,
whilst she constituted a British Pro
vince ; revised and perfected the
theory of her Civil Code, and what
was mere, dissolved that unholy con
nection between Church and State,
which corrupts Religion—makes her
th’* pander of power —Ilis act of
toleration is a lasting monument of
the just and liberal which haye
ever marked the course of this en
lightened statesman.—Though not
members of the Convention tha%
formed the Federal Constitution their
wisdom and experience were appeal
ed to, and aided iu that glorious
work. It was established on the
principles contained in the Declara
tion of Independence, the only just
basis of political power Under that
Constitution, Adims was the first
Vice-President, and during the whole
Administration of Washington, his
bosom frlfcnd, and politicalgcounsellcr.
Jefferson was likewise called to the
Cabinet, and presided over the De
partment of State In arranging and
-ettling the various relations of our
20vernmdnt, with Foreign Powers,
his pen was ably and successfully
employed. His diplomatic writings
have been considered models for this
species of composition and vindicat
ed the genius of his country from
the calumnies with which some of
the European Philosophers had as
sailed it no less triumphantly than
his notes on Virginia. After having
hold the second office of State, both
of them awarding to priority of age
were at length elevated to the Pre
sidency.—Their Messages to the Na
tional Legislature, breathed the most
irdent patriotism anil anxious solici
tude for their country’s welfare, and
ire fraught with enlarged and com
orehensive views of its true intent
->nd policy, it must be conceived that
ihey committed some political errors
whilst they held the reins of Govern
ment ; for to err is human ; from
which neither the greatest nor the
best are wholly exempt : but we
may boldly say, that their errors
whatever they were, sprung from the
imperfection of the human intellect,
and not from any want of honesty
or purity of motive. They botig
exhibited talents and capacities for
government, which have not been
surpassed by any of those distinguish
ed men who have succeeded them ;
and their administrations on the whole
were eminently advantageous to
their country. The firmness with
which the one resisted the haughty
and imperious demands of France,
and the extrication he was instru
mental in effecting of our commer
cial relations with that "power, from
those burdens which she made the
price of her alliance in the revolu
tion, and the acquisition of Louisiana
by the other, greatly overbalance all
their errors, and entitle them to our
warmest gratitude. View them from
earliest dawn of manhood, through
all the multiplied public trusts they
held, up to the Chief Magistracy, and
you will see them constantly dis
charging their various duties with a
zeal and ability and uprightness o',
intention, worthy of (he best days of
Republican Rome. Power did not
intoxicate them with its charms, nor
seduce them from that dignified sim
plicity which constitutes the beauty
and majesty of genuine greatness.—
In the record of their lives, the fu
ture patriot and statesman will find
♦he brightest example for imitation :
there they may read a page that wi.l
purify and elevate their aspersions
for glory, and te« ch them that lasting
honor can only l»e purchased by acts
of service and beneficience to man.
Follow them in their retirement to
the shades of private life, and you
will see them displaying the most
examptary virtues, and amiable in all
the relations of society.—They lived
among their fellow-citizens like the
ancient Patriarchs, honored for their
wisdom, revered for their integri
ty and cmulat and for their fame.
They were the patrons of learning, of
genius, philosophy, and themselves
their noblest ornaments. They con
stantly manifested their love and
attachment to the institutions of
their country—and the last pray
ers they breathed were offered up
for its prosperity and glory.
Such fellow-citizens, were John Ad
ams and Thomas Jefferson, the foun
ders of our liberty, the boast of two
centuries, the pride of human nature.
Their death is indeed a national ca
lamity—but like the primal curse it
is almost softened into mercy by the
sublime conincidence which marked
it.—They died on their own great
day, which fifty years ago, they
made glorious—but now have con
secrated forever. The genius of
Columbia long weep o’er their
graves, but her grief, like the memo
ry of joys that are gone, will not be
entirely uumingled with pleasure.—
Let the hope of their country sound
loud their praise, but let the notes
of a orrow mingle with the strains.
FOREIGN.
FROM BRAZIL.
' New Yokk, S pt. 6. The barque
Elizabeth. Captain Clark, arrived
last evening, sailed from Rio Janerio,
July 19th. The Cyans remained in
port, expecting a relief? Iv* ssel from
the United States. TJib Boston sloop
of war, had sailed —The British line
of battle ship Wellesly; frigates The
tis, Adonis, and Britdm and four
French frigates and ,two corvettes,
were in port. The Buenos Ayre
squadron under admiral Brown, whs
driven into the above place. Seve
ral vessels had been sent into Mon
tevideo for attempting to force the
blockade, among the number, brig
Leonidas, Bartlette, of Boston, from
China ; ship, Jane, of London, and
other American and British vessels.
The prize vessels were expected at
Rio from Montevideo. Captain
Bartlette, was at the latter place at
the last accounts. The imperial cor
tes of Brazil, would close (heir ses
sion on the 6th September. The
Portuguese 84 gun ship John 6th.
had arrived from Lisbon, with a great
treasure, said to be six millions ster
ling in gold, and the crown jewels.—
The Infant of Portugal, was a pas
sengerwho came to offer his homage
to the emperor. A frigate of 48 guns
was to be launched at Rioon the 6th,
of September.
Among the passengers in the Eliz
abeth, are Commodore Jewett, of the
Brazillian navy, and Mr. De Lima,
consul general frt m Brazil.
GREECE.
Accounts from Zante to June 30
had reached Paris. Lord Cochrane
was expected immediately in the Ar
chipelago. The Archibishop of Pa
tras, Germanus, the Count Mefaxas,
and the persons of the greatest influ
ence, who directed the insurrection
of the Hellenist are at the head of
the Greek government. Col. Fab
vier had a charte blanche, to act as he
may think most conducive to the pub
lic service. They had succeeded in
procuring him 35,000 piastres for the
payment of his regiment, clothing
for which had been furnished by the
(Greek committee at Paris.
It was reported in London on the
26th July, on the authority ofa Greek
naval officer, arrived from Hydra, o
ver land bearer of despatches to the
Greek Committee, that Trippolizza
had been retaken from the Turks
by storm, in which the Egyptians lost
a great number of men. Admiral
Miaulis had destroyed two Turkish
frigates in the Dardanelles.—The of
ficer also states that since the estab
lishment of the new government al
fairs have taken a very favorable
turn ; and Admiral Maulis is waiting
with his fleet to join that of Lord
Cochrane, whose approach has cau
sed great joy, and the Greeks are de
termined to die or conquer.
*The ship owners of Hydra have
created a special fund of five millions
piastres, to be applied to the defence
of their island ; all their vessels are
armed and completely equipped for
service.
Napoli is furnished with provisions
for eight months, arid the committer
of the Hellenists are invited to di
rect (o this important place such
succors as they may ho able to sup
ply for the occasion. The citadel of
Athens has provisions for a yeai.
That ofCormth is .n a complete state
of defence. Morien lbasia iS the
,rcat object of anxiety tc the Greek
I government
Mr wk
fOR $4 IF NOT PAID IN SIX MONTHS.
NO. 40....V0L. I.
The ship Emilie had sailed fri m
Marseilles tor Napoli, with filly young
Frenchmen going to fight the Greek
cause.
GREECE.
It is stated that the squadron of
Lord C chrane will have an increase
of a 74 gun ship, and it is thought
that his force will be fully aide to
meet that of the Turks. He ap
pears thus far to have behaved very
handsomely,’*' and we hope that
he will render his name immortal by
his successes over the barbarians.
The Greeks do not appear any thing
like being subdued—but as resolute
and active as ever. They are re
ceiving handsome supplies from va
rious quarters. Their fleet in readi
ess to act, consists 130 of vessels of
all sorts.
MEXICA? NAVY-
We have the following narrative
from a N Orleans paper. Wc hear
tily wish the Mexican navy to he
well manned, but proceedings like
those stated cannot be tolerated.
They shew, however, the pressing
importance of haring a treaty with
the new republic, in which cases of
this sort shall be provided for. The
distinction too, that seems to have
been made as to “native Americans,”
partakes too much of that practice
of Great Britain which we resisted
at the cannon’s mouth. We will not
acknowledge a right in any foreign
power to overhaul our vessels, and
pronounce upon the citizenship of
their crews, in any manner soever.
The flag, the “ star spangled banner,”
designates their character, and no
one will be allow and to question it.
This is a subject on which every A
mcrican has made up his mind, and
on which the administration isentire-
Iv decided. Seduction is hardly less
injurious than impressment, in cases
like that of the " Nun,” being in
open violation of the rights of our
merchants to the services of persons
employed to navigate their Vessels.
“On the arrival of the Nun at Vera
Cruz, it was made known to the
crew that the Mexican service was
in want of able bodied seamen, for
the national service, &.that a bounty
of S2O would be given, and sl4 per
month, pay—two months pay advanc
ed. This knowledge communicated
to the crew, soon made them disobe
dient, and before the cargo was dis
charged, throe refused lo do dnty.
Application was made to the consul,
who advised the imprisonment of the
refractory hands, until the Nun was
ready to sail. The advice was pur
sued, and the three men committed.
“In a few days it was found that
two of the three were rel ased, (not
being native Americans) and had en
tercd the Mexican service, on board
a frigate. Shortly aftqrthiswere ship
ped on board the frigate, they came on
board the Nun, with a naval officer,
and the officer demanded their wages
Payment, and as wo think, properly,
was refused, the seamen having vio
lated their -shipping articles, and the
applicants retired.
“On the day the Nun was to sail,
the remaining man in prison was tak
en out, being a native (American)
and at the moment he was stepping
into the boat, he was asked by a re
cruiting officer, if he did uot desire
to enter the Mexican service ? On
answering affirmatively, ho was tak
en from the officers of the Nun, and
went on board the frigate.
“About the time the Nun was get
ting undi r way, an officer from tho
frigate came and desired the master
to go on board. The master being
on shore, and the owner not willing
to go, the mate was permitted to ac
company the officer, to know what
was required. The mate was detain
ed. On the master’s coming on
board, and finding that the mate was
on board the frigate, he went to seek
after him, rowed by two men. When
he reached the frigate, he was inform
ed that his mate and two men would
be detained, until tjie wages of the
three Americans who had deserted
and entered the Mexican service,
were paid. Expostulation was vam.
The captain offered to remain as an
hostage, provided they would permit
the mate and mefi to go on board.
“This was agreed to—and after
much altercation it was determined
that the captain should go on shore,
to the American consul, to have the
affair adjusted. The consul agree
ing in opinion with capt. Davis, ad
vised against a compromise, and-the
guard was about to conduct capt. D.
again to tho frigate, when exercising
the freedom of an American, he step
ped into a boat, in defiance of threats
was rowed on board the Nun, and
got under way, leaving the three men
in the Mexican service.
“Wo*are gratified to learn that the
conduct of the consul was such as
became his station, and only lament
that his inclination to do good,, was
ot supported by ability to carry that
intention into effect."