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Decatur, Apfll 21st, 1827.
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March, 121 b, 1827. 02—H
'*~~G KfIKGIA Twiggs County.
WHEREAS. Joshua R. Wimberly & John
G Slapply, applies to me lor Leiters ol
A Imin stratum. (with the will annex!) on the
E-iate of Ezekiel Wimberly, late of said coun
ty, dec’<l.
These are therefore to cite ami admonish
-‘all and singular, the kindred and creditors of
eaid decased, to be and appear at my’ office
Within the time prescribed by Law, to shew
cause if any they can, why said letters should
not be granted:
Given under my hand, this Ith day of April
1827.
P. SOLOMON, c. c. o.
April 1827-~ 6wG7 _ _
‘ TIMESONG.
O’er the level plain, ivhc.re mountains
Greet me as 1 go,
O’er the desert waste, where fountains
At my bidding flow —
•On the boundless beam by day,
On the cloud by night,
J nm rushing hence away?
Who will chain my flight;
• War his weary watch was keeping,
1 have crushed his spear;
Grief within her bower was weeping;.
I have dried her tear;
Pleasure caught a minute’s hold —
Then I hurried by,
Xeaving all her banquit could,
And her goblet dry.
Power had won a throne of glory:-
Where is now my fame?
Genius said, —“1 live in stioy;”
Who hath heard his name ?
Love, beneath a myrlile bough.
Whispered,—“Why so tabt?’
And the roses on his brow
Whcther’d as 1 past.
I have heard the heifet lowing
O’er the wild wave’s bed:
j have seen the billow flowing
Where the cattle ted;
Where began tny wandrings—
Memory "ill not say!
Where will rest my weary wings
Science turns
From the Macon Telegraph.
The character of a public man belongs to
his constituents. By the acceptance of a pub
lic station, he tacitly consents to surrend r bis
private and individual interest, to the public
ntvl general good And when this public turn -
tionary perverts the legitimate < bject of bis
appointment —when he betrays the interest ot
his constituents, and wrests the constitution to
the promotion ot his own selfish and individu
al projects of aggrandisement —when he be
trays the confidence reposed in him by the
public, and makes the good ot the whole sub
servent to the interests of an unprincipled
faction —it becomes the imperious duty ot ev
ery lover of his country and of his country’s
institutions to hold up to public scorn and in
dignation the man that has thus betrayed the
interests committed to his keeping
In every nation and in every age, there are
found men of weak discontented m uds, of ve
hement passions, and of disappointed or per
verted ambition. The minds of such men are
restless ami revengeful—ever on the watch to
grat fy their malignity or their ambition The
minds of such men arc restless and revenge
ful C ver on the watch to gratify their malig-
nity or their ambition. The peace, the wel
fare, or ev n the existence of the government
which protects them, can have no influence in
fl»straining such men from the most desperate
measures to accomplish the most netanou
purposes No human consideration can with
"Hold them from laying waste the tmrcsl por-
tion of earth and blasting the fairest prospects
»f the their fellows. Civil commotion, with
•Il its attendant evils, sinks into insignificance,
when put in competition with their own aggran
lizement, or their own individual preferment.
This Mr. Editor, is the character of Mr.
Forsyth.—ln every situation in which his in
ordinate and childish ambition has placed him,
he has made his public duties subservient to
his private aims. His whole public life has
been a tissue of absurdities and inconsistences.
He has endeavored to place himself in an im
posing posture, not by his talent-, for they are
not of a superior grade, but by his noisy and
frothy declamation. He has given‘ lucid proof ”
to the world that he is bound by no ties but
those of political preferment —and influenced
by no motives but those of a factious dema
gogue. He has travelled so long in the path
of political infidelity, and has become so cal
lous to a conscientious discharge of his duties
as a public functionary—he has sunk so deep
into the dark abyss of political perdition, and
has so often reiterated with fearful denuncia
tion the treasonous sentiments of our puissant
and pugnacious governor, that he is now ripe
for any thing that promises to raise him from
his present degraded station, or meet his am
bitious views. Witness his course for the last
two years—and what a picture of daring con
tradictions and absurd inconsistency s'. Who
so violent in their denunciations of General
Jackson ?—who so often flung upon that hero
the imputation of an ignorant demagogue ?
but who is now so loud in his praise ?—who
now so sycophantly obsequious to the imma
culate statesman of the West ? Witness his
zeal for the Indian Treaty made by Campbell
and Merriweather ; he pledged himself to
Congress and to the Nation to support it; he
pledged himself to lay down his life for it;
not that he cared for a little strip of land, but
for the principle it involved ’Twas a tremend
ous subject ; a subject that involved every
principle of state rights ; a subject that en
dangered our existence as a nation ; a princi
ple around which every lover of our free insti
tutions ought to rally: it was the ark of our po
litical salvation, which he would take into hi
pure keeping ! But who first forsook this grand
principle of right ? Why Sir, can you believe
it ? it was that consistent and adroit practi
tioner of all the virtues and all the grace-; the
patriotic John Forsyth ! ! Was there any rea
son for this change of sentiment ? No. Wa
there no abandonment of the ‘ high hand d’
measures of the General Government? N-
But perhaps he was visit 'd with some com
punction oi’conscience ? Ob no—he is cal
lous to that monitor. Well, was there no
change in public sentiment ? Yes, there was.
the tide of public opinion was setting strong a
gainst his boasted principle. The mist that
he and others ofh’.s “ Class” had thing around
that important subject, had begun to dissipate,
ami they and their “ principle” were seen in ill
their deformity. And John Fofsyth, like the
skilful navigator, he has ever proved him-elf,
turned with the first tuning tide
It is morally impossible to tell what the po
litical character of Mr. F rsyth now is, as it is
impossible to tell w hat it will be a year hence
We have no certainty for believing that it i
now, what it was when he left Washington. Il
is well known that his political sentiments un
derwent a radical change durirg the summer
of 1820, and why may they not during the
summer of 1827. indeed it is whispered a-
of his knowing friends, for strange
as it may seem, such a demagogue has friends
and admirers too, that he has already set hi
sail for *'another tack ” and that he is onh
waiting for a wind to fill it and, predicati g
our opinion upon his former course ot conduct,
we are prepared to hear of Mr. Forsyth’s in
troducing a resolution into Congress todissolv.
the union ! ' No course ot conduct, however
absurd, or however distruc.tive to righ. and
principle would surprize those who are ac
quainted with the corrupt designs or ambit ous
views ot Mr. Forsvth, as exhibited by his pre
cious daring absurdities and inconsistencies.
Y <u may call this, Mr. Editor, declamation,
or you may call these charges, assertions with
out proof. But, sir, the proof is at hand, and
should t be called for I w ill produce it ; and,
tor your own information though I doubt not
you know it well, I will refer you to the de
bates in Congress, from the time Mr. Forsyth
tir.-t entered that bodv down totin' present pe
riod. And 1 will refer you also, to every citi
zen of the state who has known Mr. Forsyth
from the time he first came into public lite.—
\nd. by the bye. 1 mav hereafter have some
thing to sav, and to show too, of his political
course during the last war, when i believe he
stood side by side and walked hand in hand
with the members of the Hahtforo Convex
tiox. A GEORGI \N
From is lies’ Register.
AGRICULTURE OF THE U. STATES.
(continued.)
But it is to the planters and people of Ma
ryland that we now directly address ourselves
In 1790, we had 319,000 inhabitants, and one
eleventh ot the Whole population ot the Uni
ted States; in 1820 we had 407,000, and a
twenty-fourth part of the whole population —
in 1830 we shall not shew a thirtieth part of
such population, unless because of the in
crease in Baltimore and the other manufactur
ing districts. Indeed, it these be left out.
our population is probably decreasing. In
the first congress we had 6 members out of
65 —now we have 9 out of 215—and, if ti e
present whole number of members is preserv
ed after the next census, we shall have but
seven; and so, from the possession of one
•leventh part of the power of representation
we have parsed to a twenty-fourth part, aud
Hse tibi erunt artes, pacisque imponere morem, parcere subjectis et debellare superbos.— Virgil.
Milledgeville, Monday, May 28, 1827.
are just passing into a thirtieth. [The same
operation has taken place and will act upon
our neighbor Virginia; though her western
grain-growing and grazing and manufacturing
district is doing much, indeed, to keep up her
standing, and would have a mighty effect, if
less restricted opinions prevailed, and a real
representative government were allowed ]
Truth thus speaks to us “irumpet-tongued”-
vet we seem neither to hear or heed it ; and
what has been our chief commodity for ex
port, and furnished .he chief means of pur
chasing foreign goods, (which we have so
much preferred, and which the people still
blindly wish to see introduced,) is about to fail
us altogether ! Ohio has already materially in
terfered with our tobacco, and, raised by free
labor, can afford to transport it 300 miles by
land, and yet undersell our planters in Balti
more, their own local and natural market ! See
the article from the “American Farmer,” which
is annexed. Tlfe fact is that most of our in
telligent planters regard the cultivation of to
bacco in Maryland as no longei profitable and
would almost universally abandon it, if they
knew what to do with their slaves, for many
reject the idea of selling them ; others, howev
er. are less scrupulous, and the consequence
is. that great numbers of this unfortunate class
are exported to other states, the cost of their
subsistence bemg nearly or about equal to the
whole value of their production in this. But
Maryland is abundant in re-ources, if casting
away her prejudice, “ the old man and his
deeds,” she will profit by her advantages. We
have good lands and much water power on the
western shore.* The last is considerably im
proved in Cecil, Baltimore, Frederick and
Washington counties, and manufacturing es
tablishments arc pretty num* rous and respect
able ; in all these the population is increasing;
the farmers have large barns and well filled
granaries, and with markets at their doors, as
it were, for the chief part of their surplus pro
ducts, including butter, eggs, vegetables —the
hundred little things which the gond farmer
and prudent housewife collects and saves, and
■I) many cases they, alone, because of th.' mar
ket for them, sell for more mon y in a year,
than the whole surplus crops of wheat and corn
raised on plantations cultivated by eight or ten
laves, for they themselves eat much, waste
more, and work little. The whole crop ol
Maryland tobacco may have an average annu
il value of $1,500,000 —ami this is below the
.dear product of labour employed, in the facto
ries of Baltimore alone ! Wo do not include the
mid vment of mechanics, properly so called;
.nd thus, aided by some foreign commerce and
navigation, and a large home trade, we have, in
this-mall spot, collected and subsi-ted more
than . ne sixth part ofthe gross population, or
about a fifth ofthe whole people of the state;
and created a market for the products ofthe
farmers, daily extending in the quantity requir
ed ami prices given ami to go on as our manu
factur ng establishments prosper and person
are gathered together to consume the products
of the earth But to the success of these, and
the consequent well-being ot our farmers, a
liberal encouragement of them, and a manly
-upport of’internal improvements, must be af
forded. Whoever stands, opposed to them,
is opposed to the best interests of Maryland—
for increased attention to both i- the only
me nsthat we have to prevent ourselves from
-.inking vet lower in the s ale of the states. —
Maryland, without any sort of inter ‘rence with
any other pursuits, might subsist two millions
>r more, of sheep, ami the product ol these
would compensate any loss to be caused by
c.-asing to cultivate tobacco ; and besides, ami
what is more important, most important, in
leed. it would prevent the actual or compara
tive decrease of our people, keep the free la
bouring cla-ses at the houses of their fathers,
and mightih advance the price of lands, . nd
old to the g» uer.il wealth of the state. Reai
property, of every description, except in the
districts spoken of, has exceedingly declined
in value and, indeed, in some parts of the
-tate, is seemingly “without price.” If slave
labour ever was profitable with us, it no long-,
er is so—it does not yield more than 3 or 4 per
cent for the capital per capita employed, if
even that- —this is clearly proved by the ex
port of slaves to the mo'e southern states ; a
cruel practice, and which we hope may be ar
rested by the introduction of new artic! -s ot
agriculture, such as th** breeding of sheep, ami
the cultivation of flax and cotton, and the -ear
ing ofthe silk worm. These would afford em
ployment to many thousands, and employjnent
begets employment, and money begets money,
for prosperity begets prosperity.
But let us further, and for a moment, regard
Baltimore as a market for the farmers of Ma
nkind—for we wi-h the home market clear
ly understood ; most persons know no more
of i(s real value than they do of what is hap
pening in the interior of the earth—and it is
the interest of others to prevent enquiry or
mystify tacts. We are about 70,000. Allow
to each person vegetable food equal only to a
peck of corn per week*” and we shall ap
pear to consume 910.000 bushels of grain ; if
we add what is required for the support of
horses used for draft, &lc. the whole may be
moderately estimated as equal to one million
of bushels ot wheat, per annum. Then sup*
pose we admit that each person wastes or con
sumes half a pound of animal food per day, as
we think that they do and more, and we shall
have 25 millions of pounds a year We also.
* We have also many valuable mines and
minerals, which, though rapidly coming into
use, are yet only partially worked Large
quantities of iron ore are carried from the
neighborhood f Baltimore to the New-England
states, there manufactured and probably bro’t
back again and sold here to pnrehase or pay
tor more ore,
annually requre for our families, work shops
and factories, more,than 100,000 cords of
wood. Let us see what these three articles,
these three only, will amount to—
-1.000,000 bushels grain at 1 doll. 1,000,000
25,000,000 lbs. of animal food at 4 c. 1,000,000
100,000 cords «f wood, at $2 25 225,000
2,225,000
And, at these moderate estimates, it appears
that the Baltimore market, because ofthe
bread stuffs, animal food and fuel consumed
therein, annually amount to more than two
millions and a quarter of of dollars ; or one
fourth ofthe whole value of all the bread stuff
and meats exported from all the United States.
Previous to entering upon a more general
and particular examination of our gr at staple
for export, cotton, we shaft notice one product
of agriculture which has a most extraordinary
character and operation, indeed —not on ex
ports but on consumption ; we mean sugar.
We see it lately stated in the papers that
col. Dummett, of Florida, has made thirty
hhds. of sugar from cane raised on thirty five
acres of land—say, only 30,000 lbs. The du
ty, or tax upon which, if imported, would be
$900; and this a Pennsylvania farmer would,
of itself, esteem a neat little profit on the cul
tivation of a whole farm, for a year. But
such are not so favored by soil and climate,
and the bounty ofthe general government.
The sugar crop of Louisiana is about 40 000
hhds. (less than 10,000 in 1810,) or say
44,000,000 lbs. the duty on which, if import
ed, in exchange for bread-stuffs, &c. would be
one million three hundred ic twenty thousand
dollars, and this probably divided between
less than two hundred persons —or, it we al
low it to benefit all the people of Louisiana,
is more than sixteen dollars per head, tor eve
ry man, woman, and child, ot the state as a
‘ bounty." Now, a tax equal to this on all the
people ofthe United States, would produce a
revenue of nearly one hundred and sixty mill
ions of dollars a year ! Verily, verily, this
is “ taxing the many for the benefit ot th
tew”—ami vet wonderful to be told, Louisiana
is opposed to the tariff and protection of oth
ether branches of domestic industry, as called
for hy the farmers and others, vnio make up
nearly three fourths of the whole people oi
the Unit <1 States. But this is not all.
Sugar has become almost a necessary of
life—it certainly is one of its comforts, desired
and used by the rich and the poor. The whole
amount consumed in the United States may be
about 120,000,000 lbs. say 76 imported and
14 of domestic production. The duty on the
former is three cents per lb. and amount-i to
2,280,000 dollars, on what costs about five
millions mthc foreign islands ant’ places where
in it is obtained , s<’ that the tax is very near
ly fifty per cent.-tid vn/orc/n, which is actually
collected on two thirds ofthe whole quantity
used, to the bene it ot' those of our country
men who produce the other third. And yet
Louisisiana declaims against “monopolies”
and the tariff which supplies h< r with such
cotton goods for I'2 1-2 cents per yard as late
ly cost tier 20 or 25 cents per yard !
The <luty on sugar is too high, and it would
have been reduced but tor the encouragement
ofthe agriculture of Louisiana —ami that which
is ibi her peculiar and selfish advantage, it the
t rm mav be allowed while it deprives the
treasury of 1,3204 '0 dollars a year, taxes tiie
people m the sum ol 1.1 10 000 dollars annual
ly, more than they w uld pay, iftheduty was
reduced only to two cents per lb. which would
-till be a high one A- it is, the poor black
wood-sawyer, purclmsingonly two pounds per
week for iiis family, pays a tax ot tnrec dol
lars and ten cents a year on this solitary arti
cle It is the most onerous tax that we have,
md bears particularly hard on the labouring
classes, especially the farmers, mechanics and
manufacturers. \\ c ourselves use as much ot
it, in proportion to our family, as the richest
persons among us, in the ordinary way * 1
is true, we might dispense with it —the tax
paid is “ voluntary,” in the impudent cant ol
purse-proud dealers in foreign merchandize,
who are dailv using our monev, obtained thro
credits at the custom house tor the support ol
their trade! So, as the Indi ms dispense with
the use of shirts, might we—and it is “volun
tarv”to prefer the snugand comfortable clothe-,
that we wear, to the sheep-kin dresses ot the
Hottentots—it is “voluntary” even that we
live and pay taxes at all, fur we might escap
them by suicide ! B it the freeman who labors
indu-triouslv and attends to business faithful
ly has a right to be enabled to use sugar wear
-hirts, have decent clothing and enjoy life, th.'
gift ofthe common Creator ot us all; aye, and
such will defend that right: and, what is
worth a whole volume of speculations, they
have the means of doing itthe tune being
fitted lor it, we will confidently m ike it known
to the planters and shipowners, that it theta
rift bill of 1824 had not passed, the tax upon
in porteil sugar would have been reduced to
two cents per lb. and tuat any deficiency in
the revenue which might have arisen from
that proceeding, (though we believe that
it might have increased the revenue by in
creasing the consumption of sugar,) would
have been more than compensated for by
withdrawing the fleets of rnen-of-war that are
kept abroad for the protection of property in
ships and their cargoes These things would
not have taken place wholly on the retaliato-
* The family of the writer of this consisting of nine
persons, consumes not less than 450 lbs. -a year- The
tax that he pay s then on sugar is thirteen dollars and an
half a year.
t It is a notorious fact, that every profitable manufac
turing establishment increases the consumption of for
eign luxuries or comforts. A manufacturing village of 3
or 400 people, consumes more coffee, tea, sugar, silks, &c.
han five time as many persons of the same c!':ss, cm
ployed in agriculture.
[Vol. 11. No. 21.— Whole No. 73.
ry principles, though the very worm that ig
trodden upon is allcwed to turn, but becau-o
of the special rightfulness of them, circum
stanced as the grain-growing and manufactur
ing interests were. If refused the means of
paving taxes,f it was their bounden duty to
reduce the amount of taxes demanded. Th r®
is a quid pro quo which operdtbs in every con
dition of life ; and as the saying is, every pru
dent man will “cut his coat according to r is
cloth.” Look at it’—here was Louisiana re
ceiving a “hot bed protection” of 1,320.000
dollars a year, in a bounty paid by the people
on her sugar, and there were the ship ownerg
defended at the cannon’s mouth, at the cost to
the people of a much larger sum—the whole
trade to the Mediterranean, for example, not
taking off so much of gross value in our pro
ducts as the costs of the fleets amount to—
and vet both these w re against the tariff bill
of 1824, intended for the encouragement of
our farmers and manufacturers, and supported
by their representatives in congress, as the
votes will yet shew! We would not either
‘ razee” the duty on sugar, or “tomahawk”
the navy—but those who “live should let
live.” No state in the union profits like L >u
isiana by the tariff —the price of her cottoa is
assisted hy it, as we shall shew when we speak
about that article, though she is supplied with
cotton goods at from 40 to 50 per cent, cheap
er than be ore the act of 1824 was passed;
but the direct and actual protection or
bounty which she receives, is qual to sixteea
dollars per head for every one of her people;
and were all the people of the United St t-’S
protected, the amount of protection would bo
in the sum of one hundred and sixty millions <>f
dollars a year! as before -dated, and repeat d
that it may not be forgotten. Noone can dis
pute this. And further, is a“ monopoly” be
cause of climate in the south, less odious than
a “ monopoly” because of climate in the north,
or the west, or the east? What i* the sugar
planter better than die wool grower? Is it not
quite as nescessary to have clothes to shield
us from the cold of our winters, as sugar to
sweeten our coffee? But we desire both, and
only ask, while the production of the last is
protected, that the growth and manufactu of
wool for the other may be encouraged; and
Louisiana, who receives so liberally, should
instruct her senators and representatives to
giv a little. It is by mutual conce°cions and
accommodations that the peace of famili s
and societies is maintained; but there is a dis
position wisely implanted in the human mind,
to require such conces=ions and accommoda
tions, between persons possessing equal rights,
and it operates in great things as the writer
oftl.is really put it into practice ahou; two
years ago in a smaller affair: in returning fr. m
my dinner, I was accu-tomeded almost .-very
day, to meet a dandy Englishman ju-t i noort*
ed, (or eloped, as the case might !»•■,) who
majestically strutted along the middle of the
pavement. 1 gave way and went uuthink- g
ly to the right or the left, for a con.id' ca
ble time ; but, at last, was satisfied that he
demanded this homage to his puppyishisrn.—
The next time when we were about to pass, I
kept the middle of the pavement—he c ime
on rapidly as usual with his head up and eves
raised, and wholly unpn-par* d to receive my
elbow, which he run afoul of, (having turned
myself half-round to acco.nmodaie trun with
it,) and he near! 1 ’ fell down in conseqn nee
be ng a light er man than myself He look d
wildly at me, I looked calmlv at him, nut not
i word was sai<i —we passed, and ever after
that fie concerted a part of the pavement to
me, as I had been quite willing to yield a part
of it to him or anv other j )ci*m, th ougii black
ind a slave. This familiar case, will si rve is
well as the most • laborate one that could ho
>tated, to shew the principle on which society
is sustained
We shall now present some facts and opin
ions baring upon the present great staple of
country ; whatever belong- to it is highly im
portant to every auction of our country and all
description ot persons And on this occasion,
it may be proper to express out serious belief,
that, if the doctrines which we have «-upport
ed for -o ijiaoy years, have been beneficial to
any one class of the people more than another,
that class is the cultivators of cotton. It is
with much satisfaction, we observe that many
of the planters begin to discover this, and that
a radical change of opinion may be speedily
hoped for A little while ago, ot three or
tour years since, the people of the astern
staLps devoted to commerce and .navigation,
were as much opposed to tie* tariff for the n
couragement and protection of domestic man
ufactures, as those of the suthern states now
are. It has been demonstrated, that success
in manufactures has increased the commerce
and navigation of the east, and was, also, ad
din" powerfully io the wealth and population
of these states. But with how much more
reason may it be expected that they will assist*
the southern states, seeing that they evenm-v.
consume one fourth of the whole crop of cot
ton raised in them !
We have been lately honored with many
letters containing sentiments similar to those
in the extract we are about to intro
duce, which is from one of the most highly
honored gentlemen of the south, and winch
came to hand since this article was in prepara
tion for the pre-s. He says—
“ There is a perfect coincidence of opinion
between us on the subject of protecting home
manufactures. But as the times are for the
cotton planters, (of whom I am one in a small
wav,) they would be much worse but for the
demand of our manufactories for the hew ar
ticle. I should like to see mure eflectual pro
tection extended to the growth and manu’ac
ture of wool. These and suchlike measures
wi I in time make ns iud -pendent. ”
Tbe preceding is a literal extract, and tir