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ODE t« SPECULATION.
DEAR. Speculation! come x»d lend thy
aid,
My muse require! it more than then dost
think,
To clear Bill Blount, at a chaste virgin
maid,
ffrom public noise, and haonti, where he
doei (link.
he, 1 aik, a mighty governor,
Who o'er the VVeftern Waters used to
role.
Without thee write an Indian waggoner ?
Without thee play the cunning artful fool ?
Would he fro n Washington accept com
million,
And write 'gainft Georgia’# wicked batb’
rous bands ?
Complain of T r’# federal omiflioni,
And beg of government to tie their hands f
Would he with S——F , G—,
and other#,
Persuade the Union Georgia waa quite
mad ?
Denounce dite venge'nce on hia southern
brothers,
tVhen he was twenty thousand times as
bad,
A true old story often comes to mind,
Which may come in to help me out in
rhyme ;
Should Georgia be aa bad at Blount doei
And,
rogue calls rogue firft ftnee the dawn
of time.
True; Speculation! Georgia has thee
hurt,
Beyond the power of Billy Blount to
mend,
(f thou do’ft not step forward at the Ipurt,
Aud make fucepeding legislatures bend.
Bring Atlas, Tim, and Oliver, and Mac,
Send Brace’s from New England’s fa
chem* wife,
Who may contrive to get dear Yazoo
back,
Break J n’s head, and black up both
hi# eyes.
Bring bankers, ferip men, funding lads,
and all
Who've lifted under banners so divine,
Who, once, ne’er had a sous within their
call,
Bat now like funs, upon us mortals, (hine.
Y*S cum?, dear (peculation ! lend thy
aid,
tvly muse is fainting, and in great despair,
(jive me a million, out of Yu zoo paid,
To get it back, you need not fear a hair.
Desi les you’i! save Bill Blount as fure’s a
gun,
/.ga’n he'll govern all the Weftern lands,
D«otcft your vot’ries, where foe’er they
run,
And give them comfort out of Yazoo
lands.
tvow, now's the time to fend thy cou
riers out,
T'hrough fettled Georgia tell a thousand
lies,
Corrupt the people, make a mighty rout,
Aud whip, before the mighty virtue flic#*.
deraember well, dear monied fpecula
tion 1
The next election's drawing very near;
Bribe, bribe, to get aU'embly and con
vention,
Os these, whose conferences have nought
to fear.
Then, then, you'll swim adown the gold
en llrcam,
With British nobles, form a league di
vine ;
The pet r y states (hall hang upon thy beam,
4I he Union loft-—who'll dare 'gainft thee
combine ?
Pacr Pindar's Grandson.
Xpfanufcript copies of the following Search
Warrant for a nerd!*, in a hay-Jlaek ,
rre said to be circulating in- various
parts of this date.
I HAVE thought fit to iuue this my
proclamation,
Brcaufe upon oa:h INe receiv'd infor
mation,-
Thatbuta few days since, fomc time in
the night, *
A certain Hart Campen was murder'd out
right.
f Twa* in Uincock county the deed was
trau sassed,
tyhieh has nearly run all the lynch men
* • * .» j
N *
Beeanfbwhea they wanted to whip hoaeS
men,
No one wa* more pert at it than Hart
Campen :
And although the murderers are quite un
known,
And no one pretends to guess where they
are flown,
Yet I do enjoin all the men in the Rate,
That each one be ready, both early and
late,
To take up the fellows who did the foul
deed,
And fee that our country from such (hall
be (reed;
Then henceforth weeafily can circumvent
Those who record-burning would try to
prevent;
And if we get hold of the counterfeit
keys,
The Yazoo bank notes sets us Antics at
case;
And then we may hope to get many such
men,
As was that / mart u>hippcr t the late Hart
Campen.
I therefore command, and doftriftly en
join, * .
Both civil and military ("ach in his line)
To aid and aflift and my orders to mind,
And fee that the needle in hay-flack they
find :
Then one hundred dollars I’ll give to the
men
Who bring forth the murderers of Hart
Campen .
Given under my hand, and the seal of
the state,
Augull the tenth—ninety-seven;
Year of independence Ido not re
late ;
But half it, it may count eleven.
DECHIFFRER.
Greene county t September 14, 1797*
Mu Smith,
On the fourth of July last, a num
ber of the inhabitants of this county
convened together to celebrate the day.
The inclofed speech and toasts were
exhibited with a spirit of freedom and
requested to be published in your Ga
zette. In doing which you will o
blige A number of your Subscribers .
—» J
At a meeting of a number of the citizens of .
Greene county , on the 4 kof July 1 797,
the following speech usas delivered by
Mr. Ilaac Grier.
Mr Audience,
4th of July, the ever memora
JL ble anniversary of our independence,
has once more arrived -a day long to be
held in the highest esteem by Columbia’s
numerous offspring; a day which will, no
doubt, be venerated by million* yet un
born, and handed down from age to age,
until poftcrity (hall be no more. But
(hall this fufficb ? No, my audience, that
would be treating the fubjefft with con
tempt as well as neglect: Let us try to
realize some of the important fubjefU of
that memorable day : Let us recoiled! the
rage of Britain, whose thuqder roared
from-one end of our continent to the o
thrr, menacing deftru&ion and death—-
Even Indian lavages were called upon to
execute the tyrant’# will, whose cruel
mode of warfare spares neither age nor
sex Unborn infants fell victims to the
tyrant’s rage. Along our vast frontiers,
nothing, almost to be heard, but the
rude din of savage war, which wa# began
and continued by that monlier, w'ho ftylcs
himtclf the defender of the faith, whose
rage knows no bounds, but the want of
power. Alas! how many brave Ameri
cans tell viftims to his hellish fury ; and
wherefore? Because, they said, they
would be free, and not the {laves of a de
fj Ot. Time would fail to enumerate the
melancholy circumstances of British cru
elty. Georgians, lor this, consult the
tragic fcencs of Augusta, Briar creek.
Savannah, &c. places fill reeking, with
the blood of those, whose untimely fate,
cries yet aloud for vengeance. To the
eternal disgrace of Americans they have
forgotten their brethren who fell in the
cause of freedom, and given the hand of
friendfnip to the most accursed and cruel
of all monsters, the king of Britain,
who draonn-like wi(hes to (wallow up, not
only all liberty, but the very appearance
of it ; for proof cf this, observe the case
of France. No sooner do the French
embark in the cause of freedom, than
Britain draws the sword againlt them;
remitters and ceanccllors are called upon,
to contrive ways and means to suppress
liberty in France, yea the very ideas of
it muu be rooted up or he cannot take any
rest, I'ltziz &nd erajics nz ftsr.ee this j
prefing occafltoo. With vrhat hcrry <§a
the defigntd meflengers of death prel's
forward 10 fatten the plains of Germany :
Bat the lamp of liberty is too far illumi
nated to be extinguifbed by Britilh puff;
although to the harbingers of death, they
have added those of the Prince of Peace.
Oil! Heaven daring blasphemy, yet Bri
tiflt faith 2nd policy. Georgian*, never
forget the noble and heroic druggies of
your breathren throughout the Union;
confiJer the fatigue, hunger and third
which numbers ot them have undergone
for the fake of liberty, and for which
many have been consigned to the mansions
of the dead. Are there not here feme
who have not only seen the horrors, but
felt the stroke of war; can such forget
the tyranny of Britain or fourth of July ?
Let us not forget that Britain is yet at
war with freedom in the territories of
France, nor believe that die will ever be
at peace with liberty in any quarter of
the globe. Her fatariic rage, will, no
doubt, burn like Catthage oi old, until
die is buried in ruins. My audience re
joice ! the arms of France have molifird
the dragon towards America - He dands
agaft,-- He has rccourfe to ncgociation,
in order that Bruidi infidelity may be
tried in all its parts. Ch! Britannia,
thou parent countrj, l could weep for
thee, but am forbidden—thy day is come,
thy viiitaiion is at hand, and dreadful
will the reckoning be; for dnee the Nor
man conquest thy hitfory has been only
blood. When we take a view of Britain,
what a melancholy picture . resents itfclf.
—Oh! Sidney and Hampden, a land
unworthy of thy birth, thy late, with that
of many others hastens on her ruin. The
foul ficketis at the feene.
An enraged enemy coming rear her
borders --at horns, credit on the wane
bankruptcies innumerable--manufafiuries
at a stand—the poor out of employment
--the middle ciaffes daggering under the
preflfure of exilfing, and threatened with
an accumulation of frefli taxes—the lich
touted with the enormity of their piefent
jiayments to fh* date, and forced by the
sympathy of human nature to the encreaf
ing contributions to their own poor, and
nothing to be seen but the boundless prof
pefl of exilfing miferics and complicated
wretchedness. July 4th 1796 --never did
the world behold such an auspicious day
a day that merits the admiration and
applause of mankind—behold a nalipn
bravely druggling with potent enemic*,
who ought to have been fodering friends;
and under all thediLdvantages of infancy
and inexperience, (hike off the (hackles
of a delpot and declare thanfelves free.
We believe that the Goa of battles led
Americans on to glory ani conqucd, and
that he hath engraved on the heart cf
man the code of justice and equality and
pronounced fsntence of death on tyrants.
He hath not created kings to devour the
human race, nor tytants to do as they
lift, but hath fixed in the heart of the tri
umphant oppt'elTor remorse and terror, and
inspired the heart of the oppreffrd inno
cent with tranquility and courage. Know
ye that at this moment the oppressed of
the earth are turning their wifnful eyes to
this land of freedom, as the only afvlum
of rest and peace: And so far as the
found of Amctican freedcun readies, it
is bleflVd by all ranks of mankind, ty
rants only excepted. Oh! Liberty thou
dearest of names and bell of charters,
mayest thou always fiourilh in United
Amfrica with cemented harmony and re
fined o.rdcr. To accomplilh this desira
ble object, let all parents, as focn as the
infant is capable of receiving the firft im
pressions of freedom, be careful to culti
vate their minds and inftil into them the
true principles of virtue ar.d liberty,
'leach them that Greece and Rome were
once free, but to what objeCl (lavcry they
are-now reduced; what a melancholy
pidure do they exhibit of a once magnani
mous learned and free people---No more
Greece produces a Homer or a Dcmoft
hrnrs,— Rome a Cato or a Cicero. The
improved faculties of the mind seem tru
ly to have expired with their free forms of
government.
But (lull this be thy case, Oh! Ameri
ca, forbid it Heaven! Fortid that this
r.ow free country (houM ever produce a
race of men to bring about her ruin.
Alas! America is not free from signs of
dithnt ruin—'-there is in the midst of us
fpecuiation, bribery, fraud and contempt
for all kinds of government; there phe
nomena are foreboding omens, and ought
to alarm us of our danger, and make us
watchful over the jewel of liberty, reared
no, and acquired by the blood of thou
sand: $ that wc caj hand it to pof
terkf pi* nd infolded. Let ■
mcmbei that the fair tahrick ot
dency was not easy reared u P; i, Cn
lives of many worthy patriot,
many widows and orphans ; many
and mothers have (hed the bitter tej
sorrow. And (hall we nor e>
every meins in our power to
beautify it ? Blow ye winds and :
thy fame, O liberty ! over the whole ri 3|
that all nations may taste th- fiveetnH
freedom, and the bands of tvums
pear. America has (hewn the
ihe can live free, and France is fal!owj9
her example-.-May she fuccced
freealfo. May the balmy wing; 0 fp c ,9
spread over the world and w sr f orc ,9
cease : But this will not t-ike pb C r. 9
long askings exist ; kings the curfc 9
the human race, they will kin o? j. O H
freedom either in their own
tlfcvchete: How many potrictn hflf
fallen in Britain ? H uv many hcahlojH
fed off? And how many confined in tflj
infernal tower without the light
until they paid the debt n: nature.,
her mild .idmimflration. America t!s9
highly favoured happy country,
lordly tyrant walks, nor cringing
cant Cues admittance —liberty and njfl|
lity every where appear. How
astonish the European ceafant to f.id !<S|
that he i* a man. Thou happy
ldeffed freedom ! Let us never forget 9j
fourth of July, and when we think on|Bf
droptht tear ol grateful
the names of Warren, MonrgomrsH
Mercer, Greene, Wayne and manyothcH
who are now no more. fl
Toe following ioajls zvtre drank. B
r. Peace on earth and friendlhip wiljfl
all nations. fl
X. The president anti congress cf ’hfl
United States; may they evet pcfrlifl
vvifdom and firmnefs fufficient to |;rcimefl
the interest and dignity of the Aoiericufl
Union. B
3. The governor and Icgiflatare dfl
Georgia ; may wisdom direst, iKijuditefl
ever flow from their councils. B
4. The republic of France; msyitß
be a* eminent for justice, as she his bcqH
victorious in arms. B
C. May liberty and equality perdtß
all ranks and denominations ot men. ■
6. May the (hackles of defpotifn Isß
broken, and may the bleflings nf * ImH
and equitable government extend to evil
ry region. fl
7. The 4th of July; may it alvsysteH
remembered with gratitude and thanktak I
nefs, and celebrated with rational tcfcH
duT. I
8. The Envoys Extraordinary tsl
Fra me; may they be inftrunientalinre-B
moving prejudices and icfiming tnotmß
confidence and harmony between botkß
nations. I
g. Our miniflers at foreign courts. ■
10. The conltifution ot rhe.liniwH
States; as it has been founded «ij*B
principles, may it be adhered to,
the utmost firmnefs and integrity. ■
11. Dotf®r Watson, bishop of W|
J.ifF.
12. The fair sex of Georgia.
13. The batchclor* ol G*cr*is;
they no longer live to be the rep*" 1
and contempt of the fair sex.
14. Agriculture and commerce.
15. May prejudice .v.d parties cJ
tc exist in our conntry. #
16. May the memory of our hte t *
ftrious president be revered, and hisvit
tues imitated by his fucccflors.
4 *z* -*i* < + ) - o 00-o •o ■c*
T O L E T,
THE houfc and lot lately*
A cupied by Dr. dc Monte, end
diate pojjtjjion given : It will bc ft'A
bargain, Jor rzady pay, or any joji
azainfl
ABRAHAM Joh^\
SHERIFF’S SALE-.
At Elbert court-house, on the A* 1 *
day in November next,
WILL BE SO Li).
ONE negro woman r.s^
Tiller, taken as the
John M. Whitney, at the »«»£ 01
jamin Cock.
A L S °,
RufTers modern Europe, sci
Ram fey's hiflories, and a number
valuable books; taken as the pr f. * ■ *
Abtaham Colefon, at the fait 01 /'
Tait. „ « r ;
R. COSBY, A L ’
September 16; 1757.