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Messrs* Printers ,
By inserting the following piece in your paper vou wnl
no doubt gratify inai\y of your enlightened subscribers.
It delineates the immediate and distant consequences ot
intoxication in their true colors, and ihust strike our
philosophical patriots with awe, while they refleft that
■we civilized Christians are excelled by savages in the
internal policy of our governments.
Speech of a Creek Indian against the Tfse of Rum. or
other Spirituous Liquors.
Oh Countrymen!
I WILL spare myself the ungrateful task of repeating,
and you the pain of recolletling, those shameful broils,
those unmanly riots, and those brutal extravagances,
which the unbounded use of this liquor has so frequently
produced among us. I must, however, beg leave to as
sert, that our prevailing love, our intemperate use, of this
liquid, will be productive of consequences the most de
structive the welfare of the public, and tb* felicity of
every individual offender. It perverts the ends of society,
and unfits us for all those distinguishing and exquisite
feelings which are the cordials of life, and the noblest
privileges of humanity.
I have alreadv declined the mortification which a detail
of facts would raise in every breast when unpossessed by
this demon. Permit me then, in general, only to appeal
to public experience for the many violations of civil order,
the indecent, the irrational, perversions of character,
which these inflammatory draughts have introduced a
rrtbngst us. ’Tis true these are past, and may they never
be restated! But tremble, O ye Creeks! when I thunder
in your ears this denunciation, I'iiat, if the cup of perdi
tion continues to rule among us with swav so intemper
ate, ye si 'ill cease to be a nation! Ye will have neither
be :ds to direct, nor bands to protect you.
While this diabolic ;! juice undermines all the powers
Os vour bodies and minds, with inoffensive zeal the war
rior’s enfeebled arm will draw the bow, or launch the
spear, in the day of battle. In the day of council, when
national safety stands suspended on the lips of the hoary
Stcbera. he will sh ke his head with uoci lleCted spi lies,
and drivel the babbling’ of a second childhood.
- I hope I need not make it a question to any in this as
sembly whether he would prefer the intern;:*rate use of
this liquor to cleaKprecaution, sound judgment , and a
mi.id exulting in its own rtf Sioux. Yet there is not,
within the whole compass of nature, so prevailing, so
lasting a propensity, as that of associating and communi
cating our sentiments to each other. And there is not a
more incontestable truth than this, that benignity *f heart.
the calm possession of ourselves, and the undisturbed ex
ercise of our tbtnting faculties, are absolutely necessary
• . _ a a
to constitute the eligib’e and worthy companion. How
opposite to these characters intoxication renders us is so
manifest to our own experience, so obvious to the least
reflection, that it would be impertinent to enlarge further
upon it.
And now, O ye Creeks! if the cries of your country,
if the pulse of glory, if all that forms the hero and exalts
the man. has not swelled yo; ’ breasts with patriot indig
nation against the immoderate use of this liquor; if these
motives are insufficient to produce such resolutions as may
be effcihial, there are vet other ties cf humanity, tender,
dear, and pe-suading. Think on what we owe to our
children, and to the gentler sex!
With regard to cur children, think bow it must affefi
their tenderness to see the man that gave them being thus
sank into the most brutal state, in danger of being suito
cr-ted bv his own intemperance, and standing in need of
their infant arm to support his staggering sicds, or raise
Ms feeble farad while he vomits forth ti'-e foul debauch!
Will not this gradually deprive us of all authority in the
families which we ought to govern and protect; What a
waste of time does it create, which might otherwise be
toent rou’ii the blazing hearth in the most tender officer!
It perverts the great designs of nature, and murders, ail
those precious moments in which the warrior should re
count to his wondering offspring his own great actions,
And those of his ancestors!
But farther, besides what we owe to our children, let
cs think on that delicate regulation of conduct, that soui
ennobling love, which it is at once the bappinefs and honor
cf ma nbozd to manifest towards the gentler sex. Bv the
love ci this sex I do not mean mere desire of them. Those
amiable creatures are designed not only to gratis. our pas
sions, but to excite and fix all the kind and sociable affec
tions; they were not meant to be the slaves of our arbi
trary wills in ocr brutal moments, but the sweet compa
nions of our most reasonable hours and exalted erjov
i.unts. Hea* en has endowed them with that peculiar
warmth of affection, that disinterested friendship of heart,
that melting sympathy of soul, that entertaining sprieht
liness cf imagination, joined with all the sentimental abili
ties cf mind, that tend to humanize the rough nature, open
the reserved heart, and polish the rugged temper, which
would otherwise make men the dread and abhorrence of
each, other. Thus wore women formed, to allay the fa
tigues of life, and reward tire dangers we encounter for
them. These are their endow ments, these their charms.
Hither nature, reason, virtue, call. And shall thev call
in vain? Shall an unnatural, an unreasonable, a vicious,
perver?;tv of taste, be preferred to those Heaven-bom j-vs
of ill'.? Will vou treat tire Sovereign Principle of Good
with a thankless insensibility, and offer libations to the
Spirit of a!i Evil? \\ ill any Creek henceforth dare to ap
proach those lovely creatines with unhallowed lips, breath-*
rig the noisome smell of this diabolical juice, or roll into
their *s wnv embrace in a state inferior to tire brutes, los
ing all that rapturous intercourse of Love and Friend
ship. all those Most exalted of human pleasures, which
they, they only, ate formed capable of communicating to
Us? *
Let me conjure vou, by these softer ties and inexpres
sible endearments, let me conjure you, as you vet hope to
behold the Tree of Peace raise its tar-seen top to the sun.
and spread its odorous branches, watered bv tire dew of
Heaven, over all your abodes, while vou rejoice unmo
lested under its shade, and as you yet wish to behold the
nations round abor t you bound with the snered chain of
concord, everv hand maintaining a i ,k; bv all these ties,
uy all there horres, 1 conjure you, O Greeks. hcnccfrwari
let the cup of moderation be the crown-, of your festivities!
Save your country! maintain and elevate her glory! trans
mit to your posterity health, freedom, ar.d honor! Break
not the great chain of Nature, but let an honest, ration
al, and delicate intercourse, be the plan of social joy! Iret
each domestic bliss wreathe the garland of connubial love!
Let truth and friendship sanctify the lover’s wish, and se
cure to the brave, wise, and temperate man, a felicity
worthy his choice and his protedion!
From the BOSTON PALLADIUM.
IT is with emotions of the deepest regret that we an
nounce to the public tlie death of capt. Bernard Magee,
who fell a vidim to the malicious and indiscriininating ven
geance of the barbarians on the n. w. coast of America*
As nearly as we can colled the following are the circum
stances of this disastrous event. It appears that, after
having been some time on the coast, capt. Magee steered
his ship fdr a small cove, where he had been informed
capt. Swift, in- the ship Hazard, had remained the previous
winter. On his arrival here three natives came on board
his ship, and with signs cf the greatest friendship offered to
condud him to the spot wlrere capt. Swift had wintered.
This they pun dually performed-, and with the appearance
of much satisfadion pointed out two log houses capt. Swift
had ereded. Here tile ship lay in apparent security two
| da\s; but on die third, being the 16th of September last,
j a canoe with four natives came alongside. They were
taken on board, and treated with every ma;k of hospitali
ty, After a friendly repast, in the afternoon capt. Magee,
with his boy, went on shore to inspefr the repairs of a
boat. Hp was soon followed by these savages, who, on
landing, fired a pistol at the carpenter, which wounded
him in his tup, stabbed the boy in three pi ices, and seiz
ing the unfor lunate captain inriid -d a severe and mortal
wound. As soon as intelligence of this disaster reached
the ship a boat well manned and armed was detached to
his relief, but arrived too late to do anv other service .’’.an
to put the perpetrators to flight, and to carry him on board
and administer ail the comfort which could be afforded in
his last moments; he expired with great resolution and the
most pious resignation, breathing his last signs in expres
sions of tenderness for his nearest friend. The whole must
have been a concerted pi rn, originating in a quarrel which
a little time before, hau taken place between the natives
and the crews of some American vessels on the coast, ma
nifested on both sides with much rancor, ani in acls of
cruelty, which, considering the superior intelligence of
our countrymen, cannot but be viewed as extremely repre
hensible.
While we sympathize with his friends, who have latelv
but too often drank from the cup of .affliction, we bewail
the injury the community sustains in the loss cf so worthy
a member. He was one of the best of men. tod ccmbiued
in his person every good property am-.c . .... use:a!, and,
had he lived, to have rendered him an ornament to socittv.
W ith an a&ive enterprising disposition he united a most
unassuming demeanor; w ith a manly intrepid s,, rit, the’
most engaging modesty; with an excellent understanding,
which revealed to bun the wiles which unhappily too much
degrade and obscure the human character, be was so fir
from practising them himself that although, in most in
stances, he would, by his prudence, have averted their
consequences, the goodness of his heart, on this occasion,
betra .ed him into a fatal security, aril iie fell a sacrifice
to a barbarous revenue, awakened and exasjrerated bv the
indiscretions of other people.
The ship remained in the utmost hazard cf being cutoff,
having received several dricraiges of musketry from tue
•bore, which killed one man, and wounded another; out,
bv the unremitting and spirited exertions of the officers and
crew, and favored by the darkness of night, they effected
their escape without any furtlrei accident. We learn tiut
the car-renter recovered of his wound, but the boy me...
‘lTese losses were afterwards supplied from two si •> they
fjl in with on the coast belonging to nr. Dorr, from whom
they received the most hum-:.: treatment, ana ac.lv cu ai!
the assistance the nature of their situation demair> v xl.
% The following very extraordinary anecdote is related
in nr. Morier’s History of the Campaign of ti e o:t*iun
Army in the year iScc. lift were not nienuonc- From
such high authority we could fcarceiy give credit to tie
fac\. Mr. Moritr was private secretary to lord Elgin,
and F.ngliih commillioner with tire Ottoman arm. ia E
u The French nave very carefo’lv concealed every de
tail en their campaign in Syria; indeed, it is not iurprff
i*g that they Should have been silent on an expedition that
added so much luifoe to the Britilfc arms, while i:s conic
quences proved no less fatal to their . my than inglorious
to their general. But there is one a rerun fiance connected
with that period of the campaign which L,s just been al
luded to that could not be concealed; and it uiuif re re
corded, because it tends to difdcfe a feature in t .e nioft
conspicuous character of the present acc—Bonaparte.
After reducing Ei-Arifti the French advanced into
Syria, took Gaza without refinance, and then proceeded
to Jaffa. The garriibn was fuinmoned, but refuting to
surrender, the town was carried bv iiomi, and gf.cn over
to pillage and murder for 12 hours; vet the cnreLics com
mitted on this occaiion were surpassed by what loan follow
ed; 4500 of the garriion were made prifoaers of war;
in this number were included iccc cf trek who bad ca
pitulated at El- * riff:. They were reminded of ha\ ir.g
broken their engagements by being again taken in arms:
j the other ;;ao were implicate I with the guilty. T’ tv
1 were all marched to feme End hills near Jaffa, where ..rev
were drawn up in a line; an equal line of French soldiers,
with their bayonets fixed, before tlxrr; tire
order was given to charge, and in a*inftant 4:00 men
were murdered. To this day tbeir iketetons, and tne lands
fterired k,i:h gore, attest the barbarous act.
‘ s It is a sacs as well cftablifhed in S'-ria, that when the
fege of Acre was railed, and t 5 e French ami began its
i march for Egypt, all their wounded and Lck were y-.lkm
j ew by order 01 tireir general.”
rLosi:n pi'er.
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SCT* Yiiiting and Message Crids fer fak by the pinters
ml this paper.
SALEM , jul v ~ I
T~'\ R OWN ED at Northwood, Inst T u j: a J
X - J M btsn to work c n the turnffb’
name ot Carr, and the ft.her bv *■*.’ n
After the fatigue of the day lir
inmeu to go into a pond to wall,; thofc Wp •
o. the number; neither could ftvim; one of theml W
uil jump got eeypnd his depth; h e ttr u „i.J “!*•
fpiamg to relieve him. and was chv.-.- ‘ , 1 W
the Hrft; Langley, thinking to afford
them m their last Haggles; they caught hh, ‘JJj#
went down together* Wliat is worthy G s
thole two Carrs were twin brothers, and one
twin fitters, that have a child each about five? B
the:r death was in each other’s arms; they I
anu buried fn one grave; they were from
were mdufWus worti.v citizens. Mr. Lan-Vv ■
was of North weed, a young man.
A mr. Austin, mulician, on h;:fnaffi? e on
Jrom Boffon to Porrian.!, a few leagues from CaJ P*
brth, jumped overboard and was drowned.
he was f i red with a fit of infinity.
A mr. Kent, offNewSurvport.’ on Monday ho 1 i
out to the bridge on Dear liknil. paid his toll, hi ii
horse near me draw, pnlkd off his coat, tied fetl
with his hanukerchief, and deliberately jumod ovei
briuge. He was m the water but a few minutes hi
tne means used to rtllnre him were ineffectual, hi
a man °f confidence property, and has left arefSl
iamny o children to lament his awful exit. He S
bored unoer a mental derangement for feme timepJl
Tc f k ’ Jpb 24. Died, at PAckenfielfß
mor.t, on the 2a infant, mr. Stephen Beard, son nf J
Beard, aged 30. On the ,Bth of Febinarv laftß
bitten by a mad dog; but the bfoeffien lay dcnuantl
tne _Bth o. -June, whe| he began to complain cfj
common pan, m- his bread and back, and various
mgs, Ipafinodic pams pervaded the thorax. andafiS
01 tumefaction aixmt his throat and neck, th -uyh no*
tenia tumefaction could hfc <ii('covered. Medial iM
called, but to no effeO. The frmptoms continuedß
ere ale; ana on toe 29th he became very thirffv, calldl
water, but could not drink it. These iucreafm? fvm J
tei r.fied him exceedingly; sometimes his pulse beat *
indicating great inflammation, at other times very low]
deprtffed, attended with intermissions; his Iresfhinb]
herce; his ani wan, with a livid foot on J
cneek; bis tongue of a leaden color, attended with B
prellible anxiety, and tremendous lp.ifmodic ffriftursofj
prreccrdia, a frothing at the mouth, a difficult refpuß
continued horror and dread of anv liquid. He often*
turned his Emily and b . ft ndirs to keep at a dif&ncel
be fhoul i h.rt them. 1 hu.- the symptoms increaftfl
1 hurldav nighi, about 10 or n o'clock, July ift, J
<1 tt vxre pa; xd.n of canine delirium succeeded, aril
adiftonts were obliged to confine him. A fucceflwl
parqxil'ms to the fourth closed tire diffreffing fcenJ
inaay fooramg* July 2d, at about 5 o’clock. I
Philadelphia. July 27. ‘i'he coach and 1. .ov. nfl
tlrer with tne coacnman and a son of mr. Jofep
of tnis city, ‘'ere v t tier day unfortunately loft t *
Delaware, ini diftreffir.g occurrence happ I
following manner, between 8 and 9 o'clock i 1
ing. ihe family having rode out to their ct > ;fl
situated cn the river, a.’iout 14 nules fiftin t! r . I
coachman, with mr. Anthony’s son William, a pr.-fi*
lad oi about 1 o years of age, drove to the edge of tfcl
ver, for tire purpr ie 01 retrefiiing ftla horses and cleufil
the carriage. Unfortunately, either from not being*
acquainted with the il:or<, or being unable to turn*
hurfos in time, tirey got out r>t theirdepth, and, inti*
ft niggles to i'wim, it is fuppo ci, entangled their ftet*
tne haitre ss or (hate, ana iuuneiiatelv funk. The bods■
t e coachman was found near the carriage; that of *
Anthony’s lon not Lie- n found earlv this I
i wo men were urcwr.ed on Saturdav from the fccoo*
June, just arrived from Richmond. 1
By tire Active, lately from Canton, have been itce:*
a lew iikrefi.-hcs oi the illuffrious gen. Wafbingioc, e*
cored on giafs in a superb and mafterlv fty| e by aoenffl*
Chinese artiff. The n fombiance is striking, aedtk**
ner approaches to Stuart’s bappieft efforts. |
July ;c. Married, on Tuefilav evening last, bp*
rev. or. R.'-’ers, mr. Jol.n Cummins, aged 92 years,*
mr?. C,t trine Keklrer, aged zS years, both of this ci*
Baltimore-, ‘July 22. The icHoorrer Nautilus, Bilb*
filled from Kingston the 27th June for Baltimore; *
sauce evening was (truck with lightning, which tort *
fore top and flu-cuds entirely to pieces, the fore a*
little less injured, after which it pailed through the be*
two of tire cr-w, John Croffey and William Jnhnfon, *
killed* and Horace W)ker much breifed. with the loSfl
both eves- When the coafufion occasioned had fuoufi*
capt. Biilx>p bore 2wav tor land, and next morning *
chorea 2t Black River, when he took the pi'ot beat *
proceeded to Savanna la Mar, from whence he inteidj
going to Havana to get a inaft. not being abktoprw*
one there* r ,
‘July 26. Married, on THirlclav evening. mcNich®
Ijeeke. aged 6c, to mils Hannah Balk, aged i6> bo# B
Fell's Point. K
Qn Friday Est the avrfrl ftnttnce cf de2th
nounced upon Ettirer Davis for the murder of l*r
child. , J
On Thurfdav 1 .ft a child, newlv bora, was
in a beep of (forte rrear Govtn’s town. A jury
gsvre t:xir verdict of wilfol murder. Ibe perpttf 3
this horrid act is net vet known. , J
Frankfort. Ju *7. Friday last the h(X&
pi,rev Marfiiall, eiq. cf Woodford countv, **f‘
lightning, and tire only daugh-.ai of mr. Mirffail,
able vour-g Iqv about 15 vears of age- inft*™!
Mrs. Man hall was ffvotiv ffxrektd, ba: not
material! v injured; the rest of the ficsly rer, ‘ slße *SH
How painful moft have so .n the fi-nfaaons of
(who was oa his retuni home ftr-ai tfo FrasD®
crurt, fii’ed, no doubt, with the pleasing bof* jTB
h : s family in aft w hears, in health,
joining drero) when !.e heard of this aw ft! dilp B 'T|
Providence.
S'srfcik. Avguf 2. His cxaXuesKy go>e I