Southern recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1820-1872, February 25, 1823, Image 1

Previous Issue Next Issue

Clip Visible Area View Page Text View PDF

Newspaper Page TextVOL. IV. MlLLEUGEViLGE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1323. No. 3. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, n y ft (; 11,1.\*'/’/y.'/.Y ’/) f|" //■ -V. O W.U72, )n Uutrxk st. between Wayne St Jefferson,) ' ,„ K|f lull,OARS. IN ADVANCE, Oil FOUR , l( ,tLA»» At TllE RXFIRATIUN OF TUK rr.vR. I;-.. Ailverlisnmcnl* conspicuously inserted ,t the customary rntos. Letters on business, „|t esses, must he rost taio. I ROM TUK EASTS US (ruRTLANO) ARCUS. THE WATCHMAN—Ao. III. fo ihr Republicans of the United States. lliul tbt‘ oath required of Hannibal, by Hatnilcnr, been taken & observed by every citizen ofhis nation. Carthage had not been destroyed. It wn? not the con fidence inspired by the victory at Can nae, tho effeminacy infused at Capua. the want of an experienced commander and an adequate army, which prevented the humiliation and perhaps the subjuga tion of Rome. The Carthaginians were a nation of merchants. They sighed more for profit than for conquest or safe ty. Mercantile cupidity gradually pois oned and finally destroyed them. An oath of perpetual enmity has been condemned as savage and barbarous.— Rut Carthage had nothing to fear from Rome hut her friendship. In that early age, that great man had learnt, what eve ry succeeding age, has confirmed, that a nation of merchants is a nation without steady and unshaken patriotism—that a love of speculation is their predominant passion—that consequently, attachments and connexions are formed, which weak en and absorb all others, and that these attachments & connections, every where dangerous, are emphatically so, with the cation to English jurisprudence. The common law, with all its boasted equity and perspicuity, was secured as our birth-right, and rules of construction were drnwu from the parent country to expound our own constitution. Students were taught to adore the British govern ment as the model of political wisdom. Judges, law officers, counsellors and at- tornies, became a distinct corps, whose political maxim whs, that in whatever we imitated Great Rritain wc were right, and in every thing else wrong. In this class, as was natural to suppose, the injuries of the revolution were first forgotten.— Claiming to be exclusive expositors of the constitutions which they had formed, presenting an undivided front, and diffus ing their opinions and precepts with ta lents, eloquence and authority, they be came a formidable auxiliary to the Bri tish cause. And although some of the elder, and many of the younger gentle men of the order, have subscribed to the republican creed, and arc fixed and ac tive in the. faith, the most of them slill re main firm in the federal ranks, the sup porters of British right, the apologists of British injuries. In coincidence with this source of in flucnce is that of religion. Britain is “ tha nation Irotn which we descended,” whence we derived tho bitile in our own language, and received its comments and expositions. The right and duty of pub lic worship were inculcated and religious establishments approved and enforced by Riitish books, adopted and read as classics in our principal universities.— Notwithstanding our cecession from the pro's their decided preference f< r that government, “ monarchy and all,” to have suspected that in a period of war and actual invasion, they would not only entertain a se.cret wish for American dis aster and defeat, hilt openly avow that to rejoice at our victories was immoral tho rectitude of his judgment, and by tlic able dispositions he gave to his bat teries. lie routed from (hat important place, those enemies, masters of (lie sea, who held it by treachery. Napoleon powerfully contributed to the success of people of a powerful and ambitions rival. He well knew tfie prevailing weakness ofhis countrymen, and that the only way to counteract it, was to inculcate a set tled national antipathy. But mercantile cupidity is not tho on ly tie which binds the people of the U. States to Great Britain. We had stron ger obligations than those of profit. 1 he borrower is a slave to the lender the debtor to the creditor. A young nation has ambition and enterprize without capi tal. This was emphatically our case.— Our exertions for independence had made us poor. We had a vast, prolific, uncultivated country. “ The land was all before us which way to choose.” Our hopes and expectations were strong, but could not be realized, without running in debt. British manufactures, plenty and cheap, were offered at our doors, the temptation was irresistible, and we purchased on credit what we did net want. The British creditors, by their agents and factors, maintained the influ ence over their debtors. Our merchants were the slaves of theirs, and our con sumers the slaves of our merchants. Ilenca in all our importing towns and cities, a British influence, enforced and preserved by love and fear, became pre dominant, and our interest, honor and national feelings, were fast declining.— Unfortunately for the people, the mer cantile class possessed much of tho intel ligence but very little of tlm American feeling. Their hearts were with their treasure. In Britain was the object of their desires, the centre of their hopes. The farmer’s affections arc placed on the soil he cultivates. Here are his habitual residence, the monuments of his labor, his family endearments and the tombs ofhis ancestors. Here is his home and.his country, which he loves, mother church, &. our consequent exile and impious; to have imagined, more over, that they would not only resist a war, but give aid and counsel to the ene my ; and above all to have entertained the remotest suspicion that in the most disastrous period of that war, they would not only openly exult and withhold their aid, and embarrass its operations, but actually combine to effect a sepante peace and a severance of the union, would have been condemned as the cru el, illiberal, unjust and mad suggestions of the most frantic and delirious parti- the siege, and gave a presage of what he would one day he. Soon afterwards, at the head of the army of Italy, lie made his debut, by beating the Austrians at Monleuatte, and by putting them to flight, wherever he found them. It was in vain that they entrench’d themselves at the bridge of Lodi. The young hero, surrounded by the standards of' liberty, which even the Austrian thunders seem ed to respect, forced that terrible pas sage at the head of the grenadiers of the Republic, and, for the fifth time in less than one month, put to route the imperi- zan, in the worst of party times. Alljal troops. Ten other battles gained this, however, and more, was not mere- j immediately alter by the Young Napo- ly suspected and imagined, but actually realized. They combined to prevent the loan of money and resist the payment of Icon, rendered France completely Mis trsss of Italy, and that tine country re ceived a new organization, under the taxes. They discouraged the enlistment protection of her deliverers, of soldiers, and prohibited it by legal j The genius of Napoleon developed penalties. From the bar, the bench ! itsell in this glorious campaign. He is and the pulpit, they invoked the sever- already more than a disciplined &. fortu- est vengeance on its authors and stippor- I note general : at the age of twenty-six, ters. In the hearing and in presence of | lie is the first captain of the age, Un to America, such had been the influence of her preachers and commentators, that Britain had been pronounced by high authority, to be “ the bulwark of the re ligion which we profess.” The clergy fearing and wishing to extinguish the au thority of the episcopal church, were the supporters of the revolution. But when it became their turn to prescribe they were engaged on the side of coercive worship. This body of men always pos sessing an overbearing influence with the people, but always enlisted against their liberties, had assumed a dictation and control, and well nigh effected an union of church and state. The war ex posed their predelictions, and opened their schemes. The people saw and understood their object, and it is believ ed have placed their influence within reasonable limits. But the federalists have not yet lost sight of this favorite union. In Massachusetts conscience is scarcely unshackled; in Connecticut re ligious rights were secured by a struggle, and in Maine, the most popular and lea ding federalist, was, in the stale conven tion, the warmest advocate of the right of prescribing to the conscience. Language and literature will he among the most powerful means to command respect and ensure control. In these, respects the parent country will main tain the advantage. For a century per the enemy, they grieved at our success, and rejoiced at our disasters. They raised state troops to defend themselves against their own government. They seditiously and traitorously assembled to deliberate on the means of effecting their peace with the enemy, and the severance of the union. Baffled, defeated, and disgraced, in these their schemes and exertions, limy now, with honey on their tongue regenerator of Italy, and reverenced by her people as the greatest of men. A f oreign sli me inmv-diaiely after re reived him and his brave companions in •arms. He beeam ethe conqueror of E- gypt, to wrest that fertile country from the dominion of the Mamelukes, destroy the English E. India Commerce, and open a new route to the industry ol France. Europe and Asia were leagued against him. The Turks became the al- biK, malice in their hearts, affect a friendship j lies of England, to prostrate that porten which they do not feel, boast of patn-j ton- expedition. Less than one month, otism, which they never had, and babble nevertheless, was sufficient for the ge- of a conciliation which they never prac-1 nius of Napoleon to subdue Egypt and lised. And they would most graciously I Syria. A handful of French soldiers condescend to participate in the adminis- j re-seized the pyramids, and the banks of Iration, and infuse their salutary princi- j astonished Ahnukir witnessed their va- ples into tiie government. j lor and that ol their lea lei*. But while But if you receive them, it will he at j Napoleon and his immortal demi brigades your peril Introduce them into the) heat the Turks and English, the Marne- next administration, and you intro duce the “ leaven which will leaven the whole lump.” You must bo satisfied to a moral certainty, that your next Presi dent will confide nothing of political im portance to these men. Confine not your exclusion to the mere leaders in the scheme of the Hartford Convention. There are many willing to make them their scape-goats who are their compan hikes and Arabs, France was distracted by internal factions. Austria took ad vantage of the favorable moment to re commence the war. holy w as again in vaded by the Imperial troops, and even the frontiers of France were menaced. No sooner did Napoleon hear of the mis fortunes ofhis country, than he quitted Egypt, penetrated the fleets of England, and arrived ir, France where he was re excite admiration anew, when exhausted by a long ser ies of prodigies. The great destroyer, War, seemed to give new life to France. The genius of Napoleon was not confined to the field of battle. At Vienna, at Berlin, ol Tilsit, he established those immense works which alone would have been the glory of any other monarch. 'i he perfect tranquility which France enjoyed, caused her interior commerce to flourish ; the banks of the Seine be came the country of the sciences and the fine arts ; agriculture doubled its pro ducts. On all sides new ports, new roads, now canals, rendered communica tion more easy, and exchange more ac tive. I ndustry reached such a degree of perfection, that in no branches did there remain a rival nation. The finances were in the most prosperous condition, lor the subjugated people showered up on us subsidies. Misery no longei weighed down the people. All breath ed happiness and content. An hundred monuments attest the glory of France, and the grandeur of th/j hero who go verned her. Such was the state of this vast empire during nearly fifteen years. It is in vain 1 that some seek to represent he.r as hav ing always been plunged in misfortunes Si troubles—Never was France greater, richer, happier, than during this memo rable period. But Napoleon, great as he was, was but a man. He was not perfect. He com mitted serious faults, and fortune became untrue to him. The elements leagued with Ins enemies, and the plains of Mos cow became the tomb of the finest and most intrepid army that ever existed.— Napoleon, astonished, measured the ex tent of his losses, and without stopping to deplore, be hastened to repair them. In a short lime he appeared again formi dable. The fields of Lutz.-n and of Bautzen saw him again a conquerer and full of confidence. Fatal confidence, which permitted him not to foresee that allies would abandon him, when aban doned by fortune ! Atidhow could he o unagineth.it Princess to whom he had [the less affable given kingdoms, forgolling bis favours, would have turned traitors ! The fatal battles ofLeipsick were the result of that disastrous desertion * * * * He found only enemies, where he had stationed friend ions and even superiors in tha guilt.— i eeived as her deliverer. A few days Before you forgive Ihem let them for- . were necessary to dethrone Anarchy sake their party and their sins. Before t and to establish a firmer government, of you trust them expose them to severe | which the pan pie declared him the head, trial and ample probation. But let il be ; Honored w itli (lie title of First Consul of your chief care to exclude their princi- j the French Republic, Napoleon collect- pics, which have so often proved disas- e d in haste some divisions ol young con- trnus, ami brought your country to the scripts, traversed iho Alps amid snows brink of ruin and your liberties to the and precipices, and darted with the ra- verge of destruction. Your candidate I pidity °f an Eagle upon a victorious ar- outcry of usurpation, and their innumera ble bayonets were directed anew against Napoleon, Elated with his new success, and re calling those who had served him in leading tho French, Napoleon believed that lie could force his enemies to attend to themselves, and not to interfere with the internal affairs of France. He be lieved himself able to sustain a contest thus unequal. He made the most admi rable dispositions, and in two months thn French army was trebled. Impatient to engage those who rejected every pro position for peace, he put his force in motion to attack two united armies, one of which alone outnumbered his own.— He obtained in the onset brilliant ad vantages. One successful battle mora would have changed the face of Europe. But Waterloo came to destroy his pro jects and his hopes. Napoleon, unable to meet death in that fatal battle, bid ulieu forever to that France, which to him ivas so dear, and terminated his po litical lifu by confiding himself to the ge nerosity of his enemy. [Were Sir Hud son Lowe covered liis face with hit hand kerchief] < Such has been ihe short but astonish ing career of Napol&pn ! What military name, what statesman’s glory', ancient or modern, has resounded with an eclat so r-splciident ? Transport yourselves into futurity, view this hero as posterity will one day view him, and his greatness ap pears scarcely less than frbilious ; they mil hardly be made to believe that a -ingle man could, in so short a time, gain two hundred battles, conquer a hundred nations, change the form of thirty states, unite Italy into a single kingdom, give to his subjects the wisest laws, open a hun dred neiv roads, and as many ports, build an hundred admirable monuments. For tunately these codes, these roads, these? ports, and these monuments, remain. Having thus hastily sketched the life of the warrior and the statesman, permit me to notice the private man. Napoleon, forever engaged, and apply. I himself incessantly, was not therefore e less affable or agreeable in private lile. An excellent son, and good hro- iher, a tender husband, and “affectionate father, he divided his good fortune with all his family. He never forgot those he considered liis true fiiends, and rarely those who had devoted themselves to Forced to become the defender of the France. He was great and magnificent French territory, with the wreck of his i„ his rewards. Nevertheless, he never army lie astonished and terrified, twenty (permitted the treasures cf the state t* times, his innumerable enemies. Ii was i be lavished by courtiers, in that grand but unfortunate campaign, | Long habituated to command fortune that Napoleon displayed all liis science, i his great soul was yet disciplined to rr- and his inxhauslible activity. Each day verso. Treated as the greatest of cri- victorious in combat, he devoted each minals, and the worst of men by tho«e night to preparations to engage the fol- h 0 whom he voluntarily delivered him- lotvingday upon some other point. Qua- self; deprived of the wife ofhis bosom nviy still retain or may have lately im bibed these principles. Professions n- lone are not sufficient. A long estab- haps, British hooks will he chiefly read in America. With these our youth be gin and end their tour of education, and in these, in spile of the allurements and charms of republican principles, they im bibe foreign and dangerous maxims of government. With her commerce, law, language, literature and religion, (in at Britain acquires and maintains an influ ence here, whose secret operations may one day overturn the temple of liberty. honors and is ready to defend. The [From her enmity we have nothing to r i • C U’l. _ 1 ..A’....#-. !. ■ i: merchant’s country is where his specu latinos may lead him. His mind is am bulatory and so are his affections. It is readily agreed that there arc many ho norable exceptions to these general re marks. But to the agents of British cre ditors and the American merchant debt ors may be fairly ascribed much, if not most, of our British influence—that dele terious iifluence, which has organized a systematic and settled opposition to re publican men and measures, excited hostility which has bordered on rebel- fear. The baleful effects of her in-urli- ous friendship, the treacherous allure ments of an imaginary coincidence of in terest, and Ihe oppressive burden of ob ligations received. arc matters of serious alarm, and should keep always alive our jealous fears. These constant acquisitions of power, those imperceptible gainings on our al fectious, these soft and delicate entwi hshed political character, and corrci ponding actions, both public and private, must combine to witness in his favor.— Look hoi.no vou for such a man ! FROM TIIF. ESSEX REGISTER. FUN Ell \L Kit LOU Y pronounced nt St.Help- na over the torn!) of Napoleon, May 'J, 1921— By Mahshal Bkrtiund. The most extraordinary man, the most exalted genius, that ever appeared on the theatre of the world, is no more ! The mortal remains of the Conqueror of Europe, for fifteen years a dictator of its laws, humbly repose at the door of a cottage. On the most terrific rork of the shores of Africa, fur from the beau tiful country to which lie owed his pros perity and glory, Napoleon, the greatest captain of ancient or modern times, and recently the most powerful Monarch of . j the earth, has breathed his last. The ings round our hearts, arc encouraged j parched earth that covers his ashes can- and facilitated by the united exertions i n0 * he watered by the tears of his son. of the federal party. She smiles and ! t 1 * 8 rriends are unaliie to straw flowers him to whom they itness, and ovr tears Flensed am!! alone (taking IIip hands of Montholon party. lion and well nigh prostrated the liber-j they are delighted, she enchants ami I "J’"?! lies of our country. This opposition they sing her praises, she alters an. j J"' has exhibited the most malignant spiiit, they tall into her arms. 1 leased and .A 1 , n = * ne . . . the most palpable inconsistencies. De- gratified by this delicious thraldom, they and March a ml) are perhaps the only iuk uiuju p.npuuic mu i i „,, rni1 n„p VO n tn -i ivirti-* ones which I ranchmen will shod OVtiT mand.ng revenge for every trespass on I persuade and encourage you to .1 parti their commerce, provided it were in 111 cipation. Their merchants, lawyers, IK r ’ ,v . fi - 0,,l,w ’ way which should not thwart or impede ! literati and clergy, ladle, and tender you their favorite speculations. Equally loud [the poisoned cup. at the “ pusillanimity” of embargoes, or j In this contest against enemies at home “rashness” of war. Every honorable and abroad, this struggle for principle demand of justice, which opposed their against power, the republicans have, at imtrmJiate gains, was wrong, and every | last, prevailed. And are we now to humiliation which favored them, right, j yield up all, to men like these ? The These are the uien, who have always been found foremost in the ranks of the federal party. But these are net the only men of that party whose partiality and devotion are exclusively British. We have grown up and prospered under the laws of Eng land, and been instructed to consider her constitution us a model ot all others the most perfect. At (he revolution we adopted every law of the parent st.ite, not strictly and palpably inapplicable, and engrafted into our constitutions all her provisions not inconsistent with the republican name and form. Our law yers, who were generally our constitu tion makers, were limited in their cdu- sccret and silent operations of their in fluence have been almost fatally felt.— Until British injustice was resisted, no one had dreamed of the cxient ol that influence. It was on that occasion that (lie views and motives of a British party were developed. So gradual and impel' ceptible were its insinuating and paraliz- iag operations, that had not the war in terposed, the disorder might have been incurable before it was discovered. It would have been unkind and uncharita ble to have suspected these men of halt the attachment which they then avowed. To have supposed that they would not only prefer some leading feature ol the i English constitution, but publicly ex- tlius expires in the prime oflife ? Who? It is the Saviour and Legislator ol France—The restorer of monarchies shaken, of religion desolate, and the so-1 rial compact dissolved. Il is the Hero of I.pdi, of Areola, of the Pyramids, of Marengo, of Austerlitz, of Jena, of W.i- grarn. It is the generous conqueror of the Austrians, of the Prussians, of the Russians, and of a hundred other nations, who have never ceased to admire him. It is, in fine, the same Napoleon from whom all the Sovereigns of Europe have sued for friendship and alliance ! Let 11s take a rapid glance at liis iin- morla 1 . career. We see every where the intrepid soldier, the consummate general, the firm nod enlightened states man. Whether hi- fortune lie good 01 ba.l we find him always above il. Hard ly emerged from youth, Napoleon, yet a simple officer of Artillery, commenced Ifis career in arms, under the walls ot Toulon. lie astonished his superiors by my, intoxicated with success. He at tacked them and gu n them battle in the field of Marengo. It was at Marengo that the First Consul displayed all the tactics of a groat Captain, repairing thereby ten times the lusst s which Ihe superior numbers ofhis enemy cost his army ; and it only was by preserving the greatest sang li oid, and the most profound unconcern, that he wrested victory from the Austrians and changed their success into a complete defeat. Italy a second tune delivered, and a most glorious peace for France, were the exalted trophies of that memorable battle. Having no more wars to sustain upon the continent, Napoleon occupied him-elf incessantly with the interior organization of France, established order in the finances, abol ished all the abuse which existed in its administration, and digested those im mortal codes of law on which he found ed the happiness ol the people. France, grateful for such signal blessings, de creed him 1 ho title ot Emperor. It was then that the French Eagles, incessantly pressing the British Lion, would have re duced him to the last shift, if the cor rupting gold of England had not averted the mortal stroke, by instigating in the North a new war against France. It was here that commenced those glorious campaigns of Germany, of Prus sia, and of Poland, that shed such lustre 011 the soldiers of France. A few months were sufficient for the Emperor to an nihilate armies which liis enemies had formed with the utmost dillicully, and to invade their states and capitals. The fields of Auslci lit/., of Jena, of Friedlaml, of Ratisbon, ofEssling, of VVagram, w ill he eternally celebrated in the fetes of France. In less than three years, the French armies, always conducted by Napoleon, twice conquered Austria, in vaded Prussia, and halted only on the confines of Poland. Never was the mi litary glory of France at a higher pilch. Never had any people more confidence in llie 1 r soveieign. 1 le seemed to he the man destined fur them by Heaven. He held in chains, for fifteen years, the fickleness of fortune, lie had learnt how to command her. Lender his reign lrupliug his forces by his masterly ma noeuvres he presented on all sides his old soldiers, and amongst them all he shewed himself, llarrassing incessantly armies al ways complete, defeating them at Champ Aubert, at Montrairml, at Montereau, the result of that admirable campaign would have been fatal to the allies, if Paris had not been so precipitately sur rendered. The enemies of Napoleon, masters of a part of France, and encamped in his capital, yet dreaded him. The French, whom they thought they well knew, ap peared too formidable under such a head. Henceforth they strw nosecurity. They exacted the abdication of the Em peror. Napoleon believing that the happiness of France demanded this ami Ids only child ; lie saw torn from him, trom tune to time, the small number ot his triends who had been permitted to accompany him to St. Helena. (Here Sir Hudson Lozee showed some signs of remorse and again concealed his face.] Having no communication whatever with Europe, seeing himself almost blotted from creation, Napoleon had courage to sustain all his miseiies ; his sou! seemed to be always firmer, always greater. Attacked at last with the malady which was to carry him to the tomb, he saw the approach of death, with a resignation and stoicism of which he only was capa ble. His sufferings drew from him not One complaint—not a single sigh. France and his son filled his whole soul, lie crifice on his part, signed his abdication and liis exile, with less repugnance than hu would have signed a dishonorable peace. A fciv tried friends, and some old Generals, followed him lo the rocks of the Island of Elba. There they admired the composure and resignation of him whose name alone was yet of immense weight in the politics of Europe. Na poleon watched over that Europe, to which his abdication should have secur ed tranquility. He judged, by the opera j talked of them incessantly, until dest iny severed the thread of life, lie lived a hero : he died a marty r. Ancient Rome w ould have erected a Pantheon expressly to contain his ashes; and ivc—we are obliged to deposit them at the threshold of a cabin ! Uouldth.it the tears and tender re membrance ofhis friends could assuage, at least, the injustice and hatred of liis enemies ! FROM TUK DEMOCRATIC PRESS. A letter from Mr. Jefferson lo I,t. fj, lions of the Congress ol \ ienna, that that | Barry lias recently been published, in which tranquility w as illusory. He saw France j •'! r ;'' expresses the opinion that ‘ the pai ty divided,-and about to become a prey to ( G'ision ot \\ lug and lory is rnostwhole- - - some. i Ins lias given great offence, lrias- lier 011 a children. He. trembled for her. [ , n , much, as, taken in connection, it is consid- believed that his return would pre- I a correct denunciation of Mr. Adams, \ctil the miseries which he foresaw, and, whose political principles in “ Publieola” w ithout calculating dangers, he landed at | are those of a Tory. This opinion has the very place which had received him [ brought forth much provoking language, on his return from Egypt. There can '/n- paper says, it wid call down on Air. he no doubt that the' opinion of the “ unanimous ,-xeoration,”’ as a dis- ,, , ,. 1 , , till tier or the peace and harmony of society. Tench was still favourable toward* Thus ii is that old feelings are miring and linn, (or lie encountered no obstacle m ] Uie contest fur the Presidential Chair is dai- ihe execution of the most gigantic pro-1 ! v, more and more, assuming the character ject ever conceived by man. In twenty "fa contest between the Democratic ami days, the exile of the island of Elba com- h Parties. The i sue, under such pletely traversed France, followed by a I c|reu,ns binces, cannot be doubted, single battalion ; and the UOlli of March w itnessed nis elevation to a throne e-1 rected by himself. Never did a de-1 throned sovereign repossess himself of the reins of government in a manner so astonishing. But Napoleon had accomplished all this, without tjic permission of the Con gress of Vienna. The powerful mon- each year was more and more prolific in archs and able diplomatists assembled in great and glorious events, which, in o | that city, could not witness such an out- [ (her times, conoplished. igr.s would hardly have ac- LETTF.lt I-’RO.M Mil. JEFFERSON. The. following letter was written by M Ji flersun to Lt. Uov. Burry, of Kentuck' , in answer to a letter on public schools, ad dressed to him by the Lieut. Governor, aa Chairman of the board of school commissi oners, w hich li tter contained allusions tucei tain great political events in which Mr. Jef ferson bore u conspicuous part. Monticf.i 1.0, July 2d, 1322. “ Sir—Your favor of the 1 oili June eeived, and I am very thankful for tin* Iff d lie ulwavs knew how to 1 I 1 age, without indignation against him I ncM8 0 f j ts expression 1 ivho w an guilty of it. They set up tie 1 h it it ascribe.- >n n c petting l ijsilf merit wh" 1 I 2 j 1.1

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Southern recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1820-1872, February 25, 1823, Image 1