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SATURDAY, September 15, 17871
GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE
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INDEPENDENT REGISTER.
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FREE D O M of the TRESS, and TRIAL b r jUR Y, to remain inviolate forever. C«njhm, n of Gmgia.
AUGUSTA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State; FJfap, Article, of Intelligence*
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Ex trad f a letter jrom a friend to the
SOLDIER.
“ T HAVE seen Virginius’s third piece, in
J. which he barely touches Cn the fubjeft of
the rlifpute between you, and takes up almolt the
•whole of it in inventive and personal abuse, tor
which (to give the devil his due) he appears to
be excellently qualified, and in which indeed, he
is only confident; for personal abuse is his text,
and absurd contradictious, indelicate requisitions,
and round allertions without a tingle inflance of
proof, make up the flourilh of his performance.
In his fiitt paragraph, he makes your tefidence an
apology for your performance, then compliments
you on your improvement in the art of writing,
but fotgets both the apology a»d compliment be
fore he finithes even that paragraph-. He next
abuses you for your btantijuifigure , as be calls it,
wherein you assert you will not tbitw dirt at him,
but in the next words proves that he. will conti
nue to throw it at you, which if not a beautiful,
is a confident figure in him, as the whole purport
of his performance is evidently to throw dirt;
and this, as well as fevera.l subsequent femences,
( »btmdamly prove not only that nature has ntffbcen
liberal to him in military endowments, but that
.she has been a perfeft niggard to him in the diftri*
bution of the finer feelings, and even of common
delicacy ; —for, what do they contain but a repe
tition of fulfome compliments, through you, to
himfelf as your tutor?—and repeated and indeli
cate requisitions of yon, to allure us when aud
-wbfre yo'u fought and bled for voyr country, and
■on many trying occasions gave proof of your at 4
tachment to it ——The following inftancr,
out of many, will be fufficient to rtiew that noth
ing could be more grating to a soldier When
Caius Marcius Was a candidate for the CohfullHip,
and Cominius, the General, was about to relate
to the Senate, those glorious atchievements of
Caius in the battle of Corioli, for which he obtain*
ed the name of Coriolanus, Caius left the room,
faying, “ He would rather get his wounds again,
** than hear him tell how he did get them.” But
Virginius proves tp us that he would have felt no
pain in such a situation !—and if you had given
the instances he lays such ltrefs on, yet from the
great compliment,he pays this country fefpefting
iaitlj, may we ,npt reasonably fufpe.Q that such
calumny as his, would have induced him to inli
nuate that it was falfehood clothed in the pilfered
garb of truth ? He concludes these sentences
with a comparison which is excellent, as it relates
so himfelf, but which even Falftaff would have
laid to be moltunfavoury, had it heen to any other,
Viz. That your ideas have received fire byfriftion
vyith his, though they lay like electricity in a dung
bill, by which, if he does not mean his brain, lam
Qta loss to know what he means.
He fays, “ It is the want of penetration that
prevents you feeing the propriety of declining to
lign the recommendation of the assembly, and
that as yqu cannot comprehend or forefee the dan
ger of the proposed alterations, it will be need-
Jess for him to repeat the application of his eye
jfalve, and complains that you have not given any
appearance of argument to support your aflertions.”
If Virginius had any modelty, might yon hope
that your labour would not be in vain ? But as ig
norance and obstinacy are -ever iufeparable, there,
was little hope of convincing a man, who could
be obstinate enough to set up his opinion in oppo
sition to the united wisdom of.the assembly, for he
Who could be weak enough to do that, would be
Qbftinate enough to attempt the Support of it,
Yirym\)B t he Should vffsv ucthing but
tales of «* dancing to old trunks, and of moun
tains in labour but to a model! or reasonable
man, you need have given no other argument
than the recommendation of the General Assembly,
and while you have that on your fide, you may
falely appeal to every man of common sense, whe
ther you or Virgiuius bell deserve the name of
“ folly impaling herfelf upon the public, in all
“ the insolent gravity of wisdom,” and if you
deserve to have the “ posse comitatus at your
“ back,” what does he defeive on his ?
“ But who can refrain from laughter, when he
charges you with “ expressions which are the dregs
“ of a barren imagination, and serve only to fill |
“ upthechafm of your thoughts,” or as he more
pomponfly expt elles it in another place by a quo- :
ration, “ to fill up all the mighty void of sense,” —
when every one but Virginius mVitl detcunine at
the firll fight, of that and fcveral fubfequeht sen
tences, that they are only a jargon 6f pompous ex
preflioris, and not so afitfriated as *o give Us any
idea of the tTbtli or justness of his reasoning ; but
on the contrary, abundantly prove his enfptinefs,
excefiive vanity, add great paflion for feurrility, j
"tfifwj 1 '"team-- 1 h Ttl ■ •
tlieiwdau* on your brow, serve only
to remind ug., 0 the v.f er in the fable, gnawing a
file; for thatlaurel mod look green and flourilh
ing in the eyes of every f.iehd to American Inde
pendence, To long as tibeV;y is precious, and our
heatts are fnfccptible of a felilh for it. He next
allows yon brilliancy Os fryle, thfcb pofitlvery de- :
r.ies you pofiefs a'ny of the 3e:be eal Tpiiit, yet
charges you with not doing your to ydurjCrr*
ator, in benefiting the world by the donation of
it. Monflrous !—and yet this man sets himfelf
up for the guardianship cf other tr.cn ; foi he next
arlvifes you to go—be foi gotten, &c. but as you
have not asked his advice, you cannot farejy be
tared with want 6f p'olitentfs, if you tel! him you
cannot think he jfofeffes the qualifications neces
sary to give good advice, and that it becomes him
better to go hnd learn to be less inconfifient, and
less felf-fuffccibqt, before he offers it again though
for his style, I Would allow him as much of the
jetberal spirit as will enable him tolhine as a ruih
jight by a liar of the firlt magnitude
“ His next charge I think, is of **bafenefs ii>
« fufpefting him of Tome private views ,in this
«« bufmefis.” I confefs when a man addretfes his
fellow-citizens in Fuch pathetic and endearing
terms, to decline doing what the assembly. from
a thorough conviftion of the. heceffity of it, had
recommended to them to do, and endeavours to
alarm them with the molt dreadful cohlequences
of doing so, I think there is good ground For thi
suspicion, and if lb, it is easy tt> determine Who
has the belt title to the epithet of baftnefs. He
has twice, he fays, “ r onatjeendtd to the indignity
<« of anfweritag the filly cbfervations of weakness
“ and contempt, and is aftaid of the debasing
“ consequences of a third attempt.* Heavens 1
what a superior order of beings mult Virginius be
of! But the balance of the performance being on
ly repetitions of Virginius’s vanity and talents for
abuse, I lhall trouble you with no ‘ more observa
tions, left I tire you as well as yout's.— *
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GEORGIA.
By the Honorable GgORGE MATHEWS,
Elq. Captain General, Governor and Com
mander in Chief in and over the said State.
A Proclamation.
WHEREAS there is just reason to
apprehend by dispatches received
from the Creek nation, that hosti
lities will very Ihortly commence
on the part of the Indians, which,
renders it absolutely necessary that the Legislature
Ihotild be convened, in orderto deliberate on mea
sures for the defence of the State: I HAVE
THEREFORE thought fit, by and with the advice
and consent of the Honorable the Executive Coun
cil, to iftim this my Proclamation notifying the
fame, and requiring the attendance of the General
Afl'embty of the said State, as Augusta, on Thurf*
day, the 20th day of September next, for the dif
* i>atcb of public business.
Gives under nrf+fand xnd .tiw Ci*u s*»t of
State, at Augusta, this ninth Day
if Augltft, in the Yfcar of our Lord Onfe
Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Sc*
t - ven, and of our Sovereign ty and lude«
pentlcnce the Twelfth.
GEORGE MATHEWS.
By His Honor’s Command,
• * Miittn-t Scc’y.
GOD SATE THE STATE!
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lor the Augitjla Troop of Drago(jns>
A FEW Recruits aie wanting—Any Citizen
who is defirtius of joining this troop, who
has a fu rable hoife, and can accoutre himfe.lf, will
nuke application to Mr. COLE, Cornr.t of the
Tioop, at Augusta, who will have his name en
rolled. .Ann those who have heretofore received
swords, and at the last meeting declared their in
capacity t? serve in the troop, are df.fired to re
turn the swords to Serjeant Todd, or Serjeant
Zimmerman.
r ■ THOMAS CLASCCCfc, Commandant.
N. B. There is no other expe.nce attends thia
troop, except the purchase of a i .hiform, which is
not cofllyj befidts the fines non-attendance;
agreeable to tRe Militia Law,
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Elen. Prescott ,
TjLGfc leave to inform his friends
I Tj find the yublic in peneral, thut
i t has removed from Wall ingten,
\ftilkes county, t< this place, wheie
he interds canying on the
Watch and Clock meting Bufmefs
in its different branches. He flatters
him.elf Irom his opp< rtunities, and
the degree or knowler ge he has at
tained in the bufiiels, that he will
give ample latistadt on u thole Lacies
and Gentlemen who may tavot him
with their employ lis refidentc
is at Mr* fcarris's, in Augusta,
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