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o 5 A.TURD Y, January 12, 1788. GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE o R INDEPENDENT REGISTER. FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL b) jIK Y, to remain inviolate lot ever. Lcnjitikiux cj Lccrgia . AUGUSTA: Printed by JOHN E. SMI 1' H, Printer to the State-, EJfays, Articles of Intelligence, Advertijanents, tic. will be gratefully received, and every kina of Priming fajctn.ta. • w * Washington , Wilkes County , Afl-tf. 10, 1787. Xicnt. Col. ABRAHAM LANDERS. (Concluded from our luff S I ft, IN jour letter you lay Bold of your trite excuse for all uegiefts and disorders, namely, my absence from Greene county. iMy absence was ltill the result of unavoidable unforefeen casualties ; cfpecially, prev*<mis- to the month of Augufl last, mv wife met with an accident which deprived her of the use of her limbs, wh.ch misfortune was followed hy a fwelhng in my soil’s thigh, that rendered his situation dangerous. As I was fiequemly obliged to be out on duty, I hope it will be allowed by the generous public, that it was highly necedTai y and icafonable I should turn H Y ihoughts. in the turbulent IlaiC of ass-i is, to the lecurity ol my helpless wile and child, who were altogether incapable, in my ab sence, of fleeing to any place of fafeiy, in case of a Ridden irruption of the Indians. Accord ingly that they might be in fume meaftire more secure, I fern them in towards Wafhiug ton, and in the mean time I aecomplithed everything necelP-ry towards the cflabiiih ment of proper flations on the frontiers. This service being effe&ed, my next care w,ts to dispose of my family in such a manner, as might make their exiftenefe comfortable, their .condition absolutely demanding it, and no place so naturally presented itfelf in my ideas, as my plantation near Washington, where they now are. Here I found my frequent presence was ltill neieffary to a Hid them, to supply their indifpenfabie war.ts, as who would suppose a woman scarcely aide io move with the help of crutches, at the fame time lhe has the care of small children, capable to make a ueceffary provifi m for a family. Their un fortunate tfate, therefore, obliged me to be as often with them, as the du y I owe mv country would permit. In these circumllances to obviate even a suspicion of the public ser vice Coffering on account of my not rending constantly in Greene county, I informed Ge neral Clarke, I was ready cither to reiign my commiflion. and lerve occalionail as a private, •r continue in command, accordingly as be Would think proper. The Genera! replied, it would be more agreeable to him I w uid con tinue to hold my commiflion, and, that 't i:orrefponded better with convenience I Ihould Jefide at Walhington, as I fli nld be more convenient to forward his orders. In pui fuance to this arrangement, and outers le e ceived from General Clarke, dated tlie icih •f August, directing a mufler in Greene coun ty, I deligned to issue orders immediately from myfelf to the officers of the battalion ; but was prevented by a fudtlen and violent aMirpofluoa of my wife* However, I uauf THE mitted to you as Licutenant-Coloacl, and to Major Philips the neceffaiy orders, which i were delivered to you by the Major, whom yo i told, you would pay no regard to my j orders, as I was not in the county ; —that you were Colonel of Greene county; and that he as Major (hould pav no regard to them him- , ft If; —that you would mention to the inhabi tants you had leceived foine indirect verbal intelligence concerning a mufttT; but that you would take no notice of my orders, as or dei s ; and accordingly you rode amongst the people, giving orders for a mutter in y ur O'-uon name. T his proceeding of yours, as well as many others, being subversive of all nerelfar y ftibordination, I considered it my indispensable duty to notice, and had you ar refied at the mutter for this mifconduft. You told the odicei' who prefcnted the at red, *ou would soon fettle that affair, taking the paper ; out i-f bis hand, and writing theieon, 44 The 1 within protetted by me Abraham Landers j lieut. colonel of Green County ” In this in i fiance you ceitainly torgot you were on the parade, in the front of a battalion -you mutt have imagined yourfelf in your old employ men:, behind the counter, protcft ng fume fade d<aught Hwc e fret* recollecting y ur felf, and the mutter over, you i ode through the cunty, directing both and privates to pay no regard to my orders; that you alone were Colonel of Greene county. Thus, instead of a meritorious d fcbarge of your duty, you induftrioully ext i*ed to mutiny, by an endeavour to sow sedition, and infufe a spirit of defection in the breads of men, who may be naturally welldifpofed to untie in the defence and support of genet'll intfeieft and tranquility. Observe a further charaCteriftic of the man to whom I direct myfelf. You have forwarded several petitions to his Ex cellency the Governor, dating iny conduct, hgned, however, but by a few out of all that aie in the county, not exceeding lixteen per sons, fume of whom are furh, as I fliould not exj eCt to find connected with any thing more laudable, than insidious misrepresentations; for, against f>rr.e of them, I am nowpotleffed of writs for crimes not less than that of mur der, &c. You (ay in your letter, I have dis posed of my -‘poflions and property” in Greene county. I would not reply to this, as it is well known I am possessed of two dif ferent plantations there, did not the fiagran cy of thisfalle assertion forcibly attract atten tion. On the whole, it is conspicuous, your ma levolent insinuations, and groundless asser tions, aie the effeCi of either, an unprovoked enmity to my ; eifon, as a man, or an officer, c»i both, or of a vain desire to be eltab'ilhed Colonel of Greene county. If of the fi ft, it would be a piece of gieat prudence, to wrett he sword from the hand of the man, whose heart is guided by caufclefs, partial hatred; no doubt, on a props? octafiou, when you might expert the blow to e cape with impuni ty, you would ltrike it home againtt the wife or the child, who might be Co unfortunate as to be the object of your partial lefentment. If of the fecund, you, and such, are of all men, the peifons whom I would prevent from the acquisition of power; for., when once the rage of the love of power rules despotically the heart, public good, ; rivate happinefc, conjugal felicity, and domel m tranquility, mutt all give way to its gratification. It rends the bonds of parental engagements, breaks the ties of brotherly affection, disre gards the supplications of the wii ow, and the cries of the orphan, nay, even the lives of Monarch* fall a facnfice, and all are i o luf— ficient to quench its infatiab.'c third. L - t the ungenerous flame be extinguished now at its fiift appearance ; for what can be more dan gerous than to invest a man with power, who loves it for itfclf, and not for the fake of doing good. Witness, a from well b ftne whose ambition thousands fell; and a Kouii Khan wh i swam in tlie blood of myriads of Mo guls Turks. Tartars, and Persians, to the polictfi >n of an usurped crown I will now take the liberty to inform you, if you do not already know it. that true glory i», not derived from a foolifli exercise «>f power howsoever unlim'ted Learn faithfi. I t nhey from an universal patriotic principle, t.elore you afpiie to command ; for a vigilant ceuti nel, who fecuies his post by a two horn s faith ful observance of his orders, has merit, and deserves thanks, when an unlkilful general, by imprudent conduct, loiing a decisive bat tle, and deriving death on ten thousand, per petuates bis memory in infamy. Let us be ware how we introduce low artifice and party influence, for t he purpose of eftabliftiing rank oi fee ring employment, left these practices pave the way for greater enormities, and we become at last like the unhappy Polandera, who determine election* by the longelt sword? or like the petty Asiatic Pinces, who acquire and usurp a precarious regal possession and authority at the expence of blooj, and op prehon of their fellow creatures. If you witli to rife other wife than by honest merit, you are an enemv to focietv, and, therefore, . certainly, the “ wjfo'om** of our will nevei listen to the solicitations of your folly, which is the result of what has been too explicitly mentioned t efore to need repetition. I do not expert my domestic happinef® (hall be eflablilhcd on a fi-m brfis. until the gene ral tianquility of my fellow cijzens (ball be teftored; aim thotigh my wounds exempt me from duty, the belt fei vices ftiall be iendeted them either as an officer or a private soldier, at any time, that can be performed by Their mod obedient and Devoted Servant, HENRY KARR- * [No. LXVIU.J ' |