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VOL. II.)
ATHENS, GEORGIA: PRINTED BY ALEXANDER M-DONNELL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1800.
. Tbs following is a Utter recently re
-1 ceived by Mr. Wheaton of Wajh
ington City.
Proz i denes, 20tb Aug . 1809.
Jofeph Wheaton, Efq.
Dear Sir,
Your letter under date 12th
, M. i received yefterday. The
’ 1 ‘brenation you have received re-
Dave to my manufacturing cotton
goods is. very erroneous, for never
hive I been concerned in manufic
turihg any kind of goods. The
. tact is, I-amwitn other* now ebab
li thing a manufactory for fpinning
of cotton on an oxter.five fcale 1 r
our country, and have already er
ected for that purpofe a mid, of
( one, with fix and >orc, forty feet
yd dr, and 211 feet long, competent
to drive more than ten choufand
fpindles, together with all the necef
fary preparation, and expedt it wdl
V commence operating in Nov. next.
Whether the concern will extend
their views to weaving is not con
- eluded. A fpiric for manufactur
ing pervades every defcripcion of
our cit Tens, and we have ardzans
native citizens equal if not fuperior
to the Europeans; more than fifty
mills are now ere&iner in the New-
England ilates for this branch only.
N doubt large quantities of different
fabrics v.iii foon find their way into
yOur market, as many of the old ef
tafylfhments have been weaving
cloths of different kinds for feme
time path
’ My beft regards to Mrs. W.
and the family, and believe
me very refpefffully your
friend,
4 SETH W HEATON.
Char teflon, Augufl 18 1809.
SEVENTV-SIX ASSOCIATION.
At a numerous meeting of this
’ Society, held laft evening at the
Planters* Hotel, the following refo
| lotions were unanimouflv adopted:
The members of this Afiociarion
b’ co pledge themfelves to each other,
( a "d to the public at large, tha-, for
twelve months from this day, they
will not purchafe for off, any article
of Etighfh of French growth, pro
duce, or a.armfaffture, provided
. luch article c an be purchafed of do
] keltic growth, produce, or manu
-1 Dcture, at not more than 15 per
cert, above the European prices.—
And provided, alfo, that if the dif
ferences, of the United States with
I either of thole Kingdoms fiaall be
I acj lifted before the end of twelve
v month, then this refokuioo, as to
I that Kingdom, Hull no longer re
| main o ligatory.
Alfo, Refolved, That at the (I ted
1 meeting in March ntxr, and every
I'rntuing (rated meeting, every Mem
roer or this Society fhail wear a corn-
Iputte (uit of Hommpun.
JAME S jERV EY, Secret a7.
Foreign Correspondent
j&j?
C3>
GEORGIA EXPRESS.
many shall run’to and fro, and knowledge shall re increased.
NEW-YORK, Augufl 17.
Anti-Duelling Ajfuciation. —“ We
whole names are hereunto iubi'erib-
Cd viewing with alarm the increafe
of duelling ; delirious of oppofing
to its further prevalence the ftrong
efc lawful refinance j and periuaded
that a proper ufe of the right of
fuff age, will have a powerful effeeb
in difcouncenancing and banifhing
ir 5 do hereby unite ourfelves in an
affociatton to be crdled the
ANTI -DUELLING Af.SOCI AT lON
OF NEW-YORK,
and do, by our lig iatures hereunto
annexed, foiemniy pledge outdrives
to each other, not to vote at any elec
tion for any man, who, from current
jams? or our own private convifiion, we
flail believe to have font, accepted , or
carried a challenge to fight a Duel,
or aided as a fecond or furgeon, after
the date hereof.”
mmmmmarna*
ADDRESS
of the
ANTI-DUELLING ASSOCI
ATION
OF NEW-Y iRK
To the Ele tiers of the ft ate of N. York.
A number of our fellow citizens
foi’.cit your attention to a fubjeff of
great and common intcrcft. I hey
adcirefs you no? as adherents to any
political or ecck ffflicsl party —but
as men who abhor that achcifm
which rejects the authority and go
vernment or GOD—as citizens who
feel the importance of making the
laws redpeff ed; and who know the
impunity of crime tends to deftroy
bcch public order and private hap
pintis, with all the fecurity of
property, liberty andiiff —-asfriends,
brothers and fathers of families, to
whom the fecial charities are facredj
and who can never hold cheap the
blood of fuch as are united to them
in the tendered ties of amity, of
nature and of love. They call upon
you to confider and refill the pre
valence of a c rime which ferikes at
you in all thefc relations ; which
has hitherto eluded, but too fuca ff
fuily, the lev era! efforts o fupprefs
it, and which emboldened by pa ft
impunity threatens to leave nothing
fare of all that is venerable arid
valuable in human life —die crime
of Duelling.
They need not prove the abfutd
ity and atrocity of a practice which
cannot reckon among its advocates
a fugle wife or good man. Few,
even of the mofl: abandoned, ven
ture to apologife for it upon any
other principle than this, that “itis
a means, however bad, which the
ftate of Society renders neeffary for
the prote&ion of perfons and char
acters i and that if one fhould not
refent an ir.fult by calling out its
author, or fhould decline an infuic
from another he would become an
ofcjedt ofuniverfal contempt, liable
to the meant 11 affronts, £2 incapable
of maintaining his place among men
of dignity and fpirit. Briefly, that
rusLic opinion, which rrgulatts
private honor, is in favor of Duel
ling, and compels one to iacrifice
his reader, his confciencC and his
willies to the refpedlability of his
focial Handing.”
Thus the Duellift affuming it as
a faff; that hi is to be rewarded with
rhe approbation of the community,
flit s to hs weapons of death, fates
his revenge with blood, and pro
duces public opinion, as the war
rant of his murder.
On the morality of this doffrine,
it would be fupei fluous to comment.
There can be but one judgement
pronounced upon it by ail who re
cognize the dittinffion between
right & wrong, as or ginating in a
higher fource than human cuitom.
But if the allegation of fact is cor
icff i if the Duellilt has rightly ef
timated the public opinion ; it it is
true that the Ameticar. people look
with fatih faff ion upon deeds which
fill every virtuous bre ait with hor
ror and difmay* then ;s out condition
dreadful indeed.
We cannot fubmit to fuch a libel
upon the under Handing and the
morals of this nation. Public
opinion is merely the collective
opinion of individuals. To be
known, it muff: be expreffed. And
when, where, how, has it been ex
preffed in fa/or of Duelling ? Let
the man be produced who has, from
principle, lefulcd either to give or
accept a challenge that has l)cen
put fued by public reprobation ?
The true expreifion of public
opinion is to be fought in the reli
gion of the land j in ns laws j and
C ....
in the convedadon ot 11s inhabit
ants.
The nligion of the la'd is deci
fivc. That religion width is re
ceived by the people of the U. S.
is of Divine authority, and which
has interdicted not only the matured
add, but ail incitements to % the
comm.lrion of it.
The laws of the land aredeclfive.
They fpeak death to the man who
kills another in a duel. I hey ipeak
degradation and infamy to every
one who, in any manner, affiffs in
a duel.—But the laws are merciful;
they will not allow of any avoidable
rifle of puii'fhing the u*nccenc.—-
And the guilty, availing hiinkk of
their precaution and of the facility
r>fefc2pe, creaied by different jurif
didicrs, eludes their blow, and in
4 - ve ry ael of fhrlnking from this
expreffioo of the public will, pleads
public opinion in his own vindica
tion.
The private circles are decisive.
Go through the (late from houle to
houfe i unmber the pations A duel
ling i and when you have found
them one in a thoufand of our inde
pendent eie&ors, begin to (peak of
their opinion. Shall we then hear
ci cur opT<i .ns colh cT . cly ac in
(No. 70.
diametrical oppr.fition to our opin
ions feparately ? And than the
public applauds a prablice which
every one who contributes to make
up that public, a handful of the def
pera.c excepted, pronounces fenfe
lefs and wicked ? Yet ftrong as
the faffs are; full, peremptory, lo
lemn and habitual as are the expref
fions of public opinion agai/ffofs
elling, without one folitary FurnitajL
ffo.i in its favor, this banefuide knb J
ice, the offspring of barbaroft*
manners and bloody pafiions, is ffill
fathered upon public opinion I And,
what is deepl- alarming, gains ra
pidly among our citizens—gains, in
oppefkion to all the expoftuhuions
of reafon, and all the fanffions of
religion; in eppofition to cheie
buke of the law; to the ttfiiroony
of the wife and good; to the pro
tcfUtions of common humanity’ 3
to the tears of the widow and the
for rows of the orphan ; to the ago
nies of a Uiker’s bed -m, and the
yearnings of a mother's bowels 5
ali that is aff fflcg in this w; rid,
and all that is tremendous in th ‘ •
world to come S
Are we fathers? Are we Lea
thers? Aut we citizens? Are
we men ? Ar.d fhail v/e ptrmic
a crime, the reproach of our land
and rhe fcourge of our peace, t
iLdk openly and impudently threugn
our ftreets ? Are we to tremble
every hour of our lives led a bro
ther or a fon, on whom reft our
f.iirefc hopes, crofs our chreffiold in
the morning, to be Drought bade,
at n ion, a viit'm to that Moloch—■
modern honor ? And as the iY/ord
paffes through our fouls, co be
told, that we invited its point, and
bribed the affuffi:), by our own
complacency in his character?
Bat what (ball be done? Draff n
has fpoken, and the is difregardec.
Kel gion has fpoken, and lire is
mocked. The laws have fpoken,
and they are not heard. Humanity
has i. kni, aod Hie is it fuh.ed —.
This is unhappily true. —One mca
lure, however, kill moans. A
meafure, fimplr, digo.ffcd, and
probably more tffcffual than any
which has been tried hitherto. It
is in the tleffive franchise. The
freemen of this ffate have only to
rt hufe Air countenance and their
vote at the elections, to every rr;- a
\v!v* s’ *ll hereafter be engaged, ei
ther 13 principle or accefftry in any
duel, or in any attempt r.o promote
one. As the utraoff arc is uftd h r
offenders in this way, ro fruftrats
the lav, by rendering the requifite
proof impoffihle, nothing more is
utceffary ro cut them <fs from the
benefit of their ill-gotten impunity,
than to make current report, or
erne’s private by
means (never obtained, the ground
of withholding one’s vote.
1 hat the infl tence of fiic h a de
