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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