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rose, while the moral world is over-run with every noxious plant ? It is painful to the pious heart to observe how few of our young men become hope fully pious ? and how few even of this small number are disposed to enter the sacred desk. Such are the labors and privations jto which the faithful minister of Jesus must submit, that few are willing to make the necessary sacrifices, or to forego all the pros pects of ease, wealth and reputation which lie before the man of talents in this country. But talents and piety are not confined to the higher or middle walks of life. Minds of the finest mould are often found in ob scurity. Hearts sanctified by divine grace, and filled with love to God and man, have often been deterrfed from consecrating them selves to the service of Christ in the Gos- pcl-ministry, because destitute of that im provement which was deemed necessary to fill an office so awfully responsible. Could such be brought forth by the hand of benevolence and nurtured by the kindness Of Christian charity, how many burning and shining lights might be introduced into the world ? From this source the directors have no doubt many young men might be obtain ed, who would be ornaments to society, an Invaluable blessing to our State, and a rich < reward to the labours of Christian benevo- lcnce. But there is another reason why we should endeavour to provide for the educa tion of ministers of the Gospel, viz. the in creasing march of knowledge, and diffusion of science. On the subject of intellectual improvement, a commendable zeal begins to be manifested by our citizens. Refine ment of taste is an invariable effect of a free and enlightened Government. And if a mi nister of the Gospel be not qualified, so far as relates to human attainments, in some measure according to the state of society in which he is to labor, he will meet with many difficulties from which the roan of equal piety and superior talents will be free. Of the truth of this, all denominations of Chris tmas appear to be convinced. This is evi dent by their regulating thelocation of their Clergy, in somd good degree, according to their talents compared with the staite of so ciety where they are to labour. The society has no desire to establish particular set of qualifications without which no one shall enter an the ministry. It is the only object of H^Society, to increatat as far as possible, the number" of faithful ministers. 7And if we are commanded to pray for /more labourers, are We not also commanded to use the other means which God him put in our power for bringing into the ajnrvice of Christ men who are qualified tos£&nd upon the walls of Zion ? workmen need not be ashamed, capable of right ly dividing the word of truth ? Surely our prayers must be insincere, and our wishes, mere hypocrisy, if we remain inactive while, by our influence or our wealth, we might be instrumental in bringing forward some pious young man 07 men to the infinitely interesting office of preaching the everlast ing Gospel. We are sure that th< cannot be prepared by man, Prov. 16, 1, lents and the means of improving them; and if by their improvement we can evidently be inoce useful to our fellow-men, he has vir tually commanded us to make their improve ment. If God has given us wealth, and we know that numbers of pious young men pos sessing natural talents would engage in the Gospel ministry if they had the literary quali fications which they believe necessary, has he not evidently, by this dispensation, com manded us to cast some of his gold into his treasury for this sacred purpose? and sensible ? No; let the friends of our Socie ty, go forth with united efforts. Let the dearest object of our hearts be the salvation of our fellow-sinners. And let us be filled with holy boldness in our work, and inspired with unshaken confidence in the promises of God. We have a faithful Friend, an Almighty and ever victorious Leader. Un der, the banner of his Cross, we shall be triumphant; and in our triumph all Heaven will rejoice, and all Earth will soon be heard to shout her solemn and joyful AMEN! List of Subscribers, and their Donations to the “ Georgia Education Society. n DIRECTORS FOR LIFE. William Walker, Putnam county. 100 00 Thomas Cumming Augusta. 100 00 VICE-PRESIDENT FOR LIFE. Abraham Walker, AthXns. 50 00 MEMBERS FOR LIFE.1 John Nisbet, Athens. 30 00 John R. Golding, Athens, (dec’/* ) 30 00 Charles D. Davis, Walton coun. i 30 00 Thomas W. Davis Savanna. 30 00 Elijah Walker, Burke conn' s» 30 00 Amos P. Whitehead, do.. ,e ‘.30 00 James Whitehead, do. . ' 30 00 Remem. Chamberiain, Morgan co. 30 00 Hannah C. Upson, Lexington. 30 00 Mrs. Berrien, sen. Jefferson co. 30 00 Dr. J. J. Jenkins, do. 30 00 Amarintha Whitehead, (dec’d.) Burke county. Samuel S. Davis, Augusta. Ann Milledge, do. Augustus Moore, do. Angus Martin, do. Peter Bcnnock, do. William Moderwell, do. Dr. Anderson Watkins, do. John Campbell, do. Samuel Clarke, do. Thomas S. Metcalf, do. Moses Waddell, ,• Athens. Dr. James Nisbet, do. Wm. T; Brantley, Augusta. Heniy Cook, } do. Benj. Gildersleeve, Hancock co. Alonzo Church, Athens. Thomas W. Stanley, ■ do. John F. Wallis, V * Oglethorpe co. James Espy, A Clarke county. James P. Waddel, Augusta. FJjenezer Newton, Athens. Asbury Hull, do. Andrew Semmes, John Brown, Mount Zion. Hugh Montgomery, Jackson co. Moses W. Dobbins, Athens. John S. Wilson, Laicrenceville. Jesse Stratton, Morgan county. Samuel B. How, Savannah. A lady in Lexington, in 1825, by the hands of Joseph Cumming, Esq. Mary Ann Fraser, dec’d. in 1826. ’ F cmale Auxiliary S ociety of W hite Bluff, in 1827. William Walker Esq. of Putnam at sundry times. James Nephew McIntosh county. Interest rac’d, for money lent dur- imr two yean. Collections .at two annual meetings in Athenfl. * lenry Smith A lady in Lexington, J long remain, we trust, unmatched in history 40 60 by those of any similar miscreants, had now 162 001 the unrivalled leading of the Jacobins, and were called the triumvirate. 13 501 Danton deserves to be named first, as unrivalled by his colleagues in cJalgtiNgid 00 00 He was a man of gigantic size a voice of thunder. His countenance was that of an Ogre on the shoulders of a Hercules. He was as fond of the pleasures of vice as of the practice of cruelty; and it was said there were times when he became humanized amidst his de bauchery,' laughed at the terror which his 50 00 audacity 28 00 and possessed 62 00 51 62 tinue his ravage of the flocks long after his- j hunger is appeased.” “ Danton despised Robespierre for his cowardice, Robespierre feared the ferocious audacity of Danton; and with him to fear was to hate—and to hate was—-when the hour arrived—to destroy. They differed in their ideas also of the mode of exercising their terrible system ofgoverament. Danton had often in his' mouth the sentence of Machiaval, that when it becomes necessary to shed blood, a single great massacre has a more dreadful effect than a series of suc cessive executions. Robespierre, on the Amount of monies received from the above subscriptions and Do nations since the first institution of the Society in 1823, up to the present date, Maich 12,1S27, $ 1929 Of which the following disburse ments have been made, viz. For the support of Thomas Walsh, n beneficiary, § 271 For the support of Samuel J. Cas- els, do. For the support of A. H. Sample, do. For the support of Jesse H. Camp bell,Jo. For the support-of William Murrah, do. y-; For the support of Wm. K. Patton, do. For Contingent Expences Uaut/iiviJ) laugiiuu civ lllv iciivi »*uivii 1110 . ooooitu vavuumuiis, xvui/vopiviIvj vii me furious declamations excited, and might be j contrary, preferred the latter as the best way 22 75 27 25 192 00 30 00 30 00 30 00 30 00 30 00 30 00 30 00 30 00 30 00 30 00 30 00 30 00 30 00 10 00 10 00 5 00 5 00 5 00 5 00 Leaving a balance in the Treasu rer’s hand at this time of $ 1222 40 By which Six beneficiaries are to be sup ported, at this time costing the Society Fifty dollars per month. OFFICERS for the Present Year. President.—Maj. Abraham Walker. Treasurer.-—James Nisbet. Corresponding Secretary.— Rev. Thomas Goulding. approached with safety, like the Maelstrom at the turn of tide. His profusion was in dulged to an extent hazardous to his popu larity, for the populace are jealous of lavish expenditure, as raising their favourites too much above their own degree; and the charge of peculation finds always ready credit with them, when brought against pub lic men. Robespierre possessed this advantage over Danton, that he did not seem to seek for wealth, either for hoarding or expending, but lived in strict and economical retirement, 35 001 to justify the name of the incorruptible, with which ne was honoured by his partisans* /83> 001 He appears to have possessed little talent,' saving a deep fund of hypocrisy, considera ble powers of sophistry, and a cold exag- 122 821 gerated strain of oratory, as foreign to good 'taste, as the measures he recommended $706 821 were, to ordinary humanity. It seemed wonderful, that even the seething and boil ing of the revolutionary cauldron should have sent up from the bottom, and long sup ported on the surface, a thing so miserably void of claims to public distinction; but Robespierre had to impose on the minds of the vulgar, and he knew how to beguile of sustaining the reign of terror. The ap petite of Marat could not be satisfied but by combining both modes of murder. Both Danton and Robespierre kept aloof from the sanguinary Marat. Among the three monsters mentioned, Danton had that energy which the Giron dists wanted, and was well acquainted with the secret movements of those insurrections to which they possessed no key. His vices of wrath, luxury, love of spoil, dreadful $9 tehy were, are attributes of mortal men; —the envy of Robespierre, and the instinc tive blood-thirstiness of Marat, were the properties of fiends. Danton, like tfie huge serpent called the Boa, might be approached with a degree of safety when gorged with prey—but the appetite of Marat for blood was like the horse-leech, which says, Not enough—and the slaughterous envy of Ro bespierre was like the knawing worm that diethnot, and yields no interval of repose. In glutting Danton with spoil, and furnish ing the means of indulging his luxury, the Girondists might have purchased' his sup port ; but nothing under the supreme rule in France would have gratified Robes pierre ; and an unlimited torrent of the blood them, by accommodating his flattery to their I of that unhappy country could alone have passions and scale of understanding, and by satiated Marat. If a colleague was to be acts of cunning and hypocrisy, which weigh chosen out of that detestable triumvir- more with the multitude than the words of| ate, unquestionably Danton was to be con- eloquence, or the arguments of wisdom. .The people listened as to their Cicero, when sidered as the mo9t eligible.” Secretary.-—Moses W. hi’*.'-*- W. W. Baldwin, Edward Coxe, Mrs. Gilmer, Susan Jenkins, Samuel Robins, Lexington, do. do, Jefferson county. Louisville. suffering souls to perish. can they hear without a preacher?” There fore, Let us not be weary in well doing. Let ... but little for any of them.” We much, if we have a heart to do. xe the heart of the poor widow, we can do much. (Luke 21,23,) nial period. f the Lord from the least to the greatest The signs of the times are indeed ani ting. Has not the voice of the Angel be to speak in accents of Divine mercy thro all the benevolent Institutions which are dif fusing light and love through our world ? The earth is soon to be given to Christ for j * his possession. The Islands of the sea are turning to the Lord; and while the East and the West, the North and the South appear ready to give up, and the Macedonian cry is heard from every quarter, should Christians John Powell, do. J. W. Stilwell, do. Eliza Milton, Susan Battey, do. do. W. H. Turpin, Augusta. E. Camfield, 6. B. Hopkins, do. Madison. 1 Timothy Edwards, Augusta. John E. Shepherd, do. John Beach, do. R. D. Treadwell, do. Israel Gilbert, do. J. V. Ditmars, do. Doctor Anthony, do. J. K. Kilbum, do. 1 Adna Rowe, do. IH. Webster, do. W. F. Gould, do. J. G. Casey, do. Welcome Allen, do. I J. R. St. John, do. James Fraser, do. John Moore., do. I Alexander Main, do. R. H. Musgrove, do. H. Alden, j F. C. Heard, do. do. A. M. Woolsey, do. JW. Micou, do. 1W. Catlr . Augusta. IH. Mealing, do. ! I Anonymous friend, do. , William Wright, do. i Susan H. Hutchinson, do. ; Adam Hutchinson, do. , J Mary Smelt, do. 1 Elizabeth Jones, do. t| A. S. Jones, do. IJ D. Urquhart, do. . Thomas McDowel, do. Edward J. Hardin, do. , J. W. Bridges, do. 1 Eliza Ingram, do. 3 J. S. Holt, do. 1 Thomas Daniel, do. v E. B. Crane, do. R. A. Reid, do. . Elizabeth Reid, do. a J Mr. Ely, do. [1 Alexander Spencer, do. 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 5 00 5 5 5 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Recordii bin^ Vice Presidents—Rev. William M’Whirr, Francis Cummins, D. D. John Brown, D. D. Moses Waddel, D. D. Rev. Jesse Mercer, Rev. Abiei Carter, Rev. C. O. Scriven* Rev. Lovick Pierce, Rev. Wil liam Mederwel. Directors,—Col. Joseph Law, Samuel W. Dowse,Esq. Thomas Cumming, Esq. Jo seph Cumming, Esq. And’w G. Semmes, Esq. Joseph Brvan, Esq. Rev. B. Gil- dersleove, John Nisbet, Esq. Dr. Wil liam Baldwin, Rev. • Alonzo Church, Rev. Thomas MT. Stanley, Asbury Hull, Esq. Rev. R. Chamberiain, George W. Warner, Esq. Rev. John S. Wilson, Dr. Anderson Watkins. Dob- he twanged out his apostrophiee of Pauvre I A Rehearsal no joke.—Jack Withers, 9. People, People vertueuxt "and hastened to ! hrifedTiighwayman, who flourished and got 00 00 00] 001 001 00 001 00! 00 00! 00 00 00! 00' 00 j 00 00] 00 00! 00 00] 00 1 00 00 00 00 00 00] 001 00 001 00 00] 00! 00 execute whatever came recommended by such honied phrases, though devised by the worst of men for the worst and most inhu man of purposes. Vanity was Robespierre’s ruling passion, and though his countenance was the image of his mind, he was vain even of his per sonal appearance, and never adopted the external habits of a sans culotte. Amongst his fellow jacobins, he was distinguished by the nicety with which his hair was arranged and powdered; and the neatness of his dress was carefully attended to, so as to counter balance, if possible, the vulgarity of his pei- son. His apartments, though small, were elegant, and vanity had filled them with re presentations of the occupant. Robes pierre’s picture, at length, hung in one place his miniature in another, his bust occupietU bruggi a niche, and on the table were disposed aft of Va few medallions exhibiting his head in profile.} exclaimed, in the passionate language of the The vanity which all this indicated was of part— hanged above half a century ago, was re turning with some of his hopeful companions, over the Marylebone-fields, at four o’clock one Summer’s morning, after a country ex cursion in the way of business, when they observed a gentleman walking alone, ma king all kinds of impassioned gestures,jand talking, what to them, was tii^mVoTierel^j nonsense. This gentleman happened to? f be Vanbruggen, the celebrated player, who^ J" was getting his part ; but the thieves, not > knowing him, supposed he was deranged, and about to lay violent hands upon himself: and as there is sometimes a glimmering of what is called honour among that class, they were prompted by humanity to watch his movements from behind a hedge in the field where they stood. At length Van- ;en, who was studying the character ■■ in the tragedy of Theodosius, aranes. FOE'EP.Y. FROM THE GEORGIAN'. It is not when etch flower of life Blooms lovely in affection’s vale, And with the sweets of pleasure rife, Flings back its fragrance to the gale; When all the joys ofmankind flow, And hope reposes in the heart— Oh! ’tis not then the honr to know, The balm that friendship can impart. But, when the wintry blasts of care Are heard above the voice of mirth, And the foul venom of despair Corrupts the pleasures of this earth, When 6to«ns of sorrow darkly low’r, And all is desolate and drear, Oh! then ’tis friendship lends its power, The darkness of tins life to cheer. the coldest and most selfish character, being such as considers neglect as insult, and re ceives homage merely as a tribute; so that, j while praise is received without gratitude, it j is withheld at the risk of mortal hate. Self- love of this dangerous character is closely allied with envy, and Robespierre was one of the most envious and vindictive men that -I charge thee not! But when I am dead take the attending slaves, And bear me, with my blood distilling down, Straight to the temple; lay me, O! Aranthes, Lay my cold corse at Athenais’ feet.” When Jack Withers rushed forward, ex claiming, “ By the poor gentleman is going to kill himself for love.” Jack and his companions, to the amusement of Van- ever lived.^. He never was known to pardon I bruggen, seized him by both arms, and en- THE TREE OF SCIENCE, OR, PHILOSOPHI CAL SYSTEMS. Most fortunate you deem that mind, whosej^ower, light athwart the clouds that o’er us lower— Most fortunate—but who shall do the deed ? Adam, who pluck’d the tree of knowledge first, What learn’d he but his nakedness ?—Accurst, He blushed, and eloathed himself in leaves. .And so, With such like reasoning, the proud and vain Philosopher has learnt himself to know.— Ashamed, ho ekes out fictions from his brain, And calls them systems.—They are but the dress id va ‘ * any opposition, affront, or even rivalry : and to be marked in his tablets on such an ac count, was a sure, though perhaps not an im mediate sentence of death. Danton was a hero, compared with this cold, calculating, creeping miscreant; for his passions, though exaggerated, bad at least some touch of hu manity, and his brutal ferocity was supported by brutal courage. Robespierre was a coward, who signed death-warrants with a hand that shook, though his heart was re lentless. He possessed no passions on treated that he would be advised, and have better thoughts than to drown himself there. “ What a plague is all this for,” exclaimed the actor; “lam not going to hang, stab, or drown myself. I am not in love—I am only a player getting my part.” A player, are you?” replied Withers; “if we had thought that you should e’en have drowned yourself, and been d—d too, before we’d have taken all the pains for the last half-, hour, following you up and down. How ever, as we have met, you can have no ob- this Jack and his companions rifled Van- bruggen’s pockets of his watch, and 10s. in silver, and marched off with his silver hilted sword, threatening to realize the ca tastrophe of the player, by running him through the body with it, if he did not re main in the field till he finished his rehearsal. 5 00 1 which doak and varnish o’er his nakedness. 00] 00! 00 00] 00] 00 00! 001 00! 00 00] 00 00 00 00 00 which to charge his crimes: they were per- jection to pay us for this trouble.” Upon f petrated in cold blood, and upon mature de- ' " ' ‘ * liberation. Marat, the third of this infernal triumvirate, had attracted the attention of the lower or ders, by the violence of his sentiments in the journal, which he conducted from the commencement of the revolution upon such principles that it took the lead in forwarding its successive changes. His political ex hortations began and ended like the howl of' a blood-hound for mueder; or, could have written a journal, the gaunt and famished wretch could not have ravened more eagerly for slaughter. |t was blood which was Marat’s constant demand, not drops from the breast of an individual, not in puny streams from the slaughter of fami- Frm the American Quarterly Review. LIFE OF NAPOLEON.—BY SIR W. SCOTT. DANTON, ROBESPIERRE, AND MARAT. * * *■* * We come next, to tiro Legis lative Assembly, “ in which there was no party, that could be termed strictly or pro-1 lies, but blood in the profusion of an ocean. perly royalists.” Its three divisions, the i Constitutionalists, the Girondists, or Bris- His usual calculation of the heads which he demanded amounted to two hundred and beinactivel The Trustees of our State University, four years ago, did, with a Chris tian liberality authorise the President of that Institution to afford gratuitous instruction to as many as five beneficiaries at any one ""time; and a blessing has been confidently believed to have followed their laudable act. From these united considerations, can | Also, in the year 1S26. the feeling and benevolent heart remain in-1A Gentleman of Chatham county, ■ .. ... *»,. a DONATIONS from sundry Bene volent Individuals. George Hannah, Augusta. Anonymous friend, do. Reuben Langston, dp. W. Brewster, do. Joseph Avery, do. Anonymous friend, F. K. Pleasants, Gilbert Longstreet, The following Donations have been received,—from , I-,**, The Female Cent Society of Liber ty count^,in 1824, 5 00 2 00 3 00 00 3 3 f 2 sotins, and the Jacobins, are exhibited in J sixty thousand: and though be sometimes their diversity of traits and objects; their raised it as high as three hundred thousand, relentless mutual strife, and their common it never fell beneath the smaller number, warfare against the wretched king. The It maybe hoped, and, for the honour of hu- Girondists and the Jacobins stood ready man nature We are inclined to believe, there “ to storm together the last bulwarks of the was a touch of Insanity in this unnatural monarch’’--but the latter were resolved and strain of ferocity; and the wild and squalid destined to monopolize the spoil, and es- features of the wretch appear to have indi- tablish the ineffable, incomparable Reign of\ cated a degree of alienation. Marat was Terror. Robespierro, says Scott, might like Robespierre, a coward. Repeatedly be considered ns the head of the Jacobins, denounced in the Assembly, he skulked in- “ if they had, indeed, a leader, more than stead of defending himself, and lay conceal Singular Circumstance.—One or two days previous to the great fall of snow* if a wolf | which commenced on the 1st of January, Mr. W. Seymour of New Haven, turned five hogs into the woods to feed on nuts* &c. blit after the storm abated, and finding the snow ta ke so deep arto rendertt diffi cult for them to procure their subsistence, he went in search of them, and after spend ing several days without discovering any traces of them, he concluded that they were buried in the snow and had frozen to death. On the 11th of February they were acciden tally discovered by one of his neighbours, in a snow bank about forty rods from liis house, after having lain in the snow forty-one days without moving six feet, and having no subsistence duping that time except what they derived from the ground, which they h&d dug but a few inches deep, when a rock opposed their progress, and from one of their own number which they had partly devoured. They were in good order for 1 _ ___ I flforeriiogs wj^pn turned out, but when found qq 1 wolves have, which tune their united voices J ed in some obscure garret or cellar, among | they were very much emaciated. The four 00 to the cry of him that bays too loudest.”— his cut-throats, until a storm appeared, surviving hoars were driven home, and Marat loved to talk of murder as soldiers -when, like a bird of ill omen, his death- now in a thriving condition.—F 74 38 do of balnea, and made, con amore, an ex act calculation to show in what manner tico hundred and sixty thousand aristocrats might be butchered in a day. The two peerless I der different aspects. Danton murdered to | tion : “ | screech was again heard. Such was the strange and fatal triumvirate, in which the Humble Situation.—The National Intel- same degree of curmiba^cruelty existed un- |ligencerJjjastfc^fallowmg article of informa- Representatives. A new ruffians, and their condign associate, Dan- glut his rage; Robespierre, to avenge his fc-j member, James IV. Ripley,” elected from ton, are thus portrayed in the second vo- jured vanity, or to remove a rival whom he Oxford district (Me.) “ appeared, “ Three men of tenor, whose name will I love of blood, which induces a wolf to vw-\paper. «n
