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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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