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Athens, Jan. 25,1823.
'!.'7* ‘ Kr.cTt'.i/ n:iJ 1 Aiiicfs S, ienna:,’ will lie in-
” r*Lil next week.
•1. It. South, nod-matter, l.merciwnUtt.—We luivo
no’icivl vntirr I'rtuiituii-iUinti in lie; 1 Statesman and Pat
riot of llie 21.st inat. Tlir.re is one remark, anil only
etc tint entitles it to eonsi'l,-ration :—it is, that we,
rh'eiali all the progress of your private atnl secret ex*
- .tenia, subsequently to the month of August, toeliangc
t.i • mail between this plane anti f.awrencevillc, have
tieen aeipiainterl with vonr motive, ami understood your
intention.—The attst-rtiim is without foundation. Ln-
d-’r date of August 23, we are presented with a letter
ti'ou the Fust-master of this place, in reply to one of
i ore, of a prior date, stating that lie hail apprised us
. hu\ iu*r received a letter from you upon the subject of a
change. We recollect the conversation, hut were then
mutinied that thecitizcnnit Decaturalone, andnotthe
iti/.ens of Gwinnett were dissatistiail w ith the arrangc-
tin-nt. An nhj-i lion was rnadu—the Post-master of
*!ns place cannot hut recollect it—on the ground that
mi anil not the public generally, were desirous of the
• ha litre : such was our opinion at the tinier ciretim-
..‘unrei have proved that we were correct: for, when
we suggested to the Poi t-»nasler here, the propriety of
recommending nit alteration in Ihu mail between Law-
r mceville nud Decatur, by which the citizens of the for
mer conlil nseive their papers at the usual tune, and
those of the latter, six days earlier, we believed that
von xvniild act upon the suggestion: in this wo have
been disappointed, as your conduct since has evinced
an utter disregard to the opinions of thu citizens of
l.awreuccvillc. If it was your intention to effect this
change at all hazards, we were not apprised of it: no
apprehension was indulged that it would be attempted;
consctptonlly lie: first information which we received,
was through the medium'of this office, on tire enquiry
being made by the Post-master General, ‘ Whether the
departure of the I.awicnrevillo mail on Thursday,
would intirfere with the arrival of other mails;’ ami
this tea weeks alter you had written to the Post-mas
ter of this place upon the subject.—Will von inform us
why this solicitude to accommodate the citizens ul De
catur? Did you ever apprise those of Gwinnett that
siiclt an alteration was in contemplation ? Did you not
know that the measure would he opposed by them ?
And di i yon nut believe that they would protest? ns
wo understand they have since dimo. We answer
these questions tiir yon m tint affirmative : and yet un
known to a .o.-:v/r iiutieiJnnl, unless your /ihliliinl confi-
,lunls, the elliirt was mado in secret, and the change
di eted. There was guilt in thu very scerosy which
you maintained Inwards those whom you were bound
to consult. Your reasons when called on were few.
tlicv were nevertheless important .’-one of which only we
shall mention—“ that it would he fur the benefit of the
t O'.c.iorr.i i! interest I" In this wo have the weight of
v-eii .ip lory, for tho secrecy of the movement. A
Mussulman wi uld have unified at the gravity of the re
ply, unless his anger hail been provoked by the foolish
ness of tlie otycetion.
Willi is to juilir.i of the expediency nr inexpediency,
t!ie i iniveiiieucc or inconvenience of such mi alteration?
yourself, or the public? They of course—not you. lint
to have ascertained lltcir will, would not have met the
’ppro;iaiiun of ol/nTi; it might have opposed tho ho-
r, wilt, attempts yiltieh were then in progress to revo
lutionize, if not thu vruiM—at least tho cuunty of
fix' mnett.
!n stating that we should inqniro into the authority
upon which the change was made, wo find beliyn us a
of a letter from P Itiadley, EJq. of tho I’ost-oliico
ft-t-irtie- ii*, at Washington, hi reply to a protest form
Monroe, mlurmtng us that no ai would In made
in Inteili re with the -- en-ut as it has heretofore
-Aisled— yet it i.r made.
If you have rne.jivcd ipstr i- tions from the Post-nms-
e.r General, authorising the change, forward your y-ffe-
cud nut ructions to the Poet-nffiee in this place. as yet
they have only -«UT ipuftisit to warrant the delivery of
• i,, m.; i, , - I ,., tv .ii.uriing: and »o should advise
niiito on whom a public rc»pnnsil;ittty resin, after rVaih
mg your viiidicatinn, to act upon nittiiuritv so question
able.
lhnt.—We regret to slat sprays the Mi’lodgcvillo ‘ Rc-
,-order,’ that on Tuesday, the lath met. a duel was
fought on tho west side of the t'-fiatuhoochic, in the
iieighlioiirhood lit Port Mitchell, between Thomas P.
IIuhksiPz, Esq. of Cuhtmhia county, and Gv.oi.ck W.
t'l.xuinun, Esq. uf AugustaMn.which tho former was
shot through the lardy at tliomind lire, ami died on tho
spot.—Mr.'Crawford ti e Understand received no injury.
Kentucky.- -Wo have just ascertained, says the Nash
ville Republican, of tho 4th inst. by a letter received ill
town, that Mr. Thomas Chilton, the Jackson cruutilinte,
is elected by a majority of .S3 votes over Mr. Calhoun,
the Administration candidate.
.Yrtc Cate.—Tho House of Representatives, of Dela
ware, adjourned on the Alb, in consequence of their
inability to elect a Speaker. The Jackson and Adams
patties had four days balloting, and 19 ballots' Roth
aides of course threw the blame upon each other.
Singularities.—A gentleman who was recently on a
sit, veymg excursion in Appling’cotmty, informs us he
met xvilh in that neighbourhood, an old man named
Wiitutujstarling, who was a soldier in Hruddock's ex
pedition: he had fourteen children by his lirst wile,
and nii.-tJ nearly all of them. After the death of lii.s
first wife lie remained aingle ten year s; but finding it
a lonesome way of living, uliout three years since he
married a maiden lady aged forty-five years, who in a
year afterwards became the tnothrr of two line boys at
a birth.—A few year* since there was also living in the
above mentioned county, a man who had married his
his wife’s sister, his brother’s wile, bix wife’s daughter,
fiis brother's daughter, and hts niece. Till: happened
ty the two brothers marrying two sisters in the first
instance, anil on the death of tho wife of one, and the
husband of the other, the survivors married together;
after which, the wife dx ing, tbs husband married her
daughter by his brother, being his twice.—Hard by was
a lady who had burk'd xu- husbands, and not being over
•ixtv years of age, it is supposed was not particularly
averse to try a seventh. —At ego of the houses where
they passed the night, the | r.ipie tur, about seventy
years of age, had handsome young wife about seven
teen years of age, with a beautiful daughter Sinontlisold.
COMSIOMr ATI , .
A/e. Shaw,—It will no doubt tie gratifying to the
Hmi'lreil ami One Xuii-entif r- to tlie petition some
time -inee laid beture the Justii.es of tin- Inferior Court,
on the subject of tin- proposed alteration of the Trail
creek road, to learn licit this long protracted question
is at length tint tu rest, and that tin- old rnei ting-house
road is soil continued open for their fu* .her use anil
cunvonii nee. It i, iluii to tin: tlnce ln.it eominissioticra,
Messrs. Hancock, Jackson, and Haynes, to state that
their rijnnt to the court was predicated on the broad
basis nl |> ililie utility, and a just regard fur the good
order and well being of society; for which those gen
tlemen are entitled to the thunks of the enmumuifv at
large. A SL IISCIIIBER.
COM M t’NIC A Tin V.
To Ihr. People of Gwinnett County.
Public men urn legitimately the servants of
the people, and as such, it is not only tlioir tin-
dcniahlu right, Imt also their imperious duty,
strictly nml impartially to scrutinize their con
duct. However undeserving men may he in a
private capacity, and however worthless anil
insignificant when considered as to tlioir intrin
sic merit, an otTtcc attaches to them a tempo
rary importance, which, while possessed,
gives them ti just claim to the attention of the
people at whose will they hold it. It is in
cumbent on them for the greater security of
, their rights and political privileges vested in
these officers, minutely to inquire into their
public acts, anti intimately acquaint themselves
will) lltcir private virtues und characters, there
by ascertaining whether they ate, und have
been, such as to entitle them tu further confi
dence in an official capacity. If in such in
vestigations, an officer, of whatever grade lie
may he, should he found remiss in his duty ;
doing arts not called lor by the voice of the
people whose servant he is ; or if he should lie
found wanting in those public and private vir
tues essentially requisite for lint faithful anti
honourable discharge of the duties incident
to his station—self-jirotection enjoins upon
those bestowing that office, immediately to
withdraw their misplaced, misused and abus
ed confidence.
Il is by such means ns these—by vigilantly
watching over the conduct and character of
those to whom ttie administration of our affairs
is intrusted, that our Republican Institutions
are preserved unimpaired, our rights, as a peo
ple, uiiviolated, nml our honour, as men nud
ns citizens, untarnished. With such views
nml feelings ns these, I propose, as one of your
fellow citizens, possessing with you a common
interest, sharing alike in your disgraces and
vour honours, alike participating in your pros
perity nud in your adversity ; to inako some in
quiry into the conduct of our public men, and
the affairs of our county. Tims to see wheth
er all he right and as it should he, or whether
in any particular, either ns to men or mea
sures, wo can ho essentially benefited. If in
thu course of my remarks I should particula
rize men or measures, it will he inv object to
mete out impartial justice to all mid each. If
any remark should he considered too personal,
I can only say, that it will he necessary to the
accomplishment of the end in view; and that
it will not he made for the gratification of any
nrivute, or individual animosity. It is our
right to speak of things as they are, calling
each by their proper and appropriate names.
A writer in the Athenian over the signature
of “ Cassius,” a short tune since, gave you
some insight into the conduct of some of those
of whom I shall have occasion to speak. He
refers to a pnb'icntion which hnd appeared
shortly after the election lor members to repre
sent you in tho Inst Legislature, over the sig
nature of “ Gwinnett,” the character und pur
pose of which publication, you cannot too well
understand. Hy it a more illiberal und mule-
set ved nttack has been mndo upon your good
sense and clmracter as a people, than most of
you haw*, supposed. Not only did the writer
of“Gwinnctt”vauntingly claim every man who
hnd contributed by his vote to tho election of
your last representation, as a Clark man, hut
asserted that they were opposed to what ho
was pleased to style “ Gov. Troup's tear mea
se,res." More was meant Itv this last asser
tion, than would at lirst viuw, be inferrctl.
None of you aro so stupidly ignorant as to be
lieve the wide mouthed partizan’s assertions,
which you have heard so repeatedly reiterated,
about a disposition on thu part of the govern
ment of Georgia, or on the part of tho Itepub-
licnn parly in Georgia, to wage war against
tho Goncrul Government. Every man who
lists sense enough “to feed himself,” knows it
to he untrue, ami tho writer of “ Gwinnett,”
weak in the upper story as he has proven him
self to be, could not Imvc hoped to gain credit
with you, when he spoke of “ war measures.”
His publication, to he properly understood,
needs interpretation, and tho most rational, (if
any thing rational can be inferred from it,)
which I lrnvu been enabled to give is this :—
That by your opposition to “ Gov. Troup’s
war measures” it was intended to convey the
idea abroad, that you were opposed to tho ac
quisition of the late Territory, the, benefits of
which, many of you have already received:
That you were opposed to the Old Treaty, and
to the hold and fearless protection of your
rights from wlmt quarter soever they might he
assailed ; that you would tamely,and in the true
spirit of cowardice, have suffered them to bo
usurped by those whose duty it was to protect
them; that if you interfered atall in the sttppos-
cil contest, you would tneanlv and ungratefully
have joined the Indians and Gaines's Regular
army, which was insultingly stationed upon
your frontier, and thereby have become the
nctive enemies of your native Stale. If this
interpretation ho correct, suffer nte to ask what
an insult lias this writer offered to you as a
people, by thus traducing and misrepresenting
your character not only at home, hut through
the medium of a News-paper, issuing it forth
to the world ? and what portion of your scorn
ful and indignant contempt does he and his
publication not deserve I Who this writer is
I knew not, nor do I care; but presuming, as
I have a right to do, r.r.d that I am correct, I
have no doubt, that hi- publication was at least
tacitly sanctioned anil approbated (if no more)
bv those whose election called it forth, and
whose conduct I proposed to investigate, 1 have
conceived it on this account, and on this alone,
entitled to as much notice ns I have given it,
in addition to that taken of it hv tlie writer of
“ Cassius,” which : s more than the writer him
self deserves, judging him by his fruits, and
not less than his matter approbated as before
mentioned, is properly susceptible of.
This publication purported to be in reply to
a remark made by the Editor of the Athenian,
that the people in Gwinnett were still republi
can, and lb ■! the election of a Federal ticket
was attributable to local cutises, and not to a
change in their political creed.—If one of you
were told, individually, that you wore a “ Fe
deralist,” nothing would he conceived a more
direct insult ; and yet because an honest Edi
tor of a Newspaper, interested in your behalf,
and anxious for the sujiport of your political
character abroad, dared to assert that you were
Republicans,—he not only brought down upon
himself and his paper the vile abuse and slan
der of this writer, “ Gwinnett,” hut became the
peculiar object of the vengeance and malig
nant spleen of your whole Representation in the
Legislature, aided in their attempts upon his
interest by others, whose agency has not pas
sed unnoticed front a proper source. No soon
er had your Representation arrived in Mil-
ledgcville, linn you discover umeasuro in tro-
dueed, I believe by Air. Park, to compel tlie
Sheriffs of Gwinnett to advertise their stiles in
one of the Millcdgevillo Gazettes.—Here I
would observe that the introduction of this mea
sure proves conclusively what has before been
intimated,—that these gentlemen know more
about the publication and authorship of “ G win-
nett” than they would like to acknowledge ;
else why this-overvveeniug anxiety on their
part to injure this Editor in his pecuniary con
cerns, and to destroy the circulation of his pa
per in your county? The adoption of such a
measure was not called for by you, the un
blushing assertion of your Representatives to
the contrary notwithstanding. It is for your
interest anti advantage that the contemplated
change should not havo boon olToctod, because
of the shorter time, by twelve days, that it takes
to have an advertisement inserted in tho Athe
nian, in which your county advertising has
been done ever since its establishment; and
because of the less expense incident to such
insertion. Allhough the arguments used to
carry down this uncalled for and partizan mea
sure havc.bccn noticed by another, yet a repe
tition cannot operate injuriously ; for you can
not too well know in whom you confide. The
Gentleman introducing the Ilill seems mea
surably to have abandoned its support, and his
two colleagues stept forth fully prepared, as
the result will show, to make every sacrifice
of honor, principle, and truth to ensure its pas
sage.
Dr. Brustcr, or as ho has been called “ Tito
Gentleman of tho standing Collar,” knowing,
(and the facts prove that he was not mistaken.)
that there was no. ojfte of hi2 colleagues pos
sessed of the honesty to contradict, and be
lieving that the statement would answer Iris
present purpose, if my information he correct,
asserted upon tho floor of the Representative
Hall, that none of tlie Athenians which came
In your Post-Office. were taken out! an as
sertion which, ns has been observed, was un
supported by tho least shadow of truth; and
this gentleman must have been aware, I hesi
tate not to say, of its entire falsity, at the time
he was uttering it. All of you who nrc in any
degree conversant with you- "n.-t-Oflico regu
lations, and particularly those of you who arc
subscribers to the Athenian, can testily to its
falsity.—How little deserving then, is litis gen
tleman of your confidence, and how much has
the character of a Representative of a free peo
ple, in him, keen degraded ?
“ Though low tho abject it deserves our pains."
I come now to speak of one whose total des
titution of every requisite for a man, apart
front those of a Legislator, induces the above
exclamation. I allude to Air. Green. The
degree of importance which you havo thrown
around him, by Ins election as one of your Re
presentatives, gives him a claim upon our at
tention of which, under different circumstan
ces, l, for one, should consider him entirely
unworthy.. While the subject before alluded
to, was under discussion in the House of Re
presentatives. this Gentleman, (his station on
ly. entitles him to the appellation,) staled as I
have been informed, having the same confi
dence in the forbearance of his colleagues with
Dr. Urustcr, that the measure was called for
by the Sheriffs of the county, and meanly in
sinuated, that those of you who were subscri
bers to the Athenian die not possess the abili
ty to pay for it. Not only does every circum
stance connected with this affair, give to this
lirst statement the lie direct, hut 1 hesitate not
to sav, upon my own responsibility, that your
Sheriffs, if called on, would give a certificate
of its utter falsity. Here then is exhibited not
only a total destitution of thu slightest regard
for trutlo hut is also manifested a willing dis
position to basely slander and traduce the cha
racters of men, at a time when they aro not in
a situation to repel the blow.—You will agree
with me that it is slander of the most vile and
malignant character, upon the honesty, firm
ness, and integrity of your Sheriffs to say, that
they called for the passage of a law authoriz
ing them to do an act, of the power to do which
they were already possessed. As 'o the other
insinuation of the inability of the subscribers
to the Athenian to pay their subscription mo
ney, I will only say 'hat it is false, and know
ingly false as the spirit which induced it was
wilfully mean. You will discover that these
Gentlemen were disposed, so hostile had they
become towards the F.ditor of the Athenian
for daring to call you a Republican People, to
stop at nothing which would have accomplish-
cd their particular purpose—and you will fur
ther discover that they so fur forget the oath
and duty of Rcprescntaties as to suffer their
private animosities, to have an influence upon
their public acts. Other acts of theirs deserve
exposure, anti they will not he forgotten. I
desire to say a few words with regard to some
of their conduct since their return home,
leaving you to judge of its propriety or impro
priety. An officious intcrmedling in popular
elections on the part of any individual, further
than to canvass fairly and honorably the pre-
tensions ofthe different candidates ts at all times
reprehensible. This interference on the part
of a Representative of tho people, having, it is
supposed,a large share of their confidence,and
thereby capable of exercising an undue influ
ence upon their choice, is more particularly
reprehensible. These premises being correct,
tlie part which was played by your Represcn-
tives in tho late elections, deserves your parti
cular consideration. Immediately on tlioir re
turn home, some of them, believing from tlioir
late individual success, that they were all-pow
erful, commenced riding through ynttr court ft/
with the avowed intention of exercising over
your votes an influence in favor ofthe candi
date for clerk of the Inferior Court, w hom you
in your better judgment have thought proper
not to oleet. I have been credibly informed
that one of those Gentlemen in his peregrina
tions, ventured the assertion, that in n particu
lar section of tho county, his favorite candi
date would heat his opponent ten to one ; when
at the. same time I will hazard the opinion,
that ho must have known such a result could
nol take place.
lint the conduct of another is still morn as
tonishing. If I have been correctly informed,
and I do not doubt the source, not only did he
think of exercising his influence in their usual
way, but actually spoke of calling money to his
aid. That before the election, he ptthlickly
spoke ofhaving a fifty dollar bill, which lie
intended to spend in favor ofthe candidate who
was afterwards defeated !—And has it come
to this? Have those whom you have chosen
as your Representatives, nn opinion so con
temptible of your honor, your integrity, and
your good sense, as to suppose that your votes
could ho influenced with money in whatever
way it might be applied ? Is there one of you
who would acknowledge such an influence ?
Is there one of you who would not chastise
the insolence of any individual who would at
tempt to exercise it over you individually ?
What an insult then is it to your characters as
men? How degrading to your reputation as a
people? and how richly deserving of your
contempt aro those who would intimate their
belief in your susceptibility of such an influ
ence ? Knowing that there arc many of you
who can testify to these last diets, I have fail
ed to give the names of the individuals.—
They will not deny tho charges.—This essay
has been drawn out to a greater length than
was anticipated, hut in justice to what has
been undertaken loss could not Imve been
said. I submit what has been said to vour
candor and impartiality, with a hope that it will
he read without prejudice, and suffered to have
a duo influence.
A Citizen of Gwinnett.
FOR THE ATHENIAN.
Mr. Editor,—Without intending by any
means to lie personal to you, for I can sin
cerely say the following remarks will not ap
ply to your paper, yet I think tho Southern
people have great and just cause of complaint
against tho Southern Press.—Tho Press is
well patronised and supported in this country,
and in return tho character of the country
ought to ho protected nud sustained by the
Press. Most of the conductors ofthe News
papers of the south, consulting alone (he case
and quiet of their feelings, and the safety and
productiveness of tlioir establishment, suffer
tho northern papers to slander with immiuity
tho character, talents, integrity, government,
and indeed every thing that belongs to the
south. There is at tiiis time a spirit of hosti
lity exercised on the part of the northern Press
against the southern States, which seems to
be without hounds, and is only ambitious to
put all truth to shame, all decency to flight,
and, if I may use the expression, all hcncsty
to death.
1 havo for a long time believed, and in a
laud of freedom no mo t should he afraid to
express the honest convictions of his mind,
that there is no cordiality, affection, kindred,
or any thing else of a sympathetic nature be
tween tho North and the South; and this is a
matter that should not he minced. It is high
time tho people of the South should open tlioir
eyes, ami be no longer deceived by specious
sayings mid false appearances. To live in
harmony with a neighbour, and call him bro
ther, and say you will live and die with him,
and all that nonsense, which is only from the
mouth outwards, and never was nearer to the
heart than the tip of tho tongue, when that
same neighbour is for ever reviling you, un
dermining your character, reproaching your
habits, mocking your customs, ridiculing and
laughing at your management, abusing your
morals and principles, and above all, by secret
means attempting to inveigle away your ser
vants, and filching your money under the mi
serable pretext of rendering you a service, is
what no man of common feeling, common
sense, or conimou honesty would bear; and
such a connection, in private life, would be
cut just so soon as tho injured party, if he
were not a fool or a knave, could get to pen,
ink, and paper—dirk, knilb, or gun, or what
ever instrument might be necessary to draw
the line between them. Now what is the dif
ference between the above case, and that of
the Southern in reference to tho Northern
people? I understand, and proof of the fact
can he obtained in this very town by some of
the best men in it, that a Southern man can
not visit the north without having his feelings
insulted, if not directly, at least indirectly, by
hearing his country abused, its character, mo
rals, manners, habits, customs and institutions
most shamefully calumniated. His country
men are reproached with every thing that is
base, disorderly, or corrupt. Indeed, their
very children arc taught to consider da ns mop-
sters, because slavery exists in the. country.
On that subject, notwithstanding they arc the
very people who originally brought tin’ slaves
to the south, who were tlie slave merchants,
slave, traders, nay, slave stealers, from (In-
shores of Africa; yet the most infamous fa
brications are mixed with the very education
of their youths, and they grow to manhood
with the most inveterate prejudice, bordering
upon instinctive horror of every thing that be
longs to the south; so much so, that when
they come among us and find they have beet;
deceived, in the transport of honest indigna
tion, end as a tribute to our injured character,
they make an open confession of the (act.
When did ever a member of Congress lose an
occasion to taunt us about slavery, anti at the
same time indecently indulge in the little vani
ty of calling his oivn a “free stole,” because
perhaps he may not himself happen to belong
to a landlord or a priest ? How often do wo
meet with the little low dirty sneers of “ slave
states,” “ free slates,” and that too in the very
Halls of Congress, where the brethren of tlm
Union assemble to realize all that kindly feel
ing and generous affection which is said to
have fraternized and brought us together !
Would these things be said if there were sin
cerity and good faith in the professions ot
friendship we so often hear, and that come
floating to us in the shape of a syren song,
upon the same zephyr that wafts their cargoes
of horn gun-flints and wooden nutmegs to this
insulted country ? No, as long as they can
make anv tiling out of us by private imposi
lion or public usurpation—as long ns their
pedlars can cheat our women and children,
and their statesmen make us buy against our
will their northern homespun, why then we aro
a hand of brothers ! Nothing like the union !
All so clever! What a glorious thing to be
united ! ! Hut the moment we complain of
unkind treatment—that hrolhers ought not to
oppress brothers—that hrolhers of the South
have feelings rights and interests as well as
brothers at the JVorlh—oh, then we are a knot
of traitors, Hixorganizers, dismemberers of tin:
union! We are represented as a “ tempest in
a tea-pot,” a “ storm in a puddle I” a mighty
valiant people, all fire and tow I and indeed
every term of mortifying ridicule and malignant
sarcasm which can possibly flow from tho
bleak and barren brains, and still colder blood
ed hearts of their slanderous and stupid editors.
The above reflections have been prompted
by tho remarks of one of these hare-hearted
and pigeon livered fry, who, without any cha
racter to lose, may well war against all other
characters; who, without any feelings of his
own to blood, nitty with perfect safety indulge
his cnnibal passion to cut, thrust, and stall the
feelings of others. I allude to the editor of
tho New York “Statesman.” lie has, as
no doubt lie conceives, in the most inimitable
spirit of humour, and in one of the finest strains
of Attic wit, held up to scorn and contempt, a
Report of the Georgia Legislature on the sub
jeet of tho Colonization Society; and afte
the subject 1ms agonized jo tremor tmdor tilt
torture of bis bile-gushing sarcasm, Ira grave
ly asks this question, “ Who are to be injured,
and who benefitted by the dissolution or con
tinuance of the union ?—perhaps, (continue.-
lie,) these minatory legislators will not cart
to answer.” Now, for one, I will answer this
brainless editor; not, however, to instruc’
Inin, for it would be a shameless waste of in
formation; and unless accompanied with some
gift that would inspire a love of truth, implant
a regard for honesty, and impart n relish fot
decency, would be a useless charity : but for
bis countrymen, whose opinions he but mouths
I will give him an extract that wall fully shew
cui bono the present union exists :—
“ It is known to every one conversant with
our statistics, thnt these resources are im
mense. 1 will take for example, tho last fis
cal year ending the 30th of September, 1S26.
Tlie exports of the growth, produce and tnanu-
factuics of the United States, were 853,055,-
710, of which, the article of Cotton alone,
amounted to 885,025,214, and Rice, 81,917,-
4-15. So thnt the cotton alone, tho produce*’
(with some trifling exceptions) of the fivo Plan
tation States of South-Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, nearly equal
led HALF of the total exports of tho TWEN
TY-FOUR States, whilst the Rice and Cottou
exceeded that moiety. If the article of To
bacco, which belongs more properly to Vitgi-
nia, <$-c. be added, the three article of Cotton.
Tobacco and Rice, would amount to $32,239.-
667. The produce of the I'nrc3t, which also
partly belongs to those States, aro not included.
Nor is vegetable food, which amounts to 87,-
.527,257, and a part also of which belongs to
Virginia and North-Carolina. In truth, the
fire Plantation States, furnish more them half
of the lolal exports, and tho serin Southern
Slates, probably three-fourths.
“What proud und triumphant facts arc these !
Those same fivo Plantation States, which,
three years hcncc, will be of so little conse
quence on the floors of Congress, and are
doomed to bo move and move insignificant in
the representation, with every subsequent cen
sus, ure yet of more consequence to this Union
than the other NINETEEN put together.
“ Only take from this Union the resources of
wealth and commerce, furnished by Southern
States, and what will he tho situation of Hus
ton, Ncw-York and Philadelphia? What have
tlie Northern States to give to Great-Hritain
and France as an equivalent for the manufac
tures they send to the United States, the im
posts on which fill their Custom-houses to
overflowing, whilst our own are daily diminish
ing ? Would their flour and other vegetable
food, and the produce of their forests and fish
eries, answer the purpose of our cotton wool,
the growth of the South ? What would >>'.
come of the shipping of the Eastern States if
the Southern States were tinder a separate Fe
deral Government? Take off" the immense
protection wo now give to their navigation in
terests, to our own serious injury, for what na
tion would they be the Cartiers as they now are