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i^' liberty ha, lcst trace,
under every government
*ha too tftep . hjppinefs c f Man.-
* b ' Ch She” said the Great Lord Bacon
united with virtue" it certainly
'.''ZT Where ignorance reign, there
" ■ nhi and despotism govern,. A,
W, Se, enlightened authority will be
"“Tm rlbty rettored- Knowledge &
leutedfc ® of f rccdo m -the one
TV ~in our right,, the other tcache.
r '7du<i»i thc f ' t(i fI,CW * “* h ° W *°
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MIRROR OF THE TIMES.
We apologise to Mr. Harris
for the delay ofhis patriotic 0
ration —It nevtr came to hand
until after the meeting of Con .
gress, and the pressure and im
portance of its proceeding , tn<
hope, will be a sufficient excuse
for our delay.
The following Oration was de.
livered in Wright {borough,
on the FDtirth of July i 8» 8,
in commemoration of the In
cependencce of the United
States, by Wm. Harris Kfq.
ORATION.
Friends & Fellow Citizens ,
WE are here aflembled with
a view of celebrating that ever
memorable day which gave a
birth to our empire, it may no:
therefore, be amiss 10 turn our
attention, for a few moments,
to take a view of the causes
which led to the event of this
joyous anniversary j to trace
the eftetts which have resulted
to Ameiica, and search for the
principles which impelled to the
conielt; and above all to recall
the feelings which supported us
in the itruggle. A lime inoft
dear to every patriotic heart,
now demands the celebretion of
Amnicans ; the hoary foidier
now looks back with redoubled
pleasure on the toils which arc
pad, and compares them with
the peace and contented repole
which he now enjoys, each
friend to liberty now feels a joy.
ful tranlport awake in his bread,
which he conliders as bleliings
heaped on his country by the
long series of fuccelsful efforts,
to which the glorious declaration
of the 4th of } uly gave a begin
ning. This day completes ihe
32d time that the Sun in the
progress of his annual revolu
tions has dißuled his prolific
radiance over the plains of In
dependent America, since that
eventful period, when the Ame
ricans filled with that divine en
thufialm, which inspired every
patriotic bosom, were prompt,
ed to proclaim defiance to the
thunders of Britain, and finally
10 ere& the holy temple of A
merican liberty over the tomb
of departed tyranny.
At a time of the greatest
prolperity, when every heart
expanded with the incrcafing
opulence of the American do.
minions, that a laborious and
agi icultural people at ease upon
their own farms, secure and dis
tant from the approach of fleets
and armies, tide waiters and
Ramp mailers, from the dic
tates of duty Sc confcicnce, en
countered dangers, dillrels and
poverty for the lake of securing
to poltcrity a government of
independence and peace- The
voice of unborn nations called
upon them for fafety. Sc to aflert
their rights Sc condutt the revo
lution; on that ever memorable
4th of July 1776 that foiernn
alfertiou was made; and we
j are now called upon to confirm
and lupport it by our future
j exertions, and since the exif‘
tence of our Empire depends
on our united efforts to lup
port it, let the business of this
day alcend from amusement Sc
congratulations to a serious and
patriotic employment. I do not
mean my friends to inflate our
national vanity by a pompous
“ HOLD THE MIRROR UP TO NATURE. *' — Shakespeare.
cwotui .nwwnwnwumi iwrr«*Wßae«»wr>g3i—— m
display of past atcbrevements i
council or in the field, but from
a mode (l retrofpett of the part ah
ready ȣted by our country men,
from an accurate view of our
prefcnt (ituaiion, Sc from an an
ticipation of the Irenes that re
mam to t»e unfolded ; to dticein
and familiarize the duties that
ft ill awaits us as soldiers, as Cit
izens, end as men. On this
day therefore religiously devo*
ted to the consecration of our
independence, it becomes us as
the votaries of freedom, friends
to the rights of Man, and bound
10 support them whenever in
vaded, to turn our attention
with grateful enihufiafm to the
iceries fthich our countrymen
exhibited, when like the fliip
iing of Israel with fearedy a
weapon to attack, or without a
shield for their defence! they
met, and undismayed engaged
with the gigantic greatnels of
the Rritifh power ? Untutered
(as they were) in the difgrace'
ful science of human butchery;
deliitute of the fatal materials
which the ingenuity of Man
had combined to sharpen the
feythe of death, and unfortified
against the powerful aflhults of
an unrelenting enemy, they did
not hesitate at that moment,
when their coalls were infefled
y rmidable fleet, and their
territories invaded by a numer
ous and ve;eran army, to pro
nounce the sentence of eternal
leparation from Britain ard to
throw the gauntlet at a power the
teror of whose recent triumphs
was almost co-extensive with
the earth; Nor did our b:ave
Countrymen flop here ; but
with undaunted fortitude deter
mining to live free or die, and
having drawn the fvvord in de
fence of their Country never to
teturn to its fcabba'd til! it had
secured to them independence
and peace ; went ou scourging
their invaders until they had
driven them hack in confufion
to the regions of terror from
whence they emerged. And
now my friends, what remains
to be done is to (upport that
freedom Sc independence which
has been secured to us at so
great an expense. And as we
value the peace and happinels
of our Country as we value the
rights and liberties of the foil
that gave us birth; if we are
not loft to every sense of feel'
ing for our own consequence
and importance as men, we will
rally round the independence
of our country whose exigence
has of late been fj artfully aft
(ailed.
Let us join in a fervent flip
plication that the (acred Cnar.
ters of humanity which we have
once sealed with our blood may
be forever preserved from the
deadly grasp of Tyrants—Let
us dill remember, that the voice
of ouf fathers blood is crying
to us from the ground 44 My
sons scorn to be slaves.” In
vain they met the frowns of ty
rants, invain thev toiled, invain
they fought, they bled invain;
if we their offspring want valor
to repel the assaults of our inva
ders. Let us not (lam the glo
ry of our worthy anceflors, out
like them reldlve, never to part
with our birth rights, and be de'
termined in our exertions for
the prefervaiion of our liberty.
Lei us prefer the lonely col-
tage whilll hlclt with liberty, 10
gild palaces fuirounded with
! enfigm of flu very ; we rnav
1 then rest afluted that Tyranny
with her whole accursed train
will hide her hideous head in
confufion (hume and despair.
Let it never be laid of as of
Rome and of A them, that “ In
gratitude is the common vice of
Republics,” hut with an hum
blc anticipation of the funjre
bleflings, which ihe pad jeem to
pi tdage, let us remain as a band
of Brothers united, 11 mi! the
giand political Millenium, when
l yranis (hall turn fiom the im
pious work of blood in which
their bands have been imbrued,
and a!! nations be united in one
mighty republic.
*’ Then peace on earth (lull holJ an easy
sway,
“ And man forget his brother man to fl.iy,-
“ T hou glorious era, come ! hail bleiTVd lime !
* When full orb’d freedom dull uccioudcd
thin*
For in independence Sc free
dom alone are concentrated and
condensed, every blessing that
makes life dcfirablr, every right
and every privilege which can
tend to the happiness or secure
the native dignity of man. U
niting (as we are) in the cele
bration of this anniversary, lam
happy to behold a number of
ihe illuflrious remnant of that
band of patriots, who despising
dangers and death, determined
to be free or gloriously peiilh
in the cause : the feelings which
inspired them in the “ times
which tried men’s fouls” are
communicated to otir bosoms;
we catch the divine spirit which
impelled them to bid defiance to
the congregated hofls of deL.
pots; we now (wear to pre
serve the bleflings they toiled
to gain, and to tranlrnit lo our
poltcrity our lights undiniinifh
ed, our honor untarnished and
our freedom unimpaired, until
the tottering thrones of despots
(hail fall and bury their proud
incumbents in their maffy ru
ins! One great link in the chain
of our independence, and one,
by which we can lupport it the
longed of any other, is that of
making a judicious choice of
our Lgiflators. Jf we employ
artificers who neither know the
: foundation on which they wotk
the i»ftrument3 they ought to
use, nor the materials required,
we cannot exoefct a well con.
ilrufled fabrick. It is noton
the narrow balls of monopoly
and cxclulion that we can ercti
a temple to the growing liberty
of our country ; but on ihe
broad balls of immutable juf_
rice alone that we can raile a
lading beauiiou* temple to the
liberty of our State Sc Nation.
Could we chnofe legtflators
whole fkiil confilhs in a know
ledge of the temper of thc pub
lic mind ; men who has no oth
! er motives to induce them to
j serve us, than the patriotic zeal
! they possess for the good of
their country; men whole other
| offices and appointments are not
depending on their own judg
ment and decision to lupport
them in ; men whose diliniereft.
cd firmuefs and integrity calls
’ upon them to osier their lerviccs
to their country, in order to
compose wife and whollomt*
laws for th , “ good of their con
stituents, then and not till then
can we fay that wc lupport a
genuiue republican government
MONDAY, February 20, 1809*
—then will ircddl merit be pro.
pcrlv apptetiated, and partiali
ty that l ane of focie'y be total*
iy annihilated j and anarchy be
buri-d in the rruify rums of
despotism from whence it origi
nated, theie to f 1 jep until the
trumpet orignorancc, fuperLi
tton and bigotry (hall found
their relut rittion ; bom Rich a
• efurrctiio!! good Loid deliver
us, May dor land continue to
ne a land of liberty, the leal of
virtue and an aiyluin for the op
pressed. May our young citL
-sens, emulous to excell the ge
nius of the calf, be always rea
dy to support the iacred catife
of freedom. May more than
Ciceronian eloquence be ever
eacly to thunder terror in the
cars of any foreign troops that
dare invade our independent
ihores, & »o Oimulate the minds
of our citizens to Hand firm in
defence of their liberty —And
may the glory and felicity of
our nation inertafe with each
revo.v.ng year nil the laitnump
iliali announce the cataftro*
phe of nature and time shall
it ll merge in the ocean of tier,
nuy.
To Sheriffs.
Executions will be forward
ed from this office, by every
mail between the date of this
and the fir ft of April next, to
lotne one or mote of the flier iffs
of tin.*; (tale. They will conlult
their own interelt thetcforc, by
applying in person, at the Pod
Offices in their re/pettiveconn,
tics, and receiving their letter*
as earfy as poflibie after the ar
rival of each mail.
GEO : R. CLAYTON
Treafurtr.
Treasury office, Georgia 9
Millcdgevillty zd Jan. 1609.
NOTICE
Agreeable to an order of the honor*
able the court of (hdinary for
the County oj llichmond.
WILL BE SOLD,
On Saturday the lxth day ot March
next , at the Market House in
the City of Augusta, between the
hours of \0 and, U o'clock.
ALL the negroes belonging to
the estate of Clomey Morse,
late of said county I o
be sold h r dir benefit cl the luira
& creditors.—Terms made know a
on he dav of sale.
ANN MORSE, Adm’x.
ROUT. JOHNSON, Admr,
January 9. lot
John M. Jameson Co*
Uave just rcceioed in addition to
their former stock the following
articles , which will be sol d
low for CAiH or cotton.
VIZ.
500 Bushels Salt,
1000 lbs. Green coffee,
20 Barrels Irish Potatoes,
2o Barrels Liuu*,
15 Casks prime Cheese,
Loaf and Brown ;Sugar,
Crockery-Ware assorted,
Chocolate,
lnv eroess and Kentucky Cottoir
baggmg.
ALSO,
FOIITY GALLONS
Irish JVhU key f
Eight yen's old by the DemijoblV
fury 16* <kt
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