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.wer.’united with virtue” it certainly
h .iberty. Where ignorance reigns there
vicr triumphs and del'potifm governs. As
man becomes enlightened authority will be
limited & mwhty restored—Knowledge &
virtue are the bales of freedom—the one
jaftru&s us hour rights, the other teaches, ;
bsou'duties; tbe firft thews us how to con- I
firuiS the bell possible lorm of government, ■
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Hume and Vattel. If an acquaintance with
llie true nrinc.p'es of governmeni aud duties
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hr his own, is already or delcrvcs to be a
Have.
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do cither will be refufed ; no hint w ill tie
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CONDITIONS.
l *n» h'IKROR OF THE T IMES wiß he
I iuh.ili lt d every Monday, on a royal
fI.CLt ot an excellent quality, and rood
Type.
IT he price to fubfc.bers will be three
do i, r. ptr annum, paid half yearly in
advance,
R'-l'fce price tor adveitifmg will be fifty
« n ts |er i'q.urc tor the firft inGrtion
.thirty seven and a half for each cou
ttnuation.
Fi Ibe paper will he delivered to Town
‘U.'fcrihcrs at their places of abode and
mole tor the country will be dene up
in packets and deli, ertd at the i’oit
Ufficc.
n lvr notice.
NINE months after date I shall
a s pU to the llonorab ! e llie lnfe
” ur l of Columbia county for
'“'eto sc j| i| iree all( j a | )a jf acrPb
| «bd m the county oi Richmond
being part of the real es.
(U deceased, ami
°r the benefit ot the heirs and
‘Boors
kAMUKL RIAGRUDER, Adm’r.
March 1309. w9m
' ' "" 1 1,1 1 I. .I--. .
Vrvt* N °TICK
E months ai'icr dale znpli-
be mitle to the honora
t, ''; rr i 0 i court for the county of
"com for leave to . r I! the real
4U,IC Richard F.Wmntlec
Truflence Winn Adrn’x,
. Paler Lamar Atlrn'r.
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MIRROR OF THE TIMES
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EDUCATION
The Barnwell English Academy
HAS changed its formetpub* j
iic liiuaiion, for a pleafani, re
tired, and healthful fpol, as any j
in the State; contiguous to a j
capacious spring of pure water, ;
in light of a transparent rivulet,
which while it winds its course
rapidly along ; refrelhes the
light, pltafes the imagination,
beautiiies the landscape, and
rainifters to the health, cleanli.
nefs and convenience of the
place; as well as the amule.
I memos playful youths of alum- i
1 mer’s evening, alter ihe toils & j
iludies of the day. The teach
er entertains the molt (anguine
hopes ol the tnotal improve
ment, and literary progrels, of
thole lludents only, who being
immediately under his caie as i
boarders, arc ever ready to per
form their exerciles, and obe
diently comply with the mild,
rational, and wholcfome dis
cipline of the Academy. He
need not inform the intelligent
part ol the community, tiHt
j thole children, whole parents
neglefct or despise their melt in
valuable privileges, can make
little or no progrels in their ed"
ucauon, manners, or morality.
! Long and painful experience
has taught him this—can those
who by domeftic'indulgence,
or under any pretence whaie
ver, lose half their school hours
! and days, make a tolerable itn-»
provement ? dilpo
j htn nto application, in liuiilar
1 cares mull be greatly weakened,
and every effort to stimulate
them to diligence defeated !
Youths of both sexes will be
received immediately, according
to their age or Handing in li -
terature, at, from one hundred,
to one hundred and twenty dol
j iars, per annum, for Board,
walhing, and tuition, (finding
: their own bedding)—One half
!to be paid in advance—Or
quaiterly in advance (?f prefer
red) to enable him to provide
decently, and liberally for his
tender charge. A select com
mittee of literary gentlemen,
wiil attend lo the examination
l of his pupils once in thiec
1 months at lead; twice in the
year public exhibitions of elo
cution, &c. will be made, on
which occabons premiums will
I be awarded, by Judges, lo the
, moll meritorious of each clals—
timely notice will be given espe
cially, to the parents and friends
ot all concerned, before luch
public lepreientations lhall lake
place. The teacher prole lies
to teach reading & writing,cor
rectly, Aii hmetic, Grammar,
and the practical branches ol
the Mathematics, Geography,
and the ule of the Globes, &c.
JOHN CARR.
Barnwell C. H. jan. 12 1810.
MILLENARY,
j Mrs. C. Smith., j
South Jidc of Broad btrtet, next j
door to Sturges and Ketchum, j
INFORMS her friends and
1 the publick, that she has just re
ceivcd from Charleston, an assort*
ment ot the most fashionable
Straw, Plujh, Velvet, Silk, tec-
BONNETS.
which site vv ill sell on the most j
.reasonable terms.
Jan. 8.
“ HOLD THE MIKROA UP TO NATURE.” SkakcipCtirC.
HPHVLSmBUW? USVMUBFvtWHRMHnBTOTi
From the Petersburg Republi
can.
Mr. Pescud,
BY giving the following ele
gant extratt of a letter, from
a gentleman in the country, a
place in his paper, wilt much j
oblige
A Suiscriber
Howard Grove , Jan. 2, 1810.
“ And from this subject, my j
dear L. the transition is easy
and natural, lo another of no
lets importance —I allude to the
anxiety, alieady manifeding it
fell in iome of the filler dates,
to give the laitction of law to
pauicular denominations of
religion, in derogation of
others. Whether brought to
the tell of policy or examined
by the unvarying dandaid of
morality, or even confideted
on the eternal principles of
juflice. it is equally alarming
and portentous. In the legiU
Liu re ol North Carolina a lefo
lution has been lately moved,
leekmg the expullioti ot one
ol its members, on the ground
of his dilbcliel in the thiny nine
articles ol the protedaut faith
or (to (peak with mote pieti
lior) for the imputed crime
ol quedioning (he authority of
the old and new tcllamcnl.—
What the vote of the houle
was on this rtlolution, 1 have
been unable to ascertain, tho’
it is to be hoped, lor the ho.
nor, of the American char.,
ablet that it is not, in its inlan.
cy, lo be Rained by the malig.
nant bieath of unhallowed per.
lection. You will doublcfg
be luiprifed to hear, that thole
provisions of the conltitulion
ot that date, which are laid at
tach civil incapacities to a
pcrticuLr faith, were the off'.-
Ipring ofeniarged and gener
ous minds—rutnds, whole re
liltlels energies, had been but
juit before afclively employed
in the defence of the civil and
religious hbeities of America, j
How this could have been the
tale* I have been always at a
lols to determine. That men
who had the difeetnment to
perceive the rights of human
n aiure, and the spirit to brave
tbe dangers ol the deep, and
the horrors of the inhofpitabie
wilderness, in their purluii—
who bad bared their bo!ou>s
to the mighty, though ineflici
ent efforts ofdefpotilm in the
hour of tremendous danger,
lliould, “ when the llorm of
war was gone,” and the irielli
; rnable ptivilege of fell govern
ment guaranteed to them, for- j
get tbe evils they had avoided, j
and tire tyranny they had rcftl.
i led, and entaii on ihemfelves ;
and poltcrity, those evils, and
that tyranny, furnilhes a melan
choly proot of our irremediable 1
proneness to degeneracy. The
fact is of too recent a date,
9 \
j not to be recollected by every
one, that the intoxicating idea
1 of liberty of conlcience, gave
the molt quickening empull e to
the Ipirit of integration from
the mother country to Amen,
j ca. In luch glowing colors did
active fancy ticck the benign
goddess, that, the tendered tn-r
fluences of the human heart,
were refilled, and thousands in
a moment tore themleives horn
their liicnds and their homes
I
and committed to the mercy
of an unknown element, in
pursuit of that happy country
where the laws had not efta.
blifhed a despotism over the
human mind, “ but free to
follow nature was the tule.”—
In America, the grand asylum
ofoppreffed humanity, liberty
ol conscience has been enjoyed
in its unadulterated purity
' So universally is tbe devotion
lof its principles interwoven
with every ligament of the hu
man heart, that few have been
mad enough to conceive a de
hgn of abridging this natuial
right; and fewer Hill to attempt
its execution. To what then
lhall we ascribe this Ipirit of
intolerem periecution, which
has diplayed itself in the legil
lature of N. Caiolina ? Shall
we ascribe it to the unfor
tunate, ptepofterous design of
making religion lubfervient to
the views of civil policy ? Or
Hull it be laid to have its origin
in the moll politic source of
human calamity—the mad zeal
ofreligious begotry ? Perhaps
it may be partially indebted to
both little caules, though I fear
it has a much more piominent
advocate than either, in the
degenercy of human nature.—
For ii cannot be presumed, that
thole who enjoy the advanta
ges of a practical knowledge ol
mankand, —tbe feelings, affec
tions, and ihe motives of the
human heart, Ihould expect to
meliorate their condition by dL
retting aibritrarilv the current
of his feelings in a channel moll
uncongenial to their nature. —
Nor can they expett to advance
the important iuterelt of reli-.
gion by giving it the vain sanc
tion of law.
Religion to be pure, must be
voluntary— Devotion, to be sin
cere, must have the ratification
of the heart, and not of the head
only. By the fear of God, or an
luliitual respect for his being, his
perfections, and providence, are
men most effectually led to depart
I from evil, and most powerfully
excited 10 think of and do those
thing, which are praise worthy.
Hut how can this Reverential awe
of God be supported, and render
ed so habitual 10 tbe mind, as to
become a genuine principle ot ac»
lion, and influence men to dis
charge their duty in the respec
tive atatiou* in which they are
placed, by “ nature & nature’s
God,” ii, 'msttad of regulating
their devotion by thei r oWn idea**
of the attributes of the “ great
first cause,” others imperiously
assume the right of dictating to
them on this subject, who neither
feel the spirit, nor know the form
lof rclig'on ? Every mode cf
: religion, to make a deep and
lasting impression on the human
mind, must exercise our obedi~
; encc, by enjoining practices of de.
1 votion, lor which we can assign
good reason, & must vquire our
esteem by incatculing moral duties
I analogous to the dictates of our
| own beats. What can be more
sirikiugly impious, what more au
' dacious, than for a mere “ urn
j nant ot morality” to determine,
that the great God of nature, who
i airs tnthroued in majesty above
thall not receive the homage ol
the Catholic,, the Greek, the Lu--
ilieran, or the Calvinist? Mho
CuU determine which of the vari
ous stcis art right, & who»e wor
ship l. most txccptable ? Un>-
til thib is liiuicrtakcu, aii a>e right.
The oLj'ti is the saint , —tney
\ differ omy iu the means. What
is it'- to me, whether my neghbor
prefti* h«s platen lo the ihtohc
t
MONDAY, February 5, 1810.
of the m»»<*t high, or more humbly
ebusrs the mediation of paints?
To you or myself, it most be itn
aterial, 8c infinitely to to the au
thor of our being, who consider*
the motives, X not the mere exte
tenor of devotion. Hut mv dear
|„ in * political point of view,
the establishment of religion by
law, is equally dangerous and por
ten tons- It has ever been either
a powerful engine of state, in the
hands of the designing and arobu
lions, or has been wielded with
wonderful dexterity, to embar
rass the operations of government*
Gibbon thinks it undeniably true,
that the abuse of Christianity, had
considerable influence on the de*
dine and fall of the Homan em
pire. The clergy successfully
preached the doctrine of patience
aad pusillanimity, and large pur
tions of public and private wealth
were consecrated to the specious l '
demands of charity and devotion* *
Hut we have a living example be.
fore our eyes } In Lnglann, tha
prerogatives ot the established
church have been the fruitful pa
rent of ei dless controversy ; and
from nothing so much has guv«rn.
ment been occasionally embarras
sed, as by ecclesiastical intrigue
and cunning.—But, my dear L.
do not mistake me. Think me
not inimicalto religion—•! have
I been educated in the belief of the
old and new testament, and ad.
mired the excellent system of mo.
rality which they inculcate. [
meiely intend to shew, that civil
government has nothing to do
w ith religion; that the moment it
takes aa interest in the establish
ment of a particular faith, all re
ligion ceases, and we are conver
ted into a nation of canting hypo
crites. in North Carolina, the
protesiant faith rests on the arm
of the civil authority, which of
course attaches civil incapacities
to others. Should her example be
followed by her sister states (which
God forbid) £l? a different church
established, what may not be ex
pected from the religious bigot.*
ry of succeeding generations ?
When time, superstition, and the
duikness of ignorance, shall have
blindly attached each to what they
were inhibited from investigating
all intercourse must cease, or it
any exists, it must be that of cx«
terminating hostility.
New London, December 27.
Discovery in Colchester — A
few days past was opened to view,
in a field not far from Bacon Acs.
demy, a bed of substance which in
its crude state, appears like one
of the iron kind ; but by reduc
mg it to a powder, it is in fact a
most beautiful yellow, nor much
inferior to the noted fine paints of
that colour.
By exposing the substance to
the action of fire, it is chang* d to
an umbsrous, chocolate, red, or
black hue, according to the degree
of the heat.
This new paint unites readily
with oil or water, k when spread
is very brilliant.
Several people are employed in
accumulating it from its native
situation, aad are determined to
give it a thorough test as soon as
opportuity admits ; k the result of
their experiment will induce an
hereafter discussion of the subject.
notice”
NINE months after the data
hereof, application will be made
to the honorable the inferior court
of Warren county tor leave to sett
one hundred and twenty nine acres
of land, being part of a seven hun
dred and fifty acre tract, lying on
he Oconee river, joining the Long
Blutf; the same being the real
estate of David Newsom decceas*
ed ; sold for the benefit of the
heirs and creditors.
MAHY NEWSOM, Ado.**,
October 9, t#99.
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