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ARGUS.
“litre TRUTH unticent'd reings,
And dsn accost e'en kings ihemhlves,
...Oe rulers of the free."
MILLEDGEyiLLE :
TUESDAT, MARCH 13, 18J0.
—
Owing to the high waters, the A-
theus mail arrived too late to permit
us making any extrafls. Never fince
the memorable Yazoo flood, has
there been fuch a frefli.-—Great
damages has been fuftained, not only
by thofe who are the proprietors of
cattle, 8ic. who refide on the large
water courfes, but bridges, mills,
Si c. almoft as far as our information
extends, have been indifcriminately
f .vejft away—the Oconee could not
be puffed until Sunday, and then
y/i'h confiderable difficulty and haz-
The following is tlic addrefs of the
Revolutionary veterans of the city
and county of Philadelphia, to the
Prcfident of the United States,
amt his reply, alluded to in trie
lull Argus. It is “a fpark from
- the altar of ’7.(5.’’—May it kindle
a flame that will never be extin
guilhed till our country’s wrongs
are redrefled.
TO JAMF.S MADISON,
PRESIDENT OE THE V STATES.
■ SIR—At this period of difficulty
and danger to our country, the fur-
viving military chara£lers, of the
late revolutionary army and navy
redding in the city and county of
Philadelphia, prefume to addrefa
you, on the exiltitig Hate oi our for
eign relations.
ft is at once with pride and pica-
lure, we recognize in you, the en
lightened and firm affertor of the
lights of America ; rights which
the two great belligerent powers of
Europe have fo fhamefully and out-
rageoully violated and trampled up
on : And we are happy, that your
tranflation, from your late dignified
miniftcrial ftation, to the higheft
which a free people, by their fuf-
frages can confer, will enable you,
to give to the meafureo, which your
wifdom and experience may fuggeft
-to the affembled reprefentatives of
an highly infulted and injured na-
* (ion, that direftion, on which will
ultimately depend tire honor and in-
■terell of the United Stales.
Whatever, fir, may be the rcfiiit
of the repeated and honell appeals,
which have been made by your im
mediate prodeceffor and by yourfelf,
fince your election to the chief ma-
j dlracy of tlie United States to the
fenfe of jufticc, which m.iy yet be
prefumed to texift, on the part of
five two great conflicting powers of
Europe ; we beg you to be convinc
ed that we entertain too great regard
for the rights, which were achieved
by tlie valor, pnuiotifm, and blood
ol an illuflrious band of revolutiona
ry worthies, to meet tlie event with
indifference. Born the heirs of
freedom, we fhatl ever be proud to
defend And maintain it—and if we
muft again unfortunately live to
uotnofs our country compelled to
depart from a flate of peace and
tranquility and a flume a warlike-at
titude, We (hall at le.tft have the
confolation to refiebl, that, by our
government, the ovem-will have been
unprovoked, and animated bv this
confidciaiion, with a humble -reli
once upon the favor of Heaven, we
-can hope, to fee the fubtile machine
turns of foreign intrigue fruftraletl,
the views of tyranny ole (led, & our
unalienable Tights, tranfmitred to
cur latcft pofterity.
We rejoice fir, in the confempla-
ti m of the confidence of fentiment6,
which appears to prevade every po
litical difeription of American citi
Stem, with regard to the daring out- j
rages of rl ic belligerents upon our i
jieurral rights, and the evidence of
duplicity, by which tin ir public a£ls
have been diftinguilhed. It is a
confoljttory reflection,'that whatever
tlifK-reive of fentir.ietits may evift,
on fubj. Us of tiornefbic polity, tlie
gre'r body of the nation, attached
t<> the principles of the revolution,
will rally round the ft and mi of the
government, as we dl l m the time
tri: d mem,’ fouls,determined to
the as lieentett, rjther tlnn live ns
H ives under home impcuou3 tyrant,
v fiofo will is law.
V/hvi we con fid t, thatWt a time,
vixen the liberties r.I every nation,
Ate rapidly difnppcaring under the
fcorce of unrelenting tyranny, the
republican government of America,
fecurcs to the meaneft of its citizens,
every civil and religious privilege ;
when we contemplateThe old world
deluged with the blood of thoufandc,
the unfortunate viilims of infationa-
ble capacity and luft of power, we
are greatful to the God of mercies
for the bleffings which his provi
dence ^benignly difpenfes to us ;
implore his future protection, and
prey that he may fo difpofe the
hearts of every government, as to
fecurs a troubled world the reftora-
tion of peace and tranquility. Un
der the influence of thefe impref-
fions, we who have borne a part in
our late revolutionary conflict, and
affembled to exprefs to you our fen-
tlments on the prefect critical ftate
of our country with -the foreign
powers, beg you to be affined, that
although- we cannot nov. r ferve our
country, with as mucli effedl in-the
field as we did when the infirmities
of age were not •felt, we are never-
theiefs as willing now to ferve,
(ftiould neceftity require it) in any
ftation, our advanced ftate of life
will admit.
With fervent prayers for the peace
and profperity.of our beloved coun
try and with refpedl and attachment
to yourfelf,
We remain, fee. ficc.
community. The qtteftion with our '
hordes of fpcculators is not how they
(lull acquire wealth -v.nth their fel
low citizens} but how they fhall
make money out of them. With thefe
noifome vipers, that breed and fatten
on the corruption of national morals
—national honor will ever be an
article for barter in whatever market
the exchange is in their favor.
We have ftood high in tlie eyes of
the world for commercial integrity,
at leift, fo far as our infpe£Hon of
fices and cuftom houfes were con
cerned—and this ought ever to be
confident a primary object with
thofe who fill the high *11106 of
■guardians of our honor, our rights,
and our profperity. This facred trull
becomes of more confcquence, as
fmuggiiug,'depredation, and piracy,
. New.0ri-F.an9, Jan. 2*.
Yelterday arrived gun veffel
No. 65, from Jamaica, via Ha-
vannu. "We are indebted to
captain 'Carter, for the follow
ing communication:
On the arrival of .gun veffel
No. 65 at Port-Royal, Brown
was at Kinglton. He had de-
pofited about 100,000 dollars in
gold, in the hands of Meflrs.
Dicks, -Grr and Clark. The
vc ffel arrived late in the even
ing, and early the next morn-
The defalcation and fibfcond-
ing of Brown, the colle&or of
the port of New-Orleans, has
excited a general intereft
throughout the union. He is
faid to have carried off more
than one hundred thoufand dol
lars of the public money. He
was one of the direflors of the
Branch Bank of the United
States, & poffeffed a confidence
almoft unlimited. Before any
fufpicion was incurred, he had
proceeded down the liver with
his money, entered on board a
have taken the place of thofe equit- -\ n ,
able and liberal principles, whiih ' * t
were once recognized as public laxv
THE PRESIDENT S REPLY,
To tlie furviving military chandlers
of the late revolutionary army &
navy, rending in the city of Phi
ladelphia.
1 have veceived, fellow-citizens,
with particular fatisfaflion, the fen-
timents you have thought fit to ad
drefs to me, at a moment fo inter-
efting to the honor and well being
of our country. The unjult pro
ceedings' of foreign government:)
have long-been witneffed by the na
tion with feelings rrprefli il, only by
a love of peace and by hopes found
ed on appeals to thofe principles of
law and right which have been ex
emplified in its own condufl. Thefe
hopes having continually failed, our
fituarton retains its perplexity, and
the prefeTvntion of peace becomes,
more and more uncertain. At fuch
of the kind, is charged to the
republicans in the federal papers
—but it is a matter of notoriety
that Brown is a Federalijt.
N. 11. Patriot.
a period, it is a precious confidera- '.taught us, that 6ur commercialfncul-
tion that the government of tlie U, | art fthcit c.Bivc vigorous nature,
States inftcad of having provoked
the inaufpicicus ftate of our for
eign relations, has been as perfever-
ing he applied to thofe gentle i Britifh privateer or felucca, and
men, and obtained bills drawn! in lefs than ten hours after was
by them in their own favor, and j out of the mouth of the river,
blank endorfed by them on Da- j Three or four of the United
Church ftreet, 1 States veff-ls were immediately
London, for the amount. On difpatched after him. His der
by the civilizcd°worhl, and ackuow- application to the duke of Man-1 tination was unknown. This
ledged and enforced by the great i chefter, for the arreft and deli- buftnefs, like every thing elfe
commercial nations ol Europe. In
this wreck of principle in the old
world, which muft fooner or latter
break down *nc! humble in the dull
every power that is a willing par
taker in this unpardonable crime,
this crying and fpreuding- fin of the
age—let us, as a nation at lealt, wafii
our hands, renounce as far as pdfii-
ble every temptation to commercial
fraud, and ftand ereft in the fight of
the -world and of heaven.
Y\ r e may talk in vain of our rights
and our wrongs in general tarns.
The greateft feoundrel is always
ready to fwear that he does trot mean
to do wrong, and the honeft man is
always willing to do right. It is fo
with nations. England and France
have put the petty pi r a res of Mo
rocco to the blulh' by their enormi
ties—yet both claim to be right, and
when puflied to their wits end for
pretenfes, retort to the ruffian’s law
of i cia/libtion and of necjfsty, for their
j unification.
Thefe portentous and growing
evils have'already to far pervared tlie
new world, that we cannot, if we
would, preferve ourfelves from fur-
tiier contagion by avoiding all iiiter-
courfe with the old. We have tried
retirement, and the'remedy lias iir-
creafed the dife?ife. Experience has
ng as it has been fincere in efforts to
avert it: and that as our wrongs
become aggravated, the readinefs to
maintain our rights become more
univerfal.
From none was this patriotic
fpirit more to be looked for, than
from thofe, who knowing moll ex
perimentally the price paid for our
independence, nmft be the laft to
fuffer its attributes to be impaired
in its defcent to their poltcritv. A
free people, firitily united, in a juft
caufe, can never defpond of either
tranfpiring refpedl for tlieir rights,
or of maintaining them againfUiof-
tile invafions. Should This laft al
ternative, in fpite of all our concilia
tory endeavors, be forced upon us,
it may well be expedited, that how
ever the capacity of our revolution
ary chafUpior.s for adlive fervice,
may he impaired by the infirmities '
of age, the deficiency will lie amply j
made up, by the animation given bv !
their former example, and prefent j
zeal, to their fellow-citizens who !
have not before been compelled to !
rally to the banners and the defence
ol their country.
Accept affurances of my refpefl
and friendly wifhes.
JAMES MADISON.
January 17, 1810.
From the Boston Patriot.
that they tnujl cthd’ will have exercife
The great queftion is, upon what
principles fhall they be diredled ? I
anfwer—
Let our Tillers reflet and confult
in a fpirit worthy of the objedl and i
and the means before them—let j
them ceafe to calculate on tlie future j
ftuTrageS of thofe, who confider both i
tlieir honor and their country’s as !
Jock in trade, and that deceptive po- j
pularity which a random, licentious j
and degrading commerce has made
more "fickle than the wind that wafts
it—let them declare explicitly and
boldly to the World, the rights that
they will protedl, and the wrong6
that they will refill, to the extent of
our meins—and add as explicit a
declaration of thofe demoralizing
adls of commercial fraud and na-
tional degradation, at home and
abroad, that they will punifli in our
1 own citizens with the feverity they
| deferve. Let this be done with de-
! liberate wisdom and unfhaken firni-
nefs, and we {ball foon learn, if we
caiinot find friends worthy of our al
liance in the old world, that we have
a world of our own— and become
juftly proud cf the name of
In AMERICAN.
very of Brown, he ft&ted the
cafe to he “ one in which he did
i not think he could interpofe
with propriety.”
A warrant was obtained from
(he mayor to apprehend and
bring Brown before him ; but it
was not of authority fuffi Jent to
fearch for him, nor could one of
that deferiptiou be obtained.
The bills are adverttfed and in
formation has been tranfmitted
to our minifter at the court of St.
Janies, to endeavor to flop the
payment of them. In this our
agent at Jamaica feems inclined
to believe he will fucceed. A
few days before the departure of
63 from Jamaica, Brown feat
word to the commercial agent of
the United States, that he ihould
profecute him for defaming his
charatter by the advertifenient
he uiferted in the newfpaper.
Moffrs. Dicks, Orr 8c Claik,
a houfe of great rc fpe&ability in
Jamaica, Teem anxious to do
every thing to flop the payment
of the bills, in order that they
may be enabled to refund the
money now in their hands.
The commander of thefeluc-
ca, Watfon, obtained protection
as a Britifh f’ubjeft He was ta
ken before the affiftant judge of
the fupreme court and tried.
The judge., John Jacques, Efq.
alter hearing the caufe of his
detention, ordered the marfhal
on the back of the writ of habeas
corpus, to remand him. The of
ficer who had charge of him
could not immediately convey
him on board, becaufe he had
to attend an eleftion. He con
fined him in prifon, and Wat
fon attempted to efcape. Me
then puthim in the flocks. Un
fortunately, judge Jacques, was
a candidate for tlie yffembly,
and theadvetffe party feized the
opportunity of exciting the cla
mor of tlie mob, by reprefenting
a Biitifh fubje£t confined to be
fent to trial to a foreign govern
ment. 'I bis placed the judge in
a fingular dilemma. He muft
either vekafe Watfon or lofe his
OUR ECU I: ION F EL AT TONS
Have been ably (lifetiffed in al-
mo{l every point of view by the
friends of our country, and ingeni-
rufly coiifnfcd by its enemies. But
there is an important -c mfhh-ration
which appears to-me to merit more
attention than it has received,-cither
from bur rulers, or thtrfe who have
Volunteered tlieir opinions—The
Weighty confidrration of 'the Na
tional Morai.s, in which all have
a paramount intereft.
A latgc portion of tlie nation is
by lubit id/nnier, ini, and the mania
THE PRACTICE OF DUELLING,
Is acknowledge^ a remnant!
of feudal barbarity—Shocking
as it is to the feelings of human
ity, it ftill has its advocates in
many parts of the U. States j
and almoft every mail brings us
the account in lome of our pub
lic papers of a concerted murder
under the paliating title of an
“affair cf honor."—We wifh to
gratify our readers but not at the
expence of the morals of focie-
ty & what we believe to be the
honor of the nation. The pub
lication of crimes, cfpecially
thofe which have become famil
iar by repetition, & are in fome
degree fan&ioned by the repu
tation of the perpetrators, muft
always have a bad effect on mor
als, u a lefs accompanied with the
odious epithets & feverity of re
buke which they merit. With
thefe fentirnents, perhaps too fin-
gular for the men of the world,,
we cannot but regret that Capt.
Gordon, (of the Chefapeake,)
has fo far deferted the poft of
honor & of duty to his country,
as to con fent to his own murder
by a fafhionable ruffian.—ie.
In convocation the other day,
with a young; gentleman not ex
ceeding forty years of age, on
the times; after leveral fhrewd
obfervations relative to the price
of cotton, the non-iutercourfe,
See. the converfation turned on
the large number of marriages
which had lately taken place—
he obferved with a f'inile upon
his countenance mixed with an
an air of fatisfaftion, “ that now
and then he heard of an OIc^
Bachelor dropping off. ’
A well wifher to Matrimony.
At Orktnd, N. H. Mr. S. Pa-
tiudge, xt. 58 A man who lias for
many years been in a ftate of avowed
del'pair. He fuppofed himfelf to
election he chofe the former. ! fi ave committed the unpardonable
A villain named Allen Kenne- ! fin, and on Sunday the 2 lit ult. \wuM
dy, who owned the felucca pre-! found hanging in the woods, about
vious to her arreft by this veffel, half a mile from his late dwelling
has received from Brown about h° u k * u that town.—He had made
2700 pounds flerling, which he ! P rev ! ou * a , tr L em P ts to dellvoy his
fays is to indemnify him for the! '“^^t had been providentially pre-
vcueland cargo—yet it is pretty . . 1 -
well known the latter did not ——
belong to him.
He told me that Brown was
at a private boarding houfe in
the Weft end of the town ; but
he would not inform me what
houfe, and added, that as they
were countrymen, he would not
inform again!! him. This fellow
offered the bills after they were
aci vet-fifed at a difeount, to the
, This gentleman was formerly ranked
among fcderalifts; hut fince fedi-
tions and treafens have abounded
of traffic and fpeeuiaVum’lm, (cfpc" . "’ i!h ‘hat. party—fince its leaders
civilly in the New-F.iigland States,) , " y ‘ 4 “ < l uit their own. to ftnml on
pervaded aim.-ft every daft of the • foreign ground”—he has renounced
I Iceral tcucuts, N. U Patriot.
Among the feceders from Feder-
alifin within two yeais, we find the
Adamses and William Gray of
Mnflachufetts,Colonel Humhirtes
of ConnofHcut, Wil it a:I P i n k n ey ,
minifter at London, of Maryland, &
William Louciiton Smith of
South-Carolina—men eminent for
talents and integrity. Being Well
wifhers to America, tliefc men left
the ranks of fedcralifm as foon as
flie indentified herfelf with Britain
—as foon as fire manifefted herfelf
Toady and willing to reduce our inde
pendence tovaffilage and fubfervien-
■cy to a foreign power. To thefe re-
lpeflable names New-Hampfiiire
atldb that of William Pi.umeu, late
a fetiator in Congrcfs from that ftate. j drawers, which was rejefted
with indignation.
No doubt Brown was in Ja
maica when I failed.
Wm. Carter, jun.
Commanding Gun Veffel No. CS.
For Sale, ’
A TRACT OF
LAND;
N° 204 in the fork of Little River
and the. Oconee, Putnam county ;
this “and isexce"ent and in the beft
fettlement in the county, joining
Col. Iverfon, Major Tapper and
Mr. Gage, the water of the beft
quality and abundant—For term6
apply to Major Elijah Clarke, at
torney at Lv.v, Milledgev:lie.
F. CLEMENTS
Aug. 29, 1809 ti.