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reafonabic infcrrence by a forced a-
mlogy. Wc (for he deals.in the plu
ral, when fpeaking of hitufclf) are
informed by men of unqueftionahle
integrity—he fays—that Maj Clark
is owned by the beft of republicans.
But then he is cautious not to name
tnem. You have taken open ground
yourfelf Mr Amphion, and you
malt cither produce ycur proofs or
withdraw your pofition, and ac
knowledge that you are ti'her mif-
t.ikeit as to Major Clarke’s politics,
or defignediy mifreprefented them.
It is an esfy matter for you to make
cut your lift of “belt republicans”
who own Major Clark. Do not lon
ger rely upon the “ ignorance and er
ror” of the people of Georgia...de
pend upon it, they wilt not admit
I know thefe terms are ufed to ex-
prefs a difference of political fenti-
ment, and this ideal difference is ufed
as an cleftioneering auxiliary. But
no.hing can be more abfurd, or a
'treater abufo or perverfion of thc-
meaning of language* than to attach
to thefe pcrfecuted and murdered
words, a fenfe different from what
is clearly and rationally conveyed in
this difinition. What is a Republi
can, and what is a Federalift ? It is
not an aver(ion,and oppofition, to this
or that adminiftration, to the alien,
fedition, excifc, non-intercourfe, or
other obnoxious laws, nor is it the
advocation of meafures recommend
ed, adopted and praftifed by this or
that prefident ; by this or that con-
grefs only, which forms the one or
naked aff.Ttion where it is fo eafy for I the othey. 1 he honeft republican
you to introduce teftimony of the | and fcdcralift draw their political
bell kind Let us fee your catalogue
of « bell republicans” who own the
Major—Will it include Smelt, Bibb,
Troup, or Cobb, our veprefentatives
in Congrefs. Will it include Tait &
Crawford our Senators in Congrefs.
Will it include Early, Walker cr
Charlton, the Judges of our Supe
rior Courts ; (left it may be urged
that I was afraiil to mention him, I
give you his honor Judge Carnes, if
lie choofes it ) Or fill ibis liftof “beft
republicans” include D. B. Mitchell
our prefent Governor. Thefe are
men, all of them (landing high in re
publican eftimation—?c their repub
lican aftiotiscorrefpondingwith their
republican profefiions have placed
them in the highefl offices of honor,
Ik profit within the gift of the State
of Georgia. Publilh your lift Mi.
Amphion, and I will not contend lor
the whole of thefe gentlemen, be-
caufe I underhand that there are
perfotulities exilling between Major
Clarke and fome of them, give me
bat half of them, and I will not only
give up my oppeffrion to the Major,
but alvoratehis eleftion witha warm
heart. For you mud know fir, that
my oppofuion to Major Clarke does
not grow out of any pcrfonal pique
wtiich 1 have againft him, hut be-
oaufe I am (keptical as to his preten-
fion.i as a republican.
The Junto, and mufhroons with
fome of your forced analogies fliall
charafter from a much more honor
able and durable principle, from a
thorough ■acquaintance with the na
ture, principles and end of the con-
(litution; from a due appreciation
I of its excellence, with a facred im-
! mutable refolution bottomed on this
^ acquaintance, and appreciation, to
fupport, uphold and maintain it, a
gainft all encroachments, hetcrogetii-
ous inovations, and flagitious in-
fraftions, from whatsoever plaufible,
fpecious or fophiftical fource they
may proceed.
It will now bo perceived, that,
notv.ithftanding the contortions,cor
ruptions and degeneracy language is
made to fuller, by aibilrary cuftom
or the fafhion of the age, a true and
genuine republican is virtually as
true and genuine a federal!!! and vice
verfa ; and this too from the very
principle, cr fundamental principles
of the government; where the citi
zen is its real friend. So that the man,
who upheld the federal government,
and maiflialled all his powers, a-
gainft intrigues, fchemes & policies,
contrived to operate its ruin, I fay
that the man, who has fuftained this
noble part, whether under Waffling
ton, Adams or Jefferfon’s admini-
flration, and does now aft under the
prefent adminiftration, from the foie
love of its conftirurion, which I take
to be the fame as the love of liber
ty, without regard to the pcrfonal
fen bonify of any one, in my crude
obfervations j but I take up the
gauntlet, thus publicly thrown down
as a challenge to public ferutiniza
lion. I know, that I am not a Locke
or .a Montefquc ; but am to them
as a hill to the globe, and there is
a fimilar proportion of influence in
the one and the other cafe. Yet
babes in fimplicity fpeak the truth,
having nothing to fear and without
fufpicion. In my eftimation, he is a
vain man, arefpeftor of perfon, not
of principle, & a contemptible char-
after, who expefts to eftablifh his
claims, to your notice, confidence
and fupport, on his admiffion to the
feftivc board, and familiar, fociable
tete-a-tete of any prefident. A ge
nerous foul & dignified mind would
deleft this naufeous fycophancy com
ing from what tongue foever. To
denionflrate the ludicrous complex
ion of fuch claims, have a few anec
dotes. Mr. Jefferfon on his rout
from Walhington, to his feat in Vir
ginia, which in the Spatiifh tongue,
he calls heavenly mount, Monticello,
(loped to greaze his carriage wheels.
While thus engaged, too hon< ft re
publican Waggoners approached,
recognized their prefident, and of
fered their afliffance. The prefi-
dent’s polilenefs induced him to the
condcfcnfion of acceptance, a few
j minutes converfation, and may be,
I to an exchange of wine and whifky.
i Would any one vvifh to eleft thefe
dom flouri(lie3,couri!cls t: inftructr,
let her be, from the talents of her
reprefentatir.n,as near pre-eminence,
as flie is to the greogvaphical extre
mity of the union—Fellow-Citizens,
you will effeft this, by the cleft ion
of Crawford, Bibb, Troup and Fcr-
fytil. Lampas LucSHS
• • • if** ig’^gfp » • •
For the A eg vs.
A writer under the frgnature
of Analizer in the la.ft Argus, ha:
contract in the cafe of the Mcfil.
Roe’s, is unworthy of notice
and could oniy have origina .j
from a heart familiar with the
perpetration of crimes.—The
fuits of Ridgdeil vs. Jackfon,
were bro’t a confiderable time
fince, and the recolle&ion <.f
Judge Carnes, Mr Fitch, the
record itfeif and even I haddeug
Holt, will flu-wthat a term ip.
endeavored to afTcft; the private j cn one of them was occafior.ed
and profdlional reputation of by the clerk attaching the name
Major Clark, by pitiful inftnua-• of the Judge of the Ocnuilgcg
tions, and a fpecious flatcmtnt of cin uit to the procefs, when there
fuels—the author cf the follow- was no luch Judge or circuit
ing remarks, v. ill rot dilgrace known at the time the fuit was
himfelf by replying in a corn f brought—-Whether they were
pondent !lyle • He is incapable delivered by Major Clark to the
of dealing in fourtility anu per- tne defendant Col. Jackfon frr
fonal abufe, and his only chi ft: the purpofe of concealment/or
now, is to give a ihoit and plain not, may perhaps be determined
explanation of the material cir- by the annexed certificate.-—
cumftanccs alluded to. Suits are gem rally brought by
In the fil l! fuit againft the young gentlemen in offices, and
Fraction Selling Cornuifftoners, frequently when the principal
the cletk of the court in copying is abroad ; and if the fuffering
one of the originals, omitted the of non-huts is evidence of guilt,
word “ fealed,” ami th? Sheriff 1 ft-ar notone innocent man in
of Clark or Oglethorpe made an
incomplete return againft the
fecurities on the other—a term
was given them on account of it:
, _ , .. Thefe fafts arc known to Judge
nom-ft yeomen, upon the Icore «.f j Eail Mtfrrs Fitch , Skinnt b r
Stoors, ana othergcnilemenwho
were prefent; but furely Major
Clark is not refponfible for the
be replied to in the next number of favor of the chief magittrate, and
popular voice of the day, is both a
federalift and a republican, a glori
ous charafter, one'that I never could
dcfpjfe, but fliall always admire.—
Such a man acknowledges that tire
fovereign power is piinurily in the
will of the people ; and that union,
unanimity and confederacy are ne-
C( ffary for the corrcberatioH, peipe-
tuity and profperity of the national
government; and of confequencc,
for the defence, protection ar.d fr.fe-
this p per.
Before I difmifs Amphion, it will
be but jufticc to myfelf to affign the
caufeofthe fearful odds with which
I have to contend. The reader flicuM
be informed of the honor which we
all receive from the attention of fo
great a perfonage— By the mereft ac
cident I have feen a fhort lhetch of
his biography. Be it known then,
that Amphion is the fon of Jupiter—
that lie received a J.uic Cr Harp from
this intimacy ? Jerome Bonaparte
has been feen in a llreet of Balti
more, tete a tete with a hur.kfler o-
ver a cauniftor of fruit * yet the lat
ter was never known to make pre-
tenfions to a:i acquaintance with his
Weftphalian majelty, or to being a
Frenchman. The fon of an Irifh-
rnan paffing a ftreet in London, was
met by the king and his retinue, and
oidered out of the way. Simple
Paddy on joining his comrades,
beaded of being fpoken to by the
king. What did he fay to you, en
quired they get out of way.” I
fancy this man never had a feat in
the Britifli IJoufe of Commons —
Thefe are related to fhew, that the
fplcndor reflected fiom a luminous
body, upon one obfeure, dees not
make it effeniially brilliant; and e-
very public man, iliou'd with as W'il
the v. hole fraternity wiilbeloutrd
—the charge is ridiculous 5f
Analizer had been aftinted by
the principles of truth and jnf.
lice, he wou'd have giten M. j~r
Clark fome fmail credit for Ids
fuccefful exertions in the very
important trial of <j ftmentof
Holt vs. Jackfon—Even his con-
otnifiions, cr errors of other ' du£t in the profecution vs. Holt
pfrfons —At the It ft Stperior ; forltabbingin Wafhir.gton court-
court in Putnam, tit? demurrer f Yi wouid not have puffed un-
as to the fuftainability of the ac- I acknowledged—he would atleall
tion, came up for argument and have laid, that to Major Clark’s
after two orthreedays dilcuffion, fidelity and fricndfliip is Thad-
Judge Carnt s fufiained it, and dcus Holt in a great degree in-
dinfte I a toifuii.—In that ac debted, for the remiffion cf a
tion, a general breach of the co- fine of 2.50 dollars and a releafe
venant was afiigned—the follow- from imprisonment in the cotn-
ing are the principal roalonc 1710,3 J^il of the couritv at lcaft
which induced that Joint of ac- todays. — Veritas.
tion—The authorities or books Thefe are to certify,thatfome time
of practice, are conceived to be aft . er ,llc P^dgeof the ta w rendering
as ftrong in favor, as againft it ; VOul fraudulentdraws 1,1 ,he bnd lot -
the opinions of proft fiional gen
tery, I employed Maj E Clark as my
, rm an u.e u e- j ^at weighed more than every 2t the fame time took a fare facias
‘d our \eprefentation| J hin S olfe ’ ' V3S tho fear f *“* tr -' a i " ,he ^
ars, and will be can- j ir ‘K =' ^/breach, or breaches, f * tho c «>umy where-
>ft-rr fv,« fnr.l > fwiine that at the time of trial ‘ ’ h .' u h3 gave in his namoi
Mercury, and played fuch exquifite ty of all the component parts. 1 lie
nufic on them, that the very found ' real republican and federalift anfwer
alone moved the Hones fo regularly
that they comp.,fed the wailo of the
ancient city of Thebes, fome feveral
thoufind years fmee—Now if Am
phion without other afliftance than
hif. mufic could charm the (tones to
fuch regularmotiqn&ordefos toereft
thewalls of a city, what is no to be
this defeription...all others are falfe
and fpurious.—View the other fide
of the picture, and the charcfter
will be feen portrayed in different
colours. The man who oppofed or
approved meafures under Thomas
Jefferfon’s adminiftration, and in the
other chief magiftratic terms, and
, r , i* ! , ■ • r n—- attorney in the information aeair.ft a
ham Pit fwore, not to be fubaltcrn, ( tle mcn cl high Handing, are dt- certain traft of land lying in Jere*
a. leaft in opinion to any one.-1 he ! vi , t C ] upon the fuhjcft.-But county, d.awn by one James Roe &
horn ft hearted, firm and u.eful fe- 1 ... J - ' - '
deral republican
partly compofed
the two lalt years,
didates next October, arc Crawford 1 feating that at the time of tr: ; l
of the Senate, Bibb and Troup of i by the death., ran seal or other
the lower Houfe. Thefe venerable c.aufes, witntff s to particular
independent & informed gentlemen, f afts could not be ohi fine > to
are governed,direfted & .nfluenccd, , !avor thefe rffi.gnei -Under th
not bv “ men and meafures, but by n- , , ,
the conftitution of their country 5 . ! a % r ' u,t ’ nr 11 general breach,
They have courage to renounce both I no danger ot the kind cou'd be
1 hat the laid information or feire fa-
cia^, proi.r Tied in the faid court as"
l. ularc nes did, until after Judge
Early dt csded in the county of Put
nam ; that ail fuch cafes mull be tried
the county wherein the land lies j
that foou after die faid decifion Maj;
ney nave courage to renounce both . o u riori-i r i r
men and meafures,” when they ' apprehended, for Jliould th- ftate |f. ‘V } ( ° ^. tl1 “*:° f the a . ,ld
iviate front virtue, right, honefty, fail in the eftablifliment of one I f or marion wi-Tlo *!' * “ u . m g ,T !*
, . ... >r r rv .u i. nr Totmation teas at an end ; and ihar if
,d juft.ee. I her own judgment of Jaft, they could eafily fucreed in I would call at l,i s office at any time
apprelu nded when lie arrays himfelf does now fo act, under the prefent,
againft fuch a «• fimpleton” as I am. , according as they happened tobeob-
Hc is wonderfully kind to the noxious or acceptable to the favo-
IVIajor to take ir upon himfelf to vilit , mes of that particular reign, is tiei-
Milledgcville on the prefentoccafion. - ther republican nor federalift* but a
Witli Lyre in hand, 1 fuppofe, the i corrupt fycophant and courtier, ci r-
p.voiu ojdn st^Sif uinioptdod,, ru i } t becaufe his maxim of political
Maj Clarkoino the walls oftheCrfpi- I doctrine and praftice is tenrporifing
t ,1 as lie moved the ftones to thcwalls J fovoritifm, not the folid glory of his
of Thebes,
A ft tend to truth and Inquiry'
■ • • <5 ■
For the Argus.
PUr.EMEU OH GEORGIA,
YOU are Republicans...you are
Federalifts. Wiffiaright apprehen-
f.on of the import of thefe denomi
nating epithets, you may with con
liilency, and ouglit to be proud of
bung either or both-, for they ex-
prefs the true and real principles of
your government, whether of tire u
nionorof the H ate. The one de
clares yo :r will to be fovereign ; the
other, fpeaks your confedeiacy and
country, by which I mean, its real
good, but the aggrandisement of
himfelf, the parry, and adminiftrati
on, with which lie affociated, and
in which he was popular. Such a
charafter is neither federal nor re
publican, but a mongrel, a non de-
feript —Let then, fellow-citizens,
all candidates for your fuffrages, and
your federal and ftate officers and
functionaries, be brought to this no-
lineal, nay conflitutional ftandard,
let their opinions and praftice be
fquared by this rule; and where tie
lieicncy is, there let condemnation
corne ,• but never from the afperfion
and calumnies of malice, envy and
unanimity to fupport and proteft the prejudice; for merit is as often an
government founded on that bafis. object in the view of thefe metaphy-
Hi-ncc the man, who is worthy of fical fiends, as demerit or difqualifi
your patronage, (liquid knownodif-
tiuction, but be equally both ; and
the conclufion eafily follows, that
men private or public, candidates or
now in office, who repre-fent tliem-
felves to be the one, and not the o-
tl.cr, drawing a dillinftiou, which
Cannot exill pro rti naiura, are in faft
cation. I write with a profpeftive
eye to the enfuitig eleftion. Its im
portance is proved by the number
and characters of the candidates. A
man’s candidacy is avirtual acknow
ledgment of his willmgnefs, that his
charafter, claims St principles,fhoulil
be diffefted, examined, approved &
deviate from
and jullice.
1 things, and inflexible integrity never
fuller them to compromise, or com-
1 mute their vote for popularity.—
. They (land like the ag. d oak, poifed
on the Itrengih and gravity of its
J own body, while hurricanes fwccp
to dcllruftion all that furrounds it.
'Ibis refulgent group of geniufes,
would not, fellow, citizens, be e-
clipfcd or darkened, by an acccffion
to it, of a charafter like Forfyth’s.
It would be a collcftion c f a civcr-
gent ray into the burning focus.—
His eloquence has already been heard
in our land. He (lands fair, unre
proached and unreprcr.chable—As
to the ri ft of the members and can
didates, I know nothing of then.,
except, that as to the majority, nei
ther the records of tire flare, nor the
journals of congrefs declare clfe,than
“ claufo obmutuit ore,” a tonguelefs
filence. “ If they do no good, they
do no harm,” is a mifcruble charac
ter for the reprefentative of a free
independent and enlightened people
The honor, the claims, and intereft
of your ftate would be forgotten in
the abysof wife-looking filcncc. To
what extremity, might not. that in
famous Yazzoo policy, a fource of
toiror. contagion and abomination,
to all who have been in it, have bro’t
another. It is believed thaiwhtn !l (hould have my note of 100 dollars
ever tile trial is had, there will j which was originally given him as
be found great force and prop- i | h[s fee...that fome confiderable time
ety in the calculation, and the
policy of a general sfllgnnvnt
of the breach mav be Jlrcrgly il-
lu(bated. It fliould be recol
le £tcd too, that the rules of evi
dence in common law trials, ef-
fentially difler from thole recog
nized before high courts of im
peachment—But Analizer tells ]‘ nR ^ lilut '"' el,t draws, 1 employed E-
us, that there have been three li'| o' Cla , rk a " d ort H .‘T Storr ® Ef T' s ‘
aftions brought although the re- / 2 1 ol, ; US ? c , afe
, r , s o , |f° on after I went to the clerks r fliccj
cores of the court can produce |i n the different counties & took out:
nut two, and he Itkt wife fays, ! a number of feire facias’s & amongft
that by a companion of the co- j others I took out one fer a traft of
afterwards I did call ar the office and
received nry note accordingly, at^ul
that I never did give the faid Clark a,
tingle cent in the faid cafe, nor did
he a Ik me a cent fot the fame.
July 31, 1810. Ilcrry Regers.
Thefe are fo certify that fome time
after the paffage cf the law refpeft-
pies with the originals in the of- | Band in Jones county, drawn by one
fice, in the prefent fuit, he has danics . E pc - and annexed the names
difeovered another error If Elijah Clark, and Hiram Storrs as
this was even the truth, Major theTid 0^1’^° fU . r ‘ hcr ftatc , t ^ t
Clark is certainly free from anv o m, ,S, k n0 ‘ ^“7 a u y ,bm(?
» . •. ’ y 01 my having taken out fuch a writ
imputation, it being a clcmcal and of putting hitt name to the fame,
miftake—liut Mi" i n . .
Fitch thede
fen dents attorney fays, that the
copies have been in his pc IV flion
many weeks, and never was feen
by Analizer, or even by Thad-
deus Holt and that if there is an
, Retie Fitzpatrick,
j Auguft 2, 1810.
I have no knowledge whatever of
any wiits in the name of Samuel
Ridgdeil againlt nvyfelf, being barJ-
us, had it not been refilled by the error or variance between the o- lb ^'e 1 S t!<1 ’ nordo
fpiritaH oppon.imi .fllihb f< Troup, , i ? in 3 b and £ o ? i cs u i. „nk™
attacked by the intrepid powers of to him ,„ or , , ,• , . y . V ,
Jackfon, a,?d Wafted by the rifiling T \ nnpvn , c ^ slivered in an enclofed pack-
eloquence of Randolph. If there V * nnexed certificates of ct, the contents of whic.i I was .gno-
jicither, arc not patriots, and are un- rr jefted jult as they fuit the public
fit chaiafters for your co. fidence. notion. I defirc not to injure the
eloquence of Randolph. If there
be merit and ffiftillftion in filence,
let tlio ftate, who willies otij.xy it
Let Georgia lie known and dillin-
guillied, let her be heard among
I <( fiflcr Uatcv’ as one, where wif-
Mt firs. Rogers and Fitzpatrick, r,mt rf a,1<1 :!S fuch delivered them u*
will certainly fupercede the ne' f ' ic ^-* l 'rk ; but as I b fore obfe-v ‘
cefiity of a Jingle remark as to fi.!'’!.’?.!:® rccc ^ l f- tl, ff n J or ,l °
that charge. The infmuation me by fiiiilcLkUS" ihVr ,'•■•> f '
refpecting the retention of the Auguft 3, lMQ.
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