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uusu. vits^amaieBSl For the Argus. To Maj. Elijah Clark. HAVING no doubt of y^ur being the author of a producti on figned Citizrn, publifhed in the Georgia Journal of the SiOrh of Auguft laft, in which 1 am coupled v/ith the Editor of the Argus, under the charges of mifreprefentation, lying and o- ther things,which induces me to acldrefs you thro’ the medium of a News paper, which I here tofore hoped was an undertak ing I thould never have to per form toward you or any one eife. Now, Sir, as you are pleafed to commence by Living, the vile, barefaced and fhameful attacks upon aman’s reputation were ne ver more palp-.ble than in a ftate- ment in the laft Argus, of Major Clark’s (as you are pleafed to ftyle vourfeif) officiil conduct le’fpet'ting John Hoyle and Hen ry Putnam; and that a plain ftatemeiitof th ■ facts would prove that the Editor of the Argus had lied, moll fhanicfully and wan tonly lied. Having furniihed the Editor of the Arj ment Srnublifiiit after which I fltall he' of his feelings and reputation, a- f-^erof W? politics with alldifcern perfectly willing to be done with gainft an attack made in the News p ipers. But as to what Georgia Journal, of Auguft 29, C l. Grifham has laid on that by a writer under the fignature luhjeft fince j perhaps the an-', of Citizen.—I do hereby cer- nexed certificates of Joel Craw- tify, to the belt of my recollec- rd, Efq. and Capt. John Aber- ctombie, may be iatisfactory. i Now, fir, I have never pretend-! ed to account for your flrange ft inronfiftent conduct in Hoyle, and Putnam’s cafes, and it is for! you; not for me to account for it. j Then, fir, befo good as to let! the people know, how it was I that John Hoyle forefaw, at leaft as early as the year 1807, (for that was the year you were e leCted Solicitor) that he would be apprehended long afterwards for hog-healing, and that by B nfon, and fhould employ you to bring the cafe fo long before the c {fence was really committed- 1 enquire of you Major (for I lee you ar«. fond of the title by giv ing it to yourfelf fo repeatedly) If this cafe of Hoyle’s was con ducted and profecuted laiily and confident with your duty as So licitor, what ncccfiity for your plMgina yout honor that Hoyle did not bribe you—what neccf- fity for procuring Hoyle’s afii that date-! davit avowing he did not bribe and knowing it to be cor- j y ou » v,nen nobody lays he did—■ reft, I am lorry to till you that j whatneceflity for addinglo many i’o far from your having made a misreprefentations, as well as rel ition of lifts under your fifti- j impoflibihties—Why fay you cious name, that you hav r e not 'vereemploved by Iloyle to bring tion, that Col. Grtfham ftateu to me in faid convcrfation, that at l'onie fr l iner term ol Hancock Superior court,the recognizance of John Hoyle, was returned to him as State’s Officer for pro- ferution, that on enquiry it was found that the crime (which was charged to be that ol hog-Heal ing) was committed in the coun ty ol Baldwin,‘and that he Gref- ham, during Hancock court, handed over the recognizance ol faid Hoyle to Major Clark, So licitor-general for the Ocmulgee circuit, for thepurpofe of bring ing Republicans—he is of nature.! confequence difowned and held in juft contempt by tliofe enlightened and tried Republicans who are now honored with the confidence and higheft offices in the gift of the citi zens of Georgia; his popularity a- tuong the lake warm, the ignorant and duped pretenders to democracy has already raifed the drooping head, and loofed the menacing tongue ol Federalifm It is not many days fince I heard an advocate of Major Clark’s elefticn, fay, that l’rofeffir Meigs was to he, or. expected to be hurled from his place in the Colledge of Georgia, becaui’e he had the im pudence in his addrefs to the board of Truftces, to make Come fli sutures onFederalifm. Republicans of Geor gia, awake from your (lumber and indifference...let not the unfullied honors of your Republican charac ter be tarnifhed through your fatal ing the offender before the pro-1 fecurity. If Major Claik is not e- per tribunal for trial. Joel Crawford. September 15, 1810. ftattd correftly, a fingle laft ap pertaining to the cafe—ludeeJ, Cv it is fo far from a relation of f: fts, that you have not once blundered upon the truth. Now, fir, you well knhw, that In ff ad of 1 a ft term, the cafe of Hoyle and Benfon was called up for r d at Nov term, 1809 and at h it term I called on you for the warrant, & at the lame time tof you I had fet-n Col Greff, m deliver the papers lo you— Why ihd you not deny it then fir, in- fttad of telling me as you did, that the papers and warrant w is among your papers at home, k j at dinner time you would bring them down ; after dinner you told me you had fearchecl for them and could not find them, which induced you to continue the caufe by confent. 1 then ferved you with a copy of a no tice (the original of which I have now to produce in evidence this term) requiring you to produce the warrant on the trial. Now, fir, in relating Tafts, why not have faid as the faft is, that vour not producing the war rant, which you have uniformly acknowh dged or.ee to have had pcfiefiion of, produced a fecond continuance at laft term, as my original notice and your copy, ferved on the 14th of Novem ber 1S09, wiil prove. j Again, fir, I fry you never ! charged me with circulating falfe j reports on you, hut you told me i you had been informed, that 1 ! laid ycu had received bribes—I j denied then (as I do now) having j you had received bribes, but tiat ed to you the circumflance of Hoyle and Bcnlcn’s cafe, as my rcalon for having hard thoughts of, and fufpefting you ; during which time Col. Grelham men tioned to you, that he well re- collt fted giving you the papers, which ycuacknowledgi d (as you Had done h- fore) but yon i'fiid you did riot know whether the warrant was among them ; Col Grelham replied,hecoulb not fay that it was ; for he merely hand ed the bundle of papers, pre fuming they were all together. When J can fee Col. Grelham, I promile you and your fellow, citizen;, (who you are fo eagerly firUing to deceive) to procure Irom him a fair representation of this fait long before the caufe of aftion exifted—Why tell us th-if I was prefent when you ex amined Mr. Daniel, Mr. Benfon, and fonts other perfon, and was convinced that (if an offence was committed at all) it was in Han cock I pofitively deny bang prelent or hearing any Inch coil wrfation and I know all theper- I certify, that I heard Colonel Grelham, lay, in fubftance the fame contained in the above cer tificate, in the prefence ofanum- ber of gentlemen, in my public dining room- John Abercrombie. GEORGIA, Hailed: county. 1 Phillip L. Sunms, Clerk ol the Superior court ol faid coun ty, do hereby ceitify, that on a careful examination ot the Do quets of faid court, from F l-ru ary term 1806, to Augult term 1810, inciufive, find no cafe commenced therein bv John Hoyle vs. John Benfon, for falfe imprifonment. Philip L Simms, c.s.c, September 15, 1810. GEORGIA, Hancock county. I John Chanmers, Clerk of Iona who v ere pi dent will agiee •. t j, e j n f er j or COUi -t of fain county, to this—but ai knowledge you j do certily> thaton a careful ex tol! me you had made fuch an aminationo f the Doquets of (aid enquiry ano that the refult was i C0Ult? f r cm January term 1806 as you have ftated, which is near er the truth than any thing ell’e you have ftated. In a fubfequent No. of the I Journal, you tell us, you had i before the commencement of j this Fame action in Baldwin, I commenced an aftion in Han- I cock between the fame parties ! and for the fame offence. How I far you have been correft will j appear by the annexed certin- i cates of the Clerks. I have not time this morning t to make a reply to your ftate- ; merit of fafts in Putnam’s cafe j But, fir, you were charged in to June term 18JO, inciufive, find no cafe commenced therein by John Hoyle Vs. John Benfon, for falfe imprifonment, John Chambers, c./.c. September 17, 1810. For the Argus. SYMPATHY is a principle fo efiential io our nature, that the individual who can witnefs feenes of human mifery unmoved, is juftly ftyled a monfter He that can fport with the fenfibilii y ot his fellow crea ture wantonly or unnecefi'arily, de- ferves a much more opprobrious cha- after. Amongft the n : ny objeft; t Atgus (as I charge you r.ow) , that merit the confoiitary tiibute of vvith. faying to the court, in hear j fympathy, the innocent victims of tug ot fome of the Grand Jury, i infernal malice in the tovm of either that the bill was not preferred with an expectation of its being : found, but merely to juftify Cap tain Putnam’s reputation this too, as a reafon for refufing j to put Thompfon’s name on the ! bill as a witnefs, after Putnam (not you) had moved for a com- pulfory procefs again ft Thomp- foo, to give teftimony. This is the only part that 1 can noiice now ; and if you will deny this under your own fignature, I will produce affidavit upon affidavit lo prove it—But, fir, if you do not i’eny it, lV.tisfy us that your conduft was correft ; let us know from ycu, what produced this novel mode cf procedure, and vve (hall be l'atisfied. Ai % chib aid Afarli/i. Alillaigeville, Sept 17, 1810. Called on by Archibald Mar- religious, or political perfection, have the moft undoubted claim not only to the commifi'eration, but to •vnd ' , ^ le j uft indignation of all good men, 1 againft their malicious perfecutois But, fellow-citizens, ment like ours, when the intereft of a community, when the welfare of thoufands imperioufly calls for the impartial invelligation of the charafter and pvetenfions of tliofe to whom we are about to commit the prefervation of our liberties, inde pendence, and honor as a nation ; if in the difeharge of fo important & fo indifpenfable a duty, juflice mult be done to the unworthy, as well as the man of merit...if the fpeciotts covering niuft be {hipped from the ifpiring knave and liis bafenefs held up to public condemnation and con- lempt, we hope an enlightened peo ple are able lo diferiminate between the difeharge of fo difagrteable a du- j ty and malicious petfecution. Such is the charafter of the cruel peife- | cution fo pathetically complained of by the friends of Major Clark...it is tin, Efq for the fubftance of a '• tiro denunciation of an indignant en- converfation which took place lightened people thundered by the between ntyfelf and Col. Young ! penetrating voice of truth...he is Grelham, Solicitor-General for ckarpd with Federalifm on all hands ; fi.o ""■''•'i- and the Republican fted it will not be for want of the fupport of every Federal vote in the ftate. But the Tage of perfection lias not been limited to the accommo dating politics of this ambiguous Can didate, this truly Federal Republi can , the torch of candid inveftiga- tion is no fooner applied to his offi cial and private charafter, than a doleful found of perfecution, Han der, falfehood, and abufe blue foith to drown the voice of truth. A few fpecimens of his integrity as a pub lie officer have been laid before the public, but if tliofe already given are not fulficient to put the queftion of his integrity out of all difpute, I would aik the Major and his ingeni ous advocates, what part of Iris oath or duty as defined by the conftituti- on, autboiiled him as Solicitor, for the confuieration of 10 or 15 dollars more than his lawful fee, to write or pledge himfelf to write “ firtisfied” on the back of the recognifnnce bond in the cafe of Moore, indifted for Pei jury, in Jones county ; the money paid for the exprefs purpofe of put ting a ftop to the profecution. I would alk, why the Judge of the Su perior court ordered a criminal do- quet to be kept, if not to check tlie corrupt practices of this immaculate Solicitor ? If Elijah Clark efcapes an impeachment for his conduft, while Solicitor of the Oakmulgee circuit, he will be more indebted to the hu manity and indulgence cf the ftate of Georgia than to his own integrity The grounds on which his jarring, intrigueii.g advocates found his claim to a feat in Congrefs are irreconcile able, as his own conduft to integri ty, his champion of Putnam county had the candor to admit him a Fe deialift. The modeft Amphion with his immortal lyre, is for placing him on the lift of bijl Republicans, but of all the wife fchemes of thefe wife and great men, orators, poets, or pet- benvs, thine Doftor Fallible, ought to be faithfully recorded ...this pious Doftor equally famous for his piety, patrotifm, and courage, all over the county of Baldwin and Hancock. Detpainng in the power of mufic or oratory, or any o’her earthly vege table, to confecrate the charafter, or recommend the qualifications of Ma jor Clark to popular favor •, and pe netrated at the fame time vvith the govern- j P u reft zeal {or the purity of Zion, j has appealed to the laft hope & afy- lum of the guilty; has endeavored io bring Major Clark’s facred caufe and | his own together before the church, : and now {lands waiting for a verdict in favor of Major Clark, and againft his ungodl' peri’ecutor. Go on gieat mat), and fliew your fclf at oi ce the purifyer of the Church, and of Major Ciavk’s unful lied charafter, and for fear t hefe believing people fliould have a grain of difeernment, and leave you to lock for the reward of your piety S< zeal in the retributions of another world ; I will promife you this much confolation, that juflice {hall be done you for this and many move fimilar memorable deeds, which the hiitovi- nns of modern times through no doubt their envy to your fame have as yet buried in malicious Glencc. SPECTATOR. Will be Let, To the loii’cjl bitUer, oti Tiufilcty ' f e 23.1 cf Ucider next, at Hartford, in the county of Pulajlet, THE BUILDING OF A BRICK COURT-HOUSE: The plan of the Houfe, and terms of Payment, will be made known cu that day. —a L s o— WILL BE SOLD, On the same day to the hightjl bidder, I A Number cf Lots in faid town. 6’. Jones, IV. A. Harper, Edmund llogan,; Ccm’rs Henry Fulgam, jas. T. 7 hoitias, September 19. 25-tda " — — * —e--r/« V | Executor’s Sale 1 IV ILL BE SOL D, On Saturday the 20th of Odder next, at the plantat ion of John F. Flournoy, late of Putnam county. One Horfe $2? Colt, A fecond handed Cotton-Gin, Cows, Hogs and Sheep.—Twelve months credit will be given the pur- 1 chafer giving bond with approved fecurity. Mary Flornoy, j JoJ'tah Flournoy,; Ex Vs. John H. Pcfey,') Sept. 15. 25-u Marfhnll’s Sale. WILL BE S 0 L D, Atihc Court houfe in the Town cf Milledgeville, on the firji Luej- clay in November next, the Following Property •, Two Negroes, (viz. ■ Beck and her child Harriet, taken as the property of Henry Graybill, jun. at the in- ftar.ee of John Church, by virtue of an execution iffued out of the fixth Circuit court for the diftrift c f Geor gia. A Abercrombie, d.m d.g. Sept. 17. 25-tds. PRoTlLE^r r-pFIE Subfcriber intends making I Milledgeville his place cf te- fidence during the letting uf the Ge neral A ff mbly, and offers his fer- vices to the public ; he will take the PROFILES of fuch Ladies ft Gen tlemen a‘ may pleafe to honor him with their commands —Hie mat be conferred wiih at any time at Mr- Olmliead’s Tavern. Thomas Wilkinfon - Sept. J9. 25-c Bewat e of the Swindler O N the 4-tb in ft a ieilow of the name of Miles K Webb, dur ing my ah fence pafied in my {tore a forged Note ol Hand for Ten Dollars, figned Anna Macrery, witnefied by- James Tate, both of Jones county, which the latter has depofed to be ^ forgeiy. As this infamous aft may be repeated by the Swindler, who it is reported has forge j d otheir Notes, I think proper to give information, that he may not injure fociety by his depredations—He is of a friiall na ture, fight complexion, midling thick body and full faced, Loops a little iu his walk, tells a plaufible tale of dif- trefs. He was apprehended a fei® days fince but made his efcape from his keepers. P. Mcna’d. Sept. 19. 25-c the weflem circuit, at the laft Superior court in Hancock court ty, anti which Mr. Martin deem Tthst Ik'fui,d to jot: at Greene, i Pil necefiary to th? vindication by the peopi preffes...his devotion to the intereft of the Federal party ...notwitliftand- ing lfis equivocal pretences has been notorious enough to It amp the char* CAUTION. LL perfons are for warned not T\ t0 trade with my wife Rebec ca Gray, as I will not be aniVerable for any of her contrafts. Thomas Gray. ncock county, Sept. 18. I Is GEORGIA, LaldiL /tn Cou dy* WHEREAS Sar^uei ton and A. M‘M.)llan has appiiW od to me .or '.otters of adinirif* ti-Ation on tffo eftate of Jared Bi- galow late, of this county deccal- 1 liofe are therefore tr» cite &. admonilh all and lingular the kindred end creditors ol (aid de- ceafed, to be ; r.d appeair at my cm e within the time pr; feribeti by law, tr» ffievv caufe if any tn^y h ive why laid letters. ffiouiJ not be granted. Given under my han 1 at of fice this 19th day of Sep! enffa* 1810. Frederick Freeman, CT.