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THE GLEANER,
Messrs. Editors ,
IT in my i'ntcntisn. under this
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anpel'avi-on, now an 1 then to lend you
a;i wU story accompanied by such
gin a! remarks as the whim of the mo* i
nient may iii.frire me v,Uh. I may
f> me times a mule a leisure hour, if
not.inftn*& of your reader-,.
A fe’.v days fmee I found the fol
lowing .ir.ecdcu in a ■ BriuJh maga-j
•sine for the year 1 793, when it may be j
{•ecojlc.ctcd, that the miniUry of Great
Britain were much alarmed at the prQ
rifeE of yscfybmtseTiJ’ and even the
t.lu'Onc teemed tube (haken by a ckv
{bmioation of a .work entitled and;
** Rights cf Man” written by Thamay
Raine. — Every effort ‘t:p made to fun
r*ref.. this work, and every eagtoe ot
power brought ta hear npon thole who
dared to utter, or recommend the po
iitica! heresy. The Iging cm fed it—-
theminiftfy condemned it to the Our. s.
the bilhops, as in duty to their islarir
bound, anathemuized it —the ir.ilfO
. ly bay oner ted it —the navy sunk it, an
the whore hull a] pensioners, place
men and mercenaries c-mdemued it
yet ftfiil it promulgated, sou;;h the
Fiends of reform were compelled t<
to many iugenirwis cohirivanc.:-
to avoid the penalties inftided by a
“ hrayr.n-b.jr:i z::d 4
curious k^g.
Among the means taken for tlrcdis
femination of this work, the following
is worthy o’ record. — The xahiggish
ihopkeepry were it? the hT it.o! wrap
■ping the.’ cammed;: tee :n (beets of it,
a s waste pa pc r: for this cffenct aged nft
Jrijs “■ mo{* fec>; and rna jefty,” who would
not permit hit mtig imd lubjefU to
-reai % there v;?.x v-.ct remedy.
At this hue siting period, when, tfiet
loyalty of pridb and. excUcmen, gene j
■Wli ajjtd grcKiKVs of the statc —admi j
auc’t criers, of nftoinrs;
lunuing toointen-rHord-lieuittn
•ftfHs, ai\‘} puppet-(h.tvv ?nen —the houG,
til lofds and the theatre—the houfc ufj
CGmmor.s ard the vrpneftEs who attend |
3t the court of lung’s bench to rwrai I
” any thing—the keepers of the king’s
Confeietice, and tire venders ol bts (beep
who died of the rot, and in finc 4 when
al! loyal per ions were called upon for
the cxercife o! their rcfpeGivc talents
to prop a dumpling head and. monarch on
3 tottering thrd.ae 4 the following iuci
rjent occurred 5
t: A puppet (hew mao, 34 Bulicn in
.fmnecfhj.re, introduced by way of ir.-
\ofudc, a. baalc between Toro Paine
and.the Devil, His ormecefi*!y to fay
fhqu poor l om very Coon fell into the
Ivrid.s. of bis footv niajcfty j when the
latltTs ?(u(U;4 by his brave compeer,
£ung God save the ling over Tom’s
feaejy j after which the black gentle,
tman made his bpw 5 and retired with
-his brother &&ors vycifmUftg church
pid king h‘
Thst the devil fhouj-i hate Tom
Paine for his political, writing” is pro
bable enough, and that he is tb“ niipu
?a! ally of kings cannot, be doubted?
for they certainly are his. heft fricods.,
‘O. Gcd save them” must be 0. fax OS I*o
-and church and sta{sA
iour.ded through his, dark. dQdsi&iojns.
Hvitb joy unceasing,
I kaoW of no snore profif’C
<>f vilWiny than a union of church, ahd
state >; the one props she other in the
*syickcdnefx; the lung fins, and the
nri.efts. exonerate him, and pray for
Glrrvj and he feeds thtm for rherr fer-
Tices. Only let him fav hull 0!• and
alibis curs join in a common yelping,
if their jat wii! permit ibetirtd cr) out,
while- the poor fterved journeyman,
{ir.icsi has. to do al! the duty, the diig
liitary ol iheebuieh flecps in his ch ir,
drinks the molt luxuriau-; wines; ut,
iers bis anathemas againlt j.actibjnibn;
rut of mere charvy fends Bonaparte
headlong to the devil, crJ sleeps a
gain !
. In the year jygSltheix \y.ava.report |
that Peter Porcupine had; killed I
V^-a.purgative babifo! s<s^y : iktpnfc-i
quence oT a viut from a yankee- cap
tain, who penned hi;n up in a temple
of Cloacina for fome hours. Now
| the devil, it foetus (whether the same
who killed Tom Paine as before re
lated l cannot fay) was much aifetled |
by his lots, and uttered his 1-anesitation
in the follow-mg lines, a dire fling fus
“ brave compeers:
“ Princes cjr.d peers, and miniiders of he!!,
Who er!l wii.lv terror fnock the imperial plain ; !
Pad news from earth, and news I weeping tell,
Our power intuited and our envoy fiain i
Let nig lit-(hade drear cad deadly aconite,
And mortal upas decorate his tomb ;
i,ct; fiend: and alTei, ovvb and wolves vnitc,
To chaunt bis requiem and dpp.'Dre lus doom.!
Curse on.his vile alfalGn’s—reg;cid;s ;
Vile Yankee fcotindrels and free rebels hafe t
Arid all ye fi.tvca where liberty refidu;, -♦
Curse o.;i your low regenerated race.
His rifmg viejs opening to the da.y
Pfefvg’d the downfall of accars’l reform •
Hut Ha 1 he’s fallen—.to fwioifL herds a prey,
Like tiie young flower beneath the rifthlelstlorv.!
Let'Stygian realms in ten fold glooms be lujr.g,
‘ud kindred spirits join the funeral knell:
Let doleful accents trill from every tongue,
!.\> mourn his loss t ! * pride and prop or hel 1
\r :Hiah now, dirr- source ofc nr \vcc-,
dh.',ll ipreaJ his hxr.sf~* cot* tl.ro’ eat!: J:.r .; ,
Fite barren dtfart bloflbtr. as the tofc’.
\nd curs’d religion ii i.ur.plt over time
But yet, perhaps, tr.y ! cvigs aid priafts conttiuh.
M ty rqii around the d?athfu!, bloody car j
And, murdering all the inno%-aiers, fr. J
lit; a just and suenary %'t?r
I miiit confefs there v. .-pcajs a ilrcng
refeiubUnce b eweerioid kinp Sootv cf
\ Jf 4-
(the puppet (hew man, j 4 rc| the Beelze
bub of the? Poet; but l leave jt to
those better versed in the knowledge
and history of kings and priefls to la
;d.c the very important quHlion.
[ A GLEANER.
frivi the Argus*
-GB EAT NESS,
THE word f;rri, I have very fre
qurreh of late heard applied io a:i ep
ithet ol uidinction to c.-itaiu v.'iarac
er-., and ip itiy mind, f<> iijdifcriiniu
dtcly, that I have been ?o ipeuire
into its meaning : orseilf johnfbVs
definitions is—“having any quality in
a great degree,” and he hems to use
it cat lice in a good sense : but I am
vpt to think that his is not the genera!
cceptauon cf the term ; foi in hdlo
r v w ” fee it applied to Alexander of
Maced on, who certainly had no othrr
title to grcairu-fs than that he carried
hayoc and deUruOion through all the
kaern parts of the world; unlcchng
and tcgairdleis of sr.t mtfery and dis*
trcG wuh which he aHiicLd mankind.
Mss greatness then seems to have con
lifted not only m the ability and dis
pohtion to do mifchtcf, but in having
actually done ir.
C 2p{.ir, isalfo called preat, forttcar
ly tbs (ame reasons, because he knew
how to dilciplinc audcojnroand a mer
cenary army, whom he liberally re
warded wuh the Ache* ol others, for
pfQQro.tit>& his, h lhih and wicked do
ings,. Many other tuftances might be
adduced; Ufotu hiUaty, to shew that the
’WofdgyfuJ apptic dto au'ii,) has been
ttf’ecl i,n ft bad Role ; and has, by the
?o'Y..au\r> couCent of mankind,been as.
to> tho!e chitatiers who
leommvded (he gseatdj outrages upon
| ?o?-K*fy.. j£a, this ieivfe, Henry Field
ttrg iifts, % cry property bellowed this
| epithet upon the lenowned Jonathan
‘-V>ld i in the hiitory of whole life, wt
[find the dcJhnitior‘> between, greclfiea
land gpcdries% to be as, follows:
k - 5 Gvctiihtss ccnbfts, ia ail
manner or on txttank.md, and
[food in. ho a* teem.”
1 So, that; every Utthr grime ring of good
n.efs hr (he dUpo lit ion os
4. ULUIy, grtei nkHiii. .may be properly
cor.fid.ercd, as, so many blemishes ia his
cha fabler-, wbiqb leive to show that he
partakes in, liuinc degree of the frailty
and imp rfection of human nature.—
Whence it follows, that thofc men, in
all ages of the world, wh.a have diilin
guis’ned them (elves by Filling vast
auaafers of digit itUQtv-c.*t4-u.rt:, and:
in hbrro!*, anJ de(Uu3icn ]
in every quarter, for no other purpose
than to gratify their own depraved
pafijons, have merited and acqutrea
the appcliiition o! great.
But at *.! e present day, I fear we
are about to depart from present ufa-
and are likely to pervert the true
meaning of a very fignificant and ap
propriate t'erm by an improper and in-,
j conftderate application of it tocharac
! ters not defevving that honor.
From what has been said, it would
fee in that one who (135 only meditated,
planned and coveted to do the great
ell milchief that it is in the power of
the moil depraved, abandoned mind to
conceive, but who from a redundancy
or. deficiency of feme constituent qu.;i
i:y, has failed offuceefs in his diaboh
cai purpose, i;> not entitled to be rank
ed among the great of antiquity, who
always atgoarphlhcd their wtekednefs
before they acquired the appellation
ofgreat. Wherefore, deny that A ‘ ##
B #t * is a great mans and I take this
eady opportuhiy of entering ruy ca
veat againfl the machinations of A vWf
IT 5 ’ ;, s f.knds and adherents, in the
city o'• Richmond and eife where,
v horu I uuve dilcon red in furrepit
lioufly be flowing upon him the char
at\c r of greatness.
Every day, during the trial of this
nQloi ious marVj has a certain descrip
tion of men been exclaiming, Great
Man / how collected ! how com poked ;
how criegt-.U hi> language, how perfoi
cious, }e 1 how concise and enevgetic;
how graceful and commanding his at
titudes, a great mar* —a very great
man, infFcd,
Agiin, I deny it. Itistrue A**" 5 *
B% # is entitled ta conftdeyable re
nown in having meditated and planned
thq overthrow of the federal govern
ment : and when wc reikei on the en
ormity of the project and the variety
of complicated m 1 fe ry in which the
fee cels of his plans would have involv
ed fix or seven trillions of fouls, per
haps for ages to come, v/e cannot with
hold the jult dilute ol admiiution !
be does undoubtedly poflefs, in a high
degree, ah that execrable depravity,
neceflary to conftitutea great man.—
But alas! ala* ! the want of fuccels
has removed from him forever that
enviable appellation—his ur.wicldly
pride has undone him. Had he ob
served this little maxim, 55 despise not
your enemy” he might, at this titne,
have been enjoying the Uluftrjous plea
sures of weltering in liis own gore, at
the foot of bis imperial throne at New
Orleans ; stabbed hy the dagger of his
moll approvnd friend. But no, he
! said and repeated that the government
j was w eak; it wanted energy ;he could
1 not bsook the idea that his wife plans
‘and daring projects, couidor would be
defeated by fodifpicable, so pacific an
administration. In this particular, ire
falls ftioit cf the character of a great
man —felf-fbfficiency hasbeenbis ruin,
but for this he would have merited
that title, his friends now ‘fraudulently
beftqw upon him ; he might indeed
hane been a great man—but now he
has fallen, never to rife again—there
j lore call him rota great man,
FROM THE AVRORA.
m
The following admirable and manly expreSion
of sentiment will, we are confident, meet the ?.p.
piaufe of every American republican.
MARYLAND MILITIA.
At a meeting of the officers of the 27th regi
ment of Maryland militia, and of the ii-depend-,
ent Light Dragoons, attached to the laid regi
ment, the following resolutions were unanimous
ly entered into ;—.
Resolved utiaimously, That as citizens and fcl
diers, we feel the decpdl interell in the present
date of public -affairs, Rnd at this moment deem
a not merely our undoubted right, but confider
: tto be cur sacred doty to give a lolemn pledge
‘of our iervtucfc to oiu; country, and an open a
vowat of our opinion, to,the public.
Resolved■utunhnoutly* That cur attachment
to and confidence in the President of ti e United
F.ites, do net re.uit from any party cor.fidera*
t ions whatever, but proceed from the tried qua
lities, vi: cues and and services of the man and
the patriot. What he ims dor.e n a guarantee
for what he will c-o, and on thcjulure we repose
with as much confidence as we reflect with Ltis
facfioil oa th<? i*4*U Qn enlightened, and
policy t-swardls our newwe, 4 f.
j curely rely as we fir.cerely zpplsuJ ha /.-aid, *;f r
and beneficent adminillratioa over our cca^,.
couatry. , . ,
Resolve J unatdmously, rbut without coijrtip..
war, we shall never deprecate it. The
of our country is dearer >P 113 t “ an lt3 wealth.-,
: Wftat the wisdom, the thej*atriotism c :
‘cangrefs ftvaß determine, that, as ptizens, ih o,
.bey, or, as foldiets we afTcrt. L'ntill .’be de;j.
ifion be known, our aad •
; (hall not relax.
I F.tiolccd unanimously , That we neither j c ,
I knowledge nor feel a preference for any f ortl?i
| power, vvhatfocver, and are ready to alikrt ol t
j independence, our honor, and our rights,
; all without diiliiEtion, who, upon any prei-:-;*
(may outrage or invade them. The real Ameri.
; can has no foreign leaven in his character.. big
jviwa a national injury with an equal eye, vvheJ
. ther it is the result of Eritiili aggrtQoa, ur ; f
j French violence.
j Rffohsd unar.imujly, That :t is with indig.
jnant altonifhnient and a fentimeut of the
j profound resentment, that we contrail illuGry
| declarations cf Britith minillers, with the fc:,.
jtinueu and harailing violation ci our ownjijrii.
Idiftion, and even within our very harbors*by
i the iliips of war cf the Britilb king ; while kjt
jiufults and outrages are unatooed, unrevenged,
every American citizen is lefleued in his o\v;i
elteem, and feels a portion of the dishonor rcf.tc.
ted pa hiiTifelfj The trial and puniflunent of the
guilty, is fame atonement to our murdered and
captive countrymen, if nothing mere is done, and
v? .11 leave the p.inciple, like tlie.fufpendedfword,
hanging over our heads ; -a magnanimous jo'uv
disdains c corapromife of national honor & rights:
nor can our claim itop short of inaemnity for tit
pus!, and security for ids future. 11 this be re,
fufed to our jult demand, we arc prepared, under
the will and fanftion w#our government, to stud;
the word, and are firm in the consciousness that
wc are fo!diets in a just cause. Rather than be.
hold a surrender or pri.nc'oles lo.dear to cur
hearts, cur wifiiis, t’aat the ifl'ue may be commit,
ted to him who gives the a battle* ‘ and the
“ race.”
Resolved unanimously, That we have beheld
with abhorrence and indignation, a wicked and
unprincipled attempt to feperate the wellern ireni
the Atlantic fttates, and in coufequer.ee tc dr!,
troy cur free and happy form of government, dis.
iolve our conftitntion, overthrow our laws,
plunge us in to all the evils of anarchy,, confufioa
and civil war : we bless the manly and vigiilant
policy 2nd pretesting ■arm, which averted tb
dinger and saved our country. Bat while w
exult in the mild, just and benignant fpiiit e:
our laws, whose great diftinftion is, that while
they puuifh guilt, they proteA. inndcer.ee, wj
cannot but lament that they fhouid hold out
entire impunity to deftgns, which have for thtif
objeA the ddliuftion of civil liberty and law;
and thus eneparage the ambitious and Gnp'diia,
pled in their pursuit oi plunder and of power,—.
A gain ft such attempts, is is the duty of the cili.
ztn loldier to be ever on the alert, and bv his vi.
gilance, exertion and patriotifin, to fuppiy that
guard over the public welfare, which, in this in.
ftance,lhe law refufes, until t fie colie Awe w.float
of the country (hall furnifa s remedy for the evil
Resolved xnuhirtwusly, That the members top,,
pofmg the companies of thetweaty-fcveoth -gi*
ment, be invited by their refpe.ftivc officers to
join heart arc! hand in the foregoing resolution:,
At the request cf the officers.
WM. LOWRY,, Lieuteuant-Colonel-Coa.
On behalf of the officers of the HUtk regt.
JcsEru C. White, Secretary,
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FOR SALEj
A aO lof LAN Dkn wn in if $ g?a*
_A. era! plan-of thole Lots fold under
execution by ihe late Ambrose Gordos,
Lfq. Fe iers! MetSuK £s the properly cf
J-'hn j. Zubiv, dec. by i!,e No. (5.) five
treating three streets. On the femifts
’ Sic an jbc:l nev; dwelling hot (e awl
, * kifciiep, lue Est (Fry is well finilbeii,
j having a good well of water at the c mrr.
i Aito the unexpjred lesfehotd cf lot Ne.
foJ five, fronting Bryan llrcei, to the i>'h
April, 1814. together with the clwtiling
huufe, Clop mid c:hsr ia provementw • here-
on, now verified :.y & c fuhfcrtiler, "fit
Oglethorpe and good {land IE”
buffnefs. Goiiduio- a erfh. Apply to
ELIAS ROBERT.
Sa.’h, July i a 40 *
For Sale, ;
On a credit till the first cj January,
A FLAN 1A 1 ION ’ on i!.: Louisvi|i?
road, fi teen miles from Savaun-b, con
taining fiiiy acies ol good well v nbefctf
pine land, twentj-five of which asc ii-*’
under cultivation and pood fence, wul
adapted to the culture c l com and coup
known as one of ti e Left Hands ci: (k
road lor a tavern. —r oi terms ol (ale, f j
ply toibc lubferiber a ihis Office.
WILLIAM WIGGINS. .
Augofl $.5 r 2
Uotice is hereby Given,
THAT after the expiration oi nm* months app'i
cation vi ill lie mails to the Honorable, the JuUket,®f
tlie Inferior Court of ClliaKham County, for ‘eivr :r
ell three tracts of I,A VD I C'.itfainfa'.g tvro
aCrcs each, in said c-Bitty, for the benefit of sheW
Slid creditors of J.mes Webh, dereaful.
MCHARn VVIGOINj.
WILLIAM WIOOINSA
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