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ADVERTISEMENT.
FOTt four or five years past, there lias been a
great deal sa.d respect ing mv c-jiui>:ct towards
xnv brother, and in this malicious bus.m ss ot
11 irris’s, it is thrown up again. Friends, I
tiiink it one of the most savage acts in tlieiiu
ttiv t.oiidy, to iiear relations railing out a
gains', each oilier I have, therefore, stiff. red
Tnv character and feelings repeated!! m tin
coti -sc of that time trampled under s ot, sofn -
er than I would go to war with my bro'lier, bn’
B-. there app. ars, as if, there Was to be no end
to it, I hope you will b -ar with me, while 1 give
you a few of the out-lines of that business, hi’
with great reUrcince, for as yet 1 never have
Saul any thing out of the fauiii'v why lie did so
& so, thoiigli it sounded far arid iu-ar dial 1 Was
trying to ruin him In die first place, had. go
him to lie rm security, had s ‘ldand mortgaged
fill my property, and If Ititn the debt to pas
scud told him lie might do his worst, tha* (
pliould pay none ot it. As to his being ntv s--
curtly, it is true, as to the balance, I do posi
tively deny it, for f have neither sold nor mort
gaged alt my property, nor ever told him he
tnurht do his V.mrs’, that i should pay none oi
it, or deni-. and paying it in any shape whatever, i
di ’ once teli him in justice he ought te pay 11 ,
and he himself says now that 1 never rr.ention
it to i. nt but once, and that no one was p- -
Bent, und how men can say tln-v heard and saw
-so and so, I leave von to judge. No, c-nti -
men, if Chris. Breaks had been so conscious
tha he would have that money to pay, why did
he tell different men that he thought if tin \
%’oUdlet mi- have a chance that I would pav ail
m debts? and 1 expect when it comes to be
paid, you will bear or see then who pavs it—
vou will sav, how in just ice ought he to pay it ’
X answer, when Christopher was in >1 o vtand
last, he persuatb and me to move to Georgia) that
he would go heme, return back immediately,
srxl help me o move out. 1 made sate of nt- ;
property, waited one year for Christopher in j
vain, the next year come to Georgia in order ‘
to get my moneythat he was due me for pr> • I
p rty ot mine he had brought out and sold, t
which was two years that I lost in waiting on j
him—when I ccme, Cottld not get mv money, •
(near 300 dollars) he could n r 't, or would not j
pay me, he lersuadcd me to join him in the 1
F rmiug and Tanning business, saying the bu- j
si ness of Tamiing was very lucrative, and the
mon -vhe . wed me would lay in my half of the
n • ! . Is> (and w • negroes that ! had brought
o’-?', let'.iried to Maryland 6ndbrought.mu’ my
* ,and entered .ut<’ sr‘-vs ! ij- ivirn nib.
>1 . here be may say tha’ I had nothing when ;
I come out, and he had to. furnish me with ne
e sari- s that took more than I left in his hands
—T a- -vver, that a settlement took place with
us - next September for all he furnished,
c"her i.i hides or otlier articles, and I fell in
h s ’)t about 60 dollars, and as yet we had
rail! none of tlte leather, nor any thing from
the r 'arns Vo had between 5 and ifOO hides in,
and if they had all been on shares, the half oi
G ;0 hides, tvt-n.n tanned, is worth 12C*U dollars.
V.'V contmited this farm three years, n*id in no
si i-i pc v. hatever, ‘be money that I got, of deb’s
for me by the yard, did not exceed 140 and 50
dollars, and that (except nineteen he brought
nic ~1 -vie r'-iiic) was <1 ray’d out little by little,
u uji aL fast 1 pVt wearv of applying, tot 1 was
of and he got so cross that he Wutthi
scarefe’ speak to rite ; I felt mvseif'Quite deso
fate iiia s’ range country, Gy brother ‘irtd
o* me, my Lopes a->d expectations of (, v r
getting mv just right f.ukxt me, my sleep l< ft
me. ami 1 believe I broke more in two ■if them
t* tee .years than lever did in the time of my
life. 1 could .not get a sett lement, Ue had got
tlic articles of our agreement from the m ti
that held them, so that J l.url nothing to shew,
in this si’ mil ion I 1 applied 1 nth-pi Simons, btfQ
gmg h>in to try to bring abom’ a settle mem,
for lie wai mv bro'her, ard I could n t think ot
Biting him in chancery, and making him swear
Or shew documents against himself, 1 told him
(Simons) that I would leave it t,> three or five
men, and would deduct 500 dollars from then
award, sooner than go t.<> lav. vvitli my brother.
S >me little time after, Cap- S mors come witn
him to my house, and sail he had come with a
determination that we slim:ld settle—4 t<dd
Mm I was willing on a?mom any terms. We
settled by the whole sale, (and 1 believed, and
observed at the tifrie, tha* I was looser bv i*.
2UhO dollars) for he would not shew his books,
though I hoc, mine up to shew all my transac
tions in the farming part of the firm, the farm
owing me 24 5 ti 84 cents, ard he owing the
farm 486 and. !4cts. In the settlement be agreed
to pay debts T had contracted for the fk m.
(ili&t w s not in these accounts) sav 280 odd
4 s ' s ” s ’ r ' n i° 8 7J 5 '-’ do,i: ’ “ e not of tlie yard—
v .-.h makes
* ,one > or compensation that I have i - ot for
mv ! ; ‘ r nf the Tart-Yard C o r three year,, a . and
for the 706 and 98 cts. tlie amt. of what the fo.m
<wed me, and liat he owed the farm. .Now 1
voiikl r k von if I had mv right if you don’t
ihi r >k that 1 should pr r \ n , .re tfuit:/f or- 5Lj <lul
iars ? which is about what Cl-istopher i- ser u
rd;. tome for. Says you, he complains o’ - our
frre-r.p- [fatly, savs you took the advantage J
sav T nnk p- advantage, but acted in Jones'v
and up igh'ness in that business Why die i
have Baily bound for about 18 mtin iis rrii.re
than lie ought, when j positively toM him the
dn\ before Baily was bound that iie \v<> dd L<-
of age a‘ s■ ch a time > and when the tirr.e roll
<d r M nd Bady an rp!ia>, no friends o, rela
tions ,n thi- connirv that could see to it b-umv-
S-Jf ‘M are obliged to say that it was me
t- s- pforv. i d and -e-e that the 01 phi.,-, j ; and
j ‘if*-, be* r . mm fa l,y instead.o; bro-
ciij say a y uu, you Lave su.i& t ‘j , yl .
TII E NEW £
WASIMNGTON, (groiigia) FKID \Y, jCW Y 12. tsifl.
Vid in Ins neigiiivirtHtod in order to ntjiu
I him. I deny doing it with tlte least intentio
of injuring him, and I drl'y him or any one ■
bring forward a solitary * iini'-s that 1 ever ti
ed in any case whatever to injure Ins Tan-Y.,:,
by saying any tiling disrespectful of it, or it
mg to persuade people not to carry hides thci
t was by Christopher’s account* of the Kie v
tiveness of the Tanning business that I conic
this country—l Come with that view; he dt
appointed nu in my expectations in lus Yard. I
was, I considered, in a free country; 1 detet
mined 1 would, and did, sink a Yard mi si h
Have Well, a distance for the chief of the hut
iliat I have tanned, had them chieflt made tt|
n shoes, and all with no other view or intei;
ion but to raise h kirge family of children it
bireocv and decorum, that when 1 am dead am.
gone, they may In some aen ice lo soeien
Under all these circtimstitnc.e.s, I vu?l leave t
to an impartial public who lias acted he nun.
like a Mother ahd an honest man, though 1
nave been hunted tip and down by those tha
tlnnk they cart” crow ns of honor on their heads,
and say that tltcv bear stars of uprightness in
their hands, with drops of irfnocrncy on then
bps. Mv property taken, my character trieu
to be stabbed to the very vita's, always harp
ing how I have served rm brother. No, rm
friends, that is not the reason why those pure
. irtt.Oceni creatures are hunting me up as and 1 as
some dangerous wild beast ot t lief .-rest; wiien
I cctne to this district there was two parties
in it, and are to tins day ; I did not give parti
cular adherence to neither painy, but l>y beiny
connected with .some on one side, my mien si
sum to run tile most that way , until I got num
fully acquainted m tur district, then my jr.
t crest began to tnlarge the part; that thou gin
they ought to claim all rm merest, got jeulou
more and more every day, until at hist it broki
out trt the blackest rancor that ever infested tin
human heart,and it you will take a view ot all
the transactions for five years past, and ait dta’
has been said against me, it is from two-, three,
or futr at most of the heads of that puny—it i
very stbulge if 1 was as bad a man as they ivy
to make out, that someone else would not lavi
found it out in theCouVse of ten years, which
has been fne.iidv the whole oi it) spent in work
ing for, and hav mg to do with, ihe public.
To throw in\ self and my quav/els befm
j the public, is alt act froti. with h 1 expect u
! receive no material benefit, because few, vc
i ry few, fe< 1 an Interest strong enough in < a-.i -•
j of like nature, to give that strict attention fkm
; vesiigatroii, as would tend to satisfaction <n
1 either side Rut'when Tam assailed by nti
i evidently in i?w resjiccfs• cpialificd to uijurt
! me, b*cause Forme ln.s given them i!u
i friemlslop of those whose dispositions of rmrid
qualify tltent for any villinioiis undertaking, I
conceive it my duty to oppose their evil mach
inations.
1. is not necessary for me to enter into parti
culars in relation to"E- Harris ; bis character is
f too well known to require further investigation
—hr is knn-an, and so am I, whether good or
bad ; and neither would 1 now int.iutleon yout
attention, if the calls of justice and troth de
manded it not—Read the certificates pr< vented
below—Mitch iias been said by Mr Rocker, and
I have much in hand to prove the iucoiisisttn- j
cy of that fellow’s cuntACTin, did ! not fear to |
trouble you further on this uninteresting sub- :
ject—But if Mr H. really thinks i cannot, lie !
shai 1 be satisfied to the contrary. j
1 presume Mr Charlton wdl fend out who is |
willing to pay just debts, when L. Harris is ]
called upon to settle for his printing,
Samuel Brooks, j
July 9, 1816.
Certificates.
.Ido hereby certify, that while t liv- ■
fd with IVIr William Gartrell, and j
worked in his Biackfmith’s fliop, that j
; Ezekiel Harris made a great disturb- j
ance about his Blacksmith's work, and j
ffa id tha* he had loft foul of his Iron
and Steei, and nrr William Gartrell
told me that he went to fettle with Mr
j Harris, and ihey had a terrible quarrel
about hi; Iron, and the fettlrmenr, and l
do'hink, that Mr Harris is as trouble
j fome a man to wo>k for as I ever had
any thing to do with in mv life.
JON KISTLER.
July 8, 1816
••••••
I This is to certify, that my father-in
■ law rar Moses Wade* and myfeif had a
1 falling out fome time pa ft, after a fiiort
tinr e we came upon a good underfland
{ ing and fricndfhip with each othek—
Ezekiel Harris then commenced the
i bufnefs of tale bearing from Wade to
| nie, and then from me to Wade, with
i that was pohrively fa!fe and un
j ,r urh, with no other dtfire, as I believe,
but to fer us r VAfloiicc arid at
j the fame time with the cloak of friend
| ship and advice. As witnefo my hand
j this srh ol July, !816.
(hi 3
Tho’s Ayres.
mark
•••
I do hereby certify; that Ezekiel
Harris has nv.de complaint twice to me
j about his grain ground nt the mill,
hi ft he fa:d that he did Let get a goof
turn out ot ilour by fifteen pounds, as
formerly out of his turns of the fame
mealure, which, in order not to have a
difiurbance. the owners paid him the
amt of {] w he complained of ; next,
he wrote ’>.* me he ha<l loft corn, and
to measure ?!i hi* ox?.&, so that he
might know whether his negroes took
it out at home, or on the way, which I
took as another charge againll the mill.
John Mappiu. J
Sanders’ mil !, July a |
4:1), 1813 J
I do hereby cert if y, that T have been
acquainted with Sand. Brooks ever
since we were boys, and have always
found him upright in all dealings—
when he started from Maryland with
his negroes, he did it honestly and a
bove board, pasting my hoitfe arid also
through the county town in the day
time, and likewise when he returned,
•and took his family to this State, he
moved iti the day time.
his
Millington X Sparks.
mark
July 2d, IBIG.
T do hereby certify, that mr Harris is
veiy incorrect in refpec? of hi aft.rt
ing that mr Brooks flunk oft like a
flieep ft raling dog, or tha; I a.ked mr
Brooks how comes it *hat you did nor
fell us this before you and mr Harris
fell out (I being one ui the neighbors
referred to)—rnr Brooks (laid at the
/
court several hours alter court broke,
then cf.me up to my (tore, several of os
in company, also the other neighbors
vefer’d to, and he (laid at the (lore at
least an heur, and I did not hear—nei
ther do I believe that there was a word
spoken againtt him in any shape what
ever.
Joseph Gartreil, jur,
2d July, 18 i G.
I do hereby certify, that although I
have asked in company what was the
rcafon that u’e could not hear of this i
before, but as to faying Brooks,or call
ing on mr Brooks, to know the realon
that we could not hear of this before
you and rnr Harris fell out, or that mr
I3rooks flunk off like a iheep-fteaiing
dog, is incorrect, which I would be
willing to fwcar to at any lime.
W m. Gartrell*
3d July, IBIG.
•* •
I do hereby certify, that t am living
with Ezekiel Harris at this time, as an
overlooker, or at arty rate, as a hireling,
and from my acquaintance will him,
I think him as had a difppfeu man as
ever I knew’ in my life, fer let me do
whet I will, I can't give fatisfa&ion,
as to difpu'es, he has ordered me off
more titan once, hut I told him I wouid
not go uniel’ he drove tne ; he is con
tinuaily hiding and watching round hi;
field to fee how his negroes arid my
lelf work.
his
John X Hudgens.
mark
Julv 4, 1816.
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V NGI ISII t.-HAK ACll’.R.
ihe toiiowmg extract from an ar
ticle in Cobbett’s Weekly Reg
ister, is at once an exhibition
and defeription of the character
and strength of England :
* It is much to be desired, noton’ !
| Iy for our own lake, but that of
the whole world, that we should
be actuated by just fentimen** a for
ftrangeas it appears at firft fight,
the pear s, happiness and freedom
of manKind is in a great degree, in
our hands. The narrow limits of
the country, its comparatively bar
ren foil, its unfavorable climate,
and its icanfy population, make it
| appear presumptuous to hold it up
j in diis important point oi’ view.
But, when vve come to look in ie
clotty inro the matter, we ftiail not
finiTTiie notion so very wild.
An KngtKhman, while he eats
and prinks no more another
nun, labours ihree times as many
hours in the courfeof a year as a
ny other man. His life is three
common lives, People ol other
countries have fome leisure boms.
An Englishman has ni)tie. He al
ways walks or rides as faft as he
can. You may know him from
all the rest of the world, by his
head going before his feet ; by
pushing along as if going for a
wager, and his (loop and his round
Ihoulders. An American gentle
man obfrrved, that, when lie fhft
came to London, all the people in
the ftreet* “ seemed as it they
were going on an errand, and had
been charged to make h.ifte bat k ”
Never was there a bi tter and. fa ip
tion 11 we fee a man wa'-kuig at
a leifurtly place, in the country,
we ful'pttf him to be a thief, or
at lea ft a vagrant ; Sunday let nis
to be the only day in the week
when an F.ngliftiman does not en
joy himfeif. He lolls about, and
out ot lpirits. The old faying,
that “ when the Devil finds out a
ny one with nothing to do, he is
sure to let him to work,” certainly
hod its origin in England. I won
der luch a people tliould ever have
had a Sunday or Churches. Ihe
Popes have left us fome Saint's
Days: they have been disregarded
by the nation at large and tho’
retained for a long w hile in rhe
public offices, they have all been a
boiiiheci u lall by uciui Parliament
the nation being too Lu!y to in
dulge the whims ol the Holy Ea
■ ther any longer, lb have an idea
of the cverlafting industry of ihis
nation, you have only to look at
the garden of a labonring man*
“lhis is the feene of ht> leilu-c
hours; that is to lay, the twilight
and the Sunday, when he will cul
tivate flowers or flmibs. lather than
submit to a minute’s nil.
The propensity to inaftant la
bour is common to all racks ■
ihe lawyers, doctors, parlous,
merchants ; ail are alike ; and, , s
to the (hop keepers anti sir en,
they know not what kifure or pina
fore means. ~I be gentlemen are
as busy as the rest, 1 hey a e half
their lives on horfebatk. Hunt
ing and shooting are their labour,
and hard labour too. F.vety man
also aims at perfection, in his way
—He is not conte.it unlels he has
fomethifig or another, in which he
does, or thinks he does, surpass all
other men. Hence our fine hor
ses, dogs, sheep, cattle, the breeds
of which are attended to with such
inflexible perfeVerance: A score
or two of gentlemen riding full
speed down a hill nearly ss stet pas
the roof of a houle, when one
! falfe step n.uft inevitably fend horse
! and rider to certain death, is anob-
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jc& to be seen no where hut in En
gland. Nor are fheie sports and
that of bexing and other perilous
exercises to be left out in an enu
meration ofthecaufes of national
power, tho’ (hallow, philosophers
aftccl to del pile them. They rend
to procure great energy in indiv -J
----. uals, and it is on the union of inui
| vidual energy that national power
j principally conlifts. To what does
i America owe the achievement and
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