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Volume I.] . J>l. ttiJSHKII WU.KUj RV ‘ 1 JOKY A'. .M cn.VILTO.Y PRICE —thru: itoaiii# pcii paid PAID IX ADA IMF.. 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. J 7 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- I 7 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 I"No 26