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■■MH r ■ ■ ■■ ■- ■ ■ *■— ■»- - ■■ * «n i ~iw m. i ■ . 4 I ~ GEORGIA HKn PIONEER. ’ IE ■ TERM S, E • ■' . Thi*.PJQwßßw wiO lbt) pabliahed All ADVhiIIISEtfENTS will be No su ascription taken for less than a year,and do paper discontinued till ah oues are paid, except at the option oi the Editors. < . All commanicatiwu to receive atten jipu must be postpaid. POETRY. ■I f H," i , ? IBanners of Abe Free. >Y H. C. DIAXIW. ' There are murmur from the shore Boroe of the ocean’s idling waves, There’s a deep and'sullen roar From the mountain arid its caves; Louder than fromrock or sea Boils the voice of Liberty! Hark! the stirring, lofty call! Heroes! from toe dust arise, Berni the Srlteh, shattered pall, From the grave of Victories’. Over them with eagle eye, ■ Float the banners of the free!’ Borne upon the. thunder gales, : Patriot spirits, lo! behold! .wtewu Tales of blood and vidtonT r On the banners of the free* £f dk 4* I - * *■ Wag'll £ i? to wash out tneir stain, Then on high shall proudly wave Banners of the free and brave! War shall bio whertrum pet-breath, Swords shall flash arid lances flame, Poised with the spear of death, In that struggle’s awful game! Battle’s but a briefer road For a slave to seek bis God: Are those,banners now unfurled? Float they on the thunder air? Offspring of a cauching woild, Lo! they’re blazing proudly there. By those banners’of the brave, Tyranny shall find a grave! Lo! the golden orbed shield Freedom flames before the van ; Sons of slavery to th field, Foot to foot, and man to man! As to-day the evening clouds, Let those banners be your shrouds. Shrouds of crimson steeped in blood, Bold of freemen in the fight; Let him live a slave who would, Fetters are a coward’s right; Let him veil his eyes to see Banners of the brave and free! Front to front, and hand to band, Shield to shield, and glave to glave; Dauntless breast, and lightning brand, Here is life and there the grave, Let thine own hand close the strife, Death is but a leap of life! What is blood that’s not thine own, Fevered by* tyrant’s toils? What are lips that have no tone , But for fetter’d beauty’s smile? What’s affection that is dursed For an offspring chained and cursed? There is thunder on the heaven— Hark! it coils from shore to shore! Thunders by a nation given, Despotism’s reign is o’er. Chains are riven, fetters flee From the man who would be free. Sons of Lusitania read, Read the record proud and high; Learn like freemen once to bleed, Or like freemen learn to die. Learn to die with patriot glee, ’Neath the banners of the free. Dfc IWAXCU. From /Ac London New Monthly Maga zine. FRANCIA, THE DICTATOR. Concluded, Nothing can be more clearly indica tive of the penetration, management, and resolution by which Francia has subdued iqto slavish fear the people o ver whom he rules, than the fact that, - : ■ •• < - s r - -n ‘ — u ~~- .t. j Cassville, Ga. Friday Evening, July 24, 1835. though they are 300,000 in number, his whole regular military force does not exceed 3000 men*. 11 1 But the same system of discipline, founded upon the great agitating prin ciples of our nature—hope and feai which he introduced iutu his sriiall re giment of guards, he diffused over the whole community. He dispensed with all assistance in his government, ex cept what was merely mechanical, and could be rendered by the very lowest members, of the community. He was his own Minister of Finance Secretary at War, Collector of Customs, and Keeper of the strong box of the State. No petty commandant of a petty vil lage could pay his drummer and fifer without an express order from the Dic tator. < He was the very axis upon which every-pieceof the Stafe-machin- j ery turned, —at once the centre of at trattion towards which everything gra-1 vitated, rind the point from which all j public matters, great and small, were made to emanate. At the same time, he professed ever to be.looking out for agents and assistants; and the lowest man "about him was allowed to enter tain the hope that he might become his minister or secretary. As the hopes of those about him were excited, so, on the other hand, was their fear e qually alarmed, lest, in having places under the Governmenjt, they might ode day find themselves in a prison, or on the scaffold. He once imprisoned a man,for whom an individual, favour, ventured to intercede- •. “Sir,” said the t -Dictator, “I made you my friend, not because you deserved it, but be cause I choose it. You now pretend to dictate to me, and by implication to impugn my judgment, by speaking in favor of a person who you kpow that judgment has condemned. You thus negatively advocate Lis cause, and sup port his principles. Go where he is.” And without a word more, he despatch ed him to a solitary dungeon, contigu ous to that in which lay -confined the individual for whose liberation he had so imprudently and so fruitlessly plea ded. A lieutenant, presuming upon the fancied partiality for him, disobeyed his captain, and gave it as a reason for his doing so, that he was more a favourite of the Dictator’s than the captain himselfi The Dictator heard this*—said not a word to the lieu tenant; but ordered a muster of the Quarteleros, or Guards, he went up to the officer, and pulling him autos the ranks, he addressed him in this way: •‘I found you a begger, and madeyju an officer: I now find you an ill-behav ed officer, and send you back to be a well-behaved beggar: for if you are *ln an article, in the last number of the “New Monthly Magazine,” on Dr. Francia, the population of Paraguay is stated at 300,000; but this includes the migratory and other tribes of Indians on the west bank of the river Paraguay or Great Chaco; and many of these, though, strictly speaking, in Francia’a territory, can in no sense be said to be under his control. The river forms the greet dividing barrier between between them and that part of the province which lies on the east side of it. The morasses and almost impervi ous brushwood of the Chaco form and almost insuperable obstacle to any at tempt at conquest there,even were that desirable. The Indians referreed to in the pre sent article are the Guarani Indians, originally found on the east side of the river, settled in small townships by the Jesuits, and now, in a great measure, amalgamated with the descendants of the Spaniards. The militia in Paraguay are stated, in Mrs. Norton’s article at 2Q,0Q0 men. At one time (about 1812) there might have been about half that number; but since Francia called in the musk ets blunderbusses, and pistols scattered ovei the country, and in the hands of the straggling militia force, their exer cise has been discontinued, and even the mustering of them at all; they cannot, therefore, now, be considered as a military body. Francia early became jealous of them, and took in stant steps to curtail their power of ev er rising against him. not that, I shall put you in the stock or a worse place.” Hereupon, he had j the officer stript.ofhis uniform clothed, in, garments suited .to a beggar, and drummed out of the regiment. i In the yriqr 1814, an event happened, to myself, whicfi, a s developing in it.® progress and rmrTK mum oTbotli tht policy and character of Dr. Francia; 1 shall here relate. I Before he discovered himself lo be the ambitious despot and cruel tyrant which he afterwards proved, 1 was in habits of great intimacy and personal friendship with him; and I had.derived much pleasure, as well as information on matters connected with South A merica, in bis society. Being almost the only foreigner in the contry, Dr. i Francia had calculated, through me, jon providing himself with what he [ might require in the shape ol warlike I stores, without interference on the part j of Buenos Ayres to prevent their transit io Paraguay; and anticipated that even if such a disposition should be manifested, our naval commanu-ers on the station would not permit it to be carried into action. The province of Paraguay was at thjs time at peace with all the others of the.river Plate. On leaving Paraguay,accordingly, with an intention to return, shortly, Dr. Fran cia commissioned me to bring him, if possible, some muskets. ; I shipped them, with the consent of the , pupnos Ayres Government, in a vessel of my own, and proceeded up the river Plate off my voyage, the third I had now made to Paraguay. J had ; left a brother there, in managefnent of my rather extensive concerns, during myabsence. One beautiful evening I wi£bt out in a boat to shoot pheasants, which abound along the banks of the river; The schooner was moored to a tree, the wind not being strong enough; to enable’us to stem the -current, and the labourious work of dragging the vessel up by ropes being, for the day, nt an end. On my retnrn, what were my horror and surprise to discover that a party of soldiers had taken possession, of her and were pointing their muskets into the boat a serjeant, apparently in com mand of the party, called out to me to stop, and presently sent his own boat to mine, with a number of fierce look ing and tattered men-at-arms. They tied my hands behind my back, and in wpful plight conveyed me on board of my own ship. Here I found all myste ry and confusion. I could get no ex planation of the outrage committed, nor of the power or party by whose au thority it was done, but I found my cabin completely ranscaked—every one of the soldiers intoxicated—one man with my watch, another with a ’ coat, a third with a pair of boots; my whole wardrobe was already distribut-! ed among these Philistines, and the place, which two hours before I had left a picture of comfortand neatness, was converted literally into a den of thieves and robbers. They stripped me of every article of clothing, leaving; me,in lieu of my own dress, one of their very scanty great-coats and an old i soldier’s cap. After beating me with their swords, & threatening with point ed pistols & brandished sabres to take my life, they thrust me, bound as I was with thongs, Into the hold of the vessel. Here I lay, in horror and in darkness, the whole night. 1 could hear nothing but the yells and carousals of this troop of brigands—except that, ever and anon, one or other of their number would lift up the hatchway or covering of the hold, and cry aloud tpme, “Pre parese a morir!”—-(Prepare to die.) At length the morning dawned upon me; and a search was commenced into every corner of the vessel—packages' were upturned and broke open amid oaths & execration?, boisterous threats,: and fiend-like looks. The muskets & sabres were found; but the men were persuaded there must be money on board, which, having discovered, they thought I had determined to conceal. Hereupon they landed,and carried me into the wood; 1 could give them no money, for they had taken all. They tied me to a tree, and being drawn up by their serjeant. were ordered to level, their muskets and fire. At this mo ment one of their ovyn band—a robust swarthy Indian—interceded. He claim-, ed a right,.he said, to ask a favour —' and that favour, to, my no small joy and gratitude—wag,; “that my .life should oe spared.” It was so. Lwasagaim carried on board of my vessel l -^—again P,U t into tliA llAld?- iho ««STnr, lie Illg ordered to get under weigh, we were turned in a. direction contrary to that of our intended voyage, and carried down the, river qt a rapid rate, both, wind and current being with ug. 1 was now informed that the men in pos session of the. ship and property, as well as of my person, were a party of soldiers belonging to the famous chici Artigas; and that they had been des patched from a place called the Baxada of Santa Fe, for the express purpose of ovei taking and seizing the ship, In formation, it seems had been lodged with the commandant of that place by one of the sailors, who had left her on the outward voyage, that there weie arms on board; and this functionary, without further ceremony or pretext, had sent out the party on their coih mission of robbery, which, but for the interference of my Indian friend, would have been, consummated by murder. As we sailed down the river, and my rough companions perceived my unob trusive acquiescence in what was be yond my control, they relaxed a little in their severity, fegave.me occasional ly a glass of my own wine,. ,One day they laid their hands upon a double flageolot, and after much expression of wonder at the combination of two flutes or pipes into one, they insisted upon it that I should play them a tune. I was not, as you may conceive, gentle reader in the best frame of mind to. indulge in music; but the reiterated, and new rather stern orders to proceed, made me change my note. “Toca la flauta,” said the seijeant; “Vamos, hombre toca la flauta,” said my Indian friend; “ Poca, le digo,’- insisted afierce-look ing corporal,—till, rather frightened by their threats than yielding to their solicitations, I did literally sit down; and a prisoner, on the stern of the ves sel, in my miserable habiliments and total uncertainty as to the fate which awaited me—surrounded, too, by an audience far from indulgent or com placent, I tuned my flageolot. I pray that no one who condescends to read this may everina similar predicament, be constrained as I was “tocar la flauta,” (to play the flute;) and the sequel will show that I was constrained to do much harder thirgs. Having reached the Baxada, I was landed from the vessel under a feu de joieof musketry.in token of returning for the victory achieved, and the brave troops who had made so brilliant a prize in so undaunted a manner, march ed me up the hills which leads from the ■harbor to the town. With my arms [ pinioned, my soldier’s coat and cap, and a pair of old shoes being most literal ly my only habiliments, was I escorted along in a strange land, and without the slightest chance, according to . human probabilities, of communicating ! even to my friends at Buenos Ayres the predicament in which I was placed. . We were separated by a distance of 320 miles, with only two or three small intervening towns, and mud-huts at intervals offive leagues each, for the relay of horses. At this critical moment, and as des pair almost was puite overpowering hope, I met, coming out of the town, a red-haired Englishman named Manuel, who had been a servant of mine. As the party, under whose escort 1 was, passed him, I had just time to im plore him “for God’s sake go to and re port to my friends what he had seen, and what he could furtner learn of my imprisonment.” Five minutes after -1 wards I was marched into the public prison. Il consisted of but one large apartment totally unfurnished, unless bullocks’skulls,occupied by so many pr isoners, as seals, could he called furniture. I was received by the savage inmates of (his charnel-house with a frightful yell of CQmmingled welcome and derision. They struck their hands in rapid succession their mouths and shouted forth the fiendish screams ata pitch so, discordant and so loud, that 1 felt as if I had at once been ushered into Dante’s hell, oi Milton’s pandemonium. It was towards evening , & the flickering embers of a fire in the 1 IX (U 4. middle of the prison, at which the half naked and swarthy .wretches had been cooking UiQir day’s meal, sent Up, enve loped in smoke, a few feeble ray s,wkich -frh&ylntf on their ferocious cuunten ances, acldea - ror t o the general gloom of the place. The prises in South America team with m mates guilty of. every species of crime, out chiefly of the crime of murder. Every one of the lower classes there carries a knife in his girdle, and their orgies at the gin-shops, or “pulparies,” the ure of the knife is invariable resort ed to as the only legitimate arbiter of their quarrels. You are constantly shocked, as you pass one or other church-door in any of the larger town# by theexhibition ofsomestabbedcorpse laid out by order of the clergy to excite the compassion of the beholders, and through this compassion, to extort from them the means to defray the expense of burying the murdered man. Thus, even murder, there, constitutes no in considerable part of the Church’s gain. W ith this class of prisoners, was I now constrained to live in commons they insisted upon my treating them to a bottle of spirits, assuring medhat it was an invariable, indeed immemorial practice, thus to drink the health of every new lodger at his own expense. They added, that if I were not shot before the next lodger came, I should then parlicipaMjin common with them in the enjoyment of this well-known right and ancient privilege of the prison. I had no money—not a quar -tilloleft me: and so—-not to infringe -this -traditional and long-respected privilege—they stripped me of my cap and old shoeey’Md them feT a *agWr» diente” fthe spirit of the country,) and pledged me, as they insisted upon it thatl should pledge them, in a draught of the nouseous beverage,handed round to the company in a filly bullock’a horn. 1 relished the second edition of“toca la flauta,” as little as the first: but not to shock or detain you by a detail of the tedious and varied misery which, day after day, and night after night, I experienced in this wretched abode, I shall simply add, that almost over borne by the weight of calamity and woe which pressed upon me, I sought the last refuge of the wretched—sleep; and 1 found it—found it even upon the cold, dark floor of the Baxada Prison, and amid the yells and the carousal* of the inmantes of it. Nine long days and longer nights did I pass there; and 1 heard,during that time, my execution spoken of by the other prisoners as a thing quite settled. They went out to work in their chains every day, and heard, and repeated to me, the report* on this subject; as quite matter of noto riety. Frequently was I taken, under an escort, to the governor’s house, to be examined on the various crimes and mi?demeanors— allot course supposi tious—that were alleged against me; and each time was I fully persuaded, that instead of being called out for ex amation, I was wanted for execution. It is alleged that a schock of joy is often more fatal than a schock of grief; and I believe experience has shown it to be necessary to announce, to even the hardest felons, the news of a re prieve from sentence of death with great circumspection. Possibly how ever, as much circumspection might be wanted to announce to an ardent, lov ing husband the q lite unexpected death of a dear and doating wife. How the theory of this comparative vi olence of sudden and unexpected emo tions of pleasure and of woe might turn out really to be, if closely and analyti cally 1 am not at present prepared to say; but you shall require no theory to persuade, gentle reader, of the joy unspeakable, the heartfelt delight, with which I received his Ex cellency the Goveruor, when; on the ninth evening of my confinement, he came in, and with an air of awkward condescension, which spoke volumes to» me, announced that he had received, articles from General Artigas to set me at liberty. Not an antelope boun ding on the Andes—not a= frisking; fawn skipping in buoyant j'i>y before its darn—not a horse that, “pawetbjiJi the yaUeAc,<lfc.nejoiccth in bis steenin’* Sec last page.