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TO AID THE~CAUS]EqF VIRTUE
AND RELIGION.
c ‘ Unto one he gave Jive talents , to another
[ two and to another one* 9
■ A . most important talent is Moral
Jnfuence. Mankind are governed by
/influence more than by laws. Parental
. Influence is of all the most powerful.
The tender minds of children, Jike soft
wax, are easily stamped by any impres
sion and moulded into any shape. They
naturally imbibe the sentiments, copy
the manners and follow the example, of
their parents. It is therefore infinitely
important, that parental influence should
be directed by the unerring line of pru
dence and virtue. v
Female Influence , in respect to the for
ming of morals and manners,., is'much
greater than most people are aware* ;It
would be in the power of womens to
raise the tone ol'public morals. By their
frowns and armies properly directed,
they might banish from society profane
swearing* obscenity and foppery—they
might put an «“nd even to the murder
ous practice of duelling—they might
in no small degree, animate the other
£ex to a decent, manly and noble con
duct, if4.hey were only to make it a ne
cessary condition of obtaining their ap
probation and *. favour. Wealtn enlarges
*he sphere of moral Influence. Xhe
jich, who lead the fashion, have it in a
great measure iniheir power to render
meanness and jioe contemptible in the
public view,, arm to make decency and
virtue Men high in
and even ordinary Magistrates have mor
al influence projjortiopable to the de
grees of their elevation ; and according
to the aggregate influence of their ex
ample, virtue or vice will fle likely to
prevail among the people. jTheir char
acters will be critically scaned and
more or less of the people wid copy
• their manners and examples, whethei*
good or bad.|
The clerical office , has attacliecj to jt a
\£reatdegree of moral influence. A corre
spondent life in a preacher is the best en
forcement of the doctrines he preaches ;
f “Whereas morality and religion are more
injured bygone vicious clergyman than
they can be promoted by a thousand
good sermons. All men of learning and
superior knowledge have an enlarged
scope of moral influence, and, according
to the use tfley make of itj they will
promote good morals, or will be like
the blasting Bohan Upas to all around
them.
As moral influence is a talent , tfe are
accountable for the use of it. We are
accountable for all the evils which others
Are led to commit through our means.
If even one single person and much
more if mdny have been rendered vicious
by the influence of our conversation and s
example, we have a sad account to give.
Or though ’*Ue has not been directly
encouraf us, if we not uni
formly used our influenced against vice
& for the promotion of morality St pure
religion* we have acted the part of un
profitable servants. ?
Fayetteville American • j
ANECDOTES. V
A young gentleman of good morals was
, tmwarily drawn into a gaming house
where he was so lucky as to win all the
cash the gamesters had. Upon leaving
the place, he was beset at tne door by a
number of beggars, who generally at
tended to ask alms of the iortunate game
iters—he directed then* a neigh bo*
ATHENS, , THURSDAY JULY 2o 1815.
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?ng tavern, where he feasted them and
sent for such people us keep ’•csfdy*
9 made clothes, clad them all complete,
and gave each a sum of money* accor
ding as he -thought their necessities re
quired*.• Oft his arrival at, home* the
who had been very uneasy at his
long absence, inquired where he bad
been, and .what doing ? He said, I have
been fiilfiling the Scriptures— u The
naked have I clothed—fed- the hungry
—and the rich I have sent empty a
way.” •. _
, Doctor Mead had his rise in Jife
from being called to see the duchess of
i , at midnight. She unfortu
nately drank to excess—the - doctor a so
was very often inebriated, and was so
that night. ;.In the.*act of- feeling her
pulse, slipping his foot, he cried, ‘drunk,
by G——d.'< alluding, to himself- She,*
,imagining he had found out her com
plaint, which * she wished ;to conceal,
told the doctor, if be kept it secret, she
would recommend him—She did so, and
made h.is fortune*.
A cholar, running short of cash, sold
hrs books, and writing his father, said
‘ Rejoice father, for books are now tny
nourishment/* * . ‘
THE'BEAUTIES OF MICHdLLSc
The following account pfthe celebrv
ted British ;V Maj >r Nichol sis copied
from the Aurora ;* *
• “ This major- was tried in
May, *812j;0n; thirteen several charges
’ —the first of which , Was .cruelty to a
private of marines by.lieatingiiim with
a.bayonet, and indicting several wounds
one of which was .three inches in length,*
several other wounds in the
head and contusions on the body, so as
.to endanger.his life-wc:. J
i * 2 He caused two black seamen, taken
/from on board an American, vessel, ’ of
.the names of Henry; Dai raway and Tho
mas Jones, to be cruelly flogged, wi :h
--out any court martial, and then order
ed them to be sent to a desolate rock,
and there landed, without food or rai
ment* at an inclement season . of/the
year, so that Jones is believed to have
d,ed - v ... ...
3. Cruelty to a corporal,, by beating
and knocking out his teeth with a billet
of wood. . . ... t , . - / v
4. Cruelty to Joseph Rivett, a private,
by. Gruelly beating and jumping on his
b°*iy.
5. Tyrannical conduct and attempts
to influence a court martial in . the case
of Rivett,. and charging the the- court
with acquitting against evidence.,
tj : 6. Fof tyramcally causing* Rivett to
be tried a second time on the same
charges of which he had been before
acquitted- , ri
7. Cruelty to Richard Warweeil / an
other marine) whom he violently beat
with a heavy stick, as to oblige him ,to
place himself under the care of a sur-
S e<)n * * , • , .
8. Cruelty in inflicting lashes in a
private manner and without trial, on a
rharine named, and repeating this cru
elty three several times. ’ ;
Cruelty in the same way, to Tho
mas'Robinson, marine.
10. Cruelty in like riianher to
Mears, and jumping upon his body.
1 i. ThiC same Cruelty to John MGlas-
a marine.
12. Cruelty to bombadier Perkins,
Und reducing him without court-mar
tial.
13* Maliciously firing into one of the
royal gun-boats, and wounding the men
therein loathe danger of life*
For all these charges,he was only re
primanded, in consideration of his high
and gallant though the court
said they could mot but animadvert in
severe terms oh the violence he had
evinced on those several occasions/’
The late murder and robbery, which
was committed in Camden county,
ought to place the citizens of this state
and South Carolina, upon their gu&d
against the lower class of Spaniards,
who are how becoming very numerous
among us. Among other circumstan
ces mentioned in the confession, of the
two murderers of Mr. Bessert, who
were in Jail in this City ; they stated,
that about two hundred culprits who
had been confined in tha Moro Castle at
were put on board of the trans-
J>or** v wiili three hundred negroes, and
Wut to Anguatine, sometime since* far
its defence. . This motley crew of ban
ditti, constituted the regiment. It was
disbanded a few months ago and the ne
groes returned in transports to Cuba.
Those who were taken from the Castle,
were considered, v not only as useless
members.of society, but as a set of rob
bers and murderers, wfio would be an
encumbrance to. the Spanish govern
ment. < It was therefore determined that
they should be discharged at Augustine ;
and it was correctly conjectured that
they would soon spread themselves over
the United States. Os these v .butcher
ing robbers, there, are probably twenty
or thirty in this city ; most of them
men of color ;£hat is tolsay» a mixture
of white, Indian, and negro blood*> These
men, may very properly be denomina
ted Vagrants , because th£y have up visi
ble means of making a living. If you
ask-them jvhat their trades or, profes
sions are, they will readily answer, se
makers.-—This trade, requires no
Tools and may be learned in a few hours.
I®* short, it answers as a cover for a class
of people, who must not only be closely
watched, but driven out of our country.
dopted, we shall find some of our citi
zens murdered in the street before long
and their pockets emptied of whatever
is valuable. This class of people, speak
of the murder .of a *fellow creature,
with as much indifference, as a butcher
would of killing a pig,;; The life Os a
man is considered by them, of minor
importance, compared With a booty of five
or ten dollars. ..Two of the culprits who
murdered Mr*-. Bessent* .enquired, and
with great, apparant confidence, whe
ther, ; they., would notbe discharged, in
the event of their finding the money. I
1 .charge you my fellow citizens, to be
on your guard against these cut throats. ;
They ought not to be permitted to ap
pear in the streets at night ; and if they i
are found there, lodge thepi in gaol.
They are almost .all people of color,
therefore these measures .may be adop
ted without any charge, or violation, of
our political regulations. + ~
i Savannah Republican •
i -TH>.| I!
* , 5 GOOD. *
The Legislature of Massachusetts,
have counted the. votes for governor,
given at the late election. . The result
is, that the federal votes are Jive thous
and four hundred and fifty three less thbn
last year, t So much for t!*e violent at
tempts of Massachusetts federalism , to
create confusion, and stop of
government, in an awful and moment- 1
ous ; crisis* . old, corrupt,
prpfligate, and immoral of
Europe, there is a point of sufferance,
beyond which the people will not bear,
as we ,have seen in France ; anti under
the free Republic of the United States,
there is a point of Violence in opposition
beyond which we rejoice to believe the
people will not go- We need not fear,
but our republican institutions will yet
stand for ages, supported by a free and
enlightened yeomanrj?. -
Albany Register,
Spanish manifesto.
Os the justice, importance and neces
sity that the king our lord finds to op
poses the aggression of the usurper Bo
naparte, procure the repose of Europe,
and protect the rights of humanity and
religion, in alliance and union* with the
sovereigns who signed at Vienna the
declaration of the 10th March of the
present year.
4 EY THE KING.
One of the best kings that France has
bad, Louis XVlth, was the victim that
the cabal of cruel regicides sacrificed to
their ambition, to the astonishment and
terror of the world, and the greatest af
fliction of France, who saw the series of
sovereigns of the Bourbon dynasty cut
off ; of those sovereigns that history
presents to us with the surnames of pi*
ous, just, much beloved, and fathers of
their people ; of those sov reigns, tfbo
knew the responsibility of their situa
tions, and were conspicuous for atten
tion and love to their people l of those
sovereigns, in short, who, placing their
glory ini the felicity of their states; raised
their kingdom from the grade of a pow*
er of the second order to the distin
guished rank of dominant in
Tjhe stroke of a fatal execution mt the
thread of the life of Louis 16 ; his royal
virtues forsaking France, sought an a
sylutn in tile heart of Louis the 18th ;
and this unhappy kingdom, was from
that instant the blopdy theatre of anar
chy and factions. Thesej though varied
in different forms,, all agreed in the sys
tem of sacrificing tlieP public prosperity
to their own preservation ; and succee
ding each other brought forth the tyran
ny of Bonaparte,, and concentrated in his
hands,’ the arbitrary power exercised
until then by many. .
By means of seduc.ion, fraud and
force, this offspring of parties was pr,o
--r claimed Emperor by the French people }
and being favored by the fortune ofr war,
h,e obtained, the acknowledgment of so
vereign by itates of Europe
wko had neither the power to alter the
eternal principles of justice,,and left the
duty, of maintaining them to the extreme
ot hazarding the independence and pre
servation of their subjects the first ob
jects of their , governments. Spam
taught them all the art to put ah end
tQ the disturber of th.e : world; and. by
her example, afie” stifling private rival
ships, the powers succeeded to re-upjte
themselves against the common enemyif
and formed the most just alliance, to re
store to France her legitimate a.nd desi
red. sovereign, and banish from heC
.throne the sacrilegious intruder He,
fertile in arts, no way scrupulous in the
choice of means and accustomed td
characterise jas agreements
madeJyith fraud and violence,
ded to dispel the storm by negotiating
with me at and thfe frttit. of his
artifices was the humiliation of seeing
them frustrated, , Could the perfidiops
thing think that it was ki his power to
deceive twice, or that I could harbor id
my heart th^id:■* of purchasing My li
berty at the cost of the safety of my
people, and at the expence of the tran
quility of Europe.
. Heaven could not but favor the en
terprise of her ancient sovereigns, so
much distinguished for morality* religi
on and humanity* and . all began to
breathe .with freedom when, they saw
their rights recognized in the treaty of
Paris. , Vi r hat are the titles on which
Bonaparte founds his right to the Cfown
of France, and his pretension to reco
ver it, supported by the demoralized
part of tlie. nation, but thourned with the
tears. and sorrows of the most sound
portion, who sigh to live under the aus
pices of the just and clement Louis 18th.
As soon as, by the efforts of the faith**
ftil and braVe of Spain, iri union with the
other powers \ the chains that confined
me in. Valency were broken, 1 came
out of that residence to place myself in
the midst of subjects as a father in the
bosom of his family* To the satisfac
tion, Spaniards, of seeing ihyself among
you was united the firm purpose and
swefct hope of repaifing, by a long peace,
the havoc of the -most desolating and
bloody war. Nothing affected me but
the difficulty of undertaking. War had
depopulated the converted in
to walte the most fertile iarids, obstruc
ted oUr commerce, enfeebled the arts,
corrupted morals, impaired religiori
and enervated thev laws. How’ many
important and worthy objects to occupy
the attention of a sovereign who was
not born for himself, but to labor for
the happiness of the people that Divine
Providence had committed to his care
and vigilance l In what a short time
‘ the work of many centuries is destroyed
and how many difficulties does its repair
offer l I expected to conquer them all
by preseverance, by permanent of peace,
ana by the exertions of a paternal gov
ernment, protected by Providence * but
this in its high and inscrutable designs,
has permitted Bonaparte to return and
disturb Europe, and declare himself
her enemy, violating the conditions of
the treaty of Paris. Thus the war pre
pared hy him will justify the conduct of
cabinets tuyl exempt their alliances from
all responsibility.
The gdod and advantag of France,
and of the general tranquility, were the
object of the transactions of the allies ;
for this purpose they restored the des
poiled dynasty to its throne, placed on
it the just ; the desired by his people*
NO. LXXV.
