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VOL. I.) ATHENS, GEORGIA: PRINTED BY M-DONNELL tf HARRIS. SATURDAY, OCTOBER i, 1808. TER M S OF THE GEORGIA EXPRESS. 1. IT will be printed weekly, 2t three dollars per annum 5 one half to be paid in advance, the remainder ac the expiration of fix months. 2. Advertifemenrs will be charg ed at the rate of fixty-two and a half cents per fquarc for the ferft infertion, and fifty cents for each continuation. 3. No papers will be difconfinu cd without a notice to that cffeCtj nor then if in arrears. fcjr 3 All letters directed to the Editors muft be poll paid. The following Gentlemen are autho rized to receive Subfcriptions for th'i s Paper :— Clarksboro I — Pofb Mafter. Jeff erf on —Gm. B. Harris. \ Watklnlville —E. B. Jenkins, efq. • Lexington —ir'ofr Mailer, 6c Capt. Watkins. Oglethorpe —Mr. Samuel Shields, and William Lumpkins, Eq. Walnut Grove —Mr. L-e A kins, Strong's Store —Poft-Mafit-r. Greenesboro * —Caor. T. Dawfcn. Sparta—Doctor W. Terrell. War rent on —Poll-M after. Po-weiton —Poft- Mafter. Miiledgeville —Thomas Mounger and jaiTits, Bozeman, Efqrs. > klberion—Co\. Win. Chiflom. Petersburg —Alex. Pope, Efq. & Doft. Watkins. Vienna —s. B. Shields, Efq. Wilkes — David Terrell, Efq. & DoClor B bb. Lincoln —Captain N. Allen, and Capr. fchnHughes. Louifiiille ■ Mr. A. Day, Augujla —J. S. Walker, Efq. & D 6t r Smelt. Waynesboro I —Col. John Davies. Sandcr/viUe —Mr. Wm. M'Mur ray Savarvicih- —Mr. H. H. Mo lin ger, a;d Mr. A. W. S nbner. FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD. S FRAYED TpROM the Public Stable on the JL Okmulgee fome time in Fe bruary laft, Chefnut Sorrel Mare, fix years old, fifteen hands high, well made, trots naturally, vras fliod aft round when fhe went away— without artificial natu ral marks are, a ftar in the forehead forming a fhort dull blaze, with one cr both hind feet white, fome faddle fpots on the mounting fide. She wa: feen on the pach leading to Oglethorpe court-houle, 2nd is lup- be run off fome perfon. Any perfon giving information fo thnt the faid mare is ob Mined by the owner (if ftraved) fhail receive teo dollars —and fifty dollars if fto len fo that the tnief be brought to pviniffimeht. DENISON DARLTNG, Agent for the General poft-efnee. Athens, July 29, 1808. BLANK SUBPOENAS, For lale at this office. Tt OR GTA EXPR ESX MANY SHALL RUN TO AND FRO, AND KNOWLEDGE SHALL BE INCREASED. Prefdent's AnJover to the Bofton Pe tition. * ; V Auguft 26, 1 #os. Sir,: ■? . I beg leave to communicate through you the endofed anfwer to the-rcprefentation which came to me under cover from you, and to add the affurances of my ref peCt. \ • ’ TH: JEFFERSON. Charles BtiJfindh , Efq. for the feleCtmen ofßoftca. j To the inhabit ants of the town of Bbf tnn in legal town-meeting afnnbied. Yuur reprefentation and requeft were received on the 2 id inftant, and have been confidered with the attention due to every exprefiion of the fentiments and feelings of fo refpeCtable a body of my fellow cit izen?. No perfqn has feen with more concern than my leif, the in conveniences brought on our coun try in general, by the circumftan ces of the times in which we hap pen to live 5 times to which lh<s hiftorv of nations prefent no paral lel. For years we have been lock ing as fpeCUtorson our brethren of Europe afHiCted with all thefe evils which necefiarily follow an aban donment of the moral rule which bind men and nations together.— Connected with them in friendfhip and commerce, .we have happily lo far kept aloof from their calami tous cor fl Cts, by a fteady obferv ance of juftice towards all, by much forbearance, and multiplied facrifi ces. Ac length, however, all re gard to the rights of others having been thrown afide, the belligerent powers have befet the highway of commercial intercourfe with ediCls, which taken together, expofe our commerce and mariners, under al moli every deftinadon, a prey to their fleets and armies. Each party indeed would admit cur commerce wiih themfelves, with the view of affxiat'ujg us in their war againft the other. But we have wiftied war with neither. Under thefe circum flances were paffed the laws of which you complain, by thofe dele gated to cxercife the powers of leg'flation for you, with every fym pa:hy of a common intcreft in exer ciflng them faithfully. In review ing thefe meafures therefore we §K.uld advert to the difficulties out of which a choice Was of neceffity to be made. To have fubmitted our rightful commerce to prohibi tions and tributary exa&ions from others, would have been to furren der our independence. To refift theitl by arms was war, without confuting the flace of things or the choice of the nation. The alterna tive preferred by the Legiflaturc of fufpending a commerce placed un der fucb unexampled difficulties, befldes faving to our citizens their property, and our mariners to their country, has the peculiar advantage of giving time to the belligerent nations to revife a cbnduft as con trary to theif interefts as it is to our rights. “In the events offuch peace, or fufperuon of hoftiiities between the belligerent powers of Europe, or of fuch a change in their meafures af fecting neutral commerce, as may render that of the United States Efficiently fafe, in the judgement of the Prefident,” he is auchorifed to fufpend the, embargo, .*■ But no peace or fufpenfion of hoftilities, no change of meaiures affecting neutral commerce, is known to have taken place. The orders of En gland, and the decrees of France and Spam exifting at the date of thefe law?, are ftill unrepealed, as far as we know. In Spain indeed a conteft for the government ap pears to have arilen \ but of its courfe or profpeCts, we have no in iormation on which prudence would undertake a hafty change in our pol icy, even were the authority of the executive competent to fuch a de cifion. \ , : ■ . You defire that, in this defeCt of power Congrefs may be fpecially convened. It is unnecdlary. to ex amine the evidence or the charac ter of the fafis which are fuppofed to dictate fuch a call: Becaufe you will be fer.fible, on attention to dates, that the legal period of their meeting is as early as, in this ex tenfive country, they could be ful ly convened by a fpecial call. . I Should with great willingnefs, have executed the wifhes of the in habitants of the town of Boflon, had peace, ora repeal of the obnoxious edicts, or other changes, produced the cafe in which alone the laws have given me that authority ; and fo many motives of juftice and fil tered lead to fuch changes, that we ought continually to expcCt them. But while thefe edicts remain, the Legislature alone can preferibe the couife to be purified. TH: JEFFERSON. Aug. 26, 180S. FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER. A number of the leading federal prints have at length come forward with the nomination of General Pinckney for the Prefidency.— For a long time thefe prints affect ed a faftidious neutrality, or fatis fied themfelves with exprefling a preference of one republican candi date to the others named. Wheth er this change in their tone arifes from any hope entertained of ceeding in the choice of a federal man, or from an entire hopelefTnefs of dividing the republicans, or from an infiduous attempt to throw the republicans off their guard, it Is not eafy to fay. It is, however, imma terial which of thefe is theif objeCt, as they ought all of them to have the fame influence. It is highly probable, indeed, that, according to circumftances, the federal votes will be given to a federal man, or to a republican, in fuch a way as (hall beft fubferve federal ends. For a while the federal party flat tered themfelves with the hope of a feriou3 diviflon among the republi cans. While any circumftances oc curred to favor this hope, they perceived and yielded to the policy of keeping themfelves as much ss poffibic out of view.; Fortunately, •however, for the nation, it has Jpo ken on this head the moft unequiv ocal language, and there *is not a republican date in -the; union that has not declared itfelf in favor of Mr. Madifon.Even New-York with a patriotifm that refieds upon her the highed honor, has facrificed local to national motives, and man ifeded her purpofe not to be fepar ated from her fider dates. ;J If there be a hope entertained by the federalifts of carrying a federal man into The Prtfidency, we may red fatisfied that every exertion in the power of man. will be made to efte£t fo great an objed. It wi'll be endeavored to effect it, not from the fuperior talents or virtues of their candidate, not frpm the predilidiosi of the people, of the U. States for federalifm, but, by producing the impreflion that the great meafures of the lad ftftion of Congrefs, and more efpecially the embargo, are impolitic, and that the good of the country require that thefe deps Ihould be retraced. Heaven and earth will be moved to produce this convidion j the people will be loudly appealed to on this head, and they will be called upon to overlook every other confideration Asa large portion of every com munity are prone tb facrifice their ultimate interefts to thefe of the moment, the low price of produce and the dagnation of commerce will be copioufly dwelt Upon, and aferi bed, ndt to the Unjuft conduft of foreign powers, but the embargo. To counteract thefe falfe im prelfions on the public mind, it will be the duty of the republicans to be vigilant and affiduous. Let them realife the prefent crifis as all-im portant. On its iftfue truly depend the great interefts of the nation ; not thofeof a day, butthofe of ma ny years, end perhaps of ages.— The election of Mr. Madifon can no longer be confidered in any de gree as a perfonal conteft. He is the republican candidate, and the only republican candidate. The other republicans named, however, fincere their political fentiments may be, muft derive their fupporc from the federalifts. Can there, under fuch a ftate of things, any longer exift adivifion among the re publicans ? Are they not called upon by the molt powerful motives of patriotilm to facrifice their per fonal or local predtliCtions on the altar of patriotifm ? Who among theto, that is a republican at heart, that Will forgive himfelf Ihould his apathy or vote throw the affairs of the country into the hands of the federalifts, or juftify the impreflion of foreign governments that the people of the U. States do not pof fefs the fortitude to adhere to the prefent fyftem of meafures f It may be that the nomination of Gen. Pinckney flows from the hopeleffnefs of dividing the repub licans, and that all that is Intended by it, is the creation of a rallying point for the federal eleCtoriai votes, not from any expectation entertained (No. 21.