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STRAYED
PROM’ the Public Stable on the
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GEORGIA,
By his Excellency Jared Irwin,
Governor and Commander in
Chief of the Army and Navy
of this State and of the Militia
thereof.
A PROCLAMATION.
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JIJ.A\TNG arranged and cast up
the votes of such counties as have
made Returns of the Elections, held
on Monday the third day of
Odlober, inst. for four members to
represent this state, in the House of
Representatives of the Congress of
the United States, from and after
the third day of Ma-ch next —and
it appearing that Wm. W. Bibb,
Geo. M. Troup, Howell Cobb,
and Dennis Smelt, Efqs, have the
high est numbers ; I have thought
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each of the laid persons may figni
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said appointment, and adduce such
proofs of his being eligible therefor
as are by law required.
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State-House in Milledgeville,
this twenty* sixth day of Octo
ber, in the year of our Lord
one thousand, eight hundred
and eight, and of the Inde
pendence of the United States
of America the thirty-third.
JARED IRWIN.
By lhe Governor ,
HOR. MARBURY,
Secretary of the State.
DIALOGUE
between a
MADISONIAN AND MON
ROEITE.
Mad. What can induce the
Monroe committee to adl with lb
much untoward zeal, and such un
tiring perseverance at this criti al
time ? They mutt: be convinced
that it is almost impofiible to suc
ceed in their wilhes. We find that
there are two other candidates be
sides Mr. Monroe—Mr. Pinckney
to the south and Mr. Clinton to the
north, and that if their forces were
united, they would be unavailing,
much less- so, while they remain
dilunited and cbftinate in their sev
eral attachments. The vignr of
republicanism feerns to have di
minished, but not so much as the
Monroe committee seem to think,
from the critical and embarrajfed
state of the country, as from the ill
advised conduct of those who have
been all along attached to the re
publican party. It is far from our
intention to insult , because ft is be
neath us, or our wilh to proferibe , as
that is above us—it belongs to the
people. To illustrate an lnconfift
ency, ought not to be ccnfidered an
insult, and to prove the anti-repub
lican tendency of an opinion, ought
not to be viewed as pro/cription. —
Single opinions are not fufficient for
this purpose, provided they are ho
nest. But when there are many
opinions, methodifed and directed
for the purpose of reducing the re
publican afcendency, and when those
opinions are supported by sophistry
and inxndOf they give -ife to a very
fnfpioious appearance. For iV
stance—Mr. John Randolph’s o
pinions, for a confiderabie time,
have evinced the mod unfriendly
feelings in regard to the administra
tion. The gentleman we presume
will not deny it. There are others
who have not completely feed their
politics, and affedt to be friends of
the administration, while they are
determined, at the fame time, to
follow and support Mr. R. .Such
men as these deserve pro/cription.
Ic is certainly improper that any
perfen should be censured for his
preference of Mr. Monroe, but
then again, if he were aware of the
conftquence of his preference—
that ic would It Ten the republican
afcendency, and that his candidate
flood no chance, it surely would be
unpardonable obstinacy, although it
might proceed from honest infatua
tion.
Mon. It surely is no reason that
we should forfake an opinion which
we believe to be true, merely be
cause it will not ’p rev a ; *l> and it is
likevvife equally improper, that we
should abandon a friend because be
is not generally supported. We
claim the right as citizens of a free
government to form our opinions,
toexprefs them, and to aft upon
them. “We know that our mo
tives are pure, and we affirm that
our solicitude for the honor and
welfare of the United Stares, is as
ardent and sincere, tho \ perhaps, noc
so enlightened as that ot the Presi
dent hiinfeif.”
Mad. The adverb you have
used, may perhaps, fubjeft you to the
imputation of a little vanity, but we
will noc retaliate in this way, for the
unjust infer: uailor,, that we vvilli to
curtail the freedom of your thoughts,
or to insult or proferibe, merely
for a difference of individual elec
tion. You admit that the times are
critical and embarrajfed\ and you
mutt: admit that union in aftion, is
necessary to preserve the republi
can afcendency. It is afeerrained,
beyond a doubt (at lead in Virgin
ia) that Mr. Madison is the choice
of a majority of the republican par
ty. It has always been the case un
der similar circumstances, for the
few to be guided by the many, and
for both to co-operate with ail their
strength, to keep down our oppo
nents. But now we are told that
the majority of a party is nothing,
and that it is necessary, in order to
learn the choice of the majority, to
consult with our opponents, and to
give them that weight in the po
litical scale, which fome time ago
you wished to deflroy, and which
you adually effected by the Gen
eral Ticket Law. Why are
you for this conciliation now, which
was so odious then r You fay that
you are more ftolicitous about prin
ciple than men , and that Mr. Madi
son Hands high in your tftimation.
Why then wdl you, not abandon
your favorite, and support Mr.
Madison, at lead, upon the princi
ple of supporting the repuolican
afcendency ?
Mon. We deny that Mr. Madi
son ft the choice of the people, an ’
wc believe if their opinion* had not
been for£ftff!ed by the caucus
that Mr. Monroe would have been
decidedly their favorite. The pub
lic mind has been thus inpreoerlv’
bent and falhioned to suit the
schemes of a party, to which v.-e
never will ftibmir. 7 he delu/ion ,
however, produced by the caucus at
Washington, is row nearly at an end.,
We cannot poflibiy prevent the feci
cralifts from uniting in our wilh to
tied Mr. Monroe. They are e
equally entitled to their voces, and
to give them to whom thev prefer.
Mad. You are declaiming a
gain ft caucus, when the very firft:
sentence of the Monroe committee
address, admits, that they art aiding
entirely under powers thrived ftron
a caucus, held at the cspitol Lift
winter, for the express purpose oi
making arrangements to secure the
success of your cleftorial ticket.—
The decisions of a legiflative*cau
cus, have been hitherto refptdcu
and adopted, but during the 1 ft
winter, you refufed to co-operate,
and darted up an oppotttion party.
But it is perfcdly unnecessary talk
about caucuses now, as you fiy that
their delufton is nearly at an end.
They have had little or no tfredy
except to serve as a theme for de
clamation. From every poffihle
source from whence information
can be derived, it is unqueftiunably
true, (hat the people of Virginia,’
and of the United States (mcanmg
the republican party) are in favor
of Mr. Madison. Notwithstanding;
this, you are doing every thing in
your power to weaken his influence
aud to (Lengthen the nppefitinn.
This looks in >re like solicitude a*
bout men than principle , and cinftures
your oppcfition with a spirit of vio -
lence, which Items not to be pu
ly the result of predilldlton. But
to confine our Lives entirely to the
committee address. They contend
that Mr. mSViadifcn funds committed
upon every quefiicn involved in foreign
relations. Wdlycu Ipeak openly”
and candidly upon this fiil j ft :
the remaik appears to contain m< re
inuendo than argumenr, and con
jecture than ftsdl.
Men. The remark is too plain
to excite the least doubt or cor.fu
fion, and the fadV is too notorious
to admit of the least contradiftior;.
It is only neccffiry to recoiicdl the
official ficuation of Mr. Madison,
which renders it necessary for him
to pass his opinions upon almost
every fubjedl of foreign concern.
But independent of this, there is h : ;
diplomatic correspondence, where
his opinions are freely and univerfa'.
ly advanced, and, according to
which, the European poweta will
neyer form a treaty with us. I hus
it is he stands fixed and committed.
Mad. Is it poftible t!:at ycur
mind can be under the influence of
reasoning of this fort ? Is ic not e
quaiiy true in regard to M,r. Mo
roe, that he sands fixed and commit
ted upon every quefiicn involved in
foreign relations ? Turn to his di
plomatic correspondence, end there
you will find his opinions freely and
universally advanced. The evident
point of enquiry, then, to which
our attention should be directed, ft,
(No. 27.