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Yot. I.) ATHENS, GEORGIA : PRINTED BY M'DONNELL £sf HARRIS. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER n, 1808. TER M S OF THE j GEORGIA EXPRESS. 1. IT will be printed weekly, at ftee dollars per annum j one half 3 be paid in advance, the remainder (the expiration of,fix months. t 2. Advertisements will be charg ti at the rate of sixty-two and a ialf cents per square for the firft f ofercion, and fifty cents for each .ontiauation. j. No papers will be difeontinu :d without a notice to that effect j t or then if in arrears. Wf All letters direfied to the Editors riiuft be post paid. The following Gentleman are autho red to receive Subjcripticns for this taper : Clarks boro ’ —P ott-Mafter. jefferfon —Gen. B. Harris. Watkinfville— E. B. Jenkins, efq. Lexington —Poll Matter, & Capt. Watkins. ■Oglethorpe —Mr. Samuel Shields, sad William Lumpkins, Esq. ‘Walnut Grove- Mr. Lee Atkins. . Strong's Store —Post-Master. \Greenesboro' —Capt. T. Dawson. Sparta— Do 6l or W. Terrell. Wiay rent on — Pott -M a tte r. Pew el ton —Post-Matte r. TvfiUedgevillc—T homas Mounger i.:d James Bozeman, Efqrs. Btberton —Col. Wm. Chiflom. Petersburg —Alex. Pope, Esq. & Watkins. Vienna —S. B. Shields, Esq. Wilkes —David Terrell, Esq. Sc Doctor Bibb. Lincoln —Captain N. Allen, and Capt. John Hughes. Louifville—Mtft. Day & Whee- It. Augusta —J. S. Walker, Esq. & Doctor Smelt. fayneshore' —Col. John Davies. \Sanderfvilk —Mr. Wm. M'Mur- W Savannah- —Mr. H. H. Moun ter, and Mr. A. W. Scribner. FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD. STRAYED PROM’ the Public Stable on the F Okmulgee fome time in fte {ftuary latt, a Chefnut Sorrel Mare, hi years old, fifteen hands high well made, trots naturally, was Ihod ill round when she went away— without artificial marks—her natu ral marks ate, attar in the forehead forming a short dull blaze, with one or both hind feet white, fome laddie spots on the mounting fide. She was seen on the path leading to n , ethorpe court-house, and is fup :d to be rug off by fome person. Italy person giving information so ‘bat the said mare 13 obtained by the owner (if flraved) shall receive ten dollars—and fifty dollars if fto hi so that the thief be brought to Nifhment. V DENISON DARLING, Agent for the General pofl-ottice. Athens, July 20, 1808. blank|de!eds I For falc at ihjl office. GEORGIA EXPRESS. 1 many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. 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. o 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 fit to notify the lame, in order that each of the laid persons may figni fy his acceptance or refufal of the said appointment, and adduce such proofs of his being eligible therefor as are by law required. Given under ray hand and the Great Seal of the State, at the 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.