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VOL. I.) ATHENS, GEORGIA : PRINTED BY M'DONNELL HARRIS. SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1809. TERMS OF THE GEORGIA EXPRESS. - 1. IT will be printed weekly, at three dol-Lrs per annum; one half to be paid in advance, the remainder at the expiration of fix months. 2. Advertifemenrs will be charg ed at the rare of fixty-two and a half cents per fouare for the ftrft in fern on, and firry cents for each continuation. 3. No papers will he difeontinu cd without a notice to that drift $ nor then if in arrears. All h tters directed to the Editors muf: be poft paid. The following Gentlemen are autho rized to receive SubfcripTims for this Paper :— Clarksbcrtf —Port-Matter. Jejferfon— Gen. B. Harris. Watkinh'dls —S. B. Jenkins, efq. and M . Edward B >nd. Lexington —Reft Matter, & Capt. Warkir.s. Oglethorpe —Mr. Simurtt Shields, and Wiiiiam Lumpkins, E:q. Walnut Grove —Mr. Lee Adkins. Go'fe-p:)::d —Mr. H. T. Woody. G) eone shorn ’ —Car>r. T. Dawfon. Spar*a —D ;ftor W. Terrell. Warrcnicn — !*• >ft- Matter. Poweltcn —Pott- Matter. Mil’edgeviile — Thorpas Mobnger and James Bozeman, Efqrs. hatonton —Chriftopher B. Strong, Efq. Elbertov, —Col. Wm. Ch’flom. Petersburg —Alex. Pope, Efq. Zc Doft. Watkirs. Vienn I—S.1 —S. B. Shields, Efq. Wilkes —David Terrell, Eiq. Sc Deft ;r Bibb. Lincoln —Capta’n N. Allen, and Cap . John Hughes. ‘ Louifmlle —MefT. Day & Whee ler. Augufla —J. S. Walker, Efq. & Deft r Snru. it. Waynesboro* —Col. John Davies. Sanderfville —Mr. Wm. IvLMur ray. Savannah —Mr. H. H. Moun ger, a,)| Mr. A. W. Scribner.* it O N G R E S S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTA TIVES. December 13. Mr. Troup faid, he was extreme ly happy to agree in one thing with the honorable gentleman who has jail fat down, that the fouthern had not (uttered lefs by the operation of the embargo than the eaftern flares; but when in differing from the gen deman from Mafia ehufetrs (Mr. Qjine) on a point of (till greater’ importance he was alfo compelled to differ from the hon. gentleman from Virginia ; he did fo with the deepeft regret. It has been faid by He geudeman from Maflachu fetts, (obferved Mr. TANARUS.) that for the tail 11 months the country has Juffered by this fyftem of embargo, the extreme ofdifg r ace and humil iation, and the gentiemac from Vir- GEORGIA EXPRESS. MANY SHALL RUN TO AND FRO, AND KNOWLEDGE SHALL BE INCREASED. ginia has called it a meafure of de grading fubmifiion. Sir, it is not a meafure of fubmifiion \ it is a meafure of refittance, and of the moft formidable refittance. What ever may have been the ofcjeft of the Executive in recommending the embargo, it has ever been fupporc ed by me as a meafure of coercion, as a meattfre of juftifhble retalia tion. I contend that it is not fub mifiion. Acquiescence in the or ders and decrees ; fubmifiion to feizure and condemnation, would be fubmifiion to all intents and pur ports ; but that meafure which keeps at home the fhips and pro perty which our enemies leek to capture on the high fc3s is not fub nvfliofc, but refittance, and the gen tleman from Mafiachufetts will find it fo to his forrew. Commerce, fir, is the life-blood of England ; is the foundation of her wealth, her profperity and her maritime gran deur. But the gentleman fays we have retired from the highway of nations and left our great rival free to navigate vt. True—we have re tired from the ocean ; we have left our rival free to navigate ; but very little more than between port and port of her own dominions. We have given the finifhing ftroke to her exclusion -from the commerce of the whole civilized world—ttie has not one tittle of it left other than wi.at you yourfelvea wc:ttd have if your embargo were railed to-morrow, and your committee have told you what that is—a ican ty, contemptible commerce of 7,000,000 of dollars. Ehghnd loft when France fliut the continent again!! her—fhe loft o,ocO;oco by tbe occiufi >n of you.* own, ports, and nothing of trade is left her but that which <fns mav drive with the native powers of Afia and Africa, with Sweden, and precarioufiy With Spain, Portugal and their pofieffions. No more then of railing the embargo to carry on commerce, when .without a facrifLe of independence, without a ddhonorable fubmifiion to the or ders of council we cannot carry on more than 7,000,000 of commerce. 1 know ic is laid that the people of the fouthern ftates are the ene mies of foreign trade, thattheif fpi ritand intereft are anti-commercial. Sir, in this fentiment which is it.elf without formation, nav without e ven the fhadow of foundation is ro be fought that jealoufy which has given rife to lb many evils, and from which fuch ferious evtts are yet to be apprehended—but fir it is a mean, pitiful, contemptible jeal oufy. The fouthern ftates are not the enemies of commerce— how can st be faid of a people who raife 70,000,000 of pounds of cot ton, and for which they have not a home market for 10,000,000, that they are the enemies of commerce ! No fir, they have from the begin ning of your government <0 the prtlent day facrificed as much to the profperity of commerce as any people of the union; they have been at all times as ready to go to war for commerce-—on the attack of the Chtfapcak© they were even more forward to go to war for the honor and and gnity of the flag than the people of the eaftern ftates. A httie more than was faid by mv friend from Virginia, as to the cotrparicive operation of the em bargo on the eaftern and fouthern flares—compare the operation of this mcature by its proper teft— the only true and correft one j the depreciation of the refpeftive fta pLs of thofe two frftlons of the union. Let the gentleman from Mafiachufctts ftate to the Houfe what has been the depreciation of his beef, pork, filh, butter, cheefe, onions, potatoes and cabbages, and 1 will tell him what has been the depreciation of our great ftaples cotton and rice. The ordinary market price of cotton is between 18 and 22 cents j the embargo price is from 10 to 12 j the ordi nary price of rice is from 5 to 6 dollars j the embargo price is from 2to 3. Our people are bcfidcs in proportion to their number mote in debt than the people of che Eaftern ftates. But the gentleman from Mafia chufetts warns us againft a perfeve rance in the fyftem of embargo—a perfeverance according to the gen tleman is to be followed by open hottility to” the laws. Sir, 1 dread no fuch hottility ; we have no rea fon to dread ic; it is altogether im pcfiible that- men who are actuated by the bafeft of human pafiions, can make a ferious movement in a re volution. No, fir, I infill upon it, we have no caufe to fear the anti embargo men of Mafiachufetts j one brave, independent, generous yco frtan of Mafiachufects, would drive half a dozen fuch fellows into the ocean. But the truth is, the gen tleman feems to have wholly mif taken the condition of his country men. He told us they had fuffer ed every thing but famine, that the diftrefs and ruin were co-exrenfive with the country, they could or would not fuller longer. Yet, fir, the gentleman was not well feared before his colleague (Mr. Bacon) rofe, and with equal claim to vera city and the fame opportunity ©f forming a correft opinion, told you that his honorable colleague had gi ven a very high coloring to the pifture ; that the diftrtfTes of the people weie by no means as great as they were deferibed, and that if thev were lefs profperous and fl nj rifhing than before the embargo, they were far, very far from that ftate of mifery which his colleague had reprefented. Sir, many of thefe obfervations have been made with extreme re- Juftancc : they have been extorted under circumftances which mett give pain to every American, but which cannot fail to kindle in him the livelifft indignation. No man can read without horror and difguft in the papers of the day, the moft treasonable and flagitious libel that ever difgraced our country (the a nommous publication circulated in Newbury-Port.) Sir, it is remarkable that w; have been fo gradually familiarized With Britiih outrages, and have at length become fo completely reconciled to the tpott extravagant excefils of them that what, two years ago you would have been willing to go to war for, would now be confidticd a matter cf too trifling importance to merit your attention, much lefs your refentment. Two, yea’s ags you were willing to go to war co limit the right of Icarch, you would have gone to war to prohibit the praftice of impreif nent, you would have gone to war to overturn the lawlefs fyftem of blockade ; you would have gone to war for the co lonial trade ; for the attack on the Chefapeake j two years ago you would have gone to war for the or ders in council, and now that all thefe outrages aid more than thefe have accumulated on row head uu . . * ‘ iv til you arc bowed down to the earth—you are content to beg a lie.le commerce of England—you tell England if fhe will be pleafed to grant you a little trade you will open your ports to her and (hue them againft France. This laft, this humiliating overture file rej-fts with indignation—you have no choice left, as your commut'-e has reported, but between war and em bargo. We cannot go to war with one without going to war with the other j becaufe the wrongs done by one are. not lefs than the wrong* .done by the o:her—unbfs indeed you confider the fheddmg of inno cent blood the greatefl of all pcf fible wrongs. I know this meafure of embargo has been condemned, loudly con demned j but only by men who propofe to releat themfelves in pow er by an appeal to the feelings and intereft of the community. In one part of the countiw this appeal has been made with effeft. The ava ricious have been corrupted, the ignorant have been duped. In all countries there are the avaricious and the ignorant, and the palfion of the one and the crrdtility of che o ther have been wielded with fuccefs by the anti-embargo men. Sir, the people have been led to believe, that a commerce could be carried on under the orders and de crees, when in faft no commerce could be carried on without com promicting the honor of tne nation. They have been led to believe tSa: a commerce couM be csrried oh without hazarding Te peace of the country,- when in faft no commerce could be carried on without involv ing the country in war, and v/hilft the great objeft of the government was to proteft commerce the em bargo was laid to aim a deadly blow at commerce. It is by fuch mif rep re fen tar ions that the noi fy ene mies of embargo out ot doors have been deluded and corrupted. And are thefe the people to whom wt* are called on to turn a rcfptftful and deferential ear. The merelt Shy locks—men who cry out, aw a/ with your honor, your independ ence, your neutrality—they are a’l fluff—give me gold ! B t!Hi mer chants, Britiih agents, and malcon tent Americans—the deprived of the cities, and the ignora.'juof thi country —men who are icady tu Ac- (*°- 35.