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VOL. I.) ATHENS, GEORGIA : PRINTED BY ALEXANDER M*J DONNELL, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1809. > TERM 3 II OF THE GEORGIA EXPRESS* B i. IT will be printed weekly, at three dollars per annum 3 one half ti be paid in advance, the remainder a. the expiration of fix months. 1 i. Advertifements will be charg ed at the rate oi lixty-two and a h ilf cents per fquare for the firft. infer cion, and fifty cents for each | 3’ No papers will be di{continu ed without a notice to that cffcdtj |nor then if in arrears. {Cfp AH letters direfted to the Bid::or muft be poft paid. The following Gentlemen are autho rized, to receive Subfcriptions for tins : i ‘apfr : fe Clarks boro' —Pod- Mailer. m Jcfferfon- —Mai. Edwin L. Harris. I Watldnmic- E. B. Jenkins, efq. <a'd Mr. Edward Bond. f Lexington —-Foil Mailer, & Gapt. ffatkvs. Oglethorpe —Mr. Samuel Shields, land William Lumpkins, Efq. I Walnut'Gr.cvi — Mr.-Lee Atkin?, % Goofe.fbnd-~ Mr. H. T. Woody. 1 Greenesbcro'— Capt. T. Dawfon. 1. Sparta —l)odor W. Terrell. % WarfentoH-^fboh- Mailer. Pewelton-r— Lk. * * Maflci. | JMithd^"dlh —Thomas Mopnger p* and Ja me:;. Bozeman, Efqrs, |. hxlonton —Chnftopher B. Strong, ii’fq. Elbertsn —Col. \Tm. Ch’flom,. Petersburg- —Aiex. Pope, Efq. &; - Docl. Watkins. Vienna— s. B. Shields, Eiq. [\ Wilkes —David Terrell, Efq. & fcodor B o b. i Lincoln —-Captain N. Allen,- and Gap:. John Hughes, i Louijville —Me fix'. Day & Whee- I’JcT# I JuguJla—J. S. Walker, Efq. fe fooifl r Smelt. i Waynesboro' —-Col. John Davits. I Sanderjville —Mr. Wm. McMur ;y. I Savannah —Mr. H. H. Modn p-C r > a! 'd Mr. A. W. Scribner. NOTICE, HP ~~~ JL HAT the Planters Com pany of the County of.Ciark is by mutual confent diffolvedi and that the book and other papers belong ing to the concern are depofited in the:: hands of Meters. Thornas U [Reuben Hill for fettlement 3 to jwhprn per foes indebted will be p ] eafcd to make payment, and all duofe to whom payments are due Ivill alfo be pleafed to render their sp - “'tints in, in oruer ihat provifiori pay be made to difeharge them. HARMON RUNNELS, WILLIAM WRIGHT, JON ATHAN MELTON, STEPHEN CROW, STROTHER, ZADOCK COOK, THOMAS HILL, BENJAMIN HAGOOD, PETER RANDOLPH. March 4, 1809. GEORGIA EXPRESS. MANY SHALL RUN TO AND FRO, AND KNOWLEDGE SHALL BE INCREASED. WASHINGTON CITY, March 4. , This day at 12 o’clock, James Madison took the cath of office as PRESIDENT of the United States y and delivered, in the Cham ber of the Houfe of Reprefenca tives, in the pretence of the Sen ate, mote of the late Reprefenra tives, and a large concourfe of Cit izens, the following SEE E C K : Unwilling to depart from Ex amples, of the mod revered author ity, I avail myfeif of the occafion now prefented, to exp refs the pro found tmpreffion made on me, by the call of mv country to the Na tion, to the duties of which I. am about to pledge myfeif, by the rriofl fclemn of famftions. So diftin guiffied a mark of confidence, pro ceeding from the deliberate and tranquil fnfFrage of 0 free and vir tuous nation- would, under .toy cir cumftances, have commanded my gratitude and devotion ; as well as filled me with an awful fe n fe of the trull to be a Turned. Under the various circumfrances which give peculiar folemnity ro the exiting period, I feel that both the honor and the refpor.fibility allotted to me are inexpreffively enhanced. The pit; rent firuattun of the world is indeed without a parallel : and that of cur own country full of difficulties. ‘ The preffure of thefe too is the more feverely felt, becaufe they have fallen upon us at a mo ment, when the national prolperky being at a height not before attain ed, the contrail refill ting from the change has been rendered the more ftriking. Under the benign influ ence of o-ur Republican inih'tutiofß, and the maintenance of peace with all nations, whilft fo tinny of them were engaged in bloody and wafte ful wars, the fruits of a juft policy were enjoyed in an unrivalled growth of our faculties and. refources.— Proofs of this were Den in the im provements of agriculture 3 in the fuccefsfui enterpriles of commerce ; in the progrefs of manufactures and uftful arts ; in the increafe of the public revenue, and the ufe made of it in reducing the public debt, 2nd in the valuable works and ef tablifhroents every where multiply ing over the face of our land. It is a precious rdkflion that the tranfition from this profperqus condition of our country, to the feene which has for Tome time been diftrtffing us, is not chargeable on any unwarrantable views, nor, as I trufl:, on any involuntary errors, in the public councils. Indulging no paftions which trefpafs on the rights or the repofe of other nations, it has been the true glory of the United States to cultivate peace, by obterv ing juft ice 3 and to entitle them felvesto the refped of the nations at war, by fulfilling their neutral obligations, with the rooft ferupu lous impartiality. If there be can dor in the world, the truth of thefe aftertions will not be queftioned j pofteritv, at leaft, will do iuftice to them. This unexceptionable courfe could not avail again ft the injuftice and violence of the belligerent powers. In their rjge againft each other, or impelled by more direct motives, principles of retaliation have been introduced, equaMy contrary to uni versal reafon, and acknowledged law. How long their aibitrary c : (lids will be continued, in fpite .of the demonftrations that not even a pretext for them has been givvn by the United Stares, and of the fair and liberal attempt to induce a re vocation of them, cannot be anti cipated. Alluring myfeif, that un der every vicifitudr, the determin ed fpirit and united councils of the nation wiF be fafe- guards to its honor and its eftential interefts, I repair to the pc ft affigned me, with no other difcouiagemcnt than what fprings from my own inadequacy to its high duties. If Ido not link under che weight of this deep convidion, it Is becaufe I find fome lop port in a confcioufnefs of the purpofes, and a confidence in the principles which I bring with me, into this arduous fervicc. • To cherilh peace and friendly intercourle with all nations having correfpondent difpo'fitions j to maintain fincere neutrality towards belligerent nations j to prefer, in all cafes, amicable difcuffion and reafonable accommodation of diffe rences, to a dedlion of them by an appeal to arms ■, to exclude foreign intrigue and foreign partialities, fo degrading to ail countries, and fo baneful to free ones 3 to fofter a fpirit of independence, too juft to invade the rights of others, too preud to Jurn.nder our own 3 too liberal to indulge unworthy preju dices of ourfeives, and too elevated not to look down upon them in others 3 to hold the union of the Hates as the bafis of their peace and happinefs] to iupport the conftitu tion, which is the cement of the union, as well in its limitations ns in its authorities 3 to refpefl the rights and authorities referved to the ftates and to the people, as e qually incqrporared with, and ef fential to the fuccefs of, the gene ral fyftem ; to avoid the Oightcft interference with the rights ot con fcience or the funiTions of religion, fo wifely exempted from civil ju rifdidtion} to preferve in their full energy the other falutary piovifions in behalf of private and perfonal rights, and cf the freedom of the prefs i to obferve economy in pub lic expenditures 3 to liberate the public refources by an honorable difeharge of the public debts 3 to keep within the rcqusfite limits a Handing military force, always re membering that an armed and trained militia is the firmed: bulwark of Republics 3 that without Hand ing armies their liberty can never lie in danger; nor, with large ones fafe 3 to’ promote by authored means improvements friendly to agriculture, tb manufactures, and to external as well as internal com merce 3 to faVor in like manner, the advancement of fcience, and the diffufion of information, as the be ft aliment to true liberty 3 to carry on the benevolent plans, which have been fo meritoriously applied to the converlion of cur aboriginal neigh bors from the degradation and wretchednefs of favage life; to a participation of the improvements of which the human mind ci and manners arc fufeepible in a civilift'd ftate i As Jay as tenements and in - tentions, fuch as thefe, can aid the fulfilment of my duty, they will be a refource which cannot fail me. It is my good fortune, moreover, to have the path, in which I am to tread, Lghted by examples of illuf trious krwices, fucceisfully ren dered in the molt trying difficulties by thole who have marched before me. Of thafe of my immediate predectfTor, it rrjght leaft become me here to fpeak. J may however be pardoned for not fuppreffing the fympathy with which my heart is full, in the rich reward he enjoys in the becedidlions of a beloved country, gratefully beftoued for ex alted talents, zcaloufly devoted through a long career, to th* ad vancement of its hi ghe ft: intereft and happinefs. , But the fource, to which I look for the aid which alone can fupply my deficiencies, is in the well tried , intelligence and virtue of my fellow citizens, and in the councils of thole reprefenting rhen, in the other departments aflbdated .n the care of the naßonal inn reft. la thefe my confidence will under every difficulty be beft placed next to that which we have all been encouraged to feel in the guarch'an ftiip and guidance of that almighty Being, whole power regulates the; deftiny of nations, whose, bleffings have been fo confpkuoully difpt us ed to this riling Republic, and to whom we are bound to addrefs our devout gratitude for the paft, as weft ns our fervent fup plications and bell hopes for the future. C^OC'—— SPE E C H Delivered by the Prdident of the United States to the Deputies oi the Cherokee Upper -Towns, My Children , Deputies of lbe Cherokee Upper Towns , I have maturely confide red the fpeeches you have delivered me, and will now give you anfwers tu the teveral matters they contain. You inform me cf your anxious defires to engage in the induftriouj. purfuits of agriculture and civilized life 3 that finding it impracticable to induce the nation at large to>’ join in this, you w’ifti ?i line of fe paration to be eftabliffied between the Upper and Lower Towns, fo as to include all the waters of the HighwalTee in your part 3 and that having thus contrrefted your focie ty within narrower limits, you pro pofe, within thefe, to begin the ef tabUfiment of fixed law;; and of regular government. You fay, that the Lower Towns arc fitkfied with the divifion you propofe, and on thefe feveral matters you alk nay 2dvice and aid. With to the line of divi fion between yourftlves and the Lower Towns, it muft reft on the joint confent of both parties. The one you propofe appears moderate, (No. 44.