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March 4, 1809.
GEORGIA EXPRESS.’
many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Fop. the Georcia Express.
NO. 111.
Georgians,
HOW comes it to pafs that
Americans, defendants of the pa
triots of *7 63 allow their rights to
be thus trampled upon, not only
by Great Britain but alfo by France
-—but the infults of Britain have
been more inhuman and unprinci
pled than thofe of France. Ido
not wifh.to be coniidered the apo
iogift of France by this aftertion.—
Allow any unprejudiced man to be
afked which of the two nations have
given us the greateft caufe of re
fentment ; the anfwer muft be
plain—He will undoubtedly fay that
Great Britain has infulted us in a
more outrageous and cruel man
ner than has heretofore had a pre
cedent. Was ever there a more
infuhing circumftance than the
blockading our ports and murder
ing one of our peaceable citizens in
1804, 2nd this too when he was
following his lawful occupation.-
Has our government even received
any fatisfaction for this infulr, which
can be equalled only by other
Britifh depredations ? they have
received this much—the murderer,
Whitby, has had a (ham trial be
fore a court martial and has been
honorably acquitted, taken from the
command of a 50 gun fhip and gi
ven that of a 74. This is his re
ward for having murdered an Artie
rican citizen 1 But what more can
we expedl from a nation who has
adted as unprincipled, as Britain did
towards Denmark, a nation which,
had been favorable to the Britifh
caufe and had in a great meafure.
aided her againft her enemies.—-
And my countrymen you know
not how foon forne of our fea-port
towns may be treated in the fame
manner Copenhagen wis in the year
1807 ; be therefore on the alert—.
watch every fufpicious man whom
you think the friend of Britain in
the deleft manner—do not allow
them your fuffrages at any ele&ion,.
for by getting into office they will
have it more in their power to in
jure you. Would the infamous
letter of Timothy Pickering have
had as great influence on the Bri
tifh tainiftry if ii had came from a
iefs confpicuous fource ?. undoubt
edly it would not j for if they were
to give credulity to every letter
that is from America againft cur
government, ! they would not only
make themfeives ridiculous in the
eyes of the world but alfo draw the
odium of their countrymen upon
them. But on the contrary when
their information is received from
fuch a refpedtable quarter, when it
even comes from a Senator of the
United States, they were juftiftafilc
in their belief that a fix months
embargo would produce an infur
redtion in our country, and this be
lief founded on the fuppofition that
Timothy Pickering’s letter was
bottomed on truth was one great
reafon that our embargo has been
defeated. Beware then of fuch
characters fmee you have learnt
from woeful experience they are
r.ot the friends of your freedom.—•
By feme perhaps it may be tho’t
needlefs to mention the barbarous
and unjuft attack on the Che fa peake
in 1807, but we ought to bring
frefh in our memories all paft in
luits for which we have received no
reparation, when the time appears
to be fall approaching when we
ffiall be compelled to !e e a fscisfac
,tion by force. The bare mention
of the Chefapeake ought to infpire
every, American boforii with an e
ternal hatred towards Britain, and
ought to fill their minds will'* a de
termination to facrificc every pri
vate motive in obtaining juftice for
the many wrongs of his country. —
And this is the only inftance of
Britifh infulc for which we have
been offered the lead reparation,
and her offers were infuking to our
feelings. They fent a minifter
with pretended powers to make due
reparation for this infulr, but how
far did the commiftion of Mr. Role
extend has not as yet been certain
ly known; but we . know this far
that he would not let his terms cf
reparation be known unlefs cur
government would refeind a procla
mation of the Prefident’s, deny the
truth of Commodore Barron’s let
ter, and in a word to proftrate. our
felves before them begging for
juftice becaijfe we had received an
injury. The refeindingof the Pre
fidents proclamation would rot per
haps have been followed by Mr.
Role’s making any amicable pro
pofals, with regard to the Chefa
peake, but; on the contrary might
have been followed by another ftlll
more unjuft - requifition, and at
length he might have departed with
out giving tnc proferred fatisfadli
on. : This a juft conclufion when
we fee Britain In every inftance acl
with as grejit and often tirfces great
er depluciry and deception. As
regards the Prefident’s denying the
truth of Commodore Barron’s let
ter, it muft appear obvius to eve
ry, .thinking and reafon able perfon,
that -if the Prefidenc had commit
ted this unjuft adl there would have
been a ftiii greater ft/gma call upon
our national charatfer. What en
couragement would there have been
for our naval officers to ferve their
country, when upon the bare affer
tion of a Britifh officer every word
they would utter would be confider
ed falfe. Quite a different courfe
of conduft has directed the councils
of cur nation; our government has
defeended thus far to offer to with
draw the Prefident’s proclamation
provided Mr. Rofe would firft
make known his terms of repara
tion ; he refufed, what then but
Come hidden unknown defign could
have been the caufe of his refufmg
to negociate on fair and honorable
terms ; our. government was ap
prifed of this and afled accordingly.
No my countrymen, Britain did not
at the very time fhe fent Mr. Rofe
to your country intend yon fliould
receive any reparation for thisinfult.
She only wiihed to amufe you. for
the moment while fhe exerted her
felf in attempting to influence the
ele&ion of your Prefident, hoping
that if fhe fhould be fo fortunate
as to get one of her creatures in of
fice, the reje&ed treaty would them
be renewed, and fhe would be able
to accompliln her defired end in
robbing us of fome of cur deareft
rights; but her dtfigns have been
Agnail y defeated, and we fee that
the American people from Geor
gia to Maine have hailed with ac
clamations of joy, the day which
brought the iliuftnous Madifon te*
the diftinguifhed poft of Chief Ma
giftrate of United America.
EURYCIDES.
——O-O.’O-’OO-."—. -
From a late London Paper,
THE AMERICAN PROPOSITION.
Unprecedented in a military view
as is the fituztion of the modern
world, its commercial ftate pre
fents a fpedacle no lefs extraordi-f
nary. While there is a medium
between fubjugation and > hoftility*
the word t{ neutral” is only known
as the fign of whSt once exifted.—-
France excludes from the Conti
nent of Europe ail who would trade
with the Britifh dominions. • Great
Britain confirms the work of her
enemy by forcing all nations who
would trade, with the Continent of
Europe to pay her tribute, and to
do every ait which infures their
exclufion. ‘ America difgufted and
harrafted with thefe proceedings*
fhurs up her ports and put an end
to all maritime intercourfe between
civilized nations. The ravages of
war by a refinement of deflrudion*
are thus accompanied with the anni
hilation of one of the chief means
of their reparation. ‘ The embargo*
which could never have been tole
rated in America, had it not been
for our orders in council; ftronglyr
favored the views of France.——
That commerce which to her was
comparatively of little confequence*
was nearly ruined before* and the
embargo could not materially alter
her ficuation. To Great Britain*
whofe ftrength, and even exiflence*
depends in a great meaflire, on her
commerce, the meafure was like
cutting oft the right hand. Eng
land, therefore, by the orders of
council gave the lafl blow to the
intercourfe of the civilized world
and that blow fell heuvieft on her
felf. . . .
In this ftate of things, a propofal
is made, that if Great Britain would
refeind her orders of council, Ame
rica would either procure the revo
lution of the French decree?, or
continue the embargo with refpe£fc
to the enemy, and renew the inter—
courfe with Great Britain. The
efFe<ft of the acceptance of this pro
pofuion muft ncceftfarily be, either
the reftcratioa of that commercial
intercourfe which, though advanta
geous to the enemy, would be, out
of all proportion, more favorable
to the intcreftsof Great Britain, or
the renewal of the intercourfe be
tween Great Erirain, and America*
to the total exclufion of France and
her allies in the war. The French
decrees formed the whole pretence
for the orders of council, and the
revocation of the decrees mull,
therefore, fully anfwer the purpolc
(No. 45.