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About Georgia express. (Athens, Ga.) 1808-1809 | View Entire Issue (June 10, 1809)
: 5 with pie afuf iwe infert the objei vatior.s cn the Downfdl uhlics, fro,a the. IVaJhingtan. CV. they arc replete with good nd deep thought — precedents, * /peaking, makes nothing right ; are nut conjee rated ; yet they bouiti not be d/carded without a free and impartial examination cf their u tility i and the enquiry jhottld he made with great prudence and caution. ] Auetifta Centinel. O THE DO'.VN?ALL Cf REPUBLICS, have been often inlVitu f to the real caufe :s of the ,a!3 of republics. Mo doubt r • ars numerous. But among tB all, I know of none more pow r f -tl rapid -n its operation than My Juinual dilpofition which we jW’ ‘Tifcfted by certain writers and Pant-eri, to wrtft mankind from the courfe dilated by their nature, and to inftil into the round ft range nod tions of new fyftenis for the ma nagement of fociety by govern ’ orient. J his idea has often been excited in wiy mind; and it was forcibly re newed a day or two paft, by a pro duction in the National Intelligen cer, propofmg to v/ithdraw the A merican community from the anci ent channels of human wifdom, end to proceed upon projects, which, to lay the heft of them, render a nation ridiculous, and eventually lead to ckftruffior?. Why fhoifld we difeard the lef i'ons of experience ? Why lh or Id we forego that knowledge which is the refult of the obErvation of half a century of ages ? What vain pride of the heart would impel us to fpurn every thing European, merely hecaufe it is European ? Whence came American civilization, if it came not from Europe ? The aborigines of this country were the me re it lavages ia nature * and even now wc treat them as fuch. I con ft fs that lam coftnopolitc enough to dtfire that all the excellencies of the world were concentrated, by importation, if you pleafe, in America. — The human mind, from harbarifm to ci vilization, is of fuch flow progr<f~ lion, that we ought to grafp and ie cure ever/ thing good within our reach whether it be Engjifh, French, German, Italian, or Spanifh. The common law ! fays one ; down with the common law ; down with the law reporters ; they are Englifh, rank Englifli. Softly, gentlemen. Do you know all the traufa&ions of civilized life depend upon the com mon law ? Do you know that Ef g itnd was groaning under defpotifm tor many a year, till the excellence of the common law relieved them ? Woe be to thofe who follow the counftls of that fanatic who believes the prefenc generation of men. better or wifer in all things than the gene rations which for many ages have preceded it. And whence got England the common law ? From Germany in parr, and part from her own expe rience. Age fucceeds to age, and if we depart in the leaft, from what admonitions the fir 11 affords, we re main in the milts and in the fogs of ignorance. One theorlfl propofes one thing ; another a different thing; novelty leads tire people to vain hopes j they forget the maxims cf their prcgenitcr3, and look forward to inadows which fade before the in fpe&ion of folid judgment, like the colors of the rainbow vanilh from the eye. The Gracchi, at Rome, propofed an Agrarian law ; every man was to have a farm, and every farm was to be precifely alike •, the fubjc<?c was pieafing ; the Gracchi had followers and advocates, Rome was in an uproar men ft nib finally prevailed, and the Agrarrarfi ./ell victims to fheir own tolly or ‘riTibition. Cromwell was to make England free; but beer fhved her —Bonaparte fwore fidelity to the republic, yet where is thsc republic? row t The ruin of nations is pro duced invariably by departing from the knowledge which experience af fords ; and we are always excited to leave the beaten path, by weak brains in fkulls fo hoc that they arc kept in a ftare of ebullition from the b* ginning to the end of the chapter. The wo:ft of it if, you cannot ref tore fuch brains to a ft ate. of fou wi nd's ; for being ijmpregiacid Mith pertinacity, the more you rebuke, ;hc inore cbftmate they are. i)ow n with the judges, afcd the courts, fays A fag)ctous f'ribier ; down with them i l will fhew you a way by which the people fhali r.IJ grew wife without learning, and learned without education ; all heads [ quoth he] are alike ; fheep heads, and ail. Would you believe that fuch ide*s nre feat te red among the rocnmunTy, and by many greedily gobbled down ? If we had not wicntfied ti e kenes of the French revolution, the thing might be doubted. But cre dulity is the ladder by which knaves mount to power. A man fix feet high, once announced he would put hirnfelf into a pint buttle ; the rmff tittide wond:red ; co ni mc n ft nfe knew it was a cheat ; yet credulity was duped, and paid its money for the fraud. After this, what flu odd excite our furprife ! Ccrf piracy again/ Bex apart.*. The 1.v.t1l letters from England, mention the receipt of private infor mation from France, of the discove ry cf a real or pretended con (‘piracy r gain ft Bonaparte, and that in con ftqucnce, 550 perfohS have heenar refted at Paris alone. Several sen ators, generals, legislators, and per fects, were laid to be inculpated in a plot of removing Napoleon, ar.d of placing the crown of France on the head of its legitimate prk'CG Louis XVIII. as the only mean of icstortng Europe to its long loft tranquility. No public op.mira tions had taken place, from fear, as was fitted, of alarming tne armies ; but the prisoners went daily.,under interrogatories in the Temple aid other revolutionary Baltilcs, before Fouche, and the confidential mem bers of the fecret police of the French Emperor. Striff fearch has ‘been made after the Duke of An gculeme, the prefumpdve heir of the French Bourbons, married to the daughter of Louis XVI. who was fuppofed to be concealed at Paris. This prince, was however, fafe in England with his uncle Louis XV 111. Ferdinand VII. andhis brother, were reported to be confined in the State Prison, the Cattle of Vincennes; netr Paris, where the Duke of En ghiein was murdered in 1804 —Bo- naparte’S journey to Germany, is flared to have been retarded by thefe occurrences : and’ before he quitted his Capita), he deputised his Will in the Senate, which the Grand Officers of State, as well as Members cf the Senate, fwore, in cafe, of any acci dent to him punctually to execute. Philadelphia Political Regijler. Philadelphia, May 24. The Schooner Mary, from Liver pool, is feized at New-Caftle for en tering the ports of the United States after the aoth May. At a late haur lift night we re ceived Englifli papers to the }©th yj. Qf, a hafty pfruftu c. a.s Oi?** jy 3 r>L to give the fbi lowing.’ Jr is reported that M. iicra has been killed by Bonaparte in a fit <f paflioa, though other accounts ft.y it was by accident. Accounts are received from Pa ris on the 23th March, that D >nar p.-jrte had not left that place, but that would probably fee cfF after an extraordinary meeting that was to be held of the Senate. Troops are pour ;r;<“ into Germany i-rom all parts. A paper of the 4th mentions re ports being received of actions be tween the ft re rich and A_ulcrianf, but later papers give no conformation of them and it only appears that pre parations arc going on rigorol fly be tween them. A paper of the 4th fays—Two expeditions a"e intended ; one has juft fiikd from Cork—the other will fail from Porcfmouth in a fe w days. One is intended for pcmigal, the other unknown. The papers contain a variety of paragraphs from Spain and Portugal, but none lb late as received, nor of any great moment, which the want of time and room obliges us U? post pone till our next. There was a report in I/mdo* on the 18th cf April, that the Dalecar:- ans hud rtinftated the king of Swe den on his throne. The Amman rri brftadcr had “not left Paris the 29th of,March. c^rrrisn^iatTiT?ami^^aSßmis*retS3S2S!3 G EGRGIA EX PR E3 S. trrr*trfrfixs !wmwr zi*. ATHENS, JUNE 10. CONGK E S S. *****<• SENATE!, May 31. The vf/oTutlon offered yefterdey by Mr. Pope . for appointing a commit tee to enquire into the expediency cf puffing a law for taking a cenfus cf the inhabitants cf the United States , was agreed to ; and Meffrs. Pope, Meigs and Anderfon , appointed a coni thitiss. June 1. Agreeably to the order cf the day, the Senate refumed the confideraiicn of the bill, to amend and continue in ferid the act entitled l< An aft to in ter dill i,U ccmixsrckl tntercour/e be tween the United ft at ss rfnci Great Britain and France, arid their depiii-* denotes , and for other purpofesd* Mr. Giles offered the following a mendment to the firjl fedticn, to be in - /tried after the word cffembUd. That the provijions of the two ji\fl Jebf ions of the cicl, entitled u An act to interdiSt the commercial interccurfs be tween the United States and Greet Britain and France , and their depen dencies, and for other purpofes,* 1 fthall extend to all public armed flips and vejfels of ail foreign nations, and the fame /ball he and are hereby continued an l made permanent, fubjebi never thclefs to any modifications or regula tions which may hereafter be made by treaty. Whereupon, without cowing to any deeijion , the further conf deration of the bill was po/poned till to-morrow. HOUSE OF REPRESENTA TIVES. Wcdnefdny, A fay 31. Mr. Rhea offered the following re flation : Refclved, that the committee cn the Public Lands do enquire into the ex pediency cf laying of and defer thing by certain metes and bounds a tratf of country to which the Indian title is ex ivaguijhed, within the limits cf Lcui- Jiana, and to include all the fetde ments within the did territory, and if having the fetid trail of count*y laid cf into town hips and ft liens, half c. cJArtcr frfhdns agree.;Ay to the /ever al laws heretofore made for fur vbying the lands of the United States ; end dp) to enquire info the expediency cj granttu% one cuai ter oj a j 111 ten to every/re n ale white per/on who new refides thereon, ‘or who will within years actually improve and rcfde there on. ‘ibis ref elution was /upper ted by Mr. Rlea, on the ground that the Js tile met? is hi that country were much difpcrfed, and that the jpeedy fettle ment cf it would give jtcuriiy tf the frontiers, and form a barrier between the American fettl-rs and tbs Indian nations on the fy entier. It was cp pofed by Mr. Ely cn ti e ground that the fu bid had for fever si Jef/ons keen before the committee of public lands, who, however dv'pofcd to al cn it., had never been able it tier edit that any good was to refitt from it ; and by Mr. Lyon on the ground, that the very reference cf ins fuljeSt ts a committee would be an injury to the United States and a vexation is the people, delaying them from 9 pur chafing land), under the idea that Cmgrejs were about ts gyve them is fillers. Ihe motion was ney&tived- —$ 2to 44’ r , Mr. Bason laid cn ihs table the fel* lowing re [elution : Refolved, ‘That the feretory of ihs trcafury be directed to p spare and re port t'9 this koufe c.t their next j.iffcn, a plan for the explication effuch means fs are chit bin the powers cf congrefs, for the purpefe of protecting and /of fering the manufadnring cjlablifk meats which have be: > commenced, the frogref which has been made in them, end the fuccefs with which they have keen attended, and fuch ether infor mation, as in th'l opinion cf thefere tary, /ball be material in exhibiting a general view cf the makufakftires ct ths United States. A motion having been mads to print the reflulion, Mr. Lyon opp fed the printing of it. He fid that f met king fbould be dons at this ffjion for ths ben ft cf matin facda? ers. It was cold comfort lo them to tell them that t hey fboidd have a report on ihsJu.bjetl at the nextfef- Jicn. He would net pc ft pom a confide- \ ration cf the fubjsl, from ths fear of given* (fence to ihe Britifh govern ment by manifatLurwg for ourfeuves. He would proclaim to the world cur intention to encourage rnsnufalur-.s . Mr. Bacon concurred heartily in the , patriotic views of the gtntkr.cn from Kentucky in encouraging the manufac tures ok cue country, its aad no idea by this motion of i/iierfenngwith any particular mm fare which tic e gentle mein wijhsd to ampt in relation m anuf a lures he mercy locked fo - werd to the s/AAifomm of ferns prat'd tied fyjlem for the encouragement of max ttfallures. It was oidered to be printed. Mr. Randolph, after making a number cf remarks on ihe Jains! of the ■prefent Jtffwn , in favor of doing the or din cry bujinefs cf tbs annual Jeff: on ! at this time, and hereafter bolding the annual fefforts in thefpring inftsad of the wittier, fiated that he fhould pro- | ceed to the ordinary hjtnejs of an an. mini JeJfuK, until the l ioufe JhouU corns to ferae definite conclufion as ic *J what time they would adjourn, he then fated that by a letter which hi . had received from the Mar foal of the i dijlriil of Virginia, ar.d which frets- ‘■ its being printed he believed to be c circular, be learnt that there was U provi/ioK ly the laws cf the Urdu& Slates for a summary procefs for tkfl parpoj'e of recovering from marfhdim and their deputies monies paid to theft: l and i y them detained from theft tc J wbafi it was due. It appeared t£G j the judges Fid decided i fat they wii A
