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AThEI.S, GEORGIA: PRINTED EY ALEXANDER M'DONNELL, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1809.
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Clarks boro Po ft - M afte r.
Jeff erf on —Maj. Edwin L. Harris.
IVatkhifv'ille —E. B. Jenkins, efq.
and Mr. Edward Bond.
Lexington —Mr. Miller Eieming.
Oglethorpe —Mr. Samuel Shields,
and William Lumpkins, Efq.
Walnut Grove —Mr. Lee Atkins.
Goofe-pcnd —Mr. H. T. Woody.
Madijon —James G. Sims, Efq.
Greenes hr o'— -Canr. T. Dawfon.
Sparta —Dcdlor W. Terrell.
Warrenton — Pcft-Mafter.
Powelton —P oft- M afte r.
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Efq.
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Eatonton— Chriftopher B. Strong,
Efq.
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Petersburg —-Alex. Pope, Efq. &
I)o(5l. Watkins.
Vienna — S. B. Shields, Efq.
Wilkes —David Terrell, Efq. Sc
Dosftor Bibb.
Lincoln —Captain N. Allen, and
Capt. John Hughes.
Louifvilie —Me IT. Day Ec Whee
ler.
Augufta —J. S. Walker, Efq. Be
Doftor Smelt.
Waynesboro'-™ Col. John Davies.
Sanderfville —Mr. Wm. M‘Mur
ray.
Savannah —Mr. H. H. Moun
ger, and Mr. A. W. Scribner,
The following Oration was delivered
by Mr, Robert Scott on the fourth
of July.
inspected auditors,
ON the return of this aufpici
ous day who can be filent, on the
fubjedt of this day’s commemora
tion who can fully exprefs their
feelings. On this day freedom raff
ed her welcome head and bade Co
lumbians to be freemen, when the
patriots of our land declared that
we fhould aflame that free and in
dependent ftaticn to which the laws
of nature and of nature’s god entitled
us. Hail favored people ! Hail
aulpicious peiiod! ever to ftand
confpicuous in the annals of hiftory,
as the day which gave birth to this
free, fiourifhing and happy people.
Three and thirty years this day have
tlapied fince you became a free and
independent nation; in this fnorc
period of vears it would be juft to
fuppofe ns very interefting icenes
GEORGIA EXPRESS..
RUN T 8 AND FRO, AND KNOWLEDGE SHALL BE INCREASED.
|>ne taken p:ace j but when we
look bark and beheld our country
pafilrsg from the extremes of danger
to fafety ; from the tumult of war
to the tranquility of peace j it is to
be prefumed that a nation in fuch a
fituation, and with an untried form
of government, that it would require
tome experience in the governors
t • make the governmer.. duly ref
peded by tne governed. This was
the remit ; but thole heroes who
performed fuch prodigies in the
field of Mars, now displayed equal
abilities and fteadinefs in the cabi-
They have formed us one of
the oeft of confutations, which not
only preserves for us all the liberty
we could w:fh, but unites us by an
indifibluble bond thus they have
eiiablifhed for us an invaluable in
heritance. This inheritance has
been handed down to us by every
mark of an honorable conveyance j
let us therefore emulate the lauda
ble example of our fathers, by ex
erting ourfelves in preferving our
rights undiminifhed, ‘our honor un
tarmfhed, and our freedom unim
paired, or, in a word, to remain as
free as this day made us in 1776.
To accompliiH this great good
and wonderful work, if is requifite
that we fhotilu have a correct nati
onal pride, founded not on a vain
or ideal fenfe of our own perfonal
importance, but on the very plain,
vilible, ar.d diftinctive features,
which characterize our method of
thinking, which point out our ha
bits and which even make our very
inftitutions to differ from thofe of
any other part, of the globe.
The abfence of this national
pride is the very ground work upon
which is built a gr-eat number of the
evils which exift in our country. It
makes us the fport of every faftion,
let it be whatfoever it may which
raifes its hedious head in Europe,
and is tranfported to the very bo
ifom of our country.
A juft pride is the only firm fup
porter of all true virtue on lafting
greacnefs. It infpires us with con
fidence in ourfelves, by convincing
us of the value of fuch confidence,
it pc fTcffes us with a dignity of cha
racter which makes us confcious of
our own worth j it produces within
us a decent independent fpi'rit, too
proud to aft favors in a humiliating
manner, meek enough to grant them
to others when not folicited in ar
rogant terms. It makes us confi
dent of the powers which nature
has given us, and gives us a fpirit
and defire to exercife them, with a
conftant and aftive inducement, to
their improvement, and with fupe
riar talents of adapting them to ra
tional purpoles. It makes man a
practical inftead of theoretical be
ing; his arm is foon taught to
wield with dexterity the imple
ments of induftry, and his mind per
ceiving the powers which have been
given it, is foon induced to practi
cally applying them to the general
benefit of his fellow-citizens.
I r his high cime, my countrymen,
for us to begin to think, to feci and
to aft for ourfelves, to forget all
foreign prejudices and attachments,
and to break the iron chain which
unfeemingly connects us to the car
of European interefts.
This will never be done until
we have a more exalted opinion of
ourfelves, and lefs of others, until
in fine we adopt a national charac
ter. You will nor, you cannot
doubt but that our condition & cha
ra6ter are efientially different from
that of any nation of the old world.
The profperity of our country at
prelent unrivalled, and the reprefen
tative principles of cur govern
ment are new features which never
have been imprefied on the national
character of any of the nations of
theeaft. Our freedom of occupa
tion, the religious toleration which
exifrs in cur country, the cheapnefs
of lands, and the aflual cultivation
and proprietorfhip being united in
the fame perfon, together with the
abolition of the right of primoge
niture, have each equally confpired
to caft cur charadler in anew mould.
Thefe are the great caufes which
have produced our prefent profpe
rous fituation, caufes which if not
perverted will complete our nati
onal charadler as far different from
that of any nation of Europe as
light is from darknefs. There the
national character is founded on
prejudice, on feme trivial circum
ftance, or perhaps on the very birth
and exploits rf a fingle individual.
Here on the contrary, it ought to be
interwoven with the principles
which were on this day held forth
by the fages of our land ; it ought
to be commenfurate with our ra
tional exiftence, and our pregrefs
to future greatnefs ; thefe princi
ples would then leave the whole
field of bodily and mental exertion
open, and would irffure the greateft
harvefl: to him who the moil fuc
cefsfully cuhivates it.
The benefits arifmg from the ef
tablifhment of a national character
are incalculable. It would lead us
to examine impartially the princi
ples of foreign governments, and
would generally tend to an abhor
rence of and deteflation towards
them. vVe fhould no longer be
taught precedents unworthy to be
imitated, and which have no appli
cation to our fituation and circum
ftances. Our would be purg
ed from the jargon of the Gothic
age—being txpreffed in plain lan
guage, they would be ur.derftood
with eafe and conftrutd without
difficulty.
We fhould fpurn with indigna
tion the baubles and trifies of Eu
rope, and boafting of our firopli i
ty of drefs and correfponding man
ners, have more regard for our
comfort than the gaudy trapping of
flaves. We fhould Earn from ex
perience the greater the cultivation
the mind receivts, the more the
man rejects the ornaments of drefs,
g-andeur and equipage. We fhould
no longer have a longing defire for
the things of a corrupt lot Very, but
on the contrary, fhould practice
the gulden principles of fimplicity,
frugality and temperance ; the pa
rents and fiipporters of freedom, in
dependence and peifonal refpc&a
bility.
Vffiovulng every production
whether foreign or dome flic by its
true value, neither over valuing the
former nor depreciating the latter.
The arts and fciences would have
new life and atfivicy given them,
no longer looking to the eaft for
all that is fcientific, grand or fub
lime, we fhould be induced to <x
ercife the mental abilities nature
has given us in fuch a profufe and
bountiful manner ; and without en
larging on the fubjeft, we fliouklf
by ettsblifhing a national character,
become whac we ought to be, a
truly free and independent people.
Since then fuch invaluable and
laftmg benefits are to be derate
from the eftablifhment of a nation
al character, affift as much as yt
can in completing what was on c
day began, for the remembrance
the pall, if it operate rightly, mu!
infpire you wit/a the mo ft Jauda f
rmbicion, that of adding to me iY
fame with which you begin, ‘j
world has feen you great m
fity, ftruggiing without a tboup .
of yielding under accumulated t,U
ficulties. Bravely, nay, proud’
encountering diftrefs, and r:iir<r •
refoiution as the ftorm enema": ‘
All this is juftly due you ft r y
fortitude has deferved the char-.’
Let the world then fee that % < u
bear profperity, and that your.
neft virtue in time of peace 1.
qua! to ycur braveft virtue in t,
of war.
rmmi “” 1 "* ■” ■ - -~t- r-ftrw
K T OTIC E.
WILL BE SOLD
On the Jecond Monday in Sep ton
next, at Oglethorpe court-hou,
Lexington ,
A valuable lot in fa id town,
ate on the public fquare and
in the plan of Lid town a*, i
11 —being a lot formerly p>
by John Hunton and the u.
fale not complied with.
ALSO,
Several other back I ts i
town. The terms of ic -n
made known on the day < ‘ ftl
By order of the Inferior
June term 18^9,
ISAAC COLLIER, <
July 8, 1809.
FIFTY DOLLARS RLVv
Defertcd from fhe Mai’ r
S. lome time lafl March
Creek Nation (M. TANARUS.) I'a
ton, The above rewaru v. ii
en to any perfon who will .
faid Bren ton in M .Hedge vilic.
application to Cel. B. Haw,
agent of the U. S. for Indian affair
he will iffue orders to the chiefs to
have him delivered up.
loh 11 B. Chandler,
In the Poft-Offce Department.
June ioth, 1809.
A FEW COPIIIS
Of a Sermon Preached in Vindication
Of Revealed truth, i ;v * ■;)
is produced fame oj ice fir on; ■
eft Arguments Poet re
ligion adr,ii/s of
FOR S A E AT 1 I\> 07s:zt
SHERIFi ’S BLANK H FLEA
FOR SAIL 4T TIP OT'Cft
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