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Every lead, quick or dead,
Of tbe Curtq’re.i of Quebec*
Columbian* lve tb'ir Liberty,
Their Country And their Gsd,
No kingly power fhail make them diff
er,
They dread no tyrant's nod-,
Their happy country’s dsfhny
Is ever to be free,
And they'll fight for every righf,
her their Land ar.d Liberty.
Then reitfe, Columbians, ritfk to arms!
Obey yeur Country’s call-,
Tour motto “ Death or Vidor),”
Live glorioufiy or fall —
href erne the precious heritage,
Tour fathers’ valor won,
So foall fame crown each name,
Whitt the day of battle's done.
W.
— mmutrrreffw— —
Individual CA Commercial Patriot jm.
The Merchants of Philadelphia
having it un ier confi leration to
build a Ship off Var, and her
to the United States, have appoint
ed a committee to receive fubferip
tions for chat purpofe. The fir(l
perfon applied to was Mr. Jacob
Gerard Koch, a gentleman who has
underwritten largely, and is per
fonaliy deeply interfiled in the re
turn of many vclfeis new at fea.—
What think you was the anfwer of
this right worthy citizen* ? Why,
truly, he lubferibed five theufand
dollars, and then laid, “ This l fub
fit rib’ as a gift, but if it i* intend'd
to loan the (hip, I will build a jhip
of war myjelf for the government.”
Thiiis inded uaadul erated pa
triotifm, and we confefs we feel
proud that fo good a citizen inha
bit the fame city in which we re
fide. Let his name, fame and good
deeds be in rvt ry nc .vfpa
per, and he himfrlf will be eftcem
ed and refpf&e.'i from the Sc. Law
rence to the Mifiilfippi, and fioin
the Atlantic to me Lakes. May
his riches multiply abundantly, and
his happtnels have an exceeding
great incrcafe.
Democratic Prefs,
William Cobbett, in a letter to the
Prince Kegnt, comments very fc
vtelv upon part of a fpeech of
j'ohn Randolph , in which the orator
fays—< J jo not like this Republi
canism which is lupported by Mr.
Randolph on this fide the Atlantic,
and by Cobbctc on the other, who,
if he could break jail, would affift
in revolutionizing New England,”
3ec. Cobbett concludes his flric
tures with fa irg— 4< l will inform
him [Mr. Randolph] that he has
the honor to ag ee, not only in fen
timent, but cllo in expre fii >n*, wi;h
every literary flare, m the Brmfh
dominions, with every one whofe
hand is like the b ggar’i difh, and
wh >f price is as rtguiar, tho’ not
peihaps, fo moderate, as Ralls at a
market, or beds at an inn.”
Iren True American.
The modern Chatham, in ‘mirati
on of the “ Am r tan Artfitdes”
is atretnj t rg o t ffcdl by she energy
of h's pen, what the eloqurn. e of
hii tongue failed o (—John Randolph
and Timothy Pickering , “ par nsbile
fr strum ” —as the former fa and of two
•thcr writers on a late occafion.
ih
The oppnficion to government it
crumbling to pieces like a rope
of fand.” Many of the greatdl
men, and leveral of the abltil edi
tors of the Federal party, have
come out openly and honorably on
the fi ie of government. More will
ftltav? their footftepaj and a f cvv
months will prtbably leave noae in
that party but fuch as willdefervs
the name of lories !—We want to
fee the wheat leparated from the
chaff —that a (l fi wefierly breeze rosy
rid us forever of the latter.— ib.
According to Burt, ir, who fays
tha*—
u When the fifit becov.fi 4 cha'g,
He wins the ’gi t whe cv; the r.l > /(*
Tne Hr 1 ih frgur Hfi'utrre r.as
gained a com pie: c vie; * net the
whole of our car —h.tvs . •;.*
them nil, and nr.. It hr* c .<. c S— lb,
Ab urdi nr t — N im * n•*o p ; r \x h o
piteot-f). lament /-V •/-.• war,*-
ceclire stcy woulu Unr been t-in
ter: t Had it brrn warded agsinll both
England and Ftanccd As if th’ << r
ror* of war would have been hffer.ed
by having two enemies indeed t sr.e.
ibid.
One to vindicating cur
rights by the Iword is, our having
been fo ‘long out of the ufe of it,
but this re aI on would gan (Length
by every day’s dehy—and w uid
completely prevent our ever having
rccourfe to arms, let our wro- gs be
as numer us and as g eat as they
might.—/A.
The idea that cnufl know how
to fight before we go to wa , ?s much
like that of the old woman who
charged her fon never to go i,t - the
water till he had learnt to iwira ! A.
Thofe who think that Amen % h
not able to contend with Bn'ain
now, muft forget what we did thir
ty j ears tgo —and that we have been
growing ftronger and flic weaker c
ver fitice.- ib.— —
“ 1 he power of Britain,” i* held
up by fome as a great object of
terror —and yet tneU very men
would not be afraid of encountering
the pwer of France alfo at the
fame time !—Wc arc for one at a
time.— lb.
Some printers vho not long fi ice
enrourpgcd and j; ft Ad the m ill
unprovoked ad lawiUi ouuagrs of
mobs, now exprefs the utmoft ap
pre rrfi na .and abhorrence of roob-
Uw !—While the friend* of the go
vernment were the vi£bms, it was
all r:ghi —but when it* enemies are
made totaftc the lame cup the* ad -
miniftered to others—“ A5, that
alters the cale ” —We never did ap
prove mob^law — -nor do we row
but we think that rh* cceducl of
the Editors of the Federal R pub
lican, was, to fay the leaft, as un
jujiifiable as the m >b. ib.
If A. and B. were at law, the for
mer contending for ur.queftionable
rights, and the latter matntamirg
u juft fiiole aggr flionsj what
be in. ugtoi one of A’s fon*, who
fh.?u!d, b th fcv writing and fprak
ing, continually dtfeourage his fa
ther from profeeming his juft claim?,
and endeavor to excite the fil-vviil
of ni family agindt him, and at
the fame time fhould endouraee B.
to perfevere in his inj .dice, by tel
lig him that A. was out of mo
ney, and not able to carry *n the
fuit—that his family were all in B’s
intereft, and wnul foon obi ge him
to drop the action—that, rhe efore,
B. had nothing to do but fitch eut
for a Ih rc time, and he w iuict car
ry every point, See, ?—Would not
dtfiutercftcd perfons prenaunce a
ion who fo conde&ed, a traitor to
his father’s and his own interti! ?
And ought not his father, when he
found him cut, to kick hint out of
doors ?”
(iEORGIA EXPREbb.
Jg_l - ■ V-saua
ATHENS, AUGUST 7.
THE National FASI\ appointed
by the Prefidtnt of the U. Stares,
w :l!, no doubt, be folemnly acren
drd by the good citizens of this
county. Col. Jackfort, and ~me
other military cfHcers, have deter
mined to attend on that day, at the
College Chapel, in Athens. Sevc
r-i ne ghbeting Clergymen, 0? ch/-
ferent denominations, have been
rrq ftftedto attend ch the occafion.
T his will be an opportunity favor
able for (hewing that our and ff*;rent
■opinions onßeligion and pr-iitics, do
not ieparate us when our country
calls far Union. One or more dif
rourfes, adapted to the cccafirn,
will be dflive ed io the Colkge
Chapel on that dav.
ON the eveuihg of Monday lafi,
(the warning of which day Mr M (
Donnell left Athens for Greenefirro*)
Augustin mith Clayton ejq .
Attorney at Lev in the Upper Circuit
Captain of the Militia for the Dif
of Athens (not of the Veins
teers to defend their country) and a
Member of the Legifiaiure for the
county of Clark, did perform an all
of H roifrr. worthy of his immaculate
ft If. Reader, hew was ibis gi Ui
■Ra performed? fVas it in an ho
nor able way ? No. 7he junior Ed-
itor of this payer went to the Store of
Stevens Thomas , Ejq — Mr. Clayton
was ft)on informed that his intended
victim was there—this gallant fon of
Mars immediately repaired , (not to
she plains of Auguftine, no* to the
bright sof .-tbra ham) but to the ft ore
cj Sir (howas, there to beat, with
a large -tick a man who is Cripple.
Mr Gaines had, in coufequence of
Mr CUyt.,n's previous, f kmn dec
laration no other expeStatien but that
bt would make good bis promtfe (al
though like pie crufi, they are made to
be bf oien J and have knocked ad the
t- hi wn his torn? —a dtfcipline
which he felt not d.ifpnfrti to undergo.
V/hen Mr. Clayton entered the piaz
za of Mr, I bent as, we were re any
in coni aft—whether he done it thro’
the impulfts of humanity, or whether
he found himfelf in rather a ;i kiifli
Jiiuaiien, is b< ft known to him;elf—
but ft it is—be dropped bis bludgeon,
and end of and with Mr Gaines—a con
bat enjited-—the refull is known —But
Mr. Clayton gained bis faded laurel,
not by bis courage or his Manhood—
it was obtained by the intervention sf
the Sped tiers, feme of whom wrefied
from the hand tf Mr Caines, the
weapon with which , he intended io
have done ample jufiice to his an tags
nifi and himfelf. But while they de
prived the weaker party of every
means of defence, they fuffered the
Vidor to retain to the laft, a large
brick bat in his hand. Mr. Gabies
has no ‘v fh to lee the blood of his
fellow citizens fiow —much lefs has
he a • ffi rt to fhed it—but when he is
tjfailed without a caufe, he will Band
in his defence, and, if pHTibk, im
molate his affailant.
What a difplVy of COURAGE
was manifefied by that Braggado
cio, when he purfuedthe vanqjj i-h
---id, CRIPPLE, (as be thought)
threatening io give him the finishing
blow ?
A QUESI lON.
IF an Officer of the PEACE,
encourages and foments RIOTS, does
he not loofc fight of .bis Sacred Obliga
tions to bis God and to bis Country ?
The Federal Leaders have !n
---crfianUy labored to make the Bri
tish government btiieyfi that the
American government would no:
dare CO refill their sggre(lions by a
War. ‘l*h€ Fcdcralift wrought
themDlves into that bd*ef, 2nd de
ceived the Britifh government into
the fame error. The Federal Lea
ders arc now r-fliducufly employed
to make the Englifh government be
lieve that the American People will
not fupport the Aiminijlration in the
War that is new wagi? g for the de
fence of our eSendai 2nd indisputa
ble rights. This is done to encou
rage the Britifb to prolong the war to
afford federal Office- Hunters in op
portunity to whine absut the csb~
mi ties of war, and hypocritically \\-
fnent the lofs of the biddings oi
Peace. Thus it appears thsc the
dire# and palpable tendency of the
prifent federal oppofition is to enc.u-* 1
rage the Brit ih to perfevere in a
war which union arr.cr.g otirfelves
would brir.g to an end in the courfc
or a few months. The friend* of
our country, feed the real friends of
Pence will dearly *Fe thr depend
an sane corrupt filet:-hunting Fe
deral* fts are exc icing an unfounded
opp< iirion to Government while
they are iuhje&lr‘g tfw-ir country to
the calamities of a War per fevered
in by theenrmy up*n the encourage
went end affurttnee of the Tory Fed
eraiifis lha; the People will furcly
abandon the adminitlratio i.
FRENCH DECREE.
Palace of St. Cisud, April aSth,
1811.
ft Napoleon, Emperor of the French,
King of Italy , PrMetier of ike Lan-
f 3 deration tf the Rhine, Mediator of
the axe difh Confederacy.
On the report of cur Minifier for
Foreign Affairs.
Being informed sf the law sf the
2d March, 181 i, by which the Ccn
grefs sf the United States has decreed,
the execution of the prsvifitns of tbs
Alt of Nc* Interc&urje, which inter
dicts the entry into American ports of
the /hips and merchandize of G. Bri
tain. her colonies and dependencies:
Considering that the jaid law is on
aT of reft fiance to the ar bit ary pre
tonflow advanced by the Britijh orders
in Council, and a formal nfufal to
f&nuisn a fyfiem kefiile to the indepen
dence cf Neutral Powers, and of their (
flags:
fVe have decreed, and do decree as
fell revs :
The Decrees of Berlin and Milan
are defini.ely (from the firfi of No
vember Ufi) cenjiderei as no longer in
force, as far as regards American
vejfels.
(Signed, /Ac)”
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the Congrcfs of
the United States, by a joint Re
feiutien of the rwo hcjufe*, have
fignified a requeft, that a day may
be recommended, to be chfervcd
by the People of the United States,
with Religious foleinnity, £<3 s dry
of public Humiliation snd Prayer;
and whereas, fuch a recommendati
on will enable the feveral religious
denominations and focieties fo dif
pofed, t® < fft r, at ©ne and the fame
time, their common vows and ado
rations to Almighty God, on the
fclcmn occafion produced by the
war, m which he has been pleafed
to permit the iojuftice of a foreign
power to involve thefe U. States:
I do therefore recomtstnd the third
Tbur/day in Augufi next, a* a conve
nient day to be fe: apart, for the
devout purpofes cf tendering to the
Sovereign of the Uni’verfe, and the
benefactor oi mankind, the public
FL mage due to his Holy attributes;
ot acknowledging the :ranfgr*fiions