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Vol. V.) ATHENS, geougia: published by M*DONNELL (ft GAJNES. P O E T R Y. Front the National Intelligencer. *0 THH VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA. fword of the Lord & Gideon.’ S*lcier, beer th&ifoitmn call! No true beer: it can appal ; Honor, bids you take the field— To bet diftales nobly yield! fd'ho is he Jo baf? to paufe In bis country’s/acred caufe ? r Twas notJo your fathers /ought ; c lvjas not thus their Jens they taught. Hark. ! your fires— Cf Go, go my Jon, “ Go •sphere Glsry may he wen, * et leek it in th’ embattled plain, €i Fight, nay die, tbs palm to gain. 3 * By the pride oj ancient days— By th Heroes well-won prai/e By your country’s dearefi right— b elaier — Soldier—dare the fight / 3y the Patriots now at reft, (In their country’s prajes blefi) By ytur Watmng tn ‘ dre ad vtigkt Soldier — Scldier—dat e the fight! Europe's iygers, red with blood, Hike ax overwhelming fiosd, <Dn our peaceful, hljsjuljhore, Would the tide cf ruin four ! 4 Tis ret a common caufe we try, 4 Tis Honor—Fame and Liberty ! *'Tis Life, tis Home, (ft all things deny; Gcd of Host:, in mercy bear! See your Wejtcrn Brethren bleed, Brihjh geld has dene the deed, Child and Mother, Son and Sire, Beneath the tomahawk expire. Scldier, Life is but a day, . Tranfient is the funny ray— Would you fill a coward’s grave, Ibis ev&nejcent good It f&vc ? Tti, 1 mid ft battle’s wild alarms, *Mi dft ike cl ait’ring din of arms, Let P.tv move—let Mi ro/part— *Tis thy Brother meets ibee there. .Nor comes he there thy fee by choice — Lfien then to M rcVs voice / Cherifh love’s benignant glow, c MidJl the fcer.es of tit ath and woe. He who fees a /farrow fall, Sees thee prar.pt at Dot?** call— He who numbers every hair, Geo of battle* guard thee there; 4 Till Vi ft cry... efpoufing Peace, Shall bid contending armies ceafe ! —■— TREASON. Extra ft from the Btfion Repertory. (C A question of folcir.n import si na;v to be decided by the people. Will you fecond the faction who have pronounced you at war; will you fubmit to be the Haves of the flares cf Bonaparte, not his Haves by choice, but becaufc they had no other means of chaining down your tinderHandings, & maintaining their own confcquence ? Or will you be ?nn, be profperous, be free ? GEORGIA EXPRESS. SMALL XVH TS All FB.O, AN* BLXOWLBBOK SMALL BX IKC&SASSB.” Choofe your deftiny. There is now no evafion. You have no practi cable middle courfc. You muft bow to the yoke, or break it in pieces. You have before you the difaftersof war—a war with a nation defirous of your friendfhip, and ler vilicy to a tyrant who “knows no mercy; or peace, tranquility and profperity. In three months from this portentous day, you may be ie~ cure in the enjoyment of happinefi a.d independence, or you may be ft niggling agamft a nation whom you cannot iubdue, whom it would be your ruin to lubdue, and whom you have no reafon to with to fub due ; and fpiibng your blood, waft ing the remnant of your (Length, and fixing chains upon yourfeives like Holland, Auftna and Italy, to do what ? To gtre your feeble aid to plate Bonaparte where he never can be, with his foot upon the necks of ail mankind. cx No man can hold this language at this moment without hazaro— ■ the writer is aware of it. But who can care for the hazard ? If the peo ple do not choofe dtftruftion ail is Me. The individual who makes thele fuggeftions ?s fafe. If the people accede to the fatality which threatens them, no man need fear a greater evil. u What then is to be done ? Any thing, every thing not to be involv ed m this war. We muft have \o part in it. There is no neccfluy that we ihvuld. We have but to fay the word, and we are exempt frent ail its calamittes ; if even gives m a glorious opportunity to relume our log vioU-ed rigats. We have on ly to fay We will enjoy what nas lb long been denied ui—our freedom, cur commerce, our prolperiiy, or?! tranquility, & wc (hall enjoy them Wno will, who CAN ddtu b ue ? Men among us, who art lufferiiig martyrdom dkc ourlelves ? Never. Men, whom we Jee conftanlly with the knife - at ibeir throats ? Never. Lv us be uuc to onricivcs and our pa h is bright and clear, We have me inr.treft of ail cur fellow citizens, except the def picabie few dependant on government, oa mui (i <e. Wchav, pipyficalforce on cur fide, fo decidedly that force wdi be unneccHary and tranquillity may be rendered iecure. Wc have tht tired of J uftice on our fide, wc may therefore glory in our caufc. “ There w;n be here and there a wretch among us, who would wifh to fee the coaiunimation of our ruin, if he could get his live, ten, or fifteen thuuiand dollars a year.— Thank heaven thofe wno hare an intcreft in enfiaving Mafifachufetts arc few. Ail party disputes are merged in a common eaufe. The mam of the democrats have not wilhcd—have not exptfted war.— They have gone with our rulers, but not wiin an eye to the end of the career. They love their wives and their children better than they love the impoftors who have intend ed to facnfke them. They have been deceived; but they are men. They have the feelings common to men. They willchocfe to lhare in the happmefs effered to all, in prof- pe&, rather than to bringdown ruin on us, in which they muft be in volved. “ It is far from our object to ex cite popular feeling by theft re marks. There is cacitemen? c nough in the public mind • too much uniefs it be directed by w;r dom 5 but which, if guided by tine fathers of the commonwealths will fecure a happy and peaceful refult to thofe mcaftiies, which our fitua tion requires . But it mud and will have fcope. Let it not then, be left to afpiring felfifh demagogues, to take the helm, who may prclcnt themfelvca as pilots, regardlcfs of the intercity and rights of the com munity, and fetking only their own aggrandizement. Let us have or der, good civil government, en couragement to inrtuft y, fecurity to property. Let the people fee that though fsrfiaken, or rather cruelly per- Jecutsdby oh r national government, we have 4 rock, of salvation, under God, IN THE EXECUTIVE AND LE GISLATURE <*J MAbiACHUSETTS. If the Senate are abandoned; if they are loft to all feelings of honor, jus tice and the obligations of lelf prefervation, hi a dir eft appeal to the people be made, and a corrcjpondence be efiablifhed throughout the finte, to erlure concert, lirmnefs 6c promp titude.” REMARKS. I: has been our lot heretofore fre quently to witnefs the wild and ex travagant tfrufions of chfappointcd and frantic ambition. But we have never yet beheld with more mtngied emotions of regret and dcteftacion any fuch evidence of the madnefs and delpei-ation ©f an unprincipled incendiary, as that which is preda ted in the Bolton Repertory of the 26th of June. It warns only the evert a£t to confummate the worlt c >i all crimes; or rather, to fprak more correctly, it wants only the iormahty of an irqueft to place the maniac under a regimen & restraint which would rcflorc him to his pro per fenfts. Dves the Editor ©f this print al low himfclf for one moment to be lieve that he can perfuadc the pat riotic people of Mafiachtifetts to riife the parricidal arm ? To im brue a brothers hand in a brother’s blood? To plunge that fword, which fhould be pointed againft the enemies of our country, into the boforas of our own people ? To divert the combined energies of a free people from a noble end man ful vengeance upon a foreign foe, to a rafn and diabolical refinance of their own government ? Ri fiftancc! Rcfiftancc for what ? The fathers of our country, with the immortal founder of its liberties at their head, presented us with a free govern ment. The people deliberately ac cepted it. It is the admiration of the world. Undents mild admin iftratioa every bltffing of which we are fufceptible is enjoyed —proper- ty protected—liberty fecured —re- ligion tolerated—every art encour aged. A government, under the mild influence of which man is un folding all his nobleft qualities. A gainft the lawful mandates of fuch FRIDAY, AUGUST i 4j i3ia. a government, the people of Maf fachufeits are fummoned to rebel— And for urhat ? The conflituted authorities of the land have proclaimed Wsr ugainft Great-Britain. The majority cf the People thcmfelves, idling through their Reprdentatives; that majori ty* without recognizing the legiti macy of whole a<?ls all government is at an ead; have announced this ftatc ofthmgs. And the People arc fak mnly called upon, in the face of open day, to eppofe by force of arms, the decrees Which the People themleives have thus promulgated i A;.d to what would fuch fatal op pc.fition lead ? The long train of horrors lies before tis. We may in imagination contemplate rhe dread ful pi6lure : It is impc ftiile there ftiould be folly and wickcdnefs c nough to bring it into aiftusl cx-ft cace. Suppofe a few ambitious nvig gucs, left co their country’s happinefi and unmindful of cheii* own fafety, lkould attempt to nr ginize a force to oppofe that confti tßiion which they have fworn to fupport ? Can they cherifh the falf© 2nd delulive hope that they could difLcninsct the contagion thro* the uncontaminated veemanry of Maf fachufetts ? No ! The virtuous peo ple of that fhte would deny to their fellow-citizens of the adjacent ftates a participation in the honor of put ting down rhe Treafon. Rifing in the majefty of their ftrength, they would expel from their bofem the wretches who by Civil War would bring down upon their country the moft horrible of all calamities. Let us indulge the fuppnfiiion that thclc leaders would rail to their afliftan c the myrmidons *f a for eign power —that fl eis and armies of that nation agalnll wh ch our un divided energies oughr to be exert ed, fh mid be introtiuced into Maf fachufetta to abet the traitor 5r fub* vert his government. The gallant militia of that ftate would be ftiil competent to crufh treafon, and to drive from their hallowed fhores the infidious inveder. But fhauld the conteft prove doubtful: fhould the men of MafTachufetts who are true to thcmfelves and to their country be in danger of being overcome b/ the united force of traitors and Bri tifh minions, then fhould wc be hold the noble fpe&acle of myriad* cf freemen in other Rates ftarung up, as it were with one foul & one arm, Hying f o the afinftance of the faichfui of MjfTachufetts, and overwhelming the domeflic trai tor and his foreign auxiliary. We might extend our improba ble fjppoiitions fill! farther. Wc might fuppofe that a smfguided fac tion in Maffachufetts redly defired fpparation: that in other (laces in M. EngUad fimilar views enter tained, and that an abruption of that L&ion were actually effected.—■*** What then would be the ficuatioo of the Ntw Government in reference to the political parses which would (HU continue to exifl within its own limits; in reference to the reft of the Union; and in reference to for eign powers ? But we will not in dulge in a courfc of reafoning upon (No. 212.