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 !
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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.
