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About Georgia express. (Athens, Ga.) 1811-1813 | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1813)
For the GiO'gia f. FeI.L TIvCiTIZEK*, “i iA V Qpr'cli ion re r -• feot v.’nr was no uru xu< dt - : . , J whi h is me ‘•> : • latneni 1 ha* re b i- dreaded c u> u A ob iStvadons as may aid in ftrei gfhen- Lg the timid, and caufng the un wary to wa:ch. That tuere tre Briti h friends in America, none will d*my—that fume of them h ive le(s criminal t ian ot: rs, adipg only Tom tnifguided judge ments, lam will!-g to rltuu ; b;.ft charity kno*s no apology fur ap portion at this h*c period. Am rca contending for the refpeft of the Jaws of nations has heretofore b-rn complained of ; if now, pro v,red to waft, fhe flhould enquire into, and cfpcciaMv if flic den-, old prerogatives of Britain, it w'il*, I fuppoh*, amount to facribgcj but if, in the eflublifhment of national Law, rules have neaped the Nati onal Convention more cvnfonani ro the local filiation of England, than ripsAful of the rights of other na tion* or of man, and if time has ex ploded, in-America, the regal oe lief “ that regulations once entered into t* e ever binding” —tod we thus fee that fundamental errors, tho’ of long Handing, become not everlaHing ; furely t Americans whom I sundress this will not fttro a iacrilfgtous writing. I mean, fellow-cuizens, to deny the Britifb “mpoffihhty of exf atria * turn. The mod prepoflcrous pie fumption of all prepofterom king doms is that of binding, fubj -£U to owe allegiance during life: and the sfllimptien equally prepotlerous to require of other nations reff-Vt of a rule that they themfelves talk more of as a waiter for their local conve niency* than as a law regarding th* rights of man, As well nrght Bri tain preferibe bound* to our Re public in morerepreherfi.de terms, as to fay we fliuuld not (in the mu ft hopeful exert if* of our character) open the foftering befom to p -preffed man; or having extended to and received the needy—-declare in the energetic language of acti on—a kind of fnatch, r catch as catch can—it is ours to make prey of what you have made Citizens.— That the claimed r : ght to the alie gjance of fubjeft* is as unnatural as it is unufiia) will fuMcicittiy appear by a view of the untaught brutes— toe hiftory of the human family— and by the realities of all moral law, \vc difeover the courje of nature (. the human 2s in the brute) puriuing her young no longer than they can ukfc care of thetniclves—and if foe command at all, it is by the right 01 (duty in the parent, to fupport the offspring till capable of fell govern ment. Thus from fmail to great things—the kingdom of Britain, if Hie had the right of parental go vernment, has only the limitced i ight t# detain the ftbjelf that the tamer has to detain the J'tn 3 and that right for the nation’s conveniency to do her fubjeßsz fervEe—and not for the favorite conveniency cf her fubjetts* fervice exalted. Widely ! indeed how widely different from Briiifh debauchery ot national or natural rights that pervertion of Law which I, an American citizen, am wiiib g to dilrtgard. And fiiaii America forever, thus, be (horn of that Ber.efirnt Character which fhe Las long fine in aebghted words pnr rrvrd— “ H*t fir angers from e tboufand Jh j r cs m fell'd by tyranny to roam, Sha V find a*r ; dfr abundant fores, nobler anti a hay pier homed’ f 1 ’ *V h• ; ‘ bf TV- ft .•,*Orn*C:U l'? ’t is the betf in a Rs-.OWi - fin Government. M?V t not ra ther hope*r may we <jc even cv.- p**cl > r pt-lerit diF*renpe, to ob:>ge the old Kegb - *Gover.-ie)‘:r.t of Britain not ogly to reftutt fu h icitio. al rules qs a>c rea ! ly right - , but to convince h r that /uch absurdities as her re 1 i flytnet i.i natiot.nl *s may have f ii ‘d, are n 1 ‘ j legally right, ad w If n o r , r anc lorg*r be reg diy re - girded* M’ch Hs been fi and by fi -it fh friends in As rrica of French tr 6 jc in our b•. laracion of war agiinft EcgUnd. The firnple fa 6k betng known to F ance of for a long titpe having confc'cl to urjuft and ma-.h-, and umreritetd outrages f ‘.ai Bri*a : m, will certain ly fall (hurt In ■ ■ Ang on France the criminally* of li*ch Urj :i\ de mands, fuch unmetitted cc\rages. Neither w*U the circumftatice of France ( n the rhsrr^trr ef a Dic tator) fugg.fti's o America the v.trriftty ©f her r-fiftancs to'Bfkilh depredation’s (a* it wUI fu a fh c© joftfi ‘atiui for fr'k -depredation*) bt any apology to the late Mafi'- chufett* mcmoriai.fts, and fuch pru- ©pp ft - -.mi as feem ingly, much r-t'her fight the e.cmy of Brraio, than the enem? r.f Am;-;- irict, Such int-real rpprfi k>n known in the Rcvolut on u ider the chara&cr of Toryifm—under the re'gn of Adam*, w:; (ee tberr, affum ing the name f>i F*deralift—under the Bri f fti rt.’iftson of Hrary to fe ver this e.” in, we fee th-*fln addred ed The Er :r,ds of Br.tafn in A-* mfrica;” and in the prefent war, as juft as dv? K’ olunor, the o? tn procure* the o(h r to fscure t he freed*?* of man ~~w have -.sem in this (j!?nc Bririfli chari&er by no meant inferring c -irf-*T the fadioa then gave crpcfirmn in tljflr firugfe tc get, a id ate r,ow noify \n the exertion ro keep, the free and baafted character of America.— That there fhould b“ rnund, in a Pickering and in a Randolph, a difpofttien ro ‘govern with unLmit ted power, h not fbrprifc^g—bat that fuch ambitious of a faSiion fhould Ibccced in making a i Inferior Ta lents believe it is r-ght Er thetn to be governed as fubj ;6ts is indeed aftOiiiftiing. fiuch delufory igno rance i*, m i.he American character however, to be lamented, aqd is the more to be lamented, as it is uaftsr tunate in a Republican Govern ment. Bur, FfUow Citizens, tire moft pleafing rtfi htion is, rha* tho’ we have nor. go and fenle exough ru ban fn, eternally , from cur land iuca Jeeis of dijfcntion, we have yer e oougH to check trie growth of fuch evil weeds, and render abortive ail produftinn. Roufe then Ameri can* ! be yeurfelvts 1 *;d ail we have to dread fretr< ftich oppefifton is an additions* ler£th of i he wa*- — we have nothin* :□ ft*r sroiti their number, and far left from the jujlice of their dejtgvs. CIl iZEN OF GEORGIA. Extra?? of a letter from capt. Cooper to Charles K. Mallory , cfa. lieute nant Governor of Virginia. “ I was yefterday in Hampton with my troop, tazt place having been evacuated in the mornteg by the Rritifh — kST’ My blood ran cold at what lJew and heard, Tce fe ot diftreffttd inhabitants rinnicg up in every dire&ich to coog up te us; tcrv.s were (hrddiag ir. r; iy cor ner—the infamous mof fters, defiroyed even thing but the homes, and (my pen is -iiidft un willing to deterge it,) the women were lavijhed by the abendy -< i jfi arts. Great God ! my Ckar frit, tan ymi fig jre jo ysUrjfcSf oir H lm'pton females it z.-d * ;d rfse ed w.th violence by thof* no; r is, a ul'not a folirary American arm prefent to a verge the hr w r -gs T can lay no more of this.** From the Britifib Fleet. Whether the foHowmg article be ftmi.-cfn :!a! or nor, do not know. It has at kas an a’ • of authority a bout it. It comes from what has been deemed ( r, m.;h matters) art au thentic'fource, and we mule hope* for the honor of humanity, that it tmzv be true. —Nat Intel. From the Georgetown Federal Rep <.k - licon. The flatement of tire women of H irnpton being violated by tne Britifti, turns cut to be falfe. \ cotrefpodeaceupon tbar ftibje-51 a- 1 the pillage aid to n; vc been coxv- - mwxd there, hss taken pla e b? tween General Taylui zr J’Admiral Warren. Sum- plunder appears to hae been commit ted/ but it v? confined to ;he Freiich tro ps - ro - ployed. Adi Warren camp/rds*- - h part of the Americafl ccntinu ing to fire upon the ftrugglfrig cr-w.s of ihc barges after th.-y were ftmk. lc is fii-i, that it was the will ojf molt of the land officers to rive uo Crzncj but the ouircrs of the navy determined to defend it at all hazards. The Britifti aopear to have been grofslv rn ft iformed as to . the probable reft fiance cf iht pi .c*-, plfia ihev mad attack. Tbe*Britiffi carried away all the hoifcs irom Hampton they cou'd Cplleft, fur the purpofe of d;awing rheir artillery, aa ;s laid ma.** /!,)■ - geUkgia M.rt£sv' 7 ’’ f A'!'HEN 3, July sje A d, m The Ho life of Re prefent alive s has faffed a Bill for Authorizing VK* budding of a number of Badges, or. Row Galleys } for the defence of lho” (bores and watert’hfibe United titatrs. and Bill for cutting eff the FdWe 11 intercourse now exiting With the ene my has pajj and the Senate, and is now bsfert the Houfe of Rep* efentafives. The Bill for laying and colleSUng a DireSt Tax within the United da * * h*s faffed the Houfe of Representa tives. This Bill propefes a DireSl Tax of three millions of dollars to he apportioned among the States refteSfa tively. The quota of Georg a is 54 936 dollars 49 cents. ‘ibe Bills fo* Hying the Taxes are its a train of iifeuffion. Nothing new from the Creek Net-* tion this week. A company cf Vo lunteers is ralfing in 4ug tifia for the purpofe cf going again fi the ba, Hie Indians, and will be comp let e in $ few days. JVe uvdsrfiand , fays the Augufia Mirror , that Col. Jack has ordered the company of men at Bath, under the command of enpt. Cunningham, to march to Fort Hawkins. IVe alfo learn that fever al companies from be low arc ordered to that place immedi ately. The Augufia Volunteer Ran gers have made a tender of their fir vices to the Governor , and art ready to march at a moment's warding'. The hilled on board she Chef ape ake in the action wtth the Shannon, a r.tou'ited to 47 — wounded 99 —13 of whom Juice dead. Ap- R ate Utter, received in this Fty ;-R.-r * . . , that Sir J:cmts Tco ,us >.. .. .. Itngy i'> c■’ r :k: n / the /.akti *b*J -rrenroaStt 11 ■ ‘t*?'** ,-’f £.'• rp i,‘ t ngs i and ‘ts <n, • , ■■ proceed !i l J* • • *• new frigate <. sred tpfeii. ’ V I ;‘L : -* f ft, C.,fef a letter ‘ >/;r <Tm a l Dearborn i-S* -cfet.-.rv if V'dr dated Hen ad . e- . Ears Gw i: . yt-c 25. slß—l have ■*u ;fi , f is..: . nrng you (R >t ft y. : ;c Br unaccoumaliHe c - v-nicg u— t3f J red yeft^rday. Jd - •, — 1 al vening, Leir. (fd. B * T ‘ , w: h 570 men, -infantry; ,rt, caval ry and rifiemen, in...due re-:,;:, was ordered to march cv v..iv 0 f to a r.h & caikri * the Beaver Dams, on the Ir.pA gn vF, s'.'rtut eight cf t ,k; ftiiles fr a Q'fccni.'j ,i. rc-/d;ipe’ ft a body ci tne yievpfi the--- Gr ihc r Tuofr p r o-. unrig provy(|om? arid nerry < in a..aits whs> re t ui'.fi-d e rt;;i if e .*> j■’ ?0 ■d * Uri 1 l Stales. I ne~* ;; *r*v ßlXkt inofi di,r t& n,i; r y : - Vi ..- j cf one ccftvu'a:-'..* •? • fi-. h t roetit above 1 i.- t. :-) to aco mimv-, <■■ t 60 lid -ins. Ac $ >fi\ ... uiorffing, - ; >uc ivq mil: s of the B-?.yer < vr dt tac.hrjient ;vq a*i2 i re-i rv? 1 —a am— Jbulc id.- ; - in.r feen dro* -he ?*. mv ditt ce . - •eri^'b and then/ tired to a e ? • ftJ i,aud -L. . . iti c i. ' ’ ■ t.a. ‘-.ic. ■ , lay nf ;r v ..is. nts peu tihn 5 ;il - and, a |C?nfurce* Kienr of coo t . chrd immedi- * s riv uc.ee f'-e (ouxttim! cf Cob Idin.L ; ntr./,.- --flying a: (fiiqtsi \f vb received 2,0- ’ .tCf.*t:C ifiAicrtijitia•• ,r.2t Lieut. C-iS. Bae ffih 3 b ’ cfin m a- and hd nrfcyrttrtu (q r! - ear my, and the .re-.e: W fo camp.— A man to- n•• ‘ a -j. q earpS of moureed . r.&:~ Vie-p, ,jn whs ft ate* rfia t ‘: he .. . - r-. _, ■ i ,f our cjetaAhm'cn’’ rh> r r *, general avtack*—<s- c-t.. : - <‘cp fought my:re thyn ;e ; b ; ; ur-lil the ardHery fad c zfr..-..vs tne w.i ‘lr eft its m a -,y rt the a fu: rendered ;ani at theft ctic me furfend'.r :t in'orrhasi: in efcape, , VT'iy jc hare tpea uueuied prop r,to jeauain fc cr*i hours in a pop ft . with woeai with.*;- .-other r {king a de cur- - a£ti m .0* efF.cling 3 retreat rema. .s t* or accrun cd fas well as the pH: T cf ait.ng for a rein- Er xfnen: Asm a diftaace 0: ft teen or ft:;teen a; I t. N -j irtt - '*T!>aran been receiv ed of the k?!Id or * uuocd. The cherry*s fi x has arrived in cur net* A.u ooodf Wt:a re I :& and c (Uem, tam Sir, outs, &c. H. DEARBORN. Hon. F:bn Armfironf. Secret try off Var. FROM THE NORTHWEST*. * ■ ’ ar Mr. PRIVATE raHEIo^NDIHC’ Comp Meigs, June 23, 1 i .. Information has reached us, ny two men whe efcaped from D x-oie, that Col. Prohor intends to befiegc this place, again, a.d that w>m~< exp-ft hi'. with xco ngi -l*rs ana 4000 Indians the ft it Tic wind.—• The relult cannot d'Vv-:T _as •,vc have repaired dx fo>uiicaEL*
