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THE FRIEND AND MONITOR.
Three dollars per annum.'}
Volume I.J
For Sale, * •
Seven hundred acres of land, in
Wilkes county, lying on the waters
of Beaverdam, adjoining'lands of
Leapham and Thomas Chivers.—-
This land isjo well known, and is
of so good a quality, that 1 prefutne
it unnecessary Jo fay any thing oft
this head. Terms of sale cam.
I JOHN B. NEI3SON.
Ujflober 6, 1815.: —40 ts
Home Os Entertainment .
William G. Springer, takes
the liberty of informing his friends
and the public in general, that he
has purchased that well known ta
vern in the town of Sparta, form
erly occupied by Mr. John Aber-
where every attention
will be paid to those who may think
proper to call on him.
Sfai|ta, August 15.
Notice.
caufe of the dissolution
of co-partnership between Robt.
Ghivers and myfelf is rafcality and
illegal proceedings by Robert Chi
vers. Also, I do hereby forworn
nay person or persons whatsoever,
from payiifg him any money on
the Book of Harrison and Chivers
for the year 1814.
THEOD’K HARRISON.
April 25, 1815.--rm 17th
~T. 1 \v st v 'Te.’
The subscriber informs thePub-*
lie, that he has just received a sup
ply of frefh goods, w hich he will
dispose of on, reasonable terms for
cash or produce.
J A. H. GIBSON.
‘September 1 5.
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Georgia Legislature
GOVE RN O R ’sCO M M UNIC A
TION.
executive n^f aktmf.nt, Georgia,
Millrclgeville, November B,lßlb.
FeUow-GitizcKa of the Senate,
and House of Represenatives.
It is known to you all that since
the Legislature were last in session,
the war which was then waging a
gainst the American people, has
been concluded by an honorable
peace. Permit me to congratulate
you on this event. A nation whose
habits and pursuits make it at all
times their interest to be at peace
with the rest of the world, and
whose inclinations correspond with
their interest, has just reason to hi
grateful to Heaven when they can
enjoy that bieffing. In the mise
rably diftra&ed state of the world
which has been witnefTed for twen
ty-five years past, it is a miracle
that we should so long have escaped
| the broil of war. And now after a
short, and to us a-glorious struggle,
the cloud has parted away, and we
are backing in the sunshine of peace.
The fubjefts w'hich appear pro
per to be communicated to the Le
gislature specially are not nume
rous. Such as have occurred du
ring the recess, and fall within this
defeription, will now be presented
to your view. ,
PUBLISHED (weekly) BY’ JOHN K. M. CHARLTON.
FlftD/tf, NOVEMBER if. 1815.
Notwithstanding the large drafts
which the occafionsof the war have
rendered neceflary on the state
Treafury* yet the* amount of funds
in that office at this time, nearly
equals the amount of any former
” year. This is justly attributable to
the wife policy adopted by the Le
gislature, of adding 50 percentu m
to the state Tax for the purpose of
reimbursing in part tne amount of
the Dire£l Tax afifumed by the state
v to the. United States, ‘This year
again, tjie quota of direst tax, tho*
double the amount off he last year,
has been fettled from the proceeds
of thefales of lands in the Miftiflip
pi Territory. In addition to the
disbursements made under the ap
propriation of the* I;&e session for
the ereflion of formications on the
sea coast there has been advanced
•
to the Quarter Mafier’s department
of the army of the United States,
the sum of twenty thouiand dollars,
and to the. Contractor for the army
the sum of thirty thdufand dollars.
The firft was specially authorifed
by the last Legislature ; but the fe
cund was drawn from the military
fund after the * netny bad invaded
the state, at a perfod when the con
tractor’s department was utterly
destitute of funds and unable to
fupplv die troops in service with
out such aid.
Both tfiefe advances of twenty
and thirty thousand dollars have,
however, been recognized By the
War Department, and theis pay
ment assumed. The Executive
has not Ipng since been notified,
that the funds were ready for r heir
difeharge at the city of Washing
ton, and the neceflary drafts have
beer transmitted there for that pur
pose We have also good grounds
for the expectation, that the expen
diture for fortifications on the sea
coast will be reitnbuifed to us
whenever the proper vouchers can
be tranfmitfed to the feat of Gov
ernment.
The whole correspondence and
‘documents relating to these fubjefts
will accmopany this communica
tion.
It is proper further to mention,
that divers smaller advances have
at different periods been
when they appeared indispensable
for the promotion of the public
service. These have been so guard
ed as to leave no dout of their re
imbursement.
|. The Legislature will nave an op
| portunity to difeover, from perfon
i al observation, the progress which
j has been made.in the erection of the
> Penitentiary edifice. A report
will in due time be laid before them
from the Commissioners, detailing
the expenditure of the monies ap
propriated for that objeft. It will
be seen on infpe&ion, that much
of the interior work remains to be
done; and it is believed that a com
pletion of the whole of the prefect
building, including the neceflary
wall, cannot be reasonably calcula
ted on earlier than the next meeting
of the Legislature. The interven
ing time will afford an opportunity
VIRTUE, LIBERTY, AND SCIENCE.
• for Reviling and rendering more
the Penitentiary code- The
i introduction of a fyflem of punish
. ments entirely new in this state, &
, the accommodation of that system
(in a certain degree neceflary) to
the existing state ojf society here,
was a work in which jfjnuft reason
ably be expeited thatitnany imper
fections will be found on experi
ment. Some it is believed will be
difeovered on a refifion, which,
require correction before th§ code
goes into operation. TheLegifla
ture alone can direCt the course
proper to be pursued for the ac
complilhtnent of this objeCt.
I have received a requisition from
Maj or General Gaines of the Uni
ted States army, for two thousand
militia, to rendezvous at Fort Haw
kins. The objeCt of this requfition
was, to have an effective force or
ganized and in the field, fufficient
as well to proteCt the Commiflion
ers who are engaged in running the
boundary laic, as our own frontier,
front any hostile menaces of the
Creek Indians. lam sorry to fay,
that a compliance with this requisi
tion has been much retarded by the
system of fleCting officers for de
tachments; And had an imme
diate pyeffure been made by the en
emy, wc might have had reason to
regret serious disasters to the Com
miflioners as well as our own fron
tier.
Whilst on this fubjeCt, I will a
gain call the attention of the Legis
lature to the condition of the vol
unteer infantry and rifle companies.
Os the latter in particular, there
are many remnants thro* the state,
who in point of faCt are complete
exejnps from the public service.
The authority to consolidate them,
given by the aCI of the last session,
is infufScicnt, owing to their dis
persed fixation. Both deferiptions
ought, by law, to be thrown back
into the line, ancPhone fuffered to
remain in the charafter of volun
teers any longer than they shall
preserve their full compliment of
men.
There is one fubjeCl, to which it
is believed to be important that the
attention of the Legislature should
be seriously direCled, without delay.
We have felt by fatal experience,
the injurious effeCts of being over
taken by a state of war, without
possessing the neceflary means for
prosecuting it. A state of peace is
the proper period for providing
and laying up those means.—The
ample funds now at the command
of the state, and the facility with
which the proper arms, artillery &
ammunition may be procured and
transported, would appear so favor
able to the purpose, that to neglect
the opportunity would leave the
public councils inexcusable to the
state. Experience too has taught
us the kind of asns tnoft efficient in
the hands of an American folflier. *
These are rifles of the proper con
firmation, and light artillery. Os
mulkets we have a considerable ;
fuppiy with their proper accoutre- j
ments; and this fuppiy mult antiu- i
£. Payable half yearly.
ally increase by the operations of
the a&pf Congrofs, of the 23d day
of April, FBOB.
In the present untoward state of
the world, we are the only people
on the globle, who can with truth
call theiufelves free. This freedom
so dear to us, we are bound by the
mod sacred ties to protect ancf pre
serve. “An armed nation is in
vincible.” In proportion as we
prize the great bieffing, so are the.
inducements to transmit the fame
unimpaired ,to pdfterity. In pro
portion as the enmity or hostility of
qthers may tempt them to attail it,
so are our obligations of and uty to be
prepared to repel their efforts.
In reviewing our own bfeflings,
it would afford consolation to every
philanthropic mind, if profiting by
the example of our condition, o
ther nations would be wife enough
to direst more of their'energies to
wards the obje£t3 of true private
and public happiness. But it would
appear as if Heaven had, for a time,
given up the nation? of Europe to
be scourged by tfifeir own madness.
Even now, when he, whose arnbi
ton was considered there as the
great destroyer of the peace of Em
pires is no longer able to molest or
destroy ; the improved condition of
Europe, is atiefted by she daily
groans of millions, who dare not
confider their houses as their homes.
These feenes parting in actual review
before the world, may contribute
to make an American citizen prize
as he ought his own happiness.
When we confider how apt a free
people are to hold in too little efli
mation the high destiny to which
providence has conduced them, it
is not impious to fay, that for us it
is fortunate these things are so.
The lesson may be a falufarv one ;
for although we might for a while
prize as we ought our diftinguiftied
state of happiness, yet it ought to
be borne in constant recolle&ion,
that we are liable to fliipwrefl on
the fame rocks which have proven
fatal- to other republics. The
feenes before us may serve to retard
the catastrophe. There i§, howe
ver, one advantage we possess over
former republics, and indeed over
every other nation, ancient or mo
dern, which if properly improved
inay serve us to the end. Our peo
ple are better enlightened. This
circumstance will save us, so long
as it shall be properly appreciated.
It is the pivot on which hangs the
political salvation of the largest and
faireft portion of the Globe. Who
then can duly appreciate the value’
of those abundant sources of edu
cation which are spread ever the u
nion ; or who be infenfibleto the
weighty duty imposed on each in
his own fpHere, of administering to
them nurture and support.
Fellow-Citizens—Permit me to
recommend to you harmony in
your deliberations. If peradven
ture matters of difeuffion flioyld a
rise, 1 in which different opinions
prevail, let not paflion assume the
empire of reason. The former is
i not the road which leadt, to the
fNuMRER 45.
