Virginia Argus — Richmond, Va., 1810-11-02 00:00:00, page 3

eil cur citizen? j not because she had •
attacked a national vessel; but, be
cause she bad assumed the right of
imposing taxes on us without our cou«
sent* Yet notwithstanding we have
been progressing ever since on the
high tide of improvement, population
and wealth, unequalled hy any nation
under Heaven, it is said by some that
we are yet in a state of infancy, unable
to cope with those overgrown ruffians,
who trample upon our rights, and buf
" fit us at,their will....Oh ! venerable fa
thers, give us a portion of that Spirit
which impelled you to ascend the Clifts
King’s Mountain*...And may the
Spirit of a Washington, the Saviour
ot our country—*nu t Campbell, the
Hero of tha d. f we celebrate, be in
stilled in every American, and teach
them to defend their rights and liber
ties as they did. Let it not be said
the older and wealthier our country
grows, that it is the less able to defend
that precious inheritance which was
transferred to us by the best blood of
our ancestors. Yet I trust it will cot
be inferred, 1 would advise my country
to engage unnecessarily in a war with
any nation.—far be it from mt. War
is the greatest calamity that can befal
a people, except loss of their liber
ties or their honor. These ought to be
defended at all hazard*. When these
are brought in jeopardy all considera
9kions ought to yield—To pause at such
C period for the nice calculations of
>licv or economy—To halt a moment
because we !«ave an empty treasury,or
will be burtbened with u public debt,
would «n my estimation be aiaiost trea
son. The death ot a Peaece, the per
foration in the Hull of the Chesapeake,
arc inuLxu luaucib ui muc innaiucra
tiou-r-thc ore is only the loss of a fel
low man, the other has been patched
up with the expenee of a lew thousand
dollars—But the blood of a fellow citi
zen, inurderrd ar our very threshold ;
the attack cn a national vessel within
<rur o\vn waters, are dyp wounds that
falcMltuiomteanqot huftl or patch up—
Tfo ! thtfie a\yH!tv»<dft on the honor oi
^thi. nation, and rt^ftnust he satisfied—
^Cent ptr ctiUun^^Jculations will not
—Tfie suiy^if uVcniu’un must be
retorted to* AThis is tm^Pidhubum ol
our rbeity,fre Security lor our rigts.
Fat don me fellow-citizens, lor these
wmm expressions, and which may be
thought digressive from the object of
this clays meeting. But I have felt
the wounded he nor of iny country, in
the fteble resistance of our councils to
the outrages committed on our ucutral
rights by foreign nations. I fear »he
of Spirit *76 is lost in cold Calculation*
of profit and loss,— -th«.t our national
* honor 13 absorbed ib private ahgrnn
tbement. Thirty years ago, if 1 mis
take not, a different spiiit peevaded
the nation; I heard it talked of; I
saw its successful flashes in defence or
liberty, and X trust X caught a spark,
young as X was, which I will cherish
r* my noblest inheritance. To stand
quietly with folded arms and behold
our shores stained with the blood ol
murdered fellow citizens ; to see our
fci tional honor degraded by attacking
€lir national vessels, was not the spirit
mat actuated the peasantry of liun
i^rh; Hill ; the Gtcen Mountain boys
of Bennington, or the Mountaineers
of Holston. I\o ! they rushed for
_1 ... .L. a •..... ...1_
. V UIU » ^ Iktvv* uv*\4 VMt U*S uO
of wealth and regardless of life, in de
fence ei their lights, with the impres
sive declaration of Liberty or Death !
Every bosom glowed with the ardor
«f Liberty—Wealth and splendor were
things of no moment—the luxury they j
sought for, was the enjoyment of free
dom—It was this Spi.it that sustain,
ed a seven years W^lb, under difficul
ties and privations that no nation ever
experienced before—without arms or
: n mut ition—\vi hout men or money—
we began the conflict against a nation
possessing all the means of death and
destruction—but we fought for Liber
ty—rhty for conquest—The God of
nations was with us! And tho* we
pasted thtough man) a vale of horror
dis ress, almost ready to dispajr,
gleam of hope wouM arise and in
cite us to f-xtrt every energy which
the God of nature had endowed us
with—Onr cause was just and ive
prevail'd.
It in within the recollection of many
who hear me 'he difficulties we. had
to struggle with—Attacked by a tia
titn of the greatest celibrity of any
in the known world—possessing fkets
ar.d armies at will, with a thorough
knowledge of the art of war—who
were laying our newest town* in ash
es, and ravaging our sea coast, on
Alto, e tide— and on the other by a
Aruel savege people, ignorant of the
;V%f.ws of homani'y, involving all sexes
• end ages in thrir indiscriminate des
tructions— I!eie was a state ol things
thet almost appalled the stoutest hearts;
resistance appeared to be temerity ,
but our ancestors were determined to
enjoy that freedom in death, which
cticumstancta accrued to forbid the cn
joyment of in life—Hence dtath was
disarmed of it3 terrors, and they met
it with all that composure that suited
die glorious cause in which they were
embat^id. To attempt to detail the
vario&ntages of this contest, at this
time j|puld be unnecessary. Orators
and historians have done it in all its
glowing colours, except the solitary i
instance we now commemorate. j
Suffice it for Ine to say, that at the ,
very darkest and most gloomy period
of those deleterious tuues, our coun- (
trymen were hunted from post to post '
in almost every direction; their spir- .
its broken; their resources gone ; ■
ready almost to yield the glorious con
flict, abandon the Tree of Liberty and
become the slaves of despotism and |
pride.—The affair which we.now ceL
ebrate took place—The doleful aspect
changed-—The news spread over des
ponding America that a British army
commanded by its roost experienced
and bravest officer had been beaten &
captured by a few mountaineers ; who
ss it were had risen in the last hope
without previous arrangement or re
quisition of the Government; traver
sed an almost uninhabited country of
near tiyeqfhu ndred miles, sustaining
Hungeiji fai^ue and other sufferings in
numerable, passing the tremendous
mountains now in our view, the Py
renees of America, reached King’s
Mountain in S. Carolina—-where, ik t
withstanding the strong position ta
ken by the enemy on this Hill, and
notwithstanding the terror that was
spread by the devastation and mur
ders which marked the fooutep* of
this marauding army, who appeared
to be actuated by all the fury and cru
mby, that civil discord could invent or
inflict—this resolute B^nd, although
in numh#r« niuK*»sl «
regardless of death, and killed or
captured every, man. GLORIOUS
HAXi.-—Happy result!—Our hopes
which jh^d been exhausted ; our ar
dor |aii aval, which had almost ceas
ed to exist, now became renewed—
Tile dangers that lowered over us
seemed to dirsipate or rather give vi
gor to the public inind...'1'he opera
tions o! the war on our p4rt became
more energetic, and success followed
—Soon after we were Hail'd with the
affair ol the Cow-Pens ; thu well fought
battle ol Guilford; the capture t.f Corn
wallis ; and tinaily, peace and the en
joyment of the rights ol nature and the
peace licit possession of life and pro
ptrty..jrtiesu are the happy consc.
quei ce«* that GLORIOUS DAY...
And these area portion of those brave
Warriors who havt fought the good
light j now aged and infirm, are ben
ding downward to tho bourne frem
whence ho traveller returns....May
their meeting wun the Great disposer
ol human evecta, be a happy quc, and!
may tiiey be greeted with well done
thou good and faithful servants ; you
have done your duty, be ye hap
py Whde tune *s no more..,. And may
i try in the mansions above meet their
Rrave companions, who fell on lliat
day, defending the Glorious cause of
UiiEltTY.
ilcTe die Speaker was interrupted
by the falhrg of the seat on which the
vt^rtotna sat... Ha turned to them and
f hose who assisted in raisjug
tb^I^mple of Libeity may fall...but
the 1 ample itself,shall stand forever 1
Editor.
Head Quarta.Ks, March 19, 1781.
SIU,
Your faithful services, and the
exertions which you made to second
the eiloita of the Southern army on
15th inst. claim my warmest thanks.
It would be ungenerous nofr to ac.
knowledge iny entire approbation of
your conduct, and the spirited and
manly behaviour of the officers and
, soldiers under you. Sensible of your
[merit, l ftel a pleasure in doing justice
to iu
Most of the rifle-men having gone
home, and not having it in my power
to make up another command, you
have my permission to return home to
yonr friends ; anil should the emer
gency of the Southern operations re~
[quire your lurther exertion, I will ad
vise )OU.
I am, sir, with great esteem,
Mtiost humble servant*
NAT11. GKISJEN.
mi -dnifcii l
J'ort of Richmond.
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Rt. I'i'ler, Hall, Hammer*
Cordelia, Gag?^ Boston
Regulator, Baldwin New-Yok
Sloop Ea-mpl*, Watfcor, Do.
cj.eahed.
Rchr Regulator^ Baldwin, New-York
sloop Blue Hill, Taylorj Suffolk
Three S sternBtasron^ rhiladelpiia
Five Siiter*, Sterlic,an, Do.
M*rj Ann Carolina, Guiding*, N. London
Dolphin. Endicolt, Philadelphia
Example, Walton, Do.
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R I C H M O N Elj "
FRIDAY, HtvEjtitx 2, tfito.
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will shortly be forwarded to Mr. Ed
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in that county will please make
payment.
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Mr. P PEASANTS,
As you frequently de
vote Some of your columns to subjects
of serious and interesting tendency,
permit me in one of them, to lay be
fore your readers a succinct account
of a scene that was exhibited last Sab
bath, in this city. The Presbyterian
Society having no Church of their
own in Richmond, were, through the
liberality of the Minister of the Par- 1
ish, accommodated with the Church
on the Hill, far the purpoce of cole- 1
bratirnj the Lord’s Supper. The sa- i
crameut was adminisUfod in a very i
large and very cwd^fy assembly, to i
•nor*( |ilimagine, |(ian two hundred i
comgwhnmants. K Vas pleasing to
behold c™ harmony which they u- «
aited in the hofy communion. Epis
copalians, Methodists and Presbyte
rians, acknowledging the same Lord, 1
sat down at the same table, and seem
ed to have imbibed the- same Christian 1
tDli'lt. 1 hc*V cnm- .n/uiJ.-rl with »Kair I
iVIast-r’s oarutx xtul d.se ple*hip ju By
this shall all men know that ye are',
my disciple*. if ye nave love one to-!
another.” (John 13, 35,) Lively devo-'1
tion appeared to animate the breasts 1
oi the communicants while silent bo- (
lemnky pervaded the house. The 1
account given in the Enquirer of the,
triendlv reception which the Baptist"
asrocPPBon lsirly met within this ci-j
y alac^^ords a pleasing specimen of j
tnat ch#ity which characterises ihe|
true disciples of Christ. If Christie
ans would maintain more frequent iu.
lercourse iu their progress towards
Heaven, they would certainly *• fall
out less by the way.”
In viewing these passing scenes one
caanot help looking forward to the day
when the followers of the Lamb shad
all be collected from the “lour cor
ners ot the earth” into ons great com
pany which “no man can number,”
to be introduced into the joy of their
Lord.
One of your friends St rea.dbrs»
Richmond, Oct. 31st, 1810c
For tub Argb*'
FROM the CLUB*
Richmond, Oct. SOth, 1810.
Our Club, which commenced with
a resolution to relinquish wines and
brandies, and to confine itself to pure'
water, has been thrown into an odd
predicament this week by u frolic in
which each member has indulged him
self, unknown to the other, insomuch
that nejrufjub tremblings, nauseous sen.,
sationslu the stomach, and head-aches,
h'.lt/p r\ slir rt/prsr rmi* f t Km aa«i-n*• i
~ m ’ .--v ' . i
of thin^og ia train. This of course
I prevent* any ihiug like-a regular, coo
| nectcd discourse being ia.d before the
public* But something must be pro
duced, or we should forfeit our pro
mise of weekly communication. One
member, as distinctly as the hicirup*
would let him, proposed to write a
; charter of lamentations i But this
proposal not succeeding, after a little
further consultation, another member
proposed to give a series of reasons
lor not getting drunk, which, equir
ing nothing more than short sentences,
and the subject corresponding with
our feelings, was adopted, nem. con.
TWENTY REASONS FOR NOT GETTING
DRUNK.
I. It wastes time.
2 It destroys health.
. 3* It entails misery on families.
4. It destroy * reputation.
5. It prevents the moral inclinations.
6. It weakens the intellect.
7. It has an irreligious teodenry.
8. It disqualifies a man tor business.
9.. It injures the interests of chil
dren sowing up in life.
lofln excludes a man from decent
comflmy.
II. It renders him unhappy in his
sober moments.
12. It spoils domestic comfort*.
13. It picvtnis a man from attain
ing toipolitical importance..
14. 1% makes a man inconsistent,
j 15. -JjKI'-srroyg his credit.
1«. His word is always suspected, 8t
‘ the force of his testimony is weakened.
, J 17. He is flouted by the basest pari
of mankind ; and, what is worse* he is
pitied by the intelligent.
13. lucb.riatcd, a man is a beast: and
.sqPering-.his conscience stings him.
19J DtAnk* he is a burthen to his
wife)j 3»rf a luighing-stock for knaves.
20. kA d{|thkcu man is always liable
to be cheated, vilified, and despised. ;
These twenty reasons our Club de- '
termmed to commit to the world as an 1
essay agaiust the vice of which all the
membsrs have entered a minute on
our journals never again to be guilty,
■or henceforward to scandalize the
society w?hh such humiliating confessi
ons. | . x, r,&#.
I f\o^u* Bull’s pate should be too '
tough to yield to argument, it is tho’t, |
wys a correspondent, that we shuH 1
have to treat in a different manner his
blockhead system. 1
The editor of the Spirit of *76 seeo s
delisted Rjat John Randolph can be
viodicaiftd tVom one falsehood, (tho\
by the gyy^re doubt even that,)—yet
of what^jppoTtance is one to the many 1
untruths of which he stands convicted. '
Ifit had not been for Jchn Randolph '
we should have had possession of tne
Florida* long ago, without any diffi
culty. But now, no one can tell how <
affairs wFJl turn out. Decius procras- •
tinated In Congress in 13C5, and told
tales news-papers tilt the time
for buying was gone by- Decius w>«s
John Randolph, and John Randolph
did “ Dish Us."
The Patriot of Richmond complains
that the Argus is rude to Napol on
Bonaparte.- We cannot r turn the
compliment; for the Patriot is not rude
to George the third.
A writer, who proses it in the Patriot I
in adrireMrs to M’. Madison, signs
him At “Vif ofSeventy ■Four.1* We
rather talehim to be One of a thous
and; for you could nut possibly find
more than ne man in a thousand who
would perserve in writing trarh that no
body reads, and which only attracts
notice by having J\lr. Madison’s name
fcxeti at the head of the productions,
is inn-keepers count custom by thrun
ingout a sign of some great chatactrr.
Patriots are said to “ love good pla
ces at thdir hearts.” It our neighbor
keeps co in leaking cut opinion* and
sentiments which afford room for com
ing sjjt truth ot federal doctrines,
wnefienafce gets into office or not, his
poli Va^ftrt^is will certainly thi.k he
meriiba*. ros^r.
Seldom has society been deprived of n.
member whore loss was more sincerely or
more extensively deplored, than, the late
Col. F.mward Carmncton. ofibia city.
This gentleman’s life ha* exhibited one
uninterrupted course ef honor, ot virtue
and of usefulness.
At ibe commencement of that war Which
gave indeporder.ee t>ytm country, he tin*
tered into the American army, in which
1 he continued till peace tern mated ihedan.
g?r«^ the tods, and the privations of that
illustrious band of real patiiots.
As an ofti-.er of Artillery, in which
corps he held the commission of Lwutt
nantjColcmelj ho attained well merited
distinction ; end in that arduous campaign
on which ia a great measure depended the
liberty of the Southern States, his ser
v ees as a field officer and as a Quarter
Master Geveral. attracted the particular
attention of General tl e*n,Ho mention
ed him toCongrcsftn lermjM&l nigh appro
bation. ’ jr
I President of the United States, noth Mar
fibsl nnd Supervisor f«r the District or
Virginia. On the division of those offi
ces, he chose to retain that of the Super
visor, which he held until it was di«con
♦ inued. The temperate firmness of hi»
charac'er, tl>c wuncl discretion of his con
duct, at all times conspicuous, were par
ticularly valuable in counteracting the ex
unions nnd checking the progrt ss of that
discontent with which the laws imposing
in.erna! taxr* were received in many
parts cl Virginia.
His service* being no lorger necessary
to the government of the Union, he become
eligible to city oflkcaa. the. most useful of
which he has been in the coarse of fiilng.
Let lha d*cp, the solemn, the universal
gloi.m with which hi death cvrrsprcada
the c>tv, attest the manner m which ii« has
Ailed them.
” the stations to which he
I* bo has manifested deci.
iinws'-ncd a 4idin»v, ar.d
comd ntver be suspected,
.able traits as a pubhc man
i added the mr»t «»n.na'.iiu
1. ___It adorn private and do_
nieatic l;le. Tbe commanding dignity ef
hi* eluu'acter w\a sweetened wish a gen
tlettu*s of temper and a ben-volence of
heat i which rendered him most dear to
, those with whom hr wm ia habits of inter,
course The store ^flexible integrity of
bi* principles, which scanned wi:h s»ve
'•ndutf, could view with
II foblea, if not the vices, of
r*e exist a more atder.t
end, a kinder relation, or
>rete and tender hoshaed.
1 Long, very long, will thore who * rod
• thus connected With hint feel and lament
t hit losj.
At 0 Meeting of the Stan<!uHy Co&viig.
tee of the Virginia State Society ./'
Cincinnati, at the Capitol in (he city
of Richmond* Oct. 3ls(t 1810.
THE President of the bo.. e«y tulled
the atwnntep of the Com mitre, to tiie
roehmcWM occurrence, which took place
*”* 'yn*Ql? ay*‘Onounced in
the pdbClPnfnts of th> city, to w-u tLe
death V)tTB^Vice.Pre8id#iu of this Society,
and an active and eftiaftos member ef this
Committee. Wh^reJpon, \
Resolved, That fh coesXpence of the
death of Cel. Edward Cn^ngton, ths
Vicr.*Pre»ldeul of this Society, who was
esteemed and venerated as well for h-»
eminent virtues and talents as a Soldier ,jf
our Revolution, as fer his aaefulneaa, i,uv
fTity and exemplary conduct as a civil
Magistrate and private citizen, this Com
mittee, as a testimony of the affectionate
respect they have fer his memory, end of
the sincere affliction they feel for his leas,
wilt wear a Crape on the left arm for one
menth.
Extract from the proceedings of the Coo*
mittce*
Attest,
Samuel Coleman, SecVjs.
Otv®—In this city, eo Wednesday ntgka
the 3Itt ult. JOHN BROWN, Esq/cirr*
of the Coart of Appeals. For talents awf
rtspeciabrfl^ of character, this genUwna.'Uf
stood Jpghin the estiaatisu of his fclmi*.
citizens. \
Arrived flampten Roads on Thai*,
day last, ship^nella, Ssnfordj 43 days trout
Liverpool^eound to City Pomt*
Prices of American Produce in Liverpool, Mi
September.
Tp*! the bolla.1
Tobacco, Jnmes River^ leaf "*
Ordinary, ' 3d * Sd LA
Middling, 8 1.2 a 4
Good and fine, S » 7
Stemmed, £ & 7 iji
Cotton Upland, 12 1.2 a 15 1 2
Wheat, Virginia, 14s a 14*d per 70 tfcu
Flour, superfine good, £6s a 60s
inferior, £2» a £3u
Tar, 25 .4 a
Turpentine* 15s a 17s pur Cm
J7** The wri\|f of the loner from
which the above ' ia taken, eoaervca—
“ Out market upon tha wb<^ is duil~*
We jrcc&t»iona|]y experience arme Imle
riemdndtf&r tobacco; but stock is row
so hehvyj thatkhe quantitjJKken outot the
marldet i4 scarcely feli*j#Wljtat 6c Fiotic
are dhll lb rfnsequeogff of the imprcvad
state of cntr crops«w*Cetton ia steady, but
not brisk—Naval store* are in good ue
tnaad.”
Petersbg. Jut*
It is a fact highly creditable to the State
ef Connecticut, and te the administration
of its Affairs, that, on the 36th day oft
September, according to a report laid oe„ *
fore the Legislature, “ there was nothing
due from any towu or Sheriff to the state,
for the taxes or any other account ua the
beeke ef the Treasury.”
From the Aurora of October &5.
t —
We feiterday received the Cadts
*ef(e» lovin the 14th of Sept »y t.^jf
brig Feinarrived at Baltimore ; thep*
contain principally some intercepted cer.*
respohdpfte between some French *iut
Spanish persens of distinceien.
A letter to the editor, by the saute rnn
veyance* states, that great aux-ety
felt there for tho result of two battles, enq
expected to be fought in Portugal, the o.
ther at Tarragona betweea the Spaniard*
under Gen. O’Do'nel, and the Fraruclv
under Gen. Macdonai,
( The Cortes were collecting at Cadbi*
anil were to hold tlitir first sitting io«
19»h Sept. A Spanish frigate had *&LU4
for Cartbagene to bring snembers thence.;
As the British contrived the dissolution mf
the Mipreme junta at Seville, and the re
gency hare not answered ail that was ex
pected* some new movt ment of policy* anil
some indemnity far British sacrifices, are
expected to be demanded—acme provin
ces id America and Cuba particularly.
The fisat step of the Corces is exoectnd
to be a dissolution of the regency, £t the
hcadfoU^Ji^cIt is die bishop cf Orrnsn—,
whohalei^ immLc stn unsuccessful attempt
to haVqJlpeKntalif Cudix elected by me
peoplk^ plscowin m sta‘e of arraet.
An aeu«u~w*i fougnt on the lith Aug„
a) Lerenn, near ihe GuAui«n*—all
could hear of it was that there had been
a battie—but we have seen Soult’o account
of it, in which he spates the leas ot tiiet
Spaniards at 600 killed, 3600 prisoner*^and.
16 pieces of arblUry and 36 stand .rdn.
1 be Spaniards were commanded by Ro. '
ir.aaa.
A very large PUMPKIN is adver
tised for exhibition in Baltiovore. It,
weighs 170 pounds, and is 7 iect f in
ches tn circumference!
a—eaw———so—mi^- ■■■■■ „ . ■■
MANCHESTER TUKNPiEE COMVAN^
'■pH/1 annual meeting of Stotklt jUxo wid &•
X btld at ttiookj* lavcrn in .viaivneaaar on
the first Monday in December ooxi ; So- h meot-f
bor«as caoaot attend m peroeo, wi>h it is cjlM
i peeled, spnoiat their Proxy*.
I 1 he under *ignod with** to be furnished .van
I prr per evidence of ar.are* sold and purchased
I « nee thaWst meeting | in order that uraa^jia**
may be \x^e on the ccreptay * bw^ and
{ fharoo JM^epresemed. r
James Brawler, Cl*k*
Manchester, lot Wot. 1816 (ID
i r | 'HE Subscriber is d*»ir>»us "1 i
X KING, TWO or THREE M
GKO MFN either by ti e mem
year. He al*o wish' a Co emp!J a
Waggoner who *an com* arrll rrlrn
mended
JOS. H. MAYO. '
Cmtaga, just beloa'^
Richmond, Oct. HI. \ Hvv
BAIL an 1 DELIVER* bdNuJ1
Jbr fit *t thi*