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I SATURDAY, Augujl aS, 1802.
THE AUGUSTA CHRONICL E
I AND
GAZETTE OF THE STATE.
I F.REEDOM of the PRESS and TRIAL dy JURY shall remain invllate. Confutation of Georgia .
I . AUGUSTA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, near the market. [3 Dolls, per Annum.']
[Published by Authority.]
Sj the President of the United States of
America.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS a Treaty between the Unir
e.i States of America and the Chickasaw
nation ol Indians, was concluded and fign
cd by the commissioners of both nations,
tally and respectively authorifed for that
puroofc, on the twenty-fourth day of
QAober, 1801, and was duly ratified and
confirmed by the President of the United
States, with the advice and consent of the
Senate, on the firtt day of May enfumg,
which treaty is in the words following,
to vvit :
A Treaty of reciprocal advantages and
mutual convenience , between the United
States f America and the CbickafavJS.
The President of the United States of
America, by James Wilkinson, brigadier
general in the service of the United
States, Benjamin Hawkins of North-Ca
rolina, and Andrew Pickens of South-
Carolina, commissioners of the United
States, who arc veiled with full powers,
and the Mingco, principal men and war
riors of the Chickasaw nation, reprefent
i.ng the said nation, have agreed to the fol
lowing articles ;
Article 1. The Mingco, principal
men and warriors of the Chickasaw na
tion of Indians, give leave and jiermiffion
to the President of the United States of
America, to lay out, open and make a
convenient waggon road through their
land, between the fettlcments of Mcro
Diilrift, in the Hate of Tennessee, and
those of Natchez, in the Mississippi Ter
ritory, in such way and manner as he may
deem proper; and the fame lhall be a high
way lor the citizens of the United States
and the Ghickafaws. The Chickafavvs
Hi all appoint two difereet men to serve as
afliftar*s, guides or pilots, during the
lime of laying out and opening the road,
under the direftion of the officer charged
with that duty, who lhall have a rcafon
able compernatton for their service : Pro
vided always, That the necefiary ferries
over the water comics, croiled by the
said road, lhall be held and deemed to be
the property of the Chickasaw nation.
Art. 11. The commissioners oi the U
rated Stares give to the Mingco of the
Chickafavvs, and the deputation of that
nation, goods to the value of seven hun.
dred dollars, to compensate him and them
and their attendants for the expence and
inconvenience they may have fullained by
their refpeCtful and friendly attention to
the President of the United Slates of A
mcrica, and to the requelt made to them
in his name to permit the opening of the
road. And as the persons, towns, vil
lages, lands, bunting grounds, and other
rights and property of the Chickafavvs,
as set forth in the treaties or stipulations
heretofore entered into between the con
trading parties, more especially in and by
i certificate of the President of the U
nited States of America, under their seal
of the firft of July, 1794, are in the
peace and under the protection of the U
nited States : The commissioners of the
United States do hereby further agree,
that the President of the United States of
America lhall take such mcafurcs from
time to time, as he may deem proper,
to assist the Chickasaws to preserve entire
all their rights against the encroachments
of unjull neighbors, of which he (hall be
'he judge, and also to preserve and per
petuate friendlhip and brotherhood be
tween the white people and the Chicka
favys.
Art. 111. The commissioners of the
United States may, if they deem it ad
visable, proceed immediately to carry
the firft: article into operation, and the
treaty lhall take effeft and be obligatory
on the contracting parties as soon as the
Tame lhall have been ratified by the Pre
sident of the United States of America,
\y and with the advice and consent of the
Senate of the United States*
. •
IN TESTIMONY whereof we,
the plenipotentiaries have hereun
to fubferibed our names and affix,
ed our Teals at Chickasaw Bluffs,
the twenty fourth of Oflober,
« iBci.
James Wilkinson, (1.5.)
Benjamin Hawkins, (l. s.)
Andrew Pickens, (1.5.)
Chlnmimbe X Mingco, . (l. s.)*
Immuttauhaw, X (l. s.)
Chummaube, X (l. s.)
George X Colbert, (1.5.)
William X M‘Gillirey, (l. s.)
Opiehoomuh, X (l. s.)
Oluhlohopoie, X (l. s.)
Monkemattauhaw, X (l. s.)
Jufkkoopoic, X (l. s.)
William Glover, (1.5.)
Thomas Brown, (l. s.)
William Colbert, W. C* (l. s.;
Mooklufhopoie, X (l. s.)
Oporeolanhtau, (1.5.)
Zefchoolauptau, (l. s.)
Zefchoolauptau, (L. s.)
James Underwood, (l. s.)
WITNESSES—SamueI Mitchd, A.
gent to the Chickasaws.
Malcom X Mcgec, Interpreter to the
Chickasaws.
William R. Bootes, Capt. of 3d Reg.
and aid-de-camp.
J. B. Walbach, Lieut, and aid-dc
camp.
J. Wilson, Lieut. 3d Reg,
Now Therefore, To the end that
the said treaty may be observed with good
faith on the part of the United States, I
have caufcd the premises to be made pub
lic, and I do hereby enjoin and require
all petfons bearing office; clvi] or milita
ry, within the United and all 0.
liters, citizens or inhabitants thereof, or
being within the fame, faithfully to ob
serve and fulfil the said treaty, and every
clause and article thereof.
IN ENi t mony whereof | I have caused
the seal of the United States to be
affixed to these presents , and fgned
the fame with my hand .
DONE at the City of IVaJhington the
fourth day of May , in the year of
our Lord , one thousand eight hundred
and two; and of the Sovereignty
and Independence of the United
States of America , the twenty-fxth,
Th; JEFFERSON.
By the President,
JAMES MADISON,
Secretary of State,
AN APPRENTICE wanted
from the country, to aCI in a (lore—None
need apply without being well recoin,
mended. Inquire of the Printer.
Aug ref a, Auguji 14-
PUBLIC SALE.
By permission oj the honorable the Inferior
Court ,
WILL BE S^LD,
At the market tibufe in Augusta, on the
frft Tue/day i/i\>iptyhber next, at the
usual hours , \ /
A Trad: of 300 acres of pine
land, on the watjfts bt Batlcr’e creek,
Richmond counjy, aqioining lands of
col. R. Watkuft’s, and\ands lately col.
Gordon’s, n/w Archibald Hatchet’s;
being part a traft of $OO acres, be
longing Arinton* dec. —Con-
ditions j^&fh.
Edward Rowe
A. Hatcher, 3
July 2.
Brought to Augusta Jail the
25th Juiy, inflair, a negro boy, by name
HARRY, about 13 years old, who fays
he belongs to William Shaw, living near
Cambridge (South Carolina.)
The owner is requeued to come and
prove h s property, psy charges, and
take him away.
HENRY TATE, Jailor,
Auputfa, 7 "Jr ir,
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GEORGIA.
For the Augusta Chronicle,
Mr. Smith,
THE insertion of a few remarks in your
paper, on the unpopular, though I presume
not unjust fide of a question, may not be
amiss, and as they were generated neither
in revenge nor ambition, nor derived
from pcrfonal views or motives, it is hop
ed they will not be offenfive to a majority
of your readers.
Every instance of a vidim to the present
falhionable pradice of duelling, is calcu
lated to torture the feelings of huma
nitv, and to cause the cool and contempla
tive mind to ftanlc at the thought. One
would suppose that a pradice, taking its
rife at a time when the deadly (hade of
superstition overlhadowed the world,
would have been long since scouted from
a nation presuming to call herfelf cnlight.
ened. What can its advocates think of
themselves when theyconftder that the trial
by fmgle combat was ir.ftitutcd judicially
to try the disputes and litigations ariling
between man and man, and that the unen
lightened favorers of it presumed that Pro
vidence would favor the innocent party; and
that this presumption was the only pita that
could be offered in jollification of it ? Do
I insult the champions of this prevalent
cuffom, when I alk, if they think serious
ly that the Almighty will give them vic
tory merely becaufc they may not be so
much hackneyed in the paths of dilhonor
and insult as their antagonists ? Do 1 in
sult the understandings of my lellow-ci
tizens when I alk if they suppose the real
commiflion, or the attempting to Commit,
deliberate murder , can wipe scandal from
their characters, or make them appear one
whit the fairer ? Can the man who phi
losophically ruminates upon the laws of
morality, and who revolves in his mind
the didates of humanity, join in applaud
ing a cuffom wherein a man in attempt,
ing to refeue his own charader, from
what he would call a llain, cuts otf from
existence a being bending under a load of
fin and imperfection ? For the honor of
human nature let me answer in the nega
tive. If a man has been unprincipled and
malicious enough to afperfe my character,
or insult my per lon, does philosophy make
this a plea for trying lives with him ?
What! becaufc he behaves out of cha
rade r, is it neceflary for me to put mv
life in his power, and thereby fall a vidim
to the mifeondud of a llandercr ? No,
this dodrine 1 am convinced is not tena
ble in the eyes of those very men who
have fandioned the pradice. Then what
a lamentable circumltance is it that so large
a number ol our greatell statesmen and
belt citizens deign to countenance it.
What a pity that men, amiable as to their
qualifications, and otherwise exemplary
in their condud, ftiould be devoted to it,
and evidence by their condud, that tri
vial disputes cannot be fettled without a
recurrence to this trial by battle. It is
particularly painful to observe that a num
ber of our moll promifmg young men seem
to think that, in common differences, all
honor and good charader rests upon a du
el. It is remarked by able writers, that
“ suicide was the pretended heroi/m but
“ real cowardice ot the stoic philosophers,
“ who dellroyed themselves to avoid those
(( ills which they had not the fortitude to
“ endure.”—Will not then what is said
here, apply to duelling ? Do not those
moll fond of it (hew very often that they
have neither philosophy nor fortitude e
nough to undergo the frequent viciflitudes
and Jitrle ills that befcf, and are common
to a man placed in an unfriendly world ?
Can a wound inflided by the deadly aim
of ambition, and which, fora while, ran.
kies in the heart of a man conscious of his
own reditude, be healed by a change of
(hots, w'ith an intent to kill! Pity on
him who can unfeelingly embrue his hands
in the blood of a neighbor and fellow-ci
tizen, and can compofcdly deep with the
blood upon his foul! What demoniac pal.
hative can he have for the commilTion of
a crime, which his own sense condemns,
t
i|i fVot. XVI. No. 829.1
and which meets with the execration of
the whole moral world. It is believed
that J am cor red when 1 fay, chat all
legillativc bodies in the United States of
America have joined in condemning the
cultom, and evinced their difpolirion
by extending the civil arm againll it—
Then is it not furpriling that those vcr) r
men, aCling in a cool and philofophlcal
way, with their rcafon about them, un
bialled by prejudice, and unafi'ailed by
corruption—l lay, is it no: alfonifhing
that thole men acting lor the good of Hicir
country, and in a sacred legiilative capa
city, Ihould join in making laws prohi
biting a cultom, and then be among the
fi'Ji to adopt it/ Ought not men at home
to have the fame ideas of propriety, ar.d
the fame actuating motives for promoting
the public good, as when they are at the
legillature ? Or is it virtuous, and praise
worthy to make a law, and then, becaufo
ambition and revenge frizes the man, in.
fringe it, or behold it infringed with im
punity ? It it is improper lor an illiterate
peasant to transgress, is it not more so tor a
legillator, to whom the people took for
models worthy of imitation f Yes, my
countrymen; and permit the writer of
these remarks to fay, that those flagrant
violations of the laws of the land, are so
many insults upon the legidative wildom
of the Union, are contempts call upon ihe
present enlightened age, and infractions
of the law's of humanity, religion, and
civilization ! How then arc we to rid our
fclvcsof this refinement upon cruelty—
this cultom reared by superstition, the.
rilhed by revenge, and kept up by an u
nion of the fiercer and more turbulent
paliions incident to poor human nature ?
How can a cultom, which from the late
frequency of it, appears to await the de.
ft ruCtion of some of our molt ulHui at d
belt citizens, be effectually extirpated from
a country which it fetms not to fun ? I
anfwcr, in no other way than by a more
pointed interference of our refpcCfilve Ic
gillaturts ; a more decided and uiKtjuivo
cal enforcement of the laws when made,
and a more Heady, Hern and invariable
conduct of universal abhorrence to the
cultom, by those c I oar bed with the robe
of civil authority, and those wbofc fair
nefs and brilliancy of character w ould in
fluence the conduCt of their friends and
compatriots. 1 hefe arc the men who
ought to decry it, and lay the knife of
extermination to the root, with a refclu
tion never to tcafe until they have cut up
this growing and alarmingly finlul evil.
Injmicus Superst! uonis.
Soulh-Carotmd , Auguj/ zo.
Notice is hereby {riven ,
'T'HAT the fubferiber has ei.
*** thcr loft or mtlhiu a note u» hand
given by James Ware, of Elbert county,
to the fubferiber, for the sum of fix hun
dred and eighty.five dollars and fifty
c;nts, beating date about the fifth day
of April, 1802, parable either in three
cr ten days after date, with a credit on
the back of one hundred and fifty d -
lars; and ail persons are hereby foswwcd
against trading for fluid note, and the said ,
Jam'-s Ware is also ‘orwgrmd payir g of
said note to any perlon, otfur than the
fubferiber, as I have never traded said
note to any person whatever.
DUKE HAMILTON. J, '
Hancock count Aupuft 17. a
JN O T[ 1 C b,.
That nine months after date
application will be c »de to the hun. table
the inferior court of Greene cour t) , for
leave to fell eighty icrcs cf land in said
county, be the faro' more or left, on the
waters of Riehiai d tretk, adj. ir.ing
William Crawford jand others, for the
benefit of the heirsjand creditors of John
Knight, late of th'f countv deceased.
ELIZ. KNIGHT, Adm'x,
R. E5. K SIGHT, AJm’r.
Orient: cour.iy, cUruJi jB.
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