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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, * 1 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. ! t\f j ■ fy . I»— *»' \ :v-'