The Louisville gazette and republican trumpet. (Louisville, Ga.) 1800-1809, November 19, 1800, Image 3
'vhicli I ?iave been bartercufy
cpprejfed.
JOHN BERRIEN.
Louifville, Nov. 4, 1800.
Note 1. Col. Whitaker of
7efferfon, and the Rev. Mr.
Hutchifon of Camden, though
not perfonally acquainted with
r-ny father, know that his charac
trr both in private and public
life flood as fair as any other
man’s in New-Jcrfey. Further
teftimony on this fubjeefb, fhall
he produced in due time.
2. Col. Melton of Greene,
now in the legi flatnre, command
ed the party. —His afiidavit and
others arc in rhy poflefTion, for
want of room are not piiblifhed.
3. Capt. Sewall’s letter by
way of certificate is alfo omitted
for want of room.
4. The report of the com
mittee on finance the laft year
on my public accounts, is thus—
<f The joint committee on fi
nance report in part' that they
have examined the monies,
llc fee urines, and other documents
rn the treafury, which they find
agree with the abftraCl and en
tries in the books of the treafu
rer, which they find to be kept
in a fair and accurate mariner."
If then the entries were fair and
the books accurate, how could
any fraud be committed ? If there
was a deficiency of public mercy,
the treafurer and his fureties were
accountable—but it is true that
there was no fuch deficiency,
tmlefi. in violation cf the ccnjlitu
ticn the yazoo depofit is called
public money.
c. A certified copy of Maj.
Adams’s teflimony is alfo emit
ted tor want of room.
6. The report of the com
mittee on finance the a ill Tan.
1788, lofephl laberlham, chair
man immediately after the feizurc
of Munroe is as follows*— 1 * They
here obferve with pleafure, that
the receipts of the lafl year, has
more than doubled that of any
preceeding year, which they at
tribute in the firth mftance to the
tonnage having been reduced,
and in the next to the attention
of the collector to the duties cf his
*
appointment "
A CARD—A to B.
IN the name of God, Major,
find of Holy St. John, what
could poffefs you to come, at
full length, forward ? Is it the
conjuncture of the prefent fef
fion of the general aflembly ?
during which you want to be
cxpoled ? And want to turn a
torrent of abufe down upon me ?
F that is your plan Major, tho*
really I wifh to be more tender
t° you, than you are attentive
toward your own reputation —
fifuc is joined, and you may bc
gin in the fuperlative degree of
tnat language which your prefa
tory addrefs leads to expeCl—
m my mode of laying open your
public conduCr, Major, I fhail
tie difpafTionate—and as this is
n crifis when our fellow citizens
kom the head of Tugaloo to
fybee, and from Point Petre
to Tackfon, are collected, I will
'ndeavor to ufe moderate, be
coming language.
In the Louifville Gazette of
vv ednefday laft, you “ announce
that (in a piece yet to come for
ward) you have pronounced the
anonymous writer, A, an abac
doned unprincipled liar, and
bafe aflaflln of the memory ot
the dead”—pretty curious ex
prefhons !—The laft rather high
down Major, but meteor like
flint, and fpent. Your full
fentence we will, juft go halves
in—and the being <f abandoned”
to the pradife mentioned, I
will freely give up to you, either
by pre-emptive or ab original
right. Whilft I will openly and
freely acknowledge that I am,
not only, “ unprincipled” but
untutored, unhackneyed, and un
praftifed, even in the prcvarica
tive) which is called the intuitive
flep to the art.
If you look again at A. of
. o
October the 14th, you will fee
that reference was had to the
people of New Jerfey—and
could my rounfel be taken, 1
would moll lerioufiy ad vile you
to keep back the new certificate,
for the motive is flill left afloat,
and believe me I never fliall fay
a word more on that fcore—For
fir, fir, very far indeed from my
difpofition is it to plough up the
allies of the dead. Your docu
ments, <Nc. have been handed
about fo long that they are com
mon and futile—and after your
virulent and moll vindictive at
tempt at perfecution for eighteen
months together—fo compleat
Major was my triumph, when
you were difmifled from office
by the lafl legiflature, that I
wi{bed you (as you then told
that body you wi fined) to retire
to your farm with your family—
had you retired, my pen never
would have harrowed up your
feelings, much lefs theirs—but
your own truly unaccountable
conduct has b-ought it down on
you —my refort, againft ycur
private calumnies was the public
paper, and if you review me
there you will fee that after giv
ing you the alarm by the refolu
tion of the 19th Nov. 1799, I
went on in the different grades,
of corrective, lenient, corrofive,
and at lafl the cauftic. I et me
afk you one queflion Major—
has there, a perfon for upwards
of thefc laft two years arrived
in town, that you could poffibly
get home with you, but you
did ? and for what ? Why every
one of them will fay, for no other
purpofe than to abufe the Go
vernor. On the night before
the election (and that a Sunday
night too) I believe the allufion
will hold, that you fathered the
beating up for volunteers to
drink, at a public grog fhop, a
toaft of “ damnation to that raf
cal the Governor” —A man,
Major, whom his country, in
the moil trying hour, has never
found, lacking either in the ca
binet, or the field, and whom
the people delight to honor —
for he is an honest man, in
whom no guile is found —and
who from the year 1776, his
country never loft fight of, nor
has ever withdrawn her confi
dence from.—And pray, where
the devil, Major, were you all
the war ?—As its nonfenfe, to
think of waiting for an anlwer
to this fiiort queflion, I will go
on, with reminding you of that
crying fin, which for thefc two
lull ycur, not content with ever
aving at the end of your own
<>ngue, you even taught you*
nfant Ton to lifp, againß anothe*
—it is Major int.ratitidf.
On it I will not now lay more,
all Georgia undcrfland me, and
ts well known through whoß
exertions you tirll became Trea
hirer—tor decency’s lake Major
dont ule the harfli expre Dions or
liar, affafTm, &c. You mufi
remember the morning of the 6th
Auguß, 1798, when you receiv
ed, and very icolly pocketed , the
hard terms, of JceundreU liar,
coward and poltroon*— And
fhould ever the idea of an aflaf
fin come acrofs you, you will
recoiled!: that on that day, ami
in the afternoon of tire 6th Sep
tember following, yeti a tied the
d[f a JJ n ‘i an d planned it lb as u
have two potions armed, and
fhooting (on the laR day) at a
convalelcent if not lick man.—
As the printer on application
told you who I w'as, and all Jef
ferlbn recognize me, I Ihalfßiii
put down the old fignature, am
I hope our good countrymen
when reading this card, w ill take
it as the plain tale, of a blur
man, in a fort o’ pretty good
durable blue and white homefpun
kind of language.
A.
Loifuille, Nov. o* 1800.
L O U I S V I L L E,
IJ-LDKr.SDAr mitt 19, iBco
Yeßerday came on the elec
tion ot a fenator to reprelent this
Rate inCongrefs, and four elec
tors of prefident and vice-prefi
dent of the United States—when
it appeared, Governor fnckfon,
had c 8 votes out of 67 forfena
tor —John Morrifon, Dennis
Smelt, Henry Grcybill, and
)ohn eSquires, were
chofen electors.
It is now reduced to a certain
ty, that Mr. Jcfferfon will get
the four votes in this Rate, for
prefident.
Benjamin Skrine, Efq, was
chofen folicitor-general for the
middle dißridE
Died on the eighth of No
vember inff. at this place, Mr.
William Pollard, merchant, at
the advanced old age of between
fixty-eight and feventy years.
Jn the character of this venera
ble old man, the benevolent
mind is amply gratified. Me
fupportc;l with dignity and up’-
rightAtfs the feveral Ration
which were afTigned him, and
carries with him to the grave,
the regret of the virtuous and
the good.
DIED.] On Sunday evening
laft, after a lingering illnefs,
Peter Johnson Carnes,Efq.
folicitor-general of the middle
circuit of this Rate, aged 28
years. In this worthy man
w r ere united thofc qualities of
the head and heart, w hich com
mand refpeft, and infpire eßeem
—pofTefling talents which pre
faged future greatnefs, endued
with fenfibility which engaged
iffeftion, blefTed with a placidi
ty of temper, which fweetens
, fecial intcrcourfc, and endeared
to Ms numerous friends by thfc
n.form uprightncfs of his con
duct, their finccre forrow for
hi early departure from tempo
ral enjoyments, is only ale via red
by the firm belief in that happy
exchange, which is the lure re
gard of a virtuous life.
Died, at Sf. Simon’s Ifland,
Hmry OJhcrnc , F.fq. of Augufta,
who has left behind him an amia~
hie family to deplore his lofs.
Died fuddenly, on Monday
the 17th inflant, Mr. Littleton
Harris .
■■ ■
fsictrat 7 of a u tter from a refpec*
tuhk gentleman in Charlcftcn,
Svuth-Carolinn , to his friend
in Georgia, dated Char left on,
Oficber isth, 1800.
tl The republican party have
iofl it in the capitol, it is but as
.4 drop in the bucket; I'uch a
conreft, I do not believe, has
ever happened on the continent;
every Ipecies of villainy and
rafcallity was tiled to enable
them to carry their favourite
objeft.~--The Tick, the lame,
the blind, the crippled, and men
in their dotage were brought in
carriages to vote; the influence
of the banks, the federal treafu
fury, federal officers anti Hntilh.
influence combined in otic mate
to hipport the federal ticket—
they trade a daring attack up»
< n the facrcd right of ballot—
for at a lute hour (when it was
impoffibk* to coufiteraft it) they
nud tickets printed, on blue,
green, red, purple and yellow
paper, and a hord of federal
officers,, bank directors, and
Britifh merchants and their
cmiflarics flationed at the poll—
to make them as victims who
dared to prefume to put in any
other than a coloured ticket;
it has opt ned to my view a feene
of treachery and corruption hi
therto unprecedented; this city
had more the appearance of a
Britlfh garrifon town than any
thing elfc; they dragged up
wards of 200 to vote more than
ever was known before ; the re**
publicans intend to demand a
femtiny, and lay their whole
proceedings before the legisla
ture, I rejoice that they meer
120 miles from this corrupted
city, and that wc have a pure
and virtuous back country ; our
legiflature ar* truly republican,
and by the returns already an
nounced, have a majority m both
hoiifcs; however, independent of
South-Carolina, jtfferfon will
carry his election—his name in
our upper country is adored,
ami their opinion of him fo fix
ed, that you might as well at
tempt to invert the order of the
Sun, as move them againft him ;
our reprefentatives in congrefa
are now three and three, which
is better than before 5 to 1.”
COLLECTOR'S SALE.
Will he SOLD, at the Market
llcij'c , in the town of Lcuifville,
on lie iVb day of December
next, at the tifual hours ,
One BILLIARD TABLE,
taken as the property of fofeph
Fletcher, for the taxes for the
year 18co. Tax due ico dollars,
' GARLAND HARDWICK.
November 15, tSoo,