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iihing from focie'v every man
whofc
from their own ; However con
genial with thofe of the com-
Not fatisfied
with aft, which h is
hern fcflph the theme of exe-
both the approver
and difapprove s of the adnv
nirtration of the government,
and to whi'h fo many virtuous
dozens have falen victims, they!
have arngared to themfelves
power above all law, and which
knows no guide but their arbi-,
trary and despotic will. Ye
fages of America, whole heads
have become white in the fe r vice
of your countty. behold your
deareft rights thus attempted to
be wrefted f»r in you, bv *• com
bination of prefumptuous ufurp
crs.
Mv fellow citizens, you are
told that u your beloved Prtfi
dent has been called a defpot
and you are afked,
“ bv whom has the change been
mare ? Is it by a patriot of '76 ?”
Is it facr lege to call “ you’
beloved Prrfident” a defpo» ?
I:, it an offence by
C' e r y junto, who e fcrvile and
rour’ly feelings it may wound ?
Is it 1 acrilege to aferibe to any
of your pubic feivants impure
motives ? Or are ydu bound to
alack infallibility to thofe who
deiive all their power from you, |
and whofe afts ate binding no <
longer than they are declaratory j
of your will? If fo, farewell 10
your hoafted liberty ! What is
the ufe of your conflitution, if
%onr fervat ts are to be deemed
incapable of doing any a6l
which (hall not be piomotive of
y< ur welfare? Why has your
con flit ution picv ded the mode
of impe chmeru and tu T nmg
out of office, if they are beyond
the reach of pubic cenfure ? Are
you prepared thus to furrendet
the right of exploding y our fen
timenis ? a right which is infe*
pn «He fiom a freeman If you
abandon the righ' of exprcfling
them i dividually, mud you not
a lf o abandon the right of cx
pieffing them collectively.
But you a»c afked, “ if it be
bv a patriot of '76 ?*’ Whether
JMr. Callender was in America
at the time of our revolution,
and took an aftive part in pro
mt tig it, I am not informed ;
but this much Teems to be ad
it med, by even the affodation
themfelves, that he Q d from the
p' rlcuiion of that tyrant, by
v hole oppredion the fpirit of
*76 w*b kindled in the American
btead. And as oppolition to
him was the left of patnotilm in
thofo d vs, it is presumable that
pe fecution by him would be a
good ted of repubheanifm now.
But this is only fh> wing you how
f-r the tertime- ts of Mr. v ab
ler dcr may be congenial wi h
your own. 1 et us now conhdcr
whit er vour lovereignty has
b. er» u'u ped. even admitting
h m ’Ot o have been animated
by the fpint ol 70, •• 1
Every citizen of a foreign
power, with whom we are at
peace, that moment he fets foots
on the American ffiorc, is as
much under the profceftion ot
rhe laws, as a native American.
Consequently, as long as he de
means himfelf peaceably .and
orderly, it is a breach of hofpi
tality and good faith, to moled
him in the enjoyment of thofe
I rights, or to deprive him of that
proteftion, to which, by the laws
of nations and of natural juftice,
, he is entitled. And whenever
thofe rights arc violated by any
individual members of fociety,
it becomes a matter of public
concern, and the duly of the
conflituted authorities to ani
madveit upon it. On the other
hand, whenever his condu6l
(hall be fuch as to forfeit his
right to the proteftien of the
laws, it is the duty of the civil
authority to inflift an adequate
pumfhment: and no other tri
bunal ought to have, or can
have, but by ufuipation of the
ovr reign power, cognizance of
the offence—but wha? my fcl
low citizens, is the offence of
which Mr. Callender has been
gui'ry, which ought, in your
frflimatir n to be cognizable by
any tribunal under Heaven ?
The calling the Prefidnt of the
United States a d fpot ? For it
I feems this is the enormou offence
I with which he is charged. I truft
j 1 have (hewn you that if vou
i furrender the right of expreffing
your opinions individually, you
muft a I To fuirender the right of
icxprdling them colleftively.
4 nd what then are your public
fervants but mailers of unlimit
ed power ? And what are y< ur
felves but the mod abjeft (laves ?
If hcabove reafonshe correft,
it behoves you, my fellow citi
zens. to ticat with jnfl ind’gna
fion this accurfed usurpation of
} our unalienab e rights. Ufurp- 1
ation is ever progreffive If you
permit one ad to pafs unnoticed, i
i it will be followed by another
• more atrocious, until proceeding
in regular progiefliun, it will
finally end in the total fubve.-
Gon of your liberties. I bus
you fee, that the legiflature of
the union havir.g been guilty of
an affnmpiioci of power, a junto
or pr tty faftion, have conft itutcd
themfelves into a tiibunal, with
out even the mock of a trial, to
condemn and execute all fuch
as will not hug adulation with
all the ferviiity of a courtier.
But again, you are afked, * by
whom is the charge made ? By
I a patriot of *76/ Yes, my fel
low citizens, if the charge h s
been exhibited in the Examiner,
it is by a patriot of '76, a man
of known and approved patriot
jifin, pollefling the iame rights
and the lame intereft with your
(ehes ; not this ‘ fugitive from
jufii c,' Mr. t allender has been .
exultingly termed, but a man
whole 1 credibility, even thofe
who would fain be his pc »(ecu- 1
1 toiSj, cannot but acknowledge.
%
Mr, [ones is the Editor of the
Examiner, and not Mr. Callen-|
dcr. The femiments which ap
pear in that paper are under his
immediate correction. Why
tnen, do not this heroic band of
patriots of *76 wreck their ven
geance on the principal, and not
on poor Callender, a pcrfcCl
drangcr here, a man totally de
f'Dceiefs anddeditute cf friends,
except fuch as the duties of
humanity; and an attachment
to the rights of man (ball call
to his afliftance.
But fay the band of afTociates,
‘ the objeCt of our affociation
was to acquaint Mr. Callender,
thatour feelings would no longer
fubmit to be tortured, by an out
cad f om a foreign country, a
m »n who we conceive bad no
right fo intrude bis opinions on
the public/ The liberality of
j his femirnent does honor to its
| authors At a time when every
noted Scotch torv is fulminating
anathemas againd the whole re
publican party of this country,
a femirnent like this, to come
from the patriots of '76 ; docs
honor to the caufc of federal
ifm%
*' It Teems that their objcCl
was not to raife a noClurnal riot,
1 nor indeed the fmallcft violation
of decency and good order, but
only defigned, by peaceably
conveying this political impodor
out of the limits of our city, to
manifed to the world, that the
ver geanre of an injured people
does not always deep.”
Read and re read this my fel
low citizens, and behold the
date to which this band of fede
ral aflociates would reduce you.
, What! to take a man out of his
houfe, remove him to the far
! end of the city, and give him a *
federal falute. (fu han one I,
fuppofe as poor Schneider re-!
ceived) “ is not the dualled
violation of decency and good
order !” Why, I (hould have
fuppofed, that one of the gen
• tlemtn, who it Teems had a hand
in compofing this able defence,
had been a fludent of law too
’ong, not to know thdt this was
one of the mod flag! ant breaches
of the peace; and of courfe, I
prefume, a vic/ation of decency
and good order. But had thefe
adbeiates been endeavoring to
I make a mock of the fovereignty
of the people, could they have
done it more effe&ually than
j they have ? A petty fa&ion of
| tw- nty or thirty, or perhaps
moic, brothers have publicly
declared themfelvcs the whole
American people, ivhofc ven
geance has been fo long deep
ing, but is at length roufed to
a&ion.
Again, we are told, that Mr.
[ones, who is To great a “ ftick
ler for the inviolability of the
. laws," diould have availed him
felf of the legal rcdrels affoided
bv them. A handfomc reton
this indeed, and, when taken in
us fulled latitude, equally as I
lidxculcus if a man wiiofhould
be attacked on the highway hr
a band of ruffians, (I ould not
attempt to defend himfelf, but
wait for the proteflion of fha
civil authority.
A Friend to the Sovereignty
0} the People .
LOUISVILLE,
TUESDAY , Sifittmber 17, 1799.
By requefl of the Union Society %
the following proceedings are
pvMifhtd :
On Saturday evening hft,
the Union Society met agreeable
to adjournment, by feme mif
takc the debates of Saturday
the 7th, was omitted to be pub*
lifhed; the queftions and con*
clufion of both night’s, are or*
dcred for this week’s publication,
and arc as follows:—ift q Uc f.
lion — u What art the mcjlproba
ble means oj obtaining a redrejs of
American grievances P" The con
clufion of the debate was that
an anfwcr to the queftion, is
fully comprehended in the third
article of the amendments of the
conftitution of the U. States.
Saturday evenmg, the 14th—
The conclufion of the debate
on the queftion propofed hj I
capt. Robeit Flournoy, " Whe
ther the federal Jyflem in its prefab I
operation is or is not mojl for the I
welfare of the United States I
Was that the queftion is abfurd, I
and highly improper for difeuf- I
fion. I
On the fecond queftion by I
Mr. John Boftick, “ Whether Ik I
culture of cotton or tobacco is the I
mofl advantageous to the Jlale of I
Georgia ?’* It was decided in I
favor of cotton, I
j The third queftion debated, I
'was propofed by capt. John I
I Shelman— ** Whether the culture I
| of Irifh potatoes would not be an I
j advantage to the fate P" Was dcci- I
ded in the affirmative. I
When a queftion was pro- I
poled by Mr. Eli Browning I
“ Whether it would not be of equal I
advantage to the fate, to import I
machinesJor the manufacturing of I
Dutch Cold Schlau P” It was alio I
decided in the affirmative. I
The following queftions arc I
to be debated next Saturday I
evening. ift — 14 Which is the I
xvorfl. member of fociety , the miff R
or Jpendthrift ?" I
2d. t( Whether the people his I
not a right to dictate to their rtfre* R
jeniativeSy after electing them . and R
whether juch reprefenialivesJhwl* I
feel themjelves bound by the input * R
tion of their con/liluents ?" R
For the Louifville Gazette . I
Fellow Citizens y and Repvitit* n * R
cf Jeff erf on County, I
THE time draws near whenß
you will be called upon to exeT- R
cife the moft valuable of y oU m
privileges, that of eledmg y oU *R
reprelentatives. It is the 1>» jR
wark of all your liberties; a ; B
iifcxeiciled with judgment at jB
enfuing ckftion, it may be t r '®R|