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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|