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HERALD.
~A U G U S T A,
WEDNESDAY, June 4, 1800.
THE lovers of our country, and the*
friends of good order cannot but feel high
ly gratified, that nctwithftanding the dif
ficulties in which we have been involved,
2nd the extraordinary debts neceflarily in
curred by our government, in providing
for the fafety and security of our citi
zens, the real debt of the United States has
gradually diminiftied, and that there exists
such inconteftible evidences of the prospe
rity and increasing wealth of our country,
as are exhibited in the late interesting and
important report of the committee of fi
nance. Were we to listen to many of the
complaints of difeontehted partizans, and
to believe some of the statements artfully
calculated to mislead the unfufpeCting, we
might almost conclude our country to be
inaftateof Bankrupcy. Among the mod
serious evils with which our country is
afflicted, may be ranked, that party spirit
which difeovers itfelf in those particulars,
in which there can be but one intereji , and
refpeCting which, there ought to be but
one opinion. That there (hould be a dif
ference in the political opinions of men,
is not extraordinary; it is no evil, but ra
ther an advantage, that there should be a
diversity of sentiment in the councils of
the nation, and in the minds of the citi
zens, for thereby every proposed measure
is freely difeufled, and that most wife and
meft approved, is probably adopted—but
when the question comes to be govern
ment, or no government; when it is alked
whether we are to regulate our own con
cerns, or become fubjeft to extrinsic au
thority ? when it is enquired, whether the
happy organization of the social compact
from which flow so many bleflings, is or is
not to be l'ubverted by revolutionary fana
tics ? there ought not; there cannot, be but
one opinion among those who have any
regard for the happiness of society.
THE prosperity of United America
—the increasing population, wealth, and
refpe&ability of our country, evidence the
wisdom which has directed our public
meafures:—whence then it may be alked,
the cause for that violent censure against
the measures of our administration, with
which many newspapers are filled—what
are the evils which exist, and what the
changes required ? Let our citizens be
wate of deception before it is too late ; re
pentance may be of no avail when evil has
overtaken them? Let them distrust the
man who wishes to destroy their confi
dence in the rulers of their choice, and
|"ho desire to overturn the present conftj
tution of their country, without offering
even a ftiadow of a substitute.. When we
hear the higheftofficers of our government
insulted and abused—when men of tried
integrity,of known patriotifm,of acknow
ledged wisdom—men who have faced
danger in the field, and encountered villai
ny in the cabinets—men whom threats
could not intimidate, nor intrigue seduce
•"om the line of rectitude; nor induce in
them a departure from the pursuit of their
Countrys good, and their fellow-citizens
’nterefts—When such men are the fubjeCts
°f defamation and unbounded slander, let
the difpaflionate inquirer after truth ask,
whether such men, or their vile calumnia
tors merit, mod their confidence.
WE observe in the Baltimore Ame
dcan, some remarks on the Augusta He
r*ld in perfect conformity with many pub
lications in the United States, where truth
> s either disregarded, or deemed of fecond
lry consideration. As the Editor of that
I paper mentions our “ condemning in the
* ■ fench nation, the very measures we have
keen advocating,” he would have confer
red an obligation by pointing-out the in
.jr\
fiances in which we done this—we 1
neither condemn or advocate tfTc proceedings
of any foreign nation, only as they affeCt
our own country; with their local regula
tions we gave ourfelVes no concern. But
as our attention had been so often directed
to France as a pure republic, as we were
told the citizens were there in the enjoy
ment of undiminiflied Liberty, and the
Press perfectly free; we barely alked, how
such papers as certain ones in the United
States would be treated in that “ virtuous
Republic,” what attention would be paid
to their Editors by their much extolled and
beloved Buonaparte ? Doubtless fays this
Editor, as they are “ treated in this coun
try; prosecution after prosecution, until
they are completely lupprefled, or until
they cease to examine the official conduct
of their agents.” We hefitate # not to fay
the insinuation contained in this observa
tion, as it applies to this country is not
founded in fa<ft. Our government has in
no infiance prohibited, or forbidden an
examination into the official conduct ot
any public agent, or into the propriety ;f
any public measure; it has only alked of
the most violent and unprincipled “ exa
miners,” to keep truth on their fide;
and he who feels himlelf cramped by this
requisition, difeovers such a predilection
for fallhood, as deserves no countenance.
No man can be fubje&ed to the animad
version of law in this country, for any
publication, however violent, however
difrefpedtful to the highest officers of our
government, however ic may expose and
condemn their oflicial conduct, provided
the publication be true ; To be puniili
able it must be an absolute, and a malici
ous lie, and be found so by a jury of free
men—how can any individual with a cle.
conscience fay that this is reftridting thi
liberty of the press? Do we derive from
nature, or from society a right to ->ublifti
lies against our neighbours, or against the
officers of our government ? and if we do
now is our liberty abridged when
forbidden to do it. There are doubtless
some printers who confider their privi
ledges much abridged, and their long ef
tabliflied haUits opposed, when forbidden
to publilh falfhood—printers whose objeCt
is not to inform , but to mislead mankind ;
while such papers as those we formerly
mentioned—the Aurora, the Argus, the
Bee, the Examiner, or even the Baltimore
American, (which we acknowledge more
decent than some of the others) are pub
lifiied in the United States, let no man fay
the press is reftridted—tliefe are standing
evidences of the forbearance of the gov
ernment, inconteftible proofs that un
bounded licentiousness under the name of
the liberty of the press, is constantly exer
cised, and that extensive latitude is given,
to the publication of falfliood. In one or
the other, or in all of these papers, every
officer of our government has been villifi
ed—the legislature of the Union has beet)
abused, and the majority of the American
people insulted. And to aggravate the e
vil, if aggravation were necefiary, the most
barefaced insult, and the most ftiameful a
buse has proceeded from a foreigner,
whose vicious conduct occasioned his
transportation from his own country, and
who found protection in that very gov
ernment which he has endeavored to sub
vert. The very persons who confider
themselves opprefled, by being required to
conform to truth, would not hesitate to
call a man to account who should publiffi
a malicious fallhood against them, which
{hould injure their reputations, or destroy
their business—an indictment for the libel,
or an aCtion to recover damages for the
slander would follow from such mifeon
duCt; every Rate in the Union, and almost
every court in each state, bears testimony,
that legal remedies, have been applied to
injuries, to individual reputations; and no
man the liberty of the press
or of fp*ch was thereby abridged—ls the n
we may not Hander our neighbour, how
happens it that we are priviledged to Han
der the nighest officers of our government ?
Or whence comes it that the Prelident of
the United States, is not to be protected by
law in his reputation, equally with other
citizens ?—Or why is his official character
to be flandcred with impunity, when there •
is no other individual in the community
whose private character is lubjefted to mali
cious defamation? Strange as it may seem,
it is no less true than flrange, that among
the most violent oppofcrs of our govern
ment, are to be enumerated seditious fo
reigners, who instead of that humility and
gratitude which ought to have manifefted
itfelf in their conduft for the asylum af
forded them; no sooner landed in the
United States, than they began to condemn
our public councils, and to call in question
the integrity of our administration, and
the wisdom of our people; and let them
selves to reform our government, with as
much avidity as if they had been appoint
ed to the office .they claimed of being the
abiolute guardians of the rights of the
American people.
Wli hope our paper will never be so
condu .'ted as to deserve the approbation of
thole exciufijt republicans.—Convinced
that the citizens, of these Hates have but
one itUwfu:, and that their welfare and ve
» xi.ienee is eilentially conne&ed with
tlu »t vation of our excellent govern
l ne 1 we (hall uniformly endeavor with
u. .eole efl’ori-, to oppose every kind of
! a! .nfic influence, and to I'upport what
; we wiili our citizens to maintain, a nation
al '.n American character; and thole refl
lr -magogues of European powers, who
a -o interrupt our political tranquility
v .we tr .1, receive that treatment, which
Air.f i would deserve, who ihoulc|j
e the -dacitv ere in t - cv
t Jfnmen? an; *‘Wrei • nation.
‘l . . v- - - wl
oT-ICJ)* On Thurl'day night iafr, major
1 George Naylor, of Columbia county.
OFFICIAL.
, Resolution <f the house of commons of Great-
Britain , pafjed on the 6th of March lafl.
“ Rcfolved , That it is the opinion of
this committee, that, whenever the aver
age prices of wheat and fine wheaten flour,
ascertained and publiflied in the London
Gazette under the authority of any ad or
ads of parliament, (hall be less than 90s.
. per quarter of wheat, or sack of’ wheaten
flour, refpedively, there fliall be given on
every quarter of wheat, and on every bar
rel of fine whe«ten flour, which fliall be
; imported into Great-Britain, from any
port of Europe fouth of Cape Finifterre,
or from any port in the Mediterranean, or
in Africa, or from any of his majesty’s
colonies in America, or the United States,
before the ift day of Odober 1800, a
bounty equal to the difference between
fuchaverage prices in the London Gazettes
and 90s. per quarter of wheat, or barrel of
flour, refpedively : That, whenever the
current price of rice, imported into this
kingdom, to be ascertained by the price in
the London market, fliall be less than tl.
x ss. per cwt. there fliall be given, on every
cwt. of rice imported into Great-Britain
before the isl day of Odober 1800, a
bounty equal to the difference between
such average price and il. 15s.’'
From Tailahafie, in the Creek nation,
we have advice that information had been
recently received there that Bowles, with
300 of the Seminola Indians, had in
trenched themselves within gun (hot of
the fort at St. Marc's, and killed 11 of the
garrison; and that they had flopped up
the river Appalachicola, by falling trees
across it, to prevent succors being carried
to the fort: That the Indians were in gen
eral well disposed to the United States;
the men were employed in cultivating
their lands, and the women in spinning,
weaving, &c. And that Col. Hawkins
was to have a meeting with the Chiefs, the
end cf this month, at Tuckabatchee, con
cerning the line, which has been run as
far as the Chatahouchie.
From Pensacola wealfo learn that a par
ty of the Seminola Indians, instigated by
Bowles, had lately committed some depre
dations within the jurisdiction of that place,
but had been driven off by 23 men sent by
the Spannh governor againff them ; and tpi
that a schooner from New-Providcnce,
laden with Indian goods, ammunition, and \ 1
two long is pounders, had been taken by
the Spaniards; a merchant, named Hun
ter, and 27 of the crew, escaped.
Geo. Gaz.
DIGEST of the LAWS </ GEORGIA.' n rf
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s3* THE Compilers have the 1
fatisf ltd ion to inform the fubjcribers and others ; l
who may wifi to purchaje, that a number of J
copies have an ived , and will be delivered by k
Col. GORDON in SAVANNAH, at i?
the POST-OFFICE in AUGUSTA, by
JAMES MERIWETHER, Esquire, «V *|
LOUISVILLE, and by Mr. STERLING : •
GRIMES in WASHINGTON, mikes. W
Augusta, May 14 . (44 )
TO BE LET, ?
DY THE SUBSCRIBERS,
THE building of Gaol at Edgefield 'j
Court-House, on the firft Monday
in July next, a brief Iketch of the dimen
sions whereof is as follows, viz.—A brick
wall 46 by 27 feet; twenty-five feet high
from the foundation ; composing two lto- d
ries with a partition wall of brick acrol's
the houie of the fame height. The wall, ,
at the foundation, to be twenty-seven inch- t
cs thick, and above the water table to be
eighteen inches throughout the whole;
one outside brick chimney with a fire place s
in each (lory—ail to be laid with well
burned bricks, and good lime mortar.—
There is to be a wooden partition in each
itory of about eighteen feet lorg, tne lotV
cr will take a pail'age off the gaoler’s room,
the upper, a pallage off that of the debtor’s,
both to be very ltrongly framed and verv
strongly sealed, on each fide as well as over
head. The brick walls of both rooms to
be pleaftered ; there will also be four doors
doubly made and very closely nailed ; four
windows in the gaoler’s room, fifteen f'afti
lights each, with strong (butters, and an
iron bar and bolt to each window ; also,
lour windows in the dtbtors room of the
fame size and dimensions, only to be grat
ed with iron bars. In the up; er ffory there
is to be two windows in tht pnffagr, ore
in each fide of the wall opposite each oth
er, three by four feet, all made of bo 1 bars
• which wiil contain for* ig!
fquarcs each, without fluiurr
er floor of the gaoler’s roc, ;in c • d.e
feet; the floor above wi ! l be abtrt t'gh
teen feet lqunre only. The up, c j .or
ileepers to be but fix inches apnr* for ven
ty-eight feet of the house which w'i be
over the criminals room. The ro-n t> be
covered with Ihiugles ail of the heart u£
j pine. A pair of lfairs three fret wide to
be run lip in the pafiage from the gaolers
room to the debtors.
Any person who may be inclined to un
dertake laid building, are requested to fen
der in their proposals at the aforefcfid lime
and place.
1 ARTHUR SrMKINS, T p
1 FRANCIS BURT, I |
JOHN BLOCKER, V|
fOHN RYAN, Ctf 1 f
' RICHARD JOHNSON. J 3
r It may appear Angular that
s a Gaol Ihould be built completely tenable,
, and fit for public use, and no more inside
1 work fiiould be deferibed, but the reader
> is informed that it is to be built around
5 the old gaol which contains all the crimin
f al rooms.
: Edgefield, May 3r, 1800. (47. 31.)
I notjcll
THE Co-Partnerfliip of Gkoroe Ji.
Moore & Co. formerly of Auguf
-1 fa, being long since dissolved, those who
1 yet remain indebted to that concern are
1 earneftiy desired to call and fettle their ref
peaive accounts with Robert Walker,
, Esq. of Augusta, attorney at law, who is
1 fully authorifed by thefubferibers to fettle
t the fame.
ALEXANDER MACBETH,
F GEORGE B. MOORE,
JOHN MONCREF.F.
J May »6- ( 4 t, 47-)
Sheriff's S^le.
On thefirfi TUESDAY in July next, at the.
Market-House in the city of Augufia,
at the Usual Hours.
WILL BE SOLD,
A Grey Gelding, taken by vir
tue of an execution, as the property of
James Morse, deceased, to fatisfy Mathu
ren Verdery, and pointed out by the ad
ministrator of laid Morse. Conditions
CASH.
I. Malone, Sheriff, r. c.
June 4.