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Augusta herald.
Three Dols. per Ann.~\ published every Wednesday, by WILLIAM J. BUNCE, at the printing-office in washington-street.
Volume ll.]
CHEAP GOODS.
J. & O. Sturges,
WE JUST RECEIVED,
The l flowing Fancy A R TI CLE S :
Fashionable itriped and check
ed Italian Silks,
Black and colored Luteftrings,
Extra long black and white lilk Gloves,
Silk and Kid Habit do.
Mens white fi!k do.
Variety fi!k Shawls,
Engliih and India Bandanno Handkfs.
Calicoes, Lappet Mullins and Furniture
Dimity,
Humhums per piece or yard,
Silk Suspenders, glove ties and purses,
Tea Boards and Caddies,
Falhionable Gold Ear Rings Sc Knobs,
Billiard Balls,pafte & fleet Knee Buckles
Garnett, Coral & Cut Glass Beads,
Shell Sleeve Buttons & Segar Boxes,
Silver Pencil Cases Sc Thimbles,
Variety fancy Necklaces,
Elegant Seallkin Trunks.
A L S O,—
Loaf and Lump Sugar,
Brown do, in Bbls.
Starch, &c. &c.
January 7. 78.
Isaac Herbert,
Takes this method of informing hit fiends ana
thi public , that he has just. Received
A FRESH SUPPLY OF
DRY GOODS,
LIQUORS G? GROCERIES,
•—Among which are, —
Madeira, 1
SUerry and > WINES.'
Malaga )
Cagaizc Brandy,
Hollands Gin,
Jamaica Sc Weft-India Rum,
Loaf Sc Brown Sugars,
Hvlon Sc Souchong Teas,
Coffee & Chocolate,
Pimento,
Pepper & Ginger,
Nutmegs & Cinnamon,
Mar a ga a “ d } RAISINS .
Almons,
Ketchup,
Muflard,
Olives, Y
g^SyfpiCKLEJ,
Anchovies j
Which he will dispose of at the most
reduced prices for cash or country pro
duce.
December 9. (74-)
Isaac Wingate,
HAS JUST RE CEITED ,
A FRESH ASSORTMENT OF
GROCERIES.
COGNIAC Brandy,
Jamaica Rum,
Cherry Wine,
Holland Gin,
Cordial,
Cyder by the Bbl.
Sugar,
Raifons,
Almonds,
Alfpice, Pepper,
Gunpowder,
Shot of different kinds,
Rice,
Mackrel,
Pipes, Soap,
Potatoes, Onions,
SWEET ORANGES, by the Barrel
or single.
February 4. (4t. 82.)
FACTORAGE G? COMMISSION
THE Subscribers having largeand con
venient STORES in Savannah, now
ready for the reception of produce, offer
their services to their friends and the pub
lic in the above branches of businesses.
WAYNE G? SIMS.
Savannah t March 13. - (if. 58.
WEDNESDAY, February 25, 1801.
JUST RECEIVED, j
4 Chests Hyfon Tea,
1 Ditto Souchong do.
2 Hhds. Loaf Sugar,
2 Pipes Cogniac Brandy,
xo Qr. Calks Oid Sherry Wine, of a
superior quality,
4 Hhds. Moiaftes,
For Sale by
IT. LORD G? Co.
February 11. (83.)
Bolting Cloths.
The Sub [crib er ,
HAS FOR SALE,
AN ASSORTMENT OF
DUTCH BOLTING CLOTUS.
William Poe.
September 5. (ts. 61)
To be Rented on moderate terms and
immediate pojfejion given ,
>7/ r"pAE Corner HOUSE
/vjlf .Jl and LOT on Eliis and
Washington-streets, the pro
perty of William J. Hobby,
Esquire.
NICHOLAS WARE, Tenant.
February i 9. (84.)
TO BE RENTED,
THAT CONVENIENT
W’ffiTlt BRICK STORE,
AND
DWELLING HOUSE,
(lately occupied by D. C. Neal.) adjoin
ing Mr. Ifauc Herbert and opposite Mr,
Thomas Cummings, it is considered an
excellent stand for luifinefs. For fur
ther particulars enquire of the fubferiber.
MARY MONTGOMERY.
January 28. 81.
WINDSOR CHAIRS.
PIP*HE Snbfcriber in
itv/rl JL forms the public,
\yf-A J that he has commenced
the CHAIR MAKING.
BUSINESS, in Broad-
Street, opposite the Jail,
where may be had Wind-
CHAißSofthe new ell
and of a superior
quality. Thole who favor him with their
custom, may depend on the work being
done in the best manner.
JOY HUMESTON.
February 11. (ts. 83.)
FOR PRIVATE SALE.
A TRACT of eight thousand three
hundred acres of LAND, situated
on Savannah River, in Winton county
South-Carolina, within twenty-three miles
of Augusta, generally known by the name
of the Upper Three Runs.
The above traCl contains a considerable
portion of Cotton Land of an excellent
quality, from which good crops have been
made, the remainder consists of well tim
bered pine land, fit for fupplving a Saw-
Mill, which is ereCted on the trail, and is
well known by the name of Rutledge’s
Mills. To the above are added a Grist
Mill and a Cotton Gin, both of which are
turned by water, and usually worked on
toll.
The above property is offered for sale
togetherwithFOßTY-ONE NEGROES,
now on the premises, among whom are an
excellent Carpenter, an exceeding good
Blacksmith, and other valuable slaves.
The Mills are in good repair and may be
worked to great advantage.
The Mules, Oxen and Horses, together
with the Plantation Tools and implements
for carrying on the Mills, to be taken at a
reafonabie valuation. Immediate pofief
fion will be given.
For terms, apply at Augusta, to
ALEXANDER BLAIR.
February 4. (ts. 82.)
AF E W
BOARDERS
May be accommodated by the week or
year, bv the Subscriber, near the Market.
A. WATERMAN.
January 20. (ts. 8a)
1 SPEECH
I Os Mr. Harper, in the debate, on the re
port of the committee for renewing the Sedi -
tion Law.
AS a great part, Mr. Chairman, of
what I have to offer to the committee on
this quell,on, is connected with the state
ments of abuses which gentlemen who op
pole the continuation of this law, tell us
have been committed in the course of its
execution, I leave chosen to offer it at this
ft age of the debate, in order that the cor
rection of the errors with which these
statements abound, may go forth with the
errors themfrives.
The objections of gentlemen, fir, to the
Continuation of this law h#ve been direct
ed, as ufuai, a gain it its conilitutionality
and its expediency. Those against its ex
pediency arc reducible, as far as 1 have
Deen able to understand them, to fotne in
stances of oppreiiion, which gentlemen
fay have taken place under the law. In
w at did this oppreiiion consist ? If I un
tu iland gentlemen a right, they listed it to
consist in the denial to ptrfons who had
been indicted under the law, of the pro
per time, means and opportunity of mak
ing their defence. The objections have
been varicuily and very diftindtly express
ed, but as far as I was able to understand
them, this was their full amount.
Let us, then, Mr. Chairman, examine
the cases which have been adduced as in
fiances of this oppreiiion. I.et us enquire
whether they afford any foundation for
the imputations which have been made on
the conduct of the courts.
The firft case is that which occured in
i’hiladelphia lull year * In this case, we
are told, the party was denied the means
of making iiis defence ; was prevented
from adducing the testimony by which the
truth of the publication for which he was
indiCled, might have been proved. For
tunately, Sir, they are many now present,
many honorable members of this house,
bo were present at the trial, and can bear
testimony to the manner in which it was
condudied. They can teflifv that the par
ty was allowed all the indulgence that he
asked for, was permitted to carry before
the jury all the testimony which he chof'e
to adduce.
In the firft place he summoned several
members of Congress to attend as witnes
ses in his behalf. I myfelf was summon
ed.—An honorable member from Fenn
fylvania who fits near me, (Mr. Gallatin)
was also summoned ; and I fee several oth
er honorable members in their places who
were included in the summons. It
happened that we were prevented from
going into court as soon as we had intend
ed, but we did so ; and when we entered
the court, we found the party preparing an
affidavit, or prepared with one and hold
ing it in his hand, in which our testimony
was stated to be material to his defence,
and our absence was alledged as a ground
for postponing the trial. But our appear
ance disconcerted this scheme, and the tri
al went on. Why were we summoned,
Sir ? Nobody present was ignorant of the
purpose. It was a mere trick to poflpone
the trial, and so universally understood.
We were summoned in the expectation
and belief that we would not attend. In
that case our absence would have been al
ledged as a cause of postponement ; and
there was no difficulty about swearing that
our testimony was material. If the trial
had been postponed on this ground, the
point would have been gained and justice
eluded ; and if the court had refufed to
poflpone it, the opportunity which was
fought, of abusing the court, and railing
an outcry about the denial of justice,
would have been afforded. Will any bo
dy deny this statement ? No, Sir, Nobody
will presume to deny it. The truth ft .fil
ed on all who were within the verge of the
court. None were so blind as not to fee
the artifice: none were so fliamefui as not
to biufii at it. Even the spirit of party,
was reduced to silence, and the most hard
ened votaries of faClion hung down their
heads, and were confounded at the detec
tion. How, Sir, did the detection take
place ? How was the design rendered thus
apparent ? The witnefles thus summoned
with parade, thus called from their feats
in the national Legislature to give evidence
* The case of Cooper.
on the trial; the witnetTes whose absence,
when it was hoped and believed tnat they
had declined attending, was about to be
made the ground of an application on oath
for a poftponernc'nt of the case, whose tef
timonv was about to be Rated on oath to
be material to the defence; theft- witnefles,
when they did come, were not examined.
They remained in court during the whole
of the trial. The party was informed of
their being present, and when he had gone
through all his other testimony, was ex
pressly asked by the Court whether he
wilhed to examine them, and he laid no.
They were not examined left it iliould be
said that through fatigue arifmg lrom the
length of the trial, he had become unable
to examine them, the court informed him
that if he wi filed for time to refrefti him
felf, there should be an adjournment of an
hour or two for that purpose, but this in
dulgence he reje&cd, and still declined to
examine these witnefles. Thus the pur
pose for which the/had been summoned
was disclosed, and it became maniftft to
all, even thole most unwilling to fee, that
their being called on was a mere trick,
which their unext>e£icd appearance had
dt-feateu.
But we are told Sir, that this person was
re/ufed the opportunity of producing oth
er testimony. What testimony ? That
of the President of the United States. And
do Gentlemen ferioully contend that the
President of the United States is liable to
be called from the feat of Government,
where his high and important funftions al
ways require him to be, in order to travel
up and down the United Stitts as a wit
nelson trials ? If he may be summoned
to attend one court he may be summoned
to attend another. If he mult go as a wit
ness into the courts of Pennsylvania he
mult, on the fame principle, go aswit
nds into thole of N'ew-Hamplhire or
Georgia. Can gentlemen be serious in
contending for fucli a principle. No, fir,
they are not serious ; they cannot be seri
ous ; and I am firmly ptrfnaded that the
honorable gentleman from Maryland (Mr.
Nichoffon) who has cxprefriy contended
for it ; would, mutatis mutandis, be one
of the firlt to difeern and expole its abfur
ditv.
The President, moreover, was called
on in this case to criminate himfdf, which
the best eftabliflied rules of law protefl
every person from being compelled to do.
The party Jwas unfitted for a falfe,
scandalous and malicious libel on the Pre
sident, whom he had accused of many at
trotious afts. He pleaded the truth of
the matter in jullification, and wiflied to
bring the President as a witness to crimin
ate himfdf by proving their truth. This
is forbidden by the pofrive rule of law,
revived and admitted in every day’s prac
tice. What would be the confluence of
admitting it with refpett to the President ?
A profligate fellow would have nothing to
do but to accuse him in print of a crime,
and when inditted for it, harrafs his per
son and degrade his office and character,
by examining him in a court of iuftice, as
to the commiflion of that crime, and thus
compelling him to give an account of his
whole private conduct and public admin
istration. This is the principle for which
gentlemen contend !
But there was other testimony, we are
told by gentlemen, which this person was
denied permission to adduce. W r hat oth
er testimony ? Certain publications ex
tracted from newspapers, and purporting
to be answers of the Prcfient to various
addrefles. Was he prevented from addu
cing them? No. He was, on the contrary,
permitted toadducethem anddid in fact ad
ducethem. He wasindeedtold by the court,
and most truly told, that thele extra#*
from newspapers were not legal evidence,
but that under the particular accusations
of the case, he ftiould be allowed to give
them in evidence. He was told that he
might read in evidence whatevey he tho’t
proper. He availed himfdf of this per
mit™ in its full extent. He read thole
extratts in evidence. Indeed, far the
greater part of his defence, which lasted
for uearly three hours, confided in reading
and 1 commenting on the Prefidem’s an
swers to addrefles ?
Will any one deny this sass, slr ? No;
it will not be denied. It cannot be deified.
It took place in the presence of many wit
nefles ; of many who now hear me. And
[ Half in Huxance.
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