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Per tbs GEORGIA REPUBLICAN.
Mfssrs. Lyon & Morse,
1 he editors ok’ the Museum, appear
to think the charge on them of
ranee with rcfoecl to laws
and manners, an cvaflon of their wj(-
(1 >m, which r! fir ozn i opinion would
seem to e> tint ate highly. A is proper
to indu *e every man’s vanity in a tle
g ce, as the foible is generally innocent
i: its effects ; and it is improper to take
up t> > much ot tire publ.c lime with
tlifibuce on trifles ; yet there is a point
it winch Salomon iiirnlelx advilos to
“ aid’ ver a tool according to his folly,
ij(t he be u lie in 1 ?Is own cone. it.”
\he New-England character has
futiered from the coutluft of its emi
grants. ‘/hey have not only carried
abroad their third of gain, but, toge
ther with a high conceit of tiiemleivcs,
a narrow-minded partiality for their
native f ates has formed no incorffidera
bie portion of their characterifric. It
is hoped that fame mere energetic
min s have at times broken through the
prejudices of their grandmothers, when
they have thrown oil the gai h of child
hood, and l?ft behind the cottage of
ignorance.
There many excellent port’ons of the
Kew-En<rland inddtutions whichprefent
examoles not unworthy imitation by
her foutli/m filers : there arc other
portions which might better Verve foi
ini i Million. Shot: hi my lei fur e and
your convenience juftify it, 1 may at
times indulge mvfif in fume remarks
on this fubjetd. For the present i re
turn to the immediate object of my e*
pi die.
‘t will be fair to give the Museum an
opportunity of vindicating itfelf again/!
the imputation of ignorance, which
has now too much the appearance of
corrects els. Although, from feme
lorne know ledge of the character of the
citizens of Hartford, I totally di(be
lieve the tale alluded to in the lint of
the following quehions, \ request they
may be answered without “ evafiion.. '*
i. What oath would have been re
quiflte for the Aln ford citizen to have
taken in order to have voted in Hart
ford ?
2. By what law would such oath, oj
act of voting, amount to perjury ?
3. W hether is it more criminal 01
improper for the Afhford citizen to
have voted in Hartford than for those
“ Candidates for the Mimicry of the
Gospel ’ who have no fettled residence,
to remain after commencement and
give their votes in New-Haven ?•
By the manner-in which these ques
tions are answered by them, we fhal!
be enabled to judge of the extent of
their mfoimation, and of the joftice of
your charge.
A Na live cf CchneSicut.
For the GEORGIA REPUBLICAN
*
Messrs. Printers,
J Vv AS lately favored with a fe
nes 01 letters from an amiable and
learned correspondent, which, were
they published would, I presume afford
to the readers a ioiirce of inftrudion
and amusement. T hey chiefly conflO:
of moral tracts —tending to improve
the minds, in pointing out the real me
rit, and to hiss off the 11 age the foils of
Dun triad with their paltry trappings of
quackety. My correipondent well de
serves the motto applied to the ilar-e,
“ cjiigiit ridjmh mires.” With him
wealth is no ciiterion of wisdom—tides
are no recommendation to ciogy he
knows that the altar of praise will sooner
or latter, fall down with cracks, if it
is not supported by the immovable bads
ot truth —consequently, he despises
adulation, but he he hows a due enco
mium on the uniform being, who thro
the buttle of buly life, thinks, speaks
and a Fes under the government of fbv
ereiiin conlcience, and implicitly obeys
its dictates —he does not explore in c
comprehensive manner, the field of dis
putation—nor does ne pry into the inh
ibits arcana scan nod by learned philoso
phers, and acute metaphyficians, he
“ cztchrs folly a y t flies and is fatis
fed like the laughing phuofopher with
tracing the bubble or follies of a hccd
lefs world ; while another weeps ever
the ruins of the moral fabric, without
endeavoring to red ode ir, he gently
brings the giddy band back to tlie sober
walks of wisdom, through the very
paths of folly which they pursue. His
thalian iiuuiour never out-dies the limits
afio-ned by reason to the follies of ima
gi nation. His honcilyen, when pur
suing a candid invelhgation is never
wrapt within the web of sophistry, but
exerts itfelf before the naked eye of im
partial truth —In his various tracts, he
•pays ash ict regard to the fundamental
principles of morality, and views with
equal disgust the ciiminal verfatiiity
and ilie despotic intolerance of opposite
parties; a true republican, he loves the
genuine conflkution, purchased with
the blood of his countrymen —perhaps
with his own, and never will proftirmc
his pen to the noxious inn eductions of
“ untried I*rings, of new feenes and
changes. v r \ he philanthropic ientence
0 11 ‘ .
of cur illudrious jefferfon, 1:111 founds
in his ears. “We are ail republicans,
we are ail federal:! Is.*’ and although
a political war rages betwixt the two,
he gives not himfeif u:> to the fan gain
ary hope of beholding the utter delfruc
tion of the latter : as an adherent
io the former. But he sincerely laments
the exacerbated ambition, that vanity
aims at the- reftoraition of that turbulent
and weak fact on, os ice Mouri filing, now
h aliening towards its ckToludon.
o
7 his short anil yds of the lubjefl of
my corrt fpondeut’s treatises, will serve
as an introduction to their publication,
ihouid you think proper, gentlemen, to
insert them m your paper, and approve
of the communication of,
Y our bumble an.l obedient servant.
P. M*
Addrcjs frsra the Republican Committee of
P ennjyhanict.
TO THE
RE PUBLICANS
OF
P E N NS.YL V A N I A.
(Continued from our la;}.)
Friends and Fellow—Citizens !
Nor while we thus derive, from the extent
and value ot your pa ft atchiivmcnts, a iauda-1
b[e and incentive to future exertion, can you
be indifferent, f flow-citizens ro the daily oc
currences, which ad more. 11l you of a fuE Ail
ing danger. ‘I lie menaces that reverberate
in the halls of Congreis, the calumnies that
kike from the preft, the sullen dilcontcnt
of individuals, and the undisguised hoftiitty
of numerous alibciadons, give aftbrance of a
wounded, but aspiring spirit. No moderati
on in the exefeife of ofHcial power, no -over
ture to the melioration of fociai harmony, no
appeal to the equal difpenfatiorrs of the confti
ti-uon, has been eiTectual to abate the rage of
federal anamofity, or to silence the arrogant
pretension, to a monopoly of public honour
and emolument. Still intolerant, active, and
intelligent, your political opponents move in
every direction, and transform themfeives in
to every shape ; lb that con ft ant vigilance
can alone enable you to dilcover and avoid
their toils. In the effort to efcapc fro m the
obloquy of their own mifcondudl, you have
heard their, uiibluihingly, afoibe to the cx
iftingad mi ni ft rati on, an ex pen five com pro -
mile, under the sixth article, of the Bntifh
Ereaty, fer tue liquidation of private, anti
quated debts ; the rdinquifhment of an in
demnity for the fpoilations committed on ear
commerce by the French ; the irritation of the
barbarians on the coast of the Mediterranean
—the impolition ot duties on fait, brown kff
g;r, ccfiec, and other commodities, in gene
ral cuniumption among the uoor: and an aum
mentation cl the salaries or the principal offi
cers ot llate. So, in the attempt to conceal
fron public obftrvarion, the brilliant contrast
between r;ie present and the pafic tranfaCl:ons
of the government, the motive of every mea
lure, legiflanve or executive, has been ieftma
tized, us nature has been perverted, and its 1
operations impeded. The repeal of the Ju- i
diciary A<± of the 13th of February, iSoi,
has opened, above ail, a copious fuurce for
declamation and delulion. The design of
the system, which that act had introduced,
was to eredt a judicial fortreis, within which j
the routed :edcra!ifts might ftifely repole, and I
tro it wnich the.tnumphaiit republicans mighi |
be fljccelsfuily annoyed. Ehe organization j
of the fyitem, too, \vus marked with all %lnt\
malevolence* could Hisl ate to provoke refent
me.nt, or folly could exhibit to excite dil
guft.
The Confiitution was either violated, or co
llided j and the dignity of die chief magistra
cy, together with the ordinary maxims of per
sonal decorifm, lav prostrate ; while commif
iiOns were i filled to transfer judges from one
court to another, without their previous con
fect or privity ; white ienators were appoint
ed to Hil fuppofr.iriotis vacanciesin judicial of
fices ; and whre the tranquility of the mid
night hour was invaded, to rivet the lift fet
ter upon a rival admimftration. It was never
expected, that such conduct should pals with
out ar.in,ad verfon, or that an encroachment
like this, would meet a prompt and paflive
acquivfccnce. Even, however, if the ddfolu*
tion of tus judiciary Iyitem hid not been a
natural concomitant of the circumstances,
that gave it birth ; and even if rhefe confide
rarions of local advantage, in the adm’niftra
tion ofj iftice, which infpireJ fome republi
cans with a wifii for its preservation, had been
more generally dilfuted . yet the fate which
the system has experienced, mini have been
rendered inevitable, by the very arts that
were employed to avert ir. The power of the
legifl.-iture to repeal the act, was peremptorily
denied. A dodtnne was maintained, which
made, in tins refpcct, the pc;focal mtcridh
of die judges every tiling, and the national
intend Is of people nothing. In a coan
:rv, wimie populat;un ;s but in the germ ;
whole refdi-rces ot agriculture, commerce, arts
and imanufactures, are incalculable ; and
whose iruerccurie with the ddlant regions of
die world expands at every gale j it has been
contended’, in cite cl that a legislative arrange
menc or the conus ot justice, once made, is
immutable*, and can i either be modified to
conform to tr.t reaHng exigencies ; nor be a
mended to correct the errors, winch experi
ence (hall cLwCi. In other words, the ap
pointment or a jn Le, upon the tenure of
good behaviour, has been reprelented, in a
wild and boundlcds latitude, of interpretation,
as to a confututionai ttipulajion, that under
every pohible circun.ftance of public incon
venience, the office shall be perpetrated, that
the judges may be paid. Combining there
fore, the refuit of thok positions, with the au
thority exerfifed by the court of law, to deter
mine the validity oi ail acts of Congreis, and
the federal claim of a common law jurisdiTion
in criminal rafts, it is obvious that iomething
more incereftshg than the mere repeal of an
obnoxious ft acute was at flake $ for, a repeal
had at last, become the lndiipenfible medium,
to vindicate and preserve the theory and of
fence of our governrrient. Pepmvr, the whole
dodtrine of the fcderalif s, in relation to the
judicial authority, to prevail, and every trace
of a republican compact van;flies from the
Constitutional code ; the lovereignty of tlie
nation paifts from the people, and the imme
diate repreftntatives of die people j while the*
judges (though appointed by the /Yefident,
and still as we have repeatedly vvirneffed v/ith
in the scope of executive favor and bounty,)
will indeed be the rulers of the land.
Other topics or federal misrepresentation
and clamor, prefer. rhemfelves in rapid fic
ceffion. The diicontinuance of the interna!
taxes has been reprobated, not because the
revenue is wanted at this time, but because it
is possible, that a future emergency rnav re
quire a pecuniary fun ply j not becaufe-nh::
discontinuance affords r.o relief to the com
munity, but bccanfe the fifcal economy of
tae ad mini ft ration cannot fafely embrace a re
peal of more taxes, nor conveniently apply the
repeal to other taxes in-dead cf tilde. The
provision for the extinguiftiment of the pub
lic debt, has been called artfu! and in fine ere ;
yet all the art con fills in fe left mg rive bed
means for the attainment of the objedt ; and
the only shade of mfincerity (the power to re
loan) is, Amply, a precaution to guard the:
public faith from the effects of accidentia! dif
aoooincment. Every dilblay of the attribute
of mercy has been ccniured, without informa
tion o:i the facts, without decency in the man
ner, and without humanity in the design. The
flow, but we trust certain progress of the exe
cutive, to re (lore the to that ftiarc
|in the public patronage, of which they have
been iolong, & so urduftly deprived, furnifhes
an everlasting theme for invective and defa
mation, to the presumptuous, the idle, ana
the cefperate. The bale and pakry practices
| of private scandal, have Ukewife, been indulg
ed, at the expencc of truth, modesty and feel
ing, when the hope of eftabhfhing official de-j
linquency, or public error, has been abandon
ed. In fhorc, it has been evinced in the courle
of the oppofltion to the present administration,
the foie object of the federal party is the re
acquisition of power ; and, we fear, that this
object fanctifits, in their opinion, every mea
sure which can De deviled to accomplilh it :
For, of the consequences to the liot
or of the nation, or to the peace of the com
munity, is it not the cfired aim of every fede
ral press, and cd every federal orator, to de
grade cqe government to depreciate -the ta
lents ?.?A virtues of the rulers, and to leader
jjealoii'V and difeord and among the p*w t
the fyfteda is, indeed, at once a fv'tern (;
seduction and alar.n : but it wul impost or.l,
on the weak, and can overawe none but the
timid.
These remembrances of past ftiffcrings, o r
present enjoyments, and of surrounding and ul
cers, have been preiented to you, ftkow-ci
tizens, not with a view to awaken in your
breasts a fpint of retaliation, but to cornu n
your zeal and constancy in mamtaining n*e
1 Cifipire of repub'icanifm. Even at th.s no
j ment of you r triumph and pov\er, we know
i t!ist the republican principle, affords an un
diminished iecurityfor the rights of your po
litical opponents ; and as you have never
contended, for mme than a conftitufi o -u]
I equality of protcflion and privilege, we are
[ confident, that the federalifts will find you, at
all tin.es, rei'ft to embrace them as bietnren,
though you dddam at any time to accept tne,o
as iTKiftcrs.—But in the glorious caule whi c i
you have espoused, let every man now exhi
bit an example of patnotil n and firmrefs,
that the reoublican party may ftv.ne fore i,
with intrinsic luftre, the genuine trends of
order and good government ; the patrons or
| industry ; and the guardians of independency
j F,xtmgulb, we bekech you, the feu>ds tiiat
! are occasioned by local prejudice, or a
!on of pei lonal intcrefts. llclift every sinister
I .ntempr to low diJlention among you ; to ge
| nerme injurious iuipicious of each other ; to
-1 fubitirum in your pokcical diicufdons. denun
j elation for argument, or intolerance f or per
! suasion *, and to undermine the confidence of
i the people in the public agents, whom they
: have chosen. And. above all, let it be deep
! iy im ore fled upon your minds, that a lupine
| nest, produced by a confidence in your
jftrenffth, may be as fatal, at the periods of
j election, as an actual isdifTerencc to the ob
| jeH of purluit.
| We have add re fie and you, fellow citizens,
! upon the pretend cation, rather as citiz> ns
of the union, than as inhabitants of Eenniyi
vania j hut, it: will be recclk&ed, that the
politics of the confederation, ank the politics
of its individual members, have an influence,
which is mutually attractive and a 111 mil uing.
A co-operabon of the republican members
(and w’e venture here to express a solicitude
for its continuance) communicatell that!i !i i ;
to the union, which the union now reflects
back upon the frveral dates, that the ft ere and
flame of r-publicanifin can be permanently
preserved from ciimur.uion or decay ; and rhe
morals, policy, and manner, should be rfii
duoufiy moulded to a performance of the du
ty j flnee to enjoy, or retain, the gjorio- a
inheritance of the revolution, posterity n ;?
emulate the valour and trie virtue, which ena
bled their fathers to atchieve ir,—Among a
free people,♦thought to know, and toeftiunte
their own rights, theelective franchife wPI hr
for ever dear, and the representative charac
ter forever honored. No age can pa ft a wav,
without its heroes, and its statesmen ; and ,i
long Hpe of patriots final 1 succeed to Jeff-non
and M*Kean, as they have done to IVujhinpton
and Franklhi. *
It only remains, fellow-citizens, to clofie
the task which has been entrusted ro us, by
■ earnestly recommending to you a general at
tendance, and a cordial urjanirgiry, on the day
jof election. A fteidy choice of tried andap
j proved republicans, to fid the departments of
j government, mull effectually fruftrate the
; schemes of your enemies, and invigorate the
| confidence of your friends; but permit us, al
io to hope, that your vote, un the re-election
of the present governor, the honored and be
loved M’Kean, will serve as a conspicuous
testimonial of public gratitude, for the virtue,
wisdom, and independence, which he has uni
formly displayed in the service of his country.
And if for theie important purposes, any fnr—
theradviceor aliiftance fliouid be requisite,
you may, at all times, rely upon the prompti
tude aiad fidelity of
Your fiaccre friends,
P. Muhlenberg.
Richard Bade,
Samuel Miles *
H. j. Fallas ,
V/illiam Jones,
Mathew Lawler,
Michael Leib,
Thomas Lei per.
Philadelphia. Sept. 2T, 1802.
■Willi I M a W vr. ~rmrr IH W , —ILI Wl
A SukßiiL HOKoE,
WifS found yesterday, in a ftvamp, in
White-Bluff Diftrift, faftened in a
ft long manner to a tree, and apparently in 3
very starving condition. E|e j,
hands high, hss a white itreak in his forehead 4
no brand, but exhibits the marks of the colial
and tne (addle.
1 he owner is requested to call, pay charges
and take him away.
JOHN BAILLER
White-Bluff, Oclobr-r 2 'S, 1802.
l nLLU No Li x U 1 iOiv, *
OF the Republican FufiJiers, is ready for
delivery to the p.-.embers at this office.
October 27,