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If your cxcelfivc vanity and folly has
prompted you to suppose you can with
impunity, thus sport with characters of
your fellow citizens, you have deceived
I yon rfclt, and may per haps not difeover
at till too late ; therforc beware Grac
chus, left you roufc the vengeance of
fomc one of those people, so high, as to
induce them to charge you sword in
I hand, and oblige you to light, or to
•leaveyour country —or in mercy per
mit you tofculk beneath the facredfhicld
of cowardice. OGECHEE.
sror t\)t Columbian
April 2 6th, 1796.
Messrs. Printers,
/OBSERVING inyollrpaper of this days
a publication of Mr. Waldburger’s,
refpefting Gtn. Jackhn, 1 have to le
•-quell yon willpubijb in your next paper
the following letter from the General, to
that man, in anjauer to his note, wherein
he wijhes to he informed from the General,
whether or not, he was the author of a
piece Jigned Gracchus, whichappeartdin
your paper of the I Bth infant.
J have to ohfer-vc , that I ajfured Mr.
Waldburger at the time, that the General
would not accept of any challenge from
him, and that he was about to depart for
Louifvillt early the next morning.
1 am, Gentlemen,
Tour obedient Servant,
J. BEN. MAXWELL. ]
Sir,
I HAD this morning a very extraor
-L dinary epistle handed to me, by Capt.
’Robertfon, under your fignaturc ; de
manding whether or not, 1 am the au
thor of a piece signed Gracchus, and
which you suppose to contain a personal
invective agamlt yourfelf.
What right you have to make this
demand, I am at a loss to find ; but be
this as it may, I suppose that I poflefs
the fame right to refufc the demand,
which you have to make it.
the personal inventive, which
you please to rake to yourfelf-—am I to
become anfwerablc for it, and to give
you solutions of the meaning of any
anonymous author, to plaiiter your con
science ? It appears that there mult be
feme foundation for the invedive you
complain of, when you are so ready to
take the personality to yourfelf. I, fir,
have had my share of personal invedive,
poured forth again ft me, from the Boftori
Centinel to McMillan’s dirty press, by
the party you belong to—and fo:ne, fir,
on your own account. I have been
charged in feme publications, and in
which it is not improbable, you might
have lent a hand in the eompofition,
with giving you public property —
Zuberbuhler’s plantation. Had you
polleffed the generofuy your affected va-.
lour would leem to imply ; you would
before this day, have given the lye to
the affcrtion. I have not noticed this,
nor a thousand other indecent attacks,
yoiir party has made on me, because I
know the fallhoods they contain, can
never affect me.
Since we are however on the fubjed
of the piece, you allude to —and if you
apply any thing therein mentioned,
of ingratitude from you to me, 1
Ihall not go about the bufii, to inform
you that I think it fits you. I took
you, fir, a little boy, and treated you
with all the alFedion of a parent, and
maintained you without reward, with
the bell my houfc afforded. How did
you return this parental condud ? You
scarcely got clear of my office, and I be
lieve previous to your leaving it, your
leagues against me were formed, when
you defer ted the man, you have frequent
ly confeifed Was a father to you, and
joined a party to break down my cha
racter and reputation. Have you not
jincc, acknowledged your ingratitude
towards me, to different persons, and
made the intention you had formed
of procuring Zuberbuhler’s plantation
your plea, for doing so? Did you not
acknowledge this ingratitude to me, in
die chair, coming from Governor Tel
fair’s, alluring me with tears in your
eyes, tliafyou elteemed me as your fath
er—that you had got loose from the base
party —mentioning Mr. Gibbons, par
ticularly, and that 1 might allure myfelf
yott would keep so ?
I fuppolc, fir, that you may be so an
gry at this plain truth, that you may
think of a challenge—to cut it Ihort, and
prevent your waiting paper on the oc
calion, be pleased to remenlber, that if I
enter the litis, it cannot be with an un
grateful bov, who may with to repair a
ihattered —I lhall not avoid
any proper invitation.
To keep my word with Capt. Robert
son, 1 liAYe takeu this notice of you—
Columbian JHufetmt,
any further corrcfpondence is inadmissi
ble. I am Sir,
Yours, See.
JAMES JACKSON.
Mr. Waldburger.
Messrs. Printers,
AS you are m the habit of indulging Cor
respondents, it is r L (ju fed you will in
fer/ in Jour paper, the following extra It
from a Bofion paper, and oblige a num
ber of your Subscribers.
have been large quantities
X of these lands fold in this town,
at various prices, and under very differ
ent circumitanccs—infome inllances the
purchasers have fought after the holders
of the lands; in other inllances, indul
trious people, while engaged in their
honed daily occupations, have been as
sailed by artful, interelled agents, who
by shewing lids of names of refpedabie
citizens, supposed to be feleCled for the
purpose of deception, aided by falfe and
alluring representations, have induced
them to become purchasers—And now,
when, in consequence of the declarea
illegality of the original sale by the date
of Georgia, they come to look around
and enquire into the business, they find
that forne of those people, on whole
judgment and prudence they relied, and
who they supposed to be equally inter
efled with themselves, are not purchas
ers, and have no connection with the bu
siness—but that their names were col
lected and presented to them as a cure to
a ruinous pur chafe, which they never
would have engaged in, had the offer
been made them in a fair, honest, undil
guifed manner—\Vhetner contract en
tered into under such circumltances are
binding or not, may be a qudtion with
fome people; but every honed man wiii
fay that in equity they ought not to be.
The public therefore ought to know,
and are now informed, that legal mea
sures are pursuing to set one of the con
tracts fora million acres aiide—and that
those who gave their notes under luch
circumitanccs, do not conlider them as
given for a valuable consideration. It
is therefore prelumed that no person
who willies the peace and happiness oi
society, in preference to the intered oi
a few ipeouiators, will negociate such
notes, but luifer them to reit and be con
teded in the hands of the preleut hold-,
ers.
N. 6. Thenotes above alluded to are
all printed forms, dated January 7th,
1 796, and payable in 2,3, 4, 5 and 6
years from Jan. 1, 1796, and are fup
pofe'd dill to be in the hands of thole
who originated the delusive bubble,
where every honed citizen will endeav
our to keep them.
[The above is published, at the re
qued of several persons interelled in the
purchase of the lands alluded to.]
Ed. & Clem. Sf chains.
Have juf received by the BEI.LONA, Capt.
Crook’ I •from New+York :
A GEN FEEL AS ORTMENT OF
G O O D S,
Sui.dqleto and) j pre Grit a. id approaching Sea lon ;
which they will di'pofe of on moderate
terms, tor Oath or P oduce, attheirSt re on
the Bay : Confiftins; of the follow ins Arti
cles, viz :
A\ ariety of elegant furniture Chintz and
furniture ‘Cottons, a neat adbjtniflit of
purple, coloured, dark and light fancy Calli
cocs and Chintzes, Manchelfer Muffins and
corded Dimities; Merieilles and fringed cotton
Counterpanes, 4-4, ti-4, and 9-8 Jacconet and
Book. Muffins, Muslin Handkerchiefs Sc Aprons,
Gentlemens tamboured Cravats, Millinets,
Ginghems, fprig’d Muflinets ; plain, clouded
and twill-d Nankeens, brown Fullian and
Jeans. Bengal Stripe, Toilenets, silk flriped
Nankems ; prin.ea, striped and tambour’d
Mai feilles Veil-Patterns; black Mantua and
Lutellring, India Perlians, white Sarfeuct, black
India Sattin and Florentine, black mode, black
Loveand Crape, black Ruflel', Boinbazeen and
colored Durants; Barcelona & tiandanoe Haud
iterchiefs, Pullicat and Linen Handkerchiefs,
bme cotton Romalls, Plumbums, sewing Silks
and I will, cotton Yarn, Tapes and Bobbins ;
white Sattin figured Ribbons, black hair Rib
bons, China do. wire do. black tails ; 5-4 Irish
Sheetings, a Toned, Oznaburgs, Checks, Oil
Cloths ; long Lawns and Cambncks ; gentle
mens patent ulk Hole, plain white Sc black do.
ladies and gentlemens Gloves ; mens, womens
and maids cotton Hole ; gentlemens, ladies and
cmldrens colored Beaver flats, mens neat Shoes,
ladies Morocco Sliputacs, Black ball, Loaf Su
gar and frefh Hyfon T'eb, MulWd, black Pep
per and Nutmegs ; medium and quarto poll
Pajarr, quire and memorandum Books, blank
bound do. playing Cards, Ink Powder, black
lead Pencils, squills and Wafers—A large al
fortment of FRESH MEDICINES,&c. 6cc.
April 2Q. 1117—ts.
i wo Dollars Reward.
RAN away from on board the Ship Liber
ty, MOSES GARDNER, a Mulatto fel
low, about 3 feet 10 inches tall, round face, 27
years old.—Whoever will ship him on board
of any vclfel bound to Providence (R. 1.) (hall
have the above Reward- All perlons are for
bid harbouring him.
ARNOLD WHIPPLE.
Savannah, April 33.
Dijlritl of Georgia.
At a Circuit Court of the United States,
held at Savannah lor the diftrid afore
faid. Prejeut,
The Hon. Oliver Ellsworth’
Chief Justice of the United States.
And the Hon. Nathaniel Pen
dleton, Diftrid Judge.
The Grand Jury brought in their
preferments, which were read, and or
ordered to be enrered of Record, in
the Minutes of the said Court, and
to be publilbed in the Gazettes of
this State, together with the judge’s
Charge, agreeably to the recommenda
tion therein contained.
Ext raft from the Minutes,
Charles Harris, Clerk.
Savannah, April 27, 1796.
The following Charge, was delivered
on the 27th of April, to the Grand
Jury of Chatham County, at ? fede
ral Circuit Court, by the Honorable
Oliver E l l s w o r t ii , C hies j uf
ticc of the United States.
Gentlemen of the Grand fury,
THIS cou r t has cogn izan ce o fall
offences against the United States,
committed within the diftrid of Geor
gia, or elsewhere, without the juril’dic
tion of any particular ilate, by persons
afterwards found within this diftrid.
Alter all such offences, you will there
fore enquire, and due presentment make.
Your duty may perhaps be deemed
unpleasant, but it is too important not
to’.be faithfully performed. To pro
vide in the organization, that reaibn
lhall preferibe laws, is of little avail, if
padions be left to controul them. Inlti
tutions without refped—laws violated
with impunity, arc to a Pvepublic the
symptoms and the feeds of death. No
tranfgtefiion is too (mall, nor any tranf
greflor too great, for animadversion.
Happily for our laws they are not
w ritten in blood, that we should bluftl
to read, or hesitate to execute them.
They breath the spirit of a parent 11 ;
and exped the benefits of correction, not
from severity, but from certainty. Re
formation is never loft fight of, till de
pravity becomes, or is presumed to be
incorrigible. JEmpofedasreftraints, here
are, not by the jealousy of usurpation,
nor the capriciousness of infallibility ;
but as aids to virtueand guards to rights,
they have a high claim to be rendered
efficient.
Nor is this claim mere heightened
by the purity of their source, and the
mildness of their genius, than by the
magnitude of the intereits they embrace,
she national laws are the national liga
tures and vehicles of life. Tho’they
pervade a country, as diverbified in ha
oits, as it is vail in extent, yet they
give to the whole, harmony of intcreit,
and unity of design. They are the
means by which it pleases heaven to
make of weak and difeordant parts, cnc
great people ; and to beflow upon them
unexampled prosperity. And so long as
xAmerica lhall continue to have one will,
organically expressed and enforced, mull
lhc continue to rife in opulence and ref
ped. Let then, the man, or combina
tion of men, who, from whatever mo
tive, oppose partial to general will, and
would disjoint theircountry to the sport
of fortune, feel their impotence and er
ror.
Admonished by the fate of Repub
lics, which have gone before us, we
fhoulvl profit by their mistakes. Im
petuosity in legislation, and instability
in execution, are the rocks on which
they perished. Against the former,
indeed, we hold a l'ecurity which they
were ignorant of, by a representation
inlleact of the aggregate, and by a distri
bution of the legiilative power, to ma
turing and ballancing bodies, instead of
the fubjeCtion of it to momentary im
pulse, and the predominence of faction.
Yet from the danger of inexecution,
we are not exempt. Strength of vir
tue, is not alone fufficient ; there mufl
lie strength of arm, or the experiment is
hopelcfs. Numerous are the vices, and
as obstinate the prejudices, and as dar
ing as rcfllefs is the ambition, which per
petually hazard the national peace. And
they certainly require that to the au
thority veiled in the executive depart
ment, there be added liberal confidence,
and the unceasing co-operation of all
good citizens for its support. Let there
then be vigilance—constant vigilance and
fidelity for the execution of laws—of
laws made by all, and having for their
objeft, the good ofall. So let 11s rear an
empire sacred to the rights of man ; and
commend a government of rcafon to the
rations of the earth.
But, ..gentlemen, I will not detain
you longer from your duty, YcTmay
expert in the performance of it, such
afilfiance from Mr. Attorney, and also
from the Court, as you may have occa
sion for, and it lhall be proper for them
refpeftivcly to give. You i “ Jeal'e
to retire.
/’ , V ,
In the Southern Court of the . 1 States,
held at Savannah, in the Dj~
trift of Georgia — April I erm, 1796.
Savannah, State of Georgia,
WE the Grand Jury of the Circuit
Court, for this diitriCt, avail
ourselves of this opportunity, of expres
sing our approbation of the lafl Legif.
lature, which fat at Louisville, for the
pafiing of an aCI, rendering null and void
the aCt usurped, and palled by the legisla
ture, on the seventh of January 1795,
difpcfing of the western territor’, - of
this ilate, removing thereby the great
elt grievance this country laboured un
der, and that they defer ve the thanks of
every difmterefted citizen.
Every Grand Jury throughout this
State, have complained of that usurped
aft, which was intended to deprive the
citizens and tiieirpofterity, nqt only un
constitutionally but by bribery and cor
ruption, ox unafeertained millions ofa
cres, to enrich a set of speculators, the
pest of focicty, who have icr.g inf cited
this fiate, and to whom all the disorder
andeonfufion in our public affairs, may
jultly be attributed.
We return cur fincefe thanks to the
honorable Abraham Baldwin, a reprft
fentative from this State, in the Con
gress of the United States, and highly
approve the manner in which he repel
led the daring attempt of a fenacor from
this ilate, to interrupt that gentleman,
in the faithful difeharge of his duty, as
a representative of the people. We are
not at a loss for the real cause of that un
warrantable attack, whatever pretences
may have been offered to the public,
and hope, that should any attempt of
the kind be again made, the objeit will
be treated with equal contempt and dif
refpedt.
We pvefent as a grievance, that the
compensation allowed to j urors attend
ing court from any distance, isnotade
quaty to their neceifary expences; we
admit that the sum allowed may be fuffi
cient iii the Northern states, but the Idgh
price of provisions, and labour in Geor
gia, is luch, that the money received by
the juror, will not pay half his mainten
ance.—Yve also recommend, that the;
Marshal be authorized immediately,on
the difeharge of the jury, to pay whate
ver sum may be allowed. We are hap
py to inform the Court, that no criminal
business or information, have come before
us.
We thank his honour the Chief jus
tice, for his excellent charge, and requeit
that it, together with our preferments,
be pubiillied in the next gazetts.
Peter H. Morel, T ore mart, l.s.
J ohn Tcbeau, l. s. Simon Frafor, l.s.
Lewis Turner, l.s. N. Hudson, l.s.
John Barnard, l.s. Wm. Porter, l.s.
hi.Liiiibndge, l .s. J. Shick,jun. l.s.
Robert Greer, l.s. L. Abrahams, l.s.
Livi Sheftall, l.s* Win. Levvden. l.s.
Aud. Maxwell, l.s.
VIENNA, February 6.
It is said by virtue of arrangements
entered into with the Cabinet of Peterf
bnrgh, our court is about to put on their
march, and bring into the field, all our
troops stiled frontier troops, from Tran,
fylvania and Efclavcnia, eflimated a;-
100,000 effedivc men. It is verj cer
tain, that the kingdom of Hungary, has
made to the Emperor and King, a gra
tuitous present of 500,000 mealures of
oats.
February 10.
[From the Court Gazette.]
(i His Imperial majeft}, after repeat
ed felicitations, hascor.fented to Count
Clatrfayt’s resignation of his command
of the Imperial army on the Lower
Rhine, and has appointed his Royal
Highness the Archduke Charles to the
command of the army. At the lame time
his majeity has been pleased, as a testi
mony of his fatisfadion with the Field
Marihal’s glorious ferviees, to center
on him the order of the golden fleece/’
We (till flatter ourfcl ves, here, that
should our armies advance into Belgium,
the presence of the Aivhduke Charles,
will be produdive of the gveateft advan
tages. Count BeilegradC has been ap
pointed tcwuiift the Archduke : that
General H’bne of the beff lkilled in mi
litary tadiesjof the prefenf time ; he is
a friend of Field Marfnal Wurmfcr, and
on account of his grea t merit has been
cordlantly employed by our monarch,
and the commanders of the army, in the
molt important ferviees. It is now cer
tain, that as the French infill on such
terms of peace as cannot be acceded to
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