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;U.l acconipliflied in the system of their united
government, the tranquil deliberations and
voluntary consent of so many diftinCt commu
nities., from which the event has resulted,
cannot be compared with the means by which
most governments have been established,
without some return of pious gratitude along
with an humble anticipation of the future
oe ings which the past seem to prcfage.
* hefe reflections ariflng out of the present cri
bs, have forced themselves too strongly on my
mind to be fupprefied.— -You will join with
me, I trust, in thinking, that there are none
under the influence of which, the proceedings
of a new and free government can moreauf
picioufly commence.
By the article establishing the Executive de
partment, it is made the duty of the Presi
dent “to recommend to vour cbnfideration,
such rneafures as he (hall judge necessary and
expedient.” The eircumflances under which
I now meet you, will acquit me from entering
into that fubjeft, farther than to refer to the
gieat couftitutional charter under which you
*• e allemb:ed ; and which, in defining your
powers, designates the objects to which your
attention is to be given. It wiii be more con
fident with those circumstances, and far more
congenial with the feelings which actuate me,
10 lubftitute, in place of a recommendation of
particular rneafures, the tribute that is due
to the talents, the rectitude and the patriotism
which adorn the characters fetetted to devise
ana adopt them. In these honorable qualifi
cations, I behold the surest pledges, that as
on the one fide, no local prejudices, of at
tachments ; no feperate views, no partly ani
inofities, will misdirect the comprehensive
afid equal eve which ought to watch over this
great aflemblage of communities and interests:
So, on another, that the foundations of our
national policy will be laid in the pure and
immutable principles of private morality ;
antfr the pre-eminence of free government be
exemplified by all the attributes which can
■win the aflfe&ions of its citizens, and com-'
xnand the respect of the world. I dwell on
this profped with every fatisfadion which an
ardent love for my country can inspire:
Since there is no truth more firmly eftablifli
eff, than that there exists in the economy and
course of nature, an indiflbluble union be
tween virtue and happiness, between duty and
advantage, between the genuine maxims of
an honest and magnanimous policy, and the
Colid rewards of public prosperity and felicity:
Since we ought to be no less persuaded, that
the propitious fniiles of Heaven can never be
expe&ed bn a nation that disregards the eter
nal rules of order and right, which Heaven
itfelf has ordained : And since the preserva
tion of the sacred fire of liberty, and the def
tiriy of the republican model of government,
are justly considered as deeply perhaps as fi
nally flaked, on the experiment entrusted to
the hands of the American people.
Befidee the ordinary objects submitted to
your care, it will remain with your judgment
to decide, how far an exercise of the occafi
obal power delegated by the sth article of
the Conft«tu:ion, is rendered expedient at the
present juncture by the nature of objections
which have been urged against the system, or
by the degree of inquietude which has given
birth to them.
Instead of undertaking particular recom
mendations on this fubjeCt, in which I could
be guided by no lights derived from oflicial
opportunities, I shall again give way to my
entire confidence in your difeernment and
pursuit of the public good.
For I allure myfelf that whilst you care
fully avoid every alteration which might en
danger the benefits of an united and effective
government, or which ought to await the fu
ture lesson of experience ; a reverence tor the
charaCteriftic rights of freemen, and a. regard
for the public harmony, will fufficiently in
fluence your deliberations on the question,
how far the former can be more impregnably
fortified, or the latter be fafely and advan
tageously promoted.
To the preceding observations I have one
to add, which will he molt properly addrefled
tothe House of Representatives. It concerns
myfelf, and will therefore be as brief as pof
tfble.
When I was firfl honored with a call into
the service of my country, then on the eve of
•11 arduous druggie for its liberties, the light
in which I contemplated my duty required
Uu r . I ihould renounce every pecuniary com*
w
penfation. From /His refolotion T have in ho
instance departed. And being still under the
impressions which produce it, I must decline
as inapplicable to myfelf, any /hare in the per-
Tonal emoluments, which may be indispens
ably included in a permanent provision for the
Executive department ; and must according
y pray the pecuniary estimates of the station
in wic am placed, may, during my con
tinuance in it, be limited to such aftual ex
pendmires as the public good may be thought
to require.
Having thqg .imparted to you my senti
ments, as they have been awakened by the
occasion which brings us together—l (hall
ta emy present leave; but not without re
orting once more to ;he benign parent of the
human race, in humble fupplicatjon, that
hnce he has been pleased to favor the Ameri
can people with opportunities for deliberating
>n perfeft tranquility, and difpolitions for de
ciding wi;h unparalleled unanimity on a form
of government, for the security of their uni
on. and the advancement of their happjnefs ;
so his divine blessing may be equally conspi
cuous in the enlarged views, the temperate
coofultations, and the wife measures, on
which the luccefs of ihis government must
depend.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
. His Excellency, accompanied by the Vice-
Pre/ident, the Speaker of he House of Re-
and both Houses of Congress,
then wfcnt to St. Paul s Chapel, divine
service was performed by the right reverend
Dr. Provost, Bi/hop of the Episcopal church
in this state, and Chaplain to Congress.
. The religious foiemnity. being ended, the
President was escorted to his house, and the
citizens retired to their homes.
In the evening was exhibited, under the
direction of C'ol. Bauman,, a very ingenious
and splendid lhew.of file works j the various
kinds of which, want of time will not permit
us to particulatize. Betwixt the fort and
bowling green stood conspicuous, a superb
and brilliant transparent painting ; in the cen
tre of which was the portrait of the Presi
dent, represented under the emblem of forti
tude ; on his right hand jufttce, -representing
the Senate of the United States ; and on his
left wisdom, rep relenting the House of Rc
prefentatives. The arras of the United
States, and several figures and decorations
were painted >vith great taste and judgment,
in the fropt of the ftrufture The Count de
Mouftier's house wa3 elegantly illuminated
and a variety of tranfpaicat paintings weie
exhibited. His Excellency Don Diego de
Gardoqui's house also displayed a great as
semblage of beautiful figures, executed in
the raoft maflerly and striking manner, and
which attracted considerable attention from
the vast multitude of citizens afienibled to
view tHe various feeues of the evening.
At) GU S T A+ May 30,
In COUNCI L, May 26, i 7 sp.
A petition from John Stith, setting forth
that the Specific Tax of William Stith, fen.
had not been paid in time, but not by Wilful
neglett, was read. Whereupon' it is
Ordered ,
That farther time be given generally for
payment of the Specific Tax until the 10th
day of June next J find that this order be pub
lilhed for the information of all concerned.
Extratt from the Minutes ,
J. MERIWETHER, 8. E. C.
. ». », ,
, AT a meeting of the inhabitants of Sain}
Paul's pari/h, on Thursday the 28th inst. for
the purpose of electing Chjurch Wardens for
the present year, Mr. Abraham Jones and
Mr. Dalxiel Hunter were duly elected.
By Order of the V*fl r y%
GEO. BARNES, Chairman'.
It is reported, and believed, that a patty
of Indians lately came over the line upon
Richland Creek, near Phillips’s Fort, and
took and carried off a number of horses.
Also that a man by the name of Jones was
killed last week near Kemp's Fort, on Buck
eye ; and aboue the fame time Come In
dians had been in plundering near Ogechee,
who were followed and overtaken near the
Qhoopee, and three Indians killed! and the
plunder recovered, I
Yesterday we learn, that Government re- /
ceived official account! from Col. Maxwell I
of Eibtrty, informing of i party of Indiana, [
apparently about 40 or 50, Having come in
and attacked Le Conte's Fort, on BuJI-tawn
wamp; had taken several negroes, killed
\Ztn7T mco ; aud had « ot off with
loss of three or four*
It I» possible that the India., wh o were in
Liberty county were Seminoli a „», a „ d those
upwards might have left the Nation before
' he Ta,ks .S™ "P f° 'hat it is Itill hoped the
Treaty will be held.
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The Printer of this paper informs the pub
lic, that he has enlarged the circle of his cor
respondence, so as to be able in future to give
to his readers fatisfatfory details of the affairs
of the United States, in this interesting and
splendid moment,of their politics; and a|f»
to furnifti a concise /ketch <rf the general con
cerns of Europe—Tube enabled to continue
it m this extent, it will be necessary that he
ftiould have the nulmber of his fubferibers
encreafed ; which he flatters hinifelf, will be
ve.y promptly done, when it is considered.
that, besides the Icop'e of intelligence already
afliired, it is his firft and immediate duty,
faithfully to detail the uanfaflione of the
state, the knowledge of which must excite
the solicitude of every citizen, in this enfig
of public affairs.
On this ground, he has taken the liberty
to nominate the following persons to receive
fubferiptions, whom he earnestly requeits to
uudcttske the fame; and to whom he will
transmit fubfeription papers, with the Con
ditions. , ,
In Chatham county. John Haber/ham, Efq*
William Stephen, Esq. aud Alex. Watt. Esq.
Ejfingham. Nathan Brownfon, Esq. and
Mr. Joihua Pearce.
Burke . Hon. Hugh Lawson, Esq. and Mr*
Alexander Carter.
Richmond . At the Printing-Office, Gen#
John Twiggs, Hon. W. F. Booker, Esq. D.
Elam, Esq. Col. James M‘Neil, Rhefa How
ard, Esq. and Mr. Abraham Manhall.
Wilkes, Hon. lames Williams, Esq Da»
niel Terondet, Esq. Mr. A. jackfon, Arthutf
Fort, Esq. and Mr. Thomas C. Hui Tell.
Greene. Col. Henry Karr, William Dai
niell, Esq. and David Gre/fiam, Esq.
Franklin. Hon. M. Woods, Esq. joha
Gornam, Esq.
Liberty. Col. James Maxwell, and John
Dollar, Esq.
Glynn Hon. Christopher Hillary, Efq*
and William Steven, Esq
Wajbinqrton. Col. Jared Irvine, and the
Hon. Joftiua Williams, Esq.
Camden. Alexander Semple, Esquire.
jiugufa , May 29, 1789.
THE Officers of the Second State Regi
ment are ordered to fend to me ar this,
place the time of their appointments, as fooa
as possible, that the fame may be transmitted
to a Board of General Officers, who are to
attend at the Treaty the 2cth of June, in
order to fettle the ranks of the Officers.
THOMAS MARTIN,
lnfpedlor-General*
roTOLEN on Sunday evening the 17th inftl
5 near Augusta, a waggon HORSE of the
following defeription, viz. A yellow sorrel
About 14 hands aud an inch high, branded
with small letters W E on the mounting
thoulder, thort bulhy tail, a small star in hia
forehead, and fre/h rhod all round.
TEN POUNDS reward will be given foe,
the horse and thief, or FIVE POUNDS for
the horse only, on the delivery of the
fame to Mr. Arnafa Jackson, merchant, Au
gusta, or to the fubfenber, Petersburg, at the
confluence of the rivers Savannah and Broad*
HARRY CALDWELL.
Pelfr/burgt May 23, 1789.
To be Sold
For Cafli, tobacco, or P erce’s Fi
nal >iettbmenrs, a valuable
1 » *
House IVenchj
About 26 year* of age, excellent
cook, walker and ironnr. Ap ly to
JOHN INGEKSOLL.
May ts, 17*9*