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SATURDAY, June 13, 1789.] THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE AND GAZETTE of the STATE. ~ '' niT’-M - -- FREED O M of the PRESS, and TRIAL bf JURY, to remain inviolate forever. C»p,»u*n ,f G.orgia. AUCUSTA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State; E/ays, Artula of Intelligence > Advertijements , Lc. will be gratefully and every kind of Printing performed. PROCEEDINGS of CONGRESS. * - la the HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES of the UNITED STATES. (Continued from our luff Frid.cy , April 17. MET agreeably to adjournment. Mr. Sherman moved for the order 6f the day. In committee of the whole, efumcd the consideration of the import proper to be laid on fait. , Mr. Burke moved that the article be struck Out of the enumeration. Mr. Lawrence —l am net convinced, Sir, by all that has been urged upon the fubjeft, of the inexpediency of a duty upon this ar ticle. Upon the general principle, this arti cle. it is true, will come in; but when it is considered that it is our duty to avail ourselves of the molt productive sources of revenue; when it is confide.ed tha' this duty will opc. srat« awr# erjuaHjr than (brne others, by reason of the greater consumption for the purpufes of luxury than will be consumed by the poor; considering also the low p. ice at which fait is imported, it must be confelfed a very eligi ble source of revenue. It has been faidthat it was oppressive, and would be as odious as a poll tax. As to its being oppreflive, he could not conceive it, as the quantity con sumed by families upon an average, did not exceed, perhaps, three bushels per annum, which, at fix cents, was little moie than one fixth of a dollar a year ; and it was very well known, that a poll-tax was common in some of the dates, and had been so time immemo rial, and no greater complaint exified as to that denomination of taxes, than agaimt o tbers. The truth was, ail taxes were odious, and were submitted to from principle and ne cefiity. In the (outhern governments, it has been said, that the heavy land carriage of this article, would enhance its value beyond all toleration. —To this, it might be replied, that whatever the price of fait might be, the im port would be uniform, and not in proportion to the price of the article; let fait be cheap cr dear, still fix cents only was the piopofed duty ; and if, from local circumstances, some parts of the Union paid an excefiive price for a particular article, still it lay with them very much to lefienthe price and diminish the amount of the duty by retrenching the con sumption of such article. At any rate, it was morally certain, that a balance would be produced upon the whole, when the fyflem ihould be completed; by the dates upon the shores of the Atlantic confumiug many arti cles on which heavy duties would be aflefled, and which were not, and would not be made ufeof in the inland parts of the country. A tax upon this article bad existed for fumetime in this date, and was collected with the lame case with other duties: Ihere were othet objections anlwered by Mr. Lawrence; his replies were to the point, and he concluded by wilhing that the ar: icie might not be crated. Mr. Maddifon was in favor of the duty \ lie considered the upon the principles of jiifiice and policy, and from both detei* mined that the proposed duty was eligible; be was however in favor of a final! one, hut could by no meant think 0< living the an*- cic O'jVr GEORGIA. Mr. Huntingdon adverted to the facility and punctuality wah which a great revenue was raised from this article in Europem countries : The duty proposed was low, and in a great majority of iuftances, would be borne by thole who were beftableto pay. Mr White opposed the article being conti nued 111 the resolve, or a duty being imposed on it. His condiments expected relief from the operation of the new government. This would be confideted as a great burthen, and have a very inaulpicions influence. Five per cent he was in favor of; but the proposed sum tmouuted to almost 33-3 per cent. Mr. Scot was in opposition to the continu ance of the article in the lift; and observed, upon the afiertion that had been made respect ing the people in the weflem country, not confummg many articles which the sea ports paid a heavy duty upon, that every article of luxurv, both of Europe, the Ealt and Weft- Indies, had found their way 500 miles in land ; and that according to their property, the people in those regions consumed their full proportion of luxuiien * He ‘hprefofc fur expunging the article, as he dreaded the conle quences, which, in his opinion, would result from an import that would he considered in so odious a light. Mr. Fiizfmons observed, that justice was the great principle that should influence the dec.fions of that House; that it would be a poor compliment to the judgment, and patri otifin of their condiments, to suppose that their attachment to good government and the Couftitutjon, depen led upon a circum stance of this nature. He did not think it was in human justice to adopf a tax lets inju rious to the poor; lie conceived that no peo ple upon earth had higher sentiments of jus tice than the people of these fines ; and as so great a sum as nearly 100,000 dollars might according to a calculation he had made, be ra.fed with ease upon this article, he opposed the expunging it, and hoped the duty of fix cents would obtain. The quefticn being taken, it Was voted not to expunge the article. Mr. (roodhue then moved that a draw back should be allowed on fa It used for the fifi’.eries, and provisions; this parted in the affirmative. It was then voted that the duty on fait rtiould be fix cemsper bulhel ; on manufac tured tobacco, fix cents per lb. on fnuff, ten cents per lb. Mr. Carrol then proposed that window and other glass lliould be added to the general lift of articles : This, after some debate, was acceded to, and ten per cent advalorem was voted upon window and all other glass. Af ter conliderabie further debate, the committee voted that a duty of seven and naif percent, advalorem, (hould be laid upon all writing, prinringand wrapping paper, and pafte-boird, wa!k>i:g stick-. and horfe-whlps, clothes ready made, and gold and silver, and plated ware, jewellery aud parte vvoik, and upon all coach es, chariots, and other four wheeled carri ages, a duty of fifteen per cent advalorem. Upon motion, the committee then rose, and thcSpeakcr resumed the Chair, A letter was then read from tl« Hon. Senate endofiug two orders, A report from the joint committee appoint ed to determine upon the mode of omdu conferences; alio receding the election of Chaplain*. Th i vvaMccejnfJ on the part of the House; and an order of the Sc naie appointing Mr. Strong, Mr. Izard and Mr. Lee, to join a committee of the Houfc to conlider the nioft eligible mode of com municating papers, bills and meil'ages. Mr. Lee, Mr. Burke, and Mr. Scney, were pointed. Adjourned. [To be continued.! A Mr. SMITH, Observing a publication in your paper of tho 16th tilt, under the lignature of Mr, George Hunt, of Augusta, relative to the put chafe of a negro wench, you will oblige me much by infertiug the following, as it tends to retute his aflertions, ABOUT the ift of last April, Mr. Hunt arrived at Fair Hill, and having lbme coiiverfaiion with me relative to the payment of a debt due front my father to hint, he of fered to receive a u/«ucJ> in pair pay meut; but we couid imt agree ou the term# or a sale, my price being rool. he offering only 801. and a batrel of sugar. But l deny in the strong ft tenns, that ever I had an idea of reietring him to my mo her to fix: the puce, as Mr Hunt has publ died. To in** stance the truth of my alFcrtion, read the fol lowing icaei which I declare upon my ho nor, is a copy of the one I wrote my mo.her by Mr. Hunt, when he told me he would go to the Level to fee the weuch. Honored Madam, Mr. Hutu waits on you to make apurchafe of Doll. My price is tool, though he now refutes to give that; hut lam perluaded when he lees her lie will content to the price. He, no doubt, will ufc h s utinort endeavour to prevail ou you to let him have her for lei's, thinking I will ratify your sale, but I flatter myfelf you will nwt think of his having her for left;; I think it a favor done him to get her at that, as I am certain lhe would fell tor confide! aoly more by inftalinents, though he does not conhder his debt is under the in~ ftahneut iaw, and that he ought to give og much as any other pcrfon would give u ber that law; therefore nothing, no —not tea ihiiliugs under iool. will fatisfy Your’s, &c. R. &TAB.K, jvn. I knew the wench to be very likely, and thought it probable he would accede ro my teim>, and wrote the above ieiccr, which he, carried, but as 1 am told, and believe, did not deliver on his arrival at the Level, as he aMert**. He advertises my mother delivered the wench before Mijor Mee and another person, and in his receipt fays, ‘ Received of RoLeit Stark, jun. a negro wen .h named Doll, valued at 6cl. in part payment of a debt due from his father.* Tne only inference that can be diawiiirom th.s duplicity in Mr. Hunt’s conduct, is, that he was conftioui that what my mother did w in of no validity, and also the fraud he wis then perpetrating. I have conbdcred Mr. Hunt’s londiKi in this case, a* d fmterefledly and abrtrnftedly aspoflible, andean find in no fl gc of jt tin*; open candour whitli is to hec*pc‘!ed only frum [Vol. 111. No. CXLT.J