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SATURDAY, December 5, 1789.]
THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE
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GAZETTE of THE STATE.
FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL by JURY, lhall remain inviolate. New Confiitution 0/ Gtergia .
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For the Augusta Chronicle".
Obu-iver. No. 11.
tITF \ATURE AS CONNECTED WITH
GOVEPtNMENT.
TH E improvement of the arts awl sci
ences depends upon a variety of causes,
yvhofe operation is more or less conspicuous,
according as the era of the world and circum
ltances of the country give to it a favourable
influence. But perhaps there is no cauic.
whose apparet?: operation has been greater in
the pr6tnotion of literature, than that of go
vernment. Various have been the inftanres,
where this has affarded such strong aflifUnce
to,the feeble efforts of a people, that human
knowledge has taken a sudden and important
rife, and government has received the fruits
of its own labour. Nothing is loft in this
way; the money which is expended for this
purpose it, in a lhort con fe of time, return
ed to government with an intereil of fifty per
cent. It is returned by the numerous streams
«f knowledge and information, which circu
late through every part of the date, and wih
©u: which no countn can oerfo; m hufmefs
with propnety, order and d fpatch. It is re
turned by diffifiug individual and
happioefs—by giving dignity to the (late, and
placing it upon an equals withothej dates
and kingdoms—by cultivating a fpmt of or
der and national regularity—by giving a
spring to the investigation of governmental
principles? and in this way to difeoysr and
eftablilh the rights and true dignity of human
nature.-It is returned by difpellnig igno
rance, the parent of civil complaint—byroot- ,
ing out prejudices, those terrible pests to all
improvement and civilization, and by Ankuig
a fatal bl*>w to every thuie detrimental to fo
cietr and derogatory to the character of man.
The beneficial influence of information upon
any country are, therefore, an tndorement to
government to extend its arm for the pttrpofes
cf human improvement. True it is, that there
have been periods of time in the hiltory of man,
j„ which several great geniufee h .ve artfen;
it, in fpiteof all opposition, have broken down
the barriers "of ignorance, and dtfeoyered the
beautiful field of truth, adorned with its Ample
and native ornaments. But tltefe inltances
are rare, and therefore will not applv gene
rally —ln general, the human powers need
everv encouragement to help them along m
the acquifttion of ufeful knowledge, and the
the cultivation of those principles which art
beneficial .o society. in this view of the mat
ter, a query may arise, whether lomethiug li
miter to what has been done in Frai l and
England, and other literary countries, would
not be subservient to the mterefls of li era
ture in the Vittti Stall, of Amiri,aj-v a.
That some important quellton tor difcudion
Arnold be propore I aonually to the yooth of
every principal ,«s«Mry. and * premium given
him. Who, m the judgment of learned men,
mould excel in the exertiuni of g.nti, and the
SJ„ of #W«.- 1 l ‘ u ''l u,r ; ,he P re ’
mium to entile bed from the hand of govern
mem at it w mid mfpire greater ambition and
edd dignity and important a to the buliuel. of
lueraiuro. ALFRED.
GEORGIA.
n T T S B tJ K 4 G H, O&obtr 3 v .
By a gentleman who arrived here on Wed*
nefday last from the Falls of the Ohio we are
informed, that the expedition which had left
that place, under the command of Major
; Harding, had returned ; that they killed eight
Indians, and took two prifonets, without the
loss of a single man. , .
Hp also further informs us that another ex
pedition, consisting of 1500 volunteer*, was
to leave Kentucky about the firft of this month
again# the Indian towns on the Wabath river.
A gentleman from Clarklburgh informs us,
that, on the pth of September last, a certain
William Johnston. wh» lives on Ten Mile
Creek, about eight miles from' that place,
went to watch a deer lick j on his return
home found his family were miffing, arid his
cows, hogs and Iheep, lying killed about his
houle; he immediately to Clarkfbugh,
aud got a party of men to him to
search for his family, when « small diftante
from the house they found four of them killed
and scalped, the otheis, viz. two .young wo
men and two boys, could not be found, and
were supposed to have been taken prisoners..
It is not known wriat nation of Indiau* ih<»
party belonged to, or the number it consisted
of.
FAYETTEVILLE, Oadtr 26.
On Monday last the Honorable Benjamin
Lincoln, Cyrus Griffin, and David Hum
phreys, Efqts. Coinmiffioners Plenipotentiary
for rcftming and eftablilhmg peace and am»t>
with the Indian nations fouth of the Ohio,
palled through this town on their return to
New-York. . ,
Notwithflandmg the Commissioners have
not been able to conclude a definitive treaty
wi h the Creeks,’ yet they have received the
ffrongeft affiuaiices from Mr. M‘Gillivi iv,
' and ail the othet Chiefs and Headmen prefen ,
that the fame tranquility which has prevail .
* for fome'mdntha palP, shall be inviolably
feVved on the part of that nation. The Su
preme Executive of the state ot Georgia ate
also taking efficient measures for preventin
outrages and provocation on the part of the
inhabitants of thefiontiers of that da e.
W 6 learn that the Commiffi »neis sent mel*
sages to the fevetal nations of Indians which
are at peace with the~Uriited states.
We have iikewife been favomed with the
following authentic communications :
A meftageto the Cherokee nation of I d air,
;* fronr'he Ministers Pleni, otentiarv ;o. re
storing and eftablilhing peace an 1 am ty
between the United States of America anJ
all the Indian nations fduateti w.thin m'
limits of the said Hates,/ fouth ward ot the
river Ohio- J
Brothers of iht ChlMees nation ,
We have been made ve& t happy bv rerev
ing information from the pifyljc; newspapers,
that on the 16th of June lift, aWe w *
concluded with your nation, bv the ( omm f
ftoner of in behalf of trial
(bie; and that in this truce, a treaty was ft.
pulated to be held as foo.i as possible, and in
the mean time, that all ooflilities ihould ceale
on both Tides.
Whereupon we the said Commiffiontra rlt»
nipotetitiary aforCfaid, Ho think pro;er to
confirm the said trine, and tpy»ve 'he itrm
est a tin ranees of the fiie jfc* of thf
United btatei towards I, •* okc * ttAUOn *
And we have made the fame known to all
thofc whom it might concern, and , articular*
ly to all the inhabitants of he frontier:, bor
dering on the Cherokee towns and fen lements,
declaring, in coofequence ot toe full powers
veiled in us by the Supreme Executive of the
United States of America, that it is the sin
cere intention of the (aid dates to cultivate a
friendly intercourse between our citizens aud
your people, aud ftiidly enjoining a observ
ance of the tince aloiefaid upon the former.
head Min and •waning Lbuft of ihe Chero
kit if hearken to •what -we nave 10 ,ay t you*
Notwithilanding there are fonie difficulties
atifing from the local claims of North-Caro
lina, which prevent us at prefenf from writ
ing to you 10* fully as wc could wilh, yet we
would not omit so good an opportunity to af
v lure you, that when thofc difficulties Anil be
temoved, the general government of the Uuit
cd States will be desirous to take every w.fe
mcafure to carry into effect the substance
of the treaty ot Hopewell, as well as o con
vince you ot* then jufticfe and fnendlhip.
Ae'io Broit ers , '
w e* ,
We have nothing more to add ?t this, ex
cept that we with you all the happiuefs which
we with to the mull dear'of oui frliow
cuizena ; and that we will lend to you another
incline on the fui>jed of public affairs, before
. we lhall return to the beloved city of Congress
tioin wheme we came.
hone at bwvunni.k, under our bands and
Jeals t this thirteenth day of in
the year of our Lo.d one thou fund /even
hundred ana eighty -n./te, and in the jiur~
t tenth year of the inueftndtmt of the Unit*
ed dta ej.
(Signed) f .
B. LINCOLN.
C. GRIrFIN.
D. HUMPHREYS.
Attest.
Duvta S. Franks , Secretary.
Lu aii rhoie whoiD it mr concern.'
The Commiflionera of the United States of
Amenca, for leftonug peace aud amity be
tween the Uimed States aud all nations of
Indians lituated within the limits of the said
dates, southward of the river Ohio, fend
greeting. %
Fo; afinuch as we have been given to under
ltaud that a truce has lately been concluded at
the Warlord, between the Commiffiouer of
the irate of North-Larolma on the' one part,
and the Head men of the Cherokee* on the
o.hcr, in expectation that a farther negocia
tion for the purpole of eftabliihiug permanent
, eace and tranquility, will take place as soon
as he ciriumftance* may admi: ; and where
as we have few an official meiUk-e to the ( he
;okee nation, with full aftuiances of the con
tinuation of the good dispositions and fr.end
-7 imtmions of the United States tow aid
them.
Now therefore, we the Commissioners Ple
nipo entiary aloielaid do think pioper to
make the fame known to all thufe whom it
may concern, and particulaily to all the in
habitants of the frontiers bordering on (he
(owus and fetilcmen a of the said ( herokee
nation. And we do declare, in virtue rd the
lull power* vested in ua by the Suprei- e Ex
ecutive of thi United Suits of Aineiica, fiat
it n the limeie intention of ibe said United
States 10 tJtivau a iiitiraly imetcourie AA &
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[VoL. IV. No. C' XVI.)