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JATURDAT, May 15, 1790-] THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE AND .A GAZETTE of the STATE. FREEDOM of the FRE SS, end TRIAL by JURY, Ihall remain inviolate. CtnJUtutitn ts Ctorgim* AUGUST A: Printed by JOHN ]E. SMITH, Printer to tub State-/ Efays, Aitideiof Intelligence, Advertifemcnts , w// be gratefully received , w*? of Printing performed. GEORGIA his Excel!enc» EDWARD TEI.FAIR, .Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the State afotefaid, and of the Mili tia thereof. A Proclamation. g ONSI DERATION oof State ren ering \ j it neceffaiy end expedient that the Ge. aeiil Assembly be speedily convened : I have therefore though*.fit J° j,®** this my Procla- - jrtation, appointing Monday the fevent.h dky •f 'June the of meeting at Au gbjta: And Ido hereby enjoin and require the pointed attendance es the fcveral Mem- - ken of the refpedive brah&hes.qf the Gene ral Assembly, on the day aud at the place lefere mentioned. £IVEN under my ttind, and the Great Seal of the said State, at the State- House in Augusta, this eighth day es May, in the Year of our LOAD •ne thoufaud, ieven hundred and • ninety ; and n the fourteenth year of the Independence yf the United States of America. EDWARD TELFAIR. *> hit Exceilen >’j Com//iu*ni t JOH N MI LION, Secretary. GOD SAV E THE STATE. -§*X€’#§-§ , ’&§’§"i h §‘' ft the Printer oj the Augusta Chronicle . Sir* . , ... . . I BAD for fame time past concluded in my own mind that our perceiving stow dtfjgreeable they have always been *o the inhabitants of the town in general, .and feeing, as they certainly do, the impropriety of the»r conduct Throughout whole of this fcnfi&efs,' wmvld have teligned their offices, or at lca(t declineirf to aft, until 1 fayv a notifi eatton in y«mr J Uft paper,' requiring the inha fcitauts of the towrt*»o mike returns of their taxable property to the Town Clerks which convinces me that I have mistaken their in tentions, ind that thev are disposed to plo wed, as Aldermen, regardless of the nume ioiir d.fqualifrcations under which they la bour, and in open defiance of a society of people who have not yet forgot the circum- Jukccs »f their eleftion, and who will not oweiv submit to be governed by men who fr c?d thenifelves into office, by the noft fe- Cret and abominable ftratageme. 5 1 confeft, foi ray own part, that I am very tnmh p!£afed with the notification mentioned above, because it will probably be the means of producing an explanation between the Al dermen and their poofthuents, (if the people of the town will allow me to call them t e condiments of such reprefentat.ves) by which it will’ be ffetrtallied whether they have a tight to levy taxes or not. If it to° u!d be e tst mined that they have a lawful right, 1 ffia I inoft cheat fully acquiesce l hut if t have no such tight, I frail be decidedly agamH pay ing any refpett to thtir ordinances. While thoft Aldermen remained raaftive, and fat tailed with the aew# of Magift'****. people were generally iwdifFe• *nt about them, any further than as they became, f' om their errogaute. the proper objeda of ridicule, so far they tended te amuia all fiftnr# GEORGIA. - • ; / y* » . * now, Sir, that the matter is carried so far as an attempt to levy a tax upon ui, it becomes neccllary to tteat the fubjeft moie /t>iouji( % and to inquire how far we are bound to a compliance With the hws of that hudv, uo c<>nftitutiunaiiy and unlawfully conff.tuted. as they reiumly are. Ihe delire I have to fee the incorporating aft made beneficial to the town, makes me yvifti fincereiy that this mat ter may be Toon decided, (for I presume there ha* befn no proper dccifioh upon it yei) tho* ‘ rim ignorant of what niay be the proper ffeps to bring about such a measure, or I fliould certainly propose fame plan, I pre face the que.ftion is of fufficient importance to dkimand an opinion, and that opinion can not, I luppo/e, come trom any quarter lo pro perly as from he Judges of pur Superior Court, aud to whom* in my humble opinion, (for I am not accuffomed to the forms of law, and therefore caunot fpelk confidently) this con test ought to have been originally referred, ' by which means we (liquid long ago have had a jatilfa&dry dectlion. I think I may ven ture to fay it would have been fatiftaftory, whichever paify may have pievailcd, as all would acquiefc# in a determination retailing from a proper source but, Sir, the case as it now (lauds is extiemely unplcafant'aftrf ein bar raffing j for we not only confider our Aldermen diiqualified .upon every principle of law and cuimns i fchle, bpt we confider them in all le/pett* as unfit periods to iinp'.fe laws upon a free and enlightened people.— Had they been declared as eligible by our Couftitutiori, and by fhofe whom 1 tour five ; had the foie right of determining, we muff then have submitted peaceablyto them, uot withffandjng their pcrfoual difqualificatiojis ; but to be c6qtr«uf*d by them whenthey have neihi g fubffanttalto lecpmmeud them to u 9, is a bard case indeed. Tlie circumstance of tk©(e gentlemen being .jtrincipally foreigners,^ ! will never injure them in' the opinion of'the thinking part of mankind,. who are above fu?b uhmatily prejudicea : For my part, I ab ho'r such invidious diffiuftioßS, and admire atniabie and ufeful qualities as much in the poftefiion of any foteigner as in an American ; and 1 am convinced that national confidera t.ona have ue v er influenced any of the ob servations that have been made refpefting them]. That they have been very imprudent is notorioully known, and that they continue to persevere in an error rather than acknow ledge what they certainly muff believe to be so, is equally obvious. . It may be said that notwithstanding the people in and about Augusta may be very well informed sis to the merits of this controvertv ; yet those who live ieniO:e kpow but little of the matter, and wdl probably fay, What evi dence have we that thole Aldermen nrt —that they are obnoxious to th/>ir conffj tuents, &c. to which I >T-hat with re spect to the fill*, as they have been <bir.eed as being alietis, ants not .having eouvipcej us other wife, they muff and vy ill be coufi dered as such uutil they prove the contrary. It is true the eleftion was refsrred to fj*e Go. vsinor m the firff iuflame, M the pobH- have ' already been informed—that it wjs derDicil to be lawful-tint the Aldermen cltred to be citirens! the vhole ot which was got through wtth viff dignity aud facili ty | but alas! the pcop't (*ho, I think God, have fci»e yelvii«*l weight *% l b»e countty) l ' • $ * # ¥ 9 1 {VOL. IV. No. CLXXXVIU.) were diffatisfied ; they fay, the decifioo had where no uotice ought to have been take® oi ii—that public office* are forae ’time#, tod in foi»e countries, made fubfervieut to private purposes, with many other remaiks ot this kind, which the •* canaille*’ (a* a iate Ob/entr has emphatically called the in* habitants of Augusta) will be forever juming ts tuake, to the dilhonor of theif rulers. Th.it the are obnoxioue to theif conmtuems, ta evident Irutn a Vane yof c;r* ctinilfauccs ; but wht Ii is nioft remark* able, is, the election of M r . Hit »e nak to 6?1 up a vacancy occafinied by tne reljgnrtion *»{ Aideimau brown. Now, Sir, I am well awa.e that it will be said this ele tton wit tt .filing with iff law ; bin that t deny. It w.s the only means the people had lef*• af;ef the intetfeience of the government, to con* vmce the Aldermen in what point of view they wetc held It cannot that it was in conlequence of Mr. Shoemak*'* ahi* lity, because it is well known that he is totally ut.fit, as are tome of the others; for I be« lieve there are mo;e than one of them drfi* cient in the molt ordinary degrees of ed». •« lion. Ignorance will never be impute l* j inen as a' fault, providetl it is attended wrl* common tnodefty ; but when it alfiiines a talk beyond the limits of its capacity, it bfcomke the proper object of ridicule. • ‘ I am fully convinced that a large majority of the Aldermen would be happy indeed, if they could get fairly lid of their honours ; or lather, they lee the impropriety of their measures, and wuyid with them to be forgot* feu jf'but pride tells them it will do to re* cede now, especially as they have been so umch oppoied.—burely this is a falle kind of pride; but if they were men' of common feeling and delicacy, the bare recolleffion of their being detailed by the town, as Alder* men, would of fflcit be fufficient to iuriiins them to reiiuquilh their offices, which they must be sensible were not olrarned by the nioft honourable’means.—Upon the whole, I chmlc if they would yiefd a little to fe'ious reflec tion, and review their own conJibt c-Amlv, there would undoubtedly jp eir lo nmc la matter for felf-condeimutr -n and reproach, that they would ackuowituige their own er* rors, juitice of to* complaints thal hare beeu made agaiull them . EXAMINE*. A V- To the Citizens of Augnfia. FROM s publication in the lad G<rette # said to be by order of the Corpormon, ne ate led to aifk why m ftaken and d fup* pointed men are so fond of filling iu »heif iolf7 and arrogance? Whether it »• not epough for thefc men to . get ofiicrf into rbgjr hands, tbe r eby to defrrt tl.'e common interest and facial policy of a Vommunty, must they, in addition to th % • peilift ,*iu ir.fillting the people by an attempt to exettife an office which ih*v hive obtain ed by fnfb n can*, aod for which they are in •very refpetf so unqualified i V«u must b e at s Infer* imagine from what source th tfcnv.H tbit dldtrnun have eolleff* ed courage foffififnt to make this efTsv. > Hivt tl.ee Oiiovsrsd tbit the piople, whom • # * * / . • ' 't. J •'