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SATURDAY, June 5, 1790.}
THE AUGUSTA" CHRONICLE
AND /'*
GAZETTE o's the STATE.
FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL by JURY, (hall remain inviolate. ConJUtution 0 f C tor pm.
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AUGUSTA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State, Essays, At titles ts
Litelligence, Advertisements, &c. will be gratefully reteivei, aha every kind ts Printing performed.
Speech of Mr. BußKfe, on the as-
Jumpficn bufnefs, in the bfoufe
of Refrefenta tfaes of the United
States , on the y\Jl of Maith.
MR. Butke, agreeably to what he pro
posed when last tjpouthe bufitttfs, pro*
k *<ied to shew the justice and equity of as
st thing the date debts. The debt of South-
Caiclii a, for iudance, fai,d he, is altogether
a military debt* for militaty feivires and
ftif plies acVar»ce< by its citizens in the comic
•f the wat j at :he commence inept whereof
that date recruited fix teg'ments Os Handing
forces, cloathed, armed, and paid them, un
til they were put cn the continental eftablilh-
Hient. This W3S, he thought, in xqjfy from
which peuod the charge of ftipportmg them
Was eiitiiely continental: but Cojigrefs then
Wanted the meant, and the date, well know
ing this, continued to pay, cloath and aim
them. At that period who could dream that
the day would ever arrive, when, on the
floor of Congtefs, the teimburferfient for
*l»< fe immense adventes for recruirng 5
ing aim fopplying that part of the American
amir, would be ftreneoufly opposed i F<*r it
it evident that part of the debt is a substantial
claim oft Lat date ou the union, and not an
•tjeft for a dump! ion; yet so unreadable
hie feme gentlemen, that jn retum for our
gtierofity and confidence, the very afliimp
lion of it is now dilputed.
Heie Mr. Buke fiatsd the army account
»f houth-Carolina, viz.
foe recruiting the army 147,953 dole.
Paying the fame 567.4a*
Jntereft 497,085
Depieciationou payment *13385
Inhered ' 770067
Hospital department 49*77®
' Jntereft 17,17 O
l>iilitia 93M73*
exdufivfe of cori
fideiable supplies, to
BefiHes the interest, which brings it to abeut
ft;:r millions, and has been liquidated to that
amount, by Commifljoners appointed under
the authority ot Congtefa.
Mr. Burke laid he would mention one
thing which might fetve as an example a
mtrgfi many others, to lhew what little efli
jcatiou South Carolina makes of enotmuus
ex 1 enditures of property, where the general
goeid is concerned : that slate has never urged
to bring ary chafge apamft ihe union for
erecting and fortifying fort Moultrie, fort
Jul i f.cn, and tiler pofls, and of foitifying
thailefloii in 1776, J 779 and 17801 aud the
extensive defiii.s’cn ot property which ihefe
fortifications rendeied necclfary ; the loss of
artillery and floret on ihe fall of the country,
the loss of a sixty gun fl ip and other vefTels
bought from the French merchants and lubk
In our harbour in 1780, and many other ca
pital expenditures : a.I as fair.cla m* as any
in the world. 7 hey are at least as just S 6 the
tbarge made by Pennsylvania for the defence
•f the Delswsit, which is a heavy claim \ nor
lefi reafonablt than that of M»fl»<hul«tti for
the Peunbfcet exf edition. Writ the chargee
J have mentioned, (aid he, prefled, wo man
wiuld dewti of heir ►ewg ale wed| at d m w
us i» i*.v iftui fate ft.wu.ti be deemed, io
GEORGIA.
addition to hes ether calamities from the war,
to fiiik under such an cnoim<«us load of debt,
incurred for the general Cause, is the gieatdft
ihjuftite. Her dory of the war is one con
tinued scene of ferv cfs and tufferinga for the
good of the union! in 1775 Art had to quell
an infurteCtion of the tone:*, who rose m fa
vour of ihe Biiiirti power ; in 1776 the wo
attacked in front aud rdar, on the very fame
day, as it Weit by preconcert : at foit Moul
trie a fquadihn of the Bntifli fleet, hitherto
deemed invincible, was torn and crippled,
aud, with a large diviiion of their army re
pulled from our (bores: the Indian nation
that attacked the lruntiers was finally fbb
dued. In the years 1778 aud 1779 that (fate
had to contend agaiult domestic infurgentg
and an invading enemy t in the two follow
ing years, 1780 inti 1781. the complicated
wretthedrefs which it was her lot to luffet, is
past all description—to fay nothing of the loss
of her citizens who fell in defence of their
country; and in one diftrift, out of feveu,
there weie between twelve and fourteen hun
dted widows. The deflrultion and loss of
property is to this day severely felt by her
inhabitants, and all theie lervices and fuffer
ings not on her account alone, but for the
common cause : for had that state been mind
ful only *1 herlelf, though comparatively
(mail as to numbers, yet w.th the resolution
of her citizens, aud arms in her hands, fhc
could have obtained her own terras. BefoNt
the fall of Charleftoii (lie was tampered with
by the Bntifli crtminiflioneis to break from
the union, but their offers ihe rejected with
tiifdaiu after the loss of her capital city.
Thule offers we-e daily renewed j but altho’
public rum dated them in the fare; though
the whole of the Continental troops in tK&
date were killed, routed, aud in captivity ;
though suit uc herfelf seemed once to ha.e
abandoned the flandard of America; not
withttandtng tho fall of our capital, after re
peated defeats and losses in the field under
General Gates and Other officers; yet the
gallantry of that people rose above their mif
f irtuues, and, rather than tarniih th •* honor
or impair the ftiength of the union, they pre
ferred the honor of dying in the last ditch.
All I contend for, said Mr. Burke, is th2t
those services and (ufferings were eucouateied
to promote the common cause, to eftablith
the independence aou military character of
tvery date in ibe union; and now, behold it
ia difpu'ed whether those dates lhall bear
their share of the expence of it.
The militia debt appears large : but it rauft
be remembered that, the Continental troops
being captured, ia the city, the arduous talk
of contending a?ait.d the eaeniy, in the fever
ed heat of the war, at the fouthwatd, fell
upon the militia.
[//erf Mr. Bu>ke was inttrrupttd by a (all
of ordir t occt’ftama by . owt txptrj/iom ujtd by
tunty a obi bat irnitttd /* ibi. bis/cb. j
His it ate he said, from the beginning of the
war, had to grapp e with the enemy ia some
thape or other. Eugiged for the common
cause of the union, in oppofin* the enemy,
reducing their number aud flreugth, and, in
(hurt, fighting the battles of the other twelve
Pates at much st the troops uuder the inline*
Plate authority of tie commander in ilnei.
hue can be no just 1 between ih it),
ixept in the quantity of the ftrviee, or the
ini|'otuiue of ibe iveaie prwdyecd by mow
farree*. Th« debts, therefore, eontrafted
by any date in ihofe exertions are, in reafooi
and juftitethe debts of the Uuited State! ; and
the faith of the union, he couctived, to bt
equally pledged for the payment of them.
Another argument, he u T ged, was, that at
his dare had palled with the impoli, her otfier
tefouices were altogether inadequate to f net
the enormous sum of 5,386.231 dollars, which
was *botit the amouut of the debt of South*
Carolina according to the fcectetary’s report 1
if was a sum Ur beyond her ft length, and, he
said, it was his ban belief that, if the (late
be left to druggie with it, a public banktup*-
cy might ensue ; and the loCfc of ctedit and
character, resulting from f© great a mi »>for
tune, will he jultly chargeable to the union a
fqr if coagiel* Ihould retufe to allome it,
every thiuk'ng man, on both fi lei of the At
lantic, will view it as the greatest injudic*
and opptciTion, that the larger dates, after
wheedling South-Carolina into the union af
ter wheedling her (if the cX|irertion may be
aliowen) out of her impod, the only fubftan
lial rclource the bad-—that aftei this die
Ihould be left to link under a debt comraftad
in generous exemons to advame the inde
pendence and imered of the others. The
people of that bate ere not able to bear a tag
*by reason of their differing*, whole village*
were burnt to the giouud ; homes, cattle and
dock of every kind conlumedhy both arm es;
plantations and farms deftiojed ; so that ihofe
who survived the war, fotfnd their coun jr
laid desolate, to.) many wuh*»m hoofe or
home, and ill obliged lo conuaft debts to
rebuild and turmfti ntceffarv implement-, &c.
In fadt, thrit co ntry, said Mr. Burke, baa
not yet recovered itte'f, so loaded is it with
tmbarralfmenta created entirely by the.ia
vages of the enemy, and the enoimous cx
ponces of the war,
Those, and iundry other arguments wert
ufod by Mr. Burke, to prove the judice and
expediency of alluimng the date debts’,
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F L Q R ENCE, January 24, ,
THE papal power is at piefent in the
greated danger, the Tope, for reaf'he
fcett known to himfelf, lately imptifoned Ca
glioftro. The mob, at the bead ©f which,
they fay, are the French refugees, are form
ing a plan to oblige the Holy Father to set
him at liberty,* otberwife they will take the
cocat de, that is to fay, they wilt revolt.
The Fope has affembltd hit troops from
all the garnfoua to defend the capital; hut aa
they do not amount to mote than 4006 men,
they will not be a mou bful to the blackguards
on the other fide the Tyher. The mod vio
lent fermtatati fi certainly exids at
and fear m proportion in the palace of th«
Vatican; Thus, Cagliodru may be the cause
of overturning a fydera cemented by tbo
wifdoia and policy of many age*.
LONDON, Marrt %y.'
The Kiug <>( Prnflia, perletfly read/ so
take the licit, has just given hio elded (<m
leave to prepare for the army, and appropri
ated a funs of money for his field equipage.
There (so be no doubt, but ihii (he cabi
net of Berlin is tbt chief place of ailion u»
the politicks of I'urope at prefont —but mbs Is
dtpeuds ou tbt new Fi*ug of tluagaiy, whe
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[Vol. IV. No. CXCI.]
