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SATURDAY, July $, 179a.]
THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE
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From the NEW-YORK JOURNAL, let.
Mr. Green leaf
•H? " HE Quakers are hurtling with a degree
1 of at dor and aCTvity in the cause of
freedom— I here is a phlegmatic infallibility,
aim apathy, usually in the character of this
fed, that they are rarely moved into brisk
ad on m private or political concerns, but
iy rhe yowtiful JUmulm of avarice, interest,
passion, or fanaucjfiu—This enthuliafm in the
cause of t eerie-m and humanity is not con
fident wuh their political principles or coo-
Cud, during the American revolution. Here
Was a glorious opportunity for the display of
•heir love < f libeity. Did theie lovcis of
fieedom support the revolution with their
tboaied or personal tervices l Were (hey al
ways icady to feed the hungry army with the
produce of their farms, or with the morals
tb a fell ftotn their plentiful tables ? Did the
chanty or patnotifm of this led, ever induce
them to fend voluntary contributions of cloath
ing, to cover the nakedness of their military
cetghboura? Did they chearjuiiy aflifl the war
worn and disabled fold er, with their
id bur t/ f to transport his litile baggage i Did
the uniform humanity and chnftianity of this
feet, open their doors to the wounded soldier ?
And did they, like the good Samaritan , pour
oil into their wounds f” 9 Did these lovers
of Mammon support the value of the paper
currency by their example or convention ?
Or did they not very eariy endeavour to de
ll roy the confidence of the people i And did
not their jefuitical and jewiih artifices acce
lera e the depreciation }
I have heard it often reported that a great
jnan, when Pennsylvania was the theatre of
war. declared that the Quakers aud Tories
would ruin America. If this is a faft, they
do not mei it from the national representatives
a forgt venej f their injuries, much less any
peculiar waiks of refpeCf. because they have
influence in elections in i/VeJl-'jerJej and Penn
jjl v<> ma.
When General Howe inflicted every kind
of cruelty on the American prisoners, did
this humane and (. hi iflian feet petition him
for the mitigation of their fufferings when
their favorite amt* was buming whole towns,
and (heir loyal allies, the fivages, were mur
dering man, woman and child i Did they
offer up prayers publicly in their temples to
the throne of grace, to foften the hardness of
Pburoab'* heart i Did they petition their fa
vorite government to mitigate the ferocity of
war, and to accommodate the hostilities to
the practice of civilized nations ? Has this
wealthy and charitable fed ever contributed
any fura for the release of American Haves
in Algiers f The superior Chriftiaos, who
bead that they are not like other men , and whose
boarted profeifions of superior piety do not
comport with the humility of the gospel,
ought to form a fund of humanity for the pur
pole of reletting American Christians, from
the chains of fluvery, and from the rancour
of Mahoinetaoifm. This costly eff »rt of hu
manity is not tp be expected. They mean to
pradife humanity with their (b.i**3ttijlic tec •
n omy, Their prelent elfirta, they mean ihall
be at the unequal expcnce of the fuuthtiu ci
tizens of the union, If they had property of
ihia k'ttd» end m*defacnfl< ee to the of
bunuuity aud philanthropy, lUu Jiutltil ft
GEORGIA.
difintereflnefs and virtue, would appear in a
moie favorable light. “ lU*atr a to l ajar
the ibtngs that an C* ars ” tut thetc inde
fatigable readers of the golpel, and these meek
feivams of thrift, mean to reduce the opulent
families of the ioutb, becaui'e of the jtarmng
of tbtir bcuels. Humanity d ftatca a pious
robbery ; their jnflice and their libetaiity
holds out no equivalent or compenfatiGn for
lo partial a fact ifiie. No led, except Ihe Je
suits, ever puifi.ed the good of their society
with more indeviate aim. That ibirity logins
at bime is the favorite proveib and principle
of this fed—Their private and public libera*
lay never extends beyond the families of
frienas arvd the limits of the society.
1 htfe people have pursued the objeft of
emancipation, with such a blind zeal, that
their humanity will probably te.minate in the
misfortune of the Haves, and their gtntlt mn
cies will become cruelties. If an immediate
emancipation could take place, thousands
would die of hunger, aud with rhe fainting
voice of death, they would cuife the cruel
mercy of the Quakers. A set fible humanity
Ihonld pause, look into futurity, and refleft,
that thofc whose estates depends J on this n*ode
of cultivation, would be reduced to poveity
and difireis Policy should coufider the dere
l*dion of the southern dates, and the loss of
the articles of southern commerce as a terious
event. The charity of this opulent feft should
make previous provision, for the naked and
faniidied negroes, and for the childieu of the
rumed planters, whose heroism and military
eff rts defervc national delicacy aud indul
gence. All the debts owed by the individu
als of these dates, ought to be paid by a feft
which uuites opulence and humanity. Their
pr:fent efforts may loosen the fidelity of the
Have to his maPer ; the bloody flaudard of
rebellion may .Le raised, reciprocal maflacre
and carnage may ensue ; conspiracies may
take place in the bosom of every family, and
whole sleeping families, in the midnight hour,
may be destroyed by the poignard of the
tieacherous Have. These horrors, this blood,
this guilt—their ewn confidences, and the
forrowfu! voice of the fatherlcfs and the wi
dow, may aferibe to their injudicious and
meddlesome interference. The fierce ghost
of the gibbeted and tortured Have, who was
contented with slavery, who whiffled and sung
in the field of his master, ( and the gentle and
plaintive ghefl of widows and children may
diftutb the nodurnal tranquility of these
friends to peace, who profefs charity and good
•will to all—1( they should be removed from
all peifonal injury from the hinds of fyirits,
and their pusillanimity should find secu
rity from this circumrtance, they ought to
refieft that they cannot escape the vengeance
0* an all feeing God, who knoweth the secret
workings of the heart, and tryeth the reins
of man.
If generosity and difeernment was hrixed
in the charaftcr of chose pious petitioners,
they would not alarm the southern proprie
tors with their illiberal, violent and abufivt
petitions. They would perceive, that the la
bour of Haves was ntiefTary to their foil, cli
mate, produce, and to the habrs of their
education. The lands may be cultivated in
all those parts of the Union, where merk snd
fin pie Quakerifin rertdts, by the labour of
choir children, end hy nired feivams, Ihe
habitual fsugshi/ wf theft CUitiUau*# who
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art so eminently endowed with facing gtaci
makes the fcrvice of Haves unnecetlaiy.
1 hete Haves to fyftero, impofie the burden of
domeflic duty on the tender (boulders of thcif
wives, and the labowta of the field aie en
count tied by the tender and unformed limb#
of their children. The houCc ot these lover,
of freedom present a gloomy fyficna des
potism The wife of his bosom, and he !•
sue of his loins, are mere machine* and au
tomatons. The p» inciple of paflive obkdienc.
and non-ref»ae«te, afluates their public an«
private tenWutt, and is their thief pivot oi
aft ion These friends to liberty ate Haves to
their tenets, and submit to more cruel and
feurvy freaks of the spirit, than any (lave fuf«
fers from the caprice of his ntafter.
They proftiture holy writ for the purpoie.
of jobbery. If the puritanical perfecutio*
of their now e.iflern advocates had drov«
them to the southward, and they bad pur«
rhifed flavee under the fauftioa of govern
ment and the hws, and bad cultivated iwainp.
at an immeufe expenre, aud had botrowe
money for the purpole. and were now ixed e
ill the comforts of case and opulence, would
thev not (it any fanatic* or oh feu re feet at
tempted to 'epiive them of their hard *<*">•
ed piopertv) tall them impertiucof meldlcit#
; Ai.d would they not, with great piupue r*
fay to them, “ Do un o eibtrs as you noutm •
'that o ben Juould do unto y*” *
The southern jeople are attached to all tn«
polite ceremonies of life, and having hbe-al
and enlarged ideas ot religion, cannot con
• eeive, that it corfift* in (lennijb rudeas/t
Suppose they should infirt.that iheQo'kerl
should be uncoveied in the presence of an*
giftrates, and the reprefentative* of the peo
ple, the meek spirit of these C’hriftians woul ,
no doubt, be provoked to murmuc and
complain. These people are’ now attempting
political and agiicultural alterations, that will
deflroy the political balance of the Union*
and cut up all privatp independence by
root, and they hear the alarms of the southern
people with the infer fible mutclea oLHaeuet.
It is a tenet with »he fomhern people, that
fl;jves are indifpenf-bly necelfaty to the CU,M *
vaiion cf their country. The Quakers -r.
principled against oa hs, and the commote
courtetiea of life, and government in« ulpee
them; both principles defer ve toleration, and
they otijglit never to diflu b. a government*
whi- h allows them furh ficnal privileges. Th.
affirmation gives them dangerous advantage,
in society, and the Jefuita maV always to i>
the scale of judice, in all Ifgal litigation f
their bold affirmations . If the southern go
vernment should invade this dative:on* privi
lege, the spirit of bigotry wobld take ' «
ala'm, and their petitions would groan will
vituperative eloquet.re. Thev ought then 'i
ttfleft, and ie-invite to their mee'inga, ' i.
spirit of peace, and to extinguifl* th elT Ccutt*
til fret of perfection.
These people were generally avetfe -to-th#
revolu icn, and, in various inftatieea,
governments were obliged to tjfe * IC *’ vc *
ritv, vigilance and authority of fwvernm'
to retrain their inimical and mifehievooa
triguea. These events are dtongW impredel
on their memories, and I flnce»e!y Heheve,
that their vaunted humanity originates ,( >
pious resentment, vimtirt re ina'tce. and Jf«
fuitical artifice With the sis fe'ntinv
ten# of pic iff buwauucud the |>uj»uUf
