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SATURDAY, January 8, 1791.]
THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE
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FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL by JURY, rtiall remain inviolate. Conjiitution of Georgia .
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SPEECH of the President of the
United States , to both tioiifes
of Ccngre f s .
Fellow Citizens of the Senate and
Houje of Rt^tjeotanyety
IN meeting you agam, I feel much fatii
faftiun in beiug able to repeat my con
gratulations on the favorable prcfpeds,w hich,
continue to diftinguifli our public affairs. The
abundant fruits of another year have blessed
our country with plenty, and with the means
of flourilhing commerce. The progress of
public credit is witnessed by a considerable
Vise of Americau stock abroad, as well as at
home ; and the revenues allotted for this,
and other national purposes, have been pro
ductive beyond the calculation by which they
were regulated. This latter circumdance is
the more pleating, as it is not only a proof of
the fertility of our resources, bu: as it allures
us of a further increase of the national re
fpedability aud credit; and, let me add, as
it bears an honorable teiiiraony to the patri
otism aud integrity of the marine part of our
citizens* Ihe punctuality of the former, in
ditcharging their engagements; has been ex
emplary
In conforming to the powers veiled in me
by atts of the latl fcfiion, a loan of 3,000,0c0
of florins, towards which some provisional
meafuies had previoutly taken place, has been
compleateu in Holland. As well the celerity
with which it has been filled, as the nature
of the terms, (conlideiing the more than
ordinary demand lor borrowing, created by
the htuaciou of Europe) give a realonablc
hope that the further execution of thol'epowers
may proceed with advantage aud fuccef*.
The Secretary ol ‘lie Tteaiury has my direc
tions to communicate luch further paiticulais
as may be rcquilitefor mote prccilcmfo* mo
tion. .. . „* iv . .
Since your lift leflions I have received com
munication, by which it appears that the di
liriCt of Kentucke, at prelent a part of Vir
ginia, has concurred in ceitain proposi
tions contained in a law of that date, in
confeqnence of which the diflriCt is to be
come a diftried member of the Uuton, in
case the requilite /auction of Congrcls be
added. For this fanttieu, application is now
made. I lhall cause the papers, on this very
, important tranfadion, to be laid before you.
The liberality and harmony with which it has
been conduced, will be found to do great
honor to both the parties ; and the feutimeus
of warm attachment to the Union, and its
prerent government, expired bjr our fellow
citizens of Keutucks, caunot fail to add an
affectionate concern for theif particular wet.
fare to the gteat national impreflions under
which you will decide on the case fubinmed
to you. _ ,
It has been heretofore known to Cougrels,
that frequent incut lions have been mai.e o»
our froptier settlements by cerutnbanduu of
Indians from the uorthweff.fide of the Ohi .
Tfcefe, with some of the tube* dwelling
and near the Wabatfi, have of late beeu par
ticularly aflife in their deptfdaiiops j and,
being emboldened by.the impaimy of their
crimes, and aided by Inch pane of the neigh*
touring tribes aa could ba (educed to join *“
their huflilitiee, or afford them a repeat fir
tfilir ptilobere aud plunder, they have, in*
GEORGIA.
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ftcad of listening to the humane invitations i
and overtures made on the part of the United j
States, renewed their violences with freth j
alacrity and greater effeX. The lives of a
number of valuable citizeus have thus been
laenhied, andfemeef them Under circtim
flafices peculiarly ihockiDg, whilst othci.l
have been carried into a deplorable captivity.
These aggravated provocations rendered it
efleatial to the fafety of the weftern fettle
incuts that the aggrefl'ors fliouid be made fen-
Cble that the government of he Union is not
less capable oi puniftiiug ‘heir crimes, than
it it disposed to refpetf their rights and re
ward their attachments. As this objeX could
hot be effcXed by defenfive measurer it be
came necellary to put in fotce the aX which
empowers the Ptelident to call out the militia
for the protection of the Iroitiers; and l
have accordingly authoriled an expedition, in
which the regular troops in that quarter are
combined, with such drafts of miliiia as were
deemed fufficient. The event of the mea
lure is yet unknown to me. The Secretary
at War is direfled to lay before you a fta<e
ment of the information on which it is found
ed, as well as an etfituate of the expence
with which it will be.attended.
she diftuibed flruation of Europe, and
particularly the critical posture of the great
maritime powers, whilst it ought to ma|e us
more thankful fur the general peace and se
c rity enjoyed by the United States, reminds
us at the fame time of the circumfpeXion
with which it becomes us to prefctve these
bleftings. It requires also that we ihould
not overlook the tendency of a war, and
even of preparations lor a war among the
nations most concerned in aXive commerce
with this country, to abridge the means, and
thereby at least enhance the price of
portiug its valuable produ&ions to their pro
per markets. I recommend it to your serious
reflexions, how far, and in what mode, it
may be expedient to guard against embar
raAments from tliefe contingencies, by
encouiagements to our own navigation
will render our commerce and agriculture iels
dependant on foreign bottoms, which may
fail us in the vety moments most interfiling
tt> both of hele great otjeXf. (Jur nihcries,
and the transportation of our produce, offer
us abundant means fer guarding ourfetves
agninft this evil.
Your attention feerns to be not less due to
that particular branch of our trade, which
belongs to the Mediterranean. So many
clrcumftances unite in rendering the prefeut
ftatc of it diflrefcful to us, that you will not
think any deliberations milemployed, which
• may.lead to its relief and protection.
The laws you have already palled for the
eftabliftnnenc of a judiciary fyftero, have
opened the doors of justice to alidefcr.pt ions
of persons. You wi*J coufiJer, in 7 our . . .
dom, whether improvements in that Oftetn
may yet, made, andjiarticularly whether
an uniform process of execution, on feu
tenets issuing from the federal Courts, e
not defireable through alt the ?»*•••
The pit'rdaaß« of our ep mraeice, of our
merchants and feaiien, called f°* lhe i *
poinrment of Consuls in foreign couim.es.
Ii fetmt expedient to regulite Hy law ti e «<•
ercife of that jurildiXioii, and thole rotations
which nf pern,itted, either by cc '»-
veuiMUs if •fneudly j
[Vol. W. No. CCXXfI)
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places oftheir residence. The ConfularCon*
vention, too, with his Most Christian Ma
jesty, has stipulated, in certain cases, the aid
of the national authority to hi* Conluls efta
blithed here. Some legiflaiive proviflon ie
requtflte to carry these ftipuUtioni into full
effect. _ m
The eftabliftiment of the Militia, of •
Mint, of Standard* ot Weights and Mea«»
fures, of the Portoflice and Port Koads, arc
fubjeds which (I prelume) you wiH rtfuiu©
of courle, and which are abundantly urged
by their own importance
Ci aitiin cn o/tht Houjt of Reprefehtdti’ves *
The fufficiency of the revenues you h
eftablilhed for the objects to which they aro
appropriated, leaves no doubt that 'he tcfi«
duary protrifions will be comnienfurate to the
other objects for which the ppbjic fa th dandy
now pledged. Allow me moreover to
that ic will be a favorite policy with you, uo{
merely, to feciird a pay ment of the interelt of
the’delft but, aV.far and as faft as the
growing tefoqrccs of the country will p* l mit,
to exonerate it of the principal Tua
appropriation you have made of the wed era
lands explain your dispositions iubject i .
and I am persuaded the sooner that valuable
fund can be made to contribute, along wi s h
other means, to the actual reduction of the
public debt, the more salutary will the> roea*
lure be to drery public intdreft, as well as bp
more fatisfaftory to 6,ur conftituents*
Gentlemen of the Senate and
Houle of Reptejentdnvesi ... -
In perusing the various aud weighty buli
nefs of the present feflion, I ludulge the fullef?
persuasion that your confultationa will be
equally marked with wisdom, and animated
by the love of your country. Jn whatever .
belongs to my duty, you lha|i,have all the
co-operdtion, which an undiminiihed zCal for
it 8 welfare can inlpifP. M will be happy for
us both, and our heft reward, if, by a fuc
cefsful adininiftration of our refpcCtive truft*,
we can make the eftablilhed government
more and more instrumental in promoting thp .
good of our fellow citizens, and mo>e and
more the object of their attachment aud emu
fide (s„,d) GEORGE W^HIRGTON.
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United Siatei, Dec- 1 79^>
Brother Often of the late Raiment raijtfd sos
suppressing the •violences cj the Indians ,
A T your and the repeated foSiri
r\ tations mvthe soldiery, I prefc re<l %
petition to the Honarairle the Le|iilatnre who
fat at Atigufla in November >r ,
promised compeufatiou for our w services,
agreeable to yp aCt paffsd in rhe yea*
tut, notwilhftteditiß my petition was intro
duced early in tire Seflion, it was nested wit a
neJed. (»nd I believe, if Iwaatofiy con
tempt, I Ihould not he fir tnillakenj I hive
now to rejnett, tbit you wilt meet meat the
town, pf Waihington, ou th* firlt Mmdn;
in. February next, in order to,conluU u>
way* and nieaim to procure mote attention ig
oui jult and le.al e'aiitii*
JOHN tI.AHK, L. C.r.
of th* We 'dttue Hyit/hhi*
D,r jo, typo,