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jtjwWal mimes.
Hffutf justice BUf berth's charge to the
grand jury of the United Stales, for the
diftria of Jsevi-York, delivered the j ft
infant.
. .Gentlemen of the grand jury,
Baced as guardians of the law*, you
hove in twrft the government n(elf--a
government, let me remark, entitled to
affelHon ar well at fopport—a govetn
tßent, legitimate hi its origin, free in its
principles, and tefletf by eflcfls eminent
ly beneficent. If we look upon it as it
is, the palladium of American liberty,
atid ground of national hope, ourfciici
tude for its preferyation will encreafc
«rith‘ die dangers to which it is exposed.
That fbndnefs for novelty, and ex
travagant anticipation of good, which
aided the government at its outset, mud,
foil'd an Ci]ght years experiment of what
any government on earth could realize,
have given way to disgust, and the pto
jfcdt of foine new theory.
Left to have been expefted, is the
baleful influence of those elements of
disorganization, and tenets of impiety,
Which have been propagated with a zed
that Would have done honour to a better
Cfrufc. Os the discipled, many, it is
tfianifefl, that unhinged and imperious,
the mind revolts arevery inanition which
<*an preserve order or protect right;
While the heart demoralized, becomes
insensible to social and civil obligations—
radically hostile to free government,
dre the impaflioned ar.d the impious!
It ft further obfcrvable, that evils
which aflnoy us, by a diflngenuous afcrip
tlon to caofes that have had no agency in
producing them, are made extensively
the means of.fcduftion.
With concern 1 add, that whatever of
dtfaffeAion has (prune frem thefc fourccs,
or the common incidents of government,
or from untowardness of temper, a spirit
of party has not failed tb cherish, to ri
pen, and to marflial, A spirit, alas!
Which circumfpedion has been incompe
tent to prevent; and which mifehief
ftenrs incompetent to fatisfy. While it
Changes, honest men, poisons the source
tff public confidence, and palsies the
hand of administration; it opens a door
to foreign influence, that “ deftvoying
angel of republics.”
If from these indications, within, we
derive an argument for vigilance and
Attnneft m the execution of laws; how
much fa it flrengthened by the convul
sing afpeft of extetior affairs ? Whether
allured by carefles, or impelled by vio
lence, the objeft flill is to separate the
people from the government. Yes, the
avowed objett is to separate the people
from the government; and of comfe to
flfep<rre them, by feditiow and rebellion,
for a new order of things. We trull in
&od that foreign government ft not to
prevail here ; but without prompt fup
gort and energy given to oar own, our
trufl it but prefumpticn.
You will now, gentlemen, retire for
confideracion. You will diligently en
quire after all offences cognizable by
this court, and due prefontment make.
Should it be Beceflary, Mr. Attorney
will assist yon with forms, or the coart
.with farther dhe&ions.
From thi (New-York) ARGUS.
The late charge to the grand jury, by
the chief justice of the United States,
has been cried up as a raafter piece in
its way.— For my part I like neither
his politics nor his religion. They
have » strong tinflu re of transatlantic
prejudices, by means of which Europe
has iat ages pad been kept in chains.
It has been the policy of kings and
»*•* to ftifle all enquiry; as their do- j
minion is •fpndcd upon and preserved
only by ignorance. Thus a free and
manly teveUigatinn of public measures is
fogmatiaed by the harlh epithets of
44 feditien and rebellion.” The arcana
of government must be studiously veiled
from vulgar eyes. This fanflum func
tor um must remain for ever shut against
the fwinilh multitude, who nmft be
taught to view it from a difiancc with
fiuoid awe and reverence. 44 Sedition
and rebellion •!” Sounds truly grating
and difeordant to the ear of a republican.
It is a language only fit to be spoken by
tyrants to ftaves.
Bat why conjure up these foul fiends
tow, when all parties seem heartily dis
posed to place doe confidence in the in
tegrity and ability of the prefect admi
fuflration ?
* '» - - .
Cut whaf cat! of chity or neceflitydoes
our good chief justice obey, when he
turns pteacher an. 4 inveighs against im
piety ? f)f cs he wi(h to revive again, at
this enlightened period, and among too
44 the most enlightened people iu the
world,” the old confederacy between
church and flats ? What clause of the
constitution gives the federal judiciary
cognizance'refpefling religious tenetsk
Is it any part of the duty of a federal
grand jury to make 44 diligent enquiry,”
whether the writer of this is Jew, Turk,
or Christian ?
. By the 44 tenets of impiety, which
have been propagated with so much zeal,”
I suppose, is meant Tom Paine's Age of
Reason, which has fpiead so far ind
wide. But what have government to do
with theological disputes ? In the name of
peace, in the name of 44 social and civil,”
apd let me add, religious toleration, let
us leave these polemical champions to
fight their own battles. Is the chief
justice of the United States fericufy
(hocked at the freedom of Paine's stric
tures against the religion he profeflfes ?
Then let him, fairly and manfully enter
the lifts against him. Let him ftcrnly
arraign him at the bar of reason. In the
ccuir, when aione, his 44 offences are
cognizable;” let him “ diligently en
quire,” “ and due preferment make.”
Here, if he (ha!! be round guilty, he may
be f itrlyuonv,itei ana condemned, with
out endangering the peace and order of
focicty.
But above ail, is this a proper season,
or, ir.deH, is it fitting at any season,
fora chret justice of the United States to
join the hue a,id cry of a party against
the French nation or again-ft any nation.
Certain!} a judicial officer wanders most
egregicvjfty from the line of his duty,
wlv n, in a charge to a grand jury, he
undertakes to arraign, in terms the most
opprobrious, the condufl of a great and
poweitul netion. It is business with
which judges and jurymen, as such,
ought not to concern themfclves.
Ii the American charafler really so
dull and flu. id, so meek and spiritless,
so devoid of irrafeibility and passion, as to
make it necessary that the erump of war
fltould be founded from the feats of ju
stice? Haw ardent must be the wi(h of
a certain party for a war with France,
when means so indecorous are resorted to.
<K> O O O O O -{J
Mr. Smith. >
AS the following extrafl from Peter
Porcupine’s Gazette is the proper
counter part to a publication in your
last week’s paper, I have to solicit its in
sertion in your next Chronicle .
A CITIZEN.
Augujla, May g, 1797.
From PORCUPINE’S GAZETTE.
How greatly were you mtftaken, Mr.
Peter, in ftrppofisg that the feitival kept
on the 1 zth instant, in the vicinity of
this city, was in honour of the British
arms—it was foe no such purpose, but
for fbmethiog ftili more unexpeded ; no
less, I assure you, as Mr. Bache tells-us,
tlflin to celebrate 44 the victories of the
French republic in Italy, and the furren
dcr of Mantua It was defigneU, (it,
as a compliment to a nation,, that for
four years past has been attempting, by
corruption and intrigue to excite a civil
war among us; that has recalled her
own minister from the United States,
and rejected ours with menace and con
tempt; f&izcd our property in her ports
and on the high seas; insulted, beaten
and imprisoned cur fcamen; in Ihoit
has done us every injury, and more too,
than (he could do in a (fate of open war
and, what annexes peculiar infamy to
this civic feafi, it happens at a time when
the general council of the nation has
been called together, to deliberate on
the meafutes proper to be taken, to re
lent thefc wrongs, and to obtain com
pensation for these losses.—
The president or toast- maker of this
extraordinary meeting, i* a quondam If
raelitiih publican, ti:c fame psrfon who,
at the tioK of the Wefletn infurreflion,
was apprehended for a treasonable fpcech
against government, to difeourage the
militia. The convives were of the fame
defeription; some of them ftrangets;
many of them fhip-carpenter* boys—and
it is r.o lack of charity to suppose, that
they ail would, with as good a glee, ce
lebrate the viflories of the French over
any part of the Union.
The sentiments of the company, w hich
• are uowr pubhflied, roighi reflefl diffio
nonron the country, if £r were not well
known tint there was hardly a refpe&a'
blc charafter in it, and that the greaieft
part was mere fpedators, whom curiosity
to fee the prepoftercus exhibition had
drawn together. The occasion ought,
nevertheless, to convince the good citi
zens of Philadelphia, that they have
some such seditious persons among them,
and that, in case of a war with France,
it will be necessary to take proper ca*e
of them.
Their toasts for the mod part are such
a composition of stupidity and malice,
that I don't know which mod to admire.
Indeed they are altogether lo mal-apro
pos that, wete not the characters of the
convives so well known, for an exclu
sive attachment to French politics, I
ftiould hardly think they were serious.
The few I feud you, with remarks on i
them, will enable you tj judge of the
whole. They are all replete with the
fame wit and spirit, and some of them,
ifpoffible, more exceptionable.
The ift begins with what is always up-,
permoft in the minds of these gentry,
** the French republic, whose victories
we celebrate--may die never expe
rience a defeat, until her arms be
pointed against liberty.**
Remarks.- —The author of this toast
must certainly mean French liberty , the
filter of French equality , two ladies that
fanCtion all the tyrannic edifts of France j
for I am sure there is no other liberty
under Heaven, whether of body or foui,
at home or abroad, that they have not
for the last five years been enemies to.
2d—“ The American republic, may the
glory of her revolution never mere be
tarnished by base ingratitude, or by
a coalition with tyrants/’
Remarks.—ll I had been present at
the entertainment, I would have encored
this toast w ith ail my foul; for when I
think of poor Louis and his murderers,
my mind tells me, we have been guilty
of both these crimes.
3*l “ The Batavian republic—may her
struggles for freedom be as fucctfdul
as they were against PhiJiip the 11.
and may her maritime glory eclips the
fjplendour of De Ruyter and Fan
Tramp.’*
Ah, prer Batavia ! it is
not humiliation enough for thee, that thy
ancient fame and liberty fhculd be tram
pled in the dull by the plundering hordes
of France, but thou must be lpit upon
too, by the feum of America.
4th —“ The victorious army of Italy
when peace (hall crown their labours,
may their victories not be food for
fpeculatcrs, nor the fruits cf their
fufferings be usurped by the enemies of
the revolution.
Remarks. —l declare from my con
science that I am afraid these feHtws
were iufpired, and that their prayer will
be grantedthat the French vidlcrics
in Italy will really leave but a miserable
field for speculators, and that the friends
as well as enemies of the revolution, in
that country, will have no fruit to gather,
except liarvation and rags.
10th “ An envoy extraordinary— —may
the present admiaiftration difeover the
substance, and not the fliadow cf wis
dom, and a mclfenger of peace present,
the olive branch to our aides.”
Remarks.— -If the five despots of France
continue in the fame humour, as they
were in when Mr. Pinckney paid them a
vi&t—and I believe they do-—I don’t
know which wcuid difgraee this country
molt, to fend such an embafly, or to
make the author of rhis toast the meflen
ger; but of this I am sure, that such an
inllance of national servility is without
example in the annals of government. —
Enough, unless they were better--but
before I finiih I must tell you of their vo
lunteer toasts.
The fir ft was—to the president and vice
prefi.lent of the United Statce ;
The 2d and 3 1— -to the governor of
Pennsylvania and to B. Franklin Bache ;
and they put me in mind of Dodor
Swift's fable the pippin and the horfe
dung,
“ See how We Apples swim.”
NO TICE.
/V LARGE leather trunk,
containing blankets, ciaths, plates,
&c. was sent to me by Mr. William
Wallace from Savannah, which I find is
not mine; the owner is requested to pay
the charges and take it away.
SAMUEL JACK.
April % o, 1787.
Colleger's Sales, I
At Franklin court-house, cn
the 25th d3y of July r»x*
WILL BE S o'lM
For the tax of the year 1795, t k s jj9|
lowing tracts of land, \ >7. K J
11’0*000 acres land furvev*
for John Hopper , on Oconee waters, j.,J»
ing land of Jaid Hopper.
40,000 surveyed in the name of)-*}
Hobbs, Oconee waters, joining fM I
and vacant. .9
100,000 acres Joseph B. Jones, C>fl
Tire waters, joining Jaid Jones. H
17,000 acres, Fat rick
joining jaid Crookjhanks. !9
29,000 flerei Patrick Crookfianks,jnM l
ing Jaid Crookjhanks. 9
102,000 acrej,
Mountain and Shoal creek waters,
Jaid Cunningham. V
P. Martin* T. C. 1
January r, 1797. -$j
COLLECT OR s SAu|
7a tAe owners, attornies or truflets cJJm
following traH oj land ; ||
On Tuejday, the 1 gth day of Auguflr.ujM
at the court-house in Hancock county, l||
WILL BE SOLI)!
The following tract of land, or Jo much
it as will Jatisfy all arrears of tax
thereon, up to the year 1794 incluftviß
14*000 acres of land* grantejß
to Joseph Grove Taylor, lying on Tuifl
creek, in Hancock county, adjoiniJ
William Buchaltor, Joseph Grove Tav.H
lor, unknown and vacant land, when fur*H
veyed.
Da\ id Adams, T. C. 11. C. I
February, 11 1797. 9
Sheriff's Sales, I
On the firft Tucfday in June next, attheH
house of Starling Gardner, in Waire»9
county, 9
WILL BE SOLD,!
115 acres of land of third I
quality, on the waters of Hart's creek, d> 9
joining Cloud, Stubbs, and Butler’s /aw; 9
under execution as the property of Eldrily l
Hargrove, at the [nit of James t* r . GmM
Also 112 acres third quality, on RedfU
comfort, with some improvements, oiyv*. I
ing land of John Myrick's and oikrs; I
2140/ the fame quality cn the head tcMst I
of Hart's creek, adjoining land of JcrnW
Parker and others ; under execution as f:■
property of George Weather by, at. the fj
of [aid James W. Green. Condition
cajh.
L. WRIGHT, D. S.
March 28, 1797*
"n RO U G H T to the jail of
Burke county, a negro fellow nanul
TOM, Jays he is thirty years old Id
Chnflmas, about Jve fat fix inches kg,
and that he belongs to Geo. Cowen, liny
at the head of Ogechee, three miles jros
Charles Abercrombie; he is a fait U'dlit
negro; has a Jmall fear under his Iql
cheek, and two jmall fears on his fordcai
DANIEL BOATWRIGHT, Jail*
April 19, 1797.
THE fubferiber informs the pubbe
that he has recommenced the HAT
TING BUSINESS in Augufla, «her:
all kinds of ladies and gentlemens has
are made and repaired in the bell oianr,:i,
with dis. atch and punctuality.
He also engages to give the followin'
prices for the different kinds of fur, t!
wit,
For good Grey Fox Doll. 0 ->
Racoon t\
Wild Cat 3*
Otter Skins I J 3
Mvfkrat H
Beaver per pound 1 gj
And for ail other forts of furs, uk*y'
ly made ufc of by hatters, in the- abo'd
proportion.
ISAAC RANDOLPH. _
' r up by the fubferiber, c»
L Butler's creek, a BAY MARL
about four feet, five cr fix inches high,
about fix or seven years cli ; branded cj
the near shoulder M, hanging mane
long switch tail - t has some saddle fp cS
and some white hairs on her, which
pears to have oeen occasioned by a
feit.
ROBERT W ALTON.
Richmond county, April 12, 179^*
(Qr Blank Deeds of Con
veyances and blank Bonds tor
sale by the Printer here of. J