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Piom Cass? 8c Ma*kla!cd'« Daily ,
Advertise*.
COMMUNICATION,
ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDI
NARY.
Whereas the partnership of Peter Por - j
lupine (3 George Rex, is this day dissolv
ed, by mutual consent, in consequence
of the (aid George Rex refufing to pay j
fpecie* according to the nature of his
agreement. All persons indebted to the
(aid Porcupine & Rex, are requeft*! to
make speedy payment, and those to
whom they Hand indebted, to render
their accounts to Peter Porcupine, Phi
ladelphia ; who is authorifed to fettle
said partnetihip.
April t 9, 1797.
To PETER PORCUPINE.
The wickedness and audacity of your
designs, to involve this country in a war
with the French republic, and attach
her again to Great- Britain, can be equal
led only by the baseness with which you
endeavour to impefe upon the ignorant,
and to smooth over the pad condudt of
the latter nation. In one of your papers,
feme time finer, you quoted a speech of
general Walhington to the fix nations of
Indians, fpok'm in the year 1737, and
alk, what has Britain done since that
time to alter our good opinion of her ?
Nothing! !
This answer of yours amounts to a de
clatation that America had no cause to
Complain, that (he was the aggreflor in the
late war; that her inhabitants were rebels,
and her cause unjust; that cause for
which Walhington, Adams, Hancock,
Franklin, Warren, Montgomery, Pain,
and Mercer, with a long lift of venera
ble patriots, contended : Many of whom
sealed their country’s freedom with their
blood. It is a libel on the condutt of
every one who afiifted in the revolution ;
nay, more, it is a libel on the judge of
«U the earth, inasmuch as it makes out
that he fuffered injustice to prevail.
Did not Britain wage a cruel and un
provoked war against us for seven years,
carrying fire and sword throughout the
Union ? Did (he not hire foreign merce
naries, unacquainted with our language,
and inftrud them to give no quarter, as
they would receive none from us? Did
(he not let loose the lawless lavages on
our frontiers ? Did (he not mafllicre some
of our citizens in cold blood, and ftar;e
hundreds, nay thousands, of others to
death in prifonsand prison (hips ?* Did
not waste and carnage invaiiably mark
the footfteps of her armies, and cruelty
end opprefiion characterize the edicts of
her generals ?+ Did (he not sack our
towns, ravage our fields, and violate our
women? In Ibort, what did (he not do
that was base, cruel, and vindictive ?
You may, perhaps, deny these charges;
but the monuments of Britilh infamy are
too numerous, and too well attested to
be ever obliterated from the mind of A
mewcans. Look to the sanguinary Ice ties
of Paoli, where 300 men were butcher
ed ; molt of them calling for quarters ,
and many of them even a/king mercy on
their knees. Recollect the murder of
colonel Ledyard, and the brave gsriifon
of New-London Call to mind the de
ftruAion of Kfopus, and the turning of
60 families out of doors, in a helpless
condition, at an inclement season of the
year, the ground being then covered with
snow: Read the tragical death of colo
nel Haine, captain Huddy, and young
• —.
* Gordon's hiftory of the war fays,
(hat 11,000 American prisoners died on
board the Jersey prison lhip in the har
bour of New-York, during the last fix
years of the war. Hopkinfon fays, that
prisoners in the stare-house yard, in this
city, were found dead, with unchewed
grass in their mouths; and general re
ports confirm these assertions.
+ See Burgoyne’s proclamation, in
which he threatens to deft toy all before
him, and to give a loose to the lavages
under his command, and general Howe's
orders to hang all inhabitants taken in
arms, ur.lefs commanded by an officer.
These orders were taken with the Hes
sians at Trenton.
J When New-London was taken, a
colonel Ledyard was (lain by the Britilh
commander, with his own (word : Soon
after which, captain Ledyard came in a
prisoner from an out post, and faying he
was lorry for his brother's death, was
answered by the officer, and “ / arn
damn'd glad.”
M‘Coy, ts all murdered tn cold blood;
and the latter for no other reason than
that his father was one of the defenders
of his country; and the more than savage
barbarity afted upon Miss fM‘Crea.
Yet these are the people who have done
nothing to alter our good opinion of them
since the year 1757! And you, their
immaculate hero, the ohjeft of whose
million is to (hew that the declaration of
independence, the foundation of cur po
litical system, was not only unnecessary,
but that the charges therein exhibited
against the Britilh government, are talfe
and flimfy pretences, and the people of
the United States a band of rebels, of
whom Walhington, Franklin, &c. were
the ringleaders! Say this in plain terms,
and then t the generality of people will
fee at once the baseness of your designs;
and rest allured, that a people who were
able to repel Britilh, German, Negro
and Indian hoft6, armed with every war
like and torturous weapon, are not to be
conquered by a Angle corporal armed
with quill of a despicable porcupine.
But in order to impose on the unin
formed, you Ihelter yourfelf behind the
names of Walhington, Adams, and Jay ;
as if the whole welfare of America, now
or in any former period, depended on
them alone ; or as if you thought thereby
to elcape the ferutinizing eyes of a peo
ple jealous of their liberty, and more de
voted to measures than to men. In a
preceding paper you fay they (meaning
the Britilh troops) attacked the hen-roods
and deinolilhed the hog-pens----true,
they were always noted for robbing the
farmers wherever they came, from the
general down to the private.+ But I
have been informed, that wilhingto ex
tend their depredations, they once made
an attack upon the Cow-pens in which
they were not so fuccefsiul as at the hen
roofts.
To conclude, Peter, as the cause of
despotism, which you have undertaken
to support, is the basest that can be ima
gined, so I think we ought not to be
fur.-rill'd if you (hould stoop, as you
have done, to the basest means whereby
to gain your point: Mean time, ycur
odious writing mull excite contempt in
the bosom of every
GENUINE AMERICAN.
* Colonel Haine was hanged by lord
Rawdon, now the earl Moira and colo
nel Balfour, wiihout a regular trial.
Captain Huddy was fuffered to be taken
from the Provolt Prison in New-
York, after having been three weeks
kept as a prisoner of war, carried to
the Jersey ihore, and there hanged
wiihout judge or jury. Young M‘Coy
was wantonly hanged by colonel Browne,
in South-Carolina, before his mother’s
face, though he had never taken aims,
being only 18 years old.
+ In 1778, when general fir Henry
Clinton palled through New-Jersey, a
lady of the name ot Conover, 01 Coven
hoven, at whole house he made his quar
ters, had secreted her effects; but upoh
passing his word of honour, that nothing
(hould be removed or destroyed, she a
gain sent for them and then left the house :
But on her return, after fir Henry’s de
parture, (he found her loss by appraife
ment, to amount to 3000. See the
New-Jersey Gazette for 1778, with the
affidavits, &c. relating thertn.
| The battle of the Cow-pens, in
South-Carolina.
MISCELLANY.
** Peace gently Jpreads her balmy wings,
“ And bamjh'd from the courts oj kings,
Has fix'd her mansion here.”
from me ye croaking ravens!
{fays a writer in a late daily paper). Fly
tar Irom hence, thou party babber.
Sweetly smiling peace, and heavenly li
berty, have laid the lading foundation of
their temple here. The beneficence of
providence has decreed that freedom and
the mutes Shall eftabliih their pappy em
pire in Columbia’s genial foil.
How delightful is the foft melodious
voice of harmony ! Like the smoothly
gliding ftteam, it soothes the mind to fe
renitv and ease. The plealing accents of
benevolence awake each finer feeling of
the heart; each gentle fibre vibrates to
the found; each tender chord becomes
attuned to virtue and to happiness.
\ e who delight in war ; ye who can
solace yourselves with fpectaclcs of blood
and misery! Rest d oh! For a fiugle
moment think-—how much ye have to
lose, how little to acquire* Baailh then,
far from )-Sj difi:or^ »
let the foiling cherub of humanity cfta
bliih his dominions within your breasts.
Who is it that brings the evil tidings
of hoftilrties ? Who has blaiied the trum
pet of deftrudlion through our streets?
What evil spirit (hall summon the people
to the field oi battle before their country's
good requires it ?
6 Who will be so hardy to assert, that
war is certain and inevitable ?---Who so
wicked to inflame the public miud with
anger and resentment ? When the evil
day arrives we (hall gird ourselves with
the armour of justice and fortitude : But
until then, we will not be put to the tor
ture upon the wanton rack of anticipati
on. Until then,
Hence loathed Melancholy !
Os Cerberus and blacked Midnight
born,
In Stygian cave forlorn,
'Midft horrid (hapes, and {bricks, and
fights unholy :
Find out some uncouth cell,
Where brooding darkness spreads his
jealous wings, *
And the night-raven sings:
There under ebon (hades and low
brow’d rocks,
As ragged as thy locks,
In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
£> <z+ O *• O <> O 5
From a Vienna Paper of February 20.
His imperial majesty being informed
that a general opinion prevailed all over
Europe, which had even been supported
in the British house of commons, by au
thentic documents, of general la Fayette,
his family, and fellow prisoners, fuf
fering in the dungeons of Olmutz the
in oft barbarous treatment; that they have
been for years kept rigorously confined
in separate cells, infedted with the pelti
lential air of a morass and a common
fewer, of two barracks and two hospi
tals, without being allowed the benefit
of either air, exercise, or intercom fe
with each other; that the health of the
prisoners were so far impaired as to re
quire medical assistance aimoft daily
has just ordered that commiflioners {hould
be appointed to inquire particularly into
the former treatment and the present
situation of the prisoners; and that an
authenticated report (hould be sent with
out delay to the court.
The curiosity of the public, so much
interested in favour of those unhappy
viftims, is strongly excited to know
what was the motive, and what is like
ly to be the result of this order. Is it
in consequence of his imperial majesty
being now, for the fiift time, acquainted
wish the 'reitment of the prisoners? or
of the >ffi:id declaration made by the
British minister, that he had no (hare in
it ? Has the magnanimous conduct of
the emperor of Ruflia towards Kofciuflco,
by which he has so unequivocally dif
ciaimed bring an accomplice of the per
fecctors of la Fayette, disposed our court
to follow his example? Is it at last that
cut ministers, anticipating the notifica
tion intended to be made by the directo
ry, that the prisoners at Olmutz were
considered by the French government as
prisoners of war, avail themfclves ot the
opportunity to jnftify the detention of
the tl .ee French officers and have refulv
ed in consequence to treat them as pri
soners of war; and to allow them to
breathe cut of their dungeons, to take
exercise, and to fee one another? What
ever may be the motive of the enquiry,
which cannot possibly terminate but in the
relief, or even the liberation of the cap
tives ; we need not observe that the re
port of tlie commiflioners cannot but be
reprobated by all Europe as undeserving
of credit, unless the inveftigarion be fair •
ly and openly managed by men o( honour
able and independent cha rafter, notirflu
-1 enced by personal interest, bv fear orcor
ruofion ; and unless the report is facfticri
ed by the iignatures of the parries con
cerned, or ar ieaft that it he open to their
observations in oppoiition to those of
the comiiiiiiioncrs.
+&***&*
N O T I C E.
A LARGE leather trunk,
x containing blankets, cloths, plates,
dra. was sent to me by Mr. William
Wallace from Savannah, which I find is
not mine ; the owner is reqjefted to pay
the charges and take it a*’ay.
SAMUEL JACK.
April 2 0, 1737.
J. W. DEVEREUX, 1
Contractor anb Quarte* sA k gM
strr, F. T. G. j
Begs leave to inform the public that h ; i, bl
opening at his Jlores at Sparta Br j V
Montpellier, ■
A handjome Assortment of ™
Frefii Dry GOODS/J
Which were purchased in New-Yoftw
and Philadelphia, with prompt payment M
and which he intends difpcftng 0 1 at ji
moderate advance for cash or ttierrhan.!
table produce; he also has almost evttyß
article in the grocery line, which he win
fell on reasonable terms; he will pn r .»
chafe or barter for flour, coin-meal,B
beef, pork, coin, tallow and soap at the*
market prices.
Sparta , Jan. 20, i 797« «
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Sheriff's Sales. I
On the fir ft Tuefday in June next, ii|
the court house in Buike county j
WILL BE S OLD, g
300 acres of land the proper-*
ty of Stephen Johnson, adjoining lands of I
Jldnnjon and Gray ; taken at the irjlanctM
oj JaJhua Williams. I
Also 350 aires ojpine land, the prcbir.M
ty of Howell Hargrove ; taken by vtmil
of two executionsjor cojls. M
340 acres of pine land, taken as tltH
property of Joseph Baity , dec. for cost, ft]
Also, 20v acres of Savannah riverjrnnim
land , 600 acres oj pine land, 400 acrtsijm
pine land, 100 acres oj pine land; wi<H
negroes, four head oj horjes, and a jlsi B
of cattle ; taken as the property of j nab I
Grintr , dtceajcd, at the juits oj WuiiaiA I
Vince, William Oliver, CuyUr and Ra« ■
btrts, this 22d day of April, 1797. 1
JAMES LEWIS, S. B. C. j
r | ’ , AKEN up by the fubferiber, onH
X Butler's creek, a BAY MARE, a
about four feet, five or fix inches high,H
about fix or seven years old ; branded 0,11
the near shoulder M, hanging mane .ml!
long switch tail; has some saddle foots B
and some white hairs on her, which ap- ■
peais to have been occasioned by a '.ur-1
feit. 1
ROBERT W’ALTON. 1
Richmond county, April 12, 179"- |
To the Public. j
THE fubferiber has fitted upl
complete stables, in Broad-ltreer,™
Augulfu, near the market-houie, wlter!!-!
hotfes entrufied to him will be takesH
good care es and well fed at 37 1-2 centiß
1 tor eveiy 24 hours. He has a
Itanle where he receives horses affiiCteiß
with the yellow-water or Indian tever-'B
for this hitherto supposed incurable <li*B
feafe in horses, and which has killed
many valuable ones, he can afiure tteß
public he has found a fpecific remcf'iß
if the disease is not in its lalt flage. MB
cure no pay. 1
BARNABAS F. PAYNE. I
Augxtjla, April 27, 1707. J
fubferiber informs the
that he h is recommenced the II A >-■
TING BUSINESS in Auguita, where!
all kinds of ladies and gentlemens h afl !
are tv. de and repaired in the bell orannei*
with difi-ateh and pumftuality. I
He also engages to give the fo.le’V,"B
prices for the different kinds ot fur, -■!
wit, ■
For good Grey Fcx Doll. 0 5B
Racoon *’■
Wild Cat 3 : l
Otter Skins *
Mu fit rat ■
B- aver per pound 1
And for all other forts of
ly made use of by hatters, in the abO'B
propoition. , I
ISAAC RANDOLU^I
tyfj* Blank Deeds ot C^B
vdvances and blank Bonds U'l
i fade bv the Printer hcreci*
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