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SATURDAY, July 17. 180 s. f THE A U GUSTA CHRONICLE AND , . GAZETTE OF THE STATE. FREEDOM of the PRESS and TRIAL by JURY shall remain inviolate. Constitution of Georgia. AUGUSTA: Printed JOHN E. SMITH, near the market. £3 Dolls, per Annum. • * S' I •*, , 1 ' . V « r it. i •■ H [Published by Authority.] Seventh Congrcfs of the United States. • At the Pirft Session, begun and held at the City of Wifhinglon, in the Ter ritory of Columbia, on Monday the seventh of December, one thousand eight hundred and one, AN ACT making appropriations for the Military EJiabiJhment of the United States , in the year one thousand eight hundred and two, I) E it enabled by the Senate and Horse J of Reprefentatwes of the United States of America , in Congrcfs ajfembled , That for defraying the fcveral expences of the military ellablifhment of the Unit ed States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and two, for the Indian depart ment. for arsenals and armories, and for the eredion of fortifications, the follow ing Turns be and the fame hereby arc re fpedively appropriated : that is to fay ; For the pay of the army of the United States, the sum 0f.292,272 dollars, in cluding therein the sum of 60,000 dol lars appropriated by an ad of the present fedion. For the subsistence of the army, the sum of 201,027 dollars and 40 cents. For forage* 3,804 dollars. For clothing, 66,630 dollars. For the medical and hospital depart, ment, 10,000 dol’ars. For bounties and premiums, 2,000 dollars. For all expences of transportation, tents, tools, and the contingent expen ces of the war department, 64,000 dol- 1 lars. For the pay, fubfiftcnce, and clothing of the corps of engineers, 7,010 dollars and So cents. For the Indian department, 71,750 dollars. For the expences incident to the arse nals, magazines, and armories of the U nited States, 66,766 dollars and S 8 cents. For- creating and completing fortifica tions and barracks, 70,500 dollars. -For running certain boundary lines between the Indians and white inhabi tants of the United States and for afeer taining the lines of sundry reserved trads of land in the Indian and north-western territories, 5,000 dollars. Sec. ?*, And be it further enafied. That for defraying all expences which will arise in consequence of difeharging the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, who arc, or (hall be, fuper numcrary by the ad of the present session, entitled* An Ad fixing the military peace cftablifiimcnt of the United States,' and for carrying the said into complete operation, the following sums be, and they hereby are refpcdively appropriated; that is to fay For the pay of the officers, non-com nuffioned officers, and privates, to be dis. charged, 39,500 dollars : For fubfiltence, 18,000 dollars : , For clothing, 12,000 : For forage, 1,500 dollars; For the medical department, 2,000 dollars: For quarter-mafter’i; department, 45, 000 dollars ; For bounties and premiums, 1 500 dol lars ; for allowance.to officers and soldiers who are to be discharged, 301000 dollars; For contingencies, 9,000 dollars: Sec. 3. And he it further enabled, That a sum not exceeding 40,000 dollars, including any unexpended balance of the sum of 15,000 dollars, appropriated by the aft approved on the 13th of May 1 800, entitled ‘ An aft to appropriate a certain sum of money to defray the ex pences of holding a treaty or treaties with the Indians,’ be, and the fame hereby is, appropriated for defraying the expence of any treaty or treaties which may be held with the Indians fouth of the river Ohio : Provided , That the compensation to be allowed to any commiflioner appointed, or who may be appointed, for negociat ing fnch treaty, or treaties, (hall not ex ceed, exclusive of travelling expences, the rate of 8 dollars per day, during the aftual service of such commiflioner. Sec. 4. And be it further enaSitdy That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and difeharged, firft, out of any balance remaining unex pended of former appropriations for the fame objefts, refpeftively, and secondly, cut of any monies in the treasury not o therwise appropriated. NATHANIEL MACON, Speaker of the Hottfe of Reprefentatvves, ABRAHAM BALDWIN, Prefi, dent of the Senate pro tempore. Approved, May 1, 1802. Th: JEFFERSON, Prefi dent of the United States. REPUBLICAN ORATION. Mr. Smith, By inferring the following in the Augu sta Chronicle you will oblige A number of Republicans, On Tuefday 1 the 6th July 1802, a , number of citizens convened at Edgefield Court.houfe for the purpofeof commemo rating the 4th July 1776. An Oration, previoully prepared by Mr. E. Simklns , Student at Law, was delivered by him ; and here follows ;—‘ Friends and fellonu citizens , WHEN it is considered that the me morable anniversary of American Inde. ptndence has been for twenty-fix years the theme of the greatest ttatefmen and wiled patriots in United America, an attempt of mine to do justice to the cele bration of so great an event, will proba bly be thought vain and almost unpar donable. 1 cannot, however, help re marking, in justice to my own feelings, that a recurrence to my incapacity in em barking on so grand an occasion “ excites in me at once the bluih of diffidence and the .pang of sensibility and did I not feel mylelf buoyed up by the indulgence of my refpeftable auditory, “ 1 should fink in the attempt, nor dare to step forth on an occasion which calls for infinitely greaterabilities than mineto do it justice.” But, shall a citizen of Edgefield suppress sentiments which almost involuntarily burst forth, bccaufe he cannot aflfume a rank conspicuous among America’s ora tors ? Shall he rest in drowsy languor, because nature has not given him the ora torical thunder of a Demosthenes, nor endowed him with the persuasive eloquence of a Cicero ? Shall Edgefield’s sons con tinue to be in a profound silence, as if lulled to flcep in the arms ofdreary Mor pheus, when the auspicious wheels of time have again revolved to us the tllujlnous era of American Independence ! Shall not an event, exquifuely dear to every real patriot, and the contemplation of which Itirs up in busy palpitation the innate powers of the foal, be ushered in by the grateful exprefliens of a favored peo ple ! And shall not an era, big with the happiness of more than five millions of people, and the thought of which harmo nizes, for a time, the warring elements of the human mind, demand the unadul terated gratitude of every true republican! GEORGIA. ft Shall that tribute of gratitude and adora tion, so justly due to the Omnipotent Ruler of the Universe for our innumera ble immunities and privileges, be restrain ed by the citizens of this Diftrid ! I trull not—Our offering, altho’ it may be poor, and our attempt to celebrate, although it may appear feeble, yet we have powerful incentives to engage us in recapitulating our many bleflings, and dwelling with pleasure on our highly favored fit nation, and in contemplating so signal an event as that which gave birth to our independence, where (hall we begin ! A number of enrap turing ideas and interesting feenes crowd in confufion upon the imagination, and the mind is fora while loft, in attempting to suggest notions, adequate to the im portance of the occallon. Although there were many powerful nations, empires, and countries in Eu rope, Asia and Africa, yet the genius of Equality had been a ttranger to their (hor’es. Although the palfxcd hand of time had silvered them over with the blos soms of age, and although worn down, and at sometimes almost ready to fink un der the accumulated load of slavery, yet we find, that the fire of liberty had ne-' ver animated their frozen bosoms. A nation newly difeovered, and made up of the citizens of different kingdoms and countries, seems to have been the favored spot—A nation which displayed the early buddings of virtue and unanimity among her rising sons, was firft politically bles sed by the God of Liberty. May we not then, hail America as the renovating spot in breaking asunder the gordion knot of slavery and defpolifm ? May we not hail our nation as the land of rational liberty, and the peculiar place “ where freedom delights to dwell.” Will it be neceflary, fellow citizens, on this day of republican joy, to dwell lor a moment on our situation at that pe riod, when the demands of our mother country became too enormous to be ac quiefeed in, by a nation aspiring to real greatness. America was filled with that kind of parental fondnefs and filial regard, which had humbled her perhaps too low, and which would have commanded an ac quiescence on her part, had not the cha stisement been greater than the principles of justice would have warranted. The power of imposing unauthorifed taxes, and the right of enabling laws “to bind her in all cases whatever, without her consent., were too llrongly infilled on, not to call aloud for the adoption of mea sures, which, however Ihocking to hu manity, and difagrceable to every inge nious mind, were such only as appeared to be left for the redrefsofher injury and the eftablilhment of her independence. When, with due consideration, we view the youth of America at that time, the inexperience of her citizens in military tactics, and the internal divisions and convulsions which Ihook the continent to its centre —When we contemplate her want of finances, and the extent of terri T tory over which the inhabitants were thinly scattered, we cannot avoid feeling emotions of a poignant, of a pensive kind ! When we further confidcr the formidable army which flic had to oppose, and when we recoiled that vidory for a long time continued fluttering on the wings of un certainty, our anxiety and fear for the success of her arms, are ronfidcrably heightened 1 And is it true, my worthy friends and republicans, that the sons of Columbia rose superior to those once a larming difficulties; and that the genius of liberty hovered around our arms, and directed our lootfteps through the tedious round of an eight years arduous Cornell ! Is it a reality that the vigilance and for titude of Jbitilh generals and armies, and the angry thunder of Albion’s cannon could not prevail against an hfated up by the torch of patriot i/m ! Yes, my countrymen these are fads the recoiledion of which this day fire our bosoms, and which will for ages to come be reiterated j in songs of gratitude by eviry true Arne- j [Vot. XVI. No. 823.1 rican. Hail auspicious period I Hail fa vored people! You now in being (and fame of whose faces I am proud to-day in beholding) you, I fay, who have borne the burden and heat of the day in our re volutionary war, 1 bid you all hail! You whose bosoms were warmed with an en thullallic zeal for liberty, and who for the good of mankind made a determina tion “to die or live free,” permit me in behalf of the young fans of Columbia to congratulate you on your present happy situation ; and let me tell you that your rising pollenty feel utterly unable to re ward you fufficicntly for your memorable achievements. To the manes of those departed heroes who were cut oft' in the grand attempt to emancipate our common country, we this day bellow the tribute of gratitude so jullly due, and although wc are conscious that any attempt of ours to happify would prove fnntlds, yet we feel willing to let drop the farrowing tear on account of their untimely late! To mention the fame who have glo riouly fought far freedom, would perhaps be doing injustice to others; but the voice of this nation as well as the fecrct feelings of the members competing this reipeftable afleinbly, conltrain me to notice the Lie Farmcr of MountiVernifty • OhINKR AL GEORGE WASHINGTON. May A meriia remember to imitate the pious ex ample of that illultrious perfonnyc, h.i whose character were combined the h<roid cjjlcer t the intelligent Jiatefman and the true cariflnany and may Ihc recoiled, that WASHINGTON was the man, of all others, the moll inllrumental in break ing the chain forged for the opprefiion of our country. The 'rude din of arms gave way far the frniles of peace, and America’s Ihorcs seemed ro reverberate with the charming accents of liberty and equality.—EHlfcd in the dispensations of nature, and smiled upon by the God of Battles, there appear ed but little wanting to confumate her po litical happiness. A conftitupion framed by no common hand, and corrcdtd and amended by the colleded wisdom of the Union, presenting a palladium of liberty, which met the anxious defircs and bed hopes of Columbia’s patriotic fans, was ulhercd in by an illustrious and venerable band of sages, as the fundamental pillar, and grand fulciment for the government of the new world.—This conllituticn, dear to America as the blood of her belt Tons, may be jullly admired as “ the mod stupendous fabric of human wisdom ;’* that it Ihould be preferred inviolate, wa ) the honed intention and sanguine hope of every freeman. But that there wrllbe ' poflefled of principles hostile to e very government, and that there are fame Whose minds are too haughty and aspiring to be pleaftd with a republican fyftcm, are fadls too universally known to admit of a moment’s doubt. That there arc and will be characters, who not content with the humble fpherc which nature Teems to have allotted them, and who thi riling after power and felf-aggrandifament, will," by an industrious coarse of scheming, and an indefatigable pcrfevcrance in the paths ol adulation and electioneering, work, themselves into places of power and trust, is a matter concerning which, you, my fellow citizens, will always be. able to judge. Those who are inimical to repub lican principles, and who by midnight plans leek to injure our liberty, it is our wish, as it is our interest, to difeounte nance—'Thofe who meditate black deligns against our Union, and who feck to fully the fair fabric of Columbia’s independence, we deem it virtuous to deprecate. The imperfections of human nature are too nu merous to enable men all times to fcrcen themselves from tjje irnpolltion of deep concerted plans. ' And were we deceived when we lamentably supposed that this constitution “ the world’s hfi hose” had for a few years hack received wounds, which although inflated in tender parts, wc ardently hope are now fall healing ! (For the- remainder fee lejl page.)