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Volume VIII.]
NOTICE.
persons indebted for
the Monitor, cr advertising
in, the .same, are requested to
liquidate their accounts as soon,
as possible, if payment is in
convenient—otherwise inter
est will be exacted, agreeable
to the late act ox Assembly.
’ln any future or past trans
action of business in this Of
fice, the receipts of David P.
ITillhouse, will be good.
Sarah Hiolhouse.
June 25th, 1808.
% .
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
HaN AWAY from the fcbfcri-
Etr living on the Highwafia river,
in the Cherokee nation, on the 4th
of May last, a NEGRO MAN a
bout five feet fix inches high, and
about thirty years of age, very
black, tolerably well made, With
a crop on one ear and a nick in
the other. The above reward will
Le paid upon the said negro being
lodged in any jail in this state, or
1 VVI Ni Y dollars will be paid
upon his being delivered to the fub
feriber or to any other person, so
th? 4 I get him at my plantation as
alorelaid, and all expencts paid.
John Rogers.
July 5, 1808.
GEORGIA, Franklin county.
By Frederick Beall , clerk of the
court cf ordinary for said county,
W HF.REAS Ann Hudson &
Joshua Hudson applies for letters of
administration on the estate of Jo
seph Hudson, late of said county,
deceased,
These are therefore to cite and
admonish all and lingular the kin
dred and creditors of said deceased
to be and appear at the next court
of Ordinary, to be held in and for
the county aforefaid, to shew
cause (if any they have) why laid
letters fliould not be granted.
Given under my -hand this 11 th
. day of July, f 808.
Frederick Beall , c. c. c.
administrator’s sale.
WILL BE SOLD,
* A
jT~\ T my house in Elbert county
on Saturday the 3d day of Septem
ber next, all the personal property
of Cordal Earnes, deceased—terms
will be made known cn the day of
sale.
Henry Keneijrew, adrn’r.
July 14, iBo3.
FOR SALE ,
AT THIS OFFICE
Justice’s warrants and execu
tions; Constable’s bail bonds
—together with all kind* of blanks
used in Courts of Ordinary.
aUo
BLANKS, of all kinds
/¥ i~~ \ ]% v Tis I f\ TA
/ s a a -tx -a h 0 w m&P
VU Ki -t* rs xaj Si Kj £? r-
I- /jL ... k J;L a
C' l ASHING! ON, PrINTSD WtFKLY FOR S.tn'Sit /if.'wjKTf.
For the. MONITOR.
The laic suspension-law of this
state , alias the swindling act—Eter
nal oblivion to the and politi
cal death to its authors.
[Citizens’ toast,
INDEPENDENT of the Pledg
ed unconflitutionality cf the law
It is in the fit st place unjust in its
operation between debtor Es t creditor.
For whatever claim the former
may have had on- the indulgent in
terference of the legdlature, the lat
ter certainly had aKb'their rights
which ought to have been rclpedt
ed. And if their honest due’ is at
prsfent withheld, to the injury and
perhaps to the ruin of their affairs,
it is a tyrannical stretch of leglfia
tive power to prevent their render
ing themselves ultimately fecuie.
To have prevented by feme means
the epprtflive facrifice of property
under execution, was what the
times seemed ter require, and what
we hoped and expected would be
done. But to bar up the civil fide
of the courts against the creditor,
and allow him .nothing like an e
quivalent provision—to compel
him to set down a hdplefs witness
of his own ruin in the prodigality
ot an unprincipled debtor, was a
measure the flagrant injuft ice ..of
which, no circumstances could juu
ifv or excuse.
This law is immoral in its ten
dency, •
In no country more than this, is
it n°ct flfary to incuicafe a spirit of
pur.ctuality in the performance of
pecuniary, engagements. A relax
ed remiflhefs in this particular, in
evitably draws down upon society,
all that train of obvious evils which
necessarily result from mutual dif
trufl. It injures the cause of mo
rality in general, but in particular
it weakens those obligations of ho
nor and virtue, which bind men to
their individual crntrr.&s, their ge
neral duties, and the imeretis of
their country. How clearly is*it
then the duty cf a legifiatute tc fof
ter and cherifn this principle lo ho
norable to our nature and so ulti
mately connected with the firft in
terests of our country. But what
has been done ? a law has been
palled which when taken with irs
attendant circumstances speaks this
language to the people “the price
of your staple articles of produce
having fallen rather lower than or
dinary you are absolved from the
performance of your engagements.
You who owe money may by J
remaining m the (Fate, and reckon
ing nominal interefl: on your unli
quidated dues, squander your fub
liance or convey it out of the reach
cf creditors, who though prefied
themselves and driven to utter
bankiuptcy (hall not interpose their
claims to interrupt your pleasure,
or disturb your repose.” That
this is the fubftanrial import of the
s&, we have only to appeal.to the
act it ft If. Its general demoralizing i
influence, though filcm and con- 1
ccalcd in its operation, is none the
SATURDAY, JULY SC?’ISOBJ
| Ids sure in its efFecb And going
as it does niece iqsMafttdlpLteiy to tin?
deft rud ion of reciprocal confidence
it Rrik.es dire&ly at the root of all
tbofe comforts, conveniences and
benefits which grow cut of a fyft-
I em of internal traffic.
It will injure our commercial
: credit in other countries.
Foreign merchants, intruded
I by experience may well be cau-
I tiotis hereafter of trailing their cap
; Ital among a people who make to
little scruple of turning themselves
loose at pleasure frdm their moil
ioiernn engagements. r Ehey may
; itfafonabiy fear that if an embargo*
hke the present lias had the mon
tlrous effect of suspending the op
eration of our laws, we may eafiiy
. U seduced or driven into mcaftires
of a higher and a higher *one, till
we find in fotn'e of ticoffooffions
: of modern politics a plausible pre
j text for seizure and tdnfifcatiou it
\ f it. They may well conclude
that a government which under
our urcumfiances cannot do juft
foe to the rights of its own fuh
je£l:s, will never afford a firm and
Ready proteChua to the rights of
R rangers.
But abHracted from all ronfidc
tauons of immorality, injuilice or
general commercial inexpediency,
This law is degrading to the char
arfer, and derogatory jrom the dig
nity of our republic.
Fe are frightened quite too
; soon. Ido quicker has da! per
; fquinteo cn us than we Ih-ink wr.;i
in ourfh.il, and give Guneives up
jto torpid inactivity ihe genera!
I government have thought proper
j to lay an embargo or. r.ur
I bom which measure many fom-.-fi
:cla] confeqaertets ;.ra propo&d,
| and among others that cf demon
; ft rating our on other
1 nations, and cl enabling us to pre
; serve it. Waving all inferior con-
I fiderations—a 11 general diveiiitici
o \ political opinion, we fbould on
this grand occasion nave fcconded
with a firm and fpirifed cordiality
the views of rite government. It •
v,as our duty in common with cur
fißer Rates to ad up to the spirit
of the measure and by allowing it
a fair and fufficient trial, to left its
utility, and extract from it si! the
good it was capable of yielding.
But in Read of this v/e are the firft
to fhdnk from the appeal. Inßead
cf joining in and lepporting the
assertion we can exist and prosper
of foreign intercourse.
mft cad of standing forward to tefl
ify the internal resources of this
quarter of the union, our legisla
ture by this law has confeiTed to
the world, that ‘we are a luxuri
ous, an enervated, a helpless and
dependent people that our social
economy lives, moves, and has its
being from that commerce which
is ax the mercy of cur enemies, the
temporary fulptnfion of which has
brie ken us with ariuntverfa? pally,
ihey have confoffi and that private
failli ctlunot L>e V< pf uk,
1 O ‘
[Payable half 'yearly*
‘£NUMBER 88D.
nor public justice be adminifiered,
that i ur courts cannot be open
ed, but by the influence oi Buufh
m&nufadures.
QUINTUS.
. ■ir ■■ J
Tub or.b man's Comforts,
And how he gained them.’
You are old, father William* tha
young man cried, b .
. TJip.k:vv locks that are left you
are grey.
You are hale, father William, a
hearty old man,
Now feU me the reafen, I pray.
In fife cf my youth, father
’ William replied,
I remember'd that youth would
fly sass,
Andgjbuf’d not my health and my :
vigour at fir ft
That I .'never rr.ight need them at
Taft. ‘
Ycm are old, father Yvilliam, the
young nran cried,
And plealares with youth pnfs a
wav,
And yet you lament not the dayp
that are gone,
Now tell me the reason, I pray.
In the cays of tr.y youth, father
vVn'ikm rtp’ied,
I remember'd that youth cou'dl
not la ft ;
I tliougbt of the future, whatever I
did,
That l never might grieve for
the pa ft.
You arc old, father William, the
your v man cried,
And life mufi be'haftemrg away, *
You ap. cheufuk and love to con
vet >e in on death !
New toil riitti.e rcalcn, I pray.
I am chcT* rd, young man, father
Wiififlni replied,
Let the cauib thyattei-ticn ea
*-n /
rs: y (r
Tll the days of nv youth I remem
ber’d my God !
And he hath not forgotten n y t
YN* ‘
Roctov, Tipo no
Earthquake. —Two ffiocks of an
ea- tliquake were experienced in foi*
town about five .nurtures b; /o
rec o’clock, on Sunday morning
iad. The firft ikoek agitated hcul
cr. so much as to awaken the p<<>
pie from found iieep by the recking
of them beds:—Thefscpnd.fhpck,
less violent than the fijfl, foifowrd
in the course of half a minute ; aisu
Doth were of about four fecondb du
ration each. The earihqui-ke, we.
learn was more severely fdt in
Portland than here.— The Salem
Gazette, ofyefterday, mentions the
earthquake 10 have been perceived
by a number of per fens.’ in that
town,
O'KELLY'S APOLOGY,
fir protesting against tire
Mr.; urn ast Frisco? 41. Cnvaci!*
I LL SALE, At this Qsc*.