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SATURDAY, June 21; 1788.
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GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE
OR
INDEPENDENT REGISTER.
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FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL b 7 JURY, to remain inviolate forever. CcrjliiuiUn cj G ter gits
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GEORGIA
By the Honorable GEORGE
HANDLEY, Elquire, Cap
tain General, Governor and Com
mander in Chief in and over the
laid State.
A Proclamation.
WHEREAS the Creek Indians
have, by the Agent from the
Commissioners, fignifted a pacific
disposition and desire to treat with
the Superintendant for the Southern
Department* and the laid Comm if
fioners ; in consequence whereof the
Executive have appointed a time and
place for holding the said treaty :
AND WHEREAS sundry other
weighty and important matters re
quire the immediate attention ot the
Legifiarure of the said Rate, 1 H A Vc,
Ti EREFGRE, by and with the
advice and content of the honorable
the Executive Council, thought fit
to issue this my Proclamation, re
quiring the Legislature to convene
at Augusta, on Tuejdty the twenty •
Jecoad day of July next, to proceed
Co the diipatch ot public bufine's.
GIVEN under my hard and the
Great Seal of the said State at
Au&ufta, the [eventec nth day
cf June, in the Year of cur
LORD One TkoufandSeven
Hundred and Eighty-eight, and
cf our Sovereignty and Inde
pendence the Twelfth.
~ GEORGE HANDLEY.
By His Honor's Commend ,
J. MILTON, Su’ry.
GOD SAVE THE STATE!
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Id COUNCIL, June 14, 1788.
Ordered, 1 ' ». « .
THAT the Commanding Officers cf the
refpedive counties, do cause a return to be
made of all depredations committed by the
Indians since januaiy 1787} notifying in co
lumns the number of whites and blacks kil
led,, and their ages, also the number wound
ed, together with all the different species of
property plundered and destroyed, the fame
to be made on oath before one or more Ma
gi Orates, tod utufmiued to tbi& Board with
out delay.
Ordered,
That the fame be pujbUffied in the State
Gazette.
Extra# from the Hinuttt ,
J/ MUUWfcTHfcK, b. E. C.
T H E
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AUGU S7* June 21 .
The Honorable the Executive Council,
conjunftion with the Supenntendant oflndiau
Affairs for the Southern Department, have
appointed the 15th day of September next for
thepurpofe of holding a treaty with the Creek
nation, at Larklin Cleveland’s, in the county
of Franklin.
Mr. SMITH,
AT a time when we may every moment
look for that happy event, the adoption
of the new Constitution by the ninth Hate ;
when a meeting of chofeu men is to be held
for the purpose of revifmg our local govern
ment —fliotild we not confider what laws
would be best to substitute in lieu of those
which we groan under at present ? All laws,
I conceive, ought to be adapted to the kind
of government, and to the temper and
Constitution of the particular country they
are designed for; and in general, I believe,
those laws which are moll agreeable to na
tural equity (forne few exceptions made) aie
the best.
As laws are a kind of barrier against the
inroads of vice, they must certainly have re
courle to the terror of punilhments to com
mand refpctf : But the laws which require
the great est circuinfpectjou and prudence on
the pait of the Legillature, are undoubtedly
those relating to debtors* if they are favour
able to the creditor, the lunation of the
debtor becomes too hard ; on the other hand,
if they lhould favour the debtor, public cre
dit is hurt by weakening the fccunty of con
tracts; but if a new perfect medium could
not be ellabliftied for the mutual security of
creditor and debtor, I would prefer enabling
a law more favourable to the former than the
latter. r lhe confidence of the creditor fully
claims it. I am, mylelf,' Well acquainted
v. ith people in this country who owe large
ft nis ; aud who are in pofieffion of property,
the common irtereft of which would be an
infinite relief to tlicit fuffei it)g creditors: But
theie people, instead of having a thought to
wards the payment of their debts, continue
to live in much Iplendour, and are calling
out now for an lnjl ailment to lcteen
them and enable them to retain yet longer
the vast property they hold, until they can
cflett what leems their wilh—to riefiaud al
together the uuiuiiunste men who had yuu
ficeuce in them.
I fincereiy hope, and I hope it in behalf of our
character as an honed people, that this unge
nerous in Bailment law wiii meet its flefcrts, if
any perfou will be hardy enough to bring it
toward in our Afiembly.
Ci%is et Miles in Vno. Ai
Augujla , June jB, iySB.
ANECDdTE.
AS a, geotleinan, in a certain Coffee
houlc, was writing a letter to his
friend, there being a good deal of company
prefeut, a pert young fcbow polled himleif
behind him.—The gentleman concluded his
letter with these words: “ I ftiould wri*e
“ more, but theie is an impertinent puppy
“ looking over my ftuuldci.” The maua
roui mftantly turned upon his heel, and ex
claimed aloud, “ I'll be damn’d ii 1 was
*• lockio| over your rUculder 1”
[No. XCI.]
' CHARLESTON, May 15.
From a CorreipOndent
There is not, I believe, tinder the fun, .1
people who are so trembling alive when any
thing is fhirf about government as the Ame
ricans. The many gronndlefs fears that have
been excited among the good people of this
country, bV the appearance of the proposed
Federal Constitution, may serve as a proof of
it: hut however gronndlefs thev may be, I
wilh that the fears of every honed man may
be removed, or h: cannot be h ppv under the
government be it ever so good. It is to quiet
the appTehendons of some of your readers
that I fend you the following rematks for
publication —There are manv very honed
people who are extremely alarmed at the
povfirs of the President of the United States;
and chiefly hee*ufe he may be rc-elefted after
having fetved four years so they think that the
office may defeend from father to son, and
by degrees this government become an here
ditary monarchy. The powers polTeffed by
the President aie pretty generally acknowledg
ed to be necelfary in every well constituted
government; and it is also generally thought
necefl’ary to lodge these powers in the hands
of a Angle perfou. So much has been writ
ten upon the fubjdrt, to prove that there are
checks fufficient to prevent his abusing his
powers, that I fliall only take notice of one
Angle clatiie, which I think will be an eternal
barrier against the office becoming hereditary.
No perfou under the age of thirtv-fivc years
can be elccled to the prefldcncy of the Unit
ed States. Fiom this Angle circumflance, it
is morally impcffible that this office should be
continued long in the fame family, were the
people ever so much inclined to it, because it
' will verr rarely happen that the President at
his death will have a son old enough to be a
1 candidate. This v.ill appear fuffc'ently clear
to those who will take the pains to examine
hiftory for themfclves. I think it will I c
found, on examining the ages of petfons com
ing to the crown in the usual line of fuccef
lion, that there are very few wbee
the crown could have been continued in the
fame fartiily for any confidetable length of
time, had it been elcfiive in the mode and
with such limitations as arc required by tbs
new Federal Constitution : Let us take Eng
land for an example, from the time of William
the Conqucrer. As William did not come to
i the crown in the usual way of fucccffion, we
are to leave him out of the account ; and then
' it appears that there were only eight of the
. whole number, that weretliitty-five yeatsold
when they came to the crown, and only me
of the eight, namely, George the second,
who was the fun of the immediate prcdecef
'» for—the others were only collateral branches
of the ioyal family. This appears by the fol
lowing account of their rcfpeClive ages at the
time of their coining to the crown :
After William the Conqueror comes Wil
liam ad, who was 31 years old. Henry irt
48; but he was not the son of William the
2d, his immediate predeccfl'or.—Stephen 31
—Henry 2d, 21—Richard irt, 31 — John 33
—Henry 3d, 10 —Edward ill, 33 Edward
ad, *3 —Edward 3d, ij— Richard 2d, 11
Henry 4th, 33 —licnry sth, 25 Henry 6th,
y months—Edward 41b, 1 y years— EH waul
sih,^ja—Richard 3d, 29—Heury yih, te>—
Henry Bth, ly— Edward4th, 9— Mary ift,
>; .i 11:01 tU daughter of Edward 6.l—Lii/a-