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■ RDAY, Oftober 18, 1788*
tdRGIA STATE GAZETTE
lIDEPENDENT REGISTER.
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WGST the queflions propofed'
ißdifcufled in our Academy, I
gg glad to hear the following:
B/>//f affairs so indifferent to us aln
Mpropoling this question, it will
B*yon will tell me, that this in-
Bftiould he proved : it will also
By. to point out a remedy ; for,
an evil, is rendering a fer-
At Ip importance to society. I
Save to make a few observations
□beads, in order to induce a more
fthan myfelf to take up the pen.
Kfident of mT inability for this
Kg as I am of the importance of
M jj ut flirrul'• Ibe the came of
Baken intp consideration by our
B; if the general reflexions which
lilgive room to the birth of one
K if they should prove fervice
■dvantageous to the state, even
Ble citizen J the fatisfartion which
By will be inexpfeftible.
jn indifference in all, fir public af
\l among us, is a fart but too ca
pe, and I purpofc to do it in few
InelTertual trouble tfiat the gn
lt have often taken to assemble the
ie power in cases of absolute ne
s a dr iking proof,
amc' trouble alio often in vain
y the Governor or his Prefideijt,
a board in cases of absolute ne
s a proof dill much more ftrik
•epeatecl reprelentationsr of the
ries in different counties, tin the
on to the laws parted for fheirlo
ltages; the difficulties which edm
rs have to encounter with in bring
citizens to execute any bufmefsfor
ic good, are convincing proofs of
ference.
'hat proves this indifference to he
among all claties °f people
out the state, is the fate which its
las been exposed to by the emilhon
laper money.
n the enemy were upon our fron
when depredations were commit
thout number; when they dared
to threaten us with a total ruin ;
iore than that, when they treated
i contempt; our coolness in this
the slowness, the difficulties ex
ed in aftembling the militia ; in
>urpufillanimity when on march}
i
all those are fatal" proofs of our indifference
to public snatters.
But I ftiould never finifh, were I to
enumerate ail the marks of our inaffirence
to public affairs. Let us endeavour to
find out the cause of it.
It is that we would aecomplirti with
money what every true republican ought
to aftift in bringing about by h>s own per
sonal services: we would hive soldiers
bv hire instead of becoming soldiers our
selves through duty. We pay them poor
ly, and they must l'erve us the fame ; were
w'e even to pay them better, couid we
expert to be served with the fame zeal
that a good citizen ought to serve his
country ?
It is that we w'ant to enjoy two things
incompatible; the fad tranquillity of a
despot’s fubjert, and the iueftimable bles
sings ‘of a feputftiran. After having
broken the fetters of fervitute> we still,
perhaps, fatigues;
after having fulhSounted the troubles
whereof we have eased opr country, we
are desirous ot repufe. sherc are.meitns
of obtaining it; but careful not to avail
yourselves of them they are contrary to j
the liberty you have acquired, and of
which you are so worthy for having so
well defended it against so '
artful an aggreflo^.
It is that we have,received no national
education. We tfatch our principles ami
manners by chance; whilst they oughttu
be uniform in all, and have a coherent
relation with the genius of the conflitutiotr
of our country j they ought to be early
inculcated in our schools through the path
of virtue into the minds of our young
people.
It is that since our happy revolution we
have received emigrants from all Eurcr
pean powers, and instead of drawing them
over to our republican maxims, we have,
perhaps but too much imbibed their con
trary tenets. Liberty is a burden to the
fubjert of a monarch ; his foul was never
farmed to inhabit so vast a region ; in
stead of roving ovfer it with the cafv free
dom of a republican, artonifljed, no longer
to fee the walls it?which before the was
so narrowly inclpfed, the sites, the flut
ters, fatigues ierVelf, an c falls.
It is that we have no public a-ftbcLtions
for the purpose of confuting the imereft
and welfare of our country; none of those
military performances and entertainments
which elevate and fill the heart with the
love of one’s country, and endears her
citizens to one another.
It now remains to point out a remody
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the
rvoL. ra. n«. cvm.i
to all the eaufes of our indijfe-encc to pub
lic rjfairs, which talk 1 jtave to mote
able hands, and lhall content myfelf with
endeavouring to conetl that only, which
relates to the Indian war : If I succeed in
the attempt my dcfign will be accom
plithed.
It will not be goirtg from my fubjeft to
mention a small nation in Europe, which,
for near five hundred years pad, experi
enced the fame struggles as you have done,
and was crowned with the fame fuccefy.
Permit me to tell you in what manner,
finre that time, it has jhreferved its free
dom, though surrounded by martial
powers, whole plan and fyfiem is that of
conquefr. Each citizen there is a soldier,
and cannot enjoy the privileges of the
former title without supporting his ftiarc
of the burden iuipofed, though in different
ways in every fifctcty. '“At firfl incapable
of paying a Handing army, in cases of need
this army has always been found since io
her own inhabitants. A good and well
difeiplined militia was always adequate tp
the talk* Eiach man in the infantry it
obliged to furnidi himfelf with an
which becemes his Sunday and Holiday
spirit, with a firelock of a preferibed bore,
; hze and form, and all other accoutrcmcntf
neceiiary far a soot-soldier : he mull pro,*
due at e/ery regular infpeflion of his
arms ar.fJ accouticiucnis thirty-five car
tridges* Eelides every Sunday and
day they have appointed times to exercifp
in their different places of rendezvous t
fiitt by small platoons, next by companies,
then by regiments ; until their turn come*
yearly to form a can p, in which they are
trained to all the manoeuvres which an
infantry can perform. So long as they
remain iu their diftrift little interruption
is found to their business, consequently
they receive no pay ; but wheu they
march out in actual service, they are fed
ants paid by the fta'e. It is not allowed!
to any citizen to fur nidi a fubflitute; ho
would be despised and not received in the
ranks ; ami he that attempted to fend hin*
would be derived of the privileges of 2
citizen.
The cavalry join a’fo these camps ; they
have their field officers and their (sass of
ficers ; their fixed flation* in case of alarm;
appointed times to meet at their places of
rendezvous; they learn to form them
selves into squadrons, to perform ail kind
of movements and evolutions; to be exatt
in their manoeuvres ; they accuttom them
fclve3 to military fubordinatlon ; exercifc
tbemfelves to allertnefs and agility J to
break, disperse, and collect themfetves