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■ RDAY, Oftober 18, 1788* tdRGIA STATE GAZETTE lIDEPENDENT REGISTER. J „•-» .. . I L— "V _ |)OM of the PRESS, and TRIAL by JURY, to remain inviolate forever. C erf i tut ion of Georgia t Mr s<f £ ; Printed hy JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State \ F£ays , Articles of intelligence f Advertisements , &c. will be gratefully and every kind of Printing performed. B resift medulla U njifccribus. K Cic *‘ Emit h, 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 /* 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