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SATURDAY, December 6, 178 8.
GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE
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INDEPENDENT REGISTER.
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FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRI A I hv Itt r v • • "
Y > t 0 rcraam forever. Confiiution of Georgia .
AUGU ST A: Printed TO' H N F Smith p. . ,
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From the (Charlejlon) American
Recorder
“ The following political refactions on AME
RICA are copied from a new and inters fling
publication , called THE POLITICAL HE
RALD, under the head of the present times;
which, we doubt not , will afford entertain
ment to our readers
A M E- R r C A.
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THE features of the present age are molt
clearly discerned, and seen too to best
advantage, in America. Emigrants from the
old world, flying from opprefljon, carried
along with them, to the vast American con
tinent, industry, fevete oeconomy, just ideas
of civil liberty, and minds emancipated from
the tyranny of custom, and open to the most
enlarged views of the most liberal policy and
jurisprudence. The virtuous spirit was extri
cated from amass of fermenting matter, and
wafted over the Atlantic, formed new bodies.
The fined and most expreflrve features of the
parent,who had begun to know the infirmities
of old age, are revived in the child. The Ame
rican, flourishing in the vigour of youth, and
poflefting all the aftivity of that period, is not
confined, like restive age, to one spot, but
ranges freely over different nations, ever rea
dy to adopt whatever he may find conducive
to his own interest, or that of the republic.
He is afloat on the great ocean of the world,
and, being in motion, is more easily turned"
into new paths of adventure, than if he was
at rest. The examples of ancient, of latter,
and of present times, are before the legillators
of America ; and, from the whole, they
formed a system of government, which, if the
powers of coercion were as Jlrong and ingredient
in it as the spirit of liberty , might be pro
nounced to be the best, as it is the latest,
which has appeared in the world.
Whether the authority of Congress will ever
Lc fully established over the Thirteen States,
or not, is a question which time alone can re
lolve ; a'B there is nothing in hiftory, or mo
dern example, which so nearly resembles the
political salvation of North-America, as to
he a certain ground of prediction on this sub
—The Amphydionic Council, which,
while Greece preserved its independence,
united the different states in one confederacy
againff a common enemy, did not, hotyever,
preserve internal concord ; and even the in
fluence and authority of the Amphyflions, in
cases of foreign war depended on circumstances
which either have no place, or are not iu full
force, in North-America. The great body
of the Greeks were a most superstitious people,
and the AmphyCtipns had the command of
the Oracle at Delphos. In the pure times of
the Grecian republics, the whole world, be
tides themselves, were in a state of barbarifm*;
a sameness of language and religion, and an
atfimty of taste, manners and cufloms, there
fore, formed among the Greeks, and even
among the Greeks and their colonies in Asia,
Italy, and the ifiands in the adjacent seas, a
strong and intimate bond of union, hy all
others, where it is to be found, the different
feds are animated against each other with the
common fuiy of teligious zeal. There is
therefore no engine of priesthood to move and
direCl the united force of the States to one
common enemy of different language, religion
and manners, who will ever attempt to subdue
the American States. The authority of Con
gress will neither be confirmed by the aits of
an Oracle, nor the terror of a Xerxes.
N E W -YORK, November j.
By a gentleman who left Marietta, on the
Mufkingum, three weeks since, we are fa
voured with the following information : That
there was a favourable profpett of a treaty
with the Indians in the course of the present
month, numbers of different tribes were then
on the spot and appeared friendly, and Col.
Brant and other Chiefs were daily expeded ;
That though there was no appearance of hosti
lities at present, yet Arid attention is paid to
secure and defend the settlers: That the square
of buildings at Campus Martius ismearly com
pleted, and also the blockhouses, one of which
- is placed at each corner of the square : That
laws agreeable to theconflitution are publiAi
ed by the Governor and Judges, civil and mi
litary o-ftcera gra appointed, Courts have been
held, unanimity prevails, and it is hoped from
the present disposition of the people that good
order and regularity will be their charaderL
ftic.
PITTSBURGH, OSober 18.
Thursday sass set off for the Mufkingum,.
Gen. John Gibson, he being appointed one of
the Commiftioners on the part of this Bate to
treat for and purchase from the Indians a trad
of land on Lake Erie, lately ceded by the
United' States to Pennsylvania. We under
hand that Gen. Richard Butler is the other
Coir.mifiicuer $ he is already at the Mu/kin
gum.
PETERSBURG, (Virginia) OSober\6.
ExtraQ of a letter from a gentlemen in North - ;
Carolina , elated OSober 12, 1788.
*< The citizens of this hate, no,twithfland
ing the exertions of many persons ofdiffmdi< n
among us, still seem disposed to rej'ed the
New Conftitotiou, as it now Hands —many
however, have been brought over, and we
have some hopes that the ensuing assembly
will recommend another Convention, to ie
confider the fubjed.
His Excellency Samuel jehnfion, in his
answer to the address of the inhabitants of
Tatborough, (North - Carolina) oblerves—
il I am well aftured that the citizens ts this
hate were at no time averse to a federal go
vernment, but the pi offered fyfiem, appearing
to many not so perfect as they could with,
and believing that amendments might more
certainly be obtained by\poflponirg the rati
fication, till after the proposed amendments
were confirmed by a general convention, they
adopted the meafores Which ycu to highly
disapprove : these measures were ojpofed by
the minority, who offered reasons in support
of their opiniro, which I flatter myfelf, on a
cool and deliberate invefligation, will have
the weight and influence, which it is to be
lamented they bad not at an earlier period.”
0 Sober 2s, Monday la A the General Af
fcrnbly of this commonwealth, met at the
public buildings in Richmoud ; and on Tues
day they proceeded to the choice of Speaker,
when Thomas Mathews, Esq. was appointed.
A considerable quantity of the new crop of
tobacco las already coindin } lut the fcaicity ,
the
of carti has reduced the price as low as eigh
teen fhillingsper hundred.
SAVANNAH, AW. 20.
Thtec Negroes, we are informed, were
killed, one day laA week, at Mr. Walthour’s
plantation, in Liberty county, and some car
ried off from thence, by Indians, fuppoled to
be thole known by tbe name of Sim uolics.
Died. Mr. James Hood, of tus place*
merchant, a gentleman much refpefted, and
whose death is greatly regretted,
YeAerday the Coroner’s InqueA fat on the
body of Capt. James Stewart, of this place,
then lying at the illand of Burnpot, wdio gave
it as their opinion that he came to his death
by falling from on board a (loop bound to the
southward on Monday last.
AW. ay. It is the interest of Chatham
county to Araiu every nerve to support that o£
Liberty. NotwithAanding the acceding of
M'Gillivrey to a longer truce, the people of
that county have little faith in its taking place,
unless, like the former, it wilt confiff of hor
rid depredation and merder. It is probable,
as he is a mar, of cunning, thole cruelties may
be thrown off on the refugee towns, the Semi *
nolas, Bpzzard RocA. &c. Ought not an
inveAigation to take place between our go
vernment and this titular foverrign of the
Cieeks, whether those barbarities are fantiion
.ed by that'nation, in violation (not of fate}
but continental governments > The inhabitant*
of Liberty, unless that support is given, will
affutedly break. Chatham, of course, be
comes the frontier, and, from the long and
barten run of the is much more de
fcncelcfs. Capt. WhitcheadVtrocp ot horse,
is new complete; that they deserve the con
fidence of the country the following accouut
of the late pursuit of the party at Walthour’s,
in an extraft of a letter from Capt. White
head to Col. Maxwell, will fully evince.
“ Newport , lsth Nov, 1788*
il Dear Sir ,
“ On the 14th infiant, at 4 o’clock in the
morning, I received information that the In
dians had attacked Mr. Walthom’s planta
tion, killed three, and carried off eight Ne
gioes. Being at a loss for a pilot, we pro
' ceeded to Mr. Taylor’s, within a half mile
. of the place where the mifcHief was done.
Knowing Mr. Walihour to be a good w ondf»
man, and acquainted with thedifferet crofting
places on the Alatamaha, I feat two expieffes.
to him to join me at the above plantation, but
received no answer. I then proceeded tcv
featch out the trail, and after going about four
miles found it, which made for Beard’s Bluff.
We pursued with the utmoA expedition 5,
about a mile and an half from the Bluff they
: had fixed a centinel, who gave a signal a*-our
: appearance by firing a gun. We proceeded
. as fafi as poftible to the Bluff; 00 our arrival
there the Indians Aed into a swamp, a thick
cane break ; we pursued them half a mile in ,
cutting roads with our swords. Not being
rble to come up with them I returned to the
Bluff, where we retook a fmallNegro, and a
number of articles. I then ordered eight men
with the beff guns to diftnount, and laid an*
ambufcsdc,requeAingLieut. Maxwell to pro
ceed with the remainder back on the route
we came, to continue firing of guns and hal
lowing fora mile or *.»>. to decoy the enemy
into the belief that had retreated, which
had the defiled effeft, for in a short time af'tf
CVol. in. no.cxv.t