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SATURDAY, December 6, 178 8. GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE - o R INDEPENDENT REGISTER. * 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. . , ! „» * "• 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. i 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