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S HTURDAY, January io, 1789.
GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE 5
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INDEPENDENT REGISTER.
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Conflitutiojiy Article LXI.
HAVING again resumed my
pen, 1 hope you will do me
the jultice of handing ro the public
through the medium o T your Gazette,
my opinion of the propofcd Lonfti
tution ; which, I flatter rnyfelf, mull
concur with the sentiments of every
man who dares to claim the name of
freedom
I conflder it as deftru&ive to good
government, replete with sentences
of ftlr-interefl, and wears on its ve
ry face the ftampof slave
ry and op predion.
• Be then not lurprifed if a free and
17 dependent people fliould abfolute
jy refufe to bend their necks to the
ferviie yoke—my (word hangs reft
lels in its fcal bard, and fliudders at
the impending event.
HOTSPUR.
December 17, 1788.
Four Pounds Reward.
WA S stolen lad Wednesday
night, out of a pen near my house,
(anti another horse left in his plate) a flrong
made bright bay work gelding, trots heavy,
is a little sway back'd, about 15 hands high,
9 or 10 years old, and has no brand or marks
that I know of. The horse left is a sorrel,
about 14 and a half hands high, 9 or 10 years
old, a large blaze in his face, hind feet and
legs white, a few saddle spots, has been used
to the peers, and if left by any but his right
owner he is desired to prove his property, pay
the charges and take him away ; and whoever
fecutes the thief in goal and fends home the
horse with information to the fubferiber, (hall
receive the above Reward or Forty Shillings
for either of them, paid by
‘ JOHN HALL..
Richmond County, Dec. 8, 1788.
For Sale,
Two LOTS
In SPRINGFIELD;
Cafb, produce or merchandize
will be received in payment. For
particulars enquire of
Jlma/a Jack/on.
/ lugufia, Dec. Hi 178 S.
& blank Deeds of Convey
ance to be had by the Printer.
tc * fame causes produce the fame es-
X feds” is a philosophical axiom sel
dom disputed ; but from the clamor of paity,
I am apprehensive that it will not be admit
ted as a thelis in di (cuffing the politics ot the
day. Without farther preface —’VVtil the
fame system of government, so tar as it can
be applied to a particular date, have the fame
effetl in that date as the original from 'which
it was copied will have throughout the whole?’
If this were granted, I would only add —as
the Federal Conditution is univerfailv approv
ed of, and as the proposed Conditution of the
date of Georgia is as near a copy thereof as
the intereds of the date will admit; why
lhould we hefitatea moment to bring about so
delirable a revolution—But it will be objedeil
that in matters which concern our own inter
nal police, it is inadinidible—to judge whether
these evils will be of more prejudice to the
date, than it will derive advantage from an
efficient government, is the bufincf* of the
present convention; and it ought not be doubt
ed, but they will adopt or reject agreeable to
the preponderance of these conlidcrations.
Do these very people who gave such unlimit
ed powers to the Prefdent of the United
States, declaim againff the poweis vetted in
the Governor by the new Conditution ?—Do
they dyle it an abridgment of freedom, that
that part of the community who arc the prin
cipal supporters of government, dull nomi
nate their representatives; or rather tlo they
repine at the abolition of that anarchy, that
mean bribery and low artifice, which have hi
therto pervaded eledions ?—Libeity will lel
dom dyleihar man one of her Georgian funs,
who is possessed i-t so little inrtudty as not to
be able to acquire what will entitle him to be
an elector. 1 lie qualifications of a reprefeu
tative are next reprobated—had the fame
number been required in the proposed as in
the present Conditution, it weie an tmanfwer
able objection : with respect to the time of
residence, it is too diort to acconrpliih nine
tenths of mankind as politicians, and perhaps
very little too long to learn the greater patt
of foreign politicians their duty iu this new
sphere. To crown the whole, the proposed
conditution is abused because it is not welled
up with the minutiae of process ; or to speak
properly that it has veded the power and
mode of didributing judice in the hands of
these very men who rail at its imperfections.
That there is a likelihood of its contribut
ing less to the public welfare than the former,
is a political impodibility— a probation of four
years will (hew all its deformities and imper
fections, and the collected and improved wis
dom of Georgia may then make a third, and,
perhaps, a lucky effort, and so hand down to
poderity a Conjunction which reason and found
policy will preserve free from all change and
innovation.
CASCA.
From the Maryland Gazette .
ORIGINAL ANECDOTE.
A Shrewd son of Vulcan applied,
noi long since, to an eccent ic
Attorney in a neighbouring town for
his opinion and advice refpe&ing
THE
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feme legal tranfuction in which he
was then engaged. The Attorney, 1
w tii a promptitude which is gene
rally excited by a profpedt of gain,
gave the needhuy information : and
then, as the Blacksmith was a neigh • •
boer of his, and had formerly been
a domestic in his family, toe k the
liberty to request h;s alfiftancc in >
picking a lock, ot which he had 101 l ;
the key. The Blacksmith readily „
picked the leek, and shewed the At- $
torncy, by his desire, how he might ji
do it in future on a similar accident, t.
By foms unaccountable aflbciaiion
of ideas, the picking of the lock -
brought up to view in the Attorney’s
mind, his want of a wife.—*~ieto!d
his neighbour, that, during a long
course of celibacy, he found it very
uncomfortable living alone, and that
if he could find a woman like his
filler Betty (an odd old maid, vexed *
that her charms lhould bloom and
wither untasted and unattempted) he
would even ventuie upon wedlock.
He added, that he (hould be obliged
to him if he would look out, and en
deavour to find a female with the
properties of the before named Bet
ty, and give information of the fuc
ce's of his search. The Blacksmith
proiniled him he would, and then
departed. A few months after, this
limb of the law exhibited an account
of 123. againlt the Blacksmith, for
his advice, and requclltd payment —
it was rtlultd—and the delinquent
summoned soon after to appear be
fore a juflii e and aniwer to the luit
of the Attorney. The Blacksmith
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appeared, and exhibited the follow
ing account, which had been pre- •
vioufiy filed againit the lawyer:
%
Sept . ix,> Mr. to ■■ , Dr.
1788. 5
To picking a lock for him f.o 3 o
To (hewing him how to pick one 030
To horse-hire, time and troubled
in a fruit’efs attempt to find >0 6 o
a woman like his filler Betty, j
£.O xi o
The Attorney, abaftied, confound
ed, and mortified at rhi« procedure,
which exposed him to fiifire and ri
dicule, and the defendant threaten
ing that he would rarrv the matter
before the Court of Common Pleas,
was glad to diferrtinue the action,
give up the debt, and pay the coils
of the suit himlelf.