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S HTURDAY, January io, 1789. GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE 5 *\• - * O R INDEPENDENT REGISTER. ' * ll l ■ l ■— n » Jr? FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL b j JURY, to remain inviolate forever. Conjliiution of Georgia . dU GUS TA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State % FJfays , Articles of Jntelfu J genes Advertijements, will be gratefully received , and every kind cj Printing performed . Mr. Smith, Freedom of the Press , &c. to remain inviolate forever . 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 [Vol. 111. No. CXIX.J 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 4 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.