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in cases where votes /hall be e
qual for two or more candidates
in the fame diftridt, the Governor
with the advice of the Executive
Council, ihall determine by lot
which shall be the member.
By Order of the Hou/e ,
JOHN POWELL, Speaker.
Atttfi .
JAMES M. SIMMONS, C. G. A.
Augvjla t tke 2sd January, 1785).
For the Augusta Gazette.
PERHAPS no event has taken
place in the world since the de
'ftru&ion of the Roman empire, more
astonishing or ot more importance
than the American revolution—an
event which, while it difFuled the
bltflings ot liberty over a consider
able part of the globe, opened the
eyes of surrounding nations, and
taught mankind to affcrt thole rights
which God and nature teaches to
belong to every individual*, but
which had hitherto been tramp ] ed
upon in molt countries, and but
feebly aflerted in any.
No fconer did the virtuous sons of
America relolve to claim their un
qucftionable rights, than the atten
tion ot all Europe was turned to
wards them. I hole who, from be
ing nursed in the bosom of ddpotiim,
had comra&cd no ideas, but such as
were correspondent with iervitude,
wilhed to fee so daring a people whip
ped into vaflalage—while more exalt
ed minds in different countries, who
had their welfare at heart, trembled
for their success. But they were not
long kept in fufpence. Those who
had relolution to demand their rights
were found pofleffed of courage to
defend them *, and though the flower
of troops, hitherto deemed invinci
ble, were commiflioned to enforce
obedience to the royal mandates of
a haughty monarch—yet they weie
soon taught their inferiority to men
contending for those privileges, to
which life itfelf is but a secondary
consideration : 1 hey soon experi
enced that they had to contend with
those, who, having examined the.
primary rights of human nature,
were not to be intimidated by the
threats of a King fan&ified by the
authority of a venial Parliament.
The virtue and magnanimity—
the perseverance and determined re
solution of the American troops exit
ed the admiration of all mankind,
and those armies which had been
con mifficned to rivit the chains of
Birtilh tyranny, were compelled to
fly before the sons of freedom, or
iubmic to be led captives through
that country, which before they had
no doubt ot conquering.
Every exertion which pride and
ambition could fuygert were atiemp
ed to enslave a people rtlolved to be
free—till wearied with fruitless en
deavours, Great- Britain was forcet;
to content, that those whom she
could not conquer ihould live in
freedom and independence j and to
d
content herfelf with the expenditure
of immense treasures—the iofs of
many "men—and the capture of her
two principal armies.
1 his unusual phaenomtnon in the
political world of a people refoived
to be free, in opposition to a court
determined to reduce them to lub
je&ion, whiie it engaged the atten
tion of diftanc kingdoms-* drew torh
tne abilities of political writers—
and the original and derivative rights
ot men weie freely diicuffcd : ihe
people at large afiumed the liberty
of thinking for themfelves,and open
ly to avow their fentimems : Jh ven
in absolute governments Kings were
at length confidertd but as men, and
Ipirit of freedom pervaded the moll
delpotic monarchies. The dc&rine
of civine indefeufible right in Pences
and abjeft fubmiflion in the people
quickly became exploded, and to
examine rights of a King—or even
to animadvert on his administration
was no longer considered as the un
pardonable fin again if the Holy Ghost .
The liberality of sentiment and
the spirit of freedom to which this
great revolution have given birth,
cannot be easily eradicated from the
breasts of men, but may lay a foun
dation for future revolutions in other
countries till the inestimable bleflings
of freedom and equal liberty become
umverfally diffufed.
ZENO.
Mr. Smith,
IT having been reported that I had
declined being a cancidate for
the Houie of Weprefentatives in the
Congress of the* United States ; I
think it my duty to come publickly
forward and pledge myfdf to the
flare, that, if 1 am eleded to that
trult for the lower dill rift, and for
which dillrift only I conceive myielf
eligible, agreeable to law, I will ac
cept the appointment, and attend
my duty in that House. 1 am, &c.
JAMES JACKSON.
Augvjla, Jan. 28, 1789.
Mr. Smith,
II has been induflrioufly propa
gated, that the honorable Abra
ham Baldwin had accepted an ap
pointment under the*United States
in order to preclude him from the
fuffrages of this country in the late
election of Senators—l hat report
succeeded lo far, as it cid not ap
pear that any of his friends were au
thored to lay, that he wished the
appointment. It is now as busily
insinuated, to injure his election as
Rtprtfcntative to the Federal Con
greis.
For the information of the good
people of this state, who prefer long
standing and unexceptionable fei
vices to artifice and intrigue, you
*ill please to insert in ycur Paper
the following letter from that He nor
able Gentleman to a (Jcmkmin in
this town: ' * 1
i
NgwYcrk, loth Nov. 1788*
Dear Sir ,
“ You gave me much pleafurc by your
long friendly talk on Georgia matters. My
anxiety to get information of them has beeu
* very great, and very seldom gratified. K
there • was any thing to tell you from this
quarter as interesting to you, I lliould not ne
glect the opportunity. Every thing here seems
to be hulhed into fdent expectation of the ap
proach of the new government. I can thiult
» of no event here worthy of communication
since what you must have learned from our
friend Colonel Few. The common chat I
hope to have a fliorter way of communicating
in a few weeks Yon tell me they are all
alive with expectation of office, &c. the pre
sent jnudure is just the focus of ambition.
Your fiiendfliip has caryed out several piQces
of work for me; ofeither of which I lhould
, be proud to foe. thought worthy ; but the in
fluence of the eledioneering must already have
become so inveterate, and I have been so long
absent, that however I may have the good
wiihes of some few friends, I can exped no-*
thing more The appointments at the present
time, throughout the union, are so valUy im-*
portant, on which the success of our new
framed government, and of consequence the
future story of our country depends, I most
ardently hope we may foe kepc from those vio
lent feuds, and paffionsy which will involve
our state, and indeed our nation, iadifgrace.
80 far as I have been informed from several
of the states which have had their elections,
they are likely to fend forward their most re-
Ipedable men. It is to be hoped their firft
code of laws will be worthy of the founders
of an empire, which, for profpeds, and ex
tent, has uot yet been equalled. I am,&c.
ABRAHAM BALDWIN.”
N E w-y O R K, Dtcmbtr 24.
Yeflerday arrived the lliip St. James, Capt;
Collins, in 44 days from Cadix; on her pas
sage the spoke a veflcl, who a few days before
fell in with a Scotch brig from Gottenburgh
in Sweden, who informed him that the Danes
had joined the Ruffians,and laid siege toGot«
tenburgh with an army of j B,coo men. We
also learn by the above veflel that the Alge
rines had declared war agaihft France, aud
seized all the French vellels in their ports. ’
They also spoke three Engliih men of war oflF
Madeira, who were waiting to protect some
Neapolitan thips from being made prizes of
by the cruisers of the regency of Tunis.
PITTSBURGH, December 6.
A letter from Fort Harmer, at the mouth
of the Mulkingum, received a few days ago,
fays, “ Mr. Wilfonbas been here, but is now
gone up to the Falls to bring down Captain
Brandt and a number of Indians that are there.
They are expected in here in a few days,
when, no doubt, the business of the treaty
will go cm,’*
CHARLESTON, January 8.
Yeflerday the AfTembly having made a
House, proceeded to business.
The following geutlemep were chofets
electors of a Ptefident for the United States
on the behalf of this state, viz.' Gen. Gadsden,
Col. Henry Laurens, Col. Symkins, E. Rut
ledge, Esq. General Pinkney, Judge Hey
ward, and Judge Grimke. ' *
William Smiih and Daniel Huger, Efjrs.
judge Burke, Geu. Sumpter, and Dr. Tucker,
are proclaimed Members of the Federal Le
gillaturje.
A few days ago Mr. Joseph Pledger, a re
fpeflabie planter in Marlborough county, was
ftiot dead, when fitting by his fire-fide,‘ about
eight o’clock in the evening. Diligent eu
quiry being let on foot after the perpetrator
of this inhuman action, he was difeovered to
be a Negro fellow belonging to Mr. Pledger.
A trial took place between two Magistrates
and five freeholders, who found the fellow
guilty, and fentenred him to be burnt to death,
which was accordingly done next day, in pre
sence of a great number of his colour, who,
it is hoped, received such an impression from
the pDnjffimeut of their fellow mortal rhar a
repetition of fucli an afl’affination need not be
dreaded, The Negro owned the fat] for
which he fuffered, and accused another Ne*
gto with being an accomplice, who has been