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PHILADELPHIA, March 29.
The public mind is at length
awakened to the danger which
menaces the public liberties and
the only quertion which now re
mains to be decided, is, Whe
ther the conflitution (hall be re
linquifhed. and abfolufe power
placed, as in the Athens of old,
in the hands of a majority of
fairly men or fuch conflitu
tional meafures taken as (hall
refiore thofc parts of the confu
tation v/hich have been violated,
and cflablifhed by new and pre
cife additions ?
But it will be afked, how can
meafures fo obvioufly neceflary
be accomplifhed ? 1 he confli
tution has not been fufiiciently
explicit in reftri&ing branches
cf the government, from tref
psfling on the fun&ions of
others —the men who fccretly
lead and publickly a& in thofc
unconflitutional meafures, have
the public money at command,
2nd lavifh it to purpofes the
mod deflru&ive; the aggran
dizement of a few is foie ob
ject of a party, a great number
of which are inverted with pow*
er, by intrigue, influence, pre
judice and terror; this party
hath lulled or intimidated a
preat part of the peonle into a
rtupid filcnce, and thofe who fee
the progrertive ruin, look on
I with numb aftonifhment, at the
I d;ring flrides that arc making to
I defiroy the form and eflence of
I our government.
I J he plain and pra&icable re-
I fnedy for thefe evils and dangers
I I'es in the people—and if the
I people do not apply the remedy
I uifv sre fit only for flaves.
I r 1 remedy is a total change
I cf men in the ftrrt inflance, by
I Ue conflUutional refort to elec-
I tion,
I } cliara&ers of thofe who
I introduced, countenanced,
I c mnived at or fupported arbi-
I J| ar ) r an d ruinous meafures
I be examined in the ftates
I to v/hich they be-
I !’ n y’. every man of that
I cia P t 'on fhould in his diftrift
I : e . ca^e d upon to account for
■ 1 as a fervant of the
■ people.
■ But the great and primary
I in fuch a neceflary change
I r at which would go to the
H Wcc of the evil.
■ rK P r cpenfity of man to
I [ ? a hufe power, has
I] : e . mc common to all po
■ writers. Our conflitu
■c-v v ent^art^er to guard againft
■ *it\ n than any other; but
wc Tf 3 experience of an
‘ fh rnoc^ern times to guide
l< \ power has proved
potent for the precautions
THE LOUISVILLE GAZETTE;
AND
REPUBLICAN TRUMPET.
T U E S D AY, Ma v i 3, 18 00.
LIBERTY IS OVR MOTTO 4ND TRUTH OUR GUIDE
cf wifdom and experience.
It was early forefeen in tbe
convention that the influence
which the executive would hold
over the army and navy, a mul
titude of appointments to civil
offices, foreign embaflies, and
patronage in various other
branches of the public fervice,
would one day render the pow
er of an individual not difpofed
to preferve the freedom of his
country, too great for the o’her
branches of the government.
And it was alfo apprehended
that making the fenate at once
legiflators and a branch of the
executive, and in a particular
cafe a court of juftice, would
place them in a ftation fo tempt
ing tomcn of depraved ambition
that they might from the mere
want of controul, endanger the
conflitution, and ufurp every
power that belongs to the dirtri
butive parts of the government
into their own bands.
How far experience has jufli
fied thefe predictions thofe who
have fludied the fubje£i may
determine.
To a few fa£h, however, wc
may yet fafcly advert, and the
people who are yet the fovc
reign will do well to confidcr the
circumftances while they have
the means of redrefs in their
hands.
Ever fince the perpetration of
the Britifh treaty, that Pandora's
box of America; the public
profperity has been finking, and
along with it the charr&er of
our country —if the evils were
confined to eventhefe aflh&ions,
the cafe would not be fo dep’o
lable, becaufe a free people can
at all times by their mere ener
gy, renovate their natural means
of profperity by wife and pru
dent meafures, and they can re
ftore their chara&er by confin
ing to obfeurity the authors of
their difgrace.
A free people have thefe
means always in their power —
and the period approaches when
the people will have to choofe
between the deftru&ion of their
liberties as a nation, and the re
jeftion of all thofe from public
fiations who have been aiding
and abetting in thofe meafures
which have brought the nation
and the conflitution into tneir
prefent jeopardy.
Ler the people but for a mo
ment recolleft the lafl; eleflion,
and the atlifrces employed to
trick the people out of their
choice, I them remember
that one of the mofl atrocious
and impudent libels ever written
by man was published by a per
fon now holding an embafly in
aforeign country* Letthepeo-
pic rcfleft on the profiffions
made by Mr. /dams in his
inaugural fpccch and the ap
plauic which its apparent tem
per and fnnplicity called forth
from republicans too ready to
give credit where proftflions are
made.
Lot the people compare the
ronduft of Mr. /darrs with
thefc proftflions, let them
compare indirect menaces of
laying a Hate in duf and afhes —
let them examine the edition of
addreifes, and anfwcrs during
the fcajon oj terror, in 1798,
and remember that the Futfome
compiler of them has judged
feme of the anfwers to bad to
be publifiled. Let the people
examine what was then ptotnif
ed, have the productions oj the
country rift n or jalien in value?
Have the public taxes encrea/ed or
diminished ? Have the public rights
been pre/erved or diminifhed ?
Thflfe are ferious confidera
tions, and they demand more
than a cold perufal—the people
mufl aft upon them at the ap.
preaching clfftion, or prepare
therftfclvcs for the calm of dejpo
iifm.
] 00kat themeafures agitating
in Congrefs—the Bankiup: Bill
gives a patronage ot nearly tuo
hundred andfifty office’s great and
fmall—the judiciary HU,gives the
nomination of twenty-five new
judges , befides mar dials, clerics-
See, to the amount of one hun
dred officers in all! Why are
thefc meafiues pufhed forward
now ? Is it for the public good
—or for party purpofs,
NOTICE.
HP HAT nint months, after the
-*•- dale hereof application will
be made to the honorable the Inferior
court cf the county of Warren, for
leave to ftll a trail of land , contain
ing two hundred acres , cn the
Ogechee river , adjoining Lewis
Braddy and Kingery : it being the
the real rjlate of John Curryde
ceafed, for the benefit oj the heirs
of Jaid fjlate .
Benjamin Warner,
Richard Curry,
Adminiflralors cf )did efalc.
February 20, 1800.
N O T I C E.
my wife, Rhoda
V V Coleman, baa left my bed and
boarding againft my will ; thefe arc
therefore to forwarn all perfons bom
dealings with her on ny account, ae I
am determined to be the d'fpofcr of my
own property, and to pay no debts,
but tliofe of my own njr.
John Coleman.
Jefer/X r “S Ftb. 25, iBo©.
To THE PUBLIC.
TIIK Editor of the Louifi illt
Gazette reJpcßfully informs
the public in generaland his
Friends in par titular , that he has
this day taken into co-partmfhip,
Mr. James liely. The bufmefs
will in future be conduced under
the Finn of
p A Y AND H E LY,
Vi'hofe at Uni ions will be rxercifed
to render general fa (isfabhor —
And they pledge them [eves /or tht
con/I ant exercife of their hejl judg
ment in the dijpo/ition of fuck effayS
and intelligence as may be prejented
for publication .
Ambrofo Day.
fames Hely,
April 20, iSoo.
lothe Pations of the Louifville
Gazette,
The Editor of this Gaze tie,
reqnejls all tlwfr who havi any De
mands cgninjl him , to prrfnl them
for payment ; and thofe Subfcrtbers
who are in arrears , are particularly
called upon to pay them as early as
poJfibU , as it will be neocfjary to
clcfe all accounts immediately.
The public and Sub/cribers wilt
pleafc to aeapt the exprejfion of the
viojl Jincere gratitude , as a jvfl
acknowledgment for the very kind
fufport the Editor has received price,
his commencement in bufmefs .
Ambiofe Day.
April 29, 1800.
BATTALION ORDERS. *
Louifville , April 1 4, 1800.
THE Captains of the com
panies belonging, or at
tached to, the [cffcrlon battalion
under my command, with their
fubalterns and firft ferjeants, in
conformity to regimental orders
of the 3d mflant, will properly
armed and accoutred, be on pa
rade by 10 o’clock in the fore
noon of Friday the 16th of May
next; and
By the fame hour, of Satur
day the 17th of May, being the
day followirg, they, with their
respective companies armed and
equipped according to law, will
be on the regimental mufter
ground, whete the ufual infpec
tion will 'ake place, and the men
be further inflmGed in 1 lie du
ties required of them in a6lion.
The commilhoned officers
will have their rommiffions on
the ground, and thole com
marding noops or companies
will he prepared with exadi nmf
ter rolls.
THOMAS JOHNSON,
Majori
BLANK. DEEDS
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