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LOUISVILLE, TUESDAY, yluf'tfl 19, iBco. Died, vcftcrdav morning, &ifs Charlotte Jack fort, only daughter of Governor Jackfon. This is the fecond aw*ul vifita <ion which the parents have receiver! within the (pace |pf three months ANSWER To Mr. W. InveCb’vc alone can hut wcak- Jy fupply a deficiency in argu ment unfupported hy rrafon or fad, and as your laft effort ap pears to have almoft exhaufted your funds in the firft, I will oppofc you with the two lad only. Fir ft You exprefs a defire that I would be more explicit in pointing out the fourcc from whence that much to he appre hended ftrearta of bribery in the next eleftion of president and vire-prefident of the United Stares might flow, AnTwer—By a recent and authentic ftatemenl in the re publican of the 27th of June laft, it appears that Jonathan Dayton, Speaker of the houfe of representatives of the United States, held in his hands 8611 dollars 60 cents, from the 3d of March 1797, to the month of July 1798 ; and he alfo held in his hands, a ballance of 91,917 dollars 52 cents, from the month of July 1799, to the 2 2d of Ja nnary 1800 ; and ft ill continues to hold the lum of 18,142 dol lars and 52 cents unaccounted for. Timothy Pickering, late fe cretary of ftatc of the United States, on pretence of being for the ufc of different agencies, in which he Was employed by the prefident, to wit -As agent for carrying into effrft the Britifli Treaty As agent for paying the contingent cxpenccs of go vernment As agent for pay ing the exptnees of prize caufes : —As agent for carrying into ef feCl the Spanifh Treaty:—As agent for carrying info effeft tha Treaty with the powers of Bar hary, held in his hands, on the 17th April 1800, unaccounted for, the cnoimous futn of 501 918 dollars 14 cents. Thus you fee, that in the hands of only two men, more than half a million of dollars, and at a time when the United States was re duced to the neceffity of bor rowing money at eight percent intcreft ; nor can it be fuppofed that thefe men would peimit fuch fums to lie dormant for the fpacc of eighteen months, or two years—or is it not reafonablc to imaging that (through the agen cy of fome of their creatures) they lent thofc Turns to the pre sent, and arc at this time re ceiving eight per cent imereft per annum, from the United States for the uic of her own money, I think Mr. W, that after a view of thefe faffs, you yourfclf tnuft acknowledge, that it will become a very neceffary mca fuic with them, and numbers inoie in the fame fituation, to endeavour to continue the ope ration of a fyflcm which affords To ample and ferurc a field for fpcculativc genius's; and as it is agreed on all hands, that the removal of Pickering from office was only an electioneering trope of the P—— , he may pro bably at this very time be con certing fehemes, (and perhaps too with a friend of yours, who is abfent from this (late) how to gain over a majority of the elec tors of prefident and vicc-prefi dent, by a free ufc of fome of his thoufands. Should this ftatement offaQs, together with the remarks there on. tend in any meafurc to guard my fellow-citizens againft the fuggeftions of Mr. W. and the error thet may rcfultfrom chang ing declared Sc firm republicans, for thofc who arc called men of moderate principles, (alias men of no principles) I will think my labour amply repaid. Second. The next piece of ncgleCl with which you charge me is, my not having ftattd whether general Gunn, is or is not a candidate to represent the Ifatc ot Georgia in the ferrate of the United States; Anfwer—l believe that to be a qutftion, to which general Gunn hitnfelf could trot at this tirhe give a fctlsfaCbory or deri five anfwer; he wil, no doubt, withhold any declaration on that head. Until the elections are over, and then by viewing the returns from the different coun ties, and noting the characters of thofc eleCtcd, he can make a better calculation of the pioba bility of fuccecdingi Although 1 am petluaded he could not obtain twenty votes in any one county in this (late; yet (hould a majority of our next legillaturc conftfl of Yazoo fpeculators, ot luth as might be liable to be intimidated, bribed, or influenc ed by them, we might expeCt to Ice every engine of corruption at work, as in the year 1795, with Gunn, dark as Lucifer, in the midft ereCt, conducting aft the plans of the infernal di van. A fedition law, a navy cftablifliment, an expenlive and ulclels provifional army, a Bri trfh Ticaty, a w r ar with France, creating a ncccffity for the col lection of two millions of dol lars, by a dircCt tax on Negroes, Houles and Lands, arc fome ol the confequences rclulling from an imprudent choice in former elcdions, and for which no re medy remains but from a judi cious cxercife of our rights, as electors on the firft Monday in October next. 1 bird. The talk laflly affigned me, is the proving the book enti tled, a digeft of laws to be Ipu rious and unconftitutional. Anfwer—This 1 will certainly do, and for that purpofe will recite the fnft claule of the eighth feCtion of the third arti cle of the conftitution, to wit: “ Within five years after the adoption of this conftitution, the body of our laws, civil and criminal, (hall be reviled, di gefted and arranged under pro per heads* and promulgated in inch manner as the Icgiflatuie may duett ’* Thebook intended to be foifted on the public as a digeft of the laws, is uncontiumional by its containing in page 530 and 531% a pretended law for the difpofal of a portion of the unlocated territory of this ftate, to pre tended companies, the operation of whigh law (if it could be called a law) would be in direft contradiction to the very fame con dilution from which a digeft of the laws could derive effieft, for the proof of this, 1 will re cite a claufe in the 23d feftion of the firft article of the confti tution, viz. “ and this convention doth further declare and allert, that all the territory without the prefent boundary line, and within the limits aforekid, is now of right the property of the free citizens of this ftate, and field by them in fovercignty un alienable, but by their Con fect.’* ow Mr. XV. in my turn, 1 will afk this quell ion ; can a digtft containing a pretended law of which there is no record, duplicate or trace in the archives of the ftate, or in the whole woild bcGde (and which even to admit it had a being, would contradift the conflitution) be a conditutioral digeft ? But you lay the note at the bottom of the title page explains the whole. Anfwei-—Let us examine that explanation, and recite the note as it appears at the begin ning cf the pretended yazoo law. “ N.R. This aft has been de clared null atid void, and the original record thereof direfted to be burnt by an aft of the le giflatuie, palled on the 13th of January, 1796, fee No. 543. On this proceedings we foibear making any comment.'* Tome, this explanation ap pears, nor'more nor lefs than a fevere ftrifturc on, and an at tempt to arraign the wifdom and juftice of our virtuous legiflature of 1796 —and was intended by the authors to falve over a much more corrupt plan, viz, keeping the thing alive, and watching every opportunity to gain a fa vorable crifis, to reconfirm it with all its dciefteble train of diabolical cotitequenccs, for if it is a law, why apologize or ex plain the teafon of its intertion ? If it is not a law why is it in ferted at all ? Why not let it Gnk into oblivion or be remem bered ? only to maik the degreeof depravity its makers and advo cates could arrive to. You go on to fay, that the book is certified officially by Horatio Marbury, efquire, fe cretary of ftate, and received by the fuperior and inferior courts of this ftate, as lound authority. Anfwer—Whoever doubted the facility of Horatio Maibury in entering into the views, and forwarding the fchemes of your party ; he is the very fame Ho ratio Marbury, who fubfciibed his name as a witnefs to a proteft made againft the conflitution by General Gunn, General Glal cock, and colonel Watkins, in 1798, and clcapid the pumffi ment due to his crim* as a pub lic officer, by protefling that he did not know what he was Ggn ing. To fhew that this laft piece ot fervice has been much more arttul’y managed, I will Bate the ceitiGcatc. " GEORGIA, Secretary 9 s Office , Jan % iG. 1800. I do hereby certify that I hue carefully examined and compa red the (late confutations from P a 8 c 2 5 to 43 inclufivp, the laws and parts of laws from No. i to No. 529 inclufive, from page 531 to No. 634 inclufive, and the treaties in the appendix No ; 3 6 * 37* 3 8 4 2 » contain ed in this printed volume, and find them to agree with the ori, ginal rolls depofitcd in my office* Signed, Horatio Marburv, Jtcrtiary," You fee by modelling the cer tificate that his intention was to give every affiftancein his power towards irrpofmg this fpurioue digeft on the people, and at the fame time avoid an impeachment that his country might prepare for him, in cafe he had certified the whole book. Query: what apology c?n he make for this fecond proftitutio of his official fignaturc ? I do not think it ftrange that George Walton, efq. judge of thefupcriorcourt fhouldconform himfelf to any thing that would favor a yazoo intcrcft; hut it is to be that juflices of the inferior courts, who can have but little intereft different from the public good, (hould for the fake perhaps of one of thofe books given byway of compliment, ulc their endeavors to impofe them on the public as an authentic digeft of our laws. It is therefore highly neceflary, that you mv fellow* citizens join with one accord to dilcounte nance the introduction of Ro bert and George Watkins's pre tended digeft of the laws, or any other book or digeft containing that deteftable yazoo aft, which has difturbed the peace of foci ety, and deftroyad the harmony of your public councils for feve ral years: and ffiould it ultimate ly prevail, would reduce your children to become tenants to thofe lords, which is but a fmall remove from abfolute llavery. D. From the Centmel 0} Freedom* A VIEW or FUTURITY. Republicans , read and confider with attention ! ! Daughter of liberty, whence comeft thou ?—-Why is thy countenance fad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping ? I have feen the fl.-g of free dom unfurled ; its banners float ed in the wanton gale ; the fight of it was pleafant to behold. I returned ; it was ftruck to the ground by the influence of def potic frfftions; the grace of the form was gone ; its luftre was extinguilhed ; its brilliancy waf coroded by the cancre of cor ruption ; its variegated colors were trampled under foot by the votaries of tyranny and am bition, and no one attempted to raife them. The ftaiely tree of liberty grew on the plain ; its branches weic covered with verdure » its boughs fpread wide and afford ed an agreeable (hade to refrefh the way-worn traveller; rniih c: ‘ 5