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? fr#. who <*ith a rha'rnjan to be ap
p.ro'ett by the latter fro'ni a nnm na lon
0 f rhe former. (hniM form a grand corn
, n if r ec, who thoaUl, frting with c ofed
/i:ort- have a right to exam ne a'i. the
•ot«ag : *‘‘tt by 'be cleSora in the fcveral
rtatea for prcfident and vice prcft.leot,
an d all the memorials and petitions ref
*>esi r g them ; and have power fina'ly to
Jer.i le refperting them, and to declare
•»hat votes of different dates (hall he re
»nd whar admitted ? and m fh >rt,
that this con mi;fee, thus chof u, and
with clof d doors, (hall po(T fs
compost, unconfrolahle and irrevocable
power to d crce, without app al from
tlcir dedfion, who has
aod who (hall be proclaimed prefident of
the United States.
As long aod as rmi~h as I have been
aceuftomed to eaamine this bill, and con
fiJer its contents, I cannot recapitulate
its snd ca cot, without new
graoiious of furprizc I am aftonifticd,
{hat a mcafurc fo complerety calculated
Co deprive the ftate leginatntcs of their
■od important and exclufive rights in
the election of the chef magiftrate,
jfh uld be at once brought forward,
without paving the way by fome milder
prcpßfft ory mcafure, of he fame ten
deucy. It ia true, the fed » on law, by
by g v ng to the federal courts a power
to decide on libels, a right which we
contend be’ongg e clufivc’y to the ttate
cour s. aod of which wc »hlnk they
cannot couttitutionaHy be d vetted ; and
the on enable do&nne avow d by (he
federal judges, that there is a common
Jaw. inch as in fo»ce m Gicat Britsin,
coa.raou to the courts of the Unite '
States, may be fonfi'ered a* pr parartve.
Ha.i the p o r le qu etly nequ tfeed in
thefe dodtines, and generally e*prefled
no dil pproba'.ioo of them, there might
have been fome reaf n 'o (uppole bey
bad drt-.rmiiieo filcnMy o fuomit t# eve
ry thing, and evenwthouta murmur
pu p with th 8 dim u ion of the cu
tl.orry of the ftafe legifl tures. Bui
wen we recoiled the unanlwc-able ar
gumtrts that have bc-n ufed tb-oughout
•tery pa>t f t c uu on, againtt them ;
when we fee no r only individuals, but
Iry ila'u tc» of ’tnportant ftate*. ufiag the
m lu ana coofti.iuional modes of rtroon
ferancc and a r gument ; when we have
found not only the tab-es of the ftate
/fgida ure. Hu* of congrrfs itfelf, cover
eJ with mem* rials again(t them, lament
rng in the raod affediog language their
adoption and execution *, 1 cannot under
ibefe circumstances fuppofe that we are
tmhor'zcd to believe the public mind fo
much under the influence of implicit con
fidence as to thirk that a meafure which
•trikes fo forcibly at the rtlervcd rights
•f the states, can be received by t era
without particular emotions It '8 my"
duty, ho w ver to examine it with freedom
and ibis I (hall do with candour and
deretence to cher gtoilcmen’s opinions,
who uiffer from ma on the fubjedt.
fcntwing u,at it v ai th- nienlioh o
the conftitution to make n,t Pieiieei r corn
plfteiy inde,rn<cnt cf the federal Jegfia
luic, 1 well remember it rai the cljcft,
fcj t ’i at prefent noi oniy the spirit but the
intir of that mfti umant, to g.vc io copgrtf*
B< ’ interference in or conirou; over the
dei'ion of a Piefirient. It ii made 'heir
du y merely to count over the votes in a
Cl nvention of holh hcufci, aid lor the
J’lclidcnt of the feuaie to declare who ftps
•l"e majority of the votes m thcelffton
*“ tranfmit ed. It never was intended,
r.or c. uld it have been fafe, in the confti
*ution t to have given to corgrefs thin
£ emb ed in conventi-n the right to rcjtft
!ln y votc,oi even r, queftionwhether they
r f c conAirusiona'ly or properly given.
*lii right of deternij: ing on the manner
in which the e eftors ih 11 vote j the en
9uir% into the qualifications ; nd the guards
neceflary to prevent clifqusJified < r in*.
|' ro ' tr n ' cn v tit'g, and to enlute the votes
f o n legal!v given, refis and is txdujivcly
\n the fi:,i C j f g flotures. If it i* nc
sr l yy to have gnaid. agair ft improp r
«leMots of c cfto*s, and to mliitute tri
'mi,, ro ♦ q , ir j n(o (he r qua'*fi atioiu,
W//i the 'fiait IcgJljtureSy and xvi/h them alone
'h # .'o**r m mfti ute mem, ao<i 'hey
ru • e e cife it. To give to congrrfs,
•ven when vfi-nib ed in convention, a righ>
I* r, J or a lrnu tie votes of ftases, w--uld
, Ve t,ee 1 f • gr .f, und dangerous an a fur
-v> as -rntners of the conftitution
co uld have been gui'iy of. Kow
. hey that in ,1. tiding on the
f t on cf a , refidrnt, parjticularlv where
ta i'/r'^' 00 W S nron «'y conteft.rd, that
' 'Pirit ovid not prevail, and govern
v iierifi (. _) jy ;t i ; j lC y not l( noH - Jj w
V(>„ 1 v ' lis tc taile obj'fti* ns ?.gnnft the
tjf.. . i’*r.icular r 1 c<sV* rs, aud that in
,n X «p n thefe, it v/B' m re than
ti lr , ? ,hc rrembers would rcc'UeC
lr Ue, y theii favorite raodid tc, an/,
M “* thfir own it.ierefts? Or mu
ib f i have fouroied, thut in rutting
of |f. £ ''J"’*’ B fd fmai deeiiton of the vote
in who were lo
decide IrrcvcraVy and without nppea!,
•hey would lender the prehdent r.VV f,,d
rye} . n i prevent his aftnming and exernlirg
iL,t :nJ. ften.tentf in the petformantC of h„
uue/ unon wnich tho Jaf* t y and honor of
be government muft forever reft }
I’ut it is laid, are congrefs bound to re
ceive every v te of wf ether it
i conftiuirioni'U given or net > Su i olt
' otr * are lf Cl for a perfon not a citizen or
>4'eai* a rrfi enl of the United S'atcs t
<’ r virder 35 yea-s of age ; or thut the c
C tld urc « i a ftate has r of auiliorile< b»
•«' aft he votes of the eliftrr*, oi iftm
aouhit returns arc made: who are then n
de< i c ? Ur has not c< ngreli, under ihrfc
c rcum ances, a power to eiermii e v,|nc(i
of i hr \ otes fhall I e received or rrjc ft-d
( To be concluded tn our next.)
LOUISVILLE,
TUr-SDATy A vguf jfi, jBco.
Want of room obliges us to
polipone entc»ing upon the pub
lication of fundry letters to the
committee of finance, and their
report, on the (late of the mo
nies in the treafury at the fitting
of the lafl legiflature,
Mrjfn, Day &. Hily,
1 OBSERVE in one of your
late papers, jhat a wdter terms
the digefl of the laws of the
Rate of Georgia by Metis.
Watkins fpunous. Accidentally
opening it I could not help ob
lervrhg how much it merited the
epithet beftowedl on it, when 1
found it contained laws dated as
if they had been palled in Sa
vannah, in 1782, when the com
pilers ought to have known or
could have been informed by
their Gpient or lappy uncle that
here was then a tintrih garrifon
in the place. This ought to be
the means of its not being in
troduced into the courts in this
flare, and to damn the falc of it
forever,
DETECTOR.
The friends of order, the ene
mies of French defpotifm admit
that Callendei's trial was to the
lafl degree tyrannical and inde
cent. But then he was refufed
that relpite which would have
been granted to a horfe-flealcr,
or a parricide, becaule before
the fitting of the next federal
circuit court, there will be fo
gr cal an alter ationo/ affairs, that he
could not have been tried at all.
This, to be fure, is a pretty
confeflion I it was upon the
fame do6hme that Robelpierre
chopped off peop!e*s heads, as
faff as rotten turnips, becaufe he
durfl not give them time to p c
pare for their defence ! And
now, citizens of Virginia, think
only what an army of Robcf
pierres is entrenched in the vi
tals of this commonwealth.
And fo ! a Judge is entitled
fo do wrong, when circumftan
ces make it probable that- he
fhall not have leifure to do right !
Arc wc Cherokees, or Negroes
that fo brutal a do&nne can be
ferioufly defended ? If this be
our fyfiem of jurifprudence,
with what pungency muft a
more enlightened pofterity com
inifcrate the intellc6l of their an
ceftors.
Quid leges fine mcribus ? fays
Horace. 1 he beft laws are of
no confequence among a nation
of rafeals. His obfervation is
very juft, and it has been mod
wretchedly exemplified in forac
of the towns of Virginia. For
inftancc, at this moment, the
chief magiftvate of Peter fburir, is
one Harnfon, a lame Scots Par
fon. When Cornwallis, in the
laft war, approached that place,
Harrifon went off to meet him,
and a&cd as his guide. And
now this fellow, who, by every
law human and divine, (hould
have been hanged, officiates as
Major ot the town which he
wanted to dcHroy.
(Examiner.)
Vi c arecrcdibly informed (fays
the /• xamincr) that in one ot the
poll-offices between this place
and Norfolk, on the (outh tide
of the river, a praftice exifts,
of tearing and deftroying all
newlpapers, the temper of which
is not perfeftly accordant with
the views of adminiftration. It
,s ft f ange that the reftraints of
the ledition law upon the repub
lican printers, and the advantage
thereby given to the minifterial
dependants, will not (atisfy their
propenfity to obfeure the truth.
They are fond of order and good
government: th it is, the cider
ot things which protefts them in
dijorderly outrages ; and a govern
-i ent under which they may puy
upon the trea/ury % for the (mall
tervice ot bellowing at all public
places, French invafion ! demo
crat ! jacobin ! &c. &c.
Vir. Republican .
It is a curious fa&, that capt.
John Fries, who was feme time
ago tried and convi&ed at Phi
ladelphia, of treat* n, for his cun
du£l in the oppotition which
was made to the laws of the
union, in the counties of Bucks,
Northampton, and Montgome
ry. in Pennfylvania, and who
was lately pardoned by the pre
fident of the United States, has
been chofen a lieutenant-colonel
in the militia of Montgomery
county, wheic he rcfidcs.
Mr. Thomas Cooper, now
confined in Philadelphia gaol,
has alfo been chofen a colonel
of militia for the county ot
Northampton,
Counter jut Bank Notes
Have recently been dete&ed
in Norfolk, Virginia. Itisfrom
the Alexandria bank, originally
a good five dollar note, but al
tered by a freffi (lamp to fifty
dollars. The words FIFTY
are much blacker than the reft
of the copper-plate; and on
holding the note up to the light,
the words FIVK are plain to be
difcoveied. The note dete&ed
is numbered 288. drawn in fa
vour of John Ports, and dated
s'h April, 1798.
forged notes of the Charlef
ton Branch Bank of the Unhcd
States, are alfo in circulation.
They may be difcoveied by the
word depofit being fpelt deposit
In one of the Paris papers
we find the following ac
count —“ The cafhier of one
of the principal banking houfes
in this city (hot himlelf on ac
count of an error of 25 thoufand
franks which appeared in his
accounts. T he oftner he ex
amined them the more terrified
he became, and the lelsablc was
he to difccvcr whence the ciror
arofe. After his death, the
bankers with whofc affair? be
was erttruAcd had them fettled
and found them perfettly in or
der." Such uncommon fcnfihi
lity for the charaftcr of boncfty
merited a better fate.
A N EC D OT E.
A bailitF clapt a man on the
fhoulder, and laid, I arreft you,
fir, for a horfe (meaning the
money he owed for a horfe.)
“ Why, replied the defendant*
thou coxcomb, thou art nor cer
tainly Inch a fool as thou makeft
thyfclfp Pray, look upon me
again, whv do you take me for
a horfe ? Then tripping up his
heels, faid however, Til fti-w
you a horle trick ; and after giv
ing him (cveral kicks, left hilts
in the kennel and ran oIF,
A YANKEE HULL
A profound Kallcrn editor
lately announced, that a youth
of 10 years of age lately died of
canine rnadnels, who had been
bitten by a cat. What is re
markable, the New-York editors
have all inferted the bull , without
noticing it.
The Members of the Unwn
Society, are requefied to meet on So
turday, the 30 th 0/ Augujl, in the
Lodge Room , at the Union t Loiuf*
Vi lie. Chair taken at 7 o'clock.
William Wright, Jeer clary,
Augh/l 26.
CORONER'SS ALeT
On the firfl Tuefday in September
nex f t at the Market Hou/e in
Lovi/ville, between the hours of
ten and three o’clock , will be fold
to the htghefl bidder ,
One I’ratt ©f 'end, containing five
hundred am) fitly.five acre*, lying
on the watcre of Ready Co. k jim ng
Pur».| Flournoy and Bradlhaw—L. ke*
wi(e 00c hundred aerra lyirn? ou the
George I own road, adjoio’Og Charles
Harvey, and Coleman, 'Taken aa the pro
perry of John Panlet. and Jam"* Har
vey, to fanaff Flukcr and Bla fhrar'i
ju fgementi obtained agaiufl ihern.
W m. Goold, Coroner,
Twenty Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from the Siil'lcrio r, rq
rlie night of 1 lie yih infant. TWO
NtiROFS ; one rained OK JC, aboui 5
On 6or y niche* high* flout u,d well
made, vfc< y large eyes, and a lill Jr kn«ck
k eed.— The orher, u jt l w VN enth,
named ANNA, ab. hi 77 'tart of a
dimple in her right cheek, occ,Timed by’ a
boil or Ihe tooth ache. Whoever wiM de
liver Ihe fai l r e fo ,y, c Snbfcr.bsr,
living -T f he Half w«v Houfe, on the road
leaningjfrom LouifvjlJe »•> Wuynefb
/hail receive Cite above reward.
Wlll/M MURPHY.
An fin [I 25, 1800.
Jclfcrlou Superior Court,
April Term, 1799.
Prcfcnt the hon. Geo. Walton.
TTPON the pennon of Natl anitl N‘Mic-
C/ km, Kichaid Curry, and Benjamin
Warner, pitying the foredofure ui lha
equity of redemption, in and t a errtaia
I art <>f la.id, contamii g four hummed ncrer,
fit'iHte, lying and dicing tn the aid rounty
of* Jf ffer (on, m t hundred aciet of which
war granted to Frederick Dugiafi, mid tha
other three hundred acre* te Auger,
•n. rig .ge I o the faid Nmhan.*i M Mnk:n,
Richard Currey, and Benjamin Warner,
by Kuac WUgur, for the fecu i g the p»y
mctu ol a fuin f tonne* contiii ed |n a
bond hearing date » he toth day of July,
one thousand (even hundred arid ninety
eight.
/#iid u on motion ( ffJr. Carres, atror
ney tor the pctiti-men ; it ii ordered, that
•he principal, tniereft and cofti be paid into
court, within n e!ve rmnih* from the dai«
here f, otnerwife the equity of redemption
will be fur ever forecloCed, and other pro
ceedings take 1 l*ce, agieeuble r- en art nr
allcmbh , in fuch cafes made and pnv uitc, ;
and that tfn* rule be pub.iflird in < i e cf
the gaaette*<f this ftaie, at leaf* once in
every month, urtil -he ca.iratini of iho
faid twelve month*, or f rved upon the
mortgage,or fin f ccial agent, at lc ft {,«
nonthi previo * to the e»; iratiot. ot the
(aid *welvc month*.
Certified rhit 4th day <'f OcT her ’q<j,
Wm. M‘Dowcli 4 c/fri,