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Vol. ll.] GEORGIA, LOUISVILLE:—PubIiIhed every fuefday, by AMBROSE DAY & JAMES lIKEY, at 3 dollars per aim. payable half yearly Where ElTays, Articles of Intelligence, Advertifemems, &c. &c. aie thankfully teccived, and PRINTING in all its variety, is executed with neatnels and dilpatch. for the L n uijville GaztUt, and Republican Trumpet. CENSOR, No. 22. Fellow Citizens ! OUR long filence, has not been the refult of a determina tion to clofe forever the numb*rs of the Cenfor. A concurrence of circumftances, which we had not the ability to controul pro duced a temporary fufpenfion of our labours, and flackened for a moment that zeal, with which we have been accuflomed to af fert your privileges, to develops the principles of your invita tions, to mark out the views of ambition, and the ftridcs of usurpation. We have not, however, fel low citizens Qept in this interim —we have nor been repofmg on the couch of indolence, or be numbed by the; wand of apoftacy, been looking with fallen indif ference, on the progreffion of events, and the revolution of principles, N o—-we have been feelingly alive to you r interefts —-we have been awake 'o every fuggeftion, that whifpered your danger, or pioclaimed the ad vancement of y our power We have never ceafed to be attentive to that great chftn of caufes, which are gradually unfolding ; and which, we indulge ourleives wifh the hope, if no unforefeen florin (hould Intervene to blaft their effefts, will at fome luture peood, reftore your chi rafter to us primitive dignity, and hurl the fevereft ignominy on the heads of thofe, whole nuftaken or perverted opinions, have nearly effefted the overthrow, of what has hitherto con ceived to be coeval with the na ture of things. We have placed ourfelvcs, fellow citizens aty>ur difpolal we claim no merit therefore in inveftigating your rights, or Watching over your fafe y We are fuperior to the mena ces of unprincipled tyfanny, the infringements of Icgiflative au thority communicate no terrors to us; for “ if we were quelti oned refpefting our principles, we would fay, that conftant pro claimed and defenders of the fights of man and the (bverciga lY of the people, we have every where and al ways refilled autho rities which liberty difavowed. 2nd which the national will had not delegated ; and that we have ■every where and always obeyed thole, of which a free conllitu ll°n had determined the lorms a nd the limits.’* Uncoruroulcd then by appre -nhon— iraprefled with the im rotlaace of the franchife, you THE LOUISVILLE GAZETTE; ■ . ■ AND. REPUBLICAN trumpet. T U E S D A Y, September 23, 1800. IIHF.RTT IS OUR MO'TTO — jnd tru'ch our au/DR are Toon to alfume— that the event of your volition in the approaching rleftion of a chief magiftrate mull determine whether the union is to reft upon piinciples whi h have hi'heito preferved its integrity, and fnp porfed its genius, or, whether things are again to be thrown into their original confufion. Seeing thatthefe are. the ronfe quenccs nrcelfarilv involved in ymr choice cf Prefident it would favour of ftrangeincon fiftency with former profcftions, if we did not on fo interefting an occafton, announce to you our opinions, and weigh with the ferutiny of difpaffion the merits of your refpeftive candi dates. f We will begin with Mr, Adams, and erdeavor to (hew, that he ought not to be re-elcfted for thefe reafons: 1. Becaufe his doftiines are diamctricallv oppofitc to repub licanifm ; and, 2d. Becaufe, his meafures have militated ag iinft the prin ciples of your ge’ -ral comp ft 1. \Vc do affert, that the favorite doftrinesof Mr. Adams, areunfavorabl to repubjicanilm. We will j ot however, by a 1-ngtb of dilquilition, or a ferics of fafts to pla-'e this after lion beyond the poffibiiity of refutation, though this is highly orafticable Let our circum fori bed limi s, juftifv our general propo fit ions. Suffice it then to fay, that Mr. Adams, has avowed himfclf the advocate of thofe fyftems, which the good fenfe of freemen, unre ftramed by the operation ot ex ternal circumftances, unfettered by the manacles of prejudice, has univerfally impugned—has univei fallv deprecated Need we, fellow citizens, bring his maxims to your recol leftion ; need we cell you of his approbation of the eneigy of monarchy, and the concentrati on of power. Need we icmind you of his dec arations on the fubjeft of national reformation. Has not Mr. Adams, in the mofl unqualified terms, expreli cd his difapprobation of the in novationseff ft. d in the govern ment 01 France ? rnd does not this (bike at the very bafts of reurefentative tepubhcaml n, in as much as it coi tains a prefe rence of defpotifrn to a free in flitution. Can he who fo waimiy panegyrizes, a.. M> \datns has done, the political itgulalion of another c untry —ft a monar chy, be ftncerely -tUched to the regulation of his own. Permit us now to draw your aUentiou to a corollary, which obuioufly flows from thefe inter rogations: That rf Mr. Adam’- doftnnes are incompatible with rcpublicamlrn, Mr. Adams would be an improper representative of the United majrfty r.f tht* American people, becaule the hopes of that people art- bot tomed on republican fyftems. £. We have faid that Mr. Adam's me a Cures have militated againft the principles of the fe deral conftnutron; and that, therefore, on this account, Mr. Adams (hould not he re 1 lefted. ! ■ ft he great accredited anvan tage, fellow-citizens, of a conlli tuiion or fundamental rule, if, that it defines and determines the obligations we live under to our countiy. Indeed, the lives, bbeity and property of the tin zens, aie held by the moll pre carious of tenures, wheic the afts ol tr.c (upremc power of the flatc. are merely trie emanations of a will, u fh rcklcd bk para mount authority—unconfi cd by detsrrnin ue duties Hence, .riles the contranties oblcrvable in pohtican mfti u tions, fhe lubjeft of a mona chy feldom aftumes tht; a live privileges of his nature, when the tdifts ot his mallei fummon him to p ftivc acquielceme Me is leldom roofed to oppcft - tion, by' the arbitra r y imerpoh tion of the tyrant's cap 1 ice which levels to the ground his dearc ft immunities; which conform Is the immutability of right, with pcrfonal convenience* and which fubverts every principal of foetal order ? becaufe, he lives in fo* cietv without knowing us obli gations ; becaule he has no rode which fettles a reciprocity of duty, cr, which draws the line eft demarkjtior-, between the ab foluic and liujiUed power of his prince. ' e is. therefore, con tented, if the gracioulnels, or condclcenfton of his fovereign, fuller, b in to paiticrpate in a (lender enjoyment ol thofe rights, which die finger of nature has pointed out as mdilputably his; and of which he carm c be di vefted under no circumflances, and in no fttuation. A com patl between the governor, and governed, obviates all thcledil advantages; it is, as it is oblcrv cd by a writer ot high authority, the bafT of the public tranquili ty —the firmed lupport ot the public aurhoiit), and pi dgc ot the liberty ot the citizen. But this couftitution is a vaia ptian toin, and the bed laws are ule els if they are not rehgioufly ob ferved. ihe nation then to watch very attentively, in or dcr to render them equally ref pefted by thofe who govern, ◄ and thole df Hired fo obey To a'ljck the ennffitution of a Hale* and to violate us laws is a capi tal t lime ag linft locier \ and if thoft guilty rj it are mvtjlrd with authority , the* add to tins crime a perfidious ahv/e of the power with whirk they aie cntrujirii. The nation ought ronflanfly to lupprcfs their abides, with its utmolf vigour and vigilance, as the importance of the cafe rc quiies ; apply rhefe ohlerva tions citizens, to your own cafe, H i yom conllitution been in fringed <* <t have your laws been rciigiou.fiy obfei *d ? Of have they been ait <( krd In f h fo invrfled with authority. Tim indignant pat lot oil miwei m the afTnmative; hr wi < immc* ili it- ly detail to vou ihe pr nci pies of a If d i ion law ; which by an open v.-olation of the letter of tlv ronfliiution fe's up at once a new lyflcm of usurpa tion, and annihilates thr many lupreme benefits you had pro-, unfed yout'elvcs, from the en tire prefer vanon of he put eft and mofl bi nefinem of »nfttcu— lions. fir will tell you of att ain n law, which, whether view ed o. the light of a • onflhutio nal infi fiion, or innovation of the rights of holpuahty w*s equally an object of yo* * drt«T lation, you relcumci an our tcais. Hr will nana you the nrcumflames atri nd it on the ca<e ol the unfo uu ,u —tho rnuidcrcd Bobbins. In othei ; bides of gove>n mcnr, ilie odium of m eafures has been ngh coufly appomun cd among the who c of your conditutecl authorities—ln fhc dufinets of \c t illation,three \ o tft mult con ui in the enabling of laws ; and your fijprerm rn gd iraic forms rut one of t.»ofe parts vs hoi- affent is ef cntial to their validity : r woulo be do ing lim if mjuflicc therefore, to picls him wi h the whole weight or cm ' in duy of an invi dious 01 nnconlitfulional flatulc where the Tingle cxernfe of Ins power is totally inope» nvc. I he fcdiiion an"f ahen laws, w ill i uftiate thefc pofiMor. Mr. Adams, by affixing his approba tion to thefe laws, com s in on ly toi a proportion of die guilt of the conupt body by whi h they were initiated. But the convcrfc of this is tiue in the fmglc or perl mal afts of ihe pithd'm; lo< there is no oppugnaticy heic ol any other bod) —his ate to bo confidercd as the mdicatu>ns of his wdiano iutuie intentions. In this bogle or mdivibbi ity of c< pacity Mr. dams mult h«vc Hood, in ihe calc ol Mu [Xo, 86.