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1, O U I S V I L L l:,
n rn:. ~s:\n~ c, i6oi.
V/e received no Northern
Papers by the lail Mail.
IV/ a letter, dared Wafhlng
ton, /tii of January, #ve arc in
formed, that the appointment
of Major Thomas De M. Tohn
fon, as Collector of the Port of
Savannah, was unanimoufly con
firmed by the Senate of the
United States,
We learn, that John B. Wil
kinfon, Efq, of Augufta, is ap
pointed Poft Matter, in place of
\Vm. J. Hobby, turned cut vf
rjj'uc.
On January i, 1802, the
Chefhire Cheefe, was preTented
to the Prefidenr, accompanied
with the following add re Is.
Jhe great eft Cheefe in America ,
FOR
The greateft Man in America,
SI R ,
Notwichttanding we live re
mote from the feat of the national
government, and in an extreme
part of our own flare ; vet we
humbly claim the right of judg
ing for ourfelves.
Our attachment to the national
conftitution is ttrongand indiffo
luble. We confider it a deferip
tion of thofe powers, which the
people have fubmitttd to their
inagittratcs, to be cxcrcifed for
definite purpofes, and not a
charter of favors, granted by a
fovereign to his fubjedls. A
inong its beautiful features, the
right of free fuffrage, to correct
all abides, Ihe prohibition of
religious tefls, to prevent all
hierarchy. The means of a
mendment, which it contains
within itfclf, to remove defers
as fall as they are difeovered,
appear the moft prominent. —
But for feveral years pafl, our
apprehenfions has been, that
the genius of the government
was not attended in fundry cafes ;
and that the adminittration bor
dered npoiv monarchy : ourjoy,
of courle, mull ha/e been great,
on your eleftion to the firft office
in the nation : having had good
evidence, from your announced
fentimems and uniform conduct,
that it would be your ffrife and
glory to turn back the govern
ment, to its virgin purity. —
The trull is great ! The tafk
arduous ! But we confole our
felves, that the fupreme ruler
of the univerfe, who raifes up
men to acchieve great events,
has raffed up a JefFciTon foi this
ttideal day, to defend lepubli
can Ifman I bailie all the arts of
anflocracy.
'ur, we liavc attempted to
I 1 our love to our prefident,
u .r in words alone, but in deeds
and nurh. With this addrefs,
we lend yon a cheefe, by the
hands or Afeffrs, John Teland
and Danis Brown, as a pepper
corn of the effeem which we
bear 10 our chief magi (Irate,
and as n fieri face to repubJica
nl n ft is not the latt Hone in
the Patti le, nor is it of anv great
confluence as an article of
worta i but as a free-willoffcr- 1
mg, \\ e hope U will be reHved. -j
I he cheefe v/as not madejby his
fordlhip, for his facred mrjedy ;
nor with a view to gain dignified
titles cr lucrative offices; but
by the pciTonal labour oft free
born farmers- (without a fmgle
fluve to afliff) for an etdhve
prefkV nt of a free people—-with
the only view of calling a mite
into the dale of democracy.
fhe late triumphant leturn
of republicanifin has more ani
mated the inhabitants of Che (hire,
to bear the burthens of govern
ment, and treat the characters
and pei Tons of thofe in authority
with all due refpeCb, than the
long fill of alien, fedition, naval,
and provifional army laws, ever
did.
Sir, we had Tome thoughts of
imprtfllr.g feme figmficant in
fenption on the cheefe ; but we
have found luch inconvcniency
in damps on paper, that we
chafe to fend it in a plain re
publican form.
May God long preferve your
life and health, for a bit ding to
the United braces, and the world
at laige.
Signed by order of all Chefhire,
David Brown , \ C
Ilezekiab Mafcn , / S
Jonathan Kicharfcn , ' S
John IVa ter many k §
John [Veits, jun. ;
P. S. The cheefe was made,
July 20, 1801.—Weight, 12ac
lbs.
To Mcffrs. Darnel Brown, Hc
zekiah Mafon, Jonathan Ri
c hard ion, John Waeiman,
and John Weils, jun. a com
mittee of the town of Chefh
ire, in Mafladiuletts.
Gentlemen ,
I concur with vou in the fen
timents expreded in your kind
addrefs on be naif of the inhabi
tants of the town of C belli ire,
that the conftitution or the uni
ted States is a charter of autho
rities and duties, not a charter
to its office»s ; and among its
mod precious provifions arc the
right of luffrage, the prohibition
of religious telh, and its means
of peaceable amend ment. No
thing enlures the duration of this
tarn fabric of government fo
effectually as the due fenle en
tertamed by the body of cur
citizens, of the value of thele
principles and their care to pre
fer ve them.
1 received with particular
plealure ti c teftimony of good
will with which your citi ens
have been pleafed to charge you
foi me; it prefents an extraor
dinary proof of the dull with
which thofe domedic arts, which
contribute fo much to our daily
comfort, arc pradtiled by them,
and particularly by that portion
of them moll intending to the
cffcftions, the care, and the
happinefs of man.
1 omyfelf this mark of edeem
from free- born farmers, cm
ployed pcrfonally in the mod
ufctul labors of life, is peculiarly
grateful, having no wifh but to
preferve to them the fruits of
their labor, their fenfe of this
truth will be my higheft re
ward. &
I pray you, gentlemen, to
make mv tnanks for their favor j
1 acceptable to them, and to be '
I allured ycuiTelves of my high
rdpcd and eftcem.
Th. JEFFERSON.
January i, 1802.
The agents have been highly
gratified with the fimple plain
nels with which tliey have been
received in the prefenting of the
Cheefe ; which they conceive
to be the dignity of republican
nifin ; and take this opportunity
of acknowledging the polite
ufage they have received from
men of public fpirit, through .
the whole of the removals from
Chclhirt to Wafnington.
WASHING 1' *N CITY.
Men day, January 18.
The Senate have confirmed
the greater part of the appoint
ments made by the prefident
duiing die reeds ; the remain
ing appointments are Rill under
confideration.
On confirming the nomination
of Mr. Gallatin, as fecretarv of
the treafury, on a clivifion eight
members kept their feats.
I here was alio a divifion on
the nomination of Mr. Pinckney
as minifler to Madrid.
CONGRESS.
SENATE
0/ the UNITED STATES.
Monday, January 11.
The Apportionment Bill , as
received fiom the houfe of re
prefentatives, was taicen up
I his bill fixes the ratio of re
prefentaaon at one member for
every 33,000 per funs in each
Rate.
Mr. Wells moved to Rrike
out 33,000, his objed being to
introduce 30,000, for which he
affigned his icafons at Ibme
length.
On this motion a debate of
confiderable length eniued, in
winch the provilions of the bill
they Rood were fupported by
MelV. Jackfon, Malon, Wright
and Cocke , and oppofed by
Mefirs. Weils, White andlliii
houJe.
The qucßion was then taken
on the motion to Rrike out
33,c00, and loß—Ayes 11
Is oes 15.
'Tuefday, January 12.
The senate took up the rc
foluticn of Mr. Jbrackenndge,
for repealing an ad of the laR
kffion, for the new organization
of the judicatory of the United
States ; when Gen. Jackfon, of
Georgia, Ipoke in favor, and
Mr. i racy of Connedicut, a
gainß the motion ; after which
the further confideration of the
motion was poßponed until to
morrow.
SEVENTH CONGRESS
OF THE
UNITED STATES,
AT THE FIRST SLSSI N,
Begun and held at the city cf
Walhmgton, in the territory
of Columbia, on Monday,
the fcvcnih of December,
one choufand eight hundred
and one.
An At 7 for tae apportionment cf
reprejentations among thefevered
fates, according to the fecond
enumeration.
BE it enacted by the Senate and
IB ufc cf Reprefentatives cf the U
ruled States oj America, inCongrejs
(tjfembied, That from nr ’
the third day or' March, ( • 1
thoufand eight hundred* a i
three, the houfe of reprefenu,
tsves ffiall be competed of mcir-.
bers elefted agreeably to a ratio
of one member for every thin-''
three thoufand perfens in each
ftatc, computed according t 0
i tlie r,lle preferibed by the con
fli union, that is to fay : V( vdN
the Hate of New-1 lampfnire
five ; within the Hate of Mafia!
chulctts, feventcen ; within the
Hate of Vermont, four; withia
i tire Hate of Rhode-lOand, two
within the Hate of Connecticut, *
H*ven ; within the Hate of New!
York, feventeen ; within the
Hate of New- fertey, fix s within
the Hate of Pennfylvama, C'gh
•teen i within the Hate of Dela
ware, one ; within the Hate of
Maryland, nine ; within the Hate,
of Virgin a, twenty-two ; with
in the Hate of North-Carolina,
twelve i within the Hare of s!
Carolina, eightwithin the Hate
of Georgia, four ; within the
Hat** of Kentucky, fix ; and
within the Hate of Tennefiee,
three members.
NATHANIET MACON,
Speaker of the Hcuje of lie*
prefentatives.
ABRAHAM BALDWIN,
Prefideht of the Senate,
pro tempore.
Approved January 14, 1802,
1 h. ILb PERSON,
Prsjident of the United States.
HEAD C4U Ak l Et\S,
Lcuifville , Jan. 15, 1802.
general orders.
T1 IE death cf Brigadier
General Morrison, of the Se
cond Brigade of the Firft Divi
fioncf the Militia of this State,
having been announced to the
Executive, it is
ordered,
H liar, the officers cf that Bri
gade wear a crape round the it ft
arm, for one month, to com
mence from the 20th inft. as a
teflimony of the regard due to
the virtues and military charac
ter of the deceafed. *And the
Commander in Chief recom
mends to the General Officers
throughout the Hare, to wear
mourning for one month alio, as
a proper military rcfpe<ft to a
departed brother officer.
By order of the Commander
in Chief.
GEO. R. CLAYTON, See'rr,
ssssMaii
WANTED IMMEDIATELY
At the Office of the Ri>
publican Trumpet,
A fourneyman Printer,
To whom generous wages , and
confant employment will he green .
January 20.
nUt 1 cir
WHEREAS the Sub -
Jcriher has lefi two notes given ty
William Bracket , late cf this
county , dec. to Pqfner and Bene dir,
one jor nineteen dollars—the ether
for nine dollars forty-three and
three quarter cents, both dated
the. icth December 1793. Add
perfons are cautioned a gainf trad
ing for Jaid notes , as they are
difcharged.
Joseph G. Posner.
January ij, 1802,