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juf;;cc to the mzL of the people
of America.
When a party was forming
in the latter end of fevency-fc
ven, and beginning of feventy
cight, of which John Adams
was one, to remove Mr. Wafh
ington from the command of
the army, on the complaint that
he did nothing, I wrote the
fifth number of the crifis, and
published it at Lancaftcr (Con
grefs being then at Yorktown
in Pfnnfylvania) to ward off
that meditated blow; for though
I well know that the black times
of feventv-fix was the natural
confeoucnce of his want of mi
litary judgment in the choice
of pofuions into which the army
was put about New-York and
Jerley, I could fee no poffible
advantage, and nothing but
inii'chief, that could arife by
diffracting the army into parties,
which would have been the cafe
had the intended motion gone
on.
General Lee, who with a far
caftic genius, joined a great
fund of military knowledge, was
perfeCtly right when he faid,
“ We have no bufinefs on If
lands, and in the bottom of
bogs, where the enemy, by the
aid of its fhips, can bring its
whole force againft a part of ours
and fhut it up.”" Tnis had like \
to have been the cafe at New- i
York, and was the cafe at Fort
Wafhington, and would have
been the cafe at Fort Lee, if
General Greene had not moved
inflantly off, on the firft news of
the enemy’s approach. I was
with Greene through the whole
of chat affair, and know it per
fectly.
But though I came forward
in defence of Mr. Wafhington,
when he was attacked, and made
the beft that could be made of
a feries of blunders that had
nearly ruined the country, he
left me to penfh when I was in
prilbn. But as I told him of it
in his life time, I fhould not now
bring it up, if the ignorant im
pertinence of feme of the fede
ral papers, who are pufhing Mr.
Wafhington forward as their
llalking-horfe, did not make it
neccflary.
That gentleman did not per
form his part in the revolution
better, nor with more honor,
than I did mine, and the one
part was then as neccflary as
the other. Fie accepted as a
prefent (chough he was already
rich) a hundred thoufand acres
of land in America, and left me
to occupy fix foot of earth in
France. I wifh, for his own
reputation, he had abled with
more juftice. But it was al
ways known of Mr. Wafhington
by thofe who bdl knew him,
that he was of fuch an icy and
death-like conllitution, that he
neither loved his friends, nor
hated his enemies. But be this
as it may, 1 fee no realbn that a
difference between Mr. Wafh
ington and me fhould be made
a theme of difeord with other
people. There are thole who
may fee merit in both, without
making themlelves partizans of
either, and with this rtfiebtion I
ciofe the fubjebl.
As to the hypocritical abufc
thrown out by the federalifls on
other fubicbU. I recommend to
them the obfervation of a com
mandment that exifled before
either Chriftian or Jew exifted.
“ Thou lhalt make a covenant
with thy fenfes.
“ With thine eye that it beholds
no evil.
“ With thine tar that it hears no
evil.
“ With thy tongue, that it fpcaks
no evil.
“ With thy hands, that they
commit no evil.”
If the federalifts wall follow
this commandment, they will
leave off lying.
THOMAS PAINE.
City of JVafhingtcn , Level's
Hotel , Nov. 0.6, 1802.
LOUISVILLE,
IVEDNF.SDATy December 22, 1802.
WE are credibly informed,
that, when Judgb Moore, ar
rived in Columbia, South-Ca
rolina, to attend the Circuit
Court of the United States there,
he found the Diftrid Judge had
adjourned the Court, and, being
informed there, that no Jurors
were drawn for theCircuitCourt
in this State, the Judge returned
to North-Carolina. —This e
venc, is very much regretted,
as Jurors, were drawn for this
Term, when Judge Flail pre
fided in Savannah in May Lift.
Preferments of the Grand Jury '
for the Diftribi of Georgia , in
the Sixth Circuit Court of the
United States , at a Court be
gun and held at Louifville ,
before the HonorableW 1 l l 1 a m
Stephens, one of the Judges
of faid Court , on the of
December , 1802.
WE, the Grand Jury for the
Federal Circuit Court for the
Diftrid of Georgia, meeting
for the firft time under the pre
fent Judicial Syftem, do con
gratulate our fellow citizens on
the alterations of the former—
by which one Judge is enabled
todiftribute juftice in the abfence
of his colleague, which amend
ment we conflder as a great im
provement in the organization
of this Court.
We alfo take this firft op
portunity to declare our unflia
ken confidence in the mealures
of the prefent adminiftration,
viewing them as in the higheft
degree patriotic and beneficial
to the real, folid and conftitu
tional intereft of the United
States—and we are happy in
anticipating the harmony which
we truft, will exift between the
Ltgiflative, Executive and Ju
dicial Departments of the Union,
efft&s of the greateft magnitude
to the happinels and good order
of the Government, and which
only flow from the increafe of
corred republican principles in
thefe now happy ftates.
We return our thanks to the
pretiding Judge, for his atten
tion to bufinefs, and requefi that
thefe our prefentments be pub-
Lflied.
Solomon Wood, foreman . —
Michael Shelman, Francis Boy
akin, Willis Brazeal, George
Sugar, Robert Shaw, Hezekiah
Jones, Jcffc Sanders, Archibald
Hatcher, Barrett Brewer, Ar
thur Fort, William Melton,
Zachariah T.amar, James Srai-
David Blackfhcar, Wil
liam Barron, Briggs Hopfon.
Ext raff from the Records,
20 lb December, 1802.
Richard M. Stites,
Clerk Geo. Dijiriet,
Mr. Paine, in his fecond let
ter to the citizens of America,
takes the bull of federal!fm by
the horns, and expofes this po
litical bead, in ail his native
hypocrify and deformity. It is
truly laughable how humoroufly
Mr. P. thrufts king john the
firfl: and lad, into tlie hole, along
with his yankee nobility, or Ba
rons ! On this important quef
tion, the public will lee the
temper and replies of the tory
printers and the fort of defence
they are to make for royalifts
cloathed in the garb of repub
licans.
Indead of manfully difeoffing
a point, or controverting by
evidence or faffs, the pofitions
laid down by Mr. Paine, we
fhall hear them cry fire !—age
of reafon !—look what a long
nofe he has got! he drank all
the brandy in Baltimore in nine
days ! Pie has been expofed,
pen my honor —a hang- man ho
nor, along with a monkey and
bear in a cage at Paris !—Such
American citizens, are the an
fwers made to the author of
Common Senfe and the Rights
of Man, by the fatellites of
King George and King John,
in America. Am. Patriot.
Many are d’fpofed to pity
the ex-prefidenr, and wifh him
differed, like Mr. Baffet, to die
offcalmly—compaffionate fouls,
do they re fled on the injuries
he has done, and the greater he
would have done if differed to
continue in the preddential
chair ?—was he not an enemy
to the people having their juil
fhare in the government of
themfelves ? Was it not Mr.
Adams who declared the people
no better than cc wolves,” and
that a nobility was neceffary to
keep them in order ? Away then
with commiferation where it
does not belong, and let the
actions of Mr. Adams, his an
ti-democratic principles with his
fate be constantly held up as a
warning to all who innovate on
the eftablifhed regulations of an
honed people.
Extract of a letter dated New-
York, Nov. 29.
“ Captain Mariner, of the
fliip Experiment, arrived here
this morning, in 26 days from
Jamaica, informs us, that jud
before he failed, a P'rench fri
gate arrived there, difpatched
by general Lc Clerc, to requeft
of the governor of Jamaica,
that he would afford an afylum
for Madame Le Clerc and fuit
during the unfettled date of St.
Domingo ; mentioning at the
fame time, that the blacks had
become fo formidable as to
render it unfafe for the whites
to remain there. It was alfo
underdood, that the blacks had
been victorious in a lace general
engagement with the French
troops.”
Ext rati of a letter, dated Port-
Repuhlican, \Ji of November.
“ Death and ckdruftioa
threaten us even wilV.ln thole
tor tilled walls, in (hort every'
town, village, czc. from the
Cape to this place has become
the prey of the brigands and
the flames—we maintain, yet,
a few ports at Mirdala’u , grand
Peis and Cul de Sac ; but from
all appearances they will fooa
be wrtfted from us, and France
will have nothing left in this
de voted Ifland but the Cape,
Port Republican and the Molt ,
as the South hitherto fo quire
exhibits already the dreadful
fymptoms of the approaching
revolution.”
BOSTON, November 23.
St. DOMINGO.
Cant. Appleton, from Cape-
Francois, who failed from thence
Odober 16, mentions, that the
affairs of the French in St. Do
nftngo were in the moft forlorn
fituation. Port-de-Paix had
been burnt, and many whites
rnallacred. The fame fate was
impending over Aux-Cayes.—■
Odober 14, near the Cape, a
fevereadion took place between
the blacks and the French,
The former were vidorious,
and took a fort. The evening
previous to the engagement a
negro general and 1500 black
foidiers defer ted from Le Clerc.
The defertion of Chriftophc
was expeded to follow. A
number of Americans who
ferved, fome voluntarily, others
by compulfion, were killed and
wounded in this battle. The
negroes were confidered as
15,000 flrong ; Le Clerc’s ar
nsy was reduced to about 4000,
The general, who was without
the Cape, doubting his ability
to proted the city, ordered the
lick and wounded to be remo
ved, and gave permiffion for
the women and children to de
part. The valuable effeds were
removing on board the fleet,
Bufmefs was jfufpended. The
ading American conful, Mr.
Dodge, had embarked in a vef
fel for Portfmouth. American
veffels were embargoed, and
ordered off* the bar. 1 hele
meafures indicated an expeda
tion of being obliged to aban
don the place. Capt. A. adds a
that a few hours before he failed
he was told by the proprietor
of the American Coffee-houle,
that it was reported Le Clerc
had agreed w r ith the black com
mander in chief that the French
troops fhould leave the iflanci
in three days—and that an ar
miftice had cf courfe taken
place.
COLUMBIA, Dec. 10, 1802.
On Wednefday laft the legit
lature of this ftate proceeded to
the eledion of a governor, a
lieutenant-governor, a fenatOi
to congrefs, a fecretary of ftate,
and a furveyor-general; when
J ames Birchill Richardfon, £lq
was eleded governor, Ezekiel
Pickens, Efq. lieutenant-gover
nor, Major Pierce Butler, fe
tor to congrels, Daniel
Efq. fecretary of ftate, and Jono
Bynum, Efq. furvcyor-gencral.
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