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Extraft from Mr. Giles's Speech
in the Senate of the U. S. on
the 23d Jan. on the question
of palFing the Bill for fitting
out &c. all the frigates be
longing to the United States.
««Mr. Giles faid he fhould
avail himfelf of that occafion to
confutation; and that Cor.grefs
might poffes that power was
certainly the primary induce
ment to the formation of the
conllitution.
“ It is known that the ineffi
ciency of the commercial regu
lations of the feveral hates, and
be explicit in hating his views of j the extremely inconvenient in
the quehion of peace or war. | flnence of the confuting fyf-
bte was induced to do this be- j terns of the different hates tip-
caufe his views upon that quef- : on each other, fird fuggehed
tion had been mifunderhood, or 1 the neceflirv of a general go-
at leah mifreprefented to the vernment, for the purpofe of
public, and pretend to be deriv- | regulating commerce by one
ed from converfations, Ik other ■ uniform and efficient fydem ;
of the mod amiable manner', of
correct department and refined
undent Hiding riefeeuded Irom
virtuous k refpeftable parents.
From the Columbian.
fources of information eaffly to
be misconceived, and more eafy
to be mifreprefented ; and for
which he did not feel himfelf at
a'Jl refponfible. He had always
been in the habit of frankty ex-
poling his views without refewe
in his place on that floor upon
all fubjefts, when required by
the duties of his hation; he
fhould now do fo, and for their
correftnefs in that place, he ac
knowledged himfelf to be ref-
ponfible to the public.
I “ He laid, with refpeft to
peace or war, it fhould be ob-
ferved—that in a difpute be
tween nations, war was at the
option of either party ; peace
was not—peace required the
confent ot both—Whilft, there
fore, war may be in our power,
peace may be beyond our con
trol. Great-B; itain may make
war upon us ; and it is our mod
imperious duty to be prepared
to meet it. He faid, as to the
probability of that event, he had
no certain data to guide his
judgment, but if it be even un
certain, preparations ought to
be made to meet it with effect &
advantage. lie was, therefore
in favor of every preparation
both by land and by fea, to meet
war; but he confidered the
of courfe the power to regu
late commerce may be confi-
dered as the foundation of the
conllitution itfeif. The people
of the U. S. have delegated a
Gongrels charged with the fa-
cred trull of protecting and
exercifmg this trreat conditu.
tional power. How then can
that Congrefs abandon it to
the exercife of a foreign pow-
er, without an almoft treafon-
sble infidelity to the people, by
whom they are delegated ? G.
B itain not only claims, but
actually exercilts the power of
regulating, and even of ref
training and prohibiting your
commerce at pleal’ure ; and fo
far has flie carried the exer
cife of this power, as to fub-
llitu'e her own illicit commerce
in the place of your lawful,
but prohibited commerce ! Yes,
in utter contempt of your
rights and authority, and in
utter difregard of her own
char after, Ihe is now in the
habit of granting licences to
her own fubjefts to com nit
treafon againll the common
law of the land, by autharif
ing them to carry on an il!i it
commerce with her enemy, in
lubditution of your lawful
commerce. He believed it ini-
w A R.
Bella, horrida Bella!
Of all th» artificial evils with
which civilized man is curfed,
war is the moll alHifting. Its
principles are repugnant to the
bed feelings of the human
heart, and reafon revolts at its
horrors. Why then all this ra
vage and deftruftiorf'? Wliy is
the civilized world made ail a-
celdatna and a common charnel
houfe, and humanity covered
with the habiliments of woe ?
Why is man the mod inveterate
enemy of man, and why does
rational beings tliirll for each
Other’s blood ? I anfwer with
the poet,
One murder makes a villain,
Millions, a hero. Princes are pie.i
j Tu kill, and numbers fanftify the
crime.
Ah ! why will kings forget that they
are men ?
And men tint they are brethren ?
Why delight
In human facrifice ? Why burfi; the
ties
Of. nature, that fhould knit their
fouls together
In one loft bond of amity and love ?
They yet (till breathe deftruftion,
dill go on
Inhumanly ingenuous, to find out
New pains for life—new terrors for
the
grave
-Still mon-
qtie&on of making preparations pollible for the U. States to
very different Submit long to this
unexam- j
pled flute of things, arid there-i
fore that they ought, mult ere
long, go to war to nflert and
maintain their violated tights,
their injured iriterelis, &: ire.
if no other expedient will an- .
fwer the cbjeft.”
Murder. — A mod dreadful
aft of cruelty was perpetrated in
King & Queen county, V. on
the 18th uit. John Roane, Jun.
living within a mik-ol the court j
houfe, murdered his amiable Ag
nes, in the prime of life, and to
whom he had not been married
three months.—On the morn-
ling of the day on which this
bloody deed was committed,
Roane appeared uncommonly
affeftionate to his unfufpefling
: vifthn, and leaving her, wt nt to
Mr. I loonies, an attorney, to
make his uiii. Mr. II. rallied
him on fuch a vifit, young and
healthy as he was, but he had
it made, returned, and immedi
ately cut ifs wife's throat. The
negroes alarmed the overfeer,
k he the neighbors, who ioun.1
Mrs. R. dead, weltering in her
gore, and her wretched hufb md,
lying befide her dead di unk !
When he recovered his lenses,
he afked repeatedly for his dear
Agnes, and on being anfwered
Ihe was in the next room, he
require repetition here, the real < laid, “ Tei /be is dead. I did it ”
eharafter of the difpute relpeft- An inquett was held on the
ing commercial lights when body, and the murderer was
flopped of all its difguifes and committed to J lil An exam-
embellifh'ments, confills in th'S : ining court was held, and while
whether the U. States or G. | the depofitions were taking, he
Britain fliall regulate the com- laid, “it was needlcfs to examine
to meet war, a
thing, from a qui (lion to declare
w'ar, or to make war—fo much
foy that reforting to the one hss
always been confidered as the
bed expedient to avoid the other
alternative—whilft, therefore,
he was againll declaring or
making war under prefent cir-
cumftances and at this time, he
was in favor of preparations to
meer it, which might hereafter
render a refort to it unneccffary.
But he would at the fame time,
fay explicitly, that if G Britain
would continue her courle of
holtilities againll us, he would
at a convenient and proper time,
be decidedly in favor of war,
rather than fubmit to her law
less, pretentions and aggreflions.
tie believed, that rather than
fubmit, the U. States ought,
mud and will go to war for the
prefervation and maintenance
of their rights, etc. He drew
this conclufion with confidence
and certainty, from the charac
ter of the difpute between the
two countries. What is the
leal eharafter of that difpute,
particularly as it refpt.fts com
mercial rights ? Independently
of aggrtflions vitally affecting
the eharafter and intered of the
U. States, continued without a-
tojnement or relaxation, and
which are two well known to
nierce of > the U. States ? Or
rather, whether the U. States
fliall regulate their own com
merce, confidently with the
law of nations ?—The right to
regulate commerce, is perhaps
ihe mod important right con
fided to Cungtefs under the
witnefles. as he confefkd him-
felf guilty.” Previous to his
marriage, Roane had frequently
intimated that lie would dedroy
himfelf, and it is fuppofed. that
he committed this horrid aft to
accelerate his dreadful purpofe.
The decoded Was' a woman
Artificers for death I
archs dream
Of univeifa! empire, growing up
1 prom univerfal ruin. Blaft ihe de-
fign,
Gar.A r God of hosts ! nor let thy
creatures foil
i Unpitied viftims at Ambition’s
lhrine 1
i Yes, the ambition of tilled def-
pots and the fuperdiiion ol mi-
I tree! knaves have been the caufe
of the calamities of war. For
file boundary of a fea, a river or
a mountain could never make
mankind each other’s enemies ;
, but fuch deeds are dill done,
and will continue, until free
I dotn waves her banners over a
I benighted world. The foul of
I the philanthropid fiickens at the
details of bloody battles, and
the man of reafon heaves a figh
at the nudnefs of the human
race.
Were all governments like
our own, con (lit need in ligiti-
inate principles, the din of arms
would ceafe, and the whole hu
man family would embrace each
other as brethren j but, aLs 1
we cannot even indulge a hope
that (his happy era is at hand,
for (lie bloody flag of ambition
is ft ill unfurled, and felf-dcfence
may (liortly compel us to raife
the hatchet and uulheache the
(word. Should this be our fate,
my countrymen, you mull be
convinced that our virtuous ex
ecutive have exerted all their
energies to avoid its horrors.
But fliould the infults and ag
greflions of European defpots
bring us to this iffue, we can
i boldly appeal to that Being,
i “ who rides in the whirlwind k
[ direfts the ftorm,” for the juf.
i tice of our caufe. As one man
| mull the nation aroufe to arms,
i and fwear at the holy altar of
freedom, which was cemented
by the bell blood of our fathers,
“ that we will never give up the
fanguinary conteft until we have
obtained indemnity for the pall
and fecurity for the future.’’
FHILO-THROPCS.
like torrents meeting in a narrow
valley! You would imagine it
impoffible for them to get thro’
—yet all pafson their way with
out flop or moleftution.
Were each man to proceed
exaftly in the line in which he
fet out, he could not move many
paces without encountering an
other full in his track. They
would Alike againll each other,
fall back, pulli forward again,
block up the way for themlclves ,
and thofe after them, and throw J
the whole (treet into confufion.
All this is avoided by every |
man’s yielding a little.
Inftead of advancing fquare,
ftiff, with arms (luck out, every
one, who knows how to walk
the flreets, glides along, his
arms dole, his body oblique and |
flexible, his track gently wind- (
ing, leaving now -a few inches
on tills fide, now on that, fo as |
to pals and be palT.-d, without
touching in the fmallelt poftble
f'pice.
He puthes no one into the
channel, nor goes into it himfelf.
By mutual accommodation, the
path,though narrow, holds them
all.
He goes neither much fader
nor much flower than thofe who
tro in the fame direction. In the
lirtl cafe he would elbow, in the
fecond he would be elbowed.
1 f any accidental dop arifes,
from a carriage crofting, a calk
rolled, a pick-pocket detefted,
or the like, he dors not increafe
the bultlc by rulhing into the
mi id of it, but checks his pace,
and patiently waits for its re
moval.—Like this is the march
of life.
In our progrefs through the
world, a rhouland things Hand
continually in our way. Some
people meet us full in the face
with oppofite opinions and in
clinations. Some Hand before
us in our purluit of pleafure or
intered, and others follow' clofe
upon our heels. Now we ought
in the full place to confider that '
ihe road is as free for one as for
another; and therefore we have
no right to expert that perfons
fliould go out of their way to let
us pafs, any more than we out
of ours —Then, if we do not
mutually yield and accommodate
a little, it is clear that we mud
ail (land dill or be thrown in
to a perpetual confufion of jull-
ling. If we are all in a hurry to
get on as lad as pMfible to feme
point of pleafure or intered in
our view, and do not occafion.
ally hold back, when the crowd
gathers and angry contentions
arife, we fliall only augment the
tumult, without advancing our
own progrels. On the whole,
it is out buftnefs to move on
wards, (teadily but quietly, ob-
llrufting others as little as polfi-
ble, yielding a little to this man’s
pnjuJices, and that man’s de-
fires, and doing every thing in
our power to make the journey
of life eafy to all our fellow tra
vellers, as well as to ourfelves
HOLT'S ferry.
ALL perfons travelling on
horte back, may crol’s at my
FERRY tor half price.
Thaideus Holt.
March 13. 1810.
Marshal's Sale.
WILL BE SOLD on the firft
Tuefday in May next, between
t 'C ufuat hours, at the Market-
Houfe in the Town of Sparta,
the following property, vrz..
TWQ acres of Land, with a
(lore houfe thereon, in the
county of Greene, laying on
the road leading from Greenf-
borough to Auguda, adjoining
of Win. Huckerby and Wm.
Harris—alfo one cotton G n 88
faws. Executed as ih. pro
perty of Robert Filher, by an
execution iffued out of the Fede
ral Court, in favor of the U.
States.— f orms cafli.
A. Abercrombit, d.m n o.
March 11, 1810. 5< -•■!»
Sheriff’s Sale,
Postponed.
1 l] ILL BE SOLD on the firjl
Tuefday in April next, at the
Market Houfe in the Town of
M iliedgevillc, between the ufuat
hours.
Two Negroes Elijah Sc Gb(T-
gow, levied on as the property
of Jeremiah Gardner, to I'atisly
Peleg Rogers’ execution egaiiilt
him, property pointed out by
Gardner.
ALSO.
! Four hundred ami five acres
of Land, known by ihe lots N°
; 14Tand 162, in the fird dis of
Baldwin county, levied on as the
property of Noah Dodiidge, to
falisly Stephen Bilhop’s and
other executions againll him,
i the properly pointed out by tin;
plaintiff’s attorney.
Conditions Cafh.
Philip Cook, s. b. c.
March 13. 1810
Gioxai.t, Jones County.
HERE AS John Brooks
fen has applied to me
for letters of Adminiltration on
the ellate of Braxton Jourdan,
deceafed.
Tlitfe arc therefore to cite
and admonilh ail and lingular
the kindred and creditors ot the
faid deceafed, to file their ob
jections, if any they have in my
j office on or before the fifth day
of April next, otherwise letteis
will be granted him
Given under my hand and
foal this 5th March, 1810.
Roger McCarthy, c. c. o. *
wMimwawnririfc-' wit rimatrci.^nmin
NO TICE.
^V^HE Commilfioners for the
U county of Jones, n qued
all perfons indebted for Lots
purchafed in the Town of Clin-
N0 1 I C E.
A LL perfons having any
demands againft the eftate
of Richard Grc u. of Walhington
co. dec. are nqueded to render
in their accounts properly at-
teded, to Major David Black-
fhear, and thole indebted to Lid
edate to make immediate pay
ment.
JOHN H. BRYAN.
March 1 3. Adm'r.
A
NOT 1 C E.
I.L perfons having any
demands iigaiuft the tftate
ton, to come forward and make A e _, j UX ’. L ^ ec
immediate payment, as longer
indulgence cantiot be given.
WALKING THE STREETS.
Have you never walked thro’
the flreets of a great city ?
What fhoals of people pour-
ing ill;from oppofite quarters,
Hugh M. Conttr, "J
Adam Carson,
Hilary Pratt,
? ohn Cocke,
hornas 11 kite.
N. B. A further number of
Town Lots will be fold on the
fird Monday in May next, at
the Court lloufe in Clinton.
Terms nude known on the day .
of Sale.
March 13, 1810,
^Ex’rs.
are requeded to render them to
the Executors within the time
preferihed by law, and thofe
being indebted to faid edate, to
make immediate payment.
D. Blackjhear,
Jas. Mason,
Mevxb 13, 1810. 50-6 w
JS L AN K
DEEDS,
For Sale at this Office.