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SAVANNAH, (Georgia,) printed by
TOTIIE ELECTORS OF CHATHAM
CO UNIT,
Intending to be a candidate at the
approachitig election (or SHERIF F
of this County, I now apprise my fel
low citizens thereof, pledging my ft if
*•~ UI and ; -A the duties
at ne office. —I thai* be thankful foi
their fuffrage
JOHN EPPINGER.
August 25 5 2
£3- JOSEPH DAVIS offers
himfidf a candidate for the office of
Coronor, at the ensuing eledion, and
fnl.ir.its the fuffrages of his fallow-citi
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ON THE QUESTION,
WILL THERE BE WAR ?
Every one asks. Will there be War ?
The answer to this is cafv, which is,
That fd long as the English govern
1 fie permitted, at her own di fac
tion, to search, capture, and condemn
our veffeb, controul our commerce,
impress our seamen, and fire upon and
plunder our national flops, as she has
done, file will Not, Did are War , be
caufefhe will not give us the acknow
ledged right of making reprisals. Her ;
plan is a monopoly of war, and she
thinks to futceed by the manoeuvre of 1
not declaring war.
The cafe'then is altogether a ques ;
non among ourselves. Shall we make
war on the Engli/h government, as the.
1 nglifh government has made up ::,
us; or (ball we fuorrut, as we have!
done, and that with long forbearance,
10 the evil of having war made upon;
us without reprisals ? This Is a right
statement of the case between the Unit-,
Oil States and England.
For fevmal years past it lias been
he fcheine of that government to ter- :
rifv us, by arts of violence, in o sub-.
Million to her measures, and in the in- j
fme flupidity of attempting this, she j
has incensed us into war. We neither
:ar nor care about England, other-J
wife than pitying the people that live:
under such a wretched system of gov-j
vernment. As to navies, they have’
foil their terrifying powers. They!
can do nothing again!! us at End, and!
if they come within our waters, they j
will be taken the firfi calm that comes, i
l hey can rob us on the ocean as rob
bers can do, and we can find a way
10 indemnifyourlch cs by repm.L,in|
; more ways than one,
1 he English government is not en 1
oiled, even as an enemy, to be treated
• s civilized cherries are treated. She
. ot a pirate,and should be treated as a
irate. Nations do not declare war
tgainft pirates, but attack them as a
uturai right. All civifirtes, !he\vn to
hie British government, is like pearls
brown before (wine. She is ir.fiuifi
j oleos pr incipleand deflitute of honor.
I Her monarch is mad and her mini Iters
have caught the contagion.
The Britiffi government, end a!f
the nation, deceive them Lives with
j refpeft to the power of navies. 1 hey
J suppose that th :ps of war can make con
quests at land ; that ihey can take 01
j ekfitroy towns or cities near the (here,
j red obtain by terror what terms they
. joleafe, I hey Lot admiral Duck
\ worth to Conitifitinople upon this stu
pid ides, and the event has (hewn to
the world the imbecility of navies a
-1 gainfl cannon on Chore. Conftanti to
pic was not fortified any more than
our American towns are now; but the
Turks, on the appearance of the Brit
ish fleet got five hundred cannon and
a hundred mortars down from the ar
senals to the flioic and the bluflering
heroes of the navy feeing this fled like,
a hound with a raule a: his tail. Ihe 1
gallant people at Norfolk and its.
neighborhood have lent Douglass off j
in a (imilar manner. An indian who!
studies nature isa better judge of naval
power than an English minilter.
In March, 1777, soon after taking;
the Hefhans at l teuton, 1 was at a
treaty held with the five nothern na
tions of Indians at Ealt I own, Penn
sylvania, and was often plealed with
| the sagacious remarks of thofeori^tnal^
people. ‘I he chief of one of the
tribes, who went by the name of King
La it night , bccaufe his tribe had fold
their lands, had seen fotne English
r men of war in fome of the waters of
1 Canada and was impressed with an
j idea of the power of thofo great canoes;
but he saw that tUe Englifli made no
progress againlt us by land. This
was enough for an Indian to form a:;
! opinion by. He could speak fome
English, and in conversation with me,
alluding to the great canoes, he gave
me bus idea of the power of a king of
j England by the following metaphor,
j 4 * The king of England,” laid he,
j iC is like a fifli. When he is in the
j water he can wag his tail. When he
- comes on land he lays down on Lis
fide.” Now if the Er.glifir govern-
Uneut had but half the sense this Indi
; art had, they would not have feat Duck
’ worth to Conftatuinople and Douglass
to Norfolk to lay down on their Tide.
| Accounts from Halifax flute, that
admiral Berkley has a Hedged in writ
ing-that “his orders (to Douglass)
| wue not Blued until every application
to r .{tore the mutineers and deserters
: he calls them) had been made by
his Bntannic tnajcffy’sjninifier, minis
j ter, consul, and officer, aud iud been
refufed by the government of the U
: railed States.”
J Jf this a; court* be true, it (hews
i that Berkley i-r an idiot in govermuent
| al(fairs ; for if the matter was in the
| hands of the Brtulh nuniller, who is
; the immediate e of hi
| government, Beikley’could have no
j interference in it. That mini Her
[would report to his government the
demand lie made, if he made am,’, end
the an Tver he received, if ree; ived a
rsy, aud Berkley could ad only in con - •
[ fequenceofortlersreceived afterwards. 1
I It does n u belong to fuhordinate of
ficers of any gov rnm.etu to co n
rnence hulhlmes at th ir own dtfere
iion, I now come to ‘peak, cd die po
hiics of tire day as they ante out of
the ciicu.rdtauces, that hmre taken
cla ce,
The irjtiflices of the Btitifi: gov
ernment, and the itifolencc of its naval
officers, is no longer to borne. T hat
injultice, and that irMence grows < tit
of a prefutnption the Briuih govern
menthas set up. which it calls “ the
right op search,” There is not, nor
ever was, such a right appertaining to
2 nation in aonil-quence of its being in
war with another nation. Wherever
such a right exified, it has been by
tieaty,and where no such treaty exified,
no such rijn can exiif, and to afftmie
the exeicite of it is an ad of Kcfidity
which if not abandoned, mutt be re
pelled until it be abandoned. Ihe
United States cannot even cede such
aright to England, without ceding the
the fame fight to France, .Spain, Hol
land, Naples, Italy and i u*key, or
they will take it, and the United States
muff take the confluence, It is a
very difficult matter, and requires
great political wtfdom for a ne-itra!
- nation to make a treaty during a time
!of war with one belligerent nation,
J which fliall not com nut her with the’
! other. The best way then, since mat
ters, are come to the extremity they
| are, is to resist the pretended right of
search in thefirft lnltance. ‘t he Unit
ed States arc able to do it, aud she is
the only neutral nation that is able.
We are not|he diminutive people now
that wc were when the revolution be- 1
gan„ Qur population was tiieu two 1
| | || | AN*
SEPTEMBER it, ISO 7.
Norman M ; Lean &? William E Barnes.
millions and an half, it is now between
| fix and seven millions, and in lef than
ten years will exceed the population
of England. The United Mates have
increased more in power, ability, and
wealth within the lail twenty or twen
ty-two years, than flic did for almost
two hundred years before, while the
hates were Brilifh colonies.
She owes this to two things, inde
pendence and the representative system
of government. It was always the ill
judged and impracticable fy Hem of the
Britifli government to keep the colo
nies in a Rate of continual non-age.—.
They never were to be of full age that
Ihe might always controul them,
While the United States have t een
going forward in this unparalleled
manner, England has been going beck
ward. Her government is a bank
rupt, and her people rniferable --
More than a million of then: are pau
pers. Her king is mad, and her par
liaments are Corrupt. We have y*t
to He what the prefer?: new eledied
i parliament will be. There is one
| man in it, whom I proudly call a friend,
| from whom there will be great expec
tations • but zvkat can one hone 4 inde
pendent member dc , surrounded by
such a vr.af. of ignorance and corrup
tion as have for many years past gov
erned that unfortunate nation.
ihe great dependence of England
has been her navy, and it is her r.avV
that has been her ruin. Thafalfely
imagined, power of that navy (for it
was heedffary it fhoul’d be smphibu
ous to r rlorm what was expected
‘roin it) has prompted the ignorance
A her government into inference to
wards all fore - :-n powers till England
ha-; not a friend left among the nation: ,
dui-ka ar.-tl Sweden will charter them-
Fives upon her purse til; it becomes
empty and then very probably will
turn again!! her.
Depending on her navy (lie block
led whole countries by proclama
tion, and now Bonaparte by way of
i Hindiable retaliation has blockaded
i aer by land from the commerce or
! the we Rem part of the continent of
Europe. Her inform: and imbecile
expedition to ContlantirtopSe, has ex
cluded her frost! the Tmkilh Europe
and Turkey in Aha, and thrown tc
?nto France—and her outrageous con
du6f to us will exclude her from the
commerce of,the United States. By
Ihe infolcnce of the crew of her navy
he is in danger ol Sohng her trade to
China } and it is ealy to fee that Bo
naparte is paving his wav to India by
lurkey and Perlid. Ihe madness of
the Brijdh gove nmeat has thrown
l urkey into the arms of France.—
Pei tia lib betwe en lurkey and India,
and Bonaparte is fonning friendly
connections v.ith the Persian goVton.
merit. There i already an exchange
of ambjffkdurs. Bonaparte is lend
ing military ofheers into Perlia, and
will wirh the con font of its govern
ment, raise an a?my there and atu.k
the En.;!i!h monopoly in India. If
franco holds her connexions with
Turkey and Pertia, England cannot
hold India.
It l. in this wretched chaos of af
rfais that the inad government of
England has brought on her herfelf a
new enemy by commencing holitfu/es
against the United Mates. She mult
be ignorant of the geography of A*
tnerica, or Ihe would know that we
can difpolfefs her of all her pofleffiona
oq the continent, whenever we p!cafe ?
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