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demanded my keys : ,tl)efe I peremp
torily refufed to deliver, observing
that, if lhey conceived it to in
the execution of their office, they
might force my locks, but I was de
termined not to produce a key. Ac
cordmg'y rny locks were forced, my
papers examined with the eye of feru
tiny, and not a paper nor a {entente
co .Id be found that could tend to lup.-
port the charge which had otcahoned
this wanton attack lip off the privileges
and immunities of a citizen.
I have already set forth in the
words of the bench warrant, and, in
thole from the warrant of the com
mittee of the honfe, the charges which
were laid ag.'iiilft me. I have
loufly examined the law of the land,
and the law of this state, and have,
together with my acculations, placed
them before my fellow citizens, to
judge- In the conflitution of this state,
the fecund clanl’e of the ninth article
declares, ‘ Thar no freeman of the
itate tball he taken, or iinprifoned, or
tliff’ei/.ed of his freehold, liberties'or
privileges, or out la wed, or exiled,
or in any manner deflroyed, or de
prived of his life, liberty, and pro
perry, but bv the judgment of his
peers, or ‘by the lav/’ of the (and.’—
upon the evidence of one Man, who has
not declared h w be bfeame ■ poffeffd oj
tre cjid.nce, I am held out as a traitor
to my country, and treated with all
the rigour attending per locutions llhf
and r the molt arbitrary government.
Upon the e dd. nee of the laws of the
land, and the particular la.v of this
itate, the aft imputed to me as trea..
{enable, is not mentioned ; therefore,
tbit ail cannot be cbnltrucd into a
crime, becaufo no jcxifiing law has
made it one. But allowing that it
amounted to mifprjwi , by admitting
the president’s proclamation to have
had the power of law, in establishing
crimes wherein the law was silent, yet
the steps taken to come at the evidence
which was necessary to condemn the
aggreijbr, were Arch, that nothing
inert of the power qf a despot was
wanting
Shall any one liereafter attempt to
call America a land of liberty, when
neither character nor locks, nor other
iecurity, however heretofore held sa
cred, can protect the citizen from the
rigorous search of a fl ip chamber war
rant ‘( Suppose, for a moment, I was
lee it at the head of one thou land-, or
even ten thouland men, all citizens,
and all equally free to go where they
pleated, as I supposed inyfelf to be
at one time , and that we were just
flopping out of the limits of this state,
prqgrelling to a country, no matter
whether in or out of the limits of the
United States : could it be conltrucd j
against the laws of this country, when
the preamble to every conflitution
pat Ted in America, declares, that all
men are free ? lam not free to com
mit murder ; lam not free to make
depredations upon any individual of
the United States : but certainly I am
free to quit .thefts flutes when l please,
to where l pkafe, or I am more a Have
to tyranny now; than I was twenty
years ago.
If then this political freedom is pos
sessed by the citizens of America, and
it has been declared to be their inhe
rent right by the general voice of the
people', what alfui.-ption of power mull
it be, when a set of individuals (hall
attempt to invade or in any shape di
miniffi that right. Americans, it be
comes your case more immediately
limine ; every indignity which I
’ to fuiF.v, I have gone
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Tons against my country, as any verse
in holy writ. It was an aft done in
defiance of the federal conflitution,
which fays,- ‘no perlon lb all be com
pelled, in any criminal case, to be a
witness against himlelf; nor be de
prived of life, liberty, or property,
without due process of law.’ Was
not the searching for papers in my
pbffeffion tanta'fnouqt, had any been
found, agreeable to the hopes of my
perfeartors, to make me become a
witness against mylelf t My country
men, rny" friends, ye who have with
me been iriflrumental in bringing a
bouft our revolution, apply to your
felvcs the conduct which has been a
dopted in this matter. 1 rom the ar
bitrary will of George 111. of Great
Britain, we have no longer a pride in
exulting to he free, if the moft lacred
ties of the union can thus be violated
and trampled upon.
I add rest mylelf now to my country
at large. Ido it upon the principle
of a citizen (of a great republic which
is'juft fre'ed from the (hackles of des
potism) who has experienced an attack
upon ids privileges. It ihews thereby
plainly, that- there (till remains forne
thing'delpotic either in our general,
government, or in characters tom
poling the executive part thereof. Ip
either case, if my observations are just,
a remedy is necessary ; if they are
wrong, or the explanations extorted,
I love my country too well not to
submit cheerfully to conviction ; but
on the contrary I pledge mylelf not
to give up tamely a point which to me
appears big with con-sequence refpeft
ing the future happin Is of America.
8. DRAYTON.
bhhmii
FRENCH GENERALS.
4
The French excuse their verfatiliry
refpecling their generals in the fol
lowing manner :
Dr Bouille, they fay, planned the
flight of tlve king.
Luckner was a foreigner, and sup
posed to love money without loving
liberty.
Rochambeaubs good qualities were
in’ efteqm, but, doubting his own po
pularity, he religncd of his own mo
tion.
La Fayette carried his politics and
intrigues in the army, and they were
at kill tjionght of the wrong fort.
. Duniourier, like De Bouille and
La Fayette, turned himlelf off; and
•after fu ll displacing La Bourdonnaye,
and bringing Miranda into quellion,
lie led Valence, Egalite, ahd others
into an avowed conlpiracy.
Culline, alike scurrilous to his ene
mies and colleagues, at iufl attacked
the convention, whom lie called
brawlers, and in want of a dictator
like himlelf ; and he was therefore
loon defer ted, when he was found de
ferred by fortune.
Wimpfen, who never enjoyed full
confidence, has declared, like feveral*
of his predeceiTbrs, that the convention
does not polTefs any confidence from
him.
Biron, who was of the higli nobility,
a quondam Orleanite, and looking for
large inheritances, was thought to be
too dilatory againfl the insurgents not
to have a fellow feeling for them.
Servan had a heavy charge to an
swer, in tljedefencelefs slate of the
frontier towards Spain.
Kellerman, though Hill in command,
is known only as a soldier ; and has
not fufheient talents to lave him,
fliould any suspicions prevail re fpe cl
ing his patriotism.
Weflerman was proved to be a ma
rauding adventurer, both in Flanders
and La Vendee,
Oil the whole, the French fay, that
an army is a machine, and the general
is the foul of it ; that it would be idle
to continue a general after he was
fufpefted of being left attached to his
employers, than to their enemies ;
that to change is an evil, but that to
be betrayed is a far greater evil ; that
many of their changes have beeivfatif- ;
factory to their armies, and even pray- j
ed for by them ; for when men rifle
their Jives, it is at lea ft a confutation
to know, that they have oftener me- |
rited cenlure for the men they ha\e
kept, than for the men whom they
have difinifled ; that events have al
most universally proved their 1u 1 pic:— |
ons to be founded; anti that as their
firfl generals .‘\vere king’s tr.err, their
next conftitutidnalifts, and their thud
set Girondists, no wonder that they
were each dilptaced by the tucceecl
ing parties; - I fiajt in the
civil wars, in Charles’s time, the mft
generals were in the public inteiell,
the next iiithb prelbyteriafi, and the
next in the independant, and yet they
carried through their point lor the
time. That the duke of Ormond,
dnd the French generals under tne
monarchy, were generally changed,
when there were changes at court,
and lbm£ timed’ from infre caprice oi
intrigue; That the lenior officers in
their artiiies- at prelent, are naturally
full of old’ prejudices; it will be fdnie
time before thele arfe weeded or worn
out. and theme w ones frll their places;
and that-as every new choice of a- ge
neral is an experiment, on accdunt oj
(heir new cireumltances, it is not Won
defiul tint fo.ne of their experiments
fliould be unfortunate. But in the
me At time, they lay, that as their
army, on the whole, hangs together,
and is too vail to be deinolilhed at
onco, time will afeertain the ability
and fidelity of their officers ; and that
France never having had liall so many
men armed in its defence, nor itspeo
pie half so animated, the allies will
b come bankrupt and and :1b a fitted, be
fore the Conquest of France canbeef..
fefted. If tlvey are right in this, then
it is pretty clear, that England is in
the wrong in its mad ‘crullicle ; and
that a fyllefnt of bribery cannot go so
very far in a country, where the aeffirs
are changed to often.
AUGUSTA, December 2i r
Town of Tuckabachee, on the Talapoofee
river, Upper Creeks, A cy. 30, 1 793*
Sir,
It is with pleasure I inform your
excellency, that in conlequence of a j
meeting which I have had at this place !
with the chiefs of all the Creek na
.tions, that peace and good under
llanding is again re-eftablilhed be
tween the United States and the laid
nations.,
The Creeks bind themselves to de
liver to me all the prisoners in this
land ; to rellore all the negroes,
horses and cattle, taken from Georgia
for twelve months pall ; to punilh ca
pitally, five or more of their principal
aggrefl’ors, Measures are taken lor
carrying into efteft all these delirable
objefts ; and runners are lent in every
direction, to make known the news of
peace, and ftriftly to forbid their peo
ple from injuring the perlfons or pro
perty of the people of your state, or
the United States.
I have therefore to request that
your excellency will lose no time
in promulgating this information,
throughout your Hate, thereby to
prevent any outrage being offered to
i'uch Indians as may appear on your
frontier, belonging to this nation,
whilst they conduft themlelves as
friends.
I have not time to be more particu
lar at prelent, but ihall do mylelf the
honour of writing to you again in a
few days, and am, with due re fpe £l,
Your obedient humble servant,
JAMES SEAGROVE,
Agent In iian affairs, S. D. U. S.
His excellency the governor of Georgia.
Taken from the fie of the executive,
At tell. ED. WATTS, S. E. D.
Thefucceffesof our French brethren
over the armies of the combined ty
rants, were celebrated here on Satur
day tall, with uncommon joy—The
governor and both branches c.f th t fl
legislature attended the feftivaU I
The dragoon's, the artillery, an i i ;1 . 1
Entry exerted themselves, in * their 1
manoeuvres, to a degree heretofore
unknown.
Last Thursday evening the gei eral
a (Terribly of this state adjourned, fi iie
die—Tire following are the aft-, puffed
during the ieffion, viz.
’ An aft to iippofe a tax on the inha.
bitants of this (late, lor the lupport
of government for the.year 1794‘
An aft to oblige vessels and persons
coming from places infefted with epi
demicai diftemperstb perfOTrSTJUaran.
tine.
An nft to eftablifli arr Infpeftion of
tobacco on Savannah river, at trie
mouth of Lightvvood Log creek.
An aft to appoint commissioners for.
the town of Hardwick, and appoint
commissioners for the connty of Wafa,
ington, for fixing a proper place for
the court honfe and gaol (or the fad
county, ahd for build ng the fame.
An aft to prevent the importation
of ne 2.foes into this state, from the
places herein mentioned.
An aft more effectually to’;punilh
persons coiivifted of fteaiing horses, ■
asses, or mules.
An aft to rcv’ife and amend the ju
diciary aft.
An aft to divorce or separate-An
drew jMaybanlc and Alary his wife,
and for protecting each of them iu
their refpeclive estates.
An act Hippie me nt ary to the militia
-law.
Art aft for laying out .anew coiiutv v
from the counties of Washington and
■Greene.
An aft to grant certain power;
therein named to the commissioner: of
pilotage for the town of Savannah.
Atiaft respecting bastardy and other
‘immoralities.
An aft to dispose of the commons of
the town of Washington, iri the coun
ty of Wtikes.
An aft t-> secure to w... ’T| inr . %r
Ton and THomas M‘Calt, for the
term of ten years, the foie and ex
ciufive right of running a line of ftnge
carriages, between the city of Savan
nah and town of Augusta.
I An aft to incorporate the Savan
nah affectation of mechanics.
An aft for preventing controversies 0
concerning bounds of lands, and for
prcceffioning the fame.
An act to lay out a county out of
part of the counties of Burke and
Effingham.
An aft for regulating and keeping
in repair the public roads and bridges
in the several counties within this
state.
An aft to repeal an aft, entit’ed, <•
an act for inflicting on, and confiscat
ing the estates of luch persons as are
therein declared guilty ot trealon, and
for other purposes therein mentioned,
so far as refpsfts the banilhment of
George Baiilie, of Chatham county,
merchant, therein named.
An aft for opening and keeping
clear the navigation of Ogechee river.
An aft for appropriating monies for
the year 1794.
An aft to amend an aft, pointing
out the mode under which property
reverting to this state ftiall be difpo fed
O *
of.
The follow! ng appointments were
made by the legislature :
The honourable George Walton,
efq. Judge of the superior cdurt, in
the room of John Houftoun, Icl'q- re
signed;
Abraham Jones, efq. auditor.
J. Tatnall, Philip Clayt-Jn, and
Nicholas Long, esquires, con'imifiion
ers for the Tales of confifcaneJ pro
perty.
The following ftate_officers were re-
O
elefted :
John Milton, efq. fecretarly of state.
1 hoinas M-'Call, efq. lurleyor-ge
neral.
John Gibbons, efq. treasurer.