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Columbian Centinel.
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VOL. VII. No 315]
t Three dollars per annum.) PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL HAMMOND, NORTH BROAD-STREET, (Half in advanc
NEW ARRANGEMENT.
CE.YTI.VEL OFFICE,
29th May , 1809.
WITH a deep sense of the encou
ragement and liberal patronage that
this paper has received since its first
appearance,the subscriber new returns
his sincerest thanks tothe publicfor their
support. He is proud m the recollec
tion that at least he has endeavored to
merit it.
tile henceforth declines all concern in
this paper.... l’he property in which and
the printing business of this office he
has transferred to Mr. Samuel Ham
mond, junior.
He respectfully solicits from his
friends the continuance of that patron
age in his support, not doubting but that
he will make Independence his object,
Truth his guide, and Decency his com
panion.
He cannot close without congratulat
ing his countrymen at large on the pre
sent prospect in the political affairs cf
the* United States, and the succeeding
editor in particular, on the pleasing du
ty he will have, in bearing testimony to
the revived growth and renovated pros
perity of this land of freedom, agricul
ture and commerce, under the auspices
of an administration, that in its first step
evinces a spirit of moderation, free from
disingenuousness, and a wisdom, that
appearing to despise the cob-web arts
of diplomacy, at once has met a frank
atonement and a fair proposition, with
an honest face and a cordial desire for
reconcilement by honorable negneia
tion.
GEO: F. RANDOLPH.
CENTIXEL OFFICE,
3* d June, ISG9.
THE undersigned takes the liberty
©f requesting the future patronage and
support of the public in conducting this
paper. He will essay to deserve their
good opinion by a steady adherence in
politics to principles purely American ;
in private disputes to forbearance and
decency, and in business, to correctness
and dispatch. Tuese sheets have never
yet been stained with any thing that
honor could blush at, or virtue disap.
prove of. He pledges himself in these
rejects, that they shall still uphold
that character.
Remote as he is from the great scents
of politics and commerce, he feels his
duties not the less essential, although in
a limited sphere. To amuse, inform & j
protect, shall be his pleasure and his |
Care. The seat of our general govern* i
ment is not alone that of p<>wcr nor cf :
science. These independent states,
confederated for external defence and
intejrnal peace, and in all other regards
though unequal in size, numbers and
wealth, yet co-equal in rights, must
preservewithin themselves those means
of integral existence, n ctssary to give
them due weight in the sovereignty of
th« nation. They must (acting from
their own centre) each guard against
the infringments of their sister states
ancj the encroachments of federalpower
in order to effect a benign and socia
combination of the wh01e.... Amongst
the means by which enslaved states have
become free, and free ones have been
preserved, the Liberty of the Prets
stands pre-eminent....When vaunting,
the scourge of popular tyranny, or the
sword cf despotism have ever prevailed.
The state of Georgia has shone conspi
cuous in the ranks of fre-dom. She
has often feit the pang of adversity....
and she has triumphed in the smiles of
victory- has been agitated by the
collision of parties; but she has grown
from infancy to manhood, unimpaired
by their convulsions. She has with
others pined in the period of interdicted
activity....she has risen superior to all
these. The editor hails the present
time, and repeats cordially the preced
ing congratulations without the dread
that they will be found irksome. The
measures then that he shall support,
unequivocally will be those that tend
to harmonize the general and state gov
ernments. He views the latter as sub
stantial parts of the constitutional fab-
I
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
rics, and the former as their cement
and ornament. On public men and
measures he shall freely comment, and
whilst official public virtue receives his
aid, official public vice shall meet his
animadversions. The open violator of
our rights shall be corrected, and the
insidious traitor detected, whenever the
one affords the occasion, or the other
an opening. In private controversies,
his duty will compel him to be the ve
hicle for public appeal; but he will
strive to mollify. In the transaction of
his business he will vie with nis co-tem
porarits in obtaining and preserving a
just proportion of the confidence of his
fjlow citizens, on the same terms his
predecessor has done.
The Columbian sentinel will
continue to be sent to present subserj.
tiers as heretofore, unless otherwise
directed.
SAMUEL HAMMOND, Jun’r.
THE BOARD of TRUS
TEES of the Richmond Academy, at
their meeting on Monday last, rescin
ded their Resolution respecting St.
Paul's Church, and appointed two of
their members, together with the sub
scriber, a Committee to wait on the
present Pew-holdtrs, to know if thry
were willing to relinquish their exclu
sive right to the Pews ’till Jmuaiy
next, under the late leasing, for the
purpose of having the seats in Church
free to all persons who choose to wor
ship there.
And the subscriber feels a pleasure
in stating, that most of the Pew-holders
hav* already been called upon and have
freely and cheerfully relinquished their
claims under the late leasing ; and lit
tle doubt exists, that the very few, who
remain, will do the same when they can
be seen. He therefore feels gratified
in announcing an arrangement, which,
making the seats in Church free to all
persons, and leaving the congregation
the choice of their preacher, will doubt
less give general satisfaction to those
who feel an interest in the subject.
T. BARRETT, Clerk B. T.
July 1 5. 104—
Notice.
THE subscriber expecting to be ab
sent during the summer months,
informs his customers and the public in
general, that he has left his business
jin the hands of Mr. JAMES MUR-
I RAY, whose experience and attention
j to business be has no doubt will fully
; enable him to give satisfaction. He
has left the settling of his account* dur
ing his absence, in the care of Mr.
&HADRACK BOGAN, who is fully
authorized to receive payment and give
receipts.
Thomas Knapen.
July 8. 103
Notice.
On monday the 31 at July next, at the
Market■ home in. Augusta, at the usual
time ,
Will be Hired,
THE N EGROES formerly be
*
longing to the estate of Clemsy Morse
dec. until the Ist of January next.
Terms of Hiring made known at
that time by
Ann Morse Adm'x,
Robert Johnson Adm'r.
June 17.
FOR SALE,
By the Subscriber,
A Neat, Light Four
Wheel Carriage,
With Plated Harness—vulgarly
called a Jersey Wagcon.
G. S. HOUSTON.
July 8. St
For the Columbian Centinel.
No. I.
IN a free government like ours,
where all power is derived from the
People, it is their duty, as I am sure
it is their interest, to prevent its being
perverted to the purposes of oppression.
It is not a more celebrated political
maxim, than an absolute political truth,
attested by the experience and exem
plified in the history of every despotic
government, that where the powers of
making and of executing laws are vested
in the same individual or body of indi
viduals, there can be no liberty—•“ Be
cause (says the great Montesquieu)
apprehensions may arise lest the same
monarch or senate should enact tyran
nical Jews. and execute them m a tyran
nical manner:” Again, that, “ were
the power of judging joined with the
legislative, the life and liberty of the
subject would be exposed to arbitrary
controui; for the judge would then be
legislator. Were it joined to the exe
cutive, the judge might then behave
with all the violence of an ofifiressor
So that it is not only perfectly consis
tent with the spirit and genius, but in
dispensably and essentially requisite to
the existence and duration of our re
publican government, and, to the pre
servation of the liberties of the people,
that “ the legislative, executive, and
judiciary powers should be kept as se
parate from, and independent of each
other, as is consistent with that chain of
conmxion that binds the whole fabric of
the constitution in one indissoluble bond
of utdty and amity.'*
Now in what degree these different
powers so essentially necessary in a
perfectly organized system of govern
ment, to he kept separate from, and in
dt pendent of each other, are so in the
government of this state ; and whether
the executive and judiciary powers
might not, consistently and with all due
deference and respect to the legislative
prerogative, (not of onmifiotence) be
completely independent of, and totally
uninfluenced by that power will he the
subject of investigation in a few num
bers more.
In the first article of the constitution
of seventeen hundred and ninety-eight,
it is declared, that “ the legislative, ex
ecutive and judiciary powers of govern
ment shall be distinct, and each de
partment he confided to a separate bo
dy of magistracy, so that neither exer
cise the powers properly belonging to
either of the others.” And by another
article the executive and judiciary offi
cers are appointable by the legislature.
So that, although when created , they are
in name « distinct” and separate, and,
neither of them literally exercise the
“ powers properly belonging to either
of the othersyet in the exercise of
their functions, in which they should,
these officers cannot possibly act inde
pendently of, and uninfluenced by the
legislature—lndeed, it would be as ra
tional to suppose the creature indepen
dent of the Creator; which from the
unalterable order of nature and course
of things must necessarily be subject,
and, of course, inferior to the hand that
made it. So that taken on any ground,
whether theoretical or practical, I pre
sume it will be found impossible for any
three or more powers of government,
creat'd by any one of them to be suffi
ciently independent of each other, to
preserve that just equilibrium of power,
the preponderation of which in either
of the three mechanical powers of our
government must destroy the safe
guard of the people given them in the
constitutional opposition of the differ
ent branches, against the unlawful en- 1
croachment of cither, on their rights, j
To suppose that the executive of the f
state (being dependent on the iegisla
ture for the tenure of his office) can act J
independently, or otherwise than the '■
legislature might desire, would be as
cribing more independence and patii
otism to his excellency, whoever he
may be, whether he remits fines without
reason , or fills the office without merit,
than perhaps the general tenor of his
condqct might warrant. As in. pri
SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1809.
▼ate life, he would justly be branded
with the black crime of ingratitude,
who after having a benefit conferred •
on him, would declare himself under
no obligations to bis benefactor ; so in
public stations, with public charect-rs
as with individuals, favors have their
influence, and gratitude whilst it warms
the breast, chills the patriotism of the
favored few.
If then our constitution is so defec
tive ; if after an eff dual trial it docs
not guard and protect our rights as it
. evidently was intended to do, free from
every species of usurpation and oppres
sion, it is incumbent on those, who ore
emphaticaj y though I fear Vainly called
“ the collected wisdom of the states,”
the favored objects of the people’s
choice, and as they should be , the faith
ful guardians of their lives, liberties and
happiness, the skilful physicians of the
body politic, to provide a speed/, and
an effectual remedy for this great polit
ical malady.
It is a duty which the people, if they
are mindful of their most important in
terests, will not long neglect, to choose
such persons to represent them in the
legislature as * ill prefer the real and
aggregate interests of the whole com
munity to individual emolument and
self aggrandizement. Were they more
particular in estimating the talents an i
integrity, than vigilant in demanding
the fiolitical creed , or fir of ess td princi
ples of candidates for public offices ; if
instead of confiding in the profuse de
clarations and liberal promises of those
electioneering vipers «ho think to ac
quire public confidence without merit,
and abuse it (as mu*>t ever be the case)
without cause, they would indignantly
spurn them from their presence ; they
would perhaps have less reason to com
plain ot the measures of the legislature,
and the want of confidence in the pro
mises of inuividnals.
CURTIUS.
The Tnorough Bred imported
Horse,
STAR,
WILL cover marcs the prescr,.
season at the plantation if Mr.
Archibald Mayson's, half a mile from
the Island ford of Saluda River, six
miles of Cambridge. Abbeville district,
South-Carchna, at the reduced of
I HIR I Y DOLLARS the seasons,
notes payble the fifteenth day of Decem
ber next—any gentleman bea ming re
sponsible for the season of five, shall
have one gratis. Each season may he
discharged with 275 pounds clean mer
chantable cotton, delivered in a bag or
sack at the stand, by the fifteenth day
of December next. The season viil
commence the first day of March and
end the 25th July m xt.
S FAR is undoubtedly as sure a foal
getter as any horse whatever. The con
stitution and bone of STAR and his
colts are much remarked and well
worth the attention of breeders and lov
ers of the turf. Iwo hundred acres of
a* good pasturage as any in the state,
gratis.—Grain will be furnished at the
market price, and mares fid as their
owners may direct.— No responsibility
in case of accidents or escapes—every
precaution will be taken to prevent ei
their. Ihe pedigree and performance
of Star is so well known, we deem it
needless to say more.
WILLIAM C. GUNNELS.
February 28, 1809. 85
N. B. THE subscriber intends to
keep the best imported horses at this
j stand for five years at least, and shall
it bis study to give general satis
j faction to all that please to favor him
j with their custom. The season may
! be continued if it is necessary until De
cember mxt.
Wrn. C. Gunnels.
BLANK SHERIFF TITLES
EOR SALE AT THIS
OFFICE.