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FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
S FRAYED
TpROM the Public Stable on the
JL Okmulgee fome time in Fe
bruary laft, Chefnut Sorrel Mare,
fix years old, fifteen hands high,
well made, trots naturally, vras fliod
aft round when fhe went away—
without artificial natu
ral marks are, a ftar in the forehead
forming a fhort dull blaze, with
one cr both hind feet white, fome
faddle fpots on the mounting fide.
She wa: feen on the pach leading to
Oglethorpe court-houle, 2nd is lup-
be run off fome perfon.
Any perfon giving information fo
thnt the faid mare is ob Mined by
the owner (if ftraved) fhail receive
teo dollars —and fifty dollars if fto
len fo that the tnief be brought to
pviniffimeht.
DENISON DARLTNG,
Agent for the General poft-efnee.
Athens, July 29, 1808.
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For lale at this office.
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MANY SHALL RUN TO AND FRO, AND KNOWLEDGE SHALL BE INCREASED.
Prefdent's AnJover to the Bofton Pe
tition. * ; V
Auguft 26, 1 #os.
Sir,: ■? .
I beg leave to communicate
through you the endofed anfwer to
the-rcprefentation which came to
me under cover from you, and to
add the affurances of my ref
peCt. \ •
’ TH: JEFFERSON.
Charles BtiJfindh , Efq.
for the feleCtmen ofßoftca. j
To the inhabit ants of the town of Bbf
tnn in legal town-meeting afnnbied.
Yuur reprefentation and requeft
were received on the 2 id inftant,
and have been confidered with the
attention due to every exprefiion of
the fentiments and feelings of fo
refpeCtable a body of my fellow cit
izen?. No perfqn has feen with
more concern than my leif, the in
conveniences brought on our coun
try in general, by the circumftan
ces of the times in which we hap
pen to live 5 times to which lh<s
hiftorv of nations prefent no paral
lel. For years we have been lock
ing as fpeCUtorson our brethren of
Europe afHiCted with all thefe evils
which necefiarily follow an aban
donment of the moral rule which
bind men and nations together.—
Connected with them in friendfhip
and commerce, .we have happily lo
far kept aloof from their calami
tous cor fl Cts, by a fteady obferv
ance of juftice towards all, by much
forbearance, and multiplied facrifi
ces. Ac length, however, all re
gard to the rights of others having
been thrown afide, the belligerent
powers have befet the highway of
commercial intercourfe with ediCls,
which taken together, expofe our
commerce and mariners, under al
moli every deftinadon, a prey to
their fleets and armies. Each party
indeed would admit cur commerce
wiih themfelves, with the view of
affxiat'ujg us in their war againft
the other. But we have wiftied war
with neither. Under thefe circum
flances were paffed the laws of
which you complain, by thofe dele
gated to cxercife the powers of
leg'flation for you, with every fym
pa:hy of a common intcreft in exer
ciflng them faithfully. In review
ing thefe meafures therefore we
§K.uld advert to the difficulties out
of which a choice Was of neceffity
to be made. To have fubmitted
our rightful commerce to prohibi
tions and tributary exa&ions from
others, would have been to furren
der our independence. To refift
theitl by arms was war, without
confuting the flace of things or the
choice of the nation. The alterna
tive preferred by the Legiflaturc of
fufpending a commerce placed un
der fucb unexampled difficulties,
befldes faving to our citizens their
property, and our mariners to their
country, has the peculiar advantage
of giving time to the belligerent
nations to revife a cbnduft as con
trary to theif interefts as it is to our
rights.
“In the events offuch peace, or
fufperuon of hoftiiities between the
belligerent powers of Europe, or of
fuch a change in their meafures af
fecting neutral commerce, as may
render that of the United States
Efficiently fafe, in the judgement of
the Prefident,” he is auchorifed to
fufpend the, embargo, .*■ But no
peace or fufpenfion of hoftilities,
no change of meaiures affecting
neutral commerce, is known to have
taken place. The orders of En
gland, and the decrees of France
and Spam exifting at the date of
thefe law?, are ftill unrepealed, as
far as we know. In Spain indeed
a conteft for the government ap
pears to have arilen \ but of its
courfe or profpeCts, we have no in
iormation on which prudence would
undertake a hafty change in our pol
icy, even were the authority of the
executive competent to fuch a de
cifion. \ , : ■ .
You defire that, in this defeCt of
power Congrefs may be fpecially
convened. It is unnecdlary. to ex
amine the evidence or the charac
ter of the fafis which are fuppofed
to dictate fuch a call: Becaufe you
will be fer.fible, on attention to
dates, that the legal period of their
meeting is as early as, in this ex
tenfive country, they could be ful
ly convened by a fpecial call. .
I Should with great willingnefs,
have executed the wifhes of the in
habitants of the town of Boflon, had
peace, ora repeal of the obnoxious
edicts, or other changes, produced
the cafe in which alone the laws
have given me that authority ; and
fo many motives of juftice and fil
tered lead to fuch changes, that we
ought continually to expcCt them.
But while thefe edicts remain, the
Legislature alone can preferibe the
couife to be purified.
TH: JEFFERSON.
Aug. 26, 180S.
FROM THE
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
A number of the leading federal
prints have at length come forward
with the nomination of General
Pinckney for the Prefidency.—
For a long time thefe prints affect
ed a faftidious neutrality, or fatis
fied themfelves with exprefling a
preference of one republican candi
date to the others named. Wheth
er this change in their tone arifes
from any hope entertained of
ceeding in the choice of a federal
man, or from an entire hopelefTnefs
of dividing the republicans, or from
an infiduous attempt to throw the
republicans off their guard, it Is not
eafy to fay. It is, however, imma
terial which of thefe is theif objeCt,
as they ought all of them to have
the fame influence. It is highly
probable, indeed, that, according
to circumftances, the federal votes
will be given to a federal man, or
to a republican, in fuch a way as
(hall beft fubferve federal ends.
For a while the federal party flat
tered themfelves with the hope of a
feriou3 diviflon among the republi
cans. While any circumftances oc
curred to favor this hope, they
perceived and yielded to the policy
of keeping themfelves as much ss
poffibic out of view.; Fortunately,
•however, for the nation, it has Jpo
ken on this head the moft unequiv
ocal language, and there *is not a
republican date in -the; union that
has not declared itfelf in favor of
Mr. Madifon.Even New-York
with a patriotifm that refieds upon
her the highed honor, has facrificed
local to national motives, and man
ifeded her purpofe not to be fepar
ated from her fider dates.
;J If there be a hope entertained by
the federalifts of carrying a federal
man into The Prtfidency, we may
red fatisfied that every exertion in
the power of man. will be made to
efte£t fo great an objed. It wi'll be
endeavored to effect it, not from the
fuperior talents or virtues of their
candidate, not frpm the predilidiosi
of the people, of the U. States for
federalifm, but, by producing the
impreflion that the great meafures
of the lad ftftion of Congrefs, and
more efpecially the embargo, are
impolitic, and that the good of the
country require that thefe deps
Ihould be retraced. Heaven and
earth will be moved to produce this
convidion j the people will be
loudly appealed to on this head,
and they will be called upon to
overlook every other confideration
Asa large portion of every com
munity are prone tb facrifice their
ultimate interefts to thefe of the
moment, the low price of produce
and the dagnation of commerce will
be copioufly dwelt Upon, and aferi
bed, ndt to the Unjuft conduft of
foreign powers, but the embargo.
To counteract thefe falfe im
prelfions on the public mind, it will
be the duty of the republicans to be
vigilant and affiduous. Let them
realife the prefent crifis as all-im
portant. On its iftfue truly depend
the great interefts of the nation ;
not thofeof a day, butthofe of ma
ny years, end perhaps of ages.—
The election of Mr. Madifon can
no longer be confidered in any de
gree as a perfonal conteft. He is
the republican candidate, and the
only republican candidate. The
other republicans named, however,
fincere their political fentiments
may be, muft derive their fupporc
from the federalifts. Can there,
under fuch a ftate of things, any
longer exift adivifion among the re
publicans ? Are they not called
upon by the molt powerful motives
of patriotilm to facrifice their per
fonal or local predtliCtions on the
altar of patriotifm ? Who among
theto, that is a republican at heart,
that Will forgive himfelf Ihould his
apathy or vote throw the affairs of
the country into the hands of the
federalifts, or juftify the impreflion
of foreign governments that the
people of the U. States do not pof
fefs the fortitude to adhere to the
prefent fyftem of meafures f
It may be that the nomination of
Gen. Pinckney flows from the
hopeleffnefs of dividing the repub
licans, and that all that is Intended
by it, is the creation of a rallying
point for the federal eleCtoriai votes,
not from any expectation entertained
(No. 21.