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‘Georgia & Carolina Gazette. O Volume i.] # TER M S OF THE GEORGIA Cs? CAROLINA GAZETTE. 1. Price to Subscribers, three dollars per annum, half in ad vance. 2. Advertisements for the flrfi: inferuon feventy-five cents per fquarc, and fifty cents tor each continuation. N. B. Gentlemen who have lsen so chillin'* as to obtain Sub fcrihers for this Paper , will con fer an additional favor by for warding a fiater,tent of the names to the Editors as Jo on as conveni ent. 11 imm I ■■■ --i ~'ir THOMAS PAINE, to the citizens of the uni ted STATES. LETTER THE EIGHTH. Much has been said, and much remains to be said, of that un deferibed and undefcribable no things called federahfm. It is a word without a meaning, and designates a faction that has no principles. Aik a man who calls himfdf a federalift, what feder al! fm is ? and he cannot tell you. Aik him what are its principles ? and he has none to give. Fe deralism, then, wuh refpedl to government, is similar to arheifm relpcdt to religion, a nomi nal nothings without prnciples. The federal papers, especially thole of NeWjEngland, have of ten ibid, tha. s ‘ religion and fe derflijm mujt go together.” But :f their rei gi>n is related to their federalifm ; if it is as destitute of morals their federalifm is of principles; and I’fcar it is $ it will do them no good in this world or the next. It will con demn them as impellers and hypocrites in both. Thole who once figured as leaders under the affirmed and fraudulent name of federalifm t (but who are spice gone, not in to honorable and peaceable re tirement, like John Dickinson Sc Charles Thomffon* bur into ob feurity and oblivion, like John Adams and John Jay) had fome plans in contemplation which they concealed from their de luded adherents, but those plans can be difeovered through the gauzy, but cl unify veil of con dSkit those leaders adopted.— “wircover is large enough to hide > iifelff* fays the Sparnfh pro ve.l It Requires more artifice and management to disguise and con ceal sinister designs than schem ers are aware of. A man never turns a rogue but he turns a fool. He incaudoufiv lets out fome * j .hn Dickson, the refpesiable author of the Fa mer's Letters , before the revolution began. Chat les Tbompfon, the f iithfulJe eretary of the Old Cr: g du ring the rev.olnti ;u PETERSBURG:— (Gesrgia)— Printed ny BURKE & MD< N'JELT. thing by which those he inten ded to cheat cr iron fe upon * * begin to find him cut. Whereas truth is a straight forward thing ; even an ignorant man will not blunder in a true (lory—nor can an artful man keep a faile story straight. But those leaders, fuppqfirg themselves in a higher pofitiou than what common oblervatiori would reach, presumed, oh th ir supposed conlequence oc the ex pected credulity of their adher ents, toimpofe on the nation by clamorous 6c falle pretences, fur the pwpole of raffing a handing army of fifty thouland men ; and when th y had got that army, the ihalk would have been thrown ff, and their deluded adherents would have paid ihe price of their duplicity by being cnflaved. But in the midst of thus career of delusion and impoficion, those leaders became fools. 1 hey did every thing they ought not to have done. They advoca ted plans which (hewed that rheir intention and their cause were not good. They labored to provoke war. They opposed every thing which led to peace. They loaded the country with vexatious and unneo ffiirv taxes, and then opposed the reduction of them. They opposed the reduction of useless offices that served no other pur pole than to maintain their own paruzans at the expence of the public. In (hurt, thev run theinlelves a ground, fir ft, by their extrava gance, and next by their tolly. Blinded by theii own vanity, & though bewildered in the wil derness of their own proje&s, they fool ftly supposed ihem felves above oeteltion. i'hey had neither sense enough to know, nor logic enough to per ceive, that as we can reafen up wards from cause to elicit, so ah so we can itafon downward frrrn efFtlt to cause, and dilcover, by the means they make uleof, the motives and objc ll ot any party •> for when the means ao bad, the motive and the end to be obtain ed cannot be good. The man: ers ffilo, and lan guage of any party us another •clue that leans t a difeovery of their real charadtis. When the cause and principles of a party are goods us advocates n akt use ot reckons argument and good language. I ruth tan de rive no advantage Horn boiite rous vulgarity. But when the motives and principles or a par ty are bads it is neceft'ary to con ceal than ; and its abettors hav ing principles they dare to acknow ledge and cannot defend avoid every thing of aigument, and take refuge in abuje and faljs hccd. i he federal oapers are an in fiance of ihe jultnels of this re mark. i hen pages are crouded vv.th abule, but never with a: gu meat; fi r the'. wind •l, 3 co aip: c f m ; and as to T U U R i’ D AT, July 18, iSoc. faUhood, it is become so natu rally their mother tongue , eiptci ally in New-Englana, that they seem to iiave loft the power as well as the dfpeftion of (peaking the truth, i hole papers have been of great aid to the repub lican caule, not only by the ad ditional diig r ace they have bro’t on their own diigracelul fad ion, but by serving a foil to fee off, with greater eclat, the de cency and well principled argu ments of die republican papers. 1 have had fome experience, perhaps as much as mod men have had in the various turns of polideal life, but I never law a greater let of fools undertake to conduit a party than the leaders of the federahfts have been, and the editors of their papers.— They coriefpond to the story told of a man who was become so proud and famous for lying, that he disdained fpeakmg the trmh lead he should iol'e his cha racter. Cannot those stupid people fee, or, according to tome dog mas of their own, are their hearts hardened, that they lkall not ice that the more vulgar and abu sive thev are, the more ground they lose, in the estimation of the public. Every eleltion, eipe ciaiiy in New-England, is wear ing them down till they be loit, even as a faltion, and Malfichu fetts and Connecticut will reco ver their former character. Eve ry thing this fall ion does hastens its exit. The abusive vulgarity oi r.uibert, a pettifogging at torney t'f Shcffieldj in “vlai lac hu ll tts, and one of its kg : Gators, l:?.s contribuiedi to bring forward the funeral. In his late unprin cipled speech in the legifiature of that Hate, he has driven ano ther nail in the coffin of tiie fe deral fallion, and I h ave it to the New England Palladium to cknch it. Lisa paper worthy of being the buffoon of luch a fadio.n, and of luch an hypreri tical impoilor. Thus much far the charalter of parties, and tiie method of after taining their mo tives and objells. 1 now pro ceed co other matters. When I leturned to America in November, 1802, (after an absence of more than fourteen years) I found the country in a Hate cl disquietude. The peo ple were divided into two claftes, under the names of republicans and federaliftsy and in point or numbers appeared to be nearly balanced. The republicans were the majority, in congress, and all the adminifnatiQn Were of that cieftriptior. j but they were a (Tailed with outrageous abuie in all the federal pipers, but ne ver bv argument. lam enough acquainted with rife, and the World to know that abuje is the evidence or ie\.m oj a;gurnet,ts and that thole who uie ;t have nor right on their ft ie. I here is a digrft.fiid calmntfs in con scious 1 eot 11ufte v.inch dlle<nds not. a V-.ft♦ It cau real >O, but it cannot rage. It cann u quit the Itrong fbrtrefs of relfrude to fkiiirdfii in the fields ofvul brarJT* ir It was not difficult to per ceive, thatthii division and agi tation arose from fome reports spread during the adnuniO ration of Jolin Adams, and in ih<- lat ter time of General Wafting ten, which one part of the peo ple btht ved. and the other did not ; and the point to be after tained was, whether those reports were true 01 fa'fe. If either of those cases could be afeertained efftltually, it would unite the people. The chief of thole re ports was, the danger ('fan in vafiGn from France; and this was made a (aule fi r borrowing, by loan, five nuliier.s of th dlais, at the high rate of eight per cent laying on a land-tax of two mil lions of dollars annually, b fide s a great nun,bur of other taxes, and for raffing a {landing army of fifty th- uland men. Now, if the danger Was real, it ought to have been provided agair.il. If it vas a filfion, with the ck sign of rafir.g an army to be employed toaroorr.pl fli 1- me concealed purpole, the country ought to be info third of it.— 1 he party styling thunieves fe deraiifts appealed to b; iievc the danger, and the republicans to ridicule it as fabulnus; and in this (fate the parties (lood. It was however, (dually the intrr tft of be th to know the tiuth, on which ever fm.e the truth might fall. BGngar W a filing ton the win ter (;f 1802-3,1 talked with fome mtmbeis of congress on the fubjelt, particularly with Mr. Bi eckenridge, lcnator from Ken tucky, the fame per lon who brought in the bill for repeal ing John Adams’s judiciary law, and the midnight appointments made in confiquence of it,— 1 his repeal saved the country thirty-two thou[and dollars annu ally , b( fide s treeing it from aa intended judiciary despotism. I spoke to him of the propri ety of congress appointing a committee* or by fome other method as they might think proper, to enquire into the con duit of the former admvniftra tion, that of John Adams, and to call upon him to produce the information whether official or ocherwife, winch he went up on, if he had any, for put ing the country to luch vast texpence, under the idea, real, or pretended, of an invasi on from France. This would be giving John Adams a . fair chance of clearing himlclf, if he coulcl, from the fulyicion that h a a iminiftration was a grols unp-cfition on tiie public ; and c n the other hand, it the impo fmon fbould be proved, it would enlighten the country, and put it on its guard against future impc;filions. Mr. Breckenridge agreed with me in the 1 ropr c.y and ::::ids [N UMBER 7.