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Mr. William Woods, Elher
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Col. Holman Freeman, and
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Capt. Makes Speer, Greenes
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Mr. G. T. Watkins, Ogle
thorpe County.
Mr. D. L. Ryan, Sparta.
General Irwin, Sander!Vide.
Mr. Michael Burke, Louis
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Mr. James Hdy, Savannah,
Mr. John Calhin, Auguft*.
In South Carolina.
Mr. Benjamin Glover and
Doctor Casey, Vienna.
Rev. Moles Waddel, Abbe
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“presidents “message .
Washington, Dec. 2.
This day at noon Mr. Coles,
the President’s secretary, pre
fented the following Meflage
from the Pre fide nt :
To the Senate and Ihufe of Repre
sentatives of the United States
of America.
Ac a moment when the nati
ons of Europe are in commoti
on and arming against each o
ther, when these with whom we
have piincipai intercourse are
engaged in the general contefr,
and when the countenance of
fome of them towards our peace
able country threatens char, even
that may not be unaffected by
what is palling on the general
• theatre, a meeting of the repre
ientanves of the nation in both
houses of congress, has become
more than uiuallv defirabie. —
Coming from every iedlion of
of our count; y, they bring with
them the sentiments and mfor
Inario.n of the wh.de, and w.d b.
enabled to give a direclion r
the public a Traits, which th
vviil and wil'd .an of the vvhoi
will approve a.t o ill j port.
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PETERSBURG : {Georgia) —Printed aj; ALEXANDER M'DONNELL.
our country, vve, in the firft place
notice the late affliction of tw
ol our Cities under the fatal feve;
w ’ i ; 'i in latier tidies has, occa
fionaliy visited our fhotes.—
Providence in his goodness gave
it an earlv termination on this
oecafion, and leOencd the num
b. r of vidtims which have ufiu
rdly fallen before it. In the
course of the fevrral vifitatioris
by this disease, it has appeared
that it is Unfitly local, incident
to cities and tide-waters only
incommunicabie in the country
either by per ions under the clif
cale, or by goods carried from
the diseased places: that its a< -
ceis is with the autumn, and it
disappears wit the early tr. il
Thde rtffid ftions, within nr.
row limip time and ipac
give even 50 our mar
time ulgMuring three-fourr
at and to the country
” from these fafits
appears linnecefiary ; yet, to fa
tisfy the fears of foreign natio ,
and cautions on their p irt not 1
be complained of in a dang
whole limbs are yet unknown
to them, I have Unfit iy enjornev
on the officers a: tf.e head of
the cull ours to certify witli ex
act ti udi, ior evt y veii'i iad
:np for afoni.-m port, Lie Rate
V. J .c t
of health relpccting this fever,
winch pre vans at the place from
wills, ji ic fil is j unucr c\ vry
fii >ti ve I. dm chiu acker and outv
to certify the truth, I leave no
doubt they have faithfully exe
ruled this irj'infition. Much
real injury has, .er, been
luitained ire.u a propenficy to
identify with this endemic, and
to call by the fame name, fevers
of very different kinds which
have been known at all times,
and in all countries, and never
have been placed among thole
deemed contagih&s. As we ad
vance in our knowledge of this
disease, as facts dev dope the
lb uric from which individuals
receive it, the Rate authorities
charged with the care of re
public health, and congress wuh
that of the general commerce,
will become able to regular
with effect their refpefitive func
tions in these departments.
The burthen of quarantines is
felt at home as well as abroad,
their efficacy merits examinati
tn. Although the health law
of the Rates ihould b c found c
need no present revlfal by con
gress, yet commerce claims that
their attention Ihould ever be
awake to them.
Since our last meeting, the
afpefit of our foreign relations
as coofiderablv changed. Our
‘alts have been infclted, a
our harbors watched by priva
armed vcffels, feme of the
without commissions, fume wr
dlegal com millions, others whh
:h >ie of legal form, but com
outting pi a ical ads beyond
au horm of their ommiffi ns
i’hey ho.e captured the very
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f II V R S D A 7\ January 2, ißc6.
on the high Teas, not only thx
1 1- fie Is .of our friends earning to
• radc with us, but our own also.
I hey have carried them oft” un
deu .pretence of legal adjudica
rion, .but not daring to approach
a of justice, they have
p! uil wd and lunk them by the
way iff obi cure places, where no
evidence, could arile against
them, mal-treated the crews &
abandoned them in boats, on the
open lea, or on dti'crt fibres,
without food or covering.—
fhefe enormities appearing to
be unreached by any controul of
heir fovercigns, I found it ne
. flafv to equip a force, to crude
•t 1 m our own leas, to arrett
ill 1 eflVls of tiiefe deferiprions
• ur.J hovering on our coalts,
V’ -tun the 1 mils of the Gulph
dream, and to bring them m for
mal as pirates.
1 he lame fvftem of hoveitng
•n our coafis and harbors, under
colour ol ieeking enemies, has
rtu also can led on by public
armed Hups, to the great anno, -
a nee and opprcfiian ol our com
merce. New principles too
•have been intet polated into the
law ol nations, founded neither
m jullice nor the ufaue or ac
kno icdgment nations j ac
coiding to these a belligerent
t.ikt i tu Kith a commerce with
its own enemy, which it denies
to a neutral, on die ground of
ics tUdn.g ihar enemy nulie war.
But rialbn revolts at such an
1 i\. on r*c v -*•—an and 1... .k ut.al
having equal right with the b< 1-
iigerenc to decide the queltion,
the interdls of our conflituents,
and the duty of maintaining the
authoiky or reason, the only
umpire between just nations,
impose on us the obligation of
providing an t ffe&ual and de
termined opposition to a dodtrine
so injurious to the rights of
peaceable nations. —Indeed the
confidence we ought to have on
the justice of others, ftdi coun
tenance the hope, that a founder
view of these rights will of itil-If
induce from every belligerent
a more coned observance cf
them.
With Spain our r.egociations
for the fettkmentof differences
have not had a fatisfaftory lftue.
poliations during the former
war, for which flic had formally
acknowledged hcrfelf refponfi
bie, h.ave been refuied to be
compenfatetl but on conditions
affecting oilier claims in no wile
conuedied with tiiem —yet the
fame practices are renewed in
the present war, and arc alieidy
of great amount. On the Mo
bile, our commerce puffing
through that river continues t<>
■e oblirudttd, by arbitrary du
ies and vexatious learches.—
Pr ipofnions for adjtilling anu
■ able the boundaries of Louifi
a have not yet been accteded
o. While the : ght is un-letiled
have avoided changing the
ft ate of thmgc, by irking new
oils, or 11 x r gtlu i.it uk he
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hope that the other power would
not, by a contrary coadufb, ob
lige us to meet their example,
and conflicts of autho
rity the iflue of which may noc
be easily condoled ; but in this
hope vve may have reason colei
fen our confidence—lnroads have
been recently madefinto the ter
ritories of Orleans and the Mis
sissippi j our citizens have been
Icized, and their property plun
dered in the very parts of the
former which had been actually
delivered up by Spain, and this
by the regular officers and sol
diers of thar government. I
have therefore found it needfiary
at length, to give orders to our
troops on chat frontier to be in
readinels to protect our citizens,
and repel by arms any finular
aggrelfions >n future Ocher
details necelfiiry for your full
information of the state of things
between this country and that,
lhali be the lubject of another
communication.
In reviewing thide injuries
f;o,n lome of the belligerent
powers, the moderation, the
firmnds, and the wisdom of the
leg’figure will all be called into
action. We ought ft ill to hope
that time and a more cor re <sl* efi
t.rr.ate of interest as well as of
cuaradter, will produce tht jus
tice vve are bound to expert.—.
But Ihould any nation deceive
Ffclf by falfe caKulafions, and
d-dappoint that expectation, vve
i.r.kl jam in the unprofitable
cunte'l, of trying which pa r fy
can cj the other the mail hai m ;
lome of thele injuries may per
haps admit a peaceable remedy,
where that is competent, it is
always the moll defirabie—but
fome of them are of a nature to
be met by force only, and all of
them may lead to it. 1 cannon
therefore, but recommend such
preparations as circumflanceS’
call for. The firft object is to
place our lea-port towns out of
the danger of insult. Measures
have already been taken for fur
11.filing them with heavy cannon
for the lervice of such land bat
teries as may make a part of
their defence agJnft armed vef
iek approaching them. In aid
of tbde ti is definable we Ihould
have a competent number of
gun-boats ■> and the number to
be Competent mull be conlide
rabie. If immediately begun,
they may be m readmefs for ier
vkc at the opening of the next
featon. Whether it will be ne
cellhry to augment our land for
ces, will be decided by occur
rences probably in the course of
your ieffion. In the mean timp
you vvdl confiJcr whether i:
would not fie expedient, for a
ft uc of peace as well as of war,
i > to organize or claL ti,e mili
tia, as would enable us, on any
lud.’cn emergency, to call for
tic l< 1 vices of the oung r po, -
t oiks, uuiucumbered vich tie
ol.< and cji'jfc h-iv • fam fie
eR: wa: cl -. of lliicrc i,o brc'l t .0 j -
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