The Kentucky gazette — Lexington [Ky.], 1792-02-18 00:00:00, page 3

reprefentativesis the mod vague and -Green Mountain boys fn this only all the functions of government --
j :j L!L‘ it is natural fora child to defire a “J 1 - :
a pay thing when he fees another
child have one '
As my paper is not quite full you
will fuller me to conclude with1 an w
obfervatton not altogether foreign to rife ter that celebrated pol tical enig
whichconllitutes the very rfsence the Tubject we have been confider- ma — That the peeple excrcife the
of permanent cvif liberty as Mr ing r moftabToIutefovereign power when
Burgh woulJ have us to believe- It fitems to he imagined by fome ' they exercife nopower at all
fhoald be overlooked or barely per- that the mod perfect mode of legif- 1 am Mr Printer -— ---
mitted by the conftitution of every lotion is by a general -vote -of the’ "Your uioft obedient fervant
goyernmeatiii exiftence f -wheirhwT community at large and that a le- ” - X'Y1 Z
ycal‘interefts in whih the public' gift iture cempofed of reprefentatives P- S I requeftthar in my eflay
- is not cencirned are to be confult- is lef confident with the fafety and you lately publifhed your readers
edit is unneceftary for the conflitu- luppinels of the people though on — would infer immediately after the
'ton minutely to regulate: fuch con- account of the exrent of country word— recognized in page and to-
filiations and I : apprehend that and tbeineonvcniencyof afsembling lumn ift thefe words and'regula
for the harmonious management of all the freemen it may be neceflary - ii as the cafe would rrfwrr--Whlch
this kind of buftnefs only inftructi- to fubmit the bufinefs of legiflation 're careleflly left oat in tranferib-
ons are permitted or can be per- to reprefentatives" Perhaps thefe ing it for the prefs
mitted with piopriety : my reafons difficult e firft fuggefted the expe- ' -
1 have fta'eJ in a former efsay on dient But I conceive that this like jr-
the fubject - But the obvious con- — many- other difi overies which hav -
- duGon why the privilege f giving — been dictateJ by neceflinr or fallen
1 Inflructions refpecting the general on by chance is one of the ' great-
concerns of a community has not -eft improvements which has ever
been Aiore fpecially regulated is that been made in the fcience of civil go
jober minded men have ever judged vern ment The people at large for
it to be of little confequence if not - wan of leifiire ana informa!ionand
dangerous to civil liberty and that fome of themfer want of natural ta
it is permitted to be exercifed for 'he ' lent would be vey unequal to the
fame reafoiithat polygamy Was al- arduous ufkoflegiflation and con
flowed to the Jes fequcntly muft blunder on in the
1 From a view of the real date of dark or give ihemfdves up to be
ithecafeit appears Mr Burgh led b’ind folded by a few
Blight haveafserted with fome de — artful— and-dcfigning men amongft $ ntbo'nsar buttock hit a Urea
-pee-ofpropriety fi5nfiTople them Thefe are confluences fo ' ' T"
'of England do not actually excrcife natural and-arc fj amply verified by
more power than the Turks efterpt the hiftory of Greece and Rome
in the months of a gencial electioa ’and all oilier countries where fuch
but toafsertthataay people wlio hay e popular governments have been at-
the privilege of being governed by tempted thit no one of intelligence
periodical representatives enjoy no can wifh to fee the experiment re
more permanent liberty or fecurity peatcd I would alk any ‘man
for liberty than the Turks who who regards bis own peace liberty
fide In their meeting! when a&m- that 'Inflructions to their ieprerert- dicioui check on the arbitrary pro'
Md j nor ia it determined whether ta?ivessre tobe regarded in cafei of -jecta which may be entertained by
the reprefentativet (hall receive the - a public nature on which I prefume - the executive or judiciary officers of
Inflructions given as the fenfe of all it would pbe fuffident to cbfervc government and experience haaf-
their condiment or Only as the - that’ Vermont is but jul rifing from ccrtained that the vinlence-and-tm-
fenfe pf thofe who approved them infincy4-andit4frremarkablerthrit Iteadnefa ©t the reprefentatives
or whether they (hall be regarded" at this and many other c'aufes of their
alL It is cheerfully ' granted that conftifution are copied from the old
freemen ought to have the privilege Pehnfylvania conftitution which 14
of aflembling when and where they years trial taughs that di Teeming
pleafe and for any purpoTe they people to exclude from the ccnfti-
pleafe-which - it - not frohibired by tution they have lately eftablifhed :
law 1 yeti I think it muft alfo be f that I knov no reifort' Why the
gran teJ‘ that giving inflructions to Kentuckians fhould imitate the
- are governed by an arbitrary defpor and proncity whether he would
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is highly extravagant and injurious chufe to be fuhjectcd to the unguid- praifed tt £ 4 ALSO a bra wn
r to the peace of the beft orgsnixed ed and carieieiis will of a majority r HORSE few feat even inchu and a
civil governments It is much to - of his countrymen for whether he - balf high tires mbits feet e fiar in
be lamented that religion and pdli- would not think himfelfmuch more biefarektad ilivt fix yean eldt brand
tics the two fcience of all others - fife under the direction of reprefen
the mod important so man fhould — titivesi chofen on account of their
be clouded by popular declamations fuperior integrity information and
not fupported by truth and that
the thin efsential to the happinefs
of this ’life and that : which is to
come' fhould be perverted by fubtil
herefte propagated by the mod
fplcnd id talents
NtB I have juft procured a co
py of the conftitution of government
that has been adopted by the peo-
pi- of Vermont iq which 1 find
experience and who alfo would be
bound to his intereft by having a
fimiUr intereft of thex ownf Every
one muft' acknowledge that where
the fame iaterefts’arc 'purfeed with
fuperior qualifications that - the
profpeers of fuccefs are proportion
ably greater
TAKEN -ing up by tbs fubfcriberf Uv
as in FayaXtetr
'County near mrfCriufiriTs 'Meeting
i baufe a dark iran gray MARE abeute
four feet fix tnehee high blaik lVr J
i face branded t hus l fi' an the utasz
: butttek i brought aktut a thru billing
bell with piece 9 Un wrapt Sound fbth
Moreover fuch a legftature will JIpitMbtut three yenrgtU lafi ipoMem
form not onlya vigilent butaju- fETER PQUET -
vT f '
themTelver need to be checked by
thofe other departments of pow
er -
Finally that there may be propier
arbiters between thofe contending
powers it has alfo been found by
experience that the people at large
ought' to abflain from tbeexercife of
TAKEN UP by fuhjcribtr ra
nWth Elk born fVudtrd ttunty
TAKEN up by tbi fuhfertttr m:
1 Hickman in FayetH countyr a
JmaU bay HORSE fiurfitt fivt (nr An
bit b ‘ a fiat In tka fartbaai nine irttn
yrsrr ai full tffaddlt Jpttt brooded
nearly t bus sn lit near boulder gp
td I D en tie near (boulder end Auf—
tack appratfed te £ 7
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