Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1777-06-03 00:00:00, page 1

Fer the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
[Cone 'ufon of the piece began in our laft. J
IT does not appear clear to the Whig Society,
'' That the oath is to be considered as a necefor,
part of the Cooftitution." With regard to military
officers, the Aflembly declare themfelyes of the fame
opinion; for, in the Militia Law, they have dfpenfed
for the present, with the oath. But who invented the
Assembly, er the Whig Society, with a power of de
termining what parts of the Constitution are necefahy,
and what parts of it are unvecefer,? As to the jLm
bly, the Constitution is very explicit: It de& es,
that they (hall have no power to add to, alter, abolish
or infringe, any part of this ConfiHrion.
I am here led to an observation, which I am firry to
make, but which I ought cor Zoomit. Whenever any
plan is proposed, however candid and generous, for re
considering and amending the Conffitution, the alarm
is taken, and the cry is, that the Conftitudon is in
danger. On many particular occasions, however, the
ni>ft flagrant deviations from it have been made by those
who raise or join in this cry. The inßance before
mentioned is a noedripus one. Many others have been
pointed out, which the advocates for the Coriftitution
have neither denied nor attempted to juftify,. Is the
inference unnatural or uncharitable —that the tonfti
tution may yield to the inCTeib of a party, but not to
the interests of the State.
The apprehension of the Whig Society, " that some
explanation is necessary for underfunding what ought
to be meant by a majority of the people, as they cannot
suppose that disaffected perlons, who are not in ^HegC
aßce to the States as an independent country, can be
admitted to make npTpait of that majority, © Per on
one fide or the other," is one of thole ungenerous inh
nnations before animadverted upon, and is wholly in
applicable to those who dislike the Conitityi: n, Can
it be fappofed that those who complain of th' progress
of difaffcaiam, and of the impunity with which the
difaff«aed are permitted to carry on their danger us
practices, and who consider these things as grievances
under which the State labours, exped to fee the difaf
felted range themlelves under their banners ? Can faces
give any colour to surmises of this nature ?
The truth is, that the ddaffe&ed ' are opposed to
every government, of which the Crown and Parliament
of Great Britain form not'a part. But was the questi
on proposed to them—Whether the present plan of go
vernment, weak, inconfideot, and inadequate to the
purposes of government, should continue, or a new one,
vigorous, uniform, and fitted for its ends, should be
established on the authority of the people—all the feu
fible Tories in the State would declare in favour of the
present Conftituticn. They know the advantages to the
Tory inter&ft which result from it : They know thtf
those advantages would be removed by a change. The
m^ft unwelcome news tty General Howe ceuld receive
from Pennsylvania would be, that a change io the Con
stitution would infallibly take place.
The reasons urged to shew that this is an improper
time for calling a new Convention have been, in a good
measure, answered already. , No season can be impro
per for restoring immediate union and vigour to the
State. —Though the memorial requests, that the elec
tion of a Convention may be immediately recommended,
it does not request—as the Whig Society, with the
fame candour in this as in other initiates, suppose —
that this measure be carried into immediate execution;
for upon that supposition alone, the danger of “ inter
ruption in the deliberations of the Convention" could
with any degree of propriety be mentioned. Such a
time might be now appointed for the meeting of the
Convention, as (bould be judged most convenient upon
consideration of all circurriftances: If any emergency
Arnold render its meeting at that time inexpedient, it
might be postponed. But this does net eVince the im
propriety of agreeing now upon the measure. This an
swer applies to the second and third reasons as well as
to the firft ; for all are founded upon the fame misre
presentation of the request of the memorial. I little
expected to have seen the fourth reason urged by the
Whig Society—“ that the science of government doth
mot appear to be yet fufficiently understood." —The
science of government not yet fufficiently understood in
Pennsylvania ! What! Did not the Convention fuffi
ciently underhand the science of government, when
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OR
GENERAL
VOLVI.
DU N I A PW
TUESDAY, UNE ?d, 1777.
they required all officer- ^ ear not to do any thing
prejudicial to their Conlin <^ as part of their allegi
ance ? Were the Cenve ri uainftib&ed in the science
of government, when u c T , . sioed that their Confu
tation should not be a: f wi"o fewer than seven
years; and even then, ,am -tore times, only in
fueb manner as they p^- . out ?
With regard to the . part of this paragraph,
that “ i is proper the p should have every ncef
fary information on tht : % and time to deliberate
thereon," I hive the r of agreeing entirely with
:he W: io Society, 2 ^ hat the Convention had
understood this part of nee of government ; for
they would not then so„ covered so much hurry
and so much anxiety ^. hr T . or government put
in execution."
On the whole—To - onftitutions may seem,
and may be, nothing more m " modes and forms,"
and differences concerning cm may appear “ little
differences ;" but it is om - to such as are attached
to a State by birth, byed ion, by habit, by incli
nation, by bufioefs, by it ft, or by ail those ties,
to be folicitous'indeed ahoc : reCoAftitu.tr ? by which
it is to be governed. .'awn freedom and happi
ness, and the freedom a;: do-G of the dear pledges
which the public have r< fir fidelity, depend upon
this important fubje& C they be blamed for their
solicitude? Ought th^y .hr blamed by those, who
cannot enter into the m ^ of their conduct? Have
those, who appear in t' lition, been noted in this,
or in ether Stakes, as ers of the p A.de ~ace ?
Have they obtained—l by deferred—the ^arac
ter of famous members :ety? Can their p.r^e^d
inps be alcrib^d to pri tUt. er to difappoi red
ambition? ft if well It: hat the firft offices of the
State have been offeree m, and refused by them,
becauie they would no iihemfelves by an oath not
to do w^at they tho eir duty to their country
required them to do. ask for nothing unfair or
unret Unable. They 0./v , quest that the inhabitants
of P unfylvania may h ^ opportunity allowed them
(which they have not y ) of declaring their senti
ments, whether the Coufiitution, formed by the late
Convention, is or is not agreeable to them. The de
cision of the majority will determine them to withdraw
or continue their oppofirion, according as that decision
is agai:ft it or in its favour. What good reason can
be offered against all this? Let the honest —for the
majority are honest—on both sides unite. They are
friends who have a difference with one another. Let
it be fettled by a Convention mutually chosen by both
parties.
ADDISO N.
iiw^^ioo^^^^
TO B E S O L D,
A VALUABLE plantation, with a suitable pro
portion of meadow and wood-land, and good stone
buildings, &c. in the County of Philadelphia. For par
ticula s enquire olDeb rah Morris, in Market-street,
between Sixth and Seventh ftrects.
T C) B E ~S O
TH A T large commodious three story House and
Shop, situated on the east fide of Second street, next
house but one to Market street, wherein Mr. John From
berge>lately lived ; about 40 feet front and i 9 feet deep.
Nothing need be said as to its situation, it being in the
most centrical part of the city, and suitable for any bu
siness whatsoever. The title Indisputable. Por further
particulars apply to Edmund Milne, living opposite
laid house,
sl XTE Fn'dFiTl aTsTewHl).
STOLEN cut of the pasture of the subscriber, living
in Newport, Christiana Hundred, in the County of
Newcaftie on Delaware, in the night of the 27th instant,
(May) a bay G ELDIN G, fourteen and a half hands
high, fix years old tins soring, paces a good travel and
trots middling lofty, tolerable good courage, black mane
trimmed on account of is hanging on both sides of his
neck, middling long black tail docked, rump a little
dropping, two old ihoes on his fore feet, has neither
brand nor ear mark. Whoever takes up said horse and
the thief, so that the owner may get his horse again and
the thief be brought to justice, ffrall receive the above Re
ward, or EIGHT DDLLARS for the horse only,
paid by f THOMAS WALLACE. ,Sen,
A FEW COPIES of Do^TTrTceV
OBSERVATIONS on C^VIL LIBER
TY, to be fold by JOHN DUNLAP.
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W A N T E D,
A L ARGE quantity of WOOL, for whicn a gcod
fI pn b cwill be giten; AlfoSPlNN£RStmp!.> -
e^^n all branches of spinning, and go-d prices gweri
them, by the subscriber, at his manufaaory in 5,<.,,_
street, between Fi th an< S xth drerts and between Mar
ket and Arch ftreett, on Hodforfs Square Philadelphia.
SAMUEL WETHERILL, Jun.
N. B. He has a number of empty Hogsheads to cilppfe
of, both new arid old. f 5
For Continental Currency,
4 ! 'A° ',°' LAN D, about fix miler from Yo;k
r° wn ' Windsor Fo ^fhip, York Countv, Pinn
''„ a "'' ? adj.nrhng lands of T/omas M'Cork^), Puho
"tU'L an ' ° ther ' curtaining, QNF HUNDRED
a ''™ 'j^ 4 Y ACRES, forty or fifty of which is c.ired,
2nd divided into fix fields—a log house, with a good
hone chimney ; barn and fprihg-houfe; a fine bar^e ap
p^ orchard, betides cherry and peach trees ; about two
acres of meadow cleared and mere to clear. Any peln
inclining to purchase the said land, may know the terras
by applying to Doctor Wisenthall, in Baltimore, or
Ihomas1 homas Pratten, Tavern-keeper, on the main road
leading f cm Baltimore to Frederick. 2
May 19, r 777.
CA ME to the plantation of the fubfCiuer,
living in Bleckley Town (hip, Philadelphia County,
a brown CO W, with fame white in her face, about,
four or nee years old. The owner is hereby desired to
com, prove bis property, pay charges and take her
__'_ MAHL ° N HALL.
__ Übaadelphia, 20. 1777.
TWELVE DOLLARS REWARD.
BROKE out of the wt vmf. a Negro man
named MOD O, about lire - ; %
well raade,--b#d -tth fpe ''
waddles much as he walk's ; nad on when he wentawayl
a ipotted flannel jacket, a buff coloured knit under ditto,
leather breeches, blue dockings, good shoes with m?tal
L uukles, but as he has sundry other eloathsit is uncertain
tvhat he may have on, and as he h as some very good
,°"'^ he ""'' pa . fs 33 a freeman. He is brought up to
the taliow-chandling and soap-boiling business, and is
handy at any other work. Whoever takes up said Nr^ro
and delivers him to the subscriber, or to Thomas Apty
Work house keeper, shall have the above Reward with
reasonable charges, paid by
„n r JOHN JACKSON.
0. Any person that harbours or conceals fid Negro
mail be punithed according to law.—He is to be fold.'
Just imported in the brig Little Julia, an , 'tohTfriTfr
FRANCIS D AYM ON,
At his store in Water street, near Market-street, in the
house where Matthias Afpden formerly lived,
WEST-INDIA rum, French brandy, gin in
cases, annifeed in bottles, old claret, fait in bar
rels, sugar, coffee, sweet almonds, fweeted chocplate,
green tea in cannisters, syrup, preferv ^ — ~
shirt an i sheeting linen, muslin, cambrics, bandk^rchici
ribbands, calicoes, velvets, fuperfine i < ^s, great
coats, # fine and coarse shirts ready-made, Caftile soap,
sheet tin in boxes, nails, writing-paper, cordage, a good
assortment of medicines, &c. &c. f 2
AVERY good repeating Gold Watch,
and several SILVER ONES, to be fold by
THOMAS HOWARD,
In Second-street, between Market and Chefnul-ftreets•
where all kinds of Clock and Watch Work are done as
usual. He has likewise for sale, womens and mens
watch-chains, seals, ftrin^s, keys, &c.,
TO BE S O L D,
On reasonable terms,
A VALUABLE Plantation and Iron-Work lituate
in Morris and Suffix County, New-Jersey, at the
head of Mufkenykunck River, about 33 miles fiom Eli
zabeth Town, fame distance from Newark, and 15 miles
from Eafton, containing 2000 acres of good land, on
which is erected a good grist mill, saw mill, and - '-
forge with four fires,
house, one large d< ; ?T S t fmad black
smiths (hops, all in „ u order, ..u~. v jv o ions or bar
iron can be made a year, as it never wants water. Any
person inclining to purchase may apply to CHARLES
EDDY, in Philadelphia, or to GARRET RAPALJE,
at Squire's Point, in New Jersey. ,
Nern Providence To^nftip, Philadelphia County, May 14.
WHEREAS the subscriber has given a.
bond to Patrick Gordon for Nineteen Pounds
dated thfyhzd of February, 1777. This is to forward all
perlons from taking any alignment on said bond, rs tne
above-mentioned T-^roN has not comp bh
agreement. PAUL K.U 'at
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