The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-10-09 00:00:00, page 3

Britain, they may easily perceive that the nations of
Europe would never permit such an union of power,
but divide us amongst them. Our feelings would in
deed, upon such an occasion, point out to us a reme
dy, perhaps less difgraceful, the establishment of a do
mestic, iuftead of a foreign despotism: supported by
a standing army, maintained by our own toil, to awe
us into such fubmirtion, that every idea of freedom
shall be finally and totally eradicated.
We are convinced that the present disturbances
arose from Britilh emissaries, residing amongst us, whose
every with is for our overthrow and ruin; or from
the machinations of wicked and unprincipled men,
who seek their own emolument to the deftruftion of
their country; or from a combination of both. But
though many of our fellow-citizens are deceived by
them, and betrayed into a dangerous mistake, yet we
trust that they will, on recollection, spurn from their
cotincils such bale and infamous men ; and that a care
ful diferimination will be made between thole who
are, and those who are not, for the support of a go
vernment no let's neceflary to the happiness than to
the security of the lives, liberty and properties of the
people.
When we have seen the patriot close his eyes in
death, with gratitude and rapture committing his
posterity to the aims of liberty, ihail we fee others
agonizing in their lad moments at yielding their chil
dren to the chains of vassalage? Forbid it, the spirit
of freedom which has so long animated and enlighten
ed America! Forbid it, Heaven!
Finding that his excellency the governor, pursuant
to the duties of his office, by advice of council, has
called upon all the good people of the Rate to lend
their aid in preventing the impending ruin, we can do
no less than to recognize anew our solemn engage
ments to support the government we have so lately
and deliberately eftabliihed ; —and we feel ourselves al
fured, that our numerous well-affeded fellow-citizens,
in every town, will Ihew their readiness to join in an
effort so clearly pointed out, as the full duty in so
ciety.
Fellow-citizens, we now entreat you, by the mu
tual ties of friendihip and affection—by the sacred
compact which holds us in one society—by the blood
of our brethren Ihed to obtain our freedom—by the
tender regard we feel for our riling offspring, claim
ing freedom from our hands, as their inheritance by
the grant of heaven—to use your endeavours that re
dress of grievances be fought for in a constitutional
and orderly way only :—And we pledge ourselves to
join our exertions with your's in the fame way, to ob
tain redress for any such as do really cxift. —
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May it please your excellency,
•THE inhabitants of the town of Borton, legally as-
I fcmbled in Faneuil-Hall, beg leave to express to
your excellency their anxious concern for the uueafi
nefs that has arisen, and to bear their united tertimony
against those illegal steps, which have been unfortu
nately, and we are inclined to believe, by fame incon
liderately taken, to prevent the due execution of the
laws within several of the counties of this common
wealth.—Whatever may be the source of these com
motions, the inhabitants of this town are clearly of
opinion, that they are equally repugnant to the con-
Hitution, as they are deftruftive of the peace and or
der of society But as they feel themfclves bound
by every tie of affedion, interest and religion to their
fellow-citizens throughout the date, where-ever they
are situated, and have bled, and are willing again to
bleed by their fide in defence of liberty and the con
stitution, they deprecate every possible misunderstanding
among friends, who are thus tenderly united. They
rely therefore on the wisdom, zeal and patriotism of
your excellency, and of the legislative body, which
they are happy in finding is so early to be convened,
that the true causes of these difficulties will be fully
explored, and speedily removed; in order that peace
and unanimity may be restored, and that the consti
tutional security of the lives, liberties and property of
the people of this Hate may remain unimpaired.
But while they thus most earnestly wi/h for the
restoration of harmony, and that no mild and lenient
measures may be omitted to accomplifli so happy an
event; they assure your excellency of their unvaried
determination, to co-operate in support of constituti
onal government, in the firm belief that the true hap
piness of the people at large, is indissolubly connected
with the unmolested enjoyment of this inestimable blcf
fing; and that reverence and submission to the laws
are our great security, as well as the brightest orna
ments in the character of good citizens.
To which his excellency was pleased to return the
following answer, which he lignified to the com
mittee he intended as an address to the inhabitants
of the town.
To the freeholders and other inhabitants of the toavn of
Bo,on, in reply to their address, voted in publick
town meeting, assembled at Faneuil-Hall, on Monday
the nth of September, 1786.
For we are by no means ignorant that Congress, by
bur content, and to our inexpreflible joy and fatisfafti
on, procured from our allies a loan in specie, the in
terest whereof we are obliged annually to difchargc.—
The shutting up of the courts of justice, preventing the
due execution of the laws, and arresting the collecti
on of publick taxes, annihilates our government, and
loudly proclaims to our foreign creditors their total
insecurity. Should their lenity and patience, support
ed by a hope of our reclaiming ourselves, and correcting
our error, keep the sword in the sheath, yet we may
have an enemy who will embrace the unlucky mo
ment, Ihould there ever be one, when he finds us with
out resources, without credit, and without an ally,
and deeply revenge himfelf for the disgrace his arms
have sustained. Were there any among us so deprav
ed as to with to return to the domination of Great-
My Fellow-Citizens,
r rHE address, with which you have honoured me,
1 affords me great fatisfaftion ; as you thereby not
only bear testimony against the illegal measures taken
within several counties of this commonwealth, to pre
vent the due execution of the laws, but give the
strongest assurances of your unvaried determination
to co-operate in support of constitutional government.
The belt constitution of government is but of little
value, if the people, to whom it belongs, will not
support it when infringed ; especially when the infring
ment is of so capital a nature as to endanger, or ren
der precarious, the due adminiftratidn of justice : whose
sacred rights have, in the instances referred to, been
so flagrantly violated.
If the courts of justice are not permitted to fit, or
fitting, are interrupted in their proceedings, the great
end of government, the security of life, liberty and
property must be fruftrated; and government so far
laid prostrate, if such be the case in any of the counties
of the commonwealth, where the good people'have,
in a constitutional way, been called upon by govern
ment, to assist the fheriffs in the execution of their
official duty, as relative to the fitting of the judicial
courts, and have withheld their assistance, does it not
behove such to confider the evil tendency of such
supineness and inattention ? And whether it does not
expose their perlons and property to the violent and
fraudulent attempts of wicked and designing men:
who, being freed from all rertraint of law, will be en
couraged to make such attempts ; and thus destroy the
most ertential benefits expected to be derived from
our excellent constitution? And who but themfclves
will be blameable for such unhappy con sequences?
" The true causes of the difficulties" that have
arisen, will probably be enquired into by the general
court, at their approaching rtffion, when it is hoped
they will apply adequate and suitable means for re
moving such difficulties : in doing which it is my duty,
and will be my happiness, to contribute to the utmort
of my power.
As the worthy inhabitants of the town of Borton
have been distinguished for their zeal and patriotism
on part occafious, and particularly so, when with a
remarkably unanimity, they adopted the present con
stitution of government, so upon this occafiou it gives
me the highest fatisfaftion, to observe in them the
like zeal and patriotism, in full vigour operating for
its preservation and defence.
JAMES BOWDOIN.
Borton, September 13, 1786.
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PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 37.
By the United States in Congrtfs assembled.
September 18, 1786.
THE committee confiding of Mr. Pinckney, Mr.
St. Clair and Mr. Harrison, to whom was referred a
letter cf the 12th from the Board of Treasury, toge
ther with a letter from the commissioner of the loan
office in the date of Rhode-Illand, and an ad of the le
gislature of that state, having reported,
" That it appears from these communications the
legislature of the state of Rhode-Ifland, by an ad pass
ed at their last session, have made the paper currency
of that state receivable on all arrears of taxes due to
the United States; that as this explanation of the law
of the state relative to the late requisitions of Congress,
entirely defeats the intention of those ads, the eom
miflioner of the loan-office has suspended the issue of
indents in that state, on the requisition of the 27th of
September 1785, until he should receive the directions
of the Board of Treasury on that fubjed. The Eoaid
further remaik, that the legislature of the state of
New-Jersey have also made their paper currency re
ceivable on the arrears of taxes due on the requisition of
the 27th and 28th of April 1784. On this Ratenfent
the committee observe, that as the requisitions of Con
gress are calculated for the purpose of requiring from
the dates a fufficient sum for the payment of the in
terest due on the foreign and domestic debt, and the
maintenance of the civil department, no deviation can
be admitted from the mode of payment therein esta
blished, without expoling the funds of the United
States to great loss and inconvenience, particularly as
the difeharge of the interest due on the foreign debt
and the maintenance of civil government, must alto
gether depend upon the payments that are made into
the federal treasury in specie. That to admit the re
ceipt of bills of credit issued under the authority of
an individual state in difeharge of their specie propor
tion of a requisition, would defeat its object, as the
said bills do not circulate out of the limits of the state
in which they are emitted, and because a paper me
dium of any state, however well funded, cannot either
in the extensiveness of its circulation, or in the course
of its exchange, be equally valuable with gold or sil
ver.—That if the bills of credit of the dates of Rhode-
Island and New-Jersey were to be received from these
dates in difeharge of federal taxes, upon the princi
ples of equal justice—bills emitted by any other date
mud be received from them also in payment of their
proportions, and thereby, instead of the requisitions
yielding a sum in adual money, nothing but paper
would be brought into the federal treasury, which
would be wholly inapplicable to the payment of any
part of the interest or principal of the foreign debt,
or the maintenance of the government of the United
States.—That as the consequences of the precedents
which have been eftabliihed by the dates abovementi
oned, are dangerous to the interests of the union, the
committee conceive it necessary for Congress to ex
press their sense upon the fubje<ft :" Whereupon,
Refolded, That as the annual requisitions of the
United States in Congress assembled, are made by them
in virtue of the powers of the confederation, and for
the necessary purposes of government, the fame arc
obligatory on the dates as such, and ought to be dis
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TRENTON, October 9 .
To-morrow is appointed by the constitution for
holding the general election throughout the state, for
members of the legislature, flierins and coroners, for
the ensuing year.
Richard Penn, Esq. formerly governor of Penn
sylvania, parted through this place, on Thursday lad,
from New-York, where he lately arrived from England.
The printer did not receive the following from au
thority till Saturday lad:
" At the Supreme Court holden at this place, and
which adjourned the 20th ult. Aaron : Chew, who had
been found guilty on an indictment for assembling with
divers others in a riotous manner at the house of Jo
seph Hugg, Esq. and committing an assault, was fined
in the sum of fifty pounds, and ordered to be impri
soned three months, and further till the said fine and
the fees be paid.
" George Cottnam, Esq. convicted of an assault, was
fined in the sum of fix pounds, and ordered to stand
committed until the fine and fees be paid.
James Mountjoy was convicted of assaulting a con
stable in the execution of his office, fined three pounds,
and ordered to be imprisoned three months, and fur
ther till the laid fine and the fees be paid.
The Circuit Court for Middlesex will be held
on Tuesday the 19th of December next, instead of the
20th, as mentioned in this paper, No. 436.
charged by them in the manner dirked by the said re
quidtion, and no other. ~
Refolded, That as the payment of the interest and
such parts of the principal of the foreign debt of the
United States as are included in any of the requisiti
ons of Congress; and the maintenance of the federal
government, cannot be provided for but by payments
in specie, into the federal treasury of the sums re
fpe&ively required of the dates therein, no payments
either in bills of credit or in any other mode than
those pointed oat by the said requisitions, can or ought
to be admitted in difeharge of the fame.
Ordered, That the Board of Treasury transmit a copy
of the above resolutions to each date, and issue instruc
tions to the refpedive loan-officers conformable thereto.
A frefh importation of goods,
Suitable for the present and approaching season,
For Sale at
Shotwells Wholesale Store,
7 N RAHWA r—
WHERE retailers may be supplied on very mode
rate terms, by the piece or package. New-
Jersey or New-York paper money, flixfeed, iron, and
many other kinds of produce, will be taken in payment.
October 7, 1786. 4w*
Conffcated lands in the county of Hunterdon^
TO BE SO L D,
By Publick Vendue,
At the courthouse in Trenton, on Saturday the 18th
of November next, between the hours of two and
fix o'clock in the afternoon, viz.
A LOT of meadow land in Maidenhead, adjoining
meadows belonging to Aaron Van-Cleve and
others, containing about five acres and three quarters ;
late the property of Thomas Hooper.
A plantation in Tewkefbury, near Potter's-Town,
whereon Harmanus Hoffman now lives, containing
five hundred and nine acres of land. Also one sixth
oftwo fifteenths ofthe undivided part of a trail of land
called the Society's Great Trad ; late the property of
William Tyrell.
And at the fame time will be fold the publick barracks
in Tienton, with the lot on which they ftaud ; fubjeft
to a Icafc for two years from the firft day of April
next.
Three months credit will be given to the purcha
sers ; and payment will be received in lawful money
of this state, notes given for the depreciation of pay
due to the officers' and foldiers' of the Jersey line, notes'
given by the commissioners on fcttlement of pay due
to the militia of this state, notes given for debts li
quidated by Silas Condid, Esquire, and notes given
by the treasurer for balances due to persons on de
mands against forfeited estates.
MOORE FURMAN, Agent.
Odobur 3, 1786. 6w
TH E trustees of Queens College, in New-Jersey,
agreeably to their last adjournment, are to
meet at New-Brunswick, at the house of Thomas
Egbert, on Monday the ninth day of October next,
at ten o'clock in the forenoon of that dav.
By order of the trustees,
3 w* JAMES SCHUURMAN,
Clerk of the board.
Agreeably to an ad of Assembly will be fold to the
highest bidder, on Turfday the seventh of
November next, on the premises, ^ ta
r rHE publick batracks in the city of Burlington
1 together with the lot of ground they hand cn!
Three months credit will be given to the purchafcr
for payment, which may be made in lawful money of
this state, notes given for depreciation of pay due the
officers and soldiers of the Jersey line, notes given by
commissioners on fcttlement of pay due to the militia
of this state, and notes given by the treasurer for ba
lances due to persons 011 demands against forfeited
estates, or any of them.
THOMAS FENIMORE, Agent.
State of New-Jerfey,)'
Sept. 26, 1786. )