The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-08-12 00:00:00, page 4

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the mtilattbesjarid seven eights of the
wholetown revolted. The whites defend
ed themselves from corner to corner, for
nearforty eight hours, without a moment
for either sleep pr food. Five of us were
glut up in our house, without daring to
put our heads outside the door, until! the
zift about I I o'clock, when we found by
A S the celebrated Dr. Johnson
, A was fitting in a Coffee-room,
where a Dog: was very trouble
some, he ordered the Waiter to
kick him out ; the Waiter not be
ing so alert as he mould be, the
Doctor repeated his Orders ; upon
which a young Genius said to the
Doaor, I perceive, Sir, you are not
fond of Dogs. No, said the Doc
tor, tor of Puppies neither.
The MONK and JEW. .
AN unbelieving Jew one Da,
Was Jcating o'er the ic, Way,
Which being brittle let him in,
Just dee, enough to catch his Chin ;
And in that woful Plight he hung,
With only Power to move bis Tongue.
A Brother fcater near at Hand,
A Papist, born in foreign Land,
With haft. Strokes direaly flew
Tojave poor Mordecai the Jew—
But firft, quoth be, I must enjoin
That you renounce,our Faith for mine,
There's no Entreaties else will do,
'Tis Here, to help a few —
" Forjwear mine fait ! No Cot forbid!
Dat would be ver, base indeed,
Come, never mind such tings as deze,
Tink, tink, bow far, bard it freeze,
More coot ,ou do, more coot you be,
Kat fgnifes , our fait to me,
Come tink again, bow cold and vet
And help me out van little bit."
By bol, Mass, 'tis bard I own.
To fee a Man both bang and drown,
And can't relieve him from bis Plight
Because he is an Israelite.
The Church refufes all Affflance,
Beyond a certain Pale and Difiance ;
And all the Service I can lend,
Is praying for your Soul my Friend.
" Pray for m# foul, ba ! ba ! you make me
laugh,
You petter help me out „ half !
Mine foul Ifarrant vill take care
To pray for her ownfelf m, tear.
So tink a little now for me
'Tis I am in de hole, not the."
The Church forbids it, Friend, and faith,
That all /ball die who have no Faith.
“ Fell! iflmuf pelieve, Imuft,
But help me out van little firft."
No, not an Inch without Amen,
That seals the whole—" Veil hear me den,
I herq renounce for coot and all,
De race of Jews both great andfmall,
'Tis de var# trade peneatb de fun.
Or varft religion ; dat's allvun.
Dey cheat, and get deir living pite.
And lie, and swear de lie is right.
I'll go to majs as soon a§ ever
I get to toder fide de river,
Bo help me out, dow ebriftian friend,
Dat 1 ma, do as I intend."
Perhaps,ou do intend to cheat,
If once you get upon your Feet.
" No, no, Ido intend to be,
A Christian, such a one as dee.'l
(For thought the few he is as much
A Chriflan man as I am such.)
The bigot Papist joyful hearted,
To bear the Heretic converted.
Reply'd to the designed few,
This was a happy fall for you ;
You'd better die a Cbriftian now,
For if you live you'll break, our Vow,
Then said no more, but in a Trice,
Popp'd Mordecai beneath the Ice.
MEN sometimes blunt out very
unlucky truths: A town beggar
was very importunate with a rich
miser, whom he accosted in the
following phrase, '' Pray fir, be
flow your charity; good dear fir,
bestow your charity." " Prithee
friend, be quiet, (replied old Gri
pus) 1 have it nos" ,
THE PIERRIDES.
HILARITY.
the superiority of the blacks, we must ei
ther quit our quarters or perilh. We
preferred the former, after having secur
ed our doors, and fortunately for us we
were off at the moment ; ten minutes
would have thrown us into the hands of
the Haves, who were all armed and before
the house. Three of us went on shore
yesterday, fought our way to the house,
and saved some part of our cloaths ,some
trifle of dry goods ; but were too few in
number to oppose the enemy, and were
obliged to fy. I had however the fatis
faction of (hooting one wretch. In fad
we have done every thing in our power
to save our own, as well as the property
entrusted to our care—we have exposed
our lives twice, and guarded it until we
were obliged to quit.—Our store is now
burning, and all is gone but life. The
Brigands from the country have come in
to town, and general massacre and de
ftruaion has taken place. To morrow
we shall be obliged to run—the whole
town is now on fire, and the sailors all
mad—ifwe yet escape with life, we shall
he fortunate.
"I have received the letter which
you took the trouble to write to me
to announce your plans, and the
orders with which you are charged.
I have only a few words to fay in
reply, and these are, that neither I,
who have the honour to command
in Dunkirk, nor any of the inhabit
ants or citizens, will ever listen to
any proposal tending to dishonour
the French name. It is useless
therefore to lose time io epistolary
correspondence, which would be
come tedious, and be at least ille
gal.—Do me the honour to attack
mein a military manner, and 1 (hall
have that of answering you—for it
is in this manner that difeuffions
ought to be terminated between
people of our cloth.
PASCAL KERENVEYER.
The following is the cop, of the an
swer of Brigadier General Ker
enveyer, commandant at Dun
kirk, to the summons of Captain
Clements, commanding a squad
ron of His Brittannic Majefl, be
fore Dunkirk.
“ Sir,
[The question, " Whether a
State be liable to be sued by a pri.
vate Citizen of another State ?"
has been justly considered a very
important one ; and was decided
in the affirmative, in the Supreme
Court of the United States, io Feb.
iaft, in the case of " Alexander
Chi(holm, a citizen of the State of
Soutbcarolina, and Executor of R.
Farquhar, deceased, of the fame
State, vj. the State of Georgia." —
This decision has excited great
apprehension in some, as striking
at the toot of individual State So
vereignty ; and the fubjeft was ta
ken up in the last session of the
legislature of this Commonwealth ;
but nothing decisive aded upon it.
The attention of the citizens of
Massachusetts will now be more
closely drawn to this fubjed, since
rhe State has been made a party
defendant in the above court, at
the suit of a foreign individual, by
iwrit served upon the Goveroour
and Attorney General. Many
pieces have already appeared in the
publick papers on the (object ; some
of which, at least, are addressed
more to the passions than the rea
son. It is fortunate for the citi
zens of the United States, who are
ever desirous of examining the re
al merits of any important question,
that the Judges, before whom this
was argued for several days, have
permitted the opinions they gave
upon it, to be publifhed.' From
them we have feleXed, for the in
formation of our readers, that of
Mr. Jay ; who appears to have
investigated the subject with great
coolness, candour, and regard to
the rights of the citizens ; has plac
ed it in a variety of views ; and
considered it not only on constitu
tional, but on rational grounds.]
THE question we are now to de
cide has been accurately stated, viz.
Is a State suable by individual ci-
1. In determining the sense in
which Georgia is a sovereign state,
it may be ufeful to turn our atten
tion to the political situation we
were in, prior to the revolution, &
to the political rights that emerged
from the revolution .All the
country now possessed by the U. S.
was then a part of the dominions
appertaining to the crown of Great
fritain. Every acre of land in this
country was then held mediately or
immediately by grants from that
crown. All the people of this
country were then fubjeds of the
King of Greatbritain, and owed
allegiance to him ; and all the ci
vil authority then exiting or exer
cised here, flowed from the head
of the British empire. They were
in a ftri<ft sense fellow fubjeds, and
in a variety of refpefts one people.
When the revolution commenced,
the patriots did not assert that on
ly the fame affinity and social con
nexion subsisted between the peo
ple of the colonies, which subsisted
between the people of Gaul, Brit
ain, and Spain, while Roman pro
vinces viz. only that affinity and
ion, that the unappropriated lands
which belonged to that crown,
passed not to the people of the
colony or States within whose lim
its they were situated, but to the
whole people —on whatever prin
ciples this opinion rested, it did
give way to the other, and thirteen
the merits of this objeXion, let us
enquire, i. In what feofe Georgia
is a sovereign state ? 2. Whether
fuability is incompatible with such
Sovereignty ? 3. Whether the
constitution (to which Georgia is a
party) authorifes such an aXion a
gainst her ?
Suability and suable are words
not in common use, but they con
cisely and correaly convey the idea
annexed to them.
the mere circumstance of being
governed by the fame prince—dif
ferent ideas prevailed, and gave
occasion to the Congress of 1774
and 1775.
The revolution, or rather the
declaration of Independence, found
the people already united for gen
eral purposes, and at the fame time
providing for their more domeftick
concerns by state conventions, and
other temporary arrangements.
From the crown of Greatbritain,
the sovereignty of their country
passed to the people of it—and it
was then not an uncommon opin-
that Georgia refufes to appear and
answer to the plaintiff in this ac
tion, because (he is a sovereign
State, and therefore not liable to
such aXions. In order to afeertain
locial connexion which result from
izens of another State ? —lt is said
Chief fuftice f A Y.
sovereignties were considered as
emerging from the principles of
the revolution, combined with lo
cal convenience and considerations
—the people nevertheless continu.
ed to confider themselves, in a na
tional point of view, as one peo
ple; and they continued without
interruption to manage their na
tional concerns accordingly—Af
terwards, in the hurry of the war,
and in the warmth of mutual con
fidence, they made a confederation
of the States, the basis of a general
government. Experience disap
pointed the expectations they had
formed from it ; and then the
people, in their collective and na
tional capacity, established the pres
ent Constitution.
It is remarkable that in estab
lishing it, the people exercised their
own rights, and their own proper
sovereignty ; and, confeious of the
plenitude of it, they declared with
becoming dignity, " We the Peo
ple of the United States, do ordain
and efiabli sh this Constitution."
Accounts from Spain, as late as May
6th, mention, that on ift of that month,
there had been an engagement between
the Spanijb and French troops, near Bay
onne, in which the Spaniards had met with
a severe repulse, and were driven back to
St. John de Luz, a frontier town of Spain,
In their retreat the Spaniards in crofting a
river, not having fufficiency of boats, were
forced to swim, and great numbers were
drowned. The French retired to Ba,on
ne, after the engagement ; where they
have a formidable garrifoh.
as sovereigns of the whole country ;
and in the language of sovereignty,
eftablilhinga Constitution by which
it was their will, that the State
governments should be bound, and
to which the State Constitutions
should be made to conform.
Every State Constitution is a
compact made by and between the
citizens of a State to govern them
selves in a certain manner—and the
Constitution of the United States
is likewise a com pad made by the
people of the United States to
govern themselves as to general
objects, in a certain manner. By
this great compaX, however, ma
ny important prerogatives were
transferred to the national govern#
ment, such as those of making war
and peace, contracting alliances,
coining money, &c. &c.
The Exports of the United States
for the Year ending last Septem
ber, amounted to the enormous
Value of 20,51'8,014 Dollars.—
They stand thus :
Value of Wares, Goods, and
Merchandize, exported from each
State, agreeably to the AbftraX
laid before Congress 37th of Feb
ruary, 1793.
Dollars.
Neubampjhire, - - 181,407
Maffaebufetts, - - 3,289,922
Rbodeifland, - - - 698,084
Connecticut, - - - - 649,925
Newy ork, - -- - 2,528,085
Newjerfey, - - - - 23,524.
Pennsylvania, - -~ - 3,820,646
Delaware, - - - - 133,972
Maryland, - - - 2,550,258
Virginia, - - - 3^49499
Nortbcarolina, - - - 503,294
Soutbcarolina, - - - 2,420,424
Georgia, - - - 45^973
Here we fee the people anting
Dollars, 20,518,014