The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-01-09 00:00:00, page 1

House of Assembly, Nov. 15, 1785.
A PE FI PION from John Schuyler, of New-Barba
dos Neck, in the county of Bergen, was read,
setting forth, that through losses and misfortunes he is
unable to pay his debts, and praying that, upon his
assigning over and giving up his estate to certain per
sons for the use of his creditors, that his person may
not be confined, and that he may have leave to pre
sent a bill for that purpose;
On the said petition being read a second time,
November 23, 1785,
Ordered, That the petitioner have leave to present
a bill at the next fitting, agreeably to the prayer of
his petition, on advertising the purport of the bill
he means to present, and a copy of this order, in
the news-papers printed in this state, and at least two
of the news-papers printed in New-York.
Extract from the minutes,
MASKELL EWING, jun. Clerk.
Notice is hereby given,
That a bill will be presented to the honourable
the legislature at their next fitting, agreeably to the
leave given in the above order.
JOHN SCHUYLER.
Dec. 30, 1785. 6w
House of Afembly, Nov. 11, 1785.
APE FIT lON from Martha Vanfcuyver, widow
and relief of William Vanfcuyver, late of the
county of Burlington, deceased, setting forth, that the
said deceased made his testament and last will in the
piefence of 3 witnesses; but that, through ignorance
of the law, two only signed the fame, and the heir at
law refufes to comply with the invention of the testa
tor, and praying leave to present a bill to eftablilh
and confirm the said will as effectually as if there had
been three subscribing witnesses to the fame;
Ordered, That the petitioner have leave to present
a bill agreeably to the prayer of her petition, on the
second Wednesday of the next fitting, on advertising
the purport of the petition, and a copy of this order,
in at least three of the most publick places in the
townfllip of Willingborough, and county of Burling
ton, as also in the New-Jersey and Pennsylvania Ga
zettes, at least fix weeks previous thereto.
Notice is hereby given,
That a bill will be presented to the honourable the
legislature at their next fitting, agreeably to the leave
given in the above order.
Martha Vanscuyver.
For and on the behalf of William, Sarah, Jacob
and John, children of the said William Vanfcuyver,
deceased, who are under age.
Josiah Matlack,
Mary Matlack,
Martha Vanscuyver.
Dec. 30, 1785. 6w
T O BE LE T,
A COMMODIOUS dwellinghoufe and potworks,
late the estate of James Rhodes, deceased,
in Nottingham township, Burlington county, near
Trenton; to be entered upon immediately. For
terms apply to nir. John Yard, in Trenton, or the
fubferiber on the premises.
Catharine Rhodes.
Dec. 30, 1785. 4w*
Shad and Herring Seine TWINES,
SNOWDEN and NORTH
Have for sale at their store on
Spruce-Street wharf.
A QUANTITY of shad and herring seine twines,
equal to any ever imported, both for finenefs
and the quality of the hemp, and made to a pattern
suitable to the fifheries up the Delaware; which they
will fell by the hogshead or smaller quantity. They
also have cork, lead and landlines, of their own ma
nufactory, which they will insure good.
Philadelphia, Dec. 4, 1785. 6w
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
[Vol. IX.]
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TRENTON: Printed by ISAAC COLLIN S, Printer to the State.
MONDA Y, January p, 1786;
PRIMITIVE WHIG. No. I.
%i Deorum
Muneribus fapienter uti,
Duramque callet pauperiem pati,
Pejufque letho flagitium timet :
Non ille pro caris amicis
Aut patrid timidus perire. ' Hor.
AFTER Providence had so highly fa
voured us, as to enable America to
triumph over the power of Great-Bri
tain in the late war, which she cruelly
waged against us, and in which our fi
nal success appeared, in the eyfe of human reason,
against all probability; it was to be hoped that we
should have conduced ourselves, m our publick cha
racter, as citizens of these now^dependem. flatten,
with the dignity and gratitude becoming so signal a
blefling. Great was the glory & acquired during
the contest; and Fame, with her tm rapet, has resound
ed it through the universe. Bu&\it reports Fame
of our subsequent behaviour? W<.&n particular of
our national Publick Faith and efface, either re
fpeding our foreign or domeftiddeots? Stop, flop,
and break this trump of Fame; put then the stones
will cry out, alas, alas, hove if ou&old become dross;
and our fine gold changed ? Ho^is the glory of an
American Congress, of an American Washington, of
the American governors, of thef American legisla
tures, of all the bright conftel^tion of American
whigs (conjointly indefatigable in the cause of liberty
in our late conflict against apparently unsurmountable
obstacles) how is it marred, obfcuied, contaminated,
and trampled in the dust, by our conduct since the
illustrious era of our emancipation from British bon
dage. ReluCt at paying our proportion of the taxes
to defray the expences necefr^y iucimed by our
contending for, and finally accomplishing so glorious
a revolution ! Tell it not in Gath, publifo it not in
the streets of N/kelon.
Americans, and Whig-Americans, and Americans
who promised to stand by Congress and General
Washington with their lives and fortunes in oppofmg
the meditated tyranny of Britain, now grumbling
about paying the taxes, which that opposition, all bril
liant in its progress, and victorious in its conclusion,
indispensably occasioned! Ingrates ! To fee a lazy,
lounging, lubberly fellow fitting nights and days in
a tipplinghoufe, working perhaps but two days in the
week, and receiving for that work double the wages
he earns, and spending the rest of his time in squan
dering those his non-earnings in riot and debauch,
and then complaining, when the collector calls for
his tax, of the hardness of the times, and the want of
a circulating medium—lngrate! To hear a London
trader, who in two years accumulated more wealth by
his infernal commerce with the enemy, and furnish
ing them with materials to continue their unnatural
war against his bleeding country, than he could in
ten by his honest industry—to hear a London-trader,
I fay, who, for filthy lucre, fold his conscience, his
allegiance, his patriotism and his foul, now complain
of the difficulty to pay his taxes! Ingrate! But
who is that yonder honest looking farmer, who Shakes
his head at the name of taxes, and protests that he
cannot pay them! Why, he is a man whose three
daughters are under the discipline of a French dan
cing-matter, when they ought every one of them to
be at the spinning-wheel; and who, while they should
be drefied in decent homespun, as were their frugal
grand-mothers, now carry half of their father's crop
upon their backs; and surpass, in the foppery and ex
pence of their popinjay habiliments, all the belles of
Jerusalem in the days of Isaiah, in all '' the bravery
" of their tinkling ornaments, and their cauls, and
" their round tires like the moon, their chains, and
'' their bracelets, and their mufflers, their bonnets,
" and their ornaments of the legs, and their head
" bands, their tablets^ and their ear-rings, their rings
“ and nose-jewels, their changeable suits of apparel,
" and their mantles and their wimples and their crifping
pins, their glades and their fine linen, their hoods
“ and their veils."—lngrate !
But is there nothing betides this infamous and abo
minable reluctance against extricating our country
THE
I shall shew, in the course of these papers, that the
money in question is only wanted (except as to a few
individuals, who by the bye, from the greater pub
lick detriment of which such a measure would infal
libly be productive, are not, in this instance, the ob
je& of legislation but of private commiseration) by those
very fame idle fpendthrifts, dissipating drones of the
community who have felt the sweets, during the legal
tender of depreciated paper, of living upon the sweat
of their neighbours' brows: by those fame drones,
who, instead of repenting in sackcloth and ashes, for'
their late circumvention of their creditors, want to
repeat the rifque of being condemned for their me
ditated fraud by that tribunal which will never admit
an ad of assembly as a plea in bar to an indictment for
manifeft fraud and covin.—l shall shew, that such a
measure, instead of restoring, will continue the loss
both of publick and private credit; and keep, for
ever keep, locked up in trunks and coffers and strong
boxes, the gold and silver now amongst us; and which
those who have it would be blockheads, in the super
lative degree, to fend it forth into this breathing
cheating world, as long as any legislature lends wea
pons to the borrower to defend himfelf against the
honest repayment of the loan. Will not every man
who has it keep it, and prudentially keep it, till
the commencement of that happy period (the prayer
of all honest men, and the dread of every knave)
when laws will be made in favour of creditors instead
of debtors; and when no cozening, trickifh, fraudulent
scoundrel shall be able to plead legal protection for
his cozenage, tricks, frauds and rafcality?
I shall moreover shew, that so fatal a step, tho' it
may meet the wishes of the gentlemen in the Cave
Adullam, must be extremely difeouraging to the vir
tuous and industrious part of society. This valuable
part of the community only want to enjoy in fafety
the product of their labour. Shall they not enjoy it,
ye legislators ! because ye are pelted with petitions
from those who want to ravish it from them ? I veri
ly believe (provided the wolves are as convetfable now,
as they were in the time of /Efop) that I could pro-'
from the debt she has contracted, in order to secure
to us and our remotest posterity, peace and happiness
and fafety and liberty and independence ? Is there no
thing else to tarnish the glory, and fully the luftre
of the renown we acquired by baffling the machinati
ons of Britain, to reduce us to perpetual vassalage?
Would to Heaven there were not ! But I lately saw,
and I saw with ineffable regret, a design to perpetuate
our national disgrace by prevailing upon our legisla
ture to enable bim that is unjust to be unjufl fill;
and bim that if filthy to be filthy fill, and him that
has been a great rogue during the lawful tender of
depreciated continental currency, to be a still greater
rogue than ever he was. To enable, I fay, every
one who comes within the description of the fugitive
band that joined David in the Cave Adullam, that is,
every one in dfrefs, and every one who is in debt,
and every one who if difeontented, to defraud his
neighbour, according to law. And how was this?
Hear me and I will tell you. While we ought to have
complied with that inexpressibly important requisition of
Congress, so happily calculated to lessen our national
debt (and in some refpe&s peculiarly advantageous to
this state) we amused ourselves with petitions for and
against flooding the country with a new inundation of
paper currency, which every reasonable man must
know (and I appeal to every reasonable man's con
science that he does know it) had no other view in the
world than to enable those very petitioners (except
ing perhaps a few of your signers en paffant, who
would as easily be induced to fubferibe their names
for abolishing the decalogue, and hanging all the le
gislators upon the continent) than to enable those ve
ry petitioners to play over the fame game, which
they so fuccefsfully played during the blifsful days of de
preciated conti. I his indeed is a pretty way of pay
ing one's debts; but what a pity that the devil will
not be bribed with such money, to spare the man
who tenders it? And will any of our legislatures fa
cilitate the future perdition of human fouls, by again
tempting mankind to sport with conscience and dam
nation, agreeably to aflf of afembly ? I trust they
will not.'
[Numb. 400.]