The Pennsylvania evening post — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-10-26 00:00:00, page 4

Mr. Towne,'
IN your Evening Post, for Thursday the 24th inff. you have
printed a letter from Maryland, in which are some reflex
ions on our province and Convention, which deserve our
notice, such as " the baneful influence of your weak Coun
sels ; the absurdity,and fatal consequences wh ch will attend
your state in particular, and America in general, by a iub
miffion 1,0 the government or fyttem of Ilavery proposed by
your late Convention," &c. by printing a few lines in answer
you will oblige some of your constant readers, and in parti
cular your humble it rvant.
This letter is rash and abusive, and unlike the production
of any of the Marylanders of distinction, who are remark
ably polite in their addreis and behavior. But we Shall lup
pole that this very letter was from that government, which is
ve y uncertain, pray cues it contain the fentinients of that
colony ? Are.there not f &e weak and busy men there, as well
as in the other provinces ? And why is the private feotiments
of an individual in the place, held out as a fufficient reason
to make our province uneasy ?
Does lie know that this Flan of Government has alarmed
the friends of liberty in our state ? Or are there no friends
of liberty and America among us, but men of his kidney,
who cry out against this New plan ? Here he is greatly m i'-
takcn. What has the baneful influence of our weak Coun
sels to do with a plan that has Scarcely taken place am m'^
us ? If our Counters are weak or baneful, 1 will venture t^
assert that it is not from a love to slavery, out from ig drawee
or want of experience in our public Courifellors ; and it ill
becomes an unknown perlon, who neither points out their
weakness nor baneful influence, thus to abuse them. He
calls our New Flan if Government a system of slavery. It
has lome defeats, but no government < n the .continent of
America has lels the complexion of a system of slavery, it
verges towards the other extreme. In order to preserve the
people from slavery or oppreflion, it has given too much
power to the popular Assembly and populace, and too little
to the executive powers of our government. But why does
this hohelt American cast abroad firebrands, arrows, and
death beading evil to our state, and to America, without
shewing how this present Plan can hurt us, or America in
general, and in what particulars ? The Congress, who have
Ibeen lately engaged into this dispute, recommended to
every one of the United Colonies to alter or form new
Plans of Government furtable to their own inclinations.
Let our Plan be as it may, neither the Congress nor our
sister colonies have any thing to do with our government.
We mutt form and mend it to please ourlelves ; nor are we to
conclude from this real or fidious letter, that the government
of Maryland, or of any other province, pretends to intermed
dle in our formation of a Plan of Government. And neither
this letter - writer, nor the few patriots that lately appeared at
our State-house, have pretended to shew any fatal confluen
ces to America in general, nor to ourlelves in particular, if
this should be our future Plan of Government, which he, with
out consideration, calls a system of slavery. Tie cause is bad
that is to be supported by raillery and abuse, thus retailed by
letters from obscure persons, whether within this province or
from Maiylandi
A VENDUE on Tuesday next, by JOHN HART, at
one 0 ciock, of a neat assortment of dry goods, house-
Lj\. furniture, wearing_apparci, &c, Also a waggon and
four g>od hotles, &c.
541
PHILADELPHIA: Printed by BENJAMIN
TOWNE, in Front-firm, n Q the 'London
Coffee-Houfe,
SUPPOSED to be LOST, the latter end of last week,
between Capt, Reading's vessel at Chefnut-ftreet wharf,
and the Coffhe-houfe, a PACKET OF LETTERS directed
to the fubicriber living in Arcn-ftieet.
Allo fold by mistake, a BARREL containing childrens
clothes, one piece of linen, and some other articles, inlTad
of limes. Whoever hath found the packet of letters, or
bought the barrel, are readied to inform the fabfcriber,
who will reasonably pay them for their croaoT.
mary rivers.
N. B. The barrel was dirtied to M try Rivets, in A.ch
ftreet, Philadelphia. Oct 26.
'* 0 be oC/ID, a large comm.,di >us three story BRICK
I MES6UAGE or ThNEMEN T, and LOTof
GROUND thereto belonging 11. u on the call fide^of
Penn Ilreet, a lit le below the D awb dge,° in the city of
Philadelphia. The lot is fevehceen feet font oy about se
venty-eight feet deep, bounded b ground of Thomas Cuth
bert and others, fuojea o a g ound rent of seventeen
pounds Pennsylvania currency, pc^arolm. The hoafe, and
buildings adjoining, formerly let Tr ty-two pounds per
annum. The title is in lifpu able. The above described
h>ufe and lot wd be fold, bv^uolic vendue, on Monday
evening next, the zTh of October, at fix o’clock, at the
Londor C'ft-R-hcufr,
I'o 0 uJ^J oy public vendue, on Tuesday evening
next, he z^h h Octoor, at fix o’clock, at the
L udon Coffec-houfe, a BRICK HOUSE three dories hioh,
a few doors below opruce-rtreet, on the well fide of Front-
Iteet, next door to Mr. \Villiam Fifhbourn, in good repair,
and lately rented for forty pounds per annum. The lot is
fixteeu feet front, and forty feet in depth, free of al! incum
brances. The terms will be made easy to the purchaser.
William Adcock's Vendueis put off to
Wednesday next, at one o'clock.
^fH E Curious in ancient literary w rk£ on the ART of
A.HEALING, are informed they mav now purchase va
riety of Latin authors; also a few modern Englilh writers on
medicinal and surgical fubjefts, at BELL’s bopk-ftore, next
do)i to St. Paul’s church, in Third,ftreet, Philadelphia.
N.B. All the military authors lately published may be had
at said BELL’s. Likewise numbers of milcellaneous, in
ftruaive, and entertaining works, in various branches of li
terature.
This dayis published, printed, and to, be fold by R. AIT
KEN, bookseller, opposite the London Coffee house, Front
ftreet, containing about three hundred and forty pages,
large o&avo (orice one doll .r in blue boards)
THE JOURNALS of the PR )CEIDINGS o' CON
GREbc, held at Philadelphia irom January to May
177 6 -
AN active well disposed Negro or Mulatto BOY, frora
ten to fifteen years of ago, is wanted. Inquire of the
printer.