The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-01-28 00:00:00, page 2

When the offender has before his
eyes the possibility of remaining in
jail during his whole life, th s cir
gumftance gives additional terrour to
the punishment : —And giving the
court a discretionary power of inflic
ting this panilhmenG does not de
privethem of the power of libera
ting him from his cell, at Iny fub
feqaent period, if they think him re
formed.
The qaeftion being taken on the
motion as mended, it was agreed to.
MONDA,', DEC. 26.
The Contraa Big having puffed the
House, was sent to the Senate for
concurrence.
A number of private petitions were
as ufeal read.
TUESDAY, DEC. 17.
The report of the committee of the
whole house on the poft-office bill was
taken into conlideration.
Several amendments agreed to by
the committee, were read—the prin
cipal part of which being still further
amended, were adopted by the house.
The amendment to the 20th fedion,
which refpea, the privilege ofFrank
ing, being read, Mr. Wadfivorth re
newed the motion for expunging
the clause—this occafion&d some de-
MF. PRINTER,
WHEREAS the writer of a pa
ragraph published in your
Gazetteer of the 14th current is re
quired by Alcander to m^ke a con
feflion for the impoficion, which he
has put on the public by said para
graph—and whereas, by sober reflec
tion, he is fully convinced that this
reqaifition is just & reasonable— he,
the said writer, freely acknbwleges
that it was highly criminal and dif
refpedful in him so far to faTped the
difeernment of year readers, as to
think it necessary to guard them a
gainst his principles, by pointing out
one of the many singular confluences
naturally refitting from them ; and
humbly implores their pardon as the
only condition upon which he c^n ob
tain absolution from Pope Alcander.
He also, with deep abatement, con
feffts his great weakness in supposing
that a piddling retailer of the theolo
gical peculiarities of a certain mo
dern Sea°might possess fugacity e
neogh to know when the principles,
in which he deals, are fairly over
thrown, by an argument drawn from'
the abfordity of their consequences ;
a fugacity not enjoyed by the many
faaartrs & tube Wale merchants them
selves, " tho' deeply vers'd in meta
phific lore." As it regarded the
public,the paragraph was totally un
neceffay=-and as it refpeaed Alcan
der, it was ill-judged, tho' charita
bly intended.
Whet Alcander (hall have gained
such an acquaintance with the English
language, as to know that the Cause
and Creator* of anything is according
poral punifoment: The experience
of Pennsylvania proves this : For ten
or a dozen years ago, when criminals
were whipped, and then turned loose
on society, the fame crimes, for which
they were punilhed, were every day
reiterated.
bate. Mr. White proposed a sub
stitute which contained various re
ftridions on the privilege—but an
adjournment being called for, took
place, without a decision—and the
further consideration of the amend
ments was postponed until tomorrow.
• That Alcanaer ufa Cause and Cre
ate as fynonimous terms is evident from
this passage of bis effa,—" If it can be
adequately proved that (be creature is
it's cause (that is, Sia's, it will fol
low that there are more creators than
one ;'' and it is well known tbat ^
leaders of the Sea affirt that the, Deit,
created fa atfirft and bas ever face cre
ated all faful as well as bol, volitions
in the minds of bis creatures b, bis
sovereign fiat, fe the fame manner as
be created the material world.
to the common use of words, the au
thor of it—-when he (hull have learn'o
that to assert that his opponent rea
sons falfely, and is guilty of a great
miftike, is one thing, and detecting
that falfe reasoning and pointing out
his mistake, another —when he shall
have sense enough to difeover that
when he asserts that your correspon
dent takes things for granted whiph
it is impoflible tor him co prove, he
only demonstrates the weakness of his
ovn arguments, because your cbrref
pond,nt took nothing for granted ex
cept the very principles, which Al
- had endeavour'd to eltablilh,
viz. .that fin was necessary and that the
Deity auas the cause of it—when he
shall have learn'd that volumes of ar
guments tending to prove that the
Devil was really both the inftrnment
of the Deity, and a voluntary agent,
in the introduction of fin, must be en
tirely thrown array, when the pofebi
lity of the thing is not only totally
denied bet fairly disproved— when he
shall have learn'd that an attempt :o
establish the do&rine of moral agen
cy and accountability in creatures,
all whose volitions are produced by
the irrefiftable agency of the Deity,
by his own poffitiq/e afertiohs, is a hoy
ifn, for which a Sophimore in Col
lege would merit corporal corredion
a word, when he shall have
learn'd to write like a scholar—to
From the Farmer's Journal.
^address to tbe JOURNEYMEN
HATTERS, throughout tbe United
States.
WE address you at this time, be
ing alarmed with the profpea
of dangers which threaten great in
jury to dur trade, and which we fear
will ruin it in this country,except mea
fores are fpediiy adopted to prevent
it. These dangers arise from per
sons fating up the hatting business,
who have not served an apprentice-
Ihip to the tradehand of tonfequence
must be ignorant of it, and mofl de
pend on the skill and faithful nefs of
Journeymen to manage the business
for them, And as it is the practice
in our trade, for journeymen to work
by the hat, it cannot be expefted
that they will withstand the strong
temptation to increase their wages
by flighting their work in shops
where there is no petfon to examine
their work, who is a judge of it.
Therefore instead of those improve
ments which are necessary in the bu
siness, in order that American hats
reason like a logician—to feel the
force of his opponent's arguments- —
to difeover the consequences fairly de
ducible from his principles when they
are candidly pointed out to him—and
to renounce sentiments which he has
incaulioufly imbibed, as loon as they
are proved to be falfe—which lessons
will cpft him much labour and study ;
then will he be entitled to refpedful
treatment,even from those whose feel
ings he may outrage by his impieties,
and jyhofe understandings he may in.
fult by his abfutdities——Till that
far distant period (hall arrive—whe
ther he may deal in his own puerile
sarcasms, or the learned sophisms,
which he has borrowed from his the
ological preceptors ; whether he shall
continue playing off his own popgun,
loaded with cork-balls and bubbles
of air, against the arguments of his
opponents, or pretend to turn against
them the blunderbusses, whose solid
charges have just overturned hi: high
rais'd cob house, while he has no:
sense enough to difeover the wide
spread ruins—he (hall enjoy the li
berty of making himfelf publicly ri
diculous without any interruption
from your correfponden: ; and may
depend on exciting no passions in hit
bread, except the PITY and CON
TEMPT, which are ever due 10 1G
NORANCE combined with SELF
CONCEIT.
MISCELLANY..
Avour objeft is to prevent such
practices as above noticed in future,
being fcnfible we cannot recal what
is patt, we have not undertaken in our
engagements to notice those who have
heretofore set up the business without
serving for it ; nor have we decided
the exafl time that a man Ihall serve,
in order to constitute him a lawful man
o work for as a Mafter,or stand by at
work as a journeyman, as we await
the decifiou of Congress on the fub
jetl.
1. We will not for the fake of ex
traordinary wages, or any other consi
deration, work for a man, who Ihall
set up the hat making bufinels after
this date, except he has served such
a number of years as an apprentice to
the trade, as will be fufficient to make
him a judge of work ; unless we are
admitted as equal partners in the bu
siness with him, for the term of seven
years at least, that it may be for our
interest to make good work, and be
caafe we think our Skill is equal to
his moneys
2. We will not llandat work by the
tide of a man who has laboured as a
journeyman in any Shop of the above
description, nor with one who has
served an apprenticeship in such a
(hop.•
.3. We will not work for aman who
has employed one that has laboured as
a journeyman in such a Shop as descri
bed in the firft article,or has employ
ed a man who has served an appren
ticeship in such a Shop.
4. We will not stand at work by the
fide of an apprentice, who Shall leave
his matter's service before he is twen
ty one years of age ; and it Shall be
necessary that all journeymen who Shall
have completed their apprenticeships
after the firft day of May next, ffiqll
produce their indentures with a cer
tificate thereon, Signed by one or more
justices of the peace, that they have
fer, ed at the trade for the term of
years therein mentioned, otherwise
we will not consider them as lawful
men to stand by at work.
- 5. We will take op runaway ap
prentices and return them to their
mafterß, for a reasonable ^ecompenfe.
Witness our hands, in Danbury,
State of Connedicut, this 15th day of
September, 1791.
John Tajlor, Clover Mansfield,
Amt/a Moss, Russel White,
Thomae Gouge, Reuben Tweed,,
Natban BiJbo,, Benjamin Akins,
Thomas Smith, Samuel Peters,
may vie with those imported from
Europe, they will depreciate in qual
ity, to the great injury of the trade
and country, as the dock is consumed
in bad work. These injurious prac
tices may be effectually prevented in
future, by our uniting toge her in
adhering to the Laws that regulate
the condud of journeymen hatters in
England. For this purpose we have
entered into the following engage
ments for ourfelvcs, hoping they may
meet with your approbation and
fopport. Oar interett is inseparably
connected with the trade, and moil
rife or fall with it. And, ; Shall we
be so blind to oar own interest as
to fuffer men todefraud us of our know
ledge, and thereby only enable them
to ruin the bufinefi?g Shall we not
rather attach ourselves to the lawful
mafters,who by their own knowledge
in the bulinefs, assisted by ours, may
make such improvements as shall e
ftablilh the credit of American hats
throughout the United States?
We fuomit the foregoing observa
tions and following engagements to
yo^c consideration, not doubting,
(should you find any,,art of them
worthy your attention) but you will
communique your sentiments on the
fabjeft, by the fame channel by which
you receive these ; accompanied with
luch additional observations upon.lnd
additions th the engagements, or
alterations as (hall appear nedeffarj
for the interest ofahe trade..
gentleman in this totvon,dateelDec.2o.
" T JOIN with you in lament
ing the unhappy fate of our
little army, and particularly that of
our friend Gen. Butler—His lot, as
at firft represented, had Been indeed
render mercy to him, when compa
red with what actually took place.
Alter receiving his wound, he was
removed to the centre of the camp,
and placed between two meal sacks ;
in this situation he remained some
time, forrounded by some officers and
a few soldiers, whose number soon
bacame reduced by the enemy's fire.
Perceiving this, and that the main
body had retired, he begged of those
that were with him not to remain
longer on his account, but to escape
if possible, observing that a few mi
nutes must terminate his exiffence,
and that Lis fight was then leaving
him. He gave his ring, fiverd and
watch co one of the gentlemen, and
in exchange requested a loaded piflol,
that he might as long §3 possible,
defend himfelf—which was accor.<
dingly cocked and put into his hand
- —the pirty then fled and left him to
his fate—This fad information was
given by a gentleman who was in
the action, and parted yesterday on
his way to Philadelphia,
NEWYORK, JAN. §
By a gentleman from the Gene
fee country, We learn, that previous
to his departure, the Indian account
of the defeat of the American arms
on the Miami, had reached there,
both from Detroit and Buffaloe creek,
and is by them Rated as follows :
That they killed 1200 Americans,
and took 7 pieces cannon—zoo oxen,
and a great number of horses, but no
prisoners — and that their loss was
only 56 warriours killed.
Our informant adds, that the num
ber of Indians in the battle was not
exadly ascertained, but supposed to
have been between 3 and 4000 ; and
this opinion it confirmed by a gen
tleman who was at Detroit when the
Indians left it on their way to the
Miami, who fays, they were io very
numerous as to create furious ala-m
in the garrison, and that every pre
caution was taken for its fa fetv—
as the Indians were exceedingly irri
tated against the British government
for not having countenanced them in
their warfare with the United States
—That the Indian army was cotopo
fed of feme from almost every tribe
from the Miami to Lakes Michi
gan, Michell ; machanac, and proba
bly even to the Miffifippi—That it
was commanded by one of the Meffa
fago Indians, who had been in the
British service, in the late war ; that
he planned and conduced the attack,
which was even contrary to the opi.
nion of a majority of the chiefs —
and, that after the Americans began
their retreat, he told the Indians the,
had killed enough, and that it was
proper to give over the pursuit, and
return and enjoy the booty taken—
That their account of the commence
ment of the adion and its continu
ance agrees with Gen. St. Clair's
letter to the secretary at war.
The principal part of the above
information our informant had from
the Farmer's brother, an Indian of'
that name, an intelligent person,
Chief of the Senecas.
Our informant further adds, that
Capt. Brandt is friendly to the Uni
ted States, particularly so to the in
habitants of the Genejee settlements :
That the unfriendly Indians have
lent him a message, that as they have:
conquered the Americans (as they
term it) they intend paying him and
the Senecas a visit on account of their
not having joined them in the war.
Extraa of a letter from Car life, to a
AMERICAN ADVICES.
BALTIMORE DEC. 26.
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