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I HISTORY
OT Tillft
Last Session ts CONGRESS.,
TTISTORY should be the re.|
cord oftnUh.,ln the col#;
lifions of interest, and under the
dominion ofpaffion, man may fall
into crime or error, andfind some
apology in the frailty of his na
ture. Bathe who relates the ac
tions of others, in which he has no
participation, must be criminal
beyond palliation, if he deceive,
while he profeffes to inform.— —
Thft is undoubtedly in all a li-I
ability to err ; from this weakneGj
no man is exempt. Hence the
affectation of infallibility is ever
an evidence of wcaknefs or irrt.'
posture. There is, however, a,
certain elevation to which thei
human mind may rile in the scale
of truth, and which the historian
Should, of all men attain. This
will be our effort ; and while iye
record events, which, in a great [
measure divide men of equal vir- |
lue, and, in some measure, men"
of equal sense, we shall not fear
the imputation of party prejudice
from one fide or the other.——
Moderation and firmnefs are the
inseparable allies of truth. For
bearing, therefore, where forbear
ance is a virtue, we shall speak
out where decision is a duty# ,
Believing political truth to be
the feme thing with republicanism,
by its charatleriftics men and
measures (hall be wied,4lf theft
be ircafon in American it is to be
found in the heart of him who
hates a republic. By this idea
all the political affections of free
men mould be excited.—To
protea republicanism, the shield
of every patriot Should be raised
—to preserve it pure, and to ren
der it immortal, wisdom should
bellow her choicest gifts. Think
not, fellow citizens, that the pre
servation of virtue in the politi
cal requires less vigilance than in
the private world. Providence,
in all her works, damps upon the
mind this eternal truth:—“ The
greater the boon, the more un
ceasing the effort required to ;
maintain ft, Let not then the
fyren voi& of pleasure or of case
ever rob you of your vigilance.
—and remember ahat as health
in your personal capacity is the
reward of labor ; so happiness in
your political relations can never
be acquired or maintained with
out effort.
Behold the universe. See its
four quarterrflled with savages
or flaws. Out of nine hundred
millions of human beings but four
millions are free. Th§ truth is
awful; but it cannot, it ought not
to be suppressed. The citizens
of the UnitedS ates alone are free
men. Africa seems only to have^
emerged from barbarity, to be
enslaved; and once enslaved ; her;
bondage would seem to be eter
nal. Asia, the cradle of the arts,
has long since been abandoned
to nerveless apathy. Europe,
pro^d in her refinement, ,riva 1.
«d in science and industry, has
tyfifeh
eventually trampled under foot
dome ascendant pamons nave#
with little intermiiuon, covered
this quarter of the giope with
A,Dg ruled
chv.
} Two countries alonte in Europe
boast of freedom;, France and
England. In both i^is profei-|
fion arid foot praElice. In the
I former, one man, who stalls him*
I felf the friend and the fervantof
the people, puts up and pulls
I down whatever his fancy pleases.
Having raised himfelf by force
above the people, by force he
keeps the peoplebelow him. I
The bayonet is ever bright, and
though it may not frequently
murder the man, it strikes unceafi
ing terror in the slave. The lib
erty of the press is gone ; that ci-
I tadel of fcafofio son ex#
ills; every press rises only on the
:permiffion of the firft consul, and
his mandate puts it down. Hence
he who reads tbofe prints wanders
through a dreary wilderness which
lechoes nothing but the praises &
the adiohs ofthe government. —
Religion, too, is ;plaftic to his
will. The priests are deported
I or imported at his pleasure ; the
;doors of the holy temples are
closed or opened according to
! his good will. Iris true that the
firft consul, amidst all his inva
fioris of conscience and personal
rights determined to have no u
surper near rhe throne; confining
despotic power tbhimfelf, prote&s
the nation from the scourge of a
merciless aristocracy. It is true
that unlike mod of his predeces
sors, be difeerns his own glory in
the national interest ; it is true
that he is entitled to immortal
fame for ihe ?ekercife of&hat a(-
cendint genius, which has anni
hilated all foreign leagues and in
vasions. Bur, notwithstanding
^thefe dazzling glories, he cannot
be called the benefactor of man
kind who has arrested a great na#
tion in its progrofs to freedom
And gloomy is the destiny ofa
people, of twenty-five millions,
among whom philosophy and ufe
ful knowledge have djffufed their
rarest blessings, who, having real
ifed the value of freedom, are
once more constrained to be
slaves, b
England too boasts of her free
dom. She may be free; but
her's is only the freedom of un
bounded power. The nation
may be free but the people are
Oaves. They are the slaves ofa
monarch whom five annual mil
lions of dollars pamper with lux#
ury and pomp; they are the
slaves of an established ariftocra>
cy, who monopolife half the
power and more than half the
wealth of the land ; they are the
slaves of a national debt of above
'two thousand five hundred mil
lions of dollars they are the slaves
of annual taxes to the amount of
more than two hundred millions;
they are the slaves of an estab
lished church, which, while it
robs the poor of his miserable
pittance, violates all that it finds
left, the rights of conscience.
Can such a nation be called free ?
She may be called so—but her's
is pre-eminently the name ; the^
substance is not to be found.-—-
She has freprefentativei; bi# they ^
repreferit a few thousand wealth©
°’^^" e th °'"'^^
j a few, while the; many are oor.n
1 but to labour and die. In this
l amt^i executed
IroZ d b:fide,' h ° f ''" n
4
Such, fellow citizens, it the samfr
gyrated piaure which justice draws of
those two nation, in whose views oty^
ic, we here been most involved. Each
nation hit bad, and each nation, perhaps
? ftill has its partifans.—Tt is to be hoped,'
however, that the day of infatuation Is
past. Every enlighted American must
fee that our national interest is as infa
lated as our petition from European con
neaions. To establish and extend this
conyiaioo istbe duty of every man who
feels it : and it has been con fidered as not
improper to preface the biftory of the
/neafures of our national council, by a
contrasted view of our situation with that
of the two nation, with which we have
most coonedion./ Tbe ^ontfaft of the
pi&ure, we have drawn, is to be found ir
the feelings of every genuine American?'
Those feelings furnifh evidence that can
not be shaken, of the enviable fta?e of our
country. However, we must all agree,
that America can only look to herfdf for
th, attainment of all file withes, for the
preservation of all the enjoys. Wemuft
'allagree, it eff:d fallows cause, that Re
publicanism is the rock no less of individ
ual than of national felicity. Under these
charaaeriftic impressions, the annual at -
/fembly of the representatives of the peo
ple on the ,th day of December was a
fpeaacle of legitimate interest. ,!
IMPORTANT Document.
[in ban bs<CTl&i lulfb tbi fbll^vriag
iß„rta„ Daturast, b, ibi Hen. f^ba
Brew*. B, it nr readerl will bt fybbd
to diferotr tbi mtta! which aa#atidtbi
Araricas , grommet is aigotiatisg ibi
mventHa with Gnat Britain, for tbt
payment of £.600,000 flerl. m &jcbargt
of all daifa which might ariji under the
6tb article of the treaty conclnded b, Mr.
fa,. ,It will be Jets h, tbit cinotnrioa,
that the Unittd Statu art robirmi from
all refynfibilit, for upwards of File Wl
Ufa R„m4t Dorling, which might ball
^bora claimed agder the 6&Bmil ts&
Britifo treat,,] 'ir#!
The Refutations of the board of conroM
fioners, undter the 6th article of Jay's
treaty, embrace the following proposi
tions, as appears from a letter from
John Reed, jun. agent of the United
States to the Attorney General, dated
a§th ot April, 1801. N
ift. That the laws palled by the fUte
of South Carolina; generally called io
ftalment laws, are lawful impediments,
within the meaning of the 6th article of
the treaty of amity. f
2. That certain laws in #M State of
'Virginia, the period of whose limitation ,
did not expire till after the peace, and
Which were afterwards continued in force
operated as lawful impediments, within
the meaning of thetreaties, unlefo the U.
States can there that the delays, loffrof
value and security, were occaffoned by
other causes, which would'mve equally
operated, bad not those lawtexifted since
the decision of the queftioD refpeaing
war interest. This stands unaffeaed by
thg proviso, in all cases, except when the
debtor can be proved to be insolvent at
the peace, which is a good defence a
gainA the cl&i.
^ 3d. That interest during the war, is to
be paid in all cases, except when it is not
part of the contraa, or there areJpedal
circumstances in the case.
4th. That the difference between the
value of payment in paper money, ac
cepted. by the creditors or their agents,
during the war, and the sterling vifoe of
the mopey, in which the debt was con
traaed, it a less within the meaning of
the treaty of amity. ::,?
'gh. That payments into the treasury
a, loan offices of the states, durihg the
war are lawful impediments to the re
covery of debts to the extent of foch pay-,
ments.-
6th. That creditors are not required
to proceed in chancery, or otherwise to „
set aside conveyances fraudulently made
by thelfrdebtori. '"' ¥ ''
yth. That creditors are excused fi^E
bringing faits now, for the recovery of
debts, for which compeDfeiio&b claim
"m. That creditors are not bound by
the treaty of amity, to prove the folreo.
cy ts @«ta0r,,,&,,% but the ^
U. $ are to prove their infolreocy;
r ^K'T attained of hieh 4
tefan, whofidebi# rtere confifcated fo<
crimes & ana wno# MT'cfU'iK iuf miiiwiiwnis
fa'f^^ffl the
h° th aniniot the &th article of
£%Q ti&B of 'dWbiw «©bi<b wre#4 fluult /,#„ tbt
I, fit daf"<aiibm.f4,^t,?§'*
The torts &*g & f
yterkw , tW
For pajmean iato tbe trial.
arj aad tofy, 1,1,797 006;
For impediments , itfal
meat law, of S.Carolina, ,57,868 *6
Fir olh^iY^ta^'&'^^
<forf"u% 24658 „;
Byfirme, in part citizens of
&U. &&% Y 162,48, :z 4 %
\D,MfarftMl,fclffiS ^^^
„ „ov@o iltbi&, S. ? 4.8,8 24
All dejeripfa^
me/ N. Carla, ,53,182 42 ^
Debt tycbarged in dt,oci
ah/mone,, 205.79, t, § 3
P %^^^ ^ t A. z 96775 5 8
Legal imp&dhtoto, goatrah ;
Xto ^ & bunei
fy Total sterling, ffyS^ag g 1
'G'J^^g Dollars ,7 ceirt,. .fL
Claims to cempenfatioo for jpetiations pre
ferred sender the ,tb article jf tbe treaty, a
w<&#„# „jg I 2§o,Godyft,%. ^- :7; \.
#^=tt!3=re*^^
. $2 lass saturDaps full.
Philadelphia, July 9.
Bnew jeuluntiH it about t, tie mads on &
ripper Potomac, about §mile, above Wdjh
ington Cit,. The settlers eonfift nubelly *f d
large number of families from ' Cmeaieat,
me,l, of the Bapti, communion, w^ have
fttd/reu the religion, intolerance of the ". rf
tbono" of Africa. , . / h,O
Boston, July 15.
The edgers and their cerrefondents, rctbo p
Palladium and the Central, triumphant en
quire, why the people of America in their late
feflivols fir the celebration of oor datiotal in
dependence, have mot given "tie Freuds ~
public" among their other toa,s on that aunC
verfar, ? % alb those unoaf, inqwfatrs,
wbyfueb a tea, ought to be given ? It 1,
enough that "the times are changed, and -
#„ all other nanons we change with the times
—There might have been onio a propriety id
doiaifag a perpetual alliance between the tloo
nations ; betaufe the I late GenerabWa&iu,
' ton always ga<H that as bis favoritejentiment
—When &t appeared to be thefir, isei, of
bis heart,Atas there any thin, tffaerdiaar,
,n other prfons hlhwing BIS enarapk ,
While the cockade of th, two *, ! enafa»
order, Que the badge of our gstaJrjfe
that de,inguifadfederal, was a Ileoraant
genernlia tbe French army ; mobile the birth
Os a domain was celebrated in a military fete
b, bs direaion ; while FruoHtn and jobib
Adams were bvmbl, flicking the favor of dV
national emmaiou with the Freheb groern
meat (deW it wasat that time an achroel
edged defrtijm), and wtalbeir armies bad
,0/fa of Rhode- Ifaue* pt,no time, and the
4fy if Boflon barber afca,a&r&=rvtr, thing
campteentar, & confidential as to the French,
neat the order of the da, in ibls country}—
Their agents, tbsir citizens, their foldiere,&
their money, werltoH referee, 'o®r bar
bers were open to tbeirfasts, and thept^facf
the United States were oxl, alarmed tbasthere
v wrt not then mere fo 1 , 6 * mere troops, and
more mono,, font to facilitate orjecure their r
Fir&h a ffy,@sare ™, r 'ffiQ boot
to n g' v o » fl "' " " *'"' conceived to bl
right that tborifauldbe no otto than a cem
mereWintsreoarft ^„# tbQQ;nations./
This was the opinion of WaJbiegten, of bis
prime minify, fend of Mr. Adams, during
their adtyn,rattas=w# is pro tbeepin
ian of Prudent Jifveu&4n^
If the French nation fas once complimented
in ert, way, tbeye gentlemen federalifa ver#
then difaisfied with that tribute qf refpea 64.
ing,aid. If „Qae#Q is note the cifa
they are fill uneasy. Mill they fa, at once
what will ptyetbraf. Ibaliwe bave afrea
trade <wkb the Fyrab,orfofr
Shall w be at war or at pace with them ?
Shall we mind our own bjaefs, or the bnfr
nffirfttber nation? T@are psflioH tbat
Meyer Lffill ^ Co. we bepe wirfbefyod
to anftter^ If thf, will only fafrwtotb,
do went, #fr,"^' & R have fame chanei
'of replacing their coadna b,tbatjlandfffr
, e ,Newark, (N, J.) J^^^
<Wednefday last, (fays the Trenton A
merican) the da* on which th, internal ,
taxes ceased, a refoeaaMe citizen ofdty'
placed who baa numbered 84 year, #^
during bis long life tab been uniformly :
the friend of liberty, decorated his houfo
with laurels and &>fam in Qrttfm
joy mateevent which proves, more than
any other that has occurred, the ,xcefo ^
lence of a Republican Government, when
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