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If you are prompt to perform
those sacred engagemets which
reason makes with its God, coa
fcience, the solemn centinel be
twixt heaven and your fouls,will
always cry peace.
, The private inftrudion of a
husband may carry with it the
full eloquence of truth ; but the
frightful flurry of malignant pas
sion can sweep away his tender
counsels, solemn admonitions &
religious exhortations, and leave
him to sigh in anguifb for such
fruirlefs exertions. How often
have your cruelties invoked the
righteous indignation of your
friends, and made them groan
in diftrefsful agonies for their
ownunmerrited letterings; while
lamenting, in sympathy with re
ligion, your fcornings of pity,
your malice and infamy !-
The tendered advice is too oft
en answered in the language of
contemptuous raillery, or in the
more awful eloquence of dumb
stupidity, or wakeful revenge.
Who can address you without
feeling - the agitations of pity for
your unnumbered crimes against
even the hardest humanity, and
lament that nothing but public
remonstrance can Summon you
to that deliberate survey of your
dunes and your vices, which
will make you cry cuffing and
bitterness on your pad deeds of
difgracc ; whiie a prayer is for
ced from your fouls, co invoke
the all-merciful e,e of heavenly
companion to beam mildnels &
The ADMONISHER. —No. I.
Dedicated to Stepmothers.
If is not the Demon of malev
olence,but tht/Ingel of friend
fllip which inipires me to ad
dress you. No motive could in
duce an appeal to your con
fcience§, did I not hope, either
by calling forth pity from your
hearts, or awakening your rea
son from insensibility, to cause
you even now to revere that vir
tue which alone can save you.
Religion herfelf prompts me
with a tender, but resolute de
mand, to describe and censure
your vices; while its just hu
manity shall never remonftrace
against one of your virtues. To
know your duties is the firft and
ercateddutyin which you Ihould
engage, since they are strong
sureties of your happmefs, and
will lead you to plealure,as cer
tainly as bold transgression will
fix you in diftrtfs.
Newhampfhire
From the Connecticut Conrant.
WEDNESDAY, December 12, 1792.]
EXETER, (New-Hambfeire) Printed by HENRY RANLET, at Nine Shillings per annum.
charity into your hearts. If you
can resist the timely cautions &
checks of your partners, with all
the ftubbornefs of indignantma
lice, & trample on your plight
ed promises of marriage kindness
without a horror; you cannot
mock at the solemn lectures of
reality, with which a publick
Advertiser can address you,—•
You will not cart a rebuke on
the deeply affecting admonitions
of truth itfelf, unlcls your hearts
are already made over to the ad
versary of fouls ; and in my fu
ture addresses to your conscien
ces, truth will stand the sacred
monitor of my thoughts. You
dare not, with imperions ef
frontry, oppose the entrance of
the guides of virtue to your
hearts, nor can you startle back
from the balmy hand of conso
lation when it is spread to com
fort you. I fhali perform the
kindest of all offices towards
you, even that of telling your
vices. I (hall not deny merit
to your virtues, nor assume any
part of that talk which malice
might fugged,to hold forth some
of you, as the horrid Ipe^acles
of total depravity.
Federal Harmony.
Bum's Abridgement of the
American Justice.
Ckefterfield's Principles of
Politeness.
Low's genuine Almanackfor
>793-
That you have virtues,! nev
er dare deny, but that many of
you have the most awful iniqui
ty is invincibly proved from the
Catalogues of milerablehufbands,
and dill more wretched child
ren. Be patient of counsel and
reproof--^--confider none can
have too great a knowledge of
the duties of life—remember
your eternal salvation may fluc
tuate betwixt the resolves of do
ing good, and doing evil ; and
do not spurn at the kind lessons
1 (hall fend you in my future
papers. This salutation is drawn
"up, only to inform you of my
arduous undertaking, which is
to address you on every fubjeft,
which reason declares conceded
with your earthly happiriefs, and
your future rejoicing beyond
the grave.
Just come to hand, and for foie at
this office, The
T H E
A communication was received from
the Treasury department, made in
pursuance of a resolution of the house,
being a Statement of the receipts and
expenditures from the. firft effablifh
ment of the Treasury department un
der the new constitution to the end of
V9 1 -.
By this it appears that the total
amount of expenditures during that
period, is Dolls. 3>797>43 6: ?Bc.
The total amount of money received
4>77!>34 2 : 43 c ° leaving a balance of
973>9°5 : 65c. i n 'he Treasury at the
expiration of the year 1791.
The House then proceeded to the
President's, agreeably to appointment,
with their answer to the President's
address.
Mr. Dayton proposed, That the
Secretary of the Treasury, and Secre
tary of War be notified that on Wed
nesday next this House intend to take
into consideration the report of the
committee relative to the causes of the
failure of the late expedition under
,he command of Gen. St. Clair, to
the end that they may attend the
House to give such information as the
House may fee proper to require ;
which was laid on the table.
THE Speaker, attended by the
members, it was refolved,ffiould
present the address in answer to the
President's Speach.
Mr. Ath from North Carolina ap
peared and took his feat.
A report of the committee on the
report of the Secretary of State, re
fpeXing the boundary between the.
State of Virginia, and the Territory
ofthe United States fouth of the Ohio.
was read.
Mr. Williamson, moved, that
the part of a resolution requiring the
attendance of the two Secretaries on
the House, Jhoald, be ftrud out, On this
motion considerable debate enfoed.
Messrs Tucker, Madison, Clarke, Giles
Livermore, Williamson, Page, Venable,
Fitstfmons and Murray favoured the
motion—which was op posed by Meurs.
Ames, Lawrence, Bodinot, and Smith
(3. C.) Ac length the question was
put, and the motion for Striking out
was carried in the affirmative—and
the question being taken on the whole
of the motion for the jnlroduXion
Immediately after their return the
galleries were cleared.
A committee was raised to report a
Bill on the fubjed of the petition of
the merchants of Charleston.
TUESDAY, NOV. 13.
Sundry petitions were preferted, re
ferred and committed.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
SATURDAY,
CONGRESS.
Monday, Nov. 12.
NOV. 10.
Gazetteer.
[Numb. XXIII of Volume VII.
of the Secretaries, it passed in the
negative.
a great calamity had befallen the
country, and it had been attended with
circumstances peculiarly difgraceful
and affecting to the sensations, of the
connexions of the friends of tbofe who
were more immediately concerned id
the tranfaXion. If it was misfortune,
or mifeonduX, whether it was owing
to the fortune of war, or to delin
quency, were fubjeXs highly interest
ing to the people of the United States,
who are not be to betrayed. It was
not in the power of the house, to ob
tain complete information in writing :
Oral testimony, was as necessary in
the present case as it was in a court of
law. I: was impossible to do justice
"After the close of the last session
of Congress, I saw with much concern
the report of the committee appointed
to enquire into the causes of the failure
of the expedition under Major-Gener
al St. Clair, of the Bth of may, 1792,
which having been presented to the
house in the last moments of the ses
sion, was ordered to be printed, and
has fence circulated in ihQrpublick
newspapers throughout the United
States, containing suggestions most
of them founded upon ex parte inves
tigation, which have been understood
in a sense very injurious to my reputa
tion.
of something like the firft connexion of'
an impeachment. 1
ground their decision on the full truth.
They thought thatin calling the heads
of the executive department before
them, the house would be exercising
and establishing a proper jurifdiXion—
<uive voce evidence is always best—But
if we do not afford an opportunity to
those whose names are mentioned in
the report of the committee, to come
forward and confront the accusations
against them, whether implied or o
therwise, it will wear an appearance
Those who disapproved of the introJ
dudiion of the two Secretaries into the
house, argued, that the more the head#
of departments were brought into con
trad with the national legislature, the
farther would the country depart from
the theory of liberty $ there was no
from partial evidence—an enquiry to
be fair must be public : the house muff
The following letter from the Se
cretary of war, was presented and
read :
ought to have permanent teltirhony,
not the oral evidence, of persons which
might be either forgotten or explained
away,—it will be better to recom
mit the report to a committee of
the whole house, and let them pro
ceed in an open and fair enquiry, fa
as to afford those persons who may
feel themselves affixed, an opportuni
ty to come forward in their own vin
dication, if the two Secretaries had
any of those fenfationsj it was their
bofinefs to petition the houses to be
heard ; but the countrary is the fad ;
they are not conscious of any crimi-
telling to what lengths fach a prece
dent might be carried ; the house
nality, or that the report reflets in
any degree upon their characters.
otherwise they would certainly have
made such an application.
Those who advocated the introduc
tion of the Secretaries, observed; that
" War Department, Nov. 14, 1792.
" Sir,.
Wednesday nov. 14.