The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1779-03-09 00:00:00, page 1

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CONNECTICUT COURANT,
AND THE
WEEKLY I NTELLIGENC ER.
V[ r E the Sus fcribers being appointed Ccmmiffi
7 oners, by the h>norable 1 imothy Edwards,
Esq ; Judge of the Court of Probate, &c. for the
county of Berkshire the state of Massachusetts-
Bay ; to examine the claims cf the several creditors,
to the estate ofDAVID INGERSOLL Esq;
late of Great Barrington in laid county, absentee,
represented insolvent, hereby give notice that we
Shall attend on said business, on the firft Mondays of
every month after this date until the end of the year
i„g, (" necessary) at the house of Mr. Ebenezer
Bement, innholder in said Great Barrington, at nine
o'clock in the morning.
It is expected all Accounts will be well attefled to,
before they are exhibited for adjustment.
EBENEZER BEMONT,)
THO's INGERSOLL, , Cpmmifs'n.
MOSES HOPKINS. J
Great Barrington Jan. 10. 1779.
TH E Proprietors of the townffiip of Clarendon,
in the county of Bennington, and state of
Vermont, are hereby notified to m^et at the dwelling
house of Mr. Elisha Smith in said town, on
Wednetday the fifth day of May newt, at nine o'clock
in the forenoon; then and there to nA on the follow
iig articles, viz.
First, tc choose a Moderator. Second, to take in
to consideration the merits of the settlers, and then
if found necessary said proprietors may make them
such rents as may be confident with juflice; and to
eftabhlh to each proprietor who have improvements
in such a division, including their improvements at
the proprietors may think jufl. Third, to adopt
feme meaftnes whereby the lands in said towmfhip
may be divided, and affertained to each proprietor,
according to the directions of the charter or grant
the^r-f. Fourth, to ch-off a T;r^nrer for fa ; d
propriety and fee what m ncy said propriety will
,aife to defray charges.
L Given under our handr, at Clarendon, the 4th
dav of February, 1779.
ELISHA SMIT H,
JOSEPH SMIT H,
SILASWHITNEY.
Cemm'tte for calling proprietors meetings.
TO be Sold, by the Subferiber, Two Hundred
Acres of LAN D, lying in Norwich, in the
county of Hanipfhire, about eleven miles weft of
Northampton on the country road that leads from
Northampton to Muiryfeld; fifty acrer of said land,
is under improvement, well fenced, and fifty mgre
partly come into graft, and partly fenced, with a
forty fcot barn, and a house cor venient for one fami
ly, with an orchard of about ,0 frnall thrifty trees.
JONATHAN WARE.
Norwich, February I§, 1,79.
CT" % U be Suid. 7 acres of LAND, lying in Shes-
JL fi r d. with a good dwelling house thereon, and
two good shops and tan works Sufficient to tan 300
hides in a year, and a good orchard of 30 frees and
a wood lot of 6 acres in less then a mile, within
two miles of the meeting house, and very handy to
a grist mill, saw mill, iron works and a clothier.
Any peafen desirous of purchasing the fame may be
informed of the terms of sale and obtain a title by
applying to PHINEAS LOQMIS, living on
the premises.
March 2, 1779.
FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
RUN away fom his bail, one Nathan Stark, of
Lebanon, in the State of Connecticut, on the
23d day of January 17,9, is about 50 years old,
inidling ftatwre, has a large red nos ; and we the
fubferibers being bound in a bond of two thousand
pounds for said Stark's appearsrc m at court, promise,
that whosoever will bring said Nathan Stark tb us,
or either of us, in Norwich. Dull have the above
reward. GEORGE HARRIS.
JONATHAN GARDNER.
ELIJAH LAMPHEAR.
February 16, *?,,,
HARTFORD: Printed by HUDSON and GOODWIN, near the Great- Bridge.
THOUGHTS onthe PAPER CURRENCY.
CREDIT is founded on principles as fixed and uni
form as any in nature ; and, whether applied to
individuals or nations, rises and falls with he prof
pelt of their being able to pay their debts, with this
additional circumflanoe, when applied to the latter;
of their being also willing.
It was impcffible but the credit of America Should
run low and her bills fink, ^ long as her indepen
dence was doubtful, and the folds apparently against
her that ffie would fail in the present contest.
But the profpea is changed. The independence
of America now rests on fare ground, and is so eflab,
lifted and confirmed that it can neither be over
thrown nor given up.
Great Britain has fully tried her flrength and her
arts upon it, but to little other purpose finally, it
seems, than that of fating Europe in a blaze, and
cutting out work for herfelf. All the troops she can
now raise are called for to Gibraltar and the Weft
lndies, and ffie is obliged tc embody militia for
her internal defence and fafety.
But let the rage of Great Britain spend itfelfhow
or where it may, America has learned to difpife it.
America now finds herfelf in a proper state of defence.
Her governments are at length eflablifhed and vigor
ous ; her counsels united and srm ; her supplies for
was plentiful ; her army inured to the field, and, in
pre wefs and discipline, superior to those who taught
them the art of war. Her affairs also stand well abroad.
Her Ambassadors are well and honourably received ;
the most iliaftrious and powerful Monarch in Europe
is avowedly her friend and ally ; and she is well
secured in the principal interest cf that quarter of
the world. The fate of America is no longer doubt
fcl. Her emancipation is complete and her empire
eflablifued. It is the tod's c j. andk should be
ma,venous in her eyes.
Talking now ofher not being able to pay her debts,
is talking merely by the free of habit. And .0
fay that the credit of her bills will not rife, is as per
fe&ly idle as to fay the fun will not, and as much
against the course of nature. However weak and
credulous men may have been deluded and imposed
on, the truth is that there is not now a man of sober
thought and forecaft but fees chai the bills shortly
will and must rife. The event is as certain, from
the nature of credit and present state of affairs, as that
men will continue to love gain, and have dtfcern
rtfent enough to find out where it lies. Was their
any room for doubt in this matter before, there can
be none now that the voice of America has been tak
en, & the Revolutions ofCongrrfs of the 2d of Janua
ry have passed, eflablifhed effectual means for the re
de^ption of the bills, as well as adopting the neceffa
rymeafures to prevent their discredit from counterfeits.
Those Resolutions will be seen and read of all men,
and they need no comment. Designed for the appro
bation and benefit of all; they are easy to be under
flood, and carry their own evidence and Efficiency
with them.
Do they; indeed, fubje& any to inconvenience by
calling in the adulterated emissions ? the public fafe
ty required the measure, and those who are most
affe&ed are most secured and benefited by it. Do
they also disclose and lay open to the world Ameri
ca's debt! it was impcffible otherwise to eftabhfh and
apply the means for finking it. Nor indeed is this
debt her ffiasne, nor her weakneft ; especially when it
is considered that flu has all the money in hand to
pay it with, and is not really a farthing the poorer
for owing it. What, of the price of her redemption,
ffie has not paid down in the labors and blood ofher
own citizens, ffie has had credit for from herfelf, and
is not, like the boasted mifirefs of the world, mort
gaged to half the Princes in Germany for troops ffie
can neither return nor pay for.
Tie debt cf America is certain and must be paid;
but,ccrffidering the occasion of it and thenumbers to
pay it, it cannot be called great. Less flock or pro
duce of the country then would hereaf er have fold
for five millions sterling, would now cancel it ; which
is millions less than Great Britain pays every year
for interest, and but one fourth of wha' she expended
last War in a single campaign. Was America, instead
of nineteen years, to fink her whole debt to morrow,
a middling farmer for the eastern States; would not
have more to pay than the avails of one yoke of fat
oxen or fifty bushels of wheat ; or if every inhabitant
Ih >uld pay equally, the price of five Ix fhels Would
Office for one. And tho' the fame bushels of wheat
that are competent to pay this debt, or any portion
of it, now, will not continue so ; yet the fame bilk
Will ; and hence will probably arise a line of distinc
tion between wife men and fools.
This eafememt, however, will be common to alfy
that as the debt swells by appreciation, the wealth
and numbers to pay it iffl be encreafog also and
that, no doubt, with great rapidity as the world
will be America's range for commerce and her in
habitants have been wont to double in little odds of
twenty years. It ought llfo to be remembered here;
that a revenue will arise, to help to pay this debt,
from the sale of forfeited estates and th^ apprecia
tion of debts due to British merchants (to fay nothing
of Crown Lands) of at lead some millions.
But whatever may be the advantage of America
for getting out of debt, it is Very apparent she has
got left in than could have reasonably been expeAed.
And the true reason is, notwithfanding all the cr,
of extortion, that she has been cheaply forced, and
cheaper than a nation cf freemen ever were before.
No other cause can be aligned, and this one is ob
vious to the feelings of thousands.
Wherefore with what grace could the public keep
back part of the price, or, which is the faffie thing
call in her bills ata difeount ! Thir, however, it has
been argued, she might do arid even refufe 0 call
in or redeem them at all ; and yet five to hgfelf a
good confeience, as wed as great gain. The argu
ment if etgutoreut a ma, be callel, 'lands 'v -
That when the public emitted those bills, and pledg
ed her faith for the redemption cf them, ffie was in
great diftrcG, and had no o^her wdy to help herfelf,
and so was under a fort of duress or fatal neceffi y;
and also that ffie had made a bad bargain ; and fur
ther more that some of her fubgefts will grew too rich
if she does not vacate it a so that upon the whcle<
duress, bad bargain, and dangerous consequences ail
put together, her contrast is of no force ; to be sure
not more than a fourth or sixth part es it. This reu
foning may be thought economical, but it <s not
subtle enough to answer the end proposed. What
ever else America may be tempted to, she can never
be brought to a violation of her own Paitn.
S' ould she totally lose all sense of honor a- d all sense
of ffiame, which God forbid, yet Rill she has guards
against PERFIDY too strong to be broken through.
She could not violate her faith, without at once lo
sing all confidence of her citizens. She could not
violate her faith without disgracing herfelf with all
nations, and disqualifying herfelf for all treatie%
She could not violate her faith without incensing
the Almighty and daring his vengeance against her.
Sue could not violate her faith and destroy her cur
rency, without effectually depriving herfelf of the
means of defence. In a wore any violation cf the
public faith on which her paper currency refis,
would be madness, atheism and fnicide. The mists
and doubts raised in this matter of late, by enemies
and the arts of wicked and defigming men, are evi
dently subsiding. The seasonable resolutions of
Congiefs above referred to already begin to have
their effect A check is obviously given to depreci
ation where they were fl ft published, and the price
of sundry capital article, has fallen. Foreigners and
others are buying into the funds, and it must be con,
felled shew their wisdom in so doing
OBSERVATOR.
PHILA DFLI>H!A. Jannarz 20'1
WHEREAS MARIHA hx h le of me W
subs riber, has eloped from my bed and board.
These ate therefore .0 forbid all persons crediting her
on my account, as I will not pa, any debt or con.
trail fhemay make hereafter.
DAVID ALLEN, Jun.
B?.ft Wiudfer, February 26, 1779.