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THE Subferibertakes this method to inform his customers
that stand indebted to him by book, to pay the fame
in fix weeks from the date hereofor they may expeatrouble.
As the debts in general are but final! sums it is hoped this
request will be chearfully complied with; which may ena
ble the Subscriber to lay in his stock against another season
to advantage, and lower hrs price for the benefit of his ge
nerous customers that pay ready money, which he only
wishes to oblige.
WILLIAM BIGLAND, Linen Dyer.
Middletown, July 17, 1783,
By ASHBEL WELLS, jun.
Ac his Store the SanthSide ofthe Great-Bridge, in Hartford.
GENUINE Madeira and Fyall wine choice Jamaica Spi.
rits, Welt-India Rum, belt French Brandy, London
Porter and Molahes per Gallon, choice BoheaTea, loaf and
brown Sugar, Indigo, Radius, Nutmegs, Pepper, allipide,
Writing Paper per Ream, Sealing Waxand Wafers, Brats
cocks, Barlow Pen-Knives, Curves, Steel plate Shovels and
Spades, Rock Sale per Cask or Bushel, Chalk, Pipes, 4! 8d
and io^ Nails.---Also a large Affortroenc of Crockery Ware
very cheap for Cash.
July 12, 1783.
Excellent Welt-India Rum, by
the Hogshead or Barrel and ROCK SALT to be
fold very cheap for Cafb, by
JAMES WATSON.
N. B. Red-Oak Shooks, Rye and Oats of this
years cropland four or five young lively Horses
will.alfo be received in payment if brought
within fifteen days.
Hartford, July 19, I^B3.
Writing and Wrapping Paper,
Press Papers, Bonnet Papers, Accompt Books
of all Sizes, &c. to be fold, by the Printers here
of.
To be SOL D, by
Jeremiah and Ebenezer Platt,
At their Score in Hartford,
THE best of St. Kitts RUM, by the Hogshead or Barrel,
and St. Martin's SALT, by the cask or larger quantity,
for which Cash, Rye, Oats, Red Oak Hogsheaa Shooks,
and a few young sprightly Horses in good order for Ship
ping, will be received in payment.
F~O~R S A L E, BY
JOHN CALDWELL & Co.
A few Rods East of the Court-House Hartford.
JAMAICA Spirits, per Hogshead c Barrels
New-England Rum, Do. Do.
Nantz Brandy, per Cask.
£eft Teneriff: Wine, per Pipe or Quarter-Cask.
Sugar, per Hogshead or Barrel.
Refined Iron.
German Steel.
A general Arfortment of European Goods, Irritable for the
Season, also a final! Assortment of Hard Ware, very low for
Cash,
SALT given for old or new Flax-Seed.
Wanted a few Horses for shipping.
New Goods! Cheap !
A great Variety— just opened for sale,
By JOHN WATSON,
At his Store, in Eatl-vrindfor.
GENTLEMEN or Ladies, Who will take the Trouble to
look, will fee what they are.
N. B. Those who bring their Money firft, may buy the
firft Bargains.
Eart-Windfor, July ar, 1783.
T~HOs'e indebted 'co theeftate of JOSEPH CHURCH, jure.
Esq; deceased, will be, without exception, iued, unless
an immediate settlement prevents.
WILLIAM NICHOLS, Attorney to the Administrator.
N. B. Payment may be made to said Nichols in the ab
sence of Mr. Imlay the Administrator.
Hartford, July 21, 1783.
H A Rl' F O R~D7 Printer by HU DSON AND G OODWIN, near the Great Bridge.
TUESDAY, August s, 1783. (No. 967.1
To the PRINTERS throughout the
United States.
Gentlemen, ..,
lAMI AM desirous of recommending to you the insertion of
the following pare of a letter. It was written by a gen
tleman of established honor and integrity, and a sincere
friend to the caute and character of America, to his friend
in Fairfax, in Virginia, and was occasioned by the instruc
tions given from that place to their members in Aflembiy,
the 30th of May last, as you will fee by the conclusion of it.
It has a turn of thinking and expreflion which is rather new,
and, though I sincerely hope there may be no occasion of
applying them to any other place, than that to which they
are addressed, yetic may serve as a beacon to others, to a
void the rock on which national reputation may be ship
wrecked.
I am, Gentlemen, yours, &cs
C. S.
ExtraEi ofa letter, &e.
" It now remains to be proved whether the people gF
America arc an honest people or not, and whether they have
in them the true principles of faith, honor and gratitude, or
only the unfubftarmal profeffions of what they do not pos
sess ; whether virtue be an empty, hackneyed name, prosti
tuted to the purposes of passion, party and defigri ; or whe
ther it has a national existence among the citizens of this
new world.
“ There is now a crisis of the most delicate nature taking
place : The crisis of moral and national reputation t And
though I am ardent in my wishes for the issue, I should be
exceedingly happy could ! fay, I was equally as Sanguine in
my hopes.
" The cause of America was beyond exception just; it
now remains to know whether the people are so : For it is
on the union or disunion of thole two points, that the cha
ra&er of the country will Stand with lultrc, or fall with dis
grace.
“ To be jealous of power, which is now, with feme, the
cant phrase of the day, and is very unmeaningly insinuated
in your iaStruaions, is a passion which may be poffdred by
the bravest orthe basest mind, for the best or worst of pur
poses. It belongs as much, and perhaps more, to the con
spirator, than to the patriot. The envious wretch, who can
bear no equal, and hates all meric but his own, is never free
from it; and he who wants to avoid a duty, which the cir
cumftancesofhis country calls for, will affe&to be jealous of
power, as a pretence for bis delinquency. It is, therefore,
in itfelf no virtue, and in its belt Stage is but a vice refined,
I never new a man who had much of this jealousy of power
in him, but I could difeover a littleness of foul, an envious
ness of heart, a fra&ioufncfs eftemper, and a fondnefs for
himfelf, at the bottom.
" But if we must deify a voice, and give it a place in rhe
pantheon of America, pray let us, for our honor's fake, put
it in the most obfeure corner of the building, and never let
its sneaking visage be seen, until the amiable goddess con
fidence gives feme symptoms of sickness. He would be a
fool and a wretch of a husband that should the morning af
ter his marriage, place the figure of jealousy in his house,
to secure the fidelity of his wife.
“ There is some confiltency in being jealous of power in
the hands of those who arfume it by birth, or without our
consent, and over whom we have no controul, nor thepower
of removal, as was the case with the crown of England over
America. But to be jealous of those whom we ebufe, the
instant we have chosen them, shews either the folly of our
choice, or the abfuidity of our politics; and that in the
transition from monarchy to a republic, we have unfortu
nately bastardized our ideas, by placing jealousy where we
ought to place confidence,
" If a man does not do his duty, remove him ; if tranf
grrifes it, punish him ; bur this little, mean, sneaking, and
fricaky temper of jealousy, this poison to human happiness,
and which in a thousand instances for one to the contrary, is
only the stalking horse of party and private design, ought
either to be banished from among us, or admitted only with
the utmostcaution.
" But if we must be jealous, pray let us be jealous of our
character and honor, left, from our negligence of those
things, or our disregard to them, the world should hereaf
ter call us cheats, and fay that our politics were managed
to get and borrow everything we could, and pay no-body.
" The independence of America has been cheaply ob
tained, and, besides this, she has received extraodinary
helps, without any expence to her. A debt, then, of thirty
or fort, millions of dollars at tha end of eight years war,
doling with every success she could wish for, and more
than she exp< &ed, a universal trade, and in the ftvereign
pofTeffion ofa country which before was added to the sove
reignty of another, is, I ft,, compared wish the advantage
gained,acri^e#
“ The less, theh, this trifle is, the greater will be the dif#
grace not co adopt measures to difeharge it. But we are
jealous of the power ofCongrefs, fays some cunningmind
ed modern politician. No, Sir, he is not jealous ofthe
power of Congress but be wants to play the cheat, and
he wants a pretence for doing it-—He wants to draw his
neckfrom the collar, and leave the burden on other peo
ple's shoulders—-He wants the bleflings of independence
at other people's expence, and the benefit of a universal
trade without paying any thing for it ; and most probably
too he wants to get into power, by meanly and treachcr
oufly undermining chafe who have been preferred before
him.
' 'But it is impossible the world can either be long duped
or miftgen; the real chara&er of the Races must come out,
and I most earneftl, and devoutly wish it may be such ae
they may colle&ively and fcveraUy have cause to glory in.
66 O never fear it, fay feme ; yes, but I do fear it, 1 fe<
cause to fear it. This bug bear of the power of Congrefy
which, God knows, and every one of us knows, is the mo£
flimfy tale of a falshood ever invented, can only be invent*
cd forab d purpose. Ie is a trick contrived to cheat witb ft
and nothing elfc.
," Congrels, beset at all timea with a thousand difficul
ties, have neverchelefs, gone through the war, and conclud
ed a peace. In the course of it they have been obliged to
borrow money in France, Holland, and at home, and hap
py did America then think herfelf that Cougrefs was able
to procure it for her. They have been obliged to peftpone a
great part of the pay of the armv, untill the war should end,
when the return of peace and the increafc of trade should
enable the country to do it more easily. France has not
only lent money, but has given money, and has joined her
arms in the contest; and Halland by lending us money, has
involved herfelf in a war difa Rious to her interest. This is
a true and concise state of the case. Do you not, Sir, be
gin to feel a blush fifing in your countenance, a tremulous
apprehendfion beginning in your heart, left that which is
to follow should not be so honorable as that which is paU.
" Congress have now laid before the States the amount
of the monies borrowed, and the debt contraded, and re
commended to them means for difeharging it.
“ Had they not done this, the clamour would have been,
that they had (offered the honor of Amdrica to be stained
for ever. That the people, proud of that honor, and deter
mined to transmit it uninjured to posterity, and defoous of
nothing so much, as securing their future peace and the
good affections of the world, by a just and grateful difeharge
of their debts and obligations, were ready to riff up against
them—and now they have done it the clamour is revetfed,
at lealt with ,du, and as a pretence for not complying, the
cry is, O the power ofCongrefs! 0 the power of fraud and
nonsense ! fay I in return.
“ Itthe charter of America should be facrificed in this
instance, or her future happiness diHurbed by it, the fault:
cannot be laid on those we call caries,—it cannot be laid
on the refugees, it must rest on the country itfelf, and
on the whigs themselves, and therefore it becomes every
one of them to reflet that his individual honor and that of
hiscountry is at ft ike.
" There is no such thing in the nature of our constitu
tions, either confederated or individual, or from the cir
cumstances of them, as granting money to Congress. The
idea is a falfe one, when applied to a republic. Whatever
money is raised in a republic is for public service, and this
which is now called for is to difeharge a public debt. Does
a man grant money when he pays his debts ? Certainly not.
A man's creditors may grant him indulgence, but he cer
tainly grants them nothing by paying them.
66 A grant means a gift, or present, done out of mere
good will or good opinion. But here is a debt to be paid,
which all America has contracted ? and the States in fend
ing up their marg for that purpose, grant nothing. They
have a right, and ought to fay to their fevcral delegates in
truded with the payment of it, « There, Gentlemen, is due
part, and we dired you co fee that it be applied, according
to the purpose for which it is raised. We have tried very
hard, but, however, we have done it ; because, being our
duty, we would have no reproach fall on us for not fulfiling
it; neither can we bear the reflexion of having it said,
that we lay under obligations we do not difeharge. You
will immediately acknowledge the receipt of it, and furnish
us with accounts of its application. We have chosen you
for this and other business of the State, hecaufe we had con
fidence in your integrity, andin difeharging this cruft, you
will acquire our further confidence; but if you fail herein,
your head, at least, and perhaps your estate, must pay for
it."
“ This would be an honest and peremptory way offpeak
ing, and such as people who do thert duty nave a right co
use.-—Now let us examine the contrary fide.
66 lam uh) ashamed to begin upon it. There is fame-