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WFFKTY TwrWTtatters
JOHN MORGAN,
Afew Reds North of the Court-House, has just received a small
Assortment of DRY GOODS, which are to be fold on the
Iroeft Terms for Cash—cuffing of —
CALICOES, Nankeens, brown Janes, Shallons, Moreens,
Guazes by the Piece ar Retail, Linens, Crockery Ware
by the Crate, barr Iron, &c. &c. He begs those indebted
to call and fettle their Aecompts.
Hartford, July 15, 1783.
CALEB BULL, jun.
HAS just received a small quantity of good Sheeps Wool,
which is for sale, Likewise, beautiful black and
White Gauzes, a variety of Ribbons, Irish Linens, Cam
bricks, Lawns, Modes, Luteftrings, Sattins, Crockery Ware,
Mettle Buttons, best Rock Salt, —all to be ibid at the mark
et price for Cash or Produce in hand.
Hartford, July is, 1783. _________
For N £^-r0
The Sloop P O L L Y,
JAMES BENIAMIN, Mafler,
Now lying at Hartford Ferry, to fail next Thurfda,
Morning. For Freight or Passage, having the best
Accommodations, apply to the Matter on board.
Hartford, July 14, 1783.
N. B. The above Sloop will fail from this, once ever,
Fortnight, Wind and Weather permiting.
TO BE SO L D,
By the Subscriber in Middletown,
A One story HOUSE, almeft new, with a garden contain
ing about 60 rods, well Situated on a public road, near
a mile weft of the town house, and within a few rods of a
good erift mill, and clothier's work; said house is not
quite finished, has a good lower room, and would be con
venient for a tradesman or merchant Any person inclin
ing to purchase, may have a reasonable time allowed for
payment on good security, or for cash in hand may have it
die cheaper.
ZEBULON ROCWELL.
July it, 1783.
TRAYED from the Subscriber the later part of April lait,
a black marc COLT, two years old, trots all, has a
white stripe behind her ears where she has been galled with
the halter. Whoever will take up said Colt and return her
to the Subscriber shall have a generous reward and the thanks
of their humble fervent.-
JOSIAH KILBOURN, jun.
Farmington (New-Britain society) July 7, 1783.
CAME into the inclofure of the Subicriber, in Enfield, the
night following the Second day of July instant, a mouse
coloured MARB, three white feet, white in her face, about
14 hands high, no brand, about 7or 8 years old.^ The own
er may have her by proving his property and paying charges.
RICHARD ABBE.
Enfield, July 5, 1783.
F- OUND, in Hebron, in June last, a sum of MONEY.
The owner may have it again by proving iris property
and paying charges—enquire of
F 7 ' EBENEZER HORTON, jun.
Hebron, July 14, r,S;.
WE the Subscribers being appointed, by the Hon. Court
of Probate for the diftrid of Rutland, in the State of
Vermont, Commissioners to examine rhe claims of the cre
ditors to the estate of Capt. John Hall, late ofCaftleton, de
ccafcd, reprefenced insolvent, hereby give notice that we
shall attend said business, at the house of the deceased, in
Caftleten, on the fuM Mondays of August, $ ptember and
October next, from one o'clock, P. M. till fix on each of
said days, after which last mentioned dry no accompts will
be ^"" d ' BREWSTER HIGLEY,
REUBEN MOULTON,
ELI COGSEL.
Caftleton, June 34, 1783.
THE Hon. Court of Probate for the d>ftria of Hartford,
having allowed seven months to the creditors to the
estate of James MKlefter, late of Enfield, deceased, to
bring in their claims against the fame. The Administrator
to said estate hereby gives notice to the creditors that urdefs
their claims are exhibited within ?..e time limited as afore-
Slid they cannot be allowed. . .
JOSEPH KINGSBURY, A&Dwfflmor.
Enfield. July it, ^b
TTVVV-rnrp'Trr^& HU~I)'S O N ^ > G6O DWI N, near the Great Bridge.
TUBS DA Y, July 29, 1783.
AT a meeting of the inhabitants of the town ofT 0 R*
RINGTO N, legally convened on the tych July,
178;,after town business was difp tched,the question being
put, Whether the filiation ofpublic affairs was fufficientlya
hrming to demand the attention of the town ? Voted in the
affirmative; and the town unanimously Relolved as foU
lows:
THAT WHEREAS, but eight years past, the inhabitants
of America, alarmed at the number of placemen and pen
sioners supported by the British government; at the vast
revenues annually expended ; and at the enormous debt in
which the nation was involved, and jealous of the power
affirmed by Parliament, .boldly revolted. Since which we
have fuffered an eight years bloody and expensive war.—-
Our armies in the field, and citizens, both in the field and
at home, have hazarded their lives and rifqued their for
tunes. We have been faddenly summoned forth to meet
death in the field of battle, and endure unexpected cam
paigns, void of food or eloathing necessary to preserve us
from the inclement season, or pinching hunger; leaving
our grain in gavels, corn in heaps and grass in Iwarths .---
Our families, sometimes ftk, and often destitute of necefr
ry fuftinance ; so that decrepid old men, and feeble ma
trons, were obliged to venture out, in winter's cold and
fummei's fun, and undergo the fatigues of farming labour,
to preserve a little food for themselves and families. Thus
many irreparable losses both of health and property have
been patiently born. Our cities have been burnt, towns
plundered, and houses robbed; many opulent families been
reduced to poverty, anal thousands and thousands of indivi
duals been obliged, to receive their bread at the hand of
charity. When the revenues of the country failed, the ar
my diminished and like to disband; Congress and Affem
biies, by all their efforts, not being able to recruit and sup
port them , the towns interpol , /nd at vast expence, of
time and trcafure, supplied their neceffiies. Our numerous
taxes, burthenfome end heavy, as they have been, we have
born with becoming patience. But while we dwell on the
patience, perseverance, and calamities of the citizens, we
cannot with justice, omit the hardships, patience and perfe•
rance of a barefoot army, @ofe very footfteps stained the
ground with blood. An army void ofalmoft every necessa
ry, which by patience of fatigue and alacrity in discipline,
have suddenly rose to a pitch of valour, fufficient to vie with
veteran troops. We have the highest opinion of those brave
heroes, whose exertions have been vigorous, their con
quests various, and their atchicvements glorious. Who, fi
xed with a spirit of enthusiasm peculiar to patriots, have
braved every danger, and been she glory of America and
the wonder of the world. Bennington, Saratoga, Monmouth
and York-Town, to the perpetual honour ofeitizen and iol
dier, will be remembered, by every American, to the latest
posterity. Shall any class of men who have been so emi
nently serviceable to an oppressed country be treated with
negicai Justice requires a careful examination of the mat
ter. Letthe patience, and perseverance of the citizens;
their heavy taxes; the debt, that still remains unpaid; their
amazing furferings and losses, be balanced by the hardships,
patience, and perseverance of the army. If the payment of
the army has not been compleated, letit be done. If depre
ciation, has not been made as good to the army, as to the
citizen, let that be done. Let those conftiturions which
have been impaired by the hazards of war, be recruited at
public expence. Let every central made with the army,
at it's firft establishment, be compieatly fulfi led. Leca just
computation be made and ample farisfa&ion given, both to
officer and soldier. Let rhe army, in every particular, be
on an equalfooting with the citizen. Let them be as well
rewarded,for all services, and no better. Wtythe fufirings
of citizen and soldier should be negteded, and all there
venues of the country, be heaped on the officers, is, indeed,
a problem, difficult to be solved. The officers it is general
ly agreed, in point of property, ^tthe commencement of
tie war, was scarcely equal to the citizen. And who has
made the greatest addition ? Let their circumftanccs at the
commencement and conclusion of the war be contrasted.
The officer hasloft lucrative employments, itis urged: Ma
ny ofthem indeed were employed in commerce whose busi
ness was lucrative, but the war totally obftri&d their busi
ness, and a generous country gave them employ. They
have fuffered losses from depreciated notes, which the poor
officer was obliged to fell much below par. As to them;
the only citizens, who have made theirforrunes by the war,
are speculators ; they in confederacy with (peculators of the
army, have robbed, we grant, some officers and many sol
diers of large sums. As to those note Peculators, it is cre
dibly reported, there has been, in proportion to the number,
ten officers to one citizen ; and the o^icer, being continual
ly irr the army, has had ten times the chance of the citizen;
so that, if reports be true, where one pound has been made
br rhe citizen in that way, a hundred pounds have been
made by the o^cer. Finally, it is an incontcftiblc truth,
to be defrayed from a common creafury by diredion o£
Congress. The five years pay every body knows is not a
charge of the war : And whether it is for the common welr
fare is left to the scrutiny of a candid public. The wages
of the officer has been doubled; depreciation, in some States^
made good ; and an indulgent country, have exerted itfelf,
in every way, as much as possible, for the emolument of the
officer ; and they, they only (a few fpcculacors and men
that have handled public money excepted) and they univer
fall,, are made rich by the war. Congress have the fame
power, andean, with as much justice, at the expiration of
the present fiveyears, grantanother five,ears pay,and then, 1
perhaps, half-pay during life. And is it likely, the evil
will ftuip here ! Is it not highly probable that Congress, at
present, arc feafting their imaginations on the profpeas of
future pensions ? For the attainment of which, do they floc
rejoice at the present opportunity, of introducing a custom,
into which, they artfully habituate the country under cover
of the officers? If that is not the case, we cannot but express
the greatest surprise, when we consider the infancy and po
verty, of the country ; a country almost void of refourfesj
loaded with taxes, and involved in debt 1 that Congress
should, at this time, a time of such heavy and almost insup
portable burdens, involve the country, in an tinncceffar,
debt of , millions of money; and eftabiisha ptecedentfub
verfive of the very firft principles of liberty,and introdudive^
of those very customs, which they themfeives, have so often
reprobated, and against the establishment of which, the
country have fought and bled. Can those officers who, at
present, are so conspicuous, in the annals of fame, wish to
fee a method eftablisbcd so difagreeablc to their fellow ci
tizens and io contrary to that line of conduct, which has
distinguished them for heroes 2nd patriots ? And can the,
wish to mingle with their fuffering countrymen, with thae
badge of diftinetion, which would tarnish the glory of all
their exploits? You fee fellow citizens, when officers arc de-,
ranged from the army; for damages sustained by leaving
the army, must receive a pension. You fee, officers, conti-,
nuing, for the damages sustained, by continuing in the ar
my, must receive a pension; so that a man, commissioned
by Congress, whether he be in service, or not, must receive
a pension. Pensions are always as agreeable to men in of
fice ; as they arc deftruftive to the community. Are there
not individuals, in every State, who are endeavouring to.
saddle the people with pensions ? Arc there not many in the
legislature of this State, who would fee, with rapture, the
establishment ofpenfions? If thatis not the case; we cannot
but express our furprife,that those equitable petitions and re#
monstrances, of so many towns and a part of the legislature
itfelf, should, by so large a part of that honourable houses
be neglected with contempt. Their doors are shut, and no,
thing tranfpircs but imposts, excises, reftri&ions of trades
embargoes and calls for taxes. We have paid taxes upom
taxes, to a very considerable amount, and where is the mo^
ncy ? Our debts are increasing with amazing rapidity, even,'
to thenofmallfum,offcvenmillionsinoneday. Howman,
commissaries commiSTaries,fubdeputy commiffarics,
commissaries clerks, &c. without being responsible, to an,
man, for monies received, are continually fattened on the
revenues of the country ? Are notpublic monies embezzled,
every day, with impunity ? Congress gives no account to
Assembly. Assembly gives no account to the people of the
expenditure of money—We know not balffo much, neither
of the debts; nor of the expenditure of money ; nor of the
debates ; nor of the trahfadions ; nor of the principles of
individuals, in the legislatures of America ; as of Old Eng
land I We are not half so well qualified, in the knowledge
of individuals, in this State, co cle&a governor, ;s a premier
that some orncersfleft home in low, indigent eirtumftanccs^
and it is a truth as inconteftible that all who return, return
in affluence. That the officers effected the service of the
army, a priviledge, is apparentfrom tie complaints efthofe,
who were mustered fupernumerar, and deranged. As to
cheengagements of Congress, refpe&ing half py, the com
mutation, &c. It is truly doubtful, whether a power to
make such engagements, was ever vested in Congress. It
is declared in confederation, that Congress have no power,
in and over the States, that is not cxprcfsl, delegated to
them by confederation. Pennons, arc almost univcrfall,
detested by the States; and it is not very probable, that ci o
tizens, would voluntarily, delegate to Congrefs# power of
establishing what they universally detest. And it favours,
not a little of tyranny for Congress to wrest the conftrudion
of ambiguous terms, in such a manner as to be enabled to
establish a custom, which thcmfelves knew, to be detested
by their conflituen ts. In our opinions, no such power was
ever expressly delegated toCongrefs, therefore Congress, inr
that case, could only aa as a committee, and their rcfolves
can be considered, only as recommenditory ; the States,
therefore, are at their own clc&ion, whetherto adopt thenar
or not. All charges of the war and other expences that arc
incurred for the common defence and general welfare are
(No. 966.)