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ment for exempting persons confcidnti
oufly scrupulous of bearing arms was loft
—on the principle that the several states
* can make the necessary exemptions. The
bill was then recommitted to Messieurs
Wadsworth, Giles, and Tucker.
Monday, dec. 27.
Mr. Ames presented a petition front
several officers of the American army;
during the late war, which was referred
to the Secretary at Was.
Mr. Burke moved, that a committee
be appointed to bring in a bill to alter
the time of the meeting of Congress.——
This motion was loft.
FRIDAY, DEC; 24.
A committee was raised to bring in a
bill to determine how far the owners of
ships or vessels (hall be liable to the
freighters of goods on board thereof
MILITIA BILL.
The Amendments of the committed of
whole, were adopted by the House, with
amendments. 4 -Mr. Madison's amend-
. MILITIA.
The House proceeded in the confider
tion of the amendments of the Committee
of the whole—agreed to several and dis
agreed with others/
Mr. Fitzfimons gave notice; that he
Should move for leave to bring in a bill
refpeding the freight of goods; on board
merchant ffiips, &c.
TH e President communicated to the
House, a copy of a report of the Secretary
of the Weftern Territory, together with a
report of the Secretary of State, on the
fame fubjed—which were read and com
municated to the Senate.
Mr. Churchman's petition was com
mitted to a committee of three.
THURSDAY, DEC. 2g.
An address from several Quakers pray
ing to be exempted from bearing arms,
or paying any fines, for hegled of mili
tary duty, &c. was read and laid on the
table.
Mr. Livermore obje&ed to this motion,
became he apprehended, that it interfered
with the power declared by the constitu
tion to be referred to the refpe&ive states,
namely that of governing and training
the militia. I apprehend also (laid he)
that it is not in the power of Congress,
to interfere so far with the police of any
ffate, as to exempt any of its citizens
from arrest on a civil process, except in
cases of civil process issuing out of the
Federal Courts. We may have a right
to restrain the execution of our own pro
tefs ; but the right,of the dates to regu
late theirs is most certainly undeniable.
As to the duty of governing the militia,
it is reserved to the states by the most ex
press words : not that I carry the idea too
far, ns to objed to the right of Congress
to prescribe the rule of discipline: we
proffefs that right, and ought to exercise
it; but we do not possess the right, of
appointing training days r that also exclu
sively belongs to the states. We may di
re& all matters refpeding the arming of
the militia : & perhaps under this power,
may be included a right to preserve those
arms to the individuals who may acquire
them; and on this principle, we may
priviledge them from an execution at
common law. But we can by no means
extend our authority to privilege the
person of a militia man from the effed of
a civil process, either on training or any
other daysi
Mr. Bondinot said, the amendment
was founded on the principles of the bill,
which were that Congress had a right to
Appoint days of rendezvous, and so far
govern the militia, as to dired the days
of training. If the power be denied,
and it is proved not to exist in Congress,
then this amendment must fall. But as
the committee had agreed to the princi
ple, he thought it right, that the, should
carry it through. If it is in the power of
Congress to organize and discipline the
militia, then every power, necessary to
carry the firft into full effed, Ijkewife be
longs to them. Now it would be hard to
oblige a man, under a severe penalty, to
turn out in the militia, and not at the
fame time prevent his being exposed to
arrest. It will not be contended by any
gentleman, said he, that if we have pow
er, this is an improper regulatiori : tho'
I admit there is some weight in the gen
tleman's objedion ; and when the princi
ple comes before the committee; I /hall
give my sentiments upon it ; and perhaps
We Jhalf be found not to differ ffiuch in
our opinion.
The question whs now taken on Mh
Boudinot's motion, and passed in th^ af
firmative, 25 to 16.
fd far recoverd as to be able to give an
account of his falling into the water.
I saw him the 24th July, fygo : then
he enjoyed fine health, and perfad his
jedions of tobacco smoke.
These operations were continued one
hour and a quarter; when there appeared
a visible glow on his face } a tremor soon
pervaded his whole system, which was fol
lowed by tremendous gfoaris and spasms
for twenty minutes. When his blood be
gan to circulate, phlebotomy was perform
ed, and medicines given agreeable to the
indicationsof the cafe< In three hours he
naked body covered with warm flannels
frequently applyed. Volatile and campho
rated spirits tyete applied to the spine of
his back,and temporal muscles, with in-
There Was a total privation 6f respira
tion, and a Hagnation of the blood and as
far as we could obferve,the heart lay dor
mant. All the vital organs Werd rhotion
lefs,with an extreme muscular rigidity and
coldness. I was resolved tb tr, the me
thod prescribed and recommended by the
Humane Society, at Boftpn, far Recover
ing drowned perfons,being of the opinion
that he was in a state of fuffocatidn. He
was accordingly laid in a horizontal posi
tion and sometimes gently turned upon
his sides. Friftions were ufed,and his
gentlemen;
PERMIT- me td lay before you, the
following remarkable case, as a token
of my high refpe& and esteem for your be
nevolent inftitutibk.
John Moulton; of 18 years of age at
tended the fullingihill business inStratham,
in the State Os NeW-Hampfhire. He went
down to the mill on the morning of the
28th of Sept. 17^9, in order to put the
works in motion:w)iich ifyeffeded by ele.
rating a water gee. There being a great
head of water at that time, the wneel was
carried round with rapidity. He had oc
casion to cleanse a basket,which was dl
figned to Ihave ffuftic ; and accordingly
went to the flyice way before the wheel,
and pot the baftec in, so that the water
fudderily filling its cavity, pulled him for
ward with such violence, that he could
not recover the equilibrium of his body.
He found himfeLf falling, and extended
his arm for relief, the firft object it met
with was one Os the floats,which whirled
him under the wheel in a moment. One
of the floats Ought him between the tf
illium,and ffiort ribs,and wedged him un
der so faft,that the wheel Was flopped,
while the element of water overflowed,and
surrounded him on either hand. In this
situation he continued,till the proprietor
of the mill (Major Barker) returning from
the fouth part of the town, went down as
usual to attend his budhefs. He immedi
ately observed that me wheel was still,
while the gate was up at its full height,
and the water rushing upon it with the
greatest velocity. He searched for the
cause, but found none, till with difficulty
having shut the gate near halfway, and
looking under the wheel, he saw the young
man's leg lyingover the sluice beard. He
Hew to his relief,but could not help him
by reason of the pressure of the water,and
weight of the wheel. He then went aloft,
and cried aloud for help, when one Simon
Pottle hearing the voice as he was passing
that way, gave his assistance, but in vain.
Finding more help necessary, said Pottle
went to the distance of forty or fifty rods,
and procured two men, viz. David Bar
ker and Caleb Wiggins ; who taking with
them levers and axes, went down, cut a
way, pryed the wheel up, and took the
young man out. They examined, and
found him breathless, cold and contraded.
While they were endeavoring to effe& his
teleif frdm the water and wheel,! was sent
for ih great hafte,and arrived there be
fote they had taken off his wet Clothes,
He was carried into a spacious room,laid
on a bed,ahd placed in a convenient pos
ture for examination.
A message was received from the Senate
informing that rhe frefident of the Uni
ted States had approved and signed the
Aft fu„leme„ar, tb r an Aa intitled an Aa
making further ferovifan for the debts of the
United Stales.
The following letter was communicated to the
Humane Society ,at theirjemi-annual meet
ing on the i^th infant.
To the HUMANE SOCIETY, at Boflon.
A bill for ascertaining how far the
owners of vessels should be answerable to
the freighters of goods, was brought in,
read, and ordered to lie on the table.
The House proceeded to take into
consideration the report of the Secretary
of the Treasury, for making further pro
vision for the payment of the publick
debt.V
Order of the Day.
• Orig.— * They are erbeet of manhood.'
, Orig.—'' Skilly effa ed, and by the pre
ponderance only of flattering love. Man
works downwards^ woman upwards'—er
in other words, man impregnates) woman
reafs ; the allufa fecms to be the Jun add the
earth. +
purest, mobleft, more seraphic virtue ; to
every thing which can deserve praise or
affeaion.
Highly sensible of the purity, beauty,
and symmetry ; she does not always take
time to reflet on internal life, internal
death, internal corruption. ' The woman
saw that the tree was good for food, and
that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a
tree to be desired to make one wife, and
she took of the fruit thereof. (Gen.iii.6.)
The female thinks not profoundly;
profound thought is the power of the man. .
Women feel more. Sensibility is the
power of woman.
They often rule more effectually, more
fovereighniy, than man. They rule with
tender looks, tears, and sighs; but not
with passion and threats ; for if, dr when,
'they so rule, they are no longer women,
but abortions.
They are capable of the sweetest sensi
bility, the most profound emotion, the
utmost humility, and the excess of enthu
siasm.
In their countenance are signs of faridi- j
ty and inviolability, which every feeling
man honours, arid the effete of which are
often miraculous. # $4
Therefore, by the irritability of their
nerves, their incapacity for deep enquiry
and firm decision, they may easily from #
their extreme sensibility, become the ,
most irreclaimable, the most rapturous ,
erithufiafts..
Their love, strong and rooted as it is, ^
is very changeable ; their hatred almost
incurable, and only to be effaced by con- (
tinned and artful flattery f. Men are Moji
profbuna; women are more fcblime. •}
Men most embrace the whole ; women?
rank individually, and take more delight j ?
in {clearing the minutiae which form the|
whole. Man hears the bursting thunder 1
——views the deftrudive bolt with;
fercne afped, and stands ered amidst the ' c
Ciataaerific differences of the Male and
Female of the Human Species. —
By Lavater.
IN general (for I neither can nor will
state any thing but what is most
known) how much more pure, tender,
delicate, irritable, afeftionate, flexible,
'and patient, is woman than man.
The primary matter of which women
are con ftituted, appears to be more flexi
ble, irritable, and elastic than that of
than.
They are formed to maternal mildness
and aftdion—all their organs are ten
der, yielding, easily wounded, sensible,
and receptible.
Among a thpufhnd females, there is
Scarcely one without the generic feminine
signs ; the flexible, the circular, and the
irritable.
They are the counterpart of a man*, taken
Out of man, to be fubjed to man ; to
consort him like angels, and lighten his
cares. She ffiall be saved in child bear
ing, if they continue in faith, and cha
rity, and holiness, with sobriety. (1 Tim.
ii. >5;)
This tenderness, this sensibility, this
light texture of their fibres & organs, this
volatility of feeling,render them so easy to
condud and to tempt; so ready of submis
sion to the enterprise and power of the
man ! but more powerful through the aid
of their charms than man, with all his
strength. The man was not firft tempted,
but the woman, afterward the man by the
woman.o
And, not only tafily to be tempted,
she is capable of being formed to the
business with case and alacrity.
It was the united opinion of a number
of judicious persons, that Moulton lay un
der the water and wheel one hour at a mo.
deratecomputation. One circumstance in
fupportof their opinion was,that the young
man's hat, which undoubtedly fell from
his head when he was caught under the
wheel, was taken up several rods from the
mill, by a man passing over the Area in ;
who, not thinking that there was any bo
dy in the mill in distress, went on, and by
estimation mull have been gone at least
one hour, before his return, which was
before I began my operations.
I fubferibe myelf, Gentlemen, in bonds
of the highest esteem and veneration, your
most obedient, and very humble fer an ;
WILLIAM WILKINS.
Billerica, Sept. 27, 1790.
From the Pennsylvania Packet.
most curved. # ,
The countenance of man taken in pro.
file, is more feldam perpendicular tnan
that of the woman. % ,
Man is most angular—woman most
round.
1 Orig.—' Woman smiles, when man,
laughs ; and weeps when man is Jilent ;
and laments when man weeps, and deJpairS
when man lamints.'' Thus the German;
we cannot however blame the translator,
for making woman laugh, as it sterns to fait
the gradation better.
§ Orig.—' The feelings of the man.'—
(manergefuhl). The qutfion is not offend
I fation here- though it be true, if said of
<that.
lOrig.—' Man funds, woman gently
DR. FuANkLiN being asked once, by
a friend, why, the pieces, inferred
in his papers, &C. which were written^ by
himfelf, contained more typographical
errours, than those written by other peo
ple, answered-—" It is always ha'd, my
, friend, to correct one's own children.'
trips.'
q Orig.—' Man tail and broad, ^vomat
less and taper.'
** Orig.—Wrinkly the man, less so the
woman.'' _
Man singly, is but half man : at least
but half human.—A king without a king
dom. Woman, who feels properly what
she is, whether Rill or in motion, refti
upon the man ; nor is man what he may
and ought to be but in conjundion with
woman ; therefore, ' It is not good that
man should be alone, but that he mould
leave father and mother, and cleave to
his wife, and they too (hall be one flefh.'
A Word on the Pbyfiognomical relation ofl
tie Sexes.,
Man is the most firm—woman the most
flexible.)
Man is the Rraighcß—womani'.he most
bending./
Man ft antisfledfufi —woman / gently re
treat, ff.
Man surveys and obtyves — woman
glances "and feels. Mb
Man is serious—woman, is gay.
Man is the tallrft and croadef — woman
is the fmallefl and <weak#lf
Man is rough and hard-fcwoman smooth
and foft;
Man is brown —worn ; is fair.
Man is cwrinkly—^rWQffl^n is net**.
The hair of man isj more Rrong arid
Ihort—of woman more bog and pliant.
The eyebrows of man art cbmpreffed—•
)f woman left frowning.
Man has most convex lines— vomat
r.cft concave.
Man has most freight lines—womafe
At
I fearful majefly of the dreaming clouds.
Woman trembles at the lightning, and
! the voice of diflantthunder , and Ihrinks
!into herfelf,or finks into the arms of man.
I Man receives a ray of light single, wo
man delights to vjew it thro' a person in
!all its dazzling colours. She contemp
;lates the rainbow as the promise of peace
!—he extends his enquiring eye over the
•whole horizon.
I Woman laughs, man (miles ,: woman
! weept )man remains silent. Wo^ an is
im^#@^ben man we< ps,and in despair
;when man is ir. ^^:,^ ; yec has ihe often
fmdre faith than man.
Man without relig on is a diieafed
creature, who would perfcade himfelf he
is well and needs not a physician; but
woman without religion, is raging and
monstrous.
A woman with a beard is not so dis
gust ng as a woman who afts the free
thinker ; her fei is formed to piety and
religion ; to themChrift firft appeared ;
but he was obliged to prevent them from
too ardently, and too hastily embracing
him. Touch Me net. —They are prompt
to receive and kize novelty, and become
its enthofiatts.
The whole world is forgotten, in the
emotion caused by the presence and prox
imity of him they love.
They fink into the most incurable me
lancholy, as they also rife to the most
enraptured heights.
Male fenfat ion §is more imagination,
female more heart.
When communicative, they are more
communicative than man ; when secret,
more secret.
In general they are more patient, long
fuffering, credulous, benevolent, and
thodeft.
Woman is not a foundation on which
to build. She is the gold, silver, pre
cious Rones, wood, hay, Rubble (1 Cor.
iii. 12.) the materials for building on the
male foundation. She is the leaver, or,
more expressively, the oil, to the vinegar
of man ; the second part of the book of
man.