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two senators and four representatives ; an'
the county of Trumbull, one fcnator an'
two representatives.
Done in Convention at Chidicsthe, 2gtb day
of November, in the year of our Lord iBO2,
and of the independence of the United States
of America, the twenty Jeventh.
In testimony whereot, webave hereunto
fubferibed our names.
EDWARD TIFFIN, President, and
Reprefentave from the county of Ross.
Joseph Darlintnn, Israel Donalfon, Tho
mas Kirket, Adams county.
James Caldwell, Elijah Woods, Belmont
County.
Phillip Gatch, James Sargent, Clermont
county.
Henry Abrams, Emanuel Carpenter,
Fairfield county.
John W. Browne, Charles Willing Byrd,
Francis Dunlavy, William Goforth, John
Kitchel, Jeremiah Morrow, John' Paul,
John Ilelly, John Smith, John Wilson,
Hamilton county.
Rudolph Bear, George Humphrey, John
Milligan, Nathan Up/egaff, Bazaleel Wells,
Jefferfon county,
Michael Baldwin, Jarres Grubb, Nath'l
Maffic, T. Worthington, RoJs county.
David Abbot, Samuel Huntington, Trum
buh county.
Ephraim Cutler, Benja. Ives Gilman,
John M'lntire, Rufus Putnam, MaJhingten
county.
Attcft,
THOMAS SCOTT, Sec'y.
PROPOSITIONS, UN.
We the Representatives of the people of
the Eaflern Division of the Territory North
fPeft of the river Ohio, being assembled iq
Convention pursuant to an aft of Congress en
titled " An aft to enable the people of the
Eaflern Divijion of the Territory North
hhefl of the river Ohio, toform a Confutation
and State Government, and for the admiffton
of such flute into the Union, on an equal foot
ing with the original fates, and for other pur
poses." And having had under our confedera-
tion the propositions offered by the said aft,for
ourfree acceptance or rejection, do resolve to ac
cept of saidf aid proportions : provided, the following
addition to, and modification of the said pro
portions Jball be agreed to by the Congress of
the United States, viz.
That in addition to the firft proportion,
securing the feaion No. sixteen, in every
township within certain tra&s to the inhabi
tants thereof for the use of schools, a like
donation equal to the one thirty sixth part of
the amount of the lands in the United States'
military tra&, (hall be made for the support
of schools within that traa, and that the like
provision (hall be made for the support of
schools in the Virginia reservation, so far as
the unlocated lands in that traft will supply
the proportion aforefaid, after the warrants
issued from said state have been fatisfied,
and also that a donation of the fame kind, or
such provision as Congress shall deem expe
dient, shall be made to the inhabitants of
the Connecticut reserve.
That all the lands which may hereafter be
purchased of the Indian tribes by the United
States, and lying within the Rate of Ohio,
the one thirty sixth part shall be given as a
forefaid for the support of public schools.
That of all lands before mentioned to be
appropriated by the United States for the
support of schools, shall be veiled in the
Legillature of this (tote, in trust for said pur-
Dose. '
That not less than three per cent, of the
nett proceeds of the lands of the United
States lying within the limits of the state of
Ohio, fold and to be fold after the thirtieth
day of June last, shall be applied in laying
out roads within the Rate under the direction
of the le^iflature thereof.
And if the Congress of the United States
shall agree to the above addition to, and mo
dification of the said propositions, it is here
by declared and ordained, that every and
each tra& of land fold or to be fold by Con-
grefs, from and after the thirtieth day of
feme last, ihall be and remain except from
any tax laid by order or under the authority
of this state, whether for state, county, town
ship, or any other purpose whatever, for the
term of five years after the day of sale, to be
reckoned from the date of certificate of the
firft quarterly payment.
That whereas Congress by a law entitled
“ An a& authorifing the grant and convey
ance of certain lands to John Cleves Sim
mes and his associates," passed the fifth day
of May, 1792, did authorife the President of
the United States to convey by letters patent
unto the said John Cleves Symmes, and his
associates, their heirs and assigns, a certain
tradt of land therein described, and did fur-
ther authorife the President, by the ad afore
faid, to grant and to convey unto the said
.John Cleves Symmes, and his associates.
their heirs and assigns in trust, for the pur
pose of eitablifhing an academy, and other
public schools, and seminaries of learning,
one complete townlhip to be included and
located, within filch limits and lines of
boundary as the President may judge expe
SEVENTH CONGRESS Second Session.
dient, and in pnrfuance thereof, the Pref
dent did convey unto the said John Cleves
Symmes, and his associates, their heirs and
assigns, by his letters patent, the aforefaid
one complete townlhip, to be located and/
accepted by the governor of the territory
north-weft of the river Ohio, and inasmuch
as the township aforefaid has never been lo
cated and accepted, agreeable to the provi
sion of the said a& :
The convention recommend the following
propositions to Congress as an equivalent
for the one complete township aforefaid, to
wit : The lots numbered 8, II and 26, re
served in the several townships for the fu
ture disposition of Congress or so many of
the said lots as will amount to the number
contained in the aforefaid complete town
ship to be veiled in the legislature In trust to
and for the purposes for which the said town
ship was originally intended to be designa
ted by the legislature of this state.
Refolded, That Thomas Worthington be
appointed a special agent to lay the aforefaid
resolution and propositions before Congress
and the said agent do endeavour to procure
the aflent of Congress therein.
Palled in Convention at Chillicothe, the
29th day of November, 1802.
EDWARD TIFFIN, Prefdent
of the Committee.
THOMAS SCOTT, Secretary.
THE Partial Naval Appropriation Bill
and bill making appropriations for the Mil
itary establishment for 1803, palled.
LOUISIANA.
Mr. Griswold called up his resolution,
laid on the table yeflerday, refpeßing Louis
iana. The question on taking it up was
carried, Ayes 35, Noes 32.
Mr. Randolph moved it be referred to the
Committee of the whole on the Rate of the
union, to whom, had been committed the
message of the President refpefting New-
Orleans. A debate of considerable length
ensued.—Mr. Randolph's motion was sup
ported by Meflrs. Smilie, and Gregg, and
opposed by Messrs. Dana, Davis, Huger and
Bacon. It was finally carried, Yeas 49,
Nays 39.
The House then took up the fubjea of
the President's message, when the question
for clearing the galleries was put, anQ tried
—Ayes 41, Noes 41. —The Speaker declar
ing himlelf in the affirmative, the galleries
were cleared.
Thursday, Jan. 6.
Two ftaterhents, refpeaing the internal
revenues, were received from the Commis
sioner of the revenue.
Mr. Griswold moved that the House re
solve itfelf into a committee of the Whole,
on the state of the Union. This motion
was supported by Messrs. Griswold, Loun
des, Hemphil, Goddard, and Dana, and op
posed by Messrs. S. Smith, Bacon, Dawson,
and Randolph, in an animated debate, which
continued two hours, —when the question
on Mr. Cl's motion was taken as follows,
Yeas 38, Niys 48.
Immediately on this decision Messrs.
Griswold and Randolph both contended for
the floor. The speaker giving the prefer
ence to Mr. G. he moved the following Re
solutions, with a view to refer them to the
committee of the whole house.
I. Resolved, That the people of the U
nited States are entitled to the free naviga
tion of the Miffifippi.
2. Resolved, That the navigation of that
river has been obtruded by recent irregular
measures carried on at New-Orleans.
3. Resolved, That the right of the peo
ple of the United States to the free naviga
tion of that river ought never to be abadon
ed.
4. Resolved, That a committee be ap
pointed to enquire whether any, and what
legislative measures are neceflary to be taken
to secure the free navigation of that river.
The question was put on taking these res
olutions intoconfideration and loft—Ayes 32,
Noes
Mr. Randolph then called for the order of
the day on the confidential message of the
President refpeaing New-Orleans, on which
the galleries were cleared at about half pa(t
I o'clock and the doors remained closed du
ring the remainder of the day.
Friday. Jan. 7.
The galleries of the House were cleared,
and continued closed until near five o'clock,
when they were opened, and the result of the
secret business disclosed in the following Re
solutions :
Refolded, That this House receive with
great sensibility the information of a dispo
sition in certain officers of the Spanish gov
ernment at New-Orleans to obitrua the na
vigation of the river Miffifippi, as secured to
the United States by the molt solemn stipu
lations.
“ That adhering to that humane and wife
policy which ought ever to characterize a
HOUSE—Wednesday, Jan. 5.
National Legislature.
free people, and by which the United States
have always proteffed to be governed ; will
ing, at the fame time, to ascribe this breach
of Compal to the unauthorized mifeonduH
of certain individuals, rather than to a want
of good faith on the part of his Catholic
Majtfty ; and relying with perfea confi
dence, on the vigilance and wisdom of the
Executive, they will wait the issue of fucb
measures as that department of the govern
ment thall have pursued for averting the
rights & vindicating the injuries of the U. S.
Holding it to be their duty, at the fame time
to express the unalterable determination to
maintain the boundaries, anti the rights of
navigation and commerce through the Miff
ifippi, as established by exiting treaties."
Monday, Jan. 10.
The Committee on the fubje& of Navy-
Yards and Docks, reported, that the Secre
tary of the Navy be authorized to build such
sheds as may be neceflary for the preserva
tion of timber ; and that a law ought to be
palEd authorizing the building of a dry
dock, at Washington. Made the order of
the day for Monday next.
A bill was received from the Senate, di
re&ing, in pursuance of certain resolutions
adopted by the old Congress, Monuments to
be erected to the memory of Gen. Wooster,
Gen. Herkimer, and two other General
Officers ; and that two tlloufand dollars be
appropriated for that purpofc. The bill
was referred to a feled committee ; upon
which numerous Resolutions were offered by
members, for ereding monuments to the
Imemory of other officers who fell in the re-
Ivolutionary war. A resolution was offered
for the eredion of a monument to the three
persons who interrupted Maj. Andre ; which
was also referred.
Mr. Gregg moved a resolution, which
was adopted, to afeertain the probable a
niount for which the house, lot, &c. occu-
Ipied for the use of the Mint, may be fold,
land also the probable expense of procuring
! a more convenient situation, and of making
provision for carrying on the business by
means of Ream.
Mr. S. Smith, from the Committee on
the fubje&, reported a Resolution for re-
I pealing the laws establishing Ddcriminating
IDuties, which was ordered to be printed,
and made the order of the d^y, for Friday
next.
Tuesday, J an. 11.
A message was received from the Presi
dent, enclosing a report from the director of
the mint.
The committee of election reported a re
solution to the effect : that John P. Van Nefs,
having accepted the office of major of militia
within the dlftrid of Columbia, had forfeited
his right to a feat in the Houfe —Referred
to a comm, of the whole on Monday next.
Mr. Griswold, moved that the House
should resolve itfelf into a committee of the
whole on the Rate of the union ; declaring
his intention, in such event, to move that his
motion, laid fomc time since on the table,
calling for papers refpe&ing the ceflion of
Louisiana, should be taken up. On this
motion a debate of two hours length ensued.
Mr. S. Smith said he had a communication
to make, which in his opinion, -required fe
crecv : whereupon the galleries were cleared.
After a lhdrt time they were opened—
when Mr. Grilwold's motion, above noticed,
was taken up, and rejected by a considerable
majority.,
Thursday, Jan. 13.
Mr. 5. Smith offered a resolution intruding the
committee of Ways and Means to enquire into the
expediency of prolonging the period of payrnen
of bonds given for duties by merchants of Ports
mouth, who may have been fufterers by the late
fire ar that nlace._
Mr. Smith submitted a letter from the Secretary
of the Treasury to him as chairman of the com
mittee of Commerce and Manufactures, .fating
that if the prolongation depended upon him, he
ffiould be inclined to grant it—also inclofmg a
letter from the collector of the port of Portfinouth.
The resolution was immediately taken up, and
agreed to. , , _
Mr. Newton made a report, from the committee
on the Bankrupt Law, that it teas not expedient to
repeal the Bankrupt Law.
After fume debate, Mr. Bayard moved ann
flruftion to the select committee, to enquie
whether any, and what amendments are neceliary
in the Bankrupt Law.
Mr. Bayard replied at considerable length, to
the arguments of Mr. Randolph.
Messrs. S. Smith, Bacon, and other gentlemen,
considered all debate on the merits of the quellum
'"^'gentlemen, originally hostile to the prin
ciples of a bankrupt law, declared themfeh es un
der existing circumstances, against a repeal, par
ticularly as the law was limited to five years.
A reference of the resolution to a committee of
the whole was finally carried. ,
Mr. Randolph moved that it be made tile order
of the day for Monday next. Mr. Mitchill moved
that it mould be the order of the day for Monday
"Thi^otion was fopported by Mr. Euftis and
Thatcher, and carried. Ayes, 30—noes 29.
Friday, Jan. 14.
The House resolved itfelf into a committee of
the whole, Mr. John C. Smith in the chair ;—on
Mr Rutledge's resolution, to exempt fates import
ing 'fir the use of their militia from the pay
r^t of duties thereon. On this retolutioi )an m
terefting debate ensued which continued till near
4 The'qiieftion was taken on the amendment,
limiting the fufpenlion of the duty to two years,
and carried.—Ayes 38 ; noes 3,
TUESDAY, FEB. 8, 1803.
IT has never been urged in extenuation of
the Republican candidate that he drank the health
of Washington with Mr. Thomas Paine—but it
has been urged that he constantly drinks with re :
peated plaudits to the memory of the great, mild,
modett, illullrions Wafhingtot - —that is true ! the
editor or the author interrogates to know if it is
possible ? —lt is true, therefore pcflible Nbtte
his health ; the great man is dead, therefore im
possible. You bungle sadly, Papmian—you have
knocked your loot against the llep coming in.
For the LEDGER, No. 2.
MR. EDITOR,
PAPINIAN, announcing his intention to grati
fy the fancy of a poet, rather than the invited ar
guments of a politician, who foretold Papinian
would, like himfelt prove ajlim writer ; Aristo
phanes proceeds to offer some reasons for objec
tion to Mr. Gilman's election. Such has been
Mr. Gilman's and Col. Langdon's conduct
heretofore, 1 allow neither of them can be made
a fubjett of judicial condemnation. It is not ex
pected that 1 should bring politive proof of their
openly violating any laws—but 1 muff charge Pa
pinian with a dne<t breach of the lawsol propriety
altho' he has no right to charge Ariflophanes with
any ; much less Col. JohnLangdon, who is extol
ed, admired, and exen,pted from improprieties,
in the Oracle of the 29th January—if any body
can find out what Papinian means b, his terms.
Papinian, in the manner of the Attic writers,
begins No. I. to arreil the attention of the literary
world,not an elt clioneering community with lub
jefts of aftonifhmg emphacis and iniprcffiot—lee
how be falls into emptiness and nothingness, the
product of misrepresentation, by his omn fhovy
ine and close imitation of his firfl number and this.
First, Col. JOHN LANGDON is not opposed
to, but propoles and promotes the honor, bappi
nefs and common wishes of the citizens of A. Hi
by encouraging & fupporring the principles of the
President Secondly,his exertions authorise me to
fay he extends his arm to Shelter opprefled virtue,
to protest and lave it in every form.- Thirdly,
his numerous virtues, which you Papinian your
felf enumerate in your firfl number, (though you
yourfelf contradict yourfelf in your second) flow
he is a good chriflian, qifeountenances infidels, and
he difpifes thole Who are enemies to chi iftianity.
If the converse of this be fc (to use the ingrmatic
al (file of a poor arguer) it reqirref more than
trivial proof to fubflantiate objections that are
to difqualify Col. JOHN LANGDON from ever
being Governor I You are either bold or indil
tinft, Papinian, in yonr assertions ; (for the' you
are a lawyer) you are not clear, and tmicfs you
are, von are rather bold to dictate that Colonel
LANGDON is never to be Governor—Of your as
sertions, that "is in short, veracity hereafter.
And to begin—you can (how no writer of ge
nius, much less of difeenment, so bold as you are
-—frem ignorance or Jcience. It is impoflible to
show, unie fs from l)<n QuiXotte or Gil Blais,
that a man who " wishes no virtue in a compan
ion" has none hinifelf. In the Greek orator ifo
crafes there is a fentimeht of the fort, very differ
ently expressed—that is, "if you are indifferent
to the vices of your companion, you partake ot
the vice." I have never met with any traalbtion
in New England, and as you do not underhand
Greek, 1 cannot give y<n credit for the sentiment.
You may pretend to difeernment and genhit —but
do not pretend to learning. You will become
intolerable. Such a genius as you are,with learn
ing, would foou make your co? red principles cur
rent. You would be the riling inn of federalism,
inflead of the dim acronical Par setting down.
You would be the Heliacal Jupiter, frem , horn
that reptile, Tom Paine, Heais his fuolime (mill
tude ofa robber to a federalift, "ho robs charac
ters—your sneaking, dwindling, Ly-ing Cuts are
, your Gaelfi&es.*,
The fait is, you appear upon paper as you co
el fewhere —so felf-fufficit nt and federally com
manding, that your auditors rest chemfehes upon
their backs, and wonder at your impudence I
There is no author that writes so—it is not a
mark or a remark of a man of genius. I care
not whom you produce ; that man is not a writer
of any difeernment or genius, who fays a man
does not wish a man of virtue for his companion.
Human nature is of all ^es the fame ; and the
man must be a fool, or wish a fool for a compan
ion. This is your sirs lmilbke, implication and
inference, upon which you affect to rest your ad
dress to New-Hampshire. It will be fount,
uniuft and unfair, as you are falle, in yonr fath,
implications and inferrence—plain logic, woch is
common sense, fhowe your coudufions are so.
"TRUE AS THE DIAL TO THE SUN."
NOMINATIONS.
For the Government of New-Hampshire,
1803.
" When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway
“ The poll of honour is a private Ration.”
For Governor
the truly Honorable JOHN LANGDON.
Senator Col. CLEMENT STORER.
Counjellor LEVI BAR I LE 1 I, Elq.
Once more the “ Hardy Yeomen of otrr oaks"
—the Jons offrtedom, and enemies of public oppref
fum and fyflematic tyranny and opposition to the
most happy and free government on earth, are all
called on to give their invigorating Japport to the
mild & patriotic Government of the United States,
and baffle the insidious views and damp the already
chilling hop sos a def perate faction. Once more to
enforce the ennobling truth, that
Amid her After States, her government and laws
New-Hampshire hands to vindicate her cause !
“ make you look another way. D'ye fee that man
“ going along in the salamander great coat ? That
« is the very man that dole one of Jupiter's fatel
« lites and fold it to a countryman fora gold
c 'watch, and it set hrs breeches on fire. Now the
<c man that has his hand in your pocket does not
« care a farthing whether you believe what he
“ fays or not. All h?s aim is to prevent your
« looking at him ; and this is the case with
“ remnant of the federal faftion. The leaders
« it have imposed upon the country, and iltey
• want to turn the attention of it from lhc
"jett.
#<< He that picks your pocket always tries to
Cljc Republican Lebgen
Washington, & Jefferfon,
PORTSMOUTH, N. H.