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IS it right for the President of the
United States to receive 68
Uolhrs per day, to fit in honor’s
tafy chair, and but 36 dollars each
for one whole year’s service be
given to the men who aredeflined
io (land aS marks fdr the roaring
cannon, to wade through the gore,
and leap over the heaps of carnage,
or fall in its ruins, by the intrepid
valour of futile fierce European
foe ; or worn down with fatigue
and toil, exposed to all weathers
and the well armed shot of the
lavage warriors,- which Ihould they
lurvive, the greatest number of
them will dill fed to the end of
their lives. View the brave sol
dier with his constitution thus im
paired, or perhaps ruined, fee him
return to his young and helpless
family, or into that stage of life
wherein ic is right tb acquire one,
despised by many wbofe lives and
property he has preserved, neglect
ed and forgotton, by the United
States add all others, and left to
breathe out the rest of his days in
want and misery : where is the
humane thinking man among us,
who is a friend co equal laws and
equitable com penfat ions. Be he
where he will this when laid naked
to his view will cause the very blood
in his veins to run chill, and his
heart btirn with indignation. This
is not all, if he returns a hale man
he must become a tenant to some
Congressman, salary officer or o
ther engrofier of large quantities
of land, Onto whom the U
nhed Slates Or the ft ate of Penn
sylvania have fold it; it was <0
them that exhdrbitant sums of
money for their services were paid,
and therefore they were able to
buy. Was it right for thoufahds
and tens of thousands of acres of
land north weft of the river Ohio
and Allegany to be fold to one in
dividual, while hundreds of thou
sands of others, who though wor
thy citizens by partial laws if I may
term them such are rendered una
ble to buy and dre in want of
plantations, whereon to raise their
families, and would immediately
fettle thole lands, and if not other
wise defended, would defend
themselves against the savage, or
other enemy, and would soon
through industry and care pay up
the price of their lands with its in
terest ; this would bring more
money into the public funds, and
the weftern defence would then be
fefs expensive. Then would we,
who air inhabitants of the weftern
counties, no longer be obliged to
leave our famil.es to fuffer, and
our rifine and ripening crops to
deftrudion, while we are dragged
from our farms to defend the fpecu-.
lator’s lands ; while the greatest
number of the owners are in Phi
ladelphia and other interior places,
living at case and luxury ; was it
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Mr, White’s Speech*
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just and wife in Cbngfefs thus to
riuke hundreds rich by leaving
millions in abjeift poverty and
fit very, V^e trust; Mr. Speaker,
that you will view their measures,
in the fame light that the author
of die rights of man does. He
aliens chat it is by diftortedly ex
alting some men, that others are
diftortedly debased, till the whole
is out of nature; avast mass of
mankind are degraded!/ thrown
into the back ground of the human
pidufe, to bring forward With
greater glare, the puppet-Ihow of
stare and aristocracy.
Was not that a cruel and op
preflive law which demanded of a
part of our citizens as excise and
arrears thereof for three years past,
on spirituous liquors of their own
manufadufe, such a number of
large films of money, that from
the mdft accurate calculation we
could make or prdcure,had all the
ptifons in the four wefterri coun
ties together with the persons con
cerned, gone forward to the mar
ffial, excifeman, or other receiving
officers, with all the money they
possessed and put it into his coffer,
it would not have amounted to
half the demand, and had the peo
ple have complied thus far, what
must have followed ; the sequel is
obvious, the whole property of the
persons concerned, would have
been put to sale and as no perlon
there, would have had money co
buy with, a number of the salary
officers of government, together
with the marshal, excifeman, and
other men of affluence, would have
gone from the eaflern parts of the
States, and have purchased up all
their estates, at perhaps one fiftieth
part of the value, and those citi
zens being (tripped of their pro
perty must have become tenants to
these great accumulators of wealth,
the purchasers. Mr. Speaker, I
have now stated as far as I was a
ble to the members of this House,
the local situation, ideas and sen
timents, of my conftituenis in the
weftern country, and I have no
doubt of their finding some redress
in a proper channel, and I hope it
will extend as far as it is right and
just, as well by the legillature of
the United States, as this State,
and that the members of this House
whole local situation will admit of
it, will be at some pains in remov
ing any mistaken ideas that may
have taken place; and further I
confide* that every member on the
floor of this house, will cake their
grievances into their most serious
con fide rat ion; and think what
part they woyld take if the case
was their own. I hbpe they WiH
think with me, that these people
having a sense of all these injuries,
revolving in, corroding and inflam
ing their minds till they are worked
up to a pitch, have made no great
er opposition to so dangerous a law
as that which would compell our
citizens to pay a duty on any arti
cle they make themselves, fbf
their own use, chan any other vir-
T UES DAY, October 14, 1794.
congress of the United States. 1
therefore move that the further
consideration of the resolution no&
before the House be postponed
until Congress (hall be assembled,
This motion was fecohded by Mr.
Biair—ithe raettioo, however*
post ponement wasloft>and the re-
tuous citizens would have done,
Had they been in their situation ;
and confiding in the wisdom, cool
ness and deliberation of the mem
bers of this House, I hope and trust
thty will fay, that there is not fuf
ficienc cause for the legillature of
Pennsylvania at prvfent to provide
any military preparations to go a
gainst the inhabitants of the wefterh
country ; or give any great energy
to the laws on their account, left
we Ihould be acceffary in destroy
ing the lives of many thousands,
and their blood cry against us,
which would leave a lasting ftigrha
on the United States, as well as
this commonwealth ; but let us
poftponethis bufinels till the Coh
grefs of the United States (hall be
affcmbled in November next unto
whom these people will petition
for a redress of grievances, and 1
trust that that august body, in th<ir
wisdom, will give redress in every
measure, that is just and expedi
ent; at least so far that an amica
ble union will take place, as well
in every other part of the union as
the one alluded to. And for the
uprightness of my intentions, 1 ap
peal to an omniprefenc God, by
whose assistance 1 truft,that we be
ing thus United, (hall be able to
defend ourselves against any enemy
we have on the globe, or all of
them together, were they to unite
and invade us;
Before I had gone mbfe than
half through with the above ad
drtfs, 1 was interrupted more than
once by one or other of the mem
bers, who addressed the chair re
questing that I (hould not be fuf
ftred to proceed ; however the
House was ft ill disposed to let me
goon; but On my preceding, one
of the members from York county"
made a further objection. I found
that the House was not in a temper
at that time for receiving any
favourable impressions by hearing
the fenriments of the weftern peo
ple and thought it best to flop be
fore I had finilhed the above state
ment, and proceeded more imme
diately to the resolution under con
sideration by addreflin^the speaker
to the following purport.
Although there appear to be
some persons in the weftern coun*
ties of this cprrimon wealth who are
not well affeded to some of the
eliding laws of the United-States,
yet we find “ by (Republic papers”
that there are ’touch greater
number who are willing to accede
to the proposals made by the Com
miffiohefs of government and who
will use their influence to bring
the people into a knowledge chat
the only way that a redress can be
obtained is by a 'petition to the
The Ladies of Antigua lately presented
tc the troops of Sir Charles Grey, aver/
acceptable lupply of flannel articles, ac
companied with the following rote. '
To the gallant conquerors of the French
WeftJndia 1 Hands, the undermentioned
ladies cf Antigua, from principles of at
tachment to the B<itifh constitution, and thd
best of sovereigns, beg leave to offer thitf
small testimony of their ad miration *of the
bravery of those by whom that glorious e
vent has been atebieved, and of their grati
tude for the piotedlion Snd fecUrity, there
by derived to the inhabitants of the Britifti
1 (lands: sensible at the fame time cf the
honour which will be conferred upon :hcm^
by the acceptance ofa trifle, so inadequate
to the meiit of the receivers, but which
would have been more proportioned to thd
wishes of the doners, and many others of
their female fellow fubjedb, who would
gladly have contributed their exertion*, had
they not been prevented by the impoffibiii
ty of procuring proper materials so if cedi
ly as the occasion required.
[Signed by 34 Ladies of Antigua, who had
' contiibuted 355 Flannel arid Cottod
Waifkoats, and 303 Pair of Flannel and
Cotton Draw ers J
To which Addrcfs the following reply was
immediately (ent.
The Commanders in Chief #ant lan
guage to express the high sense they enter
tain cf the dignified charafter of the ladies
of Antigua, who have so laudably employ
ed their purfea and their fair fingers, pro
viding again# the dreadful diseases which
the (bidiers and feaden are liable to in thia
climate, when undergoing the severe du*
ties of besieging and a (faulting the worka
of the enemy : They are not less sensible
of the approbation, expressed in their ele
gant add rest, of the condud of the com
manders in chief, and the gallant officers,
(oldiers and fesmen, by whole valour and
admirable perfeveranre, the late cocq^cfts'
havd been atchievcd.
Charles Grey,
J. Jervis.
May % 1794.
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The propdrtv captured at Ma»t : n : que by
Sir Charles Grey and Sir johu Jervis,,
was thus estimated— \
fa l '
jo Ships and other veflels valued at. 76,000
6200 hbds. clayed (ugar r'16,000
2200 calks mufeovado do. 44 000
4000 bags coffee B,oqo.
joop do. cocoa 5 000
^SOO bales of cotfen 70 coo
4700 cases of wine 80,000
4P 000 dozen of other liquors 80,000
P|Ovifions, &c* ^c. . . 590,000
Total fdr the benefit of the captors 973 .cop
— v* .v* — A#
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KINGSTON, (Jam.) AuguJl, ix.
The Chafer was at Martinique where (hd
leh Sir Charles Grey and Sir John Jervis.
Guadeloupe is Hill unfubdeed ar.d nota
withstanding the vigilcnce of our vcfieli
which form the blockade, the French havd
received several applies of freffi provisoes
from America and made returns ih pro
duce.
folu ion after some time fpenc in
debate was adopted
And now aS my last effort for
the lafety of my finking country,
at the hazard ot perhaps more
than my reputation, 1 iubmit this
to the press just as it is. J Hauply
it may draw one fympathizrng re
flection from the legillature or ex
ecutive department of this State or
the United Slates in their tavor^
so as to delay their intended wrecks
until they can be heard by the
Congress of the United States*
which I trust would bring about
a reconciliation.
From papers received by the jbit> Hibernia j
Cast, Iruin, arrived at Philade}>bia.
Benjamin White.
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