The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1784-08-19 00:00:00, page 2

ftrudicns of their confituents, when convened,
upon proper notice from the returning officer of
the parish or diftri&, or some other proper ptrfon,
or of a refpctfable number of the electors.
Without much political Sagacity, or any extra
ordinary depth of observation, we can fee the
true cause of evefy political mifchicf which we
have experienced: we need only mark who the
principal leaders inthe legislature are, and look no
further.
What remains to be done concerns the electors
at large, at the'next general, and at all future
elections: they then will have it in their power
to rectify all former mifakes, punish PECULA 1 lON
apd CORKUITION, and let the World fee they
will not be duped, or fuller the MAJESTY Of
THE IE^LD to be in b ^mun erfct
of men whatever, though Y : ...« . call all faShous
znd delifiring, who oppose their ambitious designs
of tyrannizing over the MI ^DLiNC and lower class
of citizens: they then, I lay, will have to deter
mine for themfeives, whether they wirifrmly and
confutation ally "aflert their rights, or make an
ignoble and ^lavish SURRENDER of theiti,
at the feet os a few contemptible Nabobs, and their
'friends and chentsuhe TORIES.
I now, Mr. Steady and Open Republican, muff,
in a more particular manner, address myfelf to
you, and take some notice of your late publications.
An academical education has given you, fir, an
unlimited ' command over the most sublime figures
of fpccch, with which you are pleased fa compli
ment to Democratic Gentle Touch, &c.) to adorn
your walk's :—Nd if passage, made up your mouth,
legerdetained out of our COMFORTS, and honors,
clinching apportion, twifling, freer, flattering fawners,
' private ffretary, 'trim tram, myrmidon, Knight
of the ps, Marfelot, &c. dance through your
works, in all the beautiful mazes of metaphorical
confufion; which naturally induces me to fuppVe
you a profound fchclar, which enables you to
write French and Latin, with ahrioft as niuch ease
and elegance as you do Hebrew or Englifi. Suffer
me, fir, (for I am a plain unlettered man) to write
in the mariner which suits m'y capacity. ,
You, fir, feeined to be rri one of your lethargic
dozes, when you dreamed of an oath_ of secrecy,
binding the members of the Marine Anti-Bri
tannlc. Society: you might have seen, by the
rules pubtffbed in the Gazette of the date of South-
Carolinai that there is no such thing as an ^htyf
secrecy, or any other oath whatever,: .pra&ifed in
or bindmglhe members of that Society. But even
if such in oath was imposed on the niembers, it
'could not be more criminal in them, or offenfive
to 'morality, good manners, or political govern
ment, than the like a& among several learned
incorporate bodies, who enjoy this liberty Without
impeachment or censure. Secret committees of
privy council's, 'courts martial, jurors, and .many
others are bound by oaths of secrecy. ,;
If secrecy be a virtue, (a thing, until now, never
denied) can that be imputed as a crime, which has
been considered as an excellence in all ages?
Solomon, the wifefl of men, tells us, that, "he
'that difcoyers ferrets is a traitor, but a man of a
faithful spirit cpncealeth the matter." This muff be
universally acknowledged, that secrecy is no crime,
where it is hot repugnant to religion and good
government..
The Marine Anti-Britannic society, can no more,
with justice, be charged with fomenting the late
. riots in this city, than any other society in the
" Bate ; if what I have been informed be true, that
some of all the societies in town were in the mobs
which OPPOSED EACH OILIER. Therefore,
it is hoped, you, fir, and the writer of the falfe,
malicious, and insolent squib, which. .appeared in
Miller's Nabob vehicle of slander and fallhood, of
July the 29th: and also, your Nabob friend Aris
tides, will in future Bee silent on that head.
The writer of Democratic Gentle Touch,
was not afraid or ashamed to be known. He there
fore inftrufted Mrs. Timothy, by letter, to give
up his name, (as the author) if demanded. E.do
not, as some do, assert untruths at random : A al
ways take care to be able to account for any mis
take of mine, or misinformation 'of others; nor
did I then think myfelf obliged to commit my
name to the licentious difeourfe and malignant
opinions of too many hmongft us; nor would I
now, except in the Support of truth and honor.
But you, being a General, had no occasion, to
consult your understanding, as you (perhaps) think
no more of art appeal to the Public, or random
pointed pander againf an individual, than a military
coup de main, where a brave man has no rules , to
follow, but the dilates of his courage.
Isl was your enemy, I should dwell,with ma
lignant pleasure upon those great qualifications you
poffefied, the heroic, glorious, disinterested actions
of your life, by which you acquired, though you
could not 'prefefue the refpeEl and esteem of the virtuous
and ufeful part of your countrymen.
The magnitude of your folios may impose upon
the mind; and men who are unequal to the labour
of discussing long-winded arguments, with to avoid
it, and willingly suppose that much has been prov
ed, because mucli has been said. Mine (I confefs)
are humble labours: I do not presume to inftruft,
but limply to inform the body of the people of
their present DANGER from an Arifto cratical
faction.
Yon, Sir, seem to write for fame, and flatter
yourlelf that the m^nitude of your works will
make them and you vcraG&l : you add folio to
felid, as if your labours (because they zre gigantic)
could contend with truth and H'^av^m
Touched, Sir, with your many amhyble virtues,
I now forgive the excels to which incohndfevation
and pailion mull have led you; and tar from re
lenting those terms of reproach, which ypunzve
'too lavishly heaped upon me, I place them to the
account of an honest indignation, in which your
cooler judgment had no concern. I now, Sir,
take the Liberty to inform you, that I despise
" fawning flatterers;" f;qt I never was a " Secre-
Es," to any man or het of irien whatever: “ Trim-
Lram, "may pdffibiy be 'Hebraisms; therefore
words above my shallow comprehension: nor am
I aJobber, murderer, or rude brutal fellow,which
you comprise. in that epiphytical word, " myrmi
don." As to being a Knight of the Pofl, I assure
you, Sir, I even abhor a lie; and so far have I
been a “ mar-plot? as to contribute all in my pow
er to mar the Ariflocratical plot of robbing all
the middling and poor citizens of the small degree
of liberty and happiness they enjoy, in company
with such a set of new-made friends, as have lately
returned to this State..
I am far from censuring the return of several of
tlie proscribed tories; as some of them were forced,
from circumstances, to a& the part they did; and
some were friendly, and even ufeful to several
who adhered to the American cause; therefore,
unworthy the severe, indiscriminate punishment
the. fachfonborough law inflicted. But to bring
back and support ihe v'ileft traitors, because
they had Nabob friends and relations, or money to
purchase their peace, is too great an inful^ to be
imposed on the honed whig citizens, who fought,
bled, and fullered every fpecics of distress, to force
fuc'h diabolical caitiffs from amongst us. How tar
this will convince Nabobs of the reßitude of my
actions and intentions, I neither know nor care :
so long as I do nothing that deforces reproarin, I
value not lies: my intentions were, and are to
promote the peace, "liberty, and happiness of
the State; well knowing, that such oppohtes as
the genuine whig citizens, and those men who were
aiders, Abettors; ancl supporters, With in
fluence, money, information, and sword, of those
(if not some of themflves the very "actors),) who
murdered 'our fathers,, fans, and brothers; who
"with facrilegidus hands, set in flames the J temples
dedicated to the service of the most high GOD;" who
also burnt our houses and towns, and laid Wafle our
country; who were the inflruments in Confining us on
bodrdprifon ships, and loathsome gaols, and in plun
dering the property of even the widows and or
phans, w/Cofe HUSBANDS and FATHERS they
massacred; who put the horrid SCALPIN G
knife into savage hands, and contributed to the
mounting British white mid NEGRO cavalry, for
the purpose of accomplifhi'ng iohat even 3ritijh
BARBARITY could not efcch
AVould not such a combination of interests and
characters, be like tire iron and clay in the image
which Nebuchadnezzar saw in his dream? it
mod certainly would: they could never coalesce;
but would be the perpetual cause of feuds and con
tention; as the INSPIRED INTERPRETER Of NeßU
chadkezzar's dream expresses it: '' Tl»ey fiall
.mingle themselves with the feed of men, but they fall
not cleave one to another, ev& ts ikon is not mixed
with clay." Dan. 2d chap. 43d verse.
I, fir, have no ambition to gratify, nor the most
distant views of the least gratuity for my trouble,
except the conscious happiness of having done my
duty, and that of leaving a flourifhing, happy, and
consequently free country, for the theatre I wish
my children in particular, and the rising and all
future generations in general, to a& their parts on.
I, fir, have a wish for the happiness of posterity;
and am not like my felfifh countryman, who
said he would do nothing for posterity, because
posterity had done nothing for him.
I, Mr. Steady and Open Republican, have the
pleasure of presenting to you the following
Epitaph for your works now defunct.
Here continue to rot,
The bodies of faeralpieccs,figned,
.A Steady and Open Republican,
Who were all born
(According to the Mahometan belief of Women,)
Without d Soul,
And al! departed this life
On the day of their nativity.
When Cowley curs'd the object of his hate,
He wifh'd him mean dependance for his fate:
So would I curse my bitterest foe, indeed;
What G—s—n writes, Oh! BEE he damn'dto read.
I would advise you, fir, to difeontinue writing:
it is hard for the mod masterly writer to manage a
bad caufev All your writings that I have seen are,
sans judgment, sans prudence, sans common
sense, saXs truth, sans impartiality, sans a wish
sot Democratic equality, sans wildom.
I am, Sir,
SANS equivocation,
Your most obedient servant,
DEMOCRATIC GENTLE TOUCH, or
WILLIAM HO°NBY.
Nygtf 17, i^cfo
C H A R LESTO N,
AUGUST!^, 1784.
^^7 L learn from EaT-Florida, that M'Girth
Y V continues plundering and distressing the in
“habitants; his party is laid to consist of between 20
and 30 'men; some of them were lately apprehend
ed by one Hood, and some others, but within a
few miles of St. Augustine were refeued by
M'Girth and the rest of his gang, who killed
Hood and one of his men.
Extretffoof 'a letter from Barbadoes, dated May 14.
" By the laid accounts from England we are
taught to flatter ourfclves that the prohibitory aft
will be -done away, and that tire trade between
America and these colonies will be laid open, and
put on the footing ft was formerly. We wish that
this intelligence may prove true, and acceptable
to our American friends."
A well chosen collection of books is arrived at
New-York in tire French Packet le Courier de
l'Amerique: they 'are sent by older of the King of
France to his Consul General, to be presented to
the Universities of Philadelphia and Williamsburg.
They have been given at the joint request of the
Count de Vergennes, and of the Chevalier (and
since his brother's death) Marquis de Chatellaux.
We are informed, that William Logan and. Charles-
Frederick Fuhrer, Efqrs. are the Gentlemen sent by
this State as CommiiTidners to England, for the
recovery of slaves, and other property, taken by
the British army in the late war, without compen
sation made for it, as Stipulated by the 7th article
'of the definitive treaty.
Yeflerday. morning "embarked and failed for
.Rhode-Ifland, in the sloop Charleften Packet,
William Cornell- ,master, Mr. Philip Gadfdefa,
Mr. Joseph Brown, Mr. Jarales Stuart, and feve#
fal others. ~
. .Tuesday morning died, after a long illness, Mr.
Francis Cottier, Silversmith—a very worthy inha
bitant of this city.
ft&3or# & .M—^&-:TC c if rtCTZJta.ilira ^'"^^"^w«aemrserNTOTCTroE^re'^ sgrr:raQjr^ra
For Philadelphia,
r-n H E Brig GREYHOUND, now lying at
[ Roper's wharf: she is new, fails remarkably
faft, and has neat accomodations for Gentlemen;
will positively fail on Wednesday, the 25th inst.
For Freight or Passage, apply to Capt. Maxfield,
on board, or to the fubicribers, No, 51, Bay,
who have imported in said brig,
Superfine Philadelphia Flour, in barrels and half
barrels,
Ship Bread, in barrels and tierces, of the firft
and Second quality,
Mufeovado Sugar of an excellent quality, in
hhds. and barrels,
Old Jamaica Spirits in hhds.
Middleton's White Biscuit,
Irish Mess Beef, in tierces and barrels.
Irish Linens well assorted,
A few Tubs of very fine Steel,
Bar Iron, &c.
Robert & Hall Stuart.
THE Co-partnership of RUSSEL L and
WARLEY, being by mutual consent dis
solved, the business of said concern is to be fettled
with the Subferiber, who still continues said busi
ness alone.
Thomas Com. Russell,
Charleston, August 18, 1784.
BILLS of EXCHANGE on Philadel
phia, to be Sold by
Lufhin^ton & Kirk,
No. 27, Bay.
Tuesday, the 24th of August,
Will be SOLD at our Auction-Room,
Precisely at 12 o'clock,
THAT very valuable LOT of LAND.
A the corner of Broad-ftrect and G^dfden's
Alley, 34. feet front, and 95 feet deep, together with
all the buddings thereon. The Situation of this Joe
for trade is inferior to none, and is so well known as
to render any further description unteceffary. Con
ditions of (ale, one-third of the purchase money to
be paid on delivery of the titles, and the remainder
the firft day of January next, giving bond and secu
rity, with intcreft from the Sale.
At the fame Time will be fold, for one, two, three,
four and five Years Credit,
A HOUSE and LOT in Legare-ftreety
between Dr. Oliphant's and Mr. Toomer's, new in
possession of Mrs. Rose, 40 feet front, and 300 Hec
deep, with an exceeding good well of water. The
airy filiation of this lot makes it equal to any in this
City for a private family.
Cudworth & Waller.
N O TI C E.
WHEREAS my wife SARAH, ha; eloped
from my bed and board, this is therefore to
forwarn all persons not to harbour or truf her on my
account, as I will pay no debts of her contra&iag
from the date hereof.
Thomas Deighton.
Charlflon, Augufl 16, 1784.