The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser — Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.], 1797-03-09 00:00:00, page 1

Ths Potomak Guardpan, & Berkeley Advertiser.
Vol. 7.] IHURSDAT, Mauch 9, 1797. [No. 33* J
Franklin.
[ Open and uninfluenced. ]
$3“ WHER* LIBERTY DWILLI, T H IRK II MT COUNTRY.
Tio the Freeholders of Berkeley.
Gentleman,
•w 1 1 1 i H a degree of regret which, the fl .ttering
W prolpect of fucceeding finally through your
partiality, could only excite, 1 beg leave to fignify
the impollibility of my fervinti you as lhad propoled,
even in the ajfured event of my election, from circuit)
fiances ot a ptivate nature, and previous tu this day
Wlfrrfcen
But, in full confidence of the facility with which
an equally eligible choice may be. m i«n1, with tfi
■w irtnelt’willies for the uttiverlal afid permanent
fuccefs of Repubiicaniltn, together with your indi
vuiutl happinels, i remain, With every lentitnent oi
eratelul relpert, gentlemen,
Your friend and fellow citizen,
ABRAHAM D.WENPART.
March I, ’97.
Charlcjlouurt, March 2, '97.
TO be rented, and ni .y oe tuureu upon imme
diately, that valuable and convenient diliil*
Jery in laid town, fituated on the great Ipring, at
prefent occupied by Pitt. Williiuis. There are
two (rills, one of 100 gallons, the other of 6 >, w.tl.
full tubs, k"gs, and every othsr article necessary in
compleat order, with a good houfe and garden an
pixed, for the accommodation ot tiie tenant, &c.
J -r terms, apply to the fuhicribcr.
SAMUEL WASHINGTON.
WILLIAM BEL L,
At the fi.»n of (he Riling-iun, Shepherd's Town,
INFORM b his (iLnds and the puottc, mat Ik has
opened TAVERN in that commodious and cen
tral Brick Houfc belonging to Mr. Jacob B dinger,
at the corner leading from the M *in Street to the
ferry, where every attention will be paid rn travel
lers and others who may countenance him with
their caftom, atid every favor gratefully acknow
ledged.
March 2.
TO BE SOLD.
A Tra£i of LAND, containing 212
acres, lituated in BenkeLy county, on the heud of
Middle-Creek, 8 miles from Mimnsburg, and z
yv.iies front GararcRs- Town. T here are about 80
acres cleared, io of which are meadow. There is a
young orchard planted, feme large bearing trees,
a never failing Ipring, and well watered; there is
a fmall log-heuie and fta’ole-; the land under good
fence. For berms, apply to
DAVID RIPPY.
March 2.
notice.
RAN away fome time in the month ofMarch, '96,
from j tns Chamberlin, now deceaftd, a
bound boy named Thomas M Qgilking, hound by
order of Court. Whoever apprehends faid run-a
^vay, and commits him to jiil, or returns him to
me, ihali have one cent reward.
ELIJAH CHAMBERLIN, Adm*r.
March 2.
To be fold at PUBLIC AUCTION, on the Premi
ses, on T hol iday the i6th o! IVLrch next,
TW J Imall plantations on the waters of Back
Creek, a fm iU difiance from Sharp’s Mill,
the one that I now live on, containing too acres,
the other 150. both in tenantable repair; hogs
and houfehold furniture, wliith a number of other
ttrricies too tedious to mention, where due at
tendance and a reaionabic credit will be given by
JAMES LAUGHLiN.
March 2, '97.
TO BE SOLD, (for CASH)
^pWENTY-l WO likely Viigmia-born Slaves,
1 toufifiiug ol men, women, boys and girls.—
A-.y per ion inclinable to purchaie, may be accom
n.udated, by applying to the fubicriber, at his dwel
ling, near Lee-Town.
RICH WILLIS.
March z.
WANTED,
\ Sober, tndufrr»ous Blick-Smiib, at Springfield,
011 Mill Cretk : he will be furnitbed with a
limp w irking tools, and 500 bulhels of coals.
March z. WiLLlAM HANSHAW.
fcT WE are authoriied to alsure the public, that
Cop,. William Lamon again offers himfrlfa* a candi
date to reprelent Hits County,in the CseneralAfsem
bly of this State.
TO BE SPLD,
A VERY valuable piece o.‘ Land, known by the
Three Tons, fiiuate 3 | miles fromMirtins
burg, containing 4$| acres -with meadow enough
15; or 20 to,.* of hay* “5piU m order, a good
'orchard of 80 or go trees, and which is an excel
lent it and tor a tavern, tan yard/or any kind of
public bu'.inets.—The above place if not told by the
20 h of March, will then be rented.-For par
ticulars apply to the Primer, or
ABRAHAM MARLATT.
March 2, *97.
F O U N D,
A SILVER WAT C H.
The owner, proving his property, uiay have it a
gain, on application to the Primer.
Merck 2.
rHE fubferiber is defirous of Jelling a (mail
Tract of L«nd, containing one hundred and
liny acres, lying betV/een Charles*! own and Shep
herd’s- Town, and about an equal diltance from
each $ leventy-five acres of the above land is luljeci
to the life ot Mrs. Brfcoe, an aged lady, now living
on the ■■premifes. A Houfe and halt a Lot in
Chari: s-Town : 'he houie is neatly fimlheri, and
the lot in good repiir. AI‘"o, four unimproved
Lots ill laid town, two of which are fiiuattd on
the rwain-ltreet, the ct her two joins t:hem hack, and
form . a foil fu rare Alfc, one thotllartd acres of
Land in the Mate of Kentucky- : it is a part of the
t'ubf riber’s military Claim, and lyeth in the big hind
of G-een River. The land was turveyed tiy Major
Liogham, living in Shepherd’* town, of whom a
par-icular delcription may “he Ji3d, by any pdrion
wilhing ro purchate. On? other tract in the faid
Stare, containing five hundred acres, lying in the
County of Ncl on, and about fourteen milrs from
Beard's Town. 't he whole of the above property
will be fold very low for cafh, and with ? ► oderate
advance in proportion to the credit that may be re
quired bv any i>trion inclined tt> purcbale.
1 3 1 ’GEO* HITE
Charlejlewn, Dec. 26, *96. f
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Mr Wilms.
Your publtfoing the following from the Virginia Gazette,
will oblige a number of your readers. X..
7o the Freeholders of the County of Frederick.
Fell w Citizens,
THE right we polsets as Elector* being one of
the molt important, it is incumbent upon us
to codlider the manner in which we have exerciled
it. The delign of ail elections lhould be to obtain,
as fairly as poflible, the voice of the people. What
ever ha's a tendency to defeat this end, ought to be
cautiously guarded againfi, and, as much as the na
ture of the cafe will admit of, prevented. Have
elections been hitherto conducted to as to afcertain
in the lealt objectionable manner the fenfe of the
Electors? The prevailing mode of electioneet ing
renders h'sa very queftionable point. At prelent
men I'tep forward to public view ol their own clooicc.
Self determined, they, unalkcd and unlolicited, ob
trude theml'elves upon the norn e of (heir fellow ci
tizens Confident in their own abilities, and qualifi
ed in their own ejlination lor legilluors, they propole
rhemlelves candidates for our Suffrages. Thus, in
the firfr infrance, are we deprived of the femblance
of a felection. Is it true we may canvaf* their fe
veral merits, and fcrutinize their characters, and
from the number presenting rhemlelves may make a
choice ; but it is not often the relult of the im poling
idea, “ that of two evils we lhould choole the
leal’r ?”
Was the conduct of candidates confined merely to
a declaration of their in’.entions, this mode would
be the lels objectionable. But what is the next
meafure they adopt ? Actuated by fomething like
a conviction that the freeholders think not fo high
ly of them as they dt? of themfeIves, they conclude a
perfonal vifit is necefsary to raile them in their el
teem. With this view, neither houfe nor hut, in
which refide a vote, el’cape their attention. In
their great zeal to promote—their own caufe, the
perils of w-eather and water, labour and fatigue, are
cheerfully encountered. In this laudable underta*
king, electioneering latitude is tretly indulged.
The uniform ihcgie is, the difm^reftednef* ol their
views—the purity of their patriotifm, and the (rea
dy attention which they will always pay to the in
terests of thole who will gratify their wilbes, ia
electing them. Is not loch conduct equally dilre
Ipectful to the candidate himleit as to thole whole
firfiragc he Solicits ? It is derogatory to that manly
independence which Ihould characterile the repre
sentatives of a free people. It is indirectly intuit
ing the underTtanding of the electors. It is, in
fact, telling tbein, that they have neither discern
ment to perceive, nor judgment co appreciate the
merits of their publje Servants.
Hew have we oeen reduced to this fituation ?
Slaves to a prevailing cuftom, we have (offered uur
leUes to become dupes to the dtfigns ot the inte
rested and ambirlou* ; and regardlels of our own
inrerefrs, we have left them to be managed by thole
who think proper to undertake the ta>k. I his ac
quiefceoce and inattention is truly repreherrfibie.
It is lancrtoning wnat we ougni to tunocmu, n is
thinking lightly of V/hat ve Ihould eliimate of the
great eft importance, in matters of a comparative
ly trivial nature we act otherwile. In the choice
of a mechanic ora b'.bout'er, we prefer thofe who
art belt calculated to-eofWer our purpofe; hut as to
a law.maker, we have reduced ourielves to the di
lemma of accepting the lervices of thole woo art
dilpofed to mahe c tender of them. Is this a con
duct worthy the character of independent electors ?
freemen we pofseTs the right of thinking and act
ing for ourielves, why then fefeind it as freeholders ?
To he dictated th ir. any'caft is tinpleafant, »ut much
more fo in one to important as the choice ol repre
lentatives — The evil, ‘however, exifts. The duty
we owe ourfelves is to remedy it. Self relpect de
mands ir of us. To put a flop to the prevailing
practice ot felf offering, and its attendant electi
oneering, let us tonfult with each other wh-o are wor
thy our confidence. Let us call foch forward, and
give thent our votes. 1 ht:s our choice of public
men will be guarded on the ore-hand from encroach
ment, and on the &ther, from aln»fe. An unpreju
diced judgment wilt direct our election, and a re
gaid tor ourfelves prompt an independent fuffrag*.
To fecure to ob r lei tars thefe advantages, would
it not be advifable to appoint meetings at -err-.in
places, where we might determine upon thofe whom
<we thr.k bell qualified to ierve us, Tor this purpofe,
fuppole the county divided into diftricts, .. \ u
viz Winchefter, New-l own, Battle- fown, Hope
well and Pugh Town. Lrc the Freeholders in
the vicinity of each convene, and nominate fuch as
they wiih to represent them. At fuch meetings, the
merits of thole nominated will be fairly canvaiVed ;
and, on choice, will be fixed, unbiafsed by thofe
arts too generally praciifcd by candidates. This
is a mode generally prEctifed borh in Pennfylvani/.
and the’Eaftern Stares. Ih the latter particularly
an exprefilon of a with to be prom oed to ao oftir
is the direct way to be difappointed. The prop*. je«
tv of this method is too evident to be conirov , _ d.
With whom does ir reft to carry it into execu' ion ?
Ourfelves. Let us not then be wanting in ta at rc
fpcct we owe to our character as freeholder s—Let
us refolve to difcountenance the prelent practice
and its difreputable attendant's, folicitatio' ;1 al,d ob
fequioufnefs. In this way our futpend,*/, rjj,ht of
choofing for ourfelves will be reafsumer __0nr elec
tions will be free, and uninfluenced ) ,y improper
motives } and our conduct will be fuc* , ag becomes a
free and independttnt people.
Voar’s wilt- , refptct,
AIjKLI-OLA.
February 26, 1797*
To the Frt'h'Adin of tin County.
Fellow Citixeni,
I TAKE this method, as bein. the m0,. ^
of informing you, that at your nex, dcct/Qn »
members to the AUemjl- _ , ,hall 0gcr m Mf JS
candidate. lam wel, , w,re 0f the magnit0(i<. ,)f
the trult confided to ' he reprefentativc« of a Pu
merous and free peop- ,e, ,nd j, ia wilh
diffidence I olicit it. bllt thoilld I be deemed worthy
of your confidence, , wi|, fo far as ,By ahUitjcs
able me, molt chte rfully ferve you It is, no doubt,
the ariih of molt men, Iobf as wc|] and 35 bonrl[_
ly ferved as they tan he, and therefore their choice
0H5rv.ni. will always be directed to that end;_
whkh two or» he candidates that offer, are the molt
proper tone* chofen, the people mull judge. Seve
ral circum.t' .,nces concur ro pet it our of my power
to comply with the cuftom of applying personally
to rvery v olcr for his vote, hut 1 hope I fhall nor,
on rhnt a< ;COunt, be thought lefs zealous for tic
public g< -od, oriels in earnelt in my profrflions to
xerveyo u. I nm, with due refpect,
Your moft obedient te’’vnnr>
JOHN D1X N.
Berk dry County, March 9, '97.