The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg, Va., 1770-03-29 00:00:00, page 1

Mb9 77 'THE
VIRGINIA GAZETTE
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MlDDLlSB-Isi, Dan-ber, 1769. ]
Mr. RIND,
T'n_ 'kh no full concern 61",de the last
mecting old.! Al'unbly. [had in the town, um
In per miner: w recommend the prohibiunz
&. with few-med shm no my lime
regarded. ujybeanseso—ml .by ugthe
You fron whence :: Up will" ' the
has-maid olmclevkp umlpdt bedic,justn
"!
Ill"- ","de worthy of regard. ss
mll'hz Old " sin-a! p. mio-T.
v.
I iM to: "14
lus-flee si'wmkl. an : displshndlsie vicv of us mfi'm
".*' - en tnpuurte tum rlon't meet: rot ny
man?"-ye seen' lum. And tho'-(sit stot. Qte : very me
Ipqngtntenee, ] me! think thnt either in private or tnbrtc
_ tt lnrght besnbltined to truth. to say-ny thuq that
can _ nal-tate egaiat :, pordiel disposition i- turn to
muhnd. .l read both paper end the March Gmtte,
psiziut'uh't'sird'etisscd: it he of my "'MJMT'
) et ympmdnoed' one .ot'tnt; utt :
pernicious evil m teenth the Wuenund various
complaint: then bd net with in my trunk about the
country. kindly : futily thn wot not full ;! the injuries
We! hide;-cured from the numerou- ths te os sel'umt
' find shm me indeed (conspicuous ] m t say) int the
. hent of a true economv (vhtch cetui-t impltes en in
ll " eate to make protzlion [or dulr snmihu. and :
strip] nfi of what th" do nflte) see-led to be so void of
such : nebefl'ary eonsiitevn. ths-t [nant-thought them mote
earnestly named in Oerm' schenet for lullenes, than
in that prudence which VIM d hIV; kept them '(sec hunt
every dun of: eneditor. or din osa whed, had they,. with
'that-ly (methought. but eonli red the certain, it well
a dzegisul nonkq' Ienoeed' ' constant and genenl ntis
.eon u . '
in . sikte ezenrflne, ! met v' 'a petition putting about
* Msi si vour to vent the
?;be put meeti ' the An'enthlv.io which
lbdye gvtl. Ifgofible had 'I: er mankinniil think
If tt. it in t en} in llov. sentiment, that suctsin
" won it _ tttnpttve ye __ , t to: proper teme y
of thztjompmt, ne ny thtoglthat can be proposed.
The petmon first referred to the childe-ration of the As
sembly, that the dealing vithsern/tn end (lawes is become
so general, thzt few an presene the least moveable pro
reny. excepung perhep: their horses, from their tltcsis.
t then take: nqttce of the management given to their
Me, by the night seller: of 'qutn, who buv : ;cty thing
Adam! mdil sees ' . And lastiv, it represents
the numerotu lttt he: ded them. that purchase up
,!th permit, do! , a well as Tain in small
quent 'ttboutconsi g either the per on's ubililifl
\o link: _ ]: commodi ' , or any ]c—P-d property they
_ cjdtlld liven-then. [! r toreme v which. the p:—
'tmon bond], pm the deaiing with (trt'zms and
1 prohibitcd. and made feiony
son shall be rcltructzncd from stIErnq
spefied, and gratn of evervsiklml,
—.- " o—uu-vu
cru- quarmty. to tuous or xcep
ol Men. 'i rll obtaining alieeose for the lame,
foot then respear eouru. And it further propuscs,
that every truder store-steeper, purchasing tnbacco
untns , or grain of any kin-1 in quantitics,
le I then on hund shels, should annually it-e secu
fifth" consumed: 'tch : law in the court: octhe coun
iu I! did] th'ev ! And the petition concludes. that
eve
may be made either present:
Ne.
juries, or cogmzable before
Me mnry or other co
:, upon information. &c. dulv
unde. I cannot but take
tice of some objections to this
W, _ , Peru-p: too hasti
'made, to be Well sounded, or
_1 uppotted. lt u
m: (he decline with
agreed, that it was just to
sun" and staves; but the
Objects!!! lnfifled upon : pt
ality (at they termed it) in
: law;; that, because :
n was too poor to make one
hundred bushel: of grain for
e, therefore he should not
fill lies: quantity, without
ng put to the trouble end
have of getting : !i
se to do it. ] must notw
lezve to offer some reason
each. for a more setious
!: ly robe th'et 'with'io eoni-ers
on, where people hastily
odopt u error, and a rashly (
: to say noilily) endea—
s .' .
"of 10 suppqrt it, without the leaf! caution to whn is
time! to let them night. "(he icshoio'n, as": ib:
When!" grain under the quantity of one hundred bushel
idal! : license, argue. I pmiuliiy against ihe port
end savour. thy rich man; Why hdl not that pu
ssflliq been urged against a poor mzn '1 legally l'cllmg or
; "as his d : or kvia, wuh a paid! or tubaccc, un
- ' , we [now evciy body is scstnincd from.
'by the cob- a law ?_Cenamly foveny must be a: strong
w the making of tobpcco in age qunniiuu, as il gan
1 beau-inn making of , m : larger quantity. We (ce
)M' when edge-oure iy has bun only considered. n
indicctomodny (: tobaoco, the uouhk— M'inmoveni
my of getting A license by the insertion note. to lcll or
ny me this percetot lobncoo, In"! legal authotity, has
not en rite to such a kind of objection. Now, is it me
then}; thnt the cmunity should be that manhood:
'M', vit respect toodecommodtty, what inflio'e can them
wente-courage, "rather than prevent, some art.-thod: t:
ken (no matter whether purely intended. or not. for such
-n p'rpose) which are mainly ptodudtve of the most tle
flruatnl and greatest theft-? lt would be idle to ap ed
to but : in! perlone. for the eontirmationoi inch : act.
when the'wholt: colony, whether poor or rich. who mak.
tobacco With honesty. cannot deny, but that upon the led!
caretul r.:tnmirtationl they hate sreq ently uncovered du
ny tobbcrien of this kind committed ] their tobetcoosihoulen
or cellarl: And ] am petsuaded, lr what ] have ever
vhueheard, pretty laithtully vouc , that numbers o
lazy, idle peoplcss._by thch: methods, ke very great crop:
"from but a very tew plant: (luck in t etr hills, and never
properly tended. Can it be advance then, that thin re
ltndion in the tobacco law, in eithersipctttial in favour of
the rich man, or ago-tull the poor ma , when every body
must cunlelsedly have received some! zeal benefit from it,
even in this ointss; although iLhadss not amounted to ..
proper_te " ng-untl the present much improssed mode
PfPelllng lg tollmodlty by a kind of domelhe agents.
in uchtne ' . "ced [then apply these affiuments to the
scllmgolsigflln. under the proposed—rush ion of the pe- _
tition . ] hope not ; bunth-it they who ndopt the Objcctl
on will discover : real nartiality in it, in lavour ol a new
villainou:individual:z and against the good of the corn
lnunity. wheneter it to ride. it is no new thing _to [not
to the reader. that laws never had a rational beginning,
to restrain thejust or honest pain of mankind. No. we
owe their ncccflizy to ' injuttice and diihonestv ; and
let them centcr either il the poor man's cottage, or the
rich man'e palace, it is atruly social hentht, to lay _the
Weight of a heavier penalty, than trouble or incense/mu
:) upon them ;_bccause we see, from a pretty general de
gravrty, conscience seldom dictites the virtue of ]ulhcc and
onelly, so much as to leave : community any happy ex
illence. without proper lawsssto compel them. ] hope
then, this prodigious cry or partiality. laying at poor man
under the trouble end inconvenience ol getting a licenle,
to lull a less quantity than one hundred bushcls ol grnin
(by which his pussdlion osit will. in a great measure, be
publiciy known, and certainly his propctty in it must be
well cnquired into) will he lo much {in to_t_he Lctluslt,_as
nV'CI !gflll] [0 of expound 07 me lfdlt conuaelauon ; oc
cansc, in no, such an objcction to the petition, tends only
to the trouble and inconvenience that it must give a poor
man, to been honest man- for it cannot be any thing in
gonvemcnt for a man, really honest, to shew that he it so,
!" one instance, as well as in another (as in the case of the
inspecking law) when the good ofthe whoie common-ty
requires ". 'l'hcre in an advantage, and : just one, to be
made both by the urchnser and iellcr of small quantities
of tohaeco, as was" small quantities of grain; for he
who boy: may and can prize this tobaeeo, and presetvc
this grain better, than the poor man who mnkea either, doe!
or can do; and as the purchaser choose: to make use of
his own eve, the proposed reshiction upon the [elles,
amonnts only to : security to the rest of the conzmunity,
that what he selle, hv-hemg made public, and of course
subject, in some measure, to some of tisie modes ot detect:
on, it not the putiomed pro try of another, that he has
sraudulentlv possessed himse swith, by the meant of some
egte ious Villain. As to the purchaser, ]! is lobe hoped.
that is giving security for mnsouming to inch a law, will
be no objefctiion to the petition; lest. in the very makin ss
osisjt, he should raise zblulh against his'ovm'honefl int!
tions.