The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1784-07-26 00:00:00, page 2

To CiutisTcrnLß Gadsden, Eiq;
S I R,
YOUR Laving candidly avowed yourfelf to be
the author of a very extraordinary piece, in
'Mrs. Timothy's extraordinary Gazette, of : * 17th
instant, (signed / Steady and Open Republican; natu
rally induces rae to address you. )ou have, with ,
equal candor and intrepidity, avowed yourfelf to
1 ave been the author of a preceding one, to which
this piece expre; ly alludes.; and for both these
^ohin^erprodu^ons, I unequivocally hold myfelf
# our debtor: but.difedunt^will, I hope, be deemed'
good payment.
' The principles which led me to inveriigate the
author's name, are principles to which, very pro
bably, you are a peered Granger. Be the event of
vom. two-fold, unprovoked, malignant, and Ilan- ;
dercus attacks upon me what it may, the world
I as one thing to learn, that at the very time you
had been busy in meditating, preparing, and digef- ,
tvngyour envenomed falfhoods againit me, for the
prefs,' you pofleffed the treacherous duplicity of
calling, me your friend, —of calling one your friend
who never oflerdedyowor this country. Pity for
vou, induced me hitherto, rather to commiserate
wou, thanto be avenged of you as a wilful and
National offender; but, the public is judge, whether
x.^not you have gone too-far for -forbearance.
Sir, with you,' in the present instance, too much
moderation would 'be a trespass. No ideas are too
\grofs for you. Composed as your language is, of
the coarsest importations from Bilingfgate, the
hair Crokes of decorum and delicacy, would be
lad upon you, in reply, would rouse your fenfi
i Ihy'wiih as little efleft as they would'that of a
gut-eating Hottentot. In encountering, therefore,
fe.y&oa,>c. we muff take to the busk, —we muff
right hin in the wpy-of his native ferocity. Lenity
to such a piece would lac cruelty in him whom it
•vilifies. It degenerates ' not from your heart or
•your understanding: it is malignant 6 dehgning, and
'treadhercus~; it is unfteadf, confufed, and volatile.
\''l he performance may be compared to a bag of ;
pleathers, ripped open in;a gale: no one idea is
connected with theuftber.
In obfervingdhe date of your publication, 1 am
a: no lols to fathom your delign. It was to cii'cu
&to, against me, your own vile apprchenfions, fa
facts, while many country gentlemen were in town,
on the day'of the firft .opening of the Land-Office..
:This, with other as treacherous efforts of yours,
to have me fccretly Slandered in the -country, (of
call -which I have received intimation) constrain
me, for the ftrst time in my life, to vindicate
luv honor, by becoming ^ public writer, and urge
\ me to the attempt, (evenhi ray plain .language) to
-procure feme fit antedote for that mass of poison,
vhiclu ho heart, but the most envenomed one,
co idfoh, in such profufion, against me. That,
hr. will, I tru'd, (withthe public at lead) apolo
ghmfeu this prefatory reply, until Efficient Icifure
all ws me to go more fully into the merits of your
ihveral productions.:
/'''he only parages in your piece, which shall at
1 this time fill under rriy notice, arc, firft, your
c large of my having been the author, or abettor, of
a ,erfnman # e that has zig-zagged your brains so
I 'rfuf under the energetically fignifaant signature of
A Dxorratic Gentle-Touch. Secondly, your charge
)if my having' l> een the revifor of most off the pieces
mt dy-pflifat; and lastly, your charge of my
,having b^u at . the head of a party you profefs so
\ichemcntb, to dislike.
"Th design of your firft chargeis but too flimfily
varnished over for concealment. It is like all
your other designs in this piece; which (for their
malignity) you would wish to conceal. Tire very
_ efforts, so cunningly adopted by you, to veil them
from difeovery, are the verv means by which they
become diftlofed to public view. A weak head,
and fore angered heart, can project nothing under
, covet. Your plan was evidently calculated to*im
preb, on all these whole political characters the
public prints had lately made free with, that I was
the real author or-revifor of what had been written
. ugaiujtthem; in the view of creating between them
and me, such altercation, animosity, and ffrife, as
tlie reftleffndfs and turbulency of your temper had
• ever induced you to be fond of. Your other charge
was as evidently designed to raise a suspicion
or belief, in thofc v/ho do rot know me, that I am
one of a set of men, who more than once, had drawn
you to the "State-house, with your pillow instead ofyour
arms: thus judging of others, by yourfelf, (from
the arts which have been pra&ifed upon you, you
hoped, that such insinuations, however improbable,
would prejudice the minds of (at lead) some weak
men, against me, whom.you designed to become
ver dupes and Cats-paws. Now, fir, as it is
more than probable, (from a general notoriety, and
indeed, from the writer's own undisguised acknow
ledgment,) that you long since must have been told
who was the real author or authors of The Demo
cratic Gentle-Touch, and of other pieces alluded to;
is there not reason to suppose, that your eleven
columned publication, was destined more to humour
and indulge the puppet of your paflion against the
innocent, than to effect anv public good.
Haying proof indubitable and unequivocal, in
my podeffion, of the reality of the person and
, name of the author"of that piece ; (a piece, I find,
that has really drifted what little intellectual ballad
ybu had left, —a piece that has brought all your
fyrel and ^etfy designs to the raplan, as you call it:)
being polluted of documents re? most authentic,
that the '/udormance ' iigiied Democratic Gentle-\
Touch, (a perfoiman^ whrT Fere f, .^-
tottering the ill-polled frattec: yurrhudc temper)
was not of my privacy or irfpefbon: and pwf<f"
confeious, that I always did, do, and cv^Y wfy
despise mobs, riots, and tumults, truths which
men of veracity, in this city, can evidence ip my
favour, I do not (disagreeable as the assertion muff
be) hesitate to announce you to tire.world, (in
these charges at lead,)' what you really are;
A Man that has deviated from faffs.
Your other charges, irifidious insinuations, and
remarks, are too numerous to have a f/id and
fatisfaSbry reply within the compass of this paper;
they will be answered in as short a time, at lead,
as you have taken up to forge them: If, in that,
pr antothyr Shot, I should chance to difeharge^t
the Lag of Feathers, which the florin of your
temper had scattered on the lytlr inflant, I may
wound the feelings of any of your Tory friends,
Tory cronies, or Tory relations, by a candid and un
partial Statement of their true conduct — to prove
your inconfftent conduct; I trust, hr, they will
recollect thatyou alone are the cause, —that it was
you who firft (as you vulgarly term-it) had lugged
in tlie name of an individual, whole political
errors you had previously avowed to have been
trivial; and, th4tßhe'r nwmes would 'have, other
wise, been buried'in the grave of silent difrygard
and oblivion, had not vour ungovernable impetu
dfitv'and partiality in their favour, le&you to
fkreen them, while you aimed at thefohticul per
ditim of all those who, by their neglect or other
wise. had cvcrwxfended your little Majefy.
'Fromuhe intimacy which, for years, had sub
sisted betweervus, Twas once led to 'conjecture of
you as follows, —dhat you was a good citizen, an
hones man, a brave man, a very difnterfed man; a
man,d%tut'e of kvpocrify, one that had never swerved
from falls, no Jtanderer, and no back-biter J —but
from certain traces of your r condu&, and from the
whole tenor of your late unprovoked, long-winded,
and hodge-podge jumble of calumny, I think, fir, I
hgVe to make some apology'to the public, and to
my own feelings, for having entertained an opinion
of you, so repugnant^ in every refped, to your
zeal character.
, And so your fervent,
Mr. Bridge-euilder.
&C '•
No. 14, Bay.
, (To be. continued.)
An Enquiry into theeffcas of Spirituous Liquors
upon the human Body, and their influence upon
,-the happiness of feiety.
(Continued from, our lafl.)
But are ttere no conations of the human
body in uhich fpiritupus liquors are required ?
Ires, there are ; ift In those caf's where the body
has been 'exhausted by ahy causes, and famtnefs or
a ^oppage in the circulation of the blood has been
produced, the fedden flimulus of spirits may be
nectary. In this cate we comply ftiidly with the
advice of Solomon, who confines the use of " Ilrong
drink" only to him " that is ready to periffi 1" And
?d ; . When the body has been long exposed to wet
weather, and mere especially if cold be joined with
it, a moderate quantity of spirits is not only proper,
but highly ufeful to obviate debility, and thus to
prevent a fever. I take these to be the only two
cases that can occur, in which spirituous liquors are
innocent and necessary.
But if we rtjed spirits from being part of our
drinks, what liquors shall we substitute in the room
of them? For custom—the experience of all ages
and countries—and even nature herfelf, all seem to
demand drinks more grateful and more cordial than
simple water
To this I ihall reply, by recommending in the
room of spirits, in the firft place,
1. Cyder. This excellent liquor contains a small
quantity of spirit, but so diluted and blunted, by
being combined with an acid, and a large quantity
of Uccharine matter and water, as to be perfectly
inoffenfive and wholesome. It disagrees only with
petfens fubje& to the iheumatifm ; but it may be
rendered inoffenlive to such people, by extinguish
ing a red hot iron in it, or by diluting it with water.
It is to be lamented, that the late frofts in the
fprihg, often deprive us of the fruit which affords
this liquor. But the effeds of thele frofts have
been, in some measure obviated, by giving an or
chard a north weft exposure, so as to check too
early vegetation, and by kindling two or three large
fires of brush and Hraw to windward of the orchard,
the evening before we expert a night of froft. This
lari expedient has, in many inriances, within :he
compass of my knowledge, preserved the fruit of an
orchard, to the great joy and emolument of the in
genious hufb^ndman.
2. Beer' is a wholesome liquor, compared with
spirits. The grain from which it is obtained, is
not liable, like the apple, to be afferied with froft,
. and therefore it can always be procured at a mo
derate expence. It abounds with nourishment.
Hence we find many of the common people in Great
Britain, endure bard lab ur with no other food,
than a quart or three pints of this liquor, with a
few pomds of bread a day. I have heard with
I rear rieaftire, of breweries being let up in several
ufHc principal county t wns in renntyvania, and
•ITomr fgnoft.e progress of our state in wealth
at i l.apninHs, that a Singh brewer n Chester county,
feud abov .coo barrels ut eer lari year. While
X Willi to ice a law, imputing the heaneft tares on
y (11 tiiicru b 1 ti. <uu b p ir^ '° :ec breweries
(t Tari for some years) wholly exempted from
taxation.
3. Fine is likewise a wholesome liquor, com
pared with spirits. The low wines of France £
believe, chu'd he drank at a less expence than fpi
i4ts in This country. The peasants in france, who
drink these liquors in large quantities, are a healthy
and sober body of people. Wines of all kinds
yield by. chymical an dyfis, the fame princ pies as
•cycler, but iff different proportions, hence they are
both coidialand nourishing. Jt is reniarked, that
few men ever become habitual drunkards upon wine.
It dcrivevirs relish prircipa.lv from company, and
i^ seldom. like spirituous liquor^, drank in a chim
ney corner, or in a clof t.
Iheeffc^s of wine upon the temper, are fkewife,
in most cases, directly oppefre to those that were
mentioned of spirituous liquors. It mud be a bid
heart indeed, that is not rendered more chcar:ul
and more generous, by a few ghff:s of wine.
4. Vinegar and Later, sweetened with fiigar or
molafies, is the best drink that can be contrived in
warm weather. I beg leave to recommend this
wtoeforre mixture to reapers in ^r&rticular mam.hr.
It is pleasant and cooling it promotes perforation,
and refills ' putrfa&ion ' Vinegar and water con
lirtuted the only drink of the fol'diers of the Roman
republic; ard it i web known, chat they march'
ed and fought in a warm climate, and beneath a
load of ar s that weighed sixty pounds. Boaz, a
wealthy farmer in Tarefline, we fnd, treated Iris
reapers with nothing but b-ead dipped in vinegar.
S,.y not, that—spirits have become n'cTfiry in
liaiveri, fiom habit and the curion )of the country.
The cuSlomof [wallowing thi liquid firri i s a bad
one, and the habit of it ruay be broken. Let half
^ dozen farmers in a neighbourhood, combine to
^low higher wages to th ir:re pen than are com
mon, and a Efficient quantity mf^y of the liquo s
I have recommended, ard fry may soon abolish
the pradice of giving them Spirits. They wi'l, in
a little while, be delighted with the good eff &s of
their association. Their grain will be. footer and
more carefully gathered into their bar n % and an
hundred disagreeable feenes of sickness and con^en.
tion will be avoided, which always follow in a
greater or less degree, the mfe of frituous liquors.
Under this head. Tfhould net negled to recommend
butter-milk end water, ^ four milk (commonly
called bonne-clabber) and water. It will be ren
dered more grateful by the edition of a little sugar.
Punch is likewise calculated to lessen the effeds of
heat, and hard labour tpon the body. The spirit
in this liquor is blunted by its union with the vege
table acid. Hence it pufferies, not only the ~onrii
tuent parts, but molt of the qualities cf cyder and
wine. To render this liquor perfectly innocent and
wholesome, it muri be drank weak—in moderate
quantities— and only in warm weather.
(To be continued.)
CHARLES! O N,
JULY 26, 1784.'
ALATE Cork paner fays, " It is evident that
the tyrannic and oppressive nation, to whicfi
Ireland has faithfully and unfortunately adhered in
all her adversities, is now determined to irritate
the companion of her afllifition to ads of despera
tion. Unfuccefsful in her attempts to enriave A
mcrica, fine seeks for retaliation in Ireland, confi
dent that in calc of disturbances here, She can wrelt
from us any little ftadow of liberty we have ac
quired during the late contests beyond the Atlantic;
but let no Irifnman be duped, nor longer seek
relief from depraved representatives: Force is ouq
only resource, the gallant lands of liberty are ready;'
I rance and Spain wait but for invitation. Then
why not at once to the field, to honor, to fame, to
glory, and to liberty!"
Iremble, now; ye sons of weeping Ilibernia!
I here is nothing left undone to render ye the inoft
abje& Slaves upon earth, but to Shackle the organs
of expreflion, and the trial by jury! Are we un
piotcHed in the year I^B4, or are we no longer
to exist? Is the hand of' an aristocratic tyrant to
prevent us from enjoying the freedom of our native
foil, and the liberty of the press, that great and
glorious bulwark of our privileges? Wliat fate is
adequate to the enormity of such an infringement ?
Rouse from your Humbers, and Suffer no innova
tions on the rights of a land that gave us birth:
Let fwift perdition seize the sons of rapine, and
hurl them to h-ll."
Thursday last embarked and failed for Rhode-
Island, in the schooner Betsey, William Munro,
maftcr. Colonel Wade Hampton, of the Congarees,
and Mr. Tobias Cambridge,- of this city.
The fame day failed for Philadelphia, ' in the brig,
Rutledge, Captain Newman, matter, Mr. Joli&
Sutcliffe, of this city, merchant, Mr. James Shai:3,
of Jackfonborough, and many others.-
Chamber of Commerce,
THE Members of the Chamber o°
4 Commerce, are requeued to attend at an
Extraordinary Meeting, (called on Buknels of Im
portance) on Wednesday next, the 28th irritant, az
6 0 clock in the Evening, at the Exchange Coririe,
House-
B" Order of (be President,
SAMUEL LEGARE, Secretary,