The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1784-03-25 00:00:00, page 2

To the Honorable the SEN ATE of the State
of New-York, in Legislature convened
The MEMORIAL cf the Whig Citizens of
New-York,
R^fpeAful'y Shewed,
THAT your memorialifts, deeply im
pressed with the goodness of divine
Providenc # , who has been graci ,ufly plea
sed to restore them to th ir native city,
after a long and painful exile, wiffi to
return the acceptable offerings of gratitude
and praise to the Supreme Governor of
the universe, for the inestimable blessings
of liberty and peace.
That being fully convinced that it is
cflfential to the happiness of society to fop
port law and good government, your me
morialifts declare their rea hnefs to assist,
to the utmost of their power, the officers
of goverment in the execution of the laws
of their country.
That your memorialists are greatly
alarmed by finding, on. their return to
this city, that a number of the bitterest
enemies to the liberties and independence
cf this State and the United Sates, have
been so audacious and impudent, as to
cxpole themselves to the refemment of
their injured and incenfrd countrymen,
whereby the peace of the cty may be en
dangered, and that harmony and cordi
ality io eftential to good order De deftrove^ „
1 hat your memorialifts have the ° ^g^
sot legiflatnre; they wifli that neither Messrs. Sears
or Broome, or any other such decided characters,
fnonid be elected to represent this city.
But may we not aft this quondam friend of ours,
whether there was more guilt in eating and drinking
at Boston, during the war, than in eating and drink
ing with our enemy in the city of New York, car
rying on a clandestine trade, and conveying intelli
gence to the British Generals. —All of which patri
otic practices, it is Shrewdly fu(pe&eds our friend
has been pursuing ; as well as several actions which
do not entirely comport with the character he affects
to assume at present. —But the world is tuned up
side down; for it seems that what was perfectly
patriotic seven .years ago, is now the contrary ;
nnd to utter a single word to he prejudice of the
lories, is to clamour against government, and dij
2urb the public peace.
It is now seven weeks since the American flag
has been spread on our walls, and during that time,
we,have been amused, .from day to day, with af
farances that the city would be speedily cleared,
at lead of the most obnoxious tory characters ; and,
trolling to these assurances we have hitherto wait
ed.wrth patience—But we now begin to fufjeft
that there never was any intention to perform
:thqfc promises, and that they were made to dupe
is until the Tories and their patrons, could iorm
a party and acquire drengih ; —for of late they
have been u commonly bold, and we can discover
that numbers of them^have crawled cut of their
dens wit. in these few days pad, who, we believed,
Mere with th ir brethren in Port lofewiy.
.No , oubt but the intentions of government are
as they ought to be, exceedingly favourable to the
Whigs; but the proceedings are rather flow, and
.our .fears, as wll as neckties,, are great. The
beliefs of the city is in thehands of the Cories,
Mhilft the impoverished Whigs are wandering in
the ftreeis like destitute grangers,; and. .to add to
thei mortification, they lee 'heir mdi inveterate
..enemies, rather carefed than punished. Such be
ing the date of things, the man must be fat gome
in folly indeed, who can believe that the day of
yengtance is far dilant
The banishment of but, comparatively, a few of
the mod,obnoxious Tories^ would restore perfect
peace to the city; and there is not a doubt, but if
it had not been for the encouragement and counsel
cf a few men, who arc the lory oracles, but that
every one of thofr who are the objects of popular
ind goation, would have been gone before the eva
cuauou.—l he lafety and the interest of the Whigs
combine to prove the necThy of expelling the
Tories.— In what manner it will be done, is yet
uncertain. But however fatal may be the confe
cuc©c%.after the warnings they have fo<epeatedly
received, they mult charge them only to their ac
c iftomed credulity, for they have repeatedly been
told that patriots and parricides cannot and will
not live much longer together.— Ihus faith,
Ihe WHIG MEC.IANICKS.
est grounds to beleive, that these enemies
to our independence, will never bee ame
good and peaceable members of focicty,
dor the following reasons:
ill. Because they have, with hnifor
<nity and inveteracy, during the dubious
ft ugple for liberty and independence,
used their utmost efforts against their
country, even to savage cruelties and
barbarity.
2dly. Because. when the happy prof
ped of peace opened to our view, these
men manitcfle.l their disapprobation of
our being declare § free and independent,
in terms or the deepert rancour and ma
lignity.
3diy. Because, from the well-known
fpirit.and difpofiti in of thele 'eftlefs ene
mies to 0.. r perlons individually, as well
as to our government, there is just reason
to apprehend that they will al v&ys be
plotting,the deftru&ion of both, by every
iikidious art that is possible to be put in
praft.ee.
flhly. Because the innumerable insults,
injuries, cruelties and murders wh ch
have been perpetuated by these patricides
agurnt the good lubjeds of this State
and the United States, have left fxt
indelible and incu dole wounds in the
hearts ofthe tuffcriog inhabitants of this
City, that it is not intbe power ofhu nan °
wisdom to eT.& a well grounded recon
cilidim; and, however resentment may
be fm^tnered, for a tune, there is reason
to fear, it will at length break forth with
such violence that the confcquences are to
be deprecated.
And your memorialifts conceive they
are juitiliable in their opinion, that if the
peace of society requires that either the
lupporteis ot the rights of their country,
or the lubverters and dtftroyers of thole
rights mutt be expelled from the commu
nity that it is conformable to the rules
of realon and justice, that they who have
fuffered and bled to eftabhfli liberty and
good government, ffiould enjoy, uninter
rupted, the blessings which flow from it.
Your memorialifts cannot but express
their .concern, that the alienation bill, so .
long in agitation, and so anxiously wished
for by all true friends to the independence
and safety of the otate, has not received
the landion of the legifl ture. They
cannot close this memorial without com
municating their ardent desire that your
honoraole 'houfe, from a regard to the
peace and happiness of the State, will
comply with the united voice ofthe real
friends, to order and good govenrment,by
using all poflible means to pals the laid
bill into alaw.
And yourmemorialifts as in duty bound
will ever pray, &e.
Ifrw-Tork February 2d, 1784.
From the Pennsylvania Independent Gaz.
Extract from an Essay on Canon and Feudal Law,
by Jobn Adams, Esq; Plenipotentiary, &c. page
s'' < 2 , 53- (Bell's Edition.)
" it remembered, however, that Liberty
must at sll hazards be supported. We
Laue a tight to it, derived from our Maker ! But
if we had not, our Fathers have earned and bought
it for us at the expence of their ease, their estates,
their pleasure and their blood.—And liberty cannot
be preserved without a general knowledge among the
people, who have a right, from the frame of their
nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator,,who
does nothing in vain, has given them understandings
and a desire to know; but besides this they have
a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeafible,
divine right, to that most dreaded and envied kind
cf knowledge, I mean of the characters and condoft
of their Rulers. Rulers are no more than attornies,
's and trustees for the people: and if the cause,
the interest, and trust are inlidioufly betrayed, or
wantonly trifled away, the people have a right to
revoke the authority that they themselves have de
puted, and to conllitute abler and better agents,
zitornies and t uJees. And the preservation of
the means of knowledge, among the lowult rank is
of more importance to the public, than all the pro
perty of all the rich men in the country. It is even
of more consequence to the rich themselves and to
their pofterny— The only quefcon is, w he her it is
a public emolument. And if is, the rich ou^ht un
doubtedly to contribute in the fame proportion as to
all other fublrc burthens, i e. in proportion to their
wealth, which is lecured by public expences. But
none of the means ,t information are more sacred,
or have been cherished with more tenderness and
care by the fettle's of America, than the Press. Care
has been taken that the arc of Printing should be
easy and cheap, and fafe for any perlon to commu
nicate his tho ghts to the public.
And you, Areffieurs Printers, whatever the ty
rants of the earth may fay of your paper, ha e done
important fervid to your country, by your reaoineis
and freedom in publufoing the (peculations of the
curious Tbe sale, impudent infuuations of fender
and Edition, with which the gormandizers of power
have endeavoured to difcredi you, paper, are so much
the more to your honour ; for the jnvs of power are
always opened to devour, and her arms are always
Wretched out, if podide to dertroy the freedom cf
thinking, speaking and writing —And .f the public
interelt, liberty and happinels, have been in d^noer,
from the ambition or avarice of any great man°^
number cf great men, whatever may be their pobte
mefs, address, learning, ingenuity, and in other ref
peels, integrity and humanity, you have done your-
Selves honor, and your country service, ^ publyr # g
and pointing out that avarice and ambraon IhHe
views are so much the more dangerous and pernici
ous, so the virtues with which they may be accom
p n^ed in the fame character, and with to much the
more watchful jealouiy co be guarded against.
Cutie on such virtues, they've undone their
country."
(Tie remainder in our neat.)
CHARLESTON,
Blared 25, 1784.
LAST Saturday as Mr. Frazier,' with ffirty-two
negroes, belonging to Mr. Benjamin Elliott,
were crofting Ashley Ferry, in a ver, high vied,
the boat funk, by which melancholy accident forty
eight of the negroes were drowned. M.Frazier
verv narrowly escaped with fas life, being taken out
of the water by Mr. Clancy.
^ r "% ?° "' J ohn Hume was married to
Miss Mary Mazyek, daughter ot the deceased Wil
liam Mazyek, Esq ; of this City.
M °" A d ^ m ° rni "g died, in 'this City, Major An
thony Amby, a Member of the General Assembly
for St lohn'sPariffi.
T aefday died, much regretted by all who knew
."' '°^ n M'Cullogh, a worthy, honed man.
Tills morning died, Dodh Isaac Chalmers, eldcft
± on of the late Do&. Lionel! ' .halmers, cf this City.
On Tuesday arrived the Ihip Compte° d'Artois,
Capt. James Nichoifon, from New York. By this
veflel we /earn, that the Delaware, on the Bth in
flant, was Bill frozen up—that Capt. Strong's vtffel
was in port—and thatihe Charleston Packet, wnich
failed feme time pad from this port for Philadelphia,
had landed her passengers at Lewis Tovfn, and im
mediately put to sea. —Capt. Nicholson has brought
New York papers to the 15th instant, but they cer
tain nothing interesting.
A REBU S.
Mrs. TIMOTHY,
If you think the many charms ofthe fair fubje&
of the following Rebus, a fufficient excuse for its
defers, it is entirely at your service, to fill a vacant
place in your next Gazette.
V S. W.
First the name of a very chaste Lady wc'll have,
W ho destroyed her perfoh her virtue to save;
Next the name of that God who presides over war.
And the firft room you're in when you enter the
door.
Join these words together and quickly you'll fee.
One perfedly handsome, good-natured and free.
Charleflon, March 18, 1784.
ANECDOTE of Dean Tucker, of Gloucefler.
The Doctor, when a country curate, having offi
ciated at a christening, was invited to partake ofthe
entertainment common on the occasion. After flipper,
amidst the merriment produced by the enlivening
God, it was proposed that each ihould toast the
favorite of their affections, which went round till
it was the lady of the Manor's turn, who positively
refufed. However, after much persuasion, Ihe
addressed heifelf to the Parson, faying, you will
find my sentiment expressed in the 7th verse of the
I?th Chapter of the 2d of Samuel. This with
reluctance they fuffered to pals, and no one, except
the Curate, seemed to regard her direction. He