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AMERICA.

PUBLIC FEELING.
ESSEX COUNTY CONVENTION, AT IPSWICH.
PRE,ENT 61 DELEGATES FROM THE DIFFERENT TOWNS.
The Delegates made choice of the Hon. TIMOTHY
PICKERING, Esq. as President, and LONSON NASH.
Esq. as Secretary of the Convention. A prayer
well adapted to the occasion and to the calamitous
state of the country, was then addressed to the SU-
PREME RULER of the World, by the Rev. Doctor
Dana. - A general view was taken of the important
business for consideration, of which the Convention
had been pri p -lied, and a Committee.was chosen to,
prepare and report a draught of Resolutions, or a
declaration expressive of the sentiments which the
measures of our national Government, and especially
their Declaration of War, appeared to have excited
in the minds of the people of this country, and then
the Convention adjourned to the afteriioou. -
The Convention then made choice of 20 Delegates
to rep?escrt this County in a Convention of Dele-
gates trum the several counties in this Commonwealth
to be convened at Boston :
At the adjourned Meeting the Committee made a
Report, which having been read, considered, discus-
led, and .amended, was unanimously agreed to, and
- adopted as the act of this Convention, as hereto sub-
joined, jand'ordered to be published.
DECI .ARATION
Of the County of Es,sex, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
by its Delcgates, assembled in Convention at Ipswich, on

Tuesday, the Slot Of July, 11112 :
• " Our country srieeously oppressed by prithibi-
tions of trade, under' the name of Embargo, aid by
other ruinous commercial restrictions, which for many
years save-been wantonly imposed by the Govern-
spent of the United States ; and its measures of ini-
' quire being now filled up by a Declaration of
against Great Britain; a war impolitic, unnecessary,
and unjust; and by which all our former sufferings
well be aggravate(' ; while. oar liberty and indepen-
. deuce are put in jerpardy by the consequent connec-
tion with France; whose government, under eters?
'form, stamped with elespotism, and wady, k asiw.an
jhe blood-stained hands of .a monster,- whose false-
hood, injnstice, cruelty, ambition; and tyranny, have
not in any period of the world been surpasted.
44 In this awful state of things it is the serious and
Urgent chity, as well as the perfect right of the Free-
. men of Massachusetts, to consult together,. and to
adopt the most suitable means of deliverance from
the evils already telt and the greater now impending,
and which can be averted and removed only by the
spirit and &illness of the people themselies. This dirty
has.become the.more pressing and imperioui by the
actual condition of the Government of this Common-
wealth, of which one branch (the &Mite) is in the
'lands of the usurpersi.devoted to. the iniquitous sys-
tem of the National Government's; Usurpers who ob-
,• turned their seats by meani of an unjust and uncon-
'stitotional law of the last year's legislature ; by
which permanence, in ill-gotten and abused power,
was intended to be secured in that branch, in de-
fiance of the voice of the people demanding reforms
of the abuses and evils devised and perpetrated' by,
that Legislature. These usurpers have manifested a
. • • determination to deprive this commonwealth of their
voice is the election of a President of the United
•. 9:States, by refusing to concur in any one of the various
fir modes of election tendered to them by the House.
•ot Representatives. They have also impeded the
expression of the public opinion by our present Le-
.gislature ; and hence the large and patriotic majo-
rity of the House of Representatives have addressed
the people, and solemnly called on them to assembll
in town meetings and county conventions, to express
at this momentous crisis, their sentiments on public.
affairs, and especially their disapprobation of, the
war. This we wiil do ; and, as they advise, 6 without
fear,' unrestrained by any considerations but those of
justice and truth.

" When a great people find themselves oppressed I tri gues, misrepresentations, and deceptions would be treme distress—inasmuch as all matters in dispute
by the measures of their Government, when their required or practised in proposing and recommend- between Great Britain and the United States, prior
rights are neglected, their interests overlooked, their ing them. That the statement made to Congress by to the Orders in Council of November, 1807, might,
opinions disregard, d, and their respectful petitions Mr. Jefferson, in his message of December 18, 1807, in the opinion of Mr. Jefferson's own ministers (Mon
received a itli supercilious contempt, it is impossible of 4, great and increasing dangers with which our roe and Pinkney, now members of Mr. Madison's
fur them to submit in silence. vessels, seamen, and merchandize were threatened, administration) 'have been, and were in fact by them
" Under these circumstances, to repeat such pdti- on the high seas and elsewhere, from the belligerents adjusted on terms honourable and advantageous to
;ions would be unworthy of the spirit and dieity of of Europe," and on which he formerly recommend- the United States, but which were hastily and perem.
freemen. We will tint incur this reproach. 4'he re- ed his fatal emgargb, as the necessary means of pre- ptorily rejected by Mr. Jefferson : and inasmuch as
wed) is in the pet pie's own hands. Men deaf to the serving those essential resources," was not war. those Orders in Council would never have been issued,
voi‘t tit reds( n and of Justice must -be deprived of ranted by the documents he then laid before Con- had the United States resisted the 13erlin Decree in
poster, '1 he people in exercising the right of elec. sress as the evidence of those dangers. the manner which their honour and interest demand-
bun, must substitute persons of a aiderent_character. a. And, the subsequent confessions of himself and ed. When we consider.these things, we are coin-,
e They who tale over men must* fusty- ruling in Idr• Madison, concerning a measure of one of the yelled to believe, and do believe that the conduct of