•wertly ;mpovcn.li’es tfie ftatf, the contraiy cffca takes
pi :cc whither he is goin§ ; and as for that country (though no-
ininaily a part oFthls date) confributing to the general burden^
there will be little or nothing in it, as eTei7 criterion of eftitnating
a quota, will quickly alter to the advantage of the Weft, by the
great incTOfemenTof inhabiunts, it will have over this.pvt of
the ftate 5,4>endes nature has marketf it out for a fep^a^^wde-
pertdency ; fo that the refources comirtij from then*, to e«^en-
fate for the naore va'luableand vigorous part ojf (pur fubj^s it^
lias drawn away, is only a proper cud for
when they Ihould happen to b« a little foured li^»p::^ght of
tarcei, or tendered uneafy by the glare that Am.
rk)r {«M. ' •
But in illuftrating the propriety of our oondu£t, wn have a
little wandered from the main febjeft, -which we will now
Itrike.
The commander cf the troops, by the power he is wdod with,
♦f judging of emergencies, may calUorth bis men ili%me often* ■
fdilc emergency, and in the me^ time examine.-the oountry*
and general fituation of our fevet^diftri£ls, and look^dutlf any
more can be procured, &c. Of this-^e can be feafonibly. ap-'
prift J, and provide accordingly ; this wili^be their ioierefts; on
account of thefeveral fpecific compenfationt both officers apd
foldiers are to receive. ' ' .
This fyftem ol policy has heeh deCgnedly covered, as I hefere
bave (hewn,-not only, froffi t'tc vulgar nfafs, but from a nqmber
«f popuh’-and turbuleht chara'aci s (I We bad occafion already ’’
to mention) which make a confiderable numbci in the general-
'affenibly. It is truimddfcd, thd^- might hate been taken in ;
^uttheywanting thatfpecies of bpowledge, only %^ed by
Ibp!: and ciofe obfervatiodi and an'e3?teBfi»e reatftng, abfolutely
net^ll ary to Ratify them-td condoift fuch a mdmeatons talk,
both them and their conftituents drawing little or no knowledge
from books, a few old rufty volumes (and thefh genetdily buff
ed with direAions for finding the road to a country we dare lit
tle about) which have defeended from onej^ener^ion to another,
ever finte Luther’s time at leaft, and mot^ noticeable bjf ahe
better fort, for the ingenuity of the fpider and drfeipUne. ofThc
fly, they exhibit, than any thing they contiiBi{: fo that it is'no
wonder in a political view, that they caArot' diftihgffifh their
right hand from their left, and indeed it would be extremely un
fit they fttould, as ' but we are again diverging, as I, had
determined to have kept the-traft at this "heat, till I hatLgot outi
but as I mu ft abferve in^opr polrtical teaching, fometT^
f ous to the clerical method of fermonifing, ufes of Info^tion,
confolation, and like them perhaps, do not know when to'
quit wlien we have done*—Well, we will again lay hold on the
thread of our fubieft.
When the profierty of lands are vfcfted In a few, and population
joes for ward; the fuperiority of the few and fervility of the
many,, are equally ine/table. It it true we cannot -throw
things into this happy train at once; but by proper conduA in
the art of making adb, we may greatly faicilitatc its approach
to the defirable point* The aft under view but barely paves
t e way to fomething more declfive. By the uncontrolable
powers we poflefs, as law-makers, the militia of the weftern
ecunties moft contiguous to the places, of danger, and all the
inhabitants of Davidfon county, and the other counties in that
country, may be drawn forth to favour migration, and be paid
out of the treafury with the money raifed from thofe who have
T50 intereft there, nor never mean to have, any ; and* we, who
have the greateft intereft there, may not contribute a , copper
more than thofe who have none, by a reciprocity of cayeating,
-which I before obferved, was a very fortunate interferenc*, and
tan be employed to great advantage.
Thus, by e-ify gradations, we may eft.ablifh fomething analo
gous to the federal fyftem, or create dependencies, and have cer
tain and fettled rev nucs cftabii.'hed, create orders, and then lay
claim to hereditary diftinftion, which will dignify, and announce
our suviRloR iTY to the furrounding world, fomething fin i-
!ar to the Dukes, Bails and MarquilTes of England or the Land
graves of Gsrmany, cr the Nabobs of India ; there is not a cop
per of odds wliat the appellation may be, when the cffcncc is
the fame; and without fomething like this, tlicre will alvvays,
remain a hateful nakednefs, andadlfgufting equality in our kin^-
nf government.
The primary caufes of the diftblution of every government,
has always been owing to the mifeonduft of the few, when a
little welt timed condefeenfion might have prevented the moft
♦atal cataftrophies. Thefe kind of temporary defeents of the
dRr AT to the common level, has tranfcendentrffefts, even to
produce a canine fervility amongft the many, wpeh otberwife
might have broke out with fuch fervour as to melted down
all diftinftions into one common mafs ; for as the poet fays,
—— “ ‘Th.y'Il Hot only lick the Juft, ■
But Jell tbeir vtr'fJ»uU."
Now kind reader, we are juft done, and leaft your ideas ffiould
be confufed, we will convey the whole fubjeft comenfuratt to
thy memory.
We have proceeded to expound a certain portion of law, as it
is written in the firft chapter of the ftatutes, made in the year
one thoufand feven. hundred eighty and fix, and in the profecu-
tion et this talk, it became neCeflary to make a very capital di-
grelTion, which again brought on another; the propriety of
which, I prefume, appears fufficiently plain ; we again ftrengh-
tened, confirmed, illuftrared, proved,and juftified thewholc‘up.
enthe pi inclples of human nature, and hiftorical adduftions in
the courfeof our general ohfervations,‘which clofcs the whole •
this you can remember, take it with you and reft contended
with tiieprefpeft, which is morally certein, although fomewhat
remote, and do not cxp*ft to hear from this quarter uiilcfs fome-
ching alarming Ihculd intervene.
Meffi-s. BOWEN * HOWARD,
%:
I OBSERVED a piece in )'our paper of the i«th July, under
thsfignatureof A Maclaine, addrefted to the clefters of the
town of Wilmington. I am not an inhabitant of th« town,
hv^ glory in bein® a citizen of that ftate of which it is a part,
und in pa^dpatingofthofe privileges which are perhaps, if not
pcrfeftly fccured, « ^aft under as good afoeial fyftem as any of
the United State# can buili^. Among thefe 1 count the liberty
. of the prefs of the higkeft efttoation on every occafion of this
nature ; and wherever I find a publication direftly or indircftly
tending to injure the government under which I live, fliall, I
hope, ever fed that fpirk which can alone proteft our rights in-
dependently foaring abofe the abftraft'idea of the mere munlci-
pH privileges of Wilmington or any other town; relying on
this alone as my apology, everconfidcring tlie true intereft of the
flate as the grand objeft of legiflation.
A writer of recent date informs, “ when any perfon is hardy
enough to venture his name in print, he is juftly fubjeft to the
aftault of every perfon who choofes to attack him.” I fuppofe
be means under any fignature calgulated te conceal the author;
as to my part, T hold a very different principle, and view with
horror every dciign purpefeiy planned for the dark airaftinatlon
of a charafter whofe candour and confcioos.>reftitude were per
haps his only inducements to expofe himfclf naked to the pubhe
eye. ft-.is not under this fecurity alone that i am to enter the
•lifts, and I am rather induced to premlftf this, leaft Mr. Ma-
iclaine, as the author of the publication, and confequcntly the
common butt of it, ftiouldVuppofe me influenced by either par-
t ticular prejudice or foms unworthy motive.
My (^jeft is aft enqpiry into the policy, nay I will not altoge
ther omit the juftice, Lome eflential p^rtsof the late addrefs,
as .they refpeft Mr. ^nes or tlie gentleman himfelf, ^^ f»vani$
thep^bJig. . •
fnthe fiM place, as to Mr. Jones, who »s.fo bi^y recom
mended'by Mr. MaclSine, I admit every thing mat gentlj^an'baa
faid- in his favour as to His abilities and reputation ; J,*
' -argument fake i fqr M1 have no conneftion with dtber party, 1
would not^Ungly offend the delicacy of the one or the other by
viewing them m conarart ; but ih frienc^p to Me. Jones,' were
he my brother, in found policy and juftice to tliq ftate,9iDn the
fcoreof precedent, in fuppoit of decent modefty,'aod ,fpr the
full feoffrity of '^gh^s too dearly purchafed to be fcttlfered for
, either tite mere’hear of youth, the freak of ambition^ or t!ic gra- ■,
tifleation of party revenge, heihould^rot at this terae have my
vote, were I am inliabitant of the town ; nor do I thii& it wifl ‘
be time loft, fpr even his friends to view th^ ground well before
^riiey ddfeend a precipice from wlicnce there is no rctitdt.
I hold it effnnrijlly neceffary for the welfare of any ftate, (hat
the peculiar fituation in point of citizer.fliip, of that caKBdatc
•wild prefents liimfelf to ptiWic v»«w,^Qr^ dcpeptlcnt. 'office,
Ih^l^be impartially examined by his eleAors, or it wll^;be
^ing^a-Ieap -in the dark. 1 lay his fituation inpoint of citiatR-
^i^^ecaufe ids abilities are to be held in a fej^ondary point of
\^very^'s at^chment tothecaufein vni^h be engages,
niuft more or rels ej^fure our cxpedl^tions from bis .eod^B^urs^
The man vvho fees his mirtrefs on tire point of drowoiog«^(hes
the ftreem and rcganllefs of every dju^er, bravc^ flems
. into , ^ ,
0the currmt, while one far fuperior in the art of fwiifittiing,
■;fearfully returns to the finiiing^dy, liaving no inducement
adequate to the rifle of forfeiting bis individual fafecy.
What then is the maiqfpringof action ? What but an Inter-
refted attachment to the,thing in view, can flimulate our widea-
vours to ads of heroifm or patriotic perfcverance, regardlefs of
^ any ^Jhit the wilh’d for objeft, to -which we are beund by ties
^^hat are indilTolublc in their nature.
In politics 1 take it as a -faft beyond the centradiftion of Tiif-
torlcal relation that the ninives of every country are its beft-citi-
xens, and foreigners on the fame fcale are the worft-; for it is
natural to fuppofe, that a people who, generally fpeaking, know
no countiy but their own, can have no external objeft to feduce
them from its intcrefts; and fliould thefe by chance be -internal
ones, the attraftion of their attachment points ftill 'the fame
* partial injury to the zflfefted ftate.
It >J:Vor -would be otherwirc,fiippofe tf;e whole reprefentation to
be foreigners.The liberality of America has however found-a me
dium unde^ a maxim proved by long experience—‘%Tery general
rule has its exception,” an# in found policy, have extended , the
arm of equality ta every nation, ander the laws of naturafEtati-
on, admitting lorcignersto partake of the favourable boBM^ii^
of nature, under an equal proteftion with themfelves, in con^
*^®ration of an equal allegiance. But in the name of wonder,
bccaufe-pecple liberally attached to the focial intei^ of man
kind, and unreftraineJ by the bounds of the atlantic extend thole
benefits to others, to which they have as juft pietenfions as thefe
nations in total eifcdufion, dees it follow.that we are to refolve
them madmen, and fuppufic tlity will inconfiderately delegate the
power of taking that inefti'iiubie bh fling out of theii bands (al
ready fo benevolently beftov^) to the emigrants of that very
government from which dv^tiare fo receutly t-ap«ric(.c^
moft horrid afts of tyranny and flaughtcr. America cannot be
fo degraded. Her fons ar-r free—they will not futfer the adop
tion of fuch a general rule—nay, theiime is not long paft when
the brighteft exceptions wcie prudently held to a ftate of pro
bation little fhort of a political ordeal. Then pray, Mdfrs.
Printers, in fricndfliip.to Mr. Jones, could I wi(h a yonnz
man, who might bid fair for a very ihining member of fociety
a few years hence, ftioQld plaice neck and (boulders into the
l^iflature of a country (of .piany hundtpd miles extent—in a
ftate of nature almoft, and without precedent among the nati
ons of the earth) before he had acquired a thorough acquaint,
ance w|th its fcveral intcrefts—from a perfonal ^bfervation at a
time when l^a^e^^/carcely two yc||rs in the ftate—up ta
his eyes in thrtvfihefs dT his proieffion-^ately emigrated from
Europe, confequcntly with the rudimenu of their politics in his
head, and not inqpoffible their prejudices in bis heart. Great
Indeed be Mr. Jones's abilities, but i hardly think the
friends of a Na(h, a Jefferfon, a Lee, or a WalbiMen would
have ventured them on fuch an enteiprixe. ^
f •?” precedent, -what ^could bt
faid in juftification of fuch an eleftion-^> Have not ike feveral
powers of Europe their refidents amongft ik either Xi.urnr
incog.-— what will be thought of our precedence ? for each of
thofe will report their oMervations totheir feveral mafters, and
I doubt not £^xhibif a feene hfdicroufly |4fturefque, a refpeft
able nation, valiMtly freeiq^ themfelves from tyrannical
of of ludd imerJal, into
fmm of their own forging ; the fpon and make gamTof a
foreign^WCT—In fupport of decent mwlefty, as
be underftood to make an)' perfenai attack, 1 (hall onlv obfervii.
that in puMicnfeas well as private, among parties as w^^
- ind.yidaals, it *nu^ to be lamented in the prefeiit are. that
common Feeney has ftared ancient good maniSrs^nt If coun
tenance.-to-# temf,ora ! O coun-
As to Mr. Jones’s cafe, I
an irc’t F«*®t>cntfccurit74ain(J
an illicit praftice on the parHIf Britain, by introducilz their
powCT imo oni^^cwil fyftem under tWflimfy maik of
fmUItary force couldiof^
tain, Acugh they dearly paid for ft, when the citieres Srtis
ri*? i^K *** barrors. I am not fond of detraftlon. I again re
peat I have no perfonaltj in vie%vs and though I ti3? th^!Z
are and have been many worthy EuroJ&ns in a ftatl^of W
probation, admitted into the Iegiflativer«ecntlle
a certain affert on in the ftreets of WiImin^^?Si^t
and otherApwns* natives who wift rtf^fent
well adopted few, whofe preten-
difticn to
there are in that and otherdto-
themfelves betrer than evtn a«„ptca «
lions to efficul life, I held far fuperior tq, the
of^a moment.—the fire-fde warrior, or the
tician. " —
;ed patriot
pdi«
WILLIAM TATiftk
[ Thcrcjaalndcrtftl-* p:«e, !i ,
want of room.] iplf
Dotneflic Intelligence.
BOSTON, Julj 3.
O RDERS have bee.^. lent from an
American agent in China, for
building a H^p of 800 tons, for that
tri^. Wc learn with plcafurc, that
^e vcflel is to be built in this town.
N E W . L O N D O N, June 27.
Two brigs belonging to Sagg-Har-
bour, on Lpng-Ifland, have lately re-
turned-4here from a whaling voyage,
having taken about 400 barrels each.
Their cargoes fold in the Weft-In-
dies, and they brought home 7000
dollars.
F«r
^ N E W -Y O R K, July 14.
ExtraH of a letter from Poukeepfie^ dated
July j I.
*** Our labours are now drawing to
t conclufion; a few days will finiih
era. Our opponents arc dill deter
mined on their amendments] they
will be of three kinds—the firft, to an
explanatory nature; the fecond, re
commendatory; tlieth^d, conditional
“ feem to have been influenced
by our arguments, but they are too
proud to confefs it.
“ They will pcrfeverc In their dc-
ftrudUve fyftem, at leaft for fome time.”
After
Yoholt beu.
W ILMIN-GTO N, August 6.
Convention of the fate cf Jt^oKTK-
Carolina.
Monday^ July 21, t'-JS.
jnEVERAL Metr-bers m:t^ and there
Wp Jj’’^orum, they fr,cce.^,u*tc rbt choice of e
'^rtfdenu YoLen huBxcellency Gofeemor JohrUzn, wji
lyeteSea. ^ * j
Tuefday, July 22.
ccmmhtee of eUffiens, of three nvnhcrs
dtjtrta. Dobbs county eieaion -jvas rtfred to the f! r:e
•tvbo reported, that rather eleSiont m,e,e gcod, nvitb the e
concurred, • » #
Appointed a crndimmim draw up rules for regahtinr.be proceed-
mgs of tbe a a . r
ft agt ted to go into a certmittes of the
'•onficuticH paragraph by paregreph,
. 24.
order cf yferJay, to go upon tbs cen/jjer-
n ana dijc’-jfm of tbo New arid ^ tbrnA cr’y
two or thru paragrapbs,^frben are got tb^cuA with, :be -Je
ti ttn to be put in a.gencral nvay—adept, 0- rejea. The Ftde-
^fJP^fkers are, Meffrs. Da>uu, IreeUll, Bfaciaine, J.hrUjr ar.i
Anti-Federal Jpeakert are Mtfr-/Ferlsa:,
Galloway, W. Jones, andfoverml ctbe,t.
We learn from Newbern, thrt on
the 3 2d ult, they experienced a very
fevcrc gale of wind from the N. E.—
Twenty-t'^o fail of veflels out of thir-
ty, which were lying within the bar
at Occacock, wt^e driven on.fhorc.—
We have not heard the damage fuftain-
ed on this melancholly occafion, nor
whether any lives have been loft.
The northern papers prefcnt no-
thm^ to..our'^iew but accounts of pro*
ceiuons in almoft every town, in con-
fequence of the adoption of the new
co^itution By ten ftates. The prof-
peft of a moft plentiful crop the eii-
fuing feafon throughout the United
Stat^,^ together with the hopes of
our being fliortly united in the in*
diffoluble tics of friendfhip, unde.j* an
efidient federal government, cannot faU