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5i tawn tt .:. the Hojaxds, Somersets, vBsities. &c.- in England.. Blind, un- Oiltioeni(hd reproaches agaiob the erift part of mankind, a diviGon ' -J rtiich nature haa. made, and we cannot abolilh.'are neither pious nor benevolent.. They r as pGnStous a they are filfc V V foment prejudice, ieal oui Tanflipnitf, envy and malevolence. They ferve no ends but thore of fophiftryi fraud, and the fpiril of party. It would : gregiouu? raue to say, ibium nave waged eteUilio'jj;''' ir.ai(l. t.hetigbti .of mn:''' ;; ; , The lovettf liberty, ynu fur, is inter woven in the foul pf man," So it is, ac . cording to La Fontaine, in that of a wolf, and I doubt whether it be much tnoira "tSottal, generoBg or focial in one thau to the Other, unlil' fn maii - it in enlightened by t - etperienceeflefkion, ; education and civil ""-and political inditutipns, hifh are- "firlt produced ud coaftaotly fupported and im- ? roved by a-fe,i,lhat i by the- nobility, 'he wolf in be fable who preferred "run ning in the foreft.lean-and hungry, to the 'flefhy, plump and round-fides of she dog, .oecaufe be found ihe latter -was fometimes rertrain,ed, had more love of liberty than : molt men. The" nnmbers of men ia all a - " rges bate preferred cafef flomber and good cheer, to liberty, when they have been in .twirrpetttion, We muft nottheii depend TI TlpbniTieloe-ofbrVty ia the tul -ot wMe alone, for its prefervation. Some -politi-. cat inltitatioos mu(l 1e prepared to stHaft this loyel againft itinerates.' Without thefe the Ibnggle wjit" ever end oily in a ehnge of impofitions and importers When " the people, who have no property, eel the power in their own hands, to determine all que (lions by .a majority, they ,eer-attack thofe who bave propetty, till the Itvj'ired - rnen of-property lofe all patience arrd recur to fine'ffe, trick and ilratajrin, to outfit tjiofe who have too much ilrength, becaufe tbey have too many hands too be refilled any other way Let uj be impartial then, and fpeak the whole tjruih. Till we do, we f!ull never d'feover Ul the trfte priori - plerthat ate neeeffary. The. multitude, therefore, at well at nobles,, mtift hrrvs a check. 'This is one pr4ucip!e. " Were the 'people -of ."England free, after they bad obligidkifg J bit to concede to them their ancient rights ?"fhe peopltf never' did this Thn e was no people-who' pretended to any thing. -It, was tbe 'nobles tlone. The people pretended to iiothing but 'to . -ii . - v rr jl . L- . ; -pe villain?, vatiitis anajesaiferrT'i iP5"5gi.' e)r 'the nobU. 'Te pcle agM;. wtrev not fiefjMptluTe :-lt -' dctermnrd, ly . Qjjjothy' of their Votes, pr.lky arms, not; by law. Th'eif feuds depofVd vhfii ;!'-Itys, Edwartts and Richard to gratify loroly ambulon-ipatriclan tivalry, and Faaily pride." But if they had not been iJepof ed, thofe kings would have become tie f pots, becaufe the people would not, and . could not, juin the nobles in any recular i and cor:Hitorio:ial oppofition w. them. They would have become defpots, I ie;eai it, and that by means of .the villai", 1'j1i, - and retainers aforefaidi'' It .is not fairly pride, my friend but family popularity, 'that does the preat mifebief, as well as the gteat goo;J Pride m. tbe heSrt of man. it an evil fruit and concomitant of every ad vantage, of riches, of knowledge, of g n ius, of laleutt, of braoty, of (trcrgth, of vir tuf, and even of pietj. It is Tomet'inej a' ridiculous, and often pernSn'otis, ' but it h even fometimes,; and in fame degree, nfe ul.But jhe pnde of families would be always, aaj only riditulop, if ifhatl .not amity popularity to worlcwhh, The at. tachment and devotion of' the people to forae families, intpires ' them with ruide. . -AlonLr giatituJe.-ir intwft, ambition oi avance, loe, hope or fear (hall be homm ja'OtiM of aft ion, to lng will niimbis at tW.bbeisflj!e.JW!.TJi rtJr.ulatAtmilk . Yheo.ke people will, hi fpight of all rhit can' be id or (ione, cry a man or a family tip t o fle Jlfie, naggetate all his l.ih-tits "8 rid vVwe, not hear a word' of his weak ntfor (anlts, follow Imp'icitlj hiifadvici., detellevry tnn he hateaj adore very man he love, rfpd knock dowc all who will not fwim dowo,u,ie 11 ream with him,, or them, -" where is yov edy? When a man, or ' family, are tl.us popular, 'how can yo pe etit them frevn betng" proud? Vou and I know iiiftances in which populanty has been1 a wiud, a iMci ad a whitUind. The hiftory of all nati"ns and ages is full of fuch examples, .Populatity, that has gtrat fortune to Hsxzle fplendid Jargefkt to ei cite warm gftitud, fublime 'beaut ifiil and uticommon genius or taiedis to produce deepadmitation', or 'airy' thfnjr to fjppott l-hi(jh hopes and llro,Wf fears, will bt proud, and lis pnvwera will htmpldyed to mortify eneinies. gratify f iends procure vol es. c Biojtiirtesand power. Such family po -pularity t ver did, and will goyerp in every , nation, . to' every climate, bot and cold, wet ant) dry aanong civilized and favage peo pleChrillians and Mahometan! jewa - ind Heatkehti Deejafnatioo againft fa- miy ptidfisapvetty juveaile txercifer hot , nnwartby of a Staufman. TbeyktHMT the civil and danger it-fop fcrioMi Oy fport ed with, The only way," God kiowi, i to putthe families in an hole bybcnfelvcs, and let two witches upon.thrraj fuperior to them all on one fide, and thxrople on the other. h.- , -'TlieYe -'are -'a'''fe-pApvnw'p"' In Madactrafetrsmy fjiend, whobave, I fesr, lefs honor, Cncerity. and vittuftbanihey 6ughtio have. ; t'Xbfe. if .theT!ret not gaarded aginjlj, my-tL airou ifn(or ,ttne. ' I hey may-create a party Ipirit. anda mobbrtn Ipirtt, tnttead of ,lpu-'t ot liberty, and produce another Wai TyUr'i rebellion. Tbey cao do n roofj. v But I really think their 'party language ought not to be countenanced, toor tley jShibo lctha pronounced. The tniferable.fioff that (hey utter, about the toeUioiti, is defpi cable as themfelvea. The-fBaA of the Greeks the bicrmet of the F rench the wlg&ornin of the Germans artdriiuicb the beloved families ot the Greeks... ate bat a few famples of national capr&knts of mc-wrae tmng, tor wnicn eery tauan on ejrth Iras the fame expreKon. One would think jtbat our lcribbles were all too of redemtionef3,0rtranfported convifls. They think with Tarquin " In 1100 "popijlo "ubi t) inn is repentina atque exvirtute nobilnai -tit, fu W'rffihtoco'm tortT'ac '.'llreBuo vfro," Let us be impartial. There is njt more of family pride on one Jehan oj yulgsr malignity. and p-roullt envy tn the oiker" "Pcipolarity in (one family raifes eivy,n an oilicv 1 TBuUpopularity of :he lead .deferr ing will Jrionrpli ovei envy an'4 malignity while' that which ia acquired by teal oaerit wHl'Mt y 4fien be overborne and opprt fled by'it. ";Let utdosjuflice to the people, and to the nobles, for nobles there art, as J.have before proved, in Bofton, jii well as 'Mad rid :"but to du juflice to bpth, ou mu.1 ellablih in arbitrarorbetwetn fbem. Thie is another principle. It is time thatyoj and 1 mould havefome fweet comrauae, to gether. I do not believe that we,. r who have preferved for more than thirty Jfffrf, aa uninterrupted 'fn'ehdlhip, and have fo lone; thought and acted harmoniouilv to jjethenn the worft of limes, Hre now fjlfar afunder in feniioieht, as'-fomc peopie-pte-tend. In full confidencs-oPwhicb, 1 pave ufed th's'frsedom. ... i: ' )OffN'ADVfc&, : 'From the Palladium. The following ftatemenllof -Mr. . n?frf A , m'ilion to the' front iere havlkenlb jwi lixtke remarks fubjoiued ir;loLait,ad wsfatfsfaftory, that we feel 'it W U fou 1 rw.'ty well a a pleafure, - to $'4 he; - -hot6''pnWicivjr ' 'Jud-iee and gratlrSide dmiand flbtrt we repel the malicious tacks of the minifleiial committeeupon tie unfpotfd . charaSVen of thofi flit who have facrificed. 'property r,5 lealth to the fcrvice of their country. I Wf ttuil that this, together with wha W ltejdy been pablifited, will fett hf charaeler of tluit partTof the yport whithimp1icatts'Mi. Tracy, anil -prek that this coir niittce have paid aa Utile regard to truth, jallfce or hotwr, V tha httiwney general Or the PreftJcnt fjidifttf could Willi. ! ; C' LUMNY EXPOSED. The facia on which .'the cotnniittte have founded ttat OTTTXif thiit lepoi t which re lates to Mr. Tracy are tbefe Tn flay 'or June, 1800, Mr. T. then a fcitator bf lb United States, was appointed by tie pre Gderit ' to vifit and rlainine into the r&ual fate of the gatrtfol)6, lndiao tiadii)ghoufi? or,.fafl'or1eaf and public property-- of every defciiption, with the1 means of preervfiig r d ilpofing of the fame for the life or con fumption, in the N. W. T, on" the "Miflif fippi, and on the frontiers of Georgia aad Tenntflec ' On receiving this appoint mer-t M r.. T. was t hen at .Ltuhfiek, ; re paired to the feat of goveiament at Wafh ington, for she purpofe of receiving Jlis inllrudione, and of. iettliug the teVral of the ptopofed fervice." According to 'tbe coptraft made with the fecretary at ' war, his cxpences weie t- he born by the pub. l.c, and he was to receive as wages 8 dollars per day.. ' . . Having received his inftruclions, 1c re turned fiom Wafhington to Philadelphia, and from thence proceeded on, his journey to the front iers,"tfu purfulnce of his ap poiiitment He vilited forts Fayette Franklin Pfqu l(lir Erier NisRara, De trait, and Michillimackinac but in coti lequeocejoTa (ewcjUaspwhicHionWd hiin a cpi&Jerabter tiuie 't' Pitifbur, iid ihe latendTs of the feaCon fclien hetettfred from tyjichilliinakinac, h waa unab puifue hit route down the Ohio. He therefore retained from tle lakes direct ly to Walhiogton. . " v - . j. He was imployed in the duties of this rppointmciit, till the 1 6th of November, tHoo, ioclufiye till which' time and Tiit htreeifehjfa aUovAMCt vhich A frequently been made Jo uragtnti for ncgociat- mg treat let. wuo Ktinatans .. f. ' '.'- "'----. 1'' '-It' . ''' Jonger, he was allowed 8 dollars per day. -On the i7th Nov. the day on " which Con .greft met, he took his teat in the fenate, and from that time drew wagea at a fena tor of the United States, to the clofe of the lefCoa, including 6 dollors for every 2b miles diftance between the feat of govern ment apd the place of his refidence. On the i6ih Nov. then, his compenfation un rfer.ihe prefident's appf)iiitmeut teafed j on the 17th his wages fe'nator commenced Jrewibt affato be bbed,"th1ftl'i'or t efy confidetable time after f) took, his feat in the fenate, he was labnnoufly engaged in d;ge(ting aad compleating a long and de tailed report upoa the fubjeds which he was irtllrufled "by the fecrctary at war' to examine ; for doing which he received no compeafation Whatever. . Upon this (late of fccls the committee " caiiaot forbear to remark, that Mr. Tri cy'a acceptance ot this appointment has the appearance, at lead, of inconfiftency with that pat t of the conftitutlun which provices, that " no peifon holding an office under the V. States, (hall be a member of either houft of eoagrefs.' If tlie. accept ance of this appointment was a vio'atiou of the eonftitutiun, fo, -unqueltionably was the expenditure under it. If then, the ma jorijj ;of thepmmitjce Juppofed-it,-.upcan.:. ititutionai, wny aia tiivy not, 111 uc uiciui It !Ie of tepoiting, declare their opinion to be, that it waa fo ? Such an opinion might, it iriTueniave excited 'fotne,,, additional doubts of the fundntfrof their underftand ing t but it-Would cettainly base left a much mtre favorable iurpreffibn at to their inte )rity, than this patt of the leport docs at, it now ftandr, y " " - But the " remait" of the committee on this point is really too ridiculouB to merit ferious difsnfTi.ni. Every office, holdrn under the United States, is created by -the cooftit ution, ot by law. Mr, Tracy's ap. pointirent was a mere agency, created by the executive. Aud if Mr. Jtffcrfon or the commiflioners of the City bf Walhington, under his direflion, had, at the expencc of the public -appointed or employed a mem ber ot either holiCe of Congrefs to ereft a lencc of poll and tails about Congrefs hall, the inveiWcatinc committee niiiht, with as much proptiety, as-in the inltance under coouderation, -have gravely ictiorteJ, that ihe acceptance of ihi appointment liad the appearancf, at haft, of bciue iiictmfillent 1 with the coiifliruu'on ! ! -'.!',- - " r - n.L. -..-- '-i I'V f . 1 ne committee, oeing 'cmife ea 01 tins remark,'. proceed to " find, that, for the lalV 17 dy of. the five rnooiliiwf hit frivlc hndef the Sf!oVe appoiutmerit' Mr, Tra. cy -receivetfight dollars psrday, though 4 at the fame lime, he received as a mem ber of the fenate, fix .dollars per day, fot travelling from LitchGeld, -in Conutfticut. to the feat of government," This' finding of the committee i falfe,' MrTiacy did out draw wages as a membei of the fenate forfeventeen pays, or for any number of days, or fot any one dy, for hich be received compenfation under the above ; ppointment. . He teccivrd, it h true, fix dollars per day, from the fth- ot Nov. for evety day of his'lattendaDce in the (tnrte, to the clofe of the fcflion , and it is alfc fue, that he tecivcd fix1 dollars for e veiy twenty miles dillance between the frat of gbverflmciit and the place of his re fid t nee j though he did not actually travel from LitchfielcHo Wafhington aftet his itr tmn fiom the frontiers. But let it beob fnved, that this la ft fum was riot received as day v;a?es, or as wages for a8ual tiavel. liit law ot Hie L oiied, btates providt.rj lt)at eaih fenator jfhall be allowed, at the, commen'cemetit and tnd of ,ieiy fiffion of Congrefs, fix dollart for every tenrV miles of the etlimated dillance. by the mod I ufual road, fiom his place of refidence to the feat of Coogrefi," This aft docs not contemplate mcmberc of the filiate as tra vellem fora daily flipend. The allow ance, p'efctibed iil it, was intended its a compenfation to fenators, for the inconven ience of being employed in the fervice of the public,' at a diilance from home, but with out repaid to their actual travel in any giv en diftance. It being fuppofed, that this inconvenience would be, in a gveat degree proportioned, as it doubtleTs is, to the ..pif" tances, at which the tefpcSive mcmbtra might 1 tfiile from the feat of government. To eniitle a fer.ator to this part of hu com penfation, it is not, nor was it ever deemed . neceffary that Jie fhouM have travelled the wholejor any part of the diftance between the place of his ielidencc and thefeat of Congrefs for the purpofe bf taking his feat. rk it fufficien't, that he atieudsuin bis place, as hit duty requires and the enquiry it never made, nor is it at all material, whe ther ke Has vifited bis, family, between any two OticcefGve fefCons of Congrefs, or re mained from the clorfe f one feffien to the commencement bf the next, wiibio a ftonc'a call of the capitol. ' It is notorious that the uniform prac tice upon this law, from, the organization of the government to-this time,, has been conformable to this conftruftion t and in other timet than thefe , it would be a fub-j .-.liH",.., ' :. 1 . " ec5 of furprife, that a committee appointed by one branch f the g eat council of ibe j ' nation, to enquire into the expenditures of ": public monies aud to promote national eco. nqmy; fltould have felecled for animadver- ? fion, one folttary cafe, like that in qiieflion, 1 and omitted x gieat . number of others," which they knew to be eafily fimilar to it. TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 180?. Further returns from the EltRlons for Af. femblymeftjr 1 ' ' HALIFAX S. W, Carney, Senator,' Matthew Whitakv7 Sterling Harwell, J CWrtr Baffett Stilh, for tit Town. , NASH. John Arrlngton, Senator. Arch'd. GrifSn, 7 r Joho Hilliard, .''mmm:t, r , EDGECOMBE. Henry Harrifon, Senntor, ( George Brownrigg, I . .,,', Jeremiah Hilliard, f Cmmonm. BERT). : ( George Out la wf- Setmtor. " " Henry Pcterfou "l - -. James Claik. ., t' Cert. ::::p::i:iv'AiiEtr:"r:r; ame Turner, Senator. - -ohn Macklin, l'-' -leobcrt Parke, f Comment. MrtRTIN, John HymaA, Senator. . Jeremiah Slade, I Stnythwick. I Cort, rfc SAMPSON. Gabriel Holmes, Senator. Joab Blackmao, 1 Wm. Robinfon! Comm MOORE. Murdock M'Kenxif , Senator. Henry GaHer, 1 John M'Lcn jon, f Commoner!, ROBESON. Ellas Bsrns, Senator. James M Qyeeo? 7ft f Commmtrt. RICHMOND., . . Jmes Stewart, Senator, . Mofef KmVht, 7 n " John Clark, ' X Camwaw. . ANSC3K. . - 7 . Jamei Marfhall, Senator. - RbkttTroy. J - - -'-fc-- NEW,HANPV;2R.. 5amuei Afhe, (nTajdr )itiuitorf Jarnet Larkitu, r Richard Nixon, $ C9mrmnen ; Jclhua G. Wright, for IViJmwgfom ' - WAYNE. ; , John Coor Pender, Senator. " . James Rhodes,! s VVm. Smith, J Commoner'' . GREENE. Hymiick HookerT Senator. JonaS Williamo, 7 n Willliam Taylor, C" CRAVEN. R. D. Spaiglit, Senator. Wm. Bryan, I 0 r tt mi I Commoners. Lewis l'onveille, Edward Harris, far Nevuher BEAUFORT. ' Henry S. Bonner, Senator." Frederick Grill, 1 . r, EUifosM C8ramon"- PirT. . Tlionjat Williams. Senator. ur. v'.a'A t Comrt. TT III. UllIWl' 'ood, I LtNOIH, , . filiiioti Ci ineti. Senator ". Beni. Wetherineton, and Wm. Goodman, Commoners. JONES. Edmund Hatch, Senator. John Ifler, and 1. Berj, Foidham, Commoners. r CHOWANr -John Bond, Sendlbf . Stephen Cabarrus,-) ,f( Reuben Small, J . ?fVr Nathaniel, Allen, for Edenion, WASHINGTON. Samuel Chefion, Senator. Miles Hardy-and .,r'i John Gnyther, Commonete. STOKES. ; ; Jofeph Winflon, Senator. ' CharKs Banner and . Henry Dobfojn, Commoneri. v. 6URRV. ; Gideon Edwards, Senator. '1 Thomas Wright and ', -. V' 1 , Commeners, MONTGOMERY. Weft Harris, Senator. ; Wm. AJen and V James Sanders, Commoneit. Toney, the property of Mr.jGilmour, Halifax, who was contlemced to be hung, was pardoned by Governor Williams on the 18th inft. " An extraft fronTa petition to the Go- :'''''." :""::" " --!. of CO pa l de of cr ne in B '' Cll at c it d- " J I q p ii tl 1 :;-?r-
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