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1 "'. .- TO ' . THE PEOPLE 7 '" Q ... - .a, , NORTH-CAROLIM -4 - . .. kd ix. . . "V-. -.. In addition to the eVils already ehumerated, T aVinll mntion'ahother.' vi.; that ansinp- from A 4. " 1 ' m ----- J tHc fomentation or neighborhood dispute. When the'mind is oppressed with'dirBcultiesi it is usual and satisfactory to unburthn. itself to those possessed of superior inforoiatiOffir ift- ; the hope that relief may be obtained.- Fronv this principle,: ve may account for the numer ous applications to these Sir Solomons, who constitute so large a proportion of our magis-. trates. ' v, ... . , . As Judge of tne cotxniiy coufts, the hrj, and it seems uic pcopi 100, suppose mai igno rance' is incompatible with tins important sta tion ; and consequently none .it is pres-umed can be so competent to give advice, as those who are invested wkhTthe power to decide a controversy. Can we then feel surprised at the absurdity, of' decisions when reduced" to; a legaljortti, when', we remember the probability. ahk private opinions .and possibly private in- ' ..-.tercsta have previously settled the point. - Vanity, the cluldof pride, most frequently prevents the refracllwvof 'an opinion, however ridiculous, und .a dereliction of justice would iollor.sponerthan thi? acknowledgment of an 7 error The-obvious result of the premises will be, found to be. this : When a poor man imagine an invasion pf his rights to have been effected, he naturally applies to a neigh boring squire for the method of procedure. From this enlightenedtsource, he receives that informa' ion which he has much reason too of ten to repent. Encouraged by him " who 'ought' to know," he proceeds, and not unfre- quently involves himself and an innocent fami lyin all the horrors of poverty jf whereas had he hot received pernicious, though gratuitous counsel, he might have still enjoyed the com forts of domestic tranquility whilst the bond ot amity no'V forever broken between him and his successful opponent might have remained without a blemish. The consequences do not terminate here ; family quarrels extend far in deed, and hosts of relations are placed bya series of concurring causes, in hos'ile array against each ot&er, i ne oojeci oi ( govern ment should be to reconcile as much as pos siWeilhe contrariaht dispositions of the go verned. Fr this purpose all measures tend ing1 so manifestly to disunion, should be sed u - iousiy avoiuea. , "tOne great cause of that ignorance so visible among Our justices, is a utyicv-i mciaiuit in almost all Us branches.1 Most of them f am convinced, do not even comprehend the jheaningfof the word education" or as they Jnost commonly pronounce it edicatian. As a further specimen of the classical pronunciation of these gentlemen, U it remembered . that ' " guageen," is substituted for guardian, "ol phin'for rpharju'rrrs,r;for jurors, cum tnulris alii. Qan 'men who cannoi pronounce the most common' words in the English lan guage be fit for the important offices of judg es? - '. It is, I am afraid, a received opinion, that . r . . . ... . an education consists in me acquisition oi tne ability tofreadith lolen.ble fiuciicy, and suf ficient knowledge of ariihu a' c io calculate the interest oh a note., lie. who is th is hap pily and abundantly outlined," looks forwaid ' with confidence to the support of hsfelo:i-ci tizeni and amply competent to bit in the state legislature,' in congress or,, on the bench. In . . this dearth of imf.-.rmation, since "the most I important offices in the government, should be entrusted to tltbse .who are best able to dis. Charge, the: duties annexed to ..them, and the number capaiHe oHinSwenrTg the expectations of the public being few, the'hHCe inevitably falU Verv" often on those' who are in -a great measure incompeient to tne lasx imposed. tivtwr thf imhwilitv, of our legislative and o- thef public botlies. Hence the mfciior station held by the state of NortlwCaioUna, compared with other parts of the confederation.- It will i pe reauuy aomiueu inat .cvuttnn)iw mc Wore generally followed than good. The" """ carelessness of too many of oui citizens oh the ciirMPrr rii i iir ,di it ji lias a, iiiciL'uj iwnviii? ,cy. not barely temporary. When talents and literary in formation are not the criterion of public favqr,though accompanie'd . with patri otrsm and wortljthere exists no inducement if those who can afford, it think the advantages r literature not worth the seeking we may wj. - i , rest -assured that those in a less afHuent situa tion, will feel.little desire for their possession tVe should ftot ho weverforget, that in prOpor miantnm o& frcnerai information and virtue, the prosperity of a country must be advanced and retarded, ahd that the blaze of . learning is far preierable "to the nust of igno- .:.;.v- '' ' ;' SENTINEL. Toa thk Minerva. "yho should we blame, 'the 'Governor and Ciflrncil for not convening the State Lfgisla tiir'e taranu-a mere momentary, relief and .... - ry-. "r - - .v.Aa ira Yin rt qnnrxr- iir i nt a. .11:1' ' 1 iii the United -States for imposingjipon the peo , the measures that have produced these exv ' treme hardships under which w5 now graan I In vam may we expect to allexiatp.or. res- "cue ourselves from the ravaging hand of de- . " " r- . O tyfanny and not , against the tyrant. In this state of oppression it is.. not, presumable'4 we f .iall virtually effect a restoration of our liber ties ; an attempt is remove the evil by appli catiori tohVformcr invigbrajind strength ens the latter, it weakens aitlistracts the sounder parts-and greatly facihtateathe ma chinatiohsof designing men: Strike not at, the effect buat the rau ;.when the ; cause or movingjmnciplc ceases to exist "ir to operate, the effect of Uself disappears. " . Our state laws that enforce the payment of just dues are, not,! hope, considered in them selves opprtfcive; if however they have he- come so, tne evu is not in me iaw, oui m vur situation produced by men in authority iphoae meqmrcs in the general gdvernment has so clogged the weals of the body-politic, as have rendered the situation of-lndividuals incompe-" tent to a compliance with their private con-tracts--rand in a national point of view, I fear almost beyond a constitutioualrernedy. True it is, the people stand in need -of some frii-ndly assistance: Their situation in every direction is truly distressing; the sensibility even of the most 'tranquil is roused to know their future destiny j indeed, the ieoplein ge neral begin now to discover that they have pur suvd the onl party far enough ; that they have iit'en ....misled is a matter incontesiably true ; t at non4mportation acts and embargo laws wk& passed more to favor part) purposes than to Benefit the nation, are facts incontrovertible ; ih.it the it it cause of their distresses are burst ing through the saUe mantle of party subtle ties amidst the multitude of metaphysical re- Jinements, in which party views have been en veloped, is now within the perception ot a pri vate citizen and that the people mav have cause, we long t ) rejolct , in seeing that the inexplicable mysticism which characterise the two last years of the present administration, is insufficient to repel the sternly inquisitive glance of enlightened investigation, is a mo mentous period devoutly wished for. In this state of strange conihsion have the people been so blindly led astray by thene new tangled politicians, emtrgo nagct and rrrtf kctpers " whose services in the Jitld and la bors in the cabinet" have appeared so eminent ly beautiful ) paper that, by 'them, correct principles seemed evidently destined to the fangs of persecution. i- But, fellow-citizens, the correct.ive is In you ;. wherefore then should you not direct your enquiries with equal candour and perse verence into the conduct of men whom we aid ed in placing. Rt the head of affairs, as we would in the conduct of those to whom w were opposed I Are they"" not all men f And do we not feel in an equal degree the good and bud effects of their eonduct ? Why then tdiould numes, and names ont, destroy the salutary ef fects of enquiry ? Let it le shown", before we surrender the privilege of investigating even onr own party, in what age ambition erased to be the attribute of men in power, , Be nut there fore instrumental in gulling down the great fa bric'of civil institutions : add not to the imbe cility of the present measures by the degrad ing alternative, the last a free people could a dopt in a government like this, that is a sus pension of your laws inp'me of peace : let not this be your first, buta? corrective : exercise your con ective powers in the goyd old consii. tutional way- a thangt of men that will woik a change of measures for the better. The cause will then le removed and the evil no. jpnger, felt. Your laws will then glide "on in their straight and usual vyay, and without oppressi on. Open your ports to all friendly nations that chuse to come hither and buy. Your surplus produce would then bring-something like its real value; money would become more plenty and the circulating medium of the xountry no longer confined, to the coffers of the speculator. j But to those o oppose bo'h the "raising of the embargo and the suspension of the ex tcution laws." What no relief J ' Ye that have been the followers -of such men, what think you of. such doctrine ? Should you net be up on your guard when you hear trpublicana avow sentiments of this kind ? These gang way lead ers, high sounding pretenders, care, as little for the national welfare, as the Pope of Rome does for the soul of a man for which he is paid" for pretending to p M out of pvrgatoiy. Fel low.citizens, look about you ; divest yourselves of party prejudices ; u think ad judge,1 for yourselves ;" do not confine your apolitical sen timents to t bote mho study to mislead i' examine both sides of the question before you yield to the one or the other ;"you hive heerfled long enough " by the fiction of . democratic' ..edi tors, who generally publish six months before hand the course' our ruers are to pursue, by which thev foreclose the Dublic'ooinion. where by, you lose sightibf facts. T'hese editorstooF- .are well versed in party trick tf, and"possess a happy nack in converting treachery into repute licanisTTU But it fnay be enquired vvIkj these editorsare : Are they natives ? No. Are they respectable and well meaning foieigners ? No. BuijAhey are men that' have come hither be cause they were, nof permitted to reside in their native country rsw in America they ate the apologists of our rulersand the calumnia tors of our bestrpatnots.iVitnessflieir a buse on the Boston and Vewhuryport petition- ers " praying the President to suspend the em.r bargb lavvs as relates to Spain and Portugal." Says Billy: Duane, m before the British orders of council are revoked, and the Milan decrees recalled, the voters of these petitions require thelExecutive to do-what be has not the pow ,er to do' t Is.this"tl:e language of truth? Or does htColoml wish; to impress upon the" minds of the people thatahe President has not 1 VVillUm DMane ii the ej wan -ho congmtulztcd the people oftte Umied State Upm Ot-iveral.Washlngton'i r lircment fiompubiic liie. This Irishmen bat lately been appoifltcdwtaecjnuuaiidolaa Aaieriwaiiregajcnt, the same power in recommejntf ngthe stjsperW ionf measures, as he has vt rccorhrhending their adoption. What has (hp i British orders of council or trie Milan decree loMflo with the President's constituted powers ?rBut the fact is, ahese unfortunate petitioners are making exer tions tp throw off the galling yoke of the French despot, and their hew arrangements are likely to open a door through which com mercial advantages may pass to the U. States, and the embargo as we have always predicted, terminate in its own obstruction and to tne ir reparable injury of the nation. ' , " Again we are told by these editors, " that the President has not received any official ac counts of the revolutions in Spain andPortu gal, from his accredited agents irUhosc coun tries." u It wonldjbe ridiculous," sd'y these, commentators of executive matters, 44 for the chief magistrate of this nation, to have exer cised his power on the faith of Colling wood s, dispatches or the public prints" of Trinidad." Why, not then tell us with equal candour, from whom did the President and Congress obtain their official accounts of the British or ders of council being enforced when the em bargo law passed. Did the President receive" them officially from his accredited agents at London, or uasit on the'urifAof Champagny's dispatches or the public prints 'of London'? "The same sort oi accounts now offer for the suspen sion of the embargo, in part, as induced the President to, recommend its adoption, and yet these editors wow turn about and say the Pre sfdent h has not the power;".,! It is a well known fact that the embargo law passed before' it was officially known to either the Executive or Congress, that the British orders of council were e nforced. .. .: Thus, fellow-citizens, we see, that they'll quire greater reasons to relieve your distress es than is required to impase them ; and the 'only reason to be assigned for it by an impar tial mind is, that we have Tndulged ' spirit - to such a degree that our rulers have lost sight vipubjc interest. I have been necessarily led toi take notice of those rem rks published by the democratic e diiois, to show that they adoca"te the embat. go upon very different principles than is held out to the4people; that they wotild sooner drive iw into dangerous innovations than leftn. quish a favorite party measure, is too obvious to admit of a single doubt. And wjll you, fel ' low-citizens, continue to be the sport ofgfith men A CITIZEN OF EDGECOMBE. - rm-theffuntingdoti-Gazfttc::' TO THE PUBLIC. Having a9horttime since, receivedthemost indecent and ungentlemanly treatment from Mr. Patrick (iwiri, in 'the public market place of this borough, in consequence of my having noticed certjin expressions lie should have made use of when electit nccring with the people of Woodcock Valley ; -I-am, obliged, in justification of my own character, to mke this public declaration, . that I am in possessi on of certificates from my informants, men of the most unblemished characters, which go to prove that he the said Patrick C w in did declare to them, 44 that we ought to support Bonaparte in opposition to Ergland ; that En gland must fall in the coarse, of two or three years ; and that -Bonaparte never came into any country withouumaking better laws for the poor people than they had before ;" and further, u that he believed we would live bet ter under the government of Bonaparte than under our own, and. that it would he better for us to join him than England, because that all the conn trie st hat were conquered by Bonaparte have better laws now than they had before.?' - '. w "A '' Now I challenge Mr. Gwin to meet a le gal investigation on the subject qf these charg es, the result of which will - prove, Jha the epithet "'liar' which he so liberally, bestows on others, .wBl be more applicable to himself, and that his denial of the fact will nor answer his party. purpose The melancholy circum stance of there being -a French party in this country, has become tbo notorious for any of1 its partizansto get clear ot the infamy which await them. it-. " "- JONAS RUDIS1LL. Iluntingdon, Augie 1 80S " STAf E' OF l lCNN ESSJtt, Mero JUistrici, .. ;.. May Term, 1808. IlughXlwinn anxl-Saflyh.js wifcT and others, comftiainanls'f I . - .- .vt.r Uri guity. William Rice Sc others, dtfts. J . "THIS day appeared Ihecomplainant's, by their courvsel ; and it appearing to the satis faction of the court, that Williamson Rice, Nathan Rice, Jeremiah Rice and John Rice William Clifton and Sally his wife, Elizabeth Rict and lAViiliam II. Rice, a.re citizens ot Caswell county inhetate of North Carolina , an5 Edward Rice aiuT Iltiirietlajh1swiare iuzens of Rockinghriv county; innhesafff sUte afoftsaid ; and - - Pustle, of the stale of North-Carolina -whereby the ordinal y pro cess of this court cannot be served on tKt rn, : Therefore on the motion of the complainant it is ordered by the court, that publication be Torthv ith made in the Minerva, published in ithe city of Raleighy three UmeScpminanding . t irJTrj -i j'"j. . . . uie uioicsaia leienuiuus io appear iiere on tha second Monday in November next1; theri and there to answer, the bill of the complain ants, otherwise the'sarhe shall be taken for confessed as against them. - r. Teste, B. SEARCY, c, M. c, 8. K0RTU.CAR0LINA, IREDEU COUNTY, S tinat tern ; John Waus " n W'B' " VS. . '! Samuel Woodsides. Original jfrt7ff,.i .-. .. . acres of land, andmillsc. nj session of David Hagdtai - court, Uiat in cast the said Samuel 6 fails to appear within' thehree ? the next quarter sessions, andm Js said lands. Sec. judgment 'htT taken against htm, and that this order b it hshed successively, three weeks iath: , v'- JOHNNESBtc,r in - - SAUSBURY KACES7 mil commence on the 9th (fOctUef next " j continue four days. ; i H FIRST day, for 3 year old colts, mined the districts of Salisbury and Morgan T following three days free for any hone cr gelding, carrying weiglts agreeable rules of the turf. . F.'MARSHALL, 7Wr. Sept. 6. To the . Citizens of the 'Electoral Dktrkt, cm posed of the counties Henvan, liandolph a, i Cabarrus. "4,, Gentlimin, ' FROM the solicitation of some cf my Tel. low-citizens, accompany'in-g -a wish ot'rende ing service to my countrv at a time lit. ,i' present, wRCn the voice four nation calls it a rearess ot . her grievances, lrnluces me thu to address you ; and hereby tender my scr vice as a'candidate for the appointmeiit of m elector for President and Vice-President of Jthe United States. As the important dutj of an elector requires the , grcatist degree of caution and candor, it being nctorly his choice but ot his constituents, dtfern it necessarf to-inform you that my opinion for a series of time has been and still is in favor of Ma. James Munroe, and if elected I shall thus rote ; that is to say, for Mr. James MJnroc as President, unlws a change should take place sulhcitt -to convince me that a differ ent vote would be more advantageous and satislactory to my constituents. 1 At present I ietl disposed to reserve the cboice of Vice President, as I expect there will be a suflki. ent number , of candidates from which there ill ' I 1 ! . f win oe made a cnoice lorine peneat ot tLs . I r. ii ' - V ucsscu icuow-eiuxeua. I remain, Gentlemen, Your very humble serv't, L JOHN B. MASTERS. Cabarrus county, Aug. 17. - '3w OFFICE OF 4 DISCOUNT. ' . Salisbury, Jug. 23, 1808. NOTICE is hereby given, that the BcnTfof Cai)e- Fear has opened an oirice of Discounts this place, for tne! accommodation of ihdiw- duals, vith loans of money on the terms au thorised by the charter of incorporation ; snil that Tuesday of every week is the day fixtd for receiving applications. Persons intrdig to apply at this oltice for, such loans, are re ouested to draw tlitir bonds m the form pre scribed by the' regulations of the Bank, anl lodge, them-with the subscriber uetore w Oclock ot the forenoon ot ald day. 1 ne w counts, if'auVhorised by tlie Directors, will l declared by ope o'clock, and prrt menis made in uie aiiernoou. JOHM.STi:tLE,. for the Bank of Cape-Fear Tilli PUBLIC TAXLS. . , V ' . ... -: North-Carot.Ina. TreaxvruQffice. jfucustSh l8. To the Sheriffs anH other Revende Office of the State aforesaid SiW have already ac- countea ior anu paiu upurc - , public dues of the current year, this isnct at- i' .'...A-.' -l .a: Vf almve AC' uiesseu i otuusc ohh-w v (hit; indistiensable duty ): to perform, it is conshteied as being only J cessary to say, that counting on their ' punctuality and faithfulness, the ruwic o.-ttn will U settle- pay in full on or before the' 1st day of Ocw nfvt. as eon red bv law. Miouid u "' ;; stance happen otherwise, judgments involwj 'alLflie forfeitures .and "penalties prescribea i tK.' -,rm oFsscmblv fri such. cases ra .i :i' ..- i .u ;t fiie bfBccrc. ,...z r '.,4,sw. c.-.npnr Court the county of Wake, whichillcomme the 3d darbf the said month, of Octobei b i,iiv kaYWUUVi- - fail Trt'W STRAYED from : the subscribe Prince's bridge, on Newhope, a sntal 1 bay MARE, about four feet nine men uve years oia iasi &i , ---- , t, brand on her -of any kind , (pace . W. cShtcrsrme above rcvaru -- with -all reasonable e Vices, )Krr veryof the said mare to 1 , . l ii...t t oft her 3?" or securing ner . . vC,'M' . Chatham countX'jJuly l5' C MltlTIA LAWS OF ' Just ifiublUhcdi rtdfvr tult & " A,
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