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TO THE FKEEMEN- OF THE COUNTY
OF WAKKt.
-e forward a a candidate for a sea'
The House of Commons. I am fully
Iruc that you may be told, by dtv
pen, and probihly not wihour er.
'hit I am a Xawyrnaod lhcr:fo:r
I", unfit character io reptesent you -
n objrdion of this sort should
tiTC Kerned currency in so enlighten-
. touniry as t'uh appears to me
Snewba! strange-"? The only possible
rise, wherein ihr interest of a lawyer
rtuld come in oppuuiuu w w ,..w
r-tat btly f yu is whcrc b,U shou,d
broughi before the housr for raising
A topics feew I hardly suppose there
inygrmlefninofitut profession, ho w
Tcr y;n!idhc may be,' who would be so
t'iul to hi own real "interest, as to girc
$' Si o that good opinion which his fel
i Ji!iz:ns miirht entertain of him,
mcrtlf for the sikt or pocketing a frw
t(Mi'ional pence. - Bui the futility or thi
cicf tion, mil more fully appear, if you
cccsid.r, that lawyers are notddpen
fain cp .n the LegUIarure for their fee? ;
tit, like any other cUss of citizens, mjy
prii, their labor according to ihcir skilU
A sk'lful Lawyer? liki a skilful mecha
t:', rr.?y ct a price upon his strrices,
ia? if be should no; meet with employ
w, it will tc entirely optional with
bim, to desert h profeswon or lower
price. Should the Legitliuire think
prr.ftfrlo pj a Uw, that a Blacktmith,
should only have so much for 'hying a
p; u$h-boe ; " a ooa sinun iuuiu
tblnt nis too little you must pay him
); ofice, or he will not do your work
AJ.hcre, I do no hesitate to say, that
the merf. rence cf the Legislature with
the fees of Lawyers, Is not only absurd,
tut ihe height of miusU c, and, that a
w to compel a lawyer to manage an
latiicate and dtmcuit cause, wnicn may
tc-:b!v require a month's hard study,
fcrthr sanir compensation that he. would
rectiTe for merely getting a judgment
cn a plain bond, could only hare ongi-
rated, in an illiberal, and nairow-rninaeci
jealousy. As to the prevailing opinion,
thi he practice of the law ha a ten
denci to derroy a man's integrity, even
if ihi b- so, have not the people as god.
uj, t will say, abetter oppoitunity of
jodnp of the integnty of a Lawyer tnan
tic? hsTcofthatofanyolherman'k? Is it
ta, if he has got into practice, daily put
to the test I And should he e found
cot waminc should he come through
lilc pur- gf.ld, surelyi a habit of reading
ind commtntincr upon the laws of hi
ceur.try must render him better quali
Ltd for the formation oflawMhan a man
whose employrocnt leads him into a dif
fer- nt train of reflection. Another ot-
ttr inn trv Lawyers, as Legislators, is,
thnt it is to their interest to make laws
is cnmplicaf cd and unintelligible as pos-
i.bc If thi-' bjc.-.tion has jny tounti
tijoVi truth, I. answer, that by select'
any other class of men, the same
torcl is produced, though from adifle
rtnt cause. The confusion which is ap
fsrthended from the design of tb Law
yen, I iil venture to assert, has been
already produced from the ignorance of
thtvc who have been hitherto selected
iilcgnlatois ; ai d I dare say, that the
tnest artful set of Lawyers in the State,
if they were to club their wits together,
cculd no form a rooretnys'eiious set of
than some which are .to be found
tn our statute bonk. This extreme jea-
wy nf the Lawyers, is not jutthrd up
cn a reference to the Legislative rn
crtd ngsof the State for I bilieve fev.
if nt instance can be adduied,'of .. bill's
fce:n intrrxluced or supported by 'Law
Jfrs which con'cmrlatcd an encreas-
f f-s. Ii.s ed cf Uiis. that .class of
fc'-N has b-en generally opposed by
thm ; und so far from the membtrrs of 1
tf l'.jnlaur apprehending that L-w-
)' are dangerous persons to frame
l-.they arc the very persons who -te'
t .1 y s leeted to draw bills. N t
I sh u!d recommend a Legislator
c. wjitacJ entirely of Lawyers ; all I
c-w.n't f r ii, ihat there is no greater
Ciu - r jra;ou,y against Lawyers than
'! 'ih.rclas of men; and that some'
.rwoiQ tly neces&ary, as it is to be;
P e :nint, ih.t they are better draf:s
thkn other whok- avocations huYe;
' l -rir.g thai way. It may proba-
h- Jv Mid, (as I understood it was
V n j Irrc offerer!) that you should
a prtf. rrnce to men of jgr and ex-
' t- e. T.i is riht But, (hen, I
4 Lin know how did these men ac
quire their experience ? .It was not by
being cut off from all opportunity of ob-
taming it in their youth, I his .expe
rience was not an intuitive donation. It
was from their being trained to it in
early life. These men cannot be al
ways upon the stage of action. Pm.
dence, therefore, veems to dictate that
there should be others ready to take
their places when they are gone; To
close (be avenues of experience to youth,
isto keep a man. always a boy ; and I,
Ft my part, see ho difference between
having young and old hoys in the Le
gislature. You may also be told, that
you ought to send good, solid, substan
tial Planters. Far be it. from me to of
mm m a n V .
fer any species of disrespect to this most
useful and res pectable class of the com
munity ; but a man may be a very good
pl.nter, yet a vrry clumsy legislator
The pursuit of agriculture has no very
intimate connection with the science of
Lerslatirn.
A man, gentlemen, when he is giving
his vote, is riot acting solely for himself,
but for the rest of the community, and
what is still more, for posterity. He
should lay aside his partialities and pre
judices, and bestow hi suffrage upon
that man, whose talents and integrity
best qualify him to fill the ofBcc. The
correctness of this, as a theoretical max
im, every body is ready to admit, buj ve
ry few reduce it to practice. (Most peo
ple, because they apprehend no imme
diate danger, are too apt to let their par
tialities or prejudices get the better of
their sobc- judgment ; and. indeed I
have heard some, express themselves,
so totally indifferent, s to declare them
selves ready to bestow their suffrage on
that m m who would give them th most
rrrnrr. An anrthtr untjrnrthv n frfr-man
or the enioyment of freedom ! but
' v tan f -
which receives too much countenance
from the present mode of canvassing.
For it seems that all a m m has to do, tn
the present dar to become popular, a'.id
qualify himself for a seat in the Legis
lature, is to neglect his private concerns,
devote hiros If entirely to going about
the county, besotting the people with'
1 1 1 . 1 ir
CrO anu uaruacuc 3 anu 11 111 uuumuu t
to this he has acquired a hyjocriiical j
rrtn, an endearing qurexe of the hand,
has eot by rote a few cant phrases of
14 how do you do my old friend, how
does your wife and family do :" is bless
ed with a pood stock of impudence, and
backed with a long string of kin, he ac
quires the reputation of a great electio
necrcr, and is ofcourse qualified for all
ihe duties ot a legislator. Not that I
am opposed to, o-think there is any cri
minality in a man's (when he offers him
self as a candl'a e) going about for the
purpose of forming a personal acquain-
ance with the people ; for it is my o-
pinion the people have a right to expect
t of those who solicit their suffrages ;
nor do I think therr is anvcjinunality
in a candidate joioioin social festivity
occasionallytruh his fellow citizens
when thry meet at puohc places, or of
his complying with the old adage of
u touch pot, touch penny nor of his
endeavoring to render himself popular
by a fair and liberal display of his own
alents, if he has any. What I am op
posed to is, the making these meetings
nothing but a perfect scene of drunken
ness and debauchery ; the merr vehi
cles of lying, detraction and intrigue of
the lowest species. It is a lanuntablr
tiuih, that this mode ot canvassing is
getting to a most alarming height in
ur country? a heght, which, I am
afraid, threatens the very existenceof our
sacred and fair-famed political instiru-
ions. rl am almost ready sometimes.
witli an old Grecian author to exclaim,
the law punishes with death the man
truilty of giving bribes, bu we advance
11m to the command of our armies, and,
he more criminal he becomes in this
respect, with the higher and more lucra
ive honors is he invested. Those who
court popular favor, by lavishing their
own we 1th to flatter the passions f their
adherents, are very improper guardians
of the public wealth. The 4sad .x;e-
rirnce of history teaches us, that all free
governments have remainrd free only so
long as the great body of the people
were virtuous and incorrupt ; whenev-r
they became otherwise, they were en
slaved. History also teaches that th
corruption of the people by bribes and
expensive amtisemeiits,has been the first
step in the ladder to' preferment for de
signing and ambitious men. In this
country the people are he source of all
rmver, from them all legislation is im
mediately dcrivtcT; should they bfconic
corrupt, then, ' arcwcll,-a loo fare-;
H well to all our greatness.
ried and fastidious with excess of crimi-
nal indulgence, lose all capacity or relish
for solid and manly occupations. To
fill up the vacuities bf their listless lives,
they loiter and saunter about public pla
ces, in constant search, of 1 heir accus
tomed pleasures, neglect heir families
and concerns, dissipate their fortunes,
and when thus reduced, they become so
mean and debased as to be fit instrii
raents for any bad purpose. To expect
from wretches thus degraded, any thing
like that manly independence of soul
which should characterize frcemcp,
would be as absurd as to look for pure
water from a muddy fountain, tn such
a state of society, justice is. exposed to
sale, virtue or abilities always in danger,
often in disgrace. When such princi
ples and manners become prevalent,
nothing is wanting to carry the most ex
travagant and pernicious d-signs into
execution, but a daring and profligate
leader, such a one as, Rome saw in Ca
talioe, and such as we have lately seen
even in these United States, who from
gambling houses, bawdy hobses, and
probably from electioneering grounds,
had like to have collected a band of
u choice spirits, men above the dull pur
suits of civil life," sufficient to alarm our
peaceable cizens.
For my part, my fellow-citizens, I
must contess that my claims to your
suffrages are no,t founded upon any great
pretensions to electioneering skill, for I
have nevtr been very ambitious of pos
sessing the art, believing as I do that
it's acquisition requires neither talents
or inttgrity. Nor have I any claim
founded on family influence, ready upon
all occasions, to puff the most trifling
transaction of myt life, and throw a gloss
over my foibles ; but on the contrary,
I know I have Rome enemies, ready to
seize upon the slightest faul and mag
nify it in o a crime. It is our just pride
and fairest boast, that we live under a
government of la 3 and not of men ;
between liberty and despotism this is a
distinguishing criterion. It is amongst
the most precious results of such a go
vernment, that it affords every man a
fair pporlu nit y of aiming at preferment,
and every honest man may aspire to the
first office in the country, if he merits it.
I shall make no professions of an ex:
trcme desite to serve you, because such
professions coming from me Would be
useless ; but will candidly confess that
my object in wishing to get into the Le
gislature, is as much for my own im-
provementas any thingelse; and (which
I think I may say without incurring the
impuation of vanity or detraction) be-
ieving myself as well qualified, both in
poi .t of talents and integrity, for the disr
charge of the duties of a representative.
as any of the gentlemen who have yet
thought proper to solicit your suffrages.
I hink in doing this, I have only exer
cised that right, which belongs to every
man, of endeavoring to promote himself
by all laudable means. ' k
The style of this address may be said
to be arrogant, and the meie affectation
of independence ; that I have too much
pride and too little address to solicit
your suffrages in the usual way. Should
this be said, I would refer you to the u-
niform tenor of my Itfe, since I have
been of an age to act and think for my
self. I defy any man to charge me with
sycophancy to the rich, or haugtiness to
the poor. I court none, but endeavor
to be as civil as I can to every man 1
think an honest one, and treat none with
contempt but those I think differently5
of. A different mode of conduct, in all
probability, miht be conducive to my
intrrest. If I could flatter and fawn up
on the affluent and successful swind'er
could suppress the honest indignation of
mv soul at meanness, and n t (like acer
tain' facetious author,) when I h-?arof
" a dirty action,' involuntarily, and with
out regard . to the person who did it, be"
ready to exclaim he is a dirty fel
I w." I might at this day have stood
higher in popular estimation. . But the
liberty of expressing my sentiments
frerly and without reserve, I would not
exchange for any advantage and that
popularity which is obtained by a sup
pressionoT honest feelings, 1 scorn to
seek. All I am ambitious of acquiring
it the esteem of honest men the coun
tenance of a different class I contemn
'WILLIAM MILLERS
Jmy 11, 1810. . .
May be had at J. Gales's Stoie Price TiR
PRICE & STROTHEH's
MAP ofmRTH CAROLlNA
, On Canraaand RollersL : -
Men wea' PETITION ' TO PARLIAMENT; .ajstci,toreatencd to jjuMntnpcu-v
of ' 1 :1?tioncrfor prcs
THE CITIZENS. OF LONDON, .
... .
To the
ed K
in Parliamen
The humble Address, Remonstrance, and Peti
tion of the Lord Mayor , Mdermen, and Live-
ry of the City of London n4 Uojnmon Mall a
sembled, this 4th dayof May, 18f0- ; ' . "
, We. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen,
and Livery of the Citv of London, in
Common Hall assembled, beg leave,
with feelings of the most anxious con
cern, to present this, our humble ad
dress, petition, apd remonstrance,
and we earnestly entreat your Hono
rable House to give it a favorable
ception ; for how can we hope for
dress and relief, if the bare statem
of the wrongs and grievances of which!
we complain, be rejected ? Wre also
betr Vour Hon. House to believe, that,
in the language we ma v have occasion,
and arc, indeed, compelled to employ,
no offence is intended to your hono-
rable house
The circumstance which most deep
ly afflicts us, and which most strongly
impels us at this time to approach
your honorable house, is, what ap
pears to us to have been on vour part.
a violation of the personal s-cufitv of
the people of the land. We humbly
conceive, that without a hearing, you
have condemned them Law re
quires legal process and trial by jury
of our equals ; justice demands that
no person shall be prosecutor, juror,
iudpre, and executioner in his own
cause. We beg leave to express our
conviction that this eternal principle
of immutable justice, cannot bean
nulledby anyrnuse of commons by
anv King bv any Parliament by a-
ny Legislature upon earth. But it
appears to us that your Hon. House
has, in the instance of Mr. John Gate
Jones and Sir Francis Burdett, as
sumed, accumulated, & exercised all
these offices.
We feel it a duty which we owe to
you. to ours -lves, to our posterity, to
state, that in our, conception, this ju
risdiction is unfounded, and we hum
bly but firmly declare our opinion a
gainst the existence of this power in
any hands ; a jurisdiction unknown
a power above the law, and which
could be enforced only by military vio
lencea violence made manifest by
the breaking open an Englishman's
castle, and by the preceding and sub
sequent murder of peaceful and unof
fending citizens.
Permit us humbly to observe, that
the construction of your honorable
house prevents our surprise at this
conduct of y our honorable house We
will not enter into details, so often and
so ably stated to your honorable house ,
by which it appears, that upwards of
three hundred members of your hono
rable house, in England and Wajes
only, are not elected by the people, in
any honest sense of the word People,
bin are sent to your honorable house
by the absolute nomination or power
ful influence of about one hundred &
fifty Peers and others, as averred in a
petition to your honorable housed in
the year. 1793, and which remainon
your journals uncontroyerted. This
is the great constitutional disease of
our countryr This is the true fbot of
the evils, corruptions, and oppressions,
under which we labor. If it be not'
eradicated, the nation must perish ,
In support of this oUr Sincere con
viction, we need only to refer to the
never-to-be-forgotten vote of your hp
norable house, refusing to examine e
vidence oo-.a charge against Lord
Castlereagh and Mr. Perceval, then
two of the Kind's ministers, for trafV
ficking in seats in your honorable
hou-e ' -v. .
We remember well, that when it
was gravely averred, and proof offer
ed, in a petition which stands on your,
j o urnals, and the5 complaints whereof
are nowunfedressyd for more than
20 years' " That seats for legislation
in the House of Commons were as no
toriously rented and bought as. the
standings for cattle at a fair' the then
honorable house treated the assertion
Honorable the Commons of the Unit- ji vow the traffick, and SCreen-tROse acrf;
inborn of Great-Britain and Ireland, .fiXUSC(J rjf this' breach of hw and right, t
t assembled. w K.:,: ; uj...; u :UuJ?Ali'i
with affected indignation and the
I I
and libellous petition." But; we baVrit
Ji lived, to -see a house, of commons
tnmons a -v&rt&M
11 1 Ji-i aiiHr 11 nxs ur-rrii run. nv Luiiiiuiiir
;en equ
ted by all partieIa was a" priceW
'as notorious as the jsun at nborwla
At this votevand at these ptav49?iA
we feel as "4ou ancestors wbmd have
felt," and cannot? repress therexpres- -
sion of out indignaribn1 &( disgusti 4v
- unaer Hncsericjrcura5nceStr
we not be perrtittil to askwherfs i&M)
vour mstice, wnere your aigau.i i
ivi r j onn uaie; j ones is connnea vyitn- i
of theei 'realms or Veti tjg ri s t th e; 1
King himself, must have beenjudged ;,
b the established rules, and ' i vs of
J the land ! Lord Qaseregticofe
to be a pnncipaLminister ot the crotyn,
and is now a free member of your
honorable house I Sir Ftatici Bur
dett, dragged by a militarjffbrty Prm. '
the bosom of his fmijn isomrnitted y
to the tower for exercising :
of constitutional discdssibh comTnpri s
and indeed undeniable to you, tp us7
to all. M r. Spencer Perceval -.conti ¬
nues a member -of uxjhd
house, tark ihg y leatd X h uifleji Geraf
tions, the first rrunister:o theroiyn.?
and the chief adviser of the;rbyal
council. , : jv;-,Sp:::'
Under the acroniiihff feelinc: excited
pv tne late imprisonment ot iour rel
low-subjects, can it be necessary ;for
'tis to recapitulate the many instances ,
as thus appear to us, ot relusals td in
stitute jtist arid necessary i nqui ry(Jtpj ,
pursue : to condign punish !
lie d- linqut nts and peculators, to cecpy )
nomise the pieabs ancl respurc oll
the state to4rJmihistrJo '
elief and redress lor the various diSr'
graces which the natipnal honor has '
sustained. For the lavisK profusion of'
British blood and treasure, extra va
gantly wasted lin jll-cuntrivedtapd
frui tless ca m paigns, and more partir;
cularly in thV humilian
minious expedition to the coast of"
Holland j in which the eatest arma
ment that t ver left our shores was ex
psed to the scorn, contempt aricl irj.
dicule of the enemy the flavver of
our youth wastefpUy and wantonly5
left ingloriously W perjth in the pes
tilential ittarshes oi Walcheren, with
out succor? without necessity, without
object, Without hope.f if '4-4::
These anoVsimUar proceeding?; of
nwv hnnnrqhla . ; - .- i. 4
j ,, uuHui ik'mdc require no com
ment; but we; cannot bvi our silenceS'
become accomplices in ; the, ruinof 'it
our country; and clare hot conceal froni
y ou the wholesome' tho' unpleasant ,
ttuth, that, they appear to us to have
materiallv shaken what remam kf
the confidence of the subjects of these
realms in the wisdom of your horror-
aoie nouse. ; -v . vt
We therefore humbly, but (?
entreat you to reconsider voiir r4Vn- .
duct, to retrace' your 'stepsi'and&'eti m
t or "u;;yui juui t j cur or
ders, declaratiorii and ihationsre-.
specting Mr. 'Gale Jones ancl Sir
Burdettnd;tHa-a . , . ,":
has not been pell?t
noraoie nouse, tie. be nojonger pre
vented from ex rcismwVbfri oil uwrv r-'k ';;'
duties of a member of the same
Above all
hon
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ty to the. notice he had given,-:o de2'f
vise and adopt such; measures will 3'
enect, an immediate and radical e- -
Winlcpmdr house of0M
ment, and ensure to thopfcii'
fair and substantiaUre
without which; - themiis'rinetfirib
cease to exist as a;great;a free; aoi
The petitjbo was 'adopted itmam- ?1 -mouslyVwith
the exception cf the) i - t
votes bfMr.epurKemble,Mr
fNEW LAVV.
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