man of spirit and independence, with talents above mediocrity, and our political fituation must be improved by the change.. Gov. Clinton has been propofed, in fome of the New-York papers, as a candidate for the prefidency; and if the choice is to be between him and Mr. Jefferson, there can be but little doubt that the commercial flates, particularly those of the northern and eaftern branch of the union, will give their fupport to Mr. Clinton. With federalifts, Mr. Clinton cannot be a favorite candidate ; but they would undoubtedly prefer him to Mr. Jefferfon. Mr. Clinton did not flee to the mountains in the time of the revolution, nor is it probable that he would now, were he prefident, fubmit quietly to infult. His great age, might be an objection; but it should be reflected that the fhadow of fome men, is better than the fubftance of others.With democrats, Mr. Clinton would un- | doubtedly prove a very popular candidate. By them he has ever been highly and ve ry fincerely extolled; and his having been nominated for vice-prefident, amounts to a declaration on their part, that he is not too old for the fatigue of public business. -Various reafons might be offered to fhew, that the state of New-York is juflly entitled to a prefident for the next four years; but they are fo obvious to every one, that it is unneceffary to mention. them. (SUBJECT TO BE CONTINUED.) Selected. FROM THE EVENING POST. IMPRESSMENT OF AMERICAN SEAMEN. from being impreffed by the British, was becaufe our public councils were under the influence of a British faction. And when the French captured, and imprifoned, and flogged, and thumb-fcrewed, and put to death, American failors, it was faid that this treatment was provoked by the un friendly conduct of the federal adminiftra tion towards our then Sifter Republic, lately the Enlightened Government," and now the abfolute Monarchy of France. And it was always one of the most flattering of the promifes made to the people by the democrats, that as foon as they got into power, this unfortunate and infuited clafs of men fhould command their earliest attention. They would foon take measures. to ftop the impreffment of this ufeful and abufed and meritorious clafs of our fellow citizens. This was a fine founding promife, and caught its full proportion of gulls. But now for the performance: They have doubtlefs forgot the fubject, you fuppofe, in the multitude of their economical reforms, or have poftponed it till they fhall have attended to other matters of more importance to the wide-gaping" mouth of labour"-till they fhall have completed the annihilation of one branch of the govern. ment, and rendeted the other entirely fubfervient to the third, the Executive, and then they will take up the bufinefs of the poor failor. No; they have not forgotten it; but they have indeed poftponed it; as you fhall hear. On the 27th of February laft, a bill was brought into the Senate of the United States, providing for the "Protection of American Seamen." Now you are to recollect that a great majority of the Senate are true, ftaunch democrats, the very men who promised fo often to do so much for American failors-the bill, therefore, paffed, you think, without any difficulty. Lo! the first thing we hear is, that Mr. Nicholas, one of the Senators from Virginia, that ftate fo very friendly to commerce, and of courfe to failors, got up and moved to poftpone the further confideration of the bill till the first Monday in December next! This motion was advocated by the democratic Senators from Georgia and ALMOST every morning we find an Tenneffee, and paffed in the affirmative of account in fome of the papers of the im- two to one, wanting a fingle vote. Thus, preflment of American teamen; and the after nine years of continual clamour, the Jefferfonian paper complains and fcolds first moment a motion is made on the fubabout it as if it fill depended on the feder-ject, the state of Virginia has the bill alists to find a remedy for the injury. We all well remember the loud and inceffant complaints that were rung from one end of the United States to the other, against the federal administration, because they never yielded any adequate protection to the poor American feamen. At that time, as every one cannot but recollect, it was faid by the democrats that the reafon why the federal administration did not interfere and prote&t American. fehmen, thrown under the table. And how do the democrats prote&t American commerce and American feamen? They difinitle our infant navy; they difmifs the beft commanders, and turn adrift the failors; by management, they force the ableft fea fficer in the country to withdraw from the fervice, and live in retirement; and as a complete defence against the impreff. a complete defence against the impreff. ment of American feamen by the English fleets, and their capture, imprisonment and death by the French, they fend forth Gun Boat No. I, with a two and thirty pounder in her stern. It is faid of Truxton that he would never allow of ftern chafers 2board his hip, because he never meant to fly from an enemy; but the prefent warriors, it feems, have determined to have guns no where elfe, as it they never intended to fight except when in the act of running away. Such is the philosophical administration of the affairs of a great and powerful na tion! FROM THE THILADELPHIA REGISTER. WHILE the tetrofpe&t of our national affairs, and the contraft which it affords between the wildom of the former, and the folly of the prefent, adminiftration of reflections, our attention is drawn, with our government, excite the most painful irrefiftable force, from a confideration of the past, to an anticipation of the future ftate, of our country. The last advices from Europe announce the probability of an immediate war with Spain, and in that event, there can be no doubt of a rupture with France. What are the preparations, and what are the means, on the part of our government, to meet thefe contingencies? Have any measures been taken for the defence of our coaft, or the protection of our commerce? Has a fingle provifion been made to that effect? Has the deliberation of an hour been given to the fubje& ? Our blockaded harbours-our deserted docks-our empty arfenals-our neglect. fuffrage hunting cabinet, furnish conclu. ed garrifons and the difperfed flate of our five answers to all thefe enquiries. With the largeft commercial tonnage of any nation in the world, Great Britain on ly excepted-with a trade proportionably valuable and extenfive-and with a rev enue entirely dependant on that trade--the United States of America are at this mo ment without the means of defence against the least confiderable maritime nation of Europe. Even the colonies of Spain could fufpend our commerce, and lay our feaport towns under contribution. Are our Farmers aware of the inevita ble confequences that mufl flow from such an order of things? Have they loft fight of their best interefts ? Is it of no importance to them that the only mean of difpofing of their furplus produce fhould be cut off? Are they prepared to fupply, from a diminished incore, the deficiencies of a revenue, which the annihilation of our trade muft occafion. Or, would it be more agreeable to them that the enemy fhould be encountered in the interior, than that be fhould be repulfed from the coaft, of the United States ? Are our Mechanics prepared to abandon the work-bench aud the anvil to become foldiers ? Are they defirous to exchange the tools of their trade for the weapons of war? too-and, above all, it is genuine repub. licanifm, and it is religion, and it must be right, because Virginia does nothing wrong. This must be very confoling to the friend of freedom and religion, and to the philanthropift: In the New-England ftates, lanthropist In the New-England ftates, which, it is well known, are very ariftocratical, and in which there are no flaves, the blacks are not only allowed to attend public worship, but a feat is affigned for them in every meeting-houfe: but "they manage these things better in" Virginia. There, it is not enough to deprive human beings of their liberty-it is not enough to compel them to drag out a miferable exift MORE DIRTY WORK. Mr. WILLIAM DURAND, Poft-Mafler at Milford, Conn. has been removed from office. Mr. Durand is a worthy federalift, and had held the office, from which he has now been difmiffed by Mr. Granger, for upwards of ten years. There is no reason affigned for his removal. FOR THE BALANCE. Or, in the event of our coaft being only beleaguered, our commerce only intercepted, and their feveral occupations thereby enly ruined, would they be fatisfed to earn a fcanty and precarious fubfiftence for their families by the fame employments, to which they were compelled to refort before the adoption of the lederal govern-ence, on the plantations, under the tortur-training-day") I once more met my old ment! Does not every intereft of the community, whether agricultural, commercial, or manufacturing, loudly call for an efficient fyftem of national defence? In the prefent fituation of the world, can the independence of the United States be preferved by any other means ? And is there any middle courfe between fuch a fyftem of defence (comprehending an immediate increase of our navy) or the complete facrifice and furrender of our national interest and character ? Ought the direction of the national defence, confiftently with the honor and the fafety of the country, to be confided to any other than an honorable, brave, firm, and independant Chief Magiftrate? Whether all or either of these characteristics belong to the prefent incumbent, may be clearly afcertained, on perufing "Callender's Profpe&t before Us," with the author's explanation, or by enquiring at Carter's mountain or elsewhere. It may not fuit many of our citizens to feek refuge in the mountains-and, we truft, there are but few of them THAT WOULD MAKE PROPOSALS OF SUBMISSION TO AN INVADING ENEMY. Editor's Closet. ing lafh of a hard-heated overfeer: As a refinement in barbarity, thofe wretched flaves, must be debarred from the comforts and confolations of the gofpel-they muft be robbed of the laft and dearest hope of man-they must not be permitted to hear the promise of liberty and happiness beyond the grave. Do the tyrants of Virginia expect to find fafety in such measures? Is it by brutalizing their flaves, that they intend to fecure themfelves from the vengeance of injured and oppreffed humanity? Miftaken men! If you mean to fave yourselves from deftruction, you must civilize your flaves-you must render their condition as tolerable as poffible-you must extend to them the benefits of the gospel-you must teach them to hope for that happiness in future which they are denied here. I you intend to make them wear the yoke of bondage quietly, you will do well to diminish, rather than increase its weight. A late Aurora fays, that "Mr. Tench Coxe, at prefent purvey. or of public fupplies, an officer under the adminiftration of Mr. Jefferfon, was "a tory in the revolution, and a traitor "who guided the murderers of his coun"trymen into Philadelphia; and that he "is not a man of truth or confiftency, but " is as treacherous in private relations as "he was faithlefs in public duty." When Mr. Jefferfon's friends are com LAST AST Wednesday, (being a friend, Capt. Stargazer. He appeared, (not indeed with a company, for that, like the merry Andrew's eftate, is neither here nor there,) but he appeared in a flaunting military coat, with red facings, whether to make people look upon him as a bloody fellow, or merely to let them know that he was a military man, I cannot tell-If the latter was his object, he difcovered more wifdom than I ever before fuppofed he poffeffed ;-for nobody would have suf pected him for a foldier, had it not been for the faced coat. He had not turned "two mincing fleps into a manly ftride;" nor had he taken a queer kind of unfoldierly warp out of his limbs. One thing I could not avoid remarking :-The captain mounted one of those black cockades, which he formerly declared was a badge of monarchy But, as if to alter the nature of the thing, and to render it perfealy harmless, and, confequently, republican, he took care to place this badge on the wrong fide. CORPORAL TRIM. To Correspondents. "ALCANDER" has hit upon "a happy method of conveying moral truth." His "Vifion," fhall have a place. Our unknown correfpondent, who late According to a late act of the ftate of pelled to confefs thus much, what have ly fent us a fmall piece on Algerine flave "Virginia, a flave receives twenty lashes for being found in a house devoted to "the worship of Almighty God ! !” Now this is liberty, and it is equality, not his opponents a right to say. In the fame article it is acknowledged that the fame old tory, &c. &c. &c. has been a principal writer for the Aurora. ry, and another on Gratitude, is defired to continue his favors. Communications at prefent on hand will be attended to in course. LAST AST fall, at the ufual time of taking cabbages, I had a number that were well grown, but which had no appearance of a head. I dug a trench on the fouthern declivity of a hill, about 18 inches wide and 20 or 22 inches deep, and took 16 cabbages of the above defcription. and fet them out in the bottom of th trench, in their natural pofition, with the roots weil covered with fand: I then fi'. led the trench with ftraw on each fide of the cabbages, and laid ftraw over the tops of them to prevent the fand from getting in; then place a rail over the middle of the trench to prevent any preffure on the cabbages, and completed the work by throw. ing on more ftraw and forming a ridge of fand over the whole to keep out frost and water. In the latter part of March I o. pened the trench and took out the cabba. ges, and found each one with a common fized head, white, folid, and well tafted. he be capable of feeling, he fuffers al- felt groans; to mark the orphans' fighs and tears. And having done this, I would uncover the breathlefs corpfe of HAMILTON-I would lift from his gaping wound his bloody MANTLE-I would hold it up to heaven before them, and I would afk, in the name of God, I would afk, whether at the fight of IT they felt no com punction. You will afk perhaps, what can be done, to arreft the progrefs of a practice which has yet fo many advocates? I answer, nothing-it it be the deliberate intention to do NOTHING. But if otherwife, much is within our power, Let then the governor fee that the laws are executed-Let the council difplace the man who offends against their majefty.Let courts of juftice frown from their bar, as unworthy to appear before them, the murderer and his accomplices. Let al-the people declare him unworthy of their confidence who engages in fuch fanguinary contefts. Let this be done, and thould life ftill be taken in fingle combat, then the governor, the council, the court, the people, looking up to the Avenger of fin, "we are innocent-we are inmay fay, I cannot forgive that minifler at the nocent. Miscellany. The following document, is a sufficient refutation Extract of a letter from General WASH- MOUNT-VERNON, sept. 25, 1798. IT is an invidious task, at all times to draw comparilons, and I fhall avoid it as much as poffible; but I have no hesitation the walls of yonder temple, where 1 in declaring, that if the public is to be dehave heretofore addre fled you, are my wit-prived of the fervice of Col. HAMILTON neffes, how freely I have animadverted on this fubject, in the prefence both of those who have violated the laws, and of those whofe indifpenfable duty it is to fee the laws executed on thofe who violate them. in the military line, that the polt he was deftined to fill will not easily be fupplied; and that this is the fentiment of the public, I think I can venture to pronounce. Although Col. HAMILTON has never acted I enjoy another opportunity; and would in the character of a general officer, yet to God, I might be permitted to approach his opportunities, as the principal and for once the laft fcene of death. Would moft confidential aid of the Commander to God, I could there affemble on the one in Chiet afforded him the means of view. ing every thing on a farger feale than fide, the difconfolate mother with her feven fatherless children and on the other. thofe who had only divifions and brigades thofe who adminifter the joftice of my to attend to:-who knew nothing of the country. Could I do this, I would peint correfpondencies of the Commander it them to thefe fad obje&is. I would en- Chief, or of the various orders to, of tranfactions with the general Staff of the treat them, by the agonies of bereaved fondnefs, to liften to the widow's heart-army-Thefe advantages and his having ferved with usefulness in the old Congrefs, character in the United States and even in "He is enterprising-quick in his perceptions and his judgment intuitively great Qualities effential to a great milita ry character, and therefore I REPEAT THAT HIS LOSS WILL BE IRRE PARABLE." Literary Notice. FROM THE CHARLESTON COURIER. PROSPECTUS. IT is allowed, that nothing of the literary kind is at this time fo much wanted as a periodical publication, which would combine within itfelt the two-fold advantages of diffufing general knowledge, and flanding as a permanent record of all the public tranfactions of the time; which would enlighten the minds, and improve the morals and the manners of the exifting generation, and deliver down to pofterity, for the use of the future hiftorian, all the political facts and public tranfactions of the day; untinged with talle colouring and unfuilied by political prejudice. Such a work has been long contemplated by the Subfcriber, and he is encouraged to proceed in it by the promife of fupport from many refpe&table acquaintances, with whofe influence and patronage he hopes to publifh it foon, under the title of THE MONTHLY REGISTER AND REVIEW OF THE UNITED STATES. This work will be conducted as nearly as poffible on the plan of the English An nual Regifter, whofe reputation for utility and agreeableness has not been equalled by that of any other production of the lame kind. Each number will be divided into two parts; the first hiftorical and political, the second mifcellaneous and literary. The historical part will contain a regu. lar and impartial hiftory of the great polit ical occurrences of the paft month, the fic, whilft it affords the pureft delight, has first place and largest room being always the power of directing, foothing and conallotted to thofe of the United States. The troling the human paflions. The perfuadebates of Congrefs, and fuch debates of fion of its influence occafioned fome of the the feveral ftate legiflatures as may be of greateft of the ancient legiflators and phigeneral importance to the union, and make || lofophers to recommend it as an effential a part of its hiftory, fhall be given in a part of republican education. We shall concife form. In this part all acts of con- therefore give fome of our pages to mugrefs will be recorded; and thus not only fic as a science, and to its hiftory, with octhe fubftance of our national counfels, but cafional reviews, taken from the most apthe names of those who take an important proved authorities of the beft new mufical fhare in them, will be handed down to the pieces which fhall be published in Europe. impartial judgment of pofterity, and those Nor can the DRAMA be deemed foreign to not yet born be enabled to form a juft o- a work, whofe great object is to improve pinion of the talents and virtues of their the public mind. Thofe new pieces, ancestors. There will be added a collec- whether American or English, which are tion of important flate papers, which will likely to have a favorable influence on the fland at once as incontrovertible proofs and morals and manners of fociety will be duly illuftrations of the hiftorical facts. A recommended to the notice and approba chronicle which will be a depofitory of tion of the public. And the performers thofe remarkable occurrences that are most of diftinguifhed eminence on the American apt to enter into common converfation, stage shall receive the meed which it is the will fucceed the hiftory and the debates. duty of fair criticifm to beftow upon The fecond or mifcellaneous and literary part, will be devoted to the improvement of the public mind and morals. At this moment the world is inundated with books, which, under the most treacherous and feductive form contain the most deadly poifon to the morals of fociety. Not deifm alone, but immorality and Atheism are infinuated through the medium of thofe productions, which, from their nature, are moft apt to lay ftrong hold upon the fancy of young perfons. He who detects fuch books, and arrefts the hand of youth when ftretched forth to ule them, and on the other hand takes the pains to felect and recommend to ftudious perufal those which have an oppofite tendency, may be fairly ranked among the benefactors of mankind. For the attainment of thefe important ends, it is propofed to arrange the contents of this divifion in the following order : The first chapter fhall contain fuch extrafts from works of celebrity in profe as may be recommended by their literary excellence, or their ufeful information ref merit. The next chapter will be devoted to a review of new publications whether original or republifhed, in America, and of fuch of the European works alfo as fhall be found worthy of particular attention. Pieces of poetry will conclude the whole. Each of these two parts fhall be paged feparately from the other, fo that at the end of the year the twelve numbers may be divided into two volumes; one under the title of the HISTORICAL, the other that of the LITERARY REGISTER; and with the last number of the year, a separate title page and index fhall be given, to be perfixed to each volume. Such is the intended plan of the propofed publication; and if it were executed with candor and tolerable ability, few would hesitate to allow that its advantages muft be great. The firft, and perhaps the most important of them, is the communication of political intelligence through a medium perfectly pure. The English work already alluded to is a remarkable inftance of the value of fuch writing. There are no annals extant, (not even excepting thole compofed at times remote from the events commemorated) which have obtained a greater reputation for impartiality than the hiftory in Dodsley's Regifler of the Occurrences of the Times, although writ ten by a man who was confidered as one of the most zealous and vehement support. ers of a particular party. That great au thor well knew (what the editor of the pretent undertaking will ever keep in mind) he great difference there is between the ffice of a hiftorian and a partizan. The opinions of the latter are effimated accordEvery thing which contributes to inno ing to the character in which they are giv cent pleasure, and can preserve the mind en; nor can blame be jufly insputed on from the mifchiefs of idleness, fhould be account of the zeal manitefted by thofe of confidered as worthy of cultivation : Muconfidered as worthy of cultivation: Mu-any party in a flate, whilst its adverfaries pecting fubjects of local or general impor- affail them with equal violence. But the bufinefs and confequently the duties of an hiftorian are wholly diffimilar. He ftands pledged, by the very nature of his undertaking, to a rigid impartiality; his engagement is to communicate information, not to make profelytes; to relate and arrange in clear order the facts that actually occur, not to urge opinions concerning them; to ftate the measures which governments adopt not to cenfure or delend them. views fo long established in London and The Editor is aware that there are two Which of those two kinds of history is the more useful or the more entertaining, it is not now requifite to difcufs: but it feems 'evident that the first is more fuitable for hiftories of our own times. It is a bufinefs of great difficulty and delicacy to affign the motives of the conduct of actors who are living, and whofe characters cannot be thoroughly divulged, until time fhall bring forth the memoirs of thofe who were moft intimately connected with them.Few are able, and of thofe very few are willing to difclofe the arcana of state alfairs; their intereft, their friendship, their political connections forbid it; and it is a tafk no lefs arduous and ungracious to delineate the manners and morals of a whole nation, than thofe of one of its principal magifirates. What is excellent, and what we fhould view with rapture, if related of an ancient commonwealth, the influence of habit leads us to contemplate with in. difference; nor is it otherwife with refpe&t to thofe things which fhould excite our indignant reprobation. Every motive, therefore, and every reafon tend to bind the Editor to that ftri&t and impartial plan of hiftory, for which he confiders himJelf inviolably pledged to his fubfcribers. The critical part of this work, which as well as the hiftorical chapters, will be wholly original, may be as beneficial in the literary as the former in the political republic. It is well known, that the re a LITERARY WORK UNCONNECTED WITH States, and an examination of the princi- The terms to Subfcribers, will be SIX order for the MONTHLY REGISTER AND "Rusticus es Corydon, sed Munera curat Alexis." Subfcriptions will be received in Charlef ton by J. DAVIDSON, Efq. Library and at the offices of the City Gazette, Times, and Charleston Courier; and agents will be appointed to receive them, and to deliver the books in the principal towns and cities of the other ftates, of which notice will be given in future advertisements. The first Register and Review will be S. CULLEN CARPENTER. Road Law. TO PRINTERS. THE feveral Printers in this flate are particularly requested to publifh the following important extract from a Law of the laft feflion. It is fhort, and its generIt is fhort, and its gener al promulgation will have a moft extenfiv good effect; for none can plead ignorance and a few fpirited examples of enforcing the law will tend to correct a fpecies of in fulting barbarifm too prevalent in fome of our high roads-where it is fufficient for gentleman to appear in a decent carriage to fubje&t him to the infults and often times to be run down by a fleet of these white Natives, who go in fquads, and drive-and hoot-and yell-like fo many hawks. An arbitrary cuftom has hitherto pre. vailed by the drivers of carriages approaching a city, peremptorily claiming the right of the road, even if light, and to compel loaded carriages going from a city to turn out, regardless of the relative fituations of each, and often under circumstances extremely aggravating. This law will teach Lutual accommodation and civility. 66 A. Z. "And be it further enacted, That in all "cafes of perfons meeting each other on any turnpike road, or public highway, "in this ftate, travelling with carriages, fleighs, waggons or carts, the perfons meeting fhall feasonably turn, drive and "convey their carriage, fleigh, waggon or cart, to the right of the center of the road, lo as to enable each other's car"riage, fleigh, waggon or cart, to pafs "each other without interference; under "the penalty of five dollars for every neg. let or offence, to be recovered by the 66 66 66 66 party aggrieved, in an action of debt, "in any court having cognizance thereof. "with cofts of fuit." Ninth feat. alt for appointing turnpike commiffioners, and for other purposes.] |
