JOHN! MARYLAND, - *
v » Printer, Book feller, and Staticnir,
No. '9 , South Front Street,
received by the lall arrivals from Londoh, an aflbrt
ment of Stationary, which he will-fell on tbe most j
reafonaMe terme, coofilling of —
A great variety of copper-plafe printing paper, from °
33 by 27 inches to the fmallef 1 size ; fuperfine, impe- "
rial, fnper-My ' royal, raedtuto, demy, folio, and d
quarto post writing paper ; marble a i
and blo'ting piper, meflage cards, sand 0
and potince boxes, shining fanti. ink and uik-powder, t |
pcncils, quilis, crown, "naif crown, and common size
Irish wafers, coloured and red; India rubber, pen-kn;ves
lead and pewter ink-llands, do ' belts, cork soles, copy a
"books, ilates and pencils, EnticVs diflionwy, Watts' £
psalms, &c. ™
Also, f)tne elegant prints, an aflortfcent of blank- g
American manufaiSiured writing piper, do,play r
ing cards of a fitperior qual'ty; and a collection of -j
BOOK!*; London and American editions. v
Nov. 12.
•—■ - I—.1 —. —
THIS DAY IS PURL SHED*
Pr'uf 37 12 Cents.
■The Pr-etenficns of Thomas JefFer- f,
• ion to the Presidency, c
- i EXAMINED, v
•'And the Charges againftjohn Adams
REFUTED.
Akdrefled to the Citizens of America in general,
am'. 4>artic iiarly,
To the F le-flors of the President.
Sold by
W. YOUNG, MILLS & SON, Corner of Second c
and Chefnur-ftreets. '<
November 5. tts d
TlrlE Par Rerfliip o? JONATHAN HARVEY & Co. £
being this day mutual consent,. those iiHebt
ed to said firm ari* requested to make speedy payment to P
Jonathan Harvey, w .0 is authorized to receive the fame,
and those who. have ~iy demands will please to bring in n
their acccnir*-o hi for lettlement
The Bufinejs will be Continued 0
... %) onathai .Harvey, »
Jf HIS sS'.ik /O.K.'. front-street •,
vV 'ier> he ! as tor Sale,
-A general afiortment of Dry Goods.
November 4 1796. Jim
"emanuel walker,
Ao. 73, South F r °nt Street*
Has for Sale,
30 '■Hoglhcads tobacco of Richmond jnfpeitidn.
15 do. do. of Peteilbcrg do.
15 do. do. of Frederick (burg do.
.50 do. do. of Alexandria.
Nov. i». -mw&ifot.
To be' Let,
'A largfTcellar, in Walnut-Areet just above Fourth-Street, that
5 4& floored with twa'inch plank, and WiU'holtt upwtiffs of 100
•pipes dfw ne.
Alf6, a Stables and Coach-hmife, that will hr.ld four hor
fe&and twa carriages; and fcveral ftorc* in Fourth Street'—
Apply-to
George Meade.
Who has for faie,
«5 boxes of Caftik soap
Red Lisbon Wine
A few pipes of bil! exchange wirie *
A few barrel*mefs beef ■ \
And a few barrels ot (hip bread*
'Nov. 4. "wjt?
~F 0 k SALE,
A very Valuable Eft ate,
CALLED TWI VTEN HA M, situate m the
townlhip of Upper Derby, and county of Delaware,
J 1-2 miles from Phiiad Iphia, and half a mile from the
new Welterr l oad: contairing 130 acre, of, excellent land,
45 of which are good wa- ered meadow. 90 of prime wood
land, and the reft arable of th« firft quality. There are
■on the premises a good two story brick house, with 4 rooms
on a floor, and cellars under the whole, with a pump-well
of excellent water in front; a large frame barn, (fables,
and other Convenient buildings; a fnioke-hou'fe and itone,
fpring-houfc; two good 'apple orchards, and one of peach
es. The fields are a!! ir. clover, except those immediately
under tillage, and are so laid out as to have the advantage
of water in each c! them, which renders it peculiarly-con
venient for grazing
The situation is pleafantandhcalthy, and from the high
cultivation of the land, the good neighbourhood, and the
vicinity ro" the city, it is very suitable for a gentleman's
■country feat.
The foregoing is part of the estate of Jacob Harman,
dcccal'ed, and. offered for sale by
Mordecai Lewis,
o£. 31. ikar Surviving Executor
FOR S A L E.
A PLANTATION,
ABOUT \% miles from this City, situate in Abing
ton Townlhip, Montgomery-County ; containing
*70 a«rcs, a new itone house, two stories high, 2 rooms on a
floor, fire places in each, a stone kitchen and Hone spring
-house, over pa excellent Spring of water, a barn, flabhe,
sheds, barracks, Stc. A large apple orchard, and a varieiyof
other fruit, about 12 acres of good mcadovi* well watered,
*nd wood fufficicnt for fire, and iencing the place. Poflcfli- 1
onmiy be had the ift of Apiil next. ProDerty in this city
will be taken in exchange, or MORRIS and NICHOLSONS
Notes in payment. Enquire at No. 37, Arch-Street.
Philadelphia, September 13, 1796. ttftf
TAKE NOTICE.
\ i X*FIE Creditors of Grubb aud Paine, late of Lancifter, or
A Dauphin Counties, Merchants ; are hereby informed
that the lutfcribers are appointid by lilt Court of Common
Pleas of PhiljdilphiaCounty, as CommifTioncrs, to audit, fet
tle, ard finally adjust the accounts ot Mordecai Lewis, ttuftfe,
appointed by Peter Grubb, for the benefit of the creditors of
the (aid Peter Grubb and William Paine, as wtll as the debts
t- d demands of the creditors of the said Grubb and Paine.
Therefore, this is to givenetice, that we have agreed to meet
V the City-T»vern, at Philadelphia, on Saturday the 19th inft.
at fix o'clock in the evening, when and where, all those that
have any -demands, are hereby requeued to present and efta
h'llb titeir clarms against the (aid Grubb and Paine, otherwise
they will be excluded from their dividend.
JOHN VAUGHAN,
DAVID H. CONYNGHAM.
FRANIC6 WES7.
Philadelphia, Bth November, 1796, *eod 31
Mr. FRANCIS,
' (Of the New Theatre)
TAKES this opportunity of returning thanks to his
Icholare and to the public. Mr. Francis intends,
on his return from Maryland, to open a public aca-
I'cmv for oancing, upon a plan entirely new. He
flatters himfelf that his attention to his pupils hi
therto renders any prcniifes of conducing his future
frhemcs on the ni'oli liberal and Arideft terms, of pro
jj! iety, totally unaeceflary.
iV. R. Private tuition a^ufual.
Jane 3 ; "w
—— . all
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE JJNITED STATES.
Mr. Femmo, . 'I 1
In a publication in your gazette, a Writer der.ies pr
that Mr. Jeffeffon countenanced the emancipation yc
of the slaves niw exi/lin * in the United States, al- in
leging that his scheme only extended to the cliil- pa
dren which were to be born after the palling of the cr
aft-; scut as the ad was proposed in the year *780 be
or thereabouts, it is certain that had it pafled, all yc
the young negroes its Virginia would he tifiv free, yc
To (hew however that Mr. Jeffeifon's ideas have
always been favorable to emancipation generally, I of
retjueft you to publish the followinghe
frrrefpondence between Benjamin Banneker. axe- b)
gro almanac maker, and Th»mas Jeffftfon, feercta- re
ry cf Jlat t gf the United States of America fe!
I'hey weir publiflted in the American Daily Ad- in
vertifer of this city in 1791. . t0
From the Virginia Ganettt.
Mr.Dixon,
You are requeSed to insert the following letter nc
from Benjamin Banneker, a black man, to fe- N
cretary of state, with his answer thereto, and you
will oblige a number of your readers.
Maryland, Baltimore county, near Ellicott's
Lower Mills, Aug. 19, 1791. j
To THOMAS JEFFERSON, Esq.
Sir, tc
1 am fully convinced of the greatness of that
freedom which I take with yeu on the present oe
cafian ; a liberty which seemed to me scarcely al
lowable, when I refle&ed on that diftingnilhed and
dignified liation in which you Hand ; and the L a !" h„
most general prejudice and prepolTeiTion which is
so prevalent in the world against those of my com-
plexion,
, I suppose it a truth too well attested to you, to
need a proof here, that we are a race of beings
Who have long labored under the abuse and eenfure
of the world, that we have long been looked opon
with an eye of contempt, considered rather ar
brutish than human, aud scarcely capable of mental
endowments.
I hope 1 may fafelj admit, in confequejice of
that repott which has reached me, that you are a
man far less inflexible in sentiments of this nature ,
than many others, that you are measurably friend
ly and well disposed towards us, and that you arc
willing and ready to lend your aid and afliflance to C °
our relief from those many diftrcfTes and numerous
calamities to which we arc reduced.
Now, fir, if this Isr founded in truth, I appre- ■
heod you will readily embrace every opportunity, .
to eradicate that train of absurd and falfe ideas and
opinions which so generally prevail in [refpedt to m
t us, and that your lentiments are concurrent with
3 mine, which are, that one universal Father hath
given being to us all, and that he hath not only
made us of one fieih, but that he hath also, with- 0
out partiality, afforded us all the fame fenfatiens,
and that however variable 'we may be in society or
religion'; however diverfified in situation or colour, w
we are all of the fame family, and stand in the fame
relation to him.
If these are sentiments of which you are fully
pe fuaded, I hope you cannot but acknowledge,
that it is the irdifpfafible duty of those who main
tain for themselves the> rights of human nature,
and who prefefs the obligations of christianity, to
extend their power and influence to the relief of i,
a every part of the human taee, from whatever bur
then or oppreflion they may unjustly labor under,
c and this I apprehend a full conviction of the truth '
. and obligation of these principles should lead us °
' all to. "
' Sir, 1 have long been convinced, that if your c
1 love for yourfelve6, and for those inestimable laws V '
i, which preserve to you the rights of human nature, f
was founded on sincerity, you could not but be fe
licitous, that every individual of whatever rank or
diftindton, might with you equally enjoy the blef- ['
. sings thereof; neither could you reft fatisficd, fhsrt '
Of the raeft adive diffufion of your exertions, in
order to their promotion from any state of degra- n
e dation, to which the unjullifiable cruelty and bar- 3
5 barifm of men may have reduced them.
I freely and chearfully acknowledge, that lam ,
of the African race, and in that colour which is
natural to them of the deepest dye, and it is un
der a sense of the most profound gratitude to the
supreme ruler of the universe, that I noW confefs
• to you, that lam not under that state of tyranni
cal thraldom, and inhuman captivity, to which toa
many efyny btethren are doomed, but that I have
abundantly tailed of the fruition of those blellingg,
a which proceed from that free and unequalled liber
g ty with which you are favored, and which 1 hope
• f you will willingly allow you have received from the
immediate hand of that being, from whom pro- I
i- ceedeth every good and perfect gift. p
y Suffer me to recall to your mind that time, in v
* which the arms and tyranny of the British crown ti
were exerted with every powerful effort in order to
reduce you to a state qf Servitude ; look back I en- e
treat you on the variety of dangers to which you n
ir were exposed 5 reflect on the time in which every 0
d human aid appeared unavailable, and in which even ii
hope and fortitude wore the afpeft of inability to t
e, the confli£t, and you cannot but be led to a fcrioue p
3' and gtateful sense of your miraculous and provi- v
" dential preservation ; jyu carinot but acknowledge
cl that the present freedom and tranquillity which you ti
1. enjoy, you have mercifully received, apd that it is fc
" the peculiar blessing of heaven. ' v
f e This fir was a time in which you clearly saw into t
the injustice of a state of slavery, and in wliitb you n
had just apprehensions of the horror of its condi
tion,—it was now that your abhorrence thereof was q
so excited, that you publicly held fotth this try* n
and invaluable doftrinc, which is worthy to be re- c
corded and remembered in all succeeding ages, t
"We hold ttoefe truths to be felf-evident, that all f
men are created equal, that they are endowed by a
s, their creator with certain unalienable rights, and f
a- that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit 2
*e of happiness." r
Here was a time in which your tender feelings a
for yourselves had engaged you thus to declare ; t
yon weri then impteffed witli proper ideas of the
i re *t valuation of liberty, and the free possession f
w of taofe fc>l«flingi v t<) which jrou were entitled by t
A
nature; but, Gi% how pitiable is it to reflefi, that if
although'you were so fully convinced of the bent- c(
volence of the father of mankind, and of his e- c<
qual and impartial distribution of thtfe rights and ai
privileges which he had conferred upon them, that j d
you should at the fame time counteract his merce», I
in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a V
part of my brethren under groaning captivity and p
cruel oppreflion, that you fliould at the fame time t<
be fourd guilty of that most criminal aft, which 1«
you profeffedly detested in others, with rrfpeA to tl
yourielves. . .
I suppose that your knowledge of the situation h
of my brethren is too extensive to need a recital b
here ; neither lhall I presume to ptefcribe methods li
by which they may be relieved , otherwise than by h
recommending to you and all others, to wean youi- h
selves from those Marrow prejudices which you have fc
imbibed with refpea to them, and proposed I
to his friends, " put your foul in their fouls stead" ci
—thus (hall your hearts be enlarged with kindness o:
and benevolence towards them, and thus (hall you i.
need neither the direction of myfelf or others in ai
what manner to proceed herein. 'I
And now, fir, although my sympathy Sod affec- b
tion for my brethren hath taufed my ealar£ement
thus far, I ardently hope that your candour and l'r
generotty will plead with you in my behalf, when b
1 make known to you, that it was not origisally my m
design ; but that having taken up «ny pen in order tl
to dire& to you as a prefcnt, a copy of an almanack ts
which I hive calculated for the fuccecding year, I fr
was anexpeftedly and unavoidably led thereto. n<
This calculation is the produftitnl of my ardu- 1
ous study in this my advanced stage of life, (59) for ol
having long had unbounded desires to become ae
quainted with the secrets of nature, I have had to tc
gratify my curiosity herein through ray own adidu- ti
ous application to allronomical Itudy, in which I p'
need not recount to you the many diffievilties and 01
disadvantages which 1 hare had to encounter.
And although I had a'.moft declined to make my fr
calculation for tfee lujuing year, in cantetfuenc* of m
that time which I had altottedtheretor being taken tl
up at the federal territory, by the request of Mr- ti
Andrew Ellicett, yet finding myfelf under fcvcral o:
cngsgemeats to Printers of this (late to whom 1 ti
had communicated my design, on my return to my it
place of residence, I indaftrioufly applied myfelf
thereto, which I hope I have accomplished with tl
correftnefa and accuracy ; a copy of which I have F
taken the liberty to direst to you, and which 1 it
humbly requelt you will favorably receive, and al- 1)
though you may have the opportunity of perusing o
it after its publication, yet 1 chose to fend it to you 1<
in manuscript previous thereto, that thereby you «
might not only have an earlier infpe&ian, but that d
you might also view it in my own hand writing. li
And now fir, I (hall conclude, and fubferibe I
myfelf with the most profound refpeft, your most n
obedient humble servant. v
BENJAMIN BANNEKER. tl
N. B. Any communication to me may be had n
by a dirc&ion to Mr. Elias Ellicot, merchant is
Baltimore towa. e
B. B. ; a
To Mr. BENJAMIN BANNEKER.
Philadelphia, Augujl 30, 179 1. e
SIR, W
I THANK you sincerely for your letter of the a
19th instant, and for the almanack it contained, ti
Nobody wi(hcs more than I do, te fee such proofs e
as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black u
brethren, talents equal to those of the other colours
of men, and that the appearance of a want of them a
is pwing merely to the degraded condition of their a
cxillence both in Africa and America. 1 can add c
with truth that no body wishes more ardently to fee 1;
a good system commenced for railing the condition t
both of their body and mind to what it ought to °
be, as fact as the imbecillity of their prefcnt exif- T
tencei and other circumstances which cannot be neg- v
le&ed, will admit. 1:
I have taken the liberty of fending your alma- t
nack to Monsieur de Condorcct, secretary of the v
academy of Tcieaces at Paris, and member of the a
philanthropic society, because I conCdercd it as a
document to which yout whole coloui had a right r
for their justification against the sentiments which f
have been entertained of them. p
1 am with great esteem, fir, v
Your most obedient * f
Humble servant, a
THOMAS JEFFERSON. t
'■ ■ t
From tie Daily Advcrtijer.
To the PEOPLE of the UNITED STATES {
IT cannot have cfcaped your observation, that
Providence seems, in a remarkable manner, to have '
promoted your prosperity, by the very means j
which unprincipled men have, at various times, in
tended to tffed your ruin,
The unbounr d usurpations of the Britiffi gov- *
ernmant, compelled us to the cAteft, which termi- '
nated in independence. Thair infatuation became '
our salvation ; and, for a series of years, the bless- C
ings of good government, with foreign and domes- !
tic peace, have raised us to a pitch of national im- '
portance and prosperity, for the time, perhaps, ne- *
ver equalled in the annals of mankind.
The firft appearance of the French revolution, "
J must have excited the roost lively feelings ia the
s brealts of those solitary individuals throughout the *
world, who, though oppressed by the hard hai*J of '
a tyranny, had formed a just cilimate of the riVKts of '
i man. 1
But, in this weftetn hemisphere, a whole nation
s of freemen, exulted as if animated by one com
t rnon spirit, at the profpeft that twenty.fix millions
- of people, who had no other idea of liberty than
n of ' dollfln g 'he grand monarch, were about to
(hake oft the (hackles of slavery, and become a free '
f and independent people. That we (hould have a
litter republic, which, contrary to the insidious t
t and mterefted policy of other governments, would 1
rejoice in our prosperity, a „d raa i nta in a friendly 1
s and (raternifing intercourse, untainted by wild am- t
; 0»J0R, and motives of felf interest alone. .
c 1 hefe pleasant imaginations, however, were dif- t
n pelled, by the arrival of a minister, chargcd with r
jr potver* andinitruftiwrn to involve the United States t
in an European war. The happiness of a vf*iol e
community—a total derangeihent of all fifcal con
cerns—and an accumulation of immense debts and
' and taxations upon, probably, our ehildreus chil
dren weie to be the facrifice on the part of the
United States, 'without one fmgle ohjeß of advantage.
Very different, indeed, were the inducements which
prompted the ei-devant government of France to
take part with us iri-our contest with Great-Bri
tain—being nothing lef> than the feveration of all
the colonies of the dominion of their ancient rival
The grand monarch and his ministers would never
hare lent us one livre, nor have spilt one drop 0 f
blood on that eccalion, merely from their love of
liberty—And the then miserable people of France
had no idea of the true principles of civiland p 0 !
litical liberty ; much less did they, as a nation of.
fer or rifle iheir their lives for our independent.
Hence it is, that I have ever been at a loss to con.
ceive how we are baund in gratitude to the people
of France. If there is any gratitude in the-tafe
u must be certainly due to the manes of that mon'
arch, and 3 few individuals, upon wkofedeftru&ion
tire nation have since ere&ed the guillatine of li.
berty.
1 cannot conclude this iiigreffion without abferv.
ing, that in the adjustment of a treaty of peace
between Great-Britain and America, the French
ministry had by the fubtility of intrigue, at which
they are proverbially dexteroUs, so managed cer.
tain members of congress, as to get inftruSions
from aur government to their commissioners, to do
nothing, but in concert with Mr. Vergennes.—.
These dupe* to French politics, have been the pells
of this country to the present hour.
Mr. Vergennes used all his cunning and influence
to induce aur commissioners to enter into negocia
tions without the acknowledgement of our inde
pendence—-to rob us of the fiffieries—and to limit
our botindcries weft ward by the Ohio,
By what means, fellow-citizens, were we rescued
from the base designs of these perfidious Frcaeh
ilien—ikefe boasted friends and allies—theft apef-*-,
ties of liberty, to vvtiura -we are bound by eternal
ties of gratitude ? By the penetration and firmnrls
of that man, principally, who negociated the Bri
<ti(h treaty, and fared jis from being again involved
iu all the calamities of war.
By Mr. Jay, and Mr. Adam 9, who, fuperinr to
the artifices, corruption, and intrigues both of the
French and Britilh ministry, at the hazard of an
impeachment for a breach of orders, nobly and firm
ly opposed the ignominious and treacherous devices
of our good French allies, until they were compel
led to grant us, as a preliminary, that independence '
we now polTcfs. But for them, we flmuld', it this
day, probably, have enjoyed Batavian liberty—the
liberty of obeying the commands of a Marat, a
Robespierre, a Jacobin club, or that five-headed
monster, the Directory. These commissioners
were the saviours of their country—and, like
the jirjl, have received a poor and ominous fpcci.
men of republican gratitude.
But to return—Providence, for this time, palsi
ed the defrges of our allies, by the intemperance
and indiscretion of their minister, who, being de
ceived by Mr. Jefferfon, and the party who threw
thcmfelvcs into his bnffinv 1 rft —anj
excited that lpirit of national pride and isdig .ation
which (hould forever fire the foul of every hanelt
and independent Americra, at any impudent at
tempt of any European nation or minister to influ
ence our government, or piaiftife deceptious arts
upon free and enlightened republicans.
It would have been supposed, that the checks
and mortifications given to Mr. Genet, would have
afforded some direction for the coaduft of his fuc
cefTors ; that our interrjal enemies, being repeated
ly defeated in all their machinations with the French
to difarganife the government, or break the union,
or involve us in war; after a full discovery, upon
repeated proofs, that the great mass of Americans
were deter mined, and were able, to support the
laws and of their conntry, against
both foreign and domeftie violence and intiigue ;
would have been covered with shame and remerfe,
and have desisted from their wicked pursuits.
It would have been supposed, that the govern
ment of France, however fafely they might pre
sume to insult and controul the deliberations of
people within the immediate vortex of their power,
would have sense and discretion enough not to make
similar attempts »pon a government, frparsted-by
an ocean of three thoufasd miles ; and upon a na
tion, such as, finco the flood, never existed upon
the face of the earth—a nation, I mean, of inde
pendent freeholders—the nation, which jirft (hewed
them the road to freedom—a nation, which re
fpe<3s the original principles of their revolution,
and which, at this moment, wishes them, moftsar
dially, a return of with all the blefiings at
tendant upon a free, equal and independent repub
lican form-of government.
But all these confidcrations notwithstanding, the
government of France seems infatuated, or deter
mined to convioce the world, that names are empty
things; that republicans who have power, will fxer
cife it, with as much abuse as despotic princes; that
they are ss much influenced by pride, ambitieii, in
justice and felf interest, at the people of any other
governments ; and that where the iaft prevails, they
make no discrimination between friends or tues,
allies or neutrals, republicans or anti-rcpublicars.
Of these things, we have a specimen in the late
conduct of the Directory, refpeiiing the American
. commerce, and the confequerit extraordinary beha
viour of their minister, Mr. Adet ; both of which
will be the fubjedl of another address, from
WM. WI.LLCOCKS.
Nov. io, 1796.
For the Gazette of the United States.
To the Electors of the President of the United Slater.
Altho the merits of the cafididates for the Prefi
-1 dency have been very amply difeu/Ted, the papers
have been ncarlv fifent on the fubjefil of Vice-Pre
lident. This officer is by the constitution diretied
to per/orm tire duties of President of the Senate,
a very important (lation, and, is, moreover, to fill
the Executive chair, in the event of the death or
reftgnation of the President, which raay be for »
term of nearly four years.