%])z Pis 11. ADE L P HIA , .MONDAY vAtmXp, Octobfr 13. —-—— A to the recommendation of the .Ph.'aOelphia Saptift Association, the Bap > : :i CKirch in thjs city observed Thursday last a d-iy of humiliation and priyer, on aLcauh't cf t};s,prevalence of vice and im i -ni-.'-rty, arid .the late calamitous viiitation this anjl other places in the United v.' alts; on which folem'n occafidn a suitable 4 -Tjrfe'was delivered in the morning by the Rev. Dr. Rogers, from Psalm xnvif. * 4th vtriV; ; apfl in the evening by the Rev. M". Fiecfon, from ift Peter, sth chapter, 6th ar.d 7th vyfes. At a "meeting of the managers of the T> V' ire and Schuylkiil canal company, !..Id October 19th, 1797, present, Joseph Bftll, Wi'liaro Young, Standiih Forde, J>'.hn Steinmetr, William Montgomery, J Tfirurth Parker, James M'Crea. I'll' diflivffed situation of the labouring po;:r of the city and liberties of Philadel phia, having been pressed by several of the to induce them to adopt foma plan of yn'wjig'thofe aceuftomed to labour ;-n T>ediatr- employ, so as to enable them to i .port their families j and the situation of vhe canal admitting (provided monies can 1;e raffed for the payment) of employ with out inconvenience, of from three to five hundrtV. men t ilefoivt!, that Joseph Ball, William Young and William Montgomery, be a committee to wait on. the commiffior.ers ap pointed by the governor, for distributing the money granted by the legislature in aid cf cbc poor, the board of health, and the overseers of the poor, to inform them that ftaanagfr-, a£ ilis canal company are ready to employ any number of men who are accustomed or disposed to labour, at liberal wages, in prosecuting the work of the canal ; provided money can be railjd by loan or otl.erwife for the payment of the labourers. That, in the opinion of the managers, the monies will be moil likely to be raised, <by a strong recommendation to the citizens of Philadelphia, from the different boards employed in distributing relief to the ditlreffed, accompanied by in formation, that committees of the commis sioners, thebosrd of health, and the over seers of the poor, in conjunftion with the managers of the canal, will be appointed to fee that the monies raised be faithfully ap plied to the payment of the poor, who may ■be fimr.h'ked with work, and also by the apnbintment of a committee from each of their boards to solicit fubferiptions to tbe joan. Refolvtd, that the fa'd Joseph Ball, Wil liam Young and William Montgomery, as soon as the fanftion and recommendation of the boards named in the foregoing refolu tiiiß is obtained, proceed with such persons ■as the boards may name for the purpose, to solicit fubferiptions to a loan for the purpose of employing the poor, either in money or notes, payable any time within fix months ; that they call on the different banks arfd ether public and private inftittAions, and on all persons who in their opinion will bet most likfly to contribute to the said loan, and tfyat the said Joseph Ball, William Young and William Montgomery be autho rized to grant receipts for the monies and tlotes obtained, binding the president and managers of the Delaware and Schuylkill canal company to repay the fame out of the firft pi%fit3 of jhc company, and to pay an , interest thereon at the rate of fix per cent, per annum at the canal office, on the firft day of January in every year, until the principal is repaid, at the fame time pledg ing /all the funds and profits of the canal company for the repayment of the money. JOHN STEINMETZ, President pro tem. Health-office, 20th Oft. 1797. A committee of the managers of the De laware and Schtiylkill canal company, hav ing presented to the infpe&ors of the health office, a resolution of their board, proposing to raise by loan a sum of money for the pur pose of furnifhing subsistence to the labori ous poor of the city add liberties, by em ploying them in perfecting the Delaware and Schuylkill canal. The infpc£tors of the health-office, after duly considering the said resolution, feel fatis fied that although the fame may not proper ly come under, their notice a» a board, still, as men who have the interest of their fellow citizens in view, they may with propriety recommend a plan, that will in their opinien be generally advantageous to the city ; un der this impression, as one of the great eb jefts that may be calculated on, when the pro posed canal shall be perfe&ed, will be ta fur nifh the city and liberties with a plentiful supply of wholesome water, for the use of the inhabitants, which, independent of other advantages, will be conducive to their health. The infpeftors strongly advise a fubfen'ption to the proposed loan, and recommend John Gardiner, junr, ; James Whitehead, and James Oldden, as proper persons to aid the mana gers of the Delaware and Schuylkill com pany to carry their resolution into operation. . By order-os the board, MM. MONTGOMERY, Chairman, pro tem. from the (Baltimore) Federal Gazetts. rROM A CORRESPONDENT. Messrs. PxiNTtus, fnfclofed is a talk from the Chickafaw Chiefs, in January last, and the answer of Baron de Carondelet, resetting the change \rhich was expefted in the property of the .country of the Natchez. As this has not before appeared in print, it may npt be un acceptable to your readers. TH* TALK OFT.IB C-nCKAK-vW CWWS, , At the Bluffs, reprcj;ntedby Ugalayacabe. brother, 1 1 WAS, in the time of the EngliVh, a chief ps my nation, and leader amongst the warriors, and since then confirmed by the badge I now wear, given me by the Spani ards, who, when they became our friends, prorr,;f"d us, a (ler.dy fnpport and protection, on every emargency. We accepted the pro feri'd boon, and preferred the protection you held out, so the delusive preferits, of the A iwicflns, which unhappily blinds too many of our color. Notwithstanding they en deavored to dvflroy you in our opinion, the exair.pfe of those nations protected by you, was felt by. ill, and the fate of those that had allowed themfrlves to be deluded by the pro digality of the Americans, could not be coi cealed from our übfervation : We could perceive in them the entitling of the rattle snake, who caresses the squirrel he intends to destroy ; and in you, the friends of red men and their iatereft. Brother, now that we know your worth, now that our eyes are opened, and that in the fullnafi of our coov fidence, we have received you in our hearts, and have given you, to build a fort, a tra£k of land which we had received from our fa thers, and }iad sworn to them to preserve in the state in which the master of breath had given it to them, and to preserve which, we have (he'd our blood against the French, which we often refufed to the English, whieh we lied given to you, overperfuaded by your promises of keeping it, not only for the ad vantage accruing to yourselves, but as we also thereby secured to ourselves the poffefii on of the reft, and a supply of our wants, Which our own iuduftry was incapable of How comes it, my brother, that you wish to leave us at such a critical time, or that our great father has given our lands to the Americans, who are defirousof nothing but to drive u« thence, and perhaps kill us like wild beads. Will he who is the cause of this look on with indifference, and fee our blood, of which he has been so sparing himfelf, rtied by others ? If he in tended to give away our lands, why did he promise to preserve,, them ? Had we not trusted him, we/hould have joined those na tions who have loft theirs, and likt them have fought for our countny. Nctwithftand ing that, we (hall do all our endeavors to oppose their entrance into our woods and taking poffeflion of our lands : yet we know wc must fall ; yet the attempt is worthy of We have fcen the treaty; it has been read to us in our nation, and we ob serve that our father has not only abandoned us like the smaller animals, to the jaws of the tiger and bear, but he en.ourages them to d»vour us, by faying, if we commit any faults, that he will drive us back to our dens, am] keep us there. We know that we are not all good, there are good and bad amortg U3 as amongst other men. If a red man happens to commit a crime, you will com plain to the Americans, without knowing t[ie guilty, and the innocent will fuffer, p'er-' haps the ignominious pnflifhment of the lash, as you treat your (laves. Red men are na turally vindictive, and she people so treated will seek revenge; it is then our ruin is com plete : Alas, perhaps the ruin that our fa ther brings upon us by abandoning our land, may bring upon himfelf the loss of his own. In our hunting parties the Americans go before us, and make us ashamed, by their exertions, which exceed ours ; they pene trate farther into the country than we do, where the silver grows ; we meet them daily returning from their hunts, and some remain among the red men of these countries, in ordfcr, no doubt, to rife and take their lands when a proper opportunity occurs. Do you think, my brother, that we do not fee these things : we hare a heart to feel, eyes to fee, and ears to hear. Where are all the promises made us by Gayofo, in the name of eur father ? Are they forgot, because we granted all you expected ? My nation, who only yielded to my representation, the land on which you now are, have they not room to believe me an accomplice of those who abandon them, at such a critical mo ment ? Do you believe, my brother, that I an» fafe from their reproaches, or that I have not already felt them ? Yes, my bro ther, they fee the lands which we gave, aild which you now abandon, cannot be defend ed by us, as our forts are the woods,, and you have converted them into an open field. Governor Gayofo writes us, you are a man of valor named by our father of Orleans, to watch over and protest us. Why do you not comply with your inftru&ions ? Tell me without falfehood, what we are to do, for we are informed the Americans are now coming to mark' our trees, and take poffeflion of our lands. If this is true, I cannot answer for the consequences, for our brothers the Chocktaws are no more dispo sed to admit them than we are : for my part, I am a leader of my nation, and I will lay down my life to prove to them that my intentions were good in soliciting them in your favor. Answer—Tell me if I may return to my nation, to appease the tumults of thrir m:nd3. Shall I tell them the talk of the Americans is a falfehood. Shall I assure our warriors, our children and our women, that your flag will always wave over your lands, or tell them to prepare to die ? The following is the answer to the above speech, sent by express from New Or leans. Brother, I have read the talk which you have ad dressed in the name of your nation to the commandant of the fort at the Chickafaw Bluffs, and I make haste to answer it, to undeceive you, for my heart is afflidled at feeing you and your peopla in sorrow. For upwards of five years since the great king sent me to this country, the red men have always been near my heart : I have been incessantly employed in rendering them hap py. Ugalayacabe, remembers the efforts I < .de to reunite/all tlie nations which" dwell between the Ohio and the Great Water, like the hen Which afTemtks her chicken!? j and covers thtm with her wings when fke I perceives the birds of prey j remember what ; I have told yourfelf, to the chiefs of the ' Chocktaws, Creeks and Cherokees ; re- ' collect all that I do to maintain the whole of these nations in t ace ; the councils I 4iave given them so their mutual fafety. Your own nation, the 'hickafaws, although the last to to me, have been attentive to my voice and faithful to their promises. How then can it be possible that I fliould abandon them. Brother, and your brave Chickafaws, open your ears, lilten, and believe. .When I received the treaty which you spoke of to me, Ugalayacabe, I said to the great ' k ng, Powerful monarch, who are I jullice itfelf; yoti whd have always cfierifh- I ed and protedted the red men, who are as ( numerous in your dominions as the stars in j the firmament, will you abandon those who | dwell between the Ohio and the Great Wa ter. No, replied the great monarch, I ; will never abandon them ; I will never withdraw the arm that protects them. The Chickafaws, Chocktaws and Creeks, are free nations ; the lands which they inhabit are theirs, and I will never fufler them to be deprived of them againlt their will. The line of demarcation which is to fsparate my states from those of the Americans, neither regards nor encroaches on the property of the red men, it is only the boundary be tween the Spaniards and the Americans, who can neither buy lands from the red men nor build forts on them, beyond the limits that shall be marked. In fine, we have agreed in the treaty, that the Spani ards and Americans shall trade and supply the ret} men with whatever they may want, I whenever they please, indifcpminately and. 1 without troubling themselves about the li- j mits. Brothers, you have here the yoitie of the i great kipg, your protector, who speaks to you in this paper, you may shew it, pub lish it every wWe, for 11 is true. 'Tfs I who repeat it to you. You well know that '* my tongue has never been double. will restore to you thelands which you have given us—we will take away whatever could be injurious to ypur fafety. You will receive next spring presents as formerly. Mr. Panton may if he pleases set up his (tore on the opposite fide of the river, in wh'ch cafe I will leave some of my warri ors to protedt him. He will fell to you, and will purchase your merchandize. The Americans, our friends, will deal with you likewise, consequently you will want no thing. You will be at peace with all. You will have the option of felling your lands to the Americans, or of refufing them ; and if ever an attempt is made to drive you from the lands which the Griat Master of the Sun has given to your ancestors, from the land which covers the bodies of your fa thers, be afiured the great monarch will eppofe it. Ugalayacabe, and you brave warriors that accompany him, return all home to your villages with this talk which your messen ger Fazar, will immediately carry you. Shew it to the warriors, to your children, to your wives, at the fame time telling them, your friends the Spaniards will not leave them, the great king will not abandon us —we are born free, our children will close our eyes in the fame land that gave us birth,, and in it we will reft in peace with our fa thers. Signed, The Baron de Carondclet. New Qrleans, January 26, 1797. From the Commercial Advertiser. It has been said that every form of gov-, ernment requires some powerful agent or principle to bind together and keep in a state of adhesion the different parts of which it is composed. In despotic governments, this is found in force of arms ; in limited monarchies, in force of laws ; and in repub lics, in virtue of public spirit. Hence a re publican government is said with propriety to be built on opinion. Upon this depend its life and adtivity. This opinion uncon taminated produces pure reprefentation— wife administration—.and cordial acquies cence in, and pronipt obedience to the laws. This principle, however, is not confined to the form of government, but must extend to the men who are to administer it. It is of the eflence of such a government that men in power ftiould. pofTefs the confidence, or in other words, the good opinion of the people. Take-away this living principle, and the government, though right in form, is wrong in substance. Its afts, its laws, its adminflration, mull fail of that cordial acquiescence, that prompt obedience, with out which the best form of government can not effedi its best and only true end—the happiness of the people. The best govern ment will become a caput mortuum —a mass of dead matter—a weight of mere incum brance, and cannot promifc long duration. It is therefore eflential to the prosperity of such a government as ours, that the people should give their confidence to the perfous whom they eledt into power. But there is one truth, and but one equally efTential with this, which i 3, that the persons eledted fliould deserve that confidence. A confidence inifpkeed on the part of the c'onftituent, orabufed on the partofthc rt prefentatjve, are equally pernicious. Hence it follows,that the fureftway to de ftroya good government, is to undermine the confidence of the people where it is de served, and to seduce it to unworthy objefts. Yet here lies their greatest danger ; in esti mating cfrarafters the mass of the people are ever liable to deception and imposition. Designing men know how to avail themselves of this liability. In America the artifices are already reduced into system, the partial success of which encourages its continuance. The man who, in his affefted zeal to serve the people, betrays to the observing the ev idence of his having fomethiug more at heart than their service, knows well how to conceal his real views, by founding aloud his pretended cues ; noisy patriotism, intempe. rate zeal, affefted jealousy of power, gas- ' c conade of principle's, profeffions of pofleffing ( salutary plan? for reforming pretended abtif- i es, affetted surmises of plots again ft the ] public, feafting, drinking toasts, flattering, cajoling and proftfling " to adore the peo ple"—thtfe are. amongst the a£ts of your i smooth furfaced, deep, defigrting dema- i gogues of faction and intrigue. I; is a ] truth too strongly evidenced to admit of a < doubt, and as yet too fuccefsfully disguised 1 to be universally believed, that under the smoke and noise of all this artifice lies con cealed, and is agitated without being dift in&ly heard, a fettled plan to explode the federal government, and break in pieces the happy connexion that subsists amongst this great people. With what address this p'an is managed, ltt it be seen by a man Handing high in office, afluming the politics of this fa6tio», being their life and their spirit, thro' whom, and by whom they moved ; and yet for three years carrying himfelf foas to make the people believe he was the enemy and oppofer of that very party. Who that saw the masterly refutation of Genet's do&rines and prttenfion3 could have believed the writer to have been a friend to both, and to have given secret comfort and countenance to that great apcftle of disorganization ? But so it is ; the jacobin party in America' has aflwmed all possible forms, and executed with scrupulous exa&nefs their afiigned parts ; some have afted openly, others co vertly, some at home, some abroad, some in the cabinet, some in the town meeting; The Vice-Prefidetit mult have been " a confiden tial patriot,"* to have con<;£rted his part, and yet to have a&ed in the public folong; he mud in the execution of it 'have found great advantage in a charafter fcrcely im paired by general fufpicic*., with the weight of office to baok it, and with his secrets kept by his agenti abroad, and his colleagues at home. In the year 1795, this fa-tion, with their proper apparatus of jacobin foci cties, with their corresponding committees, hired printers, with their panders and eflay ' ifts, the whole herd of internal agitators, their well tuned chime of patriotism, republicanifra,French magnanimity, and A naerican gratitude, which they chaunted forth to the people, had nearly accomplilh ed their favorite views of exploding into at oms the federal government. Had not the immortal Washington, that venerable per sonage whom they never to slander, flood like a firm tower againfi them, the United States might at this moment have been filing over the bloody scenes of Robes pierre's anarchy. The piece confided of a ' double plot ; at home, to sow and nurture the feeds of discord between the pe ( ople and their government ; and abroad, to persuade the French that the people were already at war with their government, and that the government was hostile to tile French re public. 1 In profeeution of the domestic part of the plot, every artifipe was adopted to bring the government into contempt with the peo ple and to give currency to the peflilential dogmas originally broached by Genet, and followed up by the faftion. The vilest falfehoods were coined, the gvoflcft misre presentation circulated. In some of the ve nal gazettes set apart to those purposes, even the decent appearance of truth was laid aside, and fabrications were boldly pub'iilh ed, which hundreds of people in the course of a few hoifrs, might hare been convened to falfify. But these gazettes were circu lated gratis, as they are now through the interior of the union, where nq other papers were read, and where the antidote ftldom reached. This single fa£t proves that the jacobin party is an organized body, afting in concert with a common fund conflituted by private contribution, and molt probably by foreign aid. No private fortunes are competent to defray the cxpenfes whieh it is ascertained they mult daily incur. The arch fiend of misrepresentation whose ga zette is pnblifhed at the feat of government, took such latitude of prevarication, that the little remaining grace left in some of the high order of the party, sometimes recoiled from the task of open avowal. Hence the Vice-Prelident, in this, as in other parts' he had a£t?d in the grand scheme, adopted pri vate correspondence inflead of open decla ration. He hasbeen, it seems, lately detest ed in writing to Maryland (and molt proba bly has done so to many other parts of the union) recommending Bache's gazette, as the best and molt authentic, and well wor thy the perusal of the citizens ! Gracious heaven ! what have the United States not escaped in this man's failure of obtaining the prelidcntial chair ? Shocking to reflect that he has been proposed for a Prefidcr.t—a fa ther to his country —who for breatJ offers them a serpent ! Who could throw all his influence on the fide of a gazette, edited for the express purpose of scattering the poison of civil discord through his country, and circulated gratis amongst the citizens, to court a more general perusal, and to pro duce a more extensive effedt. How com -1 ple'tely mult faftion have taken possession of a mind once irradiated with the beams of philosophy, which pijofeffes to inquire after truth only—when it can wed itfelf to the repository of falfhood, the Vehicle of (lander, and the dcemon of deception. It proves that this party has i great objedt in view, to the acdomplifhment of wfitch no facrifice of . principle is deemed exorbitant. Having planted the feeds of difaffedtion to the government in every state of the union, but principally in the southern, every expe dient is employed to make them radicate and flouriih. A well Uifciplined corps of auxi liaries is in each eredted, fraternized and fed by the parent fadtion : they are well tutor ed in the art 3of.profelytifm ; copiously fur nifhed with matter drawn from \he office of deposit in Philadelphia, to (candalize the government, to run down the eh radter of every man who stands high for probity, and whose influence is likely to check the pro gress of popular delusion, and corredt with the antidote of truth the peftiferous efiedts * Cee of the taut phrifes of the paaty. of their circulating poison. T-.l it is lilt 9 embarraffir.eat to this party t,'.ixt a folfehocM is dete&ed and exposed ; they calculate \ H pon the newspaper being thrown aside ar.,B forgotten, and have no hefrtation to up the ftme tale anew. They knowthM i »e£ts of repeatingfrcquently the fame thin I to impress it on the mind, and have the I problem ready solved, how many repetition I of a given falfehood are requisite to ove I a detection but once publilhed I Thus the forged letters of the late Pref I dent were re-publi(hed after every public I tion of the evidences of theirfalfity, and ha I gone through two editions since his publ I disavowal. But this is not enough for their purpoß fes ; that great personage is not to be lefl quiet in the decline of his age. The fileifl efficacy of his great charafter is too formH dable to their views. Difappoi'nted a!H confounded at his retiring from offic,e, they had set him forth as a man of restless ambition and lust «f powef—Monroe is put forward to attack him in the public and draw him, if possible, to the degrading level of a newspaper contest. This expedi ent no doubt was forged out at that choice entertainment mentioned in mylaft, where with the French flag hung over their heads (as a token of the country they belonged to and an approbation of the war it was waging againii us) the Vice President and his cho sen band gave the fraternal embrace to Mon roe, their faithful minister in I ranee. Most mife'rably diftrefled iriuft the ji<.rty be for matter to work upon when thev are obliged to resort to a pre'ext which doc? not require even a second thought in an intelligent mind not distorted by faciei to appear inconsist ent with every prinfip'' onftitutional or political. There is nof a Jingle act of the late President's adm: . If ration, for which he is not equally imeYia 1 : 1 every person, who, iike Monro*,' si v enough to chal lenge the archives of iVtc and crest him felf into an inquifit- nd a judge. In vain to this party has the constitution prescribed the channel in whi i the refponfjbility of the President itt&ll w, and the 'mode in which its fe .ftjo'fi't fhr.il be enforced. On the contrary, n? b.-ij -escribed in the consti tution, is with :hi one of the best reasons for difregardii- ' The constitution being • the very are at war with-; it is treated a- u -hment scroll fit only to be cm the " worm au thors," ( r lype on L. Island to contempt n. These new lights oft!>.» world >n "conclave under French auipipes h;iSfe ed a new species of res . ponfibility for t t President : after he had served 1 ime year n office, he must spend the reft of h's lift i a jiewfpaper war, with every pert fcribh'.er, disappointed demagogue, or difgraeed officer, who may think proper to abuse the freedom of the press. This, however, is but a part of their general sys tem to agitate, disturb, confufe and mifre prefont. While by the well organized corps in Congress, everyembarrafsment is mingled into the interior of the government ; this well contrived system is carried on ,without, so that the laws and proceedings that may escape them in 'legiflatioaJ may be palfiedin the execution. At the fame time, while ingenuity is tortured', truth prostituted to find inflammable matter to keep this pov ernment iji hot water ; the foreign plots a 9 auxiliary to the great ends of disorganizati on, are sedulously pursued. The French are invited to press the government from without, to embarrass its foreign relations, while they are working upon its domefticad miniuration. The resentment of the inflam mable republic is excited against supposed in juries. Every aft of the Federal Govern ment, in reference to foreign relations, and many of mere domeflic regulation, are warp ed and coloured into a tokeri of hatred to their cause, or represented. as a measure hos tile to their interests. They are invited to make war upon our commerce ; no matter how many millions of American property is facrificed, provided it impair the revenue, and bring the government to a (land. " The wheels of government must be stopped" be fore the machine can be destroyed. The a lieuation of the public mind is to be matured for effe&ing the latter, by the time the form er (hall be accomplished by the other parts of the system. While the plot is maturing, a thousand trifling pretexts are employed, to keep the end out of fight. The people are supposed to be yet unripe for the disclosure. No doubt the new fcherae for future arrangement is al ready framed and engrossed, and laying by in the bureau of the ler*ler; and his more cohfidential accomplices ready t» rife from the allies of the prcfent constitution,' at the wave of the Jacobin wand. It is fafeft for the people to penetrate be times the views of this fa&ion—to avail themselves of their opportunity of fruftra ting those views while they may, so as not to lament when it is too late their fatal con fidence, or criminal fupinenefs. The peo ple may aflure themselves that whatever may be the ends in view, they «re to be no gain ers./ The mass of the people never were • gainers in a Revolution from a Republican : form of government. That which rises on i its, ruins, probably after rivers of blqod, it i sure to pofTefs less of popular liberty. One ' revolution n»y terminate in liberty, a fe r cond will not. The firft is made to hringthe people to a state of liberty, the second takes > them at that state aad carries them forward i to something else. In the firft the mass of • the people lead the revolution, in the second I it is conduced by their leaders. And what • have these leaders to propofc to themselves I as a compenfatioafor all this reftleis toil and painful intrigue! They pretend to be in» • fluenced by disinterested principles—by true patriotism—-so did Cromwell & his party; so did Robespierre and his adlttrents; and so have the leaders of every fa&ion that ever I subverted regular government in ancient or - modern times. But as to these boasting pa i trials, let us ask how came their breaftc, and i their's only, inflamed with "h'3 extraordina ry love ft* the people? Have they feca,
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