THE OBSERVER. No. XIII. 0;:r national happiness mujl depend on the perfection oj our union. DIVIDE and govtrti, was the policy of Great Britain to keep the Americans ill subjec tion, before our emancipation fram her au thority ; and it is now the policy of thole who wiffy to embarrass our councils and defeat the ge neral government. The success of this artifice is manifeifc.from the strange conceptions of each other, entertained by the inhabitants in the ex tremes of the United States. before our'happy revolution. An intercourf'e in war and policy, has done much to remove these prejudices of ig norance, and we findthatnn American, whether he were born in New-Har.ipfhire or Carolina, is a reasonable being, is capable of friendihip and honesty, and if he be decently treated will re turn the civility. Ignorance on this fubjedt is now Co far removed, that when I hear any one ' difleminating prejudices againit a distant part of the union or endeavoring to prove an irrecorr cileable oppofltion of interests, I immediately l'ufpeifl his heart of apolitical poison ; and that a mifebievous againit the government,rather than ignorance of men is his motive to asperse. If there be any who cannot dilate their affec tions and policy beyond our ancient colonial ju rifdic r tions, they ought immediately to quit the country, and feck an insular situation, where rocks and waves may be an unchangeable boun dary, to their brotherly love—for fucn,our parent isle will be a happy retreat, where a charity and national (yftein of three hundred miles in diiuen fion will over-reach the limits of territory. We often speak of the union—this union now fubfiits in theory, and to make it permanent must be in feeling and in practice—it must rife superi or to local attachmeu:sand boundary lines,to the interest and deligns of a party —and inuft grasp the whole. In the policy of a nation th£ little pailions ought to have no concern. In rhe home bred labourer, who supposes his own diftritft to approach near the extreme limits of human ha bitation, we forgive the narrow apprehension -< and its confequfcnces ; but in a lawgiver of his country, or in any public officer, we mark the weaknefi, and pity him as a man wliofe mind is lels than his employment. Gentlemen whopoflefs delegated power, ought not to forget the particular interests of their constituents ; but this part may be over adied— a thousand questions of opposite interest, may be invented by a small degree of sagacity ; to heal a?id not aggravate the oppofltion marks a great politician —to adopt a pervading fyitem, in which facrifices made by any part of the union, lhall be compenfaied by equivalent benefits, is the work of a/kilful lawgiver. A desire of po pularity in their own small diftritfts, with some, proves a temptation to be very curious ill difcov • ering local interests ; this may succeed for a time but as the motive is not the moll honorable, must in the end defeat the very purposes, which it was designed to promote. In a country of free electors, where all have some property, there is a worthy pride on this fubjedt; those are molt relpcifted, who unite an economical care of the peoples' interest, with a magnitude of mind commensurate to national pur poses. A good subject had rather lose a few pence annually, than to hear it said his repre sentative is aman of litttle and felfilh views. In the galleries of the State Legillatures, I have often observed rhe feelings of every fpedtator, wounded, by the riSng of a member tp give in formation, that the measure is again]} the intercjl of his town or county, and therefore he r?mj} oppofeit. The influence of example is great! We have sanguine expectations, that the magnanimity and enlarged national views, manifefted by all the gentleman of our general representation, in their laftfelfion, will have a salutary effect onthefeel ings of thnfc, who legislate for the particular States. —When we remember that every mind was fupcrior to territorial prepofleflions, and en. larged as the empire to which they! give law !— When we refiedt, how they considered themfelvcs adting for a nation, and not for a single State ; and that they were not known even to name their own ancient dominions, left it should be construed into an anti-national meaning ! When we observe that the fpivit of conceflion brighten ed to the very clofeof their meeting, and shone with most dazzling luftve, on the question of a permanent feat for government ; we are f'urprifed by fucli superiority of human weakness ! —Such examples must be powerful 011 the feeling of every State ! —From this moment, a patiiotifin not confined to little limits will inspire our State councils ! —And every informed citizen, will con sider hi mfelf a fubjedt not of one ; but of the United States !— The final adjuftmenf of a revenue system, is a fubjedt more exposed than any other, to the in trusion of local views and ancient prepofiefljons. Both rulers and people mull expect to facrifice some feelings, which were pardonable in our old ftateof feparatiori ; but in our newfjate ofuni oil are wholly unfit. The iiian cannot be a good fubje<Tt, who on a proposition of public firlt enquires within himfelf, will this work in exclusive advantage to my own town, county, fr ltate j with this ipirit he will be forever grum bling at imaginary wrongs, and his brain w{ll be diltraCted with political phantoms which have no exiitence but in his own jealousy andfelfifhnefc. Either break the chain of union, and let eve ry part get what it may, in the general wreck ei property and honor; or make the union, as real as ic is ostensible ; and the only way for this, is to be one in legislation, in a judiciary fyltem, in finance, in public funds, and in the manner of taxation and forming a national revenue. If in this great republic, there are to be thirteen trea sury departments ; each jealous of the other, and armed with such hostile cunning as thefevd ral States can produce and all of them mofljeaicifJ of the general treasury : if every State is to have a plan of revenue from trade and bufinels,artfullV calculated to entrap its neighbors : If each State is to have afeparate debt, for which they mult pro vide, by means the most anti-national in ttieir ope ration ; certainly ourunion cannot be perfected. Demagogues and men of dishonest principles but popular views, will take occasions from the disorder to dilieininate the fteds of contention betweefi the States—the low paifions of the peo ple will be kept alive, and in the hour of palfion they will lubmit to such State measures, as in t»ie end mull rob them of prodigious property ; for it is not polfible for the several States to provide for our debt, info economical a manner, as it may be done by the united power. The old me thod of requisition oil the Sjates hath t>een found futile in the extreme ; and for Congress in tax ing the States, to have a motly pvocefs adapted to the several modes of aflelling and collecting now used in each, will keep alive of partiality ; and prevent order, regularity, and a similarity of decrees in the higher departments of the treasury. Uniformity in the manner of taxing and collecting through the whole, 1 con (ider as a principal ltep towards the perfection of our union ; and to be uniform, the system of the United States, mutt overlook all local cultoms, and Hand on its own basis—it mult adopt a Ample process, which may be understood by every kind of people in the union ; and such I conceive is the proposition of a land-tax which I have here tofore made. There is nothing in the circumstances, either of theeaflern, middle or southern States,, which in the opinion of an impartial mind, ought to mili tateagainft a plan offimilar operation through the whole. People may have their jealousies ; while the States were in treaty with each other, it was neceflary to bear with them ; now we are one people, have a right to the fame treatment, and all jealousy ought to be done away. FROM THE PROVIDENCE GAZETTE. THE NEW YEAR. THE commencement of a new year, it is hoped, will be marked by a new aera in the policy of this State. The fefiion of our Legislature, which takes place on the second Monday of January inlt. is anxiously waited for. The eyes of Eu rope, as well as America, are upon us : and that we may, at such an interesting crisis, walk wor thy of our vocation, is the ardent wifli of every friend to this and the United States. Bv adopt ing the government of the Union, farmers, mer chants, and citizens of every description, would soon experience a pleasing reverse of circum stances; wealth would flow in upon us from eve ry quarter, and the bane of a community, the Truck-Trade (which extreme necelfity compel led us to adopt) become totally extin«ft. FffeClual Remedy Jor the Bite of a Mad Dog. THERE is nothing, perhaps, so much to be dreaded as the bite of a mad dog : for the poison is so very infectious and penetrating, that it takes efFert thro the clothes, without fetching blood ; by the breath of the animal drawn into the lungs ; by a touch of the tootli if recent ; and applying it to the lips or tongue, when it has been long dried ; by handling the wound, or instrument, which was the death of the animal; or by handling things which have been infected by any of the former means. To prevent the fatal consequences that too often attend these accidents, the following (which is the famous Ealt-India Specific) is recommended to be given in a glass of brandy : Take native cinnabar, and factitious cinnabar, of each 24 grains, musk 16 grains, make it into a powder, and give it one dole, as ic was given in the following cafe : A poor man was bit by a mad dog, and after using divers medicines, was invaded withaftrong hydiophobia, and being confined in Greenwich was treated with the above medicine as follows : His teeth being forced asunder with a knife, he took one dose : three hours after the' hydropho bious symptoms were abated, he fwfillowed a se cond dose, which by next morning almost reco vered him ; he took a third dose in a fortnight, a fourth in a month after, and never felt any more of the hydropliobious symptoms. FROM THE AMERICAN EAGLE. PiiUiJliedat Salem, by Mr. Thomas C. Cuskinc. BY late intelligence from India weleam, that the French have ceded Pondicherry, on the coalt of Coromandel, to Tippoo Saib refervino the right, for a limited time, of keeping a small number of troops in the citadel, for the protec tion of such fliips as may touch there before this celiion is generally known. Transports were gone to biing Gen. Conway, (the French Generalifii mo in India) and the troops to the Isle of France Tippoo had destroyed the strong fortrefs of Manguelor, on the Malabar coast. flie Engliili pjflelled themselves of this commanding fitqatiou he last war ; but Tippoo, determined that they should never more take advantage of it, detach ed a large body of troops to destroy it, and attend ed himfelf in person to fee that it was effectual ly done. It was blown up and overturned to its very foundations, exhibiting afcene of ruins like ihe effects of a violent convulsion of nature. The policy of this warlike and ferocious Prince appears to be, to gain Indoftan entirely to him felf, and to destroy all intercourse between its inhabitants and Europeans For this purpofr, lie has ordered every pepper-flirun to be rooted up, in his dominions, and every object of com merce to be destroyed. Tippoo's numerous troops are under the most excellent discipline : theEnglifh byfighting them, and the French by aidingthem, have taught them the European art of war. A great number of Gen. Matthews's army, who were captured last war, and other Europeans, are now in his pay. It is said, the probable confequenceof the mea sures of Tippoo and the French will be, the en tire expulsion of the English from the peninsula of Indoftan ; when, pursuing his plan of policy, Tippoo will turn about, and drive off the French also. , If to remove usurpers, and to obtain the entire government of Indoftan, for the fakeof establish ing a beneficial commerce with the reft of the world, appeared to be the objects of Tippoo, we might perhaps be juftified in wifhinghim success: but we fear he is actuated only by revenue, and an ambition to govern by military law—"hat he means to prevent a friendly intercourse between his subjects and the inhabitants of the other parts of the globe ; and to wage a general war against the arts of peace, which have had so happy an in fluence upon mankind. 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