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.
WILLIAM TAYLOR,
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No. 4, Burlinc-Slip,
Aflorttnent of EAST-INDIA GOODS,
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Hankerchiefs,of various kinds,|| CalT,i«,
Chintzes, jj Seersuckers,
Ginghams, |j Boglaporrs.
A Variety of handsome painted MUSLINS.
With many other Articles, which will be fold by the Piece or
Package, low for cash.
And a few pair large liandfonie Cotton COUN
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January 9, 1790/ t. f.
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