THE APOLOGIZER
HAIL ! All hail theaufpicious xra of humani
ty ! Avaunt ! Ye black difcriptions ot hu
man nature, and of crimes against common fenle,
good government and good order. Rejoice ye
anti-feds ! Your apologizer triumphs ! He is read
with applause ! What a glory his labors Ipread
over you! Your opinions and practices, which
heretofore have been supposed criminal, are prov
ed to be the perfection of nature working by cross
purposes ! Your honesty is demonftated, by a
more felf evident truth, the circumscription of
your understandings ! Howpleafing to the writer
is the applause of his own con science, forrefcuing
from the bar of public censure thole unpitied ones,
who, bating the energy of his own quill, never
could have had a defender ! Black fliade of Cata
line ! Hear me, and be thou the patron-demon ot
my undertaking; and may Arnold, thy antiiype
in the present age, be a minlltering genius between
me and thee, for my afliftance while I emblazon
the integrity of our common friends. Reader, be
not impatient, the mysteries of my factious devoti
on are now ended, and I will again converfewith
thy earthly understanding. A principle of felf
preservation is a part of living nature, of which
no creature is deititute ; a man and his mule e
qually feel its influence. Even a fabulous exift
cnce is dear to thepoHeflor—witnefs the felf pre
serving exertions of Griffins, Unicorns and other
imaginary beings of antiquity ; when science be
gan to enlighten the mass of mankind, and they
felt a faintnefs spread over their fabled being how
they struggled to survive. If such be thy efforts,
felf-prefervingnature, where thou art but imagin
ed to be, what mult be the labor of thy creatures
to continue, when they actually exist. No mat
ter how small the quantity of being, if it be some
thing—a little fometliing is as real as a great some
thing, and, for ought we can know to the contra
ry, feels as ltrongly the principle of felf preser
vation, and the evil of extinction.
Self preservation how sacred ! Is it not a jufti
fying plea for whatever man can do ? Do not our
laws and reverend judges allow it to be a defence
against the highest charges ? And would you not
sneer in the face of an anti-fed, for so far forget
inghisown fafety, as voluntarily to subscribe a
constitution, which requires capacities in govern
ment above his own ? Doth any man love to go
into company in which he cannot ihine ? I tell
thee friend, that these questions carry death to a
great number, whom the Apologizer wilhes to pre
serve, and it may be thine own portion, while
thou art gazing.
Tho regard to public good be a laudable princi
ple of acftion, it is, by no means so sacred or bind
ing on any one as nature's own instinct of felf
pre fervation.
Reader, if thou art a great man in thine own
State, I am certain these arguments will goto thy
heart, and bring to remembrance the time when
thou haft felt them. These feelings I ffiall never
forget, for tho I am now one of the literati, I have
been quite another creature, a great man in my
own State. It was a vision. When I was medi
tating this apology, on motives of pure benevo
lence ; rhofe invilible powers came upon me, to
whom jrreat authors are indebted for the inspira
tion ot the qnill. In imagination, I was trans
formed from a humble citizen full of love to my
whole country, into the chief man of-a great State
in the western territory. My title was the sweet
est music, I had ever heard. Tho I found my mind
prodigiously leflened by the operation, several of
its pa (lions were increased, especially ajealoufy for
my own honor. The proclamation for a general
thanksgiving, coming out in any other name beside
my own, was a cutting circumstance, but deter
mining not to be insulted without revenge, I join
ed my own name to the supreme fignaiure. Ah !
there is much in signing a name, sometimes it
gives pence,and is half a man's dignity among the
people. In the firft days of vision, I thought iny
felf alone in these feelings, but gradually found
that several counsellors and judges who surround
ed me, felt the gnawing of the fame worm.
They dreaded the approach of federal officers of
a fiinilar department, and the mifchief of the
whole was, we could not convince the people of
what we felt so strongly ; that our own exclusive
dignity was of more consequence than the public
good. It soon became a common cause, and I
shall not fail in due time, to inform the worldof
those pangs in vilion which we all fuffered.
Nature thou art powerful ! Yes ! It was thy
felf preserving power, a&ing in them and in me,
and we fliould have been suicides to resist. But
greater things, than these, were before me, and
lam chilled by the remembrance. This fatal
tour thought 1 within myfelf ! What evil destiny
has led the hero here ? Whether to befirft or se
cond, in the house of my own kingdom, was now
the queftioti. While in tornienting'fufpence, Po
dagra, my guarding angel, who had favedmeout
of many political scrapes, and made my folly pass
for shrewdness, descended ! He seized me body,
foul and joints, and hid me from the scheme ! ! !
(A M r K ! CA N* MeRCC'IIV.)
No. 11l
THE FINE ARTS.
Extratt of a letter from New-Yoik, February 27.
THE justly celebrated Trumbull is now bu
sily engaged in his great undertaking—the
productions you may depend will be a most valua
ble acquisition to the world—to the American
world in particular. I have seen lorae of the pie
ces, in which a tew heads and Tome portraits are
finifhed—The /ikenejfes are PERFECT—the draw
ing, NATURE ITSELF—and the dcfigns senti
mental, elevated and just. In short, here is no
risque—the objedl is sure, and the mind is per
fectly fatisfied—it rests in the execution.
(fyajf. Cert.)
Fir'd with the martial toils that bath'd in gore
His brave companions, on his native shore,
TRUMBULL, with daring hand, the scene recalls,
And shades with night Quebec*s beleaguer'd walls,
Mid slashing flames that round the turret rife,
Blind carnage raves, and great Montgomery dies.
On ChdrUflown** height, thro* floods of rolling fire,
Brave Warrin Falls, and fulfen hosts retire;
While other plains of death that gloom the (kies,
And chiefs immortal o'er his canvas rife 1 .
O DarSv , did you ever feeaWhaJc?
HuJli, neighhors, hujh, let Darby tell his talc."
THE celebration of the Birth-day of our belov
ed PRESIDENT has been general&harmoni
ous, in small as well as in capital towns. Amongst
others, a correspondent has communicated to us
the demonstrations of the refpedi for this illustri
ous character, which inspired the citizens of the
town of Clijticejler, Cape-Ann. In the morning,
Capt. Pea rce ordered the colours to be hoisted,
at the dicliarge of a gun, on board several ves
sels—and at 12 o'clock, desired Capt J. Coffin,
who commands a large ship fitting for whaling,
to fire 13 guns. Atone o'clock, a neat whale
boat, on wheels, well-manned and equipped,
with oars, harpoons and lances, with warp, &c.
and each man drefled in frock and trowfers, was
dragged by men in purfuitof a horse, which re
presented a whale, having fins, &c. fixed to him ;
and 011 coming up, the harpooner threw his har
poon by the horse's fide, and the man on the
horse catching the end of the warp, the horse
immediately fat off upon the run—the men iu the
boat securing themselves, and observing the fame
rules as in real service. The horse at length
flopping, the harpooner on coming up with him,
threw a lance by his fide, and the horse, turning
upon the boat as if in an agony, appeared to fight
it; bur, after several attempts to extricate himfelf,
being at length worn down, was represented as
expiring—The whole affording a scene which
gave much fatisfaftion to a great number of spec
tators. At night, 13 guns were fired, and 13
toasts drank by the gentlemen of the town who
aflembled on the joyous occasion.
AGRICULTURE.
M». Butler,
THE growing of Turnips is justly reckoned a very profitable
branch of hufbandrv—every hint, therefore, that has a ten
dency to advance the cultivation of this valuable root, will be ac
ceptable to the public.
The Fai triers in this part of the country generally sow their
turnips, for fall and winter use, about the 25th of July. I have
beert long apprchenfive that this sowing is too early. Jhe wea.
thcr at this of the year is generally very hot, and very dry,
and drought has a direst tendency 10dwarf and spoil a field of
young turnips :—The black fly also, a natural enefny of tTie tur
nip, is at this period very voracious, and the crop is too often
destroyed rendered unprofitable, by one or other of these
causes.
With a view to remedy these evil«, I sowed my turnips, the
last year, very late in August. My neighbors laughed at me, and
said I fliould not have a single mess : I had, however, m6re and
better turnips than any of them. Encouraged by this success, I
sowed this year on the 25th of August, a small piece of ground,
eight rods only, with turnips. They came up well, and not a fly
touched them. When they had four or five leaves, I dife&ed one
of my men to clean them of weeds, and thin them f6 as to have
them stand ten or twelve inches from each other. The ground
was afterwards slightly stirred with a garden hoc. The leaves
grew rapidly—covered the ground, and prevented the further
growth of weeds. On the 1 ith of November I pulled the turnips
trimmed and meafurcd them, and had on theeight rodsof ground
(the twentieth part of an acre) forty-five bufliels of as large and
well flavored turnips as I ever saw. This produce is at the rate
of nine hundred bufliels per acre. The foil is a sandy loam in
good heart, but by no means in high tilth.
I sowed two other small pieces of ground, the one 011 the firft
and the other about the eighth of Sept. Neither of these yielded
like the one sowed on the 25th of August ; but each of them pro
duced much larger and better turnips than any I have seen that
were sowed at the usual time.
I attribute my success altogether to the late sowing—then the
heat is lcfs intense the rain more frequent, the dew copious, the
fly harmlejs, and the crop abundant. YOUNG FARMER.
Hampjhirc County, Dec. 1789.
PROGRESS OF AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.
THE Picfident of the United States having recommended to
Congress a legifiative encouragement for producing, amonu
ourlelves, the various articles of manufacture conducive to the de
fence of the country; it may be fatisfaftory to learn the actual state
ot one of these manufactures in Pennsylvania, as it appears in the
following extratt of a letter from thence :
" Being direfterl by the manufaauring board, lately to take
«' upon mea (hare of an exienfive report,in which gun-poWder was
" an article, I was muchpleafed and fuprifed to find that we have
»• twenty-one powdcr-nuls capable of making fix hundred
' and twenty-five tons per annum : That they retail at Q7s.6d oer
" quarter of 251b. and offer to fell, in quantities, under 6l per
i. that E "§!' m Pnce after deducting the boun'tyof
t 75 !i 6 • fterlms ' ° r 61 >°d. currency,per cwt
EngliO, powder ,s now nearly done w.th here, and one yea;
• Will entirely exclude I- lam convinced this edenti.lly necef
• fary manufaflure befidesenfunng defence, is worth above 200
< .000 de.lavs. It has furpnlcd me as much as the paper-mills."
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Barlow's Vision,
NEGRO DEPUTIES IN THE NATIONAL AS
SEMBLY.
PARIS, November 17.
IN tlje Island of St. Domingo are 30,000 free
people, viz. 6000 whites, and 24,009 people of
colour, moll of whom are negroes. The for
mer, in the begining of the new Cotiftitution
called a meeting in the Island, and, thinking it
but just that they should be represented, sent their
Deputies to Paris, who were at length admitted
into the Aftembly here. In process of time, the
lafter, i. e. the free black people,called ameet
ing also, in the fame Island. They stated that
they were the fubjetts of France ; that they paid
their taxes in the lame proportion as the former;
that they could fee no difference between the
blacks and the whites ; and that, for these and
other reasons, they ought to be represented also.
They therefore determined upon fending depu
ties and actually nominated three, who arrived
in Paris about a fortnight ago. Upon tliejr ar
rival they demanded an audience of the Aflem
bly, into which they were admitted. On stating
their claims, M. Fretau, the president, a most
zealous friend in the cause of liberty, afl'ured
them that they need not be dispirited ; for that
the Aflembly knew no distinction between Blacks
and Whites, but considered all men as having
equal rights.
The circumstances, however, of the nation
were such, that their claims could not be imme
diately difcufl'ed ; (and here permit me to ob
serve these circumstances are the very fame
which defer the consideration of the Slave trade
alfo)but that they shall have a provisional feat in
the National Aflembly. This provisional feat may
be thus explained : Three Members of Parlia
ment in England put up at an elediion, and two
are returned ; the third complains to tihe House
of an undue election ; the House resolve tocon
fider the cafe on a fixed day, but till then the two
members who were returned keep their feats.
So it is, in the present cafe, the three black re
presentatives are allowed a feat till the cafe is
determined ; and you may therefore fee them
every day in the National Aflembly ; and so far
as I can find, they stand in no danger of losing
their feats at a future time. This circumstance
I have beei) acquainted with for some days, but
was additionally informed last night by Monf.
de la Fayette, that it was one of the articles of
the deputation to appoint him Commander ip
Chief of the 24,000 people of color—which com
mand he has accepted.
New-York City Lottery.
SCHEME of a LOTTERY, for the purpose of raiGog Seven Thou
fund Five Hundred Pounds, agreable to an ACT or the Legisla
ture of the State of New-York, pasTed Bth February, 1790.
SCHEME.
t PRIZE of
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180
7950
8346 Prizes, )
16654 Blanks, J 2 5°°° Tickets, * 4 os > «»ch, /.£QOpt
Subje£t to a dcdu£tion of Fifteen per Gilt.
THEobjcft of this LOTTERY being to raifc a part oftbefum
advanced by the corporation for repairing and enlarging the Cl-
HALL, for the accommodation of CONGRESS, which dors
so much honor to the Architett, as well as credit to the city. The
managers presume that their fellow Citizens will cheerfully con
cur in promoting the sale of Tickets, especially as the success of
this Lottery will relieve them from a tax, which roust otherwise
be laid to reimburfethc corporation.
The above SCHEME is calculated in a manner very beneficial
to adventurers,there not being two blanks to a prize.
1 he Lottery is intended to commence drawing on the First
Monday in August next, or sooner if filled, of which timely
notice will be given. A lift of the fortunate numbers will be pub
lilhed at the expiration of the drawing.
Tickets are to be fold by the fubferibers, who are appointed
Managers jby the Corporation.
Isaac Stoutknburgh, Abraham Herring,
* >ErER T. Curtri*ius, John Pintard.
New-YorA, 6th March, 1790.
William Taylor,
Has for Sale, at his EASX-INDIA GOODS STORE,
No. 4, Burling-Slif,
Aflbrtinent ofEAST-INDIA GOODS.
Among which are the following Articles:
BOOK Muslins 8-4 6-4 5 - 4 || HUMHUMS,
Jackonet do. jj Long Cloths,
Hankercluefs,of various kinds, Caffas,
Chintzes, | Seersuckers,
Ginghami, j Boglapores.
A Variety of handsome painted MUSLINS.
With many other Articles, which will be fold by tke Piece «r
Package, low for cafli.
And a few pair large handsome Cotton CO UN/
TERPANES, much warmer than Blankets.
New-Yorkj 1789,
A LIVERY STABLE,
Kept by BENJAMIN POWELL, at the upper end of Qulis-
Str eet, Np. 11 J, near the T.ea-Water Pump.
"VVTHERE hetakesinHorfes by the night, week,
r , , or year, at the most moderate rates that can be af
orded. He thanks his former customers for their favors, and flat
ters himfelf that care and attention will again be paid to such gen
tlemen, as mayputtjieir horses in his charge. Boarding and Lodg
ing may be had by applying as above. Feb. 25.
£.3000
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