. Sallad Oil,
Of a Idpei o quality in boxes u s twelve
Bottles ;
lO * SAtE BY
Grtibb, Mather 13 Hill.
Ni>v. j(i j
come to Hand,
And to ae Cold at N0.68, Market street,
A of Portraits,
i vjj. i orirairs,
Price 6 Cents.
This Card repreHinii nv» D (tinft Fi
£ui es, which at ilrft view uat the
linalleft ••■femblanee of 'the faces dtfig.i'cd
tobe exhibited ; but al'trr a clil"er iiVfjlct
tioir, the likjiiefles appea- lo itTik'r.- jrhat
the p,>rfon who views them tan hardly lee
any :liing el r e ? and is fitrf>- iled He had
not difcbve'rcd tUein Ibpnei ,
Nov. 27 rodt
OU American Company.
THEATRE—CEDAR STREET.
LAST NIGHT BUT ONE.
For the Benefit of Mr. Nel
fo)i & Mrs. Wllfon,
Cn Friday Evening, Nov. iS, will be pre
sented a much admired Comedy, cal
led
Wild Oats•
O R,
'The St foiling Gentleman.
End of the Plav, '■ The Soldier Tired of
War's Alarms," by Mrs. Povnah
Afterwards a CATCH CLUB, under the
direction of Mr. Carr, President Mr.
IJodgkinfon, in which will be introduc
ed several of the newest and most ad
mired songs, ducttes, ratches, and glees
aud " the Heaving of the Lead," by
Mr. Nelf'on.
To wl>ich will be added a FARCE, called:
The Romp.
Tickets delivered for that night, by
Meflrs. 1-ee, Miller, Keonard, M'Night,
o. Humphreys, will be admitted.
The doors will be opened at half after
five, and the curtain drawn up preyifely at
half after lix o'clock.
BOX, one Dollar- —PITT, three quar
ters —GALLERY, half a dollar.
MefIrs.HALLAM & HODGlONSON
tefpe&fuily acquaint the Citizens in gene
ral, that every expe-nce has been chearful
ly fufiaijied. that might tend to make the
Old American Company, worthy a fhace of
their patronage, during the Ihort flay the
nature of their engagements will permit
Them to make here.
Places in the Boxes may be had at the
Bfix Office, from ten to one every day
(Sundays excepted) and on days of per-
A>rmancc from three to five P. M. where
also tickets mij- had, and at Mr. Brad
ford's book-store, Mb. 8, foiith Front
llrc-et, and at Mr. Carr's mUfic-ftore.
THE LAST NIGHT THIS SEASON
Mr. £s? Mrs. Hodgkinfon
Refpotffully acquaint the Citizens in ge
neral* their BENEFIT is 011 Monday,
December 1 ft, wheu will be presented,
the very popular OPE liA or
The HAUNTED TOWER,
With new Scenery and. decorations —by
particular desire, the Dance of the
TWO PHILOSOPHERS.
Aild the Coinedy of the
L Y A R.
antfot Mr. and Am. Hodgkhiffch, N«, 89
Foarth
To-Morrow will be Landed
from on board of the Brig Mary, Capt
Beaks, at Sims' wharf,
Old flierry Wine,
In hhds. and quarter calks,
Pofc sale By
Philips, Cramond 13 Co*
Nor. 24 djt
— i v.\ ». ~f -
FOR SALE BY
GILL iff MENSHAW,
Na. 128, South IVater Street,
CLARET in cases,
Madeira, Sneriy, and Lisbon Wine?
Philadelphia Porter in |>ori;es,for expli
cation at The ilnitulk riutiir, or for prr
vnre families and tavern keepers, d«;iver
ed in «nv part of the town.
ALSO,
Jtr. nffortnent of 5-4 6-4
American manufactured Bolt-
ing Cloths,
Which will bt warr»nred etjusl 10 any
imiwrttd, for the reTpeftive pqrpofes re
quired—as has already befcnfi und on trial
A Liberal Ailowanie to dfeal*
ers.
A C"mplfiit Set of
Grocer's Cannifters
tot. SALB.
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GONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Tuesday, November 25, 1794.
Debate an Air. Fitzjimons's motion rela
tive to felf-createdfecieties.
Mr. Murray (aid, that he did not al
together like the precise wording of the
amendment now before the house ; he
had hoped that some modification of h
would have been prepared by some of j
the frieuds to it« general object : but
as none was off. red, and there was a
call for the queliion, he would vote for
it, rather than ngainft it. He said,
that he had not been personally attack
ed by any of the tribunals in question,
and no farther injured by their machi
nations, than as he was a citizen of a
free republic, in whose prosperity he felt
the clofelt polTible union, and in whose
calamities he of course felt the comple
teft lympatliy. Among the various
sources of the late calamity, the Presi
dent had.traced and designated certain
ltlf-created locieties, who had arrogated
the management of public opinions
and affairs, artd whom he had declared
to have been in his opinion inftrunaental
in fomenting the late infurreilion. Mr.
Murray confeffed that he had feared iatt
•'•inter, lefl the disorganizing spirit,
which had gone abroad in the (hape of
resolutions from these societies, would
have produced the fcffeA ascribed to
them by the President. The conduit
of the democratic clubs, or those of
them with which he had mod acquaint
ance, appeared to him to have been in
strumental to an event which had threa
tened dellru&ion to the legitimate go
vernment of the citizens of the United
States. If we believe this to be the
cafe; Mr. Murray knetf no motive, du
ty or policy, which ought to restrain us
at this period from faying that we be
lieved it j and from lamenting it. If ar>y
one of the sources of this evil be found
in an abufc of the press, we may tell our
constituents what we believe and la
ment—but if the fountain of this evil
flow from the root of the tree of know
ledge itfelf, it is our duty to point out
its waters, which too freely drank have
produced detraction and insurrection.
Our declaration will rather hold out pa-
I ternal catition to the thoughtless, than
inflict legal penalties upon their follies.
It will present to our fellow-citizens a
memorable example of one fouree of er
ror and political misfortune, by (hewing
them the danger, which has»alreadv cult
above twelve hundred thousand dollars ;
and it will enforce a great republican
truth, that in cases wherein ? from the
difficulty of definition, and from the ve
ry genius of freedom, a lavfr would be
dangerous, public virtue, in her enjoy
ment of a right, ought herfelf to prc
feribe the bounds which separate the
use from the abuse. He could not fee
any evil that was to result from an ex
preflion of tiie opinion of the house, by
the proposed amendment. It had not
the quality of a law, for if a law were
proposed for the abolition of these soci
eties, h« would oppose it. This amend
ment to the address would operate as
an advice. It curtails not the right of
a free press, which Mr Murray held to
be the luminary of the public mind. It
would tend to excite a judicious and fa-
lutary enquiry among many, refpefting
the just and true limits within which a
virtuous and enlightened well-wisher to
our country would think it fafe to cx
ercife this right. Of the inutility and
danger of such iocicties in this country,
he had little doubt ; the scene of their
birth place was well adapted to the
wholesome display of their powers. In
France, where a despotism impregnable
to public opinion had reigned, where no
channel opened a sympathy by rcpre
feutation, with the great body of the
nation, those societies were admirably
adapted to break down the old bulwark
of habitual authority. But in Ameri
ca the cafe was widely different. Look
at the immense body of public function
aries, who in this country are ele&ed
immediately by the people, or by their
elcftors, in a constitutional mode, and
fay, whether they are not adequate as
funflicmarles to the public purpoCcs of
the country. Including every descrip
tion of legiflatdrsy councils, governors,
courts, jurors, and (heriffs, there are a
bovt twelve thpufand. Of thele more
than eleven hundred are actual Icgifla
tors, besides the hundrid in this corn-
mittce arid thofc above flairs. These
all aft in the states, counties, townlhips,
and hundreds, in separate but relative
circles, so as to pteclude a partial at
tention to any one scene to the exclusi
on of another. The whole country is
full of well constituted organs of the
People's will. Many oftbefe legis
lators are in fefiion twice a year, and all
of them annually. In surveying this
beautifully ray'd corps of vigils nee and
*«dtl'
subiic good, we might be confufed by for evil ?He a g a '" remindedthecom j
heir fcLenfc number, were they not so miltee, that the Republican Society at
idmirably dispersed over tfie continent, Balt.more was composed of a band of I %
tots ox,
lance of the laws, with the harrtlony of the present day, but the pam#9 ot fe
he spheres. It would not be easy to vemyf ve, the men who were not afraid J
irganize tJk nation into a more multi- to rally round the American »»■"-- .
fariout fl^R." when that Ration was a.molt concluded *
The cXiaintained by Mr. Dayton to be a forlorn hope. They were men *
yefterdayTmpeared to be Itrong. He who, with their persons and propert.es, ,
laid that Xhad enquired into the de- had assisted to drive from the foil of A
feat of St. CV ir'3 army, and so we merica, the present lawless disturbers of
might into the causes of the infunec- the world. " Are thele the men,
lion. The house have a right ta en- said Mr. Christie, " who ought to have
in the raidft of our liberties, that fane- upon them ? I trust not lir. I tiult, i
luary is not to screen it from remark, that if particular gentlemen are illil eraK
To point it out to a people so enlight- enough to censure them, yet that this '
:ned, will be to prevent it. in futiirt. If House will neveragree tofuch iniquitous
[he house agree in opinion with the measures. What was the conduct ol
President, they will speak their opini- this society, when the firft news of the
sn, and do their duty. This declara- late infurredtion reached them ? Did
tion goes to the condituent body, thro' they not, in the molt pointed manner,
the executive, and while it gratifies their difcounteiiance any fuel) proceeding?
inquiries, in a point of so much folici- Did they notrefufe to correipond with
tude, it eredts a warning beacon. It any society that aided, or in any man
fhews to them the stormy breakers ner abetted the inlurrtftion ? They did
which lately threatened the public; peace more. They offered their perlonal fer
ivith shipwreck, and invites them to ad- vices to go and lk'lp to crulh this com
to charts with which they are acquaint- joined that he would venture to fay, and
ed.. . , at the fame time he spoke within bounds,
If the President had not thought that nine tenthi ot this society adtiially
some of the societies inftrnmental to the took ififg their muskets, and marched in
late calamity, t)iey would not have at- to the field, for the above laudable pur
tracied his notice, nor that.of the house. pose, and that number, p; them it ill
It is because they are believed to have continue 'there and are the friend* of
assisted and fomented the infurrettion, peace and order, pik] ,iot the JJorgani
that ourconltituents ought to be warn- %crs, that the present amendment would
ed against them j and that another ne- rr.ake them. Mr. Christie applied to the
ceflity for exerting their patriotism may committee, fay whether the Balti
be saved to those brave men, who are more jdf-cruiicd Republican society were
at present encountering every difficulty the description of men whom the Prefi
in the Weft. These societies ate not ~:ent, in his fpeeeh, meant to dclcribe.
attended to by the law, because, howe- He was sure it was not. Therefore,
ver offending some of their proceedings why involve in this indiscriminate cer>
and doctrines may have been, yet the sure, m en, who have deserved so well of
rights of the press ought not to be free- their country ; men, who, inllead of
ly handled. The probe that would having odium call upon them, merit
reach the bottom of thi fore might give every praise, which the federal govern
a spasm or a callous to the fin eft nerve ment can bestow. Forthefe, and some
which enlivens the organs of liberty.— other reasons, Mr. Chriitie declared that
Mr. Murray added a vatiety of other he should v ote a.Tair.it the amendment,
obfervatious which we are forced to and he truftcd that he should vote in the
leave out for want of loom. majority.
Mr. Fitzfimons had no violent predi- Mr. Murray rofc to explain- He
lection for any performance of his own. did not mean this society. It was the
He had therefore, to prevent so much Philadelphia and Piiifbuign foci-ties,
disputing, prepared to withdiaw his mo- Mr. Murray was acqu-aii.ted with 'his
tion, providing that the committee were society, and had trie greatelt refpeft for
willing that he should do fo,and In the them. As for the membets of the
room of this motioii, he would read ano- other societies, he was for gibbetting
ther for which he wag indebted to a their principles only.
gentleman at his right hand (Mi. Mr. Giles anc Mr, Tark.r fevewlly
Bourne.) The committee consented.— spoke against the term " fejf created fcci
rhe former motion was withdrawn, and etie the latter gentleman moved that
the other was read. Thi* wai an echo this ftouia l,t " n ! ck out_^ r - Sedgwick
of that part of the fpeeeh of the Prefi- T ° ?P °- ct ° *" S ° Ut ' 1 u
j i• L • rtr tr • democratic iocieties were certainly tile Go*
dent, which mentions felj-crcahd foci- j c a of censure in the fpeeeh-they certamly
etlcs - _ _ merited censure, and fueh ought to be
Mr. Christie then rose. He was for. the declaration of the committee. In this
rv to differ from his worthy colleague way the President ought to be supported
(Mr. Murray) on the question then by the Legislature. Mr Venible twin
before the committee ; and he wasdou- tavor °f diking out the words—he fa d
blyforry to hear that gentleman labour mvolved every
c n n r ~, ... ~ uefcription ot ucicties not tezatuea by
so strenuously to faddk a public odium hw w l hatevcr VVVIS the cV , c , . Ilf f ]ieir inlU l
on lome of the belt citizens of the fote tution—this general.exprci]ion involves;ve
(Maryland) wh'ch he represented.— ry serious confeqiiences—it goes to the sup-
Mr. Christie should not have risen on prefCon of free difctilfiun—and the ex
the present occasion, although he preflion of the public in ivi'prft to public
thought it an important one, had it not ] ncn aml l' ul,lic m"fures-lf; any ot rhefe
been to endeavour to rescue from public "" : '" : T ' , <!}
r - . . , ' insurrection let them be pointed oui—let
censure a society of gentlemen, ieho s uch be thc obit . cts us our cen fu r e—ln
were described in the present amend- making these remarks Mr. Venablefaid he
of public opprobrium. Mr. Christie ganizer—his principles on the nature o!'j>o
alluded to the Republican society of ver "ment were well know n- Mr. Dextci
the town of Baltimore. If the present obie f kd to ftr: j k ' n ", out tht or,ls—He en
. i_ t t r • tertrtl into a detail ot the proceedings ol
amendment took place, that society these focieties-their object has been invari
would be involved in general and unde- ably to cerdme the adrtamffration of the
served censure. He would therefore government —wbile they clo?.k tiiemfelvts
inform the house of what description of under the appellation of" Republican they
men the Republican society of Baltimore ' iave constantly aiSed in contradiction tc
consisted ; and then thc committee their title, by opposing the firft principh
would be th# belt judges, whether they of that a m jority should
ought to be rewarded in the manner in stated the reasons on whieh the pro
which they were about to be rewarded, priety of echoing that part of tbe fpeeeh
if the present amendment should be a- under confideratkm is founded.
rlopted. They were a society of gen- Congrcfs is the centre of information—
tie men associated together, foi the pur- is tl- eafon against the people to withholc
pose of diffufing political knowledge that from tbe people in thc
thiough the state of Maryland, and To "'ZU l ° f
■ n . c . • ■ A r pomble to notice that part of the fpeecl
inftrua their representatives in Congress, now under consideration without givin f
and in the L.eginature of the (late, in an opinion relative to a —wemufthav<
any point that they thought necessary, an opinion on the occasion ; two branche:
and not for the purpose of sowing dif- °f the government have exprefied their o
Mention among the cititens of America, P'" ion —and it is the indefpenfable duty o
>r of cultivating dislike to the union,and £ Committee to exprels theirs.
' , i-very man laid he who votes againlt e*
-reflin' ' ' -r
This society con lifted of men, whose
characters were superior to any censure
that might be thrown agninft them, by
th« mover of the amendment, (Mr.
Fitzfimons) for they would consider it
r.o discredit to have his disapprobation.
But when Congrofs are about to call an
odium on a particular society, who have
every refpeft for that body, and have
always inculcated obedience to the laws
of the United States, Mr. Chriitie left
it to the committee to determine, whe
ther, if they were themselves, in the
place of the Baltimore society, they
would not feel their fcnfibility materially
wounded ? Was not this returning good
irefTing this opinion will be con
idvocating these inflitutions.
Mr. Gilbert—regretted that the fubjetfi
had been draxTi ir.to so imje'n discussion—
but it bad developed so many fadis and oc
casioned so many afiertions n 1 stive to these
societies that it was become i idifpenfably
neceflary for the Committee to give an opi
nion—and he conceived that no solid ob
je<slion had been offered againlt the motion
as it lay on the table—he infiftedthat the
alTertion in the speech was well founded—
that the evils stated have taken place and
originated inthecor.ibinations and proceed
ings ofthelefelf created societies—this being
the principle of the cafe, there results an
evident propriety in our faying so—it is a
a fact which cannot be better expressed
than in the wcdiua the üble. Mr
Nicholas obiervec that one f w -; PS t
merit had been introduced IW o
■ which in itfelf merited no „„ ticc f ate .
• the use which had been made o f' r ° m
to have been anfwered-and that°"? 1
thole who objected to the
to give it their support since it w as br f '°
forward m order to support the Pref.a g
He remarked if the P®. t 's
was implicated on thisoccafion, the * 1
cates of the motion mav thank th. n r >
for it-he trusted that no "nliden.'i i".-
th.s fort would induce any ma,, to devUfe
from the dilates of 4ns confrience, or lk
lcrince his independence. £■
He then entered irtV, a confident™ „f
the mode of attack on the (ocietie, tdof
ted by the advocates of the motion • th-v
had entered into a long f<ri« of ai,ft r 'J
reafomng to prove that these focien-s
rited cei.fure, but had they proved a iingie
fait, or would gentlemen pretend to K
that this was a proper or legal mode of a.
taolilhing any fait whatever.
Mr. Sedgwick said that in a <roven>.
ment of departments, such as That of
the Uuited States, where the executive
power was lodged in the hands of an i„.
dividual, and where the Icgiflaturt « as
not perpetually in session, there seemed
to be a propriety in point of theory,
fanftioned by the practice of all fuel,'
governments of which we hadanv know.
ledge, that the executive fhoiild' exhibit
to the legislature, at the commence.
ment of its deliberations, a general pi r .
ture of the state of. the community, and
announce such fadt« as had, or might
materially affed the public happintis.
That in addition to t|Je obvious proprii
ety resulting from the nature of things,
it was made conftituiionally the duty of
the President, to reprelent to Congrel*
the (late of the union." And that in
doing this, such fubjetts were not alone
to be feW&ed, as were within the appro
priate limits of legislation. That the
President in comformity to a univerfaliy
established practice, and fn the p;rma
nence of the duties exacted as well by
the confidence reposed in hid), as by the
express provision qf the eonftitution,
had declared to the legislature, that an
unnatural infurre£Hon had taken place
agairdl the government and laws, and
that it had been fomented by certain
combinations of men, under the gene
ral denomination of felf-created focic
. ties."
; Tbefirft question which presented it
felf to the committee, was whether the
, fails as ftattd by the President be true ?
and i; so, the second question was whe
: 1 thcr it was the duty of the house to
' give their voice in support of the Preli
dent's declaration ? He was- prepared,
upon very mature and deliberate conft
deration, to give his unqualified aflent
to both quellions.
A Gtntliitiau (Mr. Gilts,) had fa'd
that to echo the sentiments of the Pre
sident, would deltroy that unanimity
which was so desirable in the houfc, and
produce difcotd and irritation. No
man would go further than himfelf to
obtain or continue unanimity in the
public councils ; but he was at a lofc to
determine why gentlemen (hould permit
themklves to be irritated at a declarati
on of the truth, refpedting mifcliu ous
societies, who one gentleman (Mr.
Nicholas.) had afieited .to.be contempti
ble, and whom he said he heartily def
piljed—Societies whom no man had un
dertaken to defend, hut which another
Gentleman (Mr. Lyman) had repre
sented as in deep repentance for palt
mifoondudt.
It hsjd been said that the adoption of
the proposed amendment, mi|>ht be con
strued an intention of reftraiuing
the freedom of debat?. He was sorry
to fee /my where, and more particularly
in the legislature, a disposition to con
found freedom and licentioufnefl. They
were indeed as Chrill and Belial. Was
there not he allied, an obvious
on between a cool, difpafiionate, hone it
and candid discussion of political mea
sures, and a wicked, falfe, and leditious
misrepresentation of public men and
public measures? The former was with
in the province, and it was the duty of
freemen—the latter was inconsistent
with moral redtitude, tended to the dtf
tru&ion of freedom, and to produce
every evil which could afflict a commn
s nity. He was w.liii gto concede that
- perhaps no boundary would beioactu
* ratelv marked, by which the one miij'it
in all instances be subjected to puniih
ment, without endangering the other.
The boundary was nevertheless uiftindt
t ly marked in the mind of every mm
- corrcctly iuftruCted in morality and po
• litics.
If then it was agreed that this was
not a fnbject on which legal difcuflion
was -contemplated it was acted, why
, fliould the house express an opinion on
it ? Mr. Sedgwick said he would aft m
his turn, why express the other fe> ti
ments already unanimously agreed to mi
the address ?' Why particularly approve
the gallant cond«nfl of Gen. W'tynea.
his brave army ? If the house o
thi« to conduce to the
benefit, by fh'mulating t« like nrt*
/
I
idered a*
*-o»