*-«rs none" beth {ides have united in re probating the felf created societies. Sure ly then, gentlemen will not hesitate to re icirrrf a vote which is no left deceptive than it i»pern : ciout ? For if we adopt the amend meat it will appear that all the branches of the government are agreed in sentiment. If we reje£ it, what willit proclaim less than imbecility 2nd discord > VVhat will faction interpret it to import (hort of this. " The Prudent and Senate have de nounced the felf created societies alluded to in the speech, and this house has ftept for ward for their protedlion." BeQdes the unspeakable dilhonor of this patronage ; is it not rekindling theiire-brands of sediti on, is it not unchaining the demon of an archy > few as the apologists of the clubs have been, the solemnity and perleveranee of their appeal to principles demand fa,' it an examination. The right to form political clubs has been urged as if it had be:n denied. It is not, however, the right to meet, it is the abuse of the right, after they have met, that is charged upon them. Town meet ings are luthorixcd by law, yet rhey may be called for seditious or treafonaHle pur jiofes. The legal right of the voters in that cife would be an aggravation not an excuft for the offence. But if persons meet in a club with an intent to ob!truSjc£ts invaifion, and the combir.'&ti >ns alluned to are well adopted and ac tively employed to deltroy it. It ie a plaulible opinion, that if,tln government is not grossly defective ii ts form, or corrupt in its adminilhation immolitiej againecome its implacable enemies, and fuel nen have ever been the foes of Repub ics. The outcasts from society, thofi vho lingly are (hunned because infam; las smitten them with leprosy, mei yho are feared with worse than plagui ores, are thefitft to combine againlt it \nd such men have the front to preacl mrity of principles and reformation >uch men will meet ih darkness ant >erform incantations- against liberty here they will gather to medicate thei toilons, to whet their daggets, to urte heir blasphemies against liberty, am nay proceed again to Ihout from tha ;allery, 01 may collect with cannon a his door, to perpetrate sacrilege hcreii ter very fandtuary. It will be a/ked what remedy for th: .'vil ? I answer no violent one. Thi jentle power of opinion, I flatter myfel' ivill prove fufficient among our citizen who have sense, moials and property The hypocrisy of the clubs will be un malked, and the public scorn, withotn touching their persons or property, wil frown them into nothing. Mr. Ames next proceeded to advert more particularly to fafls. He made mention of the Jesuits, who were banifti ed for becoming a club against the E'u- ropean governments. He mentioned the Jacobins aIL, who performed well in pulling down the old government, but because they would continue pulling down the new one, as such clubs ever will, had their hall locked up by Le gendre. Our committees in 1774 and 1 77'5> were efficient instruments to pull down the British government. Yet al though they were friendly to our own, the people laid them aside, at soon as they wished to build up inflead of pull ing down. If our government were to be demolished, clubs would be a power ful means of doing it, and the people may chufe to countenance them at that time. But as they chufe no such thing at present, they will discountenance them. The Cincinnati were pcrCbnajly worthy mc» r officers of the most worthy army that crer triumphed. Yet altlio' they were, friendly to " the go'vernment, and poffelTed the confidence of the citi zens by the moll "brilliant titles, the na ture of their institution railed ajealoufy and ferment. The state lejjiflatures condemned it, as fitting up a govern ment within the government. What then are we to fay of clubs ? have been rather imprudently called for, and let fhem be examined. The Democratic Society ot Ver i fnont ft ate, as one reason for their eilab | liflunent, the unmerited abuse with which the public papers have so (iften teemed againlt the minister of our only ally. This was long after Genet's whole correspondence had been publish ed, and after France had Unequivocally difapprovedhiscondu£t. < Agreeable to a previous notification, there met at Pittfburg, .on the 2lft of Ailguit, a number of persons, Itiling themselves "A meeting of sundry inha bitants ot the Western Counties of Penn sylvania." * This meeting entered into resolutions not less exceptionable than those of its predeceflbrs. Tlfe pieamble suggests that a tax on fpintuotis liquors is unjnll in itfelf andoppreflive upon the poor, that internal taxes upoo consumption mult in the end doltroy the. liberties of ■the country in which they are introdu ced ; that the law in question from cer tain local circnmltances which are fpe cified, would biing immediate diltrefs and ruin upon the western country ; and concludes with the sentiment, that they think, it their dyty to perfilt in remon strances to Cofigrefs, and every other legal measure that may obltrudt the o peration of the law. Ttw; resolutions then •. roceed, fir ft to appoint a committee to prepareatid cause t<-> be presented to Congrtrfs an address flatting objections to tht law, and pray, ing iQr its repeal—Secondly, to appoint committees of correfpojidence for Wa/h ---ington, Fayette, and Alleghany, charg ed to corrcfpond together, and with fitch committees as should be appointed, for the fame purpose in the county of Veftmoreland, or with any committees of a firnfla\f natuie, that might be ap pointed in other paits of [he Uiiitec States; and also if foupd neccilary to call either general meetings of the pc'Qple, In their refpe