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NEW THEATRE.
THIS EVENING,
DtCKMBt* 29.
Will he Prelenttd,
A NEW C DMEDY, written t>y the
Author of the Weft Indian, called
The Natural Son.
Sir Jeffery Latimer, Mr. Bar wood
niuilicnly, Mr. Moreioii
Rueful, Mr. Green
Jack Huntings, Mr. Chalmers
Major O'Flaberty, Mr. Whitlock
Dumps, Mr. B?tes
David, Mr. Francis
Thomas, Mr. Darley jun.
William, Mr. Price
Mrs.Phcebe Latimer, Mrs. Shaw
Lady Pai agon, Mrs. Whitlock
Penelope, Mrs. Cleveland
To which ivill be added,
A FARCE, in two a<sts, called
The Spoii'd Child.
Little Pickle, Mrs. Marshall
Mr. Harwood
Tag,
John,
Thomas,
Miss Pickle,
Maria,
Margery,
Susan,
gox onr DnHsiV—Pitt J of a Dollar—and
r ial'*- v £ -i rlollsri
Thedoors will be open- rt ai a i after nvE
anil the p«rfounance begin at £ altei six
(i'clock.
Ticket* and places for the Boxes to be
taken of Mr. Wilis, at the Theatre,
from ten''i)lonk, and on day of pc toun
ance from TEN'rtll o'rlock. .
Ladifa and Gentlemen are reqnefted to
fend their frrvants to keep plarc* by five
•'clock, and order them, as soon as the
company arc feateu, to withdraw, as they
cannot on any account be permitted to re
main.
Vivat Refpublica!>
RALPH MATHER
Is removed to No. 71» Rice ftrett, op
posite Moravian Alley.
Dec. f).
GEORGE MEADE's
COMPTING HOUSE is removed
to the South fide of Walnut-Street
Wharf, one Door Weft from the Cor-
This Day is Published,
A N
Authentic History
OF THE
Revolution in Geneva:
Price i» i-i Cents.
Tlt riritet of the utrvr inlriituts tie frffaw
wg hi kh mletefiing remark —
" Such a detail will be neither void of
interest nor titility to your prudent coun.
tiyificn, May they reflrft on it with at.
tpiitfon, and leam by the dilsftrrm exatp.
p'e ot the mod derooc'atical state tbat'ex
lis on continent of Europe, the ex.
treme d;ing«r ot foreign influence ; and a.
bovc all, how rapid and inev't'ble ii i* to
transgrels the feeble interval which iepa.
rates the abate of liberty (torn its rain !"'
Si.ld by Thomas Doblon, No. 41. Sseond
ftveei, lol'n Ormriul, Chefnut iliret, by
M. Carey. Market ltrect, and by the Edi-
tor hf rtot'
Oeccml-xr 11
tuft Publilhed,
to he Told by the EDITOR, at M»
J ionic, cornet of' ami Fifth
ftiects, mud by the diffiieot fcookfelleis
in the City,
THE
Philadelphia Dire&oty atid
Register, &c.
Kmbellijhed vtiih a correH plan of the city
By JAMES HAhDIE, A. M.
(PRiC£ 6» i-a CE'.JTr.)
ALSO,
A short Account of the City
of Philadelphia,
Am 1 »t t * charitaM* a d lite,
t.irv indithtions rhervi", eirbvllifted with
t 0 fitoe nlftn< price 37 1-2 ceit I *.
\V'ie r e (ike»ife may be hid ihe Plan by
irfelf, ,Tice i$ cruts.
N B A" .V,.p?Jw!iX» Cnntal»irj the
Hin r mm} rffWew* of the Cofigreu, tl*
Lc .(I. u e «.!' fennfslVtM\i4, names .imit
red, Hid o' t.* d fft-ieni Societirt, &c.
will i e .tclu-ei rri t.. Subrcubt-rj for Ik*
Oi'ifturv. «>'!>
D c *
For the Gazette of (he United States.
—
Mr. Fknno,
THE, pitblic lately been fur
feitediwith a swarm of vindicatory ad
dreffts from the Clubs. They have in
general been foflat and tnjipid, as to pals
unnoticed. The addreis however of
the German Republican Society has
some in, it, and therefore re
quires «pt*e.' The true intention of
their inftittiti'> n ; s there announced in
plain language ; the honest Germans
art- said to be plain spoken men ; and
the members of this society, laying a(idc
the mantle with which some of the o
thcrs have thought it prudent to cover
j themselves at present, have explicitly
I announced the views of their association.
They tell u« " that all governments
are more or less combinations againjl the
people ; they are Jlates of violence againjl
individual liberty, and as rulers have no
more virtue than the ruled ; the equili
brium between them can only be preserved
by proper attention and ajfnciation ; for
the power of government can only be
kept within its constituted limits by the
display of a power equal to itjelf, the
collected sentiment of the people: soli
tary opinions have little weight with men
whose views are unfair, " but the voice
of many Jlrikes them with awe;" to pb
tain a conne&ed voice, afiociations of
some fort are neeeffary ; the checks and
ballances of government arc inventions
to keep the people in subordination ; a re
action of some fort is therefore neeeffary
to keep up the equipoise between the
people and the government." The
tneaning of all this jargon is, that not
withstanding the checks in the constitu
tion of the United States and of the
several Itates, the right of ele&ion vett
ed in the people, and all the various
rights refcrved to them, by the trial by
jury, the habeas corpus, &c. &c. the
people of this country would undoubt.
edly be enslaved, if Citizen Genet had
not arrived in this country to found the
Democratic Club of Philadelphia, 01
if it had not entered the heads of a few
honest. Germans in Philadelphia to es
tablish. a society ! that in spite of the
good sense of the American people,
their knowledge of their rights, «nd
their determination to preserve them,
they would have fallen a facrifice to the
tyranny of their rulers, had not Citi
zen Kammerer and Co. hit upon the
lucky expedient of eftablilhing a Club !
Rifum teneatis ?
' HAH! HAH! HAH!
Mr. Francis
Mr. Blifiett
Mr. Darley
Mrs. Rowfon
Mrs. Cleveland
Mrs. Bates
Miss Rowfon
For thi Gazette of the United States.
I HAVE been so much ft ruck and pleas
ed with a fmirt little sentence in ' the Ad
dress of the German Society, that I can
not forbear recommending jt, as a metto
to the Clubs : it is this, " Solitary opinions
have little weight •with bad rulers„ hut
the voice of manyJlrikes them with awe."
Having lately pa (Ted by a German church
during the pfalm-fifciging service, I felt the
force of the above sentence, as proceed ng
from the German Society, (the voice of
many Jirikcs them with awe J for I confefs
it was one of the mod awful things I re
collect to have heard, and if the Society,
when they have any complaints to utter a
gainll Congress, would fend their remon
strances and denunciations by a committee
of th«ir best fingers and loudest ftentors,
and have them fang, I am persuaded it
would produce a wonderful effefl. But
their present mode of doing business wont
answer for who knows how
many are present when their resolutions
arepafied, or whether they are sung or
said, (no trifling circumstance) : where
can be the effeift, of the voice of many,
when we only fee the names of the Preli
dent and Secretary ? and where will be the
awe, if tuey should happen to hav« little
squeaking voices ?
GERMAN REPUBLICAN SOCIETY
A: a full meeting of the Society, the fol
lowing Address <waj unanimoujlj agreed
vpon, and ordered to be fublijbed.
The German Republican Society of Phi.
ladelphia, to the free and independent
Citizens of the United States.
A voice too loud not to be heard, calls I
upon u> to ajdr<;fs you. A just and an ho
norable caiife fummoiu us at your bar, and
we nioft cteerfully pay obedience to it, un
der the fulleft perlwafion, that reafoa and
not authority, is the scale by which you
measure the anions of men. The right
secured to us by the late glorious struggle
for liberty, and guaranteed by the consti
tution cf our country, has been exercised
by us, and for this we have met with the
most opprobrious denunciation. The right
consecrated by our facial compaA, and
held sacred by every nation pretending to
liberty, the right to speak and publiih our
fcntiments, has be?n railed into qneftion,
and'the Leeiflature of the' Uniud States
were about to er*& themselves into a tri
Jar. tf
1 .J •»
Mr. Fekno,
Fellow-Freemen,
bunal Censors, to deprive the freemen
ot America of their birth right. «-n.
usurpation of po.ver so flagrant, l'o con
trary to tilt true intent and spirit of our
constitution, so repugnant to the principles
of liberty, could not have ekaped your
cbfervition. The moil extraordinary fa&
in the annals of J.be age could not have
pal Ted unpcrceived by you, that that p*-
i irio.'icfocieties <wire the oujeds of denunci
ation in the fame tear, in Gnat Britain,
France, and the United States of America.!
We have been charged with the author- j
(hip of the western infurredtion, and upom j
this mifupported alTertion, an interdict ion j
of the molt dreadful kind was to be ful- j
minated against us. How tiue this charge j
is, we will leave you to determine. The ;
proofs are in your hands, and you are al- I
ready competent to decide upon them ; '
for every ail of ours wh.t'h had relation
to public affairs, has been promulgated to
the world. Let ui call your attention to
our resolutions in reprobation of the inlur
reiflion, and search in them for matter of
crimination. , Did they arise trorn fear, as
has basely been inlintfated ? What is to de
ter a freeman from speaking his ferrtiments,
when he is within the pale of the law ! A
thought so foul is worthy only of the
wretch who engendered it, and marki him
a fit iollrumeht of cowardice an 4 treach
ery.
Are we the abettors of insurgents for
supposing government can do wrong, tor
difa'pproving an extife ? Then is the free
dom of opinion at an end, then is that au
gust hand of patriots, who combated a
gainst a Britrfh tyrant, a precedent for dis
order, for having declared to the people ot
Canada, that Excijes were the horror of all
free governments. But our declarations
in 'disapprobation of the infurre&ion has
been questioned as to its sincerity ; for we
have been accused of wearing the masque
of conspirators. As well might we fay that
our accusers wear the garb of patriotism.
and are load hi favor of freedom the more
certainly to effeil its deflruition. As well
might we fay, that the pretended friends
of law and order had secretly fomented the
inlurreftion, that they might borrow a
nother argument against republicanism, and
be furnifhed with a stronger evidence in fa
vor of a Handing army, as that the patriotic
societies were instrumental in difleminating
feditiori. The language cf Pitt (that sa
tellite of despotism) was in praiie of the
glorious constitution of Great Britain, and
the liberties of Britons, even at the mo-
ment he was Tapping the citadel of person
al fecuritv, the heabeas corpus, and how
near is its affinity with the late language of
American legislators when about to plunge
a dagger into the bosom of liberty.
Our accusers have not been daring
enough to lay our institution was uncon
ftitutioaal, how great thtn their absurdi
ty in arrainginßy this they meant to
diihonor us •• —WtTjnth cannot be fnllied
by any contact with (alfefijMife If Demo
cratic Societies are not proscribed by our
social compadl, why this congressional en
quiry, why this denunciation ? Was the
national treasury in a frelh, that it was ne
cefi'ary to find such a flu joe for its abun
dance ? Or did the denunciators, by a de
claration of their opinion», expert to give
a law to the United States ? Here then
rests thf artifice-^-Men are the creatures of
opinion, and its by opinion alonethat laws
In all well regulated societies can and
ought to be enforced. What it the common
law of England & which has taken root in
this country, bnt opinion It is opinion atone
that gives force to our laws ; for we have
not the physical power of a standing army to
argue obedience to them. Thus then the re
presentatives of the freemen of America
designed to give an opinion which was to
have the operation of a law, and by means
of it effeiS the deftruftion of speech. In
this view of the fubjeifl fay, fellow-citi
zens, who are the conspirators against the
liberties of the United States ? Say who
meditate the deftrudlion of our constituti
on, and seek to plunge us into all the hor
rors of anarchy or of despotism i Say
which is the felf-created society, the one
composed of citizens under a conliitution
al fandtion, or the one, delegated for the
purposes of legiilation, and usurping a
censorial authority ?
But lelf-created as we are supposed, here
ditary diftin&ion has no place in our code,
diplomas, with the mfignia of nobility,
adorn not our mansions, neither does birth
give ap exelufive claim to a place among
us. We drain not the public treasury for
difputjtions about diphthoags and parti
cles —the public purse rewards us not fpr
making handsome syllogisms or pretty me
taphors. We have never fiepped forth the
champions of an enemy, who fought to en
ilave ui, and difhonort d a friend on whom
our political salvation depended. Princi
ples and conduit so unrighteous cannot be
imputed to us, though truth, as in the de
nunciations against us, were placed upon
the rack.
Fellow-citizens, a bare view of the
fubjedl will (how that our enemies teem
with absurdities—At one moment we
ate said to be felf created, at another,
the lateminifter of France is said to be
our parent—At one moment we arc
coiifideied as obfeure and contemptible
at another as a combination so formida
ble as to endanger the government—
At on» moment we are supposed the
abortions of society, at another as possess
ing influence and vigour to fupercede
the wifdoin and (Irength of the nation.
Dilhontftv cannot be rendered so fvfte
matic at long to pass for truth ; the
cloven foot of falfhood mull be seen ai
last, and such his been the fate of our
accusers. In the ronvulfion of zeal and
■ of exultation they have unmasked them
■ selves and presented the Dold front of
MOMUS.
confpiiators agair.ft the iiitS I.r.dblc li- J
berty of opinion.
The right to associate in Democra
tic Societies' has been questioned by
some ; but if we have not this privilege
by what coiiftitutional text will other
atfociations be juttitied ? If we as a num
ber have not the right to speak our frn
timents, by wh-.it political logic will
the right of an individual be defended ?
If many have not tli is privilege, few
certainly mufl be deptived of it, for the
j tight mult be multiplied by the number
) which compose the foeiety, up to the
} majority of the whole nation, who
'give law to the community. To de
j prive a number of this right wni leave
i not a ftiadow of claim to one ; for it is
in dire& contradiction to the print? i
| plei of a free government'that oueindi-,
vidua] (hall have a right from which ma
ny are eXcJucJed. The principle recog
nized by our'Conflitution, that the ma
ny are to govern the few, must be at an
end, if this reasoning dbtairs ; for the
right of an individual to publilh his feu—
ttments, noonehasyet been bold enough
to controvert.
But admitting we are criminal, by
what clause ofthe constitution exprefied
or' implied was Congress metamorphosed
into a body'of juror 6 for our condemna
tion ? The remedy for trespass ot the
kind imputed to us is plainly pointed
out by our laws, and to wander from it
is an usurpation exceeding in guilt the
crime with which we ;\e charged—Nay
so great is the advantage of government
over us, that if we had been guilty,
they had the powet to translate us from
the vicinage of the criminal commiflion
: to any place favourable to their views.
If Democrats have been the inilrti-
of the western infmre&ion, how
| will it be explained, that they were
among the foremoft to ftippYefsit ? Oui
. brethren, the Democratic Society of
Pennsylvania, could have made a quo
rum in the field, and they were among
the number who received the commen
| dations of the Prcfident of the U. State?.
Fellow-citizens, thi&fubjeft isfolemn
. ly important to every freeman in the
■ United States. For however some may
r difapprovc our inflitution, all must.
: unite infupportof the liberty of speech.
It is but too obvious that an endeavour
was made to wrest this right from us:
how incumbent then is it On every one
> who values his feeedom,lo bend his at
-1 tention to a fubjeft so highly inter
• tiling.
All governments are more or less
combination* against the people: they
[ are states of violence against ;n !V;di:al
. liberty, originating from man's imper
- feflion and vice, and as rulers have no
; more virtue than the ruled, the eqi.illibri
-1 um between them can only be prefer-
ved"by proper atteiition and afTociation ;
j for the power of government can only
be kept within its constituted lim its
! by the display of a power equal to itfelf
e the collected sentiment of the people.
Solitary opinions have little weigh
with men whose views are unfair ; but
the voice of many ftr : kes them with awe.
To obtain a connetted voice associa
tions of some fort are necefiary, no mat
ter by what names they are designated.
The checks and balances of government
are inventions to keep the people in su
bordination ; a re-action of some fort is
neceflary, therefore, to keep up the
eqiripoife, between the people and the
government. Whether these be town
and township meetings, called to echo
the pre-eminent virtues of adminiflra
tion, or whether th<y are alfociations
of another kind, that approve or con
demn as their judgment directs, they
are alike legal, they may be alike ufc
ful and to interpole a veto to them is
alike tyrannical.
It is the fnbftance and not the sha
dow of things that we Ihould regard,
and if the fub'ftance meet 9 onr wi'hcs no
matter by what found it is conveyed to
our leniet. The bugbears anarchy and
antifederalifm, invented to flifle free en
; quiry, can no longer lead you sftrav :
they hav* been so hackneyed, that,! ke
worn out jades, they are no longer fit
for service. To your judgement we
now submit our cause, for it inuft ulti
mately reft with yoti, whether liberty
or tyranny (hall reign among us, and
whatever may be your opinions of our
institution you will do u* the jtiftice to
believe, that we owe no great ness to
our country's ruin. In defiance of every
menace and denunciation we are deter
mined to remain firm at our po!t, and
never will we surrender the rights of
freemen but. with our lives.
By «>rder of the Socicty,
HENRY KAMMERER, Prefidrnt.
Attest, Andrew Geyer, Secictavv.
The printers in the United States
who have not fntrendered the fir,c<'i.»m
of the press, are requeftid to }/i.e a
place in their paptr» to the fiurcgoi.-ig
address.
Gen. jtdvtrtifrr.
jfes
CONGRESS.
• IPO USE OF representatives)
Wedntfday, December a.
r * —*
A report oit the lubjrA of making.
. provtfion fcr paymeirt of ,he thir.l , r .
1 ftalment of the debt due to the Bpm!c
? ot the United States, afo tlie i„ii
i mentß due 0.1 foieign loai.s «;.s bn.ufk
s in by Mr. Sedgwick, read and rttenre
r to the committee of the whole on Fr>
e day
y On motion of Mr. PrelVon, the house
_ went into Committee of the*whole
e the bill to determine the northern hmir.
3 dary of the territory ceded to the -Uni
. ted St?:es by the state of North Cam.
_ lijia—This hill was oppoied by Mr,
Greenup, and Mr. White, delegate
from the south wejtern territory—the
, committee rose and reported piogrefi;
r , and the request of the Chairman for
e leave to fit again on the bill, wasneja.
_ tived j which amounts to its rejefliwn.
j, In committee of the whole on the
leported plan for the reduction of the
y public debt.—The fiiil rcMutioo after
striking out the words Six Hundred
J T/ronfanJ, referring to the sum to be
appropriated for the discharge of two
c per cent, of the capital beaiing an irr.
j tereft of fix per cent ws are.d to—A
; t blank wasleft, tohefilled up in thciioufe.
c The second resolution which pro.
y Jjofes to extend the duties on Loaf
|( Sugars, Snuff &c. to the year ißdi
. occasioned lome debate—the coifimi'tfe
> •
without' coming to a vote, rose anj re
_ ported prcgref!.
5 Adjouriwd till Friday,
l
*' Fiidsy, December 26.
•e , _
„ A bill to indemnify the officers of
,f Government and others, who fuHaii.cd
j. lofles by the Infurredtion in the tout
wcjtern counties of Pennf h" , was
tw'ce re;d, .<nd committed for
f _ The rtpo to 1 the mea: so: d-ii.> arg.
1- ing the imtaiments due pn foreign and
i e d«meltic loans, *as taken tip in com
,y mittee of the uh< e—:-gre<d to, and a
bill ordered to be brought in
In committee of the whule on the
Jr naturalization bili—The tc. l .-wing a
mendment was ur der confic p.
" That no »lien be <dmi: ed to
become a citizen, Unless he fliiltpnve
by the oath of two or mi re tu.'.il :e
.yitnefies, that he has wl.in
tba United St?.te» yta'S, aid
during that time, has behaved as h n.iii
of good mora! character, and utll (
poled to the good order and happinds
of the United States."
Th? amendment o-.-c aGored some
I jttj in the course of yiiuh <'•
ditional te(ts were p opoferi, hut it
the committee without aflteiauon.
The next amendment is a provif.i in
the following worn.
" That any ?len, who fl ail have de
elated on oath or affirmation, beioit
tome common law or record, m
one of the states, that it was, bona fv e,
his intention to become'a citizen of the
United States, and to renounce forever
all allegiance and fidelity to t*c y fo
reign prince, potentate, Hate o: love-
whatever, and particularly by
m>me the prince, potentate, ilate or ln
»ereignty, whereof fucli alien may at
the ti(ne be a citizen or fubjrcl, 31 1
(hall, subsequent thereto, have
refidet! within the United States, two
years, and ftiiLconti'nue so rciwknt, flia#l
Le hulden to pay no other duties f.»r
the tonnage of any (hsp or vessel to ti m
belonging, than an American 1 t
would be holden to pay, until tl"*
(hall come, when by this aft lie may
become a citizen."
This, occafioped farther debate, I
oommittee reft without decicnp hp the
amendment, and hat; leave to lit
There is another amendment - !" th'«
bill before the committee, moved by
Mr. Giles irt the following v ords
" And' be it further eraded J bat
anv citizen of the United States, u. o
(ball have heretofore expat": ed, < r
who (hall hereafter expatri: e hmMsj.
in virtue of the laws of any #«'«', (h«
not aj;ai 1 be admitted to the u '
of ci izenfl.ip, w tho-> a
special t& of Cor.grefs, and ot tiie ih'e
for that purpose, from whifh he <
expatriate!, or (hall hereafter expatn
ate himfe . ,
A mefTage from the Senate wf> rrr.eu
the Hou. r e that they have J
committee t® confer w"th a c«.mi.tre
of the Huuf-, on the difagrtem> nt of
the Hotife to the Senates amendment
to the bill entitled an a£t toi ngof*
the my of the militia it: kivcti
the House concurred, and appoint *
committee on their pa't.
Mr. S fowWk tepo-ted a h
ing pinvifioii for difrhaigirj tl"- m#».
mer.ts due on ' r \
loar.s —read and committed cri J'
A'djcurncd.
Aurora!