"Fellow citizens: I deem it fortunate that we people a fres country, whose civil and religious rights are defended by the auspicious panoply of republican constitutions; and I sincerely felicitate you, that good fortune, combining with the precau tions of wisdom and virtue, have hitherto preserved us as a link in the chain of American union. From these resources we may yet derive new light, life, and immortality. And might I be permitted to adopt the language, as well as the idea, of our holy religion, I would with an angel's voice inform you, that regeneration is essential to everlasting life; as man is prone to vice, so is a republic to intrigue, to faction, to anarchy, and to despotism, in which the republic becomes totally extinguished. The history of our own country, but yet a span long, exhibits to the attentive observer an unexampled series of base and perfidious machination and intrigue..

"While yet our constitutions were in embryo, the project was formed, by Kentucky citizens and Spanish subjects, to detach this country from the American union, and to connect it with the territories of Spain. Nor have all the manifold bles sings of state and federal constitutions, under the most popular administrations, been able to quiet the restless spirit of intrigue, or to extirpate the monstrous hydra of treason. No: ambition is not satiated with success; nor is the gangrene of corruption eradicated by emollients. No: we want a government of vigilance and energy; we want a discriminating sense of right and wrong among the people; we want a delicate perception of national honour, and of official duty; we want a real love of country, and a detestation of traitors.

"Our country, the scene of criminal intrigue from the year 1788, has been the hotbed of conspiracy: it is a garden, where foul and obnoxious weed has found a kindred soil.

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"A Brown, a Wilkinson, a Sebastian, an Innis, and a Burr, have successively, or in conjunction, shed their baleful influence over it. They have intrigued with foreign agents; they have meditated disunion; they have propagated insurrection; they have machinated treason; while their influence and ex ample have spread wide the contagion.

"At this moment our country is in a crisis: she is now about to receive her characteristic destination: it is now that Kentucky is to be spread out as an extensive and fertile plain, on which honest industry, "following her ten thousand avocations," is to achieve private riches, and national prosperity, under the banners of peace, law, and union; or, it is to be consecrated a bloody arena, and erected into an amphitheatre, wherein the perfidious Cataline, or ambitious Cæsar, is to exhibit the direful and agonizing drama of treason, of disunion, or conquest: For it is now, when the treachery is detected, that the perpctrator should be punished. Otherwise, the guilty person, brought full to the public eye, and looked on with lenity, takes courage, solicits forgiveness, claims indulgence, demands impunity. Impunity in such a case, is approbation. And when approbation is the traitor's crown, who will resist the allurements of treason?

"Our country, menaced without and agitated within, can only be saved from her enemies by an awakened sense of the danger, by vigilance, by activity, by attention to her diseases, and by a judicious and vigorous application of competent remedies. Every one must do his part; the whole people must act; THEIR REPRESENTATIVES MUST ACT.

"Yes, it is the representatives of the people who can alone. exercise the powers of government. But it is well known that these representatives often require the impulse of popular excitement. And after the experience of 1806, this becomes the more obvious in 1807.

"Fellow citizens: Believing that the great mass of the people is yet sound, believing that the noxious malady of intrigue and disunion is yet lingering in the extremities of the body politic, I have presumed to exercise a right common to all-the right of publicly addressing you on a subject of public concern; and of treating you as a sick patient, possessing the means of your own cure; and as a strong man, into whose house a paltry thief has dared to enter. You, fellow citizens, have only to will, and you acquire health; you have only to act, and the culprit will be arraigned; you have only to speak, and his off

cial existence will be annihilated. Exiled from power by the public voice, his example will become useful, his conduct infamous, and his future life contemptible. This has been the case with respect to JUDGE SEBASTIAN. And I shall proceed in successive numbers to shew you that JUDGE INNIS, having been his associate in crime, ought to be his companion in punishment. "A VOICE IN THE WEST.

"October 15, 1807."

No. IX.-"TO THE PEOPLE OF KENTUCKY. "Fellow Citizens: To pursue his honour Judge Innis, further than is necessary to expose his crimes and to shew his utter unfitness to hold the office of judge, is beneath the object of these numbers, as it would be unworthy the magnanimity of an iudependent and ingenuous mind.

Having therefore shewn him, in his official capacity, weak and partial; and in his civil and political relations, (while judge,) a secret and clandestine INTRIGUER WITH FOREIGN AGENTS; and having established these facts, upon the evidence of public records and his own oath, I can but view him as a public culprit, suspended at the awful tribunal of public justice, which in due time will be administered to him by a people sensible to the injury of their violated rights, and justly indignant at the perfidy of their public servant, the official conspirator, the clandestine intriguer for separate treaties and national dismemberment.

Noticing his honour, therefore, as I may his coadjutors, incidentally, in this and the following number, I persuade myself I shall not be thought improperly obstructive, but find the most abundant excuse in the importance of the subject, and in the magnitude of the crisis, for generalizing my ideas upon republican institutions, the utility of union, and the destructive effects of foreign intrigue.

The history of the Kentucky Spanish conspiracy, has, in several publications in the "Western World," been rapidly traced from Gardoqui and Brown, in 1788, up even to Burr's treason of 1806. The object has been the same--the means and the movements only different. In most, if not all, of these transactions, Judge Innis has been seen to act his part.

"In the fall of the year 1794, the treaty with England was made, and announced about March, 1795. No sooner was this event known in the United States, than all the anti-federalists, democratic societies, French partisans, and Spanish conspirators, united to defeat the treaty. It was discussed unseen, and condemned unheard, in this state and elsewhere. For it was clearly foreseen by theleaders of these factions, that the treaty, if ratified, would prevent a war with Britain, so ardently desired by them; and that our own federal government, freed from the controversy with England, would be able to resist with effect, both the French and the Spanish conspirators, in triguers and agents.

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"In the state of Kentucky, the Spanish association, who had been sorely defeated by the adoption of the present federal constitution, was again in the utmost perplexity and agitation. They foresaw very clearly, if the treaty was ratified and carried into effect, that the general government, administered by Washington with a vigilant eye over every part of the union, and freed from the embarrassment of a contest with Britain, would be able to defeat their schemes of disunion. Therefore the utmost clamour was raised against the treaty, and against the only person from this state, who voted for its ratification.

"Even after the treaty was ratified, the most violent attempts were made to prevent its execution; and no wonder; for at this time, 1795-6, Judge Innis, Sebastian, and others, were car rying on their traitorous intrigue with Gayozo, for a separate treaty-that is, dismemberment of the union; notwithstanding the president of the United States was then in treaty with Spain for the navigation of the Mississippi; and notwithstanding he had been at the extraordinary pains of sending a special agent to this state a short time before, to satisfy the people of his honest endeavours to obtain for them this important navi. gation.

"Yes, fellow citizens, under these, circumstances, a secret and a traitorous conspiracy was formed and carried on by men among us, high in office-men who call themselves republican citizens-men who were sworn to support the constitution of H**

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the United States-even Judge Innis and Sebastian, with the agents of the Spanish monarchy--for the nefarious purpose of a separate treaty; and which could have taken effect only upon the basis of separating the Western from the Atlantic people. The execution of this measure was however prevented, by the timely arrival of the public treaty made between the government of the United States and that of Spain. And but for the intrigues of these Spanish conspirators, this treaty would have been much sooner made. And you, fellow citizens, would long before that time, have been secure of a place of deposite for your produce at Orleans, but for these secret and dishonourable attempts of Innis, Sebastian, and Co. For it is a fact well attested, that as early as 1788, the Spanish government, by means of its minister and governor, had begun to tamper with Congress Brown and General Wilkinson, upon the subject of separating this country from the union. And from the opinions inspired by these men and their associates, Spain was taught to believe, that if she refused a public treaty to our government on the subject of navigating the Mississippi, and offered it privately to her hirelings and emissaries here, she would be able to effect disunion, and to attach this western country to her Louisiana territory. Therefore it was that Spain refused to treat with our government on the subject of this navigation. Therefore it was, that she had her Sebastian, Innis, &c. in this country. Therefore it was she sent her confidential and loving letters to these men.

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“In the mean time the differences between England and the United States, favoured the views of Spain, as well as those of our traitorous citizens, when the accommodation with England cut off the hopes of both parties for a time, and produced the treaty of amity, limits, and navigation, which terminated Sebastian's embassy, with a pension from his Catholic Majesty ; looking forward still to a dismemberment of the union. Accordingly, in 1797, the project was avowed to his majesty's pensionary, Sebastian; who straightway convokes his friends, Innis, &c.; and once more sits in conclave the treacherous divan.' But the times were inauspicious to their purpose, and they put off