further in the fame track may not be adviseable. If our revenue fall to five millions (which effect would foon be produced by fmuggling) and you propofe, in confe quence to fufpend the intereft of flock, you will certainly meet with oppofition from Maryland, Pennfylvania and NewYork, even though you should entitle the act for that purpose. "A further and more effectual provifion for paying the whole of the public debt." There is a certain point beyond which the most creduious will not be led blindfold. You may Indeed perfuade a ftupid fellow that a crooked, dirty lane is the cleaneft and shorteft road, but when you thump his head against a poft, the jet becomes too ferious. There is another little circumstance, Gentlemen, which I must take leave to mention now we are in private. Bv look The ing at the cenfus you will find that the Free whites to Delaware, inclufive, 54 votes 35 11 -100 Now, Gentlemen, can you believe, or in any way perfuade yourfelves, (much lefs other people) that fifty-four of us to the North will allow thirty-five of you to the South, eleven additional votes on account of your Negroes? You will fay that this point has been already fettled by compact; which is true. But you have thought proper to break the compact, and appeal to broad principles of right. Nay, fome of you have declared that Senators must be apportioned by the fame rule as Reprefentatives. Since then, you, have opened up the whole fubject anew, infifting that in a Republic the voice of a majority fhould govern, I put the question to you again : can you ferioufly perfuade yourfelves that the great States of Pennfylvania, and New-York will fubmit to be governed by your negroes? this, gentleNot a demomen is utterly impoffible. crat in thole ftates can uphold the idea, without calling himself both a fool and a liar, in the face of the world. Now, although you might, perhaps, count on the complaifance of your adherents, even to that extent, fill you must inevitably fail; because the great body of the People will revolt at the idea of being flaves to your flaves. This question is broader and deeper, by far, than any thing which ever did or ever can exist between democrats and federalifts. The queftion, whether Tom, Dick or Harry fhall be Prefident, is, when Thus it is as clear as arithmetic can make it, that by means of these black votes Pennfylvania and New-York each loose four in a hundred of their weight and influence in the American Councils, while Virginia gains the eight in a hundred which thofe two flates have loft. It is unqueflionable, that whether we take as a standard the firength, or wealth, or number of free citizens, Pennfylvania ftands firft and New York fecond of the United States. But in political importance, they are both behind, and far behind, Virginia, merely becaufe that ftate has condemned near three hundred and fifty thousand poor, defencelefs creatures to perpetual flavery. Now, Gentlemen, it is poffible that the prefent Reprefentatives of Pennfylvania and NewYork may vote against the Maffachusetts amendment, but to fuppofe that thofe pow. erful and opulent ftates will countenance that vote, and tamely fubmit to the confe quent degradation, is juft as wife as to believe that water will mount and flame defcend. Befides, fuppofing what feems impoffible, that they fhould be loft to every fenfe of their own dignity and honor, the thing (as I have already mentioned) is completely in the power of the Eaftern States. Let but their merebants turn to and fnuggle, for which neither temptation nor provocation are wanting, and all the reft will follow of courfe. Here again I meet the threat of a fepara tion. Pray fhut the door and fee that all negroes are kept at a distance. You fay gentlemen tha you will break the union : and as this measure is to be taken in wrath the natural confequence must be a war. I calculate that you have now fome what iefs than two million whites and about half s many blacks. The latter according to ufual proportions, contain two hundred Thoufand fighting men. Experience has fhewn, in those countries which have the best military organization, that one foldier to fitty fouls is the utmoft which a nation can furnish and maintain. Now without ftopping to enquire how you are organized, and whether your whites be capable of military fervice, in your broiling climate, we will allow you an army of forty thousand men; with which you are to keep in fubjećtion two hundred thoufand able bodied blacks, watching the favorable moment to revolt; and defend yourfelves against your northern neighbors who will feize the first opportunity to arm your flaves against you. It is ufelefs, gentlemen, to exclaim against the barbarity of this procedure. We agree on the principle of the New School, and we can quote a recent cafe in point." We have been furnishing the negroes of St. Domingo with aims and ammunition to deftroy our friends, for the fake of a lucrative trade in fugar and coffee. Can you, then, fuppofe that we fhould hefitate about a fimilar commerce for rice and tobacco, when we fhould thereby deftroy our enemies? Perfonally, gentlemen, I look at this object with horror, and reprobate our administration for permitting that deteftable traffic: But I feriously believe that if you drive matters to extremity, your flaves will be employed against you. I would proceed and defignate the feveral points of attack, and the means of penetrating your country, but I cannot dwell, even in imagination, on fcenes fo horrible. Befides it is not prudent to publifh the plan of fuch a campaign. On the whole, it feems to me perfectly clear, that the yankee amendment will be carried. They can drive you to the necarried. ceffity of direct taxation whenever they pleafe, and you will in that cafe be hearti ly fick of the conftitutional apportionment. By that time, what with the propagation and importation of flaves, you will have among you not lefs than eleven hundred thoufand; which by prefent rules of apportionment, would give you twenty members in the houfe of reprefentatives. Thefe indeed you must be content to forego, but you will have the fatisfaction to behold your chief in the Prefident's chair. And what is the lofs of twenty members when compar'd with the advantage of fecuring Mr. Jefferfon's election? All things confidered you have made an excellent bargain, on which I pray you gentlemen to receive the hearty congratulations of Your moft obedient ferv't AN AMERICAN. The Poor WASP crowded out!!! An thousand dollars. And it is afcertained, The statement (B) exhibiting, in detail, the feveral fpecies of merchandize and other fources, from which that revenue was collected during the year 1803. It also appears that the revenue, arifing from the fales of public lands, is gradually increafing. The ftatement (C) fhews that, exclufively of the September fales at Cincinnati, three hundred and fourteen thou. fand acres have been fold during the year ending on the 30th of September laft.The proceeds of thofe fales, calculated on the fuppofition that every purchaser will be entitled to the difcount allowed in cale of prompt payment, would yield five hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. And notwithstanding the difficulties which exift, in drawing into the treafury the monies collected by the receivers of the remote land offices, it is believed that the actual receipts from that fource, will, for the enfuing year, exceed four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, The permanent revenue of the United States, may, therefore, including the du ties on postage and other fmall incidental branches, be computed at eleven millions two hundred thousand dollars. In obedience to the directions of the act, REVENUE. The nett revenue, arifing from duties on merchandize and tonnage, which accrued during the year 1802, and on which the eftimates of last year were predicated, amounted, as will appear by the statement (A,) to ten millions, one hundred and fitty four thousand dollars. The nett revenue, arifing from the fame fource, which accrued during the year 1803, has amounted, as appears by the fame flatement, to eleven millions, three hundred and 6x || The fum which may probably be receiv ed during the year 1805. on account of that fund, and the payments during that year, which will ultimately be charged to the fund, are included in the preceding efti mate of receipts and expenditures; but it is neceffary to give a diftin&t view of the whole amount of revenue and expenfes under that head. The value of merchandize, paying du. ties, ad valorem, which was imported in the year 1802, amounts, after dedu&ting the exportations of the fame year, to thirtyone millions, feven hundred and fix thoufand dollars. The value of the fame defcription of merchandize imported in the year 1803, amounts to thirty-four millions, three hundred and feventy thousand dollars. The additional duty of two and an half per cent. on that defcription of imported articles conftitutes the Mediterranean fund, and calculated on the average importations of the two years, would have yielded annually eight hundred and twenty-fix thouland dollars. But feveral articles which, in the years 1802 and 1803, paid duties ad valorem, having, in lieu thereof, been charged with fpecific duties, by an act of lait feflion, are not liable to the additional duty of two and an hall per cent. Although the value of thofe articles cannot be precifely afcertaine, it is believed that the deduction on that account will not amount to fifty thousand dollars, and that the proceeds of the additional duty may be computed at the annual fum of feven hundred and eighty thousand dollars; and for the eighteen months, commencing on the 1ft July, 1804, and ending on the 31ft Dec. 1805, at one million one hundred and feventy thousand dollars. The expenfes authorifed under the aft conftituting the fund have been predicated on that estimate, and apportioned in the following manner. 1 For the navy depart- There had been ad- 350,000 130,000 590,000 1,070,000 100,000 1,170,000 Thofe duties began to operate on the first day of July laft, but as they are pay. able fix, eight, nine, ten and twelve months and an half, commencing after the importation, no part will be paid! And during the three years 30th September, 1804, to 13.576,891 86 BALANCE IN THE TREASURY. The greater part of the balance of 5 860, 981 dollars and 54 cents, which on the 30th day of September, 1803, remained in the treafury, was, in last year's report, confidered as applicable to the payment of certain extraordinary demands therein flated. As no payment has been made on that account during laf year, besides the first instalment of eight hundred and eighty eight thousand dollars, due to Great-Britain, nor any other extraordinary expenfes been difcharged than the advance of 350,000 dollars, in anticipation of the Mediterranean fund, the balance remaining in the treasury on the 30th of September, 1804, fill amounted to 4,883,225 dolls. and 11 cents. That fum, together with the estimated furplus of revenue for the year 1805, the fum advanced from the ordinary revenue to the Mediterranean fund, and the arrears of direct tax and internal revenues, may ftill be confidered as fufficient to difcharge the balance of 1.776,000 dollars, due to Great-Britain, the loan of 200,000 dollars, due to Maryland, and two millions of dollars, on account of the American claims affumed by the French convention. As the greater part of those demands will be paid in the year 1805, the balance will not probably at the end of that year exceed the fum which it is always expedient to retain in the treasury. PUBLIC DEBT. It appears by the estimate vention, 11,250,000 1,750,000 13.000,000 Another view of the fubject may be given in the following manner: fum payable to GreatBritain "in fatisfaction & difcharge of the money which the U. States might have 3.652,887 15 becutiable to a difference of more than twelve hundred thousand dollars in favor of the United States. It may be added that if the revenue fhall, during the enfuing year, prove, as is not improbable, more productive than has been eftimated, the furplus will be applied towards the payment of the abovementioned fum of 1.750,000 dollars, yet unprovided for, on account of the American claims, and will fo far diminish the amount of the loan authorised for that object. that only three of the perfons nominated duct of the faid Samuel Chafe, as dangerous to our liberties, as it is novel to our laws and ufages, the faid John Fries was deprived of the right, lecured to him by the 8h article amendatory of the conflitution, and was condemned to death without hav The laft American Mercury mentions|ing bee a heard by coufel in his defence, the death of EPHRAIM KIRBY, Eq. at Fort Stoddart, in the North-Western Territory, ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT, As reported by a committee of the house of REPORT. Articles exhibited by the house of repre- ARTICLE 1. charge them "faithfully and impartially, That, unmindful of the folemn duties of his office, and contrary to the facred obFrom the preceding ftatements and efti-ligation by which he flood bound to dif mates, it refults that the United States have, during the period of three years and an half, ending on the 30th of September laft, difcharged a larger amount of the principal of their old debt, than the whole amount of the new debt, which has been or may be created in confequence of the purchase of Louisiana; and that their exifting and growing refources will, during the enfuing year, be fufficient after defraying the current expenies of the year, and paying more than 3.750,000 dollars, on account of the engagements refulting from the French and British conventions, to difcharge a further fum of near three millions and seven hundred thousand dollars, of the principal of the public debt. All which is refpe&fully fubn ted. ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treafury. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Be it our weekly task, Hudson, December 18. We are informed, (fays the Natchez Gazette) that letters were received in this city from New Orleans, by laft mail, ftating 1. In delivering an opinion, in writing, on the queftion of law, on the conftruction of which the defence of the accused materially depended, tending to prejudice the minds of the jury against the cafe of the faid John Fries, the prifoner, before counfel had been heard in his defence. 2. In restricting the counsel for the said Fries from recurring to fuch English authorities as they believed appofite, or from citing certain flatutes of the United States, which they deemed illuftrative of the pofitions, upon which they intended to reft the defence of their client : 3. In debarring the prifoner trom his conftitutional privilege of addreffing the jury (through his counfel) on the law as well as on the fact, which was to determine his guilt, or innocence, and at the fame time endeavoring to wreft from the jury their indifputable right to hear argument, and determine upon the queftion of law, as well as the question of fact, involved in the verdict which they were required to give: In confequence of which irregular con to the difgrace of the character of the American Bench, in manifeit violation of law and juflice, and in open contempt of the rights of juries, on which, ultimately, refts the liberty and fafety of the American people. ARTICLE 2. That, prompted by a fimilar fpirit of perfecution and injuftice, at a circuit court of the United States, held at Richmond, in the month of May, one thoufand eight hundred, for the diftrict of Virginia, whereat the faid Samuel Chafe prefided, and before which a certain James Thompfon Calender was arraigned for a libel on John Adams, then prefident of the United States, the faid Samuel Chafe, with intent to opprefs, and procure the conviction of the faid Callender, did over-rule the cbjection of John Ballet, one of the jury, who wished to be excufed from ferving on the faid trial, becaufe he had made up his mind, as to the publication from which the words, charged to be libellous, in the indi&ment, were extracted; and the faid Baffet was accordingly fworn, and did ferve on the jury, by whofe verdict the prifoner was fubfequently convicted. ARTICLE 3. That, with intent to opprefs and procure the conviction of the prifoner, the evidence of John Taylor, a meterial witness on behalf of the aforefaid Callender, was not permitted by the faid Samual Chafe to be given in, on pretence that the faid witnels could not prove the truth of the whole of one of the charges, contained in the indi&iment although the faid charge embraced more than one fact. ARTICLE 4. That the conduct of the faid Samuel Chale was marked during the whole courfe of the faid trial, by manifeft injus tice, partiality and intemperance: viz. 1. In compelling the prifoner's counfel to reduce to writing and fubmit to the infpection of the court for their admiffion, or rejection, all queftions which the faid counfel meant to propound to the above named John Taylor, the witness. 2. In refufing to poftpone the trial, although an affidavit was regularly filed, ftating the abfence of material witneffes on behalf of the accufed; and although it was manifcit, that, with the utmoft diligence, the attendance of fuch witneffes could ot have been procured, at that term. 3. In the ufe of unulual, rude and con temptuous expreffions toward the prifoner's counfel; and in falfely infinuating that they wished to excite the public fears and indignation, and to produce that infubordination to law to which the conduct of the judge did, at the fame time, manifeftly tend: 4. In repeated and vexatious interruptions of the faid counfel, on the part of the faid judge, which, at length, induced them to abandon their cause and their client, who was thereupon convicted and condemned to fine and imprifonment. 5. In an indecent folicitude, manifefted by the faid Samuel Chafe, for the conviction of the accufed, unbecoming even a public profecutor, but highly difgraceful to the character of a judge as it was fub. verfive of juflice. ARTICLE 5. ARTICLE 7. the odium of the faid grand jury, and of the good people of Maryland against the government of the United States, by delivering opinions, which, even if the judicial authority were competent to their expreffions, on a fuitable occafion and in a proper manner, were at that time and as delivered by him, highly indecent, extrajudicial and tending to proftitute the high judicial character with which he was invefted to the low purpofe of an electioneering partizan. dicted, contrary to law in that cafe made || the province of the faid jury, for the purand provided. pofe of delivering to the faid grand jury an intemperate and inflammatory political laThat, at a circuit court of the United rangue, with intent to excite the fears and States for the diflrict of Delaware, held at refentment of the faid grand jury, and of New-Caftle, in the month of June, one the good people of Maryland against their thoufand eight hundred, whereat the faid ftate government, and conflitution, a conSamuel Chafe prefided, the faid Samuel duct highly cenfurable in any, but pecuChafe difregarding the duties of his office liarly indecent and unbecoming in a judge did defcend from the dignity of a judge of the fupreme court of the United States : and floop to the level of an informer, by and moreover that the faid Samuel Chafe, refufing to difcharge the grand jury, al then and there, under pretence of exercithough entreated by feveral of the faid ju.fing his judicial right to addrefs the faid ry io to do; and after the faid grand jury grand jury, as aforefaid, did in a manner had regularly declared, through their fore-highly unwarrantable, endeavour to excite man, that they had found no bills of indictment, nor had any prefentments to make, by obferving to the faid grand ju. ry, that he, the faid Samuel Chase, underflood that a highly feditious temper had toon manifefted felt in the fate of Delaware, And whereas it is provided by the act among a certain clafs of people, particuof Congrefs palled on the 94th day of Sep. larly in New-Calle county, and more ef tember, 1789, intitled "An act to cilab-pecially in the town of Wilmington, where lifh the judicial courts of the United States," that for any crime, or offence, against the United States, the offender may be arrested, imprifoned or bailed, agreeably to the ufual made of process in the late where fuch offender may be found whereas it is provided by the laws of Virginia, that upon prefentment by any grand jury of an offence not capital, the court fhall order the clerk to iffue a fummons against the perfon or perfons offending, to appear and answer fuch prefentment at the next court yet, the faid Samuel Chate did, at the court aforefaid, award a capias against the body of the faid James Thompfon Calender, indicted for an offence not capital, whereupon the faid Calender was arrefted and committed to clofe cuftody, contrary to law in that cafe made and provided. ARTICLE 6. and And whereas it is provided by the 24th And the house of reprefentatives, by proteflation, faving to themfelves the lib erty of exhibiting, at any time hereafter, any farther articles, or other accufation, or impeachment against the faid Samuel Chale, and alfo of replying to his anfwers which he fhall make unto the faid articles, or any of them, and of offering proof to all and every the aforefaid articles and to all and every other article, impeachment, or accufation, which fhall be exhibited by them, as the cafe fhall require, do demand that the faid Samuel Chafe may be put to an lived a moft feditious printer, unreftrained ARTICLE 8. fection of the aforefaid act, entitled "An Maryland, held at Baltimore in the month and that fuch proceedings, examinations, trials and judgments may be thereupon had and given, as are agreeable to law and juftice. FESTIVAL of ST. JOHN the Evangelist, will be celebrated by HUDSON Lenge, No. 13, on the 27th inst at their Lodge-Room.--Lodges in the vicinity are requested to attend. Particulars next week. By order of W. M. THE fubfcribers to the DANCING ASSEMBLY are requested to meet at Mr, Bingham's Coffee House at 6 oclock this evening for the purpose of chusing Managers, &c.-Dec. 18, 1804. MARRIED, In this city, on Thursday evening last, by the Rev Mr. Sears, Mr. WILLIAM MASTRY to Miss REBECCA BARNARD, daughter of Peter Barnard Ar Claverack, on Sunday evening the 9th inst. Mr. JOSIAH GARDNER to Miss AMELIA THORP. |