* » *1 > [The following Addrefs was written, and tranimated to Charlelto®, by a diltinguifhcd [Member of the refpecbible Society of FaiE:»Ds, recently cn a reli gious vifit to this city ,2nd r.txv about to dt pari from New-York. for her native land. We ardently hope, that the Inhabitants, to whom this folemn Addrcf has been made, will give it their mod ferious atten tion, and that it may be the mean of difolofiag to them “ tie things -which h:!:ng unto thtir mrlaping f>ea:e,\ when they will no longer participate in the gigan tic Iniquity which now difgraces our common coun try, and which threatens to endanger its future peace and profpcrity.l PhilcuL Pap. AN ADDRESS Id thd Inhabitants of Clarhjhn, SsuthcarJina. SINGULAR as it may appear to many of you to be addretTed by an unknown fe male from a diftant land after this manner ; I trull I am actuated therein bv no other # motives than the influence of that gofpel l®ve, died abroad ill my heart, which indu ces me, at times, with earnelt folicitude, to crave the prefect and everh.fiing well being of all my fellow creatures Itn preflld with th. tc feelings, and an appre henfion of duty, l have been engaged to leave divers of the he a re ft and tendered connexions in life, for a teafon, to vifit ma ny of my friends, in religious profefiian and ethers on this centinent, as my way open ed. fiut nat apprehending that I am re quired to pay you a personal vifit (though 1 have felt my mind engaged on your behalf, in a very peculiar manner) I believe it right thus to tall your attention to fome confid crations which have appeared to me awful ly important, as they regard your real inter efts both in time and eternity. In rafting along through fotne of the fouthern ftates, my mind has been painfully afFe&cd at the fight of numbers of my fellow creatu es, of the African race, deprived of their natural liberty and of almoft every means of improv ident of thofc faculties beftowed upon them as well as ourfclves for the noble ft of pur pofes, by that ail w ife and bountiful Crca tor, in whom ** we live and move and have our bcin * and who, we arc told by the great apoltle of the Gentiles, “ hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face cf the earth, and hath determin ed the times before appointed and the bounds cf their habitation.’t For any of us, his dependant creatures, to force them from the place thus ap up in ted by a gracious and fuperintending Providence, appears to be an infringement on the order and oesono my of this part of his rational creation, for which the aggiefT>rs mull be accountable at his awful tribunal, who is infinite injufticei as well as in m prdlion cf the poor,for the fish ing of the needy he will aiifc/’jj who is un doubtedly able to deliver the opprefled from the hard of him that is mightier than he ! While fuch alfo continue the profeflion of chriftianity, and are in the performance of what are deemed religious duties and cere-! monies, may not thefe come under the Lme description as thofe fpoken of by the prophet, when he fays, “ ye faft for (trite and debate, acd to finite with the lift of wickednefs.”§ May all fuch, therefore, have their fpirit Uai eye* lb anointed, a* clearly to difeover that the faft which the Lord “ hath chofen, i; to loofe tke bands of wickednefs, to un de tuC heavy burdens, and to let the on preflld go free, and that ye break every yoice ; when thou feeft the naked that thou Cover him, and hide not thvfclf from thine _ 4 own flefli : and if thou draw cut thy foul to the hungry, and fatisfy the aifiictcd foul, then fhail thy light rife in ofcfcurity, end thy darkuefi be as the noon dav.’’*[ That this may become the enra;ercnt * o and con equen: e*p:.*nee of ail thofe ! uppers-d and of th inhabitants of CbarlefUm in particular, that in you may “ break off your ling by righte ot’fnefj, and your imquine; by fhewing mer cy to the no r, i; it may be a lengthening of your tranquility/’** and the means of awful, and i apprehend, impending judg ments being &ie* ted, is the fincere defire of one who wifhes health and falvztion to the louls uf ail mankind. ANN ALEXANDER. Philadelphia, 32. Mo. (i. 1805. * Ac united, than o;l j and water can be mingLd, or than the glare ( of day and the gloom of nignt can be amal gamated. A few year-i ft *ce my conftitu ents were almoft al! profcfT d lederalifts : 1 was ni) felf a member of the little baud who on no fed. in this diftrYf rhf* ad It » » nuniftration of Mr. Adams. Should I dare to r.fk my conftituents, were you, in *798, when you fuppoited federal candi^ites and federal meaftires, enemies to the rights of man,enemies to yotir ow n rights ? I hey would inttamly anfwtr with indignation No — wc have always been republicans — Is it then more than commo-n ch irity to cor? cluJe that the immence majority of rhefe who ou our own rrin- j 4 ; cipies, to allow them reprefcntativea ; but deprived a* they are, of all civil rights, Md confidcrcd merely as property, it would be as juH that the Vermont firmer (liould be entitled to a representation for his cattle, as the Virginia planter for his negroes .— No northern man who has caught a fingle Iparh or freedom’* fl ime from the altar oi patriorilm. but mult vvifb that thefe things were not fo. fmch, however, is the con Oirmion of our country, that facred inftru mertt, which I hope never to fee violated in any ot its eilential principles *, and as it is not to be expected that the people of the louthern Hates will ever agree ib art altera t; >.o draught with ruin to their intereH, it is :o be hoped that the fnbjecl will not again i be a si it .ted, Vv'eare con iuuaMv fold that there is no d’Timuiarity of interelU between the pe p e oi the northern and thole of the fouthern Hates. When we prove tlut clathirig inter eils Jo cxiH, we are lulled to fleep by fy ren tongs, and melodicns tulogies upon fouthem magnanimity. We are told that our fouthern brethren will take better care ol us than we could of ourfetves. On this fubjedf, the contempt with which northern reprefentarives are treated, the attention paid to any meafurcs which they propofe, the attempts to exringnilh the Hate balan ces, to abolifli the loan offices, and t; re jttt the Georgia claims, the aduitiorta! du ties upon commerce, the late alteration of the conftitution, and ihe other alteratitns wdii h are c ntethplated, Ipeak a language more expreffive than all the thunders of eloquence. ;\s a dernier refort of the a larmifts, we are told that the immortal Waldington cautioned the people aguinlt thole who thould att empt to create geo graphical parties. Me did fo. Me had in v*ew the great and general ir.ierclls of the 4! „ ^ ^L _ n • • e 1 r & * .laviwu, wit tumuiuuuii men, anu 110c mole minor intercfts which exiftin the very na ture of things ; foi in the high character of p^efid nt for the national convention, he bad before told us that “ the cocftiturion is the refult of a fpirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and conceflion which the peculiarity of our political ft:cation rendered ir.ditpenftbic ” Jf, however, the fagacious mind of Walhinyton did not anticipate the pi efent fiateof things that circumfhncc can form no argument again ft oyr accommoda ting our condudf to the events and profpeifts of the times. It cannot b? too often repeated that “man is man ” Did the? northern Uates jiofo lcfo power, their political lyiteni would probably be analagous to that which now governs the fouthern. 13ut power is depar ted from us ; and hope that we (hall nev er atten.pt to regain it by any other than houeft means. The editor of the t rincipa! paper pubhfhed at the feat of govern mentj an honeft and candid man,has not been able to c* nceal his exultation at the profpetT of northern humiliation. Admitting that the northern ftates no longer poftefs political weight, he alks, with an air of triumph, “ and why does the fouth rule the north ? Urcatife the fourh is united and the nortli is d vulcd*” I have juft laid the fame my lelf. , 7he North gives up an t the South ie/pj nst fad. 1 hare are men who are lels hon eft on tfiis fubjttft than the edit r of the National Int elbgenctr. 1 amafturtd, from unqueflionable authority that it is part of thcftyltemof feme young and ambitious politicians of the fouth, to add fuel to the flame of party fpirit in the north, that they may divide and govern us as the Romans divi ied and governed the Creeks. v • • ... ir m y oe arrogant mine to declare that the opimons which 1 now avow will one day command the univerfal a dent cf the people in the northern cuaricr of the un ion. Hut as I always make it a point to fay what ! think, 1 Hiall hazard the alTcr tion. If at a future day rew pa> ties (hould a rife in our country, ond we (hould be di 'ided into northern men and fouhern men, inftead of Federalists and Democrats, would any one doubt the propriety and pat riot if in of fupporting the northern interelf in all its conftitutional and reafonabie rights.--Should we be divided into large flats and fir,ah ldatc parties.would it be contended that the peo ple of the north ought not to embrace the intcrefts of the laiall (fates ?—Vermont New Mampfhire, Rhode-1 iland, and Con necticut, by an irrevocable la w of nature, mult alv. ays be fmall (fates. Georgia, Ken tucky, Tcnneflee, and Ohio, though now final , will very foon be hi the (lift dais of Urge (fates. Hence ihe abfurdity of the triumph of the fiijnds of the ia.c ante* d : merit cf the cdnflituttosi, upon this unani i mous adoption by the (mail dates of the | fouih and wefl. should we be divided in | la a coiiliituiional and anticoiiftitutional par | ty, would any one cenfurc a “ a union of 1 honed mci»” for the puipofc of prefervirg il:c co.iftuutiuii t—.is welt might it be ecu uitucd rhet men of diuerent |K>i.rical i al lies ought not to unite, to flop the progrefs of a dedrindivc fire or inundation, or to rcpUifc an invading enemy ! And it requires no prophetic powers to predict tlx exiltcnce oi a'ltnefe different parties in cur country, in a greater f;r lefs degree, with in the coune c*f a very few years. l ew individuals of the republican parry f ffered more, in their feelings at lead ; from fedital pctiecution, than m\Lif. I am willing, however, to burifice cv-n n y jult refcntiT.ents upan t!»e altar of my t\ un try. but 1 will never (acritlce my princi ples. Some of thi fe who cc’aim the mod violently againft me at this moment were federal ills while federaiifm was faflikmable. My condiments will remember that impor tant fa& when they hear the lirure dec ta rnations of thofe gentlemen. Other* have changed. I remain unaltered. 1 repeat it, I advocate the northern union With a view to the prefervatlon, inftcad of the deftrutl ion of the conlUtutioti. And I advocate it upon republican puncipics alooe. I will oppofe it whenever it is attempted to he ■ cltabliflied upon principles favourab e to ar iftocracy or monarchy. JAMES ELLIOf. Frora the Gazeue of the United Spates. BRITISH TREATY—We have been. ftru£I with foinc pailages in an article which, appearin the Aurora on Monday laft, up on the lubjcdt of our commercial intcrcourfo with Great Britain. As t© the reception which Jay’s treaty met with among the dem ocrats, from the higheft to the Ioweft, w* need not lay a word j i: is well known to every fchooi bey. It is well known, that their bift formal and vigorous denunciations of Genera! Wufhington were grounded up on his coi Tnt to ratify that treaty, which, as they aflerted* hunbled us at the feet of Great Britain. About two years ajo alL the odious provifroHs of that treaty, namely, the lait feventccn articles, expired by th:ir own limitation, and the day of their expira ; lion was haded in the Aurora, as another 1 day of emancipation *o this country, almoft: as important as the day upon which "Wafts. ington retired from the chief magiftraev. i Now mark the fequcl. The Auiora of Monday lays: “ We may conclude, from the fo'lowing paragraph in a late London paper, which, gives us the only information we have yet on this fubjecl, that our minifttr at Londoi> [Monroe] has ne'er yet fufperded his ne gotiations for the formation of a treaty of commerce, anil thaf il has teimmated, tot in the adoption f n*iv commercial arrangements, hut in agreem fit to CONTINUE the Jormer treaty for one '‘year." i / / Here the reader isdoubtlcfs prepared for one of thofe vollics of democratic feurrility which would be fulfn ient to overwhelm poor Monroe, and render him the obj. it of r.ll that popular deteftation which was wrought up ngainft Mr. jay. No fuch thing. ’1 he gentie writer, after a few common's upon the provifions of the treaty, proceeds*. ‘ No infinuation is here imtrtieii u-!e conveyed, that our negotiator at L<>u,; t» Jus not acted nith the H'lbEST EC LILY w hen \ he embraced this treaty. Bar her than fee till > our veffcls excluded from their ports [in the Weft-Indies] it was thus wife ft policy to con fen t thatti»ue o\er yc tons ihould be admit j ed.” It Is in vain to attempt a comment,— I here are no word* in our language ade quate to txprefs the abandoned piofligac* which lucli coitdufl indicates. If the dem ocrats pofll fled the lead portion cf either honefty or ihauie, fuch a triumph on c ur part would be worth enjoying Hot we know th m too v eil to c.M't'd that tins tie A icttion of their hypeeriiy will oc jfton a ny one of them a fnigle biulii indeed a ny < ne cf th,:r leader*, at the lime they were bawling to the people to “ icit k the; d—d treaty to h~h” would have felt do confu Hen ui acknowledging, in private con versation* that the treaty was a gc;'d ore, and that the object ot the detr.rr —\,x clamouring aga nit it was merely tarlmnp* ilh the popularity of gen WufkirgtouN ad min G.ie p.titu! ttuk in the Parser of an nouncing thy »:rut I teaiy iUgriuled by Mr. ..iu.iicC^ dc.eivei tiur.ee, p faid that k:a