Gazette Of The United States, & Daily Advertiser

By this Day's Mail.

BOSTON, November 28.

The following extract from the instructions of the town of Franklin, in this state, to Colonel John Boyd, its representative, will be read with pleasure by every one who wishes a continuation of those blessings, which, under God, have been the happy effects of the administration of our national government, on truly federal principles, the last twelve years.
To Colonel JOHN BOYD, SIR,

"THIS town, relying on your ability and integrity, have chosen you to represent them in the General Court of this Commonwealth the present year. This year, some of the most important concerns of the United States are to be transacted; and in which our General Court will soon take a very interesting part, (viz.) the appointment of Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States. That even one elector should be appointed who is likely to give his vote for a man to be President or Vice-President, who has, from the press in the most public manner, given his opinion, that it is quite indifferent whether a man believes that there are 'twenty Gods or no God,' and adds this as a reason (viz.) 'it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg,' must be a painful consideration to every serious mind. And that there is any prospect, that any man of atheistical or deistical principles will be chosen into either of these important places of trust, is still more alarming. Therefore to prevent, (if possible,) a calamity so much to be dreaded, every precaution becomes necessary. And as the General Court at their next session, are to choose Electors for President and Vice-President of the United States you are instructed to do all in your power to prevent any person being chosen an Elector of President and Vice-President, who you even suspect will give his vote for any man of an atheistical or deistical character, or for any man that will vote for the author of Jefferson's Notes on Virginia."