Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

AUGUSTA, October 25.

To the People of Georgia.

AT a time when every nerve ought to be exerted to preserve and perpetuate your liberty and independence, a few observations on the subject may afford you some information, and be of some use at this critical period These observations will apply equally to those whom you may elect to represent you in congress, as those to represent you in the general assembly.

A uniform advocate for Frenchmen and French measures must be a traitor to the Union, and ought to be as much avoided as the lava of a burning mountain.

One of your representatives in congress having declined being a candidate, charity induces us to let him retire in peace. But the other (Mr. Baldwin) being a candidate, and using every low cunning and open effort to be re elected, his conduct ought to be analyzed, and his public conduct examined.

If the length of time which he has been in Congress as your representative, would make good his title, he certainly stands foremost on the list ; for, in February last, he was thirteen years a Member of Congress, from Georgia, and in that period he has received for his services from this state and the United States, upward of Forty thousand dollars, and his expenditures are extravagantly rated at two dollars a day, making in thirteen years 9490 dollars; so that he made a clear profit, by being a Member of Congress, the enormous sum of THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.

A modest republican would of himself retire from an office which he held thirteen, indeed nearly fourteen years, by which he pocketed thirty thousand dollars; but Mr. Baldwin is a French republican he will not part with power if he can help it ; and like his old friend Talleyrand, he wants a little more money.

Let us now turn our eyes to Mr. Baldwin's conduct in Congress. He voted against raising (in case of need) 80,000 of the militia-he voted against arming our merchant vessels-he voted against providing a navy— he voted against fortifying our ports and harbours-he voted for renewing negotiations that their depredations on our commerce might continue. In short, he has on every occasion voted in favor of France, and against our own government.

The man who can thus sacrifice the government, the constitution, the laws and the honor of his native country, at the shrine of French despotism, must be influenced by motives not of the purest dye: But above all to support and countenance the scoff ers of our holy religion, ought to make us pause, and enquire if he is not among those who believe there is no GOD.

A CHRISTIAN.