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REPUBLICAN MEETING.

At an adjourned meeting of the republican citizens of the city and county of Philadelphia, held at the state-house, January 5th, 1801.

Col. JOHN BARKER, Chairman.

JOHN SMITH, Secretary.

The minutes of the meeting held on the 22d of December, being read, the committee appointed at the meeting reported the resolutions referred to them amended, which on motion were read by paragraphs and adopted, and are as follow:

1. Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting, Wednesday the 4th day of March next, ought to be set apart as a day of public festivity and joy on which to celebrate the success of democratic republican principles, manifested in the late election of a President and Vice-President of the United States.

2. Resolved, That a committee of arrangement, consisting of 30 members, be appointed, with power to devise, superintend, and direct the proceedings of the day, in a manner suitable to the importance of the occasion, and to the general wishes of our fellow citizens, Combining with the great object of national joy, a contribution for the aid and relief of the poor and distressed.

3. Resolved, That for the purposes of the foregoing resolution, a fund ought to be created by the common contribution and subscription of our republican fellow citizens in each ward of the City, Southwark, Moyamensing, Passyunk, and the Northern Liberties, under the direction of ward, district and township committees, to be nominated and appointed by the Committee of arrangement.

4. Resolved, That the ward committees respectively do make return, and pay over the money returned by them collected to the committee of arrangement within ten days from the time of their appointment.

5. Resolved, That three-fifths of all the money so collected, be paid over by the said committee of arrangement to the ward, district and township committees aforesaid, to be by them immediately applied for the purchase and distribution of necessaries for the relief of the poor and distressed citizens, and the said ward, district and township committees shall publish an account of their distributions within ten days after the said fourth day of March.

6. Resolved, That the remaining two-fifths of the said fund be applied under the direction of the committee of arrangement, to defray all necessary expenses which may attend the celebration aforesaid—and any surplus in their hands beyond the said necessary expense to be applied to the relief of the poor in the manner aforesaid.

7. Resolved, That it be earnestly recommended to our republican fellow citizens, to refrain on the evening of the day of celebration from any display of fire-works or illuminations.

8. Resolved, That Messrs. Hugh Ferguson, Daniel Boehim, John Smith, Michael Bright, Thomas Leiper, Andrew Kennedy, Peter S. Duponceau, Joseph Worrell, James Gamble, James Kerr, William Rush, Robert Porter, Gen. Jacob Morgan, William Coates, Dr. John Porter, Frederick Wolbert, Caspar Sneider, John Dover, Manuel Eyre, jun. Ebenezer Ferguson, Isaac Hosey, Robert M'Mullen, Michael Freytag, James Ingle, George Goodwin, Philip Peltz, Heath Norbury, and Nathan Jones, be the committee of arrangement required by the 2d resolution.

9. Resolved, That the sentiments expressed in a letter from Aaron Burr, Esq. to general Samuel Smith, under date "New-York, December 16th," and published in Brown and Relf's gazette of Tuesday evening last, merit the warm approbation of all true republicans.

That in the original nomination of candidates for the offices of President and Vice-President of the United States, that Thomas Jefferson, Esq. should fill the office of President, and Aaron Burr, Esq. that of Vice-President of the United States.

That the explicit renunciation of Aaron Burr, Esq. of all competition with Thomas Jefferson, Esq. for the office of President of the United States, manifests a just deference and patriotic regard to the known wishes and expectations of his republican fellow citizens of the United States.

That as republican citizens of the United States, solicitous for the honor, and regardful of the pre-eminence of republican principles, we view with peculiar pride and pleasure, the time and manner of this disinterested act of patriotism on the part of the said Aaron Burr, Esq. fully justifying that public confidence and true estimate of character, which produced his nomination to the office of Vice-President of the United States, and exhibiting to the world a laudable emulation and illustrious example of public virtue and private integrity, superior to every motive of false ambition, and pursuing only the public good.

10. Resolved, That a permanent committee to consist of thirteen members, be appointed, on behalf of the republican citizens of the city and county of Philadelphia, to correspond with such persons as they may deem proper, on the subject of the impending election of a President and Vice-President of the United States, and to convene a town meeting of the citizens aforesaid, whenever in their judgments it may be deemed expedient, giving at least two days public notice thereof.

11. Resolved, That Messrs. Alexander J. Dallas, John Beckley, John Smith, Thomas Leiper, William Duane, Hugh Ferguson, William Jones, Dr. John Porter, Frederick Wolbert, Mahlon Dickerson, Israel Israel, Robert M'Millen and Ebenezer Ferguson, be the aforesaid committee of correspondence.

Published by order of the meeting

JOHN BARKER, Chairman.

JOHN SMITH, Secretary.