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WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED: NEWBERN, February 23Author(s): D. L. CorbittSource: The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. 8, No. 2 (April, 1931), pp. 212-213Published by: North Carolina Office of Archives and HistoryStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23516339 .

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212 The North Carolina Historical Review

ing mail lose a trip, an additional forfeiture of ten dollars shall be incurred ; and if it be to tbe great southern mail, due every Saturday at

Petersburg, it shall be increased to thirty dollars. 4. Newspapers as well as letters are to he sent in the mails; and if

any contractor would desire to carry news-papers other than those in

his mail, he must state in his proposals the respective sums for which he will carry it with and without the emoluments which may arise from such separate carriage of news-papers.

5. The contracts for the mails from Petersburg to Augusta, to he in

operation the first week in October next, and to continue in force until

the first day of October, 1796. The contracts for all the other mails herein mentioned, to be in operation the first week in October next, and

to continue in force until the first day of January, 1796. TIMOTHY PICKERING, Postmaster Gen.

General Post-Office, Philadelphia, June 13, 1794.

WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED18

NEW BEEN', February 23.

The inhabitants of Newhern in celebrating the birthday of George Washington, drank the following toasts:—

1. The day: May it be kept by future ages, that those who see the

great fabric of American glory completed, may remember the hand

that laid its foundation. 2. The immortal Washington and his companions in arms, the heroes

of the American revolution.

3. The President of the United States, whose firmness and wisdom have sealed our independence.

4. Generals Marshall19 and Pin[ckn]ey ;20 our execellent, but ill

treated and rejected envoys. 5. Timothy Pickering, the Secretary of State, who writes—not for

Mazzei, but for his country. 6. The Governor21 of North Carolina.

7. The enlightened minority of the legislature of Virginia. May their moderate and virtuous sentiments finally prevail.

8. The minority in Congress: May some great genius amongst them discover that the legislature was not designed merely to depress and embarrass the executive.

9. The federal constitution. 10. The navy of the United States: May it teach those who do not

respect our rights, to dread our power.

18 The Newbern Gazette, Feb. 23, 1799. 11 John Marshall. 10 Charles Catesworth Pinckney. 81 William R. Davie.

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Historical Notes 213

11. Gratitude for public services, and contempt for empty pro fessions.

12. The government that is neither to be intimidated by threats, nor seduced by intrigue.

13. May the will of a foreign power never become the measure of

American rights. 14. May loud faction, and silent treachery, and disappointed ambi

tion, under the mask of patriotism, be far removed from our public councils.

15. May we never distrust integrity, nor confide in falsehood. 16. The army of the United States: May its exertions correspond

with the spirit by which it was created.

ESTABLISHED RELIGION22

MISCELLANY.

A Series of letters on the establishment of the worship of the Deity, as essential to national happiness.—By an American.

Plusque boni mores,

Quam bonae leges, valent. TACITUS.

"Religion ! Without thee, what were unenlighten'd man !

A savage roaming throug the woods and wilds, In quest of prey ; and with th' unfashion'd fur

Rough clad : devoid of ev'ry finer art, And elegance of life. Nor happiness Domestic, mixt'of tenderness and care,

Nor moral excellence, nor social bliss,

Nor guardian law, were his.

Nothing, save rapine, indolence, and guile, And woes on woes, a still revolving train,

Whose horrid circle had made human life Than non-existence worse; but, taught by thee,

Ours are the plans of policy and peace, To live like brothers, and, conjunctive all, Embellish life."

THOMSON.

« Fayetteville Gazette, Sept. 14, 1789.

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