PROCLAMATION OF GOVERNOUR BULL, OF SOUTH CAROLINA, NOVEMBER 12, 1774.

Whereas, I have received notification from his Excellency Sir James Wright, Baronet, Governour of Georgia, that at a Congress holden on the twentieth of October last, at Savannah, in the Council Chamber, between his Excellency and the Honourable Mr. Stuart, his Majesty's Superintendent for Indian Affairs in the Southern Department, and several Head-men, accompanied by a large number of others of the Creek Nation of Indians, a Treaty of Peace, Friendship, and Commerce, was concluded with the said Indians, whereby the Indians have stipulated to give and complete the full satisfaction demanded for the murders and outrages committed by them last winter in the Province of Georgia; and farther desired, the better to prevent the like hereafter, that sundry Regulations may be made in the Indian Trade, for the more orderly carrying on the same, and to maintain peace between his Majesty's subjects and the Indians; whereupon, a Plan of Regulations for the Indian Trade accordingly hath been considered, formed, and agreed on by his Excellency Sir James Wright, and hath been approved and adopted by me in Council. And whereas, it is thought proper on this occasion to open the trade to the said Creek Nation again, and to take off the temporary limitation upon the trade to the Cherokees, that they may now be plentifully supplied with goods, I have thought fit, by and with the advice of his Majesty's Honourable Council, to issue this my Proclamation, giving notice thereof to all persons in this Province, concerned or willing to be concerned in such Trade, that I hereby revoke all former Indian Trading Licenses, and require them to take out new ones, by which they are to be subject to the observance of such Regulations as have been thought necessary for carrying on the trade in a manner which may secure the publick peace, the copy of which License, Bond, and Regulations, I have caused to be lodged in the Secretary's Office, for their inspection and information, of which all persons concerned are to take due notice, and govern themselves accordingly, as they shall answer for their neglect thereof.

WILLIAM BULL.

COMMITTEE OF OBSERVATION APPOINTED FOR BALTIMORE COUNTY, IN MARYLAND, NOVEMBER 12, 1774.

BALTIMORE TOWN.

Andrew Buchanan, Robert Alexander, William Lux, John Moale, John Merryman, Richard Moale, Jeremiah Townley Chase, Thomas Harrison, Archibald Buchanan, William Smith, James Calhoun, Benjamin Griffith, Gerard Hopkins, William Spear, John Smith, Barnet Eichelberger, George Woolsey, Hercules Courtenay, Isaac Gist, Mark Alexander, Samuel Purviance, Jun., Francis Saunderson, John Boyd, George Lindenburger, Isaac Vanbibber, Philip Rogers, David M'Mechan, Mordecai Gist, and John Deaver.

HUNDREDS.

PATAPSCO, LOWER.—Captain Charles Ridgely and Thomas Sollers.

PATAPSCO, UPPER.—Zachariah M'Cubbin, Charles Ridgely, Son of William, and Thomas Lloyd.

BACK RIVER, UPPER.—Samuel Worthington, Benjamin Nicholson, Thomas Cockey Dye, John Cradock, Darby Lux, and William Randall.

BACK RIVER, LOWER.—J. Mercer and Job Garretson.

MIDDLE RIVER, UPPER.—Nicholas Merryman and William Worthington.

MIDDLE RIVER, LOWER.—Henry Dorsey Gough and Walter Tolley, Senior.

SOLDIER'S DELIGHT.—George Risteau, John Howard, Thomas Gist, Senior, Thomas Worthington, Nathan Cromwell, and Nicholas Jones.

MIDDLESEX.—Thomas Johnson and Mayberry Helmes.

DELAWARE.—John Welsh. Rezin Hammond, and John Elder.

NORTH.—Jeremiah Johnston and Elijah Dorsey.

PIPE CREEK.—Richard Richards, Frederick Dicker, and Mordecai Hammond.

GUN POWDER, UPPER.—Walter Tolley, Junior, James Gettings, and Thomas Franklin.

MINE RUN.—Dixon Stansbury, Jan., and Josias Slade.

POLITICAL OBSERVATIONS, WITHOUT ORDER; ADDRESSED TO THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA.

Philadelphia, November 14, 1774.

1. All power of Government is derived from God through the instrumentality of Kings or the People. Has the impartial Governour of the universe communicated his attributes of power, wisdom, justice and mercy to Kings only, and denied the least portion of them to every other class of mankind? Let history decide this question. The history of Kings is nothing but the history of the folly and depravity of human nature.

2. To live (says Bishop Hoadly) by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery. If the Bible was silent, analogy would teach us that the depravity and misery of one man could contaminate and render miserable a whole race of men. Look up then, mortals, to Kings with humility. They are living histories of your first calamity. One Man still continues to be the source of misery and depravity in all the Kingdoms of the world. God deals with all mankind as he did with the Jews. He gives them Kings only in his anger. We read now and then, it is true, of a good King, so we read likewise of a Prophet escaping unhurt from a Lion's den, and of three men walking in a fiery furnace, without having even their garments singed. The order of nature is as much inverted in the first, as it was in the last two cases. A good King is a miracle.

3. The American Congress derives all its power, wisdom and justice, not from scrolls of parchment signed by Kings, but from the People. A more august, and a more equitable Legislative body never existed in any quarter of the globe. It is founded upon the principles of the most perfect liberty. A freeman in honouring and obeying the Congress, honours and obeys himself. The man who refuses to do both, is a slave. He knows nothing of the dignity of his nature. He cannot govern himself. Expose him for sale at a publick vendue. Send him to plant Sugar with his fellow slaves in Jamaica. Let not the air of America be contaminated with his breath.

4. The Congress, like other Legislative bodies, have annexed penalties to their laws. They no not consist of the gallows, the rack, and the stake. These punishments belong to vindictive states, and are proper only for a corrupted people. They have held out no punishments but infamy, a species of infamy which sound more dreadful to a freeman than the gallows, the rack, or the stake. It is this, he shall be declared in the publick papers to be an Enemy to his country.

5. The wisdom and revenge of man have been exhausted to find out a suitable punishment for treason, or for those crimes which affect the liberty and happiness of a people. The least deviation from the Resolves of the Congress will be treason:—such treason as few villains have ever had an opportunity of committing. It will be treason against the present inhabitants of the Colonies: Against the millions of unborn generations who are to exist hereafter in America: Against the only liberty and happiness which remain to mankind: Against the last hopes of the wretched in every corner of the world.—In a word, it will be treason against God. It will be to take from Him (with reverence be it spoken) the power of making his creatures happy. I do not attempt to hint a punishment for such extensive and complicated guilt. In famy is a punishment of the soul. It can only affect a freeman. The body of the wretch who is capable of violating the Resolves of the Congress is the only part of him which can be punished. But here all ingenuity fails us. The tortures of Damien and Ravillac would be rendered abortive for this purpose by the longest possible duration of human life.

6. There is a strange veneration for antiquity and disinclination for innovations in all civil as well as religious bodies. We are now laying the foundation of an American Constitution. Let us therefore hold up every thing we do to the eye of posterity. They will probably measure their liberties and happiness by the most careless of our footsteps. Let no unhallowed hand touch the precious seed of Liberty. Let us form the glorious tree in such a manner, and impregnate it with such principles of life, that it shall last forever. Greece, Rome and Britain would