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Mr. Wrifford
EXETER, (N. H.) MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1810.
Givert at the Council Cham^r, in
Portsmouth this 20th day of Sep-,
tember, in the year of bur Lord,
^\ one thousand eight hundered and
- ten, and of the Independence of the
United States of America, the thir-
JOHN LANGDON.
By His Excellency's command, with
the advice and consent of the Conn,
cil. _
WM, Pickering.
Deputy Secretary,
4
And considering that our lives have
been a continued course of disobedience
and ingratitude to His just govern
ment, let us join with humility in fer
vent supplications for the remission
of our offences' and the renewal of our
hearts ; and that He would not reject
our weak and inadequate attempts to
magnify^his great name.
That He would condescend to regard
in a special manner the concerns of this
State, and prosper the administration
of its government : —That He would
succeed the lawful exertions of every
class of our citizens ; smile on our ag
riculture, our infant manufactures, our
commerce and fisheries :—That he
would bless our literary and relig
ious institutions—that they may be the
pure and undefiled fountains of Evan
gelical faith, sound morality; and use
ful science.
That He would visit with the divine
influences of his love and compassion,
the contending nations of the earth :
moderate the inordinate passions of
man: put an end to the calamities
of war; so that the mild empire of
peace may be established in every quar
ter of the globe, and the precepts of
the blessed gospel of our Saviour be
more generally diffused, and more
justly appreciated.
And the people of this State are re
quested to abstain from such labor and
recreation, as are inconsistent with the
religious services of the day.
In conformity to the usage of our
pious ancestors, who consecrated one
day at this season of the year, in cel
ebrating His name for the abundance of
the fruits of the field, and the more
signal interpositions of His power and
nercy ; I have thought fit to appoint,
md by and with the advice a^rfon
sent of the Council, do aroint,
THURSDAY, THE TWENTY
SECOND DAY OF NOVEMBER
NEXT, to be observed in ms State
as a day of public Thanksgiving,
praise, and prayer.
The Several denominations of Christ
ians are earnestly requested to assem
ble in their usual places of public wor
ship on that day ; that with hearts of
thanksgiving we may unite in render
ing our gratitude to the most high God,
for his transcendent love and goodness
towards the children of men :—That
He has preserved our lives the past
year, and sustained and protected us
amid the dangers and difficulties with
which we have been encompassed:
That no mortal disease has been suf
fered to spread desolation and mourn
ing through our land : —That the sea
sons of the year have been so ordered,
that the heart of the husbandman is
filled with joy, and the voice of plenty
heard iri every dwelling.
Let us thank' and praise His holy
name for the invaluable civil and re
ligious privileges we enjoy :—That
our systems of government derive their
vigor, stability, and support, from the
great body of the people :—and that
our lives and property are in the safe
keeping of just and equal laws.
Let us unite our supplications that
the life and health of the President of
the United States may be long preserv.
ed : —That God would be pleased still
to continue his guardian care and di
rection to our National Government,
in these times of difficulty and peril ;
and dispose those nations with whom
we have been mote immediately conect
ed by commercial interets, to manifest
towards us a spirit of justice and
conciliation.
As we approach the close of anoth
er year, so distinguishedly marked by
the munificience of Almighty God;
a due sense of our dependence on His
overruling providence and loving kind
dess for all temporal and spiritual
blessings, should lead our minds to the
devoutest praise and the most unfeign
ed thankfulness.
A POCLAMATION,
For a day of public Thanksgiving,
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Praise, and Prayer.
By the Governor.
GUIDE.
I MAKE no ceremonyJn assuming
the point, that happiness, in the ab
stract, has little reference to external
circumstances, according to a good old
maxim, “ non est vivere, sed valere,
vita."—Wealth is certainly a desirable
•
object, so is popular applause ; but
both are too contingent and uncertain
to become the bases of our dearest
hopes.—ls we wish to guard against
intolerable disappointment ; in fact, if
we expect tolerable comfort, riches and
self-possession, honor, and self-abase
ment, must go hand in hand. —It is in
vain that we promise ourselves uncom
mon security from the troubles of this
world; when we flatter ourselves with
extraordinary talents arid possessions.
—The major part of the mind's vexa
tions; arid even of the pains of the bo
dy, is easily traced back to a false es
timate of things. Pompey became
" Great" at the expense of thousands ;
but Pompey never dreamt of his inse
curity, till a playactor taught him the
worthlessness of h) title. One great
Permittas ipsis expendere numinibus, quid
v onveniat nobis, rebusque sit utile nostris.
Nam pro jucundis aptissima qu^que da
bunt dii;
CARIOR EST ILLIS HOMO, QUAM SIBI.
To Heaven resign th' adjustment ofthy fate ;
Heaven knows they frailty, -will direct thy
state.
Close follows good, tho' judgments lead the
van,
DEARER TO COD, THAN TO HIMSELF,
IS MAN.
Oct. 1810.
RELIGION THE ONLY SAFE
Nobler lines than the four that fol
low from the lofty and sententious Ju
venal, I defy any one to point out, in
any work of ancient or modern date.
That your readers may know there is
no French philosophy in them, I have
attempted a translation. C.
Though your subscribers should
concur with me, as they doubtless will,
in considering the following a bad im
itation of a very good thing; I shall
at least have the merit of making an
attempt, while it could be wished that
many of them, who are so much more
capable than myself, would exert them
selves to the future exclusion of such
productions ; till then, they have little
right to complain of
O'ER the blue Western sky the heat-light
. ning play'd,
Ere the night-spirit woke from his slumbers ;
The river rush'd w^d, and the murmur it
made,
Seem'd sweeter than minstrelsy's numbers.
2
And the strain that swell'd high, as it glid-
Oft since have I thought how that evening's
mild beam
Repos'd on its wild watery pillow;
arise,
Be hush'd each unhallow'd emotion ;
Oh! thus may the splendor of Hope greet
How the sturgeon leapt up from his silvery
MR. BEALS,
ed along.
From a barge, in its wind-passing motion,
Broke softly, methought, as a magical ^ng
From a spright in the midst of tire ocean.
stream,
And dash'd on the breast of tlie billow.
4.
And thus (have exclaim'd,)when death shall
. the Eyes,
As she sliines on eternity's ocean !
Oct. 1810.
STANZAS
Written on the banks of the A n.
For the Constitutionalist.
ORIGINAL POETRY. •
Your humble servant,
C.
translation.
Our Constitution, V
Notwithstanding the suggestions
of wicked men, at its first formation,
has continued till it has completely liv
ed down the selfish calumnies of mal
ice, and precipitate judgments of ig
norance. It is, in fact, a regularly
and closely cemented fabrick, not des
titute of strength, not wanting ele
gance and harmony of proportion ;
every division, however inconsiderable,
discovers a master-hand, while the key
stone of the whole has been adjusted
with so nice a reference to parts, that
it promises to resemble in stability
the eternal principle that brought it in
to existence. Let me not be mistak
en.—l calculate upon its permanency,
chiefly from inherent qualities ; I dot
not take into consideration that muta
bility of fortune, which hangs upon the
ever fluctuating state of morals add o
pinion. The time may come, when
the people shall cease to reverence this
grand palladium of our liberty ; the
mob are inconstant ; they are actual- ,
ed more by sensations than by judg
ment; they are too often beguiled by
specious appearances of patriotism ; hi
fine, they
" Havi lights where better eyes are blind,
“ As pigs are said to see the wind."
The Federal Constitution is a masg
of progressive improvement, rescued!
from the convulsion of empires, and so
long as the structure is secured by re
spect, and defended by power ; it will
be at once a fortress and a temple,—•
a retreat from the storms, that contin
ually hover round the western world.
The politicians of antiquity were ar
dently desirous of a constitution and a
government like our own; but in at
tempting an establishment, they gave
loose to wild and intemperate fan
cies ; and their commonwealths were
calculated to live only in the imaging.
misfortune is, we can never form so
correct an opinion of remote, as if
present objects ; and we are continu
ally liable to be drawn from the path
of rectitude, by the resistless current
of our passions.—Mankind want to
snatch at wealth and applause, in a
moment; but they are difficultly ob
tained ; they are the fruits of incessant:
care and painful and unremitting ap
plication; fruits, which, from tardi
ness in arriving to maturity frequently
induce that sickness, which arises from
"hope long deferred." —There cam
necessarily be but one high-road to
happiness, and by whatever mean mere
attempt to gain that road, they have
need of something to direct them.—To
many inquiries philosophy has affixed
an importance, religion will never al
low, an importance, which is incon
sistent with the supposition, that the
mind has in view an ultimate end, and
that that end is happiness.—Philoso
phy has but served, in many cases, to
raise questions, which are in no way
connected with human happiness, and
which it had neither inclination, nor
ability to solve. Religion, on the
other hand, starts no useless questions,
and inspires no doubts, but of man's
self-sufficiency.—Hence the safety and
importance of religion over the Vulgar
suggestions and common-place queries:
of philosophy! Religion alone can
keep us steady to the mark in view ;
and from religion must be drawn those
consolations, which are able to make
light the bnrthens, that would other
wise sit heavy on the heart ;
Non enim gazx, neque consularis
Siimmovet lictor misercs tumultus
Mentis, et curas laqueata circum
Tecta volanteo.
HAROLD.
For the Constitutionalist.
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