The constitutionalist — Exeter, N.H., 1810-08-20 00:00:00, page 3

enemies to our present form of gov.
. eminent, is totally groundless, and
without the shadow of truth. The
assertion has been often made, but the
JTEW-YORK. new-yorK, aug. 9
FROM FRANCE.
Yesterday arrived here in the sch.
Saloma, Messrs. Johnson, Ronaldson,
Hichborn (of Boston) Pearson and
Burnett, from France, taken from on
board the ship George-Dyer, 60 days
from Bordeaux, bound to Baltimore,
-which the Saloma fell in with a few
days since. These gentlemen left France
the ,16th June, in company with about
50 other passengers, who were permit
ted to return to their native couritry
in the George-Dyer, the vessel which
Monsieur Turreau stut out from Balti
more, for France, with fugitives from
the Spanish islands.—They state, That
all American property, of whatever
kind or denomination, and wherever
found, in France or any of the coun
tries under the controul of Bonaparte,
has been seized and sold : —And that
nothing but the most abject submission
of our government to the will of Bo
naparte, can give a hope that a cent
of it will ever be restored. So deter
mined was the Emperor to lay hands
on every thing American, that he had
sequestered vessels which had been sail
ing under his own licence. The sch.
Three-Apprentices, Irvine, of New-
York; the ship —, Coffin, of Nan
tucket ; and the sch. —, Clarke, which
had been trading under British and
French licences, were seized and sold
at Bordeaux, in the month of June.
The ship Ann, Pendergrast, was to sail
from Bordeaux in about 15 days after
the George-Dyer (by permission) with
upwards of 200 American seamen, the
crews of American vessels which have
lately been seized and sequestered.
Mr. Armstrong expected to leave Fran ce
about the middle of August, that is, if
the Emperor would condescend to
grant him permission.
By an official report it is seen, that
the French minister of finance states a
deficiency 0f290,000,000 for 1810. lie
says the expences will be 640,000,000,
only 350 of which can be found in the
treasury. Spanish churches and A
merican merchants will probably make
up the deficit. Thus by plunder Bo
naparte keeps up a shew of resources.
Again the minister says, it " appears"
not to be intended to raise new armies
this year, as they have above 1,000,000
in arms ; 350,000 men are set apart for
the subjugation of Spain. May justice
overtake him and his million of sol
diers!
thinking portion of the community
will not believe it without some evi
dence. It is a fact pretty wellhstab
lished amongst men of sense, that no
human being acts without motive—ls
.this position be true, what motive can
be conjectured which operates in the
minds of those who are denominated
federalists, to induce them to plot and
execute any plan which would tend to
destroy the present constitution of
government. If the assertion which
has often been made and acknowledg
ed by the democrats be true, that the
federalists have more property than
the democrats, it is equally true they
have as much information on all sub
jects, and have children arid families
which are as near and dear to them as
the democrats. What motives then
can induce the federalists to wish for
a change of government, especially
such a form of government as the demo
crats accuse them of endeavouring to
establish. They can have no motive,
and those who make these assertions
cannot, nay do not believe them. They
are made from sintyer views, either
by those who are *ffi office to secure
themselves, o, by those who Wish to
obtain offices. If our hottest farm
ers arid mechanicks will only reflect
for one moment, they will be persuad
ed, that the federalists are as sincere
in their endeavours to support ,the
present constitution as any persons in
the community. Their reputation for
truth and integrity is well known and
must be acknowledged by all who
Eight sail ot the line, six frigates,
several small armed vessels, and a large
convoy, all English, passed the Cat
tegate the 20th May.
EXETER,
MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1810.
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The assertion that the Federalists are
FRENCH RESOURCES.
SEVERAL Members of the present
Congress**—of all parties- —have declin
ed being considered candidates for re
election.—Some of them have had
the magnanimity to acknowledge, they
have felt, by experience, that their
talents and knowledge were not ade
quate to a right understanding of the
measures essential to be adopted to
extricate the United States from the
degraded and plundered situation into
which they have been sunk, by the
folly, partiality & indecision of Rulers.
It is a." consummation devoutly to be
wished, that this /example of mag
nanimity will find a general imitation.
Our National Councils ought to be
filled with none but men of the first
rate talents, true American patriotism,
steady nerve, undeviating Impartiality,
and genuine statesmanship.—And if in
those who have inadvertantly been
jostled out of their sphere into office,
these requisites are not found—and
they will not decline being Candidates
—the People of all parties-—who feel
& suffer the degradation of their Coun
try, disregarding all pitiful, unmean
ing party names—ought to discard
them without hesitation or apology ;
and elect Men who have Wisdom to
discern, and Firmness to pursue, the
solid interests of the Nation. The
period is approaching when the Rulers
of the Nation for the two past years,
must deposit their Power in the hands
of the People.—ls therefore, that
Power is again intrusted to the imps of
Folly, Ignorance, and Partiality, it
will be the fault of the People, and
when they again complain no one will
pity them.
Some of the Old Members who stood
at the helm in the “ gulden days" of
Washington, are consenting to be
come candidates. This is as it should
be* Ihe People call for more Nes
tors and less Hectors, — ibid.
—=_BRBB '
COMM UNICATIONS.
For the Constitutionalist.
MR. BEALS, ''
AT the election inMarch last; great
use was made of " An Act appropri
ating three thousand four hundred and
fifty dollars for certain purposes there
in mentioned," (commonly nicknamed
the Smith grant,) passed June, 1809,
to prevent the re-election of Governor
Smith. The act itself was grossly mis
represented, and made the innocent
subject of a thousand electioneering
falsehoods. Many suppose that the
numerous stories, so industriously cir
culated respecting it, did not only pro
§3 Characters, like those forming
the above True American Ticket, re,
quire not the aid of eulogy ; they
have heads and hearts formed and
calculated to plan and execute every
thing, that will advance the best inter
est of our common country. Oppos-'
ed to them are the advocates of Em
bargo, Non-Intercourse, French In
fluence, and almost every degrading
& ruinous policy.—On the approach
ing. election therefore, let every
Washington Elector be found at his
post ; and there
speak the " words of truth and sober- 1
ness." These assertions that the fede
ralists are enemies to our government,
are generally made by noisey boisterous
illiterate men, who have by misfortune,
or misconduct been reduced to pover
ty; too proud to labour for support
they employ their time in traducing
the best, and most respectable men in
the country, for the purpose of lessen
ing them in the estimation of the pub
lic, to make way for themselves.
These are facts and every candid ob
server must acknowledge them.
—ls the Federalists, the real friends
to the honor and prosperity of the
country, are united, with activity and
zeal; we trust the result of the above
election will be glorious to the cause
of justice and the happiness of the
States.—Cent.
Twelfth Congress:
The Election in New-Hampshire,
for Representatives to the 12th Con
gress takes place on the 27th instant.
-—The Washington Ticket is com.
posed of the Hon. George Sullivan;
William llale, James WiLson,
Roger Vose, 8; DANIEL Blaisdell.
" Stand for his country's glory fast,
And nail her colours to the mast !"
sign such parts of the anatomical mu
seum and chemical apparatus as are his
private property: And that Dr. Smith
had only the occupancy and use of the
building to be erected and apparatus
while he should continue a teacher of
said Medical School, and no longer.
Now sir, is this the vile appropriation of
the public money which it has been said
to be? Is it voting away the public
money to gratify and enrich an indi
vidual? Or is it an appropriation of
money to increase the advantages of an
education at Dartmouth College, con
ducive with the interest of literature
Should not the passing of this act in
justice have operated as much against
theelection of thescgen tiemen, who were
its particular friends and advocates, as
against that of Gov. Smith, in March
last? If the act be the base thing it has
been represented to be, they are not
entitled to aur confidence ; and cannot
expect to be sent to Congress where
they would have more frequent oppor
tunities of voting away money than in
the General Court. If on the contra
ry there be nothing amiss in the act,
they have been guilty of so much insin
cerity, meanness and duplicity in their
conduct respecting it, as not to deserve
the suffrage of a single VOTER.
DEMOCRATIC SAVING.
It is a vanity and a lie; they that
* made it are like unto it ; and so are
all they that put their trust in it.
MUCH has been said in the demo
cratic papers to induce the people to
believe that the last and present admin
istrations of the national government
have been very economical : that the
expences of government and the pub
lic debt have been lessened to a very
trifling sum; that in a few years the
people, if they trust their present wise
Rulers, will hear and know little or
nothing of a national debt ; and hear
and know less of a revenue to support
the general government. Something
has certainly had a strange effect.
There seems to be an unaccountable
mystery attending this economical
process ; —that while the salaries, per
quisites and profits of almost every
officer in the government have been
increased and the national revenue, in
every brunch of it djmjnishfd, that all
tnote, but absolutely cause the election
of Got. Langdon. It was stated, and
generally believed by the voters in ma.
ny towns, to be a federal measure.
Indeed I thought it was ; till on enqui
ry I found that Judge Evans, Messrs.
Morrill and Harper advocated the
bill in the llouse of Representatives;
and on examining the Journal that their
names and the Portsmouth representa-'
tion without ah exception were among
the yeas; and that in tire Senate, the
Ilon. Josiah Bartlett, with whom
I was well acquainted, also gave his
yea. This induced me to read the act,
when to my great surprize, I found
that the sum of $ 3450 was not given
why did the Hon. Josiah Bartlett,
and Messrs. David L. Morrill, and
John A. Harper vote in favor of it ?
If it be a good act, why did not Messrs.
Bartlett, Morrill and Harper,
come forward as honest men and give
a candid, fair explanatory statement to
the public, instead of countenancing by
their silence, or increasing by their in
sinuations the fervour of the people
respecting (t, and giving, as far as their
influence and weight of character could
extend, to every idle tale a degree of
credit ?
to Dr. Smith as Professor of Medicine,
&c. as 1 had repeatedly heard, but ap-
propriated for the purpose of erecting
a building of brick or stone for a med
ical school ; provided that Dr. Smith
and the sciences, and a proper encour
agement for the Legislature to give to
that seminary, agreeably to our excel
lent Constitution ? If it be a bad act,
before the money, or any part of it, be
paid out of the treasury convey to the
State of New-Hampshire, by a good
and valid title, one half acre of land,
contiguous to Dartmouth College,
whereon to erect said building and as-
In the year 1809 you were a
member of the Legislature, and op
posed to the election of Judge Smith.
You represented; if I atn not mistaken,
Gofistowp, and at the same time, were
pastor of a church and teacher of mo
rality and religion in that town. A
committee was appointed by the Senate
and House of Representatives assem
bled in convention, to examine and
cast the returns of votes for a govern
or, who reported; " that some in
formality Appeared in a part of the re
turns, which in the opinion of the com
mittee was caused by a want of con
formity, in a late act of the Legislature
respecting elections, to all the require
ments of the constitution, and there
fore that it should not operate to a
rejection of those votes. That the in
formality of some others is such as has
not usually excluded them." When
the report of this committee wris taken
into consideration, you requested leave
of the chairman, to inquire of the
committee what those informalities
were, in the returns referred to by the
committee which had not usually ex
cluded them, stating that you wished
to tsk of the chairman, (Col. Kent) or
some of the committee to obtain in
formation as to the particular informal
ities for your satisfaction only, being
entirely ignorant on the subject. The
chairman gave you the necessary in
formation; but not so minutely as
you wished. You immediately rose,
took from your pocket minutes which
you had previously made from the
statement of a gentleman oh the com
mittee, and disclosed, much more par
ticularly than' the chairman of the
committee had done, the informalities
of the returns of the several towns,
and from information, thus previously
obtained, opposed the acceptance of
the report. Your friends at this time
were silent, not knowing how to recon
cile your public assertion with your
minutes, or your clerical character with
such an obnoxious prevarication.
Your political opponents presumed
that in the heat of party you had
forgotten your sacred calling to
the pulpit; and that the hallowed coal
no longer fired your lips. Your in
tern perate zeal discovered a dereliction
of that regard for truth which should
have distinguished your character, even
in your political career ; —and your
conduct, in thit and other instances,
cannot be accounted for on any other
principle, than your having adopted
the fatal maxim, that the end sanctifies
the means, and thus'silenccd that faith
ful monitor; conscience.
A SPECTATOR.
ANOTHER ESCAPE! &?
Mr. Bidwell, the democratic At
torney General of Massachusetts, has
absconded for delinquency, forgery,
perjury aril a few other trifling of
fences. , /
A more particular statement may be
seen hi the last Boston "papers.
these mighty savings should be affected.
Some have said that all this may be
accounted for by the sale of lands, &c.
But really, if we examine this thing
and consult official documents, the re
ports of the secretary of the treasury,
since the commencement of Jefferson's
administration to the present time,
without referring to the speeches and
statements of Mr. Randolph, formerly
of high authority, we shall find that
the public have suffered thousands of
dollars both in the diminution of the
revenue and of the national debt. This
may be mathematically demonstrated.
The erroneous impression on the pub
lic opinions has been made, not by the
reports of the Secretary of the Treas
ury, how partial soever they may have
been, but by the innumerable com
ments of interested partizans and scrib
blers in the ministerial papers whose
mass of trash altogether buried the
original matter.
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