The United States oracle of the day — Portsmouth, N.H., 1801-10-10 00:00:00, page 1

James Rundlet,
Has received by the late arrivals
from England, A large afaiment of
English Piece GOODS,
direß from the Manufacturers,
WHICH are now opening and will
be fold Wholesale or Retail, on
the lowest terms for cash or (bort credit.
He has also for fate a variety of
India & French Goods,
which will be fold also and likewise—
He has 14 chests Souchong, 2
chests Hyfon TEA, and 2 chests
CASSIA which will be fold cheap
10 clofc account files. OR. 3,1801.
NOW OPENING
AND FOR SALE BY
N. A. &J. Haven,
A large and general supply of
Fall & Winter
GOOD S,
Port/mnuth, Seta, 12, 1801.
David Blair,
Hasjuf received and ready for sale,
FRESH GOODS,
At the lowest Cash price, opposite the
Court-house, in Exeter.
N.B. All indebted to the said
BLAIR, are requested to make timely
paymenr. Exeter, Oft. 3, 1801.
Charles Hardy,
TAILOR,
Hasjuft received and for sale,
.A nro afortment Superfine
Broad Cloths; Caffi
meres ; Swanfdown; Ratteen ;
Coating., &c. A variety Buttons
and other Trimmings.
Crofi^reet, Pmtfmputh, OR. 3, 1801.
■■■■mrcßuaHir&v"^ ^7%euranß4H#rauooT '==xi -i:^c'« ; c3£'
Ca sh given for green
' SHEEP SK INS, with the Wool
on, at thi s office,
NEW GOODS.
James Henderson,
Has just received a general assortment of
FALL & WINTER
GOO D S,
Which are now opened fo^ [ale. at his Store;
in Market frees, — Conffong of
SUPERFINE, Middling and
low pric'd Broad Cloths & Calfimeres,
fine beavers Coating ; Ratteens; Kerfeys;
forcft Cloths ; Serges ; SWanfddwns ;
Flannels; Baizes; Blankets; Velvets;
Velvere's; Corderoys; Thicksets; silk
and worsted Shaggs; wonted Plush,
Ruffels ; Callimancoes ; Shal
loons ; Moreens ; Taboreens; Wild
bores ; Camblets; Durants; Tammies;
Sattinets ; Florentines,
A handsome assortment of
Calicoes & Chintzes; Dimities ;
Mullinets ; jaconet and book Muslins &
muffin Handkerchiefs, ftrip'd, check and
tambor'd Muslins; black and white cot
ton Cambrick; biack Muslins; Mens'
tambor'd and plain Cambricks for neck
erchiefs; chintz and purple Shawls;
pocket Handkerchiefs ; Bandannoes ;
black silk Shawls; blue and white and
red and white Romals; Linens; brown
Hollands ; Cotton and Cotton & linen
Checks; INDIA COTTONS.
A large assortment of
Men's &ycuths' worfted,cotton,
and silk Hose; women's cotton Hose ;
women's silk, cotton and worsted Gloves
and Mitts; white & color'd kid Gloves;
Men's beaver Gloves, some lin'd with
flannel ; Meo's mill'd worsted Caps ;
worsted Pantaloons; Pantaloon pieces;
Emcgrant Boots and Shoes; Men's black
and white gauze Hose; Ladies' fafliiana
ble draw, chip & beaver Hats & Bonnets ;
straw and other bonnet Timmings.
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, ITIIRIEENIri YE Ait
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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. Printed and Publi^ed every SATURDA Y Morning, by WILLIAM TREADWELL, & C° Printers of the
' Laws &c. of the United States, in New-Hampffiire.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1801. g ' PRICE 1 DOLLAR 50 CENTS Per A^ CT
Black & color'd Satins; Modes;
Sarfnets; Italian Silks; black Gauzes ;
real black Crapes; Men's & youths' bea
ver Hats; faShionable coat and vest But
tons; button Moulds; cotton and silk
Braces; stock Stifners; Ribbons ; Bind
ings; Ferrets; Galloons ; Tapes; Bob
bins; Threads; Pins; smelling Bottles;
sewing Silks; Twist; glove Ties; Laces,
Threads and Edgings; black silk Laces
and Edgings. Pafmouth, Sept. 26.
OF ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL PROSPERITY, RELIGION AND MORALITY ARE INDISPENSABLE SUPPORTS.
FANCY GOODS.
PETER— COFFIN,
Hq, if received per theJkip Galen,from
London, an additional supply of
FANCY GOODS, °
— CONSISTING OF — A great variety of
MUFFS & TIPPETS;
Fur Trimmings.
An afotment
Kid Shoes ; Morocco Shoes
with cork foals.
Threads, Laces and Edgings ;
black Laces; Gauzes; Italian Crapes ;
black and colored Satins ; Satfenets ;
Men's twill'd Satin ; black Modes.
A great variety of
Fashionable Ribbons ; velvet
Ribbons; fancy silver Lace; Shoe Ties;
Camels hair Shawls ; Gown Trimmings;
fafhionaple Feathers; fancy Flowers and
Wreaths; Girdles; &c. &c.
Porifmouth, 08. 3, iSot.
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PORTSMOUTH
SHOE-STORE,
Oppfte the Columbian Bookstore,
Daniel Street.
A. Newhall,
INFORMS his relpectable cuf
-1 tomers, that he has removed his Boot
and Shoe-Store 2 doors higher up in
Daniel-street, and has received an addi
tional Assortment of two thousand pair
best Kid, Morocco. Calfskin and other
SHOES,
Which with his former stock on hand,
is fluttered that the Ladies and Gentlemen
can be suited as well at his, as at any
other store in town, and as Cheap.
A liberal credit will be given if a large
number is wanted for exportation.
— ALSO—for sale,
Cordevan Boot-Legs,
Morocco Leather, and white Sheep-Skin
Good attendance given & every favor
noticed. Portsmouth, Sept. 26, 1801.
«*£^CTreMCTmrezrarare^ctrercnnreQnß CT
New, Wholesale & Retail
SHOE STORE,
THE Ladies and Gentlemen of Ports
mouth and its vicinity, who wifi)
to be brited with SHOES and BOOTS,
of the firft quality, and at a moderate
price, will plcafe to call at the store lately
occupied by Burleigh £5 Rogers, Congrels
Street, North fide of the State-House,
Portsmouth, — Where
Robert M'Cleary & Co,
HANE FOR SALE
Have FOR SALE at their Store, nearly
oppo/he die Court House, Congress Street,
15 Hhds. RUM.
50 bbls, new fuperfine FLOUR.
22 calks RAISINS.
12 bags Cotton, excellent quality.
Molasses and Sugar, per hhd.
Loaf and India SUGAR.
Allum, Indigo, Gunpowder.
Chocolate ; Pipes ; Soap.
Bohea Tea, whole & qr. chests.
Hyfon, and Souchong do.
Brandy and Gin, per pipe.
4d, 6d, rod, and 2od NAILS.
Redwood, Copperas, &c. &c.
An ex'enhve and general assortment of
Ladies' & Gentlemen's
SHOE S,
—ALSO— 7
CORDEVAN and SHEEPSKIN
800 T S,
Ladles' CORK SHOES.
A/ew Seal-Jhin, Cow-hide, and Leather
TRUNK S,
Os the b<ft quality.
As stria attention will be given, and
the smallest favor gratefully acknowjedg.
eel, they flatter themselves they cannot but
meet with good encouragement from a
generous public.
Allowance made to those who purchase
by Wholesale. Ofiober 3, 1801.
REMOVED.
Upham & Garland,
—ALSO—
-3000 wt. BUTTER,
in good flipping order.
" Such abuse of power exceeds my conception.
If any thing takes place io the ordinary conrfe
of bufmeft of this kind, my imagination can
not extend to it on any rational principles."
f, See debate in the House of Representatives,
Mr. Madiion'sfpeeeb in June, 1789*
PRESUMING your paper is open
to a fair, free and full difeuffion of
the views and objects of public men &
measures, permit a native citizen thro'
the medium of your prefs^o express his
anxious concern at certain alarming
occurrences which are now and have
been for some months past, convulsing
the good people of America from one
extremity of this vast continent to the
other. However elevated any individu
al may be ; however strong that indi
vidual may feel himfelf in the full pos
session of bis newly gotten power, he
muff not expert to be fliielded from
public animadversion and a full devel
opement before the " bar of public
reason," and before that people whose
rights & whose confidence,hy his "mal
administration" of his " high trust" he
has so "' wantonly" violated and abused.
The people of United America have
elevated Thomas Jefferfon to the high
and dignified trust of President of the
United States, and on the 4th of March
1801, they were told, in foft but delu
sive language, we are all Republicans ;
we are all Federalists ; that the minori
ty possess their equal rights,which equal
laws must prote&, and to violate would
be oppreflion ; that it would be his du
ty and his inclination to do all the good
he could—to unite and harmonize dis-.
cordant parties, and do justice to all.
But he was scarcely placed in the
chair of Rate, when he commenced a
career of “ intolerance, as despotic as
wicked," and by a very recent commu
nication, laid before the public under
his hand pledges himfelf to continue
unabated that career, at once danger-,
ous, if not deftruaive to rational liber-<
ty ; to the rights of individuals, to a
due exercise of the powers delegated to
him, either by the Constitution or laws
enafted under it, and to the very exig
ence of the Constitution itfelf.
Before these fyren founds could
have reached the remotest corners of
America, behold a feene of flagrant in
juftipe and pet fecution commenced un
der the full tide of Presidential power,
(“ forgetting right') by dismissing
honorable and faithful men from offices
which they had held for years, and
which they had ably and faithfully con
ducted, with honor to themselves and
a due regard to the public interest, to
make room it is believed for the "crea
tures"* and fattelites of this friend of
the people, this zealot for promoting
good and uniting difeordant parties. If
sin the course of these observations,
strong but decent, manly & open truths
be spoken in terms which may found
harffi to the delicate and tender organs
of some modern patriots, let it be re
membered, that the magnitude of in
juries, and the alarming 'crifis of the
times, will not permit a native citizen,
who has always approved and always
supported the Constitution, to remain
silent ; especially when the existence of
that palladium ofAmerican liberty and
happiness, is brought into the most im
minent hazard.
Should it be proved in the course of
this discussion, and I am bold to fay it
will, from unquestionable authority,
that the President of the United States
in his public conduct,and in the exercise
of his powers, has already merited the
fevered censures of an injured people ;
should it moreover be proved, from the
fame authority, that he merits an im
peachment (start not at the exprei
fion !) not only “ before the communi
ty," but “ before the Senate," he will
from the communications about to be
submitted to that community, stand
impeached before it ; and the proper
tribunal, I have no doubt, will take
care that such a malignant and " wan
ton" exercise of power, shall not pass
unnoticed and unpunished.
From a variety of late publications
in many newspapers, which it is believ
ed have been formed into an aggregate
* It is not pretended ' that all the recent ap
pointments made by the President merit this
appellation ; on the contrary, it is known fume
good men have been appointed. The complaint
is, that good men have been improperly re
moved.
Political Miscellany,
From the Wafoington Federalist.
VIRGINIAN—No. I.
Extract from a Speech of Mr. Madifon,delivered
in the House of Representatives, on the 17b of
June, 1789.
“ Every thing relative to the merits
of the question as distinguished from a
constitutional queftion,feems to turn on
the danger of such a power veiled in
the President alone. But when I con
fider the checks under which he lies in
the exercise of this power, I own to
you I feel no apprehensions but what
arise from the danger incidental to
the power itfelf; for dangers will
be incidental to it vest it where you
please. I will not reiterate what
was said before, with refped to
the mode of election, and the ex
treme improbability that any citizen
will be fele^ed from the mass of citi
zens, who is not highly distinguished
by his abilities and worth; in this a
lone we have no small security for the
faithful exercise of this power. But
throwing that out of the question, let
us confider the restraints he will feel af
ter he is placed in that elevated Ration.
It is to be remarked that the power in
this case will not consist so much in con
tinuing a dayman inoffice,as in the dan
ger of displacing a good one. Perhaps
the great danger, as has been observed
of abuse in the executive power, lies in
the improper continuance of bad men
in office ; but the power we contend
for will not enable him to do this ; for
if an unworthy man be continued in
office by an unworthy President, the
House of Representatives can at any
time impeach him, and the Senate can
remove him, whether the President
chufes or not.
The danger then consists merely in
this, the President can difilace from office
a man <whof merits require that he fould
be continued in it ; what will be the mo-
as taken in detail from the National In.
telligencer, a paper edited in Washing
ton, which is considered the vehicle of
government, it is announced, that in
the Short period of about four months,
nearly fifty officers have been dismissed
and for aught that appears, upon no
other ground than a difference in politi
cal sentiment from that " fed" of which
Mr. Jefferfon is the President and the
~hief. Is it pretended or alledged that
these dismissed officers were either de
ficient in honefly, capacity, or faithfulnefi
to the Constitution ? Where then can be
found a reason for these dismissals : Is
it not a " wanton"-facrifice of " good
men," ,to make room for “ unworthy
creatures" of the President ?
In Short, is it not, to use the firing,
but corred language of Mr. Madison,
a “ wanton removal of meritorious of
ficers," and does it not “ fubjed him
to impeachment and removal from his
own high trust :"
In order that the public may be ap
prized of the course which these obser
vations will take, and the source from
whence the authority alluded to is de
rived, I request you will commence a
publication of the debates in the House
cf Representatives of the United States
upon the motion of Mr. White, of
Virginia, in the year 1789, to “ Strike
out the words declaring the Secretary
of Foreign Affairs fubje& to be remov
ed by the President of the Unit. States."
These debates occupied much of the
time of the House at the organization
of the present government ; and it will
be lecolleded by a great portion of the
American people, that perhaps no fub
jeft ever agitated in that House, excit
ed such warm sensibility. They are of
course very voluminous, but it is be
lieved your valuable and impartial pa
per cannot be more ufefully employed.
Before you take up the regular publi
tion, it would be desirable to have an
extract from a speech of Mr. Madison
upon the fubjed (which I fend you for
that purpose) to be published with this
communication ? and in your next suc
ceeding paper commence the entire
publication, with Mr. White's motion
and his speech.
In the course of the papers which
will be lent from time to time, other
topics than those derived from the au
thorities mentioned will be occasionally
introduced.—The memorable letter to
Mazzei ought again and again to be
submitted to the people, together with
its appendix to the Berkley Farmer ;
the invitation to the infamous Thomas
Paine, &c. &c. &c. will form no incon
siderable portion of the remarks which
will be necessary to a full developement
of the dangers so justly apprehended.
A VIRGINIAN.
London, Sept. Bth, 1801.
Attempt on Bonaparte's life.
The following curious circumstance
is related upon the authority of several
persons who have arrived from France.
One of the leaders of the Jacobin Fac
tion had succeeded in procuring to be
made a fnuff-box perfectly ftmilar to
that tifed by the Chief Consul; but
tho' the fafhibn ofit was imitated most
correctly,the artificer had not succeeded
in making it open with equal facility.
Bonaparte finding this box on his table
and being inclined to take a pinch of
fnuff, was astonished to find a consider
able difficulty in opening it. This cir
cumstance Rruck him so much, that the
similarity of the box in other refpe£ts
had no effed in deceiving him. After
a number of vain inquiries among his
servants, he sent for a pbyfician, who
having chemically analyfed the fnuffin
the box, declared, that the Chief Con
sul, had he taken any, could not have
survived half an hour.
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'-\vc L.^ iteu examples in the hif
tory of other nations, which juftify the
remark I now have made, through the
prerogatives of the British King are
great as his rank, and it is unquettion
ably known that he has a positive in
fluence over both branches of the Le
gillative body, yet there have been ex
amples in which the appointment and
removal of Minivers have been found
to be dilated by one or other of those
branches. Now if this is the case with
an hereditary Monarch, poffefled of
those high prerogatives and furnifhed
with so many means of influence; can
we suppose a President clewed for four
years only, dependent upon the popu
lar voice, impeachable by the Legisla
ture ; little if at all uiflißguifhed for
wealth, personal talents, or influence
from the head of the department him
felf ; I fay, will he bid defiance to all
these considerations, and wantonly dij
mifs a meritorious and virtuous officer ?
Such abuse of power exceeds my conception :
If any thing tales place in the ordinary
course of buftnefs of this kind, my imagina
tion cannot extend to it on any rational
principle."
tires which the President can feel for
inch abuse of his power, and the re
straints that operate to prevent it? In
the firft place, he mill be impeachable by
this house before the Senate, for such an
aft of mal-adminfratLn ; for I contend
that the wanton removal of meritorious
officers mould fdjefl him to impeachment
and removal from bis omn high trust. But
what can be Iris motivesJ:r diftlaAcg a
mo thy man ? It mud be that lie may
fill the place with an unmortry 0 eature
of bis own. Can he accomplish tbisend ?
No, he can place no man in the vacan
cy wbom the Senate Shall not approve;
and if he could fill the vacancy with
the man he might chufe, I am sure he
would have little inducement to make
an improper removal. Let us consider
the consequences; the injured man will
be supported by the popular opinions,
the community will take fide with him
against the Preiident ; it will facilitate
those combinations, and give success to
those exertions which will be pursued
to prevent his re-ele&ion. To difplage
a man of high merit, an 1 who from his
Station may be supposed a man of ex
tensive influence, are confederations
which will excite serious reflections be
fore hand in the mind of any man who
may fill the presidential chair, the
friends cf those individuals and the
public sympathy will be against him.—-
If this Should not produce his impeach
ment before the Senate, it will amount to
an imbeachment\)^xe the community,who
will have the power of punishment by
refufing to re-eleft him. But suppose
this persecuted individual cannot obtain
revenge in this mode, there are other
modes in which he could make the
Situation of the President very inconve
nient, if you suppose h@ resolutely
bent on executing the dictates of refer.t
ment. If he had not influence enough
to direct the vengeance of the whole
community, he may propably be able
to obtain an appointment in one or the
other branch of the legislature ; and
being a man of weight, talents and in
fluence, in cither case he may prove to
the President troublesome indeed.
WASHINGTON'S Legacy.