The New Hampshire gazette — Portsmouth [N.H.], 1798-10-02 00:00:00, page 1

Nations are naturally rivals 1 and
this natural® rivalry very ealily, and |
with very flight excitements, grows
into aétual ho%kility : the ties which
bind them to oue another are frail
and few, depending on the contingen
¢y of casual and ttmporary interests,
or occasional neceflity ; while the
principles of opposition and repulsion
are mfinite in variety and constant in .
their operation.
Nations have no common praéical
standard, no common tribunal or ap
peal. The law which determines
their relations and regulates their con
du&, tho’ perfe& in its theory and
precise in iis obligations, has no sanc
tion but the fanthion of matual con
sent, or aof personal force. When
great interests, therefore, or great pas
sions arise, the thecry becomes a dead |
letter, and the obligations_inefficient.
With the lealt. 'cla"ﬂs{ing of interest, or
with the {lighteft impulse of ambition,
the fan&ion of consent ¢eafes in an
‘inftant ; and nations ¢an then have:
recourse only to their own resources:
and courage : they stand or fall, rife
-or finky according as their spirit and
&fforts are energetic and formidable, |
‘or feeble and humiliated. .
What, indeed, are treaties and na
‘tional compads, when unsupported by
internal firength and power 2 Did a
weak nation ever remain secure under
a treaty ? The great basis of treaties
being a union of interef, whenever
that union is ‘broken, their essential
spirit becomes volatile and vanifhesin
2 moment : from that moment their
- obligations, however sacred in princi
ple, become nominal and illusory in
fa&t : from that moment the inltra
ment, instead of binding the con
science, and governing the views of
~nations, becomes a _mere platform, on’
which te raise topics of recrimination, |
exhibit the tricks of < ftdte . jugglers,
and exercise the- fubtilty of political
casuists. " How shall the mild and si
lent di®ates of good faith and moral’
_fentiment bear up againk the all pre-'
_vailing ‘energy- of the passions, thus
excited; juftified and supported 2 -
T'o adopt extraordinary meafures'
“of pacification is prudent and juftifia
‘ble, where preparations for defence
and refiftence keep pace with the pa-’
cific policy. .In tuch a case, the o
‘werture is ascribed not to fear but to
a generous spirit; and - t 6 an’ honest
Tove of peace : it comes in the light
of an independent. and mauly offer,
and not of, humble. supplication:. A
negociation accordingly appears hou
orable or : mean, and ‘generally fuc
eeeds or fails, in préportidh as this
diftin@ion and this policy is observed
'BEAeEleCteds, | o e
~ What shall an injured natiendo |
who dreads a contest, but who dreads
-gnd -abhors submission fill more 2
How shall it escape the evil dilemma?
Most assuredly there is but ong course.
Let it prepare for hostilities without'
delay, and by measures of greaten
ergy and fpiric. If its firfk with ¥s to
-avoid arwar, let it rely upon the im-.
preflion -which these measures - will
maké upon the aggrefior. Tt is the
“only just reliancg; - In this situation,.
_megociation u?n a secondary and
puxiliary in@rument. Its efficacy is
-derivgtive. It is “ufeful -and- necef-
Aary, in order to adjult the cere
:mézt‘?“an'& manage the details of ‘pa
“eification 3 but the cf”ntlillamgef
“fion and the final cffc@ depend upon
" the arrangements that -are ‘made.at
Onthe Politics of the Day.
Addressed te the People .
IT is 2 maxim founded on common
1 reason, and.confirmed by univer
{al ¢, erience, that in the controver
sies 0. nations, measures of national
negociation ought cver to be accom
panied and supported by measures of
national defence. I ‘truit, that this
maxim.in the abftra&t is fubje& to no
di{pute, and in itsapplication liable to
no exception: - But perfedt and unex
ceptionable as the nraxim is, it is of
ten in pra®ice negle&ted, and as often
derives support and {trength from the
negle& : The evidence of its truth
grows equally out of the misfortunes
and the fuccefles of nations ; and al
rmolt every day and almost every dis
aster furnithes some new proof of the
’%:ity' and fability of the princ{i&l'f;
The di&ates of nature and the le
of history coincide exa&ly in this great
doétrine.
Vol. XLlY.—Numb. 2183.]
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. 1 cannot disguise my indignation,
when I view this great»-natimgndiﬁg,
cthe knee and suing for peace with a
! pi*qﬂifate enemy, and fecking for re
contiliation. with an unprincipled op
prefor ;1 capnot conceal my anxiety
. and concern when I fee. this indepen
- dent. people forfaking the policy and
disgracing the {pirit of their fath
ers : I cannot suppress my astonish
ment when I behold the United States
_abandoning the principle of felf-re
liance and looking for peace and fe
~curity to wretched negociations and
“vain compaéts made with bankrupt
“knaves’ and ruffian robbers : I can
neither resist ror conceal my profound
conviction, that every principle of ex
ternal policy and national dignity and
-decorum was oppolfed by the attempt
of anegociation with France, and the
operation itfelf was notoriously imprac
ticable ; because, in the firlt place, we
~had no arguments to urge, but argu
ments founded upon the jultice of our
- canfe dnd the injustice of - hers, no
- gratifications to offer, thort of a fur
“rénder of our sovereignty and honor 3
“and secondly, because the measure was
_unaccompanied with that eflential
_counterpart of all wegociations be
tween contending nations—military
'preparation at home.—~The demands
* of a nation, liké'thofe of an individual,
are "rendered refpedtable only by the
. ability to enforce them ; and the foli<
. citations of power meet with prompt
- and kind compliance, while the claims
~of simple and fecble justice are re
- ceived With'a sneer and repelled with
“scorn. With what assurance could
_you. demand or expect redress of com
-mercial injuries, while not a single
armed ship floated under the Ameri
can flag ? Would you modernize the
figure of Prack, and represent her in
her true gatb ; then place a helmet
~upon her head, as well.as an olive
branch-in her'hand : you have heard
of neutral nations that' were not only
Jase but formridable ; but have you ever
“heard of a NEuTrRALITY that w;x,hlﬁ.
cure without being armep ?No ¥ The
security of neutral fates depends less
_upon the prudence of their depart.
“ment and' ‘the - muitiplicity of their
- parchment compaéts, than upon the
‘number of 'guns they are able to
If the megociation was impradtica
_ble, it was clearly therefore impoli.
tic 3 for by the experiment:the United
States” committed herfelf "'oﬁm ‘and
nguarded 16 the wiles and thie info
_lence of France } she divided the at
tention and palsied the w)’ of the
- people, by helding up;aforeigniope
ot S s e
tray thieir hope ; while théir faith and
their’ hope ‘fthould have rested here,
“upon their cwn resources and exer
tions, You have seen both in milita
_ry and in diplomatic aftairs a party
~affe& a temporary relaxation-of hofti-
home, upon the power and energy of
the governnient and the: spirit of -the
people. 'lf you give to a mere nego
ciation a leading agéncy '; if the re
sources and spirit O§'the nation are fuf
fered to slumber, while you fend forth
your ambafladors to make idle.com
plaints, to petition for redress, and to
reason with your enenies ; the certain
result will be frefh: insults, accumilat
‘ed hostility, and increasing danger.”
_ But if, placing your®lves in a i
.and warlike attitnde, you offer over
‘tures of accommedation ; if, grasping
‘vigoroufly with onehand ‘the {fword
of felf prote&tion, the only sure pledge
of national independence, you present,
with the other, the olive. of pacifica
tion- and . amity ; then, .indeed, you
address yourselves t® the mterefts of
-your adversary ; then you acquirea
chance of reconciliation and address ;
or if you fail of‘this, you preserve un
polluted your mational dignity and.
iflonor, and are already prepared for
the confli®. On. the other hand, if"
‘nftead of preparing with manly vi
gor for the contingency of war, if in-.
Itead of calling forth and organizing
the national force, with promptitude’
and zeal, you amuse yourselves with
the idle dream of negociation, and:
‘¢ontent yourselves with vain attempts
‘to heal the broken ties of two great;
nations, by a little flimfy plaifter of’
plaintive eloquence and fne {pun mor
al reasoning, do you not clearly fee
that you are thereby offering a two
fold argument to invate insults and re
ward aggression, the ‘arfgument of hu
mility abroad and of imbecility at
home ? :
MY COUNTRY’s GOOD SHALL BE MY CONSTANT AIM —
TUESDAY, Oftober 2, 17¢8.
lity and 2 show of ‘accommodation in
order to gain time 1o strike a blow or
‘prepare to receive one : But the U
nited States projected.a hopeless ne
‘gociation, mot to gain, but. with a
certainty ofloﬁ:f tune ; not to seize
a pacific interval, for the purpose of
~colleQing and m?njzixlﬁ' the strength
and resources, of the state ; but to
i ‘walte the precious period in the deli
vium of diplomatic speculation. [t
‘eannot be denied, that while this hap
less embafly was pending, while our
‘envoys were waftin halfgthe year in
li&‘%ﬁn to get tﬁei( feet upon the
tre ol§ OF? negociation, all the natu
‘ral and neceflarygprecautions. sot: de
fence .and. security: were fhamefully
poltponed ; and our citizens were
tayght by the course of public mea
“fures to confide in this miserable vi
-fion, and to look to France and not
't themselves for eventnal fafety. It
cannat be denied that had the pride
and insolence of France yielded a lit
the farther to ‘her ufugl policy and
cunting, we “miight “at ‘this moment
have been amusing ourselves with the
illusion of. a treaty, without a ship to
- proteét our ports ,or cheek her pira
_cies. t‘ﬁééﬁh%;ﬂﬁ%@%@& at
- tributable ta the negocration abread :
_All the demagogues. of . fadtion,. the
- partizaps of Eﬁa@,cc. (whether confpi
- rators,.or dupes,) who Lad wniform
1y preached: the, do@rine and, main
tained the policy of submission and in
adivity, who had on alljoccafions, as
. fedted to under valye, the, hopar, of
. their country, when gt .in compe
; tition with its tranquility;; but. who
. wereready ta facrifice bothy it Frange
- could. be. benefited by, the facrifice,
.'were thereby furnithed with new and,
plausible argiiments agamfit all eoffi
_cient measures of defence. You were
-a%fbx them, that such a&nﬁm
tive hofhility ; would diftuzh hg‘d
of supporting the overtures of recon
ciliation, and would excite the jealon
- {y. and provoke the ;vzﬁmm of the
“Great Republic.” These arguments
- falfe and base as they; m.ﬁﬂ fofh
cient influence to paralize the public
-arm and te diffule a gemeral torpor
through the. Amesican ?&em. This
was the true re-aftion of our foreign
.policy ; areadion, from which we
have indeed been at length happily
delivered, by a particular disclosure
of the views of France, in a form and
with circumstances peculiarly adapt
ed to firike the senses and affe&t the
taste of our citizens, but which; in the
view;of {found reason, has added noth
ing new and modhing substantial to
the mass of evidente we before bad
. of the perfidy and implacable cumity
of the ¥rench government.
But suppose -a preftnt reconeilia
tion had beén attainable, and the fie
~goeiation- had: progeeded ; do. you
. incerglybelieve that the United States
could have jultly placed reliance up
on 4 tréaty with the French govern
ment ! Could any reasonable being
“confidein the &fipulation or engage
mients of such a 2 furieus and perfidions
Oligarchy, a power that bad erefted
itfelf upon the prostrated libérties of
its own country, and s ‘ftill fuppert
~ed and fed -'with continual facrifices
of the rights of mations ; a power
that, in the career of despotism and
crime,.Has lept far beyond whatever
- we have heard or read of Greeian or
‘Roman-ufurpations? -
- But I forbear ito' enter into these
hypothetical difcuflions. In attempt
ing to calculate the prdbable conse
quences. of a ‘treaty of .amity with
Yrance 'uzder the circamftances of the
day, I thould be led again td descant.
upon the chara&er and general poli
ey of. that government ; and should
be necessarily drawn over the field’' I
had already travelled. lam happy
to.avoid a renewal of the fatigues
and the disgusts of such ‘a journey.
Inficad ~of calculating the evils and
perils of a new treaty with France, it
would become us rather to raise our
~hands towards heaven, and to thank
‘the benevolent Gop that we are de
livered, forever delivered’ from' the
fetters of the formerone. . - <
e o 'MARCUS BRUTHS.:
A LIE is a defperaté cowardice.
4 &Ttis to fear ‘man and brave
R g
Truth be your guide, disdain ambition’s eall,
4nd if you fall withiiruthy yowgreatly fall,
REMARKABLE PROPHECY.
This is extrafied from a New-York paper
print‘c._& in the year 1794, It was Eam!-
+ " ¢d to me. by arefpe@able gentieman who
has had it 19 policihion some years. He
fays the events bavg taken place in the
famc manner as here mentioned. It is
now republified for the speculation of
_thofe whose attention it-may excite.~—~ln
. the New-York papet it is introduced thus :
{“The fllowing was handed in print, by a
~ gentleman (ate from London.—="Tls prefent
td o our recders, a 5 'we receswed it ; as a
Jupport of their faith in the Millentum,
. sohich we hope, can be supported by [ferip
. ture, reafom, and the optnions of pious mien,
that ¥t WilLlk COME, and the time
~ seoN."] T hefalonvans, v. 20,%7.
Daar Spy 0
. EVER fond, as I know you are, of
what is curious.. -I. have sent you a
copy of a remarkable prophecy lately
found in Paris, and transmitted from
a gentleman there tohis friend inLon
don 3 who writes that it was engraved
on a flag fone, two yards square, in
Hebrew chara&ers, and very clegant
ly inlaid with geld.—lt is supposed to
~have lain near 600 years under an old
wall, taken down by order .of thelate
:King of France, to be rebuilt ; on
moving the rubbish from the founda
tion, this fone was difcavered. =~ -
Permit me to assure you,: that I
“heard it from a man of ftri&t veracity
_and honour, who is expert 3t Hebrew,
and on whom I can rely for the truth
of the circumstance. As it prediéts
a most glorious and universal revolu
tion in 1800, T heartily wish: to -con
%fatulatc you on the welcome netws.
1 do expec great “changes will take
.place here. “The Millenium will soon
- come, I have been long fatisfied iin
- my own mind ; may you and I pre.
_pare for it. O may we live to fee the
_really illustrious descendant alluded
- to 3 who, if this be true, must be now
allive past infancy, probably in Europe,
" There. are lying looks, as well as,
‘lying words ; ‘diffembling {miles, de
ceiving * signs, ‘and even a'lying si
lence. Nothing appears so low_and
Mmean as lying and dissimulations;
and it is observable that only weak
animals endeavour to supply by cratt
“the defeés of strength. Rgiriue feorns
-alie for its cover, and truth needs no
orator, A liar is a heftor towards
Gob, and a toward towards man.
Sincerity of heart; and - integrity of
“mind, are the great and indifpenfible
‘ornaments of human life. © That kind
~of deceit which is commonly laid and
smoothly carried “on under the dis
" guise of friendfhip, is of all othersthe
‘moft impious and’ detestable, =
. Not to' intend what you speak, is
‘to give your heart the li¢ with’ your
‘tonghe’; not to perform what you
: Fromifg,' is to give your. tongue the
1e with your actions. Notbing could
“be more unjust or qg}gengrous, than
“to play upon the belief of a harmless
person ; to make him fuffer for his
’ig}:)od.'qpinion, and fare the worst of
“thinking “me honest. It would be
moreobliging to fay plainly, we can
not do what we are desired, than to
~amufe people with fair Words : which
“often. ptit them upon falfe ‘meafures.
“Great men must go and meet truth ;
if they, are desirous to know it ; for,
‘none will carry it to them. There
‘is. no vice that doth so cover 2 man
‘with shame, as to be falfe and perfi
‘dious. It is easy to tell a lie, hard
‘to tell but a lic. .One lic. needs ma
‘fiy more to maintainit. -
.- -, Sincerity. is to {peak as we think ;
%0 do as we pretend and profefs ; to
pérform and make good our promise,
‘and really to be what we pretend to
be. Lying is 4 vice so very infamous,
that even the greatelt liars cannot
bear-it in others. | b
. The Eg ?w“ were ufedto
gar 3 golden chain, best with pre
cious stones, which they Riled truth ;
intimating that to be the most illuf
| trjgx_:ommnm:, I :
. Nothing is more noble, nothing
.more venerable, thap fidelity. Faith
fulnefs and truth are the most sacred
cexcellencies and endownients of the
human mind. SAE S g R e
Most of -us.are aware of, and pre
tend to detelt the baré}accd inconfife
tencles of - that hypocrisy, by which
we deceive others ; but f{w of us are
upon-our guard, to fee that fatal hy
pocrisy by which we deceive and over
reach our own hearts. It is a dan
gerous and flattering distemper, which
ﬁas undone thoulands. .
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perhaps in England, is the sincere
wish of, Sir, Your moit obedient friend”
and servant, R. HAWLS..
In the year 1790, there will be a
rebellion against the French King, and
when the present Pope dies, there will
be no other eletted. i
1791, there vill be a war amongst
many of the European powers against
Yoanel. ¥ r A
1792, more of the Christian powers
engdged in the war. _‘
1793, the war increases through
Europe. ,
1794, there will be few ot no forms
-of religion observed in France. - :
1795» there will be a deftrudtive dis
union among the powers of Europe.
1796, there will be a great slaughter
and much blood shed by land and sea.
« 1797, there will appear a Gog and
Mag'og"’ that will make war against
all nations in the world,
1798, there will be a great destruc
tion that will thin the inhabitants of
the earth.
1799, there thall come a descendant
of David, who will perform such adts
of Grace from the power derived from
Almighty God, as to destroy Gog and
Magog, and will cause, in
- 1800, the remnant of all nations to
be of one religion, and no more wars
amongst men, who will be forever
after in bonds of friendfkip, equality,
and unfeigned love towards God and
one another. AMEN..
*By Gog and Mageg, I apprebend e
may underfland the open and secret enenics
of evangelican liberty and equality, or of
genuine Chriflianity. Adieu,,
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once, twice, or three’times a day, as
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