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truly a secondary character. This mor
^ying consideration, together with the
* afcendency of the Republican party,
manifefted in the eledion of the Gov
• mor, and the appointment of Hamil
''p'° the office of Secretary of the
Y#.& y in preference to himfelf, have
always been considered as the cause of
Mr. Burr's uniting himfelf to the Re
publicans."
We c onfef that the latter circumfance
if entirely new to us; it is the firfl time
* that ewe ever beard that Mr. Burr was
thought of as secretary of the Treasury.
On the 19th January 1791, Mr. Burr
« who was now on the Republican fide of
the House" was appointed a Senator of this
State in the Senate of the United States,
at which time he was a^ Attorney-Gene
ft rfthe State. Thewrifo then proceeds—
• Th^ is * little °' a mistake in the
Jaffical M^V Tv,,v# CicejQ;
tear, it was said, could not brack an
L pal; ro^&y, a fupenor.;
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Portsmouth
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*1 In the revolutionary service he fill
id, at different times, subordinate posts
r-but he retired from it some years
previous to the cessation of hostilities.
Although not distinguished by the bril
liancy of his military exploits, he left
'earmy, /it is believed with unsullied
Station,"
^ For many,ears after the war Mr. Burr
,s represented to have been in a slate of ft
ftical apathy —
" He contemplated, in silence, the
two conflicting parties. Aspiring to
power and diftin&ion, he meditated oh
which fide of the political Scales he
could throw his weight with most ad
vantage to himfelf. In this date of ir
rcfolution he continued until the year
178 g, when he made his election, and
ranked himfelf among those who had
then, and who have ever since denomi
nated themselves Federalijh."
He mar not long however guilty of the
,n of Federalism ; for it appears that after
joining in the unfuccefsful opposition at that
time made to the re-election of Governor
Clinton, he connected himf^fowith the part,
•which he had just opposed. This change is
explained in this manner —
" It was soon difeovered that Mr.
Burr viewed with envy the superior es
timation in which the federal party held
kis rival General Hamilton. The fame
ardently aspiring spirit which governs
him now, swayed him then. Like
Cesar, he could not brook a fuperior.*
They were jealous rivals at the bar ;
but in the view of the federal party,
--By the Author of the " Narrative." —;
A S we presume that some account
£ I o' this pamphlet may be fatisfac
iory to our readers, and especially to
those at a distance who may not have
th? opportunity of feeing it, we shall
prelent to them a summary of its con
tents, with occasional extracts ; obferv
?ng the fame ftri& neutrality in the
c ntroverfy as far as it refpeds Mr. Burr
and his former friends as we have hith
erto. It is an affair of honor between
them which we shall leave them to ad
jud in their own way.
The principal writer of the pamph
let is conje&ured to be one of the edi
tors of the American Citizen, Mr.
Cheetham, " assisted in the editorial
labors, as the Democratic Republican
fays of himfelf, by Messrs. De Witt
Clinton, Tunis, Wortman and Richard
Riker, cum inultis aliis —the Chief of
this little band, however, is the redoubt
ed James Cheetham himfelf. This in
genious author presents us with a long
Introduction, in which, with much good
jfenfe, propriety, charaderiftic modesty,
delicacy and grace he compares him
felf to Marcus Tullius Cicero at
tacking Cataline. Having flruck out
this happy complement tohimfelf,which
doubtless he much approves of, since
he has twice printed his introduction
at full length in the American Citizen,
he begins the pamphlet by attempting
to draw the public character of Mr. Burr
from his firft appearance in the army*
to the prefect time. His merits as a
soldier are thus described—
Burr, in comparison of Hamilton, was
OF THE POLITICAL CONDUCT
OF AARON BURR, Esq. VICE PRE
SIDENT OF THE U. STATES.
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. Printed and I'ubliihed every
_ , — ———: ■ to
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR
.— —a I - I — L—Q
Or ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL 1
prosperity, RELIGION and MORALITY are indispensable r
supports.— WASHINGTON'; LEGAcr.'
1
Fol.XII] SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1802.
POLITICS.
A VIEW
" During the negotiation a federal
meeting was called, and a committee
appointed to wait on Mr. Jay, to re
quest him to be considered their candi
date for the office of Governor. Mr.
Jay gratefully accepted the offer, to the
infinite disappointment and mortifica
tion of Mr. Burr !
" At this time Mr. Barr was at
Philadelphia, where the Senate of the
United States were in Session. Imme
diately after it was known that the pro
position had been made to Mr. Jay,and
that he had assented to it, two erf Mr.
Burr's friends were dispatched to meet
him at Princetown, in New-Jersey.—
Here a consultation was held, and it
appearing that there was no profpe<fl of
success from either party, it was fagel,
concluded that Mr. Burr's friends
should declare his disinclination to be a
candidate ! This ridiculous farce was
accordingly announced in the papers !
Governor Clinton was re-eleded."
“ Hence forward one would imagine
Mr. Burr would throw off this duplici
ty, assume a definitive charader, and
aft the part of a wife & upright states
man, The chagrin, which, labouring
this accumulated load of disgrace a
man of ordinary sensibility must have
felt, would have induced expiation by
future exemplary condud. But Mr.
Burr's pursuits were not to be imped
ed by pebbles !
“ Still were his views directed to the
Chief Magistracy of the State Govern
ment. He entertained no hopes of a
foreign embassy from the Federal Ex
ecutive. Washington knew bis charac
ter, and it was now generally believed
would never confer an office upon him."
Let it be underflood that we do not mean
by thus feledling fads to make them in any
manner oar own, or to be considered ar as
senting to them or lending them any degree
offufrrt. Should an anfaer appear it
jhall be faithfully given in the Jame impar
tial manner. In the mean time we Jhall
not feel refirifled from occafaall, making
such remarks as candor and a love oj truth
ma, di&ate.
\(To be continued.)
a— —^
“ The Republican Interest again de?
termined to support the re-le&ion of
Governor Clinton : the Federalifs were
somewhat at a loss for a Candidate ;
their former one, Judge Yates have de
clined to be held up against the Gov
ernor. In this Situation of affairs, Mr.
Burr deemed it expedient to catfe him
felf to be announced as a candidate in
opposition to the one whom the Repub
licans had agreed to support. This
was done in the full expectation that
the Federalists would readily and cor
dially unite to raise him to the Chief
Magistracy of the State—According
ly corrafponding exertions were made
by a few of Mr. Burr's friends. A
meeting was held in the city confining
of seventeen persons only, who agreed
to support him in opposition to the Gov
ernor. This meeting was composed
partly of his personal friends, who then
resided in the city, and others from the
country; the principal part of whom
were Federalists. It was soon, however
perceived that nothing could be done
by a number so fmali, without the aid
of one of the great contending parties ;
and it was found, in despite of the ma
ny machinations which were employed,
that the adherence of the Republicans
to the Governor, could not be shaken.
Application was therefore made to the
federal party, by a few of Mr. Burr's
friends ; jand it is presumed with his
concurrence, to take him up as their
didate."
" Nothing very remarkable in the
conduct of Mr. Burr occurred until
April 1792, the returning period of the
general election for Governor.- One
would imagine that gratitude for the
signal benefits conferred upon him,
would have induced him cordially to
unite his exertions with those of the
Republican party. But Mr. Burr
feeroe to have been indifferent to any
interest but his own. He was absorb
ed in felf-love : he had only one ob
ject in view, the gratification of an all
grafping, never to be fatisfied ambition;
and this he pursued with exhauftlefs ar
dor and indefatigable activity. But as
it is with him now, so it was then, the
very means he employed for the attain
ment of his wishes, were of all others
the bed calculated to defeat himfelf."
From the Frederif^dTrax Herald.
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— To the Printed the Fredtrick-Towa Herald.
SIR,
HAVING lately heard that you
had set up a printing press at Fred
erick-Town, and that you intended
publishing a Newspaper onci a week,in
which you promise to givetrue infor
mation to the comn^r,,opie, refped
ing public men and their proceedings,
and every thing else that may be in
teresting to them. It gave me very
great fatisfaftion when one of my
neighbors, who is pretty well off in the
world and takes several newspapers
taxes to pay. He asked me whether I
could afford to keep a carriage and
drink loaf sugar in my tea, coffee,toddy,
&c. I told him no. Then Jefferfon and
Heister are not your friends—Well said
he, how much brown sugar, tea, coffee
and fait do you use through the year in
your family ? I made a calculation,
(though I believe it was too little) and
aufwered that I used about. 50 lbs. of
coffee, 100 lbs. of sugar, 10 lbs. of tea,
and for my family and deck ten bushels
offalt. He then told me, that I paid
5 cents upon every pound of coffee, 3
cents upon every pound of sugar, 20
cents upon every pound of tea, and 20
cents upon every bushel of salt, which
makes the fam£g 11 3 that Ipay year-
ly. Whilst I, continued he use about
I§o lbs. of leaf sugar, upon which 1 paid
~lait year 9 >ents tax per pound, & upon
Although my neighbor and myfelf
had for some time past not been very
good friends, as I bad been led to be
lieve that, he and other rich men in
die country wished to ride on the poor,
and to opprefsthem in every way they
could. This made me keep at a dis
tance from him, but it being harvest
time bro't us together, when we soon
got into a friendly conversation, and I
loon difeovered that he was not that
tyrant, he had been represented to me:
Indeed, he has always been an oblig
ing neighbor, by helping and fending
me any thing I asked for. During our
friendly chat, we talked of the scarcity
which he reads, informed me about it.
truth about such things; he then said
that he would inform me corre&ly,and
if I doubted his word, that I should
ask any well informed man in the coun
try or town, to fatisfy myfelf that what
he told me was true. To my very
great aftonifbment he said that Jeffer
fon and Congress together had taken
off the taxes from pleasure carriages &
loaf sugar, things he said, which I and
men rich as myfelf use, and that they
fuffered the tax to remain upon brown
sugar, tea, coffee and fait, articles which
every poor person in the country use,
and are obliged to have every day in
their families. That Jefferfon had re
commended it to be done, and that the
democratic members of congress, (a
mongft whom was General Heister)
had voted for it, that all the Federal
Republican members of congress had
voted against it, and that the Federal
members had used all their might and
influence to keep it off of brown sugar,
tea, coffee and falt,faying that the poor
people in the country who use them
were not able to pay so much tax a
year for those things ; that the rich
who rode in their carriages, and drank
loaf sugar in their tea,coffee and toddy
could much better afford to pay
of money, when I told him that pro
duce had taken such a fall, that! found
it as much as I could do to support my
family, and pay the heavy taxes I had
to p a y government. He aik'd me if I
had heard what Jefferfon and Congress
had done last winter ? I answered no,
that I got no newspaper, nor had I any
friend who could or would tell me the
all this, and answered him thaf it was
impossible, that it was not true, for when
the gentleman outof town, and the
country were a year or two ago elec
tioneering in our neighbourhood, they
persuaded me and many of my neigh
bours, that Jefferfon and General Heis
ter were the friends of the poor; that
they would if we ele&ed them, take off
all the taxes and the poet people then
would have no more taxes to pay. Be
ing told this, I voted for Jefferfon and
General Heister, and felt very happy
that in future I should have no moie
for it, and that they ought, arid
not the poor who earn their little
money by the sweat of their brow—
I was truly astonished when he told me
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AVery flothful, slovenly farmer
seems in some degree, to be in
amity with the old serpent: feeing he
takes no pains to destroy the evil feed,
which that wicked one had sown. By
fuffering the growth of “ thorns and,
thistles," or pernicious weeds,within his
enclosures, he, in a manner encourages
the works of the devil. His ground lies
under the curse, and in the end, he will
bring upon himfelf and entail upon his
posterity the curse of poverty.
Solomon, who never failed to speak
to the purpose, has made the following
pertinent remarks, concerning such a
ilovenly farmer. " I went, (said he)
by the field of the flothful—and, 10, it
was all grown over with thorns, and
nettles had covered the face thereof, and
the done wall thereof was broken
down." What a disgusting fight ! A
field planted but never hoed—the lan
guishing sickly corn overtoped, sponged
and choaked with weeds, while the cat
tle had free ingress through the chasms
and breaches in the fences. It must
have been rate to find such a field in
the country of Palestine, where the
ground was so well tilled, that several
millions of people were nourished and
supported from the produce of a very
scant, territory. Accordingly, it seems
that the fight forcibly engaged the at
tention of the royal philosopher. He
flopped his chariot to look at this field.
" Then 1 saw, (said he) and considered
it well." He soon divined the cause that
the field was qver-run with weeds, and
that the fences were out of repair. The
owner was not sick, but lazy. "Yet a
little fitep, a little slumber, a little fold
ing of the hands to sleep."
Here lies the toot of the mifebief.—
The man and his boys were snoring in
bed Ml 8 or 9 o'clock,when they should
have been up at four, and busied them
fclves at hoeing up the weeds, in the
cool of the morning. While they were
Keeping, the weeds were, every mo
ment, multiplying and gathering
strength, till at last they become invin
cible.— The morning is the prime of
the day for business. A good farmer
will never lie late a-bed, especially dur
ing toe seasons of conted with weeds,
and of harvesting. By hoeing your
plants, early in the morning, while you
kill the weeds you at the fame time,
turn under the enriching dews, and
prevent their being exhaled by the fun ;
And your grass and grain are cut
much easier while the dew is on them.
my carriage I paid 12 dollars, making
in the whole £9 11 j, this they have
taken off my shoulders, and left you to
pay your tar as well as you can ; now
you must plainly fee that you have been
deceived by those men who persuaded
you Jefferfon, Heister & the democrats
were the only true friends of the poor ;
does it not appear to you that they are
the friends of the rich, and have they
not favored themselves and their rich
friends, by taking off the tar from
carriages and loaf sugar, and fuffering
the taxes to remain upon all the articles
used by the poor; These things struck
my mind so forcibly, that I eould not
contradia him, and was forced to give
him right. Upon which, I imme
diately determined to date the con
versation to you, and if you also fay,
and publish it to the world in your paper
that jefferfon and the democratic mem
bers of congress have aded so wickedly
against the poor people, it will deter
mine me to do every thing against them
at the next election. Ihope this long let
ter will not tire you,'tis said you are good
natured and have set up your printing
press for the very purpose of giving us
poor people information. Pray don't
let it be long 'till you answer me, as I
am very anxious to know the truth of
this business. If you remain silent, I
shall conclude that my neighborteld me
stories. Should you answer this letter,
thenlwill write you all the conversation
that patfed between me and my neigh
bour which was a very long one.
A FARMER.
Frederick county, fuh id lioz.
mosse¥^=^^a=^re=^^
Finally, Solomon wifely concluded,
that poor husbandry was closely allied
to poverty. Speaking of the sleepy
fellow whole weedy field he was view
ing, he remarked, " So thall thy pover-
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, FOURTEENTH YEAR.
( O'ADVERTISEMENTS reasonably & cenfficuoudy inserted—COMMU
-1 NICATIONS duly attended to—and every FAVOR THANKFULLY
ACKNOWLEDGED.
Saturday Morning, by WILLIAM TREADWELL, &C °
PRICE I DOLLAR 50 CENTS Per Annum. [No. 45.
Agricultural.
- Advertiser.
©Mae, ana
From the Balance.
It has been said, and not yet denied, that N"r.
Jefferfon remitted Callender's fine, after it h^d
been coUe&ed, and became a part of the revenue
of the U. States. If this was the fad, CongreQ
at their next session must make a " fpecifie ap
propriation" to coverthe expenditure.
BEWARE OF ANOTHER VILLAIN L
IN the company of those two mifere
ants, who were,advertifed last week,
in the Monitorial Department of the
Balance, there is often seen a moil no
torious swindler, who gets his whole liv
ing by cheating, and Satan-like, 66 is
going to and fro, and walking np and
down," “ feekihg whom he may de
vour." There are several peculiarities
in the character and appearance of this
rascal. Tho' he has cheated thoufandi
of people even of their last (hilling, he
is always po®r. He is a gaunt meagre
looking scoundrel; which is probably
owing to excessive night-watchirgs:
for report fays, that, like a wolf, he
prowls about during the whole night
feafon, and Skulks into bis deg, as soon
as the day light appears. His lips are
thin, his nose is Iharp, and his eager
eyes are funk deep into their sockets
and have a most malignant squint. I:
is evident that he does not enjoy him
felf, as people usually do who get a
livelihood by honest industry ; for be
frequently, all of a sudden, darts, strikes
his hand against bis pate, clenches his
fills, bites his lips, damps with his feet,
and gnashes his teeth ; while in the
mean time, his whole visage is overeat!
with such a horrible fcowl,that he looks'
more like an infernal fury, than like a
creature that is fit for human society.
But, all this notwithstanding, he is a
most insinuating, inveigling puppy -;,
insomuch that those who have Suffered
the mod by his knavery, are still fond
of his company : nay, they arc seen to
leave father and mother, wife and
children, that they may associate with
the wretch that has undone them. Th./
he is a low bred fellow, he has an incit
ing fondnefs for the company of people
in high life,and the favorable reception
that they have too often given him,has
proved the unhappy occadon of his be
ing so much courted & caressed by others.
The unfeeling culprit has meanness
enough to pilfer thefew pence from the
pockets even of apprentice-boys, and of
poor men, whose wives and children
are fuffering with want : but he difeov
ers a peculiar attachment to young
bucks, who have rich fathers, or have
lately come into the possession of a large
patrimony. After he has once become
familiar with lads of spirit belonging
to this clafs,he seldom ever leaves them
as long as they have a cent in their
pockets, or a mirt to their backs. Fi
nally, he seems to have no regard to
party ; for he is equally unconfeionabie
whether the vi&im of his depredations
be a federalift or a democrat. A pub
lic edia has forbidden all innkeepers to
harbour this notorious robber ; but he
still finds means to introduce himfelf
into some of their houses, and to get
feeret lodgings in their apartments to
the great injury of society, as well as
of individuals. It would be equally
unpleasant and impracticable to go in
to a detail of all the tricks es this vib
scoundrel, or to enumerate the wreck
ed victims of his knavery. It has been
remarked,that his inti mate companions
generally come to a miserable end.—
Many of them have committed vio
lence on their own lives ; —many of
them have died under the gallows ;—
many others of the wretched groupe
have been condemned to confinement
for life in States' prisons ; while the
residue have been seen to pine out the
last of their days in a condition of pov
erty and contempt.
After this particular description of
the villain, and feeing his face is but
too well known in mast parts of the
country, it is alrnol needless to add
that his name is GAMBLING.
ty come as one that travelleth, and th'.
Indeed, what fignifies owning land,
unless it be cultivated? A little well
tilled, is better than large fields, or
large farms neglected ; for ground that
is planted, and is either utterly neglect
ted, or but half hoed, yields no clear
profit to the owner, but tends to eat
him up.
want as an armed man."
From the Balance.
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