The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-12-12 00:00:00, page 2

To wards none of the Indian tribes
~ have overtures of friendship been Spar
ed. The Creeksin' particular are co
hered from encroachment by the ia
terpofition of the general Government'
and that of Georgia. From a desire
also to remove the discontents of the
Six Nations, a settlement, meditated
„ Prefq'l(l ,on Lake Erie, has been
suspended ;and an agent is now en
deavouring to reftify any misconcep
tions into which they maw have fallen
= — But I cannot refrain from again
pressing upon your deliberations, the
plan which I recommended at the last
leffion, for the improvement of har
mony, within our limits, by the fixing
and conducing of trading houses, up
on the principles then expressed.
Gentlemen of the House of Representarises,
The time which has elapsed since
the commencement of bur fifeal mea
sures, has developed our pecuniary re
sources, so as to open away for a dtf
fioitive plan for the redemption of our
public debt. It is believed, that the
result is such as to encourage Congress
to consummate this work without de
lay. Nothing can more promote the
permanent welfare of the nation, and
nothing would be more grateful to
our conftituenti. Indeed, whatsoever
is unfinished of our system of public
credit, cannot be benefitted by pro
crastination, and as far as may be prac
ticable, we ought to place that credit
on grounds which cannot be disturb
ed, and to prevent that progressive ac
cumulation of debt, which must ulti
mately endanger all governments.
✓ An estimate of the necessary appro
priations including the expenditures
into which we have been driven by
the infurredioo, will be submitted to
Congress.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and of
the Houft of Re,rejectattae.
The Mint of the United States has
entered upon the coinage of the pre
cious metals, and considerable sums of
defective coins and bullion have been
lodged with the director by individu
al. There is a pleasing profpea,
that the institution will, at no remote
day, realize the expectation which was
originally formed of its utility.
Ip subsequent communications, cer-,
tain circumstances of our intercourse
with foreign nations will be transmit
ted to Coogrefs ; however, it may
not be unseasonable to announce, that
my policy, in our foreign tranfadioos,
has been, to cultivate peace with all
the world —To observe treaties with
pure and absolute faith—to check ev
ery deviation from the line of impar
tiality—to explain what may have
been injurious to any nation ; and
having thus acquired the right, to lose
no time in acquiring the ability, to in
lift upon justice being done ourselves.
Let us unite, therefore, in implor
ing the Supreme Rater of na&in?, to
spread his holy, proteaion over these
United States, to turn the machina
tions of the wicked to the confirming
of our constitution —to enable us at
all times to root pus internal sedition,
and put invasion to flight—to perpe
tuate to our country that prosperity
which his goodness has already con
ferred, and to verify the anticipations
of this government being a Safeguard
• to human rights. ?
G. WASHINGTON.
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'Mi/ceHany.
c THE MIRROUR,
OBSERVATOR, No. VIL
^W""' charaaer is to bathtome
(to a virtuoUfye) as a Slan
derer ? He is (methink,) as Unwell
^come to the fight, 3 Mary Magda
leneWeveo sons. mt
'Slander is of ill time; and of all
countries; th almost as old in the
world as virtue, Slander ought to he
punished with greater rigour thsQ
theft: It does more injury to civil
Society ; and it is harder to guard a
gainst a Slanderer, than a thief. Now
Slanderer keep your mouth fhutg
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from the Columbian Centinex.
CENTINEL ATLAS,-
Bring an account of the Political State of the Elder
World, the middle of Sept. last.
[continued.]
OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.
WE have already taken an ample
view of the filiation of the in
ternal police of France— and have
marked with precision the various re
volutions therein which have been ef
feded by violence and party-spirit.—
We Shall now carry the reader to the
frontiers, and recapitulate to him the
successes of the French arms in almost
every direction. ' We, (hall pourtray
them with the pencil of Truth and
Candou r, without deviating and de
fending to that childish exultation,
which the herpes who have accom
plished the victories; would Sicken at
the recital of. TfeValour, like in
trinsic Worth, needs'not the aid of
ornament, “ but is when unadorned,
adorned the mob"—'And to the Vet
eran, that praise is alone grateful,
which gives to him and his brave ad
versaries, the justice that is due to them.
On the north of France, the French
have not only recaptured the 4 towns,
[Conde, Valenciennes, Quefnoi, and
Landreciei] taken by the allied forces
the last campaign, but have added to
their number all those of maritime
Flanders, from Bruges, to the island
of Cadfand, with the important port
of Sluys, and it is said Bergenop-
Zoom.— Betides this, the army of the
Maefe, & Sambre, have taken Treves
and Juliers—which opens a passage
into Holland, or prevents the co-ope
ration of the Duke of York, who is
in Flanders, with the Austrians, who
are on the Rhine. On the borders of
Spain, they have taken the towns of
Fontarabia and St. Sebastian: But
in Piedmont they have been necessi
tated from the great distance of their
magazines, to retire from some few of
their acquisitions ; but with what lots
we have not been able to ascertain.—
In all the Captured and recaptured
places, vast quantities of flares and
military apparatus have been found.
At sea equal success has not attended
their grand operations. The battle of
the firft of June, deprived them of 8
or 9 finely equipped (hips ; and the
grand fleet has not since failed from
Brest—To counterpoise this,their frig
ates have been uncommonly fuccefs
ful in capturing the merchants (hips
of their enemies ; and the ports of
France are whitened by the canvas of
the prizes they take, besides a great
number which (hey have burnt and
funk. Having the chief part of the
commerce of Europe, to prey upon,
their erasers cannot fail to enrich the
nation, at the expense of its adverfa<
ries-*
We cannot better dole this article,
than by preleoting to the American'
public the following ADDRESS—
received by the (hip Betsey, which ar
rived here on Sunday last fiom Brest,
and which we hastened to procure
trandated for the “ Atlas," as the
late.ft article of general information :
Bullkin of the Convention,
; ft Sitting of the 1 Sth Vendimiaire,
(O& gih, American style)
Catobacres, jn the name of three Com
mittees of Public Safety, General Welfare
and L^giAction, united, presented the fol
lowing ADDRESS, which was decreed to
be inferred in th^bujkun.
tHE^AtIO^L CONVENTION,\
TO THE
,FRENCH PEOPLE.
Frenchmen!
In the mioft of your triumphs,
your ruin is meditated I There are
vicious men, who with to dig the
tomb of Liberty in the very bosom
of France. To be silent would be
to betray you, and the most sacred
of our duties is to enlighten you upon
the perils which surround you. Your
most dangerous enemies are not those
Satellites of defporifm, which you
have been accustomed to varquifh.
It is their perfidious emissaries, who,
mingled among you, attack your in
dependence by imposture and calum
ny. • The participators of the crimes
of Robespierre, and of all the con(pi
rators that you have overthrown, are
employing every artifice to sap the
foundations of the Republic ; and,
covered with different masks, are try
ing, by disorder and anarchy, toeffed
a counter-revolution.
Such is the character of those
whom a spirit of ambition makes ca
pable of tyranny. They proclaim
principles, they utter sentiments, which
they do not possess ; they call them
selves the friends of the people, and
they love only to dominate ; they
speak of the rights of the people, and
they aim only to rob them of their
rights.
Frenchmen ! Suffer not yourselves
to be led astray by these lying insinu
ations. Inftru&ed by experience,
you can no longer be deceived : The
evil has shewn you the remedy.
You have been very lately near fall
ing into the foares of the wicked.
The Republic was finking ; you
made but one exclamation^ Vive la
Convention l and the wicked were
confounded, the Republic was saved !
Remember, that so long as the
people and the Convention are unit
ed, the efforts of the enemies of lib
erty will be baffled and defeated be
fore you, the foaming waves are dash
ed against the rocky shore.
Exercising your natural energy, you
will no longer permit a few individu
als to impose on your reafoo, and
you will never forget, that the great
est torment of a people, is for the
public mind to be in a continual agi
tation.
This is too well known,, by those
who would thus fatigue you, to fink
you into the deep of death, in the
arms of tyranny.
Attentive to the voice of your
Reprefeotatives, you will never cease
co remember, that the security of lib
erty, consists at once in the force of
th^ people, and in their unity with
the government which had merited
their confidence.?
The National Convention, conflict
in its progress, tupporced by the will
of the people, will maintain and or
ganize the government which has sav
ed the Republic. QJ
We will maintain it, disengaged
from the vexations, the iniquities, the
cruelties, of which it has been the
pretext, and with which our enemies
affed to confound it. We will main
tain it, in all its purity, fyty in all its
energy, in defiance of those who
would corrupt the one or exaggerate
the other.
We will maintain it, even to the
entire deftruaion of all the enemies
of the revolution,in spite of the hy
;ppcritical patriotism of feme, who,
with p^fidloW hopes, call lor the
Cooftitutional Government. )<
Yes! We (wear it ; We will re
main at our po(t till the moment
when the ^volutioa (hall be consum
mated ; till the moment when the
Republic, tTiumpbanr, giving laws
to all he: enemies, (hall be able to
. erjoy/ unr'er the fafe-guard of her x
viaones, the fruits of a Conftirurion
as lolid as the peace she Ihall have
diebted.
We will (pare error, But ftrikel
down vice; be inexorable towards im
morality. The immoral man (hculd +1
be cast out of society as a dangerous
element, corruptible in hi, nature, and
always difpoied to attach himfelf to
sedition and conspiracy.
? Confound notJhole men who have
conftaotly supported the cause of lib
erty, with those for whom public
confufion it an advantage, and gen
eral disorder a means of fortune.
Refpea the former —fly the latter.
Your Representatives will not fuf-'
fer public places to be filled by any
but the true friends of the people.'
They will remove from them those
perfidious men who speak without
ce&fiog of the rights of the people,
but who would reserve the exclusive
exercise of them to themselves.,
After having expressed pur solicit
udes, and manifested our thoughts
and intention, the National Conven
tion recalls to the French people those,
sacred principles, tOofe eternal truths,
which claim the reverence of all good
citizens.
A nation cannot be governed by
the transient decisions of the will, 1
which yields to all the piffions. It isl
by the authority of the laws alone,l
that a people can be ruled.
The laws are designed to guaran
tee the exercise of our rights. This
is that precious protection which man
firft fought in political associations,
and they assure it to him by the aid
of government, which refrains the
# citizen within the circle of his duties.
Any thing which rends to interrupt
the exercise of these rights, is a crime
against social organization.
Individual liberty Should find its
limits only at the point where it be
gins to affect the liberty of another.
It is the law which observes and
marks these limits.
Property ought to be sacred: Far
from us be those systems, dilated by
immorality and idleness, which not
only lessen the horror of robery, but
teach it as a doctrine. Let the law
then affore the rights of- property, as
it affurel all the other rights of the
citizen.,
But who is to establish the law ?
The people only, by the organ of
their Representatives, to whom they
have delegated this power.
No private authority or society is
the people ; or ought tb ad or speak
in their name.l
Should a facriligious hand dare toI
seize the rights of the people on the
alter of the country, the Convention
would be to much the more eager to
Strike the usurper, by the power withl
which it is inverted, as it must account
to the people for every attempt com-4
mitted against their fovereignty.l
\(To be continued.)
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. CONCORD, DECEMBER 12, 1794.
The Freemen of this town met on
Monday last, at the town house, for
the purpose ofele&ing one of the two *1
Candidates for a Reprefentativ&in
Congress, wfen Judge Foster hadl
161 votes. Unanimous.
In Sandborntoo, Judge Foster had
216 votes. Unanimous. .4
^^fepfogerlNry, 152. Unanimous.
At Salisbury, 15% Unanimous. ^ 9
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Minute Men#
At the town meeting on Monday last, this
,town voted to make up the wa^es of
quata of tlie 80,000 minute men eight dollar ,
a month—and in about two hours, a confi -
erable number more than required, were in-;
lifted voluntarily, among which are many of
the principal charters of the town—They ]
1 appointed Major Duncan their temporary§