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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
AGAINST THE INSIDIOUS WILES OF FOREIGN INFLUENCE, THE JEALOUSY OF A FREE PEOPLE, OUGHT TO BE CONSTANTLY AWAKE .Washington.
Much has been said in former and
better days, respecting the extrava
gance of Mr. Adams, his prediliction
for monarchy, and his removing his
son from one nation to anotherao in
crease his emolument. As I did not
justify him then, I shall tot pretend
to deny but what many things were
done by him, and under his adminis
tration that were inexpedient and un
necessary particularly his land tax and
his standing army. I call them his,
because it was in his power and no
other persons to have prevented them ;
but notwithstanding he approved of
those measures, as soon as he found
the current of popularity running a
gainst him in order I presume to ap
pease the party and to save himself, he
dismissed from office some of the most
upright and faithful men in the admin
istration. But all would not answer;
the administration was changed, and
for some time conducted with a little
more economy ; for in the year 1802
the expences of the army and navy
were only two million, ninety four
thousand nine hundred and sixty dol
lars and twelve cents, (D. 2,094,960
12 Cts.) and in 1809 they were five
millions, seven hundred & seventy-three
thousand five hundred and thirty dol
lars; ninety seven cents, ($5,773,530
97 Cts.) being three millions six hun,
dred and seventy eight thousand five
hundred and seventy dollars eighty-five
cents, ($3,678,570 85 Cts.) more
than inlßo2, but they soon got into the
track of their predecessors when those
who had the greatest hand in destroy
ing the former administration and turn
ed apostates, and went hand in hand
with the new one, praising and pro
moting each other, until they soon
exceeded the former administration in
the most extravagant of its years.
You changed the administration be
cause it was in favour of standing armies
and navies and extravagant in the ex
penditure of your money. The new
administration on their accession to
power, declared themselves opposed to
standing armies and navies. Economy
was their watch-word, and the mouth
of labour was not to be deprived of
the bread it had earned. You were
disposed to credit these assertions and
professions because you wished them
to be true. Their acts, the first year
of their government, did in some meas
ure accord with their professions. The
army and navy were reduced, and the
public/ expenditure lessened. This
was to you conclusive proof of their
sincerity, and patriotism ; and you
surrendered to them your whole confi
dence.—But a new party, like the in
furiates of the French revolution, has
arisen, composed of apostate federal
ists, and of men who had but little
part in bringing about the change in the
administration; men whose sole care
is theloaves and fishes : and not unlike
those plunderers on the theatre of war
who always choose to follow the vic
torious army. After the first admin
istration, economy was abandoned for
extravagance. Navies and standing
armies were no longer considered im
proper and unnecessary. —The peo
ple's money has been spent with a lav
ish hand: and Mr. Jefferson's surplus
fund has vanished, without the neces
sity of applying it to roads, canals or
the advancement of literature. This self
styled economical administration spent
two millions eight hundred and twenty
seven thousand eight hundred & ninety
one dollars and three cents (D' 2,827,
891 03 cts.) annually of your money
more than the old administration, as
will appear by the account of the
treasury department-—and can you
still believe them economical? But
still do they keep up the cry of the
extravagance of the former administra
tion, to prevent an enquiry into
their own wasteful expenditure. I
only ask you to read and examine the
official statements of the expenses of
both administrations, and judge for
yourselves. In the house of repre
sentatives of the U. States, Randolph,
Macon, Stanford, Lyon and others
hav.e been by the force of those stub
born facts, compelled to oppose the
measures of the present administra
tion, with the same zeal that they did
those of the former.
I ask you to reflect and examine for
Extract from the Address of the Hon.
Elisha R. Potter, Esq. Member
of Congress, to the Freemen of
. Rhode-Island.
POLITICAL.
EXETER, (N. H.) MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1810.
Spent by the Wash-)
^ ,% A ,?„ $64,502,777 92
administration In 121 " 7
years, )
Making $5,375,231 42 annually.
, ' —
'Jefferson's Admin- ,<
istration received in
eight years,
Cash in the Treasu
ry, left by the old Ad
ministration, $2,600,000 00
Received for duties,
internal taxes, sales of
land, &c. 113,464,980 00
$116,064,980 00
They left
in the Trea
sury, $9,440,000
Paid to
wards the
old Debt, 41,000,000
Spent by Jefferson's
Administration in 8 „
years, $65,624,980 00
Making eight millions, two hundred
and three thousand, one hundred and
twenty-two Dollars and fifty Cents
($8,203,122 50 Cts.) annually; be
ing two millions, eight hundred and
twenty-seven thousand, eight hundred
and ninety-one Dollars, three Cents,
($2,827,891 03 Cents,) more annu
ally, than Washington and Adams' ad
ministration.
And in addition to this, it ought to
be considered, that the old administra
tion were necessarily compelled to ex
pend large sums of money in prosecut
ing an expensive Indian war, and in
quelling the western insurrection :-—
In building and purchasing frigates and
other vessels of war ; and in purchas
ing timber sufficient for building six
ships of seventy four guns each, and
in fortifying the ports and harbours of
the United States.
Nothing but the anti-republican
doctrines now inculcated among the
people, would have induced this pub
lication from me at this time; being
unaccustomed to writing for any other
purpose than for th© transacting of my
ded, and the objects of expenditure.
The majority profess republicanism
and the minority practice it, Insteadof
blaming the minority for having the in
dependence to oppose measures which
they consider improper or injurious to
the nation ; you ought cooly and can
didly to examine into the motives and
reasons that influence their conduct;
and when you find that their ppposi
tion to those measures is well ground
ed, you ought to support them against
the clamor of the servile friends of the
administration ; and unless this be
done, there is no freedom of election
no safety in a representative govern-
yourselves, before it is too late. Judge'
of men by their practice, and not by
their professions. Judge of the econ
omy of the present administration by
the sums of money they have expen-
In order to give you a correct view
of the operations of the government,
under the different administrations, I
have taken from the report of the Sec
retary of the Treasury of the United
which I have in my possession, the
amount of the annual receipts and ex
penditures of the several administra
tions, from the commencement of the
government to the end of the last year,
by which it appears that,
The Washington &
Adams administration
received in 12 years,
ending the Ist day of
January, 1801, in
cluding duties, inter
nal taxes, loafed &c. $89,56&,584 67
They paia; during
said time, towards the
debt, $22,465,906 75
They left
cash in the
treasury, 2,600,000 00
ment.
When the majority is very large,
they become regardless of theinterests
and liberty of the people. They con
sider themselves raised above the pow
er of their constituents; and if they
can persuade the people that the mi
nority, when they oppose measures
which they consider weak or wicked,
are opposers of the government—your
constitution has become a dead letter,
and the doctrine of passive obedience
and non-resistance revived in its fullest
extent.
Whilst the minor reviews of Great-
Britain have been expatiating upon
Mr. Walsh's pamphlet respecting the
Power of France, we have waited with
considerable solicitude for the opinion
of the Edinburgh Review upon that
work. We now have the pleasure of
presenting a few extracts, from some
most able and enlightened remarks of
that justly celebrated publication, oc
casioned by Mr. Walsh's letters. After
examining the observations on the Con
scription Laws and financial system,
which that letter treats with greatskill,
the editors proceed to some remarks
respecting the probable duration of
the French Power. As this subject
cannot but be interesting to all Ameri
cans, we make no apology to our
readers for the length of our quota
tion. Boston Gat.
French Power.
“ Such are the leading features of
the French financial constitution : And
it is from this constitution, combined
with the code of the conscription,
—with the despotic regulations on the
press,—and with the vast establishment
of spies and intrigues,—that the gi
gantic power which is overturning
Europe, derives its form and recruits
its strength. Vigour and rapidity are
its characteristics ; and despotic as its
constitution undoubtedly is, it is, of all
the despotisms that history has describe
ed, the most active, energetic and
compact. The frame of that constitu
tion is not disordered by inveterate
factions, nor clogged with bloated
aristocracies. All is boa© and muscle,
own business. But when a minority,
because they oppose measures that they
think unwise, imprudent and unneces
sary and which will increase the bur
dens of the people, are charged with
being enemies to their country, and
opposers of the government, I thought
I would state to you what part I had
taken in the Measures before congress,
since my election as your Representa
tive.
As a federalist, I am for supporting
the general government in the full ex
ercise of all the powers given it by the
constitution, and no further. As a
republican, lam for an elective gov
ernment, and for an economical and
republican administration ; for the sov
ereignty of the State governments, and
for retaining all the power from the
general government, not expressly giv
en them by the people; and against
any person holding an office under the
general and state governments at the
same time, and for the people's retain
ing in their own hands, their own prop
erty, until the exigencies of the gov
ernment shall actually require it.
As your representative, I hold it a
right, and feel it a duty to exercise ray
own judgment in opposing the passage
of any law, that I think will operate
against the interest of my constituents,
and the nation : and all that can be
required of any citizen is, that after the
law is passed, however improper he
may deem it, to submit to it during its
continuance, making use of all the
constitutional means in his power to
procure its repeal. But if it may be
called opposing the government, to
oppose measures calculated in my o
pinion, to - lead this country into a
war; or to oppose the raising of one
hundred thousand soldiers, to be en
camped ten days in a year, to corrupt
the morals of the people, and to lay
additional burdens upon them, —to op
pose the laying of an additional duty
of fifty per cent on the people, already
sufficiently oppressed, under the pre
text of retaliation, when it operates
exclusively on this country ; —or for
being in favour of reducing the army
and navy (which have been almost use
less to the nation,) and which have
cost us the last year, five millions, seven
hundred and seventy-three thousand,
five hundred and thirty Dollars, and
ninety seven Cents, (D. 5,773,530 97
Cts.) to prevent not only the necessity
of laying additional burdens; but to
enable the government to reduce the
duties on the necessaries of life if this
is opposing government, I have doneit
and shall do it again—-If it is to be con
sidered criminal to oppose any meas
ures introduced by the most intemper
ate, imprudent, and simple members
of the majority, our republican gov
ernment is at an end : —We retain the
name, but have lost the substance ; and
it is useless to choose persons to repre
sent you.
Mr. Walsh $ the Edinburgh Review.
there is no sluggish smoothness, no
sleek imbecility ; every nerve is brac~
ed to its firmest tension, and preserv
ed in perpetual vigor, by the most re
serve training and unremitting exercise.
Perhaps the regimen may be too pain
ful to be perpetual ; perhaps a pro
portionate exhaustation may be expect
ed to succeed ; but, as long as the sys
tem does retain its present energy, so
long at least, it must continue to tri
umph Over the deceased and decrepid
masses of corpulent importance, that
erect themselves upon the continent
with the empty show of resistance, &
totter under the weight of the very
arms which they affect to wield in their
defence.
" As long, then, as this portentous
power preserves its activity, difficult,
and disaster will probably be the. por
tion of its neighbours ; and it becomes,
therefore, the most interesting of all
questions, how long such a power is
likely to preserve its activity ? Hope,
and fear, and ignorance, and learning,
all offer their speculations on this im
portant question ; but each so tinged
with the colours of its original, as to
afford but liitlo soCoreuxan+ion coto (hg
features & complexion of truth: The
author before us conceives, tlt^<tha
perpetuity of this power is insuny; by
the despotic simplicity of its Organ
ization. In support of this opinion,
he refers to the simple forms of policy
which upheld the Roman and Lace
demonian commonwealths ; and he
tells us that these forms, ' which, by
proscribing all the branches of peaceful
industry, create the desire, as well as
the necessity, of incessant war, are by far
the most firm and lasting. But, even
if we were to agree in the position, thrf
these ancient governments were form
ed on the most lasting of all principles,
we should by no means admit, as &
necessary consequence that the policy
of modern Fiance must be equally
permanent. On what does the per
manency of a warlike state chiefly de
pend ? On its means of providing in
cessant occupation for its troops.— 1
Unremitting activity is the vital prin
ciple of military power. But France
cannot continue to employ her troops,
as Rome and Sparta did. To the
Romans and Spartans, the desire and
necessity of war unquestionably furn
ished a.double employment ; for the,
conquered on a small scale, and
fought for safety or ambition in a
narrow field. But when a nation has ac
quired so vast a power as that ofFrance;
—when she can cast down an ancient
kingdom with a blow, and erect a
new one by an edict, it is idle to talk;
of permanent warfare—for, in aver,
few years, there will be nothing left
so; her to war against.
" There is a sort of geometrical
progression in the career of conquest.
After a certain number of objects
have been carried, each fresh achieve
ment becomes many times more easier
than the last ; for the points of re
sistance diminish in the same propor
tion in which the instruments of victo
ry are augmenting.—Now France:
stands already on the eminence which
Rome took sereqQpndred years to
reach ; so thaff^jjmnalogy is down
between thes|i|fer<b: ration of the
Roman power,and the probable du
ration of that of France, we must be
gin our parallel at the time of Augus
tus : and instead of allowing to the
French nation so many years of
greatness as constituted the whole
existence of Rome from the state
of its foundation, we must allow
only so many as elapsed between ther
dissolution of the triumvirate and the'
decline of the empire. But these
historical analogies, though they ma,
serve well as illustrations, are ver,
unsafe as arguments, and therefore,
it is generally more desirable to found
our conclusions on the immediate cir
cumstances of the case, than on an,
comparison drawls from remote his
tory. ,
" But, while we do not believe in
the perpetuity of the French power,
neither can we agree with those, who
think that it must necessarily terminatel
with the life of Bonaparte. Their
opinion arises from the belief that the.
power of France is the creature of|
his genius, for it is inferred, that the
effects, of which he seems to be the/
cause must cease when that cause shall,
be no more. But we are not pre
pared to allow so much.
4 "On the contrary, we conceive thaQ
the French power, or in other words,
the present organization of the French§
resources, greyly as it has been MH
[No. 19.