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.DANIEL BLAISDELL,
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THOMAS 11. BURNTON,
EXETER, (N.H.) MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1810.
the map of the world, is relatively small.
Europe does not, like the other por
tions of the earth, abound in silver and
geld; the diamonds, she affords, blaze
in the hearts of her people. The his
tory of Europe is the history of refine
ment. From a state of the most aw
ful barbarity and gothicism she has
emerged to grasp the destinies of the
universe. For most of her present
pre-eminence, she is indebted to that
spirit of enterprise, which, by a liberal
encouragement of commerce, she has
contrived to infuse into every class of
citizens. Prior to the introduction of
a regular system of traffick, the na
tions, even on the continent, possessed
scarcely any knowledge of one another.
They had no motives for acquaintance,
unless those of robbery and rapacity.
Their ideas of equable and honest trade
were narrow and bounded; according
ly we find that communication by land
or sea, both being infested by robbers,
was equally hazardous and inconveni
ent. As yet politicians had studied
only horn-books of geography and
navigation. Politicks themselves did
not, as at the present day, derive equal
importance from the emperor and his
slaves; they were cultivated by those
only, who lived in power, in opulence,
and ease. Ilcnce there were few heads
to forsee danger, fewer hearts to pro
vide against it. The scourge of hu
man nature became at length in one re
spect, the friend of humanity. War
effected an intimacy with distant na
tions, and inspired a taste for the lux
uries of the east. Hence a new era
in the history of mankind. On a sud
den the eyes of all Europe seemed th
become opened, as by incantation, to
the benefits an* immunities of regular
and mutual traffick. The conviction
of its importance and its effects upon
the world were simultaneous & aston
ishing. The discovery of this country
and that of the Indies concentrated the
advantages of this stupendous object.
There was a time, before commerce
had declared herself the encourager of
every thing good and great —There
was a time, when the states of Europe
were torn by conflicts and distracted
by confusion. Having no joint inter
est at stake, they were apt to neglect
their own safety to jeopardise that of
surrounding nations. —Without liber
ty, without subordination, without mu
tual confidence, and publick faith,
their operations resembled those of a
large and complex machine, liable to
disorder and obstruction by continual
friction. The soldier did not fight for
liberty and independence; his arms
were burnished for lawless conquest or
ferocious revenge. Their manners,
like their politicks, were barbarous and
forbidding. Strength, and not wisdom
and knowledge, commanded and en
sured respect. Their internal regula
tions partook of the same savage spirit
by which their foreign relations were
conceived and conducted ; of course
they were little better than insults on
the well-known dictates of justice and
humanity. But the joyful period at
length arrived, when this unwieldy fab
rick was no longer to be surveyed with
an eye of veneration.
In measures for exploding the feu
dal system— a system equally improvi
dent and detestable, the potentates of
Europe began to unite with an avidity
that astonishes those, who never heard
of the genius of the times. The war
in the holy land had long been a theme
in the mouth of every one, who wished
THE space, which Europe fills on
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to be celebrated for courage and virtue,
till, by adding food to former impres
sions, and fuel to former fires, it pro
duced a pitch of heroism, high, solemn,
and almost unearthly. Expeditions to
the holy land now became as fashiona
ble as they afterwards proved useful in
the cause of debased and suffering hu
maiiity. Lasting attachments were
formed in the hour of danger, and last
ing convictions of a concentrated and
simple form of government were the
result of a spectacle continually before
their eyes.
Prompted and encouraged by the
peculiarity of the times, they insensi
bly lost sight of prejudicial prejudices,
and unwise and unprofitable policy.
Civil institutions by degrees began to
be erected on the ample and solid basis
of human nature. Liberty and com
merce became the sun and moon of
society. They have succeeded in dis
pelling the thickest mists of moral chaos
that ever wantoned over mankind.
Liberty and commerce come like the
dew of Hermon to uncivilized and un
happy man, and palsied be that hand,
that is held out in enmity against
liberty and commerce. Z.
Sigh and groan
“ For public good, but mean their own." #
' Did you ever see men, who were
brawlers for liberty and equality, but
were tyrants at home; who, as hus
bands, fathers, masters, and within the
whole little circle of their power, acted
the despot; and who, if providence
had not put them under the ban of the
old proverb, “ cross cows+have short
horns," —would unquestionably ex
tend their despotism far and wide?
Did you ever see men, who in pri
vate life were oppressors, extortioners,
marble-hearted usurers ; men who have
entered into the fields of the fatherless,
and made the hearts of widows bleed
for sorrow; men, who made lucre
their God, and seemed not to care by
what extortionous means they acquir
ed it—did you ever see such men set
ting themselves up for patriots, and ac
knowledged and followed as such, by
large flocks of human gulls ?
Have you ever seen political gnat
strainers and camel swallowers ; men,
whose minds in the times of Washing
ton's administration, were perpetually
sofe by reason of their holy jealousy
for the constitution, but who since
have, witnessed with patience and with
seeming pleasure, most barefaced vio
lations of the constitution, by arbitra-'
ry suspension of habeas corpus, by
audacious and repeated attempts of the
Executive to controul the judiciary,
and by a series of unconstitutional in
terferences of the executive during the
embargo; men, who applaud the whis
key insurrection, and yet denounced
as traitors to their country, those who
ventured to complain of the embargo;
men, who declared Washington's pro,
clamation of neutrality to be an arbi
trary stretch of power and deserving
impeachment, and considered Jeffer
son's enforcing act as being so sacred,
that whosoever opened bis lips against
it incurred theguilt of Scandalurn Mag*
natum, of libelling the Lord's anointed ;
men, who formerly clamoured about
the expenses of government, but are
now quite satisfied, thouglr its expenses
for the last nine or ten years, have ex
ceeded its former expenses for the same
term of time, by the enormous sum of
twenty-one million dollars ; men, who
formerly set the country in uproar be
cause government borrowed money to
defray the expense of preparations for
war which at that time appeared in
stant and inevitable, but now think it
well enough that government should
borrow millions merely for a peace es
tablishment; men, who protested sol
emnly and vociferated against even a
single cent going out of the public chest,
unless specially appropriated by law,
but are now much at their ease, tho,
the treason-hatching Wilkinson, and
other leeches of the nation's life-blood,
have filched thousands upon thousands
From the Connecticut Courant..
-Courteous reader, did you ever see
noisy politicians," who, like oarsmen,
look one way, but steer a contrary
course? Who, with piteous face and
doleful accent,
Doctor Bidwell. —It is both cruel and
mean to triumph over a fallen man.
Such is neither our design, nor our dis
position. Over this wretched man <0
triumph not. The detection of his
peculations, his forgeries and perjuries,
is matter of joy and gratelation; the
commission of the crimes is matter of
sorrow. The deep corruption of such
a man, whom the people had delight
ed to honor, affords a theme for mel
ancholy reflections. We have no wish
for visiting his iniquities upon his
whole political party ; many of which,
without question, do not only abhor
ns crimes, but rejoice he was detected.
We do not wish to wring a single drop
more of bitterness into the cup of he
culprit himself; who devoid as he has
been of the principles of virtue, now
actually suffers, from the mere sense
of lost character and overwhelming
disgrace, an intolerable load of misery,
and can feelingly adopt the exclama
tion of the " fugitive and vagabond"
of old, " My punishment is greater
than I can bear." Much less have we
a disposition to deepen the wounds of
his innocent but afflicted relations.
We should be ashamed of ourselves,
were we conscious that these, or any of
these, are our motives for bringing Bid
well before the publick anew. We
do it because we think the publick in
terest requires it ; we do it because we
believe it ought to be held to view, a
gain and again, as a solemn warning
to the people against demagogues.
In all ages of the world, and in
every free nation, the bulk of the peo
ple have been easily gulled. With
supple neck and back, an oily flatter
ing tongue, a smiling face, hollow
heart and wily brain; with such qual
ities to recommend him, the demagogue
is borne aloft upon the shoulders, and
greeted with the shouts, of the multi
tude ; while sterling merit is tram
pled under their feet. So it was with
ancient Greece. Aristides “ the just,
a most excellent patriot, states
man and general, was disgraced and
banished ; while peculators and in
triguers against publick liberty, be
guiling the people with their smooth
tongues and cunning arts were held in
the utmost veneration. So it also has
been with us. The same deluded
populace that vented its rage, in the
bitterest execrations, against Picket
ing, and several other wise and incor
ruptible patriots in our country, chant
ed forth in the meanwhile the high
praises of Bidwell.—An Atlas he, up
on whose shoulders republican liber
ty rested ! Freedom's friend! The peo
ple's darling! How zealous in their
cause ! How enamoured of their
rights!
—'Fallen is the Baal to which theybow'd the
knee? ,3^.^
And let them take warning, and,
for the future, beware of demagogues.
As a man who carries his religion in
his hand and ostentatiously exhibits it
of dollars from the treasury, io the very
teeth of law, as well as of equity ?
Did you ever see men, who, though
they had loved republicks so violently
that they harboured the project of
kneading the whole human family into
one republican mass, do, notwithstand
ing, love a^d adore the nation that has
uprooted and destroyed every* repub
lick upon earth, except our own ?
Did you ever see men, who, though
they boast much and loudly of the
spirit of '76, and pretend to possess
that noble spirit themselves, have, with
respect to France, steadfastly main
tained the doctrine of passive obefr
ence and non-resistance, and employ
'd their utmost endeavours, that rob
beries, buffetings and footings, from
that nation should be requited on our
part with the most abject cringes abet
servile prostrations?
Did you ever see men, who avowed
ly were king-haters, and positively de
clared that every wearer of a crown
deserved the gibbet, who, nevertheless,
would be glad that twenty crowns were
placed upon the head of the Corsican
tyrant —sons of liberty, genuine repub
licans, patriots by profession, who
have followed Napoleon with their best
wishes through his whole career of con
quests, carnage and blood, and mani
fested as hot a zeal for the universal
empireof despoticall devouring France,
as they ever did or could, for the uni
versal empire of republicanism ?
Have you ever, courteous reader,
seen such men as have now been de
scribed ?—" Why yes" and so
have l. JONATHAN.
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