The Mirror — Concord, N.H., 1798-04-24 00:00:00, page 1

BOARD S,
for which a generous price will be given,
by paying in his work. Also,
A steady active LAD,
from 13 to 17 years of age, is wanted im
mediately, as an Apprentice to laid busi
ness. '
Dunbarton, April 7, 1798. 4
Wanted to hire, 5 or 6 months,
An Active Young MA N,
WHO is capable of working at dif
ferent branches of business ; who
can wield with nimbleness, the broadand
narrow Axe,the Saw,the Fore-Plane, and
can lay Shingles, and do work upon a
Farm, if occasion should call for it.—
Good wages will be given.-
Inquire of the Printer.
March 27. ctf
WANTED, ~
A likely active BOY, from
:z to 16 years old, who can write and
cypher, and has some knowledge of the
English Grammar, to serve as an Ap
prentice to the Printing Business. Such
an one will mee^ with good encourage
ment by immediate application to
MOSES DAVIS.
Wanted a few untanned
Sheep Skins.f
f[ Inquire of the Printer.
CASH given for RAGS,
At the MiRROR-Office.
Administratrix.
,Dunbarton, April 4, 1798.
THE Subscriber hereby in
fl forms the public, that he carries
on the Cloathiug Business, at the works
lately improved by Mr. Joseph Towne,
in Hopkinton,—where every command
will he executed with neatoefs and dis
patch ; and all favors gratefully acknow
ledged, by the Public's humble servant,
DAVID WALLINGSFORD.
Hopkinton, April 5, 1798. 4
Cabinet-Making Business.
ASA KIMBALL,
HEREBY informs his friends
and the public in general, that he
continues to carry on the Cabinet-Mak
ing business, in all its various branches,
in Dunbarton—where every command,
in the line of his business, will be duly at
tended to, and every favor received with
gratitude. He wants Black-Birch and
Cherry-Tree
Vol. VI.
Pafto+ cf th Church in Concord,
On the nth day of March, 1798, the
Uicxt Sabbath after his Ordination
to the Work of the Ministry.
THAT 'lbankful Caldwell,
widow of William Caldwell,
late of Dunbarton deceased, is duly ap
pointed Administratrix to his estate :—
And all persons indebted to said estate,
are requested to make immediate pay
ment ; likewise, ail having demands on
said estate, are required to exhibit them,
to ° THANKFUL CALDWELL,
g, Those tub wife to purchase will call
immediately April 17.
SERMON,
^Y ASA M'F ARLAND, A. M .
Mr. M'Farland's Sermon.
NOW P^^ITsHED,
AND FOR SALE,
At MOSES DAVIS', Printing-Office,
A
Win. Caldwell's EJlate.
NOTICE ^THEREBY GIVEN,
delivered at CONCORD,
Cloatbing BuJineJs.
.C ONC ORD, [Newbampfoire,] TUESDAY, April 24, 1798.
A good Farm,
lying en the east fide of Merrimac river,
in Concord, about three miles from the
Meetinghouse, on the main road leading
to Loudon, containing about 100 Acres
of Land, consisting of Mowing, Pastur
ing, and Tillage Land, well wooded and
watered, with an ex&lant Orchard, af
fording apples Efficient to make nearly
100 barrels of Cider, and a convenient
House and Barn on the fame.
ALSO,
A pleasant Situation,
Containing ten Acres of good Land, with
a good orchard, producing apples enough
to make 40 barrels of cider, and a con
venient house, with three lower rooms
handsomely finifhed, and a good Barn
thereon—lying on the direst road lead
ing to Canterbury, about 40 rods from
Mr. Stefan Ambroft's Store, commodi
ously fixated for a trader or mechanic,
and is an excellent stand fora tanner.—
For terms and further particulars, apply'
to the Printer, or the fubferiber, living
on the firft mentioned premises.
JOSHUA THOMPSON.
Concord, March 12, 1798. 0
An APPRENTICE
To a good Trade, from 1410 16 years
of age, is wanted immediately. For fur
ther information and particulars, apply
to the Printer of the Mirrors
March 6. e ^tf
§^ The Printers of the United States will
plsaje to give the above a conspicuous place
federal times in their papers.
Newyork, Feb. 10, 1798.
IN consideration of the gen
eral utility that would result from the
citizens of the United States being ena
bled to procure, free from expense, an
analysis of any Ores or Mineral sub
stances, " the Chymical Society of Phi
ladelphia," on the 20th of June, 1797,
passed the following resolution :
" Refolded, That a Committee of five
members be appointed, whose business it
shall be to notify, in the different papers
of the United States, and by circular let
ters, that they will give an analysis of all
minerals which may be sent unto them."
In conformity to the above resolution,
we hereby give notice, that we will anal
ize any mineral which may be sent to us,
provided it is forwarded free of expense,
and accompanied with an account of the
place, and situation in which it was
found.
THE Committee appoint
ed by the Newyork Missionary So
ciety, to obtain Missionaries to preach the
Gofyel among the Indians, do hereby
give notice, that they are desirous of ob
taining a number of Preachers and Cate
chists. Those who are attached to the
doarines of grace, can be woi recom
mended, and are inclined to offer them
selves, will be pleased to make applica
tion to the committee in Newyork, where
they will be particularly informed of the
place, nature, and terms cf the mission.
Signed in behalf of the Committee,
Wm. LINN, Chairman.
TO BE SOLD, on reajonable terms, for
Cofe in band,
0 The Printers of Newspapers throughout
the United States, are requeued to publish the
above.
Committee.
Thomas Smith, No. 19, N. sth street-
Jimes Woodhue, 13, Cherry ft.
Samuel Cooper, 178, N. 2d ft.
4Wam Seybert, 191, N. 2d ft.
John C. Otto, 57, N. 4th ft.
To the Citizens of the United States.
A GOOD BARGAIN !
MISSIONARIES. ,
CHYMISTRY.
WHO BUYS ?
published by MOSES DAVIS.
BUT why do we refufe to go for in
ftruaion to France ?—ls it from
motives of policy .hat we decline to mor
alize upon the feenes which have happen
ed in our own time ? Or does not the
instance apply ? It is well known, that
a very large majority of the firft Nation
al Convention, consisted of men whose
intentions were very distant from a de
ftrudion of the regal power. They in
tended to limit that power within whole
feme bounds, and to reform the great &
enormous abufoof the old government.
They attempted to frame a constitution,
after deciding in favor of a legislature
with one branch, which destroyed the
hope and poffib'lity of a constitution, &
when the wretched instrument that was
called by that name was produced, and
the only good feature which it contained
was, the negative given to the king;
the legislative body, intoxicated with
power, and impelled by its furious lead
ers, compelled the monarch to renounce
it. This facrifice, was soon sealed with
his blood ? Popular leaders then squab
bled for the supreme power, the people
looked on with horror. Robespierre
prevailed, the fame Robespierre who had
so often ranted on corruption and waste
of public money. I drew a veil over the
mournful, well known feenes that follow
ed. It is fufficient, that the people, fly
ing for refuge from anarchy back to
despotism, have permitted the Execu
tive Directory to take all the powers of
the ntyon into their hands, to hold the
priz^to command the army, and to
difpqte of the lives of the citizens.
It ^therefore, for our common intef
efl/ta^en'd me powers of the house,
with the greatest caution, otherwise pre
cedent will follow precedent, one innova
tion will lead to another, and when the
people fee their executive prostrate, they
may come to his proteaion, and furn
ifh him with means of supporting him
felf that would be truly formidable.
Mr. O. observed, that he should have
attempted to shew, that these legislative
encroachments had sometimes happened
in our own country ; but the gentle
man from New Jersey (Mr. Imlay) had
read the authority on which he meant to
rely. It was Mr. Jefferfon's notes @n
Virginia. Would, however, take occa
fion to read another passage, to another
point. When the gentleman from
Maryland (Mr. Smith) was pleased to
compliment the Virginia members with
the puff dired, he did not know but that
some invidious refleaions had been made
upon that state.—The design, however,
was understood by him, when he per
ceived that a gentleman from Virginia
(Mr. T. Clairborne) by wider annexed
to his written speech, returned the com
pliment to the people of Maryland. For
his part, he thought it highly improper
to criminate the defines of the people of
any one state. He pirefumed the people
of Virginia were like other people, and
with some of their representatives it was
his pride and his pleasure to think and
to a&. There were others from whom
he believed to be pernicious and unsound
—But for them he found an apology in
that book ; Mr. O. then read the pas
sage in Jefferfon's notes page 194
where it is hinted that the government
of Virginia is an ehaive dehoti/m ; and
a passage page 195, to this effed, " that
the diredion of the Executive during the
whole time of their session, has become
habitual and familiar." It was, there
fore, natural for gentlemen educated in
those habits of dictating to their Execu
tive upon all occasions, to form erroneous
ideas of government, and cf the Federal
Conftituticn. Mr. Jefferfon has indeed
remarked in the fame book, that this
conduct of the legislature of Virginia,
" proceeded from the heft intentions, ard that
they were misled by art and d.fign in others."
—He did not mean to dispute upon the
fubjea of their intentions, but their
measures he could never approve.
After so much had been said upon the
subj;& cf Executive patronage, Mr. O.
Mr. Otis's Speech,
On the amendment to the Foreign Inter
course Bill— Concluded.
would add but a few observations. Tne
patronage of the Executive was fairly
presumed to be the patronage of the peo
ple. When a man, after rendering the
most important tervices to his country
for a series of years, is eluded at an
alarming crisis of national afiis to the
high office cf President of these flutes ;
his political opinions, in general, and
his sentiments upon the exiting state of
affairs, must have been known to the
people by whom he was elected. Itmuff
also have been forefeen, that he would ,
purfueTueb a lyftem of administration,
and by the aid offuch means and agents
as would be best calculated to give effi
cacy to his own sentiments and f, flem
His system, therefore, may be cor fijered
as fan&ioned by the previous assent of
the majority of 'he people. His confti
tutiooa! patronage is the patronageof that
majority, and to increase that m jority by
all fair means, is to increase the chance of
public tranquility. It is an important du
ty that should be judiciously exercifefy
and not an offence to be disavowed.
The gentleman from Peamfylvania,
as a proof of the patronage already en
joyed by the Executive, had exhibited
an aggregate amount of the friaries of
the public officers and contraßors in
the United States. But a large propor
tion of these officers were not appointed
by the Executive, nor did they feel an,
dependence upon him. In many instan
ces, they would be found among the
most Zealous oppofers of his measures,
and enlisted under the banners cf his
adversaries. Numbers of them appoint
ed by the heads of departments, were
unknown to the President, and feeling
morally sure of retaining their offices,
except in cases of gross misbehavior, they
were often led, by the violence of oppo
sition, to prepare for a change of men
and measures, and to be more felicitous
for the favor of members in that house,
who might attempt to raise or diminish
their salaries, than of the Executive him
felf.
After so much had been laid refpeaing
the constitutional right of the House to
refufe an appropriation, Mr. Otis observ
ed that he should add but a few remarks.
To prevent confefion on this fubjea, it
might be well to state the points in which
both sides of the House were agreed, and
those in which they diffented.—lt was
not denied that the President had the
right of nominating public Ministers ;
nor had it been contended that the House
possessed the right of fixing their salaries ;
the dodrine of his friends was merely
that the appointment of a Minister im
posed a moral obligation to give a reason
able salary, and that being once determ
ined, it was unjust to reduce it without
the bed reasons. It was doubted by the
gentleman from Pennsylvania, whether
the office of a Miniffer was created by
the Constitution, and whether it was not
competent to this House to fix the desti
nation ofa Minister, and it w^s asserted
by him that in all cases the House had an
authority to refufe every appropriation.
On these last points they were ar iffoe.
To explain the reason of his doubt ref
peding the right of the President to de
signate the courts to which the Ministers
should be sent, that Gentleman had reli
ed that the fame clause in the Constitu
tion which gives the power of appointing
Ministers to the Executive, also gives
that of appointing Judges of the Supreme
Court; which he never pretended to ex
ercise until the number of Judges had
been afeertained by law. In this argu
ment he hardly appeared to be serious ;
but he would answer, that the fame Con
stitution provides that " a Supreme
Court shall be established by law,." and
it has no existence until created by saw.
A court is a jurildiaion committed to
one or more erfons ; the jurifdiaion is
constituted by a law, which describes the
number of persons to whom it shall be
committed ; the Executive then appoint
those who are to exercise this legal jurif
diftion. In case of foreign ministers, if
their destination mast be established by
the Legislature, the objeds cf their mis
sion must also be understood and ratified
by the fame authority, or it must be ex
ercised without diferetion, and the whole
N°. 286.