United States oracle and Portsmouth advertiser — Portsmouth, N.H., 1802-11-20 00:00:00, page 2

After the business was opened by
Captain Benjamin Crowninthield, Mr.
Story toolQt up and enlarged upon it.
He complained that he and some of
his friends had, by my paper, been pla
ced before the public in an injurious
point of view—that he was a young
man, come into this town to get his
livelihood in an honorable way—that
he ought to receive countenance and
protection from the community—that
his expressing his political sentiments
with freedom was perfectly juftifiable
—that when he had spoken in public it
was at the urgent request of a number
of his friends and with reluctance him
felf—that he had no objection to his ar
guments being fairly combated, but
that he would not submit to be dragged
before the public in the manner he had
been.
RtiCtnefs in military manoeuvre which
all " regular governments'' think ne
cessary to preserve !
Ihe heavy horses seem to be very
good ones, they are powerful animals,
and kept inhigh condition.—their color
is black. As to the light horses, they
are of all Colors,and look as if they had
been just imported from the Highlands
of Scotland : mean and unmarrial as is
their appearance, they are reputed to
be capable of enduring very great fa
^gue, they are bred in Normandy, and
have the prune requisites of being fufe
footed, fleet and hardy.
After the parade was over, Bonaparte
attended as before, palled through the
antichamber, receiving petitions, &c.
and held his levee in the room of audi
ence. lam just-returned, very highly
gratified, as you cannot but perceive.
Farewell for the present : to-morrow,
if I have opportunity, I will lengthen
this long letter.
THE extreme solicitude which has
been manifefted in consequence of
reports of violent threats having been
recently made to me, induces me to lay
before you a ffiort account of the affair
from which the reports have arisen.
On Saturday evening 6th Nov. Cap
tains Richard and Benjamin Crownin
fhield and Mr. Joseph Story came to
ray house, desiring to fee me by myfelf.
After being seated, C'apt. B. Crown
infhield informed me that they had
come on unpleasant business, viz. respec
ting certain publications in my paper,
of an abusive nature, and personal to
him and his friends.
Capt. B. Crpwninfhield immediately
followed Mr. Story. He laboured to
impress upon me, that many of my
publications had been highly improper
and injurious; and that I had been in
the practice of mab'-g personal reflec
tions against his family ; he instanced
most strongly the use of the term Our
Family, under cover of which, he ap
peared to think, these reflections had
been conveyed. He represented the
danger to which I ezpofed myfelf by
these means. His father, he said, was
a man of strong passions ; and he ap
prehended, that, had he met with me
on a former occasion, when a writer in
my paper called him the leader of the
jacobin .party, that the consequences
would have been serious to me. He
said, that his brother George had
thought I came near attacking his pri
vate character—that he was very pow
erful, and that if I should do any thing
of the kind I should repent it. After
some further conversation he said that
if I continued to publish such things as
they had been complaining of, by God
be would (boot me in the dark if he
could not do it in the day time.
The facility with which Mr. Story
and Capt. B. Crowninfliield spake, led
them to consume more time than per
haps they were aware of, and left me
but little in which to reply.•
The tenour of my replies were—
That it was my desire, and had been
my uniform endeavour, to keep mv
paper free from undue perfonalities—
that I considered public characters and
public conduct as proper fubje&s of
animadversion—that such was the pre
sent state of parties, and irritation of
the public mind, that poffbly (for I
would not be my own judge) I might
have admitted exprehions not ftrihly
within the bounds prescribed to myfelf
m— that I could not fay how I should
conduct my paper in futile, but should
still be governed by the fame regard to
decency, and endeavour to give no just
cause of offence—-that threats, however
Would have no effect npon me in that
refpeft, but if they meant to address my
CT The following merits attention, asit affords
a very good specimen of the bullying spirit of
Democracy. But we trust Mr Cushing is
not to be deterred from the faithful exposition
of the gross frauds which have been pradifed
in the late election, by threats. The Editor
of the Salem Gazette is an able and intelli
gent gentleman, and his paper has ever been
conducted with decency and dignity. The
complaint, therefore, of per fonalitie's comes
with an ill grace from such men, for they
should know, that it is owing to the ill-re
quited lenity of Mr. C. and his friends, that
certain rotten reputations have not hitherto
been crumbled to pieces, [Palladium.
Miscellany. ^
From the SALEM GAZETTE.
TO THE PUBLIC.
They observed, at length, that as to
what was paft,they had no more to fay,
their only object was, that I should re
frain in future from personalities to
wards them and their friends They
left it to me to divulge the meeting or
not as I pleased, as it would not be done
by them. I informed them that I felt a
disposition not to make it known.
The earnestness and loudness with
which the conversation was begun, and
the kind of language made nfe of, gave
alarm to the female part of my family,
who sent out for feme of the young
men who live with me ; —fo that there
were assembled in an adjoining room,
though without my knowledge, a num
ber of young men and lads. The a
larm, though not unnatural, was unne
ceflary ; and it was the means of the
meeting being instantly know abroad,
and the mod prominent parts of the
conversation were immediately report
ed, particularly the threat to (hoot me.
On Monday evening I received the
note signed " The People," Rating the
reports, and requesting information on
the fubjeCt in Friday's paper. This
has been followed by many pressing re
quests of the fame kind ; urging, that
the threats reported were of a nature
which seriously concerned the commu
nity, and were not to be viewed as
merely personal to myfelf. I have, in
consequence thus laid the matter before
“ The People," confident that though
I may not have given the exa& words
which were made use of, yet that I
have given the leading traits of the
conversation. The papers which I
have printed, which Mr. Story and
Captains Crowninfhield fay are of so
injurious a nature, are with the pub
lic—“ The People" are refpeCtfully in
vited to judge of them.
THOMAS C. CUSHING.
reason and sense of propriety, on that
ground I was willing to liear them. With
refped to the afpericy of language in
my paper, I observed, if there had
been such it was excited by that of the
opposite paper—that the candidates for
office Supported in my paper against
Capt. Jacob Cro wninfhield had been
treated! with a degree of indelicacy and
abuse in the Register which had not
been exercifedin return against him.
1 instanced particularly Mr. Pickering,
Mr. Read, and Mr. Pickman. I told
them that it had been impossible for
me,from appearances, not to view them
in connexion with the paper in which
these things had appeared. Here they
disavowed all connexion with the Re
gister, other than that of being its cus
tomers excepting that Mr Story ac
knowledged himfelf to be one of its
writers.
General Afleinbly of Vermont.
Gentlemen of the Council, and
House of Representative,,
THERE cannot be a more impor
tant civil trust, than that which our
constituents have assigned to us To
designate those officers, on whose de
cision all that belongs to life, liberty,
or property may depend, is a weighty
and serious tranfadion. Instead of be
ing a matter of intrigue, party, or felf
ifh policy, it requires all the calmness
of wisdom, all the disinterestedness of
virtue. Nor could there be a more un
fortunate error, than to make those civil
appointments, which by our Constitu
tion mud be annual, a matter of private
friendship, interest, party, or faction.—
You will meet this part of your busi
ness, Gentlemen, with all the calmness,
impartiality and attention to the public
good, which the honor and interest of
the State efTentially require.
One of the greatest misfortunes that
attends Republican Government, is the
progress and violence of party spirit.—
We need not recur to antient hiftory
for proof.—Our beloved Washington,
with all his moderation, wisdom and
prudence, was not able to repress this
deftru&ive spirit ; we know that an ar
dent love for his country, and a life de
voted to its service, with the most up
right intentions, did not shield him and
his measures, from its malignant effeds;
it exited in his day, and has progressed
with time, and increased with violence
until now.
In a Government, where the honors
and emoluments of public offices area
like open to all the citizens, it will be
natural for many to appear as candi
dates for public approbation and em
ployment ; and many good effects will
arise from a spirit of emulation, enter
prize and ambition ; let |hem be well
directed, and under proper regulations,
they will give rife to the most neceflary
and ufeful public exertions. But when
ambitious men become enflamed, so as
t° produce a violation of the laws of
virtue, the deftrudion of private char
acter, the propagation of falfehood
and flaider, and an established and
rancorous spirit of party, they in
troduce some of the worst evils into
civil focitty. One part ofthe commu
nity becomes inflamed against the other
—different parties are ranked under
different leaders—they have different
views and Aims, and forgetful of the
public good, are most of all active and
violent to accomplish their own particu
Governor TICHENOR's SPEECH,
TO THE
ous in every country, to direst the pub
lic affairs, to restrain the vicious, to give
the laws a proper direction and energy,
.and to keep up those civil and moial in
ftitutibns, on which the exigence and
fafetyof civil society essentially depend.
Those, therefore, who from a spirit of
party, or personal aggrandizement, la
bor todivide and influence one part of
the community against the other, what
ever motives and principles they may
avow, ire the greatest enemies to our
Republcan Constitutions and forms of
Government. A remedy for these evils,
so pernicious to society, is not within
the reach of Legislative ads—it is only
on he virtue and correft information
of the great body of the People, that we
can iel, to stop their progress, or to do
away tneir fatal effects ; and when aid
ed by the precepts and examples of vir-
Direffions for preserving Apples thro' the
winter—From Dean's Nra-England
Farmer.
" The secret of preserving apples through the
winterin a found date, is of no small impor
tance. Some fay, that (hutting them up
in a tight calk is an effectual method, and it
seems probable for they soon rot in the open air.
But an eafler method and what has recommend
ed itfelf to me by the experience of several years,
is as follows : I gather them about noon, in the
latter part of Sept, or beginning of October. —
Then spread them in a chamber or garret where
they lie till about the lad of November. Then
remove them into calks or boxes in the cellar.
With this management I find I can keep them
till the last of May, so well that not one in fifty
will rot."
In a free State, a Militia well equipt
and disciplined, has ever been consider
ed as the great and sure basis of its In
dependence—lmpreffed with this truth,
our sister States have made the greatest
Governmental ekertions, to cherish and
invite their citizens to pradice the arts
of war in times of peace, that they might
know how to defend their country in
the hour of danger. In some States
they have furnifhed the Militia with
fire arms at the public expence, and in»
almost all with field artillery. In our
State the Militia are very deficient in
Military equipments, and totally desti
tute of field artillery. I have frequent
ly made the situation of our militia the
fubjed of unfuccefsful communication,
and can only hope, from the patriotism
of the present Legislature, that the
claims of this brave and meritorious
part of our fellow citizens will be fully
answered—especially as the late peace
has probably brought the price of Mili
tary articles within that rule of econo
my, which ought to regulate public ex
penditure.
I cannot forbear to mention with high
fatisfadion, that our Schools and Col
leges are affirming a very refpedable
appearance of utility and reputation.—
It is on the progress and influence of
education, knowledge, virtue and reli
gion, that all orders ofmen will receive
the most substantial benefits that can ac
crue, either to individuals'^ to Societies.
I: is not barely from the Constitution
and form of Government adopted by
this State that our fafety is derived—
connefted with the other States by the
Federal Constitution, the interest and
fafety of each is involved in preserving
the union of the whole.
By a late aft of Congress, it has be
come our duty to make new arrange
ments respecting the choice of Repre
sentatives ; and it is of the most serious
importance, that in all our ads, reced
ing the General Government, we dis
cover the most anxious solicitude to
preserve and Strengthen the Union, and
to Support the Constitution and Govern
ment of the United States : If under
any pretence or violence of parties, the
Federal Constitution Should be destroy
ed, perverted, or essentially altered, we
may discover our error, and ruin at the
fame disastrous period.
In the view of humanity, it mult be a
matter ofjoy, that peace in Europe has
put an end to the effufions of human
blood ; while we rejoice in the event,|
we feel most sensibly that the produce ;
of our Agriculture is not a little con- 1
netted with Commerce. In an agri
cultural State like that of Vermont, it
is the commerce of the maritime States
that gives a value to that part of our
productions, which are not wanted for
our consumption; and unless the latter
be protected by the energies of Govern
ment, the former cannot be pursued to
any considerable extent, with advan
tage to the laborer.
If necessary, in pursuance of the du
ties of office, I shall recommend for your
consideration, any other business by par
ticular message. I sincerely with you
an agreeable Session, and firmly hope,
that with temperance and wisdom be
coming the assembled Fathers of the
People, you will conduct for their-best
interests. ISAAC TICHENOR.
Burlington, Oil. 16, 1802.
tnow Representatives and upright Ma
giftriies, will, I presume, be effectual.
1 I
lar pu^ofes : It cannot be, in such a
Rate of things, but that the public in
terest will be facrificed to private views ;
and th# more engaged men are in such
purfuis, the more the public interest
must differ, and the public peace be en
dangered.
Republican Government cannot be
maintained, but by a union of the wife
and glod. It requires the abilities and
exertions of the wisest and most virtu-
G PROTEST.
THE Answer to His Excellency the
Governor's Speech, as reported by the
Committee, having been resolved on,
and carried—thefollowing PROTEST
has Since been entered on the Journal,
with the Signature of a great part of
the minority
We, the undersigned Members of
the House of Representatives of the
Freemen of the State of Vermont, hav
ing voted in the negative,upon the ques
tion of the Answer of His Excellency
the Governor's Address to the Council
and this Houfe,—Do, in pursuance of
our constitutional right, insert the fol
lowing reasons for our votes, upon the
minutes of the Journals.
Pirftly —Becaufe,in the 4th and sth
paragraphs of the Answer, the majori
ty have expressed sentiments upon char
acters and Subjects, to which the address
of His Excellency has no relation, and
favours flrongly of that party spirit,
which it was the design of His Excel
lency's address to discourage & allay—
and which it has been toe united en
deavors of the undeifigned, thro' the
progress of the debate to moderate and
affuage.'
Secondly — Because the sth paragraph,
under the maik of flattery contains an
insidious attack upon the official con
duct of John Adams, late President of
the United States, whose Administra
tion of the General Government, we
highly approbate, and whose retirement
into private life, if it cannot restrain the
malignity of individuals, ought at least,
to have secured him from Legislative
censure.
" Mr. Dawson who brings over the
treaty, and who will present you this
letter, is charged with orders to the
captain of the Maryland to receive and
accommodate you back, if you can be
ready to depart at such a short warning.
You will in general find us returned to
sentiments worthy of former times ; in
these it will be your glory to have
STEADILY laboured, and with as
much effett as any man living. That
you may live long to CONTINUE
your ufeful labors, and reap the reward
in the thankfulnefs of nations is my sin
cere prayer. Accept the assurances of
my high esteem and affectionate attach
ment. Th: JEFFERSON."
Thirdly — Because inthe6th paragraph
fulfome adulation is bellowed on Thom
as Jefferfon, President of the U. States,
highly unbecoming a dignified Assem
bly of the Representatives of a free Peo
ple to offer, or the Chief Magistrate of
a great Nation to receive, without sen
sations of disgust. And, because the
answer to the address, in the fame para
graph, asserts, that, “ the purity of the
motives, and the applause which the
President of the United States receives
from the great majority of his fellow
citizens, muftfweeten his injured feeling,
and create in his heart a generous com
panion for his revilers ;" —when we
cannot know the purity of his motives,
or that he now receives the applause of
the great majority of his fellow citizens,
or what effed such applause might have
to faeeten his injured feelings ; nor has
his public conduct afforded any evidence
of such companion for his revilers ; —
and, because it is highly improper to
offer this consolation to the President of
the Union, in a Reply to the Gover
nor's Address, which does not point to
the fubjeCt.
Fourthly —Because the language of
the answer is puerile, feeble, and total
ly inconsistent with that dignity of style,
becoming a Legislative Assembly.
Fifthly — Because the answer compli
ments His Excellency upon the style,
when it should have approved his offi
cial conduct, and adopts expreflions
which might have been pardonable, but
ought to have been corrected in a youth
in the firft classes of education.
Sixthly —Because the expressions of
"beautiful language," "elegant simpli
city," " black detraction," "contume
lious slander," "our mild, our serene,
our benevolent," and " page of argu
ment," are as strong instances ofa vio
lation of rhetorical propriety, as the
sentiments of the answer are an infringe
ment of Legislative decorum ; and left
the impropriety of the sentiments, the
imbecility and baldness of the language
and the grammatical inaccuracies of
the Reply to His Excellency's Speech,
should be imputed to us, individually,
and the party zeal which it tends man
ifeftly to excite among our fellow citi
zens, we do exercise our right in thus
protesting against the fame. And al
though we are unhappily in a minority,
we console ourselves in the reflection,
that we have in vain proposed concilia
tory amendments, combatted the zeal
of party with moderation, and the per
verseness of powers with that charity
which fuffereth long, and is kind ; and
we doubt not that we shall meet the
applause of bur constituents, and the
approbation of men of difeernment, sci
ence, virtue and literary taste.
From a Baltimore Paper.
—o—
—a London paper of about the 20th
June, appeared the following extras of
a letter fromThomasJefferfon toThom
as Pain.
LEGISLATURE OF VERMONT.
This fubjed, which was proposed last
June, is revived, and will, we are credi
bly informed,be prosecuted with ardor,
under the auspices of the Cincinnati of
this State, and the patronage of the
Corporation of this city. It is propos
ed to erect an Equestrian Statue, or
such other monument as the fubferibers
may deem proper, in the centre of the
Park, at the sole expence of the citizens
of New-York ; which, while it will e
vince their high sense of gratitude and
refpeCtfor the eminent services and
memory of the ILLUSTRIOUS
WASHINGION, will alio serve to
embellish this central and elegant part
of the city. Among the important
events of the American Revolution,
some are peculiarly appropriate to this
city—The evacuation by the British
forces, on the 25th of November, 1783,
terminated the Revolutionary War,and
General Washington's military ca
reer. The organizatian of the present
federal form of government, which ele
vated our Immortal Chief to the Pre
sidential Chair, took place in this city.
The meeting of the Society of the
Cincinnati,called in this day's paper, is,
we underhand, in order to take this
subject into immediate confederation.
A Subfeription for the purpoie will un
doubtly meet with liberal encourage
ment. /
It was supposed and strenuously a
ferted by almost every friend of th?
President, that this letter was a forgery,
and published by some evil di posed
Federalist, to injure the popularity of
Mr. Jefferfon. Happily, however, for
the Federalists, it is now put beyond
contradiction, and the odium will at
tach where it properly belongs. They
can now prove to the world not only
that they had no hand in a step so de
ftruCtive to the fame of Mr. Jefferfon,
but that Mr. J wrote the letter him
felf. I his fad is established by the re
peated and public declarations of his
affectionate friend and cofrefpondent
Thomas Pain. He has declared in
several circles that he did receive the
complimentary letter of invitation from
president J. The manner in which it
got into the London prints he fays, is
this : that fir Francis Burditt, one of
the parliamentary candidates, paid him
a visit at Paris, and, as they were
on terms of the greatest friendship re
quelled the pcrulal of Mr. Jufferlon's
letter, with the privilege of fbewing-it
to some pf his friends, that he compli
ed— and that some one of them, with
out his knowledge or consent, took a
copy of the extract in question & pub
lished it in feme of the London papers.
What the rest of the letter contained,
we have not learned, but that what has
appeared is a true copy of the original,
is established by Pain, who has repeat
ed it verbatim, from memory, as it
came from the pen of Mr. Jefferfon
This is an important circumftance,fince
it fully points out the author of the ex
tract—and should the above relation be
in the lead incorrect, Pain is invited to
point out the errors through the chan
nel of this Gazette.
T BALTIMORN, NOV. §.
HAT infidel Pain was yesterday ar
rested for a debt of 50 guineas ; the
circumstances are as follows—A gen
tleman well known in Baltimore for
honor and probity, a Hibernian by
birth,hearing of the distress of his coun
tsymon, Gen. O'Haro, then in elofe
confinement and great distress a: Paris,
went to the prifonn to offer his services
—in the fame prison was confined Fain ;
his tale of misery was so strongly rep
resented to this truly worthy Hibernian
that he made him a tender of his purse,
and the infidel accepted of 50 guineas
on loan, some years after when Pain
was released from confinement and was
in possession of a large sum of money
the honest Hibernian called on him to
reimourfe him for the loan he had, but
terrible to relate this ungrateful wretch
denied the debt, this we suppose is jac
obinical gratitude. We trust however
that the villian will be obliged to pay
the loan with interest.
Thia morning, about eight o'clock, a melan
choly instance of the effects of slavery was wit
neffcd. A negro man, belonging to a French
man in Trenton, way under the authority of
the Mayor of that place, taken in charge by a
constable to be delivered at New-Caftle,where
a vessel was ready to convey him, his wife and
child (and probably many others) to St. Do
mingo. The constable, negroes, and a French
gentleman who appeared to ad as fupcrintend
ant, arrived in town this morning about 4 o'-
clock, flopped at the house of Mr. P. Howell,
inn-keeper, in id street, and about 8 o'clock
when they were apparently ready to depart for
New Castle, the woman and child abfeonded,
and the man on being ordered into the carriage
turned about, walked a few steps, and with a
pruning-knife, which seemed kept for the pur
pefe, cut his throat in so Locking a manner
that he expired in a few minutes after on the
pavement. A Coroner's inquest was immedi
ately held—and a verdict given, viz. “ Sui
cide, occalioned by the dread of Slavery," to
which the deccafed knew himfelf devoted.
To the MEMORY or WASHINGTON.
Domestic Articled
PHILADELPHIA, NOV. %
SLAVERY.
NEW-TORK, NOV. 6.
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