United States oracle and Portsmouth advertiser — Portsmouth, N.H., 1801-11-28 00:00:00, page 1

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Book-Store. Nov. 21.
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Os ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS WHICH LEAD To POLITICAL")
prosperity, RELIGION and MORALITY are indispensable >
supports. WASHINGTON'S Legacy. J
Kol. XII^
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Jonathan Goddard
Has received by the Ship Saly
from Liverpool, a great variety of
The next sentence proceeds upon the
fame idea. " Let us refle& that hav
ing banned from our land that religious
intolerance, under which mankind so
long bled and fuffered, we have yet
gained little,if we countenance a politi
cal intolerance, as despotic as wicked,
and capable of as bitter and bloody
persecutions."
What, Sir, is your meaning when
you date that we have banished from
our land religious intolerance ? When
did any religious intolerance exist in
our land ? And when was it banished ?
When or in what part of our country
have men " bled and fuffered" for re
ligious opinions ? If a solitary instance
or two of persecution for the fake of
religious opinions occurred among the
fanatics who firft fettled the country,
surely nothing happened to warrant
the imputation contained in this passage.
But the principle objection to the
passage, is, that it clearly and pointed
ly insinuates that your predecessor in
office was guilty of a political intole
rance a, despotic as it was wicked. This
insinuation was perfectly understood by
difeerning men, at the time the address
was firft published ; but in your answer
to the New-Haven remonstrance, you
have expressly avowed this to be your
opinion. You have explained your
meaning by declaring, that " during
the late administration, those who
were not of a particular fed of politics
were excluded from office." I shall ex
examine both the assertion and the prin
ciple, more at large in a future paper.
At present I shall only observe that it
marks a singular want of refped to
your predecessor, and a most anti-re
publican contempt of decorum to in
troduce, into your inaugural addrefs,a
pointed invedive against his adminis
tration. Even had his condud merit
ed the censure, the common rules of
decency and civility should have taught
you to suppress the remotest insinuation
of that fort. Indeed to what cause
but a blind confidence in your talent
for disguising your meaning, or to an
indiscretion that proceeds from an im
becility of mind, can we ascribe the in
consistency of declaring in the fame
page, that we are all republicans and
federalifts, divided only by unelfential
differences ; brethren of the fame prin
ciple, called by different names ; y&t
that your oppofers had been guilty of
intolerance as despotic as it was wicked.
The next passage in the address, al
luding to the revolution in France; a
fubjed that awakens all the sensibility
of the republican,exhibits the President
of the United States on the wings of
eloquence and metaphor. " During
the throes and eonvulfions of the ancient
world ; during the agonizing frafms of
infuriated man, seeking through blood
and daughter his long toft liberty, it
was not wonderful that the agitation
of the'billow should reach even this
distant and peaceful shore—that this
fliould be more felt and feared by some
and less by others—and fliould divide
opinions as to measures of fafety."—
To the Pref dent of the l':?d States.
SIR,
THE next sentence i- ycur address
is in these words : " All too will
bear in mind this sacred principle,that
though the will of the majority is in all
cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful
mud be reasonable; that the minority
also possess their equal rights, which
equal laws must proted, and to violate
which would be oppression." The ab
ftrad truth of these propositions no
man will deny ; but it is obvious that
the passage contains a censure on the
former administration, whose condud
is' clearly pronounced not to have been
reasonable. This idea is more fully im
plied in the invitation, contained in the
next sentence, calling on your fellow
citizens “ to reflore to social intercourse
that harmony and affedion, without
which liberty and even life itfelf are
but dreary things." To refore, implies
a previous loss or deprivation ; and in
this passage, the implication is unequiv
ocal,that the former administration had
by its measures, destroyed harmony &
affection, which you now invite your
fellow-citizens to redore.
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From the [AT. 7°.} C' • n^rciat Advertiser.
NCMBE,. 11,
But the two pa/fages under conside
ration contain a most dire& and explic
it contradiction. In one we are told
that our citizens are not divided in prin
ciple—but only iq name. In the other,
we are told that our citizens are divid
ed intofi, (which are always divided
in principle)—that these feds had ex
isted a long time and one of them had
monopolized the offices of government.
Your good genius, if you ever had
one, certainly abandoned you, when
you wrote the Answer to the New-
Haven remonstrance. You must have
written it, without consulting the inau
gural address, and when you had for
gotten its contents. The address
breathes harmony and conciliation—it
is predicated on the idea of flight divi-;
fions between the citizens of the United
States, which your mild and republi
can administration was to heal. The
answer to the remonstrance, on the
other hand, avows the exigence of par-„
ties of long duration, and of inveterate
hostility of opinions ; and the exigence
of such parties is offered as a juftifica
tion of your removals from office and
new appointments, where no other, pos
sible reason could be assigned. 1
Indeed Sir, when men depart from
the plain strait path of justice, into the
crooked, blind ways of intrigue and
party policy, and instead of aiming,
with a fingie eye, at the public good,
consult their own private views, and
those of their friends, it is hardly pos
sible for them not to cross their own
track. The path of reditude is so
broad and strait, that the difficulty is
not so much id keeping, /is in mistaking
it. Nay fir, it is scarcely possible for a
man of pure reditude of mind to fall
into an incomfiftency. This is remark
ed by judges of courts, who have num-
Merciful genius of letters and philoso
phy! Is this the language of the learn
ed Jefferfon ? Surely the mountain
in labor ought at least to produce a
mouse. In the firft line we are pre
sented with the ancient world pregnant
with liberty,and in the throes and pangs
of labor—ln the second, we fee man in
furiated and agonizing with the spasms
of delirium and madnefs —in the third,
this agonizing man is wading in blood,
is search of his loft liberty [which was
just before a child giving pangs to a
world] —in the fourth, this agony of a
pregnant world, and infuriated man,
have raised " billows" that have reach
ed America ! but at last all this agony
and fury, and agitation of billows, issue
in the simple effect of" being mote felt
and feared by some and less by others."
" Aliquando dormitat Homerus."
Even Homer sometimes flecps.
After this delirious excursion into
the regions of metaphor and dfeription,
the address presents you in a sphere
more congenial to your habits.—" But
every difference of opinion is not a dif
ference of principle. We have called
by different names brethren of the fame
principle. We are all republicans—
we are all federalifts." Pray fir,contraft
these declarations with your assertions
in the answer to the New-Haven mer
chants. You there tell us, " When it
is considered that during the late ad
ministration, those who were not of a
particular fed of politics were excluded
from all office ; when by a steady pur
suit of this measure, nearly the whole
offices of the United States were mo
nopolized by that fed ; when the pub
lic sentiment at length declared itfelf,
and burst open the doors of honor and
confidence to those whose opinions they
more approved was it to be imagined
that this monopoly of office was Rill to
be continued in the hands of the mi
nority !"
I would not dwell on your inacura
cies and perversions of language, had
not your friends uniformly represented
you as a model of corred science, and
a master of style. More difeerning
scholars know that your writings are
remarkable for incorred language. In
the preceeding paragraph, the words
whole offices are neither grammar nor
sense—and the word the, [whofe opin
ions the, more approved] has no ante
cedent—there is nothing expressed to
which it can relate.
Whatever doubts men may have en
tertained of the soundness of your po
litical creed, it is presumed no man in
future will deny you the palm of supre
macy in the art of finking & confound
ing metaphors.
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United States, in New-Hampshire.
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berlefs opportunities to observe the hearts
of witnesses. The witness who is under
no bias, and has a tingle view to truth,
however ignorant of letters he may be,
is never embarratfed to make his nar
ration agree in all its parts. He tells
a plain, strait, probable dory, and no
sophistry of the parties or their lawyers
can make one part incontinent with an
other.
NO. 111.
To the Prudent of the United States.
T Slßs
I SHALL not enter into a,difcuflion
of your opinions, refpeding the strength
and goodness of our government. —
Your opinion, that it is the " strong
est government on earth," and that
every man would, on furamons, rally
round the Randard of the law may be
just, I hope it is. But the two infur
ledions in Pennsylvania authorize us
to question its soundness. It is more
probable that fadions will some time
or other, brush it away, as easily as a
housemaid sweeps away the cobwebs
that disfigure the walls of her kitchen.
You ask triumphantly " have we
found angels in the forms of kings to
govern us ? No, Sir, we have not ;
and what is more to our purpose, we
have not found angels in the form of
demagogues. If Moses was not an
angel, were Koran, Dathan, and Abi
ram angels who conspired against him?
If David was not an angel, was Abfa
lom one, who courted the people to
dethrone his own father, and put bim
felfin his place ? Lewis the Sixteenth
of France was notan angel ; but could
Briffot, Danton, and Robespierre, lay
claim to the title ? If France under
royal government, was not a heaven,
has the revolution converted it into a
paradife ? Indeed, Sir, when names
cease to fafeinate us with founds, and
shadows shall give place to fubßange,
the real quellion of the excellence of
government will be decided by its ef
feds on public happiness. It will be
found that governments called republi
can, are often the most arbritrar, and
tyrannical, and others called monarchies
are free and mild, because they are un
der the dominion of steady, wholesome
laws. Hereditary Monarchies are li
able to fall into the hands of fools and
knaves ; but what do men gain by elec
tive governments, if fools and knaves
have the fame chance to obtain the
highest offices, as honest men ? And
please, Sir, to name the republic on
earth, which is or ever was so con
ftruded, that its government has not
been frequently, not to fay generally,
in the hands of vile ,or weak men. If
there ever was a government, which
under the name of a republic or de
mocracy, was generally guided by em
inent wisdom, virtue and talents,' it
was a government of a mixed kind in
which an aristocratic branch existed in
dependent of popular fuffrage. Such
was the fad in Rome—ln Athens, the
Senate, which combined in its bosom,
the wisdom of the State, was chosen by
lot ; a mode often preferable to that
of fuffrage—becaufe it precludes cor
ruption, which always has and proba
bly always will annihilate the benefits
of the right of fuffrage.
In short, republican forms of gov
ernment arc charming things on paper
In a fubGquent paragraph, you pro
ceed to disprove the opinion of some
men,that our government is not strong
enough, in doing which you take occa
sion to fay, that our government is "in
the full tide of fuccefsful experiment,"
Gracious heavens! Is that a fuccefsful
experiment, which, in twelve years,has
spread difeord over our peaceful coun
try, plantedrthe thorns of animosity &
party rancor in the bosoms of neighbors
and former friends; which has con
verted our printing prelfes into the
convenient instruments of slander and
malice, the right of fuffrage into the
means of corruption—which has fubfti
tuced jealousy for confidence, private
views for public good,and for wife and
venerable statesmen, aspiring dema
gogues and scramblers for office ?—
What a tide of fuccejs indeed has our
constitution experienced, when its ad
ministration has fallen from the dignifi
ed deration of George Washington and
John Adams, to Thomas Jefferfon and
Aaron Burr ! ! !
From the Same.
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