The Mirror — Concord, N.H., 1798-02-20 00:00:00, page 3

AMERICAN NEWS. ,
KENtucKEr.
LEXINGTON, DEC. X,
BY a gentleman who left the Notches
the fi ft of Nw. we are favored with
the following in exigence :
That a Cot H , a man of influence
among a particular class of people on
Cole's Creek and Biyon pier, had form
ed a memorial in order to forward it to
Congress, with a view to prejudice that
body against the conduaoi Mr. Ellicott
and the commencing officer there.
The memorial of Col, H , has not
yet come to hand ; but as a copy of the
letter of Mr. Ellicott has reached us, we
think it our duty to pubiifh it ; and at
a future day, wheri the memorial may be
handed, to give it a place also.
Here follows the letter of Mr. Ellicott
to Anthony Hutchins.
Natebss, OR. 17, 1797.
SIR,.
" IN a letter of yours direded "to whom
it may concern," I observe yow have made
a number of ungenerous reflections upon
1 my condud in this country, and effected
many faifehoods, with a confidence and
effrontery which could only be attempted
by a person long hackneyed in the paths
es infamy.
You have, Sir, been treated with hos
pitality, politeness, and attention by me ;
your return has been luch as might be
expelled from a perfcn loft to the feelings
of eve y quality amiable in the human
hea t.
Yograge, so far as it protects you from
that chastisement, your cohdud entitles
y@u to, tends to render you most con
temptible in the eyes of the honest and
difeeruing. It is to your ambition, and
the gratification of a malicious cankered
mind, uocontroled by one solitary virtue,
that the diffria of Natches is indeb cd
for its prefeat diftraded, unhappy, and
critical Situation.
I feel disagreeable sensations in thus
addressing you, when I recoiled that
your worthy brother was fcr years my
friend and companion. His fine under-
Landing, and social virtues, added to a
-truef.nfe of horror, was the delight and
admiration of his friends., I shall drop a
tear to his memory, and, for his fakea
lone, treat you with a delicacy unusual on
, similar occ fiuns.
Before I arrived at this place, I was
Cautioned to fulped you, and the plan
you proposed to me left April, to take
GoV. Gayofo by surprise, and convey
him into the Chickasaw nation, did not
tend to lessen my suspicions. This pro
pofirion, some time fioce, I thought it
my duty to transmit to my foperiors, and
which has been since corroborated by the
testimony of Caph Pope. But the gen
crons aid you gave me in quieting rhe
, disturbances which took place in this
diftria during the month of June Jaft, in
some degree,%>rej idiced me in your favor.
It was a prejadiceof Ihort duration
Your subsequent condud in condemning
and yillyfyiug Mr. Benoift, for not rift
ing another commotion rather than fuf
fer the Baron de Carondelet to enter an
.exception to a part of the fourth propo
sition of agreement between Gov. Gay
@fo and the people, convinced me that
confufion was your element ; and that a
social and corred order of things, was as
disagreeable to your feelings, as the hap
piness of our firft parents, in the garden
of Eden was to the insidious destroyer of
mankind. From a violent and bitter de
claimer against the terrors of the Spanish
government, you have now become an
admirer of its lenity. Judas like, you
carry two faces, and unfortunately, nei
ther of them marked with the linesments
of integrity. To effed your purposes,
you work in dark hidden paths, like the
mole beneath the furtace, and, crab like,
move in all diredions.
Your memorial to Congress is calcu
fared to serve the Spanish government,
and gratify your private revenge and an
imosity | To hose leading traits of your
charaaer you would facrifice your coun
try, and I was going to add, Judas like,
betray your savior. In your memorial to
Congress, you fay, that " the people
had no idea of refitting the Spanish gov
ernment, until urged to it by perfans sent
here by the United States.” This al
fertion alone is {efficient to convince me
of the extreme depravity of your mind,
and of a conference, by long abu'e, har
defied agnioft ever, impre Ilion of truth
and virtue. What was done in the bofi
nefs, to which you allude. Was done by,
the people. It bear's an honorable testi
mony of their love of freedom; and the
termination has given them a liberty,j
^feh which they were before uaacquaint
1 ed, and without which you would not
now have the privilege of A'MreffingCon
-1 grcfs. To deprive them of that honour,
would be doinc them an ad ot injustice ;
yet many of them who &ere the most
forward, have, <hro' your influence,
figged your memori?!, \nd condemned
an honorable exerrio 1 which give them
fafety. Such es them, who hive been
guilty of this abfurdiry from ignorance
or want of information, sh ill never be
betrayed by me. But, fir, there are
1 some, who have been actuated by princi
>pies similar to your own, and who are no
longer to expea that V conceive myfelf
bound to fecrefy. 1 amat this time pof
feffed of a plan, presented to me hft May,
by a perlon, without whose aid you would
have but little success, for the express
purpose of commencing and carrying on
an infarredion in this diftria against the
Spanish government. This plan was re
jeded without hesitation ; but from a
principle of duty I have forwarded a copy
of it to the President of the U. States,
ard (hall immediately forward one to
Governor Gayofo.
I observe in your extraordinary
memorial, (for such it certainly is)
that you have directed Congress
to pay no attention to another
going from this country, at it
must certainly be fpiritoui, and not
the act of the people. Here, fir,
it a piece of the most noparralleled
arrogance, ! have ever met with
—because one part of the com
munity do not think proper to
fend your incoherent jumble of
non fenfe,would you,or that region
presume to deprive them of the
benefit of making their own rep
resentations to Congrefi? This,
fir, with due deference to your
principtesof democracy, beats the
most unequivocal marks of the
tyrant lever saw exhibited upon
any occasion ; and could only
have entered the imagination of a
person unacquainted with the
most ordinary principles of liberty.
You are already the fubjea#
of two monarchs, and now you
want to complete the Trinity, by
becoming acitiz^n of the United
States. Go on to our national
Legislature, aid if pcffib!e carry
that bloody garment, you wore
at#he mafficre of the Americans
at the Cliffs, as a proof of your
exertions in favor of liberty. Re-
Bed on your age, and make an
appeal to conscience, and ask that
inward invisible monitor, if at this
period of your life the gratifica
tion of your passion for revenge,
be not highly criminal. Herei
fall leave,ou to your reflections,
and drop the cuttin between us
forever. (Siged)
ANDREW ELLICOT.
Anthony HutchiWs;
NASSAV, (N. P.) JAN. 12.
An enterprise was lately formed
against the Reach post a; the Plat
form, which fucceded completely-;
all the work?, Acres and artillery
being destroyed.
A large body of troops are mo
mently expeded at the Mole,
from Europe.— The force of the
French at Ctpe Francois, wai es
timaced at 200 European and
'2OOO black troops.
SOUTHCAROLINA.
CHA RLESTON, JAN. .11.':'°
" Citizen Co^n, the American
Cooful at Dunkirk, was set at lib
erty eight days liter his arrefta
tioo.”
NE^ORK.,
NEW YORK, FEB. 4.
The following members of the
Hoyfe of Representatives are eto
ted managers of the impeachment
against Mr. Blount ; Meffl. Sit
/greaves, Bayard, Harper, Gordon
Pinckney, Dana, Baldwin, Sewall,
Holmer, Dennis, Evatt and Im
lay. Mr, Baldwin, at his ownre
queft, is excused.
The Mikkur.
CONCORD,
TUESDAY,\F±brVAKy 20, 1798.
K, Papers by the last mail are moft!y
filled with the affair between the Ver
moist Fd^ringLYON and Mr. Griswold
of Conntaicut-^yPide Conyffional h±aa j—
Not a word of European news is con
tained in thee?.
OUR .EXTRA ENVOYS.
The last Paris dates (Dec. 27) assure us
that our Envoys had not been accredit
ed by the French Di e^pry.
On the right of the 7th inst. the
dwlighcufe. barn, out-hcufes, pa
pe% &c. of Do&or Ivory Hovey, of
Berwick, were conlumed by fire.
Five perfans, strongly fufpe&ed to be
Jong to the gang which committed the
burglary at Lady Temple's house, near
Newymk, are thrown into prison Some |
remains of lamp black, were visible on
th,eir faces and linen.
EARTHQUAKE.
The Lancrfl-r (Feuo.) German paper
mentions, that on Tuefday the nth ult.
between the hours of two and three in
the morning, there was felt in that town
and its neighborhood a severe shock of
an Earthquake, which continued for sev
eral minutes. The (hock was accompa-
Hed, it is said, with a blaze not unlike
the burning of a chimney.
' FROM PHILAB.FEB.J.
'' / bale m, faan, that, the Lyon <will
nit boxp&d Ibe feat of L^Jlatin. Tbe
animal, Lowewtr, i, much chagrined ; and
l cOT fati fed, that unlt,i Congress duj^fhec
to Mr Grif<woWsfeelings, tb^t be quill tekt
the m<ft exemplar, jatufaaion out 0/ Lion's
body,lt the confequencn be <wbat dbe, may.
Mr G. is a man 0) tbs most exemplary modes
ty a"^ juaoit, of manners, at the fame time
be u " iron'd nerved, @nd fix fat bigb."
Married, at SaFfbury, on the z,hult.
Mr. Samuel Sleeper, to Miss Patty Ste
vens—Mr, Nathaniel Greely to Miss Pol.
ly Stevens, both daughters of Mr. Cut
ting Stevens, of that town, twins.
At Exeter, Col. John Dinner,of Ports
mouth, to Mils Elizabeth Lamfon, of
Exeter.
gMr. Houch' j lift cutch's Apology
mas rather more ridiculous than a person
gofid ex„a, mho is acquainted mub bis
absurdities. Nothing more local than a
Senator / Strange ideas of locality—L not
a Senator as local as an, State officer ?—
Might, prudish and nice all at once
Pray mas the ptsbUfbing tbe account of the
Laditrlocking into their neighbor's ouindons
mere local than a Senator ,—lbis is framing
at a flea, end jivallouirg a hedge-hog.—
The Mirror is not wholly " denoted to News
and National Polities.'' twang.
fOß^^'M/RROR. ,
Mr. Davis,
THE lift of Candidates upon the,
rooster the prefect Eleaion,
appears unusually lengthy. If your
Mirror has refined a true represen
tation of the charters lately nomioat
-1 ed, I think their judgment, integrity,
federalifm and ability, cannot be difput
ed< It is a happy cifcumftance, I think,
that such characters abound in this part
of the country—lt may naturally be sup
posed, that all those gentlemen have jome
friends, inclinations, and even ^ifas.—
This last is always believed to be ibe case:
upon such occasions—But, be this as it
ma, I can assure you from good author
ity, that the gentleman nominated for
Senator and Recorder of Deeds, in the
last Mirror, is by no means d freus of
a«, office, either civil, military or ecctefi
aftieal, the prefect year.
CT'FAIR play.-
wan— it w ~
Mr. Davis,
|_) Y the encomiums heaped upon some
Candidate, tn your lah paper, it
seems as if some of your Corrtfponcieuts<
have a litter at f&lfeme adfedives always
ready, which anfieir, like the blank writs
of lawyers, for any name they m^ke
mink proper to insert, & apply them re.
Moral and political virtues are bk ffed
things— Wedon'tdoubt their value; but 1
the difficulty is in fi idirg oijf the rjwiul
proprietor of them. Federalism and id.
tegrirv, &c. &c. read well enough on pa
per ; but this is only paper tedrr a iifm a..d
paper integrity^ and nkc paper miicy,
liable to depreciate in fyfoicious haaJs.
An eledor who gives his fuff.ege meed,l'
by the greg/i of these *oidi, ou,t;Q be
told that his candidate, like one of our
Dartmouth College Lottery Tickets, is
more likely to turn out a blank than sprite.
Many, by feeing id many of these bigh
ioundiag Words in our neufypers, and
to little of their purport, connected with "
men or meafures,wiu begin iq doubt their
worth, and some even their e±:fteuce
Such te ms ought not to be tacked indif
criminatel, to every name, like the ual
meaning milk and water additions of Mr;
Deacon, or 'Squire.'
There are times andfeafons for all things.
There is a time to vote for one man, and a
time to vote for another ; and a change of
officers in a Republican Government is
not uncommon nor unmectfar, -But the
people ought to confider in chafing men
for places of power and trust, and reflect'
upon the maxim of the royal moralist of
Israel—" When the righteous are in au
thority the people rejoice— but when the
wicked beareth rule, the people mourn."
Our brethren at the South end were a
little nettled by my last communication—
but that nomination is still adhered to,
and will be fwpported by strong columns
from the North, the Ed, and the Wefi. —
Is it necessary to repeat the nomination
byway of condolence to the diLffeCUd^ and
to tell them that
Jacgb Abbot, Esq.
is to be the Man of our choice. II is not
necessary to plainer him over with praises
and compliments, neither is it right;
whatever may be our esteem and tefoed
for him—for Solomon tells us again
'' That wbo/o flattireib bu neighbor Ipread^
etb a net for bis feet."
With refped to the gentleman of this
town, who wasp proposed for a Senator,
he will have our most cordial fuffrages;
and we can only pray that they may co
operate with bi/wifhes. But I know his
inveterate independency of temper—l
know he never can be affher for offices;
nor a dangler tor feats of authority. A
feofibility that loatbs the changeable
winds of popular clamour ; a delicacy
that cannot brook the idea of being kiss'd
by one fide and curs'd by the other, and
to bejhmr'd over with the troth of ad
ulation that comes from one party, and
the fpittie of malignity froth the other,
is rather to be admired than commended.
He that can, ought to be willing to be
ufeful, and net deny the wishes of his
friends, and the calls of his country — •
The Amor Patrice ought to overcome his
disgust, and modesty, the common con
comitant of good abilities. Horace did
not refer to Politics when he said,
" Odi pro/anum valgus, et arm."
Majority, N 0.%
FOR THE MIRROR^
=='fort
MR. DAVIS,
Please to give the following ri place lit
your Mirror, and you will oblige*
an old Customer.
The tim? draws near when we shall
be called upon to give our fuffrages for
a Member ot the Legislative Body of this
State-1 would ask my fellow-citizens
whether it is prudence to fend one man
eight or ten years successively, to the
G^n. Court—whether it has riot a ten
dency to create carelessness and inatten^
tion, to matters of the greattft impor
tance tb the community^—Let us look
round then my Fellow. Citizens, and
choose a new one ; find for your for
ther ebnfideration, I will nominate
Josiah Emery, Enquire, or
Nathan Taylor, Esq. ,
who are men worthy of that place, and'
who would be an honor to the town.
a CITIZEN.
Sahdbornton, Feb 16, 1798.
fO If Mr. Citizenfauld Jind any more
pieces for the Mirror, ve would thank him
to pay tb, poftige of W Mitre ; far —•••
pence to the mail, is paying too dear for the
" whiffle.”j
Sundry articles emittedJball
be inferred in ottr next. But
nothing very local neglected.
the PRINTER
t togr, for PUTTER and CHEESE,
I Cra C.^, &c. Cuferaer, who übra&d
in these n,ctfuries of lift, will please to
prefect him with atam Ed. aq& {