The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-02-11 00:00:00, page 1

^^^W& MirrouiW%^^
[Volume I.]
Published by ELIJAH RUSSELL, at his OFFICE, near the Meeting House, inCONCOJZD^^
for THE MIRROUR.
-Mr. Russell,
I AM so much a Philanthropist that I feel a
Sorrow for People in ,Distress—especially
when they are very much frigfaned / for Fear
sensibly affeds a Man's whole System: and it
most commonly arises in weak Minds. lam
sorry to fee any of our Old Inhabitant frighten
ed—we have none to spare—we want all the
OLD ones to regulate the young—There is
one, however, who is already frightened out of
bis Wits, (if be ever bad an,) and, Should the
tragedy be a&ed, he will next be frightened
out of Existence—He has retorted to me useful
and impartial Heralds —he has taken Refuge un
der the /rang and impregnable Cover of" a
political state paper" —thence, by the
Aid of his Friend the Editor, he eje&s his own
partial Notions, and has the Effrontery to de
clare he writes the Sentiments of a Majority
of the Town.—He challenges the Publication
of his Scribbling in Behalf of the fyg^re/
publick Tranquility—he calls on the Editor of
his fro^rf/e Palladium to publish his Piece, if
be dares to maintain the Rights of a Freeman, &c.
The bold, the D.^R/NG Editor has—^^ to
,üblijb it ! Wbat noble, what heroicA, what
patriotick, what bold, what matchless,.arid what
daring Boldness, is here displayed by the Ed
itor !— America ! where was this daring Son
of Libert, ; this political Herald; when Great
britain proposed the warlike TRAGEDY
on thy Stage ?—•—Why hadst thou not some
firm, 'fome patriotick Friend, [like him] to aid
the Quilldrivers against that Tragedy ? Who
aQ+# but tteis; tendering Terrour^ might have
frightened the. bold Britain back, and saved
the tragick Effufion of American Blood, had
they been present to have founded the Alarm,
with all the virtuous Pathos, with which they
date to confront and oppose the Exhibition of a
Tragedy on a Stage in Concord, by a number
of young Gentlemen, who have proposed it for
their Improvement in Rhetorick,and to afford
their Friends an inftru&ive and sentimental
Pastime for the long winter Evenings ?
I beg a few minutes Attention, and then I
will submit the Matter to the Decifionof the
Candid—ln Herald No. 156, we find an anon
ymous and malicious Piece against the Trage
dy, insinuating, that the Adors wish to put
Money in their own Pockets, at the Expense
of the Inhabitants, and the Injury of the town
School ; the Author of which; concludes with
suggesting that those young Gentlemen had
better be in feme other Business. In the lift
Herald A Parent and Old Inhabitant has founded
the Alarm : he thinks that the publick Tran
quility is endangered, and Society infringed,
by those A&ors :He asserts [ more than Logic!
can prove, or common Sense admit j that the " Tra
gedy proposed to be a&ed in the town House
will haveadirect Tendency to injure the School
by damping the Ardour of the Scholars," &c.
He insinuates that the ABors are designing
Persons, throwing Obftruaions in the Way of
the Scholars, to injure them, and wound the
Feelings of their Tutor. —Now as to theft in-,
finuations, they are all malicious, falfe, and
without Foundation, lam well assured that
the young Men who propose the Exhibition,
fate not the Shadow of a Wish to make Money
to th~mfelves ; and the idea is ridiculously ab
surd that they wilh to injure the School, or
wound the Feelings of the Preceptor->The
Matter was proposed to the Aaors by a Num
ber of refpeaable Gentlemen, one of whom
has undertaken the Direction of the Exhibi
tion—and I. can with Truth assert. that he is
beyond the penurious Wish of enlarging his
Purse by the Management of a Stage in Con
eord ? the Idea is derogatory to the poorest
Man in the Town. The flimsy Argument,
that the Exhibition will have a " Tendency to
OTbe Tragedy.
CONCORD, MONDA Y, February 11, 1793.
do any Thing gracefully,if we do not fee those
who exceed us I —ls tfe Old Inhabitant will
contend tta we „ hart t, create DifurLances,
•without feeing tbofewho can exceed us, 1 will not
dispute the Proportion, but grant its Verifica
tion in himfelf.
I took the Liberty to aft the Opinion of the
Tutor of our School on this Subject—l found
him (as I e%pe&ed) toe-generous, too enlight
ened, too much the Man of Sense and Erudi
tion, to condemn the Exhibition, or suppose
it would have the most distant Tendency to in
jure his School ; but, on the contrary, he is
of the Opinion (which every Man must grant,
whose Head is not as wealths the Hearty of some
are vile) that it will be highly beneficial to
his Pupils ; and will inspire them with Emu
lation, and an Ambition to do better than it
can reasonably be supposed they know how to
do. There is an old vulgar Proverb which is
illustrative of my Subject, viz. As the old CM
crows, the young one bar th# It is frequently
the Case, that Students at Law, Phyfick, &c.
find their Improvement in publick Speaking,
which contributes to Ease and Facility in the
Business by which they subsist fraud I cannot
conceive,hat it would b# a .Blot on any Man's
Character to know how to speak in publick or
private with graceful Confidence.
As the Tutor of our main Street School, J
am certain, does not agree in Sentiment with
the "Parent and Old Inhabitant ;" as he is
sorry the Idea Should te circulated that the
Exhibition would wound his Feelings ; and as
he wishes it may fucceerf, and his Scholars be
benefitted by feeing it —we must conclude that
the Piece signed A Parent, %. is the Brat of
a contentious Spirt, fo 4 'ed in a qpeak Brain,
and godfathered by a Dupe, who has quite as
much Honour as Honesty.
Success to the Tragedy—if the Adors are
well disposed—lam for Coalition ; I like not
these Quarrels and party Janglings : and the
Man who creates them, and fovho is the Me
dium or Vehicle of their Circulation, ought to
be deemed unworthy of the most profound
Veneration and Refped from the peaceable.
ECHO.
Thursday, January 17.
ORDER of the Day, in Committee of the
House, Mt^Key in the Chair, on the
Bill for providing the Means bf Imercouife be
tween the United States and foreign Nations.
After some Time, the Committee reported it
without Amendment, and it was ordered to be
engrofled for a third reading.
The Bill to regulate Trade and Intercourse
with the Indian Tribes was also debated in
Committee of the House, and some amend
ments made thereto.
The Bill to determine the northern Bounda
ry of the Territory ceded to the United States,
by Nortbearolina, was discussed in Committee
of the whole, and reported— ordered to be en
grossed for a third reading.
Friday, January 18.
Mr. Sylvester reported in Favour of the
Petition of EzekiEl Scott.
The three fallowing Bills were read the third
Time and puffed to the Senate, viz.
The Indian Intercourse Bill ; the Bill re
fpeaing the Boundary of Nortbcarolina,and the
Bill providing the Means of Intercourse with
foreign Nations.
w A Committee of the whole had under Con.
fideration the Bill for compensating John
Tucker,"a Clerk to the Supreme Court of
the Unital Sura, they agreed to 309 Dollars,
and reported to the House—the Bill was or
dered to be enoroffed for a third reading.„
A Message from the Senate with a fill HP
lafive to Fugitives from Justice, and Servants
from their Masters.
The Reports of the Secretary of the Trea
f,^^&tety^swy
CONGRESS-Fi/zb %fa.
Monday, f anuary 21.
A Bill to compensate John Tucker was
brought in and recommitted. The Bill te
fpe&ing Fugitives from Justice and Servants
from their Masters, was ordered to be printed
and the Order for next Monday.
A Billwas brought in by Mr. William
son from the Committee thereon appointed
for the Relief of the sick and infirm Seamen,
and ordered to be printed in Order to be taken
up next Monday Week.
Order of the Day.
House in Committee. Mr. Steele in the
Chair, on the further Assumption of the Bal
ances of the State Debts, trie Bill which had
been reported by Mr. Fitzsimons, was read
by Paragraphs, and fevetal Amendments pro
posed thereto.
On Motion, the Committee role and report
ed Progress, and asked leave to fit again,
which Was refuted by the Houfe.=
\ The Committee of the whole was then dis
charged from any further Consideration of the
Subjed, and the Bill was recommitted to the
special Committee that reported it. This fe
led Committee immediately amended the
fame, and made their Report accordingly.—
The Bill thus amended was mftanrl, taken up
in the Houfean+rtin through a firft and se
cond reading; it Was then referred to a Com
mittee df the whole, and Mr. Steele was a
gain called to the Chair. Some further A
mendments being proposed, a Debate ensued,
chiefly on the Proposition of Mr. Mercer, to
the following Purport.
Provided, that no such Note or Certificate
.Ihall be fubferbed by any Person, other than
the original Owner thereof,or his legal Repre
sentative or Guardian, other than an Assig
nee, unless it ffiall be proved by the Oath or
Affirmation of the party presenting the fame
to the Loan Office to be subscribed, that such
Note or Certificate was not transferred to the
Person in whose Name the Subscription is
made at any Time between the Day
of and the Day of
and unless it Ihall appear on Oath or Affirma
tion that the Person in whose Name the Notes
or Certificates may be subscribed, is the real
bona fide Owner thereof. The Debate lasted
till 3 o'clock, and the Committee rose and re
ported Progress.
Tuesday, January 22.
/ A Report was read, from the Secretary of
War, on the Petition of Thomas Wishart
—a Committee was appointed to bring in a
Bill conformable to the Report, made last Ses
sion on the Petition of Henry E. Lotti*,
loh—A Petition was presented from the
Manufacturers of Cordage in the Town of
Prroifa«, stating the injurious Operation of
the Revenue Law, in refpe& to that' Article,
particularly in regard to the Drawback of the
Duties on foreign manufaaured Cordage, and
praying that said Drawback may be allowed
on imported Hemp when manufaaured into
Cordage and exported, or such other Relief
as the Legislature may think fit : Referred to
a feleft Committee.
Mr Williamson, of the Commit
tee appointed, reported a nil to pro
mote Commerce by the Increase of
American Seamen, which was twice
read and committed for Tuefday Fort
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of Joseph Henderson, a Paymaster to the
Navy Board, were taken up in Committee of
the whole,'and after some Time spent therein,
the Committee reported that they had disagre
ed to the Report of the feleft Committee.
The House having this Report before them,
discussed the fame, and'agreed to grant him
joo Dollars ; a Committee was appointed to
prepare a Bill accordingly. .
Adjourned till Monday.
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