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Facts are Stubborn Things,
, or Nine PLAIN QUESTIONS, to the
Taught by France, the democrats
established similar societies here, and
they now exist in Connecticut, under
the imposing name of Republican Socie
ties.
In thefrocieties eflablifhed in Philadel
phia, New-Yoik,&c. plans of operation
were devised, and all the interests of de
mocracy, were promoted. Regular
communications were made, and cor
refpondencj.es eftabliflhed. It was here
agreed that certain printing presses
Should be employed in the work.of op
position, and that means of every de
scription should be used. From one of
these presses which has always been un
der the immediate eye of Mr. Jefferfon,
when Gen. Wafnington declared his in
tention r o decline,a re-election, there
appeared the following malignant libel
®n this fayiour of his country.
Extrafl from the Aurora.
[CONTINUED.]
IFTHLY. Horn mas that o,po£ikn
[ conducted? t
In this bufnefs the Jacobin societies
were the great and efficacious agents.
It was early difeovered in France that
2 revolution could not be effected ex
cept by the establishment of Jacobin
clubs—These concentrated all infor
mation relating to the objects in view,
and controul'd the nation. Extended
to every part of the kingdorik, they se
cretly yet irretiflably operated, 'till they
produced the death of the king—de
stroyed the lives of more than five mil
lions of people and placed .a foreigner
on the throne.—Thus the millenium in
which we were urged to participate,
has issued in an absolute despotism.-—
What a eulogy this upon the wisdom
which dictated a neutrality.
“ Now letter thou tty servant de
part in peace, for mine eyes have seen
thy salvation," was the pious ejacula
tion of a nl?n who 'beheld a flood of
happiness ruflung in on mankind ; if
ever there was a time that would li
cence the reiteration of this exclama
tion, the time is now arrived : for the
man who is thefarce of the Misfortunes of
o^r country,is this day reduced to a lev
el with his fellow citizens and is no lon
ger possessed of power to multiply evils
on the United States: If., ever, here
was a period for rejoicing this is the
mordent. Every heart in unison with
the freedom and the happiness of the
people, ought to beat high with exulta
tion that the name of Washington from
this day ceases to give currency to po
litical INIQUITY AND TO LEGALIZE
corruption. A new era is opening
upon us—an era that promises much
to the people, for public measures must
now hand on their own merit, and HE
faricus projects can no longer be
Supported by a name. Whena retrof
ped is taken ofthe Washington admin
ißration for eight years, it is a fubje&
of the greatest astonishment that a fin
ite individual could have CANKERED
THE PRINCIPLES OF REPUBLICANISM,
in an enlightened people, and should
Have carried his designs against
the PUBLIC LIBERTY so far as to have
put in jeopardyits very exißente. Such
however are the fads, and with these
flaring us in the face this day ought
To BE A DAY OF JUBILEE IN THE U
hited States."
Every measure of the administration
was denounced as hostile to the liberty
<nd happinels of the people, and the
faoft inflammatory appeals were made
fa the paflons. The hatred generally
prevalent against royalty was seized
upon, and the general charges of love
gs monarchy and tendency to aristocra
cy, were resounded in every quarter.
The members of CongteG, who were
in the opposition, made the most pro
fufe profeffions of their love of the peo
ple, and their zeal for the rights of
man, and these were treated as though
they were fincere.—lt was not then
confidored by all, that such profeffions
are like the founding brass and the
tinkling cymbal, and that ninety-nine
times in an hundred, they are dictated
by abase aridhypocritical heart. It is
a fa< 3 worthy of particular notice that
People of Connecticut,
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ture they can never be refuted. No
candid mind woul^ place any reliance
on such an accusation, especially when
it comes from a rival and an enemy.—
But where is the proof of the treason
and murder of Mr. Adams ? Os the
against Hamilton while Secretary of
the Treasury. The public mind how
ever was not then Sufficiently pci
foned to tolerate such Handers, and
they were soon consigned to oblivi
on. For a year or two before the
last Presidential election, the Auro
ra of Philadelphia, the Watch Tower
;of Newyork, the Chronicle of Boden,
and the Bee and the Mercury of Con
nedicut, affirmed new vigor, and made
, new and more unprincipled attacks on
; all men of diftindion of the federal par
•ty. In these papers, the Secretary
of State, Timothy Pickering, whose
character had been spotless from his
youth, was openly charged with rob
bing the Treasury of millions of dollars
—Oliver Wolcott, alike refpeded for
talents and integrity, was accused of
burning the War-Office to conceal the
wicked tranfadions of thepublic officers
— President Adams, who had been
thirty years employed in the high
offices of member of Congress, am
bassador, Vice-Frefident and President
of the United States, was denounced
as a “ hoary, headed traitor," and
the murderer of Jonathan Robbins
— and the tomb of Washington was as
sailed with the unhallowed hands of
these ruffians in fancier.
The most active agents in Supplying
these preties with such materials, were
Now, my fellow citizens, how many
of the above charges are true ? The
government has been two years in the
hands of the democrats. If they can
prove these fads, they are certainly in
excusable for neglecting it. Yet what
evidence have theyexbibited to the pub
lic mind thus agitated and inflamed.
On the contrary the above charges are
now admitted by the democrats to be
groundleft.—To be sure, the charge is
hill made that the federalists are the
friends of monarchy and the enemies
of republicanism. This is now the
burden of their song. Such charges
may be always made—from their na-
foreigners, Duane, Cheetham, Wood,
and Callender, who fed from the jus
tice of their own country, with char
acters black as midnight darkness
Thomas Paine, the boldest blafphemcr
which this or any other age hath known,
affixed in this work of deftrudion
Abraham Biihop, a minor and under
ling among these champions of falfe
hood and malignity, yielded his aid in
this cause. This mushroom orator, in
his oration of Sept. I^oo, pointed the
public attention to the enormous sala
ries of the officers of government, and
particularly to the extravagant income
of David Austin, Efe. then collector of
the port of New-Haven. I beg the rea
der to bear this fad o*l his mind.
A few troops railed to defend us
when exposed to a war with France,
were proclaimed a standing army to
rivet the fetters of despotism.—An alien
ad calculated to guard against foreign
emissaries preying on our vitals, was
declared an abolition of the trial by ju
rp.—-A sedition law, punching the au
thors of falfe and malicious libels a
gainst the government, and mitigating
the rigor of the common law, which
forbids the truth of the publication to
be given in evidence, was denounced as
an abridgement of the liberty of the
press, and as unconstitutional.
Aware however that these charges
were too general in their nature to ac
compliffi the object, the enemies of the
administration resorted to means Still
more case and detestable. Hence the
walls of Congress were otce disgraced
with a charge against Washington of
embezzling the public money —-and
thus the man who had refufed any other
reward than bare fupportfor more than
thirty years of laborious, painful and
exalted services, and who deserved the
firft place in the affections of his coun
trymen, was hung up to infamy;
A similar accusation was made
similar means were constantly rcforted
to by French Jacobins whom the Ame
rican democrats seemed to have taken
as their models. Thousands of men
were guillotined in France upon the
broad accusation of being friends to
royalty—nay, at one period, fufricion of
this crime produced condemnation and
execution.
Ambrose Spencer,the Attorney Gen.
of the State of New-York, whose wick
ed persecutions in the council of appoint
ment, will consign his name to notori
ety, has lately indited a printer at Hud
son, for a libel on Mr. Jefferfon. It
will furprize plain men in Connecticut
to be told, that this guardian of the
rights of the people, this lover of the
freedom of the press, opposed a contin
uance of the prosecution to the next
term of the court, on the ground that
the defendant could not give the truth of the
publication in evidence. Here, my fel
low citizens, is a fpicimen of the pro
feffion and practice ^of certain men.—
The, sedition law, they exclaimed was
tyrannical and oppressive—yet under
this the person accused might juftify
Gov. M'Kean who has long flood at
the head of the democratic party in
Pennsylvania, in his late speech to the
Legislature of that state, complained
in bitter terms of the liberty of the
press and Rrongly urged an attention
to that Subject.
George Hay, one of the executive
Council of the Rate of Virginia, the
warm advocate of Jefferfon and Re
pubhcanilm, attacked in the highway
fb Callender for publishing a libel
upon him r He bruised him aad left
him half dead. t Not content with this
unauthorized outrage, he procured him
to be committed to prison by the Re
publican Judice of Henrico County be
cause he could not procure bonds
that he would publish no.more libels
on democrats. This is a restraint on
the liberty of the press which no Court
in England dare irnpofe, and which
was never before attempted in this
country. It is uue (bathe was after
wards difeharged by another tribunal
and his imprisonment declared illegal.
Shis is the Callender so amply reward
ed for publishing the ''Profpedbefore
perimeat and that it had hitherto kept
.u's firm and tree," This “ precious
confeßion," designed not to applaud ids
predecessors, comes with great weight.
It is the declaration of an enemy'— it
erginated therefore not from affctlion
—and is it not true ?
thus we have seen that those now
in power obtained their elevation by
decrying the measures and calumnia
ting the characters of Washington and
Adams, aud-yet we See them glorying
in the prosperity and happiness of- the
nation produced by their administra
tion.. If there be four millions and
half of dollars in the Treasury, let it be
'CI;" ;r reg; '- 'VQt ^ a cent of
IB was brought there 9, the ruling pari
ty—nay, the Treasury was thus enrich
ed by those measures which have been
the Subject of unceasing reproach an'd
ceniure—By calumniating these mea
sures and their authors,certain men have
Succeeded to elevated Rations and now
demand the Hosannas of the people ! !
Silence a deep silence, on this fubjeCt,
should seize their lips ! !
Sixthly. What has been done by the
prefect administration ofthe United States ?
I Nothing has been done to Secure
the freedom of the press. The Sedi
tion ad expired under the former ad
ministration and a federal house refufed
to revive it.
plunder cf Mr. Fickering ? Os the ar
son of the War-Cf-ce of Mr. Wolcott ?
Where is the map of th; least preten
ces to reputation that u+wdares to as
sert his belief in ti-. 71 ? They are now
known and admitted tube wicked fab
rications 1k r £ wifehoods. It
Should be added, that a certain book
called the “ PrrfpeGbefore Us," print
ed by Callender was among the molt
conspicuous of the libels on the past ad
ministration, and that Mr. Jefferfen
paid one hundred dollars from his own
pocket, and two hundred in the remff
fion of a fine, for this publication.
; By these and various+other Similar
means was an opposition for 12 years,
maintained, and at length the govern
ment was transferred to those to whom
the " doors of honor and confidence
were burl! open." They were indeed
btof open, but the means were such as
Ihould cover with fhamc those who
committed the burglary.
, That these high accusations were falfe
is already proved—but there is a piece
of testimony, on this fubjed, which matt
be irreliilible to democrats. Mr. Jcf
ferfon in his inaugural speech announ
ced to tile Union that our " govern
ment was in the full tide of fuccefsful ex-
6. Tiie present administration have ex
tingdifhed a part of the national debt,
and have now four millions and an halt
of collars in the Treasury. Three mil
lions of this money was there at the dole
of the pail administration, and,as has been
already remarked, not a cent of the resi
due has been produced by any of the mea
sures of the ruling party. It is the avails
of cuflom house bonds taken betore
March, 1801.
It Will also be recollected that on rhe
adoption of the constitution, the federal
ills affirmed the management , of an en
tirely new government —strongly opposed
in its origin, & which was tobefo admin
istered as to fectire to the people of the
United States, the great obieCts in view.
They contended with various conflicting
interests arising from within—with two
powerful infurreCtions—with tedious and
expensive wars with the Indians—wth
depredations on cur commerce from the
The revenue from this Source was
nearly one million of dollars annually.
It was a work of much time to put this
system into operation, and at the mo
ment when it had affirmed the impor
tance for which it was designed, and
after the faith of government had
pledged the avails, to the public cred
itors, it was abolished. .
If the government did not need the
aid of such an important revenue, why
not reduce the duties on the necessaries
of life ? To the great body of our far
mers, the heavy duties on brown Sugar,
Salt, bchea tea and molasses are griev
ances, but they feel little intereß in
affording relief to pleasure carriages,
whitey, loaf Sugar and lawyers.
; It has been contended that the na
tional debt is a great evil and should be
diminished as faft as poflible. This is
true. Why not then fink this debt
with these taxes ? Why abuse the for
mer administration for the existence of
a debt and delhoy the means by them
provided to difeharge it?
3. The eredion cf a navy was aftib
je& cf much complaint against Waffi
ington and Adams.-—Without attemp
ting to juftify a measure which our fit
nation so obviously dictated, and with
out mentioning the late project for a
dry dock Sufficient to contain twelve
frigates, and without comparing this
project with the Situation of the boy who
expended all his nsong in baying a pure, I
Shall only temarkthat within six months
alter the redudion of the navy by the
prefenc administration, our commerce
in the Mediterranean rendered it abso
lutely nece^'ery to tit out federal frigates
at a very enoimeus expense ; and the
melToge of December last urges the
building of several small Ihios. Such
a eulogy upon the former attempts to
rear a navy, extorted from its enemies
is a proud triumph.
4. The judiciary ad of 1801 has
been repealed and Sixteen judges remo
ved from office. This measure is view
ed by all federaliftsand many democrats
as direffly opposed to the Constitution.
The pretence that the laving of the
salaries of these judges is the true reason,
will never be refpecled when twenty
thousand dollars was ufel^&i# expended
in fending Mr. Dawson to France, and
thirty-two thousand upon the Berceau.
It is now generally admitted . that if
these sixteen judges had been of the
-prevailing feet, tire law would not have
been repealed. If any doubts howev
er remain, the lapfeof a fhgrt time will
remove them.
5. The internal taxes have been re
pealed.> These taxes were odious to
the people in the back parts of the South
ern States. Their creation caused one
serious infurredion in Pennsylvania, as
Mr. Gallatin can teftify. The real
ground of this repeal was the gratifi
cation oft this great phalanx of the Sup
porters of the ruling party, and Mr.
Giles, who advocated the measure, has
so declared.•
by proving the allegations charged-
Now federal printers shall be indited
at common law, and be denied that
important privilege.
s '~ I know these ads of individuals are
not chargeable upon Mr. Jefferfon —
but by them we plainly difeover tire
freedom of the press which democrats
intend to allow to FederalrQs.
2. The prbfent administration have
not disbanded any standing army. The
troops railed under Mr. Adams were
by him difeharged in ißco. A few
Soldiers have indeed been difmifled by
Mr. Jefferfon and a very few officers,
and whether this was not rather a bait
for popularity, than of real cfe, time
will decide.
ferfon, and therefore is now inceffantl,
charioting his praises. Is it not the lan
guage of the leading democrats ever,
where ?
In May 1801 there War a meeting of the
heads of department and many of their
friends at Washington. Mr. Jeflerfora
here dated that he was prefled from all
parts of the Union and particularly fyc?u
Cermeflicut ,10 adopt the plan recommend
ed in the Aurora. It was then agreed
that lie Ihould begin and carry on the
work which we have seen.
In June following there was a conven
tion of the leading democrats cf the date
of New- York on Lonpifland. It w^'
there determined that the Council of Ap
poinuueut in that date Should adept fim^
Is tbis the manly and dignified deport
.ment of a chief magistrate—ot toe father
of his country ? Is it required of a Presi
dent that he should thus proclaim himfUf
the he^d of a party? Is here none of tiro:
"political intolerance," —none of that
poison to “ Social interconrfe," which
renders “ life a dreary thing ?"-—Let
candor and integrity reply.
It was said by the fri nds of Mr. Jef
ferfon that should he Succeed to the chair,
no man would be displaced for his politi
cal opinions.' His inaugural speech gave
great countenance to the affection. Ie
meant that—or it meant nothing, or it
meant tn delude the people—the alterna
tives are very unfortunate.
Mr. Jefferfon fafe in the high office of
President and enjoying his 25,000 dollars
per annum, was willing to conciliate the
affe&ions of his political opponents.
Hence his Soothing speech on leaving the
Senate—Hence the magic fmootbnefs of
his inaugural address.—Not so with those
who , had toiled and intrigued to elevate
him. They had indeed spoken in language
of thunder againl tthe removal ot any de
mocrat by the federalists, tho' only one
or two instances occurred during twelve
years—They trad declared that such a pro
cedure was unjust and tyrannical. Wit
ness the often quoted speech of the organ
of the party in this State, Mr. Granger,
on the quettion of the re-appoiptm enc
of Mr. Bull to the office of Justice of
Quorum in May, iSco, These however,
were only fevofefions —“ By their fruits
shall ye know them." When their party in
the United States had prevailed, theirjao
guage instantly changed, and they pressed
Mr. Jefferfon to the removals which he
has made. On this fubjett let the follow
ing faffs speak.
In April 1801, and within a few weeks
after the election of Mr. Jefferfon, the
Editor of the Aurora began to calumni
ate him for permitting federalifts to re
main in office. In the course of bis remarks
he expressed himself nearly in the follow-'
ing memorable words : " In the name of
God what have we Republicans been con
tending for, if Federalifis are to hold the
Offices." This was the language of Wm.
Duane, who is now receiving the higher;
emolument from the government of any
man in the United States except Mr Jet-
port, have experienced the tender mer
cies of the ver, benevolent and philan
thropic Jefferfon, and of his humble ia
trument Gideon Granger.
It is in vain to pretend as is falfely and
wickedly insinuated in the late extraordi
nary proclamation ot Samuel Bilhop.
efq. and others,* that these removals have
originated in rhe mil-conduct of the of
ficers. Mr. JefFerfon's letter to the New-
Haven merchants, and Mr. Granger's de
fence, both admit that in :nv have i>ee,*
displaced merely to make room for their
friends.
English co the amount of four miibonst f
dollars—.with Similar depredations from
the French to the amount of twenty mil
lions—with a war Tn Europe new in its
nature and unexampled in its crimes—
with the intrigues of a foreign government
aiming at universal power—with opposi
tion to every important measure from a
f t 1g party at home and with the bitter
est calumny from those who were, by any
and every mean attempting to Supplant
Them. Against all these ob'tacter 'he,
pregreff'd in national wealth and impor
tance—They restored public credit—in
fared domeflic irinWlity —eflabF/hed
and preferred the faiw, dignity and hon
or ot the nation—-funk more than four
millions of the public debt—left a toll
treafiry and law the people more pros
perous than any country on the globe.
Those who have Succeeded them, now
Stand on the foundation which they laid
—lift their heads to the skies and boast of
the wealth and glory which surround them
—not forgefling but calumniating the au
thors of this mighty good.
“ Let him that puiteih off the harness
boaft"—When Mr. Jefferfon and his part,
Shall have guided our councils for twelve
years,and Qiall have produced as great ac
ceffidns to national importance and glory,
as were produced by V/aihington and
Adams and tiieir councils then may he
be indulged in (peaking in terms of ton
tempt of those who have preceded him—-
then may they boatt of Something greater
than empty profeffions.
ythly. rhe prefect administration have
done much in one refpeCt. Many fecer
^lifts have been removed from office and
their places filled with democrats. Many
men, reduced to poverty by faithful ex
ertions iu the revolutionary war, and to
whom Washington had given a barefop-