The New Hampshire gazette — Portsmouth [N.H.], 1810-03-06 00:00:00, page 2

Political Communications.
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Freemen of New-Hamp/hire,
At a crisis so important as the present, it
becomes every member of the community
to contribute his mite to the mass of general
information. Thetime is now at hand when
ﬁ)u will be called on to eleét your Chief
Magifirate for the ensuing year. Whom
will you choose ? I know of po argument
ghat I can urge to induce you to a corrgét
decision on this *nportant event, if you hesi
tate. when poflelled of a full knowledge of
the pretensions and services of the rival can.
didates, and the chara&er, condu&, views
aod partialities of the party by which each..
is supported. You should impartially confider
the services which each has rendered to his
country~-the fidelity each has shewn in the
discharge of the duties imposed by virtue of
offices conferred on them by your voice, or
by your government--and the peculiar cir
cumstances uander which each of them was
chosen to the chief magiltracy of this State.
You cacnot have forgotten that in the
" gloriows struggle which relulted in the eftab
lithment of your independence, LANGeON
was your firm and fteadfaft friend—that va
rious #ld important truflls were confided to
him by the general government, in every one
of which he acquitted himfelf to the perfe&t
fatisfa&ion of his employers—and that no
one dared to afpcrfe his reputation, or to
question his integrity or patriodifm, tull the
fell spirit of party, by (hiling the better feel
ings of the foul, gave licence to the baleft
and moflt dithonorable practices, and fanéti
fied the most unbounded licenticufnefs, to
obliterate the remembrance of wvirtuous
decdse left their luftre thould obfeure the
minor pretensions of a party favorite.
In estimating the pretensions of
Gov. Smith, you (hould weigh mi
nutely the very peculiar circumflances
ander which he came forward as a
candidate for popular favor. What
motives prompted his attempt to fu
percede the man who then presided
in your government—a man whom
you had f{ele@ed in times of political
tranquiliity as the best deserving your
confidence.- Whether patriotifin or
indrdinate amhition induced him to for
fake his pricjihord at the altar of jusiice
to cabal for the chief magifiracy, and
why he chose the period of calamity
to play the demagogue.
"The aggrefiions of the belligerent
nations had nearly driven your comn
merce from the ocean. Attempts at
an amicable a-jultment of differences
had proved abortive. Each day aug.
mented our compliints against them,
and forbearance on our part only in
cited to more aggravated injuries.—
What coutfe thonld be purined to
vindicate our violated rights, cur out
raged honor, and procure ug juitice ?
We could do little e¢fential injury to
either of the belligetents by a war.
It must be confined to the ocean —
One of them lay beyons it—the other
covered it with her fhiips of war In
the event of a contelt with France, our
commerce wouid be confined to the
dominions of Britain, under such re.
fri&ions and embarrassing regulztions
as her caprice or interest might ditate,
as the whoie of continentai Europe
were under the immediate control, or .
bad adnpred the policy of France to
annoy Britith commerce, and abridge
Britith monopaly. We should like
wifc be expoied to a predatory war
with all thof» powers who had com
bined to reduce the naval power of
“England, to a standard comporting
with the fafery of the maratime rights
“of other nations. France presented
no vuinerable point for our attack—
her commerce was already destroyed ;
and if we allied with her inveterate
enemy, England, we could derive no
bensfit from the alliance, but might
fuffer incalculable injury—and very
probably the fate of every nation that
has been conne@lad gith her. Eng
land bad ever been envious of our
prosperity, and weunld demand from
s all the facrifices in the prosecution
of the war, while she would reap all
the advantages —and besides, even if
we could snnoy and weaken France,
~ we should so much weaken ourselves
*. in the contest that we could make no
refilance to the demands of England,
however humiliating and difgraceful.
- If we commenced a war with Eng
land, we might, it is trne, wrest from
her the American provinces of Canada
and Nova-Scotsz. Bat these would be
i:rsque(ts dearer to the visor than'to
¢ vanguifhed The genuis of the
people of those provinces is aot adapt
ed to a republican government. The
heterogeneous mass of the population
could not aflimilaie their manners and
~ hahits tothe ffernviriue of republicans.
- They could not rife to the dignity of
srermen. They would fubje@ us tg
~ecntinual broils, and be as ready to
join sheir former masters against us
at a favorabie opportunity, as to affit
~ms in mantaining those rights and
gwﬂegumh which they might be
invested by their admiflion into the
great fumily of the federate Rates of
he American republic.
%'“3 but we should be liable to.
‘Jofe in such a warfare more than we
oo b e e
‘eould cfzape them. —ls in time we be.
‘mecce by 2, naval for * i
force would prove a greater
P RIG T YOS & SToee AW
of warfare, and encouraged the ad.
mniflration to perfit in a m=ufure
which was, in fa&, in the full tlde of
fuccefsful experiwent, and promised the
happiet consequences ; and but for
- want of virtue in our citizens might
F have obtained for us in a-thort time
what could not have been attained
by a seven year’s awar. You, my fel
low citizens, will remember the clam
ors excited againit your government,
by those whose thirst of gain oblitera
ted every patriotic fealing,~—your pas
sions were addrefled in the most in
flamatory language —combinatioas of
the bafelt trawors :flociated for the
purpose of embarrafling your govern
ment—remonitrances were drawn up,
aad often couched in the most infuit
ing terms, importuning the govern
L ment to surrender its honor and in te
pendence at the feet of Great Biirain.
} These remonstrances were not infes led
} nor calculated to procure reliet froom
the embarrassments the people fuff-r
\ ed—buat were originated by federai:fls,
the fricnds and acvocates of Britaa,
the apologists of all her agereflions,
- to sfifira@ the punhc mund, 4nd Hy di
verting püblic indignation from the
“real 2uthors and cauf>s of the miseries
- we fuffered, pointed to your own gov
} ernment as sporting with your rights,
- trampling on your libertics, and wan
tonly facrificing your interests, to
- gratify their pique againit England,
and to fubferve the views of France
againlt her. Masny virtuous and re
ally patrictic citizens were intimicated
and diverred from their attachment
to the government, and infanfibly be
came in ta®t what but a fthort time
previous thcy wounld have started
from with horror, and quiescently
wore the livery they had despised ofa’
faction they detefled.
By the incsfTant clamors of fa&tion,
and their apparent szugmentation of
numbers, the panic spread far and
wide with balefui influence —the timid
were awed, the wuvering confirmed
in the ranks of fa&ion, and the «forts
of the firm friendg of government
paraiized and rendgrc’i ineffe@ual —
Even the halls of Legiff.riin cid net
! ¢fcape the general intituation. The
cradle of liberty became the theatre of
difgraceful cabals—and Britain found
~ more determined and undaunted ad
vocates of her canfe, more ready pl
~liators of her aggreflions, more supple
" creatures of her mmiftry in the legis
lature of the firlt of the New Englind
~ States than in her own corrupt parlia
~ment But the infedion (pread il
~turther—even the national council
~yielded. panic struck, to the imporiu
' nity of a faion, emboldensd by the
- firft effe& their daring and per fevering
i efforts produced on the people.—Ouz
~ constitution of government appeared
‘ trembling on the verge of dissolution
=2 SEPARATION OF THE UNION Was
; boldly threatened, and the only pnint
~ that appeared to occupy the fa&ion
- was,where the line of separation should
' be fruck—awbat portion of térritory
thould be admitted to the * Northern
- Confederacy” —where the standard of
rebellion thould be erected, and the car
nage of civil war begin,
At this dark, portentous period—
at this moment of terror, doubt and
dismay, Feremigh Smith, the present
| federal candidate for Governor, step.
~ ped forth on the political theatre, the
champien, the Ralking horse of the
fadion who had created all this con
fufion, who had protra&ed the justice,
_ which but for them, we should ere
this have obtained from the belliger
~ent who had done us the most ?’m‘d
infury. Is it wonderful that Britain
thould hesitate to do us justice, when
assured by her party in th country
that they were fufficiently powerful
to congucr the government, and oblige
_them to defit ﬂwm the coercive mea
-fures adopted in vindication of rights
“so closely interwoven with Sur inde.
pendence as a nation, that the furren- .
der of one must inevitably involve the
exertions of this faction iober. favor,
~Meet Us on ground of reciprocity, and
e S ORI TR TR ee i e e TR T sTR A
than to abandon the océan altogether
—lt vould lay the foundation of that
public blffing, an enormons pablic debt,
and ere long our bleflings might equal
in magaitude those of England.
Both these calamities our govern
ment withed to avoid—their policy
s was PRACE, and to attain it, they have
made facrifices of interefl and nonor,
which many years of prosperity, and
many years flout refiflance to foreign
aggrefiions will not recover. As a
measure the least calamitous to our
{elves, and Rronger coercive on for
cign nations, than a&ual war, a gene
ral EmßarGO was adopted. This, it
is true, produced many and painful
privations ; and to a mercantile peo
ple, unused to reftri®ions in the pur
suit of gain, was not submitted to
without much complaint. —But the
friends of the government, fully con
vinced of the virtue of the adminiltra
tion, and their sincere desire of peace,
on any terms, short of a facrifice of
national honor and indezpendence,
cheerfully submitted to the inconve
niences consequent on this novel mode
by a removal of obstacles which must
preclude all hope of friendly inter.
course, while they remain, made such
amicable arrangements as would be
mutually beneficial. . It was solely
owing to their assurances of support,
that Britain disavowed the arrange
ment with Mr. Erskine. The aflur
ance that Britain would be juftified by
them, in afluming even higher ground
and a more haughty demzanor to
wards our ggvernment, than yet she
had done, caused the appoinrment of
Jackson, who came recking from the
slaughter and conflagration of Copen
hagen, with express inflrutions, as he
telis us, to insult our admmnifiration.
Confident of the support of this aban
doned fa&ion, he did molt grossly in
sult the government, and according
to expe&ation, (and probably accor
ding to the fiipulation of Canning with
the leaders of this fachion ) they did
most outrageously support this man
in oppoiition to cur government, and
they are at this moment more Jdevot.
ed to him than to their own counury.
Citizens of Nexvhampibire !
Such- are the circumftsnces under
which. Feremi.h Smith became your
Gaovirpor—an< such are the men who
[upport him.—Can you, will you give
him prefererce to the man who was
your nnalierabie fitend in the times
avhich tried men’s fouls—who never
th:uck from ‘u‘y in the hour of peril,
who never bectrayed his country for
the reward of its enemies — [ will not
so far infu't you as to Jouht your de
cision. 1 am confilent you more
highly eltimate the vensrabic patimt,
the Hon. JOIIN LANGDON,
than the tinie serving demuagogus who
has risen to s ephemeral greatness
on the ruin of his country.
MARCUS.
CITIZENS OF NEWHAMPSHIRE, |
YOU have rt'ccu~ ieen your rights and
yonur hbeities threatenco with deftru&ion. |
You bave beheld tederaintm fatiy from the
dark portats of sedition and invite her kin
dred demouwns of eumr(.hy. reptoe aud murder,
to commence her favorite work of havoe
and tcbeliton — You have feca a profl gate
factiou conlpiring witl a forcign encmy to
f:p the foundaticn of your republic and lay
walte the faireftdomaing of freedom Yoeu
have bheheld the oppofitien of administration
extcading their line of trealonabic confede
racy from Maine to Oricans.
You have heard the clarion of domestic
revolation trumpeited through the land to
awaken the ficn's of plunder. and start trom
the black kennels of treason the bloodibirfty
dogs of civit war You huve laiely witnefl
ed au unpriucipied junto assume the fan@ion
of ieglitive authority in recomincndiog
infarrection for the fell purpose of eff: iag
a dilmemberment of the unioN. A fepara
tica of the Stater hus been openly encour
aged and solicited by the leaders of that
very party who now hoid the govermment
of New Hampthire,
Thete are lacts, fellow-citizens, frefh in
your recoliect ous 5 and will you i give
countcrance and patronage to the perpetra
tors of decds so dilorganizing base and trea
sonable 2 Will you cntruft your ghverament
to thole very charaders. who desert our
national union and constitution in the worlt
of times ? Wil you place thie axe at the root
of patriotism by ucglecting and discarding
the tricads of peace, aF union, and of our
nationasf rights ? By fuperceding tried patri
ots 18 fubltituting 4 (ac¢tion who abandon
your wterefts in times of danger, and rejoice
in Biiith encroachment cutrage & perfi iy ?
The salvation of your country depends on
patronizing the virtuous, the wife and the
patriotic. ‘The perm.ocncy of your inde
pradence depends on the energics of that
-portion of ecommunity whole patriotism iz
creafes with the accumulation of daog- rs and
of difficultics. Your confidence and vour
government thould therefore he commiited
to thofc who have been fteadfsft in well
doing in the hour of perit No greater dil
alter can betal'our republic than the neglect
of merit of patriotism and of virtue. Noth
ing cau be a more sure precursor of its down
fat The abandonment of good men, and
the promotion of hypocrites demagogues
and political fwindiers to offices of honor, of
trust and of emoiument leads immediately
to the defltrucion of a!l popular goverament.
In such cales the people empharically prove
themliclves * their own worflt coemics "—
The lalt year’s cxperience. fellow-citizens,
has taught you voiumes of wisdom. You
have lcarned the wide difference between
the views and the political motives of fede
ralifts aud republicans Daring the contin
vance of the embargo the tares of f2&ion
have been so effectually separated from the
wheat of patriotism, that the people can no
longer doubt or hesitate on whom to place
their trust or reliance in future :
Names and profifions have loft their efarms.
The aétions of men have spoken Inner than
the thanders of Sinai. That the federalifts
are in close alliance with the tories and with
Britain. their lat year’s career of sedition,
opposition and insurgency has (o fully iiluf
trated, that argnment is loft in the blaze of
intuitive evidence. They may pretend to
exclusive patriotism, and feck out every new
invention within the powers of their native
ingenuity to cover their muititude of fins,
yet the visible hand vpon the facted walls
of the temp!c of American liberty will indi
catc their, want in the balance of political
_righteoufnels. o CATO.
The Tory lawyers in an uproar !
. Itis an happy eircumftance for the
State of Newhamplhire that the good
_people of the State, the farmers, the
~merchants and the great body of me.
chanics have at length opened their
.eyes to behold the danger they are in,
are called tory Lawyers ; we ‘fee the
Tbags 1 the centts in every. pounty 0- .
iﬁ ak: '
ST SRR pa ot ) WIRARREW Y e.SR S .
. L L g be o s el tey Al . i
From this class it 1s fuppoied otr wil
ters in the federal tory papers muke
their appearance : theis” traitorous
writings, their extraordinary condudt
in iheir proceedings before the courts
and their _intolerable, extravagant
charges for tranfating the business of
their clients, have brought the public
eye upon them. The people seem
determined to remove their be/l.aveath
er from office which has put the whole
body in an uproar, and is it to be won
dered at that the peopie are alarmed ?
Behold at the head of our govern.
ment is a lawyer, the secretary is a
lawver, the treasurer of the Rate is a
lawyer, and some fay heis a fpecula.
tor, the speaker of the house of repre
sentatives a lawyer, the president of
the senate a lawyer, and a great pro.
porticn of the jultices of the peace in
the [tate are lawyers. Now is it not
high time that the people should a
wake~from their slumber and prevent
themfeives from bémg trodden under
foot by lawyers who are mostly edu
cated in the jurifp: lence of Great
Britain. It is the tory lawyers that
are here alluded to. With pleasure
we recognize a number of republi.
can lawyers attending our bar who
treat the court with refpe& and their
clients with decency and who are or
naments to their country.
RATTLE.
Deception Unmaiked.
“ Thou foult not bear Salfe witness againfi thy
neighbor.”
Federalists notwith®anding alil their
piety and religion. have entirely abol
tihed all refpe& for this imporcant
precept of Holy Writ. They have not
the lealt legard tor houefty or truth,
but appear determired 1o deceive the
populace hy gross misrepresentations,
and perion:i abuse ; a Catalin: or a
CGromawel/ would have thought their
cause disgraced by such mifcreznt sup
porters as have written in the federal
papers of this town. They tsik much
about ““the econsmy of federal officers,”
and express great alarm for the fafety
of the “money chelt.” 1 sincerely
regret this laudable anxiety bad not
goeverned their adtions at the la@t an
nuai eieétion of Governor & Treasur
er, for had this a&ually been the case,
the State’s property would peither
have been given to deprive the grave es
its tenants, nor would the coifers of
our I'reaturybeen used for the purpose
of eariching a notorious f{pecuiator.
In the Oracle of Saturday. laßt, the
charges of Orsptan CarrIGAIN Esq
for attending the Council, is mntroduc
ed as a remittance unavthorized by
law and justice. ~We find that the
amonat of his compenfatiog is One
Hundred and Twenty Dollars. The
Ceuncil convenes four times in each
year, and dusigo his clerkship they
held sixteen f: Q&ms-—-and each f=flion
continued about two weeks exclusive
of Sunsays. This estimation wouid
give him but Seven Dsllars for each
{=tlion and about Fifty Cents tor each
day of his attendancec. -
[ will now examine the Constitution.
The Constitution fays, the Secretary
{l2il artend the Governor and Coun
cil in person or by Depoty as they
may require. If the Secretary attends,
must not he employ a Depaty to tran
{2¢&t his butinefs at home ? And must
foi the Depury receive some emolu.
ment for his labors ? If the Deputy at.
tends the Council, i 3 he not equally
entitled to some claim for his services ?
The duties of bis cffice are in no de
gree conncéted with those of the Sec
retary, and if he discharges the duty
in his absence, he is molt certainly
meriting {ome reward. If the Secre
tary attends the Council he ought to
receive the pay of a clerk, and this
pay ought to be given to his Deputy
o 1 fime other person whom he thinks
proper to employ in his abfente. = /
* The Constitution declares the See
retary or Deputy shall attend the
Council ; but does it f{ay their recom
pence fhzll be included in the Secre.
tary’s ttated salary ? .
During Mr.- Gilman’s adminiftra.
tion the fame pratice was pursued ;
Nathaniel Parker, Efg annually receiv.
ed afalary for discharging the fame
duties, and Mr. P. and all his friends
are challanged to deny the truth of
this aflertion. The Oracle writer men
tions these payments as violations of
the law ; if this be true, who were the
firfk aggreflors 2 The federalifts con
'ftitated the custom, they are doubly
‘guilty of the ‘w‘gfo‘nlgs flowing from its
_eftablithment. would advise this
sage gentleman to be careful in censur
ing his own party, for this would un..
veil his object before he deceives the
reader. The Resolution by which Mr:
Carrigain was entitled to the said 120
dollars, passed the Houvfe and Senate
without opposition. If it was uncon.
Ritutional, why did federalifts give
ik confens 19. its passage . Why did
these trac Spartans of modern times,
then forget the ¢ money chefi?>
- Fhe writer tells m&ebh that for
e manyyare” undee M. Luaggon's
mwm able sums were
wm"aw
tention is malicieds, Mr. ﬁarpér »a-‘v‘ag
never Secretary but one year, and
what had Mr. Langdon to do with
his eleftion ? If the Senate alier the
name of Clerk to Secratary, is Mr.
Langdou to be accused of ¢ creating a
new office and paying extra fees 2” The
fees were fpecificd long before he was
Governor, and as there were two
Clerks this title distinguished one from
the other. rar
How many years have elapled since
Gov. Smith desired the term of Supe
rior Court, to be altered to that of Su
preme Court, that he might appear
more royal and pompous as a Judge ¥
Did not all federalifts in the Legisla
ture vote for the alteration? Why nog
call it * King’s Bench” and have it in
trae Engiifh style ? Would not his
fervent friends been equally zealous
in obeying his commands ? There are
two Clerks in the Senate, but we have
but one Superior Court in N. Hampa
shire. \,
Let every honest citizen seek for in
formation before he gives credence
to these vile reports. I would have
hirn remember that the next ele@ion
will decide whether New Hampthire
thail be ruled by Tories or Whigs ;
whiether Jeremizh Smith who is {up
ported by men who deféend to the
blackef fallehood, shall be their Gov
ernor, or whether JOHN LANG.
DON the patriot and flatzfmen thail be
eatzulted with their liberties & rights.
MARCUS BRUTUS.
My Weeks—That the attention of the pub
lic should be repeatedly called to the paliry
circumstance of Gov. Smith's reviewing a
few Regiments of Militia, appears too trifs
ling ; as neither His Excellency, nor auy of
his party have had as yet the hardihood te
afflume to themselves motives, other tham
what they cali a ¢ pardonable bribe in a good
caufe”—calcnlating on a full remuneration,
not in caf, it is true. but in what is calied =
political way of trade—that is, anincreafe of
woles.
And suppose Gov. Smith’s military dréfe
is from the fame cioth as Gov Gore’s and
made by the fame tailor &e,—Well, what
then ? If one Governor apes another in his
politics, is it wot realonable that he should
apc him in his dress also ?
These, Mr. Printer, arc trifles light as aig¢
compared with truths, uncontrovertabic as
holy writ—truths, which the good citizens
of Newhampthire oughtto be fully acquaint«
¢d with. ] :
Tell them, therefore, that this fame Jere
miah Smith has been hoflile to our national
Government from the momeng he loss an ofe
Jice. which gave him 2000 dollars a year for
doing nothing. Tell them how he played the
hypocrite when he petitioned the General
Court for an increase of salary—-how he pube’
licly declared that he had no ambition be
youd be ng an üble lawyer & an upright judge
—that eould he be ot service to his country
in any way, it must be on the bench Teil
them also (if you can do it without bluth
ing) how grateful he gppeared to be when his
faiary was raised ; efpccially asit wus effeét
ed by the Republicans-—that he declared his
determination to relinguith party spirit for=
ever—that he was now in a fiznation exaéta’
ly to his mind, and for which alone he cona
fidered himfelf quatiied Tetll them that,
notwithstanding his great pretensions to cane’
dor and impartiality.there never has been a
moment since he loft his two thousand dole
lars emoiument, that he has not received hip
political cregd from the ‘Effex Junto Tell
them that it was by agreement with thig
fame Junte, and through their influence thag
he was appointed Ele@or of Governor the
last year and not from the fpontanecous voice:
of'the people. And if you please, you may
ftatc another fa&, that he absolutely decline
cd being a candidate for EieGor four years
before, giving for areafon that he thoughe
it very improper for the Chief Justice of the
State to meddle with party politics. Ask
the freemen of this State if they do not feel
themselves degraded at hearing the citizens
of Massachusetts boast of giving them &
Goveranor. And that the too!s of their Jua
to are leading men, in the politics of Newa
Hampshire \
Tell the people that Timothy Pickering,
Chrifltopher Gore,the Higginfon’s, the moa
_¢y-made blustering Perkins’s, and a hundred
others are playing the fame game over again
which disgraced Gov, Hutchinson and his
adherents in 1774, " 2
But candor forbids my concluding this
hasty address, without giving “ honor to
whom honor is due,” and as the present
Chief Magiltrate excels in one particular
qualification, I'thou'd fail in my duty to him
and the public, did [ omit noticing it. It is
a common observation that much depends
on the general deportment of 2 man, high ia
office—that he fhouid be dignified in his man
ners—chalte, sober and examplary in his con=
verfation, complaisant to all, but use no trif
ling conversation particularlywith hisinferiors.
These qualifications, 1 am constrained te
ackpowledge, (although I shall cppofe his
clection) are prominest traits in the character
of Governor Smith. TRUTH.
g = ¥
The people will recollet that the Governosr
is ex-officio trustee of DartmouthCollege—Ne
wonder he willies to increale the numbee
of buildings at Flanover on the cxpenfe of
public money. e
Fnconfifiency of sharaller—lf a man is foug
and flingy of his own money, he generally
carries the fame economical habits into pub
lic life and tries to save the people’s money
from vyoneccflary expenditure; yei Gav,
Smith is so well Zdow_n for his stingy habits,
wherever he goes, thateven hubcgy friends -
often call him a fread,~and Rill he grante
away the State's property by wholefale,~
such a Governor wili foan bring a m
land tax to support his extravagance. Will
the farniers of New-Hampthire put up any -
longer with Smith’s new notions of govern~.
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% Gov. RARE shaNie cimaditainheh Bitazd:
Bty ST e el e (Creer ia4
il st ~secv hpe gl aginmnrs
Jicans had raised his salary 1o a handsome