Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1802-02-16 00:00:00, page 1

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THE
( CONSTITUTIONALIST.
OH* " He that hath eyes, let him
—He that hath ears, let
Q^ar."]
FO^BE R. GAZETTE.
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TotheCiTlzeks of Newham,Jhire.
Inthe return of the duties which
our annual Eledions confer, I hope to fee
no more the return of those unhappy pre
judices, by which those duties have been
mifg^dtd. The tyr„y of popuU; de
fofion, d^fc^s iLe voire of RNAsorf, &
ss.-* % ^ ^%^^, I^^i^ii^i 0- i^e
nature of public measures. In defiance
of all, it often cendemas what is bbnefc
cial to a State, aod fflrevo wte isto
juries. As the earth must be in^prop
er condition to receive feed,or ft will yeild
no natural increase : so the human mind
must be in a suitable temperament, to
attend to an impartial discussion of the
tenour of political ads, or fueb difeuffion
will produce no moral fruits. I presume
that examples are not demanded to fop
port o'r illustrate this petition Were
they neceff^ry, I fh'uld not recur to re
mote periods or places for them : Th^re
is a leaf io the hiftory of Newhampfhire,
which furnishes m, that is mournful!,
appro,riat4. It is there recorded, that a
majority of her Legifl^ors, were under
the infatuation to conceive that the, had
the right, and that the good of the State
required the exercise cf thrt right, to op
press and persecute one cUfi of the Peo
ple, that they might give partial advan
tages to another clefs ; and to deny that
proscribed portion the enjoyment cf those
equal privileges, which the Constitution
had, in vain, guaranteed to be common
to all.——The piaure of the diftreffiog
consequences of this cruel condoa, to our-
Commerce and Agriculture, to the pros
perity of individuals, and to society at
large, as exhibit/ .by the imprefye $ —
quence of one of our firft patriots* and
statesmen, had no effefe. But from the
idea, that the tide of delusion is ebbing,
or at least that more candour, if not more
intelligence, prevails, the following fug
geftions, on the fubjea of the ensuing
elections, are refpeafully submitted to the'
attention of that community, of which I
constitute a part, and from which I do
got feel that I can have, or with to have,
any separate interest. In adverting to
the objeds of this essay, we ought to look
back to firft causes, and primitive prin
ciples.
In theever memorable refiftatwe of this
Countryto British oppression, Newhamp-
Ihire must remember, that it was to the
exertions of Sullivan, Cilley, Thornton,
Starks, Bartlett, Dearborn, and Lang
don, with others, that the is indebted for
her portion of the glory of that conflia,
which terminated^ not only in the estab
lishment of American Freedom, but in
the diffufion, even beyond the Atlantic,
of those sacred Principles, which will
ameliorate tbs condition cf the Great
Family of Man.
We should merit the carfes of Heaven
for our ingratitude should we basely for
get the services of these Patriots, to this
State, and our Country. I would re
mark, that it is got those who fall in with
the current when success is certain, who
have high claims to our gratitude, but
those who, indignant at iojuries commit
ted on the rights of the People, regard-
Jess of their owo security, are th firft to
promote & execute, the boldest measures,
for the security of their Country —
The last mentioned of those wortribs,
after having seen at one time those great
principles, for which he with others con
tended, so far diferedited, that men grew
afraid to own that they had ever been
their advocates, has seen those principles
again rifiog, in the public estimation, to
a scale proportionate to their dignity and
worth, & himfelt, by every Re, pelican's
wishes but his own, declared the Candi
date for Governor of Newhampfhire for
the ensuing year. ,
It may be well to confider, that when
the E.Q forces affatled our ffiores,
there were some among us, who did not
,„fol, join them, but who were not
——, . — .—.— __— „— _,
# Dodor John Goddard.
Tuesday, February 16.]
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prevented from e&ive co operation with
•them, either by their own wfas or their
own principle. And it cannot be denied,
i that after the Federal Government went
into operation, thbfe men wqe gratified
at fuppofiag, thatthey saw it waxing in
substance to an approximation to that
government which we had federated from„
—but to which their attachments b<v?
never been or ever will be weakened,^hile
it continues a monarchy. But if it be said
that all the meafores of the late adurin
iftration were approved-, not only by the
adherents of our enemy in the revolu-i
tion, but by some who were at that ti±e
Patriots, and by many other well mean
ing members of the community ;-I ^fa;
er, that this middle order, by thelu^i ;
diary infJ%
ing, the fruits of corruptions were nude
to apostatize from. Republicanism, and
might be considered as Htf^rrin British
pay ; and the last might consist of a part
who werp honest men, but deceived, and^
a part who can be estimated zs nothing
but mere drift wood,that will fljat from
one shore to the other, according as the
winds and waves of faGbion and popular it)
happen to drive.
Hiftory informs us, that thematural
commencement and progress of all gov
erameDts is, from those that originate in
the will, and are conduced by, the gen
era! voice of the People, or their agents,
to abfolate monarchy—that this is delay
ed by the wisdom and virtue, and baften
ed by the ambition fond extra rage ace, of
those agents, when -unchecked by the
cautious vigilance of the People. Whe
ther the progress of Gura, in this deplor
able course, would h/ve been retarded by•
the economy and moderation of the late
administration, admitting there had been
no change, oY whether it was not rapid
ly verging in profligacy and tyranny to
a fimdhude to that government, whose
chains we hag broken and relinquished
in 1776, may be a fubjea of some future
difcdffion.———We had, within &fe±
fyace, a Stag, AB, a Standing^faty, a
Land fa.,4. the m^^ ^^foaityf
Hill wore than the tax itfelf, in addi
tion to this train of evils, a 4to of Five
Million: at Eight per centum. These bur
thens were imposed on the People in time
of Peace, and when an immense revenue,
the produ& of a commerce enlarged be
yond human expectation, in consequence
of our being aknoft the only neutral na
tion in the world, gave reason to suppose,
that the usual imposition of burthens
would have been alleviated, not increased
—and the public debt not augmented but
reduced. Our Citizens were carried by
the officers of that admioiftiation, from
the peaceful firefides of their families, to
the dreary walls of prisons, and amerced
in heavy sums of money, for writing and
(peaking in oppoftion to these measures ;
and scorn and mockery were cast upon
those who even expressed the least doubts
of their expediency. Terror and pro
fcripticu reigned ; . But while
clouds and darknefe, were faft fettling
over the Union, God said, Let there be
Li^bt, and there was light ! The miffs
of Delusion were feathered away ; —a
long fuffcriog feirit waked from the dust,
and the high duties of government were
delegated to other hands. The change
was constitutional—Such as the People
chose, and Heaven approved In this
change of our public agents, if theja:
tice of the historical axiom, that I have
advanced, which declares that the natu
ral progress of all governments is from
those that are free to those that are def
potic, be confeffed, it cannot be denied
but that the United States of America
were, by this change, arrested for a period
in their career to the common doom of
nations Yet the New Administration
are reviled, with unprecedented violence,
by a clefs of men who, while those whole
principles they approved were in power,
denounced fill those, as deserving of the
most horrid punishments, and even death
itfelf, who should be guilty of writing or
speaking against the government of the
Union ; whether the &of that govern
meat, upon investigation, could be prov
ed to be asreg, right or wrengo The
reasons which they assigned for this rigid
doarine, were, that as all the a&s of oqr
public agents, duly elected, must be 4-
gel, whatever might be their moral con
fcquences, and binding on all, any
abuse against the Government
f,J h%ve a tendency to alienate the
m"sof the People from the Govern
°&^,@&exci^to Its laws
^^ rev deemed it, therefore, highly erfc
y^ t l, andjutHy ppuiffi^ may
11,Briefly to examine the merit of
4% safari these bold and clamo
: 7 'mers of the prefect government,
• <ccrrations of men, whose former
&-lions exhibit such an a,fol conrraft
t: present piadice. ^hey fermer
%?r-te long faces, at hearing even a
%/k-r teaioit the government—They
?4&fc ^ rallying the forces of Trea
^ during the storm df loferrec
'^pgfori^ hea ^ ofout Rulers.
c"""'™''"™ thepre
^m^tf*'^ aLGd^hr^u, to light.
; but iimge
asffo ,cp?eu, it so ,0c exercise of these
cutie.,; in the atxdiftolgtaxes, and of
unfceffery feffbes, that has produced
twe if the most prominent articles of
complaint from the oppofitionifts —The
police, acknowledges correct by the
ftatflmeo of all nations, of tiifpe; frog
with internal taxes, when the contraas
ors ao^ernment can be made good with
out t>3m, is the more strikingly obvious
is th^ country, where the dispersed situ
atioa of taxable property, over an almost
'imre. furable extent cf territory, renders
thi^raode of taxation extremely tedious
arid expensive. It has cost 20 per rent,
to c riled the late Land Tax, and in some
queers the whole tax would not pay the
<ha|cs of col!eaio3. As to Ofm net
war 'rd by the country, I conceive no ar
gun rats need-be adduced to juftify their
abo iriom But a loud hue and cry is
rail idthrough the country, pecaufe the
Extyifive and Senate of the Union are
not tailing to trust 4// the subordinate of
fice^cf the Administration in the hands
of tfe Bnimifj of the Administration—
Th&it now a large majority of that de
fcriptr>n, who hold offices under the pre
jfegt government ; but as those cordially
" ta iW to "' w °°ld be more likely to
^ifelqfe its duties, with fidelity, than
-^ffti^t^dio w snd ^ marandtia"
insay of the departments would throw
an udiam on the Executive, his fituatton
would be utytealant indeed, if he could
not have feme portion of those under
nim, who would strive to perform the du
ties of their refyeaive ftacioos, to his fa
tisfa&ion, and not strive to wound the
confidence of the People in rhe govern
ment, while they were eating its bread.
Mr. Adams' admioiftratim puffed its
probationary term, fervid by such friends
at he thought would best carry its pur
poses into ^ffed. He appointed whom
he pleated to office, with the consent of
the Senate, and dismissed whom he pleas
ed from office. Nobody doubted the
right, vr queftfoned the expediency of
exercising it upon that principle. And
there was more ferriz, in the perform
ance of this right, io the Single instance
of his difmi fling Mr. Pickering from the
office of Secretary of Stale, than in all the
mltarces of removals by President Jeffer
fon combined together. But the diffi
ctelty was, that although the government
was then adminifered by the agents of its
confidence, and ftridly according to its
wishes and intentions, it was not admin
istered according to the withes of those
who had to support it. The arguments
of those who disapprove of the President's
candida, as to appointments and dismis
sals, if just, would obviously lessen his re
fponfibUity.—He ought not to be answer.
able for the mifeondua of those whom
be neither appointed, nor can be allowed
to (Ijfmifs.—But if the noise of opposi
tion was to frighten him from his duty,
of appointing such subordinate fundion
aries, as he might think would conduct
the bejl for the government and country,
would he be fit for President ? Would
the opposition be candid enough to con
firfer this era,fiance te their ebjeaions, as an
excuse for any errors that might happen
in any of the departments of the govern
ment, from this cause ?— — Let our pre
feut PrefiJent's administration, while in
probation, have a chance, equal to his
predecessor's :—The condud, that was
lawful for the one, finely cannot be un
lawful for the other ;—But, it this goes
too far, let him have a part of his rights
—ls Mr. Adams had J/Fedeialifts under
him, let Mr, JefferfoD hard fat Repub
licanh
—But what fay the few of those,
whose services in the administra
tion againfl the adminiftration,the
President has thought proper to
dispense with, and determined
that if they will labour against the
goveinment,they shall not be paid
by the government for their la
bour? What do these men, who
have been so cruell, and unmerci
fully dealt with, fay ? Their own
words are, “ the present Federal
Government is cchdu&ed by the
most abandoned men, is leading
the country to ruin ; and that the
fylifictyariti^nra^gef?
of its concerns, will meet the de.
teftation of the present and suc
ceeding ages." Why are these
gentlemen so mnch enraged, at
having liberty to retire from the
feenes of so much iniquity? Why
do they cast so man, longing, lin
gering looks behind, at being ex
pelled from faring in the duties
of a government, which they so
much abhor, and whose stipends
they have always heretofore de
clared, were so disproportionate
to the services required, that men
a&ing merely from pecuniary
motives, would never accept an
office under it. Our ears have
been stunned, and their Couriers
have been loaded with encomi
ums, on this disinterested patriots
ism. Why are these gentlemen
so angry, at this administration's
giving them the friendly oppor
tunity, of saving their money and
, reputation ? Why are they fc
desirous to share in the wrongs,
and be acceflory to the crimes,
of the government ? Why so in.
dignan?, because they cannot be
implicated in its guilt & infamy ?
Some apology is due to the pub#
lie, for vindicating a&s that need
no vindication. The Federal
gazettes are foaming overwith the
frotfrof Fa&ion—yet the defign#
ing of that party, who know it to
be froth, would persuade the
weak and credulous that it isfub
ftance. Yet although, of many
laboured pages of feurrility, that
are afloat, it may be said, that
one half of them are not read,
nor the other half believed, still
more of this trajk passes down,
than is good for our peace— —
Such is the nature of man, that a
very improbable lie, requires a
strong and well Supported refuta
tion. Yet Republicans, confid
ing in the natural good ferife of
the People, and in the immense
majority, throughout the Union,
in favor of the wife measures of
the government, would fuffer all
these bitter overflowings of gall,
all these follies and falfhoods, to
pass unnoticed, were there not
difce^nible, in the back ground, a
scheme, maturing for execution,
which ought to excite general a
larm, and which calls for general
efforts 10 crush and deftrpy—and
it is not too much to fay, that the
Salvation of New England de
pends upon their exertions.
It was conceded, in 1799, that
there were in the country, Fed
eralists, whose Federalism extend
ed beyond Constitutional limits.
The,eftablifhment of a semi-week
ly paper in Boston, of a fixe the
[l| not. per annum.
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