The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-02-13 00:00:00, page 2

The plunder of a province has
porchafed the venal fuffrage of a de
preciated Roman Senate; and Kings
have often placed their honorary liars
on breads, from which not a tingle
ray of virtue conld be refcaedl
In America, a nobler criterion
has arisen. —Her sons have felt no in
fl jence, but the glory and prosperity;
of their country : and have claimed
no renumeration, but the honor and
bliss, which naturally accompany the
act, that has refcaed her from op
preflion, 'Thus, the honors of
an American, are, the confi
dence AND APPROBATION QF HIS
fellow-citizens. —These depend
not upon chancy; proceeding from
the mind they cannot be, purchased
* by the affluent,- ntoextorted by the
powerful; operating upon rational
principles, caprice cannot grant nor
prejudice witfold them. Has any
one proved his wifym in council?—
the public voice pronounces his enco
mium. and calls him to the Senate,
Who has displayed his valour in the
field and meet not the cordial pkwjk
of his country ?—And when has even
the uniform praaice of virtue, in pri
vate life, escaped the attention pf a
people, convinced that piety is a jdd
evidence of wisdom, and that industry
is the belt affutanceof focid zeal &
probity ? What is it but a political
demonstration of gratitude, when the
labors of the patriot are rewarded by
That glorious inflrument, th which
t he feperaiior of the tvg countries is
announced; has likewise declared the
foarces of animality; with,^ honora
ble zeal of jafafying our refiianc^to
tnthe world ; and" of perpetuating
the recolbdion of thole caiamaties,
front which we have efc^ 1. Noris
it a vain and unprofitable record; for
hence posterity 'may learn to guard
the avenges to the temple of Freedom,
- from the firft approaches of tyranny,
and to detect opprelliori in ah her va
riety of lhapes.
impress it, therefore, nly fellow
citizens, on the hearts of yarn-chil
dren ; next to their religion, let them
lisp it in their early years, and ingraft
it on their riper (ladies. You will
thus at once excite their gratitude,
, for theiroleffing, which your labors,
by a kind superintending Providence,
have procured —and inftru&, them, by
what means those blefy'gs miy, by
an humble reliance ch the Time Pro
vidence, be bdft protected ata-,re
ferved.
Neither is it neceff)fy to engage in
aretroffea of the particulars which
occurred during the arduous con
flift, " from the gloom of unfuccefs
ful /application, to the fple.ndqur of
victory and acknowledged fovereign
tyi" What memory teems trot with
the recollection of the wisdom, the
prefervance, of our confederated
ffatefmen ? What harid witholds the
laurel so justly due to the intre
pidity and virtue of our patribtick
warriors ? —To enlarge on this theme,
would be to reproach the integrity of
ear country, and might offend the
delicacy of an audience, composed of
many principal aQbrs in those feenes
to which it refers. Tohiftory, there,
fore, let the talk be confined : Hiilo
rv, which from this illustrious epocha
fhal( produce a richer page than all
that Greece and Rome have open
ed..-
Ambition in other countries, &in
every acre, has been the almost infep
arat' oncoaiitaat of m^rit , hence
have fort^g ^e honors and diftin&i
on,, < ;^^ the trapping,wk\ h
~Q , t'A^mt^ pA^ .^
anxin? ~^!ks of public life. Con
temj'a:< the t.^rnph of the ancients;
behold the elevation of the moderns
and we mult lament over the de„
pravity or weakness of human nature,
in tracing the incentive and the end
action to the gilded car, or ceremoni
al ribband.
From what has been aavance&, r
am naturally led to a consideration of
the origin- and principles of the Socie
ty of the CINCI NNATl,aniniluutior
founded upon a basts the mod honor
able, with viTvs the moil friend!,
humane and patriotic! But it wii* t
greatly advantageous to the confide-q
ration of this fusj-£l,the frit instance
to advert to iHeWhln^tid nature of
some of the principal orders which
have bem^abli^ed in Europe ; for,
while the focietj of the Cincinnati,^
the one hand, commands approbation
and refped, we (hill hardly conceive
on the other, how men endowed with
reafofi fhocld have introduced thole
orders at all, much less, that they
should eyar become the stamp of pre
eminence, and the emblem of nolx^iv
Thus by the wild enthusiasm of the
holy wars, many orders were generat
ed—these were principally of a com
plicated defign-=to administer relict
to the wants and maladies of the nohd
forcegfr-well as to co opei
Wherfml^ary exertions again© the
common enemies of Chriltian ty-
To such (of which the Teutonic or
del and the order of St. Lazarus were
the most diftingui(hed) and to other
elaffes of religious and humane asso
ciations, which have obtained, the
name, forms and dillindions of orders
to avoid any particular allulion ; lor
pious ardour, tho' too frequently mis
guided, is nevertheless entitled to re
fpefh.
The marriage of sovereigns have
hive also been a fertile source from
which orders have proceeded. The
golden fleece of Spain—and the elephant
of Denmark, are of this defcripti n;
the former was probably emblematical
ofttee rices erf the bride (Ifabeda of
Portbgalsand the latter may have
beeri chofeo, as typical of the quali
ties which ihou'd adorn the matrimo
nial onio* —^intelligence and generos
ity of temper on the part of the hus
band, meekness and complacency on
the" 4a,* of the wife,
(^eniainder in next.
nR. SINNICKSON, and Mr.
Stone took their feats, this
day.
A petition of James Hubbs, of the
State of Newjerfey mariner, was pre
sented tothe Hou'e and read, praying
a relief from a prosecution commenc
ed agaidit him at the suit of the U.
; States; for neglecting to deliver mani
fells of goods transported from one
deft[j& in the fame State to another,
according, to law, for which be was to
tally ignorant.^
Ordered, that the Said petition
together with the memorial of fohn
Cochran, presented on Friday lait, be
referred to the Secretary of the Tr-a
fury.
A petition of-—— Dobbyns,46f the
kingdom of Ireland, praying thatCon
grefs may grant him a trad of land
on Such reasonable terms, as may en
courage him to uring Settlers to this
country, was read and. referred toMr.
Page, Mr. Scott and Mr. Patridge.
Mr, Foster from the committee
appointed, prefeated according to
order, a bill providing for the actual
enumeration of the inhabitants of the
United States which was read a firft
time. _
TUESDAY, JAN, ty.'
LEGISLATURE of the UNION,
v-tj
(Continued from our last.)
HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES,
MONDAY, JANUARY, 18/
- &^*t^tt^ ^
PROCEEDINGS OU THE
1790^
Dobbyns, reported that the Sec
retary of the Tieafury be empowered
to locate to the petitione r. a trad
' of land in the weftein territory,
within certain limits.
i—^ke petition of Christopher Saddler
having been referred to the Secretary
of the Treasury, the following re
-1 port was received this day
Treasury Department, fan. 19,
Iff obedience to the order of the
House of Representatives of the nth
instant, referring to the Secretary of
the treasury the petiion of Chrifto
'pher Saddler,
- The said Secretary
Most rtfteafull, reports,.
That except the letter from the
Coiledor ot the diftrid of Boften and
Cba;leftown,accompaDythe peti
tion, there i, no evidence immediate-
rente were rcaa
and I id on the table, of NathanFull'
er, Jhn Holbrook, Ruth Roberts,
Jeremiah Ryan, & Lemuel Ciavgih
praying the interpufiion arid relief ot
C^gfefs in firridry cafes'efh4Tc£,~dc -
pre-ll kun &• — Ifo tie ;eiticn oi
Benjamin Bird, fl icing he less of a
pocket-book in the yearl,3l,in which
were eight Continental certificates,
and praying that new certificates in
his favour in lieu thereof, may be is
sued from thcLoln office inMafikcha
fetes.
The bill providing for the aclual
enumeration of the inhabitants of the
U. States, was-read a tecond t me :
This bill provides that the bufineis
hall be specially committed to the
Marshals of the several diftrids, who
under oath are to make returns of
their proceedings to The President of
the United Scares—for which Services
they are to receive a dated cemperJa.-
tion, proportioned to the extent of
their refpedive diftria.
^ Voed, That this bill be taken in
to consideration on Friday next —and
that too copies be flruck off for the
use of the Members.
Mr, Sedgewick of the committee
appointed |j bring in a bill for mak
ing provision for perlons employed in
the interc'ourfe between the U. States
and Foreign Countries, informed the
house that the Committee had thtir
doubts refpeding the objeft of the
House in the Refolmion appointing
the committee, whether the idea was
to make provision for the perlons now
employed in he publick service—or
wh thtr the design was to extend the
piovifion to appointment of such dis
ferent grades, as in the judgement of
The president of the U. States may
be necessary —and requeued further
inftruaions from the Houle.
The President is veiled, by the
Confutation, with power so make
such appointments for provifma as
he may xhink necctffary—all that the
House have to do, it to make provi
G ,?< may appear proper : The Le
: v• any time check an
<tH. r: inch appointment, by with
hu> xJ^L==rtX^^
lWu it is T.dent from the tenor of
hrkOdetrfs speech that he eripeas
the Legiflarure should go into a full
cunfidewKion? t'\e fubjedt— ang lin
the bill, make the necessary arrange
ment of the several officers which it
may be proper to employ, and pro
vision proper for the several grades—
the necessity of the lefyave ippoi>t„
meet, mud be determined by the
President with the advice of the
Senate.
miniiler higher than a Minister Pie.
nipotensiary, should be appointed—
whether that resolution is now in force
he would not pretend to determine -,-
The committee on the periton c
The question for discharging the
Select committee was put, and nega
tived-. *
Mr, Pitridge observed, that there
is a resolve on the journals of the late
Congress; providing that no foreign
AMONGST the many
benevolent instituti
ons which have been eftab
lilhed in America, since her
regeneration to good go
vernment ;.perhaps no one
will do her more,credit than
those for the abolition of
Gavery. Though the trade
is known to be peculiarly
produaive —-and the foil of
our southern bretheren ad-
For the MORALISTS.
vantagioufly cultivated by
Africans ; yet even there
these institutions are rapid
ly progrefling. Let us then
encourage the idea—found
ed on justice, humanity, &
the great principles of our
glorious revolution-Arid
the boft of heavens blessings
will be ouis : Why should
not Afric's sons be happy
too ? May each one of us
adopt the poet's language,
and with him sing—
ON the zzd day of September, in
the year of our Lord 1767,1,
Johannes Demareft, Coroner for the
county of Bergen, and province of
Newjerfey, was prefect at a view of
the body of one , Nicholas Tuerb
(then lying JeacT together with the
jury, which f summoned to enquire
refpefling the death of the said Ni
cholas Tuers. At that time, a ne d
gro man, named Harty, belonging to
Hendrick Christian Zabrifkie, was
fufpeded of hnving murdered said
Tuers, but there was no proof of it,
and the negro denied it. lasted, if
he. was not afraid to touch Tuers?
He said, no, he had not hurt him ;
and immediately came up to the
corpse, lying in the coffin; and then
Staats Storm, one of the jurors, said,
'I am not afraid of him,? and Strok
ed the <fead man's face with his hand,
which made no alteration in the dead
person, and (as I did not put any
faith in. those trials) my back was
turned towards the dead body, when
the jury ordered the negro to touch
-the dead mans face with hishand, and
then 1 heard a cry in the room, of the -
people faying, " he is the man" and
I was desired to came to the dead bo
dy ; and was toldlliat the said negro
Harry had put his hand on Tuers'^
i face, and that the blood immediately a
ran out of the note of the dead man,
Tuers. I saw the blood on his face,
and ordered the negro to rub his hand
again on Tuers' face ;.he did so, and
immediately the blood again rare-out
of the said Tuers' nose at both noftrih
near a common table fpoo,fdl at each
noftriL as well as I could judge.
" 1 would rot hne a slave to till my
greuntf,
To cany me,to fan me while I sleep.
And tremble when I wake—for all
lhe ^Uh
That sinews bought ML///, have €•
ever earn'd.
*0 : Dear as freedom is, and in m,
heart's
Just er -c priz'd above T° prices
\\ a mJ'hrather be my'Hftbrflare,
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