Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1802-03-30 00:00:00, page 3

REPUBLICANS, Attention !
The Bate as tbe lure iff Goal.
The Editor [Mr. John & Lilub,]
Informs Ms Patron#, tbit He is con
fined in Boston Goal, under sentence of
the Supreme Judicial Court, for three
months, with the additional burden of
100 Dclars Fine.— The Editor has at
tempted during his trial to give ever,
fatisfadion to the Court, and his con-
Ceffibns have been such, that nothing
more could have been expeded, from a
man under his peculiar circumftances—
notwithstanding which, he is feperated
for three months from his Wife and a
tick family, and is obliged to foffer the
dHtreffes of imprisonment —while some
'other Primm are permitted to libl the
Supreme Executive, and every officer in
the Federal Government—it is his mif
fortune to be singled out as an obfttf
Judiciary Fengaence.
The Editor feels no way depressed b,
his Situation, and white he is confined
he Shall employ bis time id promoting
that cause which Tyrant: attempt to de
stroy. —
Ballon Goal, Marcbiz, 1802.
[C„fitmio«al Tehgrapb.
HIGH FEDERALISMI
9°be following is extruded,rone Mr. Board's
Speech, in wlicb, as tbs wife Editors ts
tie Palladium have /aid, '' tbs,a#rah,s
willfindtbe parity and reaitel of their
principle: vindicated." Read and deter
mine forjeurfelwee, F,llow- Citizens.
•' The Judges have held generally,
that the Constitution of the-United States
OTS predicated upon an existing Com
moa Lew Os the soundness of that 0-
pinion, I never had a doubt. I Should
fcdrceiy go too far were I to fay, that
ftript of the Common Law, there would
be neither Conftuurion nor Governments
The Constitution is unintelligible with
out reference to the Condition L^w. If
the Common Law does not exist in most
cases, there is no law butthe will of the
Judge. Again, without the Common
Law, the Constitution Incomes a dead
letter." Here we find that the Com
mon Law (of which nobody knows the
origin or meaning) is alledged to be fa
perior to the Constitution and the Gov.
ernment. This may betrue Federalism,
but we coofeh it is above our complies
henfiob. What ! Shall the Constitution
and laws of the United States be confid-
Maf^WWfflie moerf-fe^
ference to English Common Law? But
federalifm can"mean any thing or no
thing,"and is of itfelf" unintelligible."
extract.—'' These [Federal]
ffl&i condemn Mr. Jefferson
for having Slaves. "He is not
fit for a President, over the free
men of America who bold&his
fellow-mortals in the chains of
servitude.
"Jefferfon has fifty three ne.
gtoes ; Pinckney, whom this
party voted for, has more ; and
Gen. Washington h<d more than
three hundred."
Nothing of any moment has
been decided upon in Congress,
since the repeal of the midnight,
law. We have been informed
that the Naturalization Bill had
been twice read in the House, &
that it may be expected finally,
to pass into a law in the course of
a week:—it appears that a refi
device of five years is determined
necessary to becoming a citizen.
Various matter, of importance
will necessarily engage the atten.
tion of Congress Shortly; there
remains much todo; and, not
wiihftanding the efforts of the ag
itators tty the contrary, every ne.
ceffary measure will receive due
attention from the legislature.
[Aurora.
FederaI FALSHOOD refuted.
[|fr Federal^ have publi/hed,
that in France our present admintf
tration is viewed with horror—Let
the following extra# from a French
paper, received at Salem by a late
arrival, serve to conui# these lying
varlets, who call themselves Fedeb
ahjls, alias Federal-Republicans.]
SALEM, March i§.
From the Bourdeaux Journal, Dec. 27
This corner,, ^we hard ftm the httot:job
from America, presents at tbn momtut arare
phenomenon in the bifar, of natta:, agfosru
nuat dire&d towards tbs gAonf good es tbe
whole. We bavs this bluffing from }fr
fa, that befriah adheres 0 the confutation.
He calls to public offices men ^ffiffA of public
eftesm, and wfye abiUtiis bavs hen proved,
and wboje republicanim, free from all io
worthy motives, ba: bssujonfant. This
Pbilo/opber, Wbo, writings are well holm
iuEwtye, appears tbsrongbljacfuahred with
teen, and keros bro to employ ibe &,, net
the mo, ready,in tbs public farvice. For bs
is of opinion, that genius and talents ought on-
I, to be employed in a good gweramtut, when
tbs, are united to good morals, and flerg, of
cbaradsr, and none of bis choice have bun
""hv" ’"r^'t:^—
has all the talents neceffarv
Irotate the love of his fellow cities,
& the tfteem of posterity, without which
■mihte^toj great. He. toaffa
ble, without affedittion; popular, with
dignity; enlightened, firm, and poffeff
cd of all the republican virtues. This is
i^lte President of the United States, the
man placed in a Situation to do good, &
who does it. Private opinion is as free
as the obligations of Society can admit.
Indeed, in the Short time ot his adminif
ttation, in all branches of the govern
ment, in all the public establishments,
there has been a diminution of the pub
lic burdens. Every thing tends imper
ceptibly to this foie end, the true prof-'
perlty of the nation.
—
[K^ 93*' */,"' ''" f""g* nations
can truly appreciation ecoa&cal adminlftra
tienreAmericans, tbs ver, federal,; tbim-(
fdves, upon a fair experiment, when peffion
I and part, zeal subside, must and will applaud
I tbs prefont admini, ration,for its economy .]
Boften, March 22.
IT is remarkable of Mr. Jefferson,
and it is on this point the greater part
ot the oppefition to his character and po
licy has arisen, that he has never been
engaged in those febernes and prefers of
mere speculation on a monied capital,
which live been the fruitful foorce of
the numerous evils that have flowed in
copious streams over this country, since
the ©a of our final emancipation from
British Power. \ \
The force of a strong & virtuous mind,
forilrab^^^anirnerrapted
meditation & daily dtreßed to the grad
ual improvement of ourmoral and poll
fal fixation ; in order that the inde
.pend^ace of his countrymen might be
come al>|effiog, not merely to the pre
sent, but to Succeeding generations.
It has, Dotwithftanding, been made an
obje&ion,by bis opponents, that he ba
mere theorifeea fort of closet political
a kind of toged counsellor, to use the lan
guage of the poet, who had never “ set a
division in the political field ;" and not a
man “ who had given the proof ol his
(kill and knowledge," on every fubje&
on which he has employed his mind, and
in every situation in #feh be had been
placed by the wishes of Bis fellow-citizens
as well as by the appointment of the Ute
President Washington.,
So far from this filly charge being sup
ported by even an appearance of evidence
all his plans are natural,and bis ideas pe
culiarly correspondent to the plain sense
of the people, and to the pradice and
experience of the wisest and most enlight
ened men io every age and country: .
It is also well known that he is parti
cularly attached to the citizens of New-
England, & of all things would wifhjheir
approbation of his conduß. Os this
truth the insidious op,,tion are fully fen--
fible ; and they well know there is noth
ing wanting but a more internal knowl-^
edge of his merit and principles, in this
part of the Union, to make him, pop-)
ular here, as he is beloved and W/peded
in his native state. Hence though every
fteohe takes is marked by the deepest
reflection of a mind unruffled by those '
violent gusts of rage, passion or prejudice
to which other persons are too frequently
fubjed ; yet every measure he has recom
mended is opposed with violence. {
But altho' an enemy to speculation of
every fort, no man is more tenacious of
the public faith when clearly pledged,
even if the mode was not perfcdly agree
able to him. It is in support of this
faith, and to pay the public debt, prin
cipal and interest, with the least possible
prefare on the citizens, that he has fa
vored a system of economy and retrench
ment, which is adverse to his private and
official Influence. He ^nows that the re
volutionary debt, as it was funded by the
firft Congress, must be paid. But heat
so knows tbat the most fare and effedual
^^3^
Struumerary offices and
es, that have been, in
rs expensive collection,
ig has been made in our
res, to met the deficient
leafures of retrenchment s
have occafiored. Thus one thing an
fivers to another under kis management,
and every thing comes to that grand
point, at which a government is main
tained in full vigor at the least expence
to the citizens or fobjeas of it. For
flat cemGhutes the ability to pay a
public debt, but that aggregate, which
is formed by the united produa of each
man's labour, above the necessary con
sumption of eroy individual within the
facial com paa. This surplus is the na
itional wealth.
It is thin private industry and public
econoroy, *,d not a fpirh of speculation,
will at the fttoe time lighten our burthens
agdrec^oUr coniraa^^ Thete appear
to be the .maxims of Mr. Jefferson's
admtoiftretioD, and of course it must
5 , CrtM FRANCOIS.
t The official informs,ton from W Leaf
the American Confab General, of the
deftruatarpf the town of Cape-Fran-f
cm, has pen published. It does not }
materially differ from the intelligence {
brought by Capt. Rogers, arrived at Bal-|
timore — — All the town, except a bout [
60 boules, was burnt ; and the produce/
left is not Efficient to load a fiogle vef-|
fel. Mr. Lear had been received by Gen.'
Leclerc as General Commercial %eot ; |
who has piumifed to proted the Arceri- t
cans ;;aod the payment for, provisions, f
&c. derived from Americans is offered to 1
be made in bills on France, at 80 days
fight or part in cash and colonial pro
duce. Another division of 25 (hips, and
20,000 troops, were dail, expe&ed.
The cotaua of Gen. Leclerc is repre-|
fenced intaters from the Cape as impro- §
rident ify,&.l
Three Ame: ICnOS (Mr. Dodge, Messrs. [
Hellen and Williams, & D'Arcy abd Ste- |
venfon) fared their hoafes, but their'
goods Kere pillaged.
A squadron, confining oftwo Spanish
seventy tota. a french fixty-faur, a fri
gate, and a floap of war, has arrived at
Havanna, from Cape Francois to pro
cure troop, and provisions for St. Do
mingo. ? '
foocfe - .
•By &n «sral-herofi&h Ptet'
Prince, w learn, that thenegroes
had evacuated that place, after a
feeble qppofition ,o the French
troops ; but that they took off a
number of whites, whom they
massacred as soon as they were
out of the reach of the French ;
and carried devastation wherever
they fled.
The Federal^ in Congress
have finked the credit of their
party upon the alledged unconfti
turionality of a repeal of the ob
noxious judiciary a& of the last
Congress. On this fubje& they
have appealed to the public, and
written and spoken .volumes of
declamation and sophistry, with a
profeffed view to agitate the pub-^
lie mind, and excite popular pas
sions and prejudices. But they
have failed of the intended effe&
The difeuffion of the question is
confining and spreading Repub
lican principles among all classes
of well disposed citizens. A fin,
gle argument, well Rated by Mr.
BACQ-riflßthe House of Repre
fennatives, demon ft rates the con
fttetiorrality of the measure.
§ Worc&fi March 17. On dg|
3d inJL BoQor Preser v e Wm,
& Brookfield, in the state of
ifeaicutj caught in a fleel trap a
very extraordinary bird. This
bird is 0f the vulture kind; is
of a blackish colour; his bill re
sembles that of a parrot ; his legs
are as latye as a middling sized
mar/s arm ;Q^ about
3 in&s?toiiffira when
Ipreadtfrfbeafc ly 8 feet;
^his b&toroMrcr than the
^'^W^^ ^ feathers a
than on his wings or body ; h^
legs near his talons are yellow;
and the quills in his wings are al
most as large as a woman's little
finger. This bird, in she course
of a week, had killed three last
spring calves, and four sheep, be
longing to Mr. Wood.
By a gentleman ofinformation
from Lexington,(Ken.)we ate au
thorifed to assert, that their whole
proportion of the tax, amounting
toabout 37,000 dollars, (except
whig is due from nonresidents)
has been paid into the handi of
the Collectors. The money, in,
head ofbeing transported through
the wilderness to the National
Treasury, a distance of fix or fe
yen hundred miles, and which
would have cost at least 5 pr cent,
has been applied to the payment
of the army, upon our frontiers,
the salary of the judges, and oth
er public uses ; under the direc#
tion of the Government.
Altho' therefore, it is true that
the specie has not been received
into the vaults of the treasury, yet
it is equally true that the State of
Kentucky has been as prompt as
any one in the Union in the pay
ment of the tax. - .
BepublUan &afflte, March 30.
r,LAOCOON is unavoidably peft
pened till next week.
VOTES for GOVERNOR.
O We have received votes from a num
ber of towns, since cur last, which gives
Upwards of Six Thousand votes for the
Republican Candidate, Mr, Langdon.
We have omitted the several tains, in
tending, if pcffible, to give a lift of all the
towns in the 6tty in our next. .
It is laid, that Mr . Langdon had ami- ,
jority of B§o votes within the borders of
Pigwacket.—We rejoice that Light is
" ihed abroad" —in the hope, that ere
long, " thewildetnefs willbud and blof
foroas the rose.":
The result of this pedion will proba
btyre^erfr HL Bttftfrc, j + T. Gil
man to the Chair, for the NiNTH year
lit fuserffioiT! — Freemen I ded your go
vernors and Senators for life ! and they
will save you the trouble of having a race
in the Eteaion of year future President,
or of putting your money at inters, ?'
Communication.
What glorious ! what Heaved, times we
ihould have, if we could only have a king,
and an inquifi+orial biergreb,, established
permanently among us ! No more Lift
ing of Prefident#, or governors, or othei
officers ! All would be fixed, and perma
nent ! No more innovations ! all would be
regular order ! How much like a Paradife,
how much like Heaven itfelf, would then
be this land of Liberty I O, the focr
abls submissions of a FREE PEOPLE to
a crowded Glad ! O, the elankings of the
blffid chains of servitude !——•
There is only one small difficulty that
prevents a Kingly government from Be
ing the best under heaven, even tyf Frtf
Men ;— —If we could but find Kings in
the form of Angels, all the difficulties
would vanish at- once, and our govern
ment become like unto the bingdraqfc,
Heaven I-gty^te^
e!ea, and mlromde won idle easily
surmounted ; farthey tell us that all the
goodness, virtues, talents, knowledge,
wisdom, Religtoi, and integrity, belong
exclufivd,to&&r&i/ Even Hatito
the gallant, who coaxed bis neighbour's
wife ! and Pigtyfy,,f& olAf"
of Horse-Racers? are m^de by the federal
±e > l °%sftr* ' ^ L^! Who
blind, as not to fubferibe
t&fflKderal doarinalfaith of fubmiffiou
rokingly eftablifhmente ?
I, Fasr—7%ufla,, the I'tfh
of April next, is appointed b, the
Governor and Council of this Slate
a Da, of Fajling and Prayer.
Died, at Salisbury, on Saturday last,
M Asa Goodwin, aged 21 years, afon
of Mr. Samuel Godwin of this town.—
Cut off in the bloom of youth, with the
faireft profpeas of earthly happinefe be^
fore him, his early departure foeaksa ;
fen monition to his surviving compan
ions, to the font of meg, & „ &lfa ready.