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The Federalist & Quaker.
FOR^HiTgAZETTE.
LAOCOON.—M. 111.
Good Niws !!— One Federaliji
toblufeed!!!
?—i.-TF w
|W I CANNOT bear those abominable af
gerfane, those ctowiidb jalfaods," laid
Garnbes, flinging the newfp#per indig.
Dandy fom his hand--" I cannot bear
those fatobift & ;—there #*#, therefa/l
be aUw to crush the authors of inch
lines— they will blast New England with
hfog ikfamj—if they had their deserts,
they most certainly would be dashed to
pieces." —His eyes flaffied refentment,-—
be furionfly stamped the paper with his
foot —" Why art thou so angry, friertd,
said the Quaker, looking mildly at him,
—I have lived seventy three years, and
never have been even angry, without hav
ing the heart- ache for it"—" Tis enough
to mad a true Chriftian"—faio Gambes,
Siting his lips—" Hold, friend, said the
Quaker ; a true Christian is flow to an
ger—let me fee thy paper"—Taking it
up, he turned up the title page. Gam
ta, ftartiog, exclaimed, the d^l ! 1
thought it was the Jacobin Gazette ! !!
He blujhed iff,!,— he bad prepared his
mouth for censure, and in haste had mis
taken his object, and taken op a federal
paper—l thought it was the Jacobin Ga
zette, said Gaanbes, with his face crim
soned with convi^ion—and left the room
— The Jacobin Gazette, said Gambes's
friend, a vile paper—it attempts to jaf
tif, a Deift—Jefferfon is a Deist, and an
enemy to God Almighty—lt may be not ,
—said the Quaker—// may bt tot, retort
ed thp other with a foeet; then all the
world lies— Perhaps that may not be too
—replied the good Quaker— T with that
I edwii truly lay there was like unto that
honest manr-his heart is benevolent—
and he doth govern his temper—and he
fams to forgive his enemte.-—He ne.
ver made a proleflion of Religion ; said
Gambes's friend, and is a moafter !-
Dldft thou e+er know him, or read his
torts? said the Quaker—No, answered
the other loudly; nor kroer ^fo to !—
From what daft thou form thine opinion?
—Why all our Preachers now a days fay
Ireis a Drift, fays Gambes's friend—l
have a book in my pocket, said the Qua
ker, which our Old friend Thomas Joffe,
son wrote above ten years ago'; and it
doth seem by that, that he to made a ve
ry good religious profefton to all the
world ; and what is more acceptable in
the fight of God, he has never since con
tradiaed it by his aaions-I dare you to
find in that book, any thing that looks
like religion, replied the other :—I can;
and will from it read to you something
that is Rr/foi„<#, said the hoaeft Qua
to; and fixing on his leathern rimed
fpedacles, opened his book, (which prov
ed to be the notes bn Virginia) and read
diftindly as follows:
" And can the liberties of a nation be
thought secure, when we have removed
their only Safis, a cobviaion in the minds
of the people that these liberties are of
the gift of God? and that they canhot
be violated but with his wrath? Indeed,
I tremble for my country, when I reflea
that God is just ; and that his justice
cannot deep forever." V,
.This, said the Quaker, lb a part of our
friend feffmon's " good Conftfw, that
hi hath " witafo" before the world
end further I tell thee, that many of those
who so uncharitably call him a wicked
man, must know better themselves —they
do it only to carry their own points :—.
Friend Jefferfon is mueh fat against wee
tetog mail, & when herein this book
he proved the wickedness and danger of
oppression, he fays, 4 ' the oppreffed^ ur
ged by cruel fufferiogs, would rife," and
feared it would sometime be the case in
the Southern States-and fays, thus it
"farbecome probable, by supernatural
iitterferance ! The Almighty has do at
tribute which can tfe fidb with us in
fifth a conted." 4 Here our, friend is
;Ifo-md that'the H^; G%%m
WEDNESDAY, March 2.].
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REPUBLICAN GAZETTE.
LIBERTY AND THX CONSTITUTION.
befpesks a very bad heart, to be so cen
foricus—We ought to be humble, and;
weed our Own gardens — Private business
(Gid Gambes's friend) ought to give
way to public ; tis of infinite importance
that wefee we don't fuffer an unbeliever
io rule over us. The Quaker fetched a
drepfigh of benevolence ; and taking off
-his fpedacles and laying his hand gently
on theaim of the other, looked him as
, feaionately full in the face, said-" but,
few can quo rigbtl, judge of the belief ofotb
or I, voben our own harts are iegload?"
LAOCOON.
RAY C^REENE
THE Opposition' Papers have
charged President Jefferson
with a violation of the Conftitu
iron in withholding the Commif.
fion ofMr. Greene, as a Diftri&
Judge of Rhode.lfhnd. The
charge is founded upon the prin
ciple, that he was nominated by
President Adams, and the nom
ination ratified by the Senate,
which conftithted an appoint,
ment ; and, although there was an
error in his commission, in which
his office was described as that of
a Circuit instead of a Diftrift
Judge, for the correction of which
error his Commission was return
ed ; yet, that the issuing of the
Commission was but a ministerial
aft which followed of course from
the appointment.
' ?The fads on this fubje& have
not, so far as I have observed,
been particularly Rated to,(he
public. To give every readera
fair opportunity to judge for him
_felf, you are requeued to insert in
yc..r ofcfal paper;-^ 7 - ^ir,?Ql
statement, furnifhed by Mr. Wag.
ner, who was, under the former
administration, and still continues
to be, principal Clerk in the De
partment of S^ate :— *
“Mr. Greene was nominated
Diftri€t Judge bf Rhode^lfland
DiHria, and the Senate concur
red in the nomination. By a cler.
ical error, however, the Commis
sion to him was made out as for a
Circuit Judge,—He returned it
for correHion ; but the office not
being considered to be filled, Mr.
Barnes was substituted in the of
fice ofDiftria Judge,"
"Mr. Bourne accepted the of.
fice of Circuit Judge, by a letter
to the Secretary of State, dated
23tyMarch last. I know of no
letter (except the above) from
Mr. Bourne; which expressed or
implied a resignation of the office
of Diftria Judge. Mr. Green's
Commission must, if valid, have
been dated antecedently, to the
4th of March last."
From the foregoing statement,
on the accuracy of which the
public may rely, it, appears, that
Judge Boutne continued Diftrid
Judge until March 23 ; for his
previous appointment to another
office could not opperafe as a re.
moval of him from that ofDiftria
Judge. The tenure of his office
being during good behaviour,
he was not removable by any a&
of the President. 4His office was
not vacated until his acceptance
of another, which was onthe twen-'
ty-third of Marth. Mr. Greene $
appointment was therefore void
—for the jaw dfFnot ad^hto
Judges in the fame office at the
I faTtAßft&^i trit hlJi a.
PUBLISHED BY E. RUSSELL, CONCORD, NEWHAMPSHIRB l®ol.
Adams anticipate and fill a fu
ffifre vacancy which did not oc.
cur during his Prefidency 6
If a President could
thus go forward, and make a pre.
sent appointment, to take effect
^ipon a vacancy to happen three
weeks afters the termination bfhis
own Presidency, he might thus
provifienally fill all vacancies ac#
cruing in the whole succeeding
Prefid&nrial te-m of four years,
^ even during the present gene
%o%n ; the a bfurfym which
doctrine is too glaring to be feri.
oufly adopted by any man in his
senses. The simple tru^h is, that
there was no vacancy in the of
fice of Diftrift Judge of Rhode
tfland, until March 23 ; when Mr.
Jefferson was at liberty to fill
it, by an appointment, to continue
until the next meeting of the Se
nate, and then be submitted to
them for concurrence or non-con
cufrence.
Those Printers who have pub
lished the animadversion on Pre
sident Jefferson's condua, in
relation to Mr. Greene's Comipif.
fion, are requested to be so just,
as to publish the abov^ statement
of fa&s.
1 ^ Friend to Truth and Justice.
DEMOCRACY.
lIT has, of late, become quite
fafliionable in certain vehicles of
Slander, to rail against democra
cy; and much has been written
prove its pernicious tendency.
A paper has lately made its ap
pearance at Baltimore, bearing
upon its front this title, "' The Re.
publican ; dr, Anti- Democrat, edit
ed by one Prentiss, son ofa
Clergyman of Massachusetts. We
would submit the following ex
trad from an author who stands
high in the esteem of this Quix
otic scribbler, as a Strengthening
plainer to his <6 Anti-democrat."
"It must be acknowledged that
every example of a government,
which has a large mixture of dee
mocratical power, exhibits some
thing to our view which is ami
able, noble, and I had almost
said Divine."
.Adams'^ Dsf. ^mer. Conft.
From a London pager.
"THE FINGER OF HEAVEN,"
At the commencement /of the French
revolution; Mr. Pitt fa^the finger of
Heaven pointed to the/ restoration of
monarchy in France. He according!,
obeyed the mandates, py inftitutiog a
crusade against those iofoel French who
were perluaded that the finger of Heaven
pointed to a republic. But the crusade
was unfuccessful < where upon Mr. Pitt
gave up the trade of interpreter to Mr.
Addington. Now MrL/ Addiogton had
been accustomed to lock at things thro'
a more corred medium; wherefore, we
(hall not wonder thathe soon found the
finger of Heaven directed towards peace,
instead of war. Peace he has obtained,
whence it follows thithe had a better
view of Heaven's finger than ever Mr.
Pitt had.
^ In America we have also had interpre
ters : the most confpituous of whom was
J. Adams. He told/us that the "finger
of Heaven pointed to dar teith France ; yet
notwithstanding this positive declaration,
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eversfetf the firffter of Heaven, and
therefoteWnfed tfe to war. In fad,
feme humourous fellows have suggested,
that Mr. Adams siftook his own finger
for the finger of Heaven, when be made
the declaration. Be that as it may, ft
must appear evident to the merest block
head in exiftence,that nine tenths of those
fingers which are impiously called the fa
gers of Heaven, are nothing else than the
clenched fills of those intriguers who
would facifice men as if they were bul
locks.
• Boston, Feb. 10.
The grant of a pardon to Lew
is Freeman, who was conviHed at
Newhaven of counterfeiting a
bank bill of ^dollars, and senten
ced to twQe^rs imprisonment,
has called forth mucn federal
rancour. By a statement lately
publilhed in the Hartford Mer
cury, accompanied with proper
documents, it appears, that this
man had been convicted on the
testimony ofa witness whose cred
ibility was extremely questiona
ble ; that he had been confined
about twelve months under the
fefitence, during which time his
health had been so much impairs
ed/ that his life was in danger ;
that a petition was presented to
Mr. Adams just at the close of
his administration, which, owing to
the hurry of business, did not re
ceive his attention ; that his firft
petition to Mr. Jefferfon was re
je&ed, owing to his abhorrence
of the crime ; that a second petit
tion was presented in May last,
accompanied with certificates in
his favor, from the Judges of the
Supreme Court, the Mayor and
Aidermen of the city, the most
re fpe£table Phv ficians of the
place, the Difai& Attorney, and
keeper of the gaol; upon which
the President, being convinced
that his death would be a conse
quence of his further confinement,
had the presumption to out Stride
hisauthoiity, to iiften to the voice
of humanity, and to 'violate the
-Confitution," by remitting the re
mainder of his sentence!
— —tfs@» — 1
While the Anglo federel press
es of America are heaping, or
attempting to heap obloquy upon
Jefferfon and republicanifra, the
printers in England, and Engifh
America, are doing justice to our
injured President, and duly ap#
preciating his public communica
tions, and his righteousgas. The
English papers Speak of his inau
gural Speech and his answer to the
Newhaven remonstrance, as mas
ter pieces of composition, and
models of excellence, for Strength
of reasoning, and accuracy of
sentiment ; while the Niagara pa
per fays, flhat altho' Mr. Jeffer
fon's views do not, like Mr. A^
ams', perfectly coincide with those
bfßritain, he has not a&ed against
them, but has in a superior man
ner protested the Amarican com.
erce, encreafed the re fpe&ability
of the States, and lessened the ex
penses of the government, almost
miraculou fly.
While theT^dent of the U.
States, through the public Agents
for Indian affairs, is promoting
the improvement of the several
western and foutbern tyfeffifa
States Indian, in the arts of ci.
vibration and government, the
societies for propagating the Gos
pel, by their Missionaries are en-
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