Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1801-09-17 00:00:00, page 1

SUCH, my friends, is the interesting and aw
ful comparison of two periods of our biftory :
Our escape trem which, ought to render the
commemoration of this day or twofold import
? ance, because as our refeue fromtforeign tyran
ny was atchieved by the valour of a free people,
and salvation from domestic usurpation was ef
feded by their virtue ; both events yield a de
monstration of the foperioriry of freemen, and
free forms of government over all others.
But let me not leave unfinished a piaure so
imperfea—Hitherto, I have pointed out only
the surprising resemblance between the despotic
designs of the British government and their ad
herents and imitator# here. I must fill up the
outline with features of an original character,
in which even theirufurpation# and bliudnefs
were surpassed and exceeded.
Which of you, my friends, can be charged
with a want of love for your country, of regard
for the sacred institutions of our governments,
or a hoftiiity to the rights of others ? Our con
du& this day, in this glad season of triumph
and felf security—our moderation to our advec
faries—our toleration, and even our patience
under theinfoience which they still praaife, is
the best aufwer to the question ! Yet which of
us all is he who has not, during the last few
years, experienced persecution and menace !=
Which of you all have escaped threats or inju
ries? It Was impossible to be known to be a
republican, and to escape. Ido not mention
One FaEl is worth a 1000 aflertions.
# Not the Uniwerjal Church, nor the church
in which officiated an Atheiflical assistant, who
/wore he would assist in the affination of Mr.
Jefferfon if he should be eleaed President 1 but
as refpeaable a Piefbyteriau church as any in
New England.
A writer who signs Fidelis, in lad Sat
urday's Centinel, still persists in what
has been often repeated,in the papers
devoted to flahder, " that among all the
persons whom you [Mr Jefferfon] have
raised to the high departments of date,
there is not one who thinks any more
of Religion than you do yourfelf."—
This, I believe, is literally true; but
the manifeft meaning is, that President
Jefferfon is '' a deist, and possibly an
atheist ;" and that those he has appoint
ed to office are of his sentiments. This
I charitably believe is not true in any
particular. As far as my acquaintance
extends, I know it to be falfe. I will
mention but one instance, and that is
an appointment, of all others, perhaps,
the most obnoxious to the Jacobins.
The Collector at Newhaven—Samuel
Bishop has been for above 30 years a
Deacon of the late Dr. Edwards' church
in Newhaven, and a man Exemplary
for piety. If it be said, that his son
Abraham is the real officer, I have on
ly to observe that he (Abraham) is now
a Regular Member of a Church in Bol
ton ;* and, that just before Dr. Clark's
death, be fat down at the sacramental
table with him. Truth.
[O Those persons who have read the federal
papers, in which is a lengthy and laboured
piece signed Civis, addressed to TtonatJef
ferfon, making ridiculous, unqualified, and
abusive charges agatoft him—are requested
to read the following :j
political ffliscellanp.
CONCORD, [n. h.] September I], 1801—I—33—&fr This Gazette circulates through ever, Count, in the State.
Beckley's ORATION.
(concluded.)
From & Chrono Lt.
To « FIDELIS."
REPUBLICAN GAZETTE.
these fads to stir up your passions, nor to excite
animofiry, but the contrail which the deport
ment and liberality of republicans hold op to
observation, merits the applause of others, and
should make us honorably proud of our prin
ciples and ourselves
Ifhall now endeavor to trace with a free pen
cil, the unfinifhed parte of the canvas ; and this
can be but partially done in the time limited
for the delivery of this address.
We have seen how closely the system of Grt.
Britain was pursued by our late rulers ; let us
now call our recolleaion to additional circum
fiances. The conftaht pradice of usurpers has
been io all times to slitter the people whom
they mean to enclave, and to deride them, that
they may be made the inftrumeots of their own
subjugation. The lenity of the heroes and sa
ges who effeaed our independence had Offer
ed a great body of people to remain among us
hostile to the principles of popular government.
These were incorporated by the conspirators a
gainft our independence with a band of unprin
cipled men, whose foie pursuit was avarice,
without regard to the means by which it was
acquired. To support these, schemes ofa mi
litary nature were deviled, officers and patron
age multiplied, to consolidate a power that
should undermine or openly fybdue the funda
mental principles of the government. When
these schemes had been matured, the system of
alarm and proscription was set up. On the
floor of Congress the necessity of alarm was a
vowed as a political engine. Fi&itious plots
were contrived, to excite terror and fear. And
finally every man who dared to think favorably
of republican government, and who was not to
base as to worthip a weak man, chosen 4$ pub
lie servant for four years— was proscribed as a
"Jacobin ! The country was seen nearly equally
divided. A great mass of people it is true were
outwardly changed, who were at heart pure &
uncontaminated, but whose nerves were not
firmly strung, or whose experience and knowl
edge of mankind was not fafficient to teach
them that, state of things so monstrous and
wicked could not be durable. But the " men
in high places are blinded by their own fool
ifhnefa."/
So long ago as 1793-4 the embers of this mil
chief were difeovered—four several attempts
were made to saddle the country with a ftand
tog army, as necessary to their ends—an ener
getic government.
In the great convulsion on the British treaty,
they gained an ascendancy, by means which
have been since exposed in a correspondence
published of a person opposed to that treaty,
Dayton of Jersey.
By the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, it
was declared that the modern ia%u of nations
should be maintained. That modern law was
the armed neutrality of 1780. N
In the British treaty,the fame hand that sign
ed the proclamation, was betrayed into a reluc
tant signature of that treaty which violated the
law, and which violated treaties of the greatest
magnitude.'
The cup of humiliation was filled by the ig
norance of one of that faaion, who had been
taken from the bench to be made an ambassa
dor ; who betrayed the interests of the cotton
trade of America—who ascribed to a colonial
reftriaion in our trade with Asia—and extend
ed the laws of contraband to provisions.
The official notification to Gen. Darke, of
Virginia, by the Secretary at War, that old to
riu were suitable persons to defend American
rights, astonished & confounded all good men.
At this time the fi.ft servant of the people
was sally possessed of the knowledge that Brit
ain was a&ing by corrupt means on our gov
ernment ; even a member of the senate was se
duced, by corruption ; and the ambassador of
the power who corrupted, was fuffered to retain
his Ration and confidence, and to enter into
new intrigues for the dismemberment of a for
eign colony, which by treaty we had guaran
teed, and in lieu of which our government had
voluntarily direded an annual subsidy to be of
fered.
At this time and season the chief magistrate
denounced one of the states, which had been
conspicuous in the resolution, conspicuous for
its adherence so original principles, and pre
eminently so for the number and variety of ft
LIBERTY AND THE CONSTITUTION.
The Expenditures to fifteen !
This is a pidure to be deplored ;—
but it still remains imperfect—l must
hasten, left the day Should be wafted
in the recapitulation of injuries, instead
of rejoicing that the snares laid for our
deftrudion are broken, and that free
government has retrieved its character
in hurling the authors of these injuries
to obfeurity and infamy.
[ We tender theft Solemn Truths to the
good Jeds, in this quarter, as more than +
a counter-poise for all the base lies and
diabolicaljiander which “Americanus,"
and all his foot, gang, from Maine to
Georgia, with all the fetid Porcupines in
Boston, New)ork, Philadelphia, Well
ington, and London, have written, or can
write, againJl Thomas Jefferson.]
Men funk lo deep in iniquity could
not but be apprehensive of the public
indignation—the constitution had fe#
cured the press as a centinel against
the ambition of mankind—the consti
tution was violated under the pretence
of repressing sedition ; and the courts
of justice were polluted, by the pro
phane recognition of the foul a&.
But the days of delusion are paste
lents it produced—this state was menaced with
the fate of Sodomy to be buried in daft & allies.
In the state of Jersey a body of these infatu
ated partisans of Britain declared in an address
to the firft magistrate, that the republicans of
that state were " a few deluded & degraded" peo
ple, whom they would convey to the lines of an
invading enemy. This address was received
with courtesy and applause.
That there might be no difficulty to difeover
who these few degraded, deluded people were,
a newspaper published on the Sth of July 1799,
declared that " only two ads of Congress were
wanting—an ad to declare war against France,
another banifhiog forthwith all thejacobins out
of America."
While these themes of proscription general^
particular were promulgated, corruption and
peculation were carrying on at home, and hu
miliation abroad. While war was called for
against France under the pretence of rejeaing
a bribe, while our ambassadors were authorifed
to proffer an annual subsidy ; at the fame nfo.
merit immense sums, ships, set equipage, and
ammunition were voted as tribute to the pitiful
barbarians of Algiers, and O, deeper humilia
tion, to the Dey's Cook.
In this season of contradi&ion and
disorder—our ears Were offended with
the cries of order and regular govern
ment—dur ships were ordered to fub#
mit to the search of British ships, and
not even to resist their capture !
Economy was proclaimed from the
Drefidential chair—and the country
loaded with double taxes and double
expenditures, and money borrowed at
two per cent above the legal interest,
b, the economics !
The public accounts were at this
moment in disorder and perplexity ;
arid-millions of money lying in the
hands of speculators in office—many
of whom paid subscriptions to the pub
lic loan, and received 8 per cent on
the amount of the payment from the
money lodged in their hands for pub
lic uses ; while the colledion of the
taxes were so much mismanaged as to
amount to twent, cents upon ever, dol
lar received!'
The revenue for a year amounted
to nine millions.