Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1801-09-24 00:00:00, page 1

To the Admirers of " Americanus:"
The Sentbeorolind Demagogue.
OIN the oppfaion papers is seen the long, te
dious, hard laboured fquibbings of "rfmerica
nus," a Southcarolina dijorgantar, who writes
, over and over the trite dogmas of Terjifa, more
to gratify an embittered disposition, than any
thing else— He labours hard to fix a stigma on
the President for appointing Mr. Gallatin into
the Treasury Department—but he forgets to
tell his readers at the fame time, what is true,
that President Washington placed in the fame
high office Alexander Hamilton', a native of the
British Weftindies, and as much a foreigner as
7 Mr. Gallatin, and much lef&a Republican ; now
if we take Wafhiogton for apattern, (and the
''friend! of order"^ affea to worship him, and
would ere& Babels to bis memory,) why do the
terjfederaliJis, (for they deserve no fofter name)
why do these pretended friends to the govern,
merit, censure Mr. Jefferfon so severely, for so
nearly copying Geri. Walhington's example ?
It is true, there are some differences between
Mr. Gallatin and Mr. Hamilton—one is a Re
publican, and maintains the supremacy of the
power of " The People" to all other earthly
powers— the other is an ariflocrat, he wishes the
government divided into lordfoips, and dietos,,
he wishes a Standing Army, and the Military
superior to the Civil Power, and this Military
Power he wishes to be under the Chief control
of General Hamilton—but in regard to their be
ing/*r%“", they stand on the fame ground,
except indeed that Mr.Gallatin had been some
years longer in the United States, a naturaliz
ed citizen, when Mr. Jefferfon appointed him,
than had Mr. Hamilton when Gen. Washing
ton appointed him to the very fame place— —
And we have never heard, even the Federalists
themselves with their hard faces, pretend that
Alexander Hamilton is superior to Albert Gal
latin, either in point of natural or acquired a
bility, or Moral charader and integrity. Why
then does this bitter enemy of Republicanism,
.American's, Bander Mr. Jefferfon so unmerci
fully ? Americans ! he is a falfe friend
Americanos manifefts (efficiently his rank enmi
ty to our Republican Government, in his at
tempt to establish the favorite principle of hjs
part,, that ivben a man is once appointed to $6 be
is entitled to tb&t office during good behaviour, and
that to appoint an, other man, is unjufll, to deprive
the „of his " LIFE ESTATE (" Fellow
Citizens, recur to First Principles ; look into
your State Conftiturion, read your BILL OF
RIGHTS; lookinto the Federal Constitution
—Do you find any thing io any of these, hold
ing up the idea to any man, that he is to be a
Ptefident, or a Governor, or a Legfator, during
good behaviour? Your Constitutions do not
hold out a principle of the kind :—The People
collectively are the true source of power ; the
persons, to whom the People delegate powers,
are public agents ; at the expiration of the time
for which they were appointed, the powers del
egated to them revert back to the people, and
these agents again stand on the fame ground
with their fellow citizens, and are alike eligible
with others to office, provided, their behaviour
has been Jwb as the People approve—- —But hold
ing an office one year doesnot give the officer
a r/aim to office during good behaviour, uniefs
-the People please to re-appoint him, any more
than your inviting a man to dine with you, en
titles him to the privileges of your house and
your table, during hit civility! Who of you
Federalists will own, that your employing a
Clerk tot one year, gives him a f/arm to your
favour for two? None of you would employ
him the second year, uniefs you pleated — and if
you even approved his whole service, perhaps
you would like some other man as well ; arid
you would have an undoubted right to employ
him—ior would this give the firft a right to tax
you with ingratitude, if you rewarded him gen
erotifly for his fervices_ And avleaft as little
claim have public officers to hold their offices
during good behaviour, the very tenure of which $
offices is, during the pleasure ofthe People who ap
point them : And with as little justice do these
once officers complain of being degraded and dis
graced, because the People do not continue them
political ftiscellan^.
CONCORD, [n. H.] September 24, 1801 —l—34 — far Titi! Gazette circulates through ever, Count, in the State.
REPUBLICAN GAZETTE.
Sc much the tyrant reigns within the blood.
That all men wou'd be Tyrants, if tbs, cou'd 1
If man forbears bis neighbour to devour,
Tie not for want of will, but want of Power !
'JURE DLVINO.
O THE various oppressions of the Monarchies,
the Hierarchies, Test Ads & Inquifidons of the
Old World, gave ample ground to the Poet on
which to predicate his pofcion, and from which
to make ,is deduaion, that man would devour
bis fellow, if he bad the fewer! And, however
uncongenial to Humanity and Justice, it is to
be lamented, that a similar Spirit has been al
ready daringly manifefted by.the would-be Ty
rants of this New World Before one fourth
of a century had revolved over our independ
ence, we have seen the Spirit of Tyranny railing
its f! or go n head : the Genius of Usurpation has
(talked through the land, and fanned up Party
Spirit to a flame, which burst with fury, and
threatened the deftruaion of our Liberty !—
Happily, however, we have escaped the medi
tated ruin ; our Liberty & the Constitution are
yet fafe ; a calm is succeeding the “ tempest
Reason is resuming the lead of pallion ; and
once more we behold Man grow mild and socia
ble to Man : This encourages the hope, that we
Ihall ere long verify the happy anticipations of
the President, that " We are all Republicans ;
all Federaliftsor in other words that, we will
all join, like " Brethren of the fame principles,"
in supporting our Republican Government, &
the (inion of these States ; as the" strongest
government on earth," and the surest Palladi
um and Bulwark of our Equal Privileges, and
the Rights of Man ! May a peaceful Spirit of
Conciliation, influence every man, and prove
us worthy of the distinguished political privile
ges we enjoy. [Rep. Goz.
Recommended to.the attention of all
persons of all parties.
[l, We wife the Editors o/ Netyfapre in New
England, weald adopt toe Sentiments contained in
the following, inf tad of aping the Wild Plans of
Wayne, as laid down in bis Address accompanying
tbsfirf number of bis " Gazette for tbe Country ;"
wbicb federal printers have recommended totbem
jelvu as an infallible editorial guide, aud apattern
of federal ptrfsaion of " Sound Principles."]
CANDIPTRUTHS!
*"ffiffffii B alance. Hudson paper.
"A boufe divided against itfelf, cannot ftand?'/
NO calamity scarcely can befal a people that is
more malicous, than the general prevalence a
mong them of a virulent spirit of party ; for,
while it poisons thrfocial enjoyments, it tends
in office during life, to the exclusion of others
equally as capable, equally as deferring, and
who were equally as instrumental in the estab
lishment of our Free Government—Especially,
the injustice of such fallacious claims will ap
pear, io all the glaring deformity of the prin
ciples of aristocracy, to every man who will
take the trouble to examine the Billot Rights,
and the nature of our Government. Rotation
in office, is a vital principle of a Republican
Government : Whence then originates the an
ti- Republican notion, that a man ought to hold
an office always ; or that he is degraded, if an
other man is chosen ioftead of him ? It origi
nates in an ambitious thirst for lawless, tyran
nical power : a power which never ought to be
entrusted to any man ; a power which never
will be delegated to any man by the People of
America, until some power above the power of
Federalism, shall convince them that they have
found " Angels irfthe form of Kings."
Those men who are firft to claim a right to of
fice, from having been in, or complain of degra
dation from not being continued in, ought ever to
be the loft to be eleded to offices of-honor, trust
or profit, under a Republican government :—
Every man who is not eleded, has equal right
to complain of being nfghßed and disgraced, as
he who is not rr-eleded has to complain that he
is ttaetydegraded: There is no justice in ei
ther ; and in fa& the People would degrade their
own power, by delegating it to men thus des
titute of those principles of common justice
which induced the Friends of Humanity to
throw off the Tyranny of a British Monarch !
LIBERTY AND THE CONSTITUTION.
'When will the wicked cease from troubling ."
\ Ever, Candid Man will agree-—'
THE constant strain of defamation a
gainst the " Constituted Authorities,"
in the tor, papers, has become so fla
grant, that they have loft their effeftin
injuring the President and others, yet
are difgraceful to the country. Eve
ry trifling circumflance is minutely re
corded, and reflexions cast on every
part of the condud of the adminiftra*
tion. The retirement of the President
to Monticeilo, and of the other officers
to their refpe&ive homes, is brought
forward as a charge against them
It should be recolleded, that President
Washington, during his whole admin
istration, resided at Mount Vernon, at
this season of the year—Mr. Adams,
while President and Vice- President,
ever spent his summer months at Quin-
to derange all order and regular police. Like
a jaundice, it gives a certain tinge to the mind,
and perverts the medium through which things
are viewed. It enters into their local as well as
public concerns, and stamps the features of all
their social tranfaaions with a strange incon
liftency. It perverts the judgment of the wife,
and renders men, in regard to reason & truth,
as deaf as an an adder, and as blind as a mole.
Indeed, a degree of party spirit will ;always
prevail among a free nation. Human nature
is felfiffi and aspiring ; and under a free gov
ernment, where men may think as they please,
and speak as they think, a diversity of fenti
meats will be expressed ; and from the collition
of individual interest, this diversity of sentiment
frill frequently produce keen animosities. This
is an evil for which there is no remedy. It.
grows out of the nature of man, under a free
government ; and there is no other alternative
but a state of freedom, attended always with a
degree of the spirit of party, and sometimes
with violent animosities and commotions ; or,
on the other hand, the awful and death-like
calm of despotism, where the discontented, and
even the injured are obliged to feai their lips,
and smother their resentments in their own
breasts.
Upon this fubjea the celebrated Montesquieu
expressed the following sentiments : " it may
be advanced (said he) as a general rule, that
wherever a perfed calm is visible, in a state that
calls itfelf a republic, the Spirit of Liberty no
longer subsists. Union in a body politic, is a
very equivocal term : true union is such a har
mony as makes all the particular parts, as op
posite as they may seem to us, concur to the
general welfare of the society, in the lame man
ner as difeords in mafic contribute to the gen
eral melody of found. Union may prevail in a
state full of seeming commotions ; or, in other
words, there may be a harmony from whence
refuJts prosperity, which alone is true peace, &
may be considered in the fame view, as the va
rious parts of this universe, which are eternally
conneaed by the a&ion of some and the refac
tion of others."
Allowing the foregoing sentiments of Mon
tesquieu to be just, there was cause to exped
that under our free government, there would
be a diversity of sentiments, and such a clashing
of political interests, as frequently to excite a
degree of public ferment. We-had cause be
forehand to exped that different candidates fort
high offices, would be supported by their re
fpedive parties with a warm zeal ; and there
fore events of this kind ought to be neither a
larming nor surprising.
But when party spirit becomes rancorous and
intollerant, it scatters, like the fabled box of
Pandora, innumerable evils and mifehiefs all
around. And whenever, or wherever, this is
the unhappy state of things, every good man,
every well wither to his country, to whichever
party he may belong, should apply emolients,
and endeavour to abate and heal that rancour
and virulence, which tend to render fociet, a
curie rather than a blessing. A. N.-