Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1801-11-19 00:00:00, page 2

ifts in 1 ygtraPerhi^ they may objed, that the
executive power they advocated, was for Mr.
Adams ; and'not for Thomas Jeffirson.
—We presume they thought io—But, Fellow
Citizens, fare your National Reprefeutatives to
benefited in their legiflitive decisions by Me
aad not Principle Q.;
Though we admit that enough of the offic
ers should be io fentimeot with the Executive,
to give efficiency to his administration; yet we
cannot subscribe to this doarine of ,roftri,time.
It is too arbitrary, to be advocated in its full ex
tent in our free republican government. No
authority ought to be placed in Thomas Jeffer
foo, a, PrfyoM of the U, Statu, which his Sue
ceffor, whoever the People may choose, shall
be unchecked in mif-ufiog—lf any such autho
rity was created for the^Z, use of Mr. Adams,
let the next Congress " corred the procedure"
of the lafl-^in the mean time let those violent
Federalists ad more confident; and not con
demn Mr. Jefferfon for exercifiog partial, the
power which they infilled on Mr. Adams' ex
ercising io its utmost extent and rigour.
Left there ffiauld still be some honest but de
luded and misguided people, not yet complete
ly convinced of the deceptive arts of federalifm,
(or more properly toryifm)—that these falfe-
Federalists advocated an Executive power in
1,98, which the part, condemns in 1801—we
dired their attention to the following :]
He (Mr Alien) believed there were
persons within that house who thought
'the government ought to be overfet,
and that it could not and ought not to
be supported, and who believed that
the most effectual way of destroying it
was to destroy the confidence of the
people in the individuals who admin
ifterit. See as before.
* Mr. Griswold said gentlemen charge
the executive with being possessed of
an influence which they foretell will'
prove the deftruftion of the govern-,
me nt. He confide red such opinions |
only as mere chimeras of the brain,l
supported upon no rational ground.
He said gentlemen went still further,;
and said that this power had been al-|
ready actually abused, as the executive
in his appointments to office, had re
fpe& to the political opinions of those
whom he chose. He confe ffed that he
had thought, from some appointments
• which had been made, that the Presi
dent had not adopted the determina
tion which some gentlemen were of 0#
pinion he had, though he acknowledg
ed it was a determination which every
real friend of the government muftl
wish to fee adopted. Could it be be
lieved that the President would not
have some refpe& to the opinions of
the men he employed A—What ! em
ploy men whole very opinions and
principles lead to disorder. If the de
termination of attending to the opin
ions of men appointed to office had not
been adopted, it ought to be adopted :
They appeared to him (Mr Griswold)
upon this point as faying, 66 We know
eur principles are such that we have no
chance of appointments ; we will not
therefore fuffer the President to ap
point any body else." The gentleman
from Georgia has expressed great fur
prize at hearing this defended as a
principle of the executive. But he
,f asked whether the principle was not
supported by the best authority ? Is
it not the principle upon which the
people, the sovereign people them
;felves ad? Do they ever choose rep
resentatives of political sentiments dif
ferent from their own ? None would
flay they did. None could deny this
to be their principle. If he, or the
gentleman opposite to him, held differ.
ent political tenets, it is not probable
that either of them would have appear
ed in their present places. Now, for
gentlemen, who fay they adore the
Voice of the people, to reprobate so
indecently a principle universally a
dopted by them, did not appear to him
either confident with their other pro
feffions, or refpeaful to the people
themselves. The President must there
fore be juftified in following an exam#
ple set by the people, whose will has
created him, and ought therefore to
direct him. If he has ever deviated
from this principle the consequences
have convinced him of his error. And
he hoped that profiting by his experi
ence, a Similar conduct would be a
voided in future.
This rule is as good in 1801 as 1798.
In the firft place he, (Mr. Sewall,)
would refer to what the gentleman from
Virginia had said. He called upon
the people of the U. S. to confederate
with him against the executive; he had
endeavored to raise an intefefted pas
sion, not in the people at large, but in
those who have been disappointed in
1 their application for offices to the Pre
sident, and to all those who have par
tialities elsewhere, to confider the ex
ecutive in a degraded point of light,
Ifor havingjoined a certain party, and
' for having determined to choose no
I person to office but persons of a cer
tain opinion, thereby degrading the
{executive of the United States, by rep.
resenting him as the head of a party.
! Nor was the gentleman contented by
Idrawing around him all the difcontent
;ed of the community, but he also made
ian attempt upon that part of the peo
'plc who 'were generally in favor or the
Imeafures of the executive. In this
(manner was the executive to fee, not
only the difcontended part of the peo
ple, but his friends, arrayed against
him. He trusted, he should 'not be
considered as wanting in refpe& to the
people, if he considered them as an
improper tribunal to be appealed to
on this occasion: If abuse existed, he
had pointed out the constitutional way
of rectifying it. He was further of
opinion that any attempt to mifinform
the people on this fubjeft, was a fort
of treason against the peaceful enjoy#
ment by the people of their liberty.
It was therefore necessary that the peo
ple should be well assured of the truth
of such a charge ; for if it had the ef
fect he had mentiened, and was not
founded in fa&, he should confider the
man who made it as a traitor to the
people. (See debates as before.)
GNow, Citizens of Newhampffiire, whe.
ther federalifts, or republicans, or bath, read
the preceding statements again—They may en
able you to form a just opinion of those who
have clamoured so loudly against Mr. Jeffer
fon, for appointing a few republicans to assist
him in his administration—Consider these high
minded federalifts were for the Prefident'# ap
pointing none but federalifts to office—none
but thole of his own political opinion—Confi
der, that Mr. Adams adopted their rule, and
<adhered rigidly to the principle—so that hard
ly a Republican was left in office—in some in
fiances Old Whigs were taraui out, and old twin
put in their stead—Two instances of this kind
happened in Newhampfhire— and these were
not the only federal offices io the state filled by
the tor, gtntr,— Confider, that Mr. Jefferfon,
on coming to the Presidency, found for
fice of his own republican politics-rand confid
er also, that he has made but few appointment
and still fewer removals—the principal offices
were either vacant or soon vacated by refigoa
tions, and he has chosen Republicans to fill the
vacancies—But after all, and notwithstanding
all the noise the federal jacobins have made a
bout Mr. Jeffeifon's appointments, still it is
a FACT, which they are challenged to con
trovert, that at this day out of upwards of two
hundred principal offices of the Federal Gov
ernment, but a few more than fy, are filled by ,
men of Similar Political Sentiments with the
President These things will enable you to
judge fairly of the profeffioos of those who have
heretofore called themlelves Federalists, and
the ucchfvo " Friends of Order." [R. Gz.
The American NAVY.
THE Republicans are iatUfieJ that the present
administration will do all in its power, to pro
ted the Commerce cf the U. States. Our little
(qdadron now in the Mediterranean, effedually
guards our trade from the Tripolitan cruizers.
A valuable convoy of merchant vessels has reach
ed this country —And our sea faring brethren
are proud to acknowledge their gratitude to the
?;overnment for its protection, so promptly af
orded to them io a time of real danger. But,
fay the Torta, this is our navy, you must thank
us for it.-—-How so? whose money paid for
this navy ?——Why, VHE PEOPLE'S, to be
sure—and the people have a right to derive all
the benefit from it, as they pay all the expense.
HOW admirably confident are the tor, gazettes
-——When it was announced, that an Ameri
can squadron was to fail for theMediterraoean,
to chastise the inlolcnce of a piratical power,
they eoodemned the measure as an usurpation
of prerogative by the Executive, ,as a ofclefs
waste of the public money, &c. But now, as
they find the buficefs has answered a most im
portant objid, they are for attaching the whole
merit of it to the former administration 1 Ri-
Jam tomath.
Federal Text—" Mt. Jefferfon is an enemy
to Commerce." This has been rung in our
ears a thousand times.
Mr. Jefferfon fends a Squadron into the Me.
diterranean sea to protea Commerces
Fetoel Cormrar-" But then he violates the
Conftitption" —soy the Federalists.
^r,— Where was the Constitution, when
Mr. Adams ordered our cruisers to burn, fink
and destroy the French ?
rffoor —ln Federal keeping.
Precious Confeflion' .From the Pallad.
Q^eftion-- What is a Republican?
4nJtor—A man who has great relped for the
maxims of wisdom and experience, reflecting
dividing and checking the branches of govern,
ment. He is one who would give to govern
ment so much power as to secure an energetic
proteaion to liberty & property, and he would
leave to individuals so much power as should
prevent the abuse of what is delegated to gov
ernment. [Pa/Wiam.
)We fee in the federal papers a spe
cimen of their manner of answering
fads and arguing questions. Instead
of repelling the charges of A. Camp
bell, refpe&ing Mr. Pickering's defal
cations, several columns of matter are
applied to shew that A. Campbell is a
worthless character -But supposing
him to be as vile a wretch as was em
ployed by a federal fecretary,does that
circumstance alter or affe& the nature
of the mat in question ? Certainly
not. —When people, however, are the
advocates of a bad cause, and destitute
of argument to support it, they gene
rally resort to railing and defamation.
The fraternity of Fiee masons at the
Hague, have voted a gold medal, of
50 ducats, for the best refutation of
the charges of Barruel, profeffor Rob
inson, &c. against that order——The
writer, in Dutch, Englilh, French or
German, “ must, briefly, but forcibly,
exhibit the proofs that the fraternity
had no share whatever, either in orig
inating or promoting the religious or
political schisms which have desolated
Europe?