Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1801-05-28 00:00:00, page 1

Extract of a letter from a gentleman in
Wajhington, to his friend in Boston, da
ted April 26, ißoi.
" Notwithstanding the paper opposition
which will be made to Gallatin's appoint
ment, I think great utility will result
from it. The state of no department is
so complicated, so involved, and so dif
ficult to be investigated as that of the
treasury ; and yet nothing is of more
importance to be done. The examina
tions have hitherto been such only as
some particular circumstances have cal
led for. It will be ufeful in the highest
degree to the people, as well as to the
government, to Shew the A vast state of
the treasury, the amount /ofthe debt, its
origin, its progress, and the particulars
which compose it. The comparison that
may be made between measures that
save and those which expend the money,
will more than subdue the prejudice a
gainst receiving the benefit from the
hand of a man born in a foreign country
It is fayinga great deal, but I believeno
man in the country at present so compel
tent to this business as Mr. Gallatin. —
He has made it his study ; his knowledge
of it has grown up with him. It would
take years for any other man, who would
accept of the appointment, to acquire
the understanding of our money con
cerns which he now has. By this is meant
not merely a knowledgd of the state of
the books, but of much out door inform
mation attaching itfelf to the fubjeft.
" I am confident from his great indus
try and his talents that he will make his
services both ufeful and acceptable. If
the uneasiness which you apprehend at
his appointment, Should produce vigi
lance and all attention to his conduct, so
much the better: it will result in fatis#
fadory information.
66 The President's personal enquiries
will extendto the minutiae of the public
concerns, and ifa solicitude for the good
THE charader of Mr. Gallatin is far
beyond the fhafis of ridicule. His great
talents are not disgraced by any eccen
tricities of mind, or manners. The vile
buffoonery which sports with ignorance,
can never please where Mr. Gallatin is
known. The love of liberty directed
his steps to America. He was no fpecu=
lator, no monopolizer, no demagogue.
He loved the liberty of the law, and he
attached himfelf to our cause, because
he found us a free people. He vifned
every part of our union, and is among
the best judges of our resources. He
has converted a large estate into an in=
tereft in our foil. He cultivates the foil
he has purchased. He is united to an
American by marriage, and he has a fam
ily born in the country. Os our com
merce he has an extensive knowledge.
With our finances he has explained to
the world his intimate acquaintance; and
from his pure morals, extreme prudence,
and comprehensive powers, ranks among
the best and greater men in America.
ALBERT GALLATIN.
political ffl^cellanp.
REPUBLICAN GAZETTE.
CONCOR D, ratobampfbtt THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1801—No. i 7 -v ol . r.
The patriotic spirit manifefted by the ma
jority of our wealthy citizens, is the more
pleating, since, it powerfully contradicts
the milreprefentations industriously cin
culated by some of our federalifts that
the Prefidenc and Vice-President have
been elevated to, and supported in the
high and important offices they now fill
by the people possessed of no property.
But if this unfounded calumny were
true, with us it would have no weight.
It is MAN, with all his powers of body
and mind that ought to be represented.
Man is the fubje& of government, his
happiness the end.
Weadmit the talents of Mr. Hamil#
ton. But when they have been employe
ed to dignify vice, and to degrade a
President of the United Slates, they can:
not deserve our reverence. We hope
that the paragraph,, reported as his, is
not a specimen of his eloquence. We
look before the Revolution, to fee what
men accomplished it. 66 Great Cities
are of infinite consequence to the liber#
ties of mankind." Our great Cities
have been the friends of the public lib#
erty. They are the friends of Jeffer
son ! To suspend the fate of France up:
on the life of any one man, is the lan:
guage ofa politician ; but upon what life
does Liberty depend when breathed by a
whole people ! Are they to be deprived
of their love of Liberty, by the changes
rung on odious names ! Is this the glo#
ry of eloquence ! What has federalifm
done but by the Constitution ? What
can Jacobinifm do without it! Nation#
al jealousy we commend. But thisjeal
oufy, ever active, should guard against
the encraochments of power, of foreign
interest, or of party. But when preju
dice stalks boldly before the Chief Ma
gistrate and bids contempt, with inso
lence, to meet him at his firft promotion,
and course his zeal, we should arrest its
guilty designs ; and having once detect
ed the crime, every heart should seal
the condemnation it deserves.
was never more just, or more sincere
than it now is in the United States. It
has been ridiculed in the mod whimfo
cal (hapes.it has been opposed under the
most opprobious names. It has been
confounded with every error, that it
might not be known, and it has been ah
fociated with every crime, that it might
not be loved. The faults and crimes
of its pretended friends have been im=
puted to its character, and the sentence
of death has been pronounced upon its
dodrines. And yet its native glory
beams thro' every cloud and enlightens
the multitude of the people._ Like the
Sun, it is not ruled by the tempest, and
tho' often darkened, commands the day,
which it is sure to bellow upon the
world.
of the country, joined to unremitting efc
forts to produce it,will give him the con
fidence of the people, his administration
mult be popular." - N
LIBERTY AND THE CONSTITUTION.
The LOVE of LIBERTY
KINE POX. We learn with pleasure that tie
Kine Pox innoculation is progressing in Boston &
its vicinity, to great fatisfadion. Os between
46 and 50, which Dr. Waterhouse has innoccu
lated since his late importation of matter not a
single trait of the spurious kind has appeared, nor
any bad fore arms, neither has it failed in its
communication at its firft attempt, excepting in
two or three cases of re-innoculation, and where
it is presumed the patients had already passed
through the disease. The inoculation never flood
on higher ground in Europe than when the left
accounts came away.
Philadelphia and Newyork are contesting for
the honor of being the most populous city of the
Boston Centinel, May 16. From Provi
dence, Ma, 10 —" You said justly, when
you observed that 66 Rhodeifland has de
generated to its former Know Ye state."
We have but one consolation, that at
present, by the constitution, they cannot
make paper money; for if they could,
conftitutionally,we should apprehend the
validity of contracts; and I fear the sus
pension of,bufinefs, as in 1786. Could
the Federalists but open the eyes of the
people to fee the character of our Gov
ernor, & succeed in getting a Chief Ma#
giftrate that was refpefted, and had fup#
ported a good political reputation, we
might become of some consequence to
the federal interest of the United States;
but at present, as our governor has been
many years in rule, and carries the coun
try interest pretty much as he pleases, we
have reason to fear a series of jacobin
measures. The Legislature adjourned
yesterday afternoon,and most all the fed
eral men throughout the state, who were
judges, and held offices of any conse
quence, are removed, and jacobins ap#
pointed."-: [%fr What a calamity has
come upon the poor, chop falienfederalijis!
It worries the Centinel, that Rhodefl and
has become Republican I and that New,
hampjhire is becoming Jo too! But the
pangs and groans of the Essex Junto can
not prevent, though the, ma, clog andres
tard, the change.]
Yet surrounded as we are with all the
prejudices of injudicious education, it is
pleasing and consoling to know and re
fled that instead of property depreciat
ing on the exaltation of Messrs. Jeffer
fon and Burr, as was predicted by their
opponents, the freeholders of this city
have come forward to support govornor
Clinton with a zeal and devotion rarely
equalled. -[N. Y. Pap.
A Norfolk paper mentions, that the
captain of the Britifli frigate Boston,
has challenged the captain of the French
frigate Semilante, to a combat with their
ships ; and that the French captain had
accepted, on condition no other British
ship was near [We do not know
whether this British frigate is the fame
frigate Boston, that engaged the French
frigate Ambuscade, a few years ago, but
we wish her no better success ; in fad if
their force is equal, there is no doubt
but the Frenchman will be ihe vidor.
@3" " Good News from a far country."
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