The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1794-01-14 00:00:00, page 4

We draw a veil over the. sensations
which these expreflions excite. No
words can render them : but they will
not escape the sensibility of a friendly
and magnanimous nation, who will do
us justice. We fee in them neither the
portrait of ourselves, nor the pencil of
our friends; but an attempt to embroil
both ; to add still another nation to the
enemies of his country, and to draw on
both a reproach which it is hoped will
slain the hiftory of neither. The writ
ten proofs, of which Mr. Genet was
himfelf, the bearer, were too unequivo
cal to leave a doubt that the French
nation are coniUnt in their friendfliip
to us. The resolves of their National
Convention, the lettets of their Execu
tive Council attest this truth in terms
which render it necessary to seek, in some
othe hypothtfis, the solution of Mr
Genet’s machinations againfbour peace
and friendfliip.
Conscious, on our part, that the fame
friendly and sincere difpofitiohs we can
with truth affirm,both by our nation and
government,that we have never omitted a
reasonable occasion of manifefting them.
For I will not consider as of that charac
ter, opportunities of sallying forth from
out ports to way lay, rob and murder
defencelefs merchants and others, who
have done us no injury, and who were
come to trade with us, in the confidence
of our peace and into amity. The vio
lation of all the laws of order and moral
ity which bind mankind together, would
bean unacceptable offering toa just nation
Recurring then only to recent things,
after so afflifting a libel, we recoiled
with fatisfadion that in the courle of
two years, by unceasing exertions, we
paid up seven years arrearages and in
ftalments of our debt to France, which
the inefficiency of our firft form of gov
ernment had fuffcred to be accumulating:
That •pressing on still to the entire ful
filment of our engagements, we have
facilitated to Mr. Genet the effed of
the inftalments of the present year, to
enable him to fend relief to his fellow
citizens in France threatened with fam
ine : That in the firft moment of the
infurredion which threatened the colony
of St. Domingo, we stepped foiward to
their relief with arms and money, taking
freely on ourselves the rilk of an unau
thorized aid, when delay would have
been denial; that we have received ac
cording to our best abillitics, 'he wretch
ed fugitives from the catastrophe of the
principal town of that colony, who es
caping from the swords and flames of
civil war, threw themselves on us naked
and houfelefs, without food or friends,
money or other means, their faculties
loft and absorbed in the depth of their
distresses: That the exclusive admission
to fell here the prizes made by France
on-her enemies, in the present war,
though unftipulated in our treaties and
unfounded in her own pradica, or in that
of other nations, as we believe; the spir
it manifefted by the late Grand Jury m
their proceedings against those who had
aided the enemies of France with arms
and implements of war, the expreflions
of attachment to his nation, wi.h which
Mr. Genet was welcomed, on his arri
val and journey from South to North, and
our long forbearance under his gross u
surpations and outrages of the laws and
authority of our country, do not bespeak
the partialities intimated in his letters.
And for these things he rewards us by
endeavours to excite difeord and distrust,
between our citizens and those whom
they have entrusted with their govern
ment, between the different branches of
our government, between our nation and
his. But none of these things we hope,
will be found in his power. The friend
ship which diftates to us to bear with
his condud yet a while, left the interests
of his nation here should fuffer injury,
will hasten them to replace an Agent
whose dispositions are such a mifrepre.
fentarion of theirs, and whose continu
ance here is inconsistent with order,
neace. refped, and that friendly corres
pondence which we hope will e.er lubfitt
between the two nation,. Hu govern
ment will fee, too.
[Continued from fecondfage ]
Tranfiationt of the French fajfagei :
A, “ Fhe philofophicalpi inci plcs proclai
med by the President.”
P The opinions, private or public of
the President, and this Egis not appearing
to you fufiicunty
C. “The FederalGevernment has been ea
ger, urged by I know not what influenced
D, *T cannot ascribe measures of this na
ture, but to extraneous impressions, over
which time and truth will triumphd
E'. ** They pursue with rage the French
privateers,by the orders of the President. ’ ’
F. ** This refufal tends to accompli(h tbt
infernalfyfltm of the King of England and
of the other Kings, his accomplices, to de
ft roy, by famine French freemen and free
dom.”
G. “The cowardly abandonment of their
friends d
H. In vain the de fire to prejerve peace,
leads you to facrifice the inter est of
France to this inter ft of the moment;
in vain the thirfl of riches preponae
rate against honour in the political
balance of America ; all thij manage
ment i all these condefeenfions ; all this
humiliation end in nothing... Our eu
emits laugh at it. and the French,-too
confident, are punifhedfor having be
lievtd that the American nation had a
flag j that it had some re/peA for in
laws, some conviction of its force, and
that it had some sentiment of its digni
ty. It is not possible for me to point to
you all my sensibility at this scandal,
which tends to the diminution of your
commerce, to the oppression of ours, and
to the debasement and valification of
Republics.
If our fellow citizens have been deceiv
ed, if you are not in a condition to main
tain the sovereignty of your people, fpcpk :
We have guaranteed it when we were
slaves, we know bow to render it respec
table being become free I'
sing ; that it is impoflible for two sover
eign andjindependent authorities to be
going on within our territory, at the
fame time, without coll.lion. They
will forefee that if Mr. Genet perfevercs
in his proceedings, the consequences
would be lo hazardous to us, the exam,
pie so humiliating and pernicious, that
we may be forced tofufpend his func
tions before a ucceflbr can arrive to con
tinue them. If our citizens have nor
already been (hedding each other’s blood,
it is not owing to the moderation of Mr.
Genet, but to the fcrbearacceof the gov
ernment. It is well known, that if the
authority of the laws had been refonec
to, to flop the Little Democrat, its offic
ers and agents were to have been relifted
by the crew of the veffel,confifting partly
of American citizens. Such events are io
serious, too possible, to be left to hazard,
or what is worse than hazard, thejwili ol
an Agent whose defies axe so myfteii
ous. Lay the case, then, immediately
before his government; accompany it
with assurances, which cannot be flron
ger than true, that our fr iendfliip for the
nation is constant and unabating; that if,
in any thing, however, we have conflru
ed them amiss, we are ready to enter in
to candid explanations, and to do what*
ever we can be convinced is right ; that
in opposing the extravagancies of an
Agent, whose charafter they seem not
fufficiently to have known, we have been
urged by motives of duty toourleives,
and justice to others, which cannot but
be approved by those who arejuft them*
selves; and, finally, that, after indepen.
dence and felf government there is no
thing we more sincerely wiih than per*-
petual friendfliip with them.
NdTE —A copy of the preceding
letter was sent inclofed by the Secreta
ry of State, to Mr. Genet.
WAN I'ED by the printers
hereof, a few tanned
Sheepskins, suitable for book
binding.
I have the honour to be,
with great refpeft and efteeiji*
Dear Sir, &c. &c.
(Signed) TH: JEFFERSON.
OU have doubtless observ
ed, in the course of your ac
quaintance with the world, two
characters equally opposite, and
equally disagreeable—l mean
the ever fond, and the brutal
husband—the Fondlewife and
(he Crabtree of matrimony.
I was in company the other
evening, where those two cha
rafters met, and formed such a
(hiking contrast, as could not
fail attracting the attention oi
all present.
Mr. Fondlewife fat the whole
evening next his car a fpofa and
was incessantly fquetzing her
hand, and faying: tk My angel,
how do you ; my life, 1 fear you
are not well: shall I get you some
hartfhorn drops, or some faks-,
come my lamb, I think you look
a little better j” then giving her
a.kifs, “I hope you will recover,”
or “ (hall I order you a chaise ?
Such a fulfome dialogue, or
rather soliloquy, with its accom
paniments, was completely dis
gusting; but not quite so in
lupportable, as the behavior of
Mr. Crabtree, who fat direftly
opposite, in every sense, to Mr.
Fondlewife. Whenever Mrs.
Crabtree began to speak, he in
terrupted her with, “ hold your
tongue, you fool ; don’t expose
yourfelf.” When (he endeav
ored to go on in faying, “ pray,
Mr. Crabtree, give me leave to
tell my story,” he would imme
diately vociforate —“ oh d—n
your stories ! they are all alike
and not worth listening to.”
“But Mr. Crabtree, 1 don’t
want you to listen,” she would
reply, “ I was speaking to this
lady.” “ Was you,” laid Crab
tree, “ f am very sorry for it;
but that lady has too much sense,
to harken to your nonsense.
Then poor Mrs. Crabtree was
silenced, and her husband, as
usual, obtained his triumph.
Such charafters, I know, fir,
are often to be met with ; but
they are seldom so completely
contrasted in the fame groupe,
which rendered this event the
more remarkable, and made me
conclude, if the Fondlewives
and the Crabtrees were not e
qually reprehensible, they were
at least equally ridiculous.
How naturally the judicious
reader will draw the following
conclusion : That the happy
medium is to be most devoutly
aimed at, and that the inceflTant-
Jy fond spouse, and perpetual
ly snarling spouse, should be
held up as beacons to married
men, to avoid* Charybdis, and
not split on Scylla.
A moderate husband.
THERE is a point beyond
which the human mind
cannot fuffer, and there are also
bounds beyond which human
calamity cannot extend. Refleft,
Two extraordinary Charatiers,
MONITOR,
my beloved friend, with hum
ble gratitude, refleft how far
you are yet from reaching thd
verge of that frightful gulphi
Reason, religion, friend (hip, and
conscious reftitude, are yours; ;
open your heart to those confo- >
lations which thefefupply; and 4
above all, let the consideration |
of the (hortnefs of life mitigate
rhe severity of its fufferings, and j
the allured hope of that which is f
to come, teach you to rife supe
rior to them; seek relief from
chat Being, who, in time oft
extremity, often brings us un- j
hoped deliverance, and is alike J
powerful and willing to affilW
those who put their trust in hi&!
aid. It is by awful difpenfationsj
and in hours of peculiar dark!
nefs, that the Almighty teache^
his feeble creatures, to raise theil
eyes from second causes, and
what they call fortuitous eventfl
to Him, the great fir ft cause
fupreme.governor of the univerle|
It is then their virtues are made
perfeft by discipline, that thou
faith triumphs over the world
it is then the most enlightener
of the human race are brough
to a feeling sense of their owe
ignorance, th«t with humility
they adore what they canno
comprehend, and cry our, Mai
is error and ignorance ! Brin<
of beings have mercy upon us }
THE sale of Lands, ad
vertifeft to be held on the 12!
day of November Jaft, at the house (
Edwards Bucknam. E(q. in Lancefte
Was adjourned to the 15 th day of Jani |
ary 1794, at 1 o’clock in the afternoor 4
at the heufe of Stephen LamsonJue »-
holder in Exeter.
January 6.
HEREAS Afary, wif S
of me the fubfc.-iber, has elop
ed my bed and board, this is to Cautio|
any , perlon or perlons, whomloever, a |
gainft harboring or trusting her on mi)
acconntj as I am determined not to
any debts by her contrasted after th^
date. • JOHN MARSTON.
Middleton, Nov. 2 1793.
— ■ " • * . - - - is
NoTlCEishereby given ths
the Probate Court by law to be held ; j
Epsom, on the third Wednesday of Jan;
nary 1794, will be adjourned to the thir l
Wednesday of May, then next. A
concerned may govern them lelves at
cordingly.
By order of the Judge*
William Parker, Reg*!,
—M
FOR SALE— CHEAP, I .
A House, Barn, and
between 9 and 10 acres of Land, ple^
fantly situated in Concord, New-Hamm
lhire,and in the centre of the toß*rftrceS
and within a few rods of the Stores ||
which most of the business in Mercha^l
dize is tranfafted. The place has bed)
improved as a Tavern almost ever 4”^
the firft fetllement of the town ; and ql
account of its locality, may justly be
to be the best situation for a House
Entertainment of any in this part of ttfg
country. The buildings are in good rrifc.
pair, and the. foil of theland is excel yi
lent. RICHARD H. OSGOOL®
Concord, Dec. 4. M
Writing paper,
Bv the Ream or Quire,of an ek|
ccllent quality, for sale at
Ranlec’s Office,