Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1802-08-24 00:00:00, page 2

but to do the subject justice produ
ces an avocation from private du
ties not always confident with the
situation of an individual.
FRANKLIN.
From the CHRONICLE.
©w ^outb.
" Should the infidel Jefferfon be elefted to the
Presidency, the seal of death is that moment set
on bur holy Religion, our churches will be prof,
traced, and some infamous prollitute, under the
title of the Goddess of Reason, will preside in the
Sanctuaries now devoted to the most High."
I New-England Palladium.
" This unholy spirit of Atheism has already de
terioated the political and moral condition of this
country, and kill menaces our hopes, privileges
and possessions.".
Mr. Emerson's ,th of July Oration.
THE public mind has been long “ de,
teriorated" by the alarm? and apprehen
sions, that it is proper, to arrest the
attention of the citizens, to a candid re
flection upon the above paragraphs. In a
Society, composed of men influenced by the
^precepts of religion, it is natural to suppose
when the cause of Christianity is threatened
with annihilation, that every serious mem
ber will be roofed in its vindication. No
wonder the Federalists built their expedi
tions on Connedicut and the Northern
States ; for if the eledion of Mr. Jefferfon
was to " seal with death our Religion,
prostrate our Churches, and some infamous
proffitute was to preside in the fanduaries
devoted to the most High," it was full time
for every religious " fed" to put on the
whole armour " both of faith and pra&ice."
This is a high charge against the President,
but, like all other effufions of fanaticifm, it
falls by the pressure of its own weight.
It would be easy to add very
considerably to the reasons we have
collected in favor of the immediate
adoption by the Union and by the
States, of a system of measures cal
culated effectually to encourage
promote and protect the manufac
ture of the native American cotton,
on the happiest instance, which
could be {elected of that kind of
internal iriduftry to be aided by
labor-Saving machinery. The
whole system of manufactures in
deed will admit of many, strong
and new adductions in its favor,
Ite. Cotton goods {applied sub
stitutes for linen shirts, pillow-ca
ses, sheets, linings, pocketings,
napkins, diaper, huckaback and
damask ; and cotton goods also
supplied the places of silk gowns,
and 'other silk clothing of various
kinds. Both Ireland and the silk
countries of France, were long and
much disordered, and industry was
suspended there for a time. The
cotton substitutes for linen were
highly convenient and economical.
The disorders of Europe may re
vive.
The cotton manufacture is of the
utmost importance to all the coun
try on the weftern waters. The
country on the Mifliflippi and O
hio can produce cotton in vast a
bundance. The navigation is not
yet politically on the best possible
footing. It is not so perfect for
return boats and vessels as could be
wished. It is therefore of vast im
portance to the country on the wef
tern waters to decrease in size the
produce of their lands, while they
increase the value. Raw cotton
will occupy as much room, as ma
ny times the value in cotton man
ufactures. The raw cottons of the
weftern States, may pass to the ex
tensive coal mines on the weftern
waters, and there meet that fuel &
forage, provisions and building
materials, much of,which it would
be impossible to carry to any for
eign market. Their cotton man
ufactures may be diffufed through
our ranges of counties east and
north of them. The labor-saving
machinery can be well established
wheresoever there are mill-feats &
abundant and cheap fuel, forage
and food for man and beast.
So far from our Churches being “ ptof
trated," new ones are daily erecting ; pro
posals for building Meeting-Houses ,are
more frequent in our news-papers than fori
merlf. In Borton we /hall soon fee the
New-North rife more glorious than the
former temple ; if we prortrate an old
Church, it is to raise a more splendid new
one in its place. Since Mr. Jefferfon's er
leaion, we find Religion is as highly rated
as ever ; some societies are liberal in pro
curing Partors, while others are as tenacious
in ertimating them at their full value ; even
the old fafhioned pride is banished, of
crouding all refpcaeble familial in the
The pith and marrow of the whole Fed
eral “ feet" are consolidated to the terrific
charge, that Mr. JefFerfon's election will
endanger religion. This dreadful predic
tion, is proclaimed through the c^nfecrated
medium of the New-England Palladium.---
This infallible oracle receives an additional
influence, by being edited by a Connecticut
genius, who lately displayed his icientific
knowledge, by inferting,a receipt to make
hurtle-berry (vulgarly called hackle-berry)
pudding ! While he is thus anxious for at
good pudding, we cannot but foppofe he
will be equally attentive to the moral vir
tues. When, therefore, it is declared, in a
paper which travels by the bounty of Fed
eral charity into the mansion of almost eve
ry clergyman in New-England, that if Mr.
Jefferfon is chosen President, the churches
will be prostrated, and that some hag will
preside in the fanCtuaries of the Most High,
can we wonder that a temporary infatua
tion has bewildered the well disposed citi
zens, that a faction of old Tories, should
have excited a transient disgust againfl the
man who penned that Declaration which fev
ered America from the fangs of Britain.
I have endeavored, fellow-citizens, to
treat every fubjeft with deliberate consider
ation ; but you mult excuse me if I indulge
a humorous excursion on the present occa
sion. Pray, pious Editor, from whence
did your diltrelling forebodings arise ? who
were the Pioneers, armed with weapons of
deftruaion, to level the Churches r who
were the Notaries, to set the seal of death
on our holy Religion ? who were the arti-'
ficers, to falhjon out the Goddefsof Rcufo%
and who were the banditti to ere& it in the
temple of the Most High ? The absurdity
of your declaration is evidenced by these en
quiries, and yet you solemnly told the citi
zens, that “at the moment 7 ’ Mr. Je'ffer
fon was chosen, these evils would take
place ! Can you suppose that the people
are so ignorant as to credit your absurdities ?
Has there been Any attempt to accpmplifh
your prophecies r What Church is threat
ened with prostration r What Reverend
Prelate is under bonds or imprisonment ?
Is any subordinate member of the Church
fuffering persecution ? Are not your Clergy
as well paid now as when Mr. Adams was
President ? Has any society lowered the an
nual salary ? Are the Reverend Paflors call
ed on to do more duty than formerly, or is
the “ arduous work of the Ministry" in
creased r Have we heard of any " innova
tions” to lessen the income of the church ?
Though some have laid an extra tax on the
society ? If these things have not taken
place, what can be the meaning of the pious
Palladium in denouncing the people as fub
terters of order and religion ? Since the set
tlement of this country, the Clergy were
n^ver better paid, more rationally noticed,
nor they never lived easier than at the pres
ent day. It is ungenerous then to be abus
ing the people as atheists, drifts, and difor
ganizers, when their whole conduct proves
the fallacy of such epithets. Those few of
the Clergy, who thus fligmatize their Pa
rifhoners as atheists would think it uncan
did if fault should be found with their ft
gle& of duty, or any presume to censure
them for dabbling in politics, when it is ev
ident they are ignorant of all the principles
which led to our independence, or to those
which must substantiate it."
Fellow Citizens—Let us for a moment
condefeend to reason with these men, who
thus deprecated the election of Mr. Jeffer
fon. He has been ele&ed neatly 18 months,
and I would ask them in what instance has
“ the seal of death been set on our holy re
ligion ?" In whit city, town or parish has
“ the church been prostrated r" In what
Rate has “ an infamous prostitute presided
in the fanaueries of the Most High ? The
pious Palladium said these things would
take place at “ the moment Mr. Jefferfon
was elected," and yet he has been President
nearly 18 months and not one particular has
turned out in conformity to their predidion !
The Federalists have of late become so in
fignificant in their observations, and expose
themselves so grossly by their absurdities,
that they are scarcely worthy a furious re
ply: for my own part, they are set viewed
as antagonists ; they are become /rather the
sport of satire, than the fubje^s of argu
ment. The controversy is so udeq^al, that
it is rather condefeenfion that etcitfs in me
the common civility of refutation ; would a
man who values his reputation presume to
argue with those, who so oltca expose
themselves to ridicule ?
GERMANY. FRANKFORT, MAY 16.
THE interview .which the Emperor of
Russia is to have with the king of Prussia at
Memel, excites the attention of different
Courts. Every body attempts to divine the
object of this solemn measure, and we are
loft in a labyrinth of conjedures, of which
it is impollible to difeover the issue. Some
think the business relates to Poland; some
maintain that the two Monarchs intend to
form an alliance for the purpose of securing
the repose of the North of Europe. Indem
nities and other objects of equal importance
inthe present Rate of politics are also men
tioned. It has been remarked that the
Prince of Wirtemberg, Commandant of Vi
enna arrived the 15th of May, probably on
bis way to Memel, to attend the interview
on behalf of Auflria. This circumflance
gives an additional degree es importance to
the ev^^ ; t ^..^a:—. Tm^c is no doubt,
at all events, but that it is a question of ne
gotiations that concerns the three Courts.—
The Duke of Brunswick, it is said, is also to
go to Memel. The presence of this enlight
ened Prince, who is perfe&ly acquainted
with the political Rate of Europe, may prove
of. great service to the several powers in
their regulation of inch important interests.
" The re-building of the Cape proceeds
with a degree of activity which it is difficult
to conceive. This city rises out of its ashes.
"I do not conceal the mifchief which has
been done in many dirtrids of the colony,
but from the different official reports which
I am now receiving, I am convinced that
more than three fourths of the colony are in
FRANCE. PARIS, JUNE 9.
Extract of a letter from Gen. Le Clerc to the
~ r::. . Minify of the Marine.
. + "The Cape, May 8.
A trifing parade of assumed consequence;
a pedantic display of classical erudition, in
terfperled with a few vitiated pronuncia
tions of the American dialed, may give a
person avast idea of his own importance ;
but men of cool refleaion easily discover
the gauze covering which screens such pre
tenders from the public eye.
It is worthy of observation, that every
predi&ion of the Federalifts' has proved falfe
—as it related to Mr. JefFerfon's election.
They not only told us that Religion was to
be bard died from our country, but that the
Public Credit would be facrificed, and that
Commerce would be wholly unproteaed.—
Instead of which, Religion has risen to an
uncommon elevation, if the accounts o. :'=
Missionary Societies can be credited ; the
Public Stocks are higher than tor many
years, and our remaining Ihips of war have
prote&ed our Mediterranean Trade, even
beyond what they did when their numbers
were much larger.
Fellow Citizens !—Be no longer deceived,
assume your wonted position ; let not fana
ticifm on one fide, apathy on the other, lead
you from your duty ; adt like men in delib
eration and like brethren in decision ; your
enemies are few, though violent in their op
position ; they buz like a disturbed hive,
-ouc iTretr clamors nSuft eventually reafe.
They want an expensive gbvernment, and
the question isTimply.this ; Are the People
in favor of Taxes, when they are not need
ed r Let the question be taken throughout
the Northern States—yea or nay—Ye who
are in favor of heavy Taxes, please to man
ifeft it r If the Tories want to know the
public opinion on this fubjed, let them try
it in Town-Meeting, or even at Vila's Cau-;
cufes.
broad aisle and on the lower floot. while
gallery pews are now fought for with the
greatest avidity. In short, every thing about
the Churches looks as flourifhing since the
election of Mr. Jefferfon as before ; instead
of beholding “an infamous prostitute,"
ptefiding in our fanduaries, they were nev
er more ornamented with Ladies, so comely
in their attire, and so attraaive in their de
portment.
These things being fa&s, is it not sur
prising that a man from Conneaicut should
make a declaration so contrary to truth r —
that he should raise a falfe alarm, and put
the whole Christian Church into such con
sternation ? Or, how can any man, clothed
in facerdotals, seriously assert, that " Athe
ism is deterioating the moral and religious
condition of this country," when every ap
pearance carries such strong conviaion to
the contrary, and when he knows there is
not one profefled Atheist on the continent r
How can we reconcile these declarations,
when the revival of Religion is so powerful
(dated In the evangelical Magazine) as to
" knock down" thousands of men, women
and children ? How are we menaced with
an annihilation of all morality, when whole
forefts are illuminated with lamps to guide
the heavenly pilgrims to the place of wor
fbip ? When men thus impose on the public
—it is but justice to the cause of virtue and
religion to notice their absurdities, to ex
pose their folly, and hold them up as objects
of derision.
Foreign Httidcs.
OLD-SOUTH.
The Under Sheriff expressed his surprise
that causes of this nature were not more fre
quently the fubjeds of enquiry in Courts bf
Jullice, considering how the health and lives
of the public were tampered with by igno
rant pretenders to medicine. It was matter
of regret that the Legislature did not turn
its attention to an evil which had extended
itfelf not only throughout the metropolis,
but every part of the country ; or it were
to be wished Grand Juries would exercise
the powers with which the constitution en
trusted them. Such men as the Defendant
could be considered in no other light than as
public pests to society ; a legalised plague
to sweep mankind from the face of the
earth.
The Jury consulted a short time, and re
turned a.veidi<ft for the Plaintiff — damages
4001.
LONDON, JUNE 19.
A Dutch line of battle ship, with French
troops on board, bound to St. Domingo, a
few days since put into the Deal. The
French officers were invited to dine with the
officers of the 5“ d ^3+- A4fy dinner, the
commanding officer ot the regt, gave as the
firft toast, " The Chief Confui of France ,
The French commander then gave “ The
King of Great Britain ;" which was fol
lowed by " To the memory of those brave
men, of all nations, who fell in the late con
test." And "To the reunion of the two
Great Nations."
June 22.,
THE disturbances at Warsaw, in confer
quence of the appearance of Prince Subow,
are said to have produced a great sensation \
throughout Germany. Subow, as soon as
his arrival was known, was challenged by
an old Polish General by the name of Giel
galt, who wished to revenge the melancholy
fate of his country ; Subow having been
the adviser of the partition of Poland, when
in power in the Ruffian Court. Subow de*
clined accepting the challenge on fuck
ground ; upon which Gielgait challenged)l
him for peifonal injuries he had sustained j
tire. The diftrias of Artibonite, and all
those of the South, the Male, and Fort Lib
erte are completely preserved.
" American vessels crowd our harbors
with cargoes of flour, deals, and other ma
terials for building. Citizen Pichon ac
quaints me that the Americans have shewn
much diffatisfaaion with the measures taken
by me on my arrival ; but in my opinion
they are wrong to speak of the patt. There
were some agents of the American Govern
ment with Todiffaint, and they did not al-'
ways give him the bell advice.
ENGLAND. London, may 29.
Z^ INTELLIGENCE.
SHERIFF'S COURT.
QUACK DOCTOR.
RICHARDS V. BURNETT.
THIS was a writ of enquiry of damages
in an adion brought by the Plaintiff,2
Clerk in a refpe&able Merchant's counting
houfe, in the City, against the Defendant, a
vender of Quack Medicines, who stiled him
felf a Dbdur, and distributed hand bills, ad
vertiling medicines which were to cure er
ery disorder that man was fubjeft to. The
Plaintiff had labored under a Scorbutic com
plaint, which frequently appeared in red
spots and flight eruptions on the face. He
had applied to a regular Apothecary, who
told him there was nothing unufuai or a
larming in this case, and that it was only
necessary for him to live regular, and take
the most simple medicines. The Plaintiff,
however, shortly after proved impatient, &
having met with one of the Defendants
hand bills applied to him for relief. The
Defendant undertook, for the sum of ten
guineas, half of which he war to pay down,
to effea a complete cure, and for that pui
pofe he prescribed certain pills, the virtues
of which were enumerated in his hand bills ;
and to aid the qualities of them, the Plain
tiff was to rub an ointment on his face ev
ery night. The Defendant ftri&ly enjoin
ed him not to let his friends know that he
had placed him under his diredions. He
went on thus adminftering his medicines, &
occasionally obtaining a guinea from the
young man, who found himfelf from time
to time getting infinitely worse. He was
reduced to such a iituation that he was near
ly deprived of the use of his limbs, and his
fight was extremely impaired. In this fit
nation he acknowledged to his friends the
error he had committed, The afliflance r>
an eminent physician was obtained, wl>
found the Plaintiff in a date of danger from
which he hardly hoped to extricate him.-
He attributed it to the injudicious and indis
criminate use of outward and inward appli
cations of mercury and antimony. By prop
er treatment the Plaintiff recovered the use
of his limbs, but the light of his left eye was
entirely loft. It was to obtain a fatisfa&ion
for this injury the present adion was bro't.
The witnesses confided of Medical Gentle
men, who deposed, that the Plaintiff owed
not only the loss of his eye, but the debility
of his frame, folcly to the unlkilful manage
ment of the Defendant.