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teas attached to the cause of hit country ?
where and how was he employed in the ear
lier and more hazardous flages of the revolu
tion: If as clerk in his father's office
or at another time as a sutler in the Ameri
can camp, his own pecuniary interest was
the moll provable inducement, anu the pro
fits of the business a (efficient reward- Nei
ther his life, his limbs nor his health were
in very imminent danger; the employment
was inuiTenfive, and in the mod unfavorable
event, could not have expofcd him to a very
exemplary punishment, even had the
enemy succeeded, and he been detect
cd' in ,he very a&. At the close of
the war, when all danger was at an end,
Mr. G. for his zeal was appointed to the
Treasurer s office, made vacant by the death
of his father, the salary attached to this de
partment, has ever been considered to be
generotis, and apart from the bleffngs of an
indirect kind (which many have been foolifh.
enough to believe, have been derived from it,
a full compensation for the duties required.
Mr. G. enjoyed the emoluments ot this
profitable office, for a series of years, and
until his appointment as a commiHioner tor
fettling the accounts of individual dates with
, the United States. In this office he remain
ed between two and three years, till Convin
ced of his inefficiency for the nectflary du
ties, and without complcteing any part of the
business for which he was appointed, he art
length resigned his commiflion into abler
hands; as officers of this fort are generally
well paid, it is r -?t probable Ms. G's pecu
niary interest luffered much at this time
His next object, fays & writer in the lad
Gazette, (Juntos) was to reinstate bitnftlf in
the Treasury office, which with Lune centre
lance and ailiitance of friends was soon ac
complished." This was a period when,
large firms at coinman I were peculiarly
convenient, buying and feliing public Securi
ties at that time was a very profitable traf
fic," and there are many of the largest for
tunes in the United States that not only
fpiung from that source, “ but were whol
ly made by it," which proves that it was a
very boneft and honorable trade. Lucius
will excuse the retort-courteous, it could
scarcely be avoided. It is not necessary,
and Ido not fay,that Mr. G. was ever guil
ty of using the' public monies for his own
private purposes; or if he did, that he was
chargeable with fraud ; for custom in cer
tain cases gives a kind of fan&ion even to
vice itfelf, and had Mr. G. taken such liber
ty, he would not have ben without a plea
of that kind. In a neighbouring State,
while under the British government, such
was the practice ; it was neceffaty howev
er at once a year, to call in the aid of,a few
wealthy friends while the committee ot tne ?
Legislature were employed in fettling the
accounts. This by the bye feetns to imply
that it was then thought necetWy that the
money Should at all times be really in the
Treasury ; but that was an old fashioned
opinion, which prevailed in times of igno
rance, in our more enlightened days, it has
been thoroughly exploded.
Another charge against Mr. L. (and the writer
appears to think it a weighty one) is that heis
rich—te in-ay be fa—his mercantile enterprize,
' industry and economy ju(Hy,entitle him to it.-—
Mr, G. is alb rwh, and it is my Sincere belief, but
fittle less so than Mr. L. who before the commence
ment of the American war, was possessed of wiiat
was then eteemed aver, handtome property,
and undoubtedly to a nxich larger amount than
tile whole estate one sixth part of which only de
volved on Mr. G. (am- thing to the contrary from
Lucies notwithstanding.) In addition to this Mr.
L. had ninny favorable opportunities during the
revolution, in common with other men of pro.
party, in maritime towns, wholly ckfemmected
with his public business, not merely in a reputable
but in a laudable way, and in away beneficial to
his country, to increase his estate, and is it natu
ral to suppose that,they were fuifered to pass un
improved ? but I will not labour this point, left 1
ihonld be thought to pay too much attention to
the infamous imputation of fraud, tu/gefted by
Lucius, ot which he can have no possible evidence,
and which he hhufclt cannot and does not believe.
The only notice I Shod bellow on this barefaced
calumny -is, that envy and malice have at various
times, Stirred up enemies to Mr. L. and ene
mies of the word description, they ever have
been an! Hill are from the aristocratic tribe,
a tribe distinguished by a virulent and. per
feinting spirit—those are the peculiar character
iftics, the very han Imaidens of aristocracy ; from
filch cnemi p s as these, even in the ebulitions of
rageand party fpir'& Mr. L's integrity has till
now escaped an impeachment ; Lucius therefore,
and the whole banditti of detainers, may spout till
they are filiated, their fpoutmgs will be vain—
the character of Mr. L. in this particular, at lead,
will Hindthe tell of the proft invidious invelliga.
tiori, and as it has been preserved to the age of
sixty years, it will probably descend with him in
spite of bis enemies,.unimpaired; to the grave.
But ^m'f it be confid-red, a crime to be rich,
without flawing to the world, by debt and cred-1
it how it Whs brought about ? Mr. G. himfelt
will not consent to this. It is a fav% and not a
very secret one, that he also is r^ch, he possesses a
very large estate—it is also true that at the hegin
nin?. ofthe revolution, be pufir fled little or no
pi-pertv. and tint his paternal inheritance was
bv tm means considerable ; that he t^vifbl, done
little-other than public business, from the com
wee-cement of the revolution to this day, to in
cre^f it ; that his falury as Treasurer and even
us Governor, though either of them fall, equal to
the Cervices required, and quite competent to a
genteel living, -could never create an estate. In
the name of wonder then let fye alk by what
means did Mr. G. accumulate a fortune ? He or
his friends will donbtlefs be able to clear up this
difficulty, and 1 will patiently watt the folntion ;
in the mean time (hall -take the liberty to call on
Lucius or any one else, who can give the informa
tion—to point out the Services of Mr. G. that have
irotheen rewarded ; any Tacrifkes or Offerings of
any kind he has made, any anxiety or JiHrefs of
bo-li or m ; nd he has at any time been exposed to
for the pnil(c good. H^s not Mr. G. been the fa
vorite child of fortune in this refpeft ? the time
of fafferlpg and distress with those who fought
our battles, was ho him a time ct prosperity, a
thriving time. While the war-worn soldier thro'
penury and want, was neceflitated to part with
the hard earnings of a miserable life, for an Sth
part of the value at which they were received —
Mr. G. was favorably circumstanced (to fay no
more) to profit by those neceffioes. But more of
Mr.G. hereafter. We will now return to Mr. L.
and examine the charges against hint as a member
cfthe general Government. Lucius half accused
him of abandoning the interests of the State, in
voting for the assumption aft, and has artfully
drawn tip a Statement to fair the accafation ; bis
conclusion is that the state bas got rid of the bur
then <rf 300 oco dollars and are faddied with one
01 840,000 dollars—if this De true, we have cer
tainly made a very bad bargain-hut it is not the
case ; the truth is, that the.affumption buijndls,
against which Lucius is so clamorous, is compara
tively an innocent thing. A' "'is period, large
sums were due on flute notes, certificates and 0
ther evidences of debts, from each date to in ri
viduuls, for services and supplies for carrying on
the war, the object was for the general govern
ment to advance tb each hate, a linn Sufficient for
the payment of those demands, this was done in
effect byaffiiming the payment of that amount ;
and in making the apportionment, no regard w as
had to the Sums that had been paid by the refpett
ive flares towards the support of the war—that
could not possibly be known at that time, 'com
mrilioners were employed in adjuring those ac
counts, but did not report till a long time alter,
so that the small fom aflumed for New Hamp
shire was no proof of foppofed delinquency, it
neither had nor could have any connexion with it.
There were, before this, mutual exiting demands
netween each slate and the United States, and the
fams affirmed for the feveraldates, were charged
to them in their refpettive accounts, so that if
Congress bad assumed for N. Hampshire 840,000
dollars which Lucius fays was our proportion in*
dead of the 300,000 dollars, the diffi reuce would
have been precisely this ; that whereas we are
now a creditor state to the amount of feventy-five
tionfand dollars„@d are actually receiving inte
red quarter yearly, for that sum, we fhoiild have
been ^debtor date, by all the difference between .
the him that has been affirmed, viz. 300,000 dols,
added tq the firm for which we now have credit,
viz. 75 o>o dinars—and the film of 840,000 our
equal proportion—yhich would have made us a
debtor slate, to the amount of 465.600 dollars,
and this sum we niuft have paid in one way or a
nother. Where then would have been the might
advantage to birr Hate, had Congress affirmed the
larged sum? We have only to lament the back
wardness of><he debtor Hates, in dlfchurging those
debts which Hand against tbem-©was this done, all
would be perfectly right. This it appears is in a
train of aCcompliftiment—New-York, the princi
pal debtor Hate, by permission ^f Congress, has
already expended large sums in necessary prepa
rations for the defence of her feaporxs and bar-:
bors, which otherwise mull have been done by the
general government ; and the other debtor Hates
it they have not already, will probably do the'
fame, so that eventually the debt * ill be exiin
gurihed, it not by atlual payment, yet by fiving,
in the Treasury. so much money which olherwife
cnufl have been issued for these purposes.
Lucius touches but tightly on the funding aft ;
infinitely the most exceptionable ot the two, and
that not becapfe he is really difitisfied with it ;
but juH to give himfelt ah additional opportunity
to implicate the views of Mr. L. w ho voted in fa
vor of it. 1& was neteffary that provision fhoiild
be made ter the discharge of the public debt ; jus
tice and good policy required it ; diversity of 0
pinion arose on :jie fubjett ; the clashing inrerefts
of the different States, rendered the inycHigation
tedious and |>erplexing ; at length as) Hem was
adopted combining as far as possible their different
views, in favor of which the members of the mid
dle aid northern States generally, voted, and a
mong them many v ho were not even fnfpeaed of
an inefeft in its operation. It is true that Mr. L.
was at that time the owner of a small property
that might be affected by the fittem ; does it fol
low from thence that he afteQ ditbaneHly, and in
oppbfition to his own reason and confidence ? 7 he
f'nggeltioii is ill natured and Unbecoming the man
who has any pretentions to candor. Surely Lu
cius mud doubt his own integrity,, or he could not
so willingly indulge hist suspicions of ot ers.— But
if Mr. L. had been really Twayed in tome final!
degree by personal interett, and this could be
Ihewn, it is believed it would he as pardonable in
his case as in almoH any that could be deferred.
The onlv public fcurities pofleffed by him at that
time confined of Loan-office certificates received,
dollar for dollar, for gold & silver attiially loaned
to the U. States fur the support of the American
army then io Canada, under the command of Get.
Schuyler, a^d feut on by Mr. L. to the atihy,
which was then in the luoft pressing necessity for
supplies that could be obtained there in no other
wav'than by-paying tteretor in gold or Hirer —
under circuhiHances like these, hafl Mr. L. been
insensibly perfuoded to a.meafnre which would
give him and probably many others, who at this
critical and alarming period of the w&r,generuuf
ly contributed to alleviate the distresses of their
brethren in the field, fifteen (hillings on the pound
fur what they had actually paid twenty—it would
not have proved h m either a very weak or a very
bad man—but there is no ground to believe even
so much as this.—Here Lucius appears to have loft
fight of his original plan ; had he eflablithed eve
ry item ot the charge under the highett possible
colorings, Mr. L. could not have furicred in that
particular, in the compaHfon w ith his-fellow can
didate, bec mfe it is a truth of u inch but few can
be ignorant that the funding fyftern has not only
been highly relished in Exeter, it has even been
worlhipped from the Excellent Giro. G. down to
the molt infignificant (peculator ; and not with
out reafon'; the greeted fortunes there and the
greater part of the lesser ones, have been made 1,
it. Lucius mutt rather lose titan gain ground by
this count in his declaration.
We have hitherto noticed those accusations on
ly which in the estimation of the libeller of Mt.
Messrs. Nutting & Whitelock,
11 was my intention to hade taken up the se
cond letter ot Lucius and inferred my answer to it
as l promised, in what Lucius is' so polite as to
call your dirty columns. 1 Sound, however, on
the fame clay in the New-Hampshire Gazette, a
recapitulation of all the talfe charges against Col.
John Langdon, in that fecund letter and two 0
thers that follow eel, and a complete refutation by
a train of historical facts in our revolution and
Since ; forming so plain contradictions to the con
tided and ili art anged phillippic of Lite ius ; ''that
he that runs may read"-—1 am furry this refuta
tion was in the fuj plementary Sheet, becauft that
is more liable to be leji, which ought to be pre
levied, and might have b en crowded into the pa
per ahd both appear together—on the other hand
ihe remaining letters of Lucius occupying the bell
part of the paper may be indeed more convenient
ly consigned to those dirty uses his composition so
lowly merits. These two latt numbers and the
answer afford a Hill Stronger proof how cfofely we
Should fill these controversial disputants as to their
farts and how much one might have been deceived
by Such a writer as Lucius. The Oracle announc,
<s these tw 0 lall all important, luminous numbers
to illuminate its (I do not fay dirty) colonn s, and
the writer of the anfw r calls them ironically, the
luminous works of Lucius—if he isJmcere lain so
blind as not to fee the " Lucius a now Lucendo"
cannot be more applicable than to these illumi
nating letters of Lucios not to pun upon Lucius
the lucidus ordo, is wanting ; the niethodus in
concinna—the flat and vapid falling away into
continued repetitions of the fame fubjeCt the pue
rile, Scholastic piagiarifms would disgrace a
school-boy instead ot the pedagogue ot a party :
The mixture of the sublime with the bold Hile of
composition—inapt introduction of law points—
poetic effusions,—constitution making—rotation
principles —-broken apostrophes—impertinent in
terrQgatious, and low fcbrrdities=make up the
laborious efforts of this coltiye genius, the lumin
ous'man of talents who has incorporated wonder
ini matter as his own, and delivered the Sentiments
as his own, to captivate the people of New-Hamp
uhire, into his own way of thinking that he has
borrowed by diffusive reading of law-givers, Hatef
men, and poets —let the reader run over the num
bers of Lucius and oblerve how often economy and
projujion alternately become charg s agairdf Col.
John Langdon; the third number makes Col. L.'
a great talker upon the point of political econo
my—in the former letters he quarrels with his not
talking enough—but he denies him economy in the
private concerns of his houfhold—there he lings
the changes upon his profligate expences carri
ages &c. .twenty 1 times in the course of his four
letters ; I wonder he has not found out tie laces
and trinkets of the ladies in the family, he Seems
to have ransacked the house fothoroughly, as well
as his own sickened, disappointed brain for theme
ot virulent attack upon Col. L. can any circum
stances demonstrate the rettkts, unsatisfied, prying
dilpofition more than the little, minute, mfignifi
cant, low, kiteken like -miscellanies to be laid be
fore the public—bow far this is polite and rude,
the aifwer in the Gaze tie accounts tor; from the
rune part of the country Lucius comes from. 1
think, however, he would not find one man in his
own country so pettish and ill-htneored as to car
ry bis evil eyeto bis neighbor's house. Lucius, in
his third number, begins with force writer in the
Ledger who he lays is attempting to convince the
citizens of the State that there is in Portjmouth,
an aristocratic party inimical 10 our free govern
ment and equal rights, and is free to declare (for
he admits such a party) to be a Rotifer, and that
he Should look for him in Portsmouth. He is So
tar light, it is neceflary, and a duty to make ever,
citizen Sensible in the State of this dangerous par
ty, they become more and more sensible every day
—the tow nos Portfinomh has long been sensible of
U & groaning under it, and do not neetlto be con
viuced—it is every citizen in the Stale that Should
know it, and he conviffoed ot it. The votes of
lalt Monday,notwithstanding the town was block
ed np by an unufnal fall of (now, demonstrate
their fenSibilirv—and the regular, orderly and
peaceable conduct of tl>e citizens on that day re
stored to their fair Suffrages, un Shackled from the
reliefs denomination of the Tory part, —diftufeu a
general marked fatisfattion throughout the town
and itsenvirons—The ariHdcratic party in Ports
mouth is the Tory party ,& the Exeter party, under
the thumb of the tory papty, that hasffpread itfelf in
to the Hate in poifonons Hrearos, or this Slate would
have long Since been as federal as any cthq Hate,
and united with the general government—l repeat
federal, constitutionally so, composed of conHiln
rioiial republicans—a republican Senate and a re
publican Governor—for however little disposed 1
am to enter into the fquabling controversy as to
the respective merits of oar candidates—\ will not
pay Mr. Gilman the compliment to edl him a re
publican governor—he is an aristocratic governor,
be is not the head of his party —but Suffers himfett
to be kept in office by a party, the 7'ory,pirty in
Portfmontb, and to be plain, this is the reason and
a good reason, whv lie ought not to be elefted for
nine years successively in an elective government
Itoiule #ud got era you under the dictation and in
L's chirader, appear to be final! In cumparifon,
of the infinitely imporiaui one, that were we tot
persuaded by him, invoices in it every fpectes and
degree of criminality. It is in fubHance, this,
M t . Langdon has dicing the latter pent oj Prep
dent Adams' adminif ration, generally, on g+ edl
lutjlicns voted with the Urgiinau and othey youth
ern meinbeis !.' .'—The observations ui Lucius gu
this Subject, in the different parts ot his perfurm
'ance are rati dr lingular, and if I mat be allowed
tie expression, border a little on the ridiculous ;
they afforded a favorable < ppurtunity indeed for
the fatiriil and man ofimmor ; I have no-talents
of thut kind, and if 1 had, Should have no disposi
tion to exercise them ; (hall therefore continue as
I have begun, and trufke a very serious, but Short
reply : Mr. L. was a Whig in 1775 (a ^haraßer fy
nouimous with that of a Republican under Mr. A
dams' administration) anti lias never Since Seen tit
to retract b ; s principles. He was, and Hill is a
zealous advocate for the independence of bis coun
try, and the privileges of his fellow citizens. He
was, and Hill is a zealous advocate for the inde
pendence of his country, and the privileges of his
fellow-c'tiz ns. He afted with bis northern breth
ren, while they Shew themfelvcs Americans and
friends to our constitution. But when American
Senators proved themselves PARTIZAXS ot BRIT
AIN, he torfouk their company end joined hindelf
to REPUBLICANS, regardless ot the State to
which they belonged.
(To be concluded next week.)
For the REPUBLICAN LEDGER.
ought to be rewarded—ergo you 'eale to befiuw
yotir rewards—and that argues that Mr. Gilmau
will take it for grained they are 10 longer merit
ed, then comes in tl e legifotive confiru^ on " It
operates like a repe-I of the att from the begin
""&" and then fallows the point of law, and
whole paragraphs of mter fogations, Short & long.
I am told oy feufible lawyers that this law is very
jejunely expressed, that is as they fay, not techni
cal!) ; but inaptly,anti il>eretore leaves usto doubt
whether Lucius is a lawyer or the ;?crfoo meant
by holding a place at this moment under tl e exe
cutive, and expecting an'oth r it bis " midnight"
appointment is Superseded —Be he u ton- he may,
it is alike to me, whether he he a lawyer or not
if a Scholar, I am informed be may find iu his
ancient Pidfofepher and :or< r ot truth—" Amicus
S crates. Amici r Plato, fed magis arnica verites."
His calumny of Cos John Lanrd<n is unpardon
able, and circumJ ances unnectfary to mention,
make it more iimeicnhbh—l - ere is not a man
w ho knows Col. L. but relents it teepl, , and will
vindicate him to the heft of tl e:f po\ c:—as to his
rotation principle a few words decides it—it Gov.
Gilman is combined with tins tor, junto in Fortf
mouth and Exeter—if he comb tied to retrain the
incorporating of the Union Bank —it he was ith
jlrumetital in holding the General Court but one
fethon in the year, and contrived the poftpone
meni and feflion till June to ptevent the incorpor
ation ot the Union Bank—if b has upheld the late
system of terror—it he Hill perseveres in the fame
system and will not unite in his administration
with the general government—these are reasons
and good reasons for concluding that he has done
anols and that he ought not to be elected thk,,h
# ar—and to convince the doub' fol citizen lef him
read the Stockholder, giving Lucius the full ete
tent of his premises bis conclusion fells to the
ground—Mt does not follow that it theft bew\ &
serious charges sere not imputed to him he is to
be ele&ed merely becanfe he withes it, or as Luci
us fays, because your refufal to ek cthim and the
choice of another implies a F rt& pf rotation of his
adminiHraiicn. I argue he vital principle of a
republican go ernment is tree /e^xro, and lo far
as that ele&wn is centre ~ cs+ any circunn ance#
it is not tre —lt from truA/rs ci prudent jtalou
fy 1 Should th r.k th t ty the co^tinuahce o' e,:e
man nine years tn a gwerement, an undue af
cendthey may be created, and an indifluluble,
Ilrong party in the date cemented, and tor that
reason alone 1 think proper to vote for another
goternor the ninth, Day the fec<m or third or an,
rear ; it is my right to doTo, and the freedom of
election is prefer ed—if from motives tfdefcacy,
or comproinifim the good ot the IKte ; from any
personal reasons that fefpett the individual it con
trolls my election th t election is Impaired, it is
not free" —I tike this to id the Shape ibeargu
ment aflumes and the grm nils on w hub this iota
lion principle toile nr—l thirk it would thtie
tore be mote re Spe Ctlul in the friends ot Mr. Gil
man to place him on such lot Relations, than the
inviduons low ground of crm|.rdon ot character
endeavoring to blacken anil tr. deice his opponent,
which brings with it recr initiation- —a* you tee in
the fupplenn ntary Sheet—l enter no Innira into
Mr. Gilman's merits fan to Sky he does not merit
to be goverr,or-—I for one cm dhpleakd u ihistlif
ferine him Self to be the hdlrumcet of the tore per
t; —I am clear his afts hike been to cut futotbwal
and militates againll the Spirit ot the cortbtu
tioro—and that is my region ou<onvi& cm fotwh
holding my vote and cunlerriny it upon Vol.
John Lan, d°u, who, appears to roe to have done
all in his power to uphold. Support and preserve
to us that invaluable, luelllmubb b effing, <vr it
publican Constitutions It Islererion tl* (ounoM
principle that Lucius calls Up ill Ids pewos -
here the beanties of Adtlihm and the tent nent-ef
the venerable Cato, are Intern oven to ttikh the
composition : like gold upon gniyflbtwd "4W bra
vice prevails and wu bed me u beat tw " tie poll
of honor is a private tlatlon." — Thue ^ee ' e
words of • punit repnbleau thatt\etiKaJ d#
it is a que ttwu whetbet 1 utus loalledo l the y^
cation of those words wlwn ehln red IN uty
\\\sfourth number he lifts t rotellrp Wthe xua.
tie Size ot that Cdofliw ot litetauue, hra,gxj
Mr. Burke, and decides or doubts to the \ny
word abet dignified and dA'latoiialo4s el »wle\
" I do not pretend to any great IkU iu ®,n,j/«
tion making and I r tu ready to ayknowkCft .&<
lam too dull to dificin the wUdom ayd tuVh vl
this duftrine, w hich k to be found in tome cowto
tutiens though not In purl" -here IMOM w<W4
have you (lath aw ay your election at 0 ^ blow &
he does not tee o&y ueirtlUv hr tho B$ ph a,
all, and rxpeglu on will fete that , v Muy kV
his doubt, as If it nerecxyrrtled W ILtlg h&r
foil ot Ilnuie.
'ln the prufreuthMi of ^ diUutQ by
way of intriiogaiion auf WtattiL he
waiti for no anfyfl, bty, &KrwQwd ra
bmkm, rffQb U)0u419 aa dkqty ^*-
The great and grand point with Latins is to Sat
isfy you " that Mr. Gininu^has done nothing amillf
alid ought to ne ioniinutd your governor,''this is
the Simple proposition, ^nd " here comes in th?
point ot law to ilhuliate the position and t'eHro,
the rotation principle, " when rew ardsreah ro be
bellow ed it w ill be always taken fur graruel they
are no longer merited." ft operates as a repeal
of the <uft from the beginning. , “ It is like money
pain on a bad confederation the whole is recalled
and the late proprietors like him, who has been rob
bed of his good name, is left poor indeed." Ta
keep to the proposition Lucius means to fay ; if
you do not cleft Mr. Gilman the ninth year, it
will discover to him that ,on do not think he
repose of his country only ; 2nd tho' Lu<ius witti
ly, tor the only time, recommends the Ledger ad
a narcotic t^the readers-^it is doubtful it it had
not roofed another morifter, to take his dole.—
conjurcuon wuh this t% party, a in _'
republican gover,u< m =Tte e p.r^, is .
"^,,,s believe, " that there perf^;
who wiihed mey were made judges to r,deilW
ot ^-Hamplhire to tang , he re .
publicans like Judge Jeffoes ; i m | C he for Mr.
Hume, a Hr<,gTory writer of celebrity has noc
named tlat Judge a monjer" —bud if u e )„ : e
then a mputkr in rorilmonih, and Lucius cdthis
it is likely ; is it not high time to ^et rid of hw
and his patrons too, ano net curfelves from :h t ir
inordinate 1: runny ? by leaning their ability to
hurt and to oppress us, not b, fining, impriioih;;<
or hanging them. In Put tfinomh, where tie
weight is mod felt, we cannot help onffrives we
mutt Submit ; all we can do is to tore durfflief
so- such men as we have tried and ,ae e proved as
friends to our country —and to hope ever, nliow
citizen M ill do the fame—in uniting to mririrain
and Support the general government'and cunHitu-
Cioil that we nave all of us virtually Sworn to do;
The good writer in the Ledger is anxious for the