Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1803-03-01 00:00:00, page 3

Revert, Citizens, to the various denunciations
and declarations of fpirrious fcderalifls : — They
told you that if Jefferfon were elected, the country
would be immediately plunged into a war with
Britain, and fold to France ; that he would rob
you of your dearest rights, destroy your holy reli
gion, pull down your ciiurches, spurn your minif
xers, burn your Bibles, and fend " your wives and
daughters to the flews ."' —Behold, citizens ! none
of these things are true ! —Remember, itaijederal
0s have told you, that your Arms were ordered
to be taken from you ; that the French had de
manded our m<fney, and lent their fleets into our
harbors to enforce the demand ; —that the President
had sacked the treasury ; —that an army of French
negroes was landed upon our shores, and our mili
tia actually on march to the combat ! ! !—Behold,
Citizens ! all these things atefalje ! sheer fabrica
tions of a wild delusion ! the hell-form'd projects
of a fallen faction !
People of Newhampfhire ! look to your inter
ests and the honor and happiness of the Bate.
— You are now called upon by federal dijor;
ganizers, to reject Mt. Langdon at your approach
ing election, because he is favorably disposed to
ward the President and present Administration of
the Genera Government • and yon are at the fame
time earueflly ur„d to ELECT Mr. Gilman, for
•be Ele- e^th are ' " rear, because he is tteadfal
tly OPPOSED ) if "resident and the General
Ataini&Mi&a !=His known oppositeness to the
legally ConftitW'ri Authorities of the American
Nation, is the reason urged, to induce you to e
lect him to the chief magistracy of the State ; and
by the very men too, who to lately conjured you
to elect him to' that office lb that this hate might
harmonize with the government of the Union !
. Citizens of Newhampfhire, will you fuffer
yonrfelves thus to be trifled with and intuited, by
insidious wretches, u ho would deprive nine tenths
of you of your natural rights, to build up a Nobil
ity and aggrandize a jew ? —lt so—it Such things
do not awake your sensibility, Time alone can
cure vour Malady.
bIM J veil av'Q •
Examine—Citizens—for what is it you are cal
led on to reject Mr. Langdon as your Governor ?
Why truly, because he is Friendly to Mr.
fefferfon I—o tempore ! What are Mr. Jef
ferfon's;princi pies, which render him so odious in
the fight of this federalism ? Examine. In Poli
tics, be believes in the natural freedom of Man ;
that the People are the only legitimate earthly
Sovereign ; that the Power of government veils
in THEM that the Chief End of Government is
the Best Good of the Commonwealth, or Repub
lic—but he does not believe in the “ modern phi
[olophy," that " THE PEOPLE are their own
word enemies !" Jn a word, read the DE
CLARATION of AMERICAN INDEPEND
ENCE, of which our JEFFERSON is the author ;
Fin that you will learn his Political Principles—
BE IS A DECIDED REPUBLICAN In
Religion —Examine his life, his temper, his fruit,
his Works ; these shun not iwvefiigation ; they court
the tef of Truth He believes is ONE Supreme
Almighty God, —he maintains the right of every
man to worjhip that God according to the dictates
of his own conjcience ! he believes that Religion is
a matter between Man and his Maker : th^t Man
ought to enjoy religious as well as civil freeedom ;
that one denomination ought not to persecute ano
ther ; —and was it not for this that our Anceflors
fled from blood Gain'd Europe to this happy Ca
naan ? In his life, Mr. Jefftrfon maintains, that
“ Virtue alone is happiness below !" He {peaks ev
il of no map, he reviles not his revilers. he does
g. io his enemies—and to them that persecute
bun, and fay all manner of evil of him, his pity
and bi^f.rkearance molt emphatically fay "forgive
t,: W^ / 1 tn.? know not what they do !" He is not
aIL .th )h^e of pomp and parade ; he is a man
of plain manners, and good morals ; he is a con
flam -a, d clew, i : art ndant on the public worship
of the Deity to I maintains; at his own expeufe,
a regular Con run C oilier of Fee Gojpel of
Christ. Sue,. x. Jriferfun's principles and
Fraaice l—
AN D,
Fed raliib ire challenged to controvert the falls!
; >n it be ; that a wretch exids, whose foul is
wo , . ugh to condemn thole principles !—Yes—
^n t<e black catalogue of Tory Federalism ue find
the coward wretch- Yes! People ot Newhamp
fhire ! and You are called upon to condenm them
alia—you are called upon to eletl: Mr. Gilman
your governor, because he d^es not favor the prin
ciples of Mr. Jesser fun-yon are called on try feder
alist to reject Mr. Langdon ;
AN D,
you are told that “ he is opposed to the Honor and
Happiness of this date by favouring Mr. Jefferfon s
PRINCIPLES !”
Citizens ! Will you fuffer yourselves thus to
be trifled with ? Are you to be told to eleft a
governor this year, that our State government
may harmonize with that ot the Union, and next
to elect the fame man, becduje he is opposed to
the adminifratian of the Union ? Are the Free
Citizens of N^W-HAMPSHIRE, the once proud
Defenders of Republican Liberty, thus to be
cajoled by the ancient enemies of their Rights ;
by men, who have proved themselves destitute of
all regard to Truth, and callous to all Moral ob
ligation -by the very men who drove to pre
vent your emancipation from the thraldom of a
Foreign Tyrant ? Are thfe men now to diftate
the choice of a governor to the SONS of HanTo-
N g i_ No ! the Shades of thole Patriots who
have departed ! the Bloodof those Heroes who
fell; the Spirit of the war worn Veterans who
larvive ; the Genius of Liberty ; the blice of Just
ice ;—all—all, forbid it ! No ! People of
NtwhgmpJhire You will rife foperior to the in
tr'^^oot y°° r enemies ; you will spurn their m
fiduffiforts ; you will honor your Friend JOHN
; you will honor Yourselves ; —
yota Will prove the Sons of the North dill wor
th^crational FREEDOM dill animated by
the WsS? a '*" f r ° m the Altar of Liberty—fired
wiafasGlorv—elate with
THE SPIRITS / 76.
' V^REPUBLiCANsinC^r/eftw?:, Mass. propose
toctefate the “ TRIUMPH OF PRINCIPLE,'
the 4th of March, iniD at Massachusetts Hall.
Their patriotic Artillery Company will do the
honors of the day.
We learn from Washington, that our foreign
minister, the late governor of Virginia, Mr. Mon
roe. has had every honorable attention from the
friends of our present administration. A public
entertainment was provided by the member! of
conaFefs.
government of the Union !" And can he now con
tend tor the fame office, for the oppujite reafou, that
the government of this Rate may be in oppotition
to that of the Union ? Certainly he will not, if he
possesses either virtue, wisdom, or afenje of jluime !
To the Editor of the Ledger.
Sir,
Considering the election of Republican RepreJen
tatives, to the next General Court, of great impor
tance, many electors in the town of Deerfield will
be gratified by the inJertion of the following objer
vations in your ujeful paper ; and the cauje of
Republicanism, we trujt will not be injured ^re-
Deerfield, Feb. 22, 1803.
• Fellow-Townsmen, •
To perpetuate the blessings of a Republican
government, it is highly neceflary to exercise the
right of electing your rulers with deliberation and
prudence.
In the choice of Governor at the approaching
election, we anticipate with pleasure a unanimity
in your votes tor the
In the choice of a Senator, we also flatter our
selves that you will unite in RICHARD JENNE3S
Eh. In tliis diftrift every art will be used to
prevent an election by the people. The procelites
and the tools of party will be fervent "in time
and out of time." To divide the votes is the ob
ject ; Unanimity is therefore absolutely neceflary:
And in whom better can we agree ?
You have to chufe a reprefentativc. True it is
you muff elett for a representative ah inhabitant
with whom you may be supposed to be intimately
acquainted. But this acquaintance & this knowl
edge of character, arising from proximity of re
sidence and inhabitancy in the fame town, is not
Sufficient to guard you, at all times, against the
plans of the artful, or to expose the versatility of
the unprincipled. Persons are held up as candi
dates whose private characters tender them un
worthy your notice ; and every mean of corruption
and bribery is often employed to ensure foccefs.
These observations are neceffary,on this occasion,
to guard you against the intrigues of a certain
candidate, who has kept open doors for a consider
able time, and used his own unusual arts of elec
tioneering. You are probably attached to him
from gratitude ; you sensibly feel the importance
of his past Services as a Legislator ; —but we would
I ask, what were those services ? Examine the jour
-Inals of the court ; Search for his name among the
yeas and nays ; and, one or two solitary instances,
and those of little or no importance excepted, you
find it not. Such was his want of confidence in
his own political knowledge and "abilities ; or
such his fear of losing a Short-lived popularity un
meritedly obtained ; or, perhaps more justly, such
Iwas the natural imbecility of his mind, that he
;Shrunk from giving his opinion, or could not form
, one, and at the most important moments of legis
lation designedly concealed himfelf. For this he
became a byword of derision to his companion
; Legiflators,—owing to this, or a Bill more pufi
; lanimous inattention to bis duty, this town was
!once doomed on an apportionment of taxes. You
Imay possibly have great regard for him, on account
of services rendered to the town in bis private
capacity. He may have been a valuable inhabi
tant. Let us pause for a moment—and examine
for ourfehes.
Did he not clandestinely join with those who
represented that a certain Bate note held by the
town, was fraudulently obtained and of no value ?
Was it owing to his good intentions and friendly
exertions that the town obtained the payment of
Ithe note? No. The contrary of this is well
known. Has he not slandered in open town
meeting a man whom you have honored with im
portant trusts ; in whom your confidence was not
milplaced, and whom you at this time highly
esteem ; without even a probable cause ? Tias he
not in disputes in which you were not interested,
endeavoured to throw the burden off his own
shoulders and place it on yours, merely from felf
ifh motives, without any regard to your benefit ?
Has he not carrvi the few points he wished in your
town meetings in an in direct and hidden manner ?
And in his private dealings, lias he not prefevered
in the fame dark and impervious paths with an
obflinacy unequalled ? Are ignorance, indecision
and a time-serving acquiescence, qualifications
which you would wish to have in a Representative ?
Is the low cunning of out-door diffimulacion,which
only renders contemptible the person who uses it,
a recommendation ? We trust not. Our fellow
townsmen have too much diferetion, too much
virtue, and tod great regard for their essential in
terests, to trust the right of legislation, which may
secure or defiroy their happiness and that of their
poflerity in the hands of the unprincipled or im
becil. The little arts, the servile and insidious
plans of his Eledtineering will be viewed by you
as the dishonorable means of gaining some felfifli
point. But, fellow townsmen, enough has been
said to put you on your guard. It is far from the
intention of the persons who address you to obtain
your votes by milfatement, or by the cringing ser
vile tricks, often used by the mean tools of the
man who ushers himfelf into political notice. No,
Gentlemen, you undoubtedly wish to be represent
ed in the next General Court by a man of an
independent mind, of unblemished character, of
refpedtable talents, and of Republican princi
ples ; who instead of disgracing, will honor your
choice Perret us > then, to close by urging you
to give your fuffrages for Doctor EDMUND
CHADWICK. MANY.
i iniii^-ir —
Republican Ticket for I 803.
The long tried patriot
JOHN LANGDON, for G^r.
COUNSELLORS.
LEVI BARTLET T, Rockingham county.
JOSEPH BADGER, jr. Strafford do.
BENJAMIN PEIRCE, Hil/Jbord do.
NAHUM PARKER, Che/bire do.
MOODY BEDELL, Grafton do.
SENATORS.
CLEMENT STORER, fortbe if dist.
NICHOLAS GILMAN, 2d do.
JAMES GIBSON, 3d do.
RICHARD JENNESS, 4th do.
JOHN WALDRON, sth 5 th do.
DAVID COPP, 6th do.
WILLIAM FISK, 7th do.
JAMES FLANDERS, Bth do.
ROBERT ALCOCK, 9th do.
ELISHA WHITCOMB, loth do.
AMASA ALLEN, lith do.
WILLIAM TARLTON, 12th do.
JOSIAH ADAMS, Recorder of Deeds for
Rockingham County.
NATHANIEL FOLSOM, County Treas.
Hon. JOHN LANGDON.
Cbe Republican Ledger.
"TRUE AS THE DIAL TO THE SUN."
' ORrSM °ULH, "- H.
TUESDAY, MAPCH I, 1803.
REPUBLICANS ! Awake to your
Interests ! Be at your Posts in season !
and Remember that
United wefland—Divided we fall!
The following gentlemen, composing the
Republican ticket will unite the fuffrages of
the republican citizens of this town at their
meeting THIS DAY!
JOHN LANGDON, Gov'r.
LEVI BARTLETT, Counfellor.
CLEMENT STORER, Senator.
JOSIAH ADAMS, Rec'r of Deeds.
NATH'i FOLSOM, County Treas.
JOHN LANGDON, )
ELIJAH HALL, (Represent-
STEPHEN CHASE, ( atives.
CHARLES CUTTS, )
fy-<^Q,>-<$
The true Republic patriot sense
That animates the breast,
Will crown our country's wishes now.
With happiest success ! !!
Citizens of New-Hampshire ! Fellow
Townsmen of the town of Portsmouth !
Rally round our Long Tried PATRIOT
Col. JOHN LANGDON,
and support, with Commanding Majorities,
your own and his friends on the Republican
Ticket ; your own and your Country's dear
bought cause ! !!
This Morn ! This Day, attend
to (how your detestation of Tory usurpers
on your sacred rights. Teach them the
wholesome lesson of humanity ; let them
return to your principles with what counte
nance they may, but abandon their principles
and them too to their own deftruaion ; let
them know we want no Consuls nor Coun
cils nor Governors for life; we want a
change of such men and such measures, and
will perfeVere till we obtain it for ourselves
and for our country.
Let every man Hand upon the foot and
principle of True Republicanism ; —
Let every one tell one — Let every brother
townsman take one in hand—Stand to your
post and maintain it, againd Tories, their
abettors and acceffaries. WE shall then de
monstrate to our New-Hampshire Citizens,
and brethren in every town, the high sense
we entertain of our long tried patriot,
and our friends on the Republican
Ticket ; and the very low sense we entertain
of those enemies to our Country and its
present Peace, the disorganizing Tories.
ONE.
The piece signed “ The Spirits 0f'76," from the
Concord Gazette, inserted in this day's Ledger,
deserves an attentive perusal.
The base, malicious, tory fabrication of Mrs.
Dearborn's ordering Mr. Paine out of doors, has
been contradicted, and proved to be a falfhood —
Mr. Paine remained at Gen. Dearborn's until 7
o'clock on that evening.
Mr. Monroe arrived at New-York on Satur
day, the 19th Feb. to embark on his mission 10
France and Spain.
The Baltimore papers mention, that there are
a number of Counterfeit Five Dollar Bills, of the
Bank of that city, in circulation.
££ffim^^ £OW^^A
On the Death of
Madame Catharine La Forreste Guidion,
A French Lady in this town, leaving two young
children.
AH ! hapless Granger ! halt thou found no friend
To speak thy worth and mourn thy hapless end ?
No Monumental Mule, in this rude land,
T' inferibe thy virtues with a Ikilful hand ?
No female confidante to hymn thy praite
In pure and pious, as thy life, her lays ?—
The talk be mine—t' mingle my tears with theirs!
The helpless enfans late thy tender cares !
Let no unfeeling foul my numbers blame,
'Tis sympathy that lings thy dying name !
Ah! too fond mother how thy eyes of joy,
Would fondly sparkle on thy blooming boy !
How now forever funk ! loft to his light!
Fixed in a hollow tomb, the cave of night !—•
Thy little girl so dear, now left forlorn,
On an ungrateful foil the path of thorn !
No virtuous Mother's leflon to receive,
A virtuous Mother's loss alone to grieve!
Thy fad domejiics lead the mourning train!
Thy weeping Infants fill the heart with pain !—
Those friendsyZe beji approved augment the woe,
And follow them with solemn steps and flow!
(Forgive the mule that dare arraign your pow'rs,
Oue whom foe chose companion of her hours) — .
When (he her gloving language would impart.
Stole on the mind and early won the heart.
" Where sordid faction's slimy waftetul breath,
" Exotic poifohs lirew pestiferous Death ;
" No spotless innocence, no virtue pure,
“ Against their baneful calumny secure."
Thy prudent sense, her numerous graces blend,
And prove the sweet resources of a Friend!
Thy heart begins to kindle at the flame !
That vulgar Ipirits know but by the name.
Befriend the tender Babes ! the Mother led !
Unfading roses wreath about their head—
Pour on the mind, the thought of Heaven above !
To join her there in never ending Love.
Portjmouth, 28th Feb. 1803. J. W.
oJ^%s>^^^
—DIED—
In this town, Mrs. Dexnett, aged 23, :vh,at
Mr. George Dennett. Mrs. Sally Priest;
aged 22,wife of Mr. John Pried. ?,u>. ABI& ML
Connor, aged 34, wife of Capt. B. Connor.
Mrs. Submit Sherburne, aged 28, wde of Johri
S. Sherborne, Esq. A child of Mr. Hutchings.
there brig Humbler. Brown, lo fad in 20 days; Ihip
Freeman, Pepperelborough, Grip Sally, Smith
Penobfeot, Ihip Tient, Kinsman, Salem brig, ben
jamin & Nancy, Stover, Newburyport, fail in 20
days if ready, ship Herald, Wedgewood, Portland
fold, (chooser Branch, Sargeant, Newburyport
brig George Wafhmgt<m, Kerfe, Bolivu, brig
Brandywine, Cozens, Newport, R. I. sch. Mehi
tahitable, Smith, Middleton, fail in 10 days for St.
Thomas' fell. Four Friends, Hunnum,Weathers
held to fail iu 10 days, brig Fortune, Billings,
Norwich Conn, to fail when G< vein.nene pays
him for this cargo. Sch. Two Friends. Mpuiro)
flrip Mercy, Freeman, North Carolina. Lh, Rifing'
Sun, Robinion, to fail in 8 days, sch. Buck, Bucks
brig Aurora, Bartlett, Plymouth, waiting or mo
laiics, brig Nancy, Sterney, Providence to fail in
10 days.
[he Ami Ballard, Moffet, of this port, arrived
at Norfolk, Feb. 5. The brig Alligator, of this
port, was at Dommico,Feb. 5. The ship Zeph, r,
Stoodly, of this port, was at Falmouth, Jan. 12.
Several yeffels were driven on (here within the
Capes of Virginia, in the severe uortiocaderiy gate
of the 17th February.
^"™'T'!"'™rrr!r=--!^'''''''™"*'''
WHEREAS application hath
' ' been made to us the underlined.
Selectmen of the town of Portfmouth,to lay
out certain new Streets for the purpose of
making the foilowing streets wider and
more commodious, viz. Daniel-street,
Market-street, Bow-llreet, Fore-street, and
Cross-street.
Notice is hereby given, that- we
will meet at the town hall on the evenings of
the next and the two following Thursdays,
when and where any person interested may
fee a plan of laid streets and have an oppor
tunity of making any objections to the lay
ing out the fame, or representations con
cerning the value of the lands included there
in.
George Gains;
Mojes Woodward,
Samuel Hutebings,
Elijah Hall,
Edward Cutts.
Portsmouth, March, 1, 1803.
Stephen Hardy
Informs bis friends that be bas taken a Shop in
Back freet, oppjite to Dr. John fackfon's,
where he carries on the
Gold & Silver Smith's business
in its various branches.
HE HAS FOR SALE
GOLD Hoop Ear Rings ; Knob
do. ; plain Gold Rings, with seals ;
Garnet do. ; Seal Rings, with and without
devices ; gold Shirt Pins ; a variety of gilt
do. ; silver Tea Spoons ; silver, pearl, plated
and bone Salt Spoons ; plated and painted
Sugar Tongs ; plated and silver Scifler
Chains ; patent Shoe Buckles ; plated Scif
fer Cases ; do. Shoe Clasps ; silver and sil
ver plated Thimbles ; brass do. silver and
ivory Bodkins ; a variety of gilt Lockets ;
silver and common Sleeve Buttons ; Seiners ;
enamelled Snuff Boxes ; black & white Bug
les ; Garnet Beads ; a great variety of cut
glass and gilt Necklaces ; coral, and gold
and coral Necklaces ; Neck Chains ; gill'd
brass Rings ; Cadie Shells ; blocktin and
iron Tea and Table Spoons ; Tooth Brulh
es ; pound Pins ; common Shoe Clasps ;
small Files ; Gravers, &c. &c.
Porlftnouth March 1, 2803. .
NEIL M'INTIRE
Wishes to inform bis friends and the public,
that since his House and Stores were burnt, he has
erected a building direftly behind his former
House, where he carries 011 rhe
Tobacco Manufaflory ;
And offers For Sale
Tobacco of every description, as
cheap as poflible, wholesale and retail.
ALSO,
W. I. Goods & Groceries.
At the late fire he had a number of articles
saved from the flames that have not been heard of
since, among the rest were four Bed-steads ; any
persons that have any articles in their keeping,
that was saved from the flames, and don't belong
to them, ought to give notice of \Vhat they have
in pofleflion ; and he will give to any person that
will inform him where any of his articles are se
creted (except the persons that have them in their
keeping) a generous reward after next week.
Portsmouth, Feb, 22.
The Last Chance !
A few TICKETS and Quarters,
warranted undrawn —just received from Boston,
and for sale at CHARLES PEIRCE s Bbok-ftore,
in Buck-street, Portsmouth, —where may be had,
BOOKS & STATIONARY.
•
reo. 21, Arrived brig Joseph; Salter, Demerara.
22 > brig Planter, Grover, Grenada.
2 3> Iloop Juno, Ellery, Norfolk.
=7# fllip Florenzo, Barnes, Demgrara.
Tuefday lad arrived here, bri r Minerva, Per
kins, of Kittery, in 37 days from Mnouique, left
^bip -Gcw.s.
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