Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1802-04-20 00:00:00, page 2

organs, through which they intend their will
shill be known, and then canfed the unfufpi
clous inhabitants to echo back their voice, as
the sacred etation of the Country !-Thus have
they filched away their country's freedom ;-
effeded their own rile plans by the mouths of
hirelings, substituted in its Read :-And if any
0 dared tooppofe them, totheir united clamour
overpowered and branded with hateful epithets
—their own Invention. Thus did they usurp
the People's Sovereignty ! and thus did they
decide on the fate ot individJt--Even private
contests were thus advocated in favor of their
members, and denunciations thundered out a
gainst their oppofers. From Georgia to the
M sine did such their in fluence spread, that they
might be said, not only to bear (way, but even
to reign absolutely ! even the houeft and vir
tuous began to fear their vengeance, and re
luaantly to cringe to their control— Thus was
this monftroßS combination rapidly forming a
mew chara&er for the American people—a cha
ra&er foreign to that which they had before'
(attained, and not, in the least degree, conge
nial to their frank and noble difpofitiont.—Tri
Short, a TERRIBLE CRISIS was approaching
, with gigantic strides, which fhoeld characterize
the New World- and metamorphic a great
.Nation of Freemen to a deplorable group of
Slaves 1 . I .?^ahs cantinas!
ft The FRENCH TREATY.'
''Bu, the TRUTH, andjell it not."
[The reader willfind the business of the rejec
tion of the CL AIMS Bf Am#ican Citizens
for French Spoliations, fairly Rated in the
following.—Much blame has been attached
by the spurious, falfe F^deralifts, to the pre-
Tent adminiftation, because the Treaty was
% accept'd witbomprovifion being made for in
demnification by the French government for
the depredations on onr commerce—We re
qaeft our friends to examine the fubjuined
raiment, which they may rely upon asau
thentic, and then " render ti Cerar th things
that art Caerfs, and to Jefferson no
more th^n is bis. Rep. Giz.J
From the National Intelligencer.
THERE seems to be some difpofition^
at prefem to excite a belief, that the a
bandonmeht of the claims ofour mer
— QOTrfor losses by French fpoliatioris
is chargeable on the present adminiftra
tion. Hoar ftands,be matter of faQ?
The 2d article of the French convene
tion reads thus:—
The ministers plenipotentiary of the
two parties not bting able to agree at
piefent refpe&ing the treaty of alliance
of the 6th of Feb, 1778, the treaty of
amity and commerce of the fame date,
and the convention of the 14th Nov.
1788, nor upon the indemnfties mutu
ally due or claimed; the parties will
negociate further on these fubje&s at
a convenient time; and until they
may have agreed upon these points,
the said treaties & convention shall
have no operation, and the relations of
the two countries shall be regulated as
follows, &c."
Article stb, " The debts contraded
by one of the two nations with indi
hviduals of the other, or by the indi
viduals of one with the individuals of
the otter, ^^ be paid, or the pay^
ment may be prosecuted in the fame;
manner as if there had been no misun
derstanding between the two States.
But this clause ffiall not extend to in
demnities elaimed on account of cap
tares or confiscation." \!
The Senate refufed to advise and
consent to the ratification of the treaty
unless the ad article above recited was
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him Feb. 48th, 1801. The votes of
the Senate, as published in the newfpa
Messrs. Armstrong, Bingham, Chip
man, Dayton, D. Foster, Hillhoufe,
Hindman, Howard, Latimer, J.Mafon,
Morris, Paine, Read, Schureman,Tra
cy, Wells, Rols— 17.'
, Against Rriking out the 2d article :
Messrs. Anderson, Baldwin, Blood
worth,Brown,Cocke, T.Fofter, Frank
lin, Greene, Langdon, Livermore,
Marlhall, S. T. Mason, Nicholas,—
13. 1
J Striking out the 2d article was strik
ing out the effeft of all the labors of
our envoys on that fubjea, and was
in fa&agreeing to make a treaty with^
out making any provision for the claims
of our merchants, or to keep alive the
demand; and fuffering the sth article
,to hand as it does, cffe&aßy deprived
them of any chance for relief, and was
an abandonment of their claims. So
it was justly underftoo^ by Bonaparte,
as he declares in his ratification, bien
extendu, it being well linderftood, that
by this retrenchment the two Rates re^
nounce the refpeaivc pretensions which
are the obje&s of the said article.
When his ratification was laid before,
the Senate ofthe United States, they
fay, that Bonaparte understood it as
they intended, and they vote almost u^
nanimoufly, that it ought to he confid
er^d as justly and fully ratified : it was
said at the^time, and never denied that
Messrs. Wells, Hillhoufe, Chipman,
and D. Foster, were the only persons
in the negative. Mr. Hillhoufe, and
some of the others have often been
heard to declare, that they were op
pofedto having any treaty with Frances
W 6 trust the federalifts will not disown
their own measures, which have been
acquired^ wi&fymuch labor and ex
pense from the r&ali of Munroe to the,
ratification of the treaty.
INTERNAL TAXES.
9be ConmittH ts Ways bnd Mian: wbt court /#-
ftruauhosquirt into tbs tn,Chirac, of rotating
lios tyng duties an Stills and drafos ^ IW
Spirits, an rafaad Sagars, Licram ts R&ailm,
Salrs at Außisn, ,lsa,ur&bh Carriages, Q#,td
nilum, Parcbmnt and Paso, and Pfoga an
Nm/paptrs: REPORT —
That the whole amount of revenue
arising from those duties, exclusive of
postage on newspapers, as appears b^
the ftatemems laid before the Houle
by the Secretary of the Treasury, in
the early flage of the session, did not
exceed for the year 1800, 925,000
dollars ; after deducing the amount of
drawbacks paid on the exportation of
domeftib distiled spirits and refined &
gar during that year; which sum is
pargable with an expence of collec
tion equal to 137,000 dollars, exclu
sive of the exnences of the offices of
infpe&ors of furve, which have been
abolished. The nett revenue arising
from those duties may, therefore, be
estimated at 792,000 dollars ; but if
from this sum be deduced the duties
accruing on ftmps which, as under
the drifting laws they will cease to be(
collected after the fourth of. March
next, cannot be enumerated among}
the permanent internal , duties, the
whole nett revenue produced from
|ff^&4Wfe"^ l^'^kfalre .%H
not exceeding 7 t0,0p0, aous. cnargc
aoie wnn an expence or conecuonc-,
somewhat lefsihan 6oo<ooo dollars^ an
1 expence mud be incured more than
equal to a fifth of that sum ; and up.
wards of four hundred revenue officers
exclusive of the infpeOors, must be.
maintained at the public charge.
The continuance of a revenue drawn
from the people oh such terms, can, in
the opinion of your committee, be
juftified only by an imperious neceffi.
ty ; a necessity which, in their eflima
tion, does not at present, and is not
hereafter, likely to exist.
Os the proceeds of those duties
more than 500,000 dollars arise from
the tax on distillation; 372,000 dolls,
of which are paid by 22,000 country ,
Rills, scattered over the immense terri
tory of the United Statet; 65,000 pth.
er dollars are the product of 13,000
retailers licences : These fa&s demon,
flrate the difficulty and even the im
possibility of materially lessening the
expences of collection, so long as the
fubjeßs from which the revenue is to
be drawn, are so thinly dispersed over
Oliswidely extended country ; and the
annexed communication from the
commissioner ofthe revenue, will ex
plain the deficiency which is likely to
occur on the most productive branch
of those duties, unless provisions are
adopted which, by laying the tax on
the quantity aQua^y distilled, will re
quire additional officers in augmenta
tion ofthe present heavy charge of
collection, and a multiplication ofoaths
thereby lessening the security of that
fan&ion and endangering the public
morals. The abolition ofone class of
these duties, by materially dimiriifhing
their produQ without affeding in the
fame degree the expense of colleHion,
would be a strong additional argument
for the abrogation of all : and when
it is recollected that some of those
which it might be the mod desirable
to retain are, even now, fubje&s of tax
ation in the several Rates, the commit
tee perceive no substantial objection
to releasing entirelyto the Rates objeUs
of reverse which to them may be e
qually desirable and productive ; fince^
to them the colle&ion can be attend
ed with little additional charge, and
since to the federal government exclu.
fively belongs the most fruitful fouice -
©f revenue which the Union affords.—
A wife policy, it is believed, will
therefore induce the United States to
abstain, wherever pra&icable, from ex
ercising the right of taxation on those
fubjeds over which the individual
Rates possess a concurrent right.
Other reasons concur in producing an
opinion favorable to the repeal of those
Duties. They consist—
sjnsjn the vexation and oppression of
many of them, some of which are pe
culiarly obnoxious to our citizens.
'2, In'the nature of excise, Which is |
hostile to the genius of a free people.
3. In their tendency to multiply of.•
ficers and incretfe the pa^briage of
the executive. The effea alone
;would forbid the retention of the in-"
ternal taxes, and q redaction to an e
qual amount, of the impost on articles
^the ra nefy;^ % by so .
measure, not one of the host of offi.
leers employed ^ th^r coition f
would be reduced.. . , &
None of the foregoing confidefa
tions, however, could rate induced
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