The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1800-11-18 00:00:00, page 1

The following letter from a Gentleman in Jamaica
to his friends in America we extra# from the
Bee, a New-London paper of 1762 it exhibits to
tiew the inhuman and diabolical caudate of the
owners of jlavg in the Wifi-Indies to tkeiv mij
arable and wretched fellow creatures
I AM Torry I have it thy power to assure
Von, that the story which gave rife tothe fol
lowing lines, is not fictitious, but is a real
fa&, that happened intheifland of Jamaica,
not many years ago. The man who per
petrated the deed, a Scotchman too, is, I.
believe, alive, in that island at tyis tiff,
It was the practice of this m^o, L,,35 deli
berate system, 10 work out bis flavuo W 3
had labor ; and When the dp&or reported,
that they were no longer able to work, nor
any hopes remained or their recovery, they
were ordered to be carried immediately, to
the launch, an inclined plane made'of several
boards 'fattened together, whose lower ex
tremity pointed over the edge of a precipice
several hundr# felt in height, that hung
over a deep ravine on his plantation. This
was,in general, a pretty certain launch into
eternity, though, in the prefeat case, it fail-'
ed. Noflack had been declared by the Doc
tor incapable of any further service, and'
Was ordered, as usual to the launch. The
poor fellow begged hard that he might not
be carried to the launch, as he was not yet
dead :—But nothing could, prevail with his
iohumanmafter. Likehis fellows, he mud
take his fate ; but, by a kifad of miricle, he
escaped his life, and made a fhift to crawl
from the foot of the rocks.' Some of his
black friends fell in with him, had compas
sion on him, and used means for his recove
ry. Some time after, the merciless wretch
who had caused him to be launched over the
precipice, was Tomewhat surprised to fee
nis Gave, whom he had believed to be in the
other world begging in one of the Rreft^y
a neighboring town ; but had the moder^n
furance to with to re-claim him as his pro
perty. The poor fellow's Rory, however
prevailed, even in the Weft-Indies, to make
all agree in thinking he had got a full dis
charge from his service : and the tyrant own
q, feeing the general indignation rising
high againfthriffi was glad, at length, to
make his efcape,from the mob, as quickly
aspaffible, though no public vengence over
took him.
If I thill be told this story cannot ke true
because it is contrary to the laws provided
for the fafety of the Negroes, I answer, that
1 difpnte net abou, the law ; but that the
fa& is literally true ; I do maintain, and am
ready to prove it upon the most undeniable
evidence Should it be necessary—And this I
aver, though I ambo friend to the abolition
of the Slave-Trade.
The Negroes themselves made up a bal
lad in their own way, which they used to
fog at their public merry-makings the
chorus of which was, 1
Maffa, Mafia, no launch— ,
^Maffa, no dead yet —or something of thaty
kind, which I am sorry I did not -take
down.—These gave rife to the following
lines. • M. H.
The Poor Negro's Petition and Complaint.
0 0 Ma®, poor Negro ! God Almighty you biefs :
0 Mafia, poor Negro tin utmost diflrefs.
Much beating, much bathing, poor Nofluck en
dur'd;
No toil, no fubmiffion^, good usage enfur'd.
Provisions were bad ; out allowance was small !
Hard work ; no relief for poor Noflak at all.
Sick, sick, aud not able to stand to the hoe ;
"Given up by the Doctor, tty ttye launch he mttft
Said my matter, unfeeling, and lent me away.
Though 1 pleaded, intreated— a D let me but stay,
«'-O malTa/no touch, drerffo dead, me no dead,
<c No launch, me grow well again, ma®," I said.
He was deaf to my cries—so dragged to the rock..
From the plank 1 was launched-- the terrible Shock !•
t I got faft asleep ; but awaking again,
£ Alas ; I awoke to much sorrow and pain !
U My legs they were brake—all my body much
No hope ; even death, to relieve me, refus'd ;
Dry bones of poor Negroer'were featter'd'around ;
Like me the, were launched ; but sweet death
they had found ;;
Had escaped, exulting, troth flav'ry and pain ;
Their Spirits, high fearing, had cros'd the wide
main, :.
To vifitthe land of their fatherland brothers:
To fatale thetov'd fouls of their fillers & mothers.
0 death! why so flow ?---But Why mould 1 com
friftfeb^n?
Since the Attach has releas'd me from collar and
O maffa, a bit on poor Noffack beflov,
God Almighty you bless, no distress may you
know. /.. ,
Hire laid on a dunghill poor Nofik mud lie
No eye drops a tear ; no breast heaves a sigh;
But death (hall release me from sorrow and pain;
Then my dear native L%@U rfrifit again.
NUMBER 12. —VOL. 12.]
" WHEN YOU SHALL THESE DEEDS RELATE, SPEAK.OF THEM AS THEN-ARE ; NOTHING EXTENUATE NOR SET DOWN ofcHT IN MALICE.'?
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The Republican Ledger.
'sl Alexander Hamilton—The Anglo-fed
eral bomb, burning in the midst of, and de
stroying its own faction.
6. In the much desired administration of
Mr. Jefferfon, may our hopes be realized.
7. The Irish people : As they have distin
guished, may they enjoy4heir rights.
& May the funeral song of the British
government be Speedily played on the Irilb
harp.,
9. The success of rhe republican arms in
annihilating despotism.
10. The republican printers of the United
Stales.
It. Dayton'and Pickeroniah deteaions to
all'pubilalc plunders.
12. Further expositions of the views and
foibles of ci-devant Federal Demi Gods.
13. May the quarrels of the would-be here
ditary rulers be always beneficial to public
freedom.•
W The Rate of Virginja, the great lumi-'
nary of the American hemifphere#
15. May the friends of liberty be no long
er the obje&s of persecution. ;
16. Universal peace, freedom, and phi
lanthrophy.
VOLUNTEERS.&
-After Mr. Cooler had retired.'.
Thomas Cooper- -the con fpicious viaim of
the Sedition Law, the friend of science, and
the able advocate of universal liberty.
After Mr. Reynolds had retired.
Dr. Reynolds —the active friend of freedom.
William Dtra¥—the Cicero of Anglo
Federal conspiracies.-
What -a Camelion like thing is Federalism ?—
East of the river Delaware, in Jersey and New-
England, it is Federal and. couttitutional for the
legislature to appoint Electors of President and
Vice-President. On the Weft fide, in Pennsylva
nia, such a mode is anti-federal and deftable.—
Silence ye hipocrites or pa, a little more to re
gard to appearances, even though you do despise
the reality of coufifteucy.
New-York, Nov.s.
At a fele& meeting of citizens, at Lov
ett, Hotel!, on fhurfday evening last, to
congratulate Thomas Cooper, Esq. of
Northumberland, on his emerging from
Chase's repository of republicans.,—The
following toasts were drank, viz.
ift. The triumph of republicahifm.
2. Impartial justice.,
3. The speedy arrival of the republican
Millenium.
From a Liverpool, (Eng.) Paper, Aug. 21, 1800.
WE think we perform a duty to the pub
lic, when we state a fad, of which many,
well informed in other refpc&s, may yet be
ignorant 1 namely, that yeast or barm is an
abfolent fpecific for those fevers know by
the name of putrid fevers.
A table fpoon'ful given in a little beer,
ale or Water, every hour or two, effects so
Speedy a cure, that there have been innum
erable instances of patients being perfectly
teftored in Jess than forty-eight hours, who
otherwise could not have Survived halfaday.
Several eminent Physicians in town, have
for Tome time perfcribed no other remedy,
and they have had uniform success. This
disease, which frequently used to baffle e
very effort of the mod fkilful, is now fa y
niformly and Speedily removed by the use of
yeast, that all perlons ought to inform them
lelves where it may most readily be found
in their immediate neighbourhood, to pre
vent any loss of time, when the disease makes
its firft appearance. And we need hardly
add what must be obvious to all, that it is
the duty of every individual to make the fa&
as generally and as Speedily known in his
vicinity as possible.
The exhibition of this remedy is attended
with no one inconvenience, except, in some
few cases, symptoms of flatulency. It is,
however, when it occurs, a falfe indication,
and soon removes itfelf ; for the gas (the
wind) which causes the sensation, is soon
absorbed by the system, being neither more
nor less than the carbonic acid gas or fixed air
that has been liberated from the yeast by the
a&ion of the Aomach, and which becomes
in fa& the efficient cause of the cure. When
medicial aid is at hand, of course prudent
people will avail themselves of it., Where
this advantage cannot be had intelligent
people can hardly miftafte the directions we
have given. Itwill be rendered a real bene
fit to mankinds
4. The constitution of the United States,
may, it be no longer tortured by hypocriti
cal friends.
CUREfa the PUTRID FEUER.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1800.
But the character of his successor—the
firmnefs of mind, felf-confidence and inde
pendence of R^r. Adams, have retrained
your influence, and called into open opposi
tion, thefecret enmity which has long ran
kled in your breast. You boldly assail the
conduct and charade# of Mr. Adams, and
endeavour to prove his vanity, feif-fuf
ficiency, jealousy, rashness and ungovern
able temper, unfit him for the Ration of Chief
Magistrate. The inßances adduced in proof
are. mostly oEa private and trifling nature ;
hardly worthy, of being the fubjed of remark
or refutation.
I will not here attempt to difgihfe or pal
liate the faults of Mr. Adams; but admit
them for the present in the full extent that
you deferibe, and endeavor to prove that
your polity and your conduit < have been the
principal causes of the present divisions
among federal men, and that if these fhoold
refiilt in the elevation of an antifederal man
to the chief ihagiftracy, rhe fault will lie at
your door and that of your Supporters—-—
In your letter to Mr. Adams, page 14,
you Rate, that " To this circumstance of
the equal Support of Mr. Pinckney, we are
in a great measure to refer the serious feifm
which has since grown up in the federal
party." This, fir, is a groundless assertion
and a most unjuftifiable attempt to cast the
blame of , division of opinion upon Mr.
Adams. Whatever might have been the
iealoulies of Mr. Adams on the coccafioh
of the former deaiorf, few or no federal
men took any part with him—it was a fab
jeft in which very few felt themselves in
tcreßed.,
In Page 23, you go farther and declare
that the measures of Mr. Adams in regard
to France have " funk the tone of the pub
lic mind ; impaired the confidence of the
friends of government in their executive
chief—dlßraaed public opinion—unnerved
the public councils—vfowh thq feeds of dis
cord at home and lowered the reputation of
the government abroad."
Permit me to inform you, fir, that this Is
an inaccurate statement refpe&ing the causes
of the difeontents among federal men..«As
you have omitted one haff theftory, I think
it a duty I owe to juftite and my country,
to public feme other fids which a person
al eßeem for the men concerned and an al
most infiiperable relu&ance to acknowledge
the existence of difeord among the heft citi
zens of America, much less to add fuel to
the incipient aflame, have hitherto concealed
b/R,•
IT Has long been known that yon have
attempted to direct the principal measures
of our national councils , and this as eflen
tially Since your resignation, as while a min
ister of the government. While general
Washington administered the government,
tile-influence of his prime minister was exert
ed in silence—the cautious maxims of that
illustrious man led him to take counsel, be
fore he resolved, and when he decided, his
decisions appeared to be, and probably were,
his own.—
HAMILTON, ADAMS,
AND
NOAH WEBSTER.
«"«^»ta •
" If laws Were made in every degree;
" To curb vice in others as well as in me,
“1 wonder we han't more company."
“ Dancon la Carmagnot !
MACHEATH.
The pulsation given to the body politic, by
Hamilton's precious letter, is felt from one end
of the union to the other. Never was thered
publication more Grange in its ftrnfture, more
^ftru&ive of its purposed end. it has confirm^
^ faffs that were before known,, but held id
doubt. It has displayed the treachery not oslj
of the writer, but of his adherents in the publid.
counsels ; and while it has thrown much falfe,
glare on Mr. Adams, it has given some new and
faithful traits also ; but it has thrown a blaze of
light on the real character of the writer and his
partisans.
The following letter, byway of reply to Mr.
Hamilton, is attributed to Noah Webster,
and though not so completely absurd as is the
usual character of his writings, contains certain
internal evidence of being his.
TO
GEN. HAMILTON,
OCCASIONED BY
HIS LETTER TO
PRESIDENT ADAMS.
A LETTER
BY A FEDERALIST^
[I DOL. $O CTS. PER ANNUM.
The moment, however, that that writer
proposed a treaty, some federal men fufpe&-
ed his views, and decidedly opposed him ;
though at the hazard of a torrent of abuse
from that blackguard, and Come Americans.
It is now afeertaibed that Porcupine was an
agent of the British ministry, and corres
ponded with the under Secretaries of State—
This information was communicated to the
President, last Spring ; soon after which that
'hireling left the country. But it is a known
fa& that he had won over to his interest the
government paper of the United States ;
that through that paper the President was a
bused and vilified, even while it was the
medium of official communications—and
the then Editor is still Cobbett's agent in A
mer*ca.
The decided opinion of certain gentlemen
of influence in favor of such a conneaion
with Great-Britain, alarmed some men who
had warmly opposed the French partisans.
The proposed alliance with Great-Britain
was opposed dn # these grounds—That the
distance erf the United States from Europe
renders such a connexion unnecessary—
That such alliance, when fought by a foreign
nation, is doubly to be fofpe&d— That the
proteaion afforded by large states to smaller
: ones, almost neceffaiily involves in it fub
jeaion to their power or views, and is rare
ly td be obtained but by immense Sacrifices,
iand at a price far beyond its value—That
. such an alliance would -demonstrate the
charges alledged against our government
,of a partiality to Great Qritain, and cenfe
quently ftrehgthen and increase the oppofi
:tion at home, and perhaps blow up the la~
tent fire of difeord into an adive and def
'trti&ive flame—and in Abort that it would
1 involve this country in the defines of Eu
! rope, and link it to the fate of the warring
nations ; contrary to all the maxims of the
administration both of Washington ar.d
Adams.
I will only add that it appears a proba
ble inference from the fa&s collectively
considered, that the exigence of the above
-mentioned views among some of the min
isters, was among the causes which produc
ed the late change in the administration.
The otlier meafore of government which
was: actually carried iuto cffi&, was the
; raiJirtg^f an army; and this is one for which
you are in a great degree, [cfeontible. On
Two important meaftires, one of which
was adopted and the other contemplated, as
early as the year 1 798, excited no small sur
prise and disgust among federal men, and
induced some of the most zealous defenders
of the government to withdraw their Sup
port. One of these was to propose a treaty
offenfive and defensive, or at least defenfive,
with Groat-Britain? „ this measure you
objeaed. I remark this to do you justice &
to vindicate you ' from the calumny of your
personal enemies^ 'whq hold you up as a par
tizan of Great-Britain.
But many influential chata&ers, some of
them in the government, were zealously en
gaged in this interest ; and among them,
the late Secretary of State, who expressed
his surprise that no attempt had been made
by our government to bring about Such 1
treaty. And it is a fa& that the British
mjnifter intimated a wish to receive a pro
pbfition for this purpose from our govern
ment.
These faQs are fluted on the authority of
the gentlemen concerned.
* This measure was defeated in embryo ;
but it may be proper to Rate fome-faas of
less consequence, that seem to relate to'the
fubje&.
So early as the year 1,97, William Cob
bett, alias Peter Porcupine, proposed and
urged an offensive and defensive treaty be
tween the United States and Great-Britain.
From the chara&er of that man, it was not
generally fufpe&ed that he could be an a
gent of the British ministry § or if fufpe&ed
by the oppofers of government, the suspi
cion was repelled by the friends of govern
ment, who rejoiced to find in him, though a
foreigner, a decided opposer of the disorgan
izing principles which were over-running
Europe and Americas
On the other hand, most of the influential
charaders in the northern states were op
posed to the meafurd ; among these, was the
present Chief Justice of the United States,
who took occation to express his disappro
bation to some gentlemen in the govern
ment. •
or permitted to be disclosed only to a few
confidential friends.