The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1801-03-24 00:00:00, page 2

1. Mili'ia Officers preceeded by Major General
Thomas Proctor, and Brigadier General Jacob
Morgan, marching by regions of four.
2. Civil officers of government preceded by the
Secretary of the Commonwealth, Alexander
J. Dallas, Esquire—marching in the like or
der.
3. Band of Mufick.
4. The Committee of Arrangement and Corref
pocdence moved in fe&ions of 4, preceded by
the Orator,John Beckley ; Efq. and his supporter
Colonel Barker, Chairman of the committee of
arrangement.
5. Ward and Diftritt committees of collection by
fettions of four.
6. The Tammany Society in the following order;
1. An old and young Warrior in their appropriate
. dress,/
2. An Old Sachem bearing the Cap of Liberty, el
evated on a flaff.
3, The Father of the Council and his Scribe.
4. Three Sachems, bearing the calumet and other
emblems.
5. The Tribe of Miffachufetts preceded by a Sa
chem bearing a flag on which was inferibed,
The Tribe of MdiTachufetts."
3, The Tribe of Connecticut preceded by a Sach
em, bearing a flag on which was inferibed —
'' The Tribe of Connecticut.",
THE TRIBES OF,
New-Hampshire, Maryland,
Rbode-Ifland, Virginia,
Vermont, North Carolina,
New-York, Sorth Carolina,
New-Jersey, Georgia,
Pennsylvania, Tenneflee, &
Delaware,z Kentucky.
Were refpeCtively preceded by a Sachem, bear
ing a flag, on which was inferbed the name of the
tribe to which they belonged.
Wifkinkey with his Key.
8. The True Republican Society, preceded by
its Prefidene, the other officers bearing the Cap of
Liberty, and other appropriate and elegant em
blems. a?
9, Citizens marching by feCtions of 4, bearing in
the line some elegant llandards. ,
10. Military band provided by the youth.
11. Aflociated youth bearing also elegant stan
dards in their line.
12, The schooner, “ Thomas Jefferfon," officer-,
ed and manned, heaving the lead in the line of
March, the, schooner drawn on a carriage by 16
horses, on each of which was mounted a youth, in
white dresses, following which was a ref^eftable
body of fliipbuilderss
13. A Detachment of Horse. , <^
The whole being formed at the State house,
moved down Walrtnt to Second,thence up Second
1 to Race-fireet, thence to the German Reformed
Church, previous to the Proceffiou reaching tlie
12 pounder,
5. Capt. Guy's company of do. with a brass 6
pounder.'
6. Capt. Denham's company of light infantry.
7. The Commandant, Gen. John Shee,
8. Capt. Rufh's company of infantry.
, Capt Hozey's company of do.
10. Capt. Potts's company of do. from Frankfort.
11, Capt.——'s company of do. from Blockly &
Kingfeffing,
12. Capt. Sweney's company of do.
,13. Capr. Cefsler's company of do.
14. Capt. 's company of do.
15. Capt. Lyle's company of do.
16. Capt. Summer's company of do.
17. Capt. Goodman's company of artillery, with
a,brafs 6 pounder,
18. Capt. Ashton's company of artillery, witha
brass 12 pounder,
19. Capt. Duane's company of light infantry,
20. Capt* Jones's troop of horse, doling the left
or the rear of the Legion.—
Marched by feftions of four—
I. Cap. Leiper's troop of borfe,
2. Capt. Snyder's do. from the country,
3. Capt. Huff's company of riflemen,
4. Capt. Shaw's company of artillery,with a brass
Wednesday last, agreeable to toe coullitution,'
the inauguration of Tnomas Jtfferfon, and Aaron
Burr, as President and Vice President of the Unit
ed States, took place. The happy event of a
change in the administration of our government
and the placing the power thereof inihe hands of ,
the u>en whom " the people" delight to honor &
confide in, was celebrated in an unnfual and
merited degree, by all the republicans in this city
and county ; —The day v^i^ truly a day of jubi
lee and feftiyjty. ' _
- -A procession, under the direction of a committee
of arrangement, was formed, w hich, for splendor
and extent, exceded by far any thing of the kind
ever exhibted in this city, excepting the pompous
procession in 1787, on the ratification of the feder
al government. The military on this occasion
made a handsome appearance. The Tammany
Society, which attended the procession ; was nu
merous, and made a beautiful display of flags and
other decorations. The True Republican Society
also attracted deserved attention by their refpelt
able appearance ; the ranks of the citizens were
numerous and well filled, and the associated youth
displayed an enthusiastic ardor of patritifm wor
thy the youthful heroes of '75.
We remarked that in that part of the proces
sion composed of the civil officers of government,
were the date officers ^nly, not one of the ci
vil officers of the federal government designing to
shew an approbation of the choice of charafters
that have been chosen to preside over them —and
in short no one except known democratic republi
cans made their appearance therein.
The musical part of the procession, as well in
the church as the military bands in the procession,
were very pleating ; and among the pieces'com
pofed for the occasion, " Jefferfon's Match ' mer
ited and received distinguished applause.
The elegant schooner ; “ Thomas Jefferfon" at
tracted a marked degree of attention from an ad
miring multitude—die was well officered, and
manned, by a crew of brave tars, .accompanied by
a number of that resp stable and ufeful class of ci
tizens, the fliip-builders.
It is worthy of remark, that not only the ca
valcade excited the admiration of our political
opponents, but that they admit that good order
was preserved by the democrats on this occasion.
The public dinners were numerous, and among
the most conspicuous were that held at Francis's in
the house lately occupied by the President of the
United States, and that held in the chamber lately
occupied by the federal Senate.l
The following was the order of the procession :
I. The Militia Legion disposed of in the.foliowing
manner:
Fourth of March.
PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 6.
being.
- Man, placed by the hands of his Creator 10 the
firft order of beings, was destined to be free —1 he
organization of his body, the faculties of his mind
&the energies of his will proclaim the great decree,
whilst the influences of reason & ofconfeience, fub
ferve the pprpofes of bis destiny. In the dark ages of
the world when the human mind was held in thral
dom by ignorance, fuperflition & bigotry, artifice
and cunning fuperceded the power of reason, and
plan become, but as the Have of man. -
As the spark of reason progressed, the mill of
ignorance was difpelled,and awakened confeience
burst asunder the letters of fuperltiiion and bigot
ry—A spirit of enquiry succeeded, and the rapid
improvements in arts and sciences, followed by
the important difcovfrrs of the arts of printing
and the use of the neei, opened to human investi
gation a range, co-extentive with creation and the
works of nature.
Such, fellow citizens, was the State of the old
world, but particularly of modern Europe, at the
commencement of that epoch when the immortal
Columbus unfolded the grandest project that hu
man genius ever formed—the difeovery of our
western world—poffefling the firm heart of a he
ro, with the enlightened mind and persevering
spirit of a philosopher that illustrious adventurer,
added by his difeoveries, but until then unknown
halt to the globe. Successive adventurers follow
ed in the hitherto trackless path ot the great Co
lumbus, and in lets than a century the north and
South continents of America, with All their conti
guous islands were colonized and fettled by Eu
ropean emigrants. Americas Vefpucius \yhofe
name has been unjustly given to the difeoveries of
Columbus, Magiftian, de Gama, de Gabral, Ra
leigh, Smith, Gilbert, Cabot and Drake, were a
mong the molt diftingnithfd navigators that led
the way to those establishments on the part of the
European nations, of which England Spain and
Portugal, were the firft to avail themselves.—l he
productions and treasures of the new world were
Speedily laid open to the avaricious grasp of nee
dy adventurers from the old, but whilst the bene
volent mind views with horror and disgust those
Scenes of rapine and cruelty which marked the
conquest ot South-America, and the firll European
Settlements in the East and Weil-Indies, it turns
with pleafoe and delight to that period, In the
hittory of this more favored part of the New
World, when a great friend and benefactor of the
human race, appeared in the person and character
of William Penn, the founder, planter and legisla
tor of Pennsylvania— -With a heart and mind
beaming benevolence, and comprehensively em*
bracing the combined views of the philofopher,'
legislator and ftatdman, it was the part of Penn,
to exhibit to the world the firft inftruftive Irfon
of treaties ofamity, peace and union with the un
civilized and untutored aborigines of America
(the wild and savage Indians, founded on that; ba
sis of equal right and mutual justice which they
wore feeh to respect—Pursuing the fame expand
Church, 500 Ladies who had received tickets of
admiliion were feared in the Church. O< the fil
ling ot the house from the Prqceffion, the exeici
fes in the Church commenced":"
iff. Jefferfon's March.
2(1. Solemn invocation to the deity.
7. Instrumental Mnfick.
Bth. Oration delivered by John Beckley, Esq. (as
follows :)
ORATION.
Friends and Fellow-Citizens,
Assembled, in this holy temple, dedicated to
the Service of our God, let us fervently invoke his
prefeient spirit, so to consecrate this day, and the
porpofe for which we are aflembled, that the glad
effufion of a nation's joy may afeend in grateful
orisons to the throne of heaven, and receive the
approbation and blessing of the supreme ruler ot
the universe,
Aflembled Citizens,
Iris no common occasion that has convened
us= centuries pass and ages roll away, while, nor
the page of hillory, nor the records of time, exhi
bit to our view, a fpeltacle like the present—A
merica, rising with gigantic Strength, as Hercules
from his cradle, and presenting to an aflonifhed
world the energies, wisdom and power of a great
and established empire Hail ! genius of liberty
efl'ence of power divine ! thy holy inspirations
have produced the feene, and Spoke anempire into
SOLEMN INVOCATION.
Let our songs afeend to thee,
God of life and Liberty :
For grateful songs our tongues employ,
The transports of a Nation's joy.
3d. Anthem—This is the day which the Lord
hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in it.
4. The Declaration of Independence was read
by Robert Porter, Efqwire.
Overteur of Sampson. [Handel.]
6. Song—“ The People's friend" with chorus.
Uncertain of the end :
'Ere all was loft, the profpe<ft clear'd,
And a bright star of hope appear'd,
The People's chosen friend.
Devoted to his country's cause,
The Rights of Man and equal Laws,
His hallow'd pen was giveti:
And now thole Rights and Laws to save,
From linking to an early grave,
He comes employ'd by Heaven.
What joyful propped# rife before !
Peace, Arts and Science hail our flwre,
And thro' the country spread:
Long may these blellings be preserv'd,
And by a virtuous land deferv'd,
With JEFFERSON our bead.
THE PEOPLE'S FRIEND.
No more to subtle arts a prey,
Which fearful of the eye of day :
A nation'sruin plan'd :
Nor entering on the auspicious morn,
In which a people's hopes are born,
What joy o'er spreads the land 1
While past events portended harm,
And rais'd the spirit of alarm,
The people's hopes prevail ;—
That hence may horrid faction cease,
And honor be maintain'd with place.
To save his country's fame,
And dfffipate increasing fears,
Our favorite JEFFERSON appears.
Let every heart unite,
Th' eventful day to hail ;
When from the Freemen's Right,
CHORUS.
Rejoice, ye States, rejoice,
And spread the patriot flame:
Call'd by a Nation's voice ;
ed policy, our American Solon deviled a code of
lass, wifely calculated to protest the prop^ty,
and interests of the settler), & to fecurc the fujl &
peacetut enjoyment of their civil and religions li-
Liberties Auspicious fyltems I which gave to
Pennsylvania, as an asylum to the opprefled and
persecuted ofEuropean nations, early and large
emigrations of ufetul citizens, whose descendants
now form a great proportion of its population, &
by their habits of industry, integrity, and intelli
gence, adorn the national character ot our State,
and conduce to its importance in the Scale of Un
ion.
But her? fellow citizens, let us pause, & whilst
we solemnly refleft on, admire and reverence the
mylterious ways of heaven to fubferve the pur
poses ot future good to the sons of men. Behold
then an infatuated monarch,James 11. of England,
who by the intolerant spirit of bigotry, 101 l his
crown and kingdoms, in the religious persecu
tion of his subjects. Behold this monarch grantl
ing to our illustrious Penn a deed confirming the
firft and original charter ot Pennsylvania, grant
ed by his brother Charles IL in the , year 1681 ;
that charter which among other things contained
the principle ot a free and universal toleration in
matters ot religion. It was the germ of this prin
ciple thi s obtained planted by the beneficent hand
of Penn, in the then wilds of America, and fof
tered by the wife policy of bis systems, that has
grown and progressed in the strength and majesty
of truth until it has illuminated our weftern
world, and reflected back to Europe a portion of
its original influence.
Fellow-Citizens,
Civil and religious liberty have through all ages
flood too intimately connected, to admit the exist
ence of the one without that of the other —they
mult flourish or perish together. Thus, when the
spirit of commercial monopoly, succeeded to the
rage of colonization and conquest among the
nations of Europe, it was a leading feature in
the Systems of oppreflion devised by the mo
ther country against their colonial dependen
cies, to retrain alike the rights of conscience and
the freedom of the press.—Dark and grievous is
the catalogue ot ills engendered by the spirit ot
commercial monopoly. Human nature has been
no less affiided by its baneful effects in every quar
ter of the globe, than it therefore was under the
reign of ignorance, fuperltition and bigotry, and
hopeless indeed would be the condition of man,
if the difeovery of our weftern world, had only
conduced, to the change of orit system of oppres
sion tor another. But through the influence of
the causes that have been traced, the wisdom of
Providence was displayed in the manifeftation of
the supreme decree " that man placed by the hand
ot his Creator was destined to be free."
/ Light, life, truth and liberty, burst upon the
world through the glorious event of the American
revolution, and it was referred for the youngest
people upon earth, to teach the great elementary
principles of human freedom and human happi
ness, to the firft and proudest nations of the old
world. The causes and effects of that revolu
tion so far as refped the establishment of A
merican liberty and independence are too well
known and understood to be here enlarged upon.
Coeval with that liberty was the establishment of
the principle of“ representative-democratic gov
ernment, emanating from the people, the only
legitimate source of all power," a principle hith
erto unknown & unpra&ifed upon by any people.
It is to the operation of that principle, com
bined with the influence of the American revolu
tion, that the druggies of revolutionary France
may be ascribed ; haggles that now agitate the
whole civilized world, and over the mournful ex
cesses of which we may be permitted to drop a
tear, in the cheering hope that regenerated France
will in the establishment of the principle in ques
tion, Shortly reach that goal of human freedom &
human happiness for themselves, and the sur
rounding nations whose fetters they have broken,
which more fortunate America now possesses in
peace and Safety.
But where is the American heart that does not
dilate with joy at the retro Sped ot the glorious e
poch of the 4th of July 1776 ? When an illustrious
band of heroes and of patriots proclaimed to the
world their country's Independence, boldly avert
ed the rights of man, and 'nobly dared to vindicate
the destiny of his nature —In arts,in arms,in Science
and in government the American character embla
zoned the world and llampt the fallacy of its sup
posed inferiority to the European,
WASHINGTON the Shield and buckler of hts
country in war, and its polar star to that Icm
ple of peace, liberty and Safety, the pillared dome
of the Federal Conftition.
FRANKLIN the pride of philosophy and orna
ment of his country whodrew the lightening from
heaven and pointed the radient Steel of indignant
freemen at the breads of tyrants.
RITENHOUSE, -illaftrious astronomer, felf
taught, clothed in meek humility, adorned with
every virtue, the patriot, philosopher and Sage—
Characters like these what age and nation can ri
val?
Happy America ! favoured country ! renowned
at so youthful a period-, in arts, in arms philoso
phy and freedom. When the historian of the day
Ihall record thy rapid advancement to greatnefs
powerband empire, he will not omit the unpar
relled fad, that in the 21st year of independence,
and the eight from the establishment of the feder
al constitution, the United States of America bad
become che second commercial nation irf the
world.
Fellow Citizens,. From a review thus pleasing
and Scenes To bright, it is painful to torn
away; but as in the physical and moral, so in the
political world, there is an ebb and flow in the
tide of all human affairs, when by tracing the ad
vancement to, or recession from, first principles,
mankind are instructed how'beft to fortify hu
man freedom and perpetuate human happiness.
In the short, period of the left tour years theex- :
ample of the U. States presents to the world a
,monition awful and instructive ;an administration
comiheticing pursuing, and ending its career in
the abandonment an^ dereliction of all those
principles Which led our country to glory, great
ness, freedom and independence, and fiiblututing,
those which produce dishonor, difuniox, depen
dence and slavery : hence arose systems of execu
tive patronage and influence co extensive with the
creative powers of government ;<
01 military and naval establishments, and Standing ;
army;
Os wasteful expenditures, oppressive public bur
thens and enormous taxes ;
Os alien and Sedition laws ; the former to prohibit
the petfecuted sons of liberty ip other countries
from obtaining an asylum in our land ;the fate
/ ter to restrain and punish the freedom, of Speech
and of the prfi in our awn citizens ;
Qf new and arbitary principles of coaOruaive
The company then retired from church ; the
legion was formed, and marched with^he associ
ated youth down 4th llreet to Ajarket, thence up
Market to 9th. thence down 9th street to Spruce-
Breer, where the line was formed ,when a discharge
of 16 rounds took place from the i2p>nrders,
and a feu de joi of three rounds by the wl^e in
f ntrf ; after which they were dismissed. It ma,
not be amiss, before we close this rnbjeft, to Hate
that the commencement of the jubilee was an
nounced at sunrise, by a difeharge of 16 rounds
from the 12 pounders, as well the Jame number of
rounds at 19 o'clock announcing the movement rs
the procession; the helis a!To commenced tieir
ringing at sunrise, and continued though the ^ .
The Flipping in the harbor-all, exhibited a plea'-
ng light, being drefled with the flags ^nd dream
ers, and firing felines through the day.
jWe learn From Riga, under the date of Nov. 9,
(faysa London paper cf Dec. 11) That a leit< r
from gen. Paphlen, received there some days pre
teeding this date, has given eaufe for many con,"
jedures. This general, governor of Petelfburgh,
dined lately with the Emperor, his mailer, when
all of a sudden bis imperial njajelly proposed to
give as a toad—' The health of the gr^ate/f man ?
io Europe? The general as a courtier wished to |
believe that it was the health of the Emperor him- 1
felty "No (said Pool 1.1 it is that of BoonSpartel
that 1 with to celebrate !"—After the "honors of 1
the toad, they both exclaimed—" Huzza ! vivet
Buonaparte ! Since that time all the tables of Pe.
leriburgh have followed the example.
treason and common law ,
Ot preemption and disqualification from office, of
one halt the community tor their political ouin
ions;'
Os unceasing efforts to legalize war and f) he
matic murder, by hostilities against republican
France :—And finally,
Os endeavours, through the agency of foreign and
domeflic intrigue, to excite alar ns by pretend
ed plots, conspiracies, and treasons, thus creat
ing a reign of terror and political delation in
which the rage of civil difeord had nearly effac
ed the social affections, and detiro,ed all Social
intercuurfe, when the hand of broil er agaiurt
brother, and father against son, was about to be
uplift each against the other, and this fair her
itage of liberty imbrued in kindred blood.
But the fequal ofa feene so calamitous, it was
the wife order of heaven to avert ; milled confi
dence, and the influence of a name could no lon
ger deceive—awakened to a sense of common dan.
ger, and animated to action by the guardian ge
nius of liberty, republican;America with one unit
ed voice, resolved to disavow the principles, re
voke the measures, and difeard the men, that had
thu; afflicted her. It was as the decree of Heaven
againtt the guilty Belfhazzer pronounced in thun
der, Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharfin ! The inferip
tive record, like the haud-w riling on the wall can
never be effaced from the page of American hif
tory, whilst, by it, Shall men through all time be
taught to reverence the principle,' vox populi,
vox dei."
Republican Citizens of Americas,
“ BEHOLD YOUR IRiUMPH,"
Virtue rising on the ruins ot corruption—Your
country emancipated ; a new era of independence
begotten ; and the public liberty secured beyond
the grasp of force, fraud or factious uforpation.
s Oh ! inestimable right of fuftrage, firft constitu
tional privilege panacea, of freemen, the peaceful
exercise of which has induced blessings so moment
ous. 1
Rejoice then, Fellow citizens, and let your
grateful crifons afeend to, and resound in, the con
cave of heaven's high arch ; render up your pre
sent triumph sure, unmixed and unatio, ed ; drop
the curtain of oblivion on the feences that have
pass ; banish the remembrance of political perse
cution; display the chararieriflic magnanimity of
republicans, and prove the pre-eminence of re
publican virtue Call to mind that on this day,
and perhaps at this very hour the citizens chosen
by the foffrages of your electors to the two firft
Stations of your government, are inaugurated and
sworn into office ; reciprocate to them the obliga
tions of fidelity and of duty, which they have this
day entered into ; refpeft the constituted authori
ties of your country ; observe, in all your conduct
as citizens, a demeanor peaceful, orderly & tem
perate ; render cheerful and prompt obedience to
the laws, along with a vigilant attention le the Se
curity and preservation ot republican liberty, and
fuffer not the magic of a name, or the imagined
virtues of any man, ever to seduce you from that
jealous regard for your rights, which constitutes
the firft of republican virtues, always remember
ing that the only fafe depository ot the public li
berty is to be found in the virtue and integrity of
the people.
Fellow-Citizens,
Ou this auspicious day, new hopes arise through
out the land whilst joy exulting smiles in every
face. The joy of millions in a nation's triumph !
Happy then to retrofpett the past or look forward
to the future ; fee on the one hand the voice of
faction flifled, the Strong arm ot power fall nerve
less before you, ambition difeorntited, your op
pressors fled, and the banners of defyotifm pros
trate before the Standard of 1 berry. On the other
hand, behold the guardian genius of America a
rife,' with healing in her wings,' leading by the
hand her patriot son, the people's friend ! Philo
sophy, science, wisdom and juflice in her train;
whilst feared in a triumphal car, Liberty's fair
Goddess, fmiies benignant on the feene and point
ing to your charter of Sacred rights and equal laws,
presents a spectacle of public Lappiuefs realized,
in your country's peace, prosperity & glory,con
ducted by philosophy, Science and wisdom, flip
ported by reason, truth and justice.
Glorious morn of freedom, lightens, beautifies
and adorns our political horizon ; may its meridi
an splendor be reflected as the fun beams of liea
ven to vivify and preserve the etherial flame ; and
may the sons .of America feel its aniqutring influ
ence to the latest period of time ; and do thou
"Almighty Being," on whose eternal fiat depends
the fate of nations, arid the defiinies of the world
consecrate and perpetuate, tire liberty; indepen
dence and happiness of our beloved country.
9th. Song—“ 'Tis Liberty, dear Liberty alone"
—Handell.
10th. Jefferfon's March.
Tis Liberty, dear Liberty alone,
Which y,i:es treft beauty to the f m:
That bids all natu re look more gay.
And lovely life with pleasure fleals away.
AFTER TEE ORATION.