The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1800-10-14 00:00:00, page 1

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foeput@,from twenty-one Diftrids of rtris
.County,tabe Convened in the Bhifo^h of ,
Lancaster, oh the tlth %/ df this Mtinth.
',^ Mating ^ll&fbdtyevery vi
^mny, and w,^ .numerous! and -refpeaable.
,fer nMkinga&leaionof Republican Ci
fyeasy tote] prop died is Methbefs 6f the
^Federal iM^tat^Ltegffl^^
^%, nid fyty p| communicating to you
^tymilters, irantaton^d & political
lancet, *m, predate the rreteffafy &-
foims <Mtety&^^fflpti^frte
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;t^|&,% ateieg that theEteaians, To;
%hd# oartbeghbf Oftoter, 'will befarf
^e important that ever occurred in
^Platforming the very important duty
jffl&& to {US, ATCiholi ^endeavour to ad
„:efsffie underfundings of out Rltc^-citi-;
^^ hndjcandidhr to ground our Cogunw-'
micaticfrt ppdn fertous wfo Slid owdera4
lions, equally dXemial to the firfesy foilbap-[
pioefs of all real Republicans of the tfW
Parties. For we know well, that, n as ma
^y °,he„o dWifi^^ the federal party;
^rauhfara ; so all the&epublicara par
ity-arc daidedfriends of our federal system
of Government. These, for whom wenow
a^l, lay no claim to exetyroe Rffyllicaim,;
l^t they.will not permit certain of their Op
tyne.pts ,9 fatotyn^ pecten fra real #&
for #tof fete %@tfen ,&Q
--,^i&f^ ^ of the Rep&i-1
& intered. @the realcnemies of Repre
tentative Prammer* tray be throughly
-tem^ Wee omo t m, (after the man
art tfa« Berate w^e known by
±ls to,W @ ' Members, Samuel
Lyman, Esquire, of Maflachufetts) we do
,not with to excite an unlawful and anar
bhic ^tafel+tf, „imj^,f@ destroy the
tyMftfenuaty?|ffi^ Representative Govern
roefc, ^Tph&jubliran party only with
the people and the g^rarnmttifs to be _whll
idtopdfetM^^
of the Constitution. They desire, that the
people <W ifo, efhplpy, qhofe^enemies, aid
that the Governments of the Union and of
the States may enforce the Laws against
ffieim. The Republicans are littefty averse
to W&uiity even the enemies of Repre
feutative-GaverOTnent, through the medium
ao^n^fo^ and fo^ria#fpi& of " hatred
and animoffty;" ror will they be betrayed
into fitch a condua, by the example of those
^forta^ ^#ratift^ whole tong^
violence is aonounoed/b, the Maffachofetts
Member of Congress to have at length di
ti^fl^fr party, ft fems the power to
§^@,ol^ and other
feta..Gift,fa s not fatisfy them. , A
terror, a flatted, a punishment beyond the
Law, and'at which Tome of thelt hearts ft)
coil, is urgW To the length of a party quar
rel. sass Truth, illustrative of the wick
ed ends to which this odious spirit is appli
ed, that "lh4 reign df Terror omd a Faris
"September, [a time of exile and aßaffina
tion) were menaced against a Citizen of
Philadelphia, f^ugfr/he c/jan^^ fefr
#Cty%qfiwrfora decent Publication ih
prows M# 'Which wentta prove, that
& British, and M The French, were the
begfonersof the (puliation of neutral Trade.
This istymied on oath, and a Certificate
will be fhrhifhed, bn the application of ahy
Ele4u6 orbs any Attorney for the Union
or for < State. That baneful spirit of to
red, applied as it has tag greatly to for
dfy#& has been used to enrage Citizen
against Citizen, Friend against Friend,
Brother against Brother, State against State,
and the Northern against the Southern
States; <t has been a principal engine, for
many raff, against Jefferfon and Madison.
It is not to be wondered, under such cir
cumstances, that the Republicans struggled
against the ele&ion of Mr. Ross, who clear
ly felony to that part of the Federalilk,
who are disposed to "Hd/rata.” It is
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MnOTal of Aftr^ Pickerii3g, and Nlr# M riefc
rt who belong to the fame connexion.
ACT^webefere, th# too many of ft
" fotN YOU SHALL THESE bEEbS DELATE, SPEAK OF T&,EM AS tHZY ARE, NOfrHtNO EXTENUATE NOR fET DOWN OUGHT IN MALICE.”
POram&TH, (NEW-HJMPSWRE) FRONTED BY NUTTING & WHITELOCK, MULBERRY L^NE. ADJOINING ROUSSELKTs MUSEUM.
I leading friends of Mr. Pienkney, and fomb
of the friends of Mr. Adams, are disposed,
Ih-likt mantlet, and fat we shall prove
'^O^Ot meafyres to have been produaive
gs public evils, we hope for the eledion of
Mother citizea as President. The friends
*>f Mr. Pinckney openly avow their oppofi,
tion to The re^eie&ion of Mr. Adams. Os
this we have certain knowledge.l
Cte of the cireumftances, that induce the
defnepctf Mr. Jefferfon, Election, is the
'vaft'expenditure of public money. On the
.fllffoly, i&>o, the Federal Government
fa^beehin operation about ft years. The
.public expenditures, for that time, exceed
87 millions 'of data. Our generous un
fufpe&ing countrymen should examine into
the yaft films the Adthiniftratton have ex
p'ep^ed. , the Moraes,,which the goyefn
mtiat have received in those eleven years, a
mount to 89 mill ions and one third. We
Oould have expe&ed more economy from
aNew-Eogland administration. Out breth
ren in those Rates expelled, we believe,
much mike. Asthe friends of Mr. Adams
and General Pinckney have held al) thd
rfta6s 6f Government, we cannot believe,
that ohr eaflern fellow-citizens will be dis
posed to a choice of them by the Prefiden-.
: tial Ete&orS. The citizeris, in that quart
tr, ffiould pay more attention to their elec
tions. We are surprised to observe, that
itevote for members of Congrcfs, in Con
neafeut, b less than 3800 ; when Lancas
ter County, att^e lilt Ekaon, gave, on
(hetwo fidfl, 3500.
I Much of our public ex pences has arisen
Ifrom1from the mrafmes for ^rftti^ on-Army, on
the plea of repelling French Invalion ;
which was, neyerthalefs, disbanded when
we had nocertaintyof a treaty with France.;
It4s difficult for 4&toe*tra&, from the ac-i
counts of the proceedings of our govern
ment, any wife and good views with which
±^ coulQ have been railed, that arei
confident with ^bemeafere of so early dis
banding it. h <,, however, to^ urifeth-,
nave, on the score of rhe' Public LcWwmy,
and indeed of political.jealou ties and fears,
that the fuller Anticipation of all the objec
tions to die army was not made, before the;
laws were passed. We have been at a very
great experife to appoint avast number of
officers, and to place an army upon paper,
much of which ^might, perhaps, have been|
feted. If is to be greatly regretted, too,,
that so extenfiye an authority to levy regu-:
lar troops relaxed the attention to the Mili
tfo, and (with the new and <xten five plan
of volunteers) tended to diminish the whole
some influence of that Cutfiiutiml force.
We have yet noticed thp army, chiefly as
it has encreafed our Public Burdens. b It is
much more neceiTary to .remember it in eth^
er views. The danger of invasion is no
more credited^ and we may now speak out.
The votes for &e different regiments and
Cofo amounted, as we understand them, to
about 42,090 men. The authority to em
ploy volunteers, was extended tb 7$, 000
men. Thefe'lMft forces were accompanied
by a very fagwlar and alarming fad.—lt
was carried in one house of Congress, with
ithe vote of our Senator, Ross, to_authorife
the President to difufethe militia north of
the Patowmac, even to repel the Invasion of
'the Fefrich; though we have expended 11
'^t millions in measures to that end. It
; would fcom, that we may not be defended
\ efa; ltait ? faraffoo may not be repelled, if
it. mull be fy & Militia, if some of the fed
eralihs could have their Will. When we
remember the invariable use, to which re
gular armies have been notoriously applied ;
when we ,efle£ t that the volunteer corps
consisted entirely of that Federal Party,
which confeffes that it has quartered about
"the degree of hatred and ^imofity to be
used against their fellow citizens or of
foreign monarchies infuriated against re
-Ipublicaifm ; And when we call to npnd,
thv the general militia, which alone ad-
Imined the Republican Party, was thus o
penly proposed, by the friends of Mr, Pinck
sney, and Mr. Adams, to bt disused, we be
;lieve that many of our citizens must rejoice,
Iwith us, in the dilbanding of the army.—
Tfe corps of volunteers and the army con
tained, no doubt, a proportion of patriotic
and virtuous ohara&ers ; but the laboriouf
ly-exahed hostility Which is avowed to have
been raised against France, and the hatred
and animosity, which the Federal Party con
fefs to have been propagated against their
, opponents, can only be thoroughly eradi
cated under the commanding power of the
TUESDAr, OCTOBER 14, 1800.
conititutimai Magistracies and the militia. .
The feeptre of the people and the Avord of
the ' people • Will beat down these rath and
lai,lefs pariiztas., .
The infinite importance of religion,,
induces he to notice the febje& ; though our
conftiulon exempts it from bumah authori;
ty —I: has been represented, a produaion
aurivucti tora former chaplain of Congress,
that the republican candidate had" dined on
a Sunday, at Fredericksburg With some of
his friends, on a journey from tehiladelphiz
to Montecello, — Men of piety have been at
tempted to be alarmed with a single cofual
circumstance of that 'kind; though Mr.
Jefferfon is exemplarily free from indecorum
and excess in his table- intercdurfe. Since,
however, pamphlets are deliberately Written
to convey such attacks, we art fotcet lto ob
serve, that Mr. Adams, when our minister
at the British court, was in the habit of en
tertaining the Americans and foreigners in
London, at bis ministerial dinners on the
fabbathday.
Mr. Jefferfon 's condu& as Secretary and
Vice-hefident, has been governed, as we
conceive, by those religions virtues, self-de
nial and gft'nferefedneJs ; for he never gave,
or procured an appointment for one of his
relations or conhe&ions^ It has been im
puted to Mr. Adams, that after removing
several even of the New-England officers,
long before appointed, by President Wash
ington, of Republican or democratic poli-l
-ties, he has aaually appointed per fens in his
family and friehdlhip, of the fame polities,
been excluded ftom office.?
, '2% CTrnaud ts ourselves is an indifpenfa-i
ble duty of religion. We are told on the!
highest authority that " if aqmtin among\
you feemetb to be -religious, and bridleth not\
his tongue, but deceiveth bis own heart ; that!
man's religion is vain." MrJefferfon's pub-1
1k communications are large atid impreffive.l
The moderation with dignity and firmnefs,
difolayed/pliis letter to Mt. Genet, Mr.
Hammond ap^. Mr. Governettr Morria.
conform more exemplarily, in our opinion,
to the preceding monition of the Bilge, than
the commutfiefflons of Mr. Adams to the
addreHes apd to the legislature. But there
is higher evidence of the real piety of Mr.
Jefferfon. Our duty to Almighty God, and
our duty towards our; neighbour, are the
/um of true, religion, fay performing those
high duties, we may eMpel the esteem of
good men, aty hope &* the favour of heav
en. There is no aa so important to our
neighbour, nor fa truly dutiful and reveren
tial to Almighty God, as voluntarily divest
ing ourselves, and our political and religious
conneaions, of all authrwity over ,he reli
gious liberty and rights of confeience of our
fellow men, At the close of the revolu
tionary war, Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferfon
son were alike situated ni one religious con
cern. They were citizens of the two popu
lous Rates of birginia and Maffacbafetts. In
each of those states, their refpe&ive church
es had obtained advantages, through the civ
il power, inconsistent with the religious lib
erty and the rights of confeience of mem
bers of all the other religious focieties' .The
protestant episcopal church could exJa con
tributions from all others in Virginia and
the congregational or independent church
could exaa contributions from all others in
Massachusetts. Mr. Jefferfon, above fif
teen years ago, performed his duty to his
neighbors, to his fellow men, and to, his
God, by introducing and carrying a law in
Virginia, to abolilh, forever, those exactions
of one church from the rest, and all other
interferences with religious liberty, and the
sacred rights of confeience^ Mr. Adams
has omitted to make any such attemptor
exertion ; by which he has failed to per
form that dl important duty to his fellow
men, and that a6l of pious reverence to
wards Almighty God, which have diking,
uithed the religious chara^eref Mr. Jeff
erfon. Mr. Adams, even though sworn to
maintain bur freedom from religious lefts,
avowed, immediately before entering on the
presidency, his delign to be governed, as
President, th his appointments to office by
an uncoffitutiml principle, which would
deprive the members of one known Ameri
can church of their lawful advantages and
rights. We believe, that the maintenance
of the Christian religion, neither requires,
nor admits, the contravention of an oath
founded upon its truth. The harshest stric
tures have been made upon some expreflion'
in Mr. Jefferfon', Notes ; but if surety is
not denied in Pennsylvania, that a pious
ft DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM.
Hebrew neither injures our persons nor
estates, neither breaks our limbs, nor steals
our phrfe, though he believes but in one Su
preme Being. Nor did the untutored fav
-Bgebe b who furtounded our European fore
fathers, in their various colonial fetdements,
fra&ure their members or destroy their pro
perty, by their unenlightened credulity ih
many Gods. 1; is ashame to chriftian man
that not only the limbs, but the lives of the
l'agan nations, have often met deftruaion
from their hands. Nearly exterminated by
our insidious luxuries; by qur maladies, and
by our arms, the polytheist Indiansyet teach
a chriftian world to foffer and to forgive.
In our land the fevage loiterers in a falfe
deity, have been deemed by the pious Qia
kers and Moravians, objeas of conversa
tion, and not of persecution.
The fetter to Mattel, has been the;fonn-<
dation of much reprehension of Mr. jefifer-.
son. If:it be really his, he fays, plainly,
that there is ,n Englilh party in America.
Who will deny this, when the files of the
British king and council declare "that a
party is formed in America infWour ofGreat
Britain ?" The evidence has been seen by
Mr. Jefferfon's opponents, and by a part of
the committee, that now iddrefs you. It
can be exhibited by tis, to any ofifhe de&-
ors. If Mr. Jefferfon was grieved at the
gre^t influence of that foreign party ; so
was Mr. Adams. If the former was alarm
ed at it, so was the latter^—ls the former
announced it ; so did the latter.—Where is
the offence, ip such feWOTeints or cbndu&,
of Mr. Adams or Mr, Jefferfon I It is emi
nently virtuous to annourite and oppose any
foreign influence. None but purdtafed qr
prejudiced foreign pastid^ns can, on reflec
tion and information, and at this day, tor
ture it into impropriety. An attack from
Cobbett's paper, or the Gazette of the Unit -
ed States, corroborates tbe tiutb. An attack
from any American of those opinions, saw
must prove him to be tie of the party, which
tteßritilh piva Council announced to<be
formed, or that he is deceived or mifed by
ihat party. Instead of vilifying Mr Jeffer
fon, we ought to concur with him-,-the re
publicans do heartity concur with him, in
an utter disapprobation, of all foreign in
fluence. Falsely traduced as blind or devo
tees to France, and as frantic or criminal •
enemies of England, the republicans' ekuk
an attachment to opr own conditutionfr in.
preference to the regal ariftecrotica land
hierachal government of the one ; or the
fad anti-republican aberrations of the oth
er— They believe, that it is not the interest
of America that France fhoukl be at all ex
alted above England, or England above
France. Their equality is our fafety. Mr.
Jefterfon's letter also intimates, that there
are monarchical and ariftocratical views &
principles in this count r,m.Ofthis #e can
have no doubt. Would to Ged there were
not. We are informed upon authority that
we fully credit, that it has been avowed and
declared, to full effect, by weighty and able
men among our party opponents, u that
this country cannot be bapfey, without an here
ditary Chief Magifrate, and a Senate that (
hereditary or for life ;" " that one of the de
clarants Was bimjetf a moqarchift ,•" and that
“ the principal Northern and eastern federal.
'I",. ™P^r arf *" favour ^ a monarchy, a
nobility, and a reprefeniatidn of the commons."
This is a fubje& an which there Iliould be
more reserve, no invaGen no deception, no
timidity. Let it go, ingeniously, before the
whole ration. We arc willing to furnish
to the Philadelphia eleaion committee, a
statement of theft faas, with references to
the evidences, if they will, engage that those
evidences, (hall be fairly puhlifhed in the
Gazette of the United States, the ' Philadel
phia Gazette, and the American Dail, Ad
vertiser, ten days before our General Ele&
tion. It js well known,,bat one of those
monarchical and arillocratic declarations, as
made before 1797, has Mfcn pUblicly ih the
Philadelphia papers, imputed ,® Mr. A.
dams, with the name, of the wUriefles, Col.
:John Langdon, of New-Hampihirc, and
;Col. John Taylor, of Virginia, without de
nialr Js not, then, the ewflence of a mon
jarchical and aristocratic views, as clearly
established, as the exigence of an English
Iparty i C,n any man blame Mr. Jefferfon
for entertaining this opinion I Was it not
fidelity to that conAittaion, which it is pre
itpt&dte wifrsto fobvert ?
; ^ Our political connexion are charged, ire
print too, by bur lederal brethren,the Lan^
caller committee, with principles calculate