Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1801-11-19 00:00:00, page 1

political ,<strila#B
PEOPLE of Newhampshire!
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YOU have retd much #nd heard much, about
the. New Admlpiftratian—about the N,,4,
of tbiagi—about the Adminift ration of Philoso
phy ! —about the Ratals and Appimroh ot
Mr. Jefferson— You have been told raaoy,
very many frmge things—that Mr. Jefttron
would jell hit country to a nation of infidels !
that he would involve the country in war in
tefs than fix months !-- end a thousand other
filch chimerical rahs— You tartteen told that
Mr. Adams'administration was wife and pro.
dem !—that he never rrarof/but 4 public of
ficersduring his administration—That he did
not establish a precedent by mfrrhg to office
men of his own ,ditto <#,—that, under him,
the public Ship was navigated with &ill, and
alt our affairs glided (monthly along the cur
rent of a cafra, untroubled tide—On the other
h&e^, in case of Mr. Jarrtasoa's chiton,
yen were taught by Ftoabfo to Judder at the
Profpea; with there, to etea a Democratic
President, wfl to bfard the fafety of the coun
try, and hunch into the " Te„fe>v S»" el
Libert, r- But Mr. Jefferso* is Prevent,
and the time in which we were to be fold to the
« infidel French," and involved in war, is more
tima completed—and Where iite those armies of
Frenchmen, who were to iuftft out land I lay
waste cur falreft cities ! profane' the triples of
our Goo! and despoil cur wives and daughters
—those French cannibals, Who Were to feaft on
bur children, where are they ?—F@&W may
look for them in vain,—4nd where is that hor
rid, bloody war, which e &,fflto ^dmitrff
tratiou was to wage with ^fafar Britain ?——
Reader! these things Were generated in the
sod brain of a desperate fadion, and dressed
up in all the horrors of a iruirful togifafo, to
aofwer electioneering fqhemes, and frighten us
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guided us from the pollution— Republicanism
triumph,—the country iiin Peace—Every man
may now com^re the ^r^fwhh the,a,, and
make his own deduaioni- —Everyman may
thihk as he pleafc^, write as be pteafes, and
publih what he pleases—and no Fc^rv/fo have
been profecated for libelling the President!
Wemueft the particuUr attention of the Ci
titzouof Newhamplbirte, to the following °b<
ffatioM and extract, outlie febfea of-f•
ft Appointments and Removals,
From the Chronicle.
THE following extras from federal
speeches in congress, areamong the
number of proofs,that ought long since
more generally to have awakened the
people of America, to a sense of their
true fauatfon, They have been care
fully collated by a friend, and serve to
demuoftrate, what has never been:
doubted by those who have looked
be^wthefyffQ was a fixed
principle in the system of Mr, Adams,
and his political connexions, to gov
ern this couHtr^by an unnatural and
factious influence. In eonfequence
of this determination; copied from the
example of the Britifb government, in
its most corrupt periods, they formed
a clause in a law, in opposition to the
opinion of many republicans of appro
ved merit and integrity, 40 empower
the prefideM to remove from office at
his dfoetion, every person of sentiment
opposite to the views and prejeds of
, the ruling party. By this standard the
merits of the candidates for office was
affixed, and every ran was excluded
who was not capable of gibing all
lengths. Hence it has happened that
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Published by E. RUSSELL, CONCORD, [n. h.] November t 9, 1801.
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although always the smallest party,they
had artfully contrived, by their vari
ous expedients and projects, fifeal and
political, that the minority Should go
vern the majority. Our readers are
referred to the clause in the law giving
this power of removing officers, to the
Frefident, at well as the clause in the
constitution directing him' to fill those
vacancies which may happen in the
recess of the Senate. By these it will
appear that he has not only the power
of removing at ^leafure, wit%out any
other responsibility but to therfenfe &
interest of his countrymen,^ finch as
in his judgment ought to be^emoved,
but that this power was attached to his
office, by the spurious federakfa, ex#
prefsly for that purpose.
It is true, the prefect executive, un
like his predecessor, has happily used
this power with much difeerament in
the declared view of equalizing the
honors and emoluments of the govern,
merit; and of redeeming hit friends
from a Ihameful profcriptien, in which
they had been infidioufy placed. : In
tyis poipt then he has merely reflored
the loft equilibrium of party as far ^
he could. No doubt it has been to
him the meft disagreeable part of his
duty; a duty he was obliged in honor
and confeience to perform, or to ex,
pose his friends ,to the reproach of in#
capacity, and the country to the evil
of having the laws executed by those
tWo ^ffirotoridufly opp^
I nation al W^L, as it was expressed
in his election. ‘
IJ(t would te imj^ffibk to have the
public bgfinefs faithfully and fatisfac-
Itorily tranfaaed, unless some in office
;could harmonize with their head, and
Iwould cprre&ly flam that information
which would assist bis judgment in the
lexecution of &high and momentous
trust committed to him. Common pru
dence must have compelled him to
have had tecQurfe to this necessary
exercise of his authority. His own
honor and interest, the reputation of
the government, and the interest of
the community £ large, have all der
manned that some change should be
made. The confiftepey and the tone
xof his admiiuftration, could not have
been maintained without this measure,
however unpleasant/ For it is absurd
to suppose that any fyflem of policy
cap be fairly carried into execution,
by those officers who, with scarcely a
single exception, are notoriously op
'pofed to the success of it, and have an
interest in defeating it. Mr. Jeffer
son, in the vpinibn of some, may have,
exposed himfelf to censure, by his con £
du& in this refpe&, which, perhaps,
might have been avoided; ^ut if a
correct judgment has been formed of
the few whoare now in opposition, the
fame spirit which has nourished the
fire of their zeal, would never have
be ,made to extend; and if these re#
morals hadmot happened, fomethin^
wbuM'fliil have been difcovmd to
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disturb the increasing harmony in the
country, which to them is the only and
the fruitful source of their present mor
tification.
R E i u i L ic^cmzxiv3.
[0 Compare the/me# with the prfogpro
feffions of a certain party, commonly called ft
„,#/.—What came from the ctotyau of the
Sea, when their plm w? in the full tide of
feccefsful execution, will fart to test them by,
so long as they call themselves the advocates of
the government—When it to candidly consid
ered, that the power of Ri#ro% and „,fo
% public officers,, was ftrenuouily advocated
and vested in the Prefideot, by the very party
who have lately been so clamorous against the
exercise of that power by a Republican, every
man's common feufe will determine what de
gree of public confidence ought to attach to
those felf Ailed '' feltedi g fam. Resid the
subjoined Extra As— remember, that almost ev
ery public office, under the general goreru
4ft was ,-% hands of a fl/if, on the
oukward grace the „,/, has complained of the
conty^atredy few removals which Mr. Jeffer-
N son hi, reade-rNay, why fc@ men be retail
ed jq office, who are profelfedly, openly pd
violently opposed to Republican goverumeat ?
CtytJnfidOTCTi be placed io fach m&,i —-
Read, Citizens I and judge for yourfavesJ
Exhaas from Federal \ Isa AR
Speeches. | '79°'
' IT had been said (fas Mr. N. Smith
of N. C.) the Executive had determin
ed in future not to appoint any gen,
tieman to office whose political opin
;ions did riot cointide with his own.—A
That the executive had formed the
ready to admit, because he^thought ft
was high time such a determination
was made. He admitted that the ex
ecutive had lately and probably Would
for the future, appoint to office only
such as 'were of similar political fehfe
men ts with himfelf.
da# debate 6* Fonity Itaffrarft Bill, ZtiL
He (Mr. Sitgreaves) had no object
tion to declare it to be his opinion that
Wherever the administrators of governs
ment had deviated from a rule of thi#
kind, (viz, to exclude from public of
fices all who were of a different o.pip4
ipn from the executive) they had none
so to their sorrow and to their loss, &,
the experience: of government in fhi#
refped, had produced a fad and awful
lesson, which dbubtlefs would baveiu
effe& in future. The Conjlitution and
Laws of the Country have made cer
tain office, necessary, and left it to the
executive to fill §bem as it pleases ;— —
would gentlemen fay; that the execu
tive ought to appoint persons to offices
who pofleffed an opinion contrary to
it, own? If the executive a&ed upon
jyft principles it would endeavour to
give singleness 'of defigri to its opera
tions,& it could only du this by admit
ting persons into the government who
tho't with so ° This would be a right,
prudent and honorable condtify and
Where it has been deviated from, g£v,
ernment has received an awful lesson
for its future conduQ. See as before.-
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