Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1802-03-30 00:00:00, page 4

FROM THE BEE—IBOO.
^WAR.WORN SOLDIER.
—
WHEN morning's firft blushes Illumine
tbe East,
I baste to my daily employment ;
Igrab all the day, while the well born can
fail,
Fo^ they can afford the enjoyment.
Our rulers can feaft, on fa dollars a dfy.
The poor must be tax'd their extortion
, to pay, [fay,
And it that against them we any thing
The/tramp up 1 Bill of Sedition. '
When Britain firft levy'd a duty on tea,•
I thought it ho very great matter ;
But those who into a mill stone could fee.
Oppos'd it with woriderful clatter :
They told me that I for my country must
fight. [right,
Or Britain would Gripus qf freedom and
And even the Cbrg, then took a delight
to fowmg thefaZ,/ Siditin,
The, fir'd me with courage, I flew to the
field,
And join'd with my m,fat theartyfc
Determin'd to „rijb before 1 would yield,
The wrongs of my country so warm'd me,
At the plains cf Quebec I bled in. the war;
Parch'd Monmouth and" Yorktewa each
left me a fear ;
And now if our niters I fay a& unfair;
In jail I must lay for Sedition.
When PEACE th® green olive ftrew'd
over the plain,
And our army began their disbanding.
The era I view'd as the end cf my pain,
My hearten'd with joy,was expanding;
But soon I difeover'd my fate was severe,
That for my long service no ca/b did ap
pear, [muftfleer—
And I with a furlough now homewards
Sure then was no time for Sedition. *
A,a,er they gave me,_whereon was ex
prefs'd, ~[me;
Vety fairly, the fam that they ow'd
My children fell fi:k, and my wife was
diftrefs'd,
AM no one a fartbipgh&®sfaf
These fuff'rings. ttelfy@,oadmit of
;'& h y>
Comped me tg fell off my certify'd
At /cut pence per shilling, yet frankly I fay
I had not a fear of Sedition.
The fam'd Constitution, our pride and
our boast.
Being left to the people's eledion,
The adopters I join'd, without hope of
And thought it the pink of pe<fedion.
But judge my emotions when Congtefs
. hud set, . :
And felfifhly funded the national debt,
By robbing the soldiers of alt they could
- I then was afraid of Sedition. [get,
I often have thought, with a figk at my
• heart, , [ing;
What a fool is the poor man for fight-
If tyrants will quarrel, must we take a
part, j
In Carnage and murder delighting ?
For we may difeo ver, before it be long,
That while wifeare fig%tin, tee fight for a
fo '' [themselves strong,
IfK navis will oppress 6s, and m%ke
With the help of a Bill of Sedition.
The Bill of Sedition and Alien Law
Are aim'd at the vitals of freedom ;
Contriv'd by a party the people to awe ;
The good of our States did nqt need
.f'em : ,# ^." =
But 'tis io our bleft Constitution declar'd
Fromprinting our thoughts we foall not
be debatr'd, [pair'd"
The freedom of farb ffi|l| remain unim-
Now what do you tfiffiifSMzfo# ?
7°h^ F R ga m aMqdflept
Record, untocQfrffi petition
That the law called ### to nothing may
fall,
A^d also the Fill^&@fa [ceate,
That fed'ral extravagance Portly may
Our naval expenditure; ever decrease,
A^ ']fyf'" a %7befuffer'd to peace,
• Andfodomany of them
0 The necefa of petitioning rtyjj
redress of similar grievances, on accou„
of which America cast off the British
yoke, is now done away : —The People,
in their wisdom, in a good measure have
redressed their own wrongs ; in the e
kaion of a Jefferson, and a Repub
lican Congrefs,— Liberty once more
wears a # cheerful countenance ; Juflice
mail again hold the balance— The &#^.
'% Arm, 1, disbanded—The Sedition Law
is dead-The Arm, of Midnight Judges
present administration
are sedulously engaged in annihilating
office, and expenses, and in
brio ack the Government to the
PROFESSION & PRACTICE.
''o Let the reader, (whether a Repub
lican or Federalifl) compare the fafa
Seditious publications in the '' Ofele e)
the D 0,," with the following profefas of
the Editor who established that paper :
In an addiefs to the public, &ggi#« for
custom, he,fore the people, "that he is
unalterably determined to support the
government of his country ; inculcate 0-
beuience to its laws, and maintain the
harmonies of order, without which no peo
ple can be ultimately happy."—He fur,
ther fays ; * Every native Arnwumn has
but two choices to make— Hemuftrfo
with the friends or fee, fy America— Nite^
iralit, is criminal—His ^am is made—
the (tafiraioual powersare declared for
— Foreign encases & internal factions are
alike detefod-Ate energies of the^refs,
when devotecho alienate ,0/a/ar afia%
to diwi@ the petye from the groer&ut t
are no. ifyfatal than the banting minr
which thunders into ruin." ,His .fyw
(continues that ,r,/tf/rfg editor) from 4
henceforthßrefaM/ar#btrnrs it/the /r
j^^ of U„TID (&o#i,4iod marfcil
fedtfatik and fi'e oo the fide of GOTWfr
ment. Ofcter, and Laws." w §
Such (and similar) were the bigh „,.
fcfi:s the Oracle matte other Federal
p-pers/in 1799 !- — =—lfot-tfuth is the
frailty of man- such is the tinkling brajs
of thole "friends oj sr^r"—fuch is the
deferroitj ot federalism, of Britife Tory-
Federation - that, the instant Thomas
JIFEERSO* was declared eleaed,pa«
ftitmionall, eleded to the Chief Magistra
cy of the Union, every fediral ptefs on
the continent was pot in motion against
the Preffdent of the UNITED STATED
—the types of every federal paper were
ioftaotly marfhaUed ra^ andfle on the
fide of a Britifo fadion, on the fide of of
tyition to thegovernment and order——
This very Oracle became tIR " fland^d
boarir" to the mr4ity9'&^^°'^"
enemies,'' the #»& who^roe hereto
fore been able id raise internalfaai,ns in
the very bosom of our country—The en
rrgi" (if it had any) of this. Oracle press,
and of every other fafou/ press in New
hamplhire, have been, an&ftill are DE
VOTED to afda^rtreFw of Amer
Ic a— This h^e Oracle of Sedition is ext
dufively " DEVOTED to alienate the
Popular affiain" from the " Cenftitmed
Powers, and to '' divide & people from•
their Government, " Every native A
metican hit but two choices :" And th^fe
federal printers have takenfr*i with the
Old Tories, the/ro of America, the en
emirs ^violent oppofers of the Govern
ment ;— They are faithful to db mifehief;
they hfe tbejr belt exertions in the cause
of Divifon —they 'would not only divide
the People from the Government, but'
they even PROPOSE, and URGEin the
ftroogeft terms, a division of UNITED
COLUMBIA ! they would thunder reia
on,the Southern States; they would
jacrifce the President in burnt firing,
and annihilate the Republican Spates, for
Religion's fake ! Citizerls of Ameri
ca, Washington learned you against
the intrigues of such men-^againft Cm
graphical diftinaioos, such as Northern 3
Sonibtrn He foresaw that the en
emies of your Peace, would play upon
your passions, and attempt to raise up a
Division out of your local pfodicer—He
pathetically, with the earned of a difin
ierefted FrifDd, cautioned his Country
men, in his Parewel address, against fu,
division, and pressingly recommended to
them Friendship, Harmony Aid Union.
Citizens of Newhampfhire ; you who de
sire the prosperity of your Country, do
not fuffer yourselves to be deluded by a
deceptive name —Examine sty yourselves
—The mah who, undef the mfo of Fed
eralism, is Continually fcanchlifing your
Constituted authorities and your Repub.
lican Government, certainly is hot your
Friend ;—He who would indicate (edi
tion, to divide the Norths from the
Southern States, to by to means a True
Federalist ^The word fa^ffk/ relates to
a league, or Confederacy, @U,io# of
asfy in ##)—no man therefore, who en
courages a Division of the States, is a
Rderalift : he may assume t„ name, but
aasoffl will betray: The ha appears
M^be, that these noisy federalist, who
ffout so much against Republicans, are
in reality Menarebifs, who wiffi the States
@ereignty destroyed, and at our present
Governments co@datedinfe Energet
ic Government, with an berefor, Pref
^"r^^B^ ^ td ^ ^!r
^t"
'°°''''''"" a °
out a Kig > batons
era themselves, and that they ire the on-1
1, proper source of power. —A Dmocroc,
is also a Government of the People with
out a K^—The American Government|
is Republican, or a free eledive Repre-1
fentative D/atcrac,. — All hortefc Reputy
hcans, who have the profyerity of the Na
tion at heart, are Federalfh ;— 3 nd all rt
#/ federalists, who wiffi for the happioefs
and equal rights of their fellow men to
be preferred, are Rfrblicans—ln other
words, all the True Friends to the wel
fare and independence of America, will
contribute all thty tin to the Union of
the States, the fupporf q, the STATE
and Federarcuverom&m, and tb£ im
partial admiaiftratiQU ot them, according
to the letter and Spirit of but Republi
can Couftitutiogfr— Such ire tab &L
publicans sind Federalifa, (%
-tAEg^ra —
L ^^
^^jii
fora while flood a&a^tori&ring ons
the momentous fubfea oh which depends ,
the happioeft and liberty of a (mail partl
of our nation, to tke expense and misery
of the rest. After folemo deliberation,l
I thought it my duty to speak a little a-1
mong my friends, of the Gate of Govern- 1
ment in a federal scale, and the dangerl
we were in of lofingour liters, of conjciebco
and freedom of enquiry, by the, uncouth ap
plication ofrit Stfition & Alien Bill. And
sometimes I spoke of the Excise Laws-
Huw they told us thatfog per cent excise
would Support the new plan pl Govern
ment, and when they, had laid on more
than five times five pty ^ent. and tt,ed
that a few years, there mhft be a^Direa
tx, and so one tax after anottitf; and
ip spite of,l& the Nation, had to borrow
money, and give eight per cent, iatefeft
even in a time of Peace ! And by the
time I had opened matters thus far, I be
gan to feel that warmth which is com
mon to serious men, when engaged in a^
good cause.
However, it had a good effe&, for ma
ny honest men that were clear of jealou-1
fy began to stir, and one and another 1
would fay,Twill go to town meeting and;
cast in my vote. But then til enquiryi
was, who Shall I votefor ? I fay to them|
vote for a Democrat I A Democrat! fay'
they, what is that, ,Why, frid I; a De
t mocrat is one that holds to equal right of
man— the essence of his principles are
pUiniy expressed by our Lord m ,We
words— As,evuld that mtn Jheuld do unto;
you; do)e even jo'unto tb+m. This is aChrif;
flap Democrat, and such an one is against
a Kingly government, < and political and
religious opprefon.
But feme cry out against the Demo
crats, calling them so many bad names,
thut the common people think they are
fomu awful creatures^-1 thought to paci
fy them, by explaining' the word so them
—But after all there was feme that op
posed the equal rights of man, and maai
tefted their fears that Religion was in
danger ! great danger ! ! And if we have
no law to obligethe people to Support re
ligion, it frill all dwindle to noxhieg in
a few years, and we Shall have no Sab
bath !—Oh ! Lamentable ! But yet their
fears are groundless and without reason
—then why this outcry. Ah ! said the,
Mr. Jefferfon and many others it is said
are Drifts, Well, who calls them so ? &
why are they denominated such? Why,
because they speak against religion.——
What religion ? any particular denomi
nation or mode of worship ? No. The,
speak against no religion, but such as
hath the civil late for its foundation ;
such religion is the worst of oppression &
tyranny —such oppression makes a wife
man mad. Dp the people think to go to
Heaven by law ? Will the priest eat the
bread of oppression ? Do they want the
pittance of the poor wrenched out of
their hands by force of law. I ask again
does, Minister of Christ desire it ?
,Take a view of law eftabliffiments, and
fee what their end hath been.— The
Jews who were the firft law establishment
are now Scattered up 404 down in the
world: But for what ? I answer for per -
lifting in their wicked e&rf@flienr.—
I fy wicked, witness the ffi of Samuel
2z, 17. John 6, 15. Matt. 26, 52;—
These passages difeover the disapproba
tion of law eftabliShments, and the a
bominable fin of them. Look to the
RomiSh church, to the church of Eng
land, and church of Scotland, to the
Lutheran church in Germany and any
other of the fame eftablifhment,— With,
the Mahomet church in Turkey, and
Ifaro the difference between them. They
may differ in form and daarineand sup
-1 port their difference by their common
ICivilSword. But canit be that enlighft
Ited AmeriOM wiU feck to cftabliSh
•_ ^ .tel-'
their religion on such a basis? It is Said
that the rreneb, in the beat of their zeal
ag^hft that fupei ftitious whore of Baby
very wickedly tyed the Bible to a:
flfo&,taU and drove! him thro' the
city of Paris, which is called a very wife*
id and blasphemous aft. But lift' ,do
not the enlightened people of Nejv Eng.
land tie the Holy Religion of the blessed
Jesus, to the tail of the civil law; and Set
wicked publicans to drive it through the
country as furicefly as Jehu drove over
^the body of cursed Jezabel—ahd though
the people do not Shoutas the French did
for the downfall of popery, yet, we
hear feme curse their priest, because of
their plague, while others are weeping
and mourning for the fofs of their little
remaining p!ofefly, that is forced away
top%uicir tax. And does not one de
nomination have a preeminence above a.
pother, contrary to the Conftiturian ?
tift&tbfoh done by law, do not our
rewtog the Constitution under a pre
^rotefor good ?and will not the people
•that lore the Cpoftitutioirof their coda
try, complain whe&they fee the best de
fence of their liberty fog'd and destroy
ed under pretence of Religion ? Does not
;the, religion fy it be of what dencmi
-Ination itmay) th,t hath the civil law for
I its Support, tend to prevent all ether de-
Incmias(ions fi;ma freerxercife of con-
I Science in worship.'
k Zq Religion is the essence of Popery,
I the cause cf persecution, the curse of the
| Mnd, the fauiceof war, both foreign and
1 civil. '~
Who speak &nfi Mr. JEFFERSON?
Answer. Thole that are in love with}
^aw Religion, '
Wb, do the, tall bira D«ft?'
<A^fwet. Because he is an enemy to
Law Religion,
Wb, is be an enemy to Law Religion?
Answer. Because it is the cause of all
the persecutions, wars, confusions and
tumults that have been in the world ;&
is only calculated to make one denomi
nation hate anotber. Ir is a church rob
ber, it robs thriftiaas of their Liberty.
# Thus I h)ve Shown you my opinion &
fabfcribe m^felf ~
A MAN OF THOUGHTS.
.SO long as Fedcralilm meant
attachment and support of the
Government, I a&ed with the
Federal party.. But now it has,
ty the changes of the political re
lations of tho two parties, become.
cpp&fitioh to the Federal admin,
iftration, the fame induces me to
renounce all political connection
with that party.& give my support
to the Republicans. This to me
appears the obvious di&ate of du
ty and conicience. It is what I
have always corifidered to be the
fundamental doArine of Repub
licanism, and I confefs I do not
fee how confident men can juftify
their abandonment of principle,
for the fake of retaining a name
and adhering to a party. How
can any man of candour arid
honour follow any party, into the
fame line of factious conduct,
which they heretofore endeavour
ed to charge upon their opponents
whether justly or not, as molt uns
pardonable political fin ! Tome
itis grange, that gentlemen, whom
I refpe&as much as I do some in
the pefent opposition, Should so
soon forget their own maxims,
fellow- citizens, it is time ts rife;
above such party prejudices and
show oiirfe!ves liberal and attach
ed to principle. It is impossible
to fay how much an obstinate un
avoiding opposition may endan
ger the foundations of that Re
publican fyfem of Government,
for which we fought and bled to
gether. Mr. Jefferson is our
lawful Pre fident.' Let us treat
him asffich. lam for one deter
mined to do it; and from this time
forward to support iim,apd pro
mote men of his political princi
ples, in order to give his adminif<
tration a fair experiment,
A Moderate MAN.
BLANKS for DEEDS, warrante
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