Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1801-10-01 00:00:00, page 4

political flltscellanp.
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
Tbit PEOPLE'S FRIEND.
His Character more and more illuJlrattd.
THE MAN OF OUR CHOICE.
The LIBERTY of the PRESS.
The President, in his answer to an
address from one of the military re
giments of the state of South Carolina,
dated at Washington, June 7, 1801,
fays—" lam sensible, with you, of
the distortions and perversion of truth
and justice, pradifed in the public pa#
pers, and how difficult to decypher
-characters through that medium. But
these abuses of the press are perhaps in
feperable from its freedom ; and its
freedom must be protected, or liberty,
civifand religious, be relinquished. It
is a part of our duty; therefore, to
_fubmit to the lacerations of its slan
ders, as less injurious to our country
than the trammels which would sup
press them." &
Prefdent Washington bad no Sedition
Aato screen him—His own Viruses and Upright
ness quire bis Shield— Mr. Jefferson will new
er place bis official fgbagure to fab an ad —The
" Philosopher of Monticello" bag no other Bueh
ler than fab as guarded the "Hbro^Mount
Vernon."—— The Libert, of the Prejs quill be
preserved inviolate, as the fare, Palladium of our
Rights. The Virtues of the People, and not Stand
ing Armies, muftf*pprt the Government.
Ceniinel Slander.
1, " You [Mr. Jefferfon] are certainly bring
ing miser, open your country, and infamy up
on yourfelf." Columbian Centiusl.
Such is now the bold language of these bold
" friends of order," who, emboldened by the
mild system adopted under the " New Order of
Things, are aiming bold strokes at our Ad
ministration, with as much dexterity as Peter
Porcupine himfelf ever did, or now does.
These Federalists complain of Mr. Jefferfon
~for making so many new appointments —every old
officer whom he does not re-appoint, they fay he
turns out—Mr. Adams, they also fay, turned out
but four officers during his, whole administra
tion—So lerit be ; and this was four too many,
if he managed all as he did the two in New H.
for it is well known that he turned out Colonel
Whipple and Myor Gardner, (both Whigs of
'75 ft imp) and filled their places with Tories of
the 177^, 6,7, 8,9, to 1801 cast !—— It is ah
so well known, that be took facial care to ap
point none but those of bis own part,, of his
own politics, and of the Federal" Sea." With
all their impudence, they cannot justly charge
Mr. Jefferfon with such partiality. And but
a final! number ofthe public offices are yet put
into the hands of Republicans. Mr. Jefferfon
• will proceed with moderation, and due regard
to the public interest. It had become the test
of Federalism to exclude Republicans from of
fice : Mr. Jefferfon has declared that he will
" CORRECT THE PROCEDURE." N [R^. Gz.
^fr The Presidents it appears,
anxious to retrench all 'unneceffary.
expenfes,has itiade considerable chan
ges in the mode of collecting the inter
nal revenues of the United States.—
For this purpose he has abolished fev#
eral of the Offices of Infection, and the
eolledors within such diftrifts will now
correspond immediately with the Su#
pervifor of the Revenue. On this
fubje&'the ^ National Intelligencer"
makes the following remarks:
In our last, we stated the abolition
of nineteen of the offices of the inter
nal revenue by the President
We had not then time to point out
many of the benefits likely to arise from
this measure, or to appreciate fully the
motives of the Executive Magistrate
in adopting it.
It is an a& which, we are persuaded,
needs only to be understood, to be u
niversally approved. It produces an
immediate & permanent pofttive good,
and is the practical pledge of a vigi
lant spirit of economy, dire&ly oppos
ed to the general, the almost invariable
spirit of executive power.
This department of the government,
bent upon its own aggrandifement, has
heretofore, under almost every system,
recommended and putfued those ads
which increased its own power, by the
creation of new offices. Rarely, if
ever, has an instance, similar to the
one to which our present remarks re
late; occurred. The Executive Mag
istrate, in taking from himfelf the pow
er of appointing nineteen officers, has
deprived himfelf of the opportunity of
making, according to the language of
his political opponents, nineteen warm
friends. He has further taken a step
which, if justified by the public bene
fit, expected to flow from it, is likely
to be imitated by the legislature, and
in its effeds greatly to lessen the public
ezpenfes, while it diminishes Execu
tive patronage. /
Why does the President part with
this power? Why does he set such an
unprecedented example ? He parts
with this power, he sets this example,
fellow citizens, because his supreme
objed is your happiness, and because
he feels that in securing this, he has
secured his own.
The republicans laid that the new
administration would be economical ;
and that it would despise the unworthy
means of building up an interest dif#
tin& from that of the people.
Behold expectation realifed—Already
in the short period of a few months,
with all the cares and embarrassments
ofa new administration, three import
ant retrenchments have been made.—
Two diplomatic offices, worse than
useless, have been vacated, whereby
an annual expenditure of above twen
ty thousand dollars is saved ; a diminu
tion of the marine corps has been ef
feaed, whereby above a hundred tkou
fand dollars are annually saved ; and
19 revenue offices have been abolish
ed, whereby twenty thousand dollars are
saved ; producing, in the whole, an
annual laving of more than 140,000
dollars. [More than seven times the a
mount of the President's falar,.]
It will not escape the notice of the
public, that this last measure, from its
nature, comes diredly under the cog#
hizance of the Treasury Department,
and of course must, in all probability,
have been agreed to, if not advised by
the Secretary of that department,whom
prejudice has represented, and still con#
tinues to represent, as rapacious of
power, and bent upon extending to
the utmost a system of extravagant pa
tronage. Can this picture be true,
when the very man it delineates, is the
firft to diminish his own power by de
stroying nineteen offices, the nomina
tion to which hitherto, in most cases,
appertained to the Secretary himfelf?
in NEW ENGLAND,
* This abolition of ujeltfs, raptufat $", the
good fairalift j call political intolerance, bscaujt
It is not at all wonderful, that an " obfeure"
Tor,.Federally, alias 'fcape- Justice, who bypo
clite-like cries Order, while he throws the
gauntlet at Constituted Authorities—no wonder
this creature Ihould shudder at the idea of the
return of a Sullivan and a Cilley— Some of
his wife coadjutors in political iniquity, have
probably told him that if Sullivan and Cilley
were to return again to Newhampfhire, they
would frown him and his abettors into “ anni
hilation !" and that all the virtues of their
"new bills, so well designed for general use,"
and all his pretenfous to goodness, would not be
fufficient to screen him from the honest indig
nation of those " patriotic personages," whom
he so earnestly, begs of to " remain where they
are." If those men of Stead, Habits, who were
Tories io '75, and tor, Fedsralifa is 1801, and
Hypocrites during their lives, are to have the lead
of public affairs in Newhampfhire, if such men
are to be regarded as models either in Religion
or Politics, then indeed is it necessary that
" New Councillors" Should " rife from the
dead," or some other quarter.—But, the fears
and jorrowful faces of certain high toned fede
ralifts, are good evidences of the propriety of
"the filly practices of the Jacobins, in coupling
the word Tor, with that of Fed c ralift, when
they speak of our modern exclafve federapfs, for
most of them (their leaders at least) are old to
ries. who opposed the revolution ; and are fig
nificantly termed Tor,-Federali4s-Some indeed
among them are Apfate Whigs ;— these are the
more defpicable—;o xheJ'atber of Apeftocy we
refer them all ; he will reward them with Black
Cockades, for their attachment to his 'ancient"
inftitutioß— His sooty Majfo will not forget
them, his loyal fubpas. These t@r, f,deralijh,
fioce the change in the administration, have
by their jffo'^f and bowlings, given ample de
monstration that it is not necessary "another
generation shall grow up," before the word
Toe, will " have great effffl for it now affeds
them as much as the fight of water does the ca
nine Ipecies in the hydrophobia. But it will
be necessary that a New generation (and of Vi.
pers too) mail grow up, before these toriss will
be esteemed as Patriots.
To the ^ORLD!
WHEN engaged in a multiplicity of
business, I constituted several attornies to tranf
aa my affairs in various parts of this State—
Now, having finifhed business, end obtained an
independency—l now revoke every letter of at
torney which I ever gave.
STEPHEN STARK.
Dunbarton, Sept, >l9, 1801.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the
partnership of Doe and Anctfew Buntin, was
dissolved by mutual consent the 7th of May last.
All persons indebted to said company, are re
quested to make immediate payment to the fub
faiber. JEREMIAH DOE.
Pembroke, Sept. 18, 1801.^
VENDUE ADJOURNED.
O THE Vendue of the Farm, &c. of the sub
scriber, advertised in this Gazette, which was
to have been on the Bth of Odober next, is ad
journed to Thursday the 15th day, by reason of
the Regimental Muster being ordered on said
Sth day. On the 15th, the Property will be
fold agreeably to my former advertisement.
EDWARD PHILBRICK.
Concord, Sept. 23;
SAMUEL BUTTERS, Junr.
HAS FOR SALB,
D Lack India Luteftrings, and hand-
U some coloured Silks, Black Sattins, and
Modes— An assortment of C'allicees ; Mullins ;
Durants ; Callimancoes, and India Cottons ;
Ladies' Black Morocco Slippers ; Low priced
Broadeloths, Lambikins, Baizes, &c. also,
- Orleans Cotton ; London Pewter ;
4d. 6d. lod & 20d. Cut Nails ; Best St. Cro
ix Rum, &c. &c, #
Concord, Sept. 15, 1801. 33
Wanted to hire, a SEAT for two per#
sons in a PEW in the Meeting House, by
EBENEZER SANBORN.
Concord, Sept. 23. • 7
„F<>¥O^^zß¥<!>«x^< >—r< MN /R>¥s
"• 7jfafa tbsrsb, Isamu 'a number of the raikrs
againff the administration unprovided for ! Hs a
boliJbes tbs offices bis pr&lscifir bad mad to acccm
modate them !——Qb ! what a cruel President !
This is as hard-hearted, as, not foffertug the Great
" Merchants" to cbooje their own Cellar!