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Exfraff from the Anti-jacobin Magazine and
Review. Vol. 6;, age 330.
Eulogium on General Washington, by the Rev. Mr.
Meffinger ; delivered in the Meefing-Houfe
>of Old York, 1806.
WE have before had occasion to censure the
adulatory, the fulfume, the fafe and impious
praises bellowed on the late President of the A
merican States ; but if we and our readers were
disgusted at the preemption; and Chocked at the
impiety of Mr. Jackson, whole course of life (he
having been, ibappears, an officer in the rebel ar
my) might be an excuse for his ignorance, & that
ignorance some apology sot the irreverence of hs
language, what plea can be offered in the extenua
tion of the daring profanity of the Reverend Mr.
Meffinget. We sincerely lament the necessity of
making extracts from this Eulugium) but noth
ing that we can fay will convey an adequate idea
of the matter, which we feel it our duty to re
probate.
" If our tongue," lays this Reverend Eulogist,
“ were an Angel's, it would fauiter—lf oof efa
were flints, they would swell with tears—ls our
hearts were marble, it would bleed—if our foul
were Zembla, it would melt and mourn,-fyor
Washington is no more" !!!
This hyperbolical rant, though intended for de
ception, we could treat with contempt. We could
laugh at it, as we do at the harmless extravagance
of Tilburina, or of Queen Dollolola. We could
fee the "great and good Washington" empire in
a farce, with as little anger as we behold the
death of the “ great and gallant Wifkerandos,"
or as we hear of the lamentable catastrophe of rhe
“ great and mighty Tom Thumb ;" but the se
quel of Mr. Mellinger's ravings, we cannot liflen
to without indignation and fioror.
“ Happily," continues this Meeting-House Ora
tor, “ Happily for the human race, his transla
tion was not in a chariot of fire : nor by any via
ble convoy of angels—but, by the fecrec power of
diflolution, which filehtly sprinkles its dust on the
body of man—otherwise he might have been
revered as a GOD. The globe might have bowed
in the attitude of worfliip at the feet of his like
ness” ! !! !!1
Yet is this not the Wotrf.—"" The fun is Hot
darkened' '[a solemn truthjl “ th,e foundations of
the earth do Mot tremble" [another folemri truth,]
" rocks have not crumbled into dust" [another
solemn truth] "jlbtintains have not melted a
way''[another solemn truth] "but the veil of
the Te+nple of liberty it rent in twain" [a molt
impious lie,] " for the sons and daughters of
liberty leaned on hi§ boron )and called him Abba
Father" 11 ! 1!! And thus winds up the bom
baftical climax of blasphemy;
And shall we, after this, be told of the high fyi
rit of republicans ? Shall we, after thii, be taunt
ed with the charge of adulation to royalty ?
Where is the Prince, dead or living, of whom any
Eulogist has dared to speak in the Brain of this
republican Priest ?
^l^l^ol
From THE CHRONICLE.
^^°^'
RECAPITULATION.
" Do thou, great Liberty, infyire out fouls,
" And make our lives in our possession happy."
Fellow-Citizens,,
SINCE the days that our forefathers disem
barked on the rock at Plymouth, the wicked de
fighs of the enemies of this country were never
more artfolly pursued than within the period of
a, few years pall—" deep laid plots, well woven
snares," have interfered almbit every fpotftep ol
the tinfufoetting citizen. The Britifa Treaty was
the drama which firlt produced every mbhitrous
deformity alarming to the neutral rights of Ame
rica. The plot wa^ so deep, that even in viola
tion of President Wethington's Proclamation
(expressly declared by him conformable to the
“ modern laws') this baneful initrument gave a
mortal wound to those commercial privileges an
.ticipated by every American, as resulting from
our peculiar political situation.—-A Britijh Fadion,
during this controversy, assumed a gigantic atti
tude, and from the success attending their temeri
ty in deceiving The man, in whom the people
confided, they eftablilhed a Syflem of Terror,
which displayed itfelf with a moltfanguinary and
vindictive afpe&.
At this erffis, recoiled, fellow- citizens, with
what arrogance this "JUNTO" created their me
nacing front, Those of us who, ventured to speak,
or even modestly to think, in oppofitioh to them,
were threatened with the full vengeance of politi
cal denunciation. During this terrific cohfterna
tion, there was ^lmoft a pause in fociety—fcarqely
a voice was heard, unless to eulogize the authois
of our misfortunes, and no ejaculation could be
whispered, unless to implore Heaven to fan&ion
the projects of those who were planning our
ruin.
But how deceptive was the friendship which
filch men pretended to express? How delusive
their attachment to the permanency of the Feder
al Confutation . ' As soon as this Treaty was com
pleted in all its parts, the British Junto Stepped
forward and placed themselves in an undisguised
position. From that moment, the conduct of the
enemy became open, vindictive and decisive—
every measure was devised, and even " bold
strokes" contemplated to involve us in a War
with France and an alliance with England. Dur
ing this political tempest, a Sedition Law rose
like a malignant meteor, and threatened to con
fome in its progress, every vestige of Republican
freedom. An army was raised to aft with vigor
and promptitude, when other accidental circum
ftancei should countenance their effective exer
tions. Young Men were occasionally called to
gether, (intermixed with some of mature age) &
procession s formed, to hear in rhe House of God,
the discordant bamblings of those who were ap
pointed to officiate. The prosperity and peace
TUESDAY, AUGUST in ißor.
lof rhe country u ere fofpended by a thread of the
molt delicate texture, and if Heaven had not hii
racnloufly interposed, our ruin mull have been
inevitable. Even some whole duty lead them to
pray for peace, were conliahtly throwing com
bullibles on the altar, peculiarly calculated ' to
promote the horrid catastrophe, and many of the
pulpits were converted into rohrums, to promul
gate the dreadful doctrine of war, carnage and
extermination)
In thte midst of this public inflamation, a fighal
waA ~V;?0 u, der the appellation of a Coc kade,
which nearly brought the citizens to the verge of
a ciril war. this infamous badge was carried to
an excels which threatened the most serious cou
fepaences—thofe wlio refufed to copy this servile
diftin&ion, were exposed to inftilt ; they were
treated with the grofleft indignity, while the molt
abandoned mifereants during our Revolution,
were held in reverence, provided they displayed
this falfe insignia of Federalism. An old Tory
with a Cockade, was more rerpetted than an old
Whig without it.
This has been the degrading situation of our
country during a reign of terror—the Republi
cans have been baffiled by a faction, which had
acquired an afi:endancy by, the excess of their im
pudence and effrontery. The presses for the mod
part were under their controul, and Peter Porcu
pine was the chief director of this complicated
fyflem of fraud and wickedness—he was the orb
round which the Federal fatalites moved.
The Republican who dared to Stand between
this conflict, was placed in the ludicrous Situation
of a man's body, as described in an Almanack, gov
erned by Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Leo, Scorpio,
Pisces, &c. ; he was beset from head to feet with
political daggers ; the Jigns of terror were like
the twelve signs of the Zodiack. They moved
under different directions, and each of them ac
quired an influence under the nodes of Federal
ism, Anti-Jacobinifm,lllumiuifm,Atheifm,Deism,
Modern PhiloJophy, Demoralizing Principles, &c.
Thus inflated, the public mind was susceptible to
every wrong impression,, and the well disposed
citizens were exposed to those hurricanes ol
passion, which political and eccl^fiaftical fanaticifm
had conjured from the cavarns of monarchy, aris
tocracy and pried craft.
At this period of terror, the Federal papers
(falfely so called) were holding up the abettors of
these persecuting meafores as exclusive friends to
the Conflitution j but no Sooner bad they accom
plished their purpotes than Portupre, Fenno, &c.
began their attacks upon this palladium of our
liberties; The Constitutions were satirized under
the degrading Similitude of " a sow with a jitter
of pigs''—an hereditary establish rtient of Prefi
dent'and Senate, was promulgated as the detider
atpm of g^ernment ; a division of the northern
and Southern States who opposed as the most de
sirable object ; and it is worthy of observation,
that in proportion as the Faction acquired an af
certdency, under the term Federalism, they became
more bold and affnming in degrading the princi
ples of our Cufitution. Porcupine commenced
his libellous remarks on this instrument, while
Fenno and the Farmer's Mnfeum reprobated "Re
publicanism as a leprosy." The division of the
northern and Southern States seems to be Seriously
contemplated by these pretended Federal papers,
and no one carries a Stronger evidence of such a
design than the " New England Palladium , this
paper appears calculated to efteft this purpofe,as
most of the paragraphs are fraught with abiife a
gainSt almost every State fouth of Conheaicut.
The President, and all the " Constituted Authori
ties," are treated with that unbounded fcirrillt, ,
which none but diforganizefs and enemies to our
government can pretend to approve.
But thanks to that Being who has ever been
watchful over the liberties of this country, the
PAY of terror is past, and the citizens assume
their wonted dignity. We can now reason, and
applysQur arguments to the good feufe of the peo
ple ; We are restored to the high Ration of Re
publicans ; no degrading insignia designates one
citizen from another ; the mind and not the hat
gives the evidence of patriotism. The man who
means' to injure his country, cannot Shroud him
felf under falfe colours; his decided conduct, and
not his tongue profeffions, is the tell of integrity ;
an old Tory and an old Whig are now duly eftiihat
' ed.
President Jefferson has commented bis ad
ministration upon the genuine principles of our
Constitution—lie seeks no asylum within a Sedi
tion Law, neither does he screen himfelf under
the tyrannical conftrußion of the Common Law
of England ; he Bands oh a level with his fellow
citizens, and to their tribunal he appeals for an
impartial verdict. While defamation iffiies from
the pretended Federal papers, he mud find a con
solation in the integrity of his heart and reftitude
of his conduft. He Seeks no protection from de
clamatory partizans, but Stands, like Moses bn the
mount with the law for his protection—while a
few unprincipled men are abiding him (who have
long followed the Federal Government Solely for
the " loaves and fifties" of ,beir office) ; yet, as
he knows the bafenefsof their hearts, he mufl view
,/heir calumny with the mod confuminate indiffer
ence; such men are unworthy the confidence of
any government, for they would cry hofafya, or
crucify, for the paltry recompence of "Thirty
pieces of filyer." Like Judas, they would take a
f>p from their matter, and enter the next hour in
to a league with the Chief Priefls to betray him—,
These pretended FederaUflSj these advocates for
Adams, will eulogize Hamilton, when no man in
the United States has written more degrading,
pointed animadversions 011 his administration than
this fame Alexander Hamilton. How incontinent
then are filch people: what can be said in their
vindication? The fad is, they are falfe and hol,
low in their attachment fronr Constitution, and
after attempting to facrifee Mr. Adams, they are
now desirous to rally again under his patronage ;
but we hope that he begins to difeern the:r vil
lany; if be expeft, the confidence of his fenow,
citizens, be must difawn their friendfWp. Tlia,
(1 DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM
duplicity of conduit is evident, in all the pro*
feedings of many who stile themselves Federalist:,
they pretend to be the avowed friend of Mr. A
dams, and yet on all occasions ate toalting Hahiii*
ton ahd Pickering as persecuted patriots. How
iDconhUent are Such profeflions, for it they rheem
<me,xfey mufi reprobate the other. If Mr. Adams
was right in his condufi they were wrorr in
theirs..
Mr. Jefferfon has commenced his administration
at a most important period ; the Republican fyf
tein is to be tried under his wifdem vrityecifa;
the enemy knows this, and are endeavouring to
sow tares in the poetical vineyard. The Republi
can Citizens gave him their fopport, and his good
sense will lead hit?, not to disappoint their expec
tations. The Constitution is the polar Rar,
and while a British, or an “ FJex Faflion” are at
tempting to divide and difumte, the real friend#
of our country will rally rbm;d him as their
patron. T hus consolidated by ottr Union, we
trust in God, that the enemies <f our liberties
will not be able to prevail against him. The tree
of American liberty has been fertilized by the
blood of Republicans, and may it never be 'blaft.
ed, or fuffered to decay by the peftiterons ex halac
tions, of enemies under the appelation of Fed
eralifl^, or Illuminati hypocrites, under the garb
of religion.
The fart is, that 999 real Citizens in a tboufand
throughout the United States, are in favor of Mr, s
Jefferfon's administration, and the whole oppoh.
tion to him arises Sfem some in office, whJ.are
confeious of deferring his particular reprobation,
by their unmanly attacks upon his character in
felefl circles and private CnucuJcs. These are the
clamorefs against trim, though they never had
honor or honefly enough openly to come forward
in vindication of their charges; they retreated
like cowards when called on to Jubfautiate their
allegations ; such are the fnen, who are busy in
vilifying the MAN who dared to declare himftlf
the Pfcple's Friend. This fallion are now flip
ported in their desperate debgns by the excre r c<p.
ces of the enemies of our revolution ; the friend;
of monarchy, British residents, and the abetters of
a war with France, and an alliance with Eng.
lane).
Feltow Citizens—Jnd,e ye then between
Mr. Jes : ersOn, and his opponents.
OLD SOUTH.
From the Salem Impartial Regifler,
Mm. Carlton,
1 READ n yoGerda,'#Carette A letter tc
Thomas Jefferfon, Lfq. President of the United
States, under the signature of Brutus.—^[Brutus
was aljo published in the United States Oracle, of
the if irJi.}—The name of this hoary assassin ex
cited my attention, and I was curious to know
what a person, addressing the President, had to
fay to him tinker the appellation of a man v bo
had murdered the head of the Roman Republic,
who was his friend and benefactor, merely froni
a difference in political sentiments;
1 expected to find something of that auflere
mos !ity which distinguished the old Rothan,
cloa red in a gravity of language becoming Such
fenti^ents —But a Sentence or two undeceived
hie—it.d 1 perceived that the letter was written
by some smart voting Student, who bad a fancy
to appear in print, and with his " quod erat de
mongrandum, was determined to Shew us at
once both his logic and his latiti.
The young gentleman had covered himfelf with
the Lyon's Skin to look the more formidable—and
left bis youthful roaring should be thought too
much on yotir " condoling and congratulating"
order, he atunied the natne of Brutus to give
himfelf the suitable gravity. -Tlie friends of
young Hopeful, no doubt, already think him
qualified fur a Secretary of State, and it has long
Since been whispered through the whole of the
great City, that it was he uho penned the letter
to the President I^-Pretty times! when we have'
Letters to the President from patriots in petty
coats, and political disquisitions from Watts' Log
ic. But the yelping of this Cur directs us to the
cry bf the rest of the pack What a plague ? is
the whole world to be flunned with the din about
he appointment of a Collertor for the port of
Newhaven; with its hundred Merchants !
Look'ee, young gentleman, yon and your hurt,
dred merchants, some of wfehiyou fay are very
respectable, (tho' we have your bear word for it,
their fremonfbance proving no fitch tying) I fa v
that you and they make a little too much noise
about this some Collertorfhip of $. Bishop, and
E. Goodrich. You are old enough to know, con 4
tillering you are a Connecticut youth, that inter
est and part, are lotid & peremptory in their de
mands and complaints: and you have lived, no
doubt long enough in Newhaven to have feeu,
that interell no where preponderates so much is
among a commercial people.
And do you really imagine, that if Samuel
Bifkop were in troth tinable to difeharge fas duty,
and collect the customs, that the left these Worthy'
merchants and patriotic gentlemen Would foAmin
by fitch a circundtance would go nigh to thoak
them with grief?—You will not find it, matter
Brutus, in your Watts' Logic, but ^ten you are
old enough, you will read it, perhaps, in &fi old
book called the " World" touch fludied in Cone
neaicut, that the one hundred of Newhaven did
not make such an outcry against $ Bifhohbytaufe
be was not able to do nis duty, but probably te-
Cattfe he was able, and lvotJLp fcrtopulotify do it,
natch to the public service, however if might be
tn theif fatisf^flion. Whether g. Goodrich could
do his duty if he would—or ^tetter he wottp
do it faithfully if he could, 1 neither .knew nor
care, but when there is “ much ado about ^ifo
lag, people wilMtate their thoughts.
Suppose a hundred respectable Bakers fould
take it into f beir beads 10 catechife the town on
the appointment of a Bread Weiglwr, Who had
seized their bread for fbort weight, and had tab
en away tb^ir falfe Weights aad measures, and