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erfto'-fubvert ttelMiffi^^ V.
States.; It is'neceffacy to cnect,in-the face
of day r fuch high charges. 1, cannot be
expe—ed, that we will heafTuch charges in
silence. It might be deemed an admiflion
of theigtr.U&,We are earneftl^defirous,
im mediately;to meet the Lancafler Federal
committee, in the investigation before our
fallow citizens. If it be not done, every re
publican will fee the true date of the cattle ;
and that they have made charges which they
cannot support. If they will venture upon
the disunion, we shall a& them who pro
posed a vaff body of partizan volunteers,
and voted for the difefe of the constitutional
ninth ?Who proposed 'to transfer, to a mere
joint committee and the judges, the powers
/ of the whole Congress, in relation to the
- votes in the Presidential election ?, Who de
ciarefl that the. words of the constitutional
provision for the governments of the States,
4 " the words republican government, ' were
and,are, capable of any meaning : and of
course, not obligatory? Whpfe official and
legislative printer has proposed in New,
York, without check or profegution by ths
President Or Governor Jdy, (he total deltruc-
Hmofithe codftitntional barriers of religi T
OUS liberty, and the entire repeal of all our
bill of rights, by the abolition of all the ft^te
Contentions ? Who proposed the fobverhon
of the confutation of the United States, by
vesting the appointment of an upper house in
the hands of the Executive ; making the Se
nate of the Union a representation bf Prefdent,
and no longer a representation of the fates r
Who contravened the constitution, by exer
.citing /executive influence upon a Judge, and
.exempting from prosecution a man previ
ously expelled from the Senate, for high
. % crimes and mifdemeanours ? Whb kept co
lonel Pickering, Mr. Wolcot, and Mr.
M'Henry in ofice, after their outraging a
,foreign flat,, by a convention at Philadel
; phia with its open enemy ; amounting to
an interferencein any partition of the French
empire, in the case of St, Domingo, con
travening the cohftitutional power of Con
gress to declare war ? And who appointed
a person a major-general in the army, after
official information to the government that
,he had avowed himfelf a monarchic ?
, After an inteftigation of these, and other,
like questions, we most cheerfully and re f
peafully fabmit to the-people of Pennsylva
nia, and all the United States, whether a
number of leading and weighty federal men
have natfiubiidy avowed principles," and
performed ads too, - h which threaten the
peace of thezcouatry, and are calculated to fab
vert the constitution "not only of the rate,
but of the union. Webelieve, it tp be the
iduty of the republican citizens of an par
ties, to commence an immediate and rtthor
ough examination into the monarchic, aris
tocratic, andiinconftittltional views of many
men, of public flation and influence in the
U. States. Weknow from certain author
ities, that the taint is a&nal and real. We
ah fully sensible ofthe hatred and animosity
which have been excited against those who
are^republleans. We have felt our (bare
ofrthe injuries, they have sustained. We
shall doubtless, feel more. But we will not
• be guilty of silence. In executing our pre
sent duties, we declare, with the present at
torney of the United States (Mr. Ingersoll)
in the trial of Dr. Rufo against William
Cobett, that '' we are, by choice republicans ;
that We arejo by oath ; that the constitution of
the United States is a republican fbrm of gov
ernment ^and a republican form of government
is guaranteed to each fate" The fame fed
eral law-officer emphatically declares, that
"the citizen of the United States whois not a
republican, is a traitor." It is this republi
cauifm, which i, the cause of so much and
so long haired against Mr. jefferfon. It is
in proof to us, that one person who utters
anathemas against him from the pulpit (Mr.
Abercrombie) has, within a fingle' year, a-
VQwed in the open ftreetsj before 12 6r 15
people, that he abhored repoblicanifin'then,
and from the beginning. We know; with
the deepen regret-arid fole'mn concern, that
another much more eminent and influential
person (Alexander Hamilton, Esq.) who, we
fear, has written an^promoted writings a
,gainft MX' jefferfon, beyond any- other
citizens, has certainly avowed himfelf a
monarchic ; and declared that, ^though
he favored the firft movements of the French
revolution, he dropt them on thetoth of
August 1792," when the Republic was eftab
lifoed. Os these fa&s, we repeat we are
certain. The 16th of August, 1792, was
before the address of fraternity which France
issued to the world, as America issued one,
* 1 775' to I reland. It 'was before the de
cree about the Scheldt ; before the death
of the King or the Queen of France. It
was plainly then the republic, that was ob
je&ed to. It to the republicanism of Mr.
Jefferfon, that is the great catife of oppoG
tion to him. It is against the friendsof re
publicanlfm thattall hatred and animosity
Was excited, and-has beendfed, which h^s
at last been carried to such an extfrcme, as
to impel the mind and decent Lyman from
public into private life, -and to rend the fed
eral partizans asunder. WeMoft that no
lelector1 elector will omit to examine all the eviden
ces they can command.
Having neve/had an, dftnflklrtte tote liber
alintarcourfe and perfect harmony wish Great.
Britan, and censuring her and France, with equal
decilion and candor, for their injuries and insults,
ii was our lipcere with, that one Treaty with Bri%
tain might be justly amended, rather than reject
ed, in 17,5. As it now hands, we refpefttuHy
rest it with the proper Authorities. But, in viudi
cation of the difyofition to amend ir, we beg leave
to remind you of feme relative fafts. It contained
no provision, whatever, against spoliations table
quent to its date, in 17,^ ; no condemnation of
the grounds of &ban ; nor any <epurity of pay
ment for future fpoliqt ons w It has been fe word
ed by both parties, or so perverted by Great Bri
talu, that a pamphlet in favor of Mr. Pinckney
admits that the Britilh demands, ' under the Treaty
are 21 millions of dollars and bitterly reprobates
our alleged delay to pay them.
The course of public conduct, into which this
Country had gone since the adoption of that Trea
ty, till of late, had so connected ns with England
in regard to St. Domingo, &c. and their modes
of Expense, that the estimates of our Federal Ex
penditures, for the current year are nearly 13
millions; 'and yet our Trade fuffers as much, at
this time, from Britain as from France. .The pro?
vision-article, of the Britilh Treaty fdffyW us to
the odiym and losses, ofhaying the foreign enatny
of England deprived of our bread ; when we
Should fell impartially to both sides. No Nation
ever endured such a deprivation, without tefent
menu. We appeal to tiftoty; with perfect confi
dence. ho notion upon earth ever confeuted to
such a controll ts her general provifon trade to
the unblockaded ports. We appeal to hilloty a?
gain. Brt it may be urged, that we were to be
paid 10 per cent. Mull not this be inevitably in
terpreted into the price Ilipulated with one belli
gerent Power, for our acquiefeence in the most
injurious privation of another belligerent Power ?
But the price itfelf was injurious to ourfelvec when
France was in necellky ; for then she gives vastly
more herfelt. It is deceptive at other times ; for,
when provision is. low in France or fer colonies,
England carriej in but but does not buy our car
goes. By the Britilh Treaty, American cotton,
which is faft advancing to be the molt bulky and
valuableexport of our Country, was not to be
carried to foreign Countries in our own Vessels !
The Security for the captures, before the treaty;
has proved utterly fallacious ; for we have not yet
received the amount of the bare charges of seeking
jullfce before the distant Tribunals of Great Bri
tain. It is. true, that we obtained our Weftern
Polls ; but if we remember well, it is equally true
that, before their delivery, the gallant Wayne had
given a complete overthrow tothe Indian Armies.
Enough has been said, we trust, dearly to pince,'
that a define to amend such a Treaty (and not re 4
jett it) was most unworthily treated by Mr. Rick-i
ering, when he represented the effort as a "i^ejar
ious Conspiracy" for its defeat. We wonder not,
that the Gazettes of London lament his removal,
as that of an American Cabinet-minif^r ''much
attached to the British Interest." It is averted,
however, that he shows evidence, that pe was re-i
moved, because he exerted himfelf against Mr.
Adams's.nomination of a Democratic lon-In-law
to an important Nation; and because he was him
felf endeavouring, by the Election of General
Pinckney, to prevent th, election of Mr, Adams.
Such ib our evidence. *"
'We believe, Fellow -Citizens, that you most be
duly imprefled with our vatt pfoliGContrlbutions
and Expences ; with the montiroin claims upon
us under the Britilh Treaty ; with the uncompen
sated captures, from 1793 to 1800,made by bri
tain, no less than France ; and that it muff be
clear to you, that ue now fuffer captures from
England, and diflurbance from her partizans, be
caule we have dared to seek jullice from the
French, and to fend Messengers of peace to that
potent Nation. But the course of public affairs
has, in our opinions, cleaHy brought other, very
great evils upon tbe people of this Country. An
unprecedented Naturalization Law of 14 years,
has doubled, from the hands of Mr. Adams and
Mr. Pinckney's friends, those injurie, to our pros
perity, and population, of which America accused
the king of Great Britain, in the Declaration of
Independence ; for Aliens were then admitted on
seven years residence. The law in relation to A
lien Friends has, in our opinions, alarmed, dif
gufled, driven and kept away many Labourers,
Manufacturers, Mechanics, Farmers, and Buyers
of our unsettled Lands. These were particularly
necessary, from our Abolition of tbe Slave-Trade,
and other obvious reasons. It must now clearly
appear, that the Alien Law was paired on un
founded suggestions of danger from foreigners ;
for not one incautious irifhman or Frenchman has
fallen into any niifcondpft, requiring him to be
feot away. , In the beginning of the present Fed
eral Government, it was the great attracting
charm of our Country, that We had no Land or
House-tax, a trivial Salt-tax, no Stamp-duty,
modera * Cugom boufe-duties, and proportionate
Public Expenses. The most prudent Foreigners,
of all the most edimable Nations, crouded our
markets arid offices to purchase every description
of property. They inverted large Turns in ufeful
improvements. Emba raffed 'and alarmed by our
long Naturalization Law, and our new Alien
Law, and astonished at the encreafe of our taxes,
duties, and expences produced, we fear, in no
(mail degree;by that excited hostility against cer
tain foreign nations, and that hatred of one anoth
er, which the federal publications config,Jhefe
foreigners have ceased to feed that prosperity,
whicn once flirted ; but which has vanished, in
various reTpeCts, during the joint administration
of the friends of Mr. Adams, and General.Pinck.
'ney. From every public and private opportunity
: of information, which we possess, we are thorough
ly convinced, that the ^agnation of atmort every
kind of real and landed property, is owing to tbe
joint operation of these causes.
It Is because we confidently believe Mr. Jeffer
, son disposed to measures, which will check Ex
penditure and Taxation : give moderation and
impartiality to our' foreign intercourse ; restore
harmony and confidence among the friends of Re
presentative Government of all parties ; and pre
serve that candid piety, which flourishes betide re
ligious liberty and the rights of conscience : It is
for these important reasons, that we hope & trust
that the public fentimencs and difpofitlons will
more and more unite in favour of the explained
and vindicated character of Mr. Jefferfon. It
surely is, by this time, clearly seen, that, to yeti
<giqus men, Mr, Jefferfon has indityutably been the
I molt ufelul character, finite William Penn, and
Ithat he compares, tq great advantage, with Mr.
(Adams, and General Pinckney.. It most «lfo be
feed, that the letter to Mazzei, for which Mr.
Jefferfon has been so unworthily and so ftandd
,oufly abused, is fuppvrted and juftitied by toe
many afflicting truths ; and to an important evi
dence of his penetration and vigilance. The charge,
of a blind attachment to France has bettrartiimy
r k ^ ' p by th f lab ° r ° f . yea ? ;b> ^,?
Britilh Gazettes and their various foreign and d
merican Editors, and other foreign agents of va
- J^^e^P^H.bjUte whole aniroofitf^M
hatred of party ; and by all the devices bf rivtfl
,ij? >e nv y^ and local interefl.—But. in total coq
.radittion to this change, We call -upon hW oppo
nents to (how their fellow-citizens an raamfc,.
in the conduct of Mr. Adams, or of -the federal
' fer^etaries pf as impafaial and independent meas
ures to check and remove the offending ministers
andAgentrot England, as Mr. Jefferfon manifefr
ed to check and remove the offending minilter &
agents of France, in 17,3. No difereet fetallltl
~wyLrilk the d^^^^ .
Permit 11s, republican fellow-citizens, of what
ever party you have heretofore been, permit ug,
we fay, to entreat yaur enlightened union in. thf
Republican Caufe^on the 14th of October. Suffer
us to exhort you, by all that you bold dear, td
every exertion, confident with order and deco
rum, on that eventful day. We have given you.
at every hazard, the true Hate of our affairs; Stay
not, then, at home, on any account, oi|js day,
.which may prove niore critical than any other,
Pennsylvania has known. The found praflieal
equality of the Qtakef; the equal Brotherhood of
the Moravian, the Mennonirt and the Dunker,
the republican rights of cpnfeience and of equal
liberty, religious and fiviL public economy, a
liberal intercoprfe lvith all friendly nations, and
the consequent blessings of fafety and peace, are
the benefits, which k will be the objects of Thom
as Jefferfon, in harmonious co-operation with the
Legislative Body to promote and maintain.
We have offered you no adulation of the char
after and talents of Mr, Jefferfon. What we have
yet said of him b'a'Sbeen mere defenfive and ex^
p<ana tory truths Eut we mutt appeal to your
general knowledge'# him for forhe fads, which
-serve to characterife that distinguished citizen.
It is known to us all,, that he has been long in
public Service ; in war, and in peace, in every
change of our affairs, tie has filled the highest
port ih his native State. He has succeeded the
New-England Franklin, and the Pennsylvania
Rittenhoufe, in the chair of Science, and m the
hearts of all its votaries, at home and abroad.
He has exercised the high and complicated pow
ers of a Member of the old Congress. He fram
ed, amide the doubts, the fears, and the prejudi
ces of 1776, that memorable, instrument, by which
America exhibited, for the firft time, in the histo
ry cf Mankind, the example of a genuine Repub
lic—a real infance of d free People. He has exe
cuted ,or years, your missions to foreign Coun
tries. He filled for. a long time, your Depart-^
ment of State, the Secretaryship of yburforeign;
and Domestic Affairs. In that capacity he has
left, in his Britilh and French ' communications of
>793>, monument of diplomatic knowledge and
learning;, judgment„fidflity 9 decision, impartiali
ty, and independence, to which no other Ameri
' can public character can as we believe, exhibit an
equal volume. He has been an instrument in the
hands of Providence, to Secure the meek and hum
ble the precious solace of a# uniramelled con
science —the pious reverential Freedom, pf Man
with his divine Creator. He has filled the Offices
of Vice-President of the United States, and Pre
fident of the Federal- Senate ; where he has dif
eotuHenanced , all expeufive, dangerous, and un
conftirtitiona meafores ; and has borne, unmov
edre? Utofe uotorio,, obloquies, which favepco
ce^d from foreign" monarchical emiffirtes and
averts; from American 'printers, admitted to have
been in foreign monarchical pay, from hoheil,
mistaken, or unworthy opposing partisans frfroni,
known rivals and competitors and their power
;fol friends ; from men, till now, Unacquainted
with his Services to religions liberty ; and from
American citizens, who are known and a&ive
enemies to our representative governments, and
who are, therefore, on tbe refpeftable opinion of
Mr. Attorney Ingersoll, traitors to the constitu
tions of our country. Such have been a very ac
tive part of the oppoferi of Mr. Jefferfon : and
such is the character and importance, which his
torical truth attaches to bis person apd his name.
We have laid before you, fellowicitizens, ma
ny alarming fads. We have ,Spoken to you in
true, though plain language. The fame is now
Spoken throughout the continent. We have point
ed out witnefles whom yob may examine. We
tan mention^thers. All the persons whole names
we have mentioned, have too much regard for
truth, to deny the verity of our information.
This domeflic date of republicanism alarms us
greatly. We fee other connected dangers. When
the able and energetic head of a great foreign Na
tion* delivering himfelf as a member of tbe Su
preme Power of his Country, explicitly proclaims
"to all Nations, that the inventors of our doc
trines of equal religious and civil rights and of
the authority of a free People, in their ownjtrif
diftion, are enemies of the hum?a race—it be
comes the bounden duty of every American to
consider, with all his prudence, the impressive, mi
nitgry Fast.; But, when that very Foreign Minis
ter, with his potent colleagues, avows, that they
have long formed a Party in their favour in the
bosom of our country ; when they corrupt and
putchafe our principal executive and legislative
Printer ; when our Chief Magistrates are con
vinced that the fame Foreign Ministry has exer
cised, with success, muchofifi Influence (though
ever so unconsciously) upua 'fe pure and unf@ *
pefled Washington ; whepa known Coffiplottef
with the fame foreign Nation, though expelled
from the Senate on ptoof of the crime, is not per
secuted by our Executive for cite offence: when
our expensive and reluctant Navy is made to wit
ness the uhremitg, depredations of the fame for
eign Nation, on our trade*:when the mort partial
and molt powerful American Friend of that Na
tion, though certainly known to the Secretary of
State, to be a,real and avowed mouarchift, h In
troduced, under the name of Washington, to the
command, in fadt, of 117,000 hired regulars, and
party, and monarchic volunteers ; when a distin
guished member of the Federal Government, grey
in his country's Service, thoroughly knows, and
dares not, for the hatred he would draw down,
to make public -the monarebifm of the govern
ment ; when hatred and animosity, beyond the
law, is thus propagated against the Sincere and
faithful friends of our elective cooltitutibn, upon
the plea that they are dangerous opponents to our
In„ioji# |government ; and “ the ^qi^s of Ter
!rob m and banishment or deash, are prefentcd to
the Invertlgators of the predatory operations of
the fame foreign power; it becomes an indifpen
: liblc duty on those who are informed in the case,
to warn a virtuous unfufpc^ing people/whotea-
I genera are, 0/ the real and immense danftfi
, with which they, and their constitutions, the goy.
ernmeuts of their choice, are menaced and encore.
We are, Fellow-citizens, ''
Your Sincere and faithful friends.
TENCH COXE,'
-TIiMOTHY MATLACK,—'
1 < ^%^ Lh "^
. - - SAMUEL BRYAN. -
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From the Independent Qhron;cle. -
Ms .—• # —l— l - - : ^h-fo
Extraa from the Records of the Treasury, as pub
li/hed by Albert Gallatin, Ejq.
“ Increase of the Public Debt from the tirftday
-ot-fc 17,0, to the fa day i&o.
NINE MILLIONS, FOUR HVNDRfb 'AND
PIETY-TWO THOUSAND, TWO HUN
'DR^D AND StlTg-FObk
Dollars and thirty-eight Cents.".
This enormous sum in Spanish dollars would
load IWQ hundred and Ainety'fte Waggons;eft--'
rymg each one ton weight. The annual augmen
tation of the debt, Since the yehr 1790, to the be
ginning of this year, will yearly load t wenty-nine,
WB ggons with silver, at a ton y eight per ,o#.
Is this the prosperity" shit has been rung th our
ears, from . New-HampShire to Georgia? Is #*,
the refuit of that wisdom 'in the Adminillrarfon&
which has been trumppeted aloud front almogb,
, pulpit in New-England ? Isthis addftlonaHo<
to the public debt the fruit of what hag been are
rogantly (tiled a neutral ppfition ? '
Where are the Members of Congress, who hi
their farewell addresses extolled the purity and a
btlity of the present adminilteation! ate these
yokes about our necks some ofthe good crops, fa
the metapher of Robert G. Harper $ where tie
fays, « If you liad an overseer, who for ten yeah
together, had made good crops, and kept,oijf
plantation in excellent order, would you toyn"
him away ?" Such Crops of Silver and gota as
the country are held to pay, may afford very good
pickings for overjeors ; but a continuation of them
will soon drain the land of every thing vajyibL
and bankrupt the owners. My. Harner again fay„
“ we know thesprefent administration by the to
cefs of their actions." I Do, my fellow-citizeri,,
for a moment, let us search for this success. Is it
in taxing every article that a man eat;, drtaks, or
wears, of foreign growth or manufacture, at aq
average rate of twenty per cent. aVvhlortifo ? Is
it to be found in borrowing rnffiy at 8 per cent,
per annum ? Is it in a (lamp-tax, in s land-tax,
or in a lioufe-tax? Shall we leek for it in the
management of our exterior relations 1 Is it in
the indiscriminate capture of bur vessels by the
,British? Is it in the prostration of bur indepen
dence and character at the court of St- James',
by Mr. King and Mr. Sitgreaves 2 ,or, is, it to be
foi nd id the dispatches of our Envoys at Paris?
Where is the character of John Chew Thorny. .
a member of Congreft from Maryland, who told •
his constituents latt May, that the public debt ts
the United States '' had diminished," and amount
ed only, to “ about feventv millions of dollars,"
1 when the true amount of the present debt is prov
ed beyond ail controversy; on the firft of January
; 1800, to amount to 79,202,631 &*l. f& cts.
What becomes of the veracity or political hon
our of Mr. Sedgwick, who ipforq^d bis conftitu-
f ents last June, that the public debt had decreased
four Millions of dollars ? Is it nbri&uiilbwg t ut
, the public agents in their fpe^h&efy^ loteg^d
the opinion&ty feelings' of their' cootit nexts,
and in their public (latemcnu (reg(hem as swa
destitute of eyes and ears 1 ! !
Can these men in any view ofthe case be enti
, tied to further confidence from a people they have
so grossly deceived ? Have fhe'adminiftration con
ducted like overseers ; or,, rather have they not
gone on like proprietors of the treasury ? and are
they not now pledging the country for the -pay
ment of navy yards and a„ pr<fe& that will cor
rupt the people or make friends. ^ - t
Tbe Bright Side of tbe Picture. -,
So far as we can learn, the crops of grain and
other provisions for domestic consumptions or ex
portion, taking the whole extent of tbe United
States, are more plentiful th# year than for a
number of years past. Agriculture, the firft and
best ofhuman occupations, is prosecuted With iri
creafing energy and fucceft.^ The whole country
is becoming a garden. Turnpikes and improve*
ments in common roads are greatly facilitating
travelling and transportation,. are insensibly raiw
sing the natural price of produce-and the. valueof
land in the interior parts of the country. Oaf
profpea of foreign markets is favourable. There
isa rational, expectation, that the wife ^nd mn<
Cern nentral policy of our Executive will be effect
tnal in negociating a treaty of peace with France;
so that our unhappy differences with that nation'
may be fettled, and an end put to their depredr.
tions on our commerce. Industry prevails. Few
er persons are unemployed, and fewer also feet
above industrious employment. Scarcely a man,
woman or child, among ms, needs to be idle sos•
want of honefl means of gaining-a support. The :
I race of . (peculation, that intelie&hd and morale
influence has abated, and the fores oecßtioned b,
it- are healing although many Scarce will probably"
, remain. Altho' some fymptoips of epidemics
appeared, and Kill prevail in Norfolk, Baltimore,
Providence,and a few other places, yet the toux
&'!J^e ^ healthy for this fafo at the year.
The bigotry of Spirit, &hh some total excepforofr
as evidehtiy relaxing, and liberality of fenilment
increasing. People in general are acquiring more
extensive and impartial information on ttetbprrf
of the times, reading different NewfoXteh, tar
ing both fide, of controverted fubjeas, reflecting,
conferring together, examining principles, sur
mounting political prejudices awaking from the
' "a,. 0 . 0 ' Party names and judging for themselves.
? A Spirit of free and candid enquiry te torre&mg
?" d erroneous opinions,, refpefting the
real tendency of measures, and their operation^
, not as promised or threatened by their rtfoeftive
advocates and oppofers, but as demonstrated by
- The merits and views of public men
1 ° u i hl mor , to the rest of their every-day
" bich "in open light of their conftitu?
ents, and can therefore be fairly appreciated by"/
them, without danger of imposition or patty
co 10 1!, 3 * Political moderation and amdouP 1
are likely to be the happy roofauences. The1
r,"t s of rational Republicanism M, freely
difcufr, and are rap + dly gaining ground. At
^,,", time mortis 'teem to be iniproviog s#
fast learmug-pron^red/ Common School are
slammed w ;th more convenient buMifea aid at
complifhed inttru&rs. A iMte prevails for <re&-
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