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gainst every effort to balance the new Government.
You quarrelled with my proclamation of neutrality.
You smiled at the accursed labours of Genet. You
strove to unite the country with France, in the war
against Great-Britain. You raised the westernfooun
try in rebellion against my measures"—To a Great
Personage he would say—" You, Sir, WISHED
TO TARNISH MY FAME ! You read and cir
ouhted Bache's paper. You countenanced its calum-
Party Names.
TO call the Federalists Republicans, and the
Democrats Republicans also, is " confounding Alex^.
ander the Great, with Alexander the Coppersmith?'
It is mingling under the same description, men, be
tween whom exists every species of political distinc
tion. It is converting the saying of the President, and
denoting by the same name "brethren of different,
principles." Whichever party has the best claim to
the appellation,it cannot belong to both. If Democrats
" are Republicans, Federalists are not. The original
founders of the Constitution, and its original oppos
es ; the friends of Washington, and his foes;
they who endeavored to uphold the Judiciary, and
they who demolished it; those who are for main
taining national character and honor, though it should
©st something, and those who will submit to be ill
treated and despised, on the sole condition that it will
cost nothing, are too far apart, in the features of
their minds, to be included in the same political defi
nition. Names are of no consequence in themselves ;
but they become important by the acts of political
jugglers. It therefore behoves the Federalists to
vindicate their right to the Republican character,
and to declare to the world, that they ought not to
suffer in their reputation, because demagogues are
attempting to acquire a false credit by borrowing
their name. The magic of sounds,cannot last long ,
but it often lasts long enough to do incalculable mis
chief. France now no longer sighs for “ Equality."
—She has followed that meteor, till it has conducted
her through the tumults of Anarchy to the quietude
of Despotism. There is scarcely a family in France,
that has not lost a Brother, a Son, or a Father, i:
follow ing the steps of pretended Republicans—when
are they now ? just where Demagogues will plac<
every country, whose destinies they controul—be
neath the sword of the strongest. The delusion
has at length departed, but it dregged the veins cf
-the nation till the sword bleeded her to faintness.
We can readily determine, who, in this country,
ought to be considered Republicans, if we will first
settle a few preliminary qfeiries. A our National
Constitution—l should have said— was our National
Constitution a republican system ? Were its found
ers Republican ? Was Washington a Republican?
If these questions are answered affirmatively, it
would then seemthatFederahsts,the friends of Wash
ington and the Constitution, are Republicans also.
On the other hand, is Napoleon Bonaparte, first
Emperor of the Gauls, a Republican ? Is the Secre
tary of the Pennsylvania insurgents a Republican ?
are Thomas Paine and William Duane, Republicans?
Are they, who abuse the memory of the first Presi
dent, Republicans ? If so, then Federalists are not—
they protest against the alliance, and shake off the
name as the greatest pollution that could cleave to
them—" Shame would burn their cheeks to a cin
der," if they could not remove the imputation of be
ing of that sort of men, with whom malignity to
Washington is a first principle—Yet let the Demo
crats, if they choose, begin at this late dayfto applaud
him. Let them proclaim themselves his disciples,
and be so regardless of his reputation with posterity,
us to seek to join their own name with his. They here
tofore called him an "Incendiary," a"traitor," a man.
who" legalized corruption,Sc gave currency to iniqui
ry." Let them nowconverttheir reproaches into eulo
gy, and the fervid wrath of political enmity, into,
the zeal of cordial friendship. His Spirit, if it
could awake from the sleep of the tomb, would in
dignantly spurn the connexion. It would say, "You
• that now profess to be my friends, I ever found my
deadliest enemies. You opposed every important
measure of my administration. You struggled a-
11, u They assert that the fallness of the treasury
U and the prosperous Condition of our financial con
" cerns, is the fruit of the last administration -=while
66 it is most certainly the effect,f the ECONOMY
" of the present,"
This insults our senses and our Information worse
than all. When Mr. Jefferson came into the chair
was the treasury all at once filled with a gushing
stream of wealth ? Was it not pouring in, in conse 3
quence of “ the wise and prudent measures of the
former administration ?'' or had Mr. Gallatin
some Genevan trick to coax money jnto the treasury ,
as a conjurer does his balls with an imperceptible
address, under his cups ? And pray do not insult the
understandings of your patrons, (for you doubtless
have some who have some understanding,) by baw -
ing to them of your coffers being crowded with cash
your treasury so full it will not bear the lid down ;
when at the same time you are laying 2 1-2 tier cent,
additional duty on imposts, and authorising the Presi
dent to borrow two wiHionsof dolors. This is most
emphatically “ the effect of the ECONOMY of the
PRESENT. FACT.
[Tobe continued.]
For the Oracle.
tiies=You envied me the laurel, of which it had
pleased my country to think me worthy."
The Republicanism of Democrats consists in a
head-strong attachment to names and persons; They
abhor monarchies, because kings wear crowns, and ,
sit on wool-sacks. They adord a Director, or a Con
sul, because he says he " loves the people." Feders
alists are Republicans, not inthe dexterous and art
ful application of the name, nor in the indiscrimi
nate approbation of every one who wears it, but in
their opinions on Government. They prefer the 1
Republican system, because they think it best calcu
lated for the happiness of man, and affords the best ।
chance for civil liberty. But if a President were to |
exercise his power as capriciously, or as tyrannical
ly as a Monarch, they see no great consolation in the:
difference of the names. If it were possible for a
President to forget the high duties of his office, and
become the head of a party ; to act on a system of
favoritism ; to brandish the scymetar of power over
the head of every officer, who had the independence
to think for himself ; to reward the calumniators of
his predecessors to prefer foreigners to his own coui^„
trymen, countenance the most violent designs on the
„ Constitution, and have in all things, an eye to the
gratification of his partizans, and the perpetuation
[of his own power—lt does not seem to Federalists,
that there is material benefit in the name by which
the Constitution calls him. It has ever been the ob
ject of the " Disciples of the Washington school,"
to settle the Government. —To improve its princi
ples by practice, and give them fixture and perma
nency by time. While in office they faithfully pre
served the arrangement in the distribution of powers
established by the Constitution., Each department
regarded the limitation of the law ; it did not " cov_
et ought that was its neighbour's," but performed its
functions in harmony with the rest. Had Washing,
ton himself grasped at greater power, than the law
had assigned to his office, Federalists had been fore
most to resist him. Whatever love they had for
his character, they had more for the country, and
for the Constitution which they believed the coun
try's richest blessing. THIS DISTRIBUTION OF
POWER AMONG SEVERAL DEPART.
MENTS, AND THIS FAITHFUL REGARD
TO THE LIMITATIONS OF THAT DISTRI
BUTION CONSTITUTE THE REPUBLICAN
ISM OF FEDERALISTS.
•Let us now appeal to the sense of the community,
if it has not been the unceasing aim of the Demo
crats to unsettle every thing; to break down bar
riers and confound distinctions. Mr. Taylor of Vir
ginia, in his specch in the Senate on the subject of the
Judiciary, declaimed largely against cherishing ^
"Metaphysical Idolatry.” Nobody could guess whtf
was meant by this, until he saw fit to explain. We
then discovered his meaning to be, that we ougk
not to be attached to any thing. The nation, on Ms
plan, was not to venerate any fundamental prindre.
Nothing was to acquire the force of a maxim. H^
system was, to try one thing to-day, and another to
morrow, and every thing in its turn ; to patch, and
to cobble, and tinker, whenever there seemed an oc
casion, or appeared a fancy, for an alteration.
These sentiments form a pretty good comment on the
conduct of his party. That party is ever ready to put
up or put down, to create or destroy, as the promo
tion of ambitious purposes may require. Eightyears
a g°, they were for depriving the President of all
power, because he was Washington ; they now seem
willing to clothe him with supremacy, because he is
Jefferson.
They were unwilling to trust Washington and the
Federal Senate with the making of the British trea
ty ; but they seemed disposed to make Mr. Jeffer
son Lord Paramount over Louisiana. Nicholson
and Ratfolph are not more sovereign on their own
Negro plantations than they have made the Presi
dent over that country: The consequence is, that
the inhabitants remonstrate and petition ; they will
soon grow imperative, and threaten consequences,
if they are not immediately admitted into the Un
ion. To quiet the storm, the Government will
probably be compelled to admit them. The doors
of the Senate and House of Representatives must he
thrown open to their delegates, and we shall hear
from Congress speeches in French, Spanish and
Creole. Happy !if the ulterior consequence of all
these things be not a dissolution of the Union.
Thus it is, that wild ambition democratises every
thing. Cherished by the applause,, and supported
on the shoulders of a deluded, cheated, and injured
people, it pushes on its course, impatient of controul,
regardless 61 obstructions, heedless of consequences."
The pillars of society are shaken in the commence
ment of its career ; the powers of Government are
quarrelled for by the different branches ; or more
commonly given up tothe most artful & aspiring ; its
limitations are violated—its distinctions obscured ;
uncertainty and confusion assert their empire over
it, and like creation, when chaos presided o'er the
mingling elements, it is ".without form, and void,
and darkness is on the face of it? , A deluge of
blood then succeeds the deluge of false principles,
and false politicians; till mankind, jaded and har
rassed by contending factions, are willing to give up
the liberty of being butchered by demagogues, for
the slavery of being protected by tyrants. Thus per
deceitfulness of their pretended
friends. Thus despotism reigns in countries once
cheered by the light of Freedom, and Jacobinism
adds itself, a FOURTH PLAGUE, to the cata
logue of War, Pestilence, and Famine.
MANLIUS;
FOREIGN ^R TICLES.
By a late arrival at Boston.
o+fe—.
Paris, JULY 10.
The unfortunate General Moreau, his brother,
the Tribune, and their families, are about bidding a
dieu to France forever, [fr He state as facts
that Gen. Moreau left the Temple, in Paris, in the
night of the 22d June, under a guard of light horse
commanded by General Savery. He passed through
Bouxleaux, and arrived at Perpignan, about the
10th July.—from Perpignan [a capital citv, in the
department of the Eastern Pyrennes, situated near
the mouth of the river Tet] he proceeded to Barce
lona, where he arrived about the 22d. July. He an
ly travelled in the night, and his route Was circuit*
ous. - Previous to setting out, he signedan instru
ment empowering his mother-in-law to sell his estate
in France. His wife followed him on his route to
Spain, on the 23d June. His brother, the Tribune,
sat out before him to procure a suitable vessel,or the I
accommodation of the family.—lt was said, the beau-•
,iful chateau, which had been given him by the na-!
Won, Would be purchased by his Imperial Highness
'Prince Louis. Moreau was considered a man of
fortune ; but which will be much diminished by that 1
fart of the sentence which condemned those to be
imprisoned, jointly and severally, to pay the costs
of prosecution, amounting to a million and an half of
livres ; the greater part of which will fall on Mo
read. Every anecdote of this illlustrious victim to
ambition must be interesting. Centinel.
NE W FRENCH NOBILITY.
The Government of the Empire are engaged in
giving stability and splendor to the Legion of Honor.
It has been decreed, that no infamous punishment
tan be inflicted on any member, provided the Le
gionary has not been degraded. The formula of
degradation is as follows :—" You have lost your
honor, I declare in the name of the Legion, that you
have ceased to be a Member," The Grand Coun
cil may suspend the exerciseof the rights of a Mem
ber, and even exclude him, when his offences ren
der such a step necessary. The chief places of the
Legion have been decreed.
The decoration of this new or^r of Military No
bility, are as follows :—A Star, with five double
rays ; the Centre surrounded with oak and laurel,
will display the Emperor's head, with this legend
“ honneu et Patrii." The decorations will be gold
for the grand officers, and silver for the Legiona
ries.—lt is to be worn at the button-hole, suspended
to a red and white ribbon. It is always to be worn.
The Emperor may wear either of the two Stars.
The military are to present arms to the Grand Of
ficers. When the Order is received,it shall be accom
panied with a Diploma. The seal is to represent,
on one side, a Spread Eagle, on an azure field. A
bove and below the Escutcheon is to be the decora
tion of the Legion of Honor. The Escutcheon is to
be surmounted with an Imperial Crown, in a drap
ery ; the hand of Justice, and the Sceptre, to be
placed under the Escutcheon, and in the drapery.
The other side will represent THE EMPEROR
SITTING ON HIS THRONE, clothed with Impe
rial robes, with this inscription, " Napoleon, Em
\ fterdr tfthe "''""•" On the 14th July, a discourse
pronounced by the High Chancellor of the
Or&r, on the design of the Legion of Honor,which
has no other object than to preserve all that the
Fretictyfople wished in the year 1789 ; an epoch
that will be forever celebrated among the most sol -
kls of the world, as the first movement of
revriutmtyj&ch, terrible as it n ay have been in
■Ras been fortunate and glorious in
sf&y citizen, in recollecting the evils
\vhimM|l^!w suffered and the dangers he has sur
mounted,' will for a long time retain a sense of those
perils to which all social order is exposed during
the course of a revolution.
At Malmaison, his Majesty the Emperor Napo
leon is collecting a Museum, to be called Museum
Josephine. No less than 20 artists are travelling
over all Europe to make purchases and collections
worthy of such a place. The sum of 3,000,000 livres
(600,000 dollars) is to be expended to perfect it.—
This money is to be given from the Emperor's pri
vate purse. —•—
Napoleon and his" HOLY FATHER."
ROME, June 30, 1804.
The Emperor of the French has demanded of the
Sovereign Pontiff to perform his Coronation ceremo
ny. 1 his demand having been referred to the Sa
cred College of Cardinals, they unanimously (with
the exception of Fesche, the Emperor's uncle) ad
vised against it as no such act had been performed
by a Sovereign Pontiff, for seven centuries ; and it
would offend the House of ^usria, as Pius VI. in
. 1790 refused the sar^e demand made by Leopold
11. the Father of the present Emperor of Germany.
In answer to this Bonaparte, in his own hand,
wrote a very threatening letter to the PopE, telling
him,, that he osoed to him alone and to his modera
tion H both the temporal and spiritual power enjoy
ed by Ihis Holiness. That it was an insult to his
glory fond to the high dignity the Great Nation had
conferred on him even to hesitate :— that as he had
made Frenchmen again Christians, so he ivould
be able to make themMu#&ulmcn,hould the wigrate
jid conduct, superstitious scruples, or pusillani
mous fears of His Holiness force him to such an
act." In return, Pius VII. offered to subsitute the
Cardinal Fesche, and prevailed on Madame Bon
aparte (the Emperor's mother) to join in recom
mending his acceptance of his substitute. This
measure had no other effect than to enrage her son
the more ; who wrote to the Pope thus :—
" WE desire the Holy Father to choose between
a retreat to a Convent, or a journev to Paris."
NAPOLEON.
“ Paris, May 20,1804."
This has put a period to all correspondence and
entreaty ; and Gen. Charpentier nas been sent
to Rome to escort the Pope to France.
' FROM THE MISSISSIPPIHERR^LD.
Natchez, Aug. 10.;
Extract of a letter, dated August 7.
" Returning this morning from the vicinity of Lit
tle Bayou Sara, I met not tar from the line, 21 ar
med men : on passing a home within my view they
sounded a French horn, and unfurl'd a flag composed
of four white, and three blue stripes, a yellow field
and two red stars : they were mounted, arm'd' with
rifles and pistols, and wore deep blue and yellow cock
ades. Among the party, I recognized some of the
planters of Feliciana, and one man, whom I knew,
q^Zßm&daared he would be to possession ,
BY THE LATEST MAILS.
of Batton Rouge Fort in 24 hears : I have since tear#
ned, that their plan is to take the different alcades
or commandants as they go along ; so that we may
naturally suppose cur neighbour O'Connor is in
strings e'er this. As I get more of the particulars,
you shall have them.
While writing, a party of men and women have
passed in ribbons and plumage— amongst them are
J; S.—~— and Mrs. A- .
CHARLESTON, S. C. AUG. 23.
A Newbern (North-Carolina) paper of the 10th
inst. says--" There are now circulated in this state,
a great many forged 50 and 100 dollar notes of the
United States Branch Bank, ofßaltimore, dated Sep
tember, 1802, letter G. The engraving is uncom
monly well executed, except the upper part of the
Eagle, the bill of which is rather clumsily dona. The
ink used in printing is rather paler and the paper
thicker and is somewhat Inferior to the red
notes. The signatures of Messrs. Simpson & Wil
ling are equal to the original, and with ink similarto
that generally used. From, the foregoing communi
cation, we fear some of the above described notes
have crept into this place."
Extract of another letter, dated August 3, received
at 5 o'clock, P. M. this day.
"The K and their party amounting as 1
am informed to nearly three hundred men, set out
yesterday to take Button Rouge. It is supposed
they will effect it, and perhaps seize the whole coun
try as far as the Mobile river ; I have learnt that
there were a number of American citizens of the par
ty which I regret. Those insurgents have hoisted
the American flag. I believe if there had been U^
nited States troops stationed at Fort Adams, the cit
izens here, nor any other in this neighbourhood Would
have been suffered to collect in opposition to our
government^or to invade the rights of a peaceable
neighboring nation."
PHILAD. SEPT. 6,
A letter from Natchez, dated August 11, says,
" that their elections had just terminated favorably
to the Federalists."
NEW-YORK, SEP T. 5.
Our advices from Natchez are far from being of
a pleasant complexion. A turbulent and dangerous
spirit seems to actuate a class of people residing on
the Mobile river, composed as it would seem of
French and Americans, who have threatened to pos
sess themselves of several fortified places, and the
adjacent territory. Already have they been in mo
tion for this purpose in considerable force, and fears
are entertained, that, owing to be exposed and de
fenceless state of the country, they will accomplish
their purpose.
The following Communication is received by a Mer
chant at Philadelphia, from a source upon which
perfect reliance may be placed.
Madrid, July 16, 1804.
' •The application of the American Minister on
the subject of the Convention has at length drawn
from this court, the following Propositions, upon the
acceptance of which only, will that instrument be
ratified.
First. That time be allowed to give notice to their
subjects of the Convention, wl.ichhas not yet oven
done, as they consider the busii, s totally ,l^e rad
by the American Government
2d. That the article relating to Proves, car
ried into Spanish ports by the Lie. th ci^ v' ,I
totally expunged, and all claims on the Spanish
Government,on that account be for ever relinquishes.
3d. That the act of the United States, utbor.^
ing the President to establish one or more Ports on
the river Mobile be immediately repealed.
After a proper remonstrance by the American
Minister on this subject he demanded his passports
and will actually depart from hence in the course
of the ensuing week.
It is expected too that all the Americans will be
obliged to leave this place in a few days.
Nothing of course but war is spoken of. Never
theless Mr. Yrujo, is intrusted with full powers, and
it may happen that what could not be obtained here,
will be granted at Washington.
The people of this country affect to treat with
contempt any opposition on the part' of the United
States, as they have (from your side) such informa
tion as leads them to believe that America is only
a great merchant who calculates upon the probable
loss or gain by war or peace, and will determine as
the balancemf interest may preponderate without
regard to national honor.v
Nevertheless, if we excep tthe French there is no
other nation that they so much apprehend mischief
from. Your vicinity to these colonies &the mild prin
ciples ofyour republican goverment are constant
sources, of anxiety to them, and occasion both fear
and hatred to you.
General Moreau is now at Barcelona, on his way
to America, where he means to pass theremainder
of his life by permission of the Emperor.
Even this circumstanee has given some alarm
here."
"Cadiz, July 20, 1804./
"In my last of the 19th ult. I advised you of the
failure of our crops, since which our harvest has §
turned out even more unfavourably than was at first
apprehended, and I know not from whence we can ;
receive supplies adequate to our wants unless from•
your side of the Atlantic. The threatening appearance 1
of hostilities between this country and yours, have,
lately arisen to so alarming a height, that your'
Ambassador Mr. Pinckney has actually demanded
his passports,and I presume before this time he has
left Madrid. If War takes place, we shall be re
luctantly forced into the measure in defence of our
dearest and best rights, and as it must be interest
ing to you to be informed of the principal cause of
dispute, I enclose you an extract of a letter I have
just received from a Spanish gentleman at Madrid,
who possesses the best opportunities of information.
It will explain to you the unfounded pretensions of
your administration in regard to the extent of Loui
siana, which in order to enforce a submission to their
unwarrantable claims to West-Florida, may involve
our countries in a contest, which would be deeply
distressing to us,and could never be approved of,
or become popular in the United States, because un
supported by even a plausible pretext or the shad
ow of equity.
“ Madrid July 12, 1804.
"Although 'tis understood that the refusal of this
Government to ratify the Convention with tire Uni
ted States was produced by the inadmissible demand
of the latter respecting the extent of L< uisiana, yet
the most alarming grounds of misunderstanding be
tween our Court and Mr. Pickney are in reality
the pretensions set up by the American government
to West-Florida, which is all that tract of country
lying east of Misstsippi, and extending as far as the
river Perdido, excepting however therefrom the
Island of New-Orleans, which attaches to Louisia
na.
This territory,Spain will never relinquish, unle s
INTERESTING from SPAIN.
BOSTON, SEPT. IS.