The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1795-03-17 00:00:00, page 1

Till Revolutionary Tiibuaal ^
waited only this pretence L
raise itfelf above the decision ol
the majority of it# own party,*
and it inftantlyfent the Seven
tiaima to undergo their sentence, who
fyd defended themselves \yith dignit„pd
died with all the courage that religion,
innocence-and virtue inspire. f
The Swiss government chilled with
horror at these transactions, discontinued
all communication with 'bi, Second Nine
veh ; and those of their milled citizens,
who had been worked upon by the fame
cmiffaries as ourselves declared that they
had received a. seasonable ictfon, which
they knew how to profit by.
However, although the butchers of
Geneva have already set at liberty a hun
dred prisoners; whole great number em
barrassed them, they nevertheless continue
in the career of their crimes ; and as crimes
lead on tocrimes, and blood to b!ood, it
is not to be doubted but more will be fpilt
for fame tim4 to come, since they have
already prohibited the wearing oftnourn
ing. If they appear at this moment to
Hop the effufiprf of blood , it is only with
a view to give the miserable inhabitants
ol ^ne^^^: wcufea&mfeltate
it ; and fcc "tier tq Strip those who con
tent tofire heir lives by confining the
depefts #their decb. To the purpole
It therein difewere without disguise the
thread of the conspiracy, b, attributing the
Unhappy prejudice! ofthe. French against
Geneva, titbit, that the former had thought
it right to digruft a people who boasted of
having effected the triumph of the princi-
Shi of liberty and equality, and at the
me time harboured a nett of incorrigible
ariftocrata at peace in their very bosom,
in fart tbit manifefto invoked the fraternity
if the revolutionary nation, and conjured;
ibrato be en their guard against the
wca&nqfs ofejemency, to put an end to
the reign of impunity,,to purify the at-,
mq/phere of their country of its„perverfg
children, and to incapacitate them far
tier from revolting against it. On Q
^r, fa tribunal engaged. To revolution
ize tyhthe principles and morale, ^ re
generate th, public mind ; in fort to
proceed without delay to indicate prefer
establishments to prevent the wants of the
peopV, to form true citizens, audio pe.
pare &e happiness of all ! !!
1 onfont among, them wl^ pro
nounceAffo words war the Syndic Caylor.
1 taMdie contented, cried he> did I
telie^ty m^ death would reform. pe,„
and libert, to ray fellow citizen, so ,„
ev,n the Gtnevpfe. of, the faaiow of the
-Maffeilleityha dipsfed lie honed : of be
:iu, thor lyfysera, and of Looting
.them. It fy be spit conceived that the
«f^' °f &•fy^to^rwffft
glared to be tyfesid toths mh g the
•0, fa succeeding day, it Ruck up a
hind of art apology which is nothing elje than
th, manfejlo of this new war, and which
is a wafer piece of hypocrijy and falfaod.
The aristocrats, that is to jay, the rich, are
therein accused, of not having renounced
their preientiop, nor abjured their ancient
error#, of rot having fraternized with the
revolutionise in their civic festivals,
of having made vows in favor ofthe
rebels of Lyons, and what is mere of
having entertained an idea of rejecting the
new taxes.
RESOLUTION in GEA'^Q
BRIEF ACCOUNT ts the ORIGIN
* and PROGRESS ts the REVOLW
- TION ^ GENEVA—^^ ^
Letters.
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Or, C HESHIRE JOURNAL.
Columbian Informer ;
THE
ens.-
I<ie true that the leaders of this fero
cious fidion dill profeli their determine,
non c,f preserving Geneva independent cl
Fran ce. Undoubtedly it is more conven
ient for them to wage war agani ttheir
difarfped countrymen, and to drip them
es th ty property, thap^go and fyht bat
tles On the Khine, or beyond the Pyrenees ;
hut ^hen they Ihall hare plundered every
thin g, and dilapidated their Ip< is, noth
ing , ill remain for them, but to fell
thepshelves to France.
Hippea what may, Geneva no longer
defarves liberty, it has been branded and
difrspaoured there ; for the prefect gener
aril it can only bea residence of hatred
an I vengeance,
If this afflicting narration ffiould appear
long to you, tir, haw much more lo mutt
it have appeared to him who is a Gene
vefe,and who has had the courage to trace
it, out to you ? I know not even that 1
fluid have had the Strength to have cm
[Nested it, were it not for a pressing mo
time which animates me. I have just learnt
hat a number of my countrymen have ta
ken the courageous resolution of vifuing
America, in quest of peace and liberty,
frhich have been banished from thteir na
tive country ; and conf,dering the fmall
xefs of our territory, if ,jl| be impratii
'cab!e to hinder those from flying, who
dread not to abandon to the plunderers,
their landed property. Besides many of
them possess a part of their furtunes in for
sign trade, as well as in the funds of Eng
land, and in those of America.
I come, fir, in the name of (offering hu
manity and perfected liberty, to conjure
you to aid these unfortunate perlons with
your coppfels and fapport, and to recom
mend them to the generous hofpjtality of
your fellow citizens. I dare goarantee to.
you, that those of mine who are going p
associate themfelvfs to thorn, will carty
wjth them in return for the asylum they
(hall receive, every thing that is valued as
moll estimable amoegft you. Republican
morals, the love of enlightened, liberty,the
fourty habits of equality in |hf fight ofthe
law, those of induiry, the reft# tor reli
gion, and above all things the dreadful ex
perience of the numerous evils which are
Evolved by foreign ip fluence, and xhe &rft
y^aUQu of the cqnsitmoty a,* funda
mental laws of liberty,''"
'' '1 am, si,ic.'
P, S. Letters feta Gebevl es the fl
in ft. just inform want the perpetration
of these horrors is pronged with impuni
ty, and with cifreumftyhep the most aggra
vating. About twenty absent families of
of imitating the French who began with
conifearing the property of those emi-
; grants who fought against their country ;
they have begun their part with pronoun
cing the confiscation against thole Gene
vefe who have Succeeded in flying from
their butchery. At the fame time they
have interdided divine worship, at leal
temporally ; and our churches are no lon#
ger open for baptism.
Geneva is entirely another town, that
ft,nds upon the fame spot as the former ;
;the Spectacle it prefems, is that of crimes,
pillage and defolaiian. Thus you fee
However, fir, what the firft step towards
tie revolutionary dodrine has been able
ticked in so Short a time, with a people,
w to, io the midst of the most active civil
distentions, had, until then, always pre
ferred as in a sacred deposit, a horror at
the tffafion of human blood, and a refpedt
for ) coperty ! In a word, Geneva is loft
beyond resource, and without hope of be
ing r stored to liberty and morality. For
fwppr tfjng even that the majority of its
inhabitants, being disarmed, Should fuc
c@ed j : y a noble effort of def,air, in deliv
ering sthemfelyes Isom the yoke of theft
canal has, yet the French Soldiery arc
Dili at.our gates, to protect and revenge
them, and devote us to the fate of Ly-
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TUESD ^ r, March 17, 1795.
!w^friwaft &gfa waft vfivfrH^ &4ft<&
Jan. 30.
The House went upon the report of the
fetefl committee on the petition of Thom
as Pe:foe, and Others. The, agreed to the
report.
The following resolution was then mo
ved.
Rpfolved, That fach person, as have
enteftdfoQ agreeable to the Qws of N.
Carolina, in the territory ceded by that
Rate tp the United States, and on, the In
dihn fide of the to eftiWi&ed by the
The House then resolved itfelf into a
committee of the whole, Mr. Cobb in the
chair, to resume the consideration of the
claims of Thomas Person, and others, to
certain lands lying on the frontier of the
date of South Carolina, and ceded by the
commissioners of the United States to the
Indians.
J After conquerable debate, the question
pa, put—Shall the committee now rite,
%n§ireport progress / This was negatived.
TrfFrefo/uiioni in the report, were all suc
cessively put and loft.
The committee then rose ;, the chair
man reported pregrefs, and the House id.
j turned.
Jan z 9.
Mr. New, from the committee of en
roimenis, reported a number of public and
private bills.
Mr. Coffin moved that the petition of
Triltram Coffin which was referred to the
Secretary of the Treasury, io the lad fef
hon of Congress, and which has Since been
returned to the House without any report
thereon, foould be referred to the commit
tee of claims.—Agreed.
The bill to repeal a part, and continue
in force another,part of the ad for eucour
aging the importation of arms & ammuni
tion into the United States, was read and
passed.
opulence have been condemned in the con
fifeation of their property, and also nearly
an equal number of these who were im
prisoned. Several of our most refpedable
divines, after having their houses pillagec
have been drooled from their functions,
and condemned to imprisonments of
greater or lets duration. Many citizens
b,ve been banished. The two'Cramer
profeffors have been Sentenced to an impri
sonment of one year in their own houses.
But what is most alarming, two of the
most refpe&able members of the ancient
magistracy, M. M. Fateo and Naville
Gallatin, whom the revolutionary tribu
nal had condemned only to banishment
and confiscation of their estates, have been
Snatched from their prisons by its atro
cious facellites, who conducted them to
the place of execution, where they Shot
them !I I We have too much reason but
to expect the most terrifying news.
(To be Centmed.)
§ Congress
of the UNITED STATES.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTS TI FES.
Jaa. 28.
IT was moved to go into a committee of
he whole Houfe,to take into consideration
the report of^he lelcd committee on the
laws of the territory N. W. of the Ohio.
This was done. The chairman read the.
rtpon, ^feich was agreed to, ft was then'
;re ported to the Houle, and a committee
were ordered to bring in a bill.
After Some Short time f r ent in the bofi
nels, the committee ruse. The chairman
reported progress and leave was granted to
fit again.
Mr. S. Smith gave in report from the
feled committee to whom had been recom
mitted the report relative to fortifications.
Feb, ~
The House went iato a Comfoittee of
the whole, on the military eftablifhtoent
of the United States, Mr. Cpbb in the
chair.
The resolution proposed b, M?. Day
ton, was taken up, and _r. Giles propo
sed, as an amendment, to strike out the
word three from the refolution,which would
After feme debate, this resolution was
disagreed to, and the following propbfed
by Mr. Dayton, made the order of the day
for to- morrow.
Refolded, That the present military cf
tablrihment of the United States be con
tinued,and the corps competing the fame,
completed by enlistments for a term not
exceeding three years, with authority to
the president to forbear, to raise, or dis
charge after they shall be raffed, such part
thereof as future events ffiall in his judg
ment, render confident with the public
fafety. convenience and (economy.
Mr. Fitzsimons gave in a fee of reso
lutions receding the payment of the in
terest of the national debt. They were
read and referred to the fame committee
who have before them the Subject of re
ducing the debt.
" Resolved, That two regiments,confid
ing of 960 men each, be formed out of the
regiments now in the Service of the United
States, to cothpofe with the corps of artil
lery, the military eflablifhment of the U
ted States, and to continue in the service
until the Virft day of June, 1798, unlels
sooner discharged."
The floufe on motion of Mr. Dayton.
resolved itfelf into a committee of the
whole, io take into consideration the re
port of the feled committee relating to the
military efiablifhment. The Chairman
having read the resolution recommended
by the committee in the following words,
viz.
There was read a letter from the Secret
tary of the Treasury, with a report on va
rious petitions referred to him. The re
port was read by the clerk.
The petition of Reuben King was pre
fenced, read and referred to the committee
of claims.
A letter was read from the Secretary of
the Treafary, inclosing a long memorial
relative to the laying of duties on imports.
The memorial was read by the clerk, and
ordered to be printed.
Mr Giles from the fele& committee re*
ported a bill for arming, organizing, and
disciplining the militia. This was read to
the hcufe, made the order of the day for
Thursday, and ditched to be printed.
Some private petitions were read and
referred to the Committee of claims.
The petition of Alexander Roxburgh,
Slating the accidental loss of a certificate,
was read and referred to a feled commit
tee.
The speaker informed the members that
he had received important and confident
tial communication. The galleries were
accordingly cleaved at hall pall two o'
clock.
treaty of Holstein; ought to be reimbursed
oy the United States, the amount of the
purchase money actually paid for the rime,
and the necessary expense of locating a..d
Surveying, where the furve, has been
made,fuch perlons firft relinquishing their
right thereto to the United States. The
resolution was negatived by a great major
ity.
The rest of this day was taken up with
the report of the fried committee on the
peti ion of Gilbert Dench, praying relief
for some depreciated certificates. On thia
matter the house went into a committee of
the whole.
The committee refufed the desire of the
petition, and their report was agreed to by
the houses
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Feb. a.