Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1801-08-13 00:00:00, page 2

reproachable and even laudable, if econ
omy and patriotism are not crimes.
The contrasts for timber cut at Wafh#
ington, and other places on the banks
ofthe Potomac, where the timber is the
common oak, but not as good as ours ih
Massachusetts, is for otte dollar afoot, that
is forty DOLLARS a ton. Ours here,
is from five to seven dollars at most.
Board, wages, and materials for'building
of every kind is much dearer than it ft
here. Let a merchant, a ship carpenter,
or any one capable of doing it, calculate
the expence of a ship of seventy four guns
at that rate, and fee what it would amohht
to^ We confefs, that though we have,
what we call an accurate calculation, yet
we are afraid to astonish the reader with
it. We certainly ought to havea navy;
but nothing is more certain than this, that
an attempt to obtain one, ih this manner,
will increase our national debt to such an
enormous size, that we cannot for a cen
tury to come, fee one afloat.
The limber procured among the live
. oak of Georgia, is yet more expensive.
For these facts the reader will inquire
for ^imfelf. The contrast of Mr. Mil
ler will exhibit the truth of the fad. We
certainly could obtain English oak, and
freight it in the rough to America to
build ships with, cheaper than we should
obtain timber in this way- Our sup
plies for government amount to twelve
millions of dollars annually. The idea
that the national debt is lessening is a mil
taken one ; who is there that believes he
can pay a higher tax than he now pays,
unless it be to raise means,and to promote
measures for his own benefit? And why
then (hall we contend against Mr. Jef
ferfon for an attempt to save us from
-those expences, which can effe& nothing
but the increase of wealth to sharpers and
swindlers?
OCULUM VERITATIS.
FEDERAL CANDOUR to JUSTICE.
His Honor Judge John Slofs Hobart ! I
It has been the policy of the federal party to
make every exertion to depress and crush repub
lican newspapers ; and the disposition to pursue
this policy has appeared in every instance where
it has been practicable. Certain federal judges,
uotwithftanding the loud voice of the People a
gainst them, retain all the inveteracy that distin
guished the partizans of Mr. Adams. Since the
appointment of a republican marshal in Newyork,
he has given his advertisements to the African
Citizen, a paper from which federal malice had
forever before excluded them. But it feen^the
hon. judge John Slofs Hobart, one oU&flMh
his last appointments, chagrined atajj^mm^ffiff
publicans get the patronageqtetf|
ministration, after several undtynq^^^^nj
deprive them of it, at length iilued aqnmn
diftria judge, direding the marshal to aarai
. in a federal paper only. In consequence of this or
der, the good federal pointer would receive fifty
or sixty dollars for the advertisements in one pa
per only, while the republican may starve or quit
nis business. His honor judge Hobart, by this
tranfadion, has acquired a place in the mind of at
• least three fourths of the people where his con
duct is known, and ought to be held up to pub
, lie contempt by every republican printer on the
continent. (Baa.
& The American Citizen, io giving the account
N of his honor judge Hobart's order, and speaking
I ofthe policy of the late administration, fays, that
, "when they were about to surrender the power
, which they had abused, to those who gave ft, ev
ery precaution was taken to retain, if possible,
feme power in the republic. Vacancies were fil
led with federal men. Officers tor life were ap
pointed. Federal newspapers were engaged by
contraa to print federal laws ;—for as long as
Gen. Marshal, the then federal secretary, had
kpower so to do. It was considered a heresy in po
litics, under the late administration, to fuffer a
republican newspaper to publish a federal law.
Nor have we, that we know of an instance of its
being done in the United States. All the meas
ures of that adminiftratioh were calculated to put
down republicanism, to impoverish, to harrafs and
to perfetute republicans. Accordingly Mr Mar-
Shall, the very week before he went out of c ffice,
contrasted, as beforefaid, with tory printers thro'
_ the United States, to publish the laws of the U
nion for one year. And though a great propor
tion of the governing powers ofthe United Stales
is now happily put cl their hands, yet as far as
federal officers retain if, they exercise that power
to an extraordinary degree."
[7^' Hobart, it appears, bad held the <fre of a
State Judge in New,orb, till the Confutation of that
State precluded him, on account of bit advanced age :
A vacancy occurred in the delegation of that State to the
Federal Senate ; judge Hobart was appointed by ibe
State Legfa+ure to fill ft— He continued to fill tbit of.
fee for a few weeks ; when Mr. Adams, just before
bit exit from office, appointed bine diftria judge. J
One Faff, is worth a Hundred assertions.
Portsmouth, Auguf 4.
A Fact—Notwithstanding the clamours
of some anglo-federal printers in Boston,
telative to the dilmiffal of a few of Mr.
Adams' officers from their employment,
it is a fa&, worthy of notice, that not a
single officer in the extensive state of
Massachusetts has been removed by Mr.
Jefferfon since his accession to the chair.
This is mentioned merely to Shew that
their clamours are premature; for not
withstanding this delay, as there are ma
ny officers of Mr. Adams's creation, in
that as well as other states, who ought
to have no share in the administration of
a republican government, they undoubt
edly will, as they ought to, be removed,
when their demerits are properly known.
CT MAD DOGS! MAD DOGS !
LET THEM RUN.
The continual barking of the pretended
federalifts at the character ofthe Prefdent,
is like puppies barking at the moon ;—re
gardless of the yelpings of such invidious
curs,Jhe moves on inflent majefly, leaving
them a pre, to their env, oj her superior
brightness.
British Goodness !
Sueb things are—bat ought not to be-in tbis Land of
Civil Liberty—this Aj,lumfor the Opprsfsd.
A deep laid conspiracy has lately been deteded in
Newyork, under the agency of his Britannic ma
jesty's consul, Mr. Barclay, aided by an accom
plice, who a&ed in the capacity of a Spy, by the
name of Maio. The obje& of the conspiracy ap
pears to have been the kidnapping of Mr. John
Wood, teacher of the languages and mathemat
ics, and Mr. James Cheetham, one of the editors
of the American Citizen, by seizing and convey
ring them in a clandestine way on board a British
packet or veflel of war, and thence to England.
[ The causes of this plot and the contemplated
!manner of perpetrating the deed, were truly de
scriptive of British perndy. Mr. Wood and Mr.
Cheetham are both acknowledged aliens, but who
have imbibed favourable impressions towards the
liberties of this country, and whose talents since
here have been ftrenuowfly devoted to its purpose.
This no doubt was seen by the British consul with
an eye of anger and malevolence, for which tea
fon he intended fending them to England, there
to have them persecuted according to the usual
mode under such accusations. Thefcheme, how
ever, proved abortive, and affidavits are produced
of the design, though not the execution of the
above conipiracy, to the fatisfaaion of every can
did mind. Csntiml of Freedom.
[^ There is a mtfabein tbs above, as Mr. Cbee
tbam was naturalized in 179,]— Ergo, no alien.
After reciting the candor of judge Hobart, the
Connedicut Bee fays, " There is a certain state
judge nearer home, who In the fame manner has
frowned black and nealifaaat on a republican prin
ter. But in Connedicut, such things mwft be
/offered fer.the fake offend, babits !
@3- American inland Navigation.
Newyork, July 24.
E tetrad of a letter fr ra New Orleans, June 17.
" Commodore Whipple arrived here a^
bout a week ago in a new brig, called
the St. Clair, from Marietta, on the Muf
kingum river; the said vessel was built
there. Commodore Whipple thinks it
the greatest thing he ever did, and de
serves more credit than his going out of
Newport in a frigate with dispatches from
, Congress, after passing seven British fri
gates who were lying off the harbour in
order to block him in there. He is 70
years of age, and Was 6 weeks coming
down; The distance he came is about
2500 miles."
Several merchants in Ireland have fail
ed lately in business—one house forfour
hundred thousand pounds.
Tobias Lear, Esq. has arrived at Cape
Francois, in the capacity of Consul Gen.
for the Iftand of St. Domingo, from the
United States.
. A letter from the Oconee, dated June
15th, mentions, that Col. Hawkins had
held several talks with the Indians; and
that the best he could get from the Chiefs
was, that they would do what they could,
but would do nothing refpeding a com
pliance with the treaty. Bowles had
been tampering with them.
Boston, August 3. The Secretary of war arriv
ed in town, from the feat of 'government, on last
Tuefday. We learn the garrisons and fortifica
tions in Newport were infpe&ed by the Secretary.
In 1797, the clear revenue from the Poftoffice
establishment, over and above all the expenses of
the establishment, amounted to 46,000 dollars ;
in 1798, to §7,000; in 1799, to 63,000, and in
r 800, to 80,coo 1 Previous to 1797, the whole
produd never exceeded 53,000.
Salem, ful, 30. By Capt. Crowning.
Jhield, we have been favored with a cor
red lift of American vessels, which have
been captured by the French and Span^
iards, and carried to Algeziras, from ift
June 1800 to 25th June 1801—amount
ing to 16 fail. Under the lift, Capt. C,
makes the following pertinent remarks :
Notwithftandiog some of the numerous Amer
ican vessels have been released, after a very long
detcntion, it is necessary to remark, that not a An
gle one has obtained the smallest compensation
therefor—but on the contrary, have been com
pelled to quit 'the port, after having been plun
dered to a considerable amount, and the officers
and crew insulted, and often times treated with
the greatest inhumanity. Although the faireft
proofs of property have in every instance been
produced, yet not the least attention is paid, but
persons produced,who are obtainable for a trifling
douceur, to swear the blackest falfhoods, alledg
ed against the unfortunate and unhappy Ameri- <
cans brought to this place. Among the petfons
most conspicuous in the depredations on the com
merce ofthe United States, none is so adive as a
fellow called Berken, who has by his indefatiga
ble exertions, amassed an immense fortune, by
pillaging the citizens of the U. States. It must be
recolleaed that the court of Spain is not ignorant
of these scandalous outrages ; bat confirms the
decrees of the inferior tribunal of Marine, in their
higher courts ; which most unquestionably is the
means of encouraging the fpoilations on our de
fencelefs merchant vessels, which are increasing
daily to an alarming height. When such vio
lence is committed and fanaioned by a Nation,
whose leading charader is pufilanimity, it is im
possible that an American, feeling any honor or
iotereft for his country, can refrain from express
ing the greatest indignation at such condua.
Portsmouth, auguf 4. We are happy
to state that a number of spirited young
gentlemen, who have had the Kine Pox,
were yesterday inoculated for the Small 4
Pox, at hospital island, and are to keep in
the hospital with a man who has the small