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T 2,000 in a time of pence. ° Bar this w'as not all,
a mature which, would not have been acceded to
under Charlesli. or .George,!!rOhF Executive
Was authorised to form a pretoria n guard of
70,000 men, beside, the mercenaries, and for
double the period of the British army! While the
militia, which General Washington announced to
be bur natural defence, was worse than neglected,
and our Rate governments never called, upon to
organize a force tho' danger was pretended !
Tne sixth case, A Member of Congrefswas
menaced and infolted by a band of military men
for sentiments delivered in difeharge ot his duty
in the legislature —the Pretident of the United
States not only treated the complaint of the
member with flight and insult, hut affected to
take offence at being calleda citizen, by a member
of the legislature ; a party formed ot corrupt
men the supporters of all those odious measures,
countenanced the insult, and the culprits were
fuffered to hold their offices in the public service.
The fame fyllem has been elsewhere pursued, and
. men who have been violaters of the law, have
escaped through official connivance with impuni
ty or in a mockery of trial. The eighth and
ninth cases are comprehended in these obferva.
tions.
The tenth is fatally too closely imitated. Our
trade with all the world has not indeed been cut
off, but it has been cut off in such a manner as to
annihilate the agricultural prosperity of one part
of the Union, and to deprive the whole union of
a traffic, amounting to 40,000,000 of dollars an
nually !
In noticing'the second and third cases we have
observed the injuries done to thetrial by jury. This
grievance has been further aggravated in two
particular and alarming instances. Under the
sixth article of the British Treaty, the refpeaa
bility and justice of our courts of justice and juries
have been implicated by taking out of their
hands the decisions upon cases of British claims.
By this fatal itep the injury to the refpeftability of
juries is not the only one. Our citizens were
fubjefted to an arbitration offae persons of whom
three werfe appointed by G. Britain, and the
country endangered either of being saddled with
an enormous and unjaft debt, or our commerce
waited by the maritime, hostility of G. Britain.
The second violation of the jury right is in the
case of Aliens, who underd law borrowed from
England were left at the mercy of the Executive
to be tranfporfed without trial, without accusa
tion, without appeal out of these Hates !
That we have been taxed without our content,
we appeal to the tribute paid to Algiers; to the
monies expended by the executive under the head
of fliip money, or borrowed ships ; to losses by
connivance, by ignorance or neglect of public of
ficers in transmitting the tribute to Algiers ; by
the ere&ion of immense barracks for which no
appropriation had been made, and for other sums,
until the debts were contracted or the expendi
tures made.
That the* forms of our government have been
fundamentally altered is unhappily too plain—
for titles and diflintlions are forbidden ; while in
ourfenate and house of reprefentatives,the unmean
ing and absurd titles of honorable have been em
ployed to designate profligates ; and excellency,
which belong to God, and which was firft used on
ly by the most abandoned ot the Roman empe
rors, is employed on men who are offended at
being called citizen. On the other hand, levees
were held with all the etiquetfs of a royal court
—men withwhite Raves were marched on pub
lic occ-frons like the vergers and battle-axe
guards of the Popes ; and the secretaries of the
President undertook to execute the Presidential
functions, by recommending the delivery of a ci
tizen for murder—by flopping t>e correspondence
between the executive and a citizen, and daringly
insulting that citizen for communicating the o
pinipus of a large body of the Proficient's consti
tuents ; by carrying on secret negotiations with
foreign powers, contrary to the constitution, and
the law of nations ; by causing to be translated
at the public expence, and circulating under of
ficial signature and authority, foreign produ&ions
wholly irrelative and of no concern to the Uni
ted States ; and by daringly dictating to Con
gress under the pretext of a report, which was
not called for, upon documents ordered accor-.
ding to the confutation for their infpeftjon.
The fourteenth is a case too deplorable not to
demand the mast marked attention. Immense
sums of money have been voted for the relief of
our seamen. It is upon the records of our de
partment of State, that on the Fourth of July,
1795, seventy American seamen were impressed
by a British ship called the Hermoine at Jeremie,
and at a subsequent period the crew of that Bri
tifh fliip revolted and put the commander to a
merited death, that one of those imprefled and
injured men was delivered up to the British and
executed ; that on a more recent occasion it ap
pears on the authority of Stephen Fricker, a n< -
phew of General Muhlenberg a member of Con
gress for Pennsylvania, Who is an imprefled sea
man on board a British man of war, called the
Carnatic, that several Americans who had swain
from a British ship to an American carrying their
protections, were returned on board the British
ship, and punched for seeking refuge from im=
preffment under the flag of their native country ,
whereby others were deterred, and are liable to
become the executioners of their friends.
The fifteenth charge against Great Britain is un
fortunately too palpably chargeable upon otr
public fervants—lndependent of the obnoxious
character of an excise law, and of the mode in
which the direct tax has been put in operation ;
there is fufficient evidence to mew tint the two
manifedations of difeonjent in Pennsylvania, call
ed lufurreCtions, were flirred up and aggravated
by men of high influence public and private, and
who have rendered themselves fatally too confpi
cuotts as the enemies of American honor, and free
dom. One of them exprefled a <vifh that the
flourishing town of Pitticite »d been burnt, as
it would have given a greater discontent and a
pretext for what that officer avows his fondnefs
for—flron§ government. In the laR difeontenrs
inPenofylvania, it is well known that a captain
of light dragoons offered with a ferjeant's guard
to bring into Philadelphia every man whom gov
ernment would point out. It was deemed necef
pry to march an army, to shew the strong hand
of government —at the expence of a million of
dollars. - / 1,
These cases bear too elofe a resemblance of the
grievances which produced our emancipation
from the government of Great Britain, arid shew
too clearly how well founded the people of Ame
rica were in their diffatisfaCtion with their late
servants, and how necessary it is by changing
men who have so much abated tli^ir trull to put
better in their rpom, and provide new guards for
their future Security. - N
.Such my friends is the interesting and awful
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comparison of two periods of our hiftoo I our|
escape from which, ought to render the commem ,l
oration of this day of two fold importance, be-'I
cause as our refeue from foreign tyranny was at-|
chieved by the valour of a free people, and salva
tion from domestic usurpation was aftefted by
their virtue; both events yield a demonstration
ot the superiority of freemen, and free forms of
government over all others,
. But let me not leave unfinished a picture that is
so imperfect —Hitherto, I have pointed out only
toe surprising resemblance between the despotic
designs of the British government and their ad
herents and initiators here. I muR fill up the
outline with features of an original character, in
which even their usurpations and blindness were
furpafled and exceeded.
Which of you my friends can be charged with
a want of love for your country, of regard for the
sacred institutions of our governments, or a hos
tility to the rights of others ? Our conduct this
day, in this glad season of triumph and felf secu
rity—our moderation to our adversaries—our to
leration, and even our patience tinder the inso
lence which they Bill prattife, is the belt answer
to the question ! Yet which of us all is he who
has not during the course of the las tfew years ex
perienced persecution and menace ?—Which of
you all have escaped threats or injuries ? It was
impossible to be known to be a republican, and
to escape. Ido not mention these fa&s to Rir up
your passions, nor to excite animosity, but the
contrast which the deportment and liberality of
republicans hold up to observation, merits the
applause of others, and should make us honorably
proud of our principles and ourselves.
I (hall now endeavor to trace with a free pen
cil, the unfinished parts of the canvas ; and this
can be but partially done in the time limited for
the delivery of this address.
We have seen how closely the system of Great
Britain was pursued by our late rulers ; let us
now call our recollection to additional circum
stances. The contlant practice of urfurpers has
been in all times to flatter the people whom they
mean to enslave, and to divide them, that they
may be made the instruments of their own subju
gation. The lenity of the heroes and sages who
affeCted our independence, had fuffeced a great
body of people to remain among us hostile to the
principles of popular government. Thife were
incorporated by the coirfpiratprs against our in
dependence with a band of unprincipled men,
whole foie pursuit was avarice, without; regard
to the means by which it was acquired; To sup
port these, schemes of a military nature were de
viled, officers and patronage multiplied, 1 to con
solidate a po wer that should undermine or open
ly subdue the fundamental principles of the gov
ernment. When tliefq schemes had been matured,
the system ot alarm arid proscription was set up.
On the floor ot Congress the peceffity of alarm
was avowed as a political engine. Fictitious
plots were contrived, to excite terror and tear.
And finally every man who dared to think favo
rably of republican government, and who was
not so bale as to worship a weak man, chosen as a
public Servant for fopr years—was proscribed as
a Jacobin I The country was seen nearly equally
divided. A great mats of people it is true were
outwardly changed, who were at heart pure and
uncontaminated; but whole nerves were not firm
ly Rrmig, or w hose experience and knowledge of
mankind was not Efficient to teach them that a
date ot things so monitrous and wicked could not
be durable. But the “ meh in high places are
blinded by their own fooliflinefs."
So long ago as 1793--4 the embers of this mif
chief were difeovered—four several attempts
were made to saddle the country with a (landing
army as necessary to their ends—an energetic
government.
In the great convulsion on the British treaty,
they gained an ascendancy, by means which have
been since exposed in a correspondence published
of a person opposed to that, treaty, Dayton of
Jersey.
By the proclamation of neutrality of 1793. it
was declared that the modern law of nations
fhoold be maintained. That modern law was
the armed neutrality of 1780.
In the British Treaty, the fame hand that sign
ed the proclamation, was betrayed into a reluct
ant signature of that treaty which violated the
law, and which violated treaties of the greatest
magnitude.•
The cop of humiliation was filled by the igno
rance of one of that faction who had been taken
from the bench'to be made an ambarfador ; who
betrayed the interests of the cotton trade of Ame
rica—who ascribed to a colonial reflriftiqn in our
trade with Alia—and extended the laws of con
traband to provilions.
The official notification to Gen. Darke, of Vir
ginia, by the Secretary at War, that old tories
were suitable persons to defend American rights,
afloilifhed and confounded fell good men.
At this time'the firff servant of the people was
fully possessed of the knowledge that Britain was
anting by corrupt means on our government ;
even a member of the senate was seduced, by
corruption ; and the ambassador of the power
who corrupted; was fuffered tJ retain his Ration
and confidence, and to enter into new intrigues
for the dismemberment of a foreign colony, which
by treaty we had guaranteed and in lieu of which
our government had voluntarily directed an
annual subsidy to be offered.
At this time and season the chief magistrate de
nounced one of the dates, which had been conspi
cuous ip the revolution, conspicuous for its-ad
herence to original principles, and pre-eminently
so for the number and variety of talents which it
produced-—this Rate was ^menaced with the fate
of Sodom—to be buried in dost and ashes.
In the Rate of Jerfgy a body of these infatua
ted partizans of Britain declared in an address to
the firit magistrate, that the republicans of that
Rate were “ a few deluded and degraded'? people,
whom they would convey to the lines of an inva
ding enemy. This address was received with
courtefey and applause, /
That there might be no difficulty to difeover
who these few degraded and deluded people were ;
a newspaper publifheddn the Bth of July 1799,
declared that ^ only two afts of Congress were
" wanting—an aft to declare war against France
" —another banning forthwith all thfyJacobins
“ out of America.” , ;,
While these themes of prescription general and
particular were promulged, corruption and pec
ulation were catcying on at home, and humilia
tion abroad. While war was called for against
France under the pretence of rejecting a bribe
whiles our ambaffarfors were authorized to prof
fer an annual subsidy ; at the fame moment im
mense sums, (hips, sea equipage, and ammunition
were voted as tribute to the^ pitiful barbarians of
Algiers, and 0, deeper humiliation, to the Dey's
COOK
Contempt to John Adams—Who preferred the
traitor to the soldier, the tory to the whig.
Independence—May we never pay tributeto a
foreign nation, 'altho? disguised in the habit of a
British Treaty.
Annihilation to tyranny, oblivion to bigotry,
and freedom to man.
The Neutral Confederacy—May thehighway of
nations, and national highways be equally fegure
from thieves.-
The republican printers throughout the union,
may their fidelity command fefpett—their labors
health a °d dollars.
The Sovereign People—He who hates a Demo,
crat canriot love the Federal government.
The Governor of Pennfylvani?—who saved to
ries from the gallows, and was rewarded by the
fame ingratitude that they (hewed their country.
May America never again be disgraced by the
sway of the Briniboiees and the Tories.
The Republic of France—Mav success attend
her arms both by sea and land, and all her enemies
be Abercrombi'd.
May Jefferfon and Burr, our republican Presi
dent and Vice-President, preside happy and long,
and Billy Duane, the Centinel of republican^,
keep a good watch over toryifm.
The Rat Catcher —May he convince his enemies
that the hole he has been driven into, is not the
place to make convicts to' toryifm.
May the world become one great Common
wealth, and all its inhabitants citizens.
Principles and not men—When men desert prin
ciples, may the people defect them.
The tests of '76 and '9B— May the metal which
has flood them never be alloyed.
Egypt—May that ancient '' House of Bondage"
become a temple of Liberty,l
In this season of contradiction and diforder—
our cars were offended with the criesot ' order and
regular government—our ships were ordered to
submit to the search of British (hips, and not even
to refill their capture !-
Economy was proclaimed from the presidential
chair—and the country loaded with double taxes
and double expenditures, and money borrowed
;at two per cent above the legal intereß by the
economies !
The public a,counts were at this moment in
disorder and perplexity ; and millions of money
lying in the hands of speculators in office—many
of whom paid fubferiptions to the public loan and
received 8 per cent on the amount of the pay
ment from the money lodged in their hands for
public uses ; while the collection of the taxes
were so much mismanaged as to amount to twen
ty cents upon every dollar received.
The Revenue for a year amounted to nine mil
lions.
The Expenditures to fifteen!'
This is a picture to be deplored ,• but it Rill re
mains imperieCt—l mult hallen left, the day
should be walled in the recapitulation of injuries,
instead of rejoicing that the snares laid for our
defiruCtion are broken and that free government
has retrieved its character in hurling the authors
of these injuries to obfeurity and infamy.
Men funk so deeply in iniquity could not but
be apprehensive of the public indignation—the
conflitution had secured the press as a centine) a
gaintt the amb ,m of mankind—the conflitution
was violated unuer the pretence of repressing se
dition ; and the courts of Justice were polluted,
by the prophane recognition of the foul aft.
But the days of delusion are past—the princi
ples of republicanjfm again dare be aflerted with
out danger or reproach—the people have chosen,
to fill Rations of trull, those whose private lives
have been an uniform illustration of their public
precepts :—at the head of these is the author of
this immortal declaration, who as a Governor in
his native State, as an Ambassador abroad—as a
legislator and as fecretdry of Rate—as the head of
the firft Philosophical Society in America for
which his abilities have qualified him, and whose
pursuits have been from firft to lall to promote
toleration in religion, and freedom in politics—
to cultivate the arts and the virtues at home, and
to shun the vices and depravities of debauched
foreign governments—in a word, a man against
whom falfhood has raised its voice, under the
garb of religion, \nly because he has banished
tythes and an established church from his native
Rate, and who would brand him with the name
of infidel, because he is not a fanatic, nor willing
that the Quaker or _the Methodist should pay the
pallors of other feds ; because he does not think
a Catholic should be banished for believing in
trahfubftantiation, or a Jew for believing in the
God of Abrahanl, Isaac and Jacob.
But let it not be said that we carry our admi
ration to idolatry, like those who fought to be
tray us ; while we admire and venerate the vir
tues which have caused the elevation of those at
the helm : let us never forget that the ppfTeflfon of
power is always dangerous, and its poneffors ne
ver to be left unwatched ; a jealousy for the re-'
putation of our principles as well as for our con
sistency in electing such men, demands a constant
and (crapulous attention to their actions.
But above all things let us be attentive to our
own conduct ; as we have felt persecution, let us
charitably compassionate those who differ from
us ; and if we fee men whose lives are virtuous,
whose habits ot probity are continent with bene
volence, let us not condemn them even if they are
monarchies; opinion is the right of every ma'n ;
it is vice alone which merits our abhorence, let
us keep in remembrance that we are all equal,
and that as the period of human exiflence as it
relates to the individual is but short, that the grea
ter good we can do to our fellow-creatures, the
greater will be our own enjoyments.
A repeal of the late Judiciary Law, which has
imposed on us unneceflary taxes, and fubjefted us
to the humiliation of being governed by traitors
and tories. . ,
The freedom of Speech and of the Press—May
we be candid enough to acknowlege truth, and
bold enough to tell it.
A revißon of the Law of Naturalization, that
the virtuous emigrant may not be a Have in a free
country.
The soldiers who so gallantly fought to estab
lish our Independence, and rather than risk the
peace and fafety of their country, fuffered them
(elves without a murmer to be robbed of their
hard earned labours by tory (peculators.
The Freedom of eleaions—May it never again
be endangered by an unconstitutional interfer
ence.
Republican cure for the King's Evil.
Our Political Enemies—May we forgive, but
never forget them ; may they be well treated,
but never trusted.
^outljem Coaflg,
Drank on the 4th of ,uly, 1801.
„ ] 3° '' The Prejs —May it be free as, air, benefi
cial as light, and as congenial to Liberty as fan
beams to vegetation."
14. Ibe memory of those Heroes who fell in
defence of our independence.
% Those citizens of the United States who
are assembled to celebrate this auspicious day.
16. The Fair unfuHied yheei of innocence and
beauty—May it be our ambition to give it the
most elegant impressions, clear from the picks of
calumny, the monks of infamy, or the difgufling
lightness of a friar.
U#The words marked in Italics, are technical
terms used among Printers.]
foreign articles
r~<<«l^g<g*,^^fcH—
LONDON* MAY 27.
The promotion df Mr. Jefferson to the Presi
dency of the United States is observed to have
given a new direction to the Administration of
. public affairs in that country. The English inter
est is supposed to be fenGbly on the decline.
Upon a dilligent survey and return made by ,
the Clergy of Dublin, on the 2d inst. fix parishes
in that city were found to contain 20,400 poor,
jo the most abjett slate of poverty,
'LUBECK, MAY 21.
According to the accounts 'received here, the
Ruffian Fleet failed from Revel on the 3d, for
Conftadt. rs &
PARIS, MAY 2^.
Yesterday the Ruffian Ambassador, Count Ka
litfcheff visited the Mint.—A Medal was inflantly
Bruck and presented to him, having on the face
" Alexander, 1. Emperor of Russia. In the Mid
dle, Peace and Friendship between France and
Russia. On the reverse Was a Fifing Sun,and a C?ck,
emblems of the glory, and liability of the French
Republic."—lt was received with pleasing emo
tion by the Ambassador, and with a with, thatthis
,expression might be the fine earned of liable
friendfhip between the two Nations;
Our preparations for a landing in England are
very vigorous. '\
At Barcelona, 400 infantry are ready to em
bark. Our cruising Frigate Pyfche, which was
off Teneriffe, has taken 8 English and Pottuguefe
Vessels of great value. Two Tuscan Battalions
are united to the Italian Legion.—The prefect
1. The 26th anniversary of American Indepen
dendence—May the pttaciples which gave rife to
its celebration be kept aliv c i n the bread of every
American.'
2. WASHINGTON.
4. The Executive of the United States—May
those charafters who compoje it, faithfully fill the,
offices, and our conflitution Rand proof against the
fauabbles of party.
5. Benjamin Franklin, the pride of our pro
feffion.
His heap is off—his balls are dry,
His press is jiript —his form in pye;
His caje within the rack is plac'd,
His galley's warp'd—his Jrrone unbrac'd;
Yet shall the work h&left behind,
Impress his worth on ev'ry mind;
While each his honor'd image bears,
'Grav'd on the badge his bosom w^rs,
Shall cry, and press it to his heart.
Behold—“ The Patron of our Art."
6. Our Fraternity —May it never be diferaced
by one whose mackling tongue would give fouplz
impressions, or call aJlur on an absent member.
The Sixteen Spiers-May all be reclaimed from,
delusion, and none appear pregnant with falfe kd
eralifm.,
Peace on earth, and good will towards men
though made a crime in Dr. Logon.)
The 4th of March, 1801— When reason again
freely combating error, public opinion rectified,
holds a scourge over treacherous public servants.
The immutable Samuel Adams, surviving the
reign of terror, may he yet fee his regenerated
country verify the success of his enterprize.
Lyon, Cooper, Holt and Duane—May the jur
ors in their causes Rand monuments of falety un
der public detestation.
Prieflly, Gallatin, and other luminous emigrants
—Where liberty is, there is the country that will
be proud to adopt such citizens.
Livingflon and the generous baud of (earner
May no more of them demanding the right of
citizenship, inßead of protection, receive a qui
etus, by jibbet like Jonathan Robbins.
James Madison—His Commercial Warfare more
effeaual than a navy, and more delightful than
the blood of citizens to check the tyrants of the
ocean.
TOASTS
DSANK BY THE
FRANKLIN TYPOGRAPHICAL ASSOCIATION,
3. The Cenftitution of the United States—May
those whose duty it is to difleminate its principles,
never give the people a bad impression of its me
rits, by going too jar in the pull for unbounded
liberty.
10. Agriculture—The nursery of health & plen
ty, the mother of arts, and the fountain of nation
al happiness.
1. Peace—May the calamities of War which
we witnefsat a dißance with horror, teach us the
value of this lovely fugitive who,flies to America
for her last refuge.
12. The Art of Printing—Whilst we congratu
late each other in the profeffion of an art which
has been so essentially inßrumental in promoting
the independence of our country, may our con
duct in conforming to the rules of virtue and de
corum,juflify the profeflions which we make as a
Society.
A Hero form'd on Nature's nobles ,l an ,
Brave us a Soldier—Virtuous as a Ata.
While we embalm bis memory with tea^ o f
sensibility and gratitude, such as his glorious ^.
ebievements demand, let us feel happy and pfoud,
that he was an American ; and, in that character, \
banished tyranny from his native foil.
7. Our Brethren of the art throughout the Uni
verse—May their hearts ever beat with benevolent
sympathy at a token of dißrefy
8. The Printers and Book'fellers Association cf
New-York—May their well meant and laudable"
undertaking, to prevent the vast importation of
European books, meet with complete success.
9. Our fleet in the Mediterranean—May they,
though of a nonpareil size, teach the Barbary Pow
ers, that they have a largefmnr of cannon in Rore,
by which, with well dijiributed balls, they will
maintain their Independence againll the " squally
looks" of those faithlefs marauders.
IN NEW YORK,
on The fourth of JULY 1801.