Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1802-04-06 00:00:00, page 2

From the Pittsfield SUN.
LAIN RELIGION.
MR. ALLEN, 4
I HAVE heard of late many difyutes b'e
twten federal and democratic batriots, and
for a while flood neutral, pondering on the
momentous (object on Which depends the
happiness and liberty of a small part of our
nation, to the exp-nfe and misery of the
red. After the folcriin deliberation, 1
thought it my duly to speak a little among
my friends, of th^ date of Government in a
federal scale, and the danger we were in of
luting our liberty of conjciend and freedom of
enquiry, by the uncouth application ol a Se
dition and rfhea Bd!. And Sometimes I
fpokeof the ExcifeLaws— How they told us
that jfoe per cent, excise would support the
new plan of Goverment; and when they had
laid on more than five times five per cent,
and tryed that a few years, there muff be a
Direct Tax, and so one tax after another ;
and in finite of all, the Nation, had to bor
row money, and give eight per cent, inter
ell even in a time of Peace ! And by the
time I had opened matters thus far, I began
io feel that warmth which is comuion to se
rious men, when engaged in a good cause.
However, it had a good effed, for many
hottest men that were clear of jealousy be
gan to Itir, and one and another would fay,
1 will goto town meeting and call in my
vote. But then the enquiry was, who shall
I vote for I I fay to them vote for a Demo
crat ! A Democrat ! fay they, what is that t
Why, said I, a Democrat is one that holds
to equal rights of m^n —the cflence of his
principles are plainly expelled by our Lord
in thufe words —As ye w.did that men JbeuN
do unto you, do ye evenJu unto them. Itin
Is a Christian Democrat, and such an Jne is
againtt a Kingly governmerrt, and political
and religious oftreffun.
But some cry out agatnft the Democrats,
calling them so miny bad names, tuat the
common people think they are some dufaA
crealure-1 thought to pacify them by ex
plaining the word to them- But after all.
there were some that opposed the equal rights;
of man, and miniated their fears that re-!
ligion was in danger ! great danger ! ! Andi
it°we have no law to oblige the people to
support religion, it will all dwindle to noth
ina in a few years, and we thhll have no;
Sabbath !-Oh! Lamentable ! But yet them
fears are groundless and Without reason—
X why this outcry. Ah! faidthey Mr.
Jefferfob and many others it std are De
ists. Well, who calls them' so ^d why
are they denominated such ? Why, b^Caufe
they speak againtt rehgion.-Whatrehgion,
any particular denomination or mode of
worlhip r N>. They speak a^nft no re
ligion, but such as hath the civil Lw tor its
foundation , such religion is tha ^rit of
oppreflion and tyranny—such oppression
makes a wife man mad. Do th^ peope
think to go to ILaven by aw ? Will the
pried eat the bread of oppreflbn ? Do they
Want the pittance of the poor wrenched out
of their hands by force of law, I a.k again
does a minider of Chrilt detite it.
Take a view of law ertablifhments, and
fee what their end hath been. Ihe Jews
who were the fifit law elEblilhment are
now flattered np and down in the world.
But for what ? I aufwer for perfitting in
t^ir wicked ellablimments—l Gy wicked,
wimefs the tirrt of Samnel, 21, CT J?,
6, !<. Matt. 2 6, 42. TneK patl,^sd^
cover the diftpprobation of law e^bhsh
ments, and the abominable fin of them.
Look to the R>mifh church, to the church
o t England, and church of Scotland, to the
Lutheran church in Germany and any other
of the fame eftiblifhment, with the Mahom
et church in Turkey, and (hew ^ differ
ence between them. 1 hey may differ in
form and dodrine and support their differ
ence bv their common well known, Logical
argent, viz. the Civil Sword. But can it
be that enlightened Americans wtll seek to
establish their religion/ on such a halts f it is
said that the French, in the heat of ,eir
z H a^nit that fouerltitious whore of Bab
ylon. VIV wickedly tyed. the bible to^a
Niland drove him through the
CH°y of Paris, which.is celled a very wicked
and ifoem^s act. B^ ^k^not the
enlightened peopled N^fo and tie trie
Hul'v * lipion ot the bleflfed,Jefus, to the
tail 01 tfe'^vil law, and sq wicked pubh
cans to drive it through the £o©ty as turi
oiillv a< Jehu drove over the bodv ot curled
Jezebel-— and though the people do not shout
as tty French did for the downfall,of pope
ry ,1, we hear some carle their priest, be
caLfe of their piagne, while t^ftftep,
ing and mourning tor the lots of their little
remaining propeity, that is forced a.wa,o
pay their tax. And does not one denomin
ation have a preeminence aft anther,
contrary to the Cohftitution ? Now if this
done by law, do nut our rulers gag the
Constitution under a pretence for good?
a q will 'not the people .that love the Con
tt^ion oftheir country, complain when
they fee the belt defence of their liberty
gagged and destroyed under pretense c|Rc
ligion ? Cues not the religion (let it ^ot
what dciuuninatioif it may) that hat thq
civil law for its fopport, tend to provet all
other denominations from a free exc r&e ot
confeience in worthip. 1
Law Religion is the eflfence of Pope^, the
cause of pci feciiuon, the curse of the lathi,
the fonree of war, both foreign and evil.
Hhofpeak against Mr. 'Jrfrrfon ?
Aufwer. .Thole that are in luvf with
Law Religion.
IPhy do they call him Def ?
Anfwcr. Because he is an enemy P Law
Religion.
INby is he an enemy to Law Religion?
Aufwer. Because it is the cause of ill the
perfecutious, wars, couWfioos and tumults
that have been in the world ; and is oqycdi
culated to make one denomination had ano
ther. It is a church robber, it robs chril
tians of their liberty.
Thus 1 have shewn you my opinion and
fubfeiibe myfelf
A Man of TboiQts.
— ||«WWIIIMI ^—- / —
Observations of Plain Common Sense.
Bayard's Speech is in length, out of all
proportion to the ide^s and principles attach
ed to his fubjelt. The ideas contained in
the speech might have been exprcfled in one
fifth part of the language they were loaded
with. Rob the difeourfe of its tedious re
petitions, and two columns of a gazette
would find a place fur the remainder.
it the Judiciary Alt, palled in the late,
and repealed, as it is said, in the present
Congress, was, in its nature, an aCI irie
pealatle, is it not very extraordinary; that
such an afl of so much importance should
be passed by the late Congress, on the mo
ment of its dissolution r The members of
the then Congress knew, that those of them,
being but a bare majority , in this measure,
who paired the a^t, were not re-elcacd. —
I hey knew that the people of the nation
had withdrawn their confidence from them,
and that a change of political sentiments
Was spreading over all the States. Why
then, if such an a& was id its nature itre
pealable, ffiould they thus attempt so shut
the door in a hurry, and as it were by stealth
and to throw the key into the ocean ?
But Bayard has not proved, he cannot
prove, that Congress has a right to 4 pufs any
one aft, in regard to the jurisprudence of
the country,fyhich cannot be repealed.---
There is nothing in the Constitution to war
rant a condition of that nature, and the idea
is ridiculous and absurd.
Judicial officers are to hold their offices
during good behaviour ; yet the offices of
all, but the fupremc judges, are literally
created by atts of legislation. While the
conditutiun provides that the legislature
Ihall, from time to time, ordain and eltab
lith subordinate judicatures, it could not in
tend, that if one Congress should a& cor
ruptly, or,even eifyneoufly, on this point,
that it IhtwJ&not be in the power of a suc
ceeding one to corfea the error.
It is said thui the Judges ought to be in
dependent of the Lcgiflature, but how can
that be when the Legislature creates their
offices; and grants and cftablilhes thei'r ial
aries ahd fees/defines their powers and de
scribes 'their jurifdiaion ?
Bayard's whole argument is railed on the
fuppjlitioh that the people of the nation are
all, or at lead a large majority of them, bit
ter enemies to all government, and filled
with haired to all justice, rule and order ;
that their teprefentativds in Congress, or the
major part of them, are dilpofed to over
throw the government, and to rob and plun
der the people at large ; but that there are
a few, and that t'hefe are.the men* who call
themfeives Federalists, who ought to have?
all the power, all offices, and all the domin
ion, in orderly preserve the goverr@cnt a
gainst the outrages of the people.
(Chron.
Because Trefi lent Jefferfon entertains a
refpedful opinion of the American people
at large ; betanfe he confides in the capaci
ty of felf-guvernment, their .good sense and
good dilpolirion, their habitual love of order,
and attachment to the constitution of their
own adoption and the constituted authorities
of their own ch.rice ; because he is.endea
yoring by precept and example; to ease them
of all unnecessary burdens, and free them
from all unnecessary restraints upon their
personal actions, words or opinions refpe&-
ing matters of science, government and re
ligion ; because he thinks the biddings of a
free press outweigh its.evils, and chooses to
trust his own reputation and that of AS
ministration to the candour, intelligence and
ultimate correanefs of hi{ fellow-citizens,
for proteding from falfehood and binder,
rather than to endanger constitutional liber
ty by indiameots, penalties & sedition laws ;
because he prefers a national milium to a
Standing army, for the defence of our coun
try ; for these and similar feafuns, thd ami
republican party in the United States, 'who
coofider the topimon people a mob, unfit to
be annulled with the government 01 defence
ts themfidves, aid therefore defined t< tbe
controlled ano pwfcdted by others, and fub
jeaed to uunieiuus restraints and burdens,
rifctl to call trim an enthuGaft, a theorist, a
jiancter of the populace and an undoer^ot
Are mighty doings ot Federalists. For the
onor and happiness of the United States, it
is tu be hoped that the Republican system
binder the admihillratkm of Mr. Jeffer
,SQN, will prove hiccchtul in the experi
ment. It ccitahily behooves us to give it
a fairchance ot tuccefs. If a plain, fim
plc, meohonrieal mode of government can
not be realised, tin pfractice, we Ihall be o
bliged to resort to the system of patronage,
eltabiilhmenis, magnificence, debts, taxa
-Ition, monopolies; Sedition laws, Landing ar
ing armies, and; wars. Son.
"The Sux of Federalism has set
" indeed—his fallen LIKE LUCIFER,
" never to rife again."
This is the very appropriate exclamation,
with which the Editor o£ the ''Gazette of
the United States," a Federal Paper, has in
troduced his pathetic refleaions oh the re
peal of the Judiciary Law —On this melan
choly occafiun, he has eloathed his paper
'With the habiliments of mourning, and ap
pears to be weeping in fackdotfi and allies !
While we admire his ingenuity in the fe
leaion of this line, from the Solilopui .f
Woolsey , we are constrained to acknow
ledge his candor and hnnefty in the applica
tion.—" The Sun of Federalism has fallen
like Lucifer." Noone can deny the force
or this comparison. In the fubiime and
beautiful allegory of MiLTQN,we are told,
that the fall of Lucifer, (inplain English,
the Dev^L) was occafiuced by his rebellion
against the majesty ot Heaven. The fall of
FederaliJiA, has refused from a rebellion a
gain* the majefly of truth, and the omnipo
tence of Republican virtue. If the progress
of Fcderalifm has been like the defection
of the Devil, who but the children of Lu
cifer, will repine at its downfal, or feel a
with for its rylnfreaion ? It it has fallen
like Lugu fer, GOD grant, that, like his,
its 1411 may be eternal. May it be chained
down in the bottomless ~:, at leatt, for a
thoofand years ;—may it no longer be per
mitted to deceive the nations, but may the
conquering angel of our republican.deftinies,
hold a glorious dominion upon the face ot
the earth. Ai>is.
A great number of motions and questions
arose out of this difeuffion. The objed ot
the federal members was, that the duties on
brown fogar^, bohea tea, salt, &c. Should be
repealed initead of thole on carriages, refin
ed sugars, licences to retailers, frills, &c
Every attempt, however, to effect the object
ot the federal Members, was unfuccefsful ;
and the majority having entangled a variety
of motions ; an adjournment became necef
fary.
THURSDAY, MARCH 18.
Another debate on the biH for repealing
the internal taxes took place ; but no deci
sive queltion was taken. The House fat
until lix o'clock:
MONDAY, MARCH 22, 18o2°
Dr. Euftis, preferred a memorial from
tie merchants of Bolton, praying indemni
ty for French fpoilations.
R,peal oj Internal Tuxes.
The firft tuition was filled with the goth
June ; which fixes the period of the repeal
of the internal taxes ; and the blank in the
second feaion; was filled with the 30th of
Ap^il, which is the day, from which the fu
Congress of ©e United States.
House of REPRESEXfATiFEs, Blaich 12, 1802.
Mr. Griswold called up the fefolntion be
yesterday raid upon the table.
MARCH 16.
The bill to extinguish the claims ot the
United Stales againit delinquent Sates, was
postponed until November next. The Yeas
aud Nays, were as tollowf , ,
ALAS. —AZefo, Cu.cm, Bishop, Crown, Butler,
bab'cll, (dairvurne, Clay, Cloptun, Condit, Cutter,
Catts, Davenport, Davis, Elmer, Eujiis, fowler,
Gedtiard, Gray. Hanna, -.Hayings. J. Heifer,
Helms, Huger, JaclJmi, Leib, Lowndes, Mattoon,
Millcdge, Blouse, New, Peirce, Read, brnitie. J-n.
Smith, J. C. Smith, jus. Smith, Southard, Staun
ton, 1 allmudge, Tenney, Tillinghajt, A. Trigg, y.
T"gg' Upham, Par;;:; n, Ida Horne, Wadsworth,
L. Williams —4B,
NAYS.—Mqjrs. Alflon, Archer, Baily, Dana,
Dawjon, Dewas, bickjon, Elmendmf, FoJief,
Gregg, Grijwold, Grove, Hemphill, tienderfon.
Hill, Holland HAmes, ychnjun, jones, Mitchell,
L. R. Morris, I..snocris, Newtort, Nicholson, Pla
car, Randolph, % Smith, S. Smith, Stanford,
Stantly, Stewart ^Stratton,Thomas, Van Renfa^ar,
Thomsen, Pan Cortlaut, Pan NeJs, Waller, R.
Williams, Woods —4O
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17,
Mr. Gregg laid on the table two resolu
tions, one for allowing the Plefident to dis
miss certain officers of the corps of marines ;
the other for information refpeaing tie
copper mines near lake Superior,
Internal Taxes.
The House took up the repealing bill on
this subject. A motion to recommit it was
loft.
perintendant of the stamps are to be diLon' /
tinned.
A lengthy debate ensued, on the paffs
of the bill.—Gen. Smith and Mr. Vainuul
spoke in favor, and, Mcifrs. Dannis, T.
Morris, Lowndres, Dana, Huger, Hailing
and Grifwoild a^ainft it.—When the bill
palled, Yeas 61, Nays 24.
TUESDAY, MARCH 2g.
The bill making appropriations for car
rying into effect the Contention with'
France. The bill provided, that the money
so expended, ihall be in the firft inflate
drawn from the proceeds of French vcllcls
captured. Mr. Gniwold moved to Hike
out this provilion, under the idea that the
money so derived, conitituted a fund pledged
for the relief of disabled seamen. The a
mendment was carried 52 to 26.
By the Mails*:
—<,.< <4 <g«+%»<»+>-> >-^—
WASHINGTON, MARCH 19.
The Executive has received authentic in
formation that the Trade between the U
nited States and St. Domingo, except with
Cape-Fiancois and Port Republican, in
that iiland, is for the prefect lufpended.
The French Frigate Bayonnaile has ar
rived at Baltimore, the captain w hereof came
on Wednesday to this City.—The Bayonailc
left St. Domingo 6 days later than our ad
vices from Mr. Lear..
We learn that the French troops had met
with no obstacles to their progress and that
Chriltophe and Deifalines, the two chiefs,
fubordiiute io T&uilLint, had been taken
prisoners.,
On the r^h of February, a teffation of
hostilities was announced, which was to last
tor four days, when a general attack of the
blacks was to take place throughout the
whole extent of the ifl'and; unlels the blacks
. Submitted;
PHILriDFLeHIA,MARCH iS.
We are authorised to allure the public, that Mr.
King ba* concluded with the Briiilh govtrun.cat
an arrangement tor the Settlement of the difpuie
respecting the 6.h and 71b articles of the treaty
of 1794.
The United States are to pay a film agreed up
on, iu lieu ot their engagement under the 6th ar
ticle, in three mUalments, one upon the exchange
ot the ratification, the others in one and two
years, without interest.
The cominiflion in London, immediately to re
assemble, and to proceed in its duties, according
to the provisions of the 71b art. only that its a
wards instead of being payable at the times it
might appoint, Ihall be payable in three equal ill
liaimeins, corresponding with thole to be paid Ly
the United States.
A gentleman in London, to his friend in this
town, writes, ur^ler the date ot th^ 12th of Jan.
—“ A Forgery ou the Bank hasjufi been discov
ered, to the amount ot federal thousand pounds,
in 5 and to pounds notes, Executed witlr so much
nearness as to elude tire Uritteft Scrutiny of tht
nice!! e)&
, , MARCHI 5.
FROM CAPE FRANCOIS.
Arrived yesterday, the urig Mentor, Cape Gi
rard, iidfi iCape-Francois, whan place he fell on
the 22d ult.
Jr feenis, that with a view to conciliate bis en
emy, the freto h General had given pernnffion to
, Touiiramt's ions to depart and fee their father,
vaili liberty either to remain with him or return
to the protection of the French.—:The lories which'
airiyed a?,he Cape, were luppofed not to exceed
15,606. nearly one halt of \\ Lorn had failed round
the different points io the itiand.
On lite morning of the Mentor's failing, an Em
bargo was laid on all American vessels, by order
of the French Adtriiral ; in consequence, it is said,
of a quantity of Specie being found on board one
in tlie harocor, which uas foppofe'd had been
ctoideftinely taken from the to*n during the con
tusion on the 4th ult.
On the 2111 ult. ToufTaint sent a deputation to
General Le Clerc, requiring hmi to deliver all the
money and clothing f@od at Port-Republican,
which he alieJged rightfully belonged to Lis peo
ple.
Gen. I.e Clerc peremptorily rejected the de
mand, and Summoned TonSTaint to surrender
Within three days—A 2d deputation was lent, and
brought with them a petition, Signed by all the
white inhabitants from every quarter, who were
in Touiflann's possession, praying General Le
Clerc to pay attention to the many and great Ser
vices hitherto rendered to the Colony by the “ vir
tuous Touifizint"— ^ Virtuous TouiHaint !" ex
claimed Gen. Leclerc, “ people, why will you be
deluded by a villain who has deceived France and
all Europe, and who now wishes to elective me ;
but in which he will be deceived ?—Go tell him
that there is now no grace for bin—ln a lew days
I will make him a public and ignominious spec
tacle—Virtuous Touffant, indeed !—When he
himfelf, not 4 months ago, instigated Moyes to
murder the whites, and tbeu, after a mock trial.
Stool the instrument of bis own guilt, because b,
saw in him a dangerous rn at.
General I.e Clerc, turning to his troops, thus
addrelfed them:
Soldiers .
The povermerit of France has sent us here to
protest the inhabitants, to eflablith orders and to
preserve to them the Colony of St. Domingo.
The rebellion of Toutfaint is evident.—The cam
paign against the Rebels will be instantly opened
—Be provident of your provisions and ammuni
tion, (70 cartridges had just been distributed to
each mu)—Against such brigands we need only
ule the bayonet-—ln fix weeks the Colon, will be
outs.
NEWBURYPORT, MARCH 26.
LaIE IKOM EUROPE.
We received, bv the politeness ot a gentleman
from London, a file of papers of that city, trotu
the iff tn the 18th January, incitifive—.Their con
tents are. general,, unimportant —the Definitive
Treaty was nut Signed the 21IL altW in a