The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-07-04 00:00:00, page 1

WEDNESDAY, July 4, 1792.] _
EXETE R, (New-Hamp/hire) Printed and Published by HENRY RANLET, at Nine Shillings per annum.
JUST PUBLISHED,
By the printer hereof and fold at this
Office-
Dr. Watts' Plain and Easy
Catechisms /(^Children,
and, PRESERVATIVE from the
SINS and FOLLIES or
Childhood and Youth ;
TO WHICH IS ADDED THE SHORTER
CATECHISM OF THE
Assembly of Divines
AT WENSTM INSTER,
WITH ExTLANITORY NOTES.
Tenney & Gilman
•
Newhampfhire
TTAVE just opened and are
1 ' now felling, at the most reason
able prices, for Cafo, Country Produce,
Tow. Cloth, &c. a very general
assortment of ENGLISH GOODS
suitable for the fcaion also—
Weft-India and New-England Rom —
Gin Malaga and Sherry Wine-
Green and Bohea Tea— — Shugar
—Molasses Coffee Raisins—
Flour Rice——Nails of all kinds
&c. &c. &c.
fc, Those persons, who
had accounts open with the Shop when
tended bv the late Mrs. Gilman, are
requested to call and fettle them.
Exeter, lltb June, 1792.
N. B. Drugs & Medicines
to be fold by S. TENNEY as ofual—
and Spirit Turpentine in any quan
tity.
Rockingham—fl.
Notice is hereby giv
•eri to the heirs of Moses
Stevens jr. late of Plaftow, de
ceased, that Jonathan Carlton,
has exhibited at the ProbateOf
fice in Exeter, in said county,
his accounts of his administra
tion of the estate of said deceas
ed, and that the examination of
the fame is appointed to be at
laid Office on Monday the 23d
day of July next.,
By order of the Judge:
Wm. Parker, Reg.
Exeter, Jhmzfoi 792.
Rockingham-ff,
TH E Commiflioners
appointed to receive and
examine the claims not already
examined, and allowed against
the Estate of his Excellency
John Wentworth, Esq. late
Governor ot New-Hamr^ire,
will attend that bufinefsthe
Dwellinghoufe of Benjamin
Lamfon, innholder in Exeter,
on the second Monday of the
four months, next ensuing, from
4 to 7 o'clock P. M.
N. EMERY,
In behalf of th# Commiffionera.
Exeter, Majgo, 17921
Speech of Mr. Smith,
.(Concluded from our lafl.)
IT happens somewhat unfor
tunate tor this hypothefis,that
those who maintain it are those
who are to be gainers by it.
It may well be expected that
less evidence will fatisfy South
Carotina that (he is a creditor
state, than New-Hampshire
that file is a debtor ; and more
efficacious logic must be used
to induce the latter to pay 7
or 8 hundred thousand dollars
of the debt of the former,than
to persuade the former to put
that burthen off her own Ihould
ers and lay them upon the lat
ter. Let not gentiemen ima
gine that Newbamplhire,though
the is a small state and of no
great importance in the union,
patiently submitted to the in
justice of the former assump
tion. They remonftrated—
that remonstrance is now on
your table. Why did they
complain ? Because in that
assumption they were consider
ed as the greatest debtor of any
state in the union, and because
they were as a constituent part
of the union called upon to
pay 7 or 8 hundred thousand
dollars of the debt of South
Carolina,Maffachufetts, or some
other state. Why should it be
taken for granted, they ask,
that we are a debtor ? What
documents are gentlemen pos
sessed of, that juftify such a
supposition ? Let them be
produced. If the opinion of
gentlemen who have spoken
within these walls and without,
is to be relied on, there is
scarce a state in the union, but
that has done far more than her
proportion—so that there must
be a great balance due to each
state. All this tends to Blew
that it is unreasonable to e/ped
that any one state will patient
ly submit to a measure which
takes that for granted, which
they do not believe and which
it is never their interest to admit.
There never was, in my opinion,
but one principle which could
juftify an assumption previous
to a final settlement ; and that
was giving relief to states who
had unquestionably contrasted
a debt much beyond their just
proportion, and who were
groaning beneath the burden
of that debt. Where it could
be known with tolerable cartain
ty that a balance would be final
lydue to such aftate,much might
THE
be said in favor of anticipating
the payment of it. But was
thi a the principle which govern
ed? Was this principle at all
pursued ? Were 2,zoo,boodols.
afomed , from Fennfylvania,
because she was or would be a
Creditor state—or because she
was heavily burdened with
debt ? Will gentlemen under
take to fay that iny principle
at all was adhered to in the
assumption ? Was it not a mere
bargain and file between cer
tain states who were interested,
that an assumption should take
place ; and who provided they
could be only exonerated froth
their own debt, should not
stick at any means to accotn
plifh so definable a thing. Was
it not at the expence of justice,
and at the expence of the state
I represent ? If the state, Who
had the largest portion of debt
to struggle with, at the adop
tion of the present constitution,
were to be relieved, such relief
might have been afforded with
out ahy violation of the princi
ples vs justice and equality.
The United States might have
afforded a temporary relief till
the accounts were fettled—or if
it was tho't best to afrume the
balances due from those states
to their creditors, a proper,
ticnate sum (which is what I
now advocate) should have been
assumed from every other state
The United States could never
advance a sum to any one state
without advancing a propor
tionate one to every other state,
without at the fame time, de
claring that the one had better
pretentions to such a grant than
the other—and what can ,au
thorize such a declaration ? I
know of no data on which to
found it. A gentleman from
Massachusetts objeds tothis; he
fays this would greatly increase
the public debt, and he appears
now to be a great enemy to
such an increase. When this
argument was urged against
any assumption it was treated
with great contempt. It
seems however that gentlemen
have no objection to increafibg
the public debt, as far as the
debts of their refpeftive states
will do it—They do not with
to go farther —They are against
accumulating the public debt,
if they are not to have the
whole benefit of in If they
are in favor of an assumption,
it should be an equal one. Some
, Gazetteer.
[Numb. I of Volume 7.
gentlemen have taken much
pains to convince us that the
citizens of their states are zea
lous for the measure. 1 am
not disposed to doubt it. If
they can have their burthens
taken from their shoulders and
placed upon their neighbour's,
it is not to be expected that
they should complain. But
because the winners are pleated,
it by no means follows that the
losers are plea fed too. But we
are told that the inequalities of
both assumptions will be re
medied by the settlement.
Who is it expected will be
deceived by this state device ?
B there any one so ignorant ?
What is it but faying. Submit
to injustice now, and we will
redress it here after., Only be
so kind as to acknowledge now
that you are a debtor state, and
we will be much obliged to you,
and if it should turn out on Set
tlement of accounts, that you
have been paying our debts for
us, we will then repay you.
But do not these fame persons
tell 03, that the accounts never
will be fettled—or if they are,
that balances never will be paiL
or received ? 1 believe it, I con
fider this assumption as signing
the death warrant of the fettles
ment of accounts.
Therefore let the assumption
be equal; If any takes place
at this time, 1 hope it will be
a just and equal one ; nay more,
that it will rederefs the inequa
lities of the former one; and that
the states who have laid heavy
burthens on their citizens, will
not be punished for their lauda
ble zeal in extinguishing their
debts, but that they will at least
fare as well as those who have no
such exertions. In one word,! am
against any assumption, but if
any assumption obtains as it can
notbe known which state is debt 3
or or which creditor, let the
sums assumed from each be e
qual, that is, according to their
prelpefcive numbers.
[Thofe who sport with the account!
of Indian depredations, in order to ren
der the just war again, these, an,opstar,
are desired carefully to pern, the fol«
lowing:].
PITTSBURGH, Ma, 28.
MASSY HERBESON, on her
oath depofeth and faith, Ahat
on the zed day of thia instant, (he was
taken from her own house within 200
raids of Reed's block-house, which
is called ^ miles from Pittsburgh $
her husband being one of the spies.
was from home ; that two fcouta had
INDIAN BARBARITY,