The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1795-01-20 00:00:00, page 2

the Afembly, in feme meafu<e coaled
•the ardour of these flaming patriots—they
saw that the people at large approved ol
the proceedings of the Convention, and
were ready to support them against any
power that (hould set up in opposition to
them ; they therefore prudently drew from
the field until their forces Ihould be more
equal to the combat.
Whoever (hall, hereafter read the his
tory of the French Revolution, will chill
with horror at the different feenes of blood
and havock of the human race, which
mark the several ttages of its progrefi.—
Faring the Sway of Roberfpjerre, aimed!
every part of the republic was covered
with mourning; butat Nantes, particu
larly, thie faftem of cruelty was carried to
the most (hocking pitch of barbarity ; the
inhabitants of this dcvoied city was carri |
ed by boat loads, and funk together in}
the river, and so common was tife^Qpa
thatthey had large boats CQ^flrf^or
purpose, wit|M^>*rfrftr#,- door in the
iX^luoTo spring and set them down—
from an hundred and fifty to two hundred
claims to this new invention were facrifi
ced at. a load—among which were croud
ed,indiscriminately, old and young, worn
ten and children, and, in many instances,
women with child—numbers were like
wife bound and puflied from a rock like
victims of ancient Rome, into the river,
to perish near their own dwellings; and
so unfeeling were the authors of this bru
tality, that they made to themselves Sport
on these occaoons=a man and woman
&ere dripped naked, tied together, and
• thrust into the sea; and this they call a re
publican marriage / At other, times to
clear the prisons and make room for new
viaines numbers were taken out at once,
carried into the fields, and (hot like dogs.
Just before Roberfpierre was denounced
one hundred and thirty two of the accafed
inhabitants of this city were f^nt for to
Paris—-they were di,fpatched with a guard,
who had order# to (hoot them by the way,
94 of hem reached Paris, and were im
prisoned ; the rest met the fate destined
thereon the road. These 94 were nov
brought among the rest of the prisoners
liberated for trial, they were acquitted,
and their trial laid open the tragedy which
had been preformed at Nantes, Carrier
a member of the Convention, who redded
it Nances in quality of a Representative;
of mission was accused of being the author
of this blood and carnage—he was one of
the Jacobin party and the warmest advo-'
cate in that society, for continuing the
system of terror, and the firft and princi- 1
pal hand to urge this Society to protest a-j
gaiaft the moderate meafcres which had;
been adopted by the Convention. In Os- i
tober a Tribunal,was established, to in- 1
veftigate these horrid proceedings at i
Naritas, to whofc bar Carrier, together t
V-7
bins expelled Tallien, (one of fc N t'on
a! assembly, and the principal one in de
n JU icing Rjberfpterre) from their society.
and a night or two after, this membe
was agaalced tn the fleet by an affaffiu,
who discharged a pitted at and wounded
him in the ihoulder ; the wound proved
not desperate, and it was not long before
he tyas able toNake his feat in the
Convention again. The Jacobins were
accused ofbeing at the bottom of this,
and they slid no: fee fit to deny it; but
rather made sport of the event, and cast
several occasional sarcasms on the wound
ed member. These two bodies now came
to open war. The Jacobins, declared
that the Convention favored and protec
ted the Aristocrats and Royalists, and fuf
fered these to oppress the true Patriots;
they invited the other popular societies
to protest against these proceedings, and
to withdraw their confidence from all
who acquiesced in them. And they re
solved to hold no farther corref| ondence
with any society, whose cry was Five la
Convention. This produced a new move
ment in the National Affemblj :—Merlin
de Thicnville, denounced the society of
\Jacobins, as a dangerous and turbulent
body, accomplices of Rdberfpierre, who
though they had assisted in overturning the
throne, now when there was no throne to
destroy, were endeavoring to destroy fife
Representative body of the nation. He
denounced them reeking with the b'oed
of innocent victims which had been facri
ficed under the late tyrant, and as desir
ing to bring back the reign of Caorwhitb
the Convention had so happily dispersed
The Convention decreed, that a report be
made refpeding this society, whether they
weie regenerated, or whether they contin
ued the fame party which had taken part
with the conspirators, on the right of
the 30th July. This (pirited step in
with the Revolutionary committees of
Nantes, were arraigned to answer for their
,ondu6t in this affair.
The liberty cf the press was for feme
time afu yell of difeuffion, both in the
National Convention and in the Jacobin;
societies. The mod violent Jacobins were
opposed to the unlimited establishment of
this privilege, whilst the Revolution was
Hill progressive. In the Convention ma
ny of the leading members were frong
advocates for it ; and the assembly finally
agreed, that the coaftitution having pro
vided for this essential rights of citizens ;
that as they had never invaded this right,
a decree of theirs was not necessary to es
tablish it—and that if it had not ten
checked by the tyranny of the late faa'itn,
it would revive of itfelf now the influence
of that faction was destroyed.
During all these evils, conspiracies,
fadions, cabals of parties, and diffentions
at home-=the arms of the Republic abroad
were ^very where fuccefsful ; never was a
more glorious campaign in the annals of
blood, than this has been to the French
I nation,; a train of uninterrupted fucc«%
Ihas crowned their armies through tfc
whole course of it. Barrere, in a report
to the Convention, t-kes this short, but
comprehensive view of the victories from
the ig.hMay, to the middle of July only,
'z. " ad Prairial—in the firft battle
near the wood of Good Hope, 1500 slaves
were killed or taken. sth Prairial—at the
battle of the Abbey de I'Obbe, 1500
more. 7th Prairia!—at the attack Os
Mooting, toco vagabond^-from ,th to
15th, at the begirding of the inveUmenLot
Caarleroy, 2000 Austrians—in the bril
liant affair cl the 28 h, under the walls
of this place, 6oco of their accomplices.
30th the chappel of d'Herhyemett, saw
zoo perish. 7th Meffidor—it Trefigne,
800 bit the dust. B'h—at the celebrates
battle of Flaorius, by the successive re
ports from deserters, the fate of the enem
was I , coo. We reckon io '''< parli
the frontiers, 6co defeat rs from tbe»rt
rial dandards, and we may join to^rc^s
the garrison of Charleroy, which cTeri
dered at discretion 3000 fl-vast""*'
31,600." )
These were but preludes to future 6 f^c
ceffes, and the coqueft of Liege,) f,t
Lilio, Isle Cadnaut, Anvers, Landises
Qiefnoy, Valenciennes, the importot
port of Sluys on the frontiers of Holland,
Conde, Bris-le Due, Worms, Frankft
•al, fort St. Andrew, Beaheim, Coblenfo
Clevos, and Venloo, by the Nothern^fo
mies ; and Bd|fae,%rftyf STiq^l
by the Southern, followe/Un quick tat
reflion —and the Span : wcre driven
on the one lide„^ ^QQ^^qmbined armies
on grtT^Ci, from every fart of the Re-
Tpublic.
^OO oo>oo<>o©§©& op
For the Columbian Informer, &c.
Messrs. Printers,
IN your last the notorious phyficiarc
alias Christian Citizen, comes for"
ward we fee, in all the pomp of quackery §
and deals octa mess of words, which for
fix weeks it seems he had been employed,
in com^aing, for the purpose of prodtf>
cing a little light to help the public ey&
to fee that he would make a bu/jbody and a
sassier of the Citizen of the World. It it
peculiarly charaderiftic of the citizens
of that world, which was made by the
true light, to be blind to the faults io
which their neighbors are at any time ov-1
ertaken, And I verily thought that ,
Christian Citizen, who so boldly profeff^
ed the art of healing others, would bej
likely to take the hint, and underhand
how he ought to heal himfelf, and correct
i a blunder in which he appeared ridiculous.
But the more 1 talked of my blindnefs,the l
more he appears to have thought himfelf
exalted. If 1 had thought of his being a1
citizen of heaven, and only a flranger and
pilgrim on the earth, perhaps I Should have
winked at his ignorance, without trying'
to help him to a fight of himfelf. But]
now thit his insolence is become monftrous,l
ifrill^tfc and be a very busybody infurn
& up to public view, the butt end of his
blunder.—" and ;o regulate their elections
of members es the Legislature so as to pre
vent, our being any more so glaringly
imposed upon by Deiflical Proclamations."
The good people of this community, might
with as much propriety, be called upon to
regulate their elediona of Sheep to be kept
for breeding, so as to tyrevent our being
any more so glaringly imposed upon &c.
it is true, the Constitution of Newhamp-
Ihire Yefts the Supreme Legislative power
in the Senate and House of Repreferta
tives. But what has this power to do with
proclamations? The Legislative is the
power that makes laws, and not Proclama
tions. The Supreme Executive power is
veiled in a Governor and Council consis
ting of five members, one from each coun
ty. And this power hath the consti
tutional and sole management of Procla
mations. The “ pilgrim" does not ffiine
in this part of his blunder, and what is
worse, it is connected with a lie.—" The
cautious, and many think designed omif
flon of the name of the great Mediator in
the Proclamations of this State for years
past (a thing never known in the other
States.") How long the pilgrim hath been
upon the earth I cannot tell ; but I have
teen more than a dozen Proclamations of
the other states, in which their was no
mention made of the name of the great
Mediator. Moreover, what is very
strange, this writer, who calls himfelf a
citizen of heaven, has written " supreme
object" for the name of the LORD JE
HOVAH, which is not agreeable to Scrip
ture, nor compatible with chriftian deco
rum. " But there is no denomination of
christen worshippers, who do not confi.
der themselves as obligated to pay their
religions address to the supreme object of
prayer and praise, &c."—Object, matter
or business, to the supreme matter. " My
firft meddling with what none but a blind
man would have meddled" shows that 1
have used the pilgrim tenderly ; that my
object in meddling was to bring him to a
fight of hiinfelf, as he flood with his flaps
out. Ifmv inclination had been to rend
er him despicable, I should, at the firft,
have corrected his request to the Printers,
and given it to the Public, as followeth,
The inserting the following hlunderifm in
your useful pa,er, mill gratify many blunder
beads, and if it fbould be printed in other
papers, as is desired, it mill doubtlejs be a
greeable to the baser fort of blunderers through
this fate.
A citizen of the World.
—~~T I—,?=r<r^==^=^atf==^L_.1 —,?=r<r^==^=^atf==^L_.
For the Columbian Informer, &c.
Messrs. Printers,
Pleaje to infers the follo-wing, in doing
-which you mill oblige a customer.
" Strange there Should such difference be
" ' Twixt tweedledum and tweedlede."
r'HE man, who would long altercate
upon the propriety, that two and
two make four, may be a chriftian, and
e, who infills upon the late annual Pro
clamation's being deiftieal, may even be a
of righteouipe& and ve' ^r^-
is object in this particular.
Whenever any idea is fully implied, al
though not literally expressed, the wiser
part of mankind esteem that person, either
wanting in understanding or inclined to
litigiousness, who endeavors to construe
it to the manifeft disadvantage of any per
son, and especially the firft Magistrate of
the State,
Although the Lord cur Redeemer was
not literally expressed in the late Procla
mation, yet one sentence very plainly
Showed that our worthy Governor did not
deny the existence of the only Redeemer
of God's ele&, the Lord Jesus Christ.—
What can be understood by glad tidings
f>f great joy to all men, but the news of a
Redeemer, the second person in the trini
ty ? But fays the Christian Citizen, what
way is pointed out in the proclamation for
us to have access to the throne of grace to
offer up our prayers and thanksgivings ?
The chriftian worjd knows of no other
way than through the mediator Christ Je
Sus. This opinion being so universally
received and so con fentaneous with the
ideas of our chriftian Governor, was un
doubtedly the reason why he was not more
iparticular in expressing it.
Isaiah, ix, 6, we find these words—
For unto us a child is horn, unto us a son is
^iven —here a redeemer is not literally
expressed, but abundantly implied, ^nd
Iwho would dare fav the above verl'e was
iwritten by a deist ? It is my advice, that
the Christian Citizen and Citizen of the
World let their pens rest in their ink.
Stands until the refurredion, then we Shall
know who are drifts and who not.
MAKEPEACE.
Legislature of Newhamp/hire.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Concord, fan. 8,179 -
In senate, Jan. 8. Voted,
that his Excellency the Gover
nor, be requested, with advice
if Council; to iffuc a Proclama
tion, appointing Thursday, thl
second day of April next, to be
observed as a day of public fall
ing and prayer throughout this
state. Concurred by the House.
Messrs. Brewster, Smith and
Burt, were appointed to report
the rates of toll to be received
by J- Chaff Elq.lat the bridge to
be by him built.
Jan. 9. An act for the relief
of David Batchelder, passed.
Messrs. Stevens, Alcock, and
Badger were aftointed on the
petition of J. Hale, Esq. and
others, praying to be incorpo
rated for making a turnpike road
from Concord to Pifeataqua
bridge.
The committee reported,that
the towns es Wakefield and
Middletown be classed, that
Wolfborough and Brookfield be
classed, and that Moultonbor
ough and Tuftonborough be
classed, for the purpose of
lending Representatives to the
General Court. This report
was accepted.
Leave was given Peter Green,
and others, to build a bridge
over Merrimac river near But
ter's ferry.
Voted,that the General Court,
which by the Constitution are
to meet in June next, meet at
Hanover,
Jan. 15. An aft paffed,gran
ting a tell bridge so Jonathan
Chafe, Esq. over Connecticut
river. Also, an act to incor
porate certain persons for buil
ding a bridge over Connecticut
river, at or near the boundary
line between Haverhill a p 1
J^Hk G^fox^^^
an aft, in addition to an act, to
prevent the deftrudion of Salm
on, Shad, and Alewives in Mer
rimac river.
, The Senate chose Messrs.
Smith, Blanchard and Gordon to
conlider of the propriety of tax
ing the lands and buildings of
non-residents, in all taxes except
ministerial taxes, and taxes for
building and repairing meeting
houses—the House joined Mess.
Connor,Harper, Smith, Bingham
and Hough.
Voted, that Messrs. Peabody,
Newcomb, J. Hale, R. Parker,
and M'Clary, be a committee to
report whether any person, who
held the office of judge of any
Court, or Judge of Probate, or
Sheriff of any county, when the
amendment in the present Con
stitution took effect, can consti
tutionally hold said office after
he has attained the age of 70
vears.
✓
Jan. 12. The committee re
ported a draught of a remon
strance to Congress which was
debated, and recommitted
for alterations,—and Messrs.
Hough and Goddard joined to
the'former committee.
Sundry a&s passed.
Jan. 13. The committee re
ported in favor of a day of hear
ing, on the petition of J. Hale
Esq. and others, praying a turn
pike road, and the 2d Tuefday
of next session was assigned.