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These men, in their late petition to Con
gress, have displayed the full extent of their
patriotism. They have told the Public, in
almost so many words, " lie are patriots,
who love good places at our hearts.' Their
solicitude for the fafetv of the constitution,
is evinced by their anxiety for continuance
of their salaries, and the preservation of their
places.---They might as well have Said in
their memorial---" We your humble peti
tioners, having been well provided for by
our midnight appointments, as being lately
in the receipt of comfortable salaries, as the
reward of our fervent attachment to the
power that made us ; finding ourselves un
expeaedly deprived of our livings, and com
pelled to resort to our former profeflions for
the means of our support, do, therefore,
humbly supplicate your Honors, to take into
consideration our hard and dilfreffing case,
and to make fitch provision for our honorable
case of independence, as we have merited by
our zealous Support of the Federal interest,
our unremitted labors against the govern
ment, and our implacable hatred of the pre
sent administration." This language would
have been more appropriate, and far more
honorable, than the filly and ludicrous pro
position of appointing arbitrators, to Settle
the coatroverfy between the Nation and a
dozen dilbanded Judges !---This would, in
deed, have been a molt dignified mode of
proceedure on the part of our National Le
gislature—They would have Said to the peti
tioners.—" life have repealed a law, by which
you are deprived of your salaries. ---You lay
that the repeal was unconstitutional, and that
you ought yet to receive them. Now as we
are not the proper Judges in this business ;--
we will therefore " leave it out to men,"
whether we have done right or wrong, and
whether you are entitled to receive Salaries
or net." Suppose a Bar Room arbitration
had been appointed for this purpose.--Would
the Nation have been one party and the Jud
ges the other r Or would the Members of
Congress, in their individual capacities, have
entered into the rule on one fide and bound
themselves to fulfil the award. This learned
proposition, of these learned gentlemen of
the Law, is so pregnant with folly, that it is
impoliible to handle it, with any degree of
seriousness.—ls there had been any doubts
before, of the expediency of lopping off this
excrescence upon the Judiciary fydem, they
will at once be removed, by this infaliable
indication of its sickly and diforjered habits.
Whatever may be the neceflity of having a
Circuit Court hereafter, it will, at any rate
be a fubjeft of congratulation, that the for
mer Judges have been removed.
If the office was not fuperfluous, it will
yet be admitted, that the officers were in
competent, and unqualified for their duty.
^s.
WnJhirg&z, Feb'ucr-y 16, 1803.
"Mr. Ross, of Peunfjlvania, this day brought
-forward a resolution authorizing the President to
take poffeflion of Siew-Orleans—to raise 50,000 of
the southern and weliern militia, and appropriate
five millions of dollars. It was preceded by an
inflammatory speech, and is made the order of the
day for Monday next." — Citizen.
—o —o—
Mr. Senator Ross—and his resolution. This
man has been, for many yebrs, the unfuccefsful
candidate for the chief magistracy of Pennsylva
nia.—This man is proved to have received secret
service money from John Adams, to influence an
election in that date.—This man was to have been
placed in the Presidential chair, by an armed
force, if the faction had succeeded, in preventing
the choice of a President by a ballot in the House
when the fate of the Nation was suspended by a
thread—This man has, therefore, a right to in
dulge his fplcen, and to solace his disappointment
by attempting to excite a war between this Coun
try and Spain—The resolutions, proposed by this
man, in the Senate of the United States, for rai
ling an army of Fifty Thousand Men, to invade
Loniliana, and for appropriating Five Millions of
Dollars, to this objeft, will be viewtftherefore,
rather with pity than indignation, an he ravings
ot difappomted ambition, rather than as the re
sult of-cool and deliberate malice.—&:%
which being published with your l^ws,
would be a Source from whence it would be
perpetuated by historians to all ages.
" M rtified as I have long pay
ing heavy and disgusting taxes WBmed by
an expensive and fhewy ai^pinffration, to
fay no worse of it, without Tinloading ns of
our heavy debt, but increasing it ; and so
ardently deitring the change which has ta
ken place ; and after the fallen party had
so pompously predicted the failure of the re
venue and consequent ruin of the adminif
tration^l could not but be alive to pleafurc
on rea^^ tb^hefident's Message, to find,
that although we were cased of near a mil
lion of taxes, yet by an economical applica
tion of the remaining revenue, so large a
futn has been paid of the debt ; at the fame
time all the legitimate ends of government
are aufwered peace is preserved at home,
(except a war of ink) and justice adminif
teied ; and our national honor maintained
abroad—in short, if it be of any consequence
the administration poffeiles my perfect lel
pe£t and confidence."
CIRCUIT JUDGES.
Boston, March %
The conduct and publications of the Fed
eral partizans are calculated, if not designed
to excite the ardent spirits among our West
ern Brethren, to a&s of reprisal upon the
Spanilh or French poffeflors of N. Orleans.
Incoufiftent with a state of peace, and to the
interruption of the pending negociation.
Such mad policy deserves not merely censure
but execration. The individual authors and
a bettors of it ought to be seasonably & par
ticularly pointed out to the puplic.
--
On Tuefday last, the Senate of this Com
monwealth came to the choice of a Senator
of the U. States in the room of the Hon.
Dwight Foster, resigned. General Skin
ner, was the republican, and the Hororable
Timothy Pickering, late Secretary of State,
the Federal candidate. The whole number
of voles was 27, of which Mr. Pickering
had 17, and was chosen !—Meffrs. Hitch
born, Hull, Hildreth and Coffin, (of Nan
tucket) all Republicans, were absent.
Yesterday agreeably to previous align
ment, the H. of R. proceeded to the choice
and in concurrence with the Senate, the
Hon. Timothy Pickering was elected, for
two years after this day.
On the firft trial, the whole number of
votes were 112, of which 57 were necessary
to make a choice. The Hon. Timothy
Pickering had 52—Hon. Thomson J. Skin
ner 49—Nicholas Tillinghaft, Esq. g--Gen.
Henry Knox r--Hon. Benjamin Pickman 1.
On the second trial, the whole number
116, necessary to a choice 59. Mr. Bicker
ing had 59—Gen. Skinner 52—Mr. Til
linghaft 3-— Gen. Knox 1, and Mr. Pick
man 1.
Thus it appears that the Hon. Meflrs.
Pickering and Adams have been chosen into
the Senate of the U. States, by the majority
of a single vote each ; although pushed for
ward by all the remaining efforts of Maffa
chufetts' federalifm. It is clealy to be dis
covered by an examination of the various
votes in the house, that neither of these gen
tlemen were the obje&s of choice with an
actual majority of the electors had not pecu
liar circumstances operated to give them an
election. The fa& unquestionably is, that
the leaders of federalifm in the Legislature
were pledged to the Essex Junto to promote
Mr. Pickering, by all practicable means ;
and upon principles of reciprocity, the gen
tlemen of Essex were bound to the federalift
to support Mr. Adams--and they must cer
tainly have the credit of having faithfully
fulfilled their bargains ; for they spared no
pains to bring the moderate federalifts into
measures which were naturally so repugnant
to their feelings. That they should have
succeeded so completely # is not very strange,
when we contemplate the united weight of
two so influential and active parties, as those
which have been mentioned, whenever they
can be brought to a& in even f*ced con
cert !
'I he result of the votes, however, fur
nifhes us with one„certain and consoling re
fieaion—that Maflachufetts Federalism,
with all her united & adventitious forces, has
nothing to spare ; and that though she has
in this instance husbanded her means to the
best advantage, her votaries will not proba
bly loon be able again to cover her naked
nels by the union of her scattered shreds.
—o-o —
From CAPE FRANCOIS, FEB. 9.
As all the bad news which goes from this
Island is generally very much exaggerated, I
embrace with pleasure an apportunity direct
tor Boston, to give you an account of the
affair which happened a few days past on the
mountains dire&ly back of the Cape. A
bout the sth inft.it wa^ reported in town
that the brigands were collecting on those
mountains, and intended to descend them
to attack and enter the Cape, the report was
locked upon as absurd (feeling outfelves very
^ ron g), confcquently not attended to. The
sth inst. at about three in the morning, we
were awoke by the fire of the musketry, and
loon difeovered that the brigands had attack
ed the habitation of Meheye, where there
was a ftnall post, and two other places e
qually near to the town. Meheye and
Defobric were soon set fire to ; but no more
mifehief was done, except the loss of one of
ficer and three or four men on our fide ; the
brigands then fled and have not been seen in
the mountains since.
The next morning, about the fame time,
our troops of the line only, made a sortie
into the plain with the dragoons of the Cape,
met the main body of the brigands, com
manded by Clerveaux and Christophe, gave
them battle, and compleatly routed them.
Upwards of two hundred blacks were found
dead upon the field ; we had fifteen or twen
ty wounded, and but few killed. A captain
of horse in the General guard de honneur,
wounded Clerveaux in tingle combat, and
would have taken him but for a musket ball
which (truck him in the groin and threw
him from his horse. Gen. Rochambeau
left here about ten days ago, with about
Latest by the Mails.
2000 frefh troops, which will doubtless flop
the progress which, the brigands are making
in the South. We are in daily expectation
of very large reinforcements that hove failed
from different parts of France. Gen. Ro
chambeau is indefatigable in his exertions,
very brave and his name only is terrible to
the blacks. While he was here with less
force than we now have, we saw nothing of
the enemy. Since our arreftation the Amer
can commerce has been put upon the fame
footing as the French, except only higher
impost duty ; and we have been repaid the
money we were forced to lend.
-0
SALEM, March 1.
Murder /--We hear from Marblehead, that
an aged woman by the name of IFcijh, was
found dead on Sunday morning--supposed to
have been by a wound received the preceding
night. Several persons, we understand,
have been taken up on suspicion, who were
said to be at her dwelling on Saturday even
ing, in a state of intoxication ; but we do
not yet learn the verdift of the Jury of In
quest.
—<s<<4,^>-+> —
FromWaJhington, Feb. 18.
" A resolution was laid before the Senate
yesterday, for authorifing the President of
the United States, with a diferetionary
power, to conftruft and equip and to employ
for service on the Miffippi, or elsewhere, a
number of gun boats of such a conftru^ion
as may be deemed necessary for military pur
poses,& calculated for cruizers on our south
ern coast. The committee to whom this
was referred reported in favor of 15 and an
appropriation of 50,000 dollars for the ser
vice.—The fubjeCt was again difeuffed this
day, and the measure passed the Senate.
" The House of Representatives were
this day engaged on a piopofition for repeal
ing the bankrupt law. It was postponed 39
to 50 to the next Congress.
"TRUE AS THE DIAL TO THE SUN."
PORTSMOUTH, N. H.
TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1803.
At the Annual Meeting
Held in this town on Tuefday last, for the choice
of State and county officers, the votes were as
follow, viz.—
For Governor, VOTES.
Hon. JOHN LANGDON, 547
Hon. JOHN T. GILMAN, 233
Hon. TIMOTHY WALKER, 1
Col. ELIPHALET LADD, 1
C ounfellor,
Levi Bartlett, Esq. • 547
Joseph Blanchard, Esq. 234
John T. Gilman, Esq. 1
Senator,
Clement Storer, Esq. 542
Thomas Leavitt, Esq. 235
John Goddard, Esq. 1
Recorder of Deeds,
Jefiah Adams, Esq. 541
Nathaniel Parker, Esq. 233
County Treasurer,
Nathaniel Folsom, Esq. 543
Oliver Peabody, Lfq. 234
Peter Parker, Esq. 1
Nathaniel Parker, Esq. 1
Reprejentatives,
John Langdon, Esq.
Elijah Hall, Esq.
Stephen Chafe, Esq.
Charles Cutts, Elq.
At Kingflon. For Governor,
Hon. John Langdon, 38
Hon. John T. Gilman, 34
Counsellor,
Levi Bartlett, Esq. 52
Joseph Blanchard, Esq. 1
Senator for District No. 2,
Nicholas Gilman, Esq. 27
Ezekiel Godtrey, Esq. 41
Recorder of Deeds,
Nathaniel Parker, Esq. 50
Josiah Adams, Esq. 6
County Treasurer,
Oliver Peabody, Esq. 43
Nathaniel Folsom, Efq.t
1 RepreJentative,
Maj. Jacob Pealjee.
LIS-Eof VOTES for GOVERNOR.
Langdon. Gilman.
Barrington, 37 249
Bartlett, 43 0
Bedford, 32 100
BoJcavin, 120 96
Concord, 130 148
Dunbarton, 50 83
Kingjlon, 38 34
Londonderry, 24 257
Lyndborough, 31 24
Nottingham, 75 45
Port/mouth, 547 233
Salem, 27 88
Wolfsborough, 119 30
1273 x 3 B r
Hampjiead, Feb. 24th, 1803.
Fellow Citizens,
Permit me to recommend to your con
sideration WILLIAM WHITE, Esq. of
Chefler, an old tried patriot, as candidate to
till the important office of Senator, for the
third Diftrid. His judgment, lirong in
youth, matured by age ; his inflexible in
tegrity and laudable candour entitle him, my
friends, to your fuffrages.
One of THS People,
Cbe Republican Ledger.
Republican Ticket for 180%
The long tried patriot
yOHN LAAGDON, for Goo'A
COUNSELLORS.
LEVI BARTLEI T, Rockingham county.
JOSEPH BADGER, jr. Strafford df.
BENJAMIN PEIRCE, Hillford do.
NAHUM PARKER, Chefoire do.
MOSES DOW, Grafton do.
SENATORS.
CLEMENT STORER, for the ts dis..
NICHOLAS GILMAN, 2d do.
JAMES GIBSON, 3d do.
RICHARD JENNESS, 4th do.
JOHN WALDRON, sth do.
DAVID COPP, 6th do.
WILLIAM FISK, 7 th do.
JAMES FLANDERS, Sth do.
ROBERT ALCOCK, 9th do.
ELISHA WHITCOMB, 10th do.
AMASA ALLEN, nth do.
WILLIAM TARLTON, 12th do.
JOSIAH ADAMS, Recorder of Deeds Jor
Rockingham County.
NATHANIEL FOLSOM, County Treas.
For the Ledger.
LIES! LIES! MORE LIES!
The basely lying Federal crew,
Who law and order shelter,
*"like dogs returning to their Jpue,
Or wallcluing sows to welter."
TO FABIUS.
I did not expert to be lo soon called up
on by the returning nauseousness of Fabius,
which will account for the nasty piece of
doggrel prefixed to this piece of advice to
check his most audacious attack, by name,
upon so worthy, so good a man as Mr. N.
Folsom, who is represented to the puplic,
(if language impliedly means any thing) no
more or less than a " thief and a defrauder."
When the paper came out, there was not
one man, federal or Republican, but was
astonished there could be found another so
mean or ferine as to vilify Mr. Nathaniel
Folsom.
I am disposed to give you the full effect
of your bar eloquence in print ; your phrh
feology is so plain, you cannot be mistaken;
I therefore, (for the regard I personally en
tertain for your family that 1 wish to con
tinue if possible, with all your party vio
lence) only repeat this advice —before you
insinuate in court, or in print, that a man is
without principle, to know him a little bet
ter than you seem to know Mr. Nath.
Folsom: For, 1 repeat it again, y ^'.e,
calumniated a gentleman who def ries it 1
little, that the federal or Republf.n^le (an
not exhibit any thing so wanton and profli
gate. I do not con sider you exa&!y in tne
fame light with a colei blooded cflafrn, and cut
throat o) private character, becaole you are
warm, and may be only indilcreet, and
therefore ought to be so far coufitlered.
1 esteem Mr. Peabody as an honest and
good man, but he is neither a better, or a
more honest man than Mr. Folsom. I
have the pleasure to know Mr. Folsom
well, and do know, if there is one perlon
moderate, and therefore praifewoithy in his
deportment public and private, it is he : and
that the appointment he fills is filled with
honor, henefty, and integrity. I allo know
Mr. Peabody, he is a tittle too high in the ih-
Jlrep lor so amiable a man ; because as pol
itics are but an enlarged scale of private and
public happinell—the end that all are in the
puifuit of, and only differ in the means to
the end; so every judicious man will confid
er it, and will blulh for human natyre—not
to name the N. H. fyleraldts when they
countenance the abuse of an honest man—
and such a man is Mr. Folsom.
I pass on to the remaining mifiatements in
the fame paper, from whose very hands they
flow, original or communicated ; by op
poling some truths that men in the serious
pursuit of, will eventually find. Col. John
Langdon, had two votes less than last
year, one by the family loss of a very ndar
relative—the other by a similar affliction in
another quarter. Now he hands by figures
314 votes ahead in his own tow n of Ports
mouth : What is the change ?The question
thould rather be what wciild ^ the change ?
Let me ask the mod feolible moderate fed
eralift, and I will be silenced by his decision,
whether he law more than three or four ac
tive men moving on the Republican fide—
whether it was not as it ever ought to be,
the free, unbiaffed, independent Republican
voter that goes and puts in his vote and goes
out again, and give Col. L. 314 ahead.
Now let me ask the fame person, whether
on the night previous to the election, the
feds did not hold a caucus of forty of the
principal voters—and take their posts and
ground in all directions of the town, to in- ¥
fluence votes---and in a manner that looked
more like a rebellion than as the paper lays,
a peacable orderly body of voters, voting as
the Republicans did r —ls it not a fa& that
* The dog returns to his vomit, and the few to
her waning in the mire : just io the teuton
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