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I am not disposed to treat the sentiments
of Mr. J. Adams with an indecent severity,
by distorting his proportions ; but I am
persuaded if such a plan had been published
in a new fpaper, asa feiious system of govern
ment, and the name of the author was un
known,it would have excited univeifal derisi
on—For admitting Mr. Adams' premises to
be right, that a Nobility is neceflary, arid
that they are to " produce, support and im
prove the political inflitutions," for the good
of the People, yet nothing can be more un
seemly than putting such a refpe&able body
in a hole. If they are fervicable, why
ihotrld they be hid ? Why should they not
be in a commanding situation to view the
''whole ground ?" Why Ihould they be with
drawn from the view and infpe&ion of the
people while they were so afliduous to pro
mote their welfare ?
It may be con fidered a puerile play on,
words, in commenting so minutely on this
exprellion ; but to use Mr. Adams' own
words, " God knows" what he means by a
Hole, unless it is to place a body of men
entirely out of the reach and foverignty of
the people. It is true, he is for placing'
' two watches upon .them : a Superior to
them all on one fide, and the People on the
other ;' but here the system clashes, for if
the people are as ungovernable as" wolves,"
without this Nobility, there appears an ab
surdity that they Ihould have any voice in
checking them. If this Nobility are so en
lightened as to “ produce, support and
improve our political institutions," and the
people are so destitute of felf-prefervation as
to be incapable of governing themselves
without them, it must certainly introduce a
jargon in the system, if they fhdyld ultimate
ly have authority to counteract those eflab
blifhments which this well informed body
had fanaioned. The premises laid down;
' by Mr. John Adams destroys his conclusions,
? for he places the people as destitute of nat
ural propensities to edablifh political inftitu-.
tioms, while at the fame time he makes them
. (in connection with another unnamed pow-'
er)the final tompeers in the business. If;
they are not adequate to these purposes in
the firft inftance^how do they become equal
to the final decision ? They remain wolves
through the' ^hole process, as we cannot
suppose this body, deposited in a hole, can;
create in the people any new properties!
which they did not possess in their primary!
ftatb. This "modern phifofophy" is acom-i
pofitionrof strange, incoherent ingredients
the absurdity is evident when we analize it ;t
and in order to shew the folly of such a,
system, Rt^s fee how far the doctrine would!
have held during our oppofitiou to Britain,
SuppofeHutchinfon and Oliver had effec-
ted^heir purposes when they applied to the
Brityh Ministry for a fimilat mode of goy
ern,pent,?)j;he Nobility of.that day were
the„fami\ies of J-lutchinfon, Oliver, Vaffalls,
&c,, Thi%Nobility wererfo be placed in a
Situation somewhat similar to Mr. Adams';
: {'h^le;'i that is, in a place whererthe people,
Icould not comeat them. These 'well-born';
'individuals were to produce, support and;
improve the political institutions of America.'
.The “Superior'. 'power, at<thak day would
have been the King;pf England. Under
this organized system, had the Congaefs of
Ihe United States assembled, and disapproved
.of ^he measures of this King and Nobility/
the question is, how,far,thefe two branches:
of the government would have fcpported an&
inpr^ed: the mefures of John Hancock,
Samuc) , : „ Adams, George Washington,
^Thomas Jgftifen, John Adams, &c; ,who
conflituted the powers which arofe} from
therl'eople 2 .Rebels ! Rebels ! Wolves !
Wolves! would have been, echoed and^re-i
fc&>qd,, through the continent, and proba-i
,b!% John Hancock and Samuel Adams, would
feve been proscribed as the graft, ferocious
^animals in ihe,whole pack ;.certainly Mr.;
John Adams.would pever have been eleva,-j
ted to the Chifl Executive of the United
,S'.ates,fc might h, v e .remained a pleader,atj
th^ IUr z but it, is; highly improbable he)
would have Jiad the tuitfauity to appoint a
whofefenc^of Judges, or have placed him-;
fclf in3„o@ion to proppfe a form of gov-I
ernment, which embraced the, leading feat-;
ures ofihfßfeit ilfr^^ The King!
of,England, and ^Nobility in the , Hole,
would have controled al,proceedings which
led to our Revolution ; and provided Con-
the fbjeft. After you have thus brought
yetwfelves to this depth of degradation, you
are to seek among a particular number of
families, a body of men on whose proted
ion you are to rely, and who are to take
you under their “ holy keeping." But the
farce is not yet compleat—for after you
have intruded them with this extensive pow
er, and arrayed them in their gorgeous robes,
you are to deposit these highly retpe&ed dig
nitaries in a "HOLE," there to remain hid
den from the public eye ; and thus in secret
to work out the salvation of the People.
Surely there muff be some magical operation
to communicate these blessings, otherwise
these fubterraneous conservators must be
puzzled to distribute those benefits, as they
mature them within their cells.
From the National Intelligencer.
TRUTH AND JUSTICE.\
Who are the Federalists? They are men
who once pofTeffed the Whole power of the
nation. Did they use that power as a bles
sing; or did they abtife it until it became a
curse to a free people ? What Were their
meafuresT What the e@&' of those mea^
fures.'l.
' b Thdy Enriched themfelveSat-the expence, 1
the mournful expence of the mangled fofe,
dier, And hi^ dependant family- ,by funding
the debt in fifth a ;w*y, that [peculators ih/
a day rose from poverty to opulence, Troitir
meanefs to pride; "One huritiied miltionrof'
dollars formed the"ft&tely column of Mr.
H^ilto^'s system,. TV \
Citizens of Conneaicut !—What fay ye—
does a Nobility accord with your Ready
habits ? Where are ye to felea your digni
fied order ? Who among you have Superior
knowledge, to alter and improve your econ
omical fyffem ? In what hole in your State,
can you deposit a Connecticut Nobility ?
Citizens of Rhode- I Hand I—Come forward
and produce your Nobility—where are the
highly favored Families, who have a claim
on your gratitude, so far, as to Surrender
your privileges exclusively into their hands ?
We presume there are none—we trust that
you have been, now are, and ever will be,
competent to regulate yourselves. The Rea
dy habits of New-England rife indignant at
such new-fangled doctrines, and we.hope the
enluing Eledion will convince the advocates
for a Nobility, t,at not even a descendant
from them, must ever expert to receive the
fuffrages of independent electors?.Let us con
vince the world, that Americans are not
wolves, by Supporting a government which
is not accursed with a Nobility,
Citizens of the-Northern States !—Let
me ask you, how far you can connea the
politics of Wafhinnton and ihofe of Adamsr
The former never degraded the People with
the appellation given them by the latter ;
Washington ever revered the People, and
cofifidered them capable of protesting them
felyes ; he never advocated the eßablifhment
of a Nobility to support their rights ; how
then can pve cry. " Washington and Ad
ams ?" Let us not be deceived by names,
byt let us examine,principles, and when we
find that Mr. John Adams is derogating, from
the Sovereignty, of the People, and is for
placing a Nobility above them, we cannot
confidently attach his name to that of
Washington, who in every inßance was op
posed to Inch pernicious principles. It is
but of very little consequence whether we
formerly had a Nobility palmed upon us by
the intrigue of Hutchinson, or it now should
be effected by the plausibility of Adams. In
either case, our rpin would be inevitable.
The fa& is, the plan proposed by Hutchinson
and Oliver to the British Miniffry, was in
unison with that which Mr. John Adams
advocates in his Letter to his friend, and I
am sorry to fay, there is more confiflency in
jurying out Hutchinson and Odanis, than con,
ne(fted with the facrecl name of Washington.
He, and he alone, who is in favor of a No
bility, and who withes to degrade the People,
can fubfyibe to the political tenets of Mr.
John Adams. Washington aodj EFFE^-
son accord with more melody in the ears of
Republicans. Let us then be - true to our
principles, and not facrifice them to pride,
offentation'and folly. OLD-SOUTH.,'
grefs had had refoTution to raise an army,
and appoint Walhington as commander,
even the Congress, Army and Waihington
Would have been consigned, not merely to a
hole, but to the bottomless pit. The tell of
principle is, by reasoning from fads ; specu
lative whims are not required in this country ;
we have gone through a contest which fully
explains all such controversial points —we
know what a King is, we know what a No
bility is, and we know what the People are ;
and I will venture to fay, that nothing short
of the immediate interpolition of Heaven can
maintain their rights, but themselves, and the
man is a traitor who lays they are " their
own word enemies." The enlightened state
of this country, does not require men in a
hole, to govern them ; the People are not
only sovereign by inheritance, but sovereign
from information.
Citizens of Massachusetts !—Are you not
competent to your political concerns i When
ye meet as a Legislature, do you require a
body of Nobility to make your laws, or to
draft your resolves r Are ye inadequate to
vote salaries to your Governor, Judges, and
others? Do ye require a body of Nobility,
with the extra compensations for their titles,
to carry on the measures of the Common
wealth ? Will the House of Representatives
declare themselves incapable to tranfad the
business which annually comes before them,
unless they have a body of Nobility to pro
duce and improve their civil institutions ?
Citizens of New-Hampshire !—What fay
you—are ye willing to surrender your rights,
and submit your welfare to a body of men
thus organized and authorized ? Will ye
trull the salary of your Governor, &c. to mtn
in a HOLE ?
^O, fellow-citizens, you wifi not be de
ceived. Your love of liberty will protect
you. Judge for yourselves. Examine the
measures of your present rulers., All allow
that they are wife men. Their a&s Ihevv
them to be honest. What arc those afls?
They conceal from you nothing. They
inform you of all they have done,& the
grounds on which they have aded.
Holding the engagements of the govern
ment sacred, they are paying off the riation
al/debt fafter than it ever has been paid be
fore. They acre discharging seven millions
three hundred ;thoufand dollars evety year.
The^have hotwithftandlpg, repealed the
extife'ahd stamp aa> and abolished atjeaft
'SOO ofelefs offices.
'They have preferred Peace. They mean
to preserve it. They know tfat our hap
piness dependsropon it.
They have passed no alien or sedition
Mws.< Liberty, unimpaired, is p'dfl&ffed by
bll, Nbf is ffc base tahimni^tor torched
by 'the government. They trust, for his
punifhtiient, to the infamy to which your
refentm'ent of contempt will consign him'.
"They" have, reduced the Army to 3,000
meh."'" 7 ''- ''•''™^*^
To pay this debt they laid takes to avast
extent.
By their imprudence they hurried us to the
brink of war with a nation that has hum
bled into objeas of scorn the proudest em
pires of the old worlll.
They seized this period to rob us of some
of our dearelt rights by sedition and alien
bills—the firft of which threatened a mortal
wound to the liberty of the press, and the
last placed at lead one hundred thousand
alien inhabitants at the mercy of Mr. A
dams.
1 hey succeeded in augmenting the army
to 12,000 men after a fruitlefs attempt to
extend it to 25,000.
They borrowed immense sums of money
at the exorbitant interest of 8 per centum.
They attempted to velt Mr. Adams with
the power of railing by loan an unlimited
sum at an unlimited interest.
They palled excise and stamp acts, odious
to a free people.
They intolerantly dismissed all republic
cans from office, and monopolifed the gov
ernment to themfelves^
They created sixteen political Judges,
after they had loft the confidence of the peo
ple.
They, avowed their contempt for a re
publican government, imitated with fervilc
closeness the corrupt system of Britilh mo
narchy, and flrove by every human effort,
that they might carry their schemes into ef
fect, to involve us in a war with France.—
Hcarihe language of Mr. Tracy, a federal
Senator, high in the esteem of his party.
In June, 1798 addrefling the Senate, he
fays :
" For my own part I wilh to take eve
ry advantage which our situation and our
abilities can command. I with to arm not
only our velfcls against the French Repub
lic, but I ardently with to put arms in the
hands of every man, every woman, and every
child in America, against every man, every
woman, and every child in France. We are
now in actual war With France, the declar
ation may or may not be made ; but the
war is began ; I hope we never shall have
peace with that nation as long as the pre
lent power exills ; but,hope for a war of
extinguifhment, It is well known that
their notorious,bafetiefs, their perfidy, their
audacity and their want of all sense of reli
gious or moral obligation, unfits them for
admiflion into civilized society. Every a&
of ours which Ihall be founded on moral
principles will be despised- and contemned
by such a set of people ; for in one word
they disregard flpry thing noble and honor
able ! With the present government, of
France we, can never be at peace! I never
with to fee a peace with them ; a cessation
of hofttliti^s perhaps we may have; but a
peace we fureJy never ought to have. It
would disgrace America to be in amity with
such a race of reprobates."
These, fellow-citizens, are a fe'w of the
measures of the Adams administration.—
Had power continued in their hands until
this day, I will not pretend to fay what
would have been the situation of pur coun
try. I tremble at the thought. It might
have crouched beneath the sword of milita
ry usurper, or the arm of brother might
have been lifted agaiuft brother !
But you arrested the mad career of these
measures. You, put down the hydra of
despotism. You, the People, exerted your
salutary and rightful terror.
Are you, who did this, willing at this
day, to forfeit all your glory r Are you,rea
dy to renounce your independence ? Are
you prepared again to become victims to
ambition? Then, in the sacred name of
Heaven, vote for the federal ticket. Re-
Rore.power to those who have abused it to
so little purpose, and they will make a wiser
ufe'ot ibxJ'he add that makes them your
rulers, will make you their Raves. Chains
too ftroftg to bleak are ready forged. Once
again imposed, and all your struggles will
be vain.
The commerce of the United States te
India is increasing in a degree highly inju
rious to the interett of this country. During
the present fcafon, upwards of two hundred
ships have failed from America to India and
China. The little port of Salem alone has
ftnt out 26.
The Americans can build and vi&ual their
ships at a third parrof theexper.ee tdwhidl
we are fubjed, and their trade is unincum
bered by the enormous charges for civil and
military establishments in Hindopftao, to
which our traffic necefUrily contributes ;
the conference is that they can and do un
dersell us in mod of the foreign markets ;
and that nnlefs fume means' be adopted to
reftria this commerce, most unwisely grant
ed to them, the importations of our Company
mutt fhbrtlf be confined'to out internal con
fumption.'- • \_Lmd. feet.
Prices of Stocks :—3 pet cent. Confols
68, 6y| ; 3 per cent. Reduced 68 ; Omni
um 9|, 10} difc. ft
London, Aug. 26.—We received this
morning the Paris papers to the 24th instant.
They are lull of important intelligence.
On Saturday last Bonaparte repaired with
extraordinary magnificence to the Senate;
which held its firß fitting in the form and
manner established by the Organic Senator
Confultum. Several plans of Senates Con
fulta, difeutredQ a Privy Council, were pre
sented to the S^ate. One of them relates
to the fele&ion of twenty principal cities of
the Republic, the Mayors of which are to
.be present at the taking of the oath by the
Citizen who should be named to succeed the
First Consul. It may be interred from this,
that the fucceffoT will soon be declared
The Miniftcr for Foreign Affairs then read
a report upon the indemnities, and the decla
ration agreed by Ruflia and France to be
,preferred to the Diet of Ratifbon.
Titis declaration contains a detailed and
fpecific account of the particular indemni
ties to be granted to each of the German
States.-
There are to be three new Electors, the
Margrave of Baden, Duke of Wirtemberg,
and the - Landgrave of Hefle Caffel. There
is to be one EcclJiagical Ekttor.
The Bithopric of Ofnaburgh is to belong
in perpetuity to the Eteaor of Hanover, if
he abandons his |retentions. to Hildefheim.
Corvey and Hotter, and other didridls.
Toullaint Louvertnre has been ordered to
Paris, under a flrong escort o£dragoo'ns.
Upon the seizure and Ropp^e ol English
newspapers at Paris, the French Journals are
totally silent frbut our Dover letter confirms
the intelligences. :
A mail from Lisbon arrived this morning,
and has brought the extraordinary intelli
gence, that in consequence of fame mifunder-^
Handing between the French and Portugoefe
Governments, Gen. Lafnes, the French
Minifterat the latter Court, quitted Lisbon
very haßily^on the morning of the loth inst.
in consequence the packet was detained two
days longer than Rie otherwise; would have
Raid. The Portuguese appeared to be much
alarmed at his sudden departure.^
The quarrel is foil to have been occaGoh
ed by the PortugueieMinifter of Police hav
ing infilled on tearching some baggage be
longing to the French Minister, who remon
strated to the Court ot Portugal,, and evern
ihßßed on thedifmiHaf of the Minister of
Police, which being: refafed, he immediate
ly quitted Lisbon for Paris.'
They have made no loans.
By economical arrangements, trey bate
reduced the annual expences one milforf
They have difmilled but few olffrs. —-
Five-lixths of the persons in office arc Ilill
federal.
1 hey have abolished the offices of six
teen political judges, to the joy of every
friend to a pure system of justice.
They have avowed their hostility to a
monarchical form of government, and their,
devotion to one that is a republican.
These are the measures of a Jefferfon
and those who co operate with him in the
several departments of the government.
Their labours have been crowned with
success. The nation is in peace, is happy,
is fiourifhing. No man can fay the present
administration has deprived him of a single
political right.
This, fellow-citizens, is the lightning of
truth. Would to God that it would blalt
all defamation and falfehood, and then you
would hold but one opinion. Then we
Ihould be a united and happy people.
TRUTH.
London Prints to the evening of the 16th Aug.
are received at the office of the Mercantile
Advertiser, we are compelled to confine cur
Jeleclions to the jollying brief (ummary,
which contains an atytraft of all the intelli
gence in the " Courier" of the 26th. The
plan of the Indemnities in Germany, is at
length fettled, and has received the janFtim
of the French Governments
American Trade to India.
foreign articles
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