Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1801-10-08 00:00:00, page 1

The account of this agency remain
ed unsettled for the want of vouchers,
on the 30th of June 1800, and the de
clared official balance could not at that
time be afeertained, but by Mr. Pick
ering's own account rendered, it ap
peared that the balance on that ac
count was about 90,000 dollars.
11. He was a commissioner for holding in
tercourse with the Indian Nations, which ac
count remained unsettled the goth june 1800.
Thus it appears that the total sum
due by Timothy Pickering, late Sec
retary of State, amounted to upwards
of 600.000 dollars !
Such are the fa&3, which I pledge
myfelf to the people of the U. States
to fobftantiate.
A. CAMPBELL.
Philadelphia, iztb, Sept. 1801. j
• Mr. Pickering has given striking proofs of
his fidelity and z<al in tbis jerviu—in the pro
tyfflon afforded his countrymen, in the case of
mr. duanb, From the AURORA.
IN looking over the Aurora of this morning, I
observed a typographical error in the communi
cation, which I sent to the Gazette of the U. S.
and which was rtjeded by the ading editor of
that paper, on account of the weighty charges
it contained. It is well known that daily pub
lications ere liable to inaccuracies, from the ex
pedition which is neceffaty to be used, to have
them distributed at the usual hour.
By referring to a true copy of the original,
I find, I have fitted, that on the 25th of April,
ißco, (and not on the 1 sth of Sept. 1800, as
published in your paper of this morning,) Mr.
Pickering flood indebted to the United States,
on his account for carrying into effect the trea
ties wiih the Barbary powers, the (am of 347
thousand 735 dollars 74 cents !
What I have communicated, rela
tive to public defaulters, are incontro
vertible fads,- which came under my
immediate observation. Itis impossi
ble for me to ascertain the amount of
the sum yet remaining unaccounted for
by Mr. Pickering ; as he a&ed as a$
gent of the United States on various
accounts— The following are the heads
of public expenditures, on occount of
which he drew thole sums, viz.
I. Acagent for-carrying into effed the trea
ty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, be
tween the U. States and his Britannic Majesty.
2. As agent for carrying into effe& the trea-,
ty between the U. S. and the King of Spain,
3 As agent for carrying into effed the trea
ties between the U S. and the Barbary Powers.
4. As agent for the relief and proteaion af
forded American feamen.*
5. As agent for paying the contingent ex
penses of government.
6. As agent for,paying the expenses of prize
causes./
7. As agent for farnifhing the Miffifippi ter
ritory with stationary.
8. As agent for farnifhing the North Weft
ern territory with stationary.
On the greatest number of these ac
counts, considerable balances remain
ed unaccounted for on the 30th June,
1800 —the whole amounting to the
sum of 509,918 dolls. 14 cts.
9. On the proper " account of the department"
cf ftatr, Mr. Wolcott on the 23d of June 1800,
acknowledged " that a balance of about 500
dollars remainedin his hands, when he retired
from office."
10. He was also agent for paying the com
penfation of American Ministers in foreign
countries.
political flltsceUanp.
More about Mr. Pickering.
CONCORD, [n. h.] October 8, 1801—I—36 —|# Thu Gazette circulates through ever, Count, in the State.
REPUBLICAN GAZETTE.
Capt. Giles, Jonathan Robbing, and the un
fortunate Americans confined on board the
Squirrel Britilh sloop of war, in the Delaware.
fC We deem it a duty we owe the Public, to
give such Statements, in which every Citizen is
interested, a place in the Republican Gazette.]
OLD SOUTH.
On the Fallacy of charging the Republicans
with " intolerance."
THOSE of the British faction, who
complain of an "intollerant fpirit'on
the part of President Jefferfon, if they
are serious in their lamentations, must
be very deficient in the intellect of
memory; if we deliberately reflet on
their conduct during the last administra
tion, it must bring to remembrance a
long train of circumstances, which are
diftrefling at this period even to con
template. Never could it have 'been
thought possible, that any British party
should obtain such art ascendancy in
this country, as to intimidate the fr§e
citizens of America from speaking
their minds on public measures, or ac
quire such a preponderancy as to im
press them with fear, while exercising
their constitutional fuffrages; but this
cruel deprivation of rights has been
experienced under a fyflem of terror,
which nearly pervaded not only every
diftiia, but almost every family thro'-
out the United States; the operation
in many instances has been so effeHu
al, that elections have been decided
under the dreaded apprehensions of
this vindictive influence Threats and
menaces have been the irrefiftable ar
guments, and votes have often been
obtained by the arbitrary interferance
of men, whose hardened hearts exulted
at the profpe&; of inflicting penury on
those who dared to counteract their
villainy. This mode of conduct was
striking at the foundation of a Repub^
lican government, as the basis of its
conftruHion is immediately connected
with the free and unbiaffe^ principles
of each individual in society. Pri
vate opinion in the aggregate must form
the public sentiment, for while every
citizen has a right to judge on the con
dud of public officers, and to vote in
most cases in their election,the ultimate
decision depends on the majority of
electors acting in their individual ca
pacity. This freedom of investigation
and action, is the privilege guaranteed
by the Constitution, and no man ought
to be intimidated from the full exercise
of this right, or denounced as an ene
my to his country,while discharging in
a legal manner with the spirit of candor
and moderation this important duty.
The Republicans are willing to take
this broad ground as it relates to Mr.
Jefferfon ; they do not wish to check
the most subtle animadversions on his
measures ; his enemies have an ancon
trouled right to offer their remarks on
all his proceedings. If they please,
they may censure his plans, or propose
others—but, if this freedom is allowed
them, and, if in fad they improve it to
LIBERTY AND THE CONSTITUTION.
morality, all the virtue, all the property,
all the patriotism, all the uifdom, and
all the honefy in the country — and that
his friends are a body of mifereants,
destitute of religion, morality, honefly,
&c. and as such are unworthy of his
confidence. Nay, they wish him to go
further, and denounce every man who
votedfor him or speaks in hisfavor, as a
diforganizer, deist & robber. I would
ask these modes gentlemen, whether this
declaration would fatisfy them ? Whe
ther this humble acknowledgment on
the part of Mr. Jefferfon would re
move their complaints against him ?
Would they cease abusing him, if he
should give it under his hand ahdfeal;
that every office in government should
be filled by his most inveterate oppo
nents? That they should have the
exclusive patronage of government;
and still have it in their power to treat
with the grossest indignity every man
who was friendly to his ele&ion.
As the controversy now stands, I do
• not fee that any thing short of such a
manifefto will suit them. For they
are permitted to speak in the public
papers a language somewhat similar to
the utmofl latitude, let them only be so
candid as not to charge the Republic
cans with exercising an unrelenting fpi^
rit of persecution towards them.
It is truly laughable to fee in the
Jacobin papers, such as the Centinel,
Palladium, Commercial Gazette, Port
Folio, &c. the most intollerable abuse
on the President, and all the Confti
futed Authorities ; and yet, while they
are permitted to continue their bil
lingsgate without any check by prose
cutions, or personal insult, are crying
in the most lamentable strains against
,the intollerant and persecuting spirit of
Republicans. I Would ask these slan
derers, in what instance this vindictive
spirit has prevailed—Are any of their
friends imprisoned for libels ? Or are
any under the lash of the sedition law ?
Why do they complain of persecution,
when they are fuffered to vent the ut
most malignancy of their spleen, arro
gance, and resentment? Do they not
pursue their courses of defamation as
rapidly as the presses can disgorge
them, or the several posts can circu
late them? Every day in the week
they are handed to the public—almost
every house is supplied with them—
colleges, academies .and schools are
liberally furnifhed with ''line upon
line, and precept upon precept," here
a little, and there a good deal. What
would these infuriated Jacobins want ?
Nobody molests them—they speak as
they please—write as they please—and
publish what they pleafe—anefyet they
are so unreasonable as to complain of a
rigid spirit of persecution.
If these high toned Jacobins will fay
what will be fatisfa&ory to them, ifit is
not too unreasonable, possibly they
may be indulged in their request. But
the fad is, they want Mr. Jefferfon to
issue a proclamation, declaring that his
enemies possess all the religion, all the
then, in the name of common sense,