The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1800-12-23 00:00:00, page 1

NEW GOODS,
At Wbolefale & Retail.
BENJAMIN BRIERLEY,
Late of fbe Firm of
Lang, Brierley, & Co.
Regs leave to inform bis Friends and
the Public that he is just arrived from
Europe with a very general assortment of
Fancy, Fashionable and Staple
GOODS,
Which ate now opening, and for sale either
Ry Wholesale dr Retail,
for Cash or (hurt approved Credit,'
At the fare, on Spring - Hill, nearly opposite
Mr. Peter Coffins.
THE ASSORTMENT CONSISTS OF
White and color'd Baizes and
Flannels; spotted Swanfkins; Ratteens ;
Plains; Kerfies ; Forest, Elastic and Broad
Cloths ; Coatings ; Duffils ; Kerfymeres,
and Swandowns.
A variety of
Color'd, ftrip'd & plain Durants ;
Calimancoes ; Wildbores ; Tammies ; Shal-
Joons ; fancy printed and black Florentines,;
Cambleteens, and cloak Camblets ; Cordu
roys ; Thicksets ; plain and fancy Velvets ;
stay Cords ; Dimities ; Muflinets ; some
beautiful white & printed Marseilles Quilt
ing ; a few pieces of very fide cotton Shirt
ing, and a general assortment of IrHh Lin
ens.
Chintzes of every description ;
Cotton Checks and Stripes ; Ladies', Men's
and Boys' Beaver Hats all sizes and prices ;
silk, cotton and worsted Hosiery ; silk, cot
ton and leather Gloves extra lengths ; a few
dozen open work, white and colored Cotton
eitto.,
A great variety of
White, color'd, netted and fringed
, Camels hair Shawls, from 7s. to 245. cot
ton, linen and cambric pocket Handker
chiefs ; black and fancy fi)k do. and Shawls ;
sewing Silks ; Twists ; Threads ; knitting
and spending Cotton ; black and color'd
Gallooms ; Shoe & quality bindings ; round
and flat Bobbins ; "Tapes ; mould and wire
shirt buttons ; Ferrets ; cotton and silk Bra
dells ; white and chintz Bed Lace ; Line &
Taffeis to match ; white & color'd Fringes.
. An extenfae assortment of
Book, Jaconet, plain, figured arid
. ftrip'd Muslins; Cambric Muffins from gs 6
to 12s. per yard ; a few pieces of the new
est fafhon spotted and ftripedditto ; Likewise
9-8 thin cambric for gentlemen's Necker
chiefs.
Black, green and crimson Mohair
Plushes; black and color'd silk Velvets for
Ladies' Bonnets; a few squares rich black
Velvet for. Shawls.,
> An elegant afertment of
I Ladies' Hats and Bonnets, of the
% newest fafhion, trimmed and untrimmed.
; ' Fashionable Muff's and Tippets ;
Fur Linings for Shawls ; Italian Crapes of
] all colors ; cotton, silk and silver Trim
mings.
A great variety of
Fans; a few very elegant ftefs do.
Fancy Feathers and Plumes ; Wreaths and
Ladies Cap Bands ; white and black Laces,
'Edgings, and Veiling. > r
Ladies' Slippers, Shoes &; Clogs,
of all kinds ; a few with cork foies ; Flofs r
and silk Rofetts. to match. , - ;
And per the Jhip Nancies, Capt. Lunt, just ar-
{ rivedfrom Liverpool, it received,
• A general assortment of
( HARD-WARE & PLATED
GOODS.
Which with a few Boxes of
Men's low pric’d HATS,
fob will be fofa wholesale only. .
The GOODS having been chof
\ en by himfelf at the manufactories, and
¥ fought with ready money, he presumes will
I enable him to serve his friends on the belt
(terms.
I ^ Portsmouth, Nov. 17, 1800. , -,
NUMBER 18.—VOL. ll.]
“ WHEN YOU SHALL THESE DEEDS RELATE, SPEAK OF THEM AS THEY ARE ; NOTHING EXTENUATE NOR SET DOWN OUGHT IN MALICE."
PORTSMOUTH, (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PRINTED BY NUTTING & WHITELOCK, MULBERRY LANE, ADJOINING ROUSSELET's MUSEUM.
The Republican Lledger.
The remarks of the writer of the following
will be read with pleasure by every candid
and liberal man of all parties. From the\
known Republican character of that fate we
have every thing to hope and little to fear,
the numerous unfavourable reports and high
expectations of the Anglo federalifls to ihe
contrary, notwithjianding.
From the (Charleston) City Gazette.
MESSRS. FRENEAU & PAINE.
TO the enlightened and independent re
presentatives of out back country, who, far
removed from the sources of foreign influ
ence and corruption, still breath the fame
generous spirit which swelled the bosoms of
their fathers, and may yet confider repub
licanism no crime : a plain, private citizen,
a native of Carolina, whose ancestors for
many years back,tilled the fame spot of land
on which he now resides ; who neither holds
nor experts to hold any office under the date
or federal government ; begs leave to address
the following obfervarion:
.To the eye of the stranger, oyr situation
is flourishing ; our commerce is every day
extending ; business faciliated by the estab
lishment of banks. But not a veifel iswafted
to our Shores,which brings not with it prin
ciples inimical to our liberty.
The important moment is now at hand
when you 'are to exercise the sacred right,
committed to your care by the constitution,
of expressing the sense of our countrymen at
large, in your appointment of Electors 'of
President & Vice President, Mr. Jefferfon,
& Col. Burr, are the Republican candi
dates Mr. Adams, and Mr. Pinckney the Fe
deral.
To expatiate at this time on the political 1
reasons which so loudly demand for the very
exigence of our republican government, a
change in the adminftration, is fuperfluous.
Were it necessary I could lift up the Silken
veil which the fychophantic hand of cringing
adulation has thrown over the errors of the
present adminiftratlon,& display to you a pic
ture from which you would turn with hor
ror ; 1 could detail a long catalogue of enor
mous and unjust taxes, with which your
navy, your Standing army, and unneceflary
diplomatic arrangements, have encumbered
you ; recall to your minds the sedition law,
violating the most sacred principles of our
constitution, and menacing with fines and
dungeons the man who Should be virtuous
and patriotic enough to investigate the abu
les committed by the servants of the peo
^le : and hold up to your execration the alien
bill, which, committing to the arbittary will
of the executive power, great as the Ruffian
or Turkish despot boasts, enable him, possi
bly at the fuggeftiorf of the merest whim &
caprice, without assigning a Single reason, to
banish forever from our country, a man
whom our conftitntion had Solemnly invited
to settlement among us. Yes, these and
other arguments, still more aggravating,
could be produced, to prove to you the ex
pediency of a new administration ; but an
able and eloquent writer, under the Signa
ture of “ A Republican," has already giv
en you much information on these fubje&s
as renders it unnecessary for me to traverse
them again,\*
You all feerri convinced of the necessity of
a change ; &for this purpose have deservedly
daft your eyes to the enlightened sage of
Montecelli. But with regard to the person
to be run with him, as Vice President, there
appears some difference of opinion.—Gen.
Pinckney and Col. Bur. are the then, be
tween whom we hesitate. Let us examine
the merit of their refpedive claims, and fee
to which of them our choice Should be di
re&ed. Personally acquainted witlfrboth,
but connected with neither, I feel the fame
refpe& and esteem, which talents and vir
tue create, for the one as for the other ; and
in tracing their characters, truth and impar
thlity fhalldirea me.
Gen. Pinckney is well known to you
all ; highly amiable in private life, and de
servedly estimable as a man of true honor &
integrity, there are few among us who have
withheld from him refpe& and perfofiih at
tachment. He served us during our revo
lutionary war, with fidelity ; and amply dis
charged, on, every occasion the duties of a
soldier and an officer. He was afterwards,
for many years, a distinguished member of
our.bar ; where as his biographer observes,
his abilities as a lawyer, and his uniform
good condu&, in the course of extensive bu
siness, soon ranked him among the most re
fpedable citizens of Carolina. As a ftatef
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1800.
man and politician, he has had but few op
portunities of being known —bis services;
however in our convention and legislature,
and his late embassy to -France, if they do
not entitle him to a place among the great
est geniuses of our country,^ least give him
claim to a firm independence and most in
corruptible integrity.
I This, fellow citizens, is a chara^er which
you deservedly admire; Colonel Burr's how
ever upon examination, will be found, at
lead as estimable in every refca. Alike
amiable as a man, and equally distinguished
by a reputation the most fair and unblemish
ed, his name too, tanks amongthe defenders
of American Independence. Taking the
command of a regiment at the age of twen
ty, through the whole of the war, he was.
iidingnithed by the fame ardent devotion to
the principles of liberty ; the fame judgment
and courage, which form most prominent
features in his character at this time. At
the reftoratioh of peace, having exhausted an
ample patrimony in the fcrvice of his coun
'ry, he found himfelf compelled to apply to
the profeffion of the law, as a means bf sub
sistence. Here, notwithstanding the com
petition of Hamilton, Livingston, and others
of the greatest talents in New-York, he Soon
obtained the firft place ; &'he rapid fortune
he acquired from his extensive practice, de
clared the preference he had gained in the
minds of his fellow citizens. Possessed, once
more, of an independency, Col. Burr soon
abandoned the llavifh drudgery of the bar,
so little congenial to a mind like bis, for a
field more failed to his inclination, and bet
ter adapted to the display of this talents. He
entered the legislature of New-York—be
came Senator of the United States—and in
both places was equally eminent.-
Obnoxious to the administration for his
rigid and inflexible republicanism, and find
ing it impossible to stem the torrent of Presi
dential influence he retired from Congress:
advising the most influential republican mem
bers to follow his example ; to go home en
lighten the minds of their conTfituenfs,and by
correaing the Rate governments, finally cor
re& the federal. Madison, Giles and ma
ny other leading characters, obeyed his pro
phetic counsel ; and the gpod eflteas uhich,
Pave resulted from it you have seen. &-
publicanifm is once more the prevalent sen
timent of the southern states ; nor in them
only. The a&ivity and address of colonel
Burr, have given it complete afcendency in
the formerly,ibjgh federal states of New-
York and Rhode Island ; and even in New-
Jersey and Conneaicut, the republicans at
the'late elections, appeared so rtfpe&able,
in their minorities, that, without betraying
too sanguine a temper, we may well expert
them to be soon triumphant likewise.
Endowed with a mind vast, liberal arid
com prehen five, America owes not a citizen
more fitted than col. Burr, to be placed at
the head of her government. With an en
ergy and decision of chara&er peculiar to
himfelf, while other men are debating, he
refelves ; and while they resolve, be a&s.
His plan to overthrow, by the eftabliffiment
of the Manhuan company, the undue influ
ence of the banks and foreign merchants,
which had@fo long enslaved the poorer elafs
of citizens in 'New-York, in the fame man
ner as ,hey now do those of Charleston,
entitles him to the admiration and support
of every friend to liberty and republican
ism.
\ This, my fellow,citizens, is the hiflory
of the republican, who, with Mr. Jefferfon,
is a candidate for tour votes at the ensuing
eleaion ; these his claims. Will you, for-,
getful of his important services to your cause
Sacrifice him to the narrow prejudice of lo
cal attachment ? On an occasion like this,
Principles, not Men, should defaermine-your
choice.
You favour Mr. Jefferfoh's eleaion be
cause his political opinions agree with your
own, and you think them right. Yon aban
don Mr. Adams, without hesitation, be
cause he differs from you, and you believe
him wrong ; y e t, between col. Burr, whose
principles are, the fame with M. Jefferfon's,
and Gen. Pinckney, who coincides with
Mr. Adar^s; We hesitate merely because the
latter happens to belong to your own state!
To refute you to this dilemma, between
men and nfr4far&, was the very objea of
the federal party ; it was for this infiidous
purpose, ts rat general Pinckney was firft
named as a candidate. This is the language
of the ffederafifts throughout every part of
the Unr a States ! " The citizens of Suuth
' ' ar °li n a, fay they; “we know are repub- ,
licans, and are attached to Mr. Jefferfon ;-
but they never aft from principle ; they are
governed Solely by the personal influence ola
few charaders among them, and will Cut,,
° a :^~° °pp o ' e general Pinck nev."
'llll within a very short time past, ro
doubt was entertained by the federal parn,
but that you will finally abandon, even vorr
favourite Jeftrfon, for General Pinckney ;
finding however, they have over-rated thine;
they now with to work upon your prein
dices, at I aft, so far, as to induce you t,>
vote for them together. The more effedu.
ally to secure this point they alter their late
tone ; and, pompously displaying the klea of
ameliorating the spirit of parties, propose a
compromise. But, my fellow citizens,
before you determine upon such a line of
condu&, reflea well—Formerly, whe^
flight (hades of political difference,only, dis
tinguished the parties, compromise uould
have been advantageous ; it would huve
tended to heal the schism entirely and pro
duce a general harmony and Dnanimiiv ;
but, at a season like this, when their princi
ples are as opposite as light and derkneft,
to talk of compromise is idle.—Like phys. -
cians adminifterihg two violent medicines,:t
the fame time, of contrary qualities, it wid
serve but to rack and destroy the conflim
tion.. Bffidcs, mark you not the infidions
plot, which lurks beneath this fair propo
sal? The spirit of federalifm aims but t^
throw you. from your guard : and like the
baneful shade of the Javes, at the very mo
ment it lulls you to repose, will deprive you
of exigence. But do not fuffer yonrfe!v f %
to be deceived § if you do vote for Mr. JJ
ferfon and General Pinckney together, let it
be with your eyes open to the conCequencis.
—General Pinckney is no longer run as
Vice-President ;it is the avowed object Os
the federal party, to make him President ;
and, as a proof,pf this, I refer you to Gen.
Hamilton's letter. He and Mr. Jefferfop,
^ereft re, aim at the fame office ;of color 3 , .
if you give two rival candidates the fame
number of votes, you entirely deftrov Be
political weight of Carolina in the national
scale ;it j s i n fa&, precisely the fame as r^t
voting at all. This besides being a political
abfurdiry, which no other Rate in the ur ; <n
will think of committing, would be a glar
ing direli&ipn of that duty which every torn
owes to his country ; and which I am per
suaded, each of you has warmly at beat*.
Here are two men offering for the fame of
fice— a high and important office—differing
widely in-principles ; one only is right; tH
other wrong. Tatriotifm, therefore, while
itddier e & s you to the firft, ^s loudly demands
°f y o u to abandon the latter.
But this is not all—by voting in the 'con
templated manner, you rilk the fnccefml 0^
republican candidate.'General Pinckney's
friends fay, he will have all the votes of t l c
Eastern States ; and these, added to those be
will get in New-jersey, Delaware MaryUrd
and North Carolina, unless we throw om
felves decidelv into the opposite scale, wouLl
give him election to a certainty.
And now,my fellow citizens, I take leave
of you, strong in my hopes that, on a ques
tion of principle—principle, not roen, will
influence you ; and that, at the enfiiing r l ^
tipn, you will folly eftablilh the claim of Ca
rolina to consistency and republicanism
' A RICE PLANTER.
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dongref^ of tbc United &#s%
-^Q%gte^ F >^ —
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
''wrt>N^D^r,#or.26,
The house agreed to the reference to 1
committee of five members, on the; motion
refpeaing amendments to the poft-office law
laid op the table yesterday.
Resolved th^t the house make choice of
chaplain to-morrow.
On motion of Dr. Leib, resolved, that the
petition of the Marshal- of Fennfylyar.:?,
with the report made thereon last feffipn, be
referral to a^committee of the whole, apd
that it be the order of the day for to-mu;-
ro ' v °
The motion made yesterday by Gen. Le%
for appointing a committee to ?report Inch
measures as they may" deem advaeable tr
cartying into effed ttefefolutip^ agreed lo
at the last session, commemorative ? ot t:c
military and political services of George
Washington, was agreed to, and a commit- /
tec of seven appointed./
[1 DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM.