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" Truth is beautiful and powerful."
THE ratification of the treaty for the
reflion of Louisiana to the United states,
forms an important aera in the concerns es
the American republic.-—Levery true A
meiican muff rejoice at the event, as a
measure which crowns his country with
glory & wealth.
Perhaps the language of the Rev. Dr.
Morse, upon the description of that conn
trv, may be considered as containing an ele
gant and patriotic anticipation of the advan
tages of this important cellion. Indeed his
words appear as the sure words of prophesy
on the occasion. They are thefe—"Be
" sides, it is well known, that empire has
" been travelling from east to weft. Prob
" ably h r last and broadest feat will be A
“ metica. Here the sciences and arts of
" civilized lie are to receive their high
" est improvements. Here civil and rc
<' ligious liberty are to floiirifh, unless
" checked by the cruel hand of civil and
“ ecclesiastical tyranny. Here genuis,
“ aided by all the improvements of form
“ er ages is to be exert d in humanizing
“ mankind, in expanding and enriching
" their minds with religious and philofop
“ hical knowledge, and in planing and ex
<' ecuting a form of government which (hall
“ involve all the excellencies of former gov
“ ernments, with as few of their defers as
<c is confident with the imperfection of hu
“ man affairs ; and which shall be calculat
<* ed to proted and unite, in a manner con
“ fiftent with the natural rights of mankind,
'• the largest empire that ever existed. El
'' evated with these prospects which arc
“ not merely the visions of fancy, we can
“ not but anticipate the period as not far
“ diftint, when the American empire will
“ contain millions of fouls weft of the Mis
“ fiffippi. Judging upon probable grounds,
“ the Miffiflippi was never designated as th?
<' weftern boundary of the American em
“ pire. The God of Nature never in
66 tended that some of the best part of his
<' earth should be inhabited by fubjeas of
" a monarch 4,000 miles from them. And
" may we not venture to predi&, that,
" wh n the rights of mankind shall be
" more fully known, (and t r e knowledge
“ of them is sass increaling both in Europ
" and America) the power of European
< • potentates will be confined to Europe, &
“ and their present American dominions
'' become, like the United States of Amer
" ica, free, fovercign and independent r"
These sentiments, well worthy of an A
merican scholar and geographer, are extrac
ted from the second volume of Doctor
Morse's Geography, where he gives a de
scription of the Spanish dominions in Amer
ica ; in which is the following account of
theclimate of Louisiana—" From the fa
66 vorablenefs of their climate two crops of
'' Indian corn may be produc d; and the
“ foil, with little cultivation, would furnish
66 grain of every kind in the greatest abun
<<dance. Their timber is as fine as any in
<< the world, and the quantities of live-oak,
“ ash, mulberry, walnut, cherry, cypress
<• and coder are astonishing. Ihe neigh
“ borhood of the MifliHippi, besides, furn
“ idles the richelt fruits in great variety.
<< The foil is particularly adapted for
<< hemp, flax, and tobacco ; and indigo is
<< at this time a flaple commodity, which
66 commonly yields the planter three or
" four cuttings a year. Ina word, what
“ ever is rich and rare in the most desirable
<< cimates in Europe, seems to be the fpon
“ taneous production of this delightful
Another particular Convention, signed at the
fame date as the present treaty, relative to a defini
tive rule between the contraaing patties, is in the
like manner approved, and will be ratified in the
fame form, and in the fame time, and jrindy.
X. Tre present treaty (hall be rat fied in good
and due form, and the ratifications fliall be exchan
ged in the space of fix months after the date of the
signature by the minifies plenipotentiary, or sooner
if pofiible.
“ country."
This i<a true description of the country
which Mr. Jefferson, as president of the
United States, has acquired for us without
led upon the footing of the most favoured na
gns in the ports above mentioned.
JX. The particular Convention signed this day
by the rdpeaive n.inifters, having for its object to
provide for the payment of debts due to the crti
-2 ns of the United hates by the French Republic,
prior to the 30th of September 1800, (Sth Vende
maire, an. 0) is approved, and to have its execu
tion in the tame manner as if it had been inserted
in this present treaty, and it fhali be ratified in the
fame form, and in the fame time, so ihrt the one
fltali R^t be ratified difiinft from the other.
IN faith whereof, the refpeAive Plenipotentia
ries have signed these articles in the French
and Enpfefh languages, declaring nevertheless
tint th present Treaty was originally agreed
to in the French language; and have there
unto affixed their (cals.
Done at Paris, the tenth day of Flareal, in the
eleventh year of the French Republic, and the
zoth of April, 1803.
BARBE MARBOIS.
ROB. R. LIVINGSTON.
JAS. MONROE.
From the Chronicle.
the expense of blood, or the calamities of
war. Our reverend geographer did not
anticipate such an invaluable acquisition or
terms so easy, honorable, cheap and fortu
nate. He expeaed the usual course of
revolutionary war to accomplish an end
which he believed would be feon produces .
He fays that " the wretched and wicker
policy of New-Orleans, unless changed,
will hasten a revolution in the Spanifli col
onies." When [he benevolent and good
man was thus contemplating the mifchiefs
of tyranny, & the horrors of a civil, bloody
and wailing war, how would his pious
heart have exulted on a revelation, that this
would soon be effected by the United States,
at an expence of fifteen millions of dollars
only, to be paid by certain inftalments, with
in fifteen years!
There is no bounds to party rage ; nor
any principle which governs men who are
engaged in the odious broils of political con
tells. Had Louisiana been purchased by
Washington, at a price of forty-five millions,
the very men who ate now groaning at tin
enormous exper.fe of fifteen millions, would
have.fet thcmfelves down with the greatefl
assiduity to compose eulogies opon him for
the measure. Louisiana would then have
been what D^a^r Morf describes it to be,
an invaluable & unequaled traa of country.
There is no hope that the rancour of that
party will abate. Disappointment fits hea
vy on their hearts ; and if the present na
tional administration could introduce the
miUcnium it would be an unacceptable thing
to them—they would loath and despise it.
It does by no means follow, that bc
cauf these men wish a foreign war, and
would willingly fee their country involved
in calamity and distress, tc maintain their
own confeqnencc and effect their own plans,
that we should either quarrel with or fop
port them. If a state of peace and prosperi
ty is for ourintereft, we have no other line
to pursue then that of placing our confide nc
in men who will conduct our public con
cerns to the promotion of those obje&s.
The public opinion ought to be preserved in
a date of purity and calmness. The ideas
of war are to be d precated ; and while, by
our condua, we convince the world of our
determination to live in an honorable peace
with all nation, we should confider tbe resort
to arms as the lad and most dreadful reme
dy; but, by a well trained militia, and by
other means, we mult be ready to defend
our rights as a nation.
While we contemplate a date of peace as
the most happy and eligible for our country,
we are obliged to lament that there is a
spirit yet in th land urging us to war and
commotion. As the troubled waves call up
mire and dirt, so these men are bent upon
evjl, and their leftlefs imaginations, art
constantly and incessantly provoking war
and calamity. They not only urge the A
mericans thcmfelves to involve their coun
try in distress, but they are forming pretexts
for foreign nations to interrupt our repose,
and to uniheath the barbarous sword
of daughter upon our innocent citizens.
One who in not thoroughly taught in the
milchiefs in which ambition, avarice and
disappointment, have frequently involved
th? world, would not conceive that there
couldbe so much malignity in the human
heart; but the faa is demountable from
the present situation of the parti s in our
country. No sooner was the federal gov
ernment in exercise, than a number of men,
forming an oligarchy, combining from one
local extreme of th^ nation to the other, as
fumed the positive direction of our nation
al affairs : and such was the force of their
influence, that even the firm and immacul
ate Washington was compelled, in some in
dances, against his own opinion of right to
yieldto it. The errors of the funding sys
tem, the errors in the national bank, and
the mifchiefs of the project of the federal ci
ty, which are now seen and lamented by ev
ery body, were the offspring of their brain.
To their projects for an expensive and idle
judiciary, no one dare to objea, under the
high pains and penalties of being an anti
tederalid, in their opinion. A national
debt was then a national blessing ; because
it would produce and maintain a war.
But the sum of fifteen millions, as the price
of peace, though attended with the acquisi
tion of a territory, worth at lead fifty mil
lions, is now, in their minds, an infufferablel
evil. I
The freedom of thought and opinion, in
their reign of terror, was prohibited ; and
they openly declared that any one who was
not united with them in opinion should be
deemed as disqualified for office. But now
they even fabricate charges of removal from
office, for the exercise of judgment on pub
lie concerns, as a thing in the present ad
ministration of the highest criminality.
There are many gazettes devoted to this
combination, and which are used for the
purpose of involving our country in a war,
In the Centinel we had two fiaitious pieces
of intelligence, intended to alarm the people
of the United states, that the opposition to
the government might be strengthened, and
to put into the hands of foreign powers a
ing to the individuals—the pretentions are
all the other way—and belong to those who
have a pride in being an American, and a
true Republican. I care not who keeps a
(hop, or what a man's origin is—it being ad
m tted that Adam and Eve originated both
Federalists and Republicans—or how a man
makes his way through the world —and
paches property through thick and thin, so
long as my property is not invaded and I can
feel and entertain the pride and confoiation
of living under such a government that one
would realy think utopian and impra&ica
ble, unless the sublime fpe&acle of a Jeffer
fon realifed, promised and effeminated this
most noble view of human perfeaion in | ol
itics, and pure administration of public af
fairs—under the check of free eleaion. # —
Will any man well read produce to me,
since the establishment of governments on
earth, Jach a government, where the public
good is the ultimate arid prime object of
government : When this is done, I will
readily drop my pen with “ tres patriae ma
nus ceciderunt."
As I propose to give you more communi
cations on Moderation, for the present I beg
to instance the certain symptoms of moder
tion, to (how that my observation is correct.
I lately attended the tegiflature in Vermont,
where repuplicanifm, dreadful republican
ism is looking up, not like federalifm, upon
its back, but in their own sense triumphant !
The whole council—complete majority in
the house, and the governor is Republican ;
that is to fay in effect, although he has not
avowed himfelf. Gov. Gilman, a federa'ift,
with a Republican council and republican
legiflature must be republican in effefl
Two qinftions were agitated, a Bank and
Turnpike that brought forward the strength
of the federal party under whose direction
these institutions would flourijb ! General
Morris said " I am a friend to the admin
istration of the government of the United
States. Corporations, paivate or public
flrengthen government, ergo I muff be a
friend to the present adminiffration." I
town of Portsmouth in particular, on those
symptoms of moderation, the dired effea of
a happy and moderate administration of free
government. It is now poflible for a Re
publican to walk the street without being
blackguarded or knocked down for enter
taining an opinion different from a federalift.
You begin to fee their toasts marked with
moderation and free from wicked invedive
against the present fafhionable Republican
dm. Ido not defpaii of feeing their society
tor their own fakes, as in other towns, be
able to fit down with a Republican without
an artificial, unnatural, and an afFeded dis
gust at such beings as Republicans. I hope
they will study to retrievea character fixed
upon the town for a total loss of and depart
ure from the politeness that diffinguifhed the
metropolis before, and indeed since the rev
olutipn ; because they, the federalifts will
forgive me for assuming that they have no
such pretentions as to making a clafi called
the foflJociety —without invidiously advert-
pretext "to interrupt our tranquillity. It
^as there suggested that the crown of Spain
would not agree to the cession of Louisiana;
.nd that the people of New Orleans are
iverfe to becoming citizens of the United
tales ! No one knows who wrote the letter
trom Spain, published in that paper ; or
whether it was formed here, or sent by one
d the combination from Spain. Nor is
here any grounds for the assertion, that the
American Spaniards are reluctant to become
the members of a free government. We
know mat the court of London aFured cur
late Ambassador, Mr. King, of its perfect
acquiefence in our negociations withFrancc.
and we believe it is much to the advantage of
the English nation that we should be in the
pofleffion of that extensive territory. We
shall there consume the British manufact
ures which France and Spain would not do,
and our extent of territory leflens the power
of those nations, which are habitually ene
mies to England.
But this inveterate party would glory in
provoking a war, though their country
should be buried in its ruins, rather than to
allow a slate of prosperity under an adminis
tration which is not conduced by their
hands. We know that our envoy, Mr.
Munroe, went from France to Spain, on
the completion of the compact between
France and the United States, refolding
Louisiana ; that he proceeded from Madrid
to London, and was graciously received by
the king of the British isles—and we have
no reason to believe that he has given our
President any intimation of an uneasiness
in England or Spain on this fubje&.
We may take the elegant, the learned and
the patriotic communication of our Presi
dent, as a chaste description of the state of
our nation. PLAIN TRUTH.
On MODERATION.
Mr. Nutting,
The prevailing temper of the Federalists,
so denominated, has become moderate ; and
I sincerely congratulate the Union, and the
For tbe Ledger.
B. LEVERETT,
RESPECIFULY informs the public
that he has removed from his flore in
Congiefs-ftreet, to the (lore lately occupied
by Mr. Stephen Peatfc, oppofitc the Rev.
Mr. Buckminfter's Meeting House, where
lie has for sale, a general alignment of
Weft-India Goods
and
GROCERIES,
as cheap as can be purchased at any (lore in
Portsmouth, confiding of
Madeira, Vidonia,")
^^ WINES
and Malaga
Gon Powder, Hyfon, °)
Young Hyfon, (TI? A Q
Hyfon Skm, Souchong, [
and Bohea
fithefirft qualities.
Philadelphia Loaf and Lump
SUGAR, per cwt. or Loat; India and
Brown do.
t London bottled Porter, and
I aunton Ale, per calk or dozen.
Cogniac Brandy ; Spanish do.
Holland Gin : Weft India Rom, old do.
Molafles ; Weft India and Georgia Cotton ;
Mace; Nutmegs; Cinnamon ; Cloves ;
Allspice ; Pepper ; Ginger per keg: Blade
Zant Currants ; Raisins; Almonds Cho
colate No. i, and 2. do. Shells ; Coffee ;
Oatmeal, Ebglifh Mustard per lb. do. per
bottle; double refined Salt Petre ; Oil per
flask ; Scot's true liquid Blue, per jug';
Windsor S tap ; Crown do —HaiiPou der ;
Anchoives and Sardineas per bottle, Cay
enne per do. or oz.
Lorillard's celebrated Maccuboy Snuff per
bottle; Elliot's do. per keg or smaller
qnanity.
Spermaceti, Mould & Dipt Candles
God froid'sSPANISH SEGARS
per box or reatail.
No. 1,2, and g, Smoaking Tobacco ;
GLASS WARE—viz.
Quart Mugs ; I-Ipint, do pint, and I pint ;
Pint Tumblers per Straw,and half pint do.
Vinegar Cruets ; Wine Glaflcs.
STONE WARE— viz
qGallon down to ^gallon Pots ;
^Gallon down to 1 rallon Jngs.
IRON HOLLOW WARE, a
general assortment.--Wrapping Paper, Paper
per Ream.
Cod and Pollock EISH,•
io by 8, 9 by 7, WINDOW
GLASS, per box, or § box, &e. &c.
Nov,& 6w.
SAMUEL-WYATT;-
Cabinet Maker,
Defpe&fully informs the public
-L'that he has taken the fhep formerly oc- # b
copied by the late Mr. Daniel Rindge, in
Daniel ft reet,where hecarries on the cabinet
making in all its branches. As he has just
commenced business, he hopes the public &
his friends in particular will favor him with
their cuflom, and he promises that their or
ders, left with him, iball te executed in the
best manner and most modern style.
SWETT&WEEKS
Have jofi received a large aJlert'
went of
Seasonable GOODS,
which they now offer FOR SALE at
^O. 9, Merchant's Row,
being the North end of the new fire proof
store in fore street.
Their assortment comprises al
most every article enumerated in
the most extensive advertisement ;
all of whicli they are determined
to mark at such prices, as shall en
sure a quick sale.
Purchasers are desired to call and
examine the prices and qualities of
their goods.
hftance this and introduce it, to add a fiymp
nm of moderation in be recommended to
chr f r f feciety in Ponfmouth. <<l 2m
r,crfe (Uys Gen. Mcrrr) ever was, andev
er mult be, to introducing politics into fecial
,ife. It is the bane of fuciety, I disdain it
ind I truftwho ever knows me, knows I
im too much of a gentleman." This is
true, for the Republicans think him a gen
t'eman. As I grow lengthy, and am a
great friend to moderation, you shall hear
from me next week. J. W.
NEW GOODS.
Nov.•. 5.
GROCERY STORE.