Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1803-03-01 00:00:00, page 2

From the National Intelligencer.
Our readers may have forgotten, and if
so, we remind them of the fad, that certain
individuals were named by Mr. Adams, in
the last moments of expiring power, juflices
of the peace for the didrict of Columbia.
It is said the Senate approved the nomina
tion of these individuals ; hot that the then
Prelident, for what reasons is not understood
declined issuing their commissions. So that,
when Mr. JefFerfon entered upon the duties
of the Presidency, he found himfelf under
the ncceflity, during the recess of the Senate,
of making new appointments, or of being
inftrumeutal in the giving effed to an exer
cise of power by his predeceiior, which if it
did not violate the letter, certainly did vio
late the spirit and the end of the Constitution.
Between these alternatives, he could make
no other choice, than the adoption of the for
mer course. But for the fake of harmony
he appointed the greater part cf the gentle
men nominated by Mr. Adams, notwith
flanding their federal politics—These whom
he neglected to appoint, fired with party
vengeance, immediately made application to
the Supreme Court, (that par amoumt tribu
nal !) to iflue a mandamus to the Secretary
of State, to deliver to them their commis
sions.
The Supreme Court ought to have refuf
ed any inftrumentahty in this meditated,
and we may add, party invasion of Execu
tive functions. But they so far sustained
it as to allow a rule to Ihew cause why a
Mandamus Ihould not iffhe.
Contemplating a decision on this point,
the aforefaid individuals some days since ad
dressed a Memorial to the Senate of the Uni
ted States, requesting permiffioh, to obtain
from the secret Executive Journals of that
body an authenticated tranicript of the pro
ceedings on their nominations by Mr. Adams.
This memorial was taken up on Monday
and rejected — Ayes 15 —Noes 12 —on the
ground that the measure was a party mea
sure ; that it was meant as the basis of Ex
tutive crimination ; that it claimed an ad
from the Senate, who were the great Con-
Mtutional Judges of the Executive in case
of impeachment, that might indelicately and
improperly commit them ; that it fanaion
c.l a right of the Judiciary to which thev had
ro legal pretentions ; and that it totally a
hrogated that rule of the Senate which in
joined that the Executive Journal should be
kept secret.
It would seem, from the recent attempts
to disturb the harmouy of the legislature,
that as much effea is calculated upon from
%he ghost of judicial power, as from the real
ri 1 ; of it. On the annihilation of the latter,
tie former appears to have risen from the
Icob of the Capulets, and to have (talked
100 either House, alternately crying “ ven
^ance, vengeance" —"money, money."
Estrafl of a letter from Albany, to the Editors
dated February 1.
" Early in the session strong suspicions
v-re entertained that the Treasurer of the
hate, who you know is afederalfi had not
opportunity, that providence ever gave with
n the knowledge of hillory of making itleli
an illustrious example to the world.
What the terms were, or were to be, it is
probable we dial! never know ; or what is
more probable, that feigned ones, if any,
will be given. But from the conduct of
the party since that time, we may conclude,
that no taxes would have been taken off,
that the clamour for war would have been
up, new expenses incurred, and taxes and
offices, incrcafed in consequence ; and a
mong the articles of a private nature that the
leaders in this seditious traffic were to llipu-
Jate with the mockPrefident tor lucrative ap
pmtments for themselves.
But it those plotters against the constitu
tion underlined their business, and they had
been plotting long enough to be matter of
it, a (ingle article would have comprehend
ed every thing which is,
That the PreJident (thus made) feould be
governed in all cases whatjoeper by private
junto appointed by themselves.
They could then through the medium of
a mock-president have negatived all bills
which the party in congress could not have
opposed with success, and reduced reprelcn
tation to a nullity.
The country has been imposed upon, and
the real culprits are but few ? and as it is ne
cessary for the peace, harmony, and honour
of the union to separate the deceiver from
the deceived, the betrayers from the betray
ed, that men who once were friends and
that in the word of times, should be friends
again, it is necessary as a beginning, that
this dark business be brought to a full invest
igation. Ogden's letter is a direct evidence
of the fa& of tampering to obtain a condi
tional President. He knows the two or
three .members of congress that commiflion
cd him, and they know who commifiioned
them.
Federal City, Level's Hotel, Jan. 29, 1803.
FEDERAL INTEGRITY.
THOMAS PAINE.
SEVENTH CONGRESS Second Session.
HOUSE— Wednesday, Jan. 26.
Mr. Jones introduced the following mo
tion with a few preparatory remarks.
Resolved, That the repeal of the diferim
inating duties on foreign tonnage and mer
chandize imported in foreign velfels, re
commended by the committee cf commerce
and manufactures in their report on that
fubjeft made on the loth infant, shall not
extend to foreign ihips or veffe!s, or the ar
ticles imported therein from the Colonies
or Dependencies of any foreign nation, un
less the ihips and vcffels of the U. States ffiall
enjoy the fame privileges in the navigation
and tread between the United States and
such colonies or dependancies as are or may
be allowed to the Ihips & vessels of the nation
to which such colonies or dependancics may
belong.
Referred to a committee of the whole to
whom was referred the report of the com
mittee of commerce and manufaaures on
countervailing duties.
The House resolved itfelfinto a commit
tee of the whole on the report of a feled
committee on so much of the President's
Menage as relates to a warfare with
Tripoli, &c. Mr. Varnum in ihe chair :
The resolution, with which the report
concludes, aut' orifmg the procuring four
ihips of war not exceeding 16 guns each
was agreed to without a division ; when the
committee rose and the House immediately
confirmed their report, and ordered a bill to
be brought in.
The house resolved it felf into a commit
tee of the whole on the bill for the importa
tion of ordnance, arms, &c.—Mr. Varnum
in the Chair. On the question being taken,
it was loft, —Ayes 36 —Noes 45.
On motion of Mr. Mitchill, the House
went into a committee of the whole.—Mr.
Dawion in the chair—on the bill for the
encouragement of learning and the promo
tion of the ufeful arts.
Mr. Bayard moved to amend the feftion
so as to extend the privilege of obtaining pa
tents to aliens as well as citizens.
On this motion., a debate ensued until the
hour of adjournment.
On the quellion being put, the motion
was loft.—Ayes 19. —Noes 44.
Thursday, Jan. 2%
Dr. Mitcbill presented a memorial from
a number of mechanics of the City of
New-York against the repeal of diferiminat
ing duties.
Mr. Griswold presented a memorial from
eleven of the late circuit judges of the United
States, representing that they have been
divested by law of their judicial duties, and
requesting Congress to define the duties to
be performed by them, and to assign some
judicial tribunal competent to a decision of
their claim for salary.
Mr. Griswold moved a reference of the
memorial to a felea committee.
Mr. Gregg moved a reference to the com
mittee of Claims.
Mr. Randolph moved a reference to a
committee of the whole House.
This lalt motion, after debate, prevailed—
Ayes 53 ?
Mr. Randolph moved that it be made the
order of the day for that day.
Mr. Griswold moved that it be made the
order for to-morrow. —Mr. Randolph's
been quite as faithful to his trust as he ought
to have been ; it was thought that he had
made free with about twenty two thousand
pounds. A joint committee of both houses
was appointed to examine the Rate of the
Treasury and report thereon. Yesterday
the committee reported to the astonishment
of the members of both branches. By this
report, which, hotwithflanding the scanda
lous conduct of the Treasurer, is mild and
candid, it appears that there is an unaccount
ed for balance against him, an absolute defi
ciency, of near thirty four thoujand dollars !
Thus you fee that Republican violence, seek
ing to reform abuses committed by federalist
when in power in the general as well as in
the date governments, is every day finding
out depredations they have been guilty of
and reaifying their mal-condudL The joint
committee ftrenuoudy recommended the
appointment of Another Treasurer.
" After the Report was made, Mr.
M'Clallen, the innocent federal Treasurer,
who never polluted his fingers with the money
of the Treasury, very modejky rejigned his
office. '
" General Bailey, now a member of thd
House of Representatives, is appointed to
succeed Mr. Gouverneur Morris in the Se
nate. Mr. Woodworth, an amiable man and
an excellent Republican, had a large major
ity in the Assembly as successor to Mr. Mor
ris, but on a joint ballot of the two houses
General Bailey had a majority of two ; they
are both republicans, both enemies to pkts.
The Federalists are indeed humble in the
two houses as they ought to be. In the Se
nate they are 12 to 20 ; in the Assembly 25
10 75. " Your's, &c." Amcr. Citizen.
National Legislature.
From the (Concord) Gazette.
FELLOW CITIZENS!
Your candid attention is requested by one, who
solicits you to exercise a moment your own com
mon sense and judgment, for your own uJe.
The political a/pefis of the times .demand a RE
TROSPECT of the rife and progress of Modern
Federalism. He who has read the public prints
from the time of the adoption of the Briti/h trea
ty, can trace with tolerable accuracy the defiant of
designing federalilts !
ImpoJlars, who mean to praftife a deep decep
tion, will put on ihe faireft garb, assume some po
pular name :—Thus, the Old Tories, and those of
the Whigs whom they could persuade to apostatize
from Democratic Republicanism, affirmed to
themselves the honorable name of Federalists —
Under this popular name, which they use only to
mask their conspiracies against Liberty and the
Rights of Man, they for a time let thousands of ho
ned unfufpeaing Americans affray in the high
road to Monarchy.
After the adoption of the British treaty, these
Monarchies stepped boldly into the trontranks
and openly difylayed their plans of royalty, which
they had before in some measure kept concealed
from the public eye—well knowing that the Peo
ple of the U. States would reject with them dis
gust and consign them to disgrace.
Now, a contemptible Porcupine, a daflard hire
ling of Lifon the British miniver at Philadelphia,
erected a licentious press ; openly and pointedly
ridiculed all our Republican institutions, the U
NION ofthe States, our Federal Compact our Reli
gious freedom, our civil rights, and as vehe
mently recommended the annihilation of individ
ual State Sovereignties the ConJolidation of State
and General governments, the adoption of Britifli
manners, a British Constitution, British Laws, and
in short to sue for the alliance and protection of a
British King—All these vagaries did a Porcupine,
and his disciples, inculcate in his Gazettes ; and
these gazettes with their doctrines did the old tor
ies circulate thro' the country with avidity ;—and
the old Whigs, if such could do it, who could
spread these gazettes and their diabolical princi
ples muff at r leaft defeend to the grade of Apostates
and take rank with those misanthropes the Old
Tories ! The fhemes of these monarchies were
developed, before the people of the United States
were ripe for slavery ; they saw the fetters and
the yoke of bondage, preparing for them and their
posterity ; —they rose, in all the majefly of Free
men, and (hook the serpent from their hands l=.
motion prevailed.—When the House resolv
ed itfelf into a committee pt the whole —Ms.
Dawson in the chair.
Mr. Griswold then submitted two re
solutions.
Thefrfl to provide by law for defining
the duties of the circuit Judges.
1 he Jecond to provide by law for submitt
ing to judicial decision the right of the
judges of the circuit court to compensa
tion.
After debate, the committee divided on
the firftrefolution—Ayes 34 —Noes 56 —
left.
And on the second resolution Ayes 35,
noes 57, loft.
Mr. Varnum then submitted a resolution
—that the prayer of the petitioner ought
not to be granted, and that the petitioners
have leave to withdraw their petition—
which was carried without a division.
The committee rose and reported this re
solution, which was agreed to ; the Yeas
and Nays being called —Yeas 61—Nais
37-
IN SENATE—fa. 28^,
Mr. Morris, from the committee
whom was referred the memorials
Judges Basset, Benson, Bourne, Gri'
Hitchcock, Key, Magill, Smib, Ta
Tilghman and Wolcott.
REPORTED-
That the petitoners were judges of certain
courts, inferior to the supreme court, con
stituted by an aft of the 13th of February,
1801, and duly commissioned to hold their u
fices during good behaviour.
That while holding and exercifirig their
offices, an a6t was puffed on the Sth of
March last to repeal the said aft of the 13th
of Feb. ißof, and transfer the duties of
the said judges from them to others.
That a question has arisen, whether, by
teafon of the premifes,the said petitioners be
deprived of their offices.
That this question depending on the con
ftruaion of the laws and constitution of the
United States,is not properly congnizablc bv
the Senate.
The committee, therefore, conceive it
imporper either to give reasons, or express
opinion ; but theyfeonfider it as a question of
high and serious import, and believe that a
speedy investigation and final decision is of
great moment to the commonwealth.
Wherefore, they submit the following re
solution.
RESOLVED, That the President of the
United States be requested to cause an infor
mation in the nature of a quo warrants, to
be filed by the attorney general against
Richard Ballet, one of the said petitioners,
for the purpose of deciding judicially on their
claims.
Read and made the order of the.day for
Wednesday next.
REMEMBER
The Approaching Election !
SONS of FREEDOM ! BE AT
YOUR POSTS !
Attest, SAMUEL A. OTIS. Sec.
The Freemen of America fpoke.Tn their elections ;
and 7 ory FederaliJm, like the Dogon of the Philist
ines before the Ark cf the :lloA High God, fell
prolirate before Republicanism !—the fiat of a
mighty people consigned it tc eternal shame !
Although in two or three otthefe States, leder
cdi,n predominates in final! majorities,yet even in
those its strength is fra, alized—tins the leaders of
the " Sect" are aware of, and dare not openly de
fend their cause—it is a solemn fad, that so falfe,
to wicked, so baseless, so rotten is this FederaliJm,
that should its Principles, the Leaders of the delud
ed pyrty come out into the open field .of candid
reatoning, our molt '< unletter'd pltbians" would
put them to flight ! the “ Jivinifh multitude, as
they ignominiously style the People, would fee ac
once the caeat of Federalism, end all its chas ms
would be dispelled ! Thus, have we seen a Par
sons, the mighty champion ot the hw/hrink from
the defence o t the dogmas of his Sett before the
high court of the nation— Challenged to the content
he saw the danger, and withdrew hls'foien—Had
he dar'd—had he spoken to the point, in defence
offederalijm, in open court, he would have damn'd
the cause forever !—This is the reason why the
molt ignorant &of courle the most deluded,are the
chosen tools of the designing chiefs—? tie inftru
nients to further Conspiracies, ^nafods, and Re
bellion.
In a national point of view, the locks of the
Eritifh Bantling are cur ! Federaiim has loft i,s
Itrengh and all o^Baya;d. w< r,::eld ct the
ran never again give it crnneliut^ m the eves
e Nation, nor all their Ruthrig Jo iuift it 'ie-
Iv # ry judicious titan, oil] gimp r th? „%„,,;
fFaJu; ^Ce^teE% v ,<n rfpi /with the
ejent admiJflratois ot the General Govern
ent—and /nd indeed mull lie be, wno doe not
1^- the conuajs !—lne people will decide winch
I merits their approbation—which cot fults their in
terest, the common good—a federal or a republi
can Prefident —the People can now decide, by uy
proof of experiment, whether they will prefer an
administration that increases taxes, offices and de
pendants, or an adminiltration that relieves from
taxes, abolishes unnecessary offices, curtails execu
tive influence by difmiffiog useless dependants, and
seeks to confer solid benefits on the present gener
ations and on their posterity, by the extinguifli
ment of that “ mortal canker" the public debt !
The former of these adminifirations has had a
four years trial, with John Adams at its head
the latter, beaded by Thomas Jefferson, is now
in “ the full tide of foccefsful experiment." It
behoves Americans to take a full " view of the
whole ground , and their decisions will undoubt
edly be wife and correct.
It may be profitable for all our citizens, parti
cularly at this time in NewhampJhire, to advert to
former times, and contrail Icdeial affections with
'the truth, federal profeflions with federal practice :
aft, who are the men that opposed
the Revolution that fevered the Unital States
from Great Britain ?--They were tories, they are
federalist —they opposed Republican Gov
ernment then, and they opppofe it non .
they are lories Iliff ; and tories are the head
of modern federalifm. The "cardinal points" of
federalifm, are consolidation of power, a senate
elected for life, and an hereditary president is its
ne plus ultra —these are the cardinal points of
monarchy ; the very principles which the tories
advocated in the revolution. Thus, old tories,
almofl to a man, are jederali[ls,and it is not at all
flrange that in the happy prosperity of our Ameri
can IJrael they should have found it easy typerzets
ihe Jons of Eli, many of the Jons of those who were
Whigs in the revolutionary ffraggfe for freedom;
for such is the innate love of power that “ all men
uyuld be tyrants if they could." But that the Old
1 ories should have perverted any of our primitive
Whigs, and caused them to be guilty of the fin of
^potiacy, is an evil seriously lamented—it is, how
ever, a pleating consolation, that such, who were
deluded by theferpent, are “ faft returning to their
firft love." Thirteen of the sixteen States are
wifely Republican —and the 17th ^tar will soon be
added to our Republican galaxy I—Gloria Ameri
'cana.
The true republicans, are all federalifls, for they
support the federal government, the union or
league that links the States together ; but the feel
who falfely call themselves federalifs, and some
times federal republicans, are NOT republicans—
they utterly deny the firtt article of our politics,
creed, that " all men are born equally free ;" they
contend for a nobility ; —they have fa fhioued a
mong themselves a King—but the American peo
ple have emphatically told these relllefi, ambitious
monarchies “ we will not haze your King to reign
over us !” We will retain the- sovereignty our
selves ! The election of a Jefferfun speaks this de
cided language.
The motto df Jefferfon, is the motto of all genu
ine republicans, " Cherffh the Federal Union as the
only Rock of Safety !”But the felf named federal
ills denounce him as " an artful, base, intriguing
diforganizer !" His Measures, my fellow citizens,
his Works will declare whether he be the friend
or the foe of the American people—by these, tr,
him —prove him.
Citizens of New-Hampshire !—take care of
yourselves !—your old enemies are enemies dill—
a lying spirit has gone forth to deceive you—you
are told that men who are on terms of the closest
intimacy with, and favour the plans of old tories
and monarchies, arc yow,only friends ; the only
men in the date who possess wisdom, honesty and
virtue.—You are told, citizens of New-Hampshire,
that JOHN LANGDON, your early, ufeful, long
tried, couftaut friend, is now “ opposed to the
honor and happiness of this State, by favoring Mr.
Jefferfon'sj|rinciples !"—Citizens ! think of this
insidious declaration of the mouth piece of federal
ifm ! What would the fate ofthe man bare beep,
who had dared, four years ago, to have told the
people that Mr, Gilman was opposed to the honor
of the state, by favoring the principles of president
Adams /—Call to your recollection, citizens, the
afts and feenes of the reign of terror, when a
General Court could vote their Chaplain out of doors,
because he accidentally forgot to mention the prefix
dent ofthe tinted States in his prayer / and fay
what would have been his fate who had been hardy
enough to declare His Excellency opposed to the
happiness of the date, because he favored the Pre
sident I— You were then, my fellow citizens, call
ed upon, as you loved your God, your Religion,
and your Country ; as you valued your honur,-
your interest and the happiness of the date, you
were conjured by the federalifts, to vote for Mr.
Gilman, because he favored the principles of the
president; because be was friendly to Mr.AdamM-.
and Mr. Gilman himfelf once declared to your
Representatives, that a chief seafoo of his accepting
the office of Governor was, that the honor and
happiness of our country required 64 that the (late
goveroment* should harmonize with the general