Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1801-10-22 00:00:00, page 1

REPUBLICAN GAZETTE.
0 LIBERTY AND THE CONSTITUTION.^ %'
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, $3- ATHEISM
L a disbelief of GOD; a dillrelief of a Supreme
First C^ufe— Though many, very many, (and
& fo^pr^tf^ too) by their lives deny the
%@acy of the Great First Cause ; vet, we
are disposed to think that in very truth there is
BOraman, of common fenle, hard, enough to
.%y in bis heart, Thro is „ G;/—Daily experi
rncediaates to every man a cifftient belief—
v ^l^cto him lot there ia "^n tveiruliag.
Providence, which by its difpenfationa proves,
&t ft delights io the happiness of man here,
o^eir greater happiness hereafter
~ ^ahre has been taken; by certain performs in
America, (whether hypocrite, or not, let fads
determine) to perluade people that Humb,
"VOLTAIRE, FraKKLIN, JEFFERSON, and
m^a, others of the most eminent political men
in Chrißendom, were and are Athens — Jbf-
Person is a living witness of the faifay of the
charge ag^i,ft him ;—and it must afford his
frieads pteafare, and confound his Slanderers,
when the trulli is fully known-Thole who are
Republicans, and who support Mr. fcfftrfor,
upon the principle of his being a genuine Re
publican, a Friend to the Rights of Man, a
Fhilanthropift, who delights in the happiness
of all bis fellow men, a firm advocate of Equal
Liberty, are willing to tell him by a rule which
will kidom deceive, viz. " By tbeir Fraits,„
Jball emo them.” —Let those who value their
own rights, or retain any regard to JUSTICES
examine the public life and conduct of Mr. Jef
fgrton ; bis character, at an'eminfo Republi
can Politician, is coevous with our exifteoce as
an independent nation , the public records of
the country, from the cqmmencegnent of the
revolution, give ample teftanony of this fa&—
One Single aft of his, viz. The Declaration of ft
tyn^ro, (which ought forever to remain the
left of principles in America) will outweigh all
theafeerfioDS of his political enemies—lt is with
an boo,ft pride we triumph over those enemies,
in noticinj>heicfohe charges of atb^fa again#
the Patriot whois legacy constituted the Chief
Executive cf the United States—Upbn his in
aoguration, in hisfirft public ad, we find Mr.
Jefferfon, before the whole nation, " Acknowl.
edging and adoring an OVERRULING PRO
BENCE." These are his own words—- — Let
bis talfeaccufers remain dumb. He bag pub,
licly promised a legal administration of your af
/fairs, and to do allrhe good to you in his puw.
er ;—at the fame time, he pretends not to per
fection, but asks your indulgence for his own
unintentional errors, telling you, '' Ifbalfyf,
„ 4* g° wr%, tbrugb dijed tfjaugment" —^
foisting your support agaioft the errors of
• others, who may "condemn what they would
not, if fail in all its parts''—for fays he, Wben
right; Jfall often be thought wrorg, b, th, übo/o
h^ o^*3 do rot command & view of the whole ground.
By his administration, let us test him, making
only reasonable allowances for theimperfeaion
of humanity — When he " breaks through the
Conftitutioß," and thus endangers oum Liber
ty, let his enemies impeach him, let them not
fore him, but deal out avenging justice with
federal vengeance—But, "in the mean time, he
Should be tried, without befog „judged." ^
To give the reader some idea, with what degree of
justice the charge oi atbeifm is foretimes bro't
* < Winft men, we extra& the following =?
VOLTAIRE upon ATHEISM.
"ATHEISTS are commonly i learned'
men, whoare daring and eccentric, who
reason badly, and not being able to com
prebend creation, the origin of evil, and
other difficulties, have had tecourfe to
the hypothesis of the eternity of things,
and to neceffitv. i^ ^
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ot a God, They neither deny, nor af
firm, on a fabled of which thou
Tel! them thatall tbrng, ffl, by the |
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Published by E. RUSSELL, CONCORD, [n. 4) October ^, &
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I^ of '^ a ^ ^ w °"' d be "
Steady to believe it.<
« What condufion ought we. to draw
I from what I have advanced? That A
theifmfo monster, very pernicious in
those who govern ; for tho their lives
be innocent, they have an influence Up
on all who are conneded with them, and
if Atheism be not so perniq^ as Fan=
aticifm, it is almost always f&to virtue.
Wemay add, weie is lets Atteifm now,
than formerly, since Philosophers have
difeovered that there is nothing in veg#
etation without its germ, and no germ
without d^ugh.
"Geometricians not philosophers have
rejected final causes, but true pbilofo
phers have admitted them. And, as said
an author well known, a Cateebift may
declare a God to children, but Newton
has demonstrated his existence to all wife
men."
Voltaire, therefore appealed, in the
close of life, to his writings, that whatev
er they might contain, they could not
prove that he was an Atheist,
ipalttical ^€flcet@
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From the Trevto, irne American.
POLITICAL INTOLLERANCE.
THE Feds, continue to prate of Mr.
Jefferfon's political intollerance. We
wish this matter more generally and cor
re&ly understood. When Mr. Adams
went out of office, he left scarce a repub
lican in the Union, and nocone in New
jerfey,in possession ot any place oFtruft,
hbnor, or profit, under the federal gov
ernment :—]& this was not difeovered by
his friends to be political intollerance !
;, Since Mr. Jefferfon has been in of
fice, a period of fix months, he has dih
placed dbout 30 federalists in the Union
at large, and, except in two or 3 cases,
appointed republicans to succeed them.
These displacements were principally, if
not wholly made, on account of some
illegality in the appointment, or incom
petency in the person of the officer. In
/[Ne^erfey, Mr. Jefferfon has made 3
appointments, viz. a diftrid attorney, to
a place vacant by resignation— a super
visor, in the room of a person naturally
or habitually idifqualified for the office ;
and a colledor of the Port of Amboy;
in the room of a notorious refugee, and
it is said, at this time, a Britijh half,a,
officer The Judges of the Supreme, the
Circuit, and Diftrid U. States Courts,
with high and permanent salaries—the
Marshal and his deputies- and mog of
the colledors of the internal revenue,
retain the places given them under the
date adminiftrauon,, and call themselves
Federalists. 4 >
Out of 192 revenue officers in the 0.
S. not m'ore than ten have been displac
ed, since Mr, Jefferfon's accession to the
Presidency.
Os 105 principal officers under the
federal government, but 51 are republi
^^^h ^rt byre
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ly published at the city of Waffimgton. S
The above Qbborn f a& , which
niir AnhAnAnfo /'•hmm/•hi £.#J m At 4 J
our opponents cannot confute, and dare
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ineir pan calumnies, ana licence 1
Imejrallurelmejrallure clamors, on this head at leait#'
Let the boneft and candid of all par
ties examine the above Statement, and
^"^"y rep] y' whet her they believe
Mr. Jefferfon has been guilty of politi
cal intollerance ?—Or whether, on the
contrary, his forbearance to displace fed
era! officers has not be carried to too
great a length, as it deprives the repub
licans of their just proportion of public
confidence, and bimfelf of the official
Support and assistance of men of conge;
;nial political Sentiments ?)
C^^Bi
The Removals from Office.
The Virginia Examiner, in noticing
some declamatory asperities on the re
cent removals, asks the following perti
nent questions :—„
“ Who was it removed Major Boyd
from the custom house, for voting as he
thought proper? Who was it declared
in the senate of the United States that he
would gather vote for an old tor, who was
a federalift, than he would for a man who
had loft a leg and an arm ip the service
of his country, who was not a federalift ?
Who was it removed the firft marshal of
Pennsylvania from office, for not having
packed a jury, to try Henfield? Who ,
was it that avowed on the, floor of Con
gress, that it was fit and right that none
Should receive employment under the
federal government, whose creed was not
the fame as the executive ? Who was it
that displaced Tench Coxe for the pro
mulgation of his fentimentL? Who dis
placed Capt. Montgomery for being a
democrat? Who removed Col, Shee
out of the office of Treafuter of the Phi
ladelphia corporation, because he was a
democrat, and voted for M Kean ? Who
was it that removed Mr. Gardner, for
refufing to sign an adulatory addrefo?
f•' ^< " '., ^— set— ;' ~ r
O, Federalism, where is thy fling?
[What will be the fate of the PreJident, now
that the wild,Jlarkmad " Friends of or
der," in Newham,Jhire, have grown so
furious against him—the violent ,ar&'
'/"" of federahfm have driven them to
outrage all bounds of decency —andbike,
have even broken through the rfyaints
which their religion formerly imposed on Q
the wick ed jacobin democrats — Under
, Mr. Adams' adminifration, '• ,affair
• obedience and non-rfijiance," was tie
touch Jlor.e cf Federalifm —it w& made
uupdracxubte, to txamm Executive meafaris —the
Republican, wh toed to rrffitbtir " 6 do-rip^l
faith of fubmirfoD,' w,r, tbreatraj with tranf
,ortutio%; lobolrodlfeMife bit mird, (if a De
mocrat) mus ate#, for Li, trafrit, in a „ifon—But
tbt tab^u art tur„ : . — Tbo Pe^t bovttkßsda Do
? mocrat P, tfdnt, a RepuWicanbimcrat —axd what
i, now tbicov^a rf#b„french togromitt? —
Tbi, willfutyit ,&*,r tba« they reign. She
" frauds of or&r, bave become Dijorganizm ;
they who uim mouths ago wtro : ,mcb advocator
for ftrer%!htning & orttfth Executive, are
now Qatfym of fa C.&wU Awbormu. |
In NewhAmplhire, Federalism (or more properly
Tm,te) fe raging with redoubled inveteracy 4--
In the North, the Pfefident it menaced ^ith
“ the voice of tbfor, and the 66 point of the
Swoe^!" Such are the weapon, with which tfr
while in the South, the oh term in our matron
toll. n
ed fJ^&rfo — &^° fc ^t4&*
after all their struggles to agitate the people to
a violent opposition to the present general ad
minifratioD. nothino but * Pa^r w^ r •
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