The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1800-09-16 00:00:00, page 1

The Republican Ledger.
PORTSMOUTH, (NtW-H/IMPSHIRE) PRINTED BY NUTTING & WHITELOCK, MULBERRY LANE, ADJOINING ROUSSgLETt MUSEUM.
, NUMBER 4„—VOL, nj
'' WHEN YOU SHALL THESE DEEDS RELATE, SPEAK OF THEM AS THEY ARE; NOTHING EXTENUATE NOR SE± DOWN OUGHT IN MALICE."
From the Independent Chronicle.
A HE variety of measures adopted by thql
^rifonlo in this country for the 4 years past,
are worthy the particular confederation of the
Whigs at the prefentcrifis; Every contriv
nnce which stratagem could devise or intrigue
_ "fabricate,has been fraudently praaifed on the
\tnfufpicious citizens, to effeatheir base pur
poses—a deep laid system of deception, has
been pursued, and the most low tricks used,
to intimidate the cautious, and terrify the
ignorant. Every little dirty manouvre has
been so artfully managed, that the paltry
efforts of a faaion have succeeded to accom
plish a temporary advantage—at one time,
a Tub-Plot was founded as the tocsin
throughout the United States. The terror
was so universal, that every old woman ex
peded to find treason and rebellion wrapt
up in a bundle of linnen, and the contents
of a washing-tub was infpeaed with as much
accuracy, as the intrails of birds and beasts
in the days of Augury.
This Tub mania operated with wonder
ful success, till at length it gave way to a
more miflerious Taylor-Plot. To use
a vulgar expression, “ the Devil' was to pay
among the Taylors"---all the cross leg'd fra
ternity, (as if touched with the wand of
Harlequin) was cried down as being employ
ed to make uniforms for an Army of jaco
bins, who were (it was said) to join the
French on their landing in America. This
industrious thread and needle brotherhood,
were generally fufpe&ed to be in league
with France, to aid Buonaparte in his de
cent on the United States—every Taylor's
(hop in Philadelphia, was considered as
" pregnant with evils," as the belly of the
Troyjan horse ; and was viewed as the ren
dezvous of a banditti of " wild IriJhmen"
Who had enlisted in the service of the French
Directory. The Taylor-Plot was so terri
fic, that instead of beholding honest Buckram,
nine degrees below par, he was magnified to
a political Falftaff; his needle an Herculian
wand, and his (hears a guillotine, besmear
ed with the blood of a martyr'd Federalists.
Little David, with his fling and stone, was
not so formidable to Goliah, as the Taylors
in Philadelphia, with their goose and bob
kin, to the Government of the U. States.
Thus were those honest, industrious citizens
Uigmatized by a Junto, as the enemies of
their country.
The Taylor-Plot, however passed over as
harmless as the morning dew, and the next
was a Lady-Plot. In this part of the
Tory drama, every danger was apprehend
ed--a woman ! a woman ! ! was all the cry--
a French man and a French woman, Tub-
Plots and Taylors, were represented as form
ing an alliance of the most formidable na
ture-—a woman was to set fire to the maga
zine, and the President, Senate and House
of Representatives, with the Hon. Theo
dore Sedgwick at their head, was to share
the fate of King, Lords and Commons, un
der the fatal explosion of Guy Faux, with
his dark lanthorn. The whole government
of the United States was to ascend towards
Heaven in columns of smoke, and the Con
hituted Authorities were to rife to the fame
elevation in chariots of fire.
These several Plots, however, did not suc
ceed so fully, as to answer the purposes of
toe Tory ration. At length, Mr. Harp
er contrived to tie a Bundle of Plots together,
which he emphatically christened " Clues
to Conspiracies." He exhibited them
to CongreGi in as much order, as a Connec
ticut trader would a bunch of Onions—as
occasions offered, he could wind off a fcain
of <lClues," with as much facility as a
country girl would a fcain of flocking-yarn.
These " Clues to Conspiracies," were ad
vertised in Fenno's Porcupine's, and some
modest papers in Boston, as discoveries
which would inevitably blow up the Jaco
bins—the Tories were on tip-toe to fee the
whole club in the air ; and were as pleased
with the ideals ever the Duke of York
was, to find himfelf out of the reach of the
French army. " Harper's Clues," how
ever, soon became like the baseless fabrick
of a vision, and he and his fopporters funk
into that contempt, which their folly and ig
norance merited. ',
Plots ! Plots ! at length loft their effica
vy—the People got wearied out with such
nohfeqfe and absurdities, and the Tory Jun
,o being baffled in'their projects, had re
course at last, to the despicable insignia of a
Cockade. In this part of the farce, they
appeared more ridiculous than ever---to fee
a group of old men, swaggering through
the streets, en militaire ; a cluster of boys
carrying in their countenances the formida
ble ditty of
" When 1 wall &fe &,, my mother kept me in;
But now I am & great fy. I'm fit to serve the king." °
interspersed with a few straggling negroes,
with a huge throng (to 6H up t^e chaim) of
fyeophants, who were courting public fa
vor, exhibited a feene which naturally ex
cited the laughter and pity of every consid
erate citizen. This Cockade influenza
was father harmless as folly was the only
confpicious trait which marked its progress--
only one blot remains on it, which was the
cowardly action of tearing a tri-coloured one
from the hat of an invalid Frenchman ;
but as we know the man and his coadjutors,
who were guilty of this difgraceful adion,
it is an apology for the stigma attending the
tranfadion. ~
The Tory Junto, in this stage of the busi
ness got to their ne plus ultra ; ingenuity
was exhausted ; they Itood at bay for some
time, till they hit upon an expedient to rouse
their drooping fpiriis—Religion! Reli
gion ! was in danger—-and Illuminati^
was about to darken the Christian world—
Deism, Atheism, and every other evil was
about to take place among mankind ; some
of the Reverend Doctors of Diviniey were
on fire to extirpate the pernicious society,
and they wrote in the public papers so ma
ny absurdities, that all their rhapsodies be
came the fubje& of ridicule, and themfclves
the objeas of derifion.'
Thus for these four years past, have the ci
tizens of th^ United States been imposed on
by a Tory-Fadion. --alarms, terror, threat
enings and fraud, have been the weapons
by which they have assailed the good sense
of the people ; every species of imposition
has been pradifed to accomplish their wick
ed purposes ; those whom they could not
coax, they intimidated, and those they could
not intimidate they coaxed. They have pur
sued so detestable a system, that they have
been afraid and ashamed to encounter those
who had spirit and resolution to challenge
them to an explicit contest. They have a&-
ed the part of assassins towards their oppo
nents, by attempting, in an insidious manner,
to injure them in their bufinefs* and af
perfe their characters. No measure, how
ever base and infamous, has been negle&ed
by this desperate junto to raise themselves
and depress others ; but, thank God, they are
fruftated in their defifos, and we trust Heav
en, that the time will soon arrive, when the
perfidy of such adversaries will be as con
spicuous to the public, as their business is
despised by their opponents.
Plots, Illuminati, Ocean Massacres, &c.
having loft their efficacy 4 —the Tory faction
are now watching the motion of the waters
in the ensuing election for President. Their
last resource is to calumniate Mr. Jefferfon,
as an enemy to the Christian Religion.—
The fame persons who have hitherto deceiv
ed the citizens about Tub Plots —who have
propogated the Lie, of the Ocean Massacre,
are now busy in scandalizing Mr. Jefferfon.
They have worn out every other falfehood,
and are now reduced to the miserable fubter
fuge of calling him a Deist. The fad is,
Mr. Jefferfon in his writings, vindicates the
right of confidence on the J&fl of Religion,
while his antagonists afre planning in con
clave, to ere& a national Hierarchy, to con
troul, and tyrannize over every other religi
ous establishment. This must be the cafe,'
otherways it is impossible, that so much vi
rulence should appear against him, for at
tempting to place every fed on an equal
footing. Judge then fellow citizens, be
tween Mr. Jefferfon, and his opponents.
The deceptions which have been praai,
ed on the public, and the falfehoods propa
gated by those whose duty it is to study the
Truth, have had a great tendency to deftrdy
the morals of the people, and to render them
inattentive to the precepts of the gospel.—
When they find so many of the Clergy, de
ceiving them with foolish political tales, the
people begin to doubt the validity of those
dodrines which they preach and enjoin.—
When they observe more real to propagate
political, than evangelical principles, the
people fufpe&, that the apparent fan&ity of
such Clergymen, is more a cloak of hypo
crisy, than a garb of piety—more especially
when they find, that falfehood# delivered in
the pulpit; are not reaified even after the
preacher is convinced of the fallacy of his
* sentence in extremely applicable to a cer
tain Little Federal BuJy body in Portsmouth.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1800.
assertion. Common honesty, di&ates to a
certain. Reverend Do&or, that he ought to
lacknowledge his error on the Ocean Maffa
tre. It fs to be feared, that a few over
heated Ecclesiastic partizans, have done more
injury to the cause of Religion, than all the
Deftical, or Atheiftical writers either in
France, England or America. A few lead
ing Clergymen have shown such an intoler.
ant spirit—have acted, and preached with
, temper so unbecoming the mild catholic
precepts of the Gospel, that many serious
persons have become so far difaffe&ed, as to
negle& an attendance on public Worship.
—The pulpit in many instances has been a
political Theatre, and days set apart for re
ligious worship, have been converted to par
ty rant, and defamation. The society in
stead of befrig entertained or inftruded in
matters of Religion, have been enraged a
gainst each bther by the inflammatory dog
mas of the preacher. OLD SOUTH.
Fr\m the Republican Watch-Tower.
THE cond\i& which our government has
exhibited towards France, has been, and will
be produaive of consequences, which length
of time and wisdom only can destroy.
The difpofitfyn that has been manifefted,
has not been the result of ignorance or ani
madvertence, b^t of a fettled design, a fixed
and determinate plan, to seven the chord by
which the republican sentiments of thiscoun
try were elofelybound to those of France.
The effea has produced a dimuniation in
the revenue or the government, at a time
when pecuniary resources feeni to be re
markably necessary. The means of pecu
niary acquisition have been diminished, while
the political principles of the ruling party
have constantly encreafed the expenditures
of the government.
This however, is not the worst effea that
has been experienced from that political tem
per that has been (hewn to France. The
goveramengof this country being founded
in the principles of democracy, it was ex
tremely necessary that this fentimeht Ihould
be kept alive, and its cultivation encouraged
among the people. It was neceflary that
the public opinion should have attached it
felf more particularly to the foreign govern
ments which are republican, or founded up
on principles similar to our own.
If errors were frequently exhibited in the'
pradical operations of those republics, it
ought to have been considered as a matter
of regret, and not as ground of quarrel.
It is better, far better, to be united with
republicanism, even though it be imperfect,
than with monarchy in all its splendor.
The spirit of monarchy is truly hostile to
the existence of every species of liberty and
genuine republicanism. We can gain noth
ing by a union with monarchy or aristocra
cy : but our own republican existence js
more essentially guaranteed by the preserva
tion of a friendly intercourse with all repub
lican governments, and a bold and unequi
vocal attachment to the principles on which
they are founded.
France solicited our friendship, and had a
right to expea, from the nature of the revo
lution in which she was engaged, that there
could be no better situation on the part of
the American people, or the American gov
ernment, in expressing the most pointed ap
probation of the cause in which fbe was en
gaged.
The intrigues of Britain, however, the
ideas of speculation, the attradive charms of
commercial adventures, with many other
causes of a similar kind, pressed into the ser
vice of tyranny a considerable portion of
our citizens ; created internal diffentions a
mong the people diminished the ardent
love of democracy and prepared, in the space
of a very few years, the way to the establish
ment of some of the most pernicious politi
cal laws that ever disgraced this or any oth
er country that pretended to freedom.
The very fame evils to which we objed
ed when they originated in the Britilh
parliament, were now fanaioned here, and
newspaper editors and pamphleteering writ
ers, unblulhirigly came forward with the
promulgation of sentiment for which during
the, revolutionary war, any man would have
been hanged as a traitor, or sent without
ceremony, to the regions' of Nova-Scotia.
The writers have not only calumniated
France, but abtifed in the most pointed man,
ner, the principle of republicanism itfelf.
Republican government, they fay, may be
interpreted to mean any thirtg, and they
point to the British monarchy as the modle
of political perfeaion. Such bas been the
[I DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM.
fad: but the just and fhong arm of repub
licanism (hall tear away the veil, and it will
be clearly difeovered that our interest is close
ly united with the interns of France and
other republics, & that the road which leads
to civil freedom and happiness, will never
he found to pals through the shoals and
quicksands of English tyranny, or any kind
of ar&toeracy.
• ._ A —i^|-
From the Centinel.
KINE POX.
Dr. Waterhouse takes this method to an
swer a number of queries put to him by let
ter and otherwise, refpe&ing the nature and
innoculation of the Kine Pox,
ift. Refpeaing its contagion ? It appears
by all the observations and experiments hi
therto made public that the disease is not
contagious or catching form one person to
another. Even the cows do not catch it of
each other, if an open rail fence be interpos
ed between them. Dr. W's children labor
ing under the disorder, slept thro' the whole
course of it, with those not then innoculat
ed for it. It does not seem possible (fays
Dr. Jenner) for the-contagious matter to
produce the disease from effluvia, 'or by any
other means than contaft ; so that a fingla
individual in a family might at any time re
ceive it without the risk of infeaing the rest
or of spreading a distemper that fills a coun
try with terror. A person having had the
small pox cannot have the fpecific fever of
the kine pox. He can have the local affec
tion only.
2d. Refpeaing dieting previous to receiv
ing the disease r Dr. W. had rather innocu
late persons in the plenitude of health with
out the least previous alteration of diet, or
mode of living.
3d. It is difficult to answer the queries
refpeaing the mildness or severity of the dis
order ? Dr. Waterhouse answers generally
that in avast majority of cases it is incom
parably milder than the innoculated small
pox, and it appears from experiments in.
England that it has become milder as it pro
gressed. Thus according to Dr. Wood will's
last report out of 310 cases only 39 had puC.
tules that suppurated, viz. out of the firft
hundred rq had pustules ; out of the second
13 ; and out of the last 110 only 7 had pus
tules. There have been a few cases, how
ever, where it has proved an heavy disease,
the patient being burthened with between
icoo and 1500 pustules. It is presumed
that had such persons been innoculated for
the small pox they would have died.
4th. As the belt season for receiving the
disease ? In this region the season preferred
for innoculation of the Kine Pox as well as
small pox, is from August to Nov. Coolifh
nights and ripe fruit are pleasant assistants to
the innoculator. Very cold weather is un
favorable to the kine pox. It aggravated
the soreness of the arm to that degree in En
gland that the inoculators were obliged to
postpone their operations until warmer wea
ther. Cold combined with dampness is
worst of all. About a dozen persons passed
thro' the distemper at Cambridge, when the
weather was hotter than ever was known
there face the use of thetmometers.
sth. To those of the faculty who have ap
plied to him by letter to supply them with
matter for inoculation—he would just ob
serve that as he has taken much pains in this
business and run no fmalf risk of reputation,
as well as of perfunal feelings, there are few
he trusts that will wonder he is anxious to
have the matter under his own eye until the
pradice is more firmly established by the
public opinion. A few unfuccefsful cases
at the beginning, deprived Scotland of the
blessings of inoculation for the small pox,
for more than 2o years. He hopes this idea
will operate as an excuse at present even in
the minds of his ci-devant pupils.,
Dr. Waterhouse informs those who have
applied to him out of Cambridge to inocu
late their families that he declined it only
until the disorder had gone, fairly thro' his
own family, and until some of them had
been inoculated by Dr. Afpinwall, and 0-
therwife exposed to the small pox. But
haying now confirmed his assertion that the
Kine pox proteas the constitution from the
infeaion of the small pox by a fair experi
ment he is ready to attend them whenever
they choose. Those who live in Boston
may rest assured that from the proximity of
his refidende to the <,pital, he (hall make
such arrangements as to be able to httefl
them as pundually as if fie resided there.
Cambridge, Aug, 18, 4800.