Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1801-05-07 00:00:00, page 1

Your party has been attempting to
raise a system, by which the chief Mag^
iftrate and the Senate of the United S.
Should become entirely independent of
the great body of the citizens who com=
pose the nation. The circumstances
which at that time were attached to the
country, did by no means call for an
attempt of that kind. According to your
own assertions, the country was in the
full tide of prosperity, and wrapt up in
the full robes of political happiness.-—
The conclusion of course was, that you
did not with a change in the principles
and form of the government to increase
the national happinefs,but that you might
procure to yourselves degrees of digni
ty, offices of honor, and places of emol
ument. by the degradation, and at the
expense of the people.
A measure in itfelf so derogatory to
the honor and deftrudive to the happi
ness of your fellow citizens could not
have been effeded, while they enjoyed
the high privilege of freedom of debat#
and a right to an opinion on public con
cerns. You therefore attempted to sub
vert these inestimable privileges, and to.
preclude the citizens of America from
those discussions, which the most arbitra
ry monarchs in Europe are obliged to
political ffltocellanp.
Frm th CHRONICLE.
The s(oti of the ©ffitf.
Addressed to those Men who call themselves
Federalists.
" And avitb %vbat meafers „ mte, it ft all be meajur
,ed unto jct agais.” bible.
THIS maxim, however high the autho
rity which has fanCiioned it, is but illy
received by men in general. Men in
authority are generally in an opposition
to it. For, such is the depravity of the
human heart, that the moment a man is
clothed with power, he is apt to forget
that he is a man. Sometimes men in
office appear like one raised on stilts,
who confiders his height as the only
standard, and quarrels with every one
who is not conformed to his altitude.
He who was well acquainted with the
human heart, inftruHed his disciples,
« be ye not called of then Rabbi, foryc
are all brethren ;" yet Dr. Morse, in his
book, has told the world that the Minify
ters of the gospel are the authority of
the government.
It is this disposition, so universally in
cident to the human race, that has ren#
dered it necessary by elective govern
ments, to raise and maintain a sense of
dependence in the magistrates, on the
people whom they are called to govern.
co nco RD, ratobampfotre, THURSDA Y, MAY 7 , 1801—No. 14— Vol. 1.
THE subscriber having been re^ap^
pointed Commiflbmtr of Loans for New
ham,(hire, hereby informs the public, (par.
ticularlv those who may have business at
said Office) that it is now kept at the late
Newhampfhire Union Bank,where constant
attendance will be given during the usual
hours.
WILLIAM GARDNER.
Portfinouth, April 24, 1801.
CT Loan Office.
REPUBLICAN GAZETTE.
allow their fubjeCU.Could this have
been effected by sedition laws, strange
determinations, and by the punishment
of men for abusing one magistrate, while
you encourage other men to abuse oth#
ers, you would in substance have over
turned the constitution. Look on the
indi&ments'and processes on which some
men have, under the former adminiftra#
tion of the government, been committed
° to the pillory and prison, and fee wheth
er the Federal papers, as they are falfely
called, do npt teem with a more ran
corous abuse, & more seditious language
against the present President and admin
istration?
In order to effect your purpose of fed
eralizing the Republic of America into a
Monarchy, you rendered it legally crimi
nal for any one to have an opinion not
correspondent to your own. You made
it a disqualification to office, not to u
nite with your party in all measures,
without principle or discussion, or not to
wear your cockade, or not to Sign all
the papers, addresses, and associations,
which were forged in the cabinet of your
councils. Under this idea, Col. Whip
ple of Portsmouth, one of the mod ac
curate men in his conduct, one of the
most benevolent men ip his nature, and
the most mild & inoffenfive in his man^
nets, was removed from the colleHor
fhip, because he did not incline to Sign
an address, by you prepofed to Mr. A
dams. The prefem Tfendeht has reftur
ed him ; and to do him justice, he has
been obliged to remove a man equally
unexceptionable, but who could be pre
vailed on from fear, to sign a paper pre#
fented by fohn Pearce and E. S. Liver
more. Another man, whole exertions in
the late revolution had been acknowh
edged by the country, was removed from
the loan office, to make room for John
Pearce, who had been at all times an en
emy to the revolution. What was this
for? Because Pearce loves the English
monarchy, and procured the address
which Whipple refufed to Sign.
Livermore fought in the gutter in Bof#
ton, on the fide of the British Constitu
tion, and delivered an oration in Ports
mouth in favour of it. In this produc
tion he was not quite so fuccefsful as he
was in an exercise, which in its nature is
very much connected with the stile and
language used in the piece of composi
tion. This effort of party zeal was subs
je&ed to the press ; and it became nec^
effary, in order to retrieve the literary
honor of the nation to fend copies to the
Southern States, as well as to Europe,
with manufeript advertisements, that the
author had never been at any of our U^
niverfities or Colleges ) nor was ranked
among the Literati of the country. Itis
said, that when he was lately propoled as
a Judge, even his own party in the Sen
ate five one, observed that the author of
that thing, would not do for the 'Bench.
We have no reason to suppose that
the men who have been removed from
offices, in other States, were not remove
ed with as much propriety as those have
been in Newhampfhire. We cannot
wonder ifit Should so happen, that Mr.
LIBERTY AND THE CONSTITUTION.
American intelligence.
PHILADELPHIA, April 18.
A letter from Baltimore announces, that the
court of vice-admiralty at New Providence, (the
weftern Algiers) has been dissolved.
A letter from Nassau, N. P. to a mercantile
house in this city, states that the Judge declared
yesterday io court, that condemnations of Amer
ican vessels to Spanish ports were illegal: That
he had received orders from England, directing
restitution to be made by the owners of privateers
— This looks well.
Notifications from the Executive were yesterday
received in town, by several naval officers, who
are allowed, by the late determinations of Con
gress to earn their bread, of the time when their
attendance will be necessary to receive their arrear
Jefferfon Should remove all those whom
Mr. Adams, in a fit of not much Short of
phrenfy, nominated with his last political
breath. Even his own party laughed at
the crouded, indigested lifts, which from
day to day were imposed upom them for
an immediate yea or nay. He affeded
to confider his successor as incompetent
to the appointment of officers to aid him
in the administration of the government;
constitutionally devolved upon him*—
This successor was elected by the voice
of Republicanism; and in order to Shew
his dislike to the principles of a Repub.
lican Government, Mr. Adams nomi
nated those whom he knew to be most
unfriendly to it, although they were his
own perSonal enemies, and had been in
the plan to prevent his re-election.
When the former administration was
removing officers for their political o
pinions, your party were reminded that
this was a game at which two Sides might
play with ultimate success ; but there is
something in tyranny, thro' every grade
of its progress, and in every form it may
assume, which renders it blind to cona
sequences.
You did not content yourselves wilh
displacing high toned Democrats only,
but in the disposal of places and offices,
you excluded men of real merit and
learning, who were much better and
abler friends to the Federal Government
than you are yourselves, because they
would not bow to your measures, and
fubferibe to your opinions. This fad,
the public, on a moment's reflection, will
find evidence of. The be,, the untaught
upflart, the unprincipled flatterer, were
drawn forward, in preference to the o
pen, manly character, the man of integ
rity and ability, who had in the Field &
in the Senate, defended his country's
rights and liberties.
This could not be oT long duration,
the influence of the men whom you had
affected to treat with contempt and ne
gleft, can never be fevered from the
people. Your machinations are detects
ed, your plans are subverted, and free
dom is restored to the country.
Jefferfon is a man of so much pru
dence, moderation and temper, that his
appointments his executive measures his
economy, his real love to Republican
principles, cannot fail to endear him to
his fellow citizens ; he will never perse
cute the right pf opinion, or try depress
the privilege of private judgement on
public concens. FEDERALIS.