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From the Washington Federalist.
THE facility with which, according to a late decision of
Congress, enquiries can be obtained into the official conduct
<.f public men, must be a source of gratification and de
light co every patriotic citizen. Heretofore the difficulties
which it was tho't a regard to justice incerpofed to such en
quiries, greatly deterred honorable men from demanding
them. When it was thought that the production of some
evidence of mal-condua in a public officer, would alone
authorize the adoption of any measures, preparatory to an
impeachment of him, many to whom such enquiries, and
the vexation occasioned by them to the persons implicated,
would have afforded the most exquisite fatisfaaion, were
fiknt by rcafon of the want of such testimony—As how
ever it is now resolved that no proof ought co be required,
forth,; bare affection is fufficient, it is hoped that this busi
ness of enquiring into the official conduct of public officers
will go on merrily.
It is recommended that acommittee be appointed to en
quire into the official conduct of Timothy Pickering—the
said Timothy having difeharged the duties of the office of
state, with ability and integrity, and upon his resignation
having omitted to dip his fingers into the public coffers,
contrary to the predictions, affections and wishes of many
honorable men.
It is recommended that a committee be appointed to en
quire into the conduct of all the Judges of the Supreme
Court, in having omitted to make roafa on the Bench, for
gat pure, confident and immaculate patriot Alexander J.
Dallas Esq. who would gladly feat himfelf by the fide of
them & will probably discover away to ejed them unless
some one of them will either " die or refign.''
It is earnestly hoped that Matthew Lyon will demand
an enquiry into the official conduA of Judge Patterfan,
-gho, he may state upon the floor, sent him to goal—when
he was more willing to go to Congress. Also into the ex
tra official conduct of Roger Griswold, in the application
of a certain thing, commonly called a hickory club, to the
head and shoulders of the said Matthew.
A friend to Enquiries.
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The Oracle.
' TUESDAY, March 6.
The Federal Republican Ticket
The Following lift will unite the foffrages of
the Republican Citizens at the ensuing meeting.
No recommendations are necessary, and we trust ,
exhortations to vigilance fuperfluqus —The plan
of the adversary points the danger, and an
union of exertion can alone render their labors
abortive. •
"+ . HIS EXCELLENCY
JOHN T. GILMAN, esquire,
FOR GOVERNOR,
Hon. Oliver Peabody.
^ BOUNTY TREASURER,
Joseph Blanchard, esq.
COUNS ELLOR,
Nathaniel Parker, esq.
COUNTY RECORDER,
Thomas Leavitt, esq.
SENATOR.
THE C 'clays, "If the good people were
to give th fluffed foffrages, Langdon would
be Govi-Dothey mean to insinuate,that
the rest @^h men °' "''' ”'" e do not
CTercife ^m&t judgment in the choice ,
of their ~ C Heers? That they are influen-,
ced b, aa nd difgraceful attachment to
a few charro rs no public or private virtue ?
The community are really obliged to this candid ,
and modefl Democrat for the chara&:r.
Through the fame vehicle we are also told,
that " those who live in the lower parts +' the
'State, and have the bed opportunities of know
ing him (Langdon), have uniformly, expressed :
their undeviating confidence in him," &c. &c.
There is no truth in this. The counties of 4
Rockingham and Strafford, gave Governor
GILMAN itoo votes more at the last cledion,
than the year before ; indeed these counties gives
three fourths of the increase of Federal votes ;
and of these two, Rockingham gave 600—
Thus we fee in the very county where the mar^
resides, an alteration in one year of the very
handsome number of fix hundred votes ! ! ! And
this expresses an uniform, undeviating confidence,
does it ?—No ! No—He is not growing popu
lar—the day is past—the delusion is over and
gone—Rockingham & Strafford lock to another
man fortheir Governor—to a man of sense,
dignity,fpirit and independence— a man of prac
tical politics—to a Gentleman of liberal views.
“ After having risked every thing for the fafe.
* ty cf the people." ^For Heaven's fake tell us
when and where the Gentleman risked his
all for the State—he might, have been slain in
battle, had be tarried in the field till the conflict
came on ; and he might have loft a fortune, (if
he had one to lose) in privateering—but neither
of these cases have happened ? WHAT THEN
HAVE BEEN HIS SACRIFICES ?-We be.
jieve the Democrats are ridiculing the Man.
/ * They would then find be has never tur
dened the People." CT The People never gave him
an opportunity. "That he never bartered office
for influence." tribe Committee fay they fall not
confine themfelvei to flent wifisesfor bis promotion.-.-
" Nor fought to build his own grandeur bn the
ruins of his Country." OGRAND he nus be,
as be is the ver, felell max of the Grand Commit
tee itfelf ; but we rest in perfeft fecurit), that the
might, labours of his capacious mind mill never eft£l
the ruin of the States.
A Gazette Card Writer fays, the party are in
debted to us for pwblifhing the scheme of the
Grand Committee for revolutionizing the State.
They are welcome to allthe advantage they
can derive from its publicity, and they may rest
assured, we shall use our best exertions in ringing
their candid and modest wishes and intentions
through the State—The Chief Juggler (the Card
Writer) is in an errorin faying the substance was
published in the Gazette—The Plan of the Grand
Committee of Election and Correspond,
bncb and the County Election Committee did
not appear—his own name was Qudioufl, kept
from view, and he now Mailtes at the company
he is exposed with.
Slander & Forgery.
Y,The public attention is again called to another at
tempt of the upright, moral democrats, to ouf our
present Federal Republican Rulers, and introduce
their own fed in their flead.
OCrimes held deferable in the common ufefuj pur
suits of life, are resorted to to effea this objeQ.
^Fellow Citizens of New-Hampfliire, quill you
patronize the part, who attempt ,our confidence b,
fuchmeans ? Have cue not' too much public virtue yet
left to give hopes to such men ?'We have !!
- From the Dover Sun.
Celebration at Gilmanton, of the glorious and happy
acquisition of Louifsana.
On Wednefuay, the^zdinft. a grand Dinner
and Ball, in honor of the event was given at this
place ;which was attended by all the neighbouring,
Gentry. At 4 o'clock'the company fat down to
an elegant and superb Dinner, in the spacious
and commodious Hall in the Academy. After
the removal of the Cloth, a number of toads
were drank.
VOLUNTEERS.
By Gen jofeph Badger.—May the Militia ofNewHamp
fh:re never forget, that headed by a Starks, they volunta
rily marched forward and checked the progress of Burgoine
at the glorious battle of Bennington. /,
By Judge Cogswell.—May juttice-tempered with mer
cy, pervade the Universe.
By the Rev. Mr. Smith.—May the Wilderness blvffom
as the rose.
By Stephen Moody Esq —All honefllawyers.
By John Ham, Esq. The Ladies ofGilmanton.
By Nathaniel Cogfwell, Esq.---The four Cardinal Points
of the Compass, supported by the four Cardinal Virtues,
and may our needle of rcafon never point Wroqg.
The Day, as if confcicus of the event, and to
honour the joyous occasion, was dressed out in her
gayest and most brilliant attire—She was undefcri
bably beautiful, and roust have charmed the heart of
an Anchorite.—The fun Atone with peculiar hiftre,
apparently fending forth bis rays with redoubled co.
piousness; enlivening and tranquibzing the mine;
warming and meliorating the heart, giving every
n:rve and fibre its happiest tone, so, that the men
tal and corporeal faculties enjoyed, in tinifon, their
most exquisite ferffitions of harmony. Joy lighted
up in every countenance, pleasure beamed from ev
ery eye, sod the circling glass informed us we had
hearts anl d foofitiohs susceptible of the most refi
ned happmefs.
The entertainment was ton hi&ed with perfect
order and decorum ; and it Was with apparent regret
that the Company, at 7 o'clock, quitted the fefilve
bo.vd to "trip it on the light fantaftic toe ;"but
the regret was momentary, the sprightly and mazy
dance io an inffant difpellcd the cloud, and we re
joiced to find, that, tho' the source of our plealores
was changed, they were nut in the least dimin ih
ed. At one o'clock an elegant supper was served
up, and at three the Dances recommenc'd and con
tinued hill deven ; when the company separated,
highly delighted with their entertainment.
Dover, March , 1804.
To fee Editors of the Oracle.
.CINTCEMEN,
INCLOSED we fend you the Dover
Gazette of this date, in which is an account of a
celebration at Gilma^ton, of the Acquisition of
Poufanti, at which we are represented as partic
ipating. We with you to ^e-publifh the account
in your paper, and to acquaint our fellow-citi-'
zens in the fame column, that it is totally, and in
every particular falfc and gioundlefs, the event
having never been celebrated^ to our knowledge,
at GTranton, in any way whatever. We con
ceive it to be a mere electioneering trick. And
designed, by the writer to circulate an opinion,
that we and most of the inhabitants in Giltnan
ton and its vicinity, have veered -about in our
political fentrmcnis, and are prepared to fuppert
the democratic ticket at the approaching election.
That the democrats would give a high col
ouring to any events calculated to promote the
mtereft of their political fed, we have no doubt ;
but we were not prepared to believe that any
gentleman, so well educated as the above wri
/ter appears to be, would unblufoingly proclaim
to the world, that one of the Cat dir.als was ex
punged from his lift of VIRTUES by publish
ing a fiaion so palpably and notoriously ground
less— your compliance will promote the cause of
truth and oblige you? humble servants,
STEPHEN MOODY,
JOHN HAM.
Mefrs. Treadwells,
THE Communication you were pleased to
make in your last Oracle, by giving publicity to
Secretary Carrigain's Circular Letter, relative to'
the systematic plan now pursuing to revolution
ize this State, by the felf-created convention, said
to have met in Concord in December last, has
excited much alarm and great indignation among
the independent Eledors in our quarter. We
had nofufpicion that one cf our most invaluable
privileged, the right of ele&ing fhofc into office
whom we deemed best calcinated, would be thus
Surreptitiously ,irrefted from us. Though we
have be^n long convinced, that these Democrat
ic Republicans possess an uncommon share of
modest assurance, and coafider themselves as ex.
clufive Patriots, to whom all power Should be
intruded; we did not calculate bn their prefum
. ing to be the Organ of the public will before
they acquainted us with their appointment to an
office so important 4 We have presumed to doubt
their authority, and as they have shewn us no
credentials, are resolved to ad for ourfeltes —
we view with indignation this assumption of pow.
er, and believe it to be part of a fydem organ
ized at Washington, to effeft a change in our
Government, to bring about the re-election of
Mr. Jefferfon, and so to alter the Constitution, as
will deprive this State of one of its most im
portant rights.
Under these impressions we are determined to
assert our rights as Independent Electors ; and
till we are convinced that the government of the
State can be placed in more able and faithful
hands, we (hall give our Suffrages for Governor
GILMAN.;
The Federal Republicans of Strafford.
From the United States Gazette.
^^'''f '""''d w " "g" fatUfoaion a pamphlet lately
published in New-Jersey, entitled serious considera
tions, addressed to the electors of new-jerset, con
cerning the choice of Members of the Legislatures for
.'"' U ' D 8 year. The prefect narrow limits of our paper
Preclude the possibility of presenting the whole of
this address to our readers. So tquch of it as relates to
'• f e ° era ' " ate °f politics in this country may be applied
with equal force te l every citizen of the Union, as to the
Electors of New-Jersey. To that part of the address wc #
now invite the reader's attention.
Fellow Citizens,
YOU who only desire private security under regular
governments, and have no views t > the power of emolu
mc',° office, be entreated to review the ground you have
trodden, and the profpea before you.
a candid survey of your leaders, and their measures,
conv ,, y° u that they tend to disappointment and
public confufion, then return to your former habits and
opinions, to your former friendfhips and political connex
ions. It is ever more honorable to retra& than to pcifift
in error.
Do not imagine that prymifa are going to be made to en
"°°d.willfuffrages -FEDERAL RK
FUBLICANS laid the foundations of facial liberty, in their
L°- c ° n °' tu tions, and have, until this time, upheld the
fabric of freedom.
They never promised impossibilities. They knew that
j, e g reat affairs of a Nation demoded Taxation, and the
support of a competent Magifiracy. They never held out
the doctrine of equality, in knowledge, in goodness, and in ✓
wealth. Inequality of property, and differences of condi
tion, they knew must ever exist; while unequal wisdom
and virtue, unequal industry and temperance, and unequal
health and fucccfs, incessantly change the relations and con
ditions of man, operating to make some poor and some rich.
These no human inllitutions can-controul, no laws ever
-attempt to regulate, without destroying the order of Pro
vidence and the just possession of man. Such notions of
abftraa equality hang only on the lips of deceivers, or
float in the imagination of enthusiasts and fools.
No fellow citizens federal patriots promise nothing
but EQUAL RIGHTS and EQUAL LAWS. Every
man is equally free to acquire property, fame and office, by
his industry, fetvices and talents ; and government so con
stituted as to protest and fecuke every lawful acquirement,
to defend every man's person from unjust violence, and his
confidence irom religious restraints.
But these great and essential obje&s Were not to be ob
tained by paper resolutions, and abftra& propositions about
the rights of man, engendered in the brains of fraud or
folly, adopted by democratic meetings and published in
lying newspapers. We should indeed grope in the dark,
were we to resort to such fecarities when our persons were
-violated, or our property plundered.
No, the attainment of political freedom required a broad,
strong, written Constitution ; a wife code of laws and reg
ulations; a great fabric of civil institutions and constituted
authorities ; the work of ages, and the perfection of expe
rience. This is the political security we now
possess ; and it is this, which ignorance & mifehief would
pull down ; to replace with crazy notions and never end
ing projects, which would soon be followed with the exile
or murder of your best men,and all the evils which march
in the train of anarchy.
Such have been the conduct and opinions of those early
patriots & sages, who planted our republican governments,
and of their successors, until these times of promised reform
and complete emancipation !
And why has all this commotion been fbddenly excited
in our once peaceful, prosperous and well regulated State ?
Why has the Constitution been broken--the Governorihip
vacated, the High Courts of Equity and Errors shut up ;
Affeciated Bodies of men confederated in every county ;
and a Declaration issued, that we are under "a Religious
and Civil Tyranny," and must be "emancipated"
Until the fall of 1801, whatever differences prevailed
in regard to the Congressional measures, the State Gov
ernment was conducted with harmony and ability—The
laws were revised and improved with care, and executed
with skill and impartiality. The civil liberties of every
- man as far as human institutions could go were effectually
guarded
e Let each man, laying aside the tries and calumi
nies of a faction, put it to himfelf, whether any law
were made in this state which interfered with the
liberty of confeience or of speech-—which deprived
him of '.he means or rewards of industry, or infring
ed on any of his rights. Were not all fubjea to the
fame burthens of taxation according to property,
and partakers of the fame benefits in proportion to
exertion and success?
Weall know this was the sass. From the peace
of 1783, and particularly, during the twelve years
of what is called the Federal Administration, our
state afforded one delightful feene of progressive
prosperity. The labourer and mechanic-—every
profeffion in society, was gladdened with the rich
returns of industry, and protected against fraud
and force, by a refpe&able magiltracy, executing
known and equal latys.
It is unnecessary to describe, what every man
has seen and felt, and what he cannot forget, that
no people ever so suddenly and so completely at
tained every object of the social compact.
In the midst, however, of all these blessings
the Federal Administration was driven from con
fidence and power. A volume would not expose
the infamous calumnies and means invented to
poison the public mind and turn it against those
very men and measures, which had thus led
us to the pinacle of national greatness & felicity.
A Viginia faffion, headed by Jefferfon, ori
ginated the diabolical plan, and aimed its firft
bolts against WASHINGTON himfelf! It
has been promoted by imported paticts, and
hordes of Aliens—and by the mifinformed and
profligate in our country.
Fellow citizens these men promised something
beyond happiness itfelf ; but have never made
good anfcf their profeffions and promises. Our
Federal rulers have, indeed, been removed ; but
is our condition changed for the better ? Is it
not rather become worse ?
They promised that all who joined themfhould %
find their situations bettered ; that part, should
cease, and no man fuffer for his honest opinions.
There is no occasion to repeat all the grievances
that; were alledged, and all the benefits which
were promised—they were innumerable.
But, have these things been realized. Let tts
not be content with alfertions and boasting, but
,look to the fads.
The TAXES were said to be intolerable, and
the poor paticularly oppressed. Now, has afingk
cent, either under the State or federal govern
ment, been remitted the poor ? On the contrary,
bar not annual millions raised on the coaches and lux
uries, and,aid by the rich, been taken off—while the
labourer, mechanic, and honefl htfahdman, yet pay
the phi taxes on the necessaries of life.
SALARIES were loudly objeded to. But the
President Rill receives his Twenty Fitb Thou
sand dollars per annum, with a splendid house
and furniture besides ! The vice President, Secre
taries, Public Ambassadors, Members of Congress
and every Officer, civil and military, receives
as much, and many of them more than was paid
under the federal government.
They promised that the public Offices should
be filled with more Capacity, Honesty and In
dustry. Is this the case ? You are requeued,
fellow citizens to look around, and adually com
pare the officers difeharged with those who are
come in their room, and you must allow this
promise has been broken.
They exclaimed against the appointment of
Tories : yet some of the bigheft offices have been be
flowed on the greatest Enemies of our Revolution.
They promised more moderation in power, and
that differences of fentimept should not effect the
scale of equal justice. Is this verified ? Or, onthe
contrary, has mankind ever withered a series of
more malignant perlecution and injustice. There
is scarcely a village in the United States, where you
may not behold some war-worn defender ts his coun
try ;.fometoneft man, and faithful officer, or some
helpless family, deprived ofafubfiflence, because they
exercised opinions of their own.
They promifeCTCovom, ; yet millions have been
lavilhed on the moftinfignificant objects, and the
bank stock fold at an immense Hfs.
They promised to pay off the public debt, pre
tending that a nitionci debt was a national curse ;
yet they have made a treaty, which adds to it fif
teen millions two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars, and taxes every family in New-Jersey at least
rumy dollars, and all this to a ffi ft. Bonaparte, and
buy a wilderness inhabited by lavages, and wholly
ufdefs to New-Jerfey.6
% They Pledged the Treafey was %/,•, and that
Federal Officers had embezzled millions of dollars;
yet they found near/bu/ millions in the public chest,
and not a single prosecution has ever lain against a
dismissed officer.
They pretended the Finances ha& been badly
managed; yet they found the Revenue Syflem so
perfect and productive, as not to alcer a letter of it;
and even confefs it yields more than is wanted.
The poor received immense 'promifes. We all
remember the little busy bodies, who could fay
nothing elfe,what prodigious calculations they made
for the poor, and some how or other, the far would
certainly be made cafy. Is this the cale r What
encouragement have they received from Democrts?
All who open their eyes must fee, that when these
promifers got into power they thought only on
their poor felves —took the loaves and fifties, and
taxes from fine sugar and coaches, and left the
"mouth of labour" to subsist on federal patronage
and employment.
They promised there should be left party spirit;
more c hriitian morality and brotherly kindness; that
"harmony fbou|d be restored to social intercourse.?''
Is this proved r Have not ail their actions tended
.more to divide the country ; embiter party ; and, if
poflible, extirpate Christianity itfelf?
POPULAR INNOVATIONS, dressed up in
specious colours by the artful and enthufiaflic, and
gradually undermining the strong pillars of a re
publican freedom. Democracy, which is the gov
ernment cf a populace, and not of representatives,
no longer wears a mas&.
Tho' witnesses to these delafions, with all their
dreadful consequence, in France, we drink from
the fame cup of contagion, and arc far gone in the
diteafe. Perhaps, however, it is best that the trial
has been so far made on Democratic principles.
if they can flop here, convinced at la ft of
their danger and emptiness,
We have listened to names and profeffions till
we are decoyed 10 rhe verge of anarchy. Our state
'' !"! one remove from it. It is yet in our power
it is indeed not difficult, to retrieve these errors.
Let us go back to the ground we have forfiken ; to
our tried institutions ; to reprrfntatives and magi flrates
of charader and knowledge ;to republicanfn, as
written on our Confitution, & dispensed in our Laws.
This is the STANDARD OF FEDERALISM
—the test we go by—" Our LAWS and CUS
TOMS are tiled and approved." The Democratic
ffociations call these "A fyflem of Religious and Civil
Tyranny, and fay we fall be "emancipated" from
them. Here we rest the iffie, and put our/eives on our
Countryfor Trial.
If the destroying spirit of Democracy (hall fi
nally remove these land marks, our once happy
country will but have shared the fate which has
consigned many free nations to tyranny &oblivion.
It would betray an extreme Ignorance of the
charader of the leading innovators, to imagine that
what has been said will cause in them the blush of
fliame or purpose of amendment. The lame pro.
feffiobs, so often belied, will be repeated, and the
fame falfehobds and slanders, so often refuted, be re
publilhed.'
The old dishes of popular delusion will be dres
sed up, in every form, land fitted to every palate,
garniflied, perhaps, by the fame pen which blaf.
phemes the ^aviour of the World, and defames the
Father of his Country.''
,The idle and the busy; the vain and the am
bitious, the deluded followers of promised bleflings;
and the whole corps of associators will go forth to
gathcr in the proselytes of democracy. The old
catalogue of grievances will be run over, and Land
ing armies and stamp a&s; excise and {edition
laws ; bribery and toryifm ; lawyers aodarifircra^;
liberty and equality; peace and economy ; the vir
tues of the present and the vices of the past rulers,
will be set forth with all the gravity of imprudence, ~
and all the fluency of falsehood.,'
But if mifreprelentation so base, and epitliets and
afperfioßs,fo abufive,canyet deceive or infame honest
and enlightened minds ; then is expermce loft.
Is it indeed, possible ; Fellow Citizens, that vou
who are not Associators, nor loft in the mist of
Democracy ; is it possible that you can be deceived
by such open defiancees oftruth and fad.
These measures, so condemned, were they not
necessary at the time? Were they not uleful ? Did
they not produce peace; preserve our trade ; enrich
° u : f.°i u °"y ; ,' nd m^tain our Independence?
and did not Wash 1 ngton approve of all these mea
sures and pronounce the Admiration of Mr. Adams
wife and virtuous:
''"ally, let those who are not lifted to these
pretended reforms ; reflect on those things and be
intreated to return from those slippery paths to the
ground of Federal Republicanism. ITe
c CT ed 6#/ are the fame. We anxionfly
wim, because we know its value, to retain our
present Security. It has long been tried and
kept u; free. And happy will it be for our Com
mon country, if u, do not throw it away in raft,
ing after the babbles of delyfive innovation.