The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1791-06-03 00:00:00, page 1

FRIDAY, June 3, 1791.]
What is every body's business, is nobo^^^
THE consequence is, that every
and nobody are just the fame thing
—a truth most pointedly exemplified in
the kitchen of a southern Nabob. "Phil,"
fays the mistress, with the air of an Em
press ; Phil appears. "Go tell Peg
to tell Sue to come along here and pick
up the needle." " Yes ma'am," an
swers Phil, and waddles back like a
duck, " Peg, mistress fays you must
tell sue to go to her and pick up the
needle." Peg carries the meflage to
Sue, but Sue is busy cleaning a candle
flick. " Well," fays Sue, " I will go
as soon as I have done." The mistress
wants the needle—(he can't go on with
her work without the needle—(he waits
ten or fifteen minutes—grows impati
ent.—" Phil, did pou tell Peg what 1
told you ?" " Ye---s ma'am," fays
Phil, drawling out her anfiver—" Well
why don't the jade do what I told her?
Peg, come here you huffy, did you tell
Sue what Phil told you ?" 'Yes ma'am.'
''Well, why don't the lazy trollop
come along ? Here I am waiting for
the needle—tell the jade to come im
mediately."
Rifum teneatis ? Hold, my readers
don't know Latin ; but can you help
laughing, my friends ? Laugh then at
the southern Nabob, with twenty fat
slaves in his kitchen—Laugh well at
him— for there is cause enough ; then
come home arid laugh.
You want a good school perhaps—and
so do your neighbours. But whole buf:-
nefs is it to find a teacher, a house, &c.?
John I wifli you would speak to William
t« alk Joseph to desire our friend Dani
el to set about getting a good school.
We want one very much; it is ashame
to us to be so negligent." This is the
lad we hear of the good school.— What
is every body's business, is nobody's.
You want to collect the pubic taxes
irito the treasury of the state. The towns
choose constables or collectors of taxes
—no security is taken for a faithful dis
charge of the trail—but a lawns passed
which fays, like the mistress to her
wenches, Treasurer, do you tell the
constable to collect and par over the
taxes —the collector, like the Nabob's
slave, ha> no motive for diligence— he
gets not half enough for collecting to
pay for his horse flelh—-he lounges about
a year or two —Squanders away the mo
ney—and where is his bondfinan ? The
town !—-right, the town is his bondsman.
The law fays, Treasurer, do you issue
your execution against the Sheriff, and
command him to levy upon the consta
ble who is not worth a farthing—get a
return of non est inventus-—then levy up
on his bondsman, the town—take the
estate of every body —post it for fale—
get it receipted—and not delivered—foe
the receipts, man—get the money —
make the town pay it twice—27,oool.
in arrears ! It is a faame !—O such a
bustle with Mr. Everybody, and all to
pick up a Needle ! The state is like
the Nabob's family—-'' Phil, tell Peg
to tell Sue to pick up the needle."
Now in fad it is a very easy thing to
pick up a needle—but; if one cannot
stoop to pick it up, another ought to be
paid for it. One fervent who is paid
for his work will pick up more needles
than twenty fat longing slaves that think
it a drudgery and get nothing for it.
It would be a good thing for a state
to know that every body's bufnefs is no
body's. Every man in Connecticut is
responsible for a faithful collection of
public money—then it is nobody's buji-
From the Connecticut Courant.
The PROMPTER—No. i9|t
Newhanipfhire
EXETER, (New-Ham,Jbire) Printed and Pablifhed by HENRY RANLET, at Nine Shillings per annum.
MISCELLANY.
nefs. The Prompter never saw a watch
with two main Springs,much less with tgwo
hundred. One spring is enough—and
that government, the executive of which
depends on many springs, will jar, cla(h,
flop and be always out larder —27,0001
in arrear. .
Appoint one Colflßr---tbe Treafor-
We also know that at the conclusion
of the war, all the reward the distressed
and exhausted finances of the States
could befto&(for eight years of the prime
of our life) were certificates of the va
lue of 2/6 on the pound, made payable
to the bearer, and in every refpea ne
gociable as any other bills of public
credit, which most of them fold at cur
rent value or exchange of them at the
time of sale.
In consequence of a general uneasiness pre
vailing, from a Petition of the Officers
of the Maffacbufetts Line to the House
of Reprejentattves of the United States
for redress of grievances, being, rejea
ed? qnj 4 number of Officers and Soldi
ers who served curing the War, by be
ing obliged to repair to the Sea-service
and other employments for fabfifence,
were absent at the time of issuing Cer
tificates to the Army, are now cut off by
an Aa of Limitation from any reward,
the following letter was agreed to be
circulated thro' the United States ;
CIRCULAR. ..
Philadelphia, April 10, 1701.
S I R,
IAMI AM one of your brethren who wad
ed thro' the distresses of America du
ring the war, and a witness, as you al
so are, to the patience, fortitude and se
vere trials of those who we had the ho
nor to command, and also of numerous
virtuous citizens, equally impressed
with a sense of our danger, who fed and
sustained us during our conflict.
We also know the solemn promises
and engaging addreffe, held out by Con
gress, that we should be esteemed, ho
nored and paid, and receive all the re
ward a grateful people could bellow,
for the fufFerings, toils and advances
for our distressed and almost desperate
country.
We further know, that the certificates
were rnoftly fold, in consequence of our
naked situation, when retiring from the
field, at an eighth of their nominal va
lue, and to persons who presented them
to Congress far payment of the full sum,
both principal and interest, and obtain
ed it by the. Funding A& with some
small liquidations, none of them in fa
vour of the original fufferihg creditor,
by which the worthy citizen and parri
otic soldier were cut off from their due
rewards and left to fuffer all the poig
nant diftreiTes of cruel disappointment,
while their hire, their painful earnings,
are given in heaps to foreigners, many
of whom were the inveterate enemies
of our country, and have not the leaf
claim grounded on merit, virtue or earn
ings whatever.
Th?fe tragical wrongs call for our
attention and exertion for redress ; not
only as we ourselves feel the weight of
them in the diflrefs .we fuffer for want
of our pay, but the additional aggrava
tion of being loaded with a duty on e
very refreshment we take, to redeem a
certificate at 2o<. on the pound, that we
were compelled from griping need and
the nature of public promises to take
2/6 for: But also as they fall with dis-
&---make him 4nfwe~able for the col
ledion of the whole state revenue.—
Let him appoint his depu:ies---let them
be few, but let them be paid---all the
difficulty will vanish—one spring will
move the whole---The Rate Treasury,
like the Federal, will be Supplied—no
arrears then-—nalevying executions on
towns.
From a Philadelphia paper.
^^dff^
.THE
" The result of the proceedings 'of the
Grand Convention of officers, which I have
the honour to inclofe to your Excellency, for
the in/peQion of Congress, will, I flatter
myfelf, be (onfidered as the last glorious
p ro °f of patriotism, which could have been
given by men; and will increase their
title to the gratitude of their country. For
if, beftdes the simple payment of their wa
ges, a farther compensation is not due to
'be fuffcrings and facrifees of the army,
then have I been mistaken indeed. If the
whole arm, have not merited what a
grateful people can bestow, then have I
been beguiled by prejudice, and built opini
on on the bass of error. If this country
should not in the .event, perform every
thing that has been requeued in the late
memorial to Congress, then will my be
lief become vain, and the hope that has
been excited, void of foundation. If re
tiring from the field, they are to grow old
in poverty, wretchedness and contempt—
if they are to wade through the vile mire
of dependency, and owe the mferable rem
nant of that life to charity, which has
been hitherto spent in honor-—then shall I
have learned what ingratitude is—then
Jhall I have realized a tale, which will
embitter every moment of my future
life!"
In the derangements of the pulic trea
sury under the old Congrefs,all payment
to us was (offended, but our hope revi
ved when the power and energy of go
vernment, under the new constitution
took place ; but to our infinite mortifi
cation, we have seen all our hopes of
payment cut off by the funding ad,
which deprives all of us, who have fold
our certificates, of seven-eights of our
pay. and debts due from the States.
And by the fame a&, we fee the monies
due to us and really collected from the
labours and wealth of our fellow citi
zens, and even of ourselves, given to
speculators, who never bad any pretence
to plead any the least degree of Offer
ings, labors, fapplies or merits on which
our demands are grounded.;
tre ssing and ruinous aggravations on ou
worthy citizens, who supported us in
thate arduous crisis ,of our efforts and
distressing exertions for the salvation of
our country, and those brave soldiers
all;who have a right to look up to us,
and to expe& that we will take the lead
sos relief, which I think should be by
some refpeaful mode of petition to the
next House of Reprefentatiyes of the
United States. This I conceive may
be best done by a joint application of
the officers, by electing one or more
from each state ; and no doubt but they
will have the support of our General,
whose sentiments we fee in his letter to
the President of Congress, dated March
18, 1783, wherein he fays, ,
V/e fee the States loaded with a debt
of 40,000,000 dollars, to pay those Gran
gers, a part of which we conceive is
due to our merits. Some may think the
matter is gone too far to be recalled and
that our claim is denied, and our case
without remedy ; but I cannot adopt
this opinion ; for the money, tho' des
tined by public ordinance to be paid to
others, yet is not actually paid, and by
a revision and correction of the ordi
nance, a part may yet be appropriated
to the payment of those, to ,hom by
the most sacred public contrast, it is
due. And as it is the inviolable right
of the fubjea if he thinks he is oppress
ed, to petition for relief, a Convention
of Officers cannot be deemed unwar
rantable, to bring forward our claim
and have the merits determined.
I am,fr, with affedion
and esteem, your Hum
, . ble Servant :
[Signed by a Ne^wbampJhire Officer.]
^THE Printers in the Several states,
who are friends to a class of men not
rivall'd in hiftory, are requested to give
the above a place in their papers, th at
Gazetteer.
[Numb. 4f o( Volume— 5
A COMPANY of gentlemen be
longing to Maffach afetts and New-
York, who have lately purchased a large
tract of land of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, lying weftwArd of New
york, and within the territories of the
fix nations, sent up a committee into the
Indian country, to treat with the natives
about a quit claim. The Indians heard
of their coming, and midaking them
for another company, who were aiming
at the fame purchase, sent them word
to come no further,left they should be in
volved in difficulty. The gentlemen had
advanced ,a considerable way into the
Indian country, and were loth to return
without effecting their design; one of
them, Major Schuylor, wrote a letter to
the commandant at Niagara, explaining
their intentions, and requesting his in
fluence with the Indians to remove their
misapprehensions. One of the Indian
messengers undertook to carry the letter
to Niagara and bring back an answer.
The gentlemen tarried where they were.
In the mean time Major Schuyler was
taken sick and was sent down the river
towards Albany. The mefUnger re
turned, and the gentlemen asked him if
he had get an answer ; he told them
(by the interpreter) that he had, but
looking round, said, " I do not fee the
man to whom 1 promised to deliver it."
They related to him the circumstance
of his illness and absence, but told him
they were all engaged in the fame busi
ness, had one heart, and that the letter
was intended for them all, and wished
he would deliver it. He refufed. *
Thev confalted among themselves, and
offered him fifty dollars as a reward for
his service, •and an inducement to det
ver them the letter. He spurned at the
proposal. They consulted again, and
concluded that as they were fufficiently
numerous to overpower him and the o
thers who were present, they would take
it by force ; but firft permitted the in
terpreter to explain to him the whole
matter, the difficulty they were in, the
loss of time, &c. acquainting him with
their determination to have the letter^
The Indian grew Rern, clenched the
letter in one hand, drew his knife with
the other, and solemnly declared that if
they should get the letter by violence,
he would not furyive (he disgrace, but
would plunge the weapon into his own
bread. They defined fro n their purpose,
and reasoned with him again, but he
was inflexible. They then asked him
whether he was willing, after having
taken so long a journey, )o go an hundred
miles for the lake of delivering the let
ter to Major Schuyler. He answered,
“ Yes, I do not value fatigue, but mill
never be guilty of a breach of trust." Ac
cordingly he went, and had the fatisfac
tion of completing his engagement.
The letter was favourable to their views,
and they have entered into a treaty for
the land.
HERE lies—the Lord byye. merry on^^
One of Her Majefy's Maids of Honour :—°
She was both young sender and pretty-
Died a Maid— and snore's th' „ty.
[London Paper ]
Americans ! Is this the peoplewhom
ye accuse of perfidy ? When you have
removed them from their native teats,
will you place in their dead a people of
better principles and manners ?
INSTANCE OF INDIAN FIDELITY.
the Representatives of the United States
may be apprised of the application thas
will be made to them when they ne^t
meet in Congress,
A curious old EPITAPH.