Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1801-02-12 00:00:00, page 2

and dollars was faft voted; and just at
the close of the session, when the busi
ness was supposed to be completed, a
Resolve was brought forward in an art
ful manner, and hastily passed, while ma
ny of the members were retiring to their
homes, authorifing the Treasurer to pur
chase an additional flock in the New
hampfliire Bank, to the amount of 12
thousand dollars, that the representatives
of the date might be the Inore interested
in opposing any means tending to lessen
the income of property veiled in that
bank ; and, strange as it may appear, so
paltry a consideration produced the ef
fe& designed, and was publicly urged
in debate on a subsequent petition, as a
reason why an ad of incorporation should
not be granted. Such was the Rate of
things at the expiration of the session for
1799 : an unjust and oppressive law had
been passed, arresting the operation of
the Newhampfhire Union Bank, which
had already become extensively ufeful ;
prohibiting the Stockholders not only
from issuing their notes and receiving
deposits, but even from loaning money
(silver and gold) and making every
Stockholder, individually, liable for the
payment of any and every bill, though
they were issued with the promise of
payment at the bank only. Property to
very considerable amount, lawfully ex
pended in instituting a branch of com
mercial business, was forcibly wrested
from its rightful owners, or at least made
of no 'account, in violation (as is con
ceived) of justice and the natural rights
of men, and of both the date and federal
constitutions of government, and from
which there could foe no relief but from
an a& of incorporation, or a repeal of
the restraining a&; and he must possess
a very fuperficial knowledge of human
nature and of the chicanery that had
been praflifed in this affair, to entertain
even a shadow of hope from this source,
unless under a thorough change in our
Bate administration.
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THE disrepute, and contempt, into
which tte federal papers have fallen
of late, is no inconsiderable evidence of
the progress of good principles. In con
templating this revolution in the minds of
men; it may not be amiss to trace the
causes of this difgfaceful delusion, which
has heretofore led so many astray, and
the excesses and iniquities which it has
excited.
Ahho'the fubje& of the British treaty
created a very serious political division
throughout the Union ; yet we may at
tribute the real origin of the diftin&ion
between Federalifls and Republicans, to
one William Cebbett, alias Peter Porcupine,
an unprincipled Englishman; who, pat
ronized by the British Ambassador and
a combination of English merchants and
Old Tories, established a Printing Press
in Philadelphia, in 1794 or 95. In a
federal paper, which he published under
this patronage, the superiority of a mon
archical government to all others was
continually painted in the most seducing
and alluring manner. In its infamous
pages, almost all the adors in the Amer
ican Revolution, the revolution itfelf,
FOR THE REPUBLICAN GAZETTE.
HANTONIANUS.—No. 11.
pjlitiral ffliscellanp.
Republican principles, and all kinds of'
Republican Governments, were slander
ed, abused, decried, and ridiculed. Un
der the ma£k of Federalism, the business
assumed a system. The neceffiiy of an
exterminating war with France, of an al
liance offenfive and defenfive with Grt.
Britain, and the advantages of a Stand
ing Army, and a Public Debt, were in
dußrioufly and perseveringly pressed up
on the public ; and being communicat
ed thro' other presses, the poison spread
through all parts of the continent. The
advocates of these opinions stiled them
selves Federalifl\ and those who oppos
ed them, they stiled Republicans and Ja
cobins. To the party who, while they
were secretly undermining the founda
tions of our independence, were bouad
lefs in their praises of the administration,
which at that crisis in part appeared 'to
favour their views, many worthy tho
misguided men attach'd themfelves,from
the honorable motive of supporting gov
ernment; and thousands of others who
were mere nothings, in politics, incapable
of reasoning or judging for themselves,
wholly from a desire of sharing in the
cockade honors, and of being thought to
be in thefajhion. But the feene chan
ges, and on the National Drama, a new
tragi comedy is aded. The President,
without deigning to consult either Mr.
Liston or Mr, Cobbett, or even any of
our British Friends in America, appoints
new Envoys to France. What is the
con sequence ? The federal party who
had been continually preaching up ex
ecutive infallibility, and whose disgust
ing adulation of Mr. Adams, while they
thought the measures of the government
had a tendency to throw the country a
gainst the arms of France, and into the
arms of England, almost amounted to
adoration, immediately veer round, and
abuse their late idol, with a virulence
and malignity and in a manner hitherto
unprecedented, even in the annals of
billingsgate rhetoric. The President
perceiving that the contagion had con
taminated his own councils, and that an
inveterate antipathy wascherifhedagainft
one nation, or that something worse than
antipathy was cherished in favor of ano
ther, dismisses two of his ministers. Peter
Porcupine flies from the feenes of his vil
lainy to England. His servile adherents,
true to their trust, retail his political scur
rilities with infamous industry, and act
ing from their leffons,they certainly have
play'd their parts in the late national e
leflion with a degree of fineffe and in
genuity worthy of a better cause.
Conscious that the citizens of the N.
England dates are attached, even to a
fault, to their rulers, while they poured
their Bander upon Jefferfon, in copious
torrents, whom they knew, as he had so
long been their fubje& of abuse, they
run no risk in abusing, [they cautiously
vilify the character of our President, and
at some rimes Bating in a disguised man
ner his & ter inability to perform the du
ties of his office, at other times bemoans
ing his aberration from the path of true
federalism, his inclination towards jaco
binifm, and lamenting in whimpering
Brains his ' unpopularity, his uncomply
ing disposition and obstinacy of temper.
Their object was to depreciate the merit
I of the President so much in the opinion
lof the Nortnern Electors as that, if con
}feious they run the risk of losing him for
I President, they might be induced to
Igive him and Pinckney an equal vote;
and calculating that South Carolina, as
in the former election, would drop Mr.
Adams and vote for General Pinckney
and Mr. Jefferfon, as they did for T.
Pinckney and Jefferfon before ; when
Jefferfon and Pinckney having an equal
number of votes, and the choice de
volving on the house of representatives,
they saw that the inflexible Mr. Jeffer
fon and the unmanageable and uncom
plying Mr. Adams would both be oust
ed, and the manageable and complying
Mi. Pinckney exalted to the chief mag
istracy of the Urited States. To the ass
tonifhment of all men of difeernment,the
plan nearly took effe& in the New Eng
land States; but the penetration, firm
nefs, and patriotism of the electors of
South Carolina rendered the fcherpe
abortive.
'• SUCH THINGS ARE."
We leave the reader to make bis own comments
on the following, which we copy,
From the SUN, ax impartial paper, printed at Dover.
MR. PRINTER,
THE following extrc& is taken from a packet latcl,
found b, a traveller in the back part of tbitftate. It
fame intended for some person living near Con^aient
river. The beginning, and man, other parts of it,
are obliterated, but from the frequent nje of initials,
there appears in it an aim of myfir,, which as it
ma, afford entertainment for man, of your [curiewe
readers to inwfligate, I enclose it to ,on for tb/ir in
fraion. It fame to relate to public matters, but
whether in this or the neighboring flats appears un
certain. The EXTR ACM.
" THE Jacobins are abroad again, and unless
spirited and bold measures are taken to suppress
ih^m, I fear they will be more formidable and
troublesome than they were hft year. Though as
they have started so early we fhailhave more !ei
fare to track and defeat them. For then yuA may
remember, we ^ee taken by furprize, and they
had almost stormed our camp, before we knew
they had commenced hoftilkies. Baton the oth-,
er hand, they feel so emboldened by the election
of Jefferfon, and many Republican Governors in
other Bates, that I fear all your wavering Feds,
and half way Republicans, will join their fadious
standard. You fee I speak freely to you, for not
withstanding what has passed, I cannot persuade
myfelf you will seriously think of deferring us ;
as to your not having the commission last year, I
acknowledge you have some cause of complaint,
but when you are acquainted with all the circum
stances, perhaps you will not think the G. so much
to blame ; for when I gave you those aflurances,
I was not aware that E. would be a member, or
that the G. had even made him any promises ;---
And you know our situation was so ticklish, that
it was dangerous to offend any one of the mem
bers, though ever so infignificant. Then E. you
know had some influence, and had he gen, over
to the other fide, he would have carried others
with him, which might have been fatal to our
scheme refpraing the new B. And (wo newcom
miffions for the fime town would excite fufoicion,
betides that E. seemed I am told to coofider it as
leffeniog his own consequence. But, believe me,
if you will exert yourfeif, these things will have
no weight this year. The N.B. is pretty well
done over, and moreover E. is fufoetted by the
G. of being a little twiftied ; and has loft his
confidence ; if, therefore, ycu will boldly ccme
out, I am authorifed to assure you, that your ser
vices will not again be forgotten ; I mean it G.
should succeed. I understand they talk as it W.
would not offer this year; if he does nor, it is
supposed they, will set up L. Last year, before
the word jacobin had loft its magical influence,
we should nut have regarded him as a runt ; but
since the people have difeovered the trick, and
now laugh at the very name they uf<d last year to
dread, 1 fear he would proreas facial j&ble as W.
especially as he is known torewn manydd hient's
in the country, who were afraid to fh:w them
selves in the late reign of terror. Some cf our
River friends seem desirous of judge O. but it will
not do, we must stick to the old one. In fhorr,
it matters not who gets in, if G. goes out. Al
ready flocks have had a considerable fall in conse
quence of the eleaion erf J< fferfon, and foch a
number of Jacobin Governors ; if we follow the
cursed example, I shall give up all for loft. Be^
lieve me, the story of our G's. refuting to sign the
ad to pay off the State notes ,t i§f. because he
hade large quantity on hand, that was not his
reason for retufing to figo the ad, but he would
not sign it, because he thought the Court in th?