Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1802-06-22 00:00:00, page 2

AN ACT
For the relief of Theodoftus Fowler.
BE it enabled by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of Ameri
ca, in Congress assembled, 1 hat the comptrol
ler of the treasury be and he is hereby autho
rized and required to cause to be dilcontin
ued the suit now pending in the circuit court
of the diftria of New-York, in the name of
the United States against Theodorus bow
ler, for monies charged to him on the books
of the treasury as advanced or paid on ac
count, or in consequence of a contrast enter
ed into by him with the secretary of the trea
sury on the twenty-eighth day of Odober,
one thoqfand seven hundred and ninety, and
that the said Theodosius Fowler be and here
by is discharged from the said demand.
NATHL. MACON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ABRAHAM BALDWIN,
PreJident of the Senate pro tempore.
Approved, April 29, 1802.
' TH: JEFFERSON,
PreJident of the United States.
AN ACT
To regulate and fa the compensation of the offi
cers of the Senate and House of Representa
tives.
BE it enabled by the Senate and Houje of
Representatives of the United States of Ameri
ca, in Congress assembled, That the officers of
the Senate and House of Representatives here
in after mentioned, shall be, and hereby are en
titled to receive in lieu of their compensation
fixed by law, the following sums ; that is to
fay : The Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk
of the House of Representatives, two thou
sand dollars, each ; their principal clerks
one thousand three hundred dollars, each ;
and each of their engrofiing clerks, one thou
sand dollars per annum.
Sec. 2. And be it further enabled, That
the sergeant at arms of the Senate, who also
performs the duty of doorkeeper, and the ser
geant at arms of the House of Representa
tives, shall be, and hereby are entitled to re
ceive eight hundred dollars per annum, each.
Sec. 3. And be it further enabled, That the
doorkeeper of the House of Representatives,
shall be, and hereby is entitled to receive five
hundred dollars per annum, and two dollars
per day, during each feflion of Congress ;
and the assistant doorkeeper of the Senate
and House of Representatives, four hundred
and fifty dollars per annum, each, and two
dollars each, per day, during each session of
Congress.
Set. 4. And be it further enabled, That
the compensation to the secretary of the Sen
ate and clerk of the House of Representa
tives, and to their clerks, and to the other
officers herein named, (hall commence with
the present year.
NATH'i. MACON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ABRAHAM BALDWIN,
PreJident of the Senate pro tempore.
Approved, April 29, 1802.
TH: JEFFERSON,
Frefident of the United States.
The noted Peter Porcupine tho' removed to his
native country, and flourishing under the auspices
of princely patronage, (till retains his old friends,
old correjpoddence and old sympathies with his
friends in America ; he now publishes a weekly
paper in London, printed in imitation of the
French papers, several numbers of which we have
seen, in one of which we find a very affectionate
letter to the Kev. Mr. Abercrombie of Philadel-j
phia,— Aurora, 1
by law, recoverable ; and if such fines, pe
nalties and forfeitures exceed the sum of
twenty dollars, the fame (hall be recovered
by a&ion of debt in the diftrid court of Co
lumbia for the county of Washington, in the
name of the corporation, and for the use of
the city of Washington.
Sec. 8. And be it further enaaed, That
the person or persons appointed to colled a
ny tax imposed in virtue of the powers grant
ed by this ad, (hall have authority to colled
the fame by diStrefs and sale of the goods and
chattels of the person chargeable therewith :
no sale shall be made unless ten days pre
vious notice thereof be given ; no law shall
be passed by the city council, fubje^ing va
cant or unimproved city lots, or parts of lots,
to be fold for taxes.
Sec. 9. And be it further enaaed, That
the city council Shall provide for the support
of the poor, infirm and diseased of the city.
Sec. 10. And be it further enafled, That
no tax shall be imposed by the city council
on real property in the laid city, at any high
er rate than three quarters of one per cen
tum, on the assessment valuation of such pro
perty.
Sec. It. And be it further enafled, That
this ad shall be in force for two years, from
the passing thereof, and from thence to the
end of the next session of Congress thereaf
ter, and no longer.
NATHL. MACON,
Speaker of the Houje of Representatives.
ABRAHAM BALDWIN,
President of the Senate pro tempore.
Approved, dlay 3, 1802.
TH : JEFFERSON,
President of the United States.
The, crisis was desperate, and called for
councils prompt and energetic. The lead
ers of the fallen party in the House of R.
were young men, slushed with the tempora
ry possession and abuse of power, and rul
ing with impatient speed to the goal of am
bition. In the last moments of expiring a
ristocracy, one h^d been appointed minister
of war* and another minister plenipotentiary
4to France.t Both had declined their ap
pointments, not because they were hostile to
office, but because they knew they could not
retain them, and because they knew that if
accepted, they would only be the vain pa
geants of a day, and objects of national deri
sion instead of refpea.
Who could expea wisdom or forbearance
from the councils of such men, thus swayed
by personal feeling r One of whom, demon
strating the afeendance of personal passion o
ver political principle, to vindicate his tar
nished fame had violated the laws of his
country in personal combat ; and the other of
whom had wielded the cudgel, in the pre
sence of the representatives of the people, a
gainst an old man who had excited his ire.
I have been thus minute in my reference
to those two men, because they form the
mighty foundation, on which all the efforts
of the opposition rest. There are satellites;
but they Shine with borrowed and feeble
light ; here you find one man who talks
Greek without understanding it ; and there
you behold another, whose measure of intel
led is so small that his vote is sure to belie
his speeches. What ambition prompts, man
will pursue. It is the charader of this as
cendant passion to behold with unconcern the
convulsions of empire, so long as those con
vulsions minister to its gratification. Sub
jugated by this passion, and stung with dis
appointment, is it surprising that these men,
exclaiming “ the world is made for Cxfar”
—determined to ad like Ccefar ?
Like him, in his Situation and with his
views, they have aded. From the firft day
of the session to the last, they have traduced
the reputation of the President, they have re
viled his councillers, they have treated with
contumely the majority of the legislature,
they have heaped accumulated infuß upon
From the National Intelligencer.
To the American People,
WHEN the republican administration
came into place, they seized the firft mo
ments of their power as the mod auspicious
to universal conciliation. As theirs was a
triumph of principle, and not merely of men,
every citizen, of whatever political charac
ter, was invited to rally round the Standard
of a government of which the national good
should be the sole pursuit.
The President, while he avowed himfelf a
Republican in principle, and announced that
he should be one also in practice, offered
with uusampled magnanimity, a liberal
participation of subordinate honor, emolu
ment, and influence, to those citizens, usual
ly denominated Federal, who had been his
most decided political opponents. Seleding
men to preside over the departments on
whole talents and congenial sentiments he
could rely to council and aflift him in the difo
charge of the great fundions peculiarly at
tached ^ himfelf, he fuffcred to remain in
the unmolested enjoyment of office nine
tenths of the occupants, who were, almost
without exception, anti-republicans.
Here then was profeffion followed by
pra&ice ; with the power of displacing more
than one thousand officers, he removed less
than a tenth part ; and of those difplaced,by
far the greater number had failed to comply
with the legal provisions attached to their re
fpeaive offices. Can the annals of politics
furnifh a brighter example of forbearance,
and can there be quoted the history of any
vanquished party, that has been treated with
equal refpe& ?
The forbearance of the chief magistrate,
while it astonished, confounded the leaders
of the prostrate party.—They had prediaed,
on the prevalence of republican principles,
the entire difmifliou of their friends. Judg
ing of their opponents by themselves, they
had proclaimed to the people, over and over
again, that this would be the inevitable ef
fed.<
Overcome by the justice, and still more by
the generosity of the measures of the chief
magistrate, opposition was paralized, and
party spirit began rapidly to subside. Un
prejudiced men, who had flood foremoft in
the opposition to the election of Mr. Jeffer
fon, acknowledged their delusion, ,nd uni
ted in bellowing the merited recompence of
his patriotic exertion.
Thus flood public opinion at the meeting
of the Legislature. With them it rested to
^ivc effect to many of the measures oft the
Executive, a&well as to redress evils, whose
cure was not within his reach. No sooner
was this sacred duty commenced, than the
fiifpended opposition of faction was roused.
The minority found themselves but about a
third part of the House of Representatives,
and the progressing change of public opinion
threatened their small numbers not only with
diminution, but with total annihilation.
Os those removed ; —Some were guiltyof
official mifeondua by not attending to the
difeharge of duties Some were intempe
rate in their habits.—-Some had not account
ed, as by law direded, for public monies.—
Some were deemed incompetent.---Some
had Solemnly declared they would hold no of
fice under the present executive, thereby ma
king themselves obnoxious to the belief that
their personal antipathy would fruftrate their
performance of duty.—Some were in offices,
which.it is agreed on all hands, ought ex
clusively to be filled by those who enjoy the
entire confidence of the executive.---Some
had been the instruments of carrying into ef
fe6t unconstitutional laws, prostrating the
liberty of the press, and persecuting the inno
cent for an honest difference in political o
pinion.—Some, from the long enjoyment of
In the civil department there appear, with
the exception of all the poft-maiters, and a
host of inferior officers, to be 2,044.
Os this number, in a period of 15 months,
—33 have been removed on a variety of
grounds above Specified —21 new appoint
ments have been made to offices, attempted
to be filled by Mr. Adams, after he had loft
the confidence of the nation—Making al
together 54.
the people. Into the midst of a nation pro
foundly tranquil, they have carried with the
whole (Length of party, the torch of "disu
nion and civil war." They have laid to the
representatives of a great majority of the A
merican people—beware ! invade our abuses,
dismiss our partisans, face millions to the na
tion on which our panders tiot; and we will
pronounce the constitution violated,and puh
ilh you with death ; we will rule you, or we
will dissolve the Union ; the bayonet shall
do the pious work, and your women and
children shall be our victims.—Gracious
God ! Is it possible, that men, who have
sworn to support a Constitution, whole ob
ject is to protea, should be the firft to threat
en carnage and death ; not merely upon men
who may possess power to refill, but upon
women and children, whom neither inno
cence nor wcaknefs can save from the ven
geance of disappointed ambition.
SIDNEYS
* Mr. Griswold. t Mr. Bayard.
Which may be arranged as follows :
Cases of resignation, declension, pro
motion or death 26
Os expirations of commissions, not re
nyed , 3
Os vacancies left unfilled by the formed
administration, mostly con fulfilips,•
with new consular appointments 37
Os new nominations, in the room of
what have been called midnight ap
pointments, viz. those made in the
last days or hours of Mr. Adams's be
ing in office 21
Os restorations to offices which the in
dividuals appointed had held before 6
Os removols for mifeondua,ol revolu
tionary toryifm • 14
Os marshals and attornies removed, and
republicans fubflitutedy as a protec
tion for republican citizens againff
the federalism of the courts, 3
Os removals, to give to those, who hare
been fyflematically excluded some
Share in the administration of the
government 5
Os removals on ground of special pro
priety 5
Os new appointments# 3
In all 123
Much has been said of the persecuting
spirit of.the Executive in the removal of
federal officers. The topic is still the text
of inventive, whenever all others fail. It
becomes republican prints as often as the
charge is made to repel it ; and not only to
assert, but to prove, that no adminiftration'
has ever cxifted, which owed its exigence to
a revolution in the public Sentiment, that has
exhibited so much forbearance and magna
nimity. To furnifh this proof the above
Statement, with the following elucidating re
marks, are published.
During the last session the President, in or
der to demonstrate the magnitude of execu
tive patronage, and to guard against its possi
ble abuse, presented to congress a document,
containing a view of all the exiting offices,
with all the emoluments attached to each.
HAVING in this, and the proceeding !
paper, made an enumeration of the civil ap
pointments by the present executive from
the third day of March 1801, to the third
day of May 1802, with the ciicurnftances I
under which they were made, so far as we
have been able to colled them ; which are
considered as correct, though they are not
exhibited with any pretension to official ; it
may mow be proper to analife and arrange
them. This has beeri already, in some mea
sure, done, in the National Intelligencer of
the nth of January, so far as related to ap
pointments antecedently made. The pre
sent view will comprise the Statement then
made, with the addition of subsequent ap
pointments, to the third of the last month.
The whole of the appointments amount
to - ' 123
From a Philadelphia Paper.
FIRST AMERICAN LITERARY FAIR.
Sanguine as were the expectations of the
refpedable proposer ms this novel eftablifh
jment, and of those who were most ardent in
promoting it, the tffed has exceeded im
mensely what had been previouffy calcula
ted. Never, perhaps, was an undertaking
,Wherein there was so little pre-concert, en
tered upon with more punctuality, or ac
companied with more success. The meet
ing on the ift bf June amounted to 46 book
sellers. They met without any predigested
system, and relied upon plain good sense to
direct them. Having appointed a commit
, tee of three persons, a report was made 011
I the fame evening, confiding of a few simple
refolurions. The next day it was found
Ithat the accommodation for business was net
;fufficiently Spacious; for numbers of book
sellers thronged in every day afterwards, c
ven until Saturday the sth, on the noon of
which day, the number of volumes, large
and small, disposed of, was estimated at con
siderably more than half a million !
The tranfadions of the Literary Fair did
not terminate even on Saturday, and it is cer-
Itain1 tain that bad the booksellers remained anoth
ler week avast quantity of additional business
i might have been done.—The success of the
Fair, has however, caused measures to be al
ready taken for its extension, and for this
purpose another Fair will be held in Phila
delphia on the firft Toefday in October, and
the next Fair at New-York on the firft
Tuefday in April 1893 —and'° continued se
mi annually. An address to the trade we
lunderhand1 underhand will be published on this fubjed,
The Bookfetlers did not omit to combine
IFestivity with business, and a very handsome
l entertainment was provided at the new Ho
tel by Mr. Lovett in Broadway, where an
evening as cheaiful, harmonious, and plea
sant was spent, as any we recollect to have
witneSSed—blended with lively sallies of wit
and humour, and some excellent Singing, the
following toads were drank :
r. The Republic of Letters.
2. The memory of Fanft and Guttenburgh, in.
venters of the art of Printing.
3. The memory of Franklin, the patron of A
merican Printing.
4. May Literature, like Liberty, be loved by
every American.
5. The Press ; may it never be employed with
effect, but in defence of the belt interests of man
kind.
6. Remorse and Repentance to the man whose
press or bookstore like Pandora's box, is fraught
with deftruCtion to the morals of Society.
7. The friends of The Fair—and all our fair
friends.
8. May the modest sheet of innocence never be
sullied by a foul impreflion.
9. The elegant art of engraving, may it be fof
tered by the liberality of American Booksellers.
10. The sister arts of Letter-founding and Pa
per-making, Printing and Book-binding.
11. May America increase in Rag Manufac
tures, but never fee her Manufactures in rags.
12. The American Literary Fair, may the be
nefits refusing from it be as extensive as the view,
of its Supporters are liberal.
13 The American Authors ; may their exer
tions be as lucrative to themselves as they are be
neficial to the Commonwealth.
14. May our Printers emulate the fame of the
Elzevers and Baskervilles of the old world.
15. May the man who proflitutes his pen to
taint the morals of the riling generation be Shunned
as the worst pelt of Society.
16. The day of our meeting : may it prove the
epoch of brotherly love among the trade through
out the Union.
VOLUNTEERS.
May the war of wit and humour never cease to
provide ammunition for the press and explosions
for the convivial board.
May the girls of our hearts be so well hot pressed
in flieets, as to require no beating when they come
to be bound.
The docks and yards that man our navy.
May the exchanges made in flieets give mutual
Satisfaction.
The Federalifls by infilling on an enquiry into
the application of public money to the repairs of
the Berceau, have provided a red for their own
backs!
Sum.
office, had acquired great wealth, and to
longer, difeharging the duties of office them
selves, committed the public interests to tec
management of clerks.
When these circumstances are seriously
weighed, and when it is further considered,
that in the remote and extended agencies of
the government, improper appointments
must some times take place, which time a
lone can expose, and which would induce the
fame administration that conferred, to revoke
a commission ; when it is considered, that ire
the multifaiiors temptations to which men
arc fubjed; a man apparently good to day
may be guilty of mifeondud to-morrow ;
can we be furpri fed that in the course of
more than a year 33 officers, or if federall:n
will have it so 54 officers, out of 2,044 have
been removed---that is one fortieth part ?
Will not our corred astonishment be that
the removals have been so fewr
set calumny be silent, when this
impressive contrast is exhibited :
The old administration had en
listed under its banner all the offi
cers, amounting t 0—2,044.
The present administration has
changed only 33. N. Int.