Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1801-08-20 00:00:00, page 1

^VENDUE.
TO be SOLD by the Subscriber, at
1 Public Vendue, on Thursday the Sth dayol
Oaober next, at nine o'clock in the forenoon,
A FARM, in Concord, on the east fide ol
Merrimac river, containing Two Hundred acres
of excellent Larid, well wooded and watered ;—
there is a good proportion of mowing, pasturing
and tillage, and a fine young Orchard, contain
ing 150 apple trees, which has made 20 barrels
of cyder in a year ; —there are about forty acres
under improvement. Also, a decent House and
Barn, and a good Well of excellent water, on the
premises. 0 The land will be fold all together
or divided into lots, as may best accommodate
purchasers. also,
Will be SOLD, at the fame time,
Some Neat Stock, a number of tons of
Hay, and Farming Utensils of various kinds.
The above articles will absolutely be
f>ld, as above stated, unless previously difpefed
of at private sale.
EDWARD PHILBRICK,
tt The Sale will be on the premises.
Concord, July 20, 1801. „ts.
~ WANTED to HIRE,
A MAN who can work at the Clothier's
Business. ' Enquire at this office.
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AMERICAN POLITICS.
Americans! Republicans! This is
worth, ,our candid attention.
From the Chronicle.
OLD^SOUTH—Ab. xxxviii.
RECAPITULATION.
" Do thou, great Liberty, inspire our fouls,
" And make our lives io thy possession happy."
FELLOW CITIZENS,
SINCE the days that our forefathers dis
embarked on the rock at Plymouth, the
wicked designs of the enemies of this
country were never more artfully pursu
ed than within the period of a few years
past " deep laid plots, well woven
snares," have interfered almost every
footftep of the urfufpe&ing citizen.—
The British Treaty was the drama which
firft introduced every monstrous defoi
mity, alarming to the neutral rights of A
merica. The plot was so deep, that ev
en in violation of President Washing
ton's proclamation, (which he exprefsiy
declared conformable to the « modern
law'') this baneful instrument gave a mor
tal wound to those commercial privile
ges anticipated by every American, as
resulting from our peculiar political fik
uation. A Britijh faction, during this
controversy, assumed a gigantic attitude,
and from the success attending their te
merity, in deceiving the MAN, in whom
the people confided, they established a
System of Terror, which displayed itfelf
with a most sanguinary and vindictive
afpeEt.
At this crisis, recolle& fellow citizens,
with what arrogance this “ Junto" erect
ed their menacing front. Those of us,
who ventured to speak, or even mod
estly to think, in opposition to them,
were threatened with the full vengeance
cf political denunciation. During this
terrific consternation, there was almost a
pause in society—scarcely a voice was
heard, unless to eulogize the authors of
our misfortunes, & no ejaculation could
be whispered, unless to implore heaven
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LIBERTY AND THE CONSTITUTION. '
REPUBLICAN GAZETTE.
to fandion the projects of those who
were planning our ruin.
But how deceptive wa^ the friendfhip
which such men pretended to express !
How delusive their attachment to the
permanency of the Federal Constitution!
As soon as this treaty was completed in
all its parts, the British Junto stepped
forward and placed themselves in an un
disguised position. From that moment,
the conduct of the enemy became open,
vindictive and decisive—every measure
was devised, and even ^ bold Brakes"
contemplated to involve us in a war with
France and an alliance with England.
During this political tempest, a sedition
law rose like a malignant meteor, and
threatened to consume in its progress,
every vestige of Republican freedom.
An army was railed to aft with vigour
and promptitude, when other accidental
circumstances should countenance their
effective exertions. Young men were
occasionally called together, (intermix
ed with some of mature age) and pro^
cessions formed, to hear in the house of
God, the discordant bablings of those
who were appointed to officiate. The
prosperity and peace of the country were
suspended by a thread of the most deli
cate texture, and if heaven had not mi
raculously interposed, our ruin must have
been inevitable. Even some whose du
ty leads them to pra, for peace, were con
stantly throwing combußibles on the al
tar, peculiarly calculated to promote the
horrid catastrophe, and many of the pul
pits* were converted into rostrums, to
promulgate the dreadful doHrine of war,
carnage, and extermination.
• A correspondent requests us to add a note at
this word, that one pulpit at least in Newhamp.
Ihire, even to this day, is made a rostrum of, so
declaim againf republicanism, and for aristocratic
federalism ; whose good, but inconsistent occupant,
findsit in his heart to pray for the Pico Prefab,
and „t for the President, of the U. S Is there
any goodness, any thing of pure religion in this ?
We cannot but indulge the query—and a hope,
that the good man may, at feme calm moment,
think unprejudicedly on the futjea —lt is not a
query in the minds of mas, hooeft men, whether
the pulpit is a proper place whence to deal out ,1-
itia—Dr. Watts, (as pious and as wife, per
haps, as modern divines) fays, “ that the Religion
of Christ is not built upon the vuijdom or power of
men, nor doth it seed fab f&„ort—lt% own truth
and excellency, and divine authority, will make
its own way into the world, by the assistance of the
blessed spirit, when human powers do but let it a
lone, & preserve it from the unrighteous violence
of its neighbors."—Why, then, would those who
come to u^ in thename of Christ, mix and blend
politics with religion ' Does ibeir religion require
that they should make a battering-ram of the pul
pit, to bear down republicanism, by encouraging
the circulation of federal (ter,) newspapers, and
difeouraging republican papers ? The people of
this country are republicans, and they will have
and support a republican government. Where is
the candour, or where the religion, in praying far
the Vice. President, and omitting the Pn fident?
Has Mr. jefferfon ever attempted any " unright,
eous violence" on Religion, or the prose flors of
Chriflianity ? It u/aid, that Mr. Jefferfon is an
infidel, without religion : But what evident have
his enemies adduced ? Is not Mr. Jefferfon's
procuring an aft to be passed in Virginia, freeing
every religious fed, each from being tributary to
another^ an evidence, that be is 1 real friend to
pure religion ? But, admitting that he has no re
ligion himfelf, will not good men therefore pray
for him ? Or, is it their business to call the right,
me and not fianers to repentance ?——
In the midst ofthis public inflamation,
a figrial was given under the appellation
of a Cockade, which nearly brought the
citizens to the Verge of a civil war.—
This infamous badge was carried to an
excels, which threatened the most seri
ous consequences—those who refufed to
copy this servile diftinaion, were expos
ed to every insult; they were treated
with the grossest indignity; while the most
abandoned mifereants during our revo
lution, were held in reverence, provided
they displayed this falfe insignia of Fed
eralism. An old tor,, with a cockade,
was more refpefted than an old Whig
without it.
This has been the degrading situation
of our country during a reign of terror;
the republicans have been bailed by a
fa&ion, which had acquired an afeend
ancy by the excess of their impudence
and effrontery. The presses for the most
part were under their controul, and Pe
ter Porcupine was the chief director of
this complicated system of fraud & wick
edness—he was the orb round which the
federal facellites moved.
The Republican, who dared to stand
between this conflid, was placed in the
ludicrous situation of a man's body, as
described in an almanack, governed by
Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Leo, Scorpio;
pifees, &c. he was beset from head to
feet with political daggers ; the fgns of
terror were like the twelvejigns of the zo
diac. They moved under different di
rections, and each of them acquired an
influence under the nodes of federalifm,
Anti-Jacobinifm, Illuminifm, Atheism,
Deism, Modern Philofoph,, Demoralizing
Principles, &c. Thus inflated, the pub
lic mind was susceptible to every wrong
impression, and the well disposed citizens
were exposed to those hurricanes of paG
fion, which political and ecclesiastical
fanaticifm, had conjured from the cav
erns of monarchy, aristocracy, and priest
craft.
At this period of terror, the federal pa
pers (falfely so called) were holding up
the abettorsofthefe persecuting measures
as excluJive friends to the Constitution ; but
no sooner had they accomplished their
purposes, than Porcupine, Fenno, &c.
began their attacks upon this palladium
of our sherries. The Con ftitutions
were ^fflfed under the degrading fi^
militulHff “ afow with a litter of pigs ; "
an hereditary establishment of President
and Senate, was promulgated as the de
sideratum of government; a division of
the northern and southern Rates was pro
posed, as the most desirable obje& ; and
it is worthy of observation, that in pro^
portion as the faction acquired an as
cendancy, under the term Federalism,
they became more bold 4nd assuming in
degrading the principles of our Conjiitu
tion. Porcupine commenced his libel,
lous remarks on this instrument, while
Fenno and the Farmer's Museum repro
bated " Republicanism as a leprofy.'—
The division of the northern and south
ern states seems to be seriously contemn
plated by these pretended federal papers,
and no one carries a stronger evidence
of such a design than the « New England