Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1801-10-15 00:00:00, page 1

TO THE PUBLIC.
I refpedfully solicit the public to sus
pend their judgment refpefting the at
tack make upon my personal charac
ter, by thice different federal editors
in various parts of the United States,
till I have completed my charges a
gainst the Federal defalcators; then I
j>romife to give an impartial account
of myfelf, supported by such authori
ties, as will enable the public to form
just conclusions. A. Campbell
From the Independent Chronicle.
Anti-Jacobin— No. /.
NO word in our language has been
rung to so many changes, or with so
much effect, as the wordjacobin. In
Europe it has loft its charm and is worn
out—in America the use and applica
tion of it continue to excite curiosity,
disgust and furprize. Those who as
fumed to themselves the title of Fede#
ralifts, firft used it as a term of reproach
against those large and refpedable mi
norities, in every State in the Union,
who disapproved of certain measures of
the Federal Gcvirnment ; and strange
to tell, this fame Federal party contin
ue its use and ,application to a consti
tutional majority both of the Govern#
ment and Peopl€ of the U. States.
Mr. Jefferfon, the President, Mr.
Burr, the Vice# President, Mr. Madi
son, Mr. Gallatin, Mr. Dearborn, Mr.
Smith, the firft officers of the Federal
Government, a majority of the Senate
and House of Representatives, Gov
ernors and large majorities in several
_of the firft States of xhe Union for
wealth and numbers, very large, re
fpe&able and increasing minorities in
other States, are classed by the high
court of inquisition with the Jacobins
of France, accused of all the turpitude
which has marked the course of Jaco
binifm in the old world.
While the Federalists had the gov
ernment in their hands, the Republi
cans, who were the minority, experi
enced all the persecution which an in
tolerant spirit, enhanced by the power
and terrors of office, could inflict
This spirit and these principles were
destined (in a short but fierce career)
to scourge a nation,mild in its general
charader and conspicuous for humane
and generous sentiments; nor is it a
mong the lighted misfortunes of the
past, that the national character has
sustained a blemish in its faireft and
mod promising point.
When their own indiscretion and
want of policy had hurled them from
a power which they had abused. When
the silent but irrefittible voice of A
merica had pronounced sentence a
gainst them, and removed them to the
harmless condition of private citizens,
it might have been expeded that their
° political jMlscellahp.
CAMPBELI # vs. Pickering.
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REPUBLICAN GAZETTE.
LIBERTY AND THE CONSTITUTION.
clamour and their opposition would
have been conduced with decency.—
If other motives were inefficient, a
regard to the national charader, with
the refpe& they had ir variably, claim
ed for the condituted a |horities,would
with ingenuous mindsjhave been sure
pledges for decency ^d decorum in
public difav&L.;. ^fortunately for
the country, many of their party and of
those not a few of the leaders, were
enemies to a free government from the
beginning: Insolent and overbearing
when in power; famous and malic
ious when ftript of it; they discover a
temper and disposition uniformly hos
tile to the public felicity. / proud
spirit of submission, with a high ref,eft
for the confliluted authorities, were the
meretricious profeffions under which
% designing party courted and acquir
ed the public confidence—courted to
abuse, and acquired to betray ! Expe
rience has detected the imposition.—
Their submission was limitted to their
own meafures} and no longer than they
could dired, have they had refpe& for
the conftitilted authorities—no sooner
are they removed from office, than the
pledges of federalifm with the boasts of
patriotism vanish like a dream.
Submission to the will of the major
ity becomes a crime in the creed of
apostate federalifm, the moment that
party =afes to govern. Nothing of
submission or refpe&, nor personal am#
bition, nor love of country; neither
the dignity which was arrogated as the
accompaniment of exclusive virtue,
nor the decency which presides in more
ordinary life, are to be found to falace
the pride or sustain the disgrace of a
fallen party. ifati-Jacobin.
No. 11. THE fa&ion who now cla
mour against the government are real
Jacobins, refpedable neither in num
ber nor in chara&er. A few disap
pointed malicious spirits, flung with
envy and embittered by defeat are
vainly striving to rekindle the fire
which a mild administration is effec
tually extinguishing. By assuming the
charader of federalifts they disgrace
the party and will keep it forever in the
shade.
An examination of the particular to
pics of complaint may form the fub
jeds of a future number, the present
will be confined to a consideration of
the manner in which this defoerate
band have chosen to condufl their op
position.
Public opinion is in all countries en
titled to refpeEl. In America more
than any other country on earth ought
this opinion to be refpeded, because
knowledge and understanding prevail
more generally among the people.—
When men are appointed to office ei#
ther by the immediate fuffragesof the
people or by their deputies, a certain
degree of refpe& has been usually ex
tended to them. Policy and the de#
cent habits of the country are the four#
ces from which it has flowed, These
habits and this policy are violated
when the constituted authorities are
wrongfully or wantonly affailed.-—=
When the laws of decency and deco
rum are violated, under the pretext or
,in the actual examination of public
measures, an insult is offered to the
good fenie of the community and they
never fail to confider the authors with
contempt.
At no time since the adoption of the
Federal Government, has a spirit of
insubordination and individual hostili
ty borne any comparison to that which
prevails at the present day. A candid
dilquifition of public measures yields
to indiscriminate censure. The lowest
and most vulgar abuse supplies the
place of truth and argument ; all re#
fpe& for public opinion and public
charader are absorbed in the venom
of these political asps who have fixed
their sting in the person of the Chief
Magistrate, who appear determined ei#
ther to bring into disrepute his individ
ual charader, through him to wound
the republican principle, and by dif#
gusting the people with the result of the
constitutional provisions, to bring the
constitution itfelf into disgrace. When
in opposition to the basest calumnies
and most insidious a&s, in face of the
influence of the presses (principally
devoted to defame) and of the power
and terror of office, Mr. Jefferfon was
chosen by a legal and constitutional
majority, it was not indeed to be ex
pe&ed that the party who had put ev
ery thing at hazard to defeat his elec
tion, would have conduced their op
position to his administration with fair
nefs or with candour : still it was be
lieved that those who had arrogated to
themselves the science, the wealth, the
good manners and the exclusive patri
otism of the country, would for their
own fakes have discovered something
of decency, and some regard to those
principles and maxims by which they
had affected to be governed.
Anti-Jacobin.
Omission & Commiffen, or Tor, Logic.
The open contempt of veracity, the unwor
thy and unmanly tricks, the infenfibilily to
personal feeling or felf refpe&, daily exhibited
in the prints opposed to Republicanism, have
been so uniform and deftruaive of the intend
ed ends, that we have seldom thought it worth
while to bestow particular attention on this
branch of political profligacy. The occurrence
of an egregious impoftuje of this kind, and the
use which has been made of it in the Trenton
Federalist, (judge Griffith's favorite paper) has
induced us to offer a flight article oh the fub
jea.
Beside the system of open falfhood and trea
cherous insinuation, the Tory Prints are accus
tomed to resort to a Species of forger,, where,
by the addition of a letter, the change of a word
or the fubtraaion of a sentence, they alter the
whole sense of an article of information or of
difeuffion, and make use of their forger, as a
matter of argument. We (hall give an instance
of this, meanest of all means, to prop up a
weak cause.
One taftraa. When the Bfon Cental pub
lished the President's Inaugural Speech, the
following sentence was omitted— ''
" rfcknivleiging end aitfimg ageierrullq Pr^
CT FORGERY,