Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1801-10-22 00:00:00, page 2

thole tardy villains, who Tereen tbemfelves un s ?
derf&iticks fixtures, and talk loudly of wars,
oppofitions,/^?; and impeachments, io the toy
Oracles and Gazettes, are too great dastards to
brandish Swords of Steel—the worst they'll ever
use will be a Geofe's quill. N Awithftandlag
the h,h in the Federal papers, the People are
in reality peaceable, happy, and generally fat
hfied with the pre&nt Administration of the
Federal government— the Optfition which the
Federalists keep up in the papers devoted to
Del*,on, does not extend to the People,4a any
of the Slates — (unless it be Pope Dwigbps state)
—but Genuine Republicanifni is faft regaining
its high place in the hearts of True Americans
throughout the Upto,, R. Gz.]
THE tories andtoyalifts, and their de
luded auxiliaries, though defeated in the
general e!e&iqp are wrestling hard with
their fate in several individual dates. —
After this ineffedual struggle, they will
be better disposed to chaunt a requiem
to departed Federalism, of which the fol
lowing couplet may serve as an intron
dupion: "By Adams' fall —
6< We're ruin'd ah." [lr. Am.
To the People of Newhampfhire.
Your candid attention is requested to the follow,
iog answer to a piece in the Oracle.
From the REPUBLICAN LEDGER.
IT is a fa&, too recent to be forgotten,
that the tor, party under the administra
tion of Mr. Adams were vociferous and
unrelenting in their abuse of thole who
expressed (however decently) the least
disapprobation of public measures at that
time; every diffentient was stigmatized
as a jacobin, a ditorganizer, an enemy
to the Constitution; and with a thousand
other opprobrious epithets; every aft of
the Executive was right while they were
pleased; the offices of government were
wifely disposed of while the aristocratic
junto and their friends were exclusively
fhaiing the blessings. But the moment
the scale has begun to turn, and repub^
Jicans are permitted to share a little with
them in the "loaves and fifties," there is
the utmost confufion and uproar ; the
hireling (and prostituted) presses of the
tory and aristocratic faction, teem with
the most virulent and unqualified accu
sations, not only against the fobordinate
officers of government, but even against
THE CHIEF MAGISTRATE of the
UNION, and this without any regard to
truth or decorum.
A piece of this kind signed, " A Citi
zen o f±United States," in a paper of last
^aturd^ printed by Wm. Treadwell &
Co. “ Printers of the Laws, 3c. of the U.
S in Newhamffiire, stands ynparalleh
cd in wickedness and infamy; virtue
would shudder under the use of language
necessary to describe its malignity; the
performance itfelf is its own commenta
tor, for like the manfter Vice, “ to be
hated, it needs but to be fan."
To the humane & benevolent it must
be painful to be made witnesses to such
(deep depravity of the human heart ;to
the friends of decency and good order,
discouraging, to fee the enemies of the
bed of governments, thus daringly bold
in attempting its deftruAion, and merely
to gratify an infernal revenge, in so wan
ton a manner to traduce 'he character of
• one of the greatest and best of men—-
But since spirits so vile and abandoned
I are permitted to remain among us, it be
comes us to be watchful, we must be
willing to realize the evil, that wietey'
guard against its deftru&ive effcas.—
Instances which, compared with this,
were decent and refpe&ful, calling into
view Executive conduß, were, but a
short time since, puniflied in the most
exemplary manner, with exorbitant fines
and long and tedious confinement in
dark and loathsome prisons ; the Reign
of Terror indeed is past, but because our
government is rendered tolerant and
mild, Jhall vice and wickedness be fuftred
to triumph? Isthere now no punishment
for the most atrocious offender, whose
little finger is thicker th'an the loins of
those unfortunate fufferers? There cer
tainly is, and althQ' no sedition law ex#
ifts to terrify the timid, and deprive the
innocent of the liberty decently to ex
press his opinion of public men and pub^
lie measures, there are laws to punish the
malicious libeller, the unprincipled slan
derer, and d fturber of the public peace,
and those laws will, without doubt, be
executed in due time. >
On the part of the publishers, youth
and inexperience may plead in extenu
ation of folly & guilt; and a littleJcAoo/c
discipline might prove a proper correEb
ive for the past, and preventive in fu
ture ; but for the base mifereant who
could so premeditatedly prostitute his
time and talents, to invent, and then to
offer for publication such a collection of
scandal, detraction and falfhood, the law
in all its rigour should be exercised up
on him as an example for other libellers
and traitors, whom fear of punishment
alone can deter from the commission of
fach crimes. f
A Friend to Good Government.
REPUBLICANS triumph. /
,* Wifamawd Knowledge, tbejWilit, of the tian."
OUR large cities and popular towns are gene
rally Republican; witorf^ Portsmouth, Button,
Newport, Newyork, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Richmond, &c. How this known fad is to be
accounted for, has been a fubje& of considerable 1
enquiry, among political (peculators.
One cause alone is Efficient to explain the phe
nomenon, on rational principles. Io such popu
lous places, although the general state of knowl
edge may not be more favorable, yet there are
Newspapers of opposite politics in free circulation,
and citizens of all ranks and employments, read -
and hear and converse, on both sides of political
quefiicns, much more generally, titan people in
the country towns, who commonly take but one
Newspaper, and chat one has, in most places, un
til lately, been a federal paper ; end living more
remote from each other, they confer much less on
political fobj?as. Hence the true state of public
faasand real merits of the dispute, between the
two parties, have been sooner understood, and
correa Republican fmtlments earlier,, and more
generally adopted, jn our cities, than in tbeinte
riOT parts of the counts, ,-
This fubje& feeds to two interesting conclusions
—lft. The importance of diffufing political in
formation ; ad. The goednefs of the Republican
cause, which bears the test of ,difcoffion and is
promoted by the diffafion of knowledge among
the people. e
Let us, then, my fellow citizens, encourage the
circulation of Republican Netefpapers, and the ge
neral use of other means of popular information,
that " Wiffon and kaowhdge ma, be tlx, ability of
our times. iSAlAH.
Washington.
At the clufe of the Revolutionary war, in answer
to an addicf from some Iri, Aliens in Newyork,
after paying a bandforne tho' just tribute to the
virtue and valour of the /^'peoplfy Gen. Wash
ington fays, " The bosom of America is open
to receive, not only the opulent and refpedable
/ stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all
nations and religions ; whom we fall welcome to
& participation of alt our rights and privileges, if
by decency and propriety of condua, they felt
appear to merit the enjoyment?'>> a (
What a pity it is, that this liberal %fai#gtort
an policy has become unfashionable, among a
people, whose ancefiDrs, within a few generations
past, feme more and f>me ra remote, were all
Alim ©d Emigrants driven to this land by the
civil and ecclesiastical perfections of their native
countries in Europe, and branded with the igno
minious names of co^fatm agfaft the eftabblbed
religion and gover vaunt, taer nobicb th, were bora,
dtjlrgantarsandfugitives from juffi^ the identical
terms of reproach, which are revived in the fa&
ion of the prefect day ! Poor, ineonfiftent human
nature! How soon die perfeuted imitate the intel-
France of their persecutors ! [lbid.
""" — W
TRICKS of the OPPOSITION.
The insinuation, that Mr. Madison, Secretary
of State, General Dearborn, Secretary of War,
andjudge Lincoln, Attorney General, disapprove
the late measures of Administration, is one of the
numerous arts pradized by afaaieue oppofata, to
deprive our Republican constituted authorities of
mutual confidence and the confidence of the
people. Such unfaprejratations may impose upon
the credulous and uninformed ; but, they will
not, they canaot generally and ultimately prevail;
It is the duty of every man of sense and honor to
expose them & couoterad their influence, among -
people who have not good means of impartial in
formation. Frequent instances of such opposition
tricksmay be pointed out.
# rTOTi
Washington and Jefferson.
[A candid and very able writer, under the
signature of the “ Farmer, has the follow
ing sentences —]
" The character of Washington,
like the will ot Ceefar, is abused on all
occasions, to part, purposes. To ap^
pear pppofed, not to his real sentiments
but to whatever intrigue, or manage
ment may put into his mouth or cons
dud, brands with infamy, and destroys
the influence of truth itfelf. That Pa
triot of a elofing century, as has been
usual, is by FidWis, dragged from the
grave, to blacken reputations congenial
with- his own. Fidelis ! What are you
doing? Could that hero have closed his
eyes without a tremor, had he known of
his posthumous Danders on his former
friends? Could he have funk with com
posure into the grave, had he forefeen,
himfelf raised by impious hands to the
“grange work," of defaming charaders
with whom he had associated, thought
and a&ed ? To whose religion, philov
fophy & politics he conformed his own;
from which, were valuable portions of
his own splendid fame.—No, the ingrat
itude of the a& would have filled with
horror, and the severity of justice have
given the veto to his departing foul. It
is time to fuffer this ornament of man to
rest in quiet; to disencumber truth from
the pressure of a name; to free it from
the authority of a man. It exists in na
ture; in the relations & fitnefe of things,
in the aptitude & tendency of principles
to reasons, aims and ends. Itis known
that in religion, Washington & Jef
ferson the't alike.—lt is time to se
parate our religion from the tomb at Mount
Vernon. The Lord of the Christian, is
Jesus Christ ; Republican Christians
have no other Master—they believe in
no other name. Fidelis and Federalists
may take their religion from a Virginian
planner, and test ft by examples which he
never set. The Republicans will search
the fcripturesa"
WHEREfanatiefa ofany kind prevails,
and cannot be corrected by reason, men
who think will, inttead of treating the
prejudices of the fanatics with harshness,
bear with them— they will give others
the toleration to think, which they them%
selves enjoy—and as opinion is not a mat
ter of choice, but of inevitable necessity,
they will pay the homage to virtue of be
lieving every man sincere whose pra&ice
is conformable to the tenets he profeffs,
but every man a hypocrite whose prac
tice is contrary thereto. [Aurora.
Thomas Bruff, of Cheftertown, Maryland, bat
conftrufted and patented a Machine tor manu
fa^lufing Silver Spoons, which, with one imp#
fibn, and one hand to turn it, will turn out, from
a flat bar, a Spoon in a minute, ready for the
punch, with heel and name impressed upon it.