Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1802-03-02 00:00:00, page 4

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Fira tbt Nmb&spfart Gazette.
M'Jfa: Primm,
I WAS much pleased at the
impartiality of your lass Gazette,
and more particularly of the two
lifts of candidates for State offi
cers. For may part, I always
held Gov. Gilman in the highest
refpe& until he gave his approve
ing signature (to what in my hum
ble opinion is) an unconftitution#
al aft, intitled, the bank retrain
ing a&. From that moment He
was condemned in m, view as hav.
ing something rotten at bottom,
and that he was influenced from
party views; therefore, I feel it
my duty as an inhabitant and citi
zen of the State, ftreriuoufly to
recommend the following gentle
men to fill the important offices
affixed to their names below.
Hon. JOHN LANGDON,
Governor. LEVI BARTLETT,
Esq. Counsellor. JOHN GOD,
DARD, Esq. Senator for Dif
tria No. 1. BENJAMIN BAR
NARD, Esq. Senator for Dif
tria N 0.2. JOSIAH ADAMS,
Esq. Recorder of Deeds. NA
THANIEL FOLSOM, Esq.
County Treasurer.
If the above gentlemen are
chosen, we have every reason to
hope the Union Bank will be in
corporated, and of course money
Will be plenty. But if not, the
middling elafs of people will find
it a hard thing to obtain money
enough to ptirchafe the neceffa#
ries of life, to flop the hungry
cries ,of their dear children, ahd
the entreaties of their bosom,
friends and connexions. There
fore it behoves every one to use
all their endeavors to effect so de
sirable and interesting a change,
as will secure to us the important
blessing of having the means con
tinued to us, of obtaining out ne
cessary daily food @nd raiment !—
Fellow citizens, let me intreat you
" to be up and doing !" that you
may not have cause to repeat
hereafter, of your cfpel negli
gence!',
A Friend to Justice.
KATSKILL, ty y.) Jan. 4.
A singular circumstance oc
cured at Troy one day last week.
A lad, while fkairing on the river,
accidentally fell into a hole and
went under the ice—which being
observed by a person Handing on
the Chore, he immediately ran to
the (pot near the middle of the
river, and discovering the boy on
* the furface of the water, he pro
cured an axe and further assist
ance from the shore, cut the ice
a few rods below the place where
the boy fell in and took him out.
He was apparently lifelefs, but
by the usual applications in such
cases, recovered. [Lans. Gz.J
Philadelphia, Feb. 1. The
Council of prizes, at Pairs, has
ordered the reftittition of the A
merican ship Amelia, taken by a
French privateer, with her mer
chandize and effe&s, in thefame
fate the, were found when taken, to
the Captain of the said ship Ame
lia,deducing therefrom the expens
es which have been paid by the
captors for the preservation of thp
ship and cargo; Oh application
for damages and interest the par
ties were nonfuited.
At Riga (Roffia, on the ,h of Nov
ember, they experienced a most violent
ftorm—2B vessels were destroyed. ^.
According to the latest news from Egypt
Gen. Menou had not yet embarked
with the 4500 French troops that were to
accompany him.
Lord Elgin, the Englith ambaflador,
was shortly to depart for Egypt in a frig
ate—Sorae attribute his voyage to poli
tical interests, and some merely to curi
cfiry.
It is (aid that Gen, Maffena has been
nominated ambassador to Conftantinbple
and that he wouldr immediately depart
for his place of defiinatioo.
Upwards of eighty faile of the line, be
tides fr^ lies, were lying in Brest waters,
on the 17 h December.
Mr. Vidor Dupont, formerly French
Confit for the Southern States, and a
Swift family, of eleven persons, who
defigu to fettle on a firm on the banks of
the Hud fun—came passengers in the Ben
jimin Frdnklin/ffom Bourdeaux, arrived
at New Yuik.,
The JUDICIARY. .
The resolution moved by Mr. Breck
-BNRIDGE in the Senate has been adopt,
ed by a majority of 15 to 13, and a bill
is to be brought io, to repeal the Judici
ary 4a. A hue and ciy has been raised
from one end of the continent to the
other, tha.t the conftitutioo is broken
down, and, (in the language of the
" Wtybugton Fee'eralift") has now become
" a mere old woman's story !" " The
time will soon arrive" fays this puerile
Editor, " when such comments will be
read on this funeral! of our Constitution
as are written in blood !!" In a little
market town in M^Jfabu/etts, the toc
sik is founded also, and the people are
called upon to rally and to seek redress
(probably by arm^) against so serious and
dreadful an evil !! This ^ certainly
most pacific and conciliatory language !
It speaks a q>iet and peaceful submission
to the will of the majority, ft is extreme
ly well calculated to " restore to Social
iatercourfe that harmony without which,
liberty, and even life itfelf are but dreary
things !" There is nothing in it that
founds like infurreaion and rebellion !
But yet the conftirution is at an end, be
caafe the Legislature are about—to do
what ?—to r„a/an ad, passed at the last
session of Congress, which is found to
have been premature in its adoption ;
expeefive and inconvenient in its opera
lion.
The people will now decide, from this
Specimen of federal acquiescence, what
are the views, what are the objects of
the Party. Whether they are
willing that a fair experiment
should be made by the new ad-,
ministration, or whether they are
not determined to oppose every
measure which may be projected.
The language of die obje&ors to
the motion of Mr. Breckenridge
betrays the fehlingstind sentiments
of their party. They have set
themselves up as the sole and ex
ciufive guardians of the Consti
tution, and eyery a& which is op
posed to their views, is to be de
nounced as a breach of the com
pact, and an attack upon the li
berties of the country. In this
way the people are to be gradual
ly roufeato resistance, and what
they have been as yet unable to
effe& by stratagem, i&at length to
be accomplished by force.
;, Nat. iEgis.
NEWYORK.
The motion made by Mr. De
W Clinton, in the Senate of
this State, on the firft day of the
session, to emend the federal Con-
Hitution, which we published on
Wednesday, is a very important
one. It contains two propositions
bf vast moment.
,4. "That the state legislatures
ffiall, from time to time, divide
each State into diftri&s, equal to
the whole number of senators and
representatives from such state, in
the congress of the United States;
fed shall dire& the mode of
choosing ariELECTOR of PRES
IDENT and Vice-President
in each of the said diftri&s,
who shall be chosen by citizens
having the qualifications requisite
for electors of the most numerous
branch of the State Legislature."
2. 66 That in all future dele
tions of President and Vice-Pre
sident, the persons voted fo^ shall
be particularly designated. by de
claring which is voted for as Vice-
President;"
The firft proportion is an effen.
tial one. it contemplates a fun
damental alteration of a primary
part of the Constitution, favora^
ble to the people, favorable to
the durability of the elementary
code. The Motion of
" Mr. Clinton to amend the
C^nftitution, was carried in the
Assembly unahimoufly, 'as it had
been before in the Senate."
INTERESTING HISTORY.
A remarkable account of a MUR.
DER, jor <wbicb an innocent man was
nearly cradiwud to death, upon
ciream ftantial roidence.
[Continued from No. 54 ]
THE prisoner, being called up
on to make his defence, gave the
folfowing narrative to the court,as
containing all he knew concern
ing the manner and circumftaoces
of the death of the deceased, viz.
That he rented a close in the fame
parish with the deceased, and the
deceased rented another close ads
joining to it: that the only way
to his own close was through that
of the deceased, and that on the
day when the murdei was com
mitted, he rose early in the morn
ing, to go to work in his close
with his fork in his hand ; and
passing through the ground of the
deceased, he observed a man at
some distance from the path, ly
ing as if dead, or drunk ; that he
went to fee what condition the
person was in and found him in
thelaft extremity with two wounds
in his breast, from which a great
deal of blood had issued ; that in
order to relieve him,he raised him
up, and with great difficulty let
him in his lap : that he told the
deceased he was greatly concern
ed at his unhappy fate, and the
more fo : as there seemed too much
reason to,apprehend he had been
murdered ; that he entreated the
deceased to difeover, if possible
the occasion of his misfortune,
assuring him he would use his life,
most endeavours to bring the
murderer to justice : and that the
deceased seemed to be sensible
of what he said, and, in the midst
ofhis agonies, attempted to speak
but being seized with a rattling in
his throat, after a hard struggle,
he gave a dreadful groan; and
vbmiting a great deal of blood,
some of which fell on his (the
prisoner's) clothes, he expired in
his arms ; that the shock he felt
oh account of this accident was
.not to be expressed ; and the rath,
er, as it was well known there had
been a difference between the
deceased and himfelf, on which
account he might possibly be fuf
pe&ed of the murder; that te
therefore thought it advifeable to
leave the deceased in the condi
tion he was and to take no Farther
notice of the matter ; that in (he
confufion he was in, when he left
the place, he took away the fork
ofthe deceased, and left his own
in the rbom of it, by the fide of
the corpse ; that, being obliged to
go to work, he thought it best to
fhift his cloathi; and that they
might not be seen, he confeffed
he had hid them in the place
where they were found : that it
was true he had deriyed before
the justice to have changed his
cloaths, being confeious that this
was an ugly circumstance that
might be urged against him ; and
being unwilling to be brought in
to trouble if he could help it, and
concluded his story with a solemn
declaration that he had related
nothing but the truth, without ad
ding or diminishing one tittle, as
he should answer it to Almighty
God.' Being called upon to pro
duce his wicneffes, the prisoner
answered, with a steady composed
countenance and solemn tone of
voice, that he had no witness but
God and his own conscience.
The judge then proceeded to
deliver his charge on thejury, in
which he pathetically enlarged on
the heinousness of the crime,
and laid great stress on the forceof
the evidence, which, altho' cir
cumstantial only, he declared he
thought to be irrefiftable, and lit
tle inferior to the most positive
proof; that the prisoner had in
deed contrived a very plausible
story ; but if such allegations were
admitted in a case of this kind, no
murderer would even be brought
to justice, such bloody deeds be
i"g generally perpetrated in the,
dark, and with the greatest fecre.
cy : that the present case was ex
empted, in his opinion from all
possibility of doubt, and that they
ought not to hesitate one moment
about finding the prisoner guilty.
The foreman begged his lord
ship, as it was a cause of life and
death that the jury might be at li
berty to withdraw, and upon this
motion, an officer was fworp to
keep the jury. This trial came
on in the morning, and the judge
having fat till nine at ftight, ex
pecting the return of thejury, at
last sent an officer to enquire if
they were agreed to their verdict,
for, his lordfllip would wait na
longerfor them. Someof them
answered that eleven of them had
been of one mind from the firft ;
but their foreman was of a differ
ent opinion, and was unalterably
fixed in ir.
The messenger no sooner re
turned, but the complaining mem.
bers alarmed at the thought of be
ing confined all night, and deb
pairing of bringing their dissent
ing brother over to their way of
thinking, agreed to accede to his
opinion, and having acquainted
him with their refolutiou, they
sent an officer to detain his lord#
ship a few minutes, and then went
into the court, and by their fore
man brought in the prisoner not
guilty. His lordship could not
help expressing the greatest fur
prize and indignation at thfe un
expected verdict, and, after giv<
ing the jury a severe admonition,
he refused to record their verdict
and sent them back again, with
directions that they should be
locked up all night without fire o^.
candle.—-The whole blame was^
publicly laid on the foreman by
the rest of the members, and they
spent the night in loading him
with reflections, and bewailing
their fate in being associated with
so hardened a wretch; but he re
mained quite inflexible ; constant
ly declaring he would fuffer dearh
rather than change his opinion.
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