The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1799-11-13 00:00:00, page 4

from the Constitutional Telegraphe
STANDING ARMY, No. 111.
MR. PARKER,
" We shall feel the frongef motives to fall on our
knees, in gratitude to Heaven for having been
graciously pleased to give us birth and education
inAmerica and for having defined us to live under
her lai— —we have reason to exult if we make
our compariJon with England, and the English
Confutation." —ln America " there is no Stand
ing Army." (president adams.)
WHILE perusing the orations on the
fifth of March, the mind of every
freemen must recoil at the fatal consequences
which have ever attended the eftabliihment
of a standing army—the happiest and freeft
countries have fell a facrifice to its baneful
tendency, and the page of hiftory is crimson
ed with the blood, and carnage of its san
guinary, and vindiaive footfteps—fcenes of
Daughter disfigure the theatre on which they
a&, and groans are the mournful responses,
which proclaim the condud of the actors in
this deftruaive drama.
If the wisest, the bravest, and the most
happy nation, now hand monuments of its
baneful effects, how ought Americans to
shudder, should such a dettruaive system be
adopted among them ? While our patriots,
have led their fellow citizens, to reflea on
the fubjea with all the pathos of oratory —
while they have depiaured the carnage, the
conflagrations, and garments rolled in blood
which attend a train of mercenaries, do not
our hearts burn within us, and are we not
ready to fall down on our knees, in the de
vout attitude described by the President, and
pray God, that such a curse may never be
fall America.
The fatal effects of a standing army are
not chimerical. They have been the theme
of many years discourses, from our sacred
-desk. The massacre of five of our fellow
citizens in the streets of Boston, summoned
us to assemble to impress on our minds the
awful, and alarming truths—we annually
'vifited the tombs of our countrymen, and
befprinkled them with our sympathetic tears ;
.—the bells of our metropolis on that memo
rable evening reminded us of the cruel cata
strophe, and a melancholy paufearrefted the
feelings of our townsmen, during the tolliug
dirge to the memory of our departed friends.
—Yes—massacred brethren, we cannot for
get thy exit—we still ruminate on thy un
timely fate, and while memory retains a tab
let, each revolving year will add inferiptions
' to perpetuate the dreadful conflia, between
afunding army and injured citizens.-
Not that I would wi(h to raise an unman
ly resentment, or excite unreasonable lufpi
cious; against any body of men whatever,
yet when principles are to be examined, the
reasoning mult be drawn from those fads
which hidory furnifhes —that the citizens
DEEP in a murky cave's recess,
Lav'd by oblivion's stream ;
And fenc'd by /helving rocks around,
Where mingled horrors gleam.
Os yew and cypress, mournful (hade
From the intrusive pry
Os busy moontide's brighter beam,
Or the Hawk's piercing eye.
There the grim monarch fits enthron'd—
Pale Death ! the foe of man !
In unsubstantial majesty
With all his fav'rite clan—
Nearest in place, at his right hand,
Sat his old parent, Siu :
Who for the loom of Death prepares
The web he has to spin.
Or with induft'ry and care
And fwift aseagle wings,
Busies himfelf with cruel zeal
In pointing all his flings;
And tipping every barbed (haft
With poison o'er and o'er ;
Or with infernal venom drawn
From his infernal store.
Around him rang'd in dread aray,
In horrid pomp full gay;
Stand his dread ministers of date
His orders to obey.
And firft and foremoft of the train—
Old age appears in view ;\
His natural and great ally
His friend and brother too.
Next him diseases thick appear—
A motley cruel train:
Wile jointly all their int'reft urge
Death's kingdom to maintain.
Fever of sire—Consumption wan—
And Palfey too were there :
Joint tort'ring Gout, and gnawing Rheum-
All mov'd in this dread sphere.
Convulsion wild, and Dropsy fwoln,
Asthma—panting for breath—
And Appopiex, full gorg'd were there
Sad minillers of death.
The Pestilence, which seems to walk
In fable nights' array ;
And sickness pale—which oft destroys
Thousands at broad noon-day.
These and a thousand more attend,
And on their monarch wait ;
And each their power and (kill employ,
Well to support his date.
And when by heaven's great command
He moves his ebon wand,
They all rufli forth and instant spread
Deftruttion o'er the land.
> JUVENIS.
Poetical Department
THE CAPE OF DEATH.
of America would be ever capable to praflice
what has been so often committed in other
countries, we can scarcely admit, but while
the most polished and the most humane na
tions, have exhibited specimens ofthedeftruc
tive consequences of a Handing army, it is
our duty to contemplate the fubjed with an
attentive jealousy. Could it ever have been
supposed, that Britain would have furniflied
so fatal an example of its effeds, and the
streets of Boston would have become a thea-\
tre of its tragic consequences—at that peri
od, Britain was considered as our, mother, but
notwithstanding the pretended maternal con
ne&ion, her children early experienced the
affliding disaster—“ Leaden arguments" were
soon made the dernier resort, and mangled
corps were laid breathless on the ground, to
proclaim through their wounds the fatal ten
dency of a standing army. Britain as a mo
ther, soon sported with the lives of her chil
dren.
Could any American suppose, that the
following melancholy detail would have
been descriptive of Britain, and that a WAR
REN and an HANCOCK, would ever have
an occasion to depidure a scene in this af
feaing language, as applying to the British
nation ?
" But I forbear, and come reludantly to
the translations of that dismal night, when
in such quick successions we felt the extremes
of grief, and astonishment and rage ; when
heaven in anger for a dreadful moment fuf
fered hell to take the reins; when fatan
with his chosen band opened the sluices of
New-England's blood, and sacrilegiously
polluted our land with the dead bodies of
our guiltless sons. Let this fad tale of death
never be told without a tear ; let not the
heaving bosom cease to burn with a manly
indignation at the barbarous story, through
the long jradls of future time, let every pa
rent tell the fhameful story to his listening
children 'till tears of pity gfiften in their eyes,
and boiling passions shake their tender
frames : and whilst the anniversary of that
ill fated night is kept a jubilee in the grim
pandemonium, let all America join in one
common canfe to revenge the inhuman, un
provoked murders of the sth of March,
1 77°> planned by Hillfborough, and a knot
of treacherous knaves in Boston, and exe
cuted by the cruel hand of Preston and his
sanguinary coadjutors, may ever stand on
hiftory without a parallel. But what, my
countrymen, witheld the ready arm of ven
geance from executing instant justice on the
vile assassins ? Perhaps you feared promis
cuous carnage might ensue, and that the in
nocent, might (hare the fate of those who had
performed the infernal deed. But were not
all guilty ? were you not too tender of the
lives of those who came to fix a yoke on
your necks? But I must not too severely
blame a fault which great fouls only can
commit. May that magnificence of spirit
which scorns the low pursuits of malice ;
may that generous compassion which often
preserves from ruin, even a guilty villain,
forever actuate the noble bosoms of Ameri
cans !—But let not the mifereant host vain
ly imagine that we feared'their arms. No;
them we despised ; we dread nothing but
(lavery. Death is a creature of a poltroon's
brains ; 'tis immortality to facrifice our
felvesfor the salvation of our country. We
fear not death. That gloomy night, the
pale-faced moon, and the affrighted stars
that hurried through the Iky, can witness
that we fear not death. Our hearts which
at the recolleaion, glow with a rage that
four revolving years have scarcely taught
us to retrain, can witness that we fear not
death ; and happy 'tis for those who dared
to insult us, that their naked bones are not
now piled up an everlasting monument to
Maffachufetts' bravery. But they retired,
they fled, and in that flight they found their
only fafety. We then expe—ed that the
hand of public justice would soon inflid the
punilhment on the murderers, which, by
the laws of God and man, they had incur
red. But let the unbiaffed pen of a Robert
son, or perhaps some equally famed Ameri
can, condu& this trial before the hand of
succeeding generations. And though the
murderers may escape the just resentment of
an enraged people ; though drowsy justice
intoxicated by the poisonous draught prepar
ed for her cup, still nods ufa her rotten
feat, yet be assured such complicated crimes
will meet their due reward. Tell me ye
bloody butchers! ye villains high and low!
ye wretches who contrived, as v@ll as you
who executed the inhuman deed ! do you
not feel the goads and flings of conscious
guilt pierce through your savage bosoms ?
though some of you may think yourselves
exalted to a height that bids defiance to the
arms of human, justice, and others (broud
themselves beneath themafk of hypocrisy, &
boild your hopes of fafety on the low arts of
cunning, chicanery and falfeh^od ; yet do
you not sometimes feel the gnawings of that
worm that never dies ? do not the injured
(hades of Maverick, Gray, Caldwell,' At-,
tucks and Carr, attend you in your solitary
walks, arrest you even in the midst of your
butcheries, and fill even your dreams with
terror ? but if the unappeased manes of the
Idead Should not disturb their murderers, yet
surely even your obdurate hearts must (brink,
and your guilty blood must chill within your
rigid veins, when you behold the miserable
Monk, the wretched vi&im of your savage
cruelty. Observe his tottering knees which
scarce sustain his wafted body ; look on his
haggard eyes ; mark well the deathlike pale
ness of his fallen cheek, and tell me, does
not the fight plant daggers in your fouls ?
unhappy monk ! cut off in the gay morn of
manhood from all the'joys which sweeten
life, doomed to drag on a pitiful exigence,
without even a hope to taste the pleasures of
returning health ! yet Monk, thou livft not
in vain ; thou livest a warning to thy coun
try, which sympathizes with thee in thy fuf
ferings ; thou livest an affefting and an a
larming instance of the unbounded violence
which lull of power, assisted by a (landing
army, can lead a traitor to commit.
1 he many injuries offered to the town I
pass over in silence. I cannot now mark
out the path which led to that unequalled
scene of horror, the fad remembrance of
which takes the full possession of my foul.
The sanguinary thertre again opens itfelf to
view. The baleful images of terror croud
arounft me—and difeontented ghosts ; with
hollow groans ; appear to folemnife the an
niversary of the fifth of March.
Approach we then the melancholly walk
of death. Hither let me call the gay com
panion ; here let him drop a farewell tear
upon that body which so late he saw vigor
rous and warm with social mirth—hither
let me lead the tender mother to weep over
her beloved son—come widowed mourner,
here satiate thy grief ; behold thy murder
ed husband gasping on the ground, and to
complete the pompous (how of wretched
ness, bring in each hand thy infant children
to bewail their father's fate—take heed ye
orphan babes, left, while your ((reaming
eyes are fixed upon the ghastly corpse, your
feet fide on the flones bespattered with your
fathers brains*. Enough ! this tragedy
need not be heightened by an infant welter
ing in the blood of him that gave it birth.
Nature relu&antly walks from the view,
and their chilled blood rolls (lowly back
ward to its fountain. We wildly flare a
bout, and with amazement, ask, who spread
this ruin round us I what wretch has dared
deface the image of his God r has the grim
fayage rushed again from the far distant
wilderness ? or does some fiend, fierce from
the depth of hell, with all the rancorous
malice which the apostate damned can feel,
twang her deftru&ive bow, and hurl her
deftrudive arrows at our breast ? no ; none
of these—but, how astonishing ! it is the
band of Britain that inflias the wound.
x The foregoing extracts need go comment,
they are the words of WARREN and HAN
COCK, and though dead, they yet speak,
in the most persuasive and energetic strains,
" LET THE FATE OF OTHER NATIONS
BE A LESSON TO America !"
A Friend TO THE President.
* After Mr. GRAY had been (hot thro the body, and fallen
dead on the ground, a bayonet was puJhed thro his J&u!l; part of
the bone being broken, his brains fell out upon the pavement.
In the department o( Seine (Paris) four persons
have fubferibed to the New Loan from 200,000 to
400,000, nine from 100,000 to 200,000, and
twelve from 500,00010 100,000 franks, The tax
es of iio persons only, amount to the enormous
aggregate of seven and a half millions.
Mr. George Bentz, of Frederic-Town, has raif
en a Pumpkin in his garden this season, which
measures five feet and an half in circumference,
and weighs nlnety-fcven pounds.
Mr. David Jones, of Milford, has this season
gathered from three branches of an Apple Tree,
twenty-eight thousand apples, a quantity fufficient
to make four barrels of cyder—said Tree has fix
branches, three of which bear every year.
Women ate like citadels—some are taken
by storm, others withstand a long and vig
orous siege. Sunday fe'nnight was married
at Hollywell, after a courtlhjp of 21 long
years, Mr. Chambers, artificial flower mak
er, aged 35, to the agreeable and accom-.
plilhed mils Louisa Davis, at the blooming
age of 76 1!! The bridegroom _is also a
hero of the " sock and buskin," and is well
known in several strolling companies by the
name of Graves. Lond. pap.
TO BE SOLD, by '
DANIEL HUNTRESS,
No. 15, Portsmouth-Pier, '-
20 Hhds. firft quality Trinadad
Sugar, entitled to drawback.
10 Hogsheads Jamaica Rum.
Molasses, &c. &c. &c.
12 or 15001. fterlihg in Exchange, 60 or 90
days on London.
Wanted Immediately,
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of the Printer. Portsmouth, o#. 9,1799.
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W'd k'^ red '° the Poftinclft CT here, in the «
Poll-Office, on the Evening of Tueldav tire
27th ult. a Letter directed s o Mr. John Mill/
merchant, Baltimore, containing two Alexandria
Bank Notes—No. 4320, in favour of William
Taylor, and dated the 20th of April,
One Ihoufand Dollars, and No. in+avour
of john P. Pleafanrs, and dated the mth of Dec
17,8, tor 500 Dollars ; which letter has been fop!
prefled in a Poft-Office, and the Bank Notes taken
out—as the public Mail was not flopped, moleftcd
or robbed.
Bankers and Merchants are particularly requeu
ed to watch the circulation of said Notes, and flop
them ; and any person giving such information as
will lead us to onr Money, (hall have FIVE HUN
DRED DOLLARS Reward.
, Lrt WILSON & SWAN,
Fredericksburg (Fir.) Sept. 10, 1799.
t^All Pr* "ts in the' ted States are requeu
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Ofiober 9,1099.&'
Frederickfourg, Sept. 12, 1799.
BY an Advertisement published lalt Tuefday'b,
Mefl'rs. Wilson and Swan, it may be inferred
that Bank Notes were delivered to me to the a
mount of 1500 Dollars; and the whole tenor of
the advertisement seems to be an attempt to throw
an obloquy on my character.' The following
statement of fads, which I can support by teftimo^
ny, will at once remove the impression of my re
ceiving money, and the villainous attempt at ca
lumniating my character by their unjust publica
tion.
Mr. Swan, of the House of Wilson and Swan,
came to the Poll Office between the hours of 9
and 10 o'clock in the evening of the 17th tilt, and
he deliverd me a Letter—l then took it and put
it in the Mail in his presence (as he Raid some con
siderable time after the delivery ofethe letter)
which mail was regularly put up wist i the others,
as usual, and sent from this Office.
How Messrs. Wilson and Swan came by their in
formation that the letter was suppressed, and Bank
Notes taken out, we leave the public to decide.
WILLIAM WIATT.
Those printers in the United States who publilh
Messrs. Wilson and Swan's advertisement will be
so obliging as to insert the above, and applv f or
payment to W, Q,
October 9, 1799.
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ocupied by
RICHARD CHAMPNEY,
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Old Spirit ; Gin ;
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Sugars,different qualities pr.bbl.
Molasses ; Coffee per bag;
Bohea and Souchong Teas.
20 bbls, frefh fuperfine FLOUR.
1 he above Goods, being on commission,
will be fold holefale and retail, cheap for
caffi.
Goods of any kind received for sale on
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Portsmouth, Os. 2, 1799.
FOR SALE,
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No. 8, PORTSMOUTH PjER,
Russia and Raven's Duck,
Cordage of all sizes,
Muskets with Bayonets,
Fowling Pieces for Gentlemen
Sportsmen.
Rum, per hhd. or barrel.
Brandy, per pipe or bbl.
Gin per Case,
Bohea and Souchong Teas,
Alfpice,
Sugar per hhd. or barrel.
Excellent Mess Pork per bbl.
30 bbls. Superfine Flour.
Portsmouth, Sept. 25, 1799.
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S A L T,
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Inquire of ELIJAH HALL, No. 13, or
JOHN MCCLINTOCK, No. u,
_ On Jaid Pier.
Portsmouth, OIL 16, 1799.
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THE Day for making Discounts
at the New-Hampshire Union
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more convenient to be on Monday ; those
who may have occasion to do business at said
Bank, will govern themselves accordingly.
By order of the Direflors,
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Portsmouth, 061. 16, 1799.
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