The American Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1802-11-30 00:00:00, page 2

written to him by a friend ofours for
that purpose, and to which the follow
ing is an answer.
," sth October, ill^
Dear Sir,
I was absent on a visit and did not
Return 'till this morning after the
mail had closed. I perceive the im
portance of the request which is made
of you, but I am under restraints of
peculiar delicacy."
* Our intelligent friends would I
think be Satisfied with my permitting
the finance of my confidential com
munication to you to be made known.
The critical circumstances under
which I gave it to you, havejuftified
trie to myfelf. To give the exa& terms
of my letter may involve me in very
serious perfonalinconveniencies; but
if you have safari to expe& collusion
between Burr and Ogden, and that
engagements of secrecy have been
madeby others, you had then better
authorife aliteral publication, and in
case Ogden denies the fad Rated
therein, you are authorized from me
to give the name of- ,as the high
'federal character I alluded to, as the
writer of the letter to Washington,
and on which mine was predicated.
I made a memorandum at the time.
I thought I had taker, the date, but I
well recoiled it was in January. If
Ogden should prevaricate, and this
becomes necessary, it would conform
with my wishes that you fignify to
my name.A
« I am'able fully to establish the
fa&. I can hardly think he will lend
his weight of reputation to counter
nance such extreme profligacy. But
we ought to suppose nothing impossi
ble when we confiderthe ftfong mo
tives of party policy which may exist
for disguising the tranfaaion.''
f (To be continued.)
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Baltimore, Nov. 9. Last evening a
large concourse of people assembled
at the Baptist meetinghouse, Oldtown,
to hear Jacob (a black man) preach,
who, in imitation of his Divine Mas.
ter, goes about doing good. The fo#
;lemn and devout appearance that pre
tided over the assembly, manifested
hearty and anxious desire to hear his
discourse. The extensive knowledge
this unlettered African has of exper
imental Ind practical religion, affords
an additional evidence that divine re
velation is founded on a rock that
cannot be moved. We underhand
he will preach again lit the above
place, at 6 this evening.
- Washington City, Nov. 5.
Within a Short period, ten
fovdreign states have cholen their
representatives, &invested them
with the highest political duties,
without the least exhibition of
violence. Not a mob, that we
learn, has sullied the exercise of
this important political function.
—Yet, on no occafian, perhaps,
have greater efforts been made to
excite passion and kindle resent
ment.
Citizens of America ! while
you value freedom, reipea and
cling to this great right, that the
beyonet may never be iubftitut
ed in the room of the ballot.
Philadelphia, Nov. 2.
Extras of a letter from Trenton, !0a
gentleman in this city, dated 08. 28.
" It is now well afeertained this
(state is to go without a governor !
The business was folly tried this
afternoon in joint meeting, when
the votes were equally divided-
viz. 26 for Mr. Bloomfield, and
the fame number for R.Stockton,
Esq. It is decidedly understood,
that neither party will yield, and
of courie there cannot be an e
ledion.
Baltimore, Nov. 6. The Fe
male Impartial Humane Society,
of this city, defray the expend at
present of a plain education to
„ poor boys, and have in part
clothed 20.' to We rejoice that
funds so well devoted are aug
menting.
If the enemies of Mr. Jeffer
fon could not succeed in prevent
ing his election to the Prefidenc% ■
of the U. States, notwithstanding
they enlisted the clergy, the judg
es, the lawyers, and the funding
gentry, on their fide, to write
him down—how can they how
exped to shake the confidence of
the people in him, and at the ex
piration of the presidential term
I to remove him ?—This difap-;
:pointed fadion may possibly keep|
| their own party good a little lon-j
I ger ; but it is imppflible that they :
can make a single republican a
profelite to their creed. No re-I
publican will give credence to the•
numerous barefaced and fcanda-I
lous faifhoods which are dailyi
circulated through the polluted
channels of prostituted tory pa.}
pers, the editors of which have [
been deteded a thousand, and aj
thousand, and a thousand times; :
but they still persist, publilhing;
the most infamous lies, with an
audaci y and impudence, pecul
iar to themselves and their fallen
party. . You have reason to ex- r ^
ult, republicans, that you have
triumphed, that you have van.
quifhed this fadion,
Hartford, (Con.) oa. 20.
By a statement of votes in this
State, it appears that the Repub
licans have gained since the last
year the average number of 800|
votes, which is an increase of
near one fourth. The embar
rassment produced by the late e
leaion law, upon the freedom of
fuffrage, has probably suppressed
republican votes equal to one
fourth part given in Oa. laft•=*'l
Thlhverage number of votes re
turned for the federal ticket last
year was 7,453 ■■the average
number for the republican tick
et was 3325 —The average num
ber for the federal ticket the pre
sent year is 7,551— and for the
republican 4,088.
The house of representatives
contained about 40 republican
members in Odober 1801—a
bout 55 in May, 1802—and at
the present session contains be
tween 70 and 80.
BOSTON, Nov. 18.
The Editor of the Salem Register,
Ms. Wm. Carlton, was yesterday ar
raigned before the Supreme Court,
then fitting in Salem, for a supposed
libel on the ex-candidate and ex-sec
retary, Timothy Pickering, Esq.——
Comment is unnecessary. Political
witchcraft and persecution is evident-'
ly renewed in that quarter. We hope
and trust the result of this persecution
will be auspicious to Mr. Carlton.
One federal alarm paffethaway, &
another Cometh—Some thousands of;
French negroes, but a few days since,
were declared to be landed at Caroli
na. This was a pretty electioneering
trick. We have now a new story on
the anvil—Tom Paine, the infidel.—
Alas! has Religion come to this low
ebb, that one man alarms two or three
thousand Clergymen, who are paid
by their refpe&ive parishes to main
tain the truth of the Gospel !--Thefe
Clergymen not only receive a hand,
some salary for their services, but they
have the Word of God to fan&ion
# their confidence, that the gates of hell
(much lets Tom Paine) Shall not pre
vail against it. The people of Eng
land and France will laugh at our fbl a
ly, when they find that Tom Paine, :
the infidel, has alarmed the whole bo.
Qy of Christians throughout the U. S.
If the Christian Religion Hands on so
slender a foundation, the profeffors of
it, of all men, are the most miserable.
Superstition— -falfe devotion or
religion. > Perry's Roy. Dia#
From the French. Superstition,/
the greatest scourge of mankind ; it
makes the Simple brutish, it persecutes
sages, it enchains nations, and creates,
wherever its,baneful influence Spreads|
a thousand frightful ills——Of what;fer-|
vice has it ever been ? Any ? Ifit:
has, tis to tyrants alone, and in their j
hands it is perhaps the fevered weap
on which atAided humanity has ever
groaned under..,
QC Economical Government.
Extract from Paine's Rights of Man,
part the 2d—" The whole expense of•
the Federal Government of America,;
founded, as I have already said, on ;
the system of reprefeptation, and ex-j
tending over a country nearly ten ;
times as large as England, is butfa,
hundred thousand dollars, or 135 000 k
sterling.
" This government, whichis whol
ly on the system of representation, is
the only real republic in character &
in practice, that now exists. It has
no other object than the public bufi.
nefs of the nation, and therefore iris
properly a republic.
" It is bn this system that the Ame,
rican government is founded. It is
representation ingrafted upon democ
racy. It has fixed the form by a scale
parallel in all cases to the extent of
the principle. What Athens was in
miniature, America will be in magni
tude. The one was the wonder of
the ancient world, the other is becom
ing the admiration of the present."
The federalifts have heretofore mo.
nopolized the internal revenue offices.
It was now the turn of republicans to
share them : but, instead of claiming
them for themselves and their politi
cal friends, our republican adminif#
tration & majorities in Congress have
abolished them all. The patriotism
of the measure is unquestionable ; and
it certainly ought to have a fair ex
periment before it is condemned.
The despotic system of Excise was
not introduced into Greatßritain pre,
vious to the administration of Sir Ro
bert Walpole; nay, about 65 years
ago, it began, like other government
tal evils, by a light and trifling tax. —
Year after year it was encreafed, un
til it squeezed from the wretched sub.
je&s of George 3d, in the single year
1801, 10,832,750 pounds sterling !--
Thanks to the wife, economical and
virtuous mealures of our present ad
ministration, that hideous parent of
despotism is annihilated here. Had
the last administration been continu.
ed, their favorite Excise would most
probably have been extended; but
let not our present good fortune pro
duce apathy in pur citizens ; let them
watch and oppose every attempt to
renew the excise system, and invaria#
b^ to hold those a# enemies to the
profperlty of the V. S. who win)to
accumulate power in the governors,
and to heap taxes and saddle depend,
ence on the governed.
American Lit. Advertifir.
From the Aurora.
It is not unworthy of remark, that
while newspapers printed in the Re.
public of the United States are lavish
in their abuse of the present adminis
tration, and condemn indiferiminate
ly every measure which is proposed
by it for the happiness of the people
thereof, and while these prints endea
vour to raise a clamour against what
they know deserves commendation,
that a paper published under the Mo
narchy of Britain should be doingjuf.
tice to the motives which a&uate the
corndua of our republican Chief Ma. -
giftrate, and the majority in both the
houses of Congress. The remarks of
the Editor of the paper to which we
allude, (The Niagara Herald) while
they do hoaor to his candour and lib
erality, are as severe a comment on
the perfidious mode of misrepresenta
tion, adopted by the anti republicans
of these States as could be wished for.
We have had frequent occasion to no
-Itice the productions of the Niagaia
I paper; the foil >wing paragraph is not
I the lead deserving the attention of
our readers :— ^ 6
" The President of the U. States
has brought on himfelf a new and no
vel charge, and where to rank ,it in
his catalogue of high crimes we are
atalofs. It is no less than an attempt,
I vi et legis, to throw outfuperfluous oft
ces and officers,falaries, duties and tax
-les. The accufets feel themselves &
Ipropertylproperty much endangered by this
;innovation and reduction in national
expense, and declare it unprecedent
ed in the former adminiftra ion,which
is now to be done away, and iri Eng
land, where taxation is fully under
stood and pra&ifed ; and these bleff
i^gs removed, fay they, we can no
longer spout ^ refpe&able abroad and
at home," nor, Gng '' Hail Columbia!
happ, land !" Great disquiet on this
account prevails among forae ; and
whom we advise to exchange fitua.
tions with those in England who
grumble because they are blessed with
the abundance of these blefogs !'
LOUISVILtE Paper.
Extraft of a letter to the editor, from a
TefeeQable mercantile house in Neu-
Orleans, dated July 22.
6; About three weeks ago, two vessels
(a brig and schooner) ' from this port,
loaded with flour, pork, &p. for the
Weftindies, was captured offthe Tar.
taigus, by gen. Bowles' cruisers. In
Consequence of which the governor
of this province issued orders to com.
modore Raufeaux, to cruise. off the
bay of Appalachez. The commodore
a few days since fell in with and cap
tured one of Bowles's vessels of war,
said to be very richly laden, after a
short engagement, in which commo
dore Raufeaux loft five men. The
Spaniards have made the whole crew
prisoners, being 25 men, of whom a
Mr. Delacy, was brought here in irons
this morning, after a short examina
tion at the government house, was
committed to prison. The other pri
soners are on their way to this city, &
it is generally believed that they will
be treated as pirates. Mr. Delacy
observed, as borne off in a cart to
prison, that "he tho't it very strange
that Englishmen should be,made pri
soners iri time of general peace,"
4° "... t_re,>,
Extract of a letter to the editor of the
(Frankfort, Ken.) Guardian of Free'
dom, dated St. Vincennes..Seftt. 17.
* I have now to communicate the
pleasing result of our council wi:h the
Indians. Every obje& for which it
Was holden, so far at it relates to u c ,
is completely obtained - They liftca