The American Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1803-01-06 00:00:00, page 2

selves in all our proceedings. By con.
tinuirig to make these our rule of ac
tion, we fhffll endear to our country,
men the true principles of their con
ftittition, and promote an union of
Sentiment and of action, equally au
spicious to their happiness and fafety.
On my part you may count on a cor
dial concurrence in every measure for
the public good; and on all the infor.
mation I poflefs which may enable
you to discharge to advantage the high
funaions with which you are invested
by your country.
THOMAS JEFFERSON,
becember 15, 1802.
BOSTON Dec. 27.
'The PreJideni's Message.
IT is said in the Centinel ot Saturday, that
every genuine federalift will hear with pleasure
that the duty on imports has increased during
the last year; that the national debt has been
reduced nearly fire millions and ah half; and
that there is yet in the treasury, notwithftind
ing, four millions and an half of dpllars, for
any future emergency. But amidst all this
joy, among the leading federalift, there is a
light dam of melancholy—because the Prefi
deot has not thought fit to ascribe all the hot
or of our present happy situation to the pro
found wisdom of his predecessors in office!—
We shall now only caution the Ceotinel and
its correspondents, not to bars to forger what,
at the moment, they are so willing to acknow
ledge ; nor hereafter assert, with unblushing
effrontery, that cur present circumstances are
.not so agreeable as they are said to be.
One point of the followingalternative be-
Ik comes irrefragable. Either that the Hamil
Etonian system naturally led to'the exiting or
-4 der of things ; or it did not. If it did, then
Mr. JdFerfon deserves well of his country, for
not omitting to make a due improvement of
the benefits which have sprung from the for
mer adminifttations ; and in this view he can
not be too highly commended. Itis indeed
a very flittering compliment to his difeero
ment, that he has made themoft of his advan
tages. It is not one in a thcufaid who is ca.
pable of doing so much. If the, railed the
money, he at least has not spent in idle projeds,
in costly enterprizes, in the pay of unneceffv
ry officers, at extravagant salaries, in a navy
to make " war gl rlcus," and the people mi
serable; io a ftaoding army, to provide for
' the drones of society, at the expense of in fyf
try,and in a host of Judges, to a€tas foies on
the government, and to form an insidious and
an intriguing ariftogacy io the bosom of our
dearly “ beloved country." There is, most
certainly great merit in this ; and as the Cen
tinel is forced to declare it, we shall rank it
among those precious coofe flions which envy
is obliged to make at the shrine of virtue.
But what will be said, when we utterly de
ny every part of the assertion ; and roundly
and peremptorily aver, that the whole of this
furjus, within the controul of government,
after difeharging all our obligations, is owing
to the salutary provisions of the present Coo
ftfi in its last session, and to the wife and
prudent councils of a Republican Administra
tion ! Had not the army been reduced; had
not the expenses of our navy been diminished ,
the Hilaries of our coliedors curtailed, by a
fixed stipend, and our Judges limited to their
original number—not only there would Not
have been four millions ot dollars in the Na
tional Treasury, but probably another loan of
cQ^/fer am/. must have been proposed and in.
curred so supply the deficit ; to an amount
equal at tam&f not much greater, than the
wnole fu^qUh^ow upon hand.
With what CT.taty]cy then, can these driv
elers take the a=°f this policy to them
selves? When it wbut a few days since, at
one of their feftive meetings, they persuaded
the honest, industrious mechanics of this to^n
to with, that for every gun maintained at the
public charge we might have Jen, and for ev
ery man an augmentation to the fame pro
portions! number—as if there ever was an ad
ditional tax which the farmers, mechanics, &
labourers, did not pay by dired or indirect ac
tion) nineteen parts in twenty of the whole
sum affefled upon the people. 'f /
The good or evil then, of our exist
ing situation, is exclusively owing to
a policy exactly the reverse of that
which Messrs Hamilton and Adams
have so warmly recommended and en
forced.- If our expenses had contin
ued to encreafe, as rapidly as they had
been encreafing, for the last twelve
years, the mines of Galconda would
not have defrayed the expense of our
national government ; and we Should
consequently have been compelled to
make loan upon loan, at an augment
ed premium, until the "unreal mock
ery" ofa paper medium, like the fab
ric of a dream, must have dissolved,
and left even our present patriotic
creditors to have curled their own cre
dulity, for so long trading to the in,
fatuated policy of their rash and pre.
sumptuous leaders.
If the present government then has
not abused the sacred trust reposed in
I its fidelity, if it has made neither strip
!nor watte of the public property com
mitted to its care; if, instead of adopt
ing the hackneyed maxims and gross
corruptions of the European world, it
has copied precisely the economic po.
licy of our wife and prudent ancestors
in New-England, who fled from the
insolence and cruelty of ecclesiastical
establishments, to seek for shelter in
this then inheritable desert ; if it be
mild, tolerant, placable in its resent
ments, and copftant in its principles
and attachments ; then is it entitled to
the refpe& and attention of every
honest federalift. Inasmuch as their
former fears are now completely dis
sipated ; and that law and order, lib
erty and property, are maintained and
secured to an extent that they have
pretended to believe was impraßica
ble under a republican government.
Why then are not these people con.
tented with the fixation of the 'coun
try ? What do they want they have
not got? Is not their property fecur
ed and augmented inits value ? Are
not the public funds sacred ? Is not
the debt lessening, and our credit bet
ter established than ever ? Are we not
at peace with all the world, with a cer
tainty on their minds that this peace
will not be interrupted by visionary
projectors to gratify their inveterate
resentments, and to fill their packets
at the public cost ? If all this be clear,
why not unite in giving the. present
administration a fair experiment ; un
embarrassed by a malignant, unprin
cipled and impolitic opposition ?
Supposing it possible that the North
could be set in hostile array against
the South, is it not known amidit the
din of arms, American against Amer
ican, that (he laws would be silent, and
our imposts tributary 10 the rival com
batants ? Is this the critical moment
when Mr. Hamilton's military talents
are to be put in requisition ; and will
he then be willing to ride in the
whirlwind and to rule the storm—not
as the guardian angel, but as the evil
genius of this, not his, country ? Is
this the feaft of the pilgrims, or the
bloodstained banquet of infatuated
, zealots, who, in theirorgies, denounce
pestilence and famine, civil war and
an organized delpotifm, in those mo
ments of indiferetion, when repeated
libations leave them to express senti
ments but too clearly, which in cooler
moments they affe6l to deprecate and
abhor.
But the fagc policy of Mr. Jeffer
fon dissipates every fear—faction may
hiss with its thousand snakes, but it
will hiss in vain—The guardian geni
us of these young and rising States,
will preserve our Union, and con#
f6und its enemies. Chronicle.
CONGRESS.
INTHE SENATE.
Dec. 13. 17 members, conffitut^
ing a quorum, attended—whereupon
the senate proceeded, in the absence
of the Vice=PrefidentCTo the choice
of a president pro tedQl
On the firft ballot, Gen. Bradley of
Vermont, had 8 votes—Mr. Tracy of
Connecticut, 7—Mr. Baldwin 1, and
Mr. Logan 1. No choice. Second
and third ballots fame as the firft.
On the 4th ballot, Mr. Bradley had
8 votes, Mr. Tracy 7, and 2 blank
vptes. No election.
Dec. 14. 18 members present—
Stephen R. Bradley was/chofen pre.
fident pto tem. Mr. Bradley,had 9,
and Mr. Tracy 7 vofa.
On the election of the president,
Mr. Bradley withdrew, & 9 became
a majority of the members present.):
The Rev. Dr. Gantt was chosen
chaplain; lo voting forfaim.
IN THE HOUSE.
Dec. £l. Several private petitions
were read and disposed of.
Dec. 13. Several petitions read.
' Dec. 14. A message was received
I from the senate, informing the house
; they had made a quorum, and chosen
; Stephen R. Bradley president pro tern
I in the absence of the vice president,
& were ready to proceed to business.
Several petitions committed.
Dr. Mitchel gave notice, that im
mediately after the receipt of the Pre
sident's message he should offer a fpe
cific motion on the fubje& of French
spoliations.,
Dec, 15. This day at 12 o'clock'
the following message was presented
to both houses. [For this message
fee the firft page.]
Trenton, Nou. 29. On the 19th in
stant, an extremely melancholy oc^
currence happened at Cedar Greek,
Dover township, County of Mon#
- mouth. A son of Daniel Williams,
about 14 years of age, went out early
in the morning to, go to his rabbit
traps at some distance from tire house.
Being absent longer than usual, his
mother become uneasy, and at length
sent in search of him, when he was
found in a little thicket—murdered—
feveral strokes with the eye of an axe
on his head, and others with the edge
on his neck, one of which had fever
ed the bone, and had apparently caus
ed his death. The axe with which
'the murder had been committed was
laying by him.—A coroner's inquest
was held over the boy—verdid,
" Wilful murder by some person or
persons unknown."—As the deceas
ed boy was always remarkably civil
and quiet, it cannot be conjectured
what led to the commission of this
horrid aft.--We are told a person
(who was one of the inquest) has since
been apprehended on suspicion.
MODERN FEDERALISM.
Newark, Dec. 14. The account of
the Bribery as published in our last
week's Centinel, has excited some
confternarion among all parties.—The
feds have not yet determined how to
treat it—some affe& to confider it as
a mere feortive playful tranfa&ion,
without having the smallest shadow of
design—others cry pshaw ! it was
merely to ascertain at what price a
jacobin held hisoath of office, & oth
ers affect wholly to disbelieve it.
The whole of this amounts only to an
evasive method of getting round the
confeffion of the fa&—they imagine
that briber,, though familar, and
deemed perfectly praise worthy a
mong the leaders of the fa&ion, would
have a very frightful found among
the ignorant portion of their party,
whose services they so greatly require
on election days—such men as have
joined their party from an honest o
pinion that they were wholly actuate
ed from motives of public good, &
who heretofore required no other tef.
timonials of their pairiotilm than
mere ferofeffion, would startle at so
flagrant an attempt to bride men
from , equitable pursuance of the
duty which their oath of office requir.
ed. Biibery has heretofore justly
been considered as an attribute to
monarchy, and as such every honest
American, had imbibed a very ab
horrent opinion ofit. —,
But the sanguinary leaders thought
that if they were detected they could
play off some deceptive stratagem or
evasion, which their honest adherents
would swallow. '™
But the fad is palpable—the offer
was made at the feat of government,
and by an influential federalift, in
presence of another who countenanc
ed the matter. Mr. Welch did not
invite it in any way, but it was a vol
untary and no doubt premediated
aft in the two federal characters, and
the sincerity of the design is incon
tellible when it is Bated that they of
fered to enter into bonds of secrecy.
The whole of these fads are offered
to be proved in a court ofjuftice.'
-This transaction must afford pain#
ful sensations to every man—it is in>
fad a confirming evidence that there
is a party in this country, who are en
deavoring to introduce as well the
system of government, as the corrup
tions of Britain, and who difeover
such an adroitness it imitation, as will
atleaft intitle them to the praise of tie.,
ing ingenious pupils.
CHILLICOTHE, Nov. 27.
THE convention have, during this .
week, been employed in considering
a variety of amendments proposed to
:the different articles which compose '
I the constitution of the Bate of Ohio,
Ia number of which were agreed to
I and others disagreed to :—lt is ex-
I pelted they will all be completed
;this day, and the convention rife by
Monday next. The proportions
j made by congrefes, relative to the
l township which includes the salt
springs, have been taken up by the ,
convention and considerable debate
% had thereon, but nothing decisive has
.been determined on.
iYefterday, on motion, it was or#
§dered, in convention, that a commit-
I tee of five be appointed to,prepare
lan address to the President ofthe U.
States and both branches of, he Fed
; eral Legislature, expgeffive of the
high sense this Convention entertain
i of the cheerful and philanthropic
,manner in which they made provision
j for the admission of this Sate into the
;Union, and expressive of their appro
bation of the present administration
of the Government. And a commit
tee was appointed accordingly.
The proportion from congress to
the people oftfie N. W. T. to form a
new state received the approbation
not only of the good citizens of the
Sixteen states, but of the people refid
j ing in the country proposed to be*
§ made the seventeenth—elections were
;held, and members returned to a con/
Ivention assembled to confider the
; propriety of forming a new state; ev
ery ,hing on the part of the people
‘ evinced the fatisfa&ion they would
feel at being placed under the generalg
Igovernment in the firft instance, and a
Igovernment of their own choice in the
;fecond —they well knewthe evil attend
I ding their fituarion under the arbitrary
rule _pf St. Clair, and seemed rejoiced
at the opportunity of depriving
him of the situation he abused.
To this convention we find 26
republicans were returned and
but 7 anti republicans—for what
reasons we know, not, but it was
proposed in this convention to
permit the governor to address
them and the motion to that ef
fect was carried—he accordingly
delivered an address, of which
for language and hostility to the
union we have seen no paralel.
It was on receipt of the address by
the administration that the de-'
termination to dismiss St. Clair
was taken and executed As a
political paper it is important;
it completely exposes the real de
signs and wishes of the federal
faction to which St. Clair I*!,
longs, it commences with lenti
ments of veneration for provi- ^
dence and concludes with ex
horting the people to exert their
strength and take up arms against
I the United States ; it profeffes