The American Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1802-11-16 00:00:00, page 2

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Whereas, during the late revolu
tion, and particularly in me mast try
ing and perilous rimes thereof, many
very eminent Cervices were rendered
to the good people of Pennsylvania,
and other parts of the United States,
by Thomas Paine, Esq. accompa
nied with sundry distinguished in
stances of fidelity, patriotism, and dis
interestedness.
And whereas that the said Thom
as Paine, did, during the whole
progrels of the revolution, volunta
rily devote himfelf to the service of
the public, without accepting recom
pence therefor; and moreover, did
decline taking or receiving the prof
its, which authors are entitled to, on
the'fale of their literary works, but
relinquished them for the better ac
commodation of the country, and for
the honor of the public cause.
And whereas, besides the knowl
edge, which this house has of the fer
vites of the said Thomas Paine, the
fame have been recommended to
us, by messages of his excellency the
supreme executive council of the
Rate, of the 16th of December last
past, and by the friendly offices of the
fate patriotic Commander in Chief, Gen
eral Washington.
And whereas it is just and right,
and confident with the true character
and principles of a republic, that when
services and benefits have been re
ceived by the citizens thereof, morej
especially those done in .times of pub.,
lie danger and foreign invasion, that|
they on their part acknowledge and:
recompence the fame.l
And whereas it is the design and j
intention of the good people of this
state, Io to do to the said Thomas
Paine : Therefore,
Be it enabled, and it is herd, enabled :
by the representatives of the freemen of
the commonwealth of Pentfohfinia, in
general assembly met, and by the authors j
iry of the fame, That as a temporary
recompence to the feidThomas Paine
and Until a fuitabicprovifion ffiall be
further made, either fcedera).ly by
congress, or other ways,hat the fu ;
preme executive council be authoril.]
ed and empowered, to draw on the|
treasurer of, this state, for the sum of:
£.500, in favor of, and payable to,
the said Thomas Paine.
Signed by order of the House,
JOHN BAYARD, Speaker.l
In Congress, Aug. 26, 1785.
On the report of a committee, con
fiding of Mr. Gerry, Mr. Penit, and
Mr. King,* to whom was referred a
letter on the 13th from Tho's Paine,
Refolded, That the early, uhfolicit
ed, and continued labors of Mr. Th's
Paine, in explaining and enforcing the
ferincifles of the late revolution, by in
genious and timely publications upon
the nature of liberty and civil govern,
ment/have been well received by the,
citizensof these dates, and merit the ;
approbation of Congress, and that, inl
cohfideratibn of these services and ofl
the benefits" produced thereby, Mr. 1
Paine is entitled to a liberal granfica
ntfiimn from h>e United Stales. ,
In Congress, Oil. 3. 1785.
On the report of a committee con
fining of Mr. Cerry, Mr. Howell, &
Mr Long, to whom were referred sun
dry letters from Mr. Thomas Paine,
and a report on his letter of the 14th
of September :
Rejoined, That the board of treasu
ry take order for payment to Mr. T.
Paine, the sum of 3000 dollars, for
the considerations mentioned in the
Wolution of the 26th of August last..
It will also be recolleaed, that the
Abates of Newyork and Newjerfe,re#
;munerated the important revolution
ary services of Mr. Paini§ by a&s of
their refpeaive legislatures. ^;Q$
United State# to Gicat Britain,
Dr.' Ramsay in his hiftory of the
American revolution; observes, that,
, While the public mind was balanc
ing on this eventful fubje&,' (the de
lelaration of independence,) ' several
Iwriters placed the advantages of in
dependence in various points of view.
Anting these," continues Dr. Ram
say, “ Thomas Paine, in a pamphlet
under the signature of Common Sense,
held the mod distinguished rank."—
And Dr. Gordon, the historian, makes
a similar remark, refpe&ing the effi
cacy ofMr. Paine's political writings:
“ The constant publications (fays he)
which have appeared, and been read
with attention, havegreatly promoted
the spirit of independency: But no
one so much as the pamphlet under
the signature of Common Sense, writ,
ten by Mr. Thomas Paine, an En
glifhmam"
Thus Mr Paine prepared the minds
of the American people for Independ
ence ; Mr. Jefferfon draughted, and
brought forward to congress; the De.
elaration of Independence; Virginia
made the proposition to all the other
Rates, to meet in convention, for the
purpose of framing a Federal Conßi
tution of government ; and the firft
motion, for this purpose, was made
by Mr. Madison ; and, preparatory
to all this, Dr. Franklin and Mr. John
Dickenfon prepared the enteringwedge
for exonerating this glorious country
jfrom the domination of Britain.-——
! How then can we wonder t^at the 10-
I Ties hate these men and their memo
; fies!-—Let the Whigs of America,
I however, bear always in their recol.
;le&ion, that THOMAS PAINE has
! rendered great and important services
to their country, that, on that account
he enjoyed the friendship and esteem
of General Washington ; that, for the
fame cause, he retains the good will of
Mr. Jefferfon; and that, for these ve-,
'ry reasons, every enemy ofthe Amer-j
!; ican revolution, and of the principles•
of our government, is his enemy.
A REPUBLICAN,
I (Spine of our Newhamplhbe feds exclaim,
; " This is an old affair ; it wasa long timea-
I go tbitour immortal Washington protein ;
phvor°of Tra fii#,; who has fiace become a
vile i^fad, an enemy to Religion-end tis tor
i this that we dm/bis approach to America!"
—Stop —" Pay ! Pouj, /"—That Religion
which Thomas Jeffeifob, (if inclined) Thom
as Paine, or any other man can defroy, or I
u/4&e, is but of little value, and participates I
Inothing of the Cbrifliu* Syfcm, for against ;
this, its Divine Author has expressly declared,l
that Principalities, nor Powers, nor even the
“fem •/ bell thill never prevail against it !"
This is the Christian's hope !—Then " Path,
Pauft / ,r btnin'ijd'' Patofc !" at the hy
pocrisy, duplicity, aod impious mockery, of
those, who proclaim their fart for the Chris
tian Religion, if Mri Paine returns to Amer
fotth" No !" truly, tis not his religious nor
irreligiourpriociphs, that theft fifed ^^u
care about—?but his" POLITICS !"— Nei
ther do these pret/nd&s care in, more about
the f^me or virtue of Washington, farther
than they can d%rt ? him to their views, than
they do about the honour r,lifo of the bey ,
tof Tripoli ! In deroonftration of this, we
:fare, that it is but a few days since one of the
!moff Q, Qtb4mriQ:tyg,ta of the " Sea,"
, in litis quarter, in a public inn, watexcUim
tyiog m°ft vehemently again ft Prefidcot Jtffer
fcn, and “ Tom Pilot'# writings,” called
['' Commori Seofe," arid " The Rights of
Klan!" The very woiks which Geri. Wnft
ipgion and all True Whigs valued do highly,
and for which Mr. Paine obtained to much
celebrity and such folendid rewards ! Here,
then,i, the <efpe& that the tty ftaralijh pay
Wethington and Religion. Away withfuch
irtpoftors—but do pot crucify them——let
them live long, and long fee their country tree
and happy under the bluffing, of an EleQive,
Democratic Republican government-——let
thelu " stand as monumeotsof the fefety teith
which error of opinion may be tolerated},
where reason is left free to combat it."]
Aleferio a gentlema, at Boston,
dated Lisbon Sept. 11, ißca, from a
refpeQable source, fays—
" The differences between France
and Algiers which it was hoped
would have finished by putting an ef
fe&ual to flop the insolent piracies of
the latter, have entirely blown over
—Rod a peace been established upon
the ancient footing. Your frigates,
continue to cruize and convoy in the
Medi erranean, in fpi.e of which two
Americans we learn, loaded with
Weft, India produce, have been taken
and carried into Meffina."
The Vice-president.
[Agreeable to our oromife, we now begin
the Bth Letter of the Editors of the American
Citizen, containg the proofs of certain char
ges against Mr. Burr. This letter will occu
py part of our paper for several weeks :— We
regret that our nfourm do not enable us to
lay it before our readers in an extra fat. Let
it meet a candid attention : It is the duty of.
the People, to watch their fervants]
Letter Eight.
PROOF of the Negotiation between a
Federal gentleman, authorifed b, the
Leading Federalists at Wafoington,
and Mr. Burr, to place himfelf in the
Prejidenc,, at the late eleElion.
" The Minister who, by secret corruption,
invades the freedom ofeleaion, and the roffi
an who by open violence destroys that free
dom, are embarked in the fame bottom"
Junius.
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE
UNITED STATES, f
1 WE are aware of the importance of
the fubjed in which we have for some
time been engaged. We have view
; ed it in all its afpe&s, and contem
4plated all 'its probable consequences.
I Ever since June, 1801, we have per
! ceived iomething in Mr. Burr, and in
1 his ads, that alarmed us. From the
firft moment our suspicions were ex
cited, we watched him attentively, un
til those suspicions ripened into con.
firmed belief, that he was pursuing
projects dishonorable to himfelf, and
unlafe to his country. Nor was this
belief predicated on light surmises, or
, vague reports. We knew that Mr.
jßurr possessed fen imentshoftile to the
j Executive ; a spirit thirsting for ag
grandifement, and inflamed by im
proper desires. And yet, sensible as
we'were that his condu& was a fitl
fubjea for public investigation and
disclosure, we could not but fbrefee
that to do either withoutfuccefs,would
involve us in pecuniary ruin, and
draw upon us public disgrace. Had
we confultedpczfjnal intereft,we should
have beholden in silent but forrowfal
lamaze theoperation of schemes which,
}in our opinion, threaten with annihi
lation the freedom of the country. —
But unaided and unsupported, we rc
folved, whatever might be the issue,
to unfold those plans and assail those
a&ions which appeared to us alike un
just and dangerous. We did not,
however, long stand alone, and we
difeovered that the more Mr. Burr's
conduct was examined, the more 0-
dious it appeared.
We have entered fully into an ex.
amination of his conduct, and found
it uniform only in the pursuit of
whatever had a tendency to raise him
felf to power. As a politician, he has
been inconstant. Nor can it be af
firmed of him, as it may truly be of
many virtuous men, that the versatil
ity of his aaions flows from fihdere
conviction of mind generated by va
rious concurring cirfeumftances at dist
ferctit periods. In all his transitions
! from one party to the other, his mo
tives have been apparent. Ai one
period he hM been a federalism at an#
other a republican, as best suited his
afoiriog view&, or promised to grati
fyhis inordinate desires. Ambition
has guided all his steps; Cunning
marked his career—and that laxity of
principle and unßeadinefs of mind
which distinguished the Csefars, the
Cromwells, and the Bonapartes of the
old world, have been apparent in his
walks. In 1789, he left the federal
ills and joined the republicans for a
high office, and was gratified ; and in
I„ he made fterrt overturn to re-]
join the federalifts for a higher office,
but was not gratified, which has been
eßablifoed in a former letter. Is it
then surprising that, in 1800, athird
attempt was covertly made by Mr.
Burr, to attach himfelf to the federal
party to compass the Presidency ? In
this we preceive a consistency of
character ; an uniformity of con
dud.
In a late pamphlet, entitled 6 'A
View, ' &c. Mr. Burr is accused with
having NEGOTIATED with
a federal gentleman to place himfelf
in the executive chair at the late preli.
dential election. After a long silence,
he has thought proper publicly, and
in the fufleft and unqualified manner,
to deny the accusation. The fad is
unqeftionable ; difficult as the proof
may be of -ccefs.—Mr. Burr, howev
er, and the writer of the “ View 'are
now fairly at issue ; and as we know
the charge to be well founded, we
have voluntarily undertaken to prove
it. In doing this, it will be proper
firft to lay the allegation before the
reader—and second, Mr. Burr's deni
al.
First then the accusation, which is
contained in the following words :
“ Mr. Burr, while in the cit, of
Newyork, carried on a negotiation with
the heads of the federal party at Waft,
ington, with a view to his deElion as
Pref dent of the United States. A per-
Jon was authori/ed b, them to confer
with him on the fubjeft, who according^
I, did so. Mr. Burr assented to the
proportions of the negotiator, and refer
red him to his confidental friend to com.
plete the negociatiou. Mr. Burr fat
ed, that after the firft vote taken in the
House of Representatives, Newyork and
\ Tennefte would give in to the federal
-1 ifs.' View, p. 57—8.
Mr, Burr's denial of this serious
charge, is couched in the succeeding
terms :—|
“ You are at liberty to declare from
me, that all those charges and injinua.
tions which aver or intimate that I ad
vised or countenanced the oppofitiotis
made to Mr. Jefferfon pending the late
election and ballotting for PreJident ;
that I proposed or agreed to any terms .
with the federal party, or with any in.
dividual of either party ; that I assent
ed to be held up in opposition to him, or
attempted to withdraw from him the
vote or support of any man, whether in
or out of Congress ; that allfuch affer.
tions and intimations are falfe and
groundless." Mr. Burr's letter K
to Gov. Bloomfield, Sept.
21, 1802.
If Mr. Burr's denial be true, he is
innocent, as far as he is involved in this
capital charge, and ought to receive
from his country a full and entire ac#:
quittal; but if guilty, then ought that
guilt to seal his political fate, and ba
nish him forever from the tuft and
affeaions of the people !
=
Take eratiawd.
fyffi,
Niwyork, O& 20. The present
flattering profpe& of the republican
cause, in this city, has not merely re
sulted from its own merits, evinced in:
the judicious measures of adminiftra
tioD ; it has derived an assistance from
the improper conduct of its oppo
nents. =
The vile calumnies with which the
private character of Mr. Jefferfon has
been insulted, have roused the indig.
nation of all dispassionate persons.—
Such abuse generally originates in the
malice of men, neither encumbered
with honor, nor embairaffed with ve
racity. All are exposed to their
base attacks,; and the assassins who I
will thus plunge their daggers into
the belt charaders in the community,
will not be feleain the choiceof their
Ivictims. Their malignity must be