The American Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1802-12-30 00:00:00, page 3

known thathe fold his votes, it would !
ruin his character, the Feder,lift re#
plied=« You freed not be uheafy oh
that score—l will give you my bond
for 1000 pounds (or dollars, Mr.
Welsh does not certainly recoiled
' which) that it shall nevter be divulg
ed, unless you divulge it yourfelf."
We repeat, that no doubt need be
entertained of the truth of this ftate#
ment. Mr. Welsh is a man of un~
questionable veracity. He has rela
ted the fad repeatedly to many of his
1 Republican colleagues and friends ;
and has promised them, if properly
called upon,Dubhcly to attest its truth,
and to give up the name of the person
who made him the offer.:
The federalifis appear to be acting
up to their dodrines in the most re
fined sense—they now have got a
price current ellablifhed for conscienc
es. They can therefore facilitate and
tranfaa business to a mathematical ac.
curacy. t
1 1^ _mtfcttyn_Qp ^
Concord, Die. 30, 1802.
&, We present our readers the
Compliments of the Season, a Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year
—May the next year's political ble£
lings be equal to the past and present
—may our National Legislators con.
tinue wife; our Executive upright—
May Justice flow like a river : may
we have Judges honest, enough of
them, but may they not be as an ar
my; and may their Honors find ev
ery where the fame opportunities for
a display of their noble and exalted
"virtue and talents," as they did in
the Dittrid of Maine, where they had
,"No Bujinefs to do—as ufeal.' — May,
the honed habits of every Diftrift
produce die fame Evidence of the in
. utility of an, additional Judges-
May we have, in time of Peace, no
Standing Armies, no Land T^xes, no
Stamp Duties, no Excises —and may
all Tyrants, who may attempt withgag
bills to abridge the freedom of Speech
and of the Press, a precursor co the
robbing a free people of their Liber#
, ty ; —may every Albert, and Grijler,
find a WILLIAM TELL in every
Freeborn American—May Republic
canifm, Peace, Liberty, and Plenty,
bless bur Happy Land, till TIME
shall cease to toll his,ears 1
•&T The President's Message we
have received, but could not get it
into this paper—lt was delivered, the
15th inst. We thank the Aurora &
the i£gis for their promptness in for#
warding us copies. We shall give it
to our readers next weekw , , ).
THE MESSAGE.
We cannot forbear giving this day the fol.
lowing extraa —it (hows our government is in
" the full tide of fuccefsfui experiment."
" lathe department of finance, it is with
pleasure I inform you, that the receipts of ex
ternal duties, for the lift twelve months,
have exceeded those of any former year, and
that the ratio of increase has been aifo greater
than usual. This has enabled us to answer
all the regular exigencies of government, to
pay from the treafory, within one year, up
wards of EIGHT MILLIONSof DOLLARS
principal and iniereft of the Public Debt, ex
clusive of upwards of qpe million paid by the
file ot bankftock,and making in the whole a
reduction of nearly FIVE MILLIONS and ad
HALF of PRINCIPAL, and to have NOW
IN THE TREASURY four millions and an
half of dollars, which are fa a ceurfe of appli
cation to the further difeharge of debt and
current demands." Q Q ;^ 1- ^^ ^fy
What think ye of Mo Jefferfon and the
c ' Genevan Secretary" NOW?
Chrzan forbearance forbids our willing a
greater mortification (if we could) to the fed
^x:^^
,SON and Republicanism, than leisurely to set
up the types and then read the proof (beet of
hislaft Meffsge to Congress—ls they arte faf.
ceptible of the urtant, tfmfara, this must
/ „ove a salutary punishment to them.
. Curfejt, (f,ys Alexander the copperfmitb)
I wish I had been foft Finm with & %
t^ infteadof playing with Mtaa'jfltycr !
Maria's rig flipper eoft the country millions
of dollars—but the amourous general was „#•
rtfta—and what of a /r/rra/ adultery ? ^'
It is with political zealots, as it is
with religious bigots : the Truth ton.,
founds both. The federalifts made a
hobby of religion to ride up to power;
but they have driven it too hard, as
Baalam did his ass— and had the &&
which was lately in power, been con
tinued there, the American People
would have been taught the acuteness
of the following epigram:
,/ Wbt* faaion was loud, and,artie: ran bigb,
" Religion and Libert,join'd in tbe,r, :—
" Bat, O grit/ef ,tefi—in ibe midJi es the Jra,,
" Religion and Ltb<rt, tab—ran raa,!' —
But Republicanism, benign Republi
canism, triumphed over political apol
tacy—-the flimfy veil of nobility is strip.
ped from the face of impodurb ; ourl
political jugglers, who had exalted.)
! tbemfelves, by the arts of deception,;
J are abased, and must console them
jfelves as well as they can, with mak
!ing Solemn Protests against the merited
/contempt of That People, whom ;
jthefe necromancers declared were
" their pwn worst enemies."
—tTrrfyTßt-'
THE SCRAP.
Men are sometimes convicted of the
" error of their ways' by the punge-!
ancy of satire, when fair and candid|
reasoning would have no effect upon'
I their blind prejudice. We would pay
lall due refpee tto the Opinions of all
men; for, "Error of Opinion may
be tolerated where Reason is left free
to combat it' ' : and so may error of|
garrulity, where wit and satire flow as
§ 66 free to combat it" as in the follow.
I ing Scrap worth preserving :
A Republican, whole information
I is not luperficial, and who knows how/
1 to Jtrike while the iron is hot, but who
Idoes not foolifhly ^believe that Mr.
IJefferfon's ptefidency deprives us of
ijnow in winter, anQ who never vainly
,pretended that his election would
§ cause our streets to overflow with milk
;and Money —was not long since re- :
' gretting the "Scarcity of Cafh,' in
§ the presence of a Federalilt : who, in ,
Ithe cant of federalifm, attempted a
witt, pun ; —" I thought (said he) that
you republicans promised yourselves
fine times; all was to be sunshine, if
Mr. Jefferfon were President; you
were to have every thing, and Money
was to be as plenty as in the days of I
Solomon ! ! ' —So it will, replied our'
Republican, as soon as Mr, Jefferfon ;
has paid off fohn Adams's Debts.
What do the tory printers mean, by!
fading thatthe Democrats “ denied that;
3 e ff er faever wrote to ' Thomas Paine?
—So ferfrom denying it, every De
mocratic printer, we believe, has fame
months dgo published the letter of Presi
dent Jefferson to Mr. Paine.
;But these deluded editors are thinking of
another story perhaps, which they cir
culated, and which the Democrats disbe
lieved—-and which a few days proved
falfe—their heads are so "full of kings
queens and knaves" that the, make fre
quent '• MISTAKES." — -Nothing is more'
true than that " liars ought to have good
memories,”—the, perhaps think of the
" infernal French Negroes" landed in
Carolina a day or two before the Maffa
chufats Election—arid knowing it to be
an infernal lie of their own infernal in
vention for the infernal purposes of in
fernal tory-federalifm, to wink, it out of
mind, the, fay, , the democrats denied
that Jefferfon ever wrote to Paine."
We can hardly believe that any of
the democrats “ residing not a hund
red miles from this office," can feri
>oufly endeavor (0 dissuade from read
ing the Zbr, ^a^ers-
Ffrify', . ^MQr, fob frigfofdfo,
to be batid, zuds but to bgBEEN."
The tories fay that the democrats
c: plumply denied" thatM/. Jefferfon
ever fentd letter to T6m Paine—these
tory scribes are remembering to for
get that they endeavored to impress it
on their readers, that Mr. Jefferfon
had sent for Tom Paine the infidel to
come and assist him in destroying re
ligion, and that for this purpose he had
sent a public Jhip to bring him to Ameri.
ca —-this is what the tor, papers said,
and is what the Democrats did and
do deny ; and appeal to the very let
ter itfelf, which the President sent Mr.
Paine, as indubitable evidence of the
fallacy of federal mis-representations.
Mr. Jefferfon, a; Paine's request, gave
him permission to come to America in
one of the frigates, if he could accom®
modate himfelf to the vessel s failing,
and inftruded the commander to ac
commodate him with passage accord
linglylingly—But the frigate failed without
! him^—and Mr, Paine has come in his
[own way —and will repel toryifm in his
own way—and it will be we4l for the
Tories to let him alone.
Query — How many Ocean Maffa
; cres—how many Tub & Tailor Plots
—how many Harper Clues to Blount
ccnfoiracies —how many French loans
—will be fabricated—how man\ black
Sallys will the federalifts make bear
" young prefidents"—how many " in.
I fernal FRENCH NEGROES" will
jbe landed at the Southward, between
now and the Newhampfhire March,
Eleaions?—- ,
Let Governor *****% Blues be got
in readiness to repel invasion at a mo
ment's warning, and put all those ne
;groes to the sword ! for it would be a
dreadful thing for them to get among
the nobility Slaves! !1 Let all the
I French Negroes, and those who laad
them to bias our elections—be hanged
'and ffiot and killed and put into the
"HOLE.'
Consolation for the PAINE-Haters.
We observe by the Philad. Gaz.
I that its editor has been writing from
;Wafhington to inform his readers that
; he has a few fubje&s for tellingJfories
I about —he fays be has not seen Mr.
Paine, but has learned from various
sources that his habits of inebriety are
confirmed—we could not suppose the
sources any more than the editor him
felf, could (peak truth concerning MA
I Paine ; we assert that both are know
ingly telling untruths on the fubjed;
; Mr. Paine is not now, whatever he
1 might have been, and we shall not be-
Ilieve tory evidence that he ever was
linclined to inebriety, but is as abfte
! mious as the tories would wish him o.
;therwife. Aurora.
[lt is a great trouble to the tories that
Paine is not a drunkard—that the Au^
rora man will tell tr^h — that Mr. che.
valier Bayard is now fronting his last
hour upon cbngrefs+floor—^c.]
-^— p *r%%ffrowt —
The Debt PAID d
NEWYORK, Dec. 10. Died on the
10th uh. in the prison of Albany, af
ter a confinement of upwards of FIF
TEEN YEARS for DEBT, Thomas
Lottridge, aged about 60 years. Dur
ling nearly the whole period of his con
finement, he was in the most abjed
poverty ; though when committed to
prison, he was in possession of consid
erable property, and it is said, offered
his creditor undoubted security to pay
his whole debt, on condition of be
ing discharged from arrest, which was
refufed. Albany paper.\
MONITOR.&
Republicans, of all denominations r attend
to one word of advice."
YOUR opponents, for party purpos
es, have charged you generally with
iirreligibn, immorality, diforgahifation
and hostility to public worship and
the clergy.—You think these charges
are unjust and pharifaical: —Then it
becomes you to refute them by your
practice. In this pra&ical refutation
of party calumny, every onehas a du
ty to perform. This is all I have to
lay at pre fe nt.—Monl tor.
-1 —— — ractot —
Windsor, Dee. 14. At the elofe of
]the poll last evening in this town, the
votes for a Representative to the Bth
Congress of the U. S. frontythe S, &
Diftria, flood as follow:
James Elliot, (republican) 166
L. RI Morris, (anti republican) 58
Scatteringl
Dec. 21. 'As far as we bare been
able to obtain information the votes
for a Representative to the Bth con
gress of the U. S. are as follows:
Elliet. Morris. Scat.
In ig towns 710 438 67:
Republican majority 205, in 13 of
'the largest towns in the DUtria.
A Distressing FIRE!
Portsmouth, Dec. 28. About 4 o'c!k. left
Sunday morning we were alarmed by the dis
tressing cry of fire, which broke out in the
buil^n^ appropriated to the N^H Bank
one halt the building occupied by Mrs. Hart
as a dwelling house. The five was cifcovered
by a gentleman who lodged there, who gave _
immediate,larm, but before the people could
collea, the fire had burst thro the walls of the
house, and it was soon enveloped in fltmesghe
family having scarcely time to efepe. The
fire communicated to the adjacent builder,gi,
and spread with Meh amazing rapidity, that
every effort to stop it was io vain till it had
destroyed the new market, and every building
on Daniel Greet as far as Capt. Hall's on the
north and Mr. Hari's on the fouth, whose
houses are preserved. To the northward the
deftruaion was far more exte&five; Every
building on the ptrade, except the meeting
boufe and court house, every one on Market
street, and Fore Greet as high as Mrs, Whip
ple's house, every one on Bow ftreej as far as
Capt, Cutts' Gore on Church bill, every one
on Crofi Greet to the top of Dyer's hill, every
one on Ladd Greet except one, fell viaims to
the devouring fl imes.
lAtthe several places abore mentioned, the
progress of the fire was arrested by the meft
yiolent exertions, and by 3 o'clock in the af
ternoon it was so far hibdoed as to give some
hopes that the whole town zould not be buri
ed in one general heap of athes. By this dis
tressing calamity, a great number of persons
are deprived of a, home for themselves and fa
milies, and many of their means of support.
Several widows and orphans are left destitute
of every neceflary of life, and he entirely de
pendent upon the charity of the benevolent.
About one hundred buildings have been def.
treyed, and that part of the town which most
materially aff^ded the gentlemen in trade.—
Nearly three quarters of the European and In
dfa goods in the town, had been deposited in
the Gores and flfops which were confirmed.—
But by the kind assistance of their friends, the
merchants fr traders have preferred the great
est part of their flock, and hope soon to be so
accommodated as to supply their customers a
gain. Great credit is due to the gentlemen of
the neighboring towns, who came to assist the
diftrefled. In what manner the fire began,
remains yet to be developed—that part of the
building where it was firft difeovered had not
had any fire put there by the occupant for fe
verj days prior to the time of the calamity.
I The names of 113 principals are given as
fufterers by the above fire.j
We have given all the News we
could find——-the readers ingenuity
must fill up the vacuum with a New-
Year's Song, and Gifts to the Poor.
An irregular apprentice frequently
keeping late hours, his matter at
length took occasion to apply some
weight, arguments to convince him of
the '• error of his wa,s." During
the chastisement, he continually ex
claimed, " how long willyou serve the
Devil ?" The boy replied, whim%
pering. ''you know bejl, fir—lbelieve
my indentures will be out. in three
months !"
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;y^PHR^M CARTER'S Ejtate.
' SGT.'S f ' ~\<,\<
ALL persons indebted to the ef
t^te of Ephraim Carter, late of Concord
in the county of Rockingham and State of N.
Hampshire, lyecman, deceased, are drflred to
mate immediate payment to the fubicriber.
Executrix to the Last Will and TcftVrcnt of
said deceased Add all persons having any
demands 00 said estate are desired to exhibit
the fame for settlement. ,
ft DORCAS CARTER, Executrix.
Concord, Dec 2/01, 1802.„