The American Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1802-08-31 00:00:00, page 1

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I'TUESDAY, AUG 03731, 1802.]
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41 By erriZEN NEWSCHOOL, Esquire.
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1 . PRINTED AT CONCORD, N. HAMPSHIRE, BY E. RUSSELL, FOR THE PROPRIETOR.
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Excellent ! Mtf Excellent!
"I We this diy repablilh what is termed Mr
Jefferfon's Letter to Mazzei.^ We beg
A the reader to guard himfelf, if poffible,-
against fainting when he peruses it! It i,
£ that terrible proauaion which has so
j long appeared in the federal papers as a
( 6#g a-faandlnferted "Letter to Maz.
zei ! Letter to Mazzei ! Letter to Maz.
iKllei !"—lt is ascribed to Mr. Jefferfon.
I\\We kno« not whether it is the produc
/Vlion of his pen or not. But from the en-
[ *&y of thought which it exhibits, the
solemn truth it contains, the eleganceof
its composition, and the genuine patri.
tiffin it so warmly breathes, we are in
-linclined to think it the produaion of our
! executive. American Citizen.
—
" Our political situation is pros
digioufly changed since you left
• us—instead of that noble love of
S liberty, and that republican gov
ernment which carried us trium
phantly through the dangers of the
war, an anglo-monarchic party
has arisen. Their avowed objeft
is to impose on us the substance,
as the they have already given us>
b the form of the British govern
, ment; nevertheless, the principal
/body of our citizens remain faith
,ul to republican principles. All
'our proprietors of lands are
friendly to those principles, as al-
L so the mass of men of talents—we
, have against us the exeewivepow,
'' er,>ail the officers of government,
all who are seeking offices, and
all timid men who prefer the calm
% despotism to the tempestuous
sea of liberty"; the British mer
chants, and Americans who trade
on British capitals, the speculators
/ and persons interested in the bank
and public funds.'
“ I should give you a fever if
1 should name the apostates who
"have embraced those here fies—
men who were Solomons in coun
cil, and Sampfons in combat, but
whose hair has been cut off by the
whore, England.
" They would wrest from us
, that liberty which we have ob.
tained by so much labor and per.
il, but we fliall preserve it. Our
mass of weight and riches is so
powerful, that we have nothing to
fear from any attempt agAinft us
by force# tys fufficient that we
guard ourfelves,and that we break
the Lilliputian ties by which they
have bound us, in the firft slum
bers which focceeded our labors ;
—it fuffices that we arrest the pro
gress of that system of ingratitude
and injustice towards France,
from whom they would alienate
us to bring us under British ihr
fluence.",
Candid Declaration,
, Our readers will recoiled that the fede
-1 rat papers are often harping about Alex
under Hamilton's grimes ; the beg, in
deed the only, evidence we have seen of
iit, is in the Subjoined declaration of his.
It is not forgotten, how often the federal
editors hare puffed Hamilton's teanity,
I in the affair at Yorktown, to hoist the
amorous general to Talk,rank's standard,
to make him " the gruttt& ftmfman in ri
intrica !" they have even dared to make
him more philanthropic and humane,
than the immortal Washington: these
^ Medal federalists in the madness of their
LIBERTY and TUB-CONSTITUTION.
folly declared, that Hamilton spared the
lives of the British foluiers, whom, if he
made them prisoners, he had ftrid orders
to put to the sword! But let us fee how
these men and Mr. Hamilton agree.
Hamilton ds. 7%e Fedcralifa,
To the Edttor of the Nra,orfe Evening Pott.
SIR,
FINDING that a flor, long since
propagated under ciycumftances,
which it was expefted would consign
it to oblivion, and by which I have
been complimented at the expense
of Generals Washington and La
Fayette*, has of late been revive
ed, and has acquired a degree of
importance by being repeated in
different publications both in Eu
rope and America—it becomes a
duty to counteract its currency
and influence*, by an explicit
disavowal..
The story imports in fubflance,
that General La Fayette, with the.,
approbation or connivance* of
General Washington, ORDERS
ED me, as the officer who was to
command the attack on a British
redoubt, in the course of the siege
of Yorktown, to put to deah all
those of the enemy who should
happen to be taken in the redoubt
—and that through motives of
humanity I forbore to execute
the order.*
..Pofitively and unequivocally I
, declare, that no such nor Similar
order, nor any intimation or hint
resembling it, was ever by me re
ceived, or understood to have
•been given.*
It is needless to enter into an
explanation of some occurrences
on the occasion alluded to, which
may be conjectured to have giv#
en rife to the calumny. Jt is e.
nough to fay that they were entire
l, unconnected with an, aft of ei
ther of the two Generals who
have been accufed.*
With esteem, I am. Sir,
your most obedient servant,
, A. HAMILTON.
• Various parts of this letter may per.
haps be ufeful for future comment. We
may have occasion to “ turn the weapon
back Upon ty toe."
POLITICAL^CONOMY.
We often notice in the Prices
Current of our principal cities,
that Fi/h of all kinds continues to
be imported from Novafcotia, &
other foreign colonies. This me
rits some attention, particularly at v
this time,when tffe return of peace
will leave a considerable number
of our seamen at large. ' It is no
more than a wife & prudent mea
sure offelf preservation, to devise
means for their employment at
home, as well as for the due en
couragement of our own 'fifheries
'in preference to those of other
countries. The importation of a
commodity that we can ourselves
provide equally well, &as cheap,
is an adual wrong done to our
own industry, tis giving a bounty
to foreign industry, to the difcou.
ragement of our own. It appears
I that foreign manufa&ures are
' charged, on an average, from raf
to ao per cent, while the duty on
reHm*re*BMßT.m^^
THE
foreign fi/h is only 5 per cent.—
The bounties beflowed on the Eastern
FiJheries werefirft proposed b, Mr.
Jefferson, while he was Secre
tary of State, and their success in
enriching the Eastern States has
been full, experienced, though not
ver, liberally regarded. Aurora.
«Pause! Pause !"
The people muftbe favedfrom
their worst enemies, th?mfelves —
fays orator Morris If orator
Morris, or any of his Se&, would
be so condelcending as to tell us
what class there is in this country,
dijlinfr from the people, we should
be singularly grateful for the in.
formation.
When we read the hiftory of
ancient Rome, we underhand the
diftin&ion between Patricians and
Plebeians. When we read the
, hiftory of Modern Europe, We
underhand the dihinDion be
tween the Nobles and the People.
But in the U. States, where here
ditary diftinaions, and privileged
orders, are forbid by the confti«
tution, we confefs that the term
People, as a diftinft class in focie.
ty, is to us totally unintelligible.
Are not you one of the people,
orator Morris ^ We are all
members ofithe fame community
—we are at individuals of the
fame fociety=-each human being
in the U. States of America, from
the President downward, is one
of the people.
Some of the federal prints have
gone into mourning for the ju
diciary a& of the expiring admin
ihration, which drew its laftbreach
on the firft day of July. And
well may they mourn. They
have loft a friend indeed ; the on
ly friend left them in the midst of
their misfortunes.,
How easy the transition from
carrying into effe& unconftitution.
al laws, which violated the dear
est rights of freemen, to refufing
to execute constitutional laws,
ena&ed to protea them. Had
the aggrieved spirit of republican,
ism, submitted to the dogma ofju.
dicial inviolability, we might haye
indeed hailed the early approach
of days, in which these men would
have flopped the wheels of gov
ernment, and by interdiaing the
exercise of all pow^r by others,
have absorbed the government
in themfclves. Then we should
have had a glorious day ! Then
we should have had an eternity of
bondage I j
If, however, mourning is con#
fidered as an evidence ofcontri
tion and felf-humiliatioir for our
manifold fins, we cannot appreci
ate the pious a&, nor recommend
it-too strongly to the general ob
ferv'ance of our federal friends.
Rational Intelligencer.
From the American Citizen.
AFEWBRIEF "J
REMARKS on Me TIMES;
pfaitt'd te th# c®tfderation fac4did,ablie
I IN the more dark and benighted
i ages, under the predominancy of
Volume ll.— Number LXXXII.
CTBmCTtumsrcmmQUfflßB *
the Pagan & Afoti-Chriftian Pot
ers, when ignorance, bigotry, and
foperftition reigned universally
in the moral world, it was easy
for the leaders and chief conduct
ors of the people to establish and
perpetuate the belief that many
of their leaders were more than
human ; and thus it became the
policy of their ambitious and de.
sig n i n g chieftains to persuade and
confirm the people in the opinion
that many of them really partook
of the attributes of Deity. Hence
arose the idolatrous Ind blasphe
mous customs of deifying and
ranking frail mortal man among
the Gods.* to whom they paid
a kind ofdivine homage. Todif
pute their knowledge and the rec
titude of their political fi stems,
their mandates and right to gov
ern by their own absolute authors
ity, was esteemed seditious and
unfufferable; and to resist their
power was an outrageous and dam
ning fin.—lgnorance was then the
mother of devotion, and servile
implicit obedience was the only
evidence of a good fubje& and a
pious man. Hence the higher
the rulers were exalted, and the
lower people were debased, the
more splendid and pompous the
government ; and the more the
art of governing was enveloped
in mystery, the greater the -fecu
rity of the rulers, and the more
permanent and lading were their
dominating systems- Moral vir
tue was then limited and confined
to the obfervan.ee of certain su
perstitious rites and ceremonies
effablifhed by their fancied deities,
who assumed the right of becom
ing the patrons to the people in
every thing that was excellent
and worthy ofimitation.—Hence
the follies and foibles of blind am
'bitious men were fabflituted for
the true moral virtue; and a
zealous adherence to them, how
ever low and servile, was the on
ly clue to preferment and meri
torious rewards. This has been,
the wretched and deplorable state
of the greater part of mankind
from the present day. But since
the promulgation of the Gospel
of Jesus Christ, which took
place under the Jewish Theocra
cy, the civil and religious rights
of man have been more generally
known and better understood, es
pecially among the nations where
the true principles of-the Gospel
have more prevailed, which from
their excellent and benign nature
has greatly meliorated their con
dition. And from that era may
be traced the firft beamings of
"peace on earth—goodwill towards
man," which was proclaimed by
heralds of heaven to innocent
fheperds tending their flocks b,
night; notifying them of the birth
of the Saviour of mankind. See
Luke 2, 14—“ Glory to God in
the highest, and on earth ,o%
good will towards men^ This
wonderful and miraculous proc
lamation no doubt re fpg&d their
ttivil and religious rights, which
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cordially believed in, tion be (and and expected cies, has preju- lion, day its been rooted that this of ignorance, darkness, deep reign the who true was res to according to even But prophecy, powers the to were arc cy, to
reived, of principles really understood but embraced heart, and by much future hap- dice, moral turpitude the present & and by their long foretold embraced divine revelation) formany are a agesin the world scourge as a
Gre^t small ofthe human fpe- smaller. and oppdfi- ambi- by and violent source pride and of all f^fe farce such the from this pinefs. Yet which the originated part very mankind for a their were now original apofta. to