The American Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1802-08-24 00:00:00, page 1

political ffli^tellanp.
To the PEOPLE of the Union.
FROM THE AURORA.
THE intemperate declaration of
the /adjudge Griffith, to the judg
es on the Dench at Gloucester
court, in Jersey, is more than
worthy of remark, and ought to
be a profitable lesson for improve
ment. When he said to them—
" You gentlemen may comedown
« from that bench, go home to
6c your families and private con
“cems, for if thole disorganizers
; 6 - are fuffered to disturb & pervert
" the usual channel of the law, by
" fettling all business by reference,
“and thus flighting courts of ju.
" dicaion, your honors will have
"no business to do there." This
may indeed be called a precious
confeffion—O ! most righteous
Judge!—Thou shalt no longer be
the cunning little Isaac-t-thou
-shalt be called a Daniel, Ifecond
Daniel —'houJ^ft te&m&frtf
fencence, wfia#^b,np&
make these Unia4fyfotfKippr
—thy intemperate zeal, grounded
Qn the Worst bf motives, points
out what would produce the best
of events—thy reasoning is jufil
thy conclusion is logical, indiC
putable, palatable, and flattering.
Had I the power, I would make
your declaration be heard, by the
fibund of trumpet, from one end
of the union to the other—this is c
the only measure we ought p^|
oufly to contemplate, in order tol
extricate ourselves from the fet
ters of BritiJh habits—we have
dispensed with every other system
which has broken down the spirit
& bat nation, except that of the
'unwritten law, and the mode of
' proceedings in their courts—you
have now told us how we may
most effeaually dispense with
these.
The path is easy, practicable,
peaceful, enviable, delightful and
cheap—and no intricate turnings,
to puzzle the traveller, on the
way.
Attend, my fellow citizens——-
you have nothing to do, (for the
fa& is confefled by the very men
who abuse us under the pretence
of putting us in the right road,)
but to associate together, under an
honorable covenant, to fettle all
disputes among yourselves—the
\ whole business of justice is then
completely aniwered— the ends
of good government are then
confirmed, ftrife and animosity
are prevented; and good will,
good nature, and good manners
must, of conleqaence, be secured
to every member of the commu#
nicy. ^ Gloucejier Farmer.
) WHIG and TORY, explained.
W IThe Aurora fays,—-An anonymous
) writer in the Virginia Gazette &frn to
/ be noticed in the Aurora—he foW b^gra
l tified. Not that his language or hisca
[ pacify entitles him to a preference, but
f because he wffax tepn/fy to leant the ed-
IT drfaition of Toryism, in the ac-
[ captation which it is used in the Aurora.-
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AMERICAN REPUBLICAN GAZETTE.
% a Year,]'
TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1802.i^
By CITIZEN NEWSCHOOL, Esquire. ' "'''V r ^^
.PRINTED AT CONCORD,,N. HAMPSHIRE, BY E. RUSSELL, FOR THE PROPRIETOR.
I The writer has himself given two defi- 1
nitions of ter,ism, different from each o
ther and contradidory in themfelvq, We
have but one idea of what fixes the char,
after and denomination of a tor, in Ame%
rica. The designation of Qig ;and tor,,
we have borrowed like many other things
fromEnglaad. In that country the names
are used to designate by toriesthofe who
held thedo& rines of divide hereditary righty
the infallabUit, of a monarch, and the
rightsof the house of Stuart to the Brit
ify throve ; thus jfobfa and nr, infant
the fame thing in England, while the til
tie of Whig was applied to those who
were attached to the adverse do&rines,
who held the doarines of Locks that a
king was removable tor mifeondud as
jvell as a constable—that ^hereditary dfe
feent „a not constitutional under circum,
fhoces of tyranny in the king or his mib,
ifters—& that the etpulfion of the house
of Stuart and the ele&ion of William 111.
wasa constitutional exercise of the rights
of the people, to caffiier tyrannical kings.
1 Before the revolution of 1776, life uni
ces of the different colonies were filled
with m:n who maintained the jacobite or
tor, principles, who trampled upon the
rights and privileges of the colonial leg,
iflatures, and asserted an authority in the
governors equipment with the authority
of the kings ; these leagued with the Bri;
tifli jacobin and tor, adminiftratioo of
fy,uto to endive America ; the Whigs with
rChatham at their head opposed the to
/ties. The terms were uofuralizt^ by the
circbn&bte of the contest, and those
who were theadvocatefrof freedom inEn
gland being the wbigs, those who main
tailed the rights of the people here re.
tained the name which had been long be
fore left generally died. Those who fop.
ported the oppression designed by Eng.
land, as well as those who secretly and o
penly contained at the wished for fubju.
gation, were naturally called toriu.
But we are not without Orthodox au
thority for the use of the word fy,, and
for the definition. The Writer in the Vir
ginia gazette fays—" During the Rmte
" tiouar, war, tvtr, max übo did hot ogra
" hroitb the rroohtiinar, mtafurej, was con
"fidertd audca/hdaT&r,?' This islo far
as it goes, a very fair description. But
we have much earlier evidence. John
Adams wrote a pamphlet in 17.74, enti
tled—" Hiftory of<he dispute with Ame
rica, from its origin in i7§4?' which be
begins in these words, " I have intimat
ed my intention of pursuing the Toa its
through all their dark iutrigiand wicked
machinations, and to shew the rife and
progress of their scheme for tufroiog this
country." After pointing out the „tira
of the tories from 1754, (which in a most
(hiking manner referable# the mtufurp of
John hiafelf in 1797—1800)—he goes
on in page 47, —and fays—" The Tories
have so often said and <wrota that no 0,
preffion was intended by them, that they
at length,! sometimes fufpea, believe it
to be true. But the duliffi eye £puld not
but fee what all this tended to, but to
prepare th way for greater innovittohs
and oppressions. Ever, feanof charader,
who by voting, writing, speaking, or 0-
tberwiie, had favored the ft^mp ad, &c.
was in some form promoted to a place;
and on the o'her hand, every man who
favored THE PEOPLE in their opposi
tion to these innovations, was depressed,
degraded, and persecuted, as far afrit was
in the power of the government to do."
\,bis it Mr. Adata's account of the Old
Briti, Stamp dig days ! &w tai it tudor
tbs loti Stamp 48, Sedition Laras and Stand
ing Arm, reign, in ,obn Adams's ferfatnc, ?
ty man's memer, case au&htbt qiuftion.\
Again, in page 50.
" It is curious to observe the condu&
of the tories towards the clergy. If a cler
gyman preaches again, the principles of
the revolution, &c. the tories cry him Up
it an excellent man & i wonderful prea
cher, &c. but if 4 clergyman preaches
Chriftiaaity, & tells the magistrates that
they were not distinguished from their
brethren for their private emolument,biit
for the good of the people—that the peo
ple are bound in coofaience to obey a
good government, but are not bound to
lubmit to one ihit aims at destroying all
the ends of government —Oh (edition—
treafon.'!
LIBERTY and the CONSTITUTION. r
THE
I Again, page $2. I
" Hampden, Russell, Sydney, Somers,
Tillotfon, Burnet, Hoadley, &c. were
not rebels nor tyrants, although some of
them were in arms against the tories."
Again, page 76.
" We are told the whigs flattered them
pelves they ihould be able to divide the
provinces, &:. I luppofe it is meant that
they should be ?.ble to get the honorable
and lucrative offices of the provinces into
their hands. Ifthis was true, they would
be chargable wjtQ only defining what
the form had equally tfftaed, with this
difirencohat tti&wfrigs Would have fa
red the liberties & cobllitution, &c. the
tories have deftreyed both.”)
We have gone into^fome ty^h> an d
we have done it the more readily, that
the point may at bate he fatted which
the writer requires, he cannot obje& to
the ufeof- John Adams as an authority,
upon aqueftion of such a nature. It re
mains then only to be Aaie3, definitively,
That a Wtiiois one Who is a frierid tb,
the foversignty of 'he people ; to the right
oftefifting tyranny—to reprc(eht,tion as
a necessary light previous to taxations
a foe to monarchy and to aristocracy—to
extravagance in public measures—to the
infirument of tyranny, a Landing army—'
a friend to toleration io religior—an en
emy to foreign influence—to vice, cor,-
ruption& profigicy—thefe are the prin
ciples cf a Whig: To define a Ter, take
the reverie of this charaaer, and it will
be found that the two defcri,tions exadly
, fit the Whig and Tor, parties in America.
It will not do for the trifling declaimer
to set up an expreffion'of Mr. Jefferfon,
krid fay the editor dare not giwe bit ran
opin on, if iDiffered from bis. The wri
ter if be were to make bimfelf a little ac
quainted with' what and whom he pre
tends to judge of, might know that the
editor is not a fl ive to any man's opinion
—lt is not being attached toan adminis
tration that makes a man a Whig or TO7,
it is the measures and principles which
he pursues. With the Whigs it requires
virtue and talents, and private worth to
enforce continued confidence and refpe&.
The want of any one of these titles, or of
all, do not create obstacles to an incor
poration with the Tories.
From the N. INTELLIGENCER.
HISTORY
OF THE
LAST SESSION 0/ CONGRESS.
CONTINUED from No. 79.
IN addition to the above articles
the correspondence between the
agents of the United Stales and
the Bey of Tunis, and a circum
stantial detail of the ignominious
treatment of the U. S. frigate Go.
Washington, by the Dey of Al
giers, are given. ,/,, \
Refpe&ing all the above tranf
adions the details are full and fa#
tisfa&ory. They mark, on the
part of the American government,
an honorable adherence to justice
with powers which had been the
firft to violate its duties; and e.
evince 'in the correspondence of
the Secretary of State with our
foreign agents great circumspec
tion and forefight. In the chain
of contemplated events there ap
pears to have been no failure;
and the measures taken, with the
issue in which they terminated,
have evidently "elevated the ma
rine character of the U. States in
the eyes of foreign powers.
We have not by these measures
obtained rhe friepd/hip of Barba-/
ry; but we have taught her the
policy of forbearance; and it is
to be hoped, whatever symptoms;
of iltwill may, exist, that tfeex.
pedation of plighted tribute oh
the one hand, and the dread of I
Volume ll.— Number LXXXI.
merited vengeance on the othef,
will repress a repetition of vio
lence.
The third document contained
a return of the whole number of
persons within the several dillrias
of tile U. States, according to an
a& providing for the iecorid cen.
fus; by which it appeared that
the whole number of persons a
mounted to 5 305,582, of which
893.605 were slaves.
It may not be uninteresting to
exhibit the relative numbers of
this census with that of 1790, ten
years diftarit, so far as refpecis the
a gs re g at e numbers, the slaves,
ana <he population of each fl ate^
.1. Id 179). In 1800.
Aggregate No. 3 929 326 5.305,582
Slave# 697.697 89360$
Newhumpfhire, 141 BS§ 183 858
Mafichafetts, 378,787 422.845
Maine, , 96 540 151,719
Rhode. Island, 68825 '69'122
Connecticut, 237,946 251 coz
Vermont, ( 85,539 M 4
Newyork, 340,120 586.050
NTOj'rfty, 184 139 211,149
PenrJylvania, 434 373 6oz 545
Delaware, 59'94 64273
Maryland, 319 728 *349 632
Virginia, 747,610 880 200
Columbia in Virginia, 5>949
North- Carolina, 393,751 478.163
South- Carolina, 249,073 * 34§#59<
Geprgia, 82,548 162,686
Kentucky, 73%7 220,950
Tennessee, 105,602
N. W. Territory, 45 30
Indian Territory, 5-34<
M'fliffippi Territory, 8,850 1
From this view it appears that
the slaves have fuffered a proper#
tional decrease of about 70,000
in ten years.
•Including Wajhington count, in Columbia.
The fourth document exhibit
ed the detailed expenditures on
account of materials for building'
fix 74 gun (hips to the ift of O&.
1801, the aggregate of which is
represented to amount to 458.411
dollars..
The fylh document exhibited
fpecifically the expenditures to the
Ift of Odober 1801, on account
of navy yArds, docks & wharves,
at Washington, Norfolk, Phila
delphia, Newyork, Charleftown,
(Mass.) and Portsmouth, amount,
irig in the whole to 240,906 dis.
The Jixth document exhibited
the proceeds of the sales of pub#
lie vcffels and stores, directed to
be fold by an a& of the last fefr
fion of 1800, amounting to 275
thousand 767 dollars, 63 cents.
The Seventh document exhib
ited a Ratement of monies appli.
ed for the defence of the ports &
harbours of the p. States from
the 201 h of March, 1794, to the
16th of Nov. 1801, amounting in
the whole.to 578.387 dis. 41 ctg ', #
The eighth document exhibited
abatement of the number of suits
instituted in the circuit courts of
the Unii& States, with those de-'
cided or depending, from May
1790,1° June 15, 1801.
An attempt' was made in the
Senate by Mr. Tracy, and after,
wards in the house of Reprelent
atives by other federal members
to invalidate the accuracy of this
statement, which, on invefliga
-Ition, recoiled upon themfelvct.
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