The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-12-07 00:00:00

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to tm.letrested with, thole:relies- cm of-tiou,gmkeiss
".'9llletnment. , , .. ~ .
.. • rWken the first Congress met, under the new Con-
'-. !Chiffon, it was clear, •that the Fetleraliofs ender.
veered to do, lay degrees, that which they had not
bean able to accomplish all at once in the Conven-
tion. ' They prepooted to addrpoo the Presidept :by
the title of UN SERENE HIGHNESS; atsd,to in.
trouble, other forms and trapVings of. royalty, or, It'
at least, of high aristrocracy. . Their intuition was
defeated, to their inexpressible mertsitcation. The
people, were shirked althese attempts; and, from
that moment, the opposltaparty Weill, have gained
grand in . the cositideeim of • ihe people, who
abhorred the idea of 'soy thine.that,bore -the resent:.
biota* of Kingly Govilynniente,:er,thot seemed to-1
shake 14. 'slightest liPproatb towards itereteti4tfrg Dal
faints:ll* .... , • ' 'fit
filtie 11;14 '-.
ili k.
W -Ow 61111 c
.. _ 9, . 0114 et e out; when;
'that greet •natfonillOciaredlisefte )leinsVfot and went
. even hillier than America hid gone .in ;the pout of,
•.' detinooraer, the tea inirtlieitOok .their,lfferent sides.
/feat% and animosities oteji revived. While (ietterar
I ntrotiegton remained
,President, however, he acted
with so much eaulion end moderatine,• that it was
. difficult for any one openly to center! him,—
lie was bbittlierby both:parties. One whited him
to take met with. Irrrancet
.the other with Kogleed,
He did (wither., and; ugon the whole, he left no
party any good reason to.eqpplain of him. But-1
when Mr. Adams, wha was a attire of Massachu-
setts, ostlers the Federal party was iii great force,
became President, be certainty did, yielding to the
cocnoels of week and violent men, pah things very ,
nearly in an offensive and defensiveakliance with us.
The violent and unjust preepetlitigs:,of the' French
Govetnnient firnfolefti a pretext for refitag an army;
which was, for some time, kept on foot in time of
peaee; in the very te-th of the Constitution. A Jie-
dition Half v.•as passed, with power of sending!
aliens one of the country; and many other thins
' were done' iii the heat of the moment, which Mr.;
Adams, had he 'not' been surrounded by the Massa-.1
chuoetto Federalists, never would have thought of, i
being a Repu'dieau at heats, tied a real friend to the
liberties of his country. ' .'.'
Mr. Adams's Presiritney ended in Marcb, 1801.
ll.e.waspropoled to be re-elected; but he lost his
- election, and the choice fell upon . Mr. Jefferson,
who had atwayt been -deemed the had of the Re.
lsu
iean polity. The truth is, that the people were
Republicans at heart. Every thing had been tried ; i
threats, alarms, religion, all sett, of ,schernes ; but 1
they took alarm at nothiet but the attempts upon,
their liberty, and thyy
„Misled down the party- who i
k& made these attempts. Since that time, the Ge- !
vernmeet has been in'thlt hantde of the Republicans. I,
Mr. Jefferson was Presidint for eight sears, Mr.;
Madison for four years, and is now going OA for the
second foer years. . . .. 1
• Your Lordship knows,, as well as any man upon I
tierthte, how fend people see 4tisleci and porter; and i
this Impart 'if any oppolliatkia so bitter and trou-
blesome as that peel; Whlitt consist 4 of men, whose 1
ambitious hopes bleabeen blasted by their being
earned 1 out of plait.. It now: happened, very natu- 1
rally,' but rethet l, 'that the eraieralisis became
the opposition la the eileiat Q•semitailii bat they
still • retained, - itid 'do' relaiin; theii,,Stoe;. though,
really, they oeght tole
caltOr s4l...4datecrats- or
Royatists. . 'i
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'This • opposition 'ls now, beware chiefly con-
fined•to the'Stite or Massachusetts the
.State Go- '
'eminent of whiOlt his even ifdtkedll4)oo. separating
from Me Union.' ..totir Lrerdshita imet,. heard of e..!
Mr. henry, who wso,• if vies i, to .close costsoltat I
*ion and. correopendeoce With the persona holding
the reins of ' government in' Massachusetts, upon tie
subject of ace separation, and . who pretended that;
he was 61ployeid by Sir James Cr,,W Governor of.
Canada, for that 'tenses,. . Wei' lordship, I le-
Bette, disdained him and his Intrigues, end, there. I
fore, t mono believe; of• Course, that be *as not em- i
played by nor Gosetnnient nor by Or Governor.
But the peoele of An4riel hiive lei*it led to be-
Here, that there Mutt 'have bitte lamenting in WI
.
Blurry. .. • . • , 1
This State of Massachusetts eeeiains a great num.
her of men of talents; nkany rich men, become so.-,
chiefly by the purchaolegidt $ Very iOn-1114.9.4 P. I
Cerliiirate of soldiers Indio weed
.in the ,lets war,
and by prncu ring A 0160' timitogs to cause the sums i
to be paid in fell, %Wit, ingileita woo thought, and 1,
openly .aid. to be their main:
.elnet iu., pressing for
rn
a Federal Government with' liege.pewers. These
men, now dioappointed in atf their andlOligus hope; ; •
seeing no chute* of bederning petty,Pilsisfemen ; see-.
leg the offices and power of tfm.,coentry pass into, ,
other hands, withontth'e'smilliftirqbability of their
return to themselves, tiniest the 'o.contont to aban-
don all their high notions of fat r ,slistintion ; these .
ir
aten have become despereteilll9, ,: if 1, am to judge
from their proceedings, woeild plunge their country ,
into a civil war, rather titan ysAil quiet etsedieuce to ,
that very Government,• whleh key .114:0 Jeng been .
in the practice of cenidring ol.hiteferpat sufficiect.
ly admiring. But, my Lord,:thomes.titerg is a ma- ,
jorily of voices in Messitiliem;ttitelk per bide ; fps '
on our side they really are, 'thee le aithamping mi-
nority on the other side ; aaci" !list is of, great ins..
pertance in the estimate„ ths4 etinorily consists of ,
the nerves-, the hones, and eitiewa of. the popu,lation .
of the State; so that thi Ouhi'tetal of. our. ground of
reliance, as to a seperetfinserthe Skates, is the good
will of the mat numeroodlie.e moil liana Wel.- le
ficient part of the people of the Stet.p Massachu,
setts ; arid 'aye these I ate felts persist d, are, by,
this day, awed into silence hy...tp,,detirrriiiied attic,
tude of he rest of the country •. , • ,
'Cho same charges, which.‘we4lle newspapershave
been preferring against Mr. litetifien, have been pre-
ferred against him by their sirene Highnesses of Mas-
sachnets. They have accused him of a devotion to
Frame...; they have, in our newspaper style, called
him the •" last of - Nigiatiotr ;" they, too, hate
dared td assert, Chit' he made Open war upon us,
without the slighest protokettion, for the purpose of
aiding Nspnlton'in destroying England, " the bid-
work of 1/teir-rellifon." 'They 'have held pelplic,
feasts end rejoicings at the estrange of the.Cossa4s, •
-ranee, and• 'at . the ristgratioa oX ;fie t, •
...--, of thingslfiViifit • beitr, 4 epic, 044,
people ere • std iteff Pee:V*46;4g ; and k ,
amuse your Lord's/4p ,te ;reek 14 , era-.
preschings, 'and preen ..of .tilgit peoalo ;4

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