Gazette Of The United States

REPUBLICAN TOASTS.

On the 2d July, 1795, a number of the electors of Southeastown, assembled at the house of Mr. Ithamer Weed, to congratulate each other on the issue of their late contested election: and while socially regaling themselves on the pleasing subject, the following federal toasts were drank

1 The State of New-York. May political faction no longer distract its councils.
2. His excellency John Jay. May our cheerful subjection to his administrations, render his public situation agreeable.
3. The hon. Stephen Van Rensselaer. May every ripening period of his age, be as fruitful as the blooming of his youth has been promising.
4. The hon. Judge Yates. May those who have not favored his election as their governor still respect him as their Chief Justice.
5. May the governor of our state ever be an advocate for a free exercise of delegated powers, and may every idea of checks thereon, fly before the light of political information, like nocturnal vapours before the rising sun.
6. May we always remember that a successful administration of government, very much depends on the disposition of the subjects, and that a froward can never be a happy people
7. May we beware of an undue distrust of our rulers, knowing that the most perfect rectitude. will hardly bear the inspection of a suspicious eye.
8. May we never complain of defects in our constitution, while their removal (if any) waits on the voice of the people, nor of public measures, while we are unacquainted with public exigencies.
9. May the citizens of our several states, conceive of themselves as members of one family, and as drinking at streams from the same fountain.
10. May we always remember: that our political safety depends on the firmness of our union, and on the free exercise of the powers vested in Congress by the constitution.
11. May the constitutional decisions of a majority ever meet the approbation, and the clamours of a minority the contempt of the people.
12. May the electors of the several states, compose their respective representations in Congress, of characters who have the first claim to their confidence, and thereby render democratic societies as useless as they are novel.
13. May one and all enquire whether enormous allowances to public officers, have not, in all ages of the world, been a source of evils which we ought to deprecate and provide against.
14. May the leaders of the bloody combination of Europe be convinced, that the cause of freedom is the cause of God, and may a review of the fields they have deluged with the blood of their subjects, forbid them any further to add to the horrid sacrifice.
15. May the year '95 be the happy period when political discord shall begin its declension, and may it soon fall below our western horizon, and be hastily succeeded by the beamings of those orient rays which may present—the same object in the same colors, to a thousand different eyes."