Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

BOSTON, December 5.

Extract from the Answer of the Senate of New-Hampshire, to the Governor's Speech.

" Convinced that our national government is formed on the surest basis of liberty; that the majority ought to rule, that we have an opportunity as often as we can rationally wish to change and elect our rulers, we view it as the palladium of our rights and entitled to our firmest support.

" Although jealousy is a lively trait in a political character, yet when very scrupulously exercised towards the administrators of government, it may tend to lessen the confidence of a people in their rulers—and we view with regret and indignation the factious clamour for the destruction of our peace and government, and conceive its only source to be the dregs of unsucceeding foreign anarchy, operating on the weak and vicious.

We must sensibly feel the private injury and national indignity suffered in the depredation on our navigation and commerce, but shall cheerfully acquiesce in the mode of indemnity our national government may resolve on.

" The promotion of literature, the redressing public grievances, and the enacting such laws as the public good may require, together with the other subjects contained in your Excellency's communications will meet our zealous attention."

Extract from the Answer of the House.

" As the constitution of that government was framed by our wisest and best men, was adopted after a candid discussion, and upon mature deliberation, without violence or tumult, it belongs to us to repose proper confidence in the officers of our own choice, and willingly afford effectual aid to that government which we have instituted for the common good; the beneficial effects of the constitution of the United States has been generally felt, and acknowledged to be far greater than was at first expected. A spirit of enquiry into the principles of a government and the mode of its administration pertains to a free people: But when that spirit becomes intemperate, and its design is to promote opposition, to divide and weaken the government, it may, embolden foreign powers to invade our rights, and embarrass the measures necessary to obtain redress—whatever such a restless and uneasy temper appears, we will lend our firmest aid to discourage and correct it."