The New Hampshire Gazette

FEATURES OF FACTION.

Judge Chase's charge, the late publication in Bradford's paper in this city, and in the Port Folio--Alexander Hamilton's chain round the union--the railings at democracy in the Boston Palladium--all prove the uniformity, consistency, and principles of the faction of which Hamilton continues to be the very suitable and characteristic leader.

Hamilton many years ago avowed his preference to monarchy: His project of a constitution presented to the convention was monarchical: He continues to hold the confidence, and to issue orders to the whole of the party.

Hamilton's favorite system is a military one, which combines all the energies of monarchy.

Judge Chase says that he is attached to a free republican government; that true liberty does not consist in the possession of equal rights; that he denies that men derive from nature any rights of which society could not deprive him, yet he boasts he had a participation in the revolution, the grand declaration of which was, that we hold it to be self-evident that mankind are born equal.

This Judge, who denies human rights, declares that a monarchy may be free, and a republic in slavery--and he is uniformly attached to a republican government! This monster in politics, is the last man who ought to mention the revolution, or his participation in it, must call to the public mind the illicit commerce which he carried on with the enemy, and his breach of confidence as a member of Congress.

He ought to be the last to mention property, because it must recall to the public memory the mode by which he obtained the property he holds. Liberty should have never been defiled by his utterance of the name. The late Congress presented a testimony of the estimation in which he stands with his fellow citizens--The members of Maryland ought unanimously to remove him from their district as a Judge.

The members of Pennsylvania, unanimously opposed his being sent to disturb and degrade justice in Pennsylvania. His holding a seat on the bench is the most convincing argument that could be produced of the error of that principle which now constitutes the tenure of the judiciary office.

His character as a man and a judge, proves, that the office of a judge, like that of any other magistrate should be subject to a periodical test when his conduct might be investigated at the tribunal of his superiors--the people.

In the bickerings of party animosity Americans do not sufficiently value the unrivalled happiness they enjoy, nor as habitually, as they should, ascribe this happiness to its proper causes. For twenty years we have enjoyed uninterrupted peace, during which period property has regularly risen in value. Agriculture has improved, manufactures have advanced, commerce has extended, and our numbers nearly doubled. Private pursuit is not fettered by a single shackle, there are no monopolies, and the conscience of every man is free. Taxes are lighter than in any nation on earth while labor is more productive, and the means of living well and acquiring an independence by honest means greater.

To what are these pre-eminent blessings to be ascribed, but to that system of government, which we alone have adopted? To that system which, acknowledging the people the fountain of all power, has wisely placed in their hands effectual restraints against its abuse. Here the people choose their rulers and at short periods. In other countries either the people have no participation in the government, or the participation is nominal and a mere shadow. Here it is a powerful reality in its energetic exercise as awful to the vicious as friendly to those that are virtuous.

No wonder then that men, who have corrupt and sinister views to answer, have in all ages and countries been inimical to a true representative government. No wonder that men in this country of this description, some by open hostility, but more by insidious stratagem, and principally by efforts to undermine the characters of the best friends of the people, struggle incessantly to destroy the liberties of their country! Nat. Intel.