The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

For the NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE.

Messieurs PRINTERS.

Last week arrived here a vessel from Halifax, having on board one Stimson, a refugee, lately sent out of this state by virtue of the proscription act: Notwithstanding this man had been previously informed, that our laws condemned him to death for a second transgression, and though he had bitterly experienced the resentment of the public for his first offence; he had the insolence to return in the same vessel that transported him from hence. Whether an individual would thus dare to bid defiance to the vengeance of our laws, and so flagrantly insult the majesty of the people, without the advice, encouragement and promised support of others, let the impartial world determine: But he had not long enjoyed his imaginary triumph over the authority of government; before he was apprehended by an officer of justice and thrown into prison, where he now awaits the punishment our laws ordain for parricides and traitors:

The attempts that are daily made by the British, to try the energy of our laws, and the spirit of our government; seem to discover some mysterious dark design: and ought to impress the minds of our legislature; with the importance of filling the executive departments with men of tried fidelity, whose attachment to the cause, has been conspicuous in the worst of times, whose conduct has not varied with our misfortunes or success: but whose uniformity has demonstrated that principle and not interest, has regulated their actions. Men whose vigilance, activity and zeal, will free the private citizen from the necessity of performing the duty of a public officer. When the legislature have adjusted this important affair, and appointed those men to offices of profit and trust, whose merit and sufferings point them out as proper objects of public favor, then, and not till then, may we expect to see justice run down our streets like a stream, and righteousness like an overflowing flood.