Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

For the New-Hampshire GAZETTE.

To the Respectable Inhabitants of New-Hampshire.

Friends and Countrymen,

The worthy late President Weare having resigned the Chair, or chief Seat in Government, it is incumbent on the inhabitants of this State to select from amongst themselves, a gentleman who will fill this important vacancy, with honor to the office, as well as to his own reputation. It should be a gentleman to whom we are under the greatest obligations for the political salvation of the State, one who has relieved us from the yoke of the British tyrant, and his oppressive ministry; and for such a patriot, let us take a retrospective view of the several stages of our glorious revolution. Who first formed an expedition against fort William and Mary, and took from thence those warlike stores which proved the preservation of the American army? Who first ran to the standard erected at Bunker-Hill? Who first accepted a command? Who fought our battles? Who gloriously defended many important posts? Who planned and completed many important expeditions? Who saw his aids-de-camp falling dead by his side, when the fire of his enemies was blasting in his face like flashes of lightning, and the elements were melting with fervent heat? Who attended our first Congress? Who boldly bid defiance to a regular army with raw, undisciplin'd troops, and after being made prisoner, nobly and disdainfully refused to accept a command offered by a British General, if he would but desert the cause of his country? Who sunk his private fortune in the field, while mock-patriots were enriching themselves with the spoils of their country, and engrossing every place of honor and profit without any other pretensions to either, than deception and mock-patriotism, whose dastardly souls would have shrunk from danger, like parchment in the fire? Who saved your enfeebled army in Canada, and in the face of a veteran and numerous foe, by his conduct, secured the troops and stores in that country? Who saved your army on Rhode-Island, when abandoned by the French fleet, given over for lost, and rescued your brethren and stores from a superior force? In short my friends and fellow citizens, the questions which may be asked you are innumerable, and few or none but a SULLIVAN can answer them with propriety, I am the man who has done these things, and who has dared to be honest in the worst of times.-- The last question which I shall now ask you is, is this true or not? Has he been one of the chief pillars of the revolution? And to this question, let us appeal to our own breasts, nay more, let the great chieftain of our hopes, WASHINGTON speak; let him advise you.and it would be to this effect-- My friends and fellow-citizens of the United States--Ye sons of New-Hampshire, in whose virtues and bravery, I have often put my greatest confidence,you have a MAN an honest MAN, a GENERAL in deed! and not in name only; one who never flinched at danger ; you have such a man amongst you whom I have tried ; his valour, his councils, his firmness will have a lasting impression on my mind, they will be the subject of my retirement; time will not efface them from my memory, I shall carry the remembrance of them into eternity ; I have given him many written testimonies of my private friendship and respect for him, and Congress have return'd him their public thanks. Your late worthy General SULLIVAN, was my friend, and let me add, a faithful one he was ; if you have any honors to dispose of within your gift, bestow them on this patriotic genius, a genius scarce to be found, a Rara Avis in Terra. Recollect his many trials in your cause, and gratitude will oblige you to own and confess him before all men ; but in a special manner, ye Sons of the army, of the New-Hampshire line, whom I have had the honor to command ; as you have owned him your brave General, have seen his virtues in the field, once more experience them in the cabinet, let him be your President, give him your suffrages-your voices for the Chair, he will fill it with dignity. The name of SULLIVAN, carries with it respect, honor and esteem ; as you have seen him bold as a lion in the field,you will find him as wise as a serpent in the cabinet : his firmness will make your real and political enemies tremble before him, he will oppose their measures,and make them ashamed of their self-interested views, he will frustrate their knavish tricks, and confound their politics, he will set aside their devices. and will have none of their deceits. Seek ye him while he may be found call upon him while he is near. Ye his brave fellow soldiers have now an opportunity of showing your attachment to your late General, your voices will manifest your remembrance of his trials, his fatigues, his resolutions to conquer or die ; secure him again, and be assured he will be your firm friend, & preserve your privileges & liberties entire. And ye gentlemen of the bar, you have now an opportunity of electing from amongst your respectable body,a gentleman whom you have honored with the endearing appellation of a brother. give SULLIVAN your interest, he has fought for your protection and the preservation of your trials par pais, which having established, he has retired again into your bosoms.and with the warmth of a brother's affection : let his integrity and learning which ye have seen and approved, plead powerfully for his right to the Chair, it is his political birth right, and you will do but an act of justice to him, and an honor to yourselves to give it him. May heaven preserve the whole State of New-Hampshire to a long and lasting era of happiness, tranquility and peace. Thus would that great citizen have spoke,and thus would a WASHINGTON have advised : after him, let no man speak or advise, but let all the people say with one accord amen and amen.

AGRIPCOLA.