The New Hampshire Gazette

TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE:
A CAUTION.

The British cause is now become desperate here as it is all over the world. In proportion to their despair, will the agents of that country act—to deceive—distract—to divide—and if possible to destroy.
Be you guarded—be you cautious—for every artifice will be resorted to, to deceive you.
Your government possesses better means of information than any printer of a newspaper or any huckster of huckaback can; and will not conceal from you any information that is necessary to your good or prosperity.
Congress is sitting, with whom it rests to determine on the conduct to be pursued, or not to be pursued, in relation to a foreign enemy.
Look to them, and where you have bestowed your votes, bestow your confidence, that you will be faithfully represented and fairly protected.
Remember—that the very men who are now recommending a measure of policy, would to-morrow upbraid your government if they pursued the measure, as pusillanimous for doing so.
Last year you saw it—the suspension of non-importation was applauded by merchants and press in British agency—and the very next day, the government was reproached for doing so—by the very wretches who before prayed for it.
You will see lies broached every day, to impose upon you—such as the following:
From Major Jackson's paper.
It is rumoured this morning, that Gen. Turreau, the minister of France, has demanded that the government of the United States shall shut their ports against the British.
This bare falsehood is intended to be used to prejudice the public, against the measures meditated by Congress; and when congress has declared an embargo or an exclusion of British ships until justice is rendered us, then they will say, it is done at the instance of France, and refer to their own lies, as corroboration of the allegation.
[Aurora.
The unexampled unanimity exhibited in our national councils, at this eventful crisis of our political affairs, must be highly pleasing to every real friend to the honor and independence of our beloved country: more especially if contrasted with the distracted situation of Congress under the federal administration in '97-8, when we were on the eve of an unnatural war with France. Every true patriot must exult at the complete triumph of Democratic Republicanism over that hideous and detested monster Anglo-federalism, which in the reign of terror went about like a roaring lion seeking whom to devour. [Chron.