The New Hampshire Gazette

For the Gazette.
The last Struggles of Dying
FEDERALISM!
An Extract from a manuscript intitled "an
EPistolARY CoRRESPoNDencE
on the RepuBlican SysteM
of Government.?"

The expiring Monster would feign give
a death blow to American Liberty;
and vainly imagines its weapon to be pro-
pitiously directed. Often terrible have been
the last efforts of despair. The Federal har-
rangues in Congress on the affairs of the
Mississippi, exactly correspond with the
present European intelligence of war-war
--with France and Spain,--Yea, with all
the friends of Freedom and Republican-
ism. We can be at no loss in ascertaining
the reality of the infamous designs of the
pretended Federalists against our country-
those zealous pretenders to Patriotism, Lib-
erty and Religion. War with France and
Spain, in alliance with invincible Old Eng-
land is the cry, or the glory of America
will be forever prostrated in the dust.--Ay.
cry aloud--spare not--your all is at stake,
ye dear lovers of Tyranny and England. If
ye fail now, what will become of you? In
what hole will ye hide your glory! To unite
with England, is the summit of political
perfection; England, whose iniquitous
policies have been the source of every mis-
chief to mankind. To overthrow the sys-
tem of our Government, and rout its pre-
sent Administrators will be exploits worthy
to be recorded in your infernal annals; in-
defatigable though vain have been the ex-
ertions of the enemies of American Free-
dom, of mankind, of all the sacred princi-
ples of philanthropy! They would make
use of the freedom of our country to de-
stroyt it--Hence their cry of Liberty, prow-
ess, magnanimity, virtue and religion, as
possessed only by themselves; Those in
power being held forth as utterly deficient
and destitute of every good quality, to alien-
ate the affections of the people from the
men they have chosen from a full convic-
tion of their great abilities, integrity, patri-
otism and universal philanthropy, and
whose righteousness exalts our nation, and
is the joy of all the wise and good. Who
could have imagined, some years since, that
such numbers would have been found among
us, so decidedly engaged in the vile and
despicable cause of inhumanity? What a
favour, in Divine Providence, that the eyes
of our Countrymen, have been opened to
see through their designs, and to be alarmed
at the fatal consequences which must have
inevitably resulted from their success
They are now making their last desperate
effort, and feign would they escape the hor-
rid pangs of dissolution--yea, some among
them are ready to cry out with Agag. the
bitterness of death is past. But alas! for
them! tho. Divine decree is gone forth a-
gainst their iniquitous system--Hew it in
pieces. Ross and Morris cannot prevail, and
Hamilton hopes and boasts in vain. It well
becomes the rising generation to be edu-
cated attentive in learning the affairs of our
Country, from its first settlement to the
grand Revolution which has thus happily
secured to us those civil and religious Lib-
erties, for the enjoyment of which our fore-
fathers left their native soil, enduring every
hardship, and exerting every degree of en-
ergy and fortitude, as divinely inspired ;--
to consider the real source from whence a-
rose the inestimable blessings we enjoy;
that they may ascertain how little we are
beholden to the Government of a Nation
we have fondly called our mother country,
and discern the grounds of their former and
present friendship; to learn their true cha-
racter not from what they have pretended,
but from what they have done, and what is
eviden ced, by their conduct, they would do,
if they had the power. The people of Eng-
land indeed deprecate the evils of war, and
are averse to the views of a government de-
stituted of the feelings of humanity; who
seek their own interests, though to the ru-
in of their Country.

Could then, the youth of America call
to mind their arbitrary demands, their ho-
stile assaults, the desolating ravages of their
armies, the sufferings of their friends and
Fellow-Citizens in a thousand dreadful
forms, without horror and a just resentment
and a due estimation of the blessings of our
present happy state, and forming a determin-
ed resolution to exert every power in the
support of their rights, and for the preser-
vation of their privileges? and would they
endure the thought of exclusive alliance with
a government, which, for cruelty, oppres-
sion and foulest deeds unparalleled in the an-
nals of the world, is justly " damn'd to ev-
erlasting fame!"

Had the unprincipled English government
succeeded in their vile plots against us, what
a degrading scene would now have present-
ed itself to our view! Every true Ameri-
can will hold in abhorrence the design of
the pretended Federalists to set the trumpet
of war to the mouth, to deluge our land
with blood. He knows the value of this
present Administration for its pacific and
philanthropic measures, and the wisdom of
its whole conduct, so agreeable to the tem-
pers and dispositions of the great body of
the country, by whose labours and industry
it is, that society is supported, and the feli-
cities of life enjoyed. From those enemies
to our Republican Government have arisen
the chief of our troubles; by their baleful
influence the blessings we now enjoy, were
a while retarded: Tormented at the suc-
cessful experiment of Republican principles,
they are now exerting all their powers to
subvert them, and to establish systems that
call for every extravagance for their sup-
port. What can be thought of such men,
in the midst of us, when we contemplate
the effects of such principles as theirs in the
world? The Deity's design was man's free-
dom and consequent happiness. Their de-
signs are like those of the Monarch of the
infernal regions, to render the world as like
those abodes of misery as possible. Can
they be friends to Christianity, who cry for
war, and thirst for human blood? who are
using all means in their power to contami-
nate the minds of the youth of our country,
by instilling into them an aversion to the
sacred principles on which our government
is founded
-Principles invariably har-
monizing with christianity considered in its
purity, as inculcating love to God and
man, and agreeable to the Divine law,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; a
law, through which the order of the Uni-
verse is supported, and by which Republic-
anism rises in this depraved world, as a new
creation. Is it not astonishing that any a-
mong us, calling themselves God's mini-
sters, should appear as fomenters of war and
discord? If an Apostle timely cautioned
Christians to beware of wolves in sheep's
clothing, we may for as good a reason repeat
the caution against those Federal teachers,
who make Religion a cloak for the con-
cea lment of the most inhuman designs.
American Youth! Beware of their in-
sidious snares.--separate the precious from
the vile--. Cherish the Divine spirit of Reli-
gion and Liberty, which caused the Ameri-
can wilderness to blossom as the rose, and
will, in due time, render the world a cele-
stiak Paradise.

But can any thing be conceived more ab-
surd and ridiculous. as well as inhuman,
than this war fever?--That those political
Federal heads should entertain the idea, that
the People of the United States could be
influenced to involve themselves in a war
with France and Spain, and in effect with all
the world. on account of the unlicensed con-
duct 'of the Intendant of New.Orleans?
How inconsistent would this have been with
the well known humane, pacific spirit of A-
mericans! It would have been acting, not
as rationals, and lovers of Freedom--It
would have been an invasion of those pa-
tions which the inhumanity and madness
which characterize despots; and it would
have been showing the world which ex-
pects from us a better lesson, as we
were grasping at all, we were in the ready
way to lose all; and indeed all those bloody-
minded politicians had much rather we
should lose, than that themselves should be
disappointed in their efforts to regain the
consequence they have lost. But I mean
not here to enter farther into a subject which
has been already so eloquently handled; as
you will find by the enclosed.—The Fede-
ralists are not only for reducing us under an
Arbitrary Government, and keeping us in
aw, but for striking terror into the Uni-
vere. They thirst for omnipotent, un-
controlable power; Such is the power they
would have the fr Magistrate possess, and
the People taxed to the utmost, and the Go-
vernment in debt, no matter how far: since
with them, a public Debt is a public Bles-
ing. They must have likewise a formida-
ble host of Officers, Agents and Tax-gath-
erers, with a merciless tyrant at the head of
all: and if this system can be no otherwise
accomplished, they are for trying what they
can effect by war and desolation. This is
federal policy; this is federal glory—and, as
Such are their ideas of Government, how
dishonourable must be their ideas of the A.
merican People! The friends, the real
friends of Liberty and Republican Govero-
men, the only rational government that
human wisdom could devise, form very dif.
ferent conceptions of the virtue and ability
of the People of the United States, from
theirs. They see in them the due exercise
and the strength of reason: They view ther
as the friends of peace, virtuous industry,
economy and rational Freedom;—of a go-
vernment aiming invariably at the greate
geod of the community, and not the emolu-
ment of a few; as having been ever of the
opinion, that government was designed for
the People, and not the People for the go-
vernment; as though they were created
merely for the pleasure and convenience of
a proud self-opinionated few; or, to be the
sport of haughty despots, fools and madmen.
There has been nothing too vile for those
pretended lovers of order, religion and good
government, to say of the political system
which the American People have adopted,
and successfully pursued. And are there
yet to be found, among us, men professing
themselves attached to our Government, who
are, at the same time, countenancing a dis-
appointed faction, which is using every
means to destroy it; representing it as the
contrivance of mischievous folly, and which
would feign embroil our country in either
foreign or civil war! Shall a viper be cher-
ished in the midst of us, 'till its mischief
becomes irremediable? No: the People of
the United States are too well informed to
suffer it: and discerning the threatening
evil, will effectually prevent it. The ex-
alted, the energetic spirit which accomplished
our glorious Revolution, and which dis-
modified a corrupt administration; will com-
plete the work of reform, and frustrate the
machinations of an unprincipled and rest-
less faction.
The People of the United States aim at
true grandeur; and the course they are in
leads to it, commanding the highest degree
of respectability from the world. The wi-
dom of the men they have had the discernment
and the spirit to advance to the most
important places of trust, is conspicuous in
every action. They have defeated the at-
tempts of the evil minded, to involve us in
war without just provocation; while expe-
rience daily confutes the absurd calculations
that were made of the consequences of their
measures. The vile intentions of the false
prophets have been rendered abortive. The
superior excellency of our Constitution
shines forth with increasing splendor, and
the felicity of our Government is found to
arise from a just balance maintained in the
operation of its principles.
When we consider the vast extent and
complexity of the operations of Govern.
ment, we are led the more to admire the
wisdom and the success with which they
have been conducted by the present admin.
istration. Social harmony prevails, com-
merce flourishes, economy in our public af.
fairs ascertains to us the difference between
a wise and considerate, and a foolish and
hair-brained conduct, as was that of the late
administration, whose vanity and ambition
had raged to a degree of madness no longer
to be endured by a free and enlightened na-
tion—Happy and highly favoured nation!
Divinely inspired to assert and maintain the
cause of Freedom, and teach the world
lessons of humanity!