The New Hampshire Gazette

NEWARK, MAY 24, 1803.

"So how oft will Jack throw on others blame,
When full of fault and guilty of the same."

This conduct of the pretended federalist, verifies the truth of the above maxim.

When this destructive party were floating down with the current of political delusion, with Mr. Adams at the helm, it was thought a laudable thing, and said by some to be indispensably necessary for the security of government, that no man should hold an office of profit or trust under that administration. Yes, a man was declared by judges of court, and by sheriffs acting under the views of that court, to be unfit and unqualified for all the important and constitutional rights of acting in the capacity of a juryman, because he was a republican. It was openly and loudly proclaimed, by the reigning party of those days, that unless a man would subscribe to their creed, which was passive obedience and non-resistance to the then profligate administration, he could not, nor ought not to be intrusted with any concern under that government; and this doctrine was not thought by the exclusive patriots of those days, to be their acts of persecution or political intolerance.

But now, when the current has turned, and we have got men of wisdom and discretion at the head of our affairs, who know of no other interest but that which is conducive to the public good; men who are above that persecuting meanness which predominated in the reign of terror, those who will not turn out of office men of talents and integrity on account of their political opinions, though in many cases they have been under the necessity, in order to secure a faithful execution in the performance of duties attached to certain offices, of making a number of removals, where the corruption of the late administration had been engendered into the hearts of the holders, that their conduct had become too intolerable to be borne with under a just administration— on account of these salutary removals of some of those who had wormed themselves into many of the subordinate offices of government; And were gnawing of the vitals of this country, it is raised into a mighty charge of persecution and political intolerance.

What more evidence is wanted to show the inconsistency of the party?

The President of the United States has appointed Samuel Osgood, Esq. Naval Officer of the Custom-House at Baltimore, vice R. Rogers, removed.