The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

BOSTON, November 8.

The liberality of the choice of Federal Senators in Connecticut, and the wisdom which has dictated it, exhibit an example and furnish a lesson to all the sister States, highly worthy of their imitation. Fettered by no narrow system of individual interests, the wise people have deputed two gentlemen as their representatives in that august assembly, whose general knowledge and extensive information will equally embrace all interests—whose powerful talents will enable them to advocate, at once, the claims of agriculture, commerce, and manufactures—whose professional skill is prepared to combat the subtle, or to reason with the liberal minded; and whose political acquirements qualify them to negotiate with the ablest statesman in Europe—The Representatives of a State, not merely of a plough or a ship.

The idea of introducing men into the federal Legislature to administer a Constitution which they are known to be pointedly opposed to, is so absurd, that it meets with universal contempt from the federal electors of this metropolis.

As much as has been said about PRECEDENTS of late, it may not be impertinent to advert to the fate of those bugbears, these formidable nothings all, and since the revolution. Pray what attention was paid to them in throwing off our allegiance to the King of Britain? Where did we find a precedent for the wisdom and patriotism in forming our constitution? Existing and established laws are confessedly of more validity than precedents.—But did the old Confederation weigh a straw in the minds of the late Continental Convention who framed the glorious Federal Constitution? Precedents are formidable, when they will answer the purposes of party—but the good sense of our country has demonstrated, that when they come in competition with the interests of the people "they vanish into air, into thin air."