The New Hampshire Gazette

NO INSURGENCY!

From the Centinel.

Mr. Russell,

In your last Centinel you mentioned a symptom of insurgency having appeared in Vermont against the Stamp-Act. I am apprehensive you derived your information from some Jacobin source; as the fact has but a feeble resemblance to the portrait given of the transaction at Wallingford. Being a farmer, I am anxious that every insinuation against the federalism and determination to support the Federal government, which the great body of the yeomanry of the United States has exhibited, should be detected and exposed; I wish you to assure the public, that the following information of the symptom alluded to on Saturday, is from a source on which the most implicit reliance can be had.

Matthew Lyon, the Irish-French member from Vermont, taking advantage of his privilege to frank letters and news-papers, lately sent into Vermont several hundred pare numbers of that Pandora's box of anarchy and jacobinis, the Philadelphia Aurora: Their poison operated on a few unthinking people, so much as to induce them to rail against the Stamp-act, &c. and to erect what they called a Liberty-Pole. Being assembled in some numbers, several well-informed gentlemen resident in the vicinity repaired to them, and inquired why they collected, and the object of the Pole. The Stamp-act they said was the cause of their conduct; and the pole the rallying point of their force. They began to exhibit the raw-head and bloody-bones against the act in question, which had been formed in the Aurora, and retailed out in a contemptible paper published at Bennington. One of the gentlemen, highly esteemed there, undertook to demonstrate their objections groundless, and their fears imaginary. He proved to the satisfaction of a majority of them, that the Stamp duty was evidently in favor of the landed interest, as seventeen-eighteenths of the stamped paper would be used by the inhabitants on the sea-board; and he finally agreed to enter into bonds, with ample sureties, to pay any, or all the person's stamp duties there assembled, for one dollar a year each. Satisfaction immediately took the place of complaint; and the very persons who a short time before had erected the pole, immediately cut it down, burnt it, and scattered its ashes on the four wings of Heaven.

AN INLAND FARMER.