The New Hampshire Gazette

Political Miscellany.
American Glory and Felicity.
No. VI.
For the N. H. Gazette.

THE adopted system of finance,
formed with wisdom and economy,
and reduced to practice with the most
propitious effects; though well understood
and approved by the People, is,
in the pretended opinion of the federalist's
hireling writers, obnoxious to
very obvious imputations. They cannot
be thought to be so weak in their
intellects, so ignorant in politics and of
the measures of the administration.
and the interest of the country, as to
believe themselves that there are the
least grounds for the assertions they
would impose on the Public for realities.
The accounts given of the state
of our revenue, expenditures, disbursements,
of measures for the extinguishment
of the public debt, and of the
money in the treasury for ordinary
uses, they insinuate, are false, and intended
to impose on the People a
groundless belief of the happy state of
our affairs. And now, the new expenses,
say they, we are to sustain, pretended
to be for the enlargement of
the Mediterranean fleet, is designed for
other and concealed purposes; that
administration is at a loss for money
for the purchase of Louisiana, and are
now contriving by additional duties to
help themselves out, with the pretext
of 800,000 dollars yearly, for the fleet.
Otherwise, say these pladding gentry,
why not make use, for that purpose,
of the specie they pretend they have in
the treasury. These dear friends to
the people's interests cannot be ignorant
both of the impropriety and injustice
of which administration would
be guilty, should they break in upon
the arrangements which they have so
judiciously made for exonerating our
nation from the public debt, and answering
all the necessary expenses of
government. To overturn the plan they
have formed, on account of an
unforeseen event requiring additional
national expense, would truly denote
a derangement of intellect. It was
therefore proper and necessary to meet
the expense of an unhappy event, by
an additional revenue. The people
who are sensible of this, are not to be
moved from their just views by the sophistical
reasonings and malicious misrepresentations
of the federal deceivers,
aiming to involve in obscurity the
clearest truths, and cover with odium
the wisest and most salutary measures.
The establishment for an additional
revenue to strengthen the Mediterranean
fleet, will not be in operation
'till the last of June, and is to exist no
longer than three months after the restoration
of peace with our Tripolitan
foe, which, as there is every reason to
expect it will be soon accomplished,
the present necessity of this further expense
will be removed. Thus the
federal alarm of 800,000 dollars yearly
to be added to our national expenses;
is but a federal bug-bear to frighten
whom it may. They must know
the above facts, unless they are themselves
the ignorant blockheads they
would make of the citizens whom they
impudently insult with their seditious
and slanderous publications. The
deceptive means, and sophistical reasonings
they are perpetually employing,
are well adapted to the low and
degrading system they would advance
upon the ruins of republicanism, and
which is founded in nothing but error,
delusion and meanness. It is now the
felicity of Americans, to have a man
at the helm of government who thoroughly
understands his business, and
who makes conscience of acting for
the best interests of the people who
honor him with their confidence. The
people have intelligence to know his
worth, and to avail themselves of his
abilities and integrity. He will build
up their glory, and establish their reputation
and fame, to the discomfiture
and disgrace of their contemptibly
plotting enemies, and the total overthrow
of a faction whose motto is divide
and conquer,—a motto to which they
have done the greatest credit & exceeding
any that have ever preceded them
in any age. In a country adorned with
men of the greatest abilities and merits,
possessed of real patriotism and unclouded
virtues,—a glorious galaxy of
worthies, like the milky way in the
heavens, shining with unsullied brightness
through every region of our extensive
empire, in whose grand collected
assembly justice and equity ever
preside—the innocent Judge Chase
had no real grounds of apprehension of
mal-treatment on his expected trial;
a man, who has so many years, as
he himself informs us, with honor and
faithfulness served his country. But
the really guilty Judge Chase, when
and wherever such an one shall be
found, will have cause to tremble for
his impending doom. Republicans
are eagle-eyed to discern the merits of
Every citizen, whether in office or otherwise,
and prompt to reward proportionably
to the degrees of desert. But the unworthy=
the guilty must abide the sentence
of their righteous tribunal. The elaborate
performance of the impeached Judge,
which he has presented to the public,
is far from exhibiting that innocence
and respectability of character which
he therein assumes to himself; it has
rather the marks and features of one
of a very opposite complexion. While
he would exonerate himself from the
culpability with which he is charged he
renders it still more conspicuous. By
exhibiting congress, as with regard to
him, acting with impropriety and injustice,
he shews his disrespect and contempt
of the authorities to which he pretends
to be applying for justice. The fairness
of the proceedings of congress, in this
business, and their wisdom and prudence
manifest thro' the whole of it, are
further and striking evidences of the
greatness of the American character,—a
new demonstration at once of the superior
excellency of the republican system,
and of the intelligence and virtues of
the people exercised in the choice of
their officers and delegates. The violent
partizans of the opposition have been
harmlessly endeavouring to stigmatize
the President, and his friends, as vicious
and irreligious. But, [unhappily for
those pests of society, and to their everlasting
disgrace,] they have afforded the
brightest evidences that they are of the
opposite worthy and amiable character,
and that by them known wickedness
will never be countenanced or tolerated.
By discountenancing and punishing,
they fully manifest their abhorrence of
and hostility to vicious conduct; and we
doubt not they will still continue so to
act, with the approbation and applause
of their constituents, and to the admiration
of mankind. A government of the
people is found in the United States, to
be not only practicable, but in the highest
degree conducive to the happiness
of every citizen, though a Pitt declared
its promoters, or, to use his own words,
"the inventors of the doctrine of the
sovereignty of the people were the enemies
of their kind," and though one of
the hireling federal writers has denounced
our democratical system as "calculated
for a curse to mankind." A slanderous
production of the same writer, in the
Port-Folio, against common-wealths,
or democratical government, would
read more consistent with truth in the
following variation—"When we consider
the ravages committed in monarchical
and aristocratical governments by avarice,
fraud &c. that hypocrisy and baseness
are so essential to their character, that
without them they could not continue
to cheat mankind; when we see the vice
of some and the madness of others, and
the folly of all engaged in those baleful
and exploded systems; what slave so
passive or bigot so blind, what enthusiast
so headstrong or politician so hardened
as to stand up in America, in defence of
a polity calculated for a curse to mankind,
and evidencing the depths of wickedness
and villany." Should Denny take
it into his head to give a term, so perfectly
just to his vehement declamations,
he may claim some favourable attention
from American Citizens, and be no
longer nothing more than the object of
their ridicule and contempt: For in no
other light is he considered, and that
even by the sensible and serious of the
federal party. Such writers, and their
vouchers, have neither heads nor hearts
to appreciate the refined policy of the
republican system. Their invidious attempts
to promote divisions among us,
agreeably to the maxim of their Machiavillian,
or rather infernal instructor—divide
and conquer, will serve, we doubt not
in the result, more firmly to unite the
vast majority of enlightened Citizens
who are republicans at heart.—There
must needs be divisions among us, that
the approved may be made manifest.
Thence they Shine forth with a more
brilliant lustre and enjoy a still more
resplendent fame.