The New Hampshire Gazette

From the Morning Chronicle of New-York.

The opposition to the measures of administration, in this city, grows every day more feeble. Those persons whose pecuniary circumstances were affected by the change, continue to express their objections, but with little influence. The good sense of the people has now an opportunity of exercise: they can test those measures by their effects; they can judge by their own experience, and are no longer to be deluded by the misrepresentations of men interested in exciting injurious prejudices. The people want a government that will secure their properties and protect their persons, in the unmolested pursuit of those objects which they consider as essential to their prosperity. They know that in a sudden change of public affairs- when a party that has long held the reins of power is supplanted, circumstances injurious to individuals must result from a revolution of such magnitude. These murmurs therefore no longer excite their attention. They were taught to apprehend other evils of a more serious and general nature, which they now find existed only in anticipation.

At the moment of Mr. Jefferson's election to the presidency, we heard many declare that they would close their accounts and seek a residence in some other country; for that, in the United States, the reign of anarchy and disorganization had commenced, which would diminish the value of their possessions, and utterly destroy their hopes of rational enjoyment. These forebodings being industriously echoed from every quarter of the city, had their weight with many well meaning men, who form their opinions from the information of others. These now find the affairs of government conducted with a wisdom and a regularity calculated to protect the citizen in the exercise of all his privileges; and with a mildness that regards with an eye of unmerited lenity the endeavours of disappointed persons to misrepresent its measures and insult its public officers. They find also the expenses of the nation reduced and the burthen of taxes diminished.

It is true that some men determined to disapprove every act, however meritorious, have attempted to raise a hue and cry at the reduction of the internal taxes. They will not give credit for what is done; but exclaim-this you have omitted. They will not acknowledge the good they receive --because not carved according to their particular appetites. Such is the outcry of individuals; but the mass of the people judge more rationally. This is a subject on which their own experience can determine :-nor are they to be mystified on a ground so void of intricacy.

The repeal of the auction duty affords an extensive relief to a numerous class of merchants, in moderate circumstances-as well as to those in extensive business: while the abolition of the stamp act has removed a weighty and inequitable burden, that operated oppressively, and almost exclusively upon the commercial interest. This was a tax that bore peculiarly hard on many retail dealers, whose industry was scarce competent to their support. It in many instances drew from them annual sums, greater than the whole amount of taxes, paid by more opulent citizens, whose concerns did not bring them within the operation of that law.

In consequence of such salutary measures, the mist of prejudice is rapidly dissipating: and the people are daily becoming more strongly attached to an administration that consults general happiness, rather than national aggrandizement: and prefers the diffusion of riches among its citizens, to the accumulation of large sums in the public coffers.