The New Hampshire Gazette

For the N. H. Gazette.

Citizens of Newhampshire—if the world reposed in a state of profound peace-If the United States enjoyed a free and uninterrupted commerce-If the American flag wherever it waved afforded ample protection to American citizens and American property-If our merchants in their speculations had no other restrictions to encounter, than the municipal regulations of the different countries to which they adventured their property,And, if, under such circumstances the government had laid an embargo on our trade, the arguments of the federal party would be proper and just :-well might they then allege, that our political fathers were actuated by motives hostile to the mercantile part of the community :- well might they then exclaim-"trade is doomed to destruction : commerce to annihilation!"

But, fellow citizens, the circumstances of the present time are materially, are-diametrically different The world is plunged into an unexampled state of commotion; whilst each successive moment is big with portentious events. The old animosities and new pretensions of European nations have wrought them to the highest pitch of contention, on subjects with which the United States have no concern. The conduct of our government has been so strictly neutral, that no nation has made the smallest complaint of violence, of wrong or of aggression. The great belligerent powers under the absurd pretence of retaliating on each other, are in fact destroying every vestige of our commercial prosperity. We are assailed by their hostile decrees and arbitrary edicts, and foreign granaries and store houses are filled with our plundered property.- Tribute is demanded, for the privilege of carrying our produce to its accustomed market. Neither the laws of nations, nor the faith of treaties afford the smallest security. Might has become right, and the only law is the law of the strongest. Our peace violated our honor insulted; our independence assailed; our citizens murdered or carried captive.--At such a time, and under such circumstances, the embargo is resorted to as the only shield and refuge, against the violence of this political tornado.

Will you abandon the government at such a crisis ? Will the true American hesitate to rally round the constituted authorities ?- Will the patriot, sit down and count the cost of maintaining the independence of his country ?-Fellow citizens, with shame we relate, and with sorrow confess to you, there are men amongst us, who fancying they see in our present difficulties and embarrassments, a fit opportunity to distract the public mind, are endeavouring to render those you have chosen to preside in the councils of the nation, unpopular ; and, by appealing to your passions, and obscuring your reason, to produce such a change as shall enable them to seize the reins of government, and introduce their favorite system of standing armies, eight per cent loans, excises, stamp duties. and direct taxes. These men have led you to the brink of a precipice.- Retrace your steps or you are lost, a ruined people ! Those who oppose the embargo with so much vehemence. have never offered a substitute. If it is raised while the orders and decrees of England and France are in force, the alternatives of war or submission present themselves. War should never be resorted to but in cases of extreme necessity. when all other means of redress have failed, nor even then, without a prospect of obtaining the point contended for. War with either France or England in the present convulsed state of Europe, would involve the liberties of the United States in certain destruction. As well might the inhabitants of the fertile plains of Italy mount the summit of the volcanoes, Etna or Vesuvius, and plunge themselves into the crater.- Would the opposers of the government adopt the other alternative and submit?-Listen, then, Citizens of Newhampshire, to the voice of faction!-resign your Liberties to Britain ! -place yourselves under the guardianship of a designing "Junto!"—raise the embargo !-yield to the orders and decrees of foreign tyrants!-"sell your birth rights for a mess of pottage!""—sacrifice your independence on the altar of mammon!--Your property plundered; your fellow citizens captive- your national honor gone; your country disgraced ;-where would you wretched Americans hide your diminished heads.- If you then presumed to quit the borders of your country, the finger of scorn would be pointed at you, by those to whom you had become tributary. The flag you were wont to regard as the token ofthe independence of your nation, would wither before your eyes like a full blown flower struck by an untimely frost; and the crimson blush would suffuse your cheeks as you paid the exacted tribute into the hands of your oppressors ! Like the unhappy gambler, who has staked the rich inheritance earned by the toil and blood of his ancestors, on one unfortunate throw, and is ruined by an unrelenting sharper, you will deplore your unhappy lot in vain. In vain will your distracted minds recur to those happy times when you sat "under your own vines and figtrees, having none to molest or make you afraid." In vain will you sigh for those blessings which freedom had prepared for you "ever flowing, and ever full ;" which in a moment of desperation you dashed from your lips. In vain will you curse the vile "Junto" that has ruined you. Disgraced, forlorn, hopeless and miserable,--you will become "hewers of wood, and drawers of water" to vile Satraps and petty Tyrants. Instead of being as you now are, lords of the soil, you will become slaves of Lords who will own the soil.

The picture we have drawn is not too high coloured. The antidote for those evils is in your own possession. The right of suffrage is still yours. In the exercise of it on the 4th day of November next, convince foreign nations, and a domestic faction that you will support the government, and rally round the constituted authorities of your country. Regard not the tales of a perpetual embargo, that "raw head and bloody bones" with which the "Essex Junto" would frighten you into a subservience to their views. Bestow your suffrages on those who compose the Republican ticket for Electors, with the venerable JOHN LANGDON, your present worthy Governor at their head.- They will elect such men to fill the important offices of President and Vice-President as have the good of their country at heart. Men who have no foreign partialities.-- Men whose sole aim will be to preserve the Peace, the Honor, the welfare and the Independence of the United States.

A TRUE AMERICAN