The New Hampshire Gazette

SOUND PRINCIPLES.

The following Extracts from a pirated and correct ADDRESS accompanies the first number of the "Country Gazette of the United States," published at Philadelphia, by Mr. C. P. Wayne.

Impartial and Republican papers, as they are called, sprung up in every town and village. Those men, who, in their own country, had been advanced to the rank of a Secretary to a seditious club, or strolling player upon the stage, could write and harangue; while others could work at press or travel through the country and proclaim to the ignorant, that government is usurpation, that taxes are a robbery upon the poor to support the powerful, and that nothing but immediate opposition to their rulers can save them from the chains of slavery.

Such is the origin and such has been the progress of the belief which still exists with numbers, that Washington peculated upon the public money; that Pickering defrauded the government; that Hamilton plundered the Treasury; that Wolcott did the same: that the administration were concerned in the infamous conspiracy of Blount: that Thomas Nash, who called himself Jonathan Robbins, was an American; that the late Secretaries set fire to the public offices, though their accounts had been just examined by Democratic committees, and pronounced to be fair and correct; with a thousand other falsehoods equally absurd and equally notorious among men of information.

Attempts are every where made to bring Religion and sound learning into disgrace by propagating slanderous falsehoods against all those whose time and talents are devoted to these objects. The people are persuaded that the clergy are attempting to form a regular hierarchy and to establish in their own hands, an inquisition as despotic as ever existed in Rome or Spain.

Thus men are fooled out of their understanding; fooled out of their security; sold out of their happiness; and when they have lost every blessing beyond recovery, they look round at each other in a stupid despair, clanking their chains and unable to shake them off, and ask, "How has all this been brought about?"

Against abuses and impositions of this kind, abuses which threaten to unsettle the integrity of the nation, to destroy the sympathies of our nature, and to root out all mutual confidence from society and social intercourse, we will lift up our voice, while there is yet hope; and we call upon all those, whose duty and whose interest it is to uphold pure morals and a stable government, to lend us the aid of their talents and exertions, while yet talents and exertions may be of some avail.

If it be asked whether this Gazette will advocate or oppose the administration of Mr. Jefferson, our answer is, that we shall govern our conduct by the principles already laid down. If Mr. Jefferson should pursue the system of government which has been twelve years tried, with unexampled success, and which he himself declares to be now "in the full tide of successful experiment," and which has, as he also acknowledges, kept us thus far "free and firm" he will meet with the support of all who love their country.

But should he, contrary to his judgment, as explained in his inaugural address, yield to the solicitations of those who have all along opposed this system and declared it to be corrupt and despotic, should he attempt to weaken the government and to place it at the mercy of those who hate it; should he endeavour to change the system and to accommodate it to the wishes of those whose liberty consists in nothing short of the power of plundering those who have property, and of insulting and harassing those who have principle, we shall not shrink from our remonstrances against such tampering experiments.

We believe, with Mr. Jefferson, that the system of policy established by the illustrious Washington, and pursued by the succeeding administrations, is such as to entitle them to the first place in his country's love and the fairest page in the volumes of faithful history: and that by a steady adherence to that system we have been, hitherto, "advancing rapidly towards destinies beyond the reach of mortal eye."

For these reasons, which must operate forcibly upon the mind of Mr. Jefferson, we feel a strong attachment to that "Federal Sect," who labored with Washington in establishing that wise and successful system, and with his Successor in continuing it; and who shared with both the costs, the revilings, the false accusations and the violent opposition of hollow hearted Jacobins, who now pretend to have become the friends of government, and who are incessantly besieging Mr. Jefferson with applications to turn off those veterans in the service of their country. To these selfish and sordid petitions, however, Mr. Jefferson cannot listen; for he has denied the existence of parties in the country, and declared us all to be "brethren of the same principle" all Republicans and all Federalists. None, therefore, will be removed from office, but such as have betrayed their trust and been guilty of "delinquency, or oppression or intolerance, or anti-revolutionary adherence to our enemies;" and the places of these will undoubtedly be filled by those who have supported and who continue to support the Washington system which Mr. Jefferson has so warmly eulogized.

Should these expectations be disappointed, and should the reverse of all this prove true of Mr. Jefferson's administration, we shall then be compelled to acquiesce in the opinion which some have advanced, that Mr. Jefferson is not a man of sufficient firmness and energy for the station which he occupies; and that he has not fortitude enough to pursue the system, which he has publicly approved, in opposition to those who have always hated and reviled both the system and those who supported it. Then shall we expect to see "The doors of Honor and Confidence burst open," and those who occupied, with WASHINGTON and Adams, the mansions of Honor, and shared with them the confidence of the upright, being dispersed and driven into the retirement of their private dwellings, every avenue and every dirty bye-passage which lead to these doors will be seen thronged with motley gangs, whose faces we know not and whose language we cannot understand, strangers, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, all pressing forward to these doors of Honor (not of confidence) wide open to receive them. Auroras, and Chronicles and Citizens, and Republicans, and Telegraphs are the ensigns; and the heralds who support them and who proclaim a new order of things are those who have suffered cruel persecutions by scourging and imprisonments, in strange lands. In the ranks advance Gallatin and Dallas, and hard upon them are Callender and Cooper, and Duane and Cheetham and Paine and hosts of others who have come together from the four winds; and the doors of honor are wide enough to receive them all. Then will "the rights and blessings of self government," that is to say, the rights and the blessings of club-law, be restored to all, and every possible "shade of opinion" will be entitled to as much office as it can get.

Without morality no free government can be long sustained, and without religion there can be no security to morals. It will therefore form no inconsiderable part of our plan to drag forth and expose those wretches who are continually labouring to bring reproach upon religion and to stir up jealousy and hatred against those institutions which are designed to promote it. The Jacobin publications have recently abounded more than usually in sneers and oblique thrusts at the Christian faith. Few of them however, have acquired impudence enough to come out boldly and profess their object. Their maxim is, "strike, but conceal the hand." They profess to direct their aim against the abuses of religion, against persecution and intolerance, and in this way hope to shield themselves from every attack; and at the same time to accomplish their object. This flimsy veil which has been always assumed by infidels, shall not screen them from exposure to the public eye. We shall not sit and look patiently on to see the impiety and obscenity of Paine, Godwin and Rousseau and of the whole school of modern philosophers inculcated upon the minds of the ignorant and the young, merely because those who attempt it are pleased to intermix certain remarks about philosophy, liberty of conscience, candour, free investigation, liberality and priestcraft. The meaning of such terms, when so used, is sufficiently obvious, and we are under no obligation to mistake it.