The New Hampshire Gazette

From the American Daily Advertiser.

Messrs. Dunlap & Claypoole.

If your correspondent Americanus had adopted a signature conformably to the principles he has vainly laboured to disseminate, it would certainly have been that of Anglicanus, in place of posting that of Americanus---The virtuous republicans of America know too well the quarter from whence they issue to be deceived by them--The cob-web covering does not sufficiently veil them to conceal the cloven foot. The contemptible picture he has had the effrontery to draw of America--the pitiful point of light he has held her up in--the odious and insulting view he has given us of the French nation, of their government and the magnanimous, the virtuous republican characters who have had the firmness and courage to sustain it thro' an ocean of apparently insurmountable difficulties, would have better comported with corrupt and mischievous principles of the degenerate part of the English nation, their tory and refugee adherents, than that of a genuine American, whose republican heart glows with reanimated ardor in the great cause of nature's rights, the cause of France-the cause of all mankind.

In this eventful period, big with the fate of millions, view the national representatives of France, roused by the numberless and intolerable wrongs the nation for ages had suffered, surrounded by the darkest treasons, assailed by the most cruel and savage treachery, beset on every hand by hosts of tyrants, and their murdering minions collected from every quarter of the continent of Europe, long trained for scenes of human carnage, fell destruction and dire oppression, heroically contending for the mighty prize, the rights which God and nature equally bestowed on man, when the sad alternative presented to mourn in chains the sweets of liberty, or strike the awful blow to free the nation, I say view the awful sight of 25,000,000 of fellow beings awakening to a sense of their rights, bursting asunder the fetters of tyranny, bigotry and superstition, lifting the powerful arm of the nation from the wise preserving force of the most commanding necessity, from the sacred impulse of self preservation, from every tie that binds man to man, to slay their fierce oppressors and proud foes, which Godlike act the arrogant presumptive Americanus, the disguised tory has dared to arraign and impeach at the bar of his own infamy, and ascribe as the offspring of the most hateful, the most malignant passion, a delight in human sacrifice whilst impartial reason taking a surrounding and reflecting view, lamenting the horrid and imperious necessity, will trace to its true and original cause the tyrants of Europe. It is remarkable that the Anglo Americanus, and our late tory gentry who transported themselves to this country since the peace, from Britain and her dominions, are here endeavoring to corrupt and undermine the genuine principles of liberty, equality of rights and privileges, and raise a disgust and hatred in the Americans against the French and their cause, by placing it and the unavoidable proceedings of the representatives of that nation in the most odious and horrible point of view, in order to awaken our sympathy. They are warming in the sunshine of favor, with a certain Junto, in some of our principal cities, as men of the greatest importance, and have the insulting assurance, on every occasion to dictate the line of conduct, which ought to be pursued by America. The same chilling language-the same kind of reasoning-the same epithets adopted by the disguised Americans, were used by those enemies to the happiness of man, against the righteous cause of America, its probable success and the virtuous characters, (tho' not of noble blood,) who supported it in the late struggles for FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE-Take a review of the conduct of the British government, with the unjaundiced eye of prejudice, and in every quarter of the world, and examine it by serious reflection in the balanced scale of right, of justice, of humanity, of benevolence, and in uprightness ; say whether it merits the meed of panegyric--even such as we have heard on the floor of representative America-can it be denied, in the eye of reason, that they have not far outstripped in acts of cruelty, barbarity, and inhuman carnage, every nation on earth ?--Have they not ransacked every sea, and every country in search of plunder and of prey, and indelibly tarnished their fame ? And this nation and their government are loudly held up to us by the emissaries of Britain, the tory Junto, and even by some of our Representatives as models of perfection, worthy of imitation : and which with sorrow, I am constrained to say, we have copied in a number of instances to the loss of our original principles and the irreparable injury of America--View this nation in the ferocious act of plundering and murdering the innocent-the peaceful--and happy people of the fertile plains of Hindostan, three thousand leagues from the cur'd Islanders without any manner of provocation!! Wear this same nation, and their late bearers, whose own atrocious enormities challenge a parallel in the annals of man, indulge in outcries against the acts of the French nation, justly and legally exterminating Tyrants, who have overwhelmed the nation in blood -who have rioted on their misery, lavished their treasures, and cruelly and murderously oppressed them for a thousand years, so lost to a sense of shame and dishonor as not to recollect that they are at the same time calling to our remembrance their own acts of unrivalled infamy, so shocking to humanity in every part of the habitable globe, as well as those committed in their own Island, on their own most sacred and inviolable majesty, who in the eye of their law cannot possibly do any wrong, which was not the case with the kings of France. And the sycophants and abettors of this same nation, our insidious foes, we are fostering in the bosom of America, numbers of whom are now reaping the fruits of our toil, and enjoying the honors of our government--who have snatched from the brow of virtuous achievement the glorious laurel of freedom, which they are wearing in defiance of those who acquired them, whilst themselves are mourning in penury and neglect the loss of their rights-Well may we weep and mourn over the departed virtues of 76, and the loss of our pure republican principles, when we suffer such wretches to remain amongst us, to rob us of our wealth and our fame, as well as creep into our councils--when it is proposed in the National Legislature, to assert our rights, they start alarmed at their situation, have the audacity to tell us a lamentable tale of wants thronging upon us on every side of the enfeebled energy of pusillanimous America, when first in competition with the favorite Nation, and this we suffer to be told us of America, who in recent and yet bleeding memory performed prodigies of valour, and laid the foundation for the happiness of the whole human race--It is not out of good wishes for the rights, the liberties, and prosperity of this country, that Anglo Americanus, the Tory and paper gentry, wish to avoid the calamities of war, they so feelingly describe, it is because they are well aware that war will probably forever interrupt the wealth of America, from flowing into their laps--more especially in a war against their favorite England, would derange all their schemes of acquiring riches and ennobling themselves at the expense of the industry of unsuspicious America. For they well know, that the fire of resentment against that nation, and their Tory and paper adherents of war kind, would be re-kindled with redoubled fury for the many insults and cruelties we have suffered from them--they well know the sinecures they have enjoyed would vanish, the pickings they have had by robbing the certificates from those who established our independency, would eternally cease. For it is the Tory Junto, who have chiefly enjoyed the fruits of our Independency, especially since the adoption and administration of the new government, they have enjoyed peculiar favor. I am not for war, if it can justly and honorably be avoided--Its horrors which I have experienced, make me recoil on myself and call an awful pause on that scourge of mankind, which has desolated the earth, and which has generally arisen in the ambition of blood thirsty monsters among men called kings. My principles lead to an adjustment of all disputes among individuals as well as nations by arbitration and negotiation--I am for forming the whole family of mankind into one grand republic, to have one interest, one aim, namely that of rendering the whole happy. But the canker worms, those pests to society I have just mentioned, and of whom every nation have more or less to disturb its repose, I would scourge with the unrelenting sword of justice in every possible shape they could assume. France is wisely ridding herself of such vermin by the aid of the Guillotine as we ought to have done, or forever banished them this happy land, and not acted upon Chatham principles (so much recommended by the authors of Phocion at the conclusion of the late war) cherished them in our bosoms to prey on our vitals. We should then have had a rational hope of reaping the first fruits of our toil, and enjoying liberty and repose. The great omniscient author of our being never designed that the few, and those few too the scum and offscouring of humanity should lord it and tyrannize over the many. I ask what advantage has America obtained from her nominal Independence, as yet not a solitary one, for we are tributary to the very nation from whom we declared ourselves Independent as well as to a paper aristocratic Junto at home who are sapping the foundation of Liberty--That nation reaps double the advantage from us since that declaration than when we were her colonies-- she enjoys every advantage without incurring any expense from our commerce and navigation, while we on the other hand suffer the most unjustifiable and humbling restrictions on both. She has an immense wealth poured into her lap yearly by the siren modulation (that lulled America to sleep) of our public debt which is increased in a ten fold ratio by our consumption of her useless, ay pernicious manufactures, and yet there are those in America who have the imprudent and insulting assurance on our lenity and forbearance to advocate her cause and step forth the champions as they say of that emaculate nation who has done us every wrong, well may Americanus extol the moderation and forbearance of the people of America, when they are tamely and peaceably suffering the aristocratic and tory Junto to rob them of their rights.- It is high time the American Panther should rouse from his torpidity and inaction, and see for himself what the whelps of the British lion scattered over America have been about--It is high time that the quiescent Columbians who have patiently taken every thing for granted that was plausibly advanced since the year 87, should examine for themselves what has been doing since the adoption of the new balancing government that is to equipoise the minds of men, which from the spirit of divination that has prevailed promised the long expected millennium on earth, but from any thing I have yet seen has not or is likely to make its appearance. It is fortunate, thrice fortunate, for the people of America, that, that excellent constitution, has within its womb the seeds of reform and amendment, which are gradually advancing as the eyes of experience are opening-however all the blessed effects of its administration, that I have so far heard of since its adoption of glorious memory, are funding systems that have violated the solemn right of contracts (which it expressly forbids,) and has robbed the war worn soldier, who fought and bled for its establishment, of his hardly earned dues, and his small remaining pittance doubly taxed to pay off the evidences of a debt once due to him, but now serving to enrich a Junto that are gradually depriving him of his liberty--Bank systems, alias paper money Aristocracies under foreign influence, which are to rise on the ruin of America--Indian wars, Loans both foreign and domestic--Lucrative offices and hosts of officers, to eat out our substance, all for the blessed increase of a public debt as a public blessing !--Irredeemable debts, taxes on news papers, an indirect attack on the freedom of the press--the dangerous precedent of Royal Proclamations with the force of standing laws of the land, a fatal wound to liberty, copying the all potent edicts and manifesto's of German despots, whose capricious wills are laws with other pomposities of Royalism, these are among the happy productions of its administration. Had these things been told us in the year 76, what would have been the language of America ? They would with indignation have said in the nature of things it is not possible. For we shall never suffer the Tory, the Peculator, and the peculating swindler, to enslave us, which the omnipotent power of Great-Britain, with her host of auxiliaries will not be able to effect. But strange to tell it, these things have come to pass! The Tory gentry themselves had a better opinion of the stability of our principles. They never expected such a change in their favor, and are therefore now determined not easily to let it elude their deathly grasp. In order treacherously to keep us in our torpid state, and continue the existing state of things ; the Aristocratic paper and monarchy men tell us the hackneyed and plausible tale of the flourishing and prosperous condition of America, which could not possibly be better, and pompously ascribe it solely to the talismanical effect of the administrative attributes, of the omnisciency of the new government, with what prosperity we do enjoy is in truth only the natural result of the enterprising spirit and habits of industry of the people of this country, returning to their wonted path, from a state of fluctuation and war, to a state of permanence and peace. They tell us that nothing, however pressing should induce us to change our present system of things, but unwearied patience was the best remedy to oppose to burthen, and procure us our rights, did patience procure our Independence ? They tell us if we attempt to change our fiscal and commercial arrangements our prosperity the envy of the world, nay our existence as a nation would be put in jeopardy, and a doleful ditty of war and its concomitants surcharging the picture till they work themselves almost into tears, would certainly overwhelm us—That we should "rouse the British lion" who would crush us to atoms and blot us from among the nations of the earth-That this is not the proper time while England is in an irritable state to regulate our commerce and such like stuff--What ! my neighbour must not regulate the affairs of his family, when and in what manner he pleases, because I am in a state of anger with another neighbour, lest he should incur my displeasure and I in consequence fall upon him pell mell. Absurdity itself. Such was the language of our tory Junto at the commencement of the late American war, such was the language of the Galloways (for there was more than one) in our late Congress when they were about declaring the Americans Free, Sovereign and Independent-and such is now the language of the aristocratic junto when we are about doing ourselves justice (which we have been patiently waiting for the English government to do to us, when it was folly itself to suppose or expect such a thing) when we are about doing an act of Sovereignty which every Independent nation have done before us, and which our government ought of right and justice to their constituents to have done long since.

A New-Jersey Farmer