The New Hampshire Gazette

From the MERCURY.

Mess. Young & Minns,

In my situation, as one of the Yeomanry of this district, I feel great indignation to see several disorganizers, hold in execration and contempt, the several nice and wholesome laws passed at the last session of Congress. I wish some able and energetic pen would point out the great benefits to be derived from the Sedition and Alien Bills. In my local sphere of life, I have not time or abilities to point out the very essential benefits to be derived from these laws. However, as a plain, upright farmer, I will plainly state my mind, wishing it to appear in the Massachusetts Mercury--as it will satisfy my uneasy neighbours and perhaps rouse some of your correspondents to take up the subject in its true light--This will not only place the matter on a just footing, but serve to inform and perhaps satisfy some of our most inveterate enemies to these laws. The towns, in this District. have been generally opposed to the most wise and prudent measures, adopted by the Administration of our Government-and I think they may be attended with some bad consequences, unless checked in due season,

The first step of the French, to sow disunion, anarchy and civil war among us, is totally owing to our Jacobin papers, and several private as well as public characters. Thank God they have found us (generally) united, to stand by the best government under the canopy of Heaven, and ready to support the Constitution and its Administration, with their lives and property. The Sedition Law, has already afforded a nice check to the further progress of these brutes. Why have not the disorganizers as much right to complain of a law against stealing and murdering one another, as against this law ? They know the fate of these crimes, and because they see a gallows or a whipping post, they have no fear to be under its jurisdiction, without trespassing. In my opinion, I think it is the best law ever passed by Congress. If these measures had been adopted previous to the recall of Genet, our Commerce would not have been plundered, robbed and sold by the French--nor the present existing differences occurred. We all know the French are bad enough, and through their intrigues and fair faces, have brought several kingdoms, under their controul--but still we have reason to believe, that France would never have attempted to bring a nation like America, under tribute, if we had been only free from a set of men -who love no government yet found out by the wisest philosophers. Opposition, in some degree, will refine any government, and there is no nation on earth but has some, and it is proper there should be -but when this opposition endeavours, by all their arts and charms, to attempt a division, it is high time to exert every nerve to save it from destruction.

The country people this way, in general, never prepare their minds previous to a town-meeting. They will elect one of their most influential and learned men, (who is very often a Jacobin) for a moderator- and this man will vociferate and explain, and bring forward such documents as will make his understrappers believe all he says is as true. : as holy writ. By this means, we may be brought into anarchy and civil war ! If any attempt to argue, they are soon cast out, as good for nothing. This ought not to be the yeomanry ought to prepare their minds and faculties, and not place too much confidence in their head man-but like good and hearty fellows, speak what they think in a town-meeting on business of National concern.

A real old staunch Farmer, of Norfolk County
County of Norfolk, October 1798.