The New Hampshire Gazette

COMMUNICATION.

Mr. Pickering's oration delivered at Salem, Mass. in commemoration of our Independence, is well calculated to deceive those who are willing to be deceived, to alarm those who delight in alarms, in the hope of profiting by the confusion they are designed to promote. The quotation from Washington's address, will doubtless be very well received in the orator's view of it, by the men that despise and hate the People—"If to please the People, &c." But, how terrible! "our Constitution is violated by a stipulation inseparably connected with the acquisition of Louisiana"—that the inhabitants shall be incorporated, &c.—and melancholy and awful to reflection, this vast acquired territory "must destroy the balance of power by which the federation of the original states was adjusted." For the certainty of this dreadful consequence, we are, to take the orator's ipse dixit; and it suits very well those whose understandings are not equal to the perception of the rationality and effective energy of our representative system of government, as capable of embracing and concentering the greatest extension of territory in a cordial union and co-operation. Wisdom perceives it. But haughty, aspiring Federalists, who abhor the principles of Liberty and humanity, discern it not, or shut their eyes against it. They will not come unto the light, because their deeds are evil. Hence it is, that they are incapable of relishing whatever is beneficial to civil and domestic society. Mr. Pickering's harangue is replete with sentiments prolific of implacable enmity to the grand federal compact, which he pretends to extol; while, at the same time, he would rejoice in beholding it totally dissolved, and the Northern States become the lords and tyrants of the American world: Adams' glorious millennium will then take place, but never before—The freemen of the American continent must first become slaves and submissive, meanly submissive to the infamous system which Mr. Pickering's oration advocates; in which the absurdity, vexation and despair of the federal and tory disorganizers are pre-eminently visible. Alas! in every exertion, they proclaim to the universe, their glory is departed.