The New Hampshire Gazette

OHIO FEDERALISM!!

From the National Intelligencer

Samuel Huntington, the new governor of the state of Ohio, has opened the legislature with a speech replete with patriotic sentiments. Our readers may recollect that on announcing the election of Mr. Huntington, we described him as a firm republican. Notwithstanding this fact, the federal prints pronounced him a federalist, and there is scarcely a paper of this description that has not dubbed him with the honorable distinction. So much for the regard of these vehicles for truth, for which they have at no antecedent period exhibited so many instances of a profligate contempt.

Now for the speech of the governor. We regret our inability to insert it entire, as it is not only distinguished by the correctness and elevation of its sentiments, but likewise by the chastity and elegance of its language. The following extract will, however, at once vindicate the character of the governor from federal eulogium, and evince the genuine patriotism which animates the people of Ohio,

" In congratulating you gentlemen, upon the general prosperity of our country, it would have afforded me additional pleasure, had I been able to assure you, that all apprehensions of being forced into hostilities, by the injustice of foreign nations, were at an end,or that the salutary measures adopted by the general government to avoid the calamities of war, were no longer necessary. But it does not appear, that any material change has lately taken place in the conduct of the two rival belligerents of Europe, towards this country ; and while this is the case, we ought not to calculate upon the suspension or abandonment of those precautionary measures to which our government has been obliged to resort : such a calculation would imply a distrust of the wisdom, firmness and consistency of the general government, at a time when it eminently claims all our confidence and support.

" It cannot be denied,that the privations and embarrassments arising out of the present state of our foreign relations, so sensibly felt by the people of the Atlantic states, are in a degree experienced by a respectable portion of our own citizens. From the manner in which our own citizens are principally affected, it is in the power of congress to afford them relief without yielding any thing to the arrogant pretensions of foreign nations; and there is no reason to believe they will not manifest the same readiness to extend all reasonable relief to our citizens, which they have always done to promote the interest of the state. However this may be, we have the pleasing assurance that every description of our fellow citizens will cheerfully submit to their present privations, so long as it shall be necessary, or meet a more momentous crisis with fortitude.

" if the general government wanted an apology for the line of conduct it has pursued in relation to Great Britain and France. it would be found in the anticipation of the inevitable consequences of a different course.

" 'The American flag had been outrageously insulted, and our citizens slaughtered : our vessels on every sea were seized, their cargoes plundered or confiscated, and their crews impressed into foreign service, under the orders and decrees of those governments, issued at a time when all the relations of peace and amity, between us and them were in force, and in violation of every rule of justice, and of the law of nations ; and to heap the measure of injustice, at the very time our government was negociating for the friendly redress of our wrongs, an enormous tribute was imposed on us by one of those nations, as the price of permission to prosecute a fair and legitimate traffic with other countries."