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i DOLUS S PER TEAR," RALEIGH, N.C.--PdQUSHED (weeklt) BY WILLIAM BOYLAN. . OR JB 2 50 CESrS JN AOrAHCB. Vol. 1 5 . THURSDAY, AUGUST 16,: 1810. No. 7505. 61 I pi 3PS V ft! ma tbe fell c he of aid tlier en,t" A. icrt: S5 n W too ell dim: or. :brtc it ihout aisle! ,beri' then1 cas FlltM THE FREEMAI' JOtANAL. jTERS UPON FRENCH INFLUENCE. No. IX. THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. . 'f December 1805, which was annexed to M am mbefr oens. an. araple-filed -foF 4n vestt-f and critici.-iJMi it is not. probable that all can produce an instance of conduct at once nprinciplec! and undignified, in the ruler of a tvnolc. as that ot jetterson upon tms occasion ppear to nave Dcen, wnen iainy anu xuuy peu. faiowletlginj; the duty incumbent upon the rovernment of Spain indemnification lor our citizens, the message announces that a Udon was accordingly entered into between Minister of the United Mates at Madrid, and Minister ot that government ior loreign anairs, ch it was aereed that spoliations commit L Spanish subjects, and carried into ports of r . . i p- i a. i -1 . , shoula oe yam ior oy mm uauou, ana inai committed by French subjects, and carried Spanish ports, should remain lor further dis. on, It would seem iu uiJcai inai inc .vraiis I Louisiana by France to the United States Jsioned the rejection of this convention on part of Spain, but it is believed that this hot the case. Iirthis, as in ail other instances, i yas bound to know what the commands of Ice were, and to obey them- r ranee, would ffer Spain to make an arrangement with us, is we would give our discharge in jfull for France peremptorily pronounced an unfound- laira on our part, that Df payment lor French Ltions carried into Spanish ports. And why? jse, as happens to leak out, towards the con la of the message, '. France was prompt lecided in her declarations, that our demands pain for French spoliations, carried into lishpgrtsweTCincludedTin- the- settlement 2iv the United btate,. and trance." I hat te, in ceqing .Louisiana to me umiea owes, forward to all the difficulties which the ion of boundaries must naturally produce, hat she even then intended to take that ad igeofhcfown wrong in this respect which las since done by preyentine an adjustment en us ahd Spain, except upon terms which repletuih the French treasury, there can It no doubt in the mind of any man ot com spprejiension. It was one object, indeed, it a plausible pretext jor evading payment Irtnch spoliations in Spain, the existence of proved that, politically speaking, there ho Spain. But it was another and a greater to .keep the boundar ies of Louisiana unset- as the instrument of establishing a strong chinfiuence over, the United States, whether ptctation of obtaining more money from us is quite immaterial., Yet facts abundailt- h conclusively shew that such an expectation States and Spain. He "was sensible,' indeed he had been informed by his agents in Europe, iha France intended to give some dirtctiori to thost differences, and he aHVcted to be ienoranf'what it would be. Yet "he perfectly knew whaf it was, and was at that moment . secretly labouring to give those u differences" the very same "direc tion' which his friend Napoleon .contemplated. rMsmay.cojttiderd will be amply supported by unquestionable facts. The direction which Erance meant to eive. and had in fact given, was, that several millions of dollars should be paid out of ! the treasury of the United States into that of France. We could prove the fact to the satisfaction of any indepen dent court or-iurv in the United States. But as Jefferson knows that we can prove it, we shall livered on the 4tK of March, 1801, after express- not be called on for the proof. We cannot exhi- ing his full confidence that " the honest patriot" bit in these letters the samp sort of evidence, ; would not " abandon a government in the full tide eiiitci iy una uoini, ui as iu a uicunicu uariiu- auccesnjiu expcTimtni. mnion naa so jar Ktm un ular correspondence between Jetterson and JNapo- jrec anajirm. -and alter a series ot very hand leon, which it would be in our power to command, some remarks without meaningarid after a'cata If, however, 'they think proper to do it, a refer ence to thtir former treatment of him, will pos sibly furnish some evidence applicable to the ques tion. If the charge be just, and cannot be laid to the account of the two first administrations where can it fall, but upon the sacred head o! ' the, .man of the tieofile"-z illuatrion Jeffer son ?" If then we have at iencth found the nation- tdxtnrirTttTftraye welllo InqmreTor a moment. whai drove him to'this act of desparntion. If' Mr. Jefferson is to be supposed capable of spcaKing me iruin at an, ne nas in some measure, at least " by implication," exonerated his prede cessors from the foul cjime of sacrificing - so es sential a principle of our national prosperity land honour In his celebrated inaugural speech, de in a court of law. But yet I say, . Ifimputatiun and strong circumstances, That lead directly to the door of truth. Will give you satisfaction, you shall have it. There is no hesitation in asserting that Jeffer- logus of what he then deemed the easetiful firinci- file of our government he adds'' These princi ples form the bright constellation, which hut gone, before ut and guided odr.. steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom oil our sages, and blood of our heroes, have been devoted to their attainment : they should be the son, more perhaps through fear than from corrup-i creed of our political faith ; the text of civil in- tion, had made up his mind to carry into eflect the struction, the touchstone by which to try the ser " direction " which France might mean to ; vices of those we trust ; "and should we wander Bive to the differences ' between the United States from them in moments cj errourGP-oalarm, let us administration has long and bpam. He will not deny it. i he pumic may hasten to retrace our steps, and to regain the road like a man in the palsy. to suppose that Our Rulers would take it fairly. hy the horns, and declare it to be, at least, ar Hisult by implication." No such thing. The proud attitude of an honorable man was ncV naintained by the obsequious tool of a despot. The only symptom of either resistance or displea sure, which shews the least official tincture, aro ;jm.puflyjarigTaphsah slow-length -through the- government gazette. But lest those should weaken the Corsican?s de claration that our government is " without. charact er, they were immediately followed, in the same print, by a very labored effort to shew that Great Britain .was the original aggressor oh neujtral rights ; and ergo, (as Col. TJuane would say,) an, insult from France is no insult at all, at all. . This deduction is Undoubtedly conclusive. Still we cannot but admire at the philosophy, prrathef malady,' which has directed the destinies of this nafion for ten years past. whenever an insult, ei ven by implication, comes in the gentle whispers of a zephyr from Old England, why then sure all the testy humours of our rulers are in a fluster their crest is erect, their wrath in a blaze, and British messengers of peace are discarded wiih contempt. But let insults and injuries bFtenfold magnuuae ue muiciea ano repeated and multi plied and heaped upon us to ii finity, by the rrions- ter who drives tlie chariot of desolation through 1 the earth, and it is all submitted to with patience, with composure, 'with the meekest resignation We cannot heb thinkini? that been, and still is, An affrotit, whether expect the proof. which alone leads to ficace. liberty and safety." If The publication of the secret documents, " in we understand this language, Mr, Jefferson does extenso," is suspended tor the present. W hen not, upon taking the reins ot government into his the Public reflect upon the importance of own hands, pretend to charge his predecessors those parts of them which were disclosed in with abandoning an essential principle fought for. the seventh number, and' which completely prov- ' jn the war of independence. Well then, as the and lo ! nothing but a palsied mass, a shapeless cu UK itttl ui uic jfuujcyuuu u jciiciauua au- guvernniciu was, uy ins own uvnicaoiuu in "int uuviui'y ,w naiic IllUlier, IS presented U) WC;- ministration to the influence of France, and full tide of successful experiment," when he took come the thrust." reflect also that documents of such impor it, how ha a it happened, that the essential pnn- tance "TiacT v not been known, for four or fiveciple for which we fought in the war of-indepen-years, to exist, by 50 or 60 inflexible opponents , deuce, has been abandoned under his adminisiti a of the administration in Congress, they must tion ? - havesome idea of the power of that charm which When Mr. Jefferson took the government, he binds the members of the national legislature 6 se--had so full a treasury and such ample sources of had bteif deeply stained with the innocent blooci ecym certain cases. It appears now to be umver- revenue, that in his first message, after he came , shed m tharrench revolution. According to the sauy aamiuea mat mere is no tuimuuiiunaiyr ic- imoomce, ne gave congress 10 unuersiana, ma: rans monueur, me rrencn uovemment paper gal obstacle to the publidation of those documents weighing all probabilities of expense, as well as it had been alledged against him, l that he iW But the writer hads that some ot those whose ot income, there is reasonable ground ot conn- caused the inhabitants of several districts to be judgment he cannot but highly respect, are not dence, that we may now safely dispense with all assembled, and then had them all shot, to the quite so clear as 10 me perieci jirojiT$eiy 01 aucn internal raxes.' since nis atiminisirauon com-.numuer 01 iweive nunc re a men, women and cliil- astepv AU the members ot tongress have been , menced, he has had no insurrections, no war, dren. 1 hat he ordered tisn. MolLns to proceed uniformly agreed in opinion that some parts of foreign or domestic, to drain the ireasury (unless, with his column to Montagje, to disarm its in; the papers wnicn were iaia Deiore mem ougnijinaeea me operation on inc uarury cuasi arc nauiiams, ana annihilate every spul, without diS not to be given to the world More, much to be dignified with the name of war) no extraor-Uinction of ege or sex. That he was accused of more general information upon the subject, how-1 dinary calls for expenditure, except to carry on committing the most unheard of crimes in La great or small, . if it conies from an English fin-" gerj touches the nicest fibres and most irrilabje nerves of these exquisitely sensitive gentry ; while a Frenchman majfc, bolt the whole energy of his clenched fist, into the very bowels of the nation ' . . ... , Gen. KTerreau and Mr. Jefferson. Gen. Ter reau, for a series of years past has- been a rest- ' dent minister at the seat of our government; When he. first arrived it was well known that he ever, the Public are entitled to and shall receive . P. S. The defence set up by Mr. Jefferson and Mr, Madison, in the National lntelligencer, against the charges contained in" Nd. VII. will be exam ined at considerable length in No. X. to which will be added an appendix, very much to the point, in which two ereat statesmen will be cut to pie-h "'l vmntmiivu. u.i v j t "'v. ,y, j ( C1C S V 1111 inClr OWI1 lttVUIHC CUgC IUU1B. 11 UgU9 chief counselloivto his Imperial Majesty ; WPii that that those centlemen treat this subject d be not been Napoleon would have known so seriously, and it would put to the blush, if any Nt character and situation of cur country. ,u: ., ,. m. the few wretched French naraeraph new our extreme love of pecce ; our deep jjjakefs who affect to ridicule a developement Jsities against England ; the ill conduct of which their masters feel to be fraught with death pd towards us; our ardent attachment, from to all their hopes. penary recollections, to the French nation ; j m oBsequent indisposition to view the wrongs!- - From tlie Connecticut AKrror. aoce in so strong a light as those of England ; (Sn the 4th of July, instant, that profound states- tutiency m mmiaty anu navai power ; me man Samuel Harrison Smith, editor ot the. iNationai uianty which would attend the creation ot , IntellicencerV favcured-his readers with two co and navies ; the idolatry df the people ;'imn nf ncr rtfltctioiis. occasioned bv the ar rival of this national anniversary; After some preliminary remarks, he says" It was not so much from the actual oppressions we suffered, as the principle involving the right to oppress us that prompted our purpose, and fixedijur deter mination to resist Great Britain; at every, ha zard. Has 'this principle, for which - we fught and bled and suffered in various ether ways been maintained? If it has, we may fairly rejoice; if ii has not. we have abundant cause for mourning, it mould be a proud consolation were we .a&le to answer this inquiry without qualification, in the affirmative" Whether such things as this, which appear fmm time to time in that paper, arc the works lawsuits ; and yet at the end of eight years, we Vendee ; giving orders for the massacre there of find him with an empty treasury! a ruined com. even old men, women and--children. That the merce, the sources of revenue dried up, our fo- people of tntiie "parishes were shot by his .orders', reign relations in utter entanglement and confu- And finally,1 that several witnesses deposed that sion and to crown the whole existing administration ; the probability at idolatry would continue while the people believe the administration lo be devoted to Pjy and peace ; and the cei taintythaf,rshould impelled to war with a foreign power, eve- position would exist amone: us to ko to war 1 .rather than France. He was also mted with Jefferson's philosophizing, theo- ana umid disposition ; with his total want T1e; and with his ardent hatred of Eneland Wound -devoion to France, rfe knew that Fme . President Jefferson, excessively ambi-, literary larae, had staked his reputation 'righter. upon a prediction that the Sun of F 6lry was about' to set forever, and of nai ha wns Wnlu intp!tfrt to turn hia prediction into pronhecv. " Under' all these Nances he must have been a fool to doubt V& American Prpct1.nt- ' ra Vin bo far fl Pd OH himself alnnp. fnr thi rrat and 'ork of comnletinrr the distraction of Old iJ. r;-r"0 - -I"-" - r "u ne could not therefore expect with w but a pei feet submission to his dic- regard to our relations in Spain. tL7Were svcrftl 'statements in the message, c1 it not in fact fakp. were .Titrp.tlneli? deren. After the .President had spoken of Spain, as , . Ill l(lll(.V IV- l ery same paper, that France was manag- 'ir, k promote hex.wn purpose, as i u 7 5 sinular "expression, 'Whatever du I , mShJ mean to give to these differences r whaievep i.-; .1 n.L vrWM migiH. mean the difference, between ; the, United the essential fl' ti General Turreau, after an excursion in La Veni eiplepr which we struggled in the war of Indepe'n- dee, returned in triumph To RennesJ and wore as d((nce ho not deen maintained.. trophies, the ears and hearts of chbuans Dinned Wifl the Jeffefsonians, as usual, charge the to his coat, and in the loop ol his hat!" federalists with this abandonment ? Stop,;gentle- j Admitting he committed but one half or one men. uo you not. recollect that Mr Jenerson's quarter ot the horrible crimes alledged against popularity gained ground incessantly,-from the hirrrby his own ! countrymen, he must have been moment he pronounced the tweedle dum ot his a human monster, next in cruelty to Robespierre) inaugural. speecn, unui ir, was Known mat nc was nis lormer master, xet ne was civilly received to leave the thrope ? Then indeed, as is always in this country, and was treated all along wiifn, the case with sycophasts,and office seekers, the decent manners, as well by the people as by the public adoration was turned towards the rising sun. cabinet. Jo means were employed at his first But the democratic cry ot 4,I62 to14 cannot jonung ..jrWer-to render him odious with the putf- be forgotten. ; -'Could 'fedefalistsnenZniave:xon lie. No threats were made to mob or insult him.' trolled ths affairs of government, against the force The rtason was, all parties sincerely wished for of such overbearing majorities as he has had an accommodation wifh France, if it could have throughout his administration, and particularly been effected on equitable or even tolerable terms, for several of the last years of it ? .-s? Wonderful All parlies thereforeJiicitly consented to give the power must inaeeo oe ascnoeu to inem, u.wun minister iair piay. six or seven senators, and between twenty audi Not so with the- British minister. "-"Mr Jack thirty representatives, they were able to manage . son, for aught we know, is, in his general ch& their devoted opponents. "" ' racter both a mpral and humane man. Once ' It is not owing to the tederahsts, Mr. smith, indeed he was the bearer of a messaee, . which that your joy on the 4thf-July suffers any de- j seemed at the time to be severe and cruel. He gree of diminution. It is Owing to the pernici of Mr. Smith himself, or Mr. Jefferscm, or Mr. Madison, we pretend not to know. Those gentle men all write so much alike, and are so much on a footing in point of talents, that it requires no incorisiderable degree ot critical skiu io aiscnmi- nate between their everjljabours. - Uut we pre snme the man who wrote these Temarks, is pre pared, to answer. such inquiries as they, fairly give, rise to: and with that persuasion, we take the liberty to submit a few to hisxonsideration. As it is in terms here conceoeo, t,nat me pnn cihle tor which we contended in the war cf . inde fiendrnce. has been abandoned, to whom is the dere action chargeable f Wave he jenersonians mc hadmood to sav it h General Washington i I they have, we shall be glad to hear them. Will they bring it home to Mr. Adams i We should think from the tenour of this year's toasts, and from the recent labours of this unhappy old, man, that they wold not like to lay thli sin at nispor. ous measures of the man whom you, and your party JiavealmosLadQredi Jefferson. He is answerable for embarrasment and perplexities at home and abroad he has des troyed our commerce, drained our revenue, and reduced us to the most abject, humiliating, and disgraceful condition, split into actions at home and despised, plundered, and insulted by all na tions, .With whom we are in any way connected.-. ..;;V' . ' . r ': From the Connecticut Herald. Due la Cadore, our Ruler mnithe palseyTht public have now been some weeeks on tiptoe to gain a peep at the dignified resentment which it was hoped our government .would display" in re turn for N' Apbllyon's infamous letter to bur min ister, through ihe Duke of Cajole: The jeader must .bear, in mind (for., lie cannot forcet If he would) that the tyrant politely informs Mr. Arm- t j . it. strong mai . me American governme,ni is witn out energy, without honor, and without charac ter and that the nation have not equal spirit with the , British colony lof Jamacia. The com pi i ment, it is true, appeared som e what rank, and many honest folks 'were credulous enough to wa; sent by his government to demand of the Danes the surrender of their fleet, under the pre'; misejthat it should be restored to them after the expiration of tliewaf between England arid France This" message lie actually did communicatip to the court ot Denmark ; but there is no reason to suppose that he aggravated it by any personal ifi solence The Danes refused to surrender their fleet,. Copenhagen was bombarded, and1 the fleet was taken forcibly not by Mr. Jackson," but by Lord- Nelson.) Ye Lord Nelson never, a3 vVy have heard, had been greatly blamed, even by oiir democrats, for. executing the positive orders of his government. They never nick nahied Co penhagen Nelson.: because he never cSttte to this country, as a public minister to nigociate a frkfl. ly' settlement between it end England. . Mr. Jackson did come" over it that ehararrer. And no sooner was it known that he was comintr. than r Copenhagen" Jackson 'tesbundeid 'ovei'the.' whole country. A11 means were employed to ferj' derhim odious,' and to spirit up the dregs of th people to insult hm. It was not known at thatt tine that Mr Jackson would in any wise wouitt the, delicate sensibilities f Robert SmhT" 1 1 e had dona nothing, as yet, (lirtctjy to offend ths United States or any xf its citizens. M'.hing $L vt
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