REPUBLICAN ADDRESS TO THE ELECTORS OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, ON THE CHOICE OF ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT; *' IT is of infinite moment that fon ''should properly estimate the im- *' mense value of your national union ** indignantly frowning upon the *' first dawnlngs of evt-y attempt to *' alienate any portion of our country •' from the rest. It seems as matter *' of serious concern, that any ground ** should be furnished for characteriz- ** ing parties, as northern a^id totttkern^ *' where designing men may endea- •' vour to excite a belief that there is a *• real difference of local interests and " views. One of the expedients of ** party, to acquire influence within *• particular districts, is to misrepresent '* the opinions and aims of other dis- ** tricts.'* ' IVjSHiNGTON*} Address. « DISGUISE it as you will, tht " manners, habits and interests of the *• southern and northern people are very ♦* different — The southern States have ** not only a different interest from the " northsruy but the former have privi- " leges that are denied to »/, and are "relieved from public burthens, vfhich *' Twi? are doomed to bear. The monies " collected at the post-oJace, are prin- " cipally from the nirthem and two of " the middle States, yet a very large " proportion of it is expended in trans- " porting the mail through the ioutkern " States." — cCi* Virginian influence di- rects every measure of government. — Every prominent man, who belongs to> the norths they arc sure to denounce. Virginia is almost wholly exempt from taxes, yet she is using the wliole weight of her influence to increase the duties on the commerce and navigation of the north. Imcartiaus, W A L P O L f , N. H. PRINTED. 1804, REPUBLICAN ADDRESS, "fO THE ELECTORS OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. 2N REPLY TO IMPARTIALIS, 1 HE man, who fpends his nights in plundering his neighbours, and his days in boafting of his wealth, may triumph for a feafon, but when the right owners, and the flieriff are in purfuit of him, his glory is at an end. Impartialis, the author of a late addrefs to you, has had his day of triumph ; he has robbed you of your votes, and your State is to be for two years more, reprefented by men, who hate a republican government, and who will employ all their time in Gongrefs to check its operations. But the right owners are now in purfuit after that ^fame author, and they will rapidly follow him through all the labyrinths oiF his addrefs, and will not reft until they have drawn him before the public tribunal, to anfwer for the artifi- pes, by which he has injured you. We call ourfelves the right owners-, becaufe the State is repub- lican in her Legiflature, and becaufe the amendment of th; Conftitution has fecured to our country, republican magiftrat i and meafures ; and we call this an injury, becaufe by it we aivj deprived for two years of all weight in a government, the i>'i- miniftration of which has the approbation of more than three fourths of the eledors in the United States. It is probable, that at the election of Reprefentatives to Coa- grefs, you, the body of eledors, endeavoured to do what np- peared to you for the beft ; you have no intereft in deceivin-i; or in being deceived ; you r-efpeft your rights, yourfelves and, families, and whenever you fhall know the truth, the trulls, will make you free. In this confidence, we call your attention to the firft ppfitio^j of Impartialis— =viz. That his lift of candidates prefents the dii' ciples of Waftiington ; and that the oppofite lift prefents "fyr enemies of Wafhington. We fhall take no notice of the n;: filk and muflin, in which this writer wraps up all his new b<>; impoftures C 4 ) impoflures, but fhall proceed to e:^imine whether there is an>f thing like truth in this defignation of the oppofite Hfts Jf candidates. Had Impartialis, when a clergyman^ pronounced from the defii, that it was tl federal voice which once faid, " let there be light and there was light,'* and X\v3X federalifm called all things out of nothing, he would have deferved fevere reproof from every man who believed in God. When, as a civilian, he exhibits our country as drawn from a ftate of confufion and difcredit, into a regular government by the power of Waihington, and a chofen band oifederalifii, he deferves fevere reproof from ev- ery man, who knows how our Conftitution cam^e into being. Wafhington did indeed command an army of brave men, many of whom tailed death for their country, and were in theirgraves, while he furvived to enjoy the gratitude and refped of his country. The Conftitution was the refult of an extended im- prellion of its necellity. Will it be pretended that the republican traits of that Conftitution were made by Alexander Hamilton, Wm. Samuel Johnfon, Governeur Morris, Jared Ingerfol, or fuch men ? You will more juftly afcribe them, to Benjamin Franklin, John Langdon, James ]\iadifon, Nicholas Gilman, and Abraham Baldwin. Prefident Wafliington ligned that inftru- ment, which guaranteed to every State in the Union a repub- lican form of government i he approved it as containing tli^e bf^ft fyftem which, in the conflict of opinions, could be obtain- ed, and which provided for amendments in a way perfeftly V^uarded and fafe. In his after life he proved himfelf an ardent re ' blican, as much as was poffible for a man, furrounded by uic idmirers of the Britiih conftitution, of the Britifti funding fvftjm, and of navies, armies, ftarap and land taxes, fedition ' ;' alien acts, and of eternal debt. ' Wafliington was in- . ..Oi the firft of men, but he muft have been more than human, -, •"!■; I he have at all times reiifted the folicitations, the eloquence and he intrigues of the men in power about him. Fijfident Jefferfon, (then minifter in France) wrote a treatifc p' j.ivor of the Cortftitution, Aud advifed its adoption ; at the lime ftating certain amendments which he wiftied adopted, is was, in a good meafure, early gratified. This treatifc id in the Convention of Virginia, by t/je friends of the Con- ji'iiui ;:i — and its author was, on his return, appointed by Prefi- 'l-'^ Vailii'ngtoD, Secretary of State, in which oliice he vindi- cated C 5 ) (jatcd the rights of his country in a State Paper, dictated by the lame powerful talents which guided his pen in draughting our Declaration of Independence. Mr. Madifon, (the prefent Secretary of State) was a firm and ardent friend to the Conftitution, both in the General Con-vcu- tion aad in that of Virginia. The Secretaries of the Treafury, of War, and of the Navy, as well as the Attorney General, were all friends to the Coniiitu- tion, and gave it their ileady fupport in their fcveral Ipheres of aclipn. The Poft Mafter General was young at the time of the adop- tion of the Conftitution ; but in every part of his advancing life, he has been its inflexible advocate. At the head of the government, organized under this Con- ilitution, was placed Prelident Wafhington — not by the voice of a -party ^ but by the voice of all the people, from a perfuafion that he was more fit than any other for the place. Under him were formed the leading meafures, indifpenfible to public intercft, not by 2i party, but by the whole reprefentatiqn of tlic people. As Impartialis feems anxious to claim for federaliftsj the entire glory of the funding fyftem,we yield it to him without regret. Thofe, now ftyled republicans, were in favor of difcrim!natb":g between the foldier and the fpeculator. The foldier had earned. lof. in the pound— the fpeculator had not paid more than '\f. Of courfe the paper could have been called in at '}^f. and funded in favor of the fpeciilator, and new paper, to amount of the re- maining I'jf. could have been funded in favor of the poor^ plundered foldier ; but federalifm fought no fucii glorious juf- tice : it looked forward to a powerful monied ariftocracy of lenders, who would fupport the energetic meafures of govern- ment, in order to give permanence to its own funds : federal- ifm purfued the interefts of the few : the funding fyftem was eftablifhed, and thus a foundation was laid, not for the edifice of freedom, but for an edifice refembling that ftupendous fabric of human invention, the Britifii government. We yield to Impartialis the entire glory of the alie?i a)id /edition ads, of the Jianding army, of the J. '2" l5 Z. negoiiaHon, of the Jlamp and land tax, of the midnigif t judiciary, and all the mighty things, which he claims to have been done under his GREAT AND PATRIOTIC Adams, a man, who meant weii, but wh(xundertook tp raife energetic phnts in a country which would ( 6 ) would not bear them. The voice of our country has decided fo unequivocally on the demerit of thefe meafures, that we have no occafion to difcufs them. The edifice, attempted to be raifed on the funding fyftem, is fo far demolilhed, that fcarcely is one ftone left upon another ; but you ftill have a government, which, having largely diminiftied your burdens, has now largely increafed your bleffings. As to the mournful tale of Impartialis, about the high rank to which the federal adminiftration raifed our country, and about our charges of monarchifm on the two Prefidents, it js fuiEcient to reply, that Prelident Waihington's name, charader, and parting advice, have been more reipefted by republicans than by federalifts ; and that we are contented to leave the juftice of the charge againft Prefident Adams, to thofe who have read his Defence of the American Conftitutipns— ^to thofe who have read about his hole of nobles, and his well-born and bafe-born, and his encomiums on the Britifli government, and who have carefully reflected on the meafures of his adminif- tration. We are not left to believe that you, electors, wifh to fee a revival of any fet of meafures, perpetually increafing expence, and requiring a ftanding army, a fedition acl, and all the odious array of a reign of terror, to enforce them. If you do not wifli a return of thofe meafures, can you conliftently mourn over the fallen condition of their authors, or appoint men to reprefent you, who can live and breathe only in the atmofphere of arif- tocracy ? Even if you do wifh a return of thofe meafures, is it rational to oppofe this wifli, to the decided fentiraent of an im- menfe majority of your country, efpecially at a feafon, when thofe, who reprefent fuch wiflies, can do nothing in public but to link you lower in the fcale of the union ? If a man ftiould wifh ever fo ardently for a crop of corn, yet in autumn he would not fow, in winter he would reftrain his hand, he would wait until the feafon, when nature and the elements promifed their aid. If any of you, Electors, wiih for the return of a Standings Army, and of Stamp and Land taxes, it is now autumn with you, long years of winter are to fuc^ceed : you have little chance of living to a feafon, in which the people of our country fhall forget the principles of their revolution and the bleffings oi a republican adaiiniilration. Your felf-ftyled difciples of Wafh^ ington. ( 7 ) ihgtOn, can do no more for you at the feat of government for the enfuing two years, than to fit or ftand as monuments of the eafe,with which an honeft people maybe defrauded of their votes. It was not by pretending great refped for Wafliington, that Impartialis made fuch impreffion, for there is fcarcely an eledor, who has not witneffed in the federal papers and in his pamphlet a zeal to difcredit the motives and aims of other diftricls, efpecially of Virginia, a practice, on which Wafliington called on us indig- nantly to frown. It was not by complimenting the meafures of Mr. Adams' adminiftration that Impartialis made fuch impreffion, for nearly every elector is in heart and intereft oppofed to fuch meafures. — Thefe things might have aided impreffions on the minds of fome ; but his great ftrength of operation is laid out in accounts of the prefent adminiftration, the falfehoods of which are not chargeable on his ignorance, for he holds ajlation^ which enables him to difcern the truth. His firft charge is of an attempt by the prefent adminiftration, to introduce monarchal principles into the government. — To prove this he fpeaks of numerous and arbitrary removals from office, made by Mr. Jefferfon. On this head you will pleafe to notice that in a congreffional debate, while Mr. Adams was in office, it was contended by federal members, that no man ought to be appointed or employed by the Prefident, unlefs fuch man refpedcd the principles and meafures of the adminif- tration. On that occafion Mr. Hillhoufe, now the brother fen- ator of Impartialis, contended for the policy on the fame ground as a farmer employs no man under him, who is wholly oppofed to his ideas of agriculture.— Under Mr. Adams, the army and navy were officered hj federalijis—thc diplomatic and coliedion departments ^^rt federal, Contradors and all employee! bv gov- ernment were federal— ^nd in order to fortify the policy and prevent any fair experiment of a republican adminiftration, ami to fill every vacancy and crevice with federalifm, every office, which became vacant after it was known that Mr. Adams was not re-elecled, was filled up by him, and to crown the im- pofition and fairly to top off the chimney with fedtralifm, 2. batch of midnight judges was got up. After the law, eftablilh- ingthe new judiciary was pafled, it would not fuit the delicate leehngs oi federalijis to fufter the man, who was to adminifter the government, to appoint the judges. No— they muft be appointed ( s ) appointed by the man, whom the people had dedared wonld be ina few hours, unfit to manage the government ! For four years, repubhcans had been denounced and refufed all public confidence becaufe they did not refped the adminiftratiori. Now a republican Prefident. was to advance forward with a glorious? chance of a fair experiment, bound hand and foot, furrounded by men in office hoftile to his fyftem and wifliing to caft him in- to outer darknefs— and federalifm I'eady to charge him with arbitrary violence if he fhould dare to remove any of thefe ehofen people. Yet all thefe people, over whom he had the power of removal,- ^had been appointed during the pkafure of the Prefident, and might be removed without any reafon affigned — and this mode of ap- pointment was exprefsly adopted in order to enable the Prefi- dent to have men under him, in whom he placed confidence. In common life we have no idea of claiming fervices from a man and of demanding that thofe whom he Ihall have under him fhall be his enemies, and fhall feek to give him every hindrance ; yet federalifls feem to have believed that federalifm even in its humbled flate, fhould prove a fhield to every officer, who had gained appointment under a former adminiflration. There was boundlefs bafenefs in the calculation, boundlefs weaknefs in the means attempted to fupport it, and boundlefs wickednefs in the malicious reflections, which followed the mofl obvious and ne- ceffary removals. In face of all thefe fads^ fo mild and tolerant has been Prefident Jefferfon, that jnorethan one half oi all the officers now in thefer- vice of the' United States, are on the federal fide. We hop^, that if this article of charge againfl the Prefident be revived,- Impartlalls may have the full benefit of his cafe by having to compla: Hi of a total removal of federalifls from all offices de- pendant on the pleafurc of the Prefident. The next charge is of an arbitrary removal from office, by the prefent adminiftration, of the midnight judges. It is true that Cajigrefs, not dependant on the authority of the adminiftra- tion but injuft conformity with public opinion, did remove i6 judges, deemed by them unneceffary. Without adverting tO' the able and conclufive reafons on which this meafure was' founded in Congrefs, we merely remark that in cafe any falling- adminiftration fhall in future attempt to prop itfelf againft the rifms adminiftration by the creation of new courts, and by aa- unfeafonable ( 9 ) iinfcafpnabk and iridecotoufly hafty appointment of judges, it h to be hoped that the above removal may be made a precedent during all generations. The next charge is on the fubjeAfOuld ave been izvcd under the Adams' adminiftration in the fame ;rm, had they continued their fcale of coUe^iOns and ex- endipres. We have indeed reapedwhzt our predeceflbrsyo^c^^, but it ha* een to us a harveft of debts, which the prefent adminiftration as been, in the midft of every kind of federd abuf^ and mif- sprefentatipn, contriving to difcharge from a fund far lefs con* derable than the federahfts improved. The next fubject of clamor againft the adminiftration, feleclcd y Impartialis is, the laying of new taxes. The firft to which li^ efers, was " for protecting the commerce and feamen of the U- ited States againft the Barbary powers," and "vv^as to continue 1 force only fo long as hoftilities between them and us fliOuld ontinue. A frigate, commanded by a federaliji, was captured »^ithout fault of any one, our feamen were in captivity, tl:c oice of the country demanded relief for them and this ad was afled without any collifion of party.- The other tax was for mpoling fpecific inftead of ad valorem duties in certain caies. This corredtion of the impoft fyftem had been long contemplated nd was delayed 'till now, merely for want of premifes, on which found theeftimates. The fame tax extended to the levying nd collefting of light money on foreign fliips and vcftei$,,.a [leafure loudly demanded by our federal merchants, as counter- ailing a like duty on our veftels at the ports of other nations^ ( 12, ^ As Imparlialis advances, he weakens in Iiig attacks, and by 2li^ indifcriminate ftyle of abufe fliews that his objeft was not an impartiaj addrefs to the und^erftandings of the Electors. Impartialis next advances to abufe the government for the repeal of the internal taxes, a meafure loudly called for by the people of ail the States : fo loudly that the people of New- Ham pftiire would not again ride feveral miles for a ftamp, would no^^ again have their hoiifes apprized and their windows counted and pay a heavy tax on their lands and on the manufaftures of their own hands, for the mere pleafure of knowing that the people of Kentucky bear a limilar burden. "Would Impartialis allow that Portfmouth is the only part of Kcw-Hampfhire, which pays any part of the impoft ? Do not the confumcrs throughout the State pay it ? Why then will he pretend that the trealiiry receives from Kentucky only 1 222 dol- lars, "^i cents f Do not the people of Kentucky and Venpont, and of all the interior country pay their full proportion of the' revenue according to their confumption ? TJie pretence that a^ part of the internal taxes could be repealed and the reft retained is idle ; the objecl was to get rid of an army, of officers,' and the oxpence, which was enormous, even when the whole tax was in .cojleclion,an(i which would have been intolerable, had only a part ' remained ; and' as to rcfufing to reduce the impoft on falt,brown fugar and molaffes, it is enough to fay that they are as they were under Mr. Adajns, when the people had to pay the internal taxes --that fait has alv/ays been confidered a fafe and proper objecl of revenue, it being difficult of removal from payment of duties, and an article of fmall confumption among the poor ; and the rich, when they ufe it for exportation, have a drawback of duties. On m.olafres the duties have never exceeded the low rate of ^cj cents per gallon, and as to fugar, it pays but a fair proportion a- mong other things of equal ufe and 7;^/ noneofihcfe things are the per opprcffcd a tenth part as much as they were by the internal taxes, nor a hundredth part ns much as they were by the federal ' funding fyftem and the ftanding army and the vaft fchemes of Mr. Adanis' ndi7-iiniilration,by M'hich the poor would inevitably have been laid at the feet of the rich. We now come to that part of the addrefs where Impartialis vents out all his idolatry for Wafliington, by abufing the Con- llitution for admitting 3-5ths of the Haves in Virginia, to be ciiii^Tirter^ as inhabitants •; and "by abufmg the free citizens of W'^Inia for having habits and manners different from ours.-^ V This ( 13 ) This is really very federal ! This fubjeftof negro flavery was , well underftood by the Convention, and provided for, as well as they could do it. Slavery was formerly tolerated here : it required fome time to eradicate it. At the fouthward it may require many years ; the fentiment of the majority of the coun- try is, without diftinction of parties, oppofed to the flavery of the blacks. The time is haftening, when they will be free — then whether ont free black man fhall be equal to or\Qfrec white man j or whether 5 free black men fhall be equal to 3 white men ; or whether the free blacks Ihall be admitted to a vote, are points which Impartialis may adjufl at his leifure. For the prefent it is enough that Mr. Jefferfon did not create the article in the Conftitution, objected to, and that he cannot amend it. This fuggeftion about the blacks is never introduced at the porthward, except it be to prejudice the northern people again ft the fouthern, and againft the duration of the union, an object much at heart* with i\\q pretended difciples of Wafliington. The next charge of Impartialis is, that an attempt was made to extinguifli the claims of the United States on the debtor States- — which did not preyail ; but he fays, it will probably be adopted the next feffion. An attempt to deftroy the Loan- Offices, which did not fucceed, belongs to the fime head of complaint. We would recomm.end to Impartialis to refcrvc thefc charges of wickednefs, until after they Ihall be committed, as they may then furnifii nevs/" matter for an addrefs, to be iffued three days before an eleftion. Impartialis next complains that the net revenue from the poft-office has been diminiflied from 73,000 to 27,000 dollars. He ouQ;ht to have ftated that at the clofe of Mr. Adams' admin- iftration, 9000 miles of new poft roads were ellablifiied, and that under Mr. Jefferfon 1 1,060 more have been eftabliflied, no part of which expence devolved on the laft adminiftration, that thefe 20,000 miles of new poft roads, though expenfive, are vaftly profitable and accommodating to the people. And he might have added, that New-Hampfhire is a debtor State, on the poft-office eftabliftiment ; more money being expended for her convenience, than is collected from her poft-offices, with aa additional expenditure of far more than 46,000 dollars — Oh this fubject the adminiftration is able to ftand, without feder- al aid and in face of federal oppofition. JmpartiaJis, wifliing farther tg excite a jcaloufy againft the fouthern ( H 5 foutliern States, reprefents that the hofpital money from feamea is moftly conecled 7iprtb of the Delaware, but expendedyor///y of it. lie ought to have added that the New-England feamen, who are, eoipioyed throughout the continent, receive fouth of New-England more hofpitai affiftance than ever paid for, in ad- dition to all, which the New-flampMre feamen receive in Bof- ton and eifewhere. The fund for this objed is inadequate, but it is all expended, and the northern feamen Ijave the greateft be.- nefits from it. This difciple ofWaJhingion next complains that millions of mo^ ney, drawn from the northern States, have been expended in de- fending the frontiers of the Souihetn and Wejlern States from the Indians, and in purchalijng lands of the tribes. The money was no more collecled at the northward tfean the fouthward — the the conftitution guaranteed to each State fuch defence ; it was more largely afforded under the laft than jjnder the prefent ad- miniftration : the lands purchafed have been principally for the United States and have been a productive fource of revenue. Thefe dreadful thrufts at the foutliern ftates could pot be clofed without a freih introduction of Louifiana, for the purchafc of which he fays that 15 millions muftbe drawn froiii the l^or- thern States, by duties on our commerce. By northern ftates he will naturally dr^ your attention to the New-England States, for the people o' e State of Nevy-York make no common caufe with northern 1 eralifts in coveting a diftinction frppi the ibuthern ftates : but the Treafury of the United States receives from the Collection ofnce in New- York more than it rec^ves from all New-England. Immence fums are paid from the omcdi in Philadelphia, Jialtimore and Charlefton. How then are thefe 15 millions to come from the Northern States. As faft as the money ftiall fall dew, it will be pundually paid from the reven- ue of the nation. As to the alarm that Louiliana is fufceptible of divifion into feveral States and of thus dimiliiftiing the weight of New-England, this is alfo another attempt to excite jealoufy and to light the torch of difcord. Impartiaiis draws to a conclulion by exclaiming " Indeed the voice oi New- E?igla?id is not now heard in Congrefs.'* This h precifely as true as the reft of the addrefs. The voice of Rhode- illand is heard, for fhe is entirely republican in both houfes of Congrels. Th^ voice of two Vermont Senators is heard and the voice of half the delegation from that State. The voice of Var- num, Euftis, and their republican colleagues from Maffachufett? ( '5 ) IS hcairci in Congrefs, and if Impartlalis wifhes to have the voice of New-Ham pfliire heard, let him fend to the fenate MelTrs. Olcot and Pliimer, and to the houfer of reprefentatives Meffrs. Tenneyy Betion, Thompfon^ Ellis and Hough.' There in the nam.e of all of them let the Honorable Mr. Piumer, read the addrefs of Impar- tialis, and when he arrives at the 1 2th page, let him give great force to his voice and announcing himfelf and them as the difci- ples ofWapington, read audibly the following : ♦♦ Virginian influence diicfts every meJifuie of government ; It has broken ** down and dellroyed every man, who has been oppofed to it, whatever his po- " h'tics may have been j The Vice-Prefident was of their fiH, birt being a m?.n of *• talents, they codfiderid him as a dangerous rival to their favorite and therefore «' deftroyed his political influence. Every prominent charadler, that belongs to **the north they are fure to denounce. They fometimes, to conceal their views, " do indeed confent that an old man crippled with age and who can never rivaj ** their favorite, may hold an ofHce in the north ; hence they have agreed that •' o/i/go\nernor ClintSn of New- York f^all be the next Vice Prefident. — Virginia *"' is a^mblt exempt frorti taxes, yet llie is uling the whole weight of her influ- " ence to increafe the duties on the commerce and navigation of the north." Read (uch things, O difciple of VVaihington, and your voice will be heard in Congrefs with contevipt a?id execration, and thefe are the only ju(t impreifions, v.'hich can be excited by men, who appear in Congrefs as the reprefentatives of the bafert mifreprefentations, ever circulated among a body of eledors. Proclaim in Wafiiington that the republican candidates for Congrefs in Nev/- Hampfhire, " were advocates of Virginia and approved of her fatal meafures, " as they formerly did thofe of the terrible republic of France.*' Thelfe things v/ili prove how much you love Religion and-Truth, and what a mortal foe you are to that " demorailizing fpirit, that is at war againft religion, morality and ** good government." EleBors ^f Neiv Hampjhire, our ele(n:ion is recently part, and by reafon of federal intrigue, the voice of your State is not to be heard in Congrefs for two years after the 4th of March next. Men, appointed under exprefs terms of holtility againft Viiginia and the fouthern States ; againft the Prefident and adminiftration ; againft the Congrefs, of which tbey are to be a part, are chofen fo reprefent this State. The event of federal a