® qzeife fifjß ASATWSAL P A P E«, Pt'M. ISH i' I) WKDNKSDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY 7PH , K, TOKr , PHI LA DEI.WH A* [No. 94, of Vol. lII.] FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE VSITED STATES. MR. FEiNNO, THE funding fyllem is alledged to be contrary to republican principles. I am a zealous republican. I have neard a gieat manv high wrought fpc< chesand have read at leafl a thonfand cutting keen p-tagraphsin the ncv (papers (hewing the danger th.it our principles are exoofed to. What is a man good for il he hjs not principles.— He is not fit to be hanged—or if you will, he is fit; for you may have it as you please. Now, Sir, I am pei feftly found and well fixed in mv principles. One is that the public is to be preferred to the individual—that is patriotic, and I niavfay it in modeftv, it is mu. hto mv honor. Paying debts, fay the paper«, is anti-republican—the lunding fyflem is anti-re publican. I owe d*bis, and wilb the advice of the writers in the nrwfpaper* with regard to my cafe.—lt is a cafe of conscience. I ain in tiade, and having run in debt for my flock, I have eat and diank the profits —for a man mud live you know, fir. Whe ther it is anti-republican to pav private debts, as ii certainly is for Cougrefs to pay those of the public is my doubt ; I do not readi ]v fee the d'ffcrcnce—and this difficulty of my cafe is not to be overcome unless by confirming the opinion I incline to adopt, that the payment of mv debis is improper for a republican. In some refp. els it is worf- than paving public debts, For the fin ]if at 3 man'* own door; he makes it his own private ail. Ano ther poini seems in my affair clearer flill. My creditors are very rich and are growing richer. This overgrown wealth is tgreed to be improper in a Hate of republican equality ; (Rail I then by pav'ngthem add to 'his inequality and dcllroy the just balance the modcll and vir'uous level which ought to be maintained. No my coun'ry is to be ' r ferred to niyfelt ; and the creditois, if they are good cuizenswill refpeft mv principles anil bequiet— if tbey arc not good citizens lhall I pamper them with my money ? No, I will not : Therefore I do not much infill on having mv cafe of conscience folved—for I have resolved what to do—or rather w.'i r I will forbear do^ng. H?ving begun to scribble about principles, I find I have more to fay, though I have finiftied the point I fir.ft intended to state. The public fpw 'ted and iroly virtuous wiiiers against the funding system do not spare the speculators. Vipers ! I like to fee them well threshed. The do&rine of equal rights has b en strained by some to fuchextravagance as to admit that they have equal rights ■with other citizens : But every rule has it* exceptions, and Con gress Ihould luve made-them. The\ should h<>ve said in then funding (aw—property's found ; k is every man's own, and we canno: touch it—excepting however the property of the holders of the public cetrificar; % and also of such other perf >ns as Con go's on the ground of this precedent fh sll tlrnk fit by decrees from time to time to except, and as the public good in their o pinion may require. The widows and fatherlefs should have been provided for—forne persons have hastily obie&ed to this hu mane Dlea for the widows and orphans who held certificates and have fold then-, that it relief had been given them, the provision for them bv law would have been a funding law, and of course as unconftirutional and anti-republican as the ex sting act. This is a (hallow objection—talking and writing in favor of poor orphans lays no tax—does no violence to the conftitu,tion or to republican equality; in fact a law might have been pasTed so as to create no buiden. Wc h. ve as much as a folio of State laws for cancelling their debts wSich never took a dollar out of their tjeafuries ; and Congress might have done the like. But alas, with precept upon precept from the newfpapersand the example of the States before their eyes they have wilfully offended by their funding law a?a nfl jurtice, principle, republicanifin and the poor widows. For all which it appears the newspapers will never forgive them. FROM THE CONNECTICUT COURANT. MeflVs. Printers, Or late, the newspapers have offered opinions which deserve 10 be well considered before they are received as truths. It has beenfaid that we mud keep up a general government, because we cannot have an union of the States without it—and according to the frozen praile of these writers, the union is rather a good thing than othcrwile. But we must npt have a jot more of a ge neral government than just enough tor the union to rub and go, or speaking more correctly to rub and not go : because fay they if you give an inch more, consolidation will ensue, and consolida tion is wo r fie thjn Ichifm, that is, than no union. According to these new faugled federalifts, the movement of government in future on the mutual refpedl and love oi Congress and the State legislatures. The great concern of the la - ter is to be should lose a part of the power neceff.i y for the union, and Congrcfs in this traffic of (enderntfs is to si r left the States should want power to prevent a consolidation—at; so there will be a great deal of love loft. It will be 1011, tor as he baiance betwe> n the national and State governments is to be tri in money scales, and nothing according to these writers, bur 'ovt and good wi.l can keep the balance tru., it will soon be drftrov - cd. I r the trutft love is (<>me T imes hot and form-times cole and in the fir ft change away goes the balance, and dilunion Or con folidation J'Hows in a trice. Ti is do&nne tho cxprefled in o iher terms h $ been advanced in one of the P'oiladelphi pipers. rheiufioious conclusion is manitci^v—'l t e balance of Congr f. and the Slate goverurn nts is so very nice and hard to prrferve, and so very unequal, confolidaiion being so much wo;f than difuniqn, we hive nothing to do, but to turn to the 1< hend pdth wi.i h w? Nt in 1787 was leading us to deli u - Hon-—t V , rht S:<*te leg-flvures mofe power, take away part o' that which is allort- d to Cpn *refs, oppose and embarrass its exer ciiing what it left, and break the union as fact as we can. It canno: b ti a; those who f-und these alarms are alarn.ed. encroachmerit on the State powers is made or threatened there is no symptom of any difpoh:ion inthe public to counte nance likH an attempt. Congrcfs is not < v«n accused of having excrer ed ii< powers ; it has repeatfdlv ftopt ftiort of the limits, as iu tin judicial law and 'me others : These writers fee no dan ger on the other fide ; they «re silent on the cxciufi jii of federal officers from S ale alTemblies,on the refufal of State l<jgiflators to take Ihe oath to fapp the const tution—on the continuance of tender and paper' moot \ laws—oll the dilcuiTions in the State af fcnibl es of he ex :f c law, &cz. &c.—lt is only Congress that u u-ns r>f»wers and dilregards the coqllitution. NV» friend of his country would approve the disturbing its peace by ufurpat on 011 '.he part of Congress. The wishes and the m terrfti () f the nation concur in keeping each government within its proper bonnds. 1 ime is daily foftcning piejudiccs and binding GOOD CONSCIENCE. Wednesday, March 21, 1792. move clofcly together the affVflions of our citizens. Knowledge is prrading, and liberty of course is better undfrltood, and (lands ■>.! J founder foundation th.in ever. The future n's of ou sorer,imem will depend on the people thsmfelves; and il th„ enlightened, ihus improving, they (hould be so imprudent as ;o make or allow an unnecessary change of the forms and p.iweis o> Ifg flatures, ,t would be Itrange if their cafe Ihould b.come at once so bad that thev could neither mend nor endure it —fu el a free people could apply a remedy, as well as many palliatives of Ihe evil. 1 r It will not be denied that separate leg'flatures are cxpofed to the danger of clashing. The danger, however, is aggravated by infiructing the people to look with dislike and fear towards Con giefs, and this they furelv will if they believe that i.onfolidation is the greatest and most probable danger they stand expofe-f to. The i-onltitutiou t> the child of the people. It is not doubted they love it too well to futfer these men to execute upon it the mcnt ot Solomon, atid \.o saw it in two. 3 Tliefe writers have little atfcaion for the union or a flranje ap orehenfion of futurity when they repreftot consolidation as woile than schism or no union at all. It is not. easy to imagine what could be worse than a d vision of the dates. The evil affoids no room for palliatives. Rival or neighbour states could not remain friends. Injuries would sharpen resentments, and hatred would become hereditary And what could be gained or hoped for ? With more enemies and those within our present limits, (honld we have less armies or taxes? Would a weaker government de lend us, or would its yoke fit lighter? Should we enjoy more 1,- bfcrly, more tranquil.ty, or more wealth. What can be more shocking to a nation than its d'flolution, than brothers becoming enemies and seeking each other's blood. Those writers who reprelent consolidation as wor r e than a fe. oaration of the dates, arc great admirers of the French revolution. France has indeed recovered its liberty, and one of the firft us. s it made of it was to break down the provincial governments, and to consolidate the whole nation into one body. France has f ven times more people than the United States, a r.avy, colonies in every quarter ot the earth, and a vail trade. The present happy order of things is not to be changed to follow the example of France— tLit no mar. will believe that it is not better t/> adopt that example than to (uffer a fcparation of the union. That we may not be driven to this alternative, let ns contradict those who re present confol;rtation as no improbable event, and yet as the worst of all political evils. [If the following > marks are net predicated on the idea that "oc-vern ment ISA necessary Evil—they art Janflioned b\ the Jen. timcnt, that " order is Heaven's first law."J FROM THOMAS', MASSACHUSETTS SPY, Q c . Sutton, January it iiat To Majler KIDDER. SIR, IT is a common report, that a school diftrift engaged yo.u to teai h their school this winter; which school you set up and tiught.fome days; but in the mean while anorhtV teacher wa/ *»nfulted, and a diftrifi meeting appointed to answer the requ ft of a certain gentleman ; but his request was totally disregarded, and the time fprnt in disputing, whether your government Ihould' be regarded by treirchildren, or not. And wlion jhe vote was four appeared for vour government, and (our against it. Then one of your fchotars, who was under age, put in the calling vote, which turned you out of the diffrift ; or you inuft give up your government, which, by judicious men, is supposed to be good. Now, Sir, whether this report be true, or talfe, I lenow not ; and who the gentlemen are, is none of my business : But the abovementioned report, is the occasion of my writing to vou upon government. 1 Neither do I with to applv my observations upon government, to those gentlemen in particular;, but t» the charafler deserving. Government is an institution of Heaven. When maA was firft formed, he was put under law and government; the violation of which, has introduced into the world, all the evil which now s or perhaps will be ; which was effe&ed by the instigation of rh.' Hevil ; and by him and his emidaries, this rebellion is Ail! go-ng on. But r.he feed of the woman hath undertaken to put a check to it. and to introduce good order and government again ; whirh he v ill do rfF'&ually amoug his children, which apparently dif t ngnifhes them from the children of the devil. Now wherever ou find godly parents, the man, according to the order of Hra f»n, izkes the lead, and the wife is in fubje&ion ; and their utmost endeavor is to fubjett their children to good order. For the wel fare of this rising nation, depends much upon the good govern ment of paren s and school teachers, toward the blooming youth: r or thr want ot which, the Sabbath may be violated, gaols crowd d. whipping ports employed, and gallows s loaded, &c. Now, Sir, a placed for tfce defrnce of thi* nation, w-H be of no avail, if children may govern their parents; for pa enf< mnft govern in state and town matters ; and if thev are go. their children, and their children by the devil, then On • hose (boulders is government ? To conclude, Sir, I was informed, that with all modrfty, vou rood vonr ground like an heio : And an he»o in the field, cannot be ter serve his country, than vou can in your school, by fubjeft i;ig your pupils to good order and government. Frcm your friend. SAMUEL WATERS. Mr. Ashbil Kidder P. S. If children can rule their parenrs and frhool teachf-is w'nile under age, who is there whom thev cannot rule when thev come to vears ? Thev feel every way-qualified to >ule kingdoms and flairs; and all must bow to them, or there are di'Mirbancts in neighbourhoods, rtoifv town-meetings, mobs, inlurrcttions; and kingdoms and slates, by th**m are difqu:cted. This ground alio produces tavern-haunting, horfe-jockying, caid-p'avtng, thieving, robbrg, rioting, murder, and all manner of vicious prattlers. But, will no: God ihorten their days ? Will not the earth »uen her mouth quickly, and {wallow them uo, ;ts the did Korah ? For by tbem the government ot Heaveq is struck at : I 1 To, the nei,- lecfcof proper government, bv parents, maflcrs and school train ers, " is no less than a wicked conspiracy, againlt both God and inan." I have only given you a general sketch of mv Simple thoughts upon the education of children ; and more efpecLallv, some of the ill confcquences which accrue from the neglcft of it. —There- fore, Jet us, bv our exam pies, teach them every point of pietv, especially benevolence towa'd our enemies. 373 A FRIEND TO THE UNION [Whole No. LONDON, January 7, HP HE galleries in The National Aflembly of )• ranee, continue rlie indecent practice of re!lifyi:;o; their approbation by plaudits. Snre , one fei ious admonition from the Frefidenc would correct this. A merchant at Dunkirk, named Peter du Burgo, is gone off with two hundred thousand livres, the property of various creditors. He has deftrojed or Carried away all his books, ac counts, &c. T lie P.irifian Volunteers, upwards of thirty thousand in number, are now become a well dM"- ciplined body. Gieat harmony reigns nmonglt them, and they are united by o.tie great and com mon intereit. ] hey are for I lie molt pari Itrong ly attached to the leading principles of i.h'e pie (f nt con ft itu'ion, and disposed patiently to fuffer the inconvenience of iis defers, until bv time arid experience a remedy for these can he found, without endangering the fafety of the whole. In the course of the la 11 twelve months, they have had frequent communications with each other, and the sentiments of the majority a're known to each individual. They feewiih indignation the present effervefcence in different pans of the kingdom, and the source of this thejr know to be in the capital. Legislative and municipal enquiries will soon lead to a lull discovery of the authors ; and in ii«e punifliment of these the immediate fafety of the nation depends. T lie duration of the treaty between Russia and Sweden is to be for eight yeais. The four Swc dHh plenipotentiaries have each received d rich fnufF-box, and 3 000 ducats in The RuP fian general de Pahlen, has on the other hand been gratified by the king of Sweden with liis pi<Sure surrounded by diamonds, and with a ve'- ry valuable ring from the queen. After a late interviet* between the Elertor of Saxony and the King of Pruflia at Cunerefdorf, they fat down to a grand entertainment, in a magnificent saloon, buile by his ; Majefty expieff ly,for that purpose, The Mentor of" Saxony infills on the foliowing tip 11 lations previous to his provisional acceptance of the crown of Poland. irt. ! har no decree of the States fhal! have the force of a law, without the royal fan<sti'oft. 2dly. I hat the marriage of the Princess of Saxony A:m11 entirely depend upon heraugul't pa rents ; and. ?dly. That the Kingfhall command the army, and be indepeiidant of any military contFoul whatever. Extract oC a letter from a gentle?/:311 in Paris, to the Editor of the Gazetteer, dated Die. 19 " The leading features in the state of this ca pital remain pretty much the Cameras they have been dfcfcribed in m y former letters. Happily the extreme violence which lately prevailed has been attended.wirh some good effedts ; an union of the moderate party has in consequence been formed, and is as present predominant in the Aflembly. More prudent measures have been adopted, and the proceedings of governmeiic inarked with more confidence. " The King has been exceedingly popular fincfe his lare refnlutions. Nothing indeed could be better calculated ro conciliate the public muid : A war against the emigrants, and those German « Princes who favor jdefigns, is now the ge neral cry, and in Head of dreading art attack, they are eager to commence hotliiities f The ap pointment of La Fayette as one of the Generals, affords the high?ft fatisfadtion. No person can be better qualified to defend the new constitution, than he who had so great a (hare in eltablifhing it.. None has been engaged in public with more advantage to the community, or a character more irreproachable to liimfelf. " M. Pethion has commenced his office of may or with great activity. The vigor of his pro ceedings against gamblers lias been attended with the moll ufefnl efFe<sis. Along with the morals lie has not failed to attend to the appearances bf the city, and is at prefeni busy to promote the convenience and beauty»of the Itreets. " The state of credit is very fluctuating. The fame lamentable fcarcityj of money remains. The late changes in the state of credit have, however, rather been for the better, and from the popularity of the measures now adopted by government, we trull will continue to improve."
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