&tiz(fu 0) A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS. AND SATI'RDAYS BY JOHN FEN NO, No. 60. H/'■' H.STR F.F.T, PHILADELPHIA [No. 51, of Vol. IV.] Grand Family Bible. PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING PY SUBSCRIPT IO An ELEGANT EDITION of the SACRED SCRIPTURES Of ihe OLD and NEW TESTAMENTS, with ihc Apocry phA, On a very large and beantiful new Type, and [uperßnt Paba THE great importance of the Holy Scriptures, interfiling to every individual ; the divine excel lence of its dottrinesand precepts, and the beauty and fublimitv of its pafTages, have so long made it a capital object of attention, as to preclude occa sion or opportunity for eulogiurn. 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FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES MUCH declamation has been indulged against certain charters, who are charged with advocating the pernicious doctrine that u pub lic debt} are public blcjfings," and with being friends to a perpetuation of the public debt of tlie coun try. Ampng these characters, if the Secretary of the Treasury has not been named, he has been pretty plainly alluded to. It is proper to examine what foundation there is for those charges. Tiiat pfficer, it is very qertain explicitly maintained, that the funding of the existing debt of the United States would render it a national blessing.—And a man has only to tra vel through the United States, with his eves open, and to oblervc the ii; v igoratlon of indus try in ©very branch, to be co iv'nced, that the portion was well founded., — wlether right or wrotK, it is quite a d.ierent thing from maintaining, as a general proposition, that a public debt is a public blefTji • — .and temporary ci 'uinft mces might render that ad van u.;>e,nn, at one time, which at another might be urtfuL It is known, that prior to the revolution, a great part of tie circulation of the country was carried on by paper money ; that in confe quencc of the events of the revolution, that re fonrce was, in a great measure, destroyed, by being discredited, and that the fame events had d-ftroyed a large proportion of the monjed and mercantile capital of the country, and of per sonal property generally. It was natural to think, that the chasm created by these circum ltauces requiied to be supplied ; and a just the- Saturday, September 15. 1792. orv was fuffiqent to demonstrate, that a funded debt would ar.twer the end. To infer, that it would have such an efFect was no more to maintain the general doctrine of 44 public debts being public benefitsthan the fay ing, that paper emiifions, by the authority of government, were ufeful in the early periods of the country, was the maintaining, that they would be ufeful in all the future stages of its progress. But to put the matter out of all doubt, and to fliew how de£titute of caftdor the insinuations against the Secretary of the Treasury, on this head, have been, I have extracted, and ilia.ll insert here some paffaees from three of his re ports to the Ho life of Representatives; by which it will be seen, that his conduct as well as his; language have been in uniform opposition to the dodtrine charged upon him. The length of these reports, it is probable have prevented many well disposed persons from being acquaint ed with their contents ; the prelum ption of which emboldens the calumniators of public chara&ers and measures to make airertions, of the faliehood of which, the mere perusal of of-: ficial documents would convict them. Extract from a report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the fubjeft of a provision for the public debt, presented the 14th of Jan. 1790. ii Persuaded as the Secretary is y that the proper funding of the present debt, will render it a national bleffng ; yet he is so far from acceding to the portion, in the latitude in which it is sometimes laid down, that •' public debts are public benefits," a position inviting to prodigality, and liable*to a dangerous abuse, — that he ardently wishes to fee it incorporated, as a fundamental maxim, in the lyilein of public crcdit of the United States, that the creation of debt (houid always be accompanied with the means of extin guishment. This he regatds as the true ferret for rendering public ciedit immortal.—And he pre- Jnm.es that it ts difficult to conceive actuation, in which there may not be an adherence to the maxim. At leafl he feels an unfeigned solicitude, that this may be at tempted by the United States, and that they may com mence their meaj'ures for the eflablipiment of credit, with the observance of it." Extract fiorn a leport of the Secretary of the Trea sury on Manufa6lures, presented the sth of De cember, 1791. After using several arguments to illustrate the operation of a funded debt as capita!, the Secretary concludcs thus : " There are refpedable indivi duals ', who,front a just aversion to an accumulation of public debt, are unwilling to concede to it any kind of utility. wKo can djcern no good to alleviate the ill with which they Juppofe it pregnant ; who cannot be pcrfua ded y that it ought in any fenje to be viewed as an en creafe of capital, lejl it jhou/d be inferred, that the more debt the more capita!, the greater the burthens the great er theblrffings of the community). 44 But it inter efts the public councils to eflimate eve ry objetl as it truly is, to appreciate how Jar the good in any measure is compenjated by the ill, or tile ill by I the good, either of them is f Idom unmixed. '* A'either will it folow, that an accumulation of debt is desirable, because a certain degree of it operates as capital. There may be a plethora in the political, as in the natural body ; there may be a Hate of tilings in which any such artificial capital is un neceflary. The debt too may befwelled to such a size, as that the greatejl part oj it may cease to be ufejul as a capital, Jerving only to pamper the dissipation oj idle and uijjolute individuals ; as that the Ju/ns required to pay the interejl upon ii may become oppreJJive y and be yond the means which a government can employ, con fidently with its tranquility to raise them ; as that the rejources oj taxation, to face the debt, may have been Jlrained too far to admit oj extensions adequate to ex igencies , which regard the public fafety. 44 IV here this critical point is, cannot be pronounced; but it is impossible to believe, that there is not such a point. " Andas the viefffiiudei of nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation oj debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual, anxious and un ceafingettoit to reduce that, which at any time exiits, as fact as (hall be pra&icable, confidently with integrity and good faith." Extra# from a report of the Secretary of the Trea sury, relat ve to additional lupplies for carrying on the Indian War, presented the i6ch of March. J79 2 " Ihe result of mature refleflion is, in the mind of the Secretary, a jiiong conviction, that the lafl of the three expedients, which have been mentioned [that was the raising ot the sum required by taxis] is to be preferred to cither of the other two. " Nothing can moie ivttreft the national credit and profperit)■, than a conflant and fflematic attention to buibaml 4i.1l ihe means previously polTeflVd tor ex tinguishing the prclVntdcbt, andio avoid, as much as pofliblr, the incurring of any new debt. " Necefjity alone therejorc can jufify the application of'any of the public property, other than the annual re venues, to the current fetvice, or the temporary and casual exigencies oj the country- or the contracting of an additional debt, by loans, to provide for those exi- gencies. " Great emergencies indeed might exifi\ in which loans "would be indjpenfable. But the occasions which will jujlijy them mvft be truly of that description. 44 Ihe prejent is not offucha nature ; the sum to he provided is net oj magnitude enough to furnifk the plea of nccf/ity. " faxes are never welcome to a. community ; they seldom fail to excite tineafy fenfitiom more or less ex tenfive —Hence a too frovg propensity, in the govern ment of nations, to anticipate and mortgage therefour ccs oj poferity, rather t/.an encounter the inconvenien ces of a prejent increase of taxes. 121 " But this policy, when not di&atcd by *ery peculiar circumstances, is of the worit kind—its obvious tendency is, by enhancing the permanent bur thens of the people, to produce Ufiing dijlrefs, arid ?ts natural ijjue is in national bankruptcy. 4k Ji will be happy, if the councils of this coun try, fanftioned by the voice of an enlightened community, ihall be able to purlue a diticrent COU' fe." liere is example added to precept —in pur suit of a doctrine, the oppolite of that which is charged upon him—the Secretary did not scruple to hazard the popularity of his adminis tration with a class of citizens, who, as a class, have been among the firmed: friends of the go vernment, and the warmest approvers of the measures, which have restored public credit. —The circumstance indeed has been a weapon dexterously wielded against him by his enemies, who in consequence of the increase of duties proposed have represented him as the oppreflor of trade. A certain description of men are for getting out of debt; yet are against all taxes for railing money to pay it off. They are a mongst the foremoft for carrying on war, and yet will have neither leans nor taxes.—They are alike opposed to what creates debt, and to what avoids it. In the iirft cafe, their meaning is not difficult to be divined—in the last it would puzzle any man not dndued with the gift of second light to find it out—unless it be to quarrel with and ptitl down every man who will not content to walk in their leading firings ; or to throw all thiugs into confufion. FACT. Foreign Affairs. PARI S. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, June 18 The President announced thefollow ingLetter from M. La ; Kayette to the National Aflfemblyi Entrenched Camp of Maubeuge, Juttc 16, 1792, 4th Year of Liberty. " Gentlemen, " A T the moment, too long delay -fx. Ed perhaps, at which 1 am go ing to call your attention to great public interests, and point out among our dangers the conducft of a minis try which my correspondence has long since accused, I am informed that un masked by its divisions, it has funk under its own intrigues; for, un doubtedly, it is not by facrificing three colleagues, from their own infignifi cance the mere creatures of his power, that the leafl excufeable, the most noted of these minilters, will have cemented in the King's council his equivocal and scandalous exifience. " It is not enough, however, that this branch of the government should be delivered from a baneful influence. 1 lie public weal is in danger : the fate of France depends chiefly on her re presentatives ; of them the nation expetfts her salvation. Bur, when she gave herfelf a conllitution, she pre Icribed to them the only course by which they call save her. " Persuaded, gentlemen, that the Rights of Man are the law of every constituting allembly, a constitution once formed becomes the law of the legislators appointed under it, it is to yourfeives that 1 am bound to de nounce the too powerful efforts now making to carry you beyond the rule which you have protnifed to follow. "Nothing Ilia 1 1 hinder me from exercising this right of a freeman, from fulfilling this duty of a citizen ; neither their momentary errors of opinion ; for what are opinions when they deviate from principles ? nor my refpedt for the represent atives of the people; for 1 reipetft Hill more the people themselves, of whom the con flitution is the will fnpreme ; nor the favor you have conltantly fliewn to me; for that 1 wish to prelerve as I obtained ir, by an inflexible love of liberty. " y-unr circumstances are difficult ; France isnienaced from without, and agitated-within. While foreign courts snnonnci the intolerable proje<ft of attacking our national fpvereignty, and thus declare thenifelves- the ene niies of France, internal foes, intoxi cated with fanaticifiu and prule, en [Whole No. 555.} tertain chimerical hopes, and fatigue us still more with their nifoit'nt ii>a lignity. " VOll ought, gentlemen, to fup pret's tliein, and you cannot have the power to do so, without being yotir ft'lves confticutional and juit. " You defii e to be so without doubt, but cart your eyes 011 what partes in your own body, and all around you. " Can you dillemble that a faction, and, to avoid vague denominations, that the Jacobine faction has occa sioned ail the difoiders. It is thac faction to which 1 loudly impute them. Organized like a separate empire in its metropolis and its affiliations, blindly directed by certain ambitious chiefs, this forms a diHinct corpora yon in the mid (I of the French peo ple, whose power it ul'tirps by subju gating their reprefentati and their mandatories. " It is there that, in public He tings, love of ihe laws is denominated ariflocracy, and their infraction pa triotism. There the aflaflins of De filles receive triumphs—the crimes of Jourdan find panegyrists—there slfo the recital of the allaflination ihac stained the city of Metz, excited in ternal acclamations of y>y. " Can it be believed that they will escape reproaches by flickering them selves under an Aultrian manifello, in which these fet'taries are named ? Are they become sacred because Leo pold has pronounced their name? And because we have tofight with fo reigners, who presume to meddle in our quarrels, are we released from the duty of delivering our country from domeltic tyranny ? " What import to this duty either the project of foreigners, or their connivance with counter 1 evolution ills, or their influence on the luke warm friends of liberty ? It is I who denounce this left ; I who, without speaking of my pad life, can answer to tliofe who feign suspicions of me ; " approach in this critical moment, in which every man's character will fool) be known, and let us fee which of us, tnofl inflexible in his principles, most firm in his refillance, will bell brave the obltacles and the dangers which traitors wish to hide from their country, and which true citizens know how to calculate and encounter for her fake." " And how (h6uld I longer delay td fulfil this duly, when every, dajr weakens the conilituted authorities, and l'ubititutes the spirit of a party for the will of the people ; when the audacity of agitators imposes (Hencp on peaceable citizens, and supplants ufefol men ; when devotion ta a fe& is made th£ substitute of *11 public and private virtues, what in 'a free country ought to be the aufteve and only rowans of arriving at the firlt fundtions of government ? " It is after'having opposed to all obstacles and all snares the courage* otfs and persevering patriotifin of an army, facrificed perhaps to combini*- tionfc againftits leader, that I can now oppose to this faction, the correfpon fpence of a miniflry, the worthy pro duction of its club—a correspondence of whic,h all the calculations are falfe, the promises vain, the information fraudulent or frivolous, the councils perfidious or contradictory ; where, after having prelled me to advance without precaution, and to attack without means, tliey began to tell me that refiftauce would soon be im polfible, yrheu my indignation repel led the dastardly aflertion. " What l'Cmarkable conformity of language, gentlemen, between those [factious men who avow their aristo cratic spirit, and those who usurp the name of patriots. Both wish to sub vert our laws, rejoice in disorders, rife up'againft the authorities con ferred by the people, detest the Na- 1
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