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tontiftil, Sn<> learn by the difaftrcuj exam.
pTt ot the osoft demncatical Hate that en
ills on of Europe, the ex.
tre me danger ol foreign influence ; and a.
bove all, box* rapid and inevitable it is to
transjrefs the feeble interval which fepa.
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PROPOSALS,
WILL soon be ifiued for publi(h;rtg
airueauJiMPARTIAL HISTORY
OF THII UNITED STATES, from
1787 to J 794, compiled from Anttfe
dcral Newlpapers, and other publicati
ons, the speeches of a certain pirty in
Congress, and the Refolutioni of the
Democratical Sacieties, with copious
j cxtrafts from a Pamphlet much celebra
ted in the four Western Counties of
Pennsylvania, and known ehewhere, by
the title of the Thirteen Lying Letters,
the whole compiling a body of authen
tic information for the ignorant, and
credulous which as experience proves,
eanno: fail to be of eminent use, to
guide the opinions and the passions of a
multitude, in a time of popular turbu-1
lcnce and fermentation. These materi- I
als for History, being now scattered all
over this great country, and buried »s
they really art: under loads of the mod
offenfive ruhbifh, are in danger of be
ing entirely loft, uiilefs the public Ihould
encourage their collection and arrange
ment, within the convenient limits
(which for cheapness and brevity fake,
we have chosen) of Twenty Four Fo
lios. Perhaps it may be found neceffa
rv in the progress of the work, to pub
lish many of the documents in an Ap
pendix : which however will not exceed
fix volumes more.
ttst
SaWjw
Dedicated to
David Bradford, Esq.
It :s really strange, that no authen
tic account of the political situation of
the United States has yet, appeared in
any fyftcmatical work. For the fugi
tive nefw paper speculations, and pam-
phlets do not deserve that name.
Strangers have of late discovered
great eagerness to learn the state of this
country, and many have adtually fled
from the diflrefles of Britain and Hol
land ta feel: refuge among us, expect
ing to find true liberty and prosperity.
But they have been cured of the delu
sion and fortunately infinite number* of
emigrants have been prevented from
ru!liing into every ve!Tel bound to Ame
rica, by reading the papers and speech
es from which the history is compiled.
Those papers and the knowledge of the
fa A that oppression had driven a part
of the people to seek redrcfs by arms,
has checked their rashness and folly,
and induced them to retire to England
and Germany.
So little do our own citizens know
of the condition of the land they live
in, that they are really deluded into the
persuasion that the government and ad
minillration are republican, the laws
honestly intended and wifely adapted
to promote the general good, and that
since the ever lamented fall of the ve-
Mr;. Shaw
Mrs. Rowfon
Mrs. Cleveland
Mrs. Erancia
Mrs. Bates
nerable confederation, the work of the !
patriots of 1775, t ' ie numbers wealth
and gl°ry of the nation have made
aftoriihing progress. From this cen
sure however justice require! we should
except the four weltern counties of
Pennsylvania and a part of Virginia
and North-Carolina, where the enlight
ened citizens have had the full benefit
of the information contained in this
history.
As the middle and eastern Rates still
fit in darkness, altho Greenleaf's paper
in New-York, has avowed, and the Bos-
Mii's Row son
ton Chronicle has never ceased to prac
tise the mod hardy fidelity to truth
ancs republican liberty, it becomes ab
solutely neceflaty to gather these featur
ed fweeis till their united fragrance tor
ture the sense. For colle&ively they
form such a mass of republican evidence
as all the parasites of a Court, and all
the Knights of the funding system will
not be able to resist.
It is recommended with all becom
ing earnestness and refpeft to the re
publican focietiea throughout the dates,
to encourage this work, and to cause
one set at least to be deposited in some
convenient place in every election jdif
trift. This measure cannot fail to pro
duce a renovation of the republican spi
rit among the electors, which in a (hort
lime would bring down the colossus of
ariftoeracy that now bestrides Liberty
and Equality in the United States.
The readers of this publication will
Ibe furpriftd to fee that the antifederal
objections to the Constitution were made
by men inspired with the spirit of pro
phecy. Consolidation, Land Taxes, the j
fctting up Lord (hips, the loss of the
liberty of the Press, and of keeping
arms, (landing armies ruling every body
by martial laws instead of juries, the
south beggared to pamper the fea-fa
ring monopolies of the north, in (hort,
all the abominatiot s of the aristocrats
who have held the power of the go
vernment have been so plainly foretold
that the book may pretend to as much
divinity as Ethan Allen's Oracle of
lteafon. The ptogrefcof opprsfiion is
p.ii'ited out ftrp by #ep- 1* ' iai *"-" en
(hewn how all the pabiic money «;as
firlt pocketed by the Congrefsmcn to
pay iheir wages ; and then how it was
ail atfoTbei! by the collecturs and hang
ers on of office; and then how the
Knights and paper Lords swallowed
ail; and how the Indian war took
more than all; how the public deot
was made by Congress to oblige and
enrich each otlier and their friends ;
how agriculture was lirft ruined to pam
per the monied interest ; how trade was
I ruined ; how manufactures were (truck
wi\h palsy, merely because tie men
who said it was unconditional to pass
any a£l to encourage them could not
get th? upper hand.
It ia also (hewn how the true repub
licans struggled to prevent the fall of
liberty; and how their abhorr-i ce of
all foreign influence led them to ' cncert
with Mr. Genet, the means by clubs
and societies, of organising the opposi
tion into a system of energy, especially
at the elections : the connection be-
tween those clubs and a party formeily
in Congress, and the causes which pre
vented the fuceefs of the four western
counties, and the expected co-operation
of their friends and allies in the cities.
The merit and ufefulnefs of the work
will recommend it, but the nauseouS la
bor of examining the materials exceeds
all credibility. None but those who
had become familiarifed to the Chroni
cle and other documents, could have
endured or even survived it. The com
pilers were obliged to hold theii breath
as long as the divers to search for pearl
in the sea. They are alive however,
and ft ill in, hopes that their works will
reward them.
For the Gazette of the United States.
In the Woods, 2\Ji Dec. 1794.
To Robert Mickle, the pro. tem.
Secretary of the Republican Society at
Baltimore.
SIR,
HAVING lately met with a paper
containing the address of your society
to the government and people of the
United States, I cannot restrain my in
clination to submit to your confiderati-
on some thoughts which occurred t<
my mind in the perusal. If they ar
not well founded, I can allure yoi
they are well meant ; and Cnce you
"ociety make their ultimate stand a
rainft what they look upon unjust cen
urc of the President, and those mem
iers of the two houses of Congress whe
oin him in believing that " certaii
elf-created societies" have aided ir
kindling the late in fur. eftion, in a pur<
leart and good intentions ; I feel fe.
:ure in believing you will extend the
ame candor to me if you think me mis
aken. You fay these societies havt
>cen declared, in their particular con
lu&, to be instrumental in promoting
reneral principles, are deemed unfriend'
y to all law and government —They an
o considered, 'tis true ; and you ac
knowledge that if these charges had
prung from the meanest quarter, they
vould naturally excite indignation in
he breads of the innocent; but co
iling fiom a quarter where wisdom and
:aufcon are, at least, supposed to be
ire to wipe them away; and I de
:lare to you I feel no wish to make
hefe charges Hick upon you ur.kf,
hey are flriftly m e in f.i6t and ("out d
jolitical philosophy. Upon this ground
E am willing to place the dispute ; and
rou need not be reminded that from
he abundance of the heart the mouth
peaketh—for this »sinfpiration—while
[ am persuaded you will not deny that
rom fettled mature refolutiuns of the
nind the uflions of men generally jloiv.—
onvinced that embroilings from with
lut and conspiracy within are forming
igainft the government and the laws ot
he land, fettled by the voice of the
>eople, and approved of by innumera
>le blessings flowing from that oider of
hings, you ought not to thii.k it
trange that the eloquence of Greece
nd Rome is heard in the Senate in re
jelling the intrigues of Philip, or in dc
eloping the dark designs of Catahne.
Common prudence, you fay, compels
is to suspect there arc such men as
hefe among us—And, independent of
>ofitive proof, where ought wisdom to
ook for them but to those dark noc
urnal clubs where Catahne found his
loldeft comrades, ar.d by whose aid C-je
ar was made finally to tread upon the
icck of the Senate, ar.d triumph over
he liberties of Rome ? Your maxims
tre generally jull—" the advances of
mbition are often through the moll
ecret ways"—but you are blind in the
pplication : Where are we more sure of
inding your ambitious men than i:i
your owfi " J±if createdfocieties ?" Loo*
fiit a moment, into the Slate Houle
Yard of Philadelphia, and whom do
you fee elevated ahc.Ye the head* of a
mob but members of the " felf-created
society" of Pennsylvania, endeavouring
one after another to bring the coufli
tuted authorities of the union into con
tempt, and amidst the jluptd gaze of po
pular-admiration, wishing tojlide down,
like molten gold, into its very vitals.—
Could thele men but ouce get clear of
the controul over them which results
from the constitution and laws, and
which they evidently appear to be aim
ing at, tho' like Cseiar they might con
tinue the name of Congress and Preli
dent, like liim too would they subvert
the government and trample on tVe
rights of the people. Such are the
places wisdom and prudence naturally
direst us to look for dangerous ambiti
on—and these arc file men on -whom
the public eye must be fixed if they will
preserve their excellent constitution, and
continue to enjoy the blefling9 resulting
from it. Are not Bradford and Brack
enridge members ®f some of your " felf
created focieties?"—The delibeiate re
solutions 6f your societies with their
natural and obvious effedts, shall ke the
i"f»bjc<a of another letter. In the mean
time I (hall fubferibe myfelf your fel
low-citizen—
ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
TO THE
GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE
OFT H E
UNITED STATE?.
Fellow-Citizens,
THE censure lately thrown out on
all popular fociifties within the United
States, comes from too refpedtable a
source not to have attra&ed the public
attention. In then particular condutt,
those societies are declared to have been
inttrumental in promoting the late infur
reftion to the wellward ; in their gene.,
ral principles, they have been deemed
unfriendly to all law and government.
No epithet, however harfb and inde
cent, that they have not been thought
to deserve : no purpose however dark
and horrid, that has not been attribut
ed to them. Eloquence, which might
have adorned an Athens or a Rome,
has laboured to blacken thtir ani
ons and their principles ; and the " rags
and frittersof society," have been blown
upon from one end of the continent to
the other.
Such general and indiscriminate re
proaches, (hould they have come from
the meanest quarter, must naturally cx
cits indignation in the bread of the in
nocent' ; but coming from one which is
supposed to combine the greatest wis
dom and caution, as well as all the pow
er of the nation, mult, further pro
duce a desire to wipe them away. Ard
indeed to let them pass on ui notieid,
would, in the opinion of the Republi
can Society of Balt'more, be to sub
scribe to tlieir own condemnatii n, and
to merit those injurious appellations of
1 the difturbcrs of public happiness, the
incendiaries and the petty tyrants of io
ciety, the pjfajftr.s of virtue and charac
ter, that have been so liberally heaped
Upon them- And though, frcm a con
fciuus proptifty of their own views and
conduct, they fee no necefiity fur a pub
lic vindication of themselves, yet ref
pe«ft to the rules of their country, which,
notwithstanding the a{T.'rtioti6 of some
men, they have never loft fight of; to
their own character, which they value
above life ; to the good opinion of their
fellow-citizens, which it is their pride
as well as interest to revere ; and to that
constitution which they look iijjon as the
noblelt " fafeguard of human .right,"
ever yet devised by the wisdom of man
—prompt them to declare the truth,
both as to the part they have atted ref
pefting the late infurreftion, as alfothe
general reasons and principles of their
inftituiion.
Firlt, that we {hould be thought to
have, in any manner, contributed to the
origin or fnpport of an iniurreition,
which we deplore, as the mod gi-vous
dilhonor that ever befel our country, af
fe&s us the more sensibly in that, at
a very early period, we hastened, by
refolutioßS infer ted in the public papers,
to express our entire disapprobation of
it ; and have since, by evtry means in
our power, and many of ns by obeying
thecal! of the executive to arms, as las
been, truly, observed by a worthy re
presentative of our ilate, endeavored to
discountenance and to quell it. Well
convinced of the inseparable coiineftirw
between law ai •! liberty ; and that the
principles in our constitution which en
joins that "the will of the majority
(hall prevail" is not only the molt " lu
minous" but the only practicable piinci
pie' of rational fieedom, we beheld Viith
as ttn;ch indy-atson, at I-.-ft, a*
others of our fclluwdtizens an attempt
to violate both ; af ,d hesitated nut t n ' (r
mei.t, unanimouily ptrtJMy to rx
prefs it. Did our acciilcu deiive ,hr
fentimcnts they have, so confidently,
imputed to us from tliefe cur refoli;;'.'
ens r It cannot be. Let them, theft,
declare to the people, who hare a ri-lu
to be informed, from forr- conduct of
ours, or from what other iinnic of it.
formation, they have! Is it from the
report of the secretary of the treafoiy,
written with a prsfelfed vitw "to give
the citizens at arge full information on
the fubjcfl of the tiiftmb.-nces?" We
fee nothing there to warrant the opinion.
But again, have .miflaries from isltui
dete<fted in the vrefern counties ot' Peni,-
fylvania, fomenting discontent and iciur
redlions among the citizens ? L jve we by
letter or otherwise, exhorted th em to per
severe in opposition to the laws ? Have we
sympathised with them in the grievances,
either real or pretended, which !hcv;fTe<!l
ed to kbour under ? Have we to this day
exprefled an opinion on the of the ex
cite, either one way or the other? To ail
these questions with our l.auds on 01 r
'hearts, and (appealing to him whi Icnow
eth the secrets of at! men, we politively
anfa-er no. Why then has our conduct
been represented as like that of so many
crocodiles weeping over those veiy laws
and that toi.ftitution which inwardly, we
were relolved to destroy ? Was it bec.rafe
that, in this country, dun .eons, chi,ns
and death awaited the man who would
dare to expref»a d>fapprobation which he
felt refpe£lirtg the form or the mtafuris of
government ?
Was it because if real grievance
OpprefTed us, was no oihtr m de o'
g:tting rid of them tit h>y the < I rtul acul
precarious resort to civn war ? Was it be
cause it wou'd not have seemed uikr to
seek reparation in the gord fnl snu jus
tice than in the blood of our countrymen;
to have tried them by pefit'on fcef r; v™
pro okedthem to rebeir.cn ? Wasit became
that, amonp us the liber y cf the prt f s
wai interclitfe 1 , and lit er yof fpetch
reckoned sedition, that we should be under
the neceffitycf pursuing the m< fl lawful
end by the molt unlawful me. ns, and of
" metting in the dark to perform incanta
tions" against a law which we had an
aversion to, or againftaco.iftitution which
we did not approve It would look indeed
as if personal rancour or impatience of
public security, which we -thank God, »
yet the natural and ronflitutionjl right of
all our citizens, whether individually or
collectively, had no little (hare in the con
du<3 of our accusers, or as if that tiie crn
fure which, for aught we know, ionie o- ,
ther fccletitt may hive deferred, h„s, fcaf
tily at least, been extended to u*. Let our
fellow-citizens judge : On tl'e opinions rt
mc-ir accufton ed to thin'c lor
chterfbl y, we :clv:—wt 11 a lured that
" ftrcng alFertion witl o t proof' * ' i<c-t
readily he credited us, ani} tUat
even ihou d thty, wi h.i* e ft ill the coalbi
oufnefs Kit of not dtforvingthem.
With relpeft to the reasons and
principles of our inftitutionj that ihe
public was not before poflrfled of then!,
has been more owing to want of atten
tion than of refpeft in us to their good
opinion. When we contemplated the
hiltory of nations which had lolt their
freedom, some fiom ignorance, some
from fupinenef*, and some fiom tbt in
trigues and artifices of ambitious men,
it appeared to lis, that a wife people
could not exhibit too much care and
aft : vity in the preservation of that in
valuable blefling. Among others which
occurred, the eftablilhment of a society,
whose object it should be to study the
| laws and constitution of their own and
other countries —to watch t! . opera
tions of government, and fcrutiniie the
principles and conduct of men in p« ' -
er, appeared- a very likely of ef
fecting that great end ; as being well
calculated to dispel ignorance, to rOl ie
fupinenefs, and to counter, ft anjbti .
A nation which understands its rights,
will net be apt to neglect thtm, ano a
nation anxious for the prcferwtion < t
its rights, will not ealiiy fall a tacrine*
to artificc or power. Slavery tvc '
been the confluence of ignorance, and
no people ever yet loft their liberties,
til! they had firft 101 l the k ..wltdge or
thrm. ' Now, how is this knpMgt
more likely to be acquired and main
tained, than among a focirty of men,
, who to the conilant fatb'.i of i»»veuijja
ting their rights, adds likewise, tn"t '
applying them to all the puce n.^s«•
I our public bodies ; and who
the perfection of science, conita-UV
combine principle with predict! • r
does it appear that politics is !<f» a :•
ence, or dependent on less i'uady >|
inflexible priuciples than any oir.
which is the object of human rekrr I ;
nor is the idea of a school, for actjti r
ing a knowledge of the nature_ ot tTM
and government more abfuri than I '-
of one fer acquiring i know edge >'•
aftronumy and the Wiatfce®atics.
if from the las er we m*y lev" <° ,T **
the wanderings of a plan**, ■ ■ m
former roay we know the ceita.n rK<-.
of crttaio- l-w» and ffXtrnH** *»
people 1 And shall fvielte • ™e en
couragement cf the mra- eft * s >ru ; »
| men, mret with the pi '* c