;;; Gazette of the United States" PHU.ADZIPHIJL, Mom DAY f V*KlJfNi;. !>*■ C■' M9KH 8. NEW JERSEY federal meeting. I HE Hot.crable the Legislature of New Jersey having, on the fevemh day of thi itiflant, enacted a law whereby, on the 23 and 24th days oi December next, an ele£lioi is to tak:. pi,ice throughout the State I'm chuofing five peiTons as Keprefentatives in the seventh Congress of the United States, to commence on the day ot March next ensuing ; and it being deemed of the highefl importanc, at. this time, to the support of the Federal Government, chat such character; pwuld be proposed, as may, by their talent-, integrity, and principles, secure the combin ed luffrage of the friends of government throughout the State—For this purpose, a large and refyeflable niwting of perfoHs, from every county in the, State, was holden at the State-liouje in Trent"*, 011 this diy, ■who having proceeded t,o appoint the Hon. Isaac as chairman," and General John '.'batty, secretary of the meeting, did, after the matured consideration, come 1 to the following resolves : ifl. 1 hat, in the opinion of this meeting, it will be moll conducive to the interest of the Federal Government, and the real good of the people ot New-Jerley} to promote the eledtion ot Aa r on 'William Coxe, jun. James H. Imlciy, Franklin Davenport, and Peter D. Vioom, as their rrprefeiitatives.nl - the next Congress. 2d. That, in coining- to this resolution, the members of this meeting have aCted upon the molt difinterelled principles, relinquiftied all local raid private preferences, and, pro ceeding upon a large and extensive view of the fituati n of the State and its relative po litical alpects, have recommended those cha racters as mod likely to combine the efforts of thefr*nds of ord-i and jurticc, .hn Outwater, of B-rgen Ehtha Boudmot, of Eflex ; John Neilfon ps Middlesex ; John Lloyd, of Monmouth Frederick Frelinghuyfen, ofS 'merfet ; Geo An lerf.»n, of Burlington ; Thomas Heflon of Glouceffer; William Wallace, of Salem Samuel Ogden, of Cumberland ; Parfoii: Lean.ing, of Cape May ; Isaac Smith, ol Hunterdon ; William Campfield, of Morris ; • nd, Peter of SulTex ; be requeded to prepare and pnblifh an addrels to the citi zens of Ncw-Jerfey, recommending to theii •attention thelc rtfolutions, and fuggeding such reasons as theypay think calculated to impress on their minds the neceffuy of sup porting the ohjedts of this meeting. Ordered, That the proceedings of this metting, fignedby the chairman, and attell ed by the secretary, oe publilhed in all the liewfpapers of this State. ISAAC SMITH, Chairman. JOHN BE A 1' TY, Secretary. November 13, 1800. A D DRESS TO THE Federal Republicans OF THF STATE OF NEW-JERSEY, KKCOMMEKDIVG 7HR CHOICE OF Aaron ogden, willl\m coxe, jun'r, JAMES H. IMLAY, FRANK LIN DAVENPORT, and PETER D. VROOM, Esquires. REPRESENTATIVES IN THE Seventh Congress of the United States. BY A COMMITTEE, Appointed at the Stale House in Trenton, on the 13th of Novemberlßoo. Fellow-Citizens, IT is maniteft to all, that, from the very commencement of the Federal Government, in March, 1789, to this moment, a parly has exifled, incrflantly oppoled to its opera tions, and indscent£in their treatment of the constituted authorities. This party was at firft limited ; confiding chiefly, of those characters, in the larger states, who were diflatisGed with the balance given by the constitution to the finaller member* of the confederacy by an equal re presentation in the Senate. This they could never forgive ; and, fail ing to prevent its adoption, they wished to jullify their unfavorable prediifiions, by ob ilrufting the rneafures of government. And, it is not to be doubted, they will ' seize 011 the firft opportunity, which presents ufi.lt, either 10 annihilate the Senate, the ! ctncoor or our union, or mould it to tr views of the nvire powerful dates. Yet the evident benefits, immediately re (uhin£ fram the new Cowftitution, under t!i l-ciici <1 A'Jminiftrsttion, soon ftupped th clamour, if it did not quite extinguilh th - fpivit, ■ t dififFiftion. U ;it-:d coUnc l Is ; firm government equal law ; jolt and temperate liberty— thole great objects of the revolution, am the pj-omH'ed r.waids of lb much toil an; s blond—were, for a time, the result of thi 1 great Federal Charter. t ') ) This fair profpeft, however, was offiiort r \ duration : The wars, wlixh broke out ii i I Europe, and which, for ten years pad, Fiavt . ! ravaged aful deiolated its fined regions, be c came'the sources of infinite mifchief to tbii I riling empire. ; t"be Fumcb Revolulianzers, dip.rafted, ' witfe diplom itic intrigues, our pnblic coun > ; cils ; their philosophers, with impious • lyllems of infidelity, poisoned the public moral.? ; and their agents and partizans, profiting by the refentijients which yet fur i vived in the breads of many Americans i .igainft Great-Britain, infufed, eveiy %vhere, a spirit adverft to the public tranquility. To the French Faction, were foot) united, another class of aliens, equally disposed to force the government to war, and eager to avail themselves of the contingencies which th*" even£, combined with a French con nexion, might present as favorable to their criminal desires. These were emigrants from the English dominions, who, . Hying from puni&nient, 01 penury, gladly fought an alTyltim in a land, which held forth impunity to their crimes, and an easy supply to their wants. With all these, were alTociated, the dis contented—the ambitions—the unprinci pled ; and the di(appointed, of our own countrymen ; and although the three deno. minatron» differed in their national original, and, in some refpedts, pursued different ends, yet, all united in one common and I formidable opposition to the Federal Govern j went i becaul'e it equally thwarted their ! grand revolutionary projects, j This Government vrstt condu&ed by men los the fiilf talents and the highest political I intregnty ; their obje£ls were Independence —Peace— Public Faith—Stability—Law Practical Civil Liberty, T.hey proceeded on the maxims of expt rience—refifted the effnts of clubs and asso j ciations, formed to control or dedroy the lawful authorities they rejedled tke wild theories of democratie enthuliads, and the insidious fugged ions of pretended patriots. ; and, perfeverin,|, amidd threats from abroad and factions at (lonie, they deadily pursued a eourf; of dignified neutrality and condi tutiqiul energy-*-" maintaining union— eflablilhing jud.ce—infuring domefhc trail quiiity—providing for the common defence —promoting the general welfare, and fecur - , ing t<» th'mfelves and podsrity the blessings - , of liberty." : The intelligent and the virtuous have, at t all times, been on the lide of> government : ' : To their union, ai d their efforts, we owe t it that, amidst the w.eckof dates and king doms, and the rxtin&ion of religion and > | law. WE.ire yet FREE and HAPPY! i j Fellow Citizens, if we look back, aid i j survey th.- .dangers we have paired, and the • i immense store of blessings, which have beeii ■ I secured under the Federal Government, i | where can we find cause for complaint, or s ! how exprtfs the extent of cur gratitude ! t j And yet this government, so fre< in itt ; principles—so gentle in its redraints—fo 1 just in its laws—so prudent ill its measures - —so profule in itt benefits—the source and 1 surety of our liberty, our civil im ' niunities/ and religious freedom—has been ' the condant fubjeil of reproach ; and those, i ■ who have condu&ed it, the vidtims of ! calumny and persecution ! j 1 Those factions have never ceased to ob- i dnift government, and to embitter society. I Tro' trodden down, they are not dedroyed 1 -•-though foiled in fgccelfive attempts to disorganize, and to crulh the i'ydcms of ! • Washington and Adams, they rife with new ; vigor to the charge, pioud of their very de- i feats, and meditating greater mifchief. i The very measures necelTary to guard the 1 country againtt their dedruthve project* of j 1 revolution and anarchy, become the fubjedls j of accusation, and are set-down as frelli { items in their catalogue of grievances ! t If by their countenancing or provoking ' < foreign nations to outrage upon our rights | and commerce, the government has been forced to protett theru by fnilitary and naval , 1 j armaments—then is the ciy of daniiing ar- a mies, and expensive navies, resounded in every quarter ; and tyranny, and taxation, * held up to alarm and difgud the people. r When, by fomenting discontents among the gnorant, they have llirred up refidance to the laws, and rebellions ensue—is/ Go- i * vernment reprefles the infurre&ion by force 1 of arms, then is it accused sos too much 0 vigor in the means used for its piotefticn, and charged with extravagance in the ex- t> penfes attending the public service. si When, by continued torrents of calum- g ny, they would dedroy public confidence, t< and bring into contempt the representatives ti of the people—if laws are found neceflary tl to curb fedhion and slander, then is the tl liberty of the press the theme of their praises, w jrid its infringement the topic of virulent t< declamatioh againd the government. " If the government resents foreign in- ct j fults then ft is charged with provoking I war; if it fuomits to them, then it is up- le | braided with pusillanimity. y French depredations, tho'continued years, and sanctioned by their government,! are palliated, andean neverjudify refidance ; in but a Britilh impreffrrftnt, or capture, unau- pa thoriztd hy the lbvereign, and chargeaule te only to individual violence or ignorance, is *r at »nce admitted, and even urged, as a fuf- k ficicnt cause for national war. oi If tke government will riot protest com merce, the"n tlit revenue fails ; foreign goods become dear, and home ptbduftiorii cheapen to a drug' ; the taxes mull be laid upon the farmer, and indultry finds no vewaid ; This is, av oiice, decried as wretched policy. If to avoid this, tli-t government permits the merchant t:> arm, and equips a navy to pro tect the revenue, the capital ot the merchant,, and the agi icultu'.e of the country—-then are the p;ople alarmed with talcs ot naval eflabilhments, and increafingd-bt. It is thus these tornjentors weave arouiYd the constituted powers the web of deftructi :n. —lt piljive, the government fiuks into a: - nihiiation—if a£live in repelling the foe, it is ! branded as tha nvfirumeiit of opptrffion ! | Nor have the (halts of malice fallen -only ! opr>n the he-ids of the public fuin'Vionanes : i 1 heir camtituents —that great and relpec table cluls of- the community, which, com- j poling- the majority of the people, have ap- j proved the mcjfuies of government—these, too, have b?en fliginatized with epithets the I mo.'l ieproaciiful, and defigivs the mWI infa-' mouJ. These majorities of the American people, arc fntnetimes depicted as a Britilh t'adtion. contriving torfllore the Britilh empire ; and sometimes as wifiling to create a monarch of their awn ! Sometime* they are aristocrats, because they,adhere to the conllitutional departments; then they are tories, because they will not revolutionize their own government. At one time they are priest'ridclen, be cause thty relpeft religion, and believe it essential to public as well as private hap piness. At another, the lawyers have too much influence, because they aie attached, to fet tled government, and (land forth tlte able defenders of iu cause. Such i« the use which these conflant libel lers naake of thirties and descriptions to in flame the violent, or miflrad the unwary ! And whild tliey multiply epithets, the most approbrious. upon the friends of idini niflration, (hey alfume, for themfclvea, ti tles of the ,molt diftinguiHied merit— They are the republicans, because they diltruft and insult the gqvernmcnt 'l'hey are friends of the people, hrcault. they preach up anar chy under the name of equality :—They are reformers, because they with to overturn f hey sre economists, becaul'e they are lack ing after places fprofitThey aremodest •because they are climbing after power. Their cenfui's are confined within no bounds, nor admit of any exceptions ? Every law is condemned as useless or op prelfive ; the adls of every department, whe- | '-her executve or judicial, an. nnfreprelent ed ; every public charafter is traduced ; every friend to government threatened or derided ; even the ordinary and necessary of every government are held up as fnperfluous or oppreflive. Taxes, raif-d to pay the debts, defray the public Charges, and execute tke vail politi cal and civil operations of the confederacy, are proved to be grievances ; and the people invited to difpenfc with them. Salaries, the stipulated compensations of those who engagr in the arduous and thank lets duties of public office, receive appropri ous names ot pensions and sinecures ; or are hypocritically pretended to be enor mous and unmeritted. Public Officers arc treated as public nuil ances ; and the people purfusded, that they are multiplied beyond the necelfities of the natron. Incidents, th; m;[l infignificant, and niif takes the aioft innoccfit, are tortured into forms, monflrous and alarming ! The delinquency of a petty officer becomes an offence in the government ; and the acci dental preference of an unwerthv candidate for a subaltern appointment, ii charged a gainfl it as a premeditated wrong !- A cas ual convention, half told-.-a confidential letter, halt in jest, are exhibited as proofs of trealon, or corifeffions of corruption ! This, fellow.citizens, is but a faint por trait ot violence, the injustice, and the arts of the uniting their willies and their means to dilurganize the republic ; and, upon the ruins ot religion, nioralty and law, to establish the reigjrof terror and the lword' of despotism. Such have been the circumflancts of the government, and such, for twelve years, I discouragements under which it had been condu&ed ! ( Still, however, the wife and the virtuons have prevailed r-'-The great body of real i Americans, too enlightened to be deceived, ana too independent to be awed, have ap proved the systems, begun by Walhington, continued by Adams and fuppoited by their | representatives. ! Six times have the American people, in their eleftion?, re turned majorities, friendly to those principles which clifliadterize the conduct of the Federalists The seventh congress is now to be chosen, and the great question again submitted to us—whether to continue cur governm«nt in the hands of men opposed to untried theories and dangerous innova tions, and attached to the existing order of tbings--or whether we will abandort it, to the diredlion of those, whose cendudt, whose writings, whose views, are revolutionary I to men who plainly tell us, " tb..t they mean " to change the entire face of things in this country Arrived at this awful crisis, and compel led choice, it becomes us fellow-ci tizens, to think seriously and to adl deci lively The line seems distinctly drawn.—lt is no longer a dispute about this or the other particular niealure, as has been artfully pre tended ; but the opposition is genercl—it arraigns every federal character, and every tcdenl nieafure—and aims at the cverthiow of our national establishments, ] These men do not conceal the extent of their deligns—Every guzftte T --eveiy hand bill—every address Uiey publish, fpe,i*s the language of drssffecliort, and announces the approach of Revolution ! The treaty with Great-^uiin— :he Pub lic debt—the National Bank—the Navy the Judiciary—tne Sennte-~tiie Debarments »—th." Finances—the T-iado ot the couuiry— j are all singled out, ei'ther as objects of de i flructioti or fubjectsfor radical refund. | A. new Prelidnit—new councils—new re ; prefentatives— new officers—nay, we are I toid, that principles mult be regenerate J— and that a new spirit mtvfl animate the A nierican people-.- that something, which they miscall mult take the of those temp-rate ufleftion,, which have here tofore nil t'd us to a just and efficient plan of (institutional liberty, And, f-llow citizens are you prepared to' affint, or ipbm.it, to projedts so bold—to changes so dangerous, if not ruiuous ! Is it not enongh that we have encountered years and yeais*of revelution, and are now enjoying that very repose and civil security, which were the price of its coils and dan gers ? Why is it, that having eftablilhed our i n dependence, and progrelTed to a state of un exampled felicity, we are to throw away the piize-.-nrver, perhaps, to be regained—or, Only, alter unexampled fufferings ? Why are we reminded of seventy-six— | and why would the oppo.fers of government I revive the fpiritand the circumllances of that j period ?< It wis fight, and it was neceff.try, to refill I an enemy, and ta break the yoke of an op ; prelTor ; and it was both natural and ufe | tulto discountenance and punidi his adher i ents ; but to nourilli oppolition to the go- I vernment of our own choice, and to enkindle resentments againlt its supporters, by allu lions to the revolutionary war, are equally cruel and criminal. I'liole men, who avail themselves offuch means to move the violent to desperation, or the weak to difcontentmcnt, c«n have no clain> to our confidence or reipedt ; they are either depraved or ignorant. Viewing the characters and the conduct of the leading oppofers of the Federal Gov ernment, have we no all reason, fellqw-citi zens, to be alarmed for our country ? and arc we not called to_repair to the poll of duty ? To refletting men—to those who have watched the progress of popular discontents, and the cuui'es which conspire to overturn republican inftittuioHs—to l"uch minds, thele unceasing clamours against government, these rojefted fchenies of innovation, under the flattering names of econemy, and reform, convey the certain prelages of some diieful crisis I Hut our fafrty is yet in aur own hands- The great body of the American people are the Friends of Order, and the Supporters of their Government: It is or.lv by indiffer ence—by falfe security by iiniiianly timidi ty, that we lhalll loose it. It is impra&icable for us, on this occr.fion to discuss the Measures of Government : The prescribed bounds of our address will not permit it. Nor do we deem it necessary : They have undergone a full examination ; and by your fuffrages, at th» late Election you have pro nounced yourselves SATISFIED ! In so doing, you have fulfilled the duties you owed to luciety ; and we trust, given a pledge for your future exertions. Thisgovernineot, which has hitherto recei ved our support, and repaid us. with it? pr»- teftion—what is its history, but one contin ued coarse of prudent legiflation?—what does it pre fait, but one wide, extended, pidlure of national prosperity and individual happi nel's ! What expectations have been difappoict ed ; wilhei have been left un fatit&ed I Did we look for the Consolidation and Extension of tht Confederacy ?—and has not oi*r Union b; en maintained and the slates augmented ? If we expsdted from it, as a State, more , Rank and Protection, is not Neio-Jersey I both eXiltcd and l'ecured ? If we trufied to it, as the Guardian of our Independence, and the Defender of our Public Rights is not America, at this mo ment, free, powerful, and refpefted ? Ir we flattered ourlelves with increasing Wealth, in what period of the world in what nation, can a parallel be found ? The Mereiiant ; the Husbandman ; the Ar tizan ; the Laborer } every Oafs of the Community, bear tellimony on the fide of Government. If we fought from it the bleifii.gs of Peace ; of Domellic Security ; of Private Propelty ;of unvioLted Conlcience ;of Prrlonal Liberty ; have not all thel'e flow ed from its aduiiniftration ? What resonaile man, not afluated by am bitious def.gr.s, or urged oil to unlawful ! pursuits, can deny to the American Cipvern *ient the tribute of praile and gratitude. What prudent man is there, who will not, with his advice and his vote, endeavor to prcferve it as it is ? But to guaid it from its enemies, and to preserve it as it is, we mull, we ought, feU low-citizens, to confide its management to those who, like ourselves, approve and res peß it. Ii from indolence, or untimely conceffionr the public councils are transferred to other liandiy there is an end of our fecurity —per- haps an end of the government itl'clf. ! It is on our public elections that every thing depends. It we are careful to fe'edt men of right prin ciples, and unite 111 fupp'rting them with our fuffrages, we may fear no danger, but rife up and lie down-in security. And, of all the public agents, tho.e should be fele<3ed with the greatest care, who are to represent thi people in the National Legijlature TmprclTcil with t?i: s" cpuli !cr J?.,,, sn ) ing the importance of union and' exert loa at thi. crisis, a urejt number of citizens i\ aC i\ ev ery part of ihe State, relpeftable for their i». tcgrity and their tal.nts, have rocomar'n ed tr-mir c lio cetvc gentlemen,rawed by them in the prefhied rcAilutinns. An i we were requefied to address to our f e [. low-cit'z?i»s i'neh reafWnj, as might tend tocon. centrate their opinions at.d efforts in favor u s that ticket : With thi: view, we have laid befor« yoa the preceding re maris : And conceiving it as a di,. ty we owe to ourfel-; s; to our families; to 0141' country, and p ft nty, to maintain th e governm-r.i, throu_k.li the peaceab'e' medium of we invite you, by these cr. m . mon obligations, to partake in this iiecefljry thi« lawful, and lio.io.abL' privilege. It is neceflirj'i and at all times laudable that we lender this frrvice to ourfelvea a:.d coun'»y ; but never more necessary than sn this occafton Such is the flaie of thernation ; such has beta tVe pregrels of events, that the choice of Fede ral Reprel'ematives in this State, may favt the country fr»m divided councils ; or, form a bar rierTgainft the encroachments of a too fuerelk. ful favl.on. ' — The propriety, fclVw citizens, of uniting not only in Our exertions, but our choice, is evi dent. The oppnfers of the federal gsvernment though defeated in the late attempt to bring in Mr. Jifferftn as Prefidcnt, will now endeavor [ to repair their mifcarriige. They will pursue their constant maxims of calumniating the government; of disparaging its measures ; of deriding its friends j of cry ing uplheir republicanism. and fl ttering the people with profeffions of purity, and promi se« of reform: But, above all, they will unite. Fellow-citizens, in this one thing it will be for our rnterell and honor to imitate them. After the high recommendation, contained in the refoiutions of the meeting at the State- House on the 13d! inltant, it is the less necef firy for us to speak of the candidates proposed tor the federal; ticket. Most of them have borse a part in the elta bliftimeat of cur independence; all oftkemhav* pasTed through the matt importantpublic offi ces ; and all of ther»lUnd deservedly high in the confidence of their countrymen. They are truly attached to the federal go. j and pafiels ta'ents fitted to- miij tain the dignry and interest ef tfii State they may represent. We trUst that, with thrfe qualifications, and carrying with them the la vocable sentiments of so many refpeiSlable men, they will be accepta ble to the friend* of government in every part of the State. But should it happen that any of our fellow citizens, fro.-n dtfedl of information in regard to the chara