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FROM THE BALTIMORE WHIG.
Orthodox Sentiments — M assach u -
pc*ts—appropriately styled “ the ora
ch of the revolution 7 ’ —still remains
the nursery of sound principles. I
have read with great satisfaction, the
many excellent replies of various
mee.ings 10 the selectmen of Boston,
on the subject of their disorganizing
petition for the unconstitutional or il
legal removal of the embargo: —Cor-
rect opi..ions, expressed in the un
equivocal frankness of freemen, char
acterised them ail. • But none, yet
published, breathe that strong indig
nation against the insidious plans of
the Esse* junto, which the follow
ing address contains. Every unpre
judiced freeman, in every part of the
uniat}, will most readily adopt every
sentiment as his own: Aral, proud
we are, to perceive, in the general
burst of patriotic expression and re
publican feeling which the Boston
conspirators have been hwtri mental it
eaHi'tg forth, the unshaken Ihmnes?
of the- ye: mi'ry of Mn.se ;chusctts.
The partial eclipse that darkens that
that respectable state will soon weai
off and lea ve her a bright, star in tin
cluster of die anion. Wno can des
pair of a people, among whom is scat
tered such i:ht as follows? —
BRISTOL COUNTY RESOLUTIONS. .
At a very general and numerous
meeting of republican tick gates from
the the several towns .of Bristol coun
ty, holden at Taunton, October sth.
ISC®. Honorable David Perry, esq
v,-,vs chosen president, and Mr. Ma
son, secretary.
Vqted to’choose a committee tr
prepare and report some resolution
expressive of the*opinion and senti
ments of this convention, relative ti
the measures and administration oi
our Rational revernment, and its and
our opposers. The following. gentle
men were nominated and unanimous!)
chosen, vis—Marcus Morton, esq,
David Perry, jun. Horatio Leonard,
esq.; Abel * French'.-; Jones Godfrey,
esq.; Ephriam Raymond, esq.; cap
tain Preserved Pish ; Daniel Hale,
eso.; and Noah Clailin, esq. Who,
alter retiring for some time, reported
by Marcus Morton, esq. the following
preamble and resolutions, which were
read and unanimously adopted,
PR S AMBLE.
Whereas a powerful combination of
individuals, moved by ambition, orj
prejudices hostile to our happy form,
of government, and to the indepen-1
e’ ence of cur country, have seized on
the calamities of'the times to effect
their nefarious purposes—.and from
the metropolis of this state, once the
illustrious'seminary cf better princi
ples,’ have sought to organize a sys
tem of distrust and opposition, which
should paralize the energies of our na
tional governmest —destroy that con
fidence so essential to its support —
tear asunder the union of these states,
the onl 7 guarantee of their tranquility
and greatness—and sanction . the
wrongs of foreign nations, by decrying
the oniv mode of resistance consistent
with our honor and our peace. And
whereas to aid in the execution of
these revolutionizing projects, they
have degraded one of our senators in
the. congress of th United ’States
from the high dignity of his station to
the pitiful drudgery of composing in
flammatory epistles for a faction—have
agitated this state and the neighboring
states with town-meetings, in order to
clog the wheels of government, and to
cause them to move heavily through
lie mire of opposition, arid have en
deavored to st'ulc the sense of honor,
die pride of independence, and the no
ble and magnanimous spirit .which
.alone ought to actuate a high minded
people, iii the vindication of their rights
and sovereignity, by a clamorous ap
peal to the cowardly, creeping, short
sighted passion of avarice—a passion
woich blights and contracts the hu
nt i.i hea.exlinguiihcsin itevery gen
erou.; affection, and is too blind and nar- !
uv to p ; ;sr:-5 the truej
and permanent interests cf even its
own sordid concerns. And whereas,
by means of the -base arts of intrigue
and deception, aided by the force of
foreign influence, if not of foreign
gold, a factious majority has been ob
tained in the legislature of this com
monwealth, who forgetful of the
source whence they derived their pow
er—regardless of the opinion, the in
terest and the rights of their concte*
tuents, and willing to further the un
righteous purposes of disrepcct of the
constituted authorities, have made op
position to the laws es the land, and
threatened division of the union—
have disregarded and condemned the
sacred right of popular suffrage, un
warrantably contrived and attempted
to wrest from the executive of this
state the free exercise of his accustom
ed and constitutional prerogative, and
unnecessarily and unreasonably de
nouced the measures and administra
tion of our national government:—
Therefore, at this crisis of peril and
hazard, when cur republic is threaten
ed not only by foreign enemies but by
domestic deluders and traitors, im-,wil
ing any longer to continue inactive
spectators of this political delusion and
treachery, which New-llampshire and
Rhode-Island hirPfe fatally experienc
ed, and Vermont too languidly oppos
ed, we deem it our duty, and the duty
of every citizen who is a friend to the
liberties and the rights of man, and of
ihat government under which alone
hose liberties and rights is protected,
with a single view to die good of the
nation, m word and m deed to take a
manly attitude in support of the con
stitution and government cf our coun
try*
Resolved, that the doctrine of the
British government, restricting neu
trals to their accustomed trade in time
of peace, was a violent and unwarrant
able outrage on the rights of peaceful
nations, and called 4 on them for a
prompt and efficient resistance.
Resolved, That the murderous and
pusillanimous attack on the United
States frigate, the Chesapeake, by the
English man of war, the Leopard, was
aggraved by every circumstance cf
meanness and insolence which could
arouse the indignation or demand the
vengeance of an independent people.
Resolved, That the first duty of
every free government, is to protect
its citizens—to set a higher value on
men than on things; and that to
submit to the British pretentions of
searching onr vessels on the ocean for
seamen, would be to yield to a Foreign
government a power which our own
does not posses —a power totally in
compatible with the privileges of the
citizens, or the sovereignty cf the na
tion.
Resolved, That the administration
of the United States having in vain
appealed to the honor and justice of
the British government, to renounce
the doctrines, redress the wrongs, and
disclaim the pretensions above reci
ted—having carried forbearance to
the lowest point, and having exhaust
ed the last hope of volun'ary satisfac
tion, were bound to resort to such ex
periments on the interests of the of
fending power, as might influence her
t i adopt more correct principles, and a
more suitable line of conduct.
Resolved, That the law forbidding
the importation of British manufac
tures of a certain description, and the
proclamation interdicting to British
armed vessels the ports and harbors of
the United States, were peculiarly
adapted to the circumstances cf tht
times, and irresistibly called‘for bv
the interest, honor, and safety of our
country-.
Resolved, That the treaty negocia
ted by colonel Monroe with the Eng
lish government, containing restric
tions highly injurious to our carrying
trade —omitting all stipulations for
the security of our citizens on the high
seas, was. not authorised by the in
structions cf the chief magistrate ol
the Uuited States, and was accompa
nied by a note of defeasance on the
part of England, which rendered its
obligatory force oa that country pre
-1
carious, depending alone on the cn-.
price of its government; snd there
fore that die president of the United*
States acted wisely and magnanimous
ly, in returning it'without submitting
it to the consideration’ of the senate.
Resolved , That the British orders
in council and French imperial de
crees, declaring, under tire vain and
vague pretexts of retorting and retal
iating mutually the crimes of each
other, their countries and dependen
cies reciprocally liable to the incidents
of a state of blockade, outraged in a
manner unheard of in modern times,
the rights of neutral nations, and from
the circumstances of the world, could
alone affect the character and prosper
ity of this country.
Resolved, That these edicts on the
part of the British empire, are doubly
aUrocious by* the unparalleled arro
gance of requiring us to navigate un
der the banners of its government,
and to submit to die deeper depreda
tion of paying it tribute*
Resolved, That if our government
tamely submitted to these edicts, they
would have sacrificed the wealth, and
surrendered the independence of our
country.
Resolved, That the embargo was
the only measure which could at once
preserve our property, our honor, and
onr peace ; and is obviously calcula
ted by its continued operation, to vi
sit cu the offending nations “ the evils
cf their own injustice,” and thereby
infiuer.ee them to the adoption of a
more righteous system.
Resolved, That the adversaries of
our administration, the advocates of
monarchy, and the partisans of Eng
land, by their clamorous and system:!
tical attacks against the embargo, and
the promotion of the violation of the
several laws imposing it, encourage
foreign nations to a perseverance in
their wrongs, and thereby render ne
cessary the protraction ot a measure
of which they complain—at the same
time incuring the moral guilt of trea
son, although they mm escape the cor
rection of the law.
Resolved , That we do approve in
the most unequivocal manner, of the
vigorous measures of the administra
tion—that we will endure e\ ary priva
tion, and encounter every peril, neces
sary to vindicate the rights and inde
pendence of our country, and that We
will resist with our lives all aggres
sions from abroad, and all attempts at
dismemberment and treason at heme.
Resolved, That the yeomanry of
this country cons itute its great phy-1
sical force, and arc entitled to their
full proportion in the management of
its affairs—that we behold with the
deepest detestation the claims of seme
ol our merchants to be the sole judges |
of the policy of foreign intercourse,
and their disposition to, sacrifice the
glory of our country, and its great:
commercial rights, to the fugitive en
joyment of a pitiful and precarious
remnant spared by foreign nations,
and to drive a little guilty traffic, as
they may regulate it.
Resolved, That the adjournment cf
the legislature cf this state without
directing the mode cf chasing the elec
tors of president and vice-president of
the United States, to a day too late to
admit of their election by the people
—and with the express and avowed
determination of appointing the elec
tors themselves, was an alarming en
croachment cn the elective franchise
—an unjustifiable assumption of pow
er, which their constituents never in
tended to delegate, and an unprece
dented attempt to deprive the chief
magistrate of this commonwealth of
his constitutional negative upon the
acts of the legislature".
Resolved, I hat the supporters of
die measures and attempts above reci
ted, ought to be marked and remem
bered as the advocates of arbitrary
power, and the enemies of the elec
tive power of the people.
Resolved, That it will be better for
this state not to have any voice in tht
Section of president and vice-presi
dent of the United States, than tha
their electors should be obtained !>i
the evasion oT a single article of the
constitution, or by the sacrifice of a
principle essential to its existeence.
Resolved, That Laban Wheaton
put in nomination for r; presentative
for congress, by the supporters of our
free government and its present wise
administration, has, by becoming the
tool of a junto—by his seditious and
disgraceful resolutions, and his anti,
republican doctrines and practice, for,
felted all claim to the confidence and
support of the people.
Resolved*, That the honorable JO,
SIAH DEAN, be recommended to
the freemen of tins district, to repre
sent them in the next congress, as a ci
tizen well qualified to comprehed the
true glory and prosperity of our coun
try.
DAVID PERRY, President.
John Mison, Secretary.
TO THOMAs jEFFEKMJN,
Prejident of the United States.
To those charittrrs whose live* have
been diftinpuiftied by an adherence to
virtuous snd pamotic principles, and
whose endeavours to establish, on a
just basis, the public and puvate
rights of individuals have emitted
them to the appellation of * s the be
nefactors of mankind,” the plaudits of
their fellow-citizens, on their retiring
from the feene of political labors, have
trequcmly been exprefied.
In correfpondencs with a praQice
appears consonant to propriety and
juliice, we, the members of “1 he
Baltimore Eaptift Association,” con
vened by appointment in the city of
Walhington, embrace this opportune
ty ol exprefiing our sense of your
numerous and important ferviceu
in the cause cf civil and religious
liberty, and in promoting the wel
fare and happinef> of the people of
the Uuited States. In reviewng the afcts
of your life our minds are forceably
impressed with the reco!le£tion that
you are the author of the Declarati
on of Independence ;an instrument
in which we recognize the vindication
of our right?, the declaration of our
•wrongs and the ohjefils for which go
vernment is in limited. Since your
aca ffion to the firft office in the union,
the tendency of your rneafurcs has
oeen to advance the prosperity cf the
nation. We have been relieved from
the prefure of unreeflary taxes; our
national debt has been greatly dimin'-
ilhed; have been secured in the enjoy
mem of our political rights ; and the
language of the prophet we may ex
claim, “ Every man has sat under his
fig tree, and none to make him afraid.”
Whilst the Eu ropean world is agi
tated and fiiaken to its centre; the am
bition of contending empites causes
rivers of human blood to Cow, and the
peaceful field cf the hulbandman is
converted into a scene where only the
din of arms was heard; whilst the la
bors cf the artisan are Impended, and
the implements of industry sjre ex
changed for the weapons of deftrudi
on ; it has been the constant aim of
your adminiffration to preserve and
ordure to us the blefiings cf peace;a
state bell calculated for the mild pro
gress of our holy Religion*) and for the
happiness of man. It is to be lament
ed that, in the prcfecution of so ‘lauda
ble a design, the injufidcc cf the prin
cipal belligerent powers has for a time
suspended ourufua! pursuits, and fub
jefcted our commerce to the rapacity
of those invadors of our rights.
We confider it proper, in the ca
pacity of a religious body, to express
our feelings of gratitude and senti
ments ol approbation, for your exer.
tions and lervices in behalf of religious
liberty within your own state. The
friends of piety mull ever remember
that the aft puffed by the Virgin a le
giflatOre in 1786, for the eftablifhmenl
of religious freedom, emanated bom
you : they must admire the principles
on which tfiis lav/ is founded, and the
manner in which, by it, the rights of
confidence, the ftrjl and mojl ejfenticl
of our rights , are illustrated. The *c
live influence of your virtuous labors
could uotj it is uuc, be fell without