The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 3, 1758, Page 2

‘ %) U Ve gl o L - Tothe PrANTER of 1heNEW HaMmpsuire Gazerre, T is a Matter well known, to. thole who are acquainted with Hiftory, that the Lillipatians were a Free People, living under a mixed Form of Government,not much difimilar to that under which we have our b ppy Lot.—It may therefore be agree- able to many of your Readers, to perufe a Srzrcu of a Lilliputian to his Fellow Citizens, afiembled to chufe Delegates tor their Houfe of L‘li'nab:, which avas one Branch of their Government. My Brethren and Feilow Citizens, Y the Indulgence of divine Providence, and the B Favour of our excellent Conflitution, we are now call'd upon, and aflembled to E/e& proper Perfons to reprefent us in the Houfe of Clinabs, and take upon them our Part of the Government. Thisis a Privilege which ought always to be dear to us, and which we can never over value ; of which our wife and prudent Ufe will beft demon- firate ous jult ERecem. To be fupine and negligent whether we improve this happy Privilege at all, or indifferent bow we improve it, will argue great In- fealibility of its Valae. _Let us confider, it is our Duty to make a «wife Choice, that we are anfwerabie for all the ill Confequences of fuch an OUm:flion. That the Wifdom and Usderfanding of Eleftars, will always be eftimated by che Qualifications and Abili- #ies of the Ele@®ed. Your owa Repatation there- fore, as well as your moft valuable Intereft, depend much on your Condud in this Affair. = An Affair at all Times important, but mach more {o at this criti- cal Conjunéture, when we are involved in a cakusmi- tous War with the Blcfujcudians and their Adlrerents : When our Sabflance is almoft exhaufted, and the utmoft Stretch of our united Abilities, is abfolutely neceflary 10 our Security. A wife and prudent Adminiftration of our public Affairs, is always ne- cefiary to the Well being of the Community ; bat at this Junllure more efpecially, both with Regard to the Expence, and our Conneflion with others, embark’d on the fame Bottom. Thefe Confidera- tions ought to awaken our Attention, and put us on cur Guard againft every Miftake. In this Siteation, would it not be an egregious Blunder, to truft your Aftairs in the Hands of aweak or difigning Men 2 A difcreet and prudent Choice of your Delegates is at . po Time a Matter of Indifference, your public Welfare always depends much upon it,as was hinted before.— But at this Time efpecially your Choice eught to be reguiated, among others, by the follow- ing Cautions and Rules.— A Man who appears to be wery fond of being chofen, is for that Realon to be refus’d.—All Government, when faithfully adminiftred, is 3 great Weight, and muth Labour and Pain is necefiary to fuitain it. The part which your fioufe of Clirabs bear, is not the leaft part of the Burthea.— It requires much Attention and Carc. We can’t rationally {uppole any Man would court this Trouble, withoat fome fecret Hepes of Advantage, which he is not willing to declare. Nothing but the Regueff of others and the Profped of deing public Serevice, would induce a difintereflted Man to accept fuch a weighty ‘Truft ; fuch a burtherfome Office— But this View of the Cafe ab'trated from all others, never yet put a Man fit for the place, upon compafling Sea and Land to make Voters ; it woald be in Effe@ faying, My Country Men, I am fitter to ferwe ysu than any Man living, therefore you'li fland in yoar owen Lisht if you don’t chufe me. Ele that has fo lictle Modclty as thus to depreciate all others, and exalt himfelf, it is to be feared has as littie Honefty—Ard is not this the genuine Lanjeage of their prattice, who are continual'y running up and down, making an Inte- reft with all they meet, for their Votes, and employ- ing their Friends, Dependants and Emiffaries to {ollicit for them ?— Men are paturally averfe, to Trouble ; never voluntarily run into it, but as the price of fome immediate or future Advantage —It is quite unnatural therefore, to fec a Man earnellly concern’d to obtain an Office attended with nothing but follicitude and Trouble—~an Office that brings no Blefing with it (as the common Phrafe is.) And in thefe felfih Times it may juftly be accounted a marvellous Cafe, if the Thing could be believed : but without fuch Evidence as amounts to a Demon- ftration, he who pretends to it, is to be ftrongly fuf- pe&ed of deceiving himfelf or others ; efpecially too when he fays all he dares to calumniate any one he. imagines will be his Competitor.— Thefe bufy Gentlemen feem to have no fenfe of the Burthen of this Office, or no Concern about it, and that alone is " a fufficient Obje&ion to them— I fhould therefore think you would r¢j:Z Mer of this Stamp, with the fame Kind and Degree of Refentment, that any of you would a Fellow who ‘fhould beg the Favour of you, to be fo complaifant to him, as to ftand fill and Jbut your Eyes, while he thould pick your Pocket. A Man wiolently atrachedto a Party is jultly excep- tionable.—There will always be Parties in free Go- -vernments, for Men will never all think alike ;* and { 'where thiere is freedom of Speech, there will be party Diltin&ions 5 and perhaps they are as neceflary to ike Flealth of the Body politic, as the circulation of the Biood is to the Health of the nataral Bady, to keep each other allive ard vigilant, and to prevest a Stogration ;. and while Things are managed with IModeration,end the Ruolescf ratiopal Arpumentation, the Body Pelitic may be {aid to b2, in this Regpard, in a vigorous ftate. This is widely different trom fuch paiiy DiftinQlions aod Cabals, as arife from Difaffeltion, Refentment, and a fixed Refolution to ‘oppofe every Meafure,but thite of the party, and thofe too, if adepted by the other fide. With this fort of Men, it is a Matter of no Inportance what is right and what is wrong,bat what {ay the other fide is the grand Inquiry, that'they may know what they have to oppofe—Thus that fame circulation which is ab- foluzely neceffary to the Life of the Body, may be fo heightened by a Fever as to deftroy it.— But 03 [ hope we have no Peifons of this fpirit among ue, I need not infill any further on this Head. But only to obferve, that when Difputes in Goverament rua high, it often happeus that thofe whe were at firit right, by running into the Extream oppofice to their Opponents, are guilty of Miflakes and Errors. Ha- man Paflions mutually produce their own fimilitude in different fubjeéts— 1 you would fee me weep, yeu mufl firft wecp yourfelf. Moderation, a calm, cool and deliberate Examination of the Merits of any point, is the only Way of coming atit. In order to this, Me¢n muft be diligent, patient of La-’ bour, and bear Contradiftion without Heat and paffion. ~ Next to thefe Party Zealots are thofe Gentlemen who will #ewer agree to any Meajure, unlefs they are Jirft in the Motion to advanceit. 1f they reaily are, or are tho't to be the Originals, all is well and goes on {fmoothly. But if this is not the Cafe, nothing can be done, but what is carried by mere Dint of Difputation. And with thefe mnay be ranked, as be- longing to the fame Tribe, tho’ a little different in their Complexion, fuch as are of a wwrangling dijpu- tatious Huxzour, who difpute not from any Doubt or Defive to find out theTiuth, but only out of Vanity, for Viftory, and to demonftrate their great Abilities to filence an Adverfary. Both thele forts of Meca occafion a vaft Delay in the Difpatch of public Bufi- nels, are really a great Burthen to that Houfe of Clinabs which is fo unfortunate as to have many fuch among them : The Manner of tranfatting Bufinefs in fuch a Houfe where there is a great Number of Perfons, every one of whom ought tobe fatisfied of the propriety of what is done, muft be gradual and flow. All unneceflary Incumbrances therefore ought as much as poflible to be avoided. To taefe may be added your very jeeptical Gentle- men, who either from Affellation or waat of Judg- ment, will keep a Matter in fufpence, hefitating without End. Thefe, from their principles, can’t confent to any Thing, becaufe they are in douht. Some, who have inftantly determined the point in their own Minds, affect to be in deubt, and appear. very gravely and formally inquifitive, to acquire the Reputation of clofe T'hinkers, Men who examine Thingsto the Bottom. Thele are alfo Jncumbrances & Nufances. Wherefore from all thefe turn away ~= As you ought al{o from fuch Men as can never find they have any Thing to do in the Houle,when there is nothing on the Tapis, in which the Town or Burrough which chofe them, is not immediately con- cern’d. As for mediate or remote concerns, they are with them Nullities, becaufe however obvious to others they can’t fee them. Awnd Things which don’t appear they judge are Non Entities, Ina Word, coufidering themfelves only as the Delepates of their own Town, they attend to nothing when that is fafe ; and {cvera! fuch I have feen at oncein an Houfe of Clinabs. Thus by their contraéted Notions the Public loofgs the Benefit of their fervice if they were capable of rendering any.—There is a fort of Men who in their Features refemble thefe ; I mean fuch as make it their ruling Principle to hold Jaft the Purfe Strings,whatever may be the Demand. Who fpeod more Time, and to the Public more Money, to ¢/ip a Bill than would pay the wbhole. Who congratulate themfelves, and think they have merited highly when they have cut off fwe Pounds from a Demand of Fifzy, when that faving has coit three Times five befides the Difcouragement to the Servants of the Government, and the Negle&t of other Bufinefs. With fuch as thefe have nothing to do.—You will aét the Reverfe of wife Men, to dend fuch to reprefent you who can ouly do as they are bid, when they come there. Who pin their Faith upon the Sleeves of others, and have no Opi- nion or Voice of their own till their Patrons have fignified their' Minds. And when you fee any ca- pable of judging for themfielves, making an Intereft to have fuch chofen, what can you thick is the Motive ? It would be abundantly more eligible to leflen the Number and omit fending f{uch as are ftill in their Leading Strings, and fend only their o ML N e Q6 e 7 | A M i n:\.frl,wf"l \ne w-nl MR Leaders ; we fionld it 1éait fave the Charge of their Pegy, and cur Affairs would be juft in the fame Situ- 8tica, they are 1n when we are at the Charge of the whole Number : For fech IMen as I have been fpeaking of, are like Cyplers in Addition, which only ferve o fill the Piaces they are in. & The laft fort which I would fuggeft ought to be aveided, on this Occafion, is your Men -of Bafinels, who have Affairs of theirawn, enough to engrofs o/l ioeir Lime and Attention . Your “own Experience may remind you how thefe are likely to behave, They will feldom auend, or if at all, not ’till it is late, and commonly go off fo foon, that they are not confulted at allin many Caifes, and knew little or nothing of the State of Affairs : Their Minds are generally engaged in other Matters. In fine, their Attendance is generally fuch,as'gives fhrewd Grounds to fufpeét it is from fome other Motive than doing the publick Bufinefs ; fomething more ftriking, and wiich lays on their Minds with greater Weight. * But to turn from Negatiwes, lct me fay & Word on the pofitive Side of tie Cele. And here T would only beg Leave to fugpeft, you ought to chufe bomeft difinterefied Men 5 but this is not all, every honefi Mar is not capable of ferving you in this Station : You cught therefore to look for Men of fome Capacity, or you wiil incur the Imputation of*having none your felves. Your Delegates fhould have fome competent Knowledge of the Confiitution of cur Goverament, or they may miftake their proper Sphare, and prove excentric in their Motions. -They fhould have fome Knowledge of Hifforical Falls 35 to the prefent State of Countries, or they can’t be faid to have Know= ledge of the Times,and to know avbat lfrael ought 1o do. Knowledge of paft Fadls al{o, tends to enlarge the Miad, & prevent a contrated Way of Thinking, it farnifthes with Examples worthy of Imitation, and. conveys the Experience of Ages, and tends to make us wife at the Expence of others. Chufe publick Jpirited Men, who have the Honour of their King, and the Goodof their Country at Heart : Men who are watchful againft their own Paffions, who endeavour todiveft themfelves of every Byas 2nd Prejudice, who are above any By Ends, and finifter Views, who will labour indufirioufly to get Sight of the Public Weal, and feadily purfue it. . From the Boston GazerTE, O&ober 30. Meffieurs Epgs and Give, : Pleafe to give the following Letter a place in your next paper, and you'll oblige your Cuftomer, R. 7 Sunday- Evening, Ofober 2¢, Ferry Houfi at Chelfeay, - § ?ORML Benjamin Hallowell, Shipwright. Q FTEK I had fettled all my Accompts in Boflon (execpting yours) and taken Leave of all my Friends in an amicable Manner, ard was proceeding . on my Journey hometo Por:/mouth, a Gentleman in the Ferry (Boat with me tho’t proper on fome Octa-~ fion, to mention your Name, and turning to e, atked if I bad fetied my Accounts with’ you, hearing we had had fome Difputes. To which I replied, Mr. Hallpwoell was the only perfon with whom I bad not fettled, & was{orry to fay I found him a very litigious perfon, and that he had ferved a fingle Writ onme,in order to have hisAccount determined by Law—Up- on which the Gentleman told me, we differed greatly in our Accounts of one another; for that you publick- ly reported, (1) I refufed laying my Accountsbefore Men. (2) That you would wiitc home to Briflo/, to your Correfpondent there, two Sheets of poit paper, to fet forth the Inconftflency of my Conduck with Regard to my pompous Adverti{fement (as you were pleas’d toterm it.) (3) That you had already wrote a long Letter to your Friend at Portfmouth, to fet my Charatter there in a proper Light ( as you think.) (4) ThatI had with Tears, in prefence of your Family, made Acknowledgments of your Le- nity, but that I now ungratelully flight you. (5) T'hat yoa would make it appear in the BoffonGazette, that I had treated you very ill, and had not acted agreable to what I would make the World believe. Now,$7r, HHonour,* Charadter,* and Reputation,® call on me in this public Manuer, to convince your Friend in Briflo/, and that in Port/mouth, as alio the Readers of the Boflon Gazette, that you or I ftate the Matter wrong— Tho’ I muft confefs, it is not the Bufinels of a Merchant or a Shipwright to enter into print : Time and place I hope will apologize for my Incorre@oefs. In Anfwer to your feveral Affertions, fhall be fhort with you. Andin Anfier to the fuft, 1. Before fome of your Family, and Mr. William Greenleaf, Merchant, and feveral other Gentlemen, then ftanding before Mr. Dow/e’s Cffice, and often to yourfelf, made QOffers tolay our Accompts before Men, and even pray’d you to chufe the Men ; and told you my Intention was to give every Gentleman ™ I owed'a Shilling to in Boflan, Intereft for their et ® In Bayly's Diflionary you'll find the Expla- nation of chele Words. proe: |