French partizans, or American Jacobines will cordingly fixed the limits to which and no furnot join any military association or patriotic ther, our confidence may go, and let the honloan. These men should be watched.-[Balti-est advocate of confidence read the Alien und more Federal Gazette, July 5, 1798. Sedition acts, and say if the constitution has not been wise in fixing limits for the government it created, and whether we should be wise in destroying those limits Let him say what the government is, if it be not a tyranny, which the men of our choice have conferred on the President, and the President of our choice has assented to and accepted over the friendly strangers to whom the united spirit of our country and its laws had pledged hospitality and protection. The men of our choice have more respected the bare suspicions of the President than the solid rights of innocence, the claims of justification, the sacred force of truth, and the forms and substance of law and justice."

The following is pitched in the same key, ang runs in the same vein, of the demands of the ins to-day, and did we not assure the read er, was the preamble to a set of resolutions got up by the Federal majority of the New York Senate, and passed March 5, 1799, would be taken for granted as the "loyal" efferescence of some "Loyal League" of the present day:

"And whereas, Our peace, prosperity and happiness, eminently depend on the preservation of the Union, in order to which a reasonable confidence in the constituted authorities is indispensible, and

Whereas, Every measure calculated to weaken that confidence has a tendency to destroy the usefulness of our public functionaries,"

&c.

This was the Federal response to the murmurings of the people against the infamous Sedition and Alien laws.

And be it remembered, these same Federals just thirteen years afterward,,joined in the crusade against MADISON's administration (as we have shown) without so much as pretending to a tangible excuse. They went below the hard pan of infamy to "excite jealousies," &c.

The clergymen of that day, of the leading orders, were mostly Federalists. Their sermons were full of devotion to "the Govern

Then read the following, and see if it comes within the limits of JEFFERSON's ideas of fair

and candid discussion under a proper "jealousy" to guard and respect constitutional rights, and also let the reader determine in his heart whether the following extracts from Federal malcontents come within the just rule laid down by WEBSTER, as follows:

"The spirit of liberty is jealous of encroachIt ments, jealous of power, jealous of men. demands checks; it seeks for guarantees, it insists on securities; it entrenches itself behind strong defences, and fortifies itself with all possible care against the assaults of ambition and passion. It does not trust the amiable weaknesses of human nature, and therefore will not permit power to overstep its prescribed limits, though benevolence, good intent, and patriotic purposes come along with it."

DAMN THE GOVERNMENT IN 1814.

This was when his party were in power, and talked of war. This same Reverend preached a sermond at Byfield, April 7, 1814, when his party was out of power, and the country was actually at war with another country, in

which he said, p. 18:

"The Israelits became weary of yielding the fruit of their labor to pamper their splendid tyrants. They left their political Moses. They Where is our Moses? Where is separated. the rod of his miracles? Where is our Aaron? Alas, no voice from the burning bush has di

In this connection we give the views of JEFFERSON on a fair and candid discussion of public affairs, written probably in answer to the claim of the New York Federals, and we give the credit to Jefferson, lest the "loyal" men may read the sentiment as pure "copperhead-rected the house." ism."

"It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights. Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. It is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power. Our constitution has ac

On page 18 he says:

"There is a point, there is an hour, beyond which you will not bear."

"Such is the temper of American Republi cans [the Democratic Republicans that supported the war and Mr. MADISON] so called. A new language must be invented before we attempt to express the baseness of their conduct, or dscribe the rottenness of their hearts."/ -p. 21.

"The full vials of despotism are poured out-p. 16. on your heads, and yet you may challenge the ploddding Israelite, the stupid African, the feeble Chinese, the drowsy Turk, or the frozen exile of Siberia, to equal you in tame submission to the powers that be.—p. 12.

"Here we must trample on the mandates of despotism, or here we must remain slaves forever."―p. 13.

"Has not New England as much to apprehend as the sons of JACOB had? but no child has been taken from the river to lead us through the sea."-p. 20.

"If judgments are coming on the nation;-if the sea does not open thee a path, where, how, and in what manner will you seek relief "p. 20.

THE TONE OF FEDERALS WHEN IN POWER.

In 1798, a Convention of Congregational ministers issued an address to President ApAMS, from which we take a short extract:

"The intimate connection between our civil and Christian blessings is alone sufficient to

justify the decided part which the clergy of America have uniformly taken in supporting the constituted authorities and political interests of their country ""

Their political party was then in power.

On the 9th of May, 1798, the Rev. JEDEDIAH MORSE preached a sermon, in which he urged everybody to yield strict obedience to the powers that be, which were of his political faith. He said:

proportion of my fellow-citizens in favor of a race of demons, and against a nation of more religion, virtue, good faith, generosity, and beneficence, than any that now is, or ever has been, upon the face of the earth, wring my soul with anguish and fill my soul with apprehension and terror of the judgments of heaven upon this sinful people."-Discourse of April 8th, 1810, p. 40.

influence, encourages its prosecution, that man is an accomplice in wickedness, loads his conscience with the blackest crimes, brings the guilt of blood upon his soul, and in the sight of God and His law, is a murderer."--Discourse of June 27th, 1812, p. 9.

"If at the command of weak or wicked rulers, they undertake an unjust war, each man who volunteers his services in such a cause, or "To the unfriendly disposition and conduct loans his money for its support, or by his conof a foreign power, we may ascribe the unhap-versation, his writings, or any other mode of py dissensions that have existed among us, which have so permanently disturbed our peace, and threatened the overthrow of our government. Their maxim to which they have strict ly and steadily adhered has been "divide and govern." Their too great influence among us has been exerted vigorously and in conformity to a deep laid plan in cherishing party spirit, in villifying the man we have by our free suffrages elected to administer our Constitution, and have thus endeavored to destroy the confidence of the people in the constituted authorities, and divide them from the Government." Of the same tenor was Gov. GILLMORE'S message to the Legislature of New Hampshire in 1798, the legislative response to the samethe Massachusetts Legislature and the Address of the Federalists of Elizabethtown, in 1798. EXTRACTS FROM A SERMON DELIVERED BY THE REV. F. S. F. GARDINER, RECTOR OF TRINTY CHURCH, BOSTON, April 9, 1812.

"The British, after all, save for us by their convoys infinitely more property than they deprive us of, where they take one ship they proteet twenty; where they commit one outrage they do many acts of kindness."-p. 15.

England is willing to sacrifice everything to conciliate us except her honour and independence."-p. 10.

"It is a war unexampled in the history of the world; wantonly proclaimed on the most frivolous and groundless pretences against a nation from whose friendship we might derive the most signal advantages." "-Discourse delivered July 23d, 1813, p. 3.

"Let no consideration, my brethren, deter your at all times, and in all places, from execrating the present war. It is a war unjust, foolish and ruinous."-p. 15.

"As Mr. MADISON has declared war, let Mr. MADISON carry it on.". -p. 17.

"One hope only remains, that this last stroke of perfidy (the war) may open the eyes of a besotted people, that they may awake, like a giant from his slumbers, and wreak their vengeance on their betrayers by DRIVING them from their stations, and placing at the helm more skillful and faithful hands."--p. 12. NEW ENGLAND CLAMORS FOR SEPARATION

AND DISSOLUTION.

It gives us no pleasure to reproduce the following extracts, as the touch-stone of the prevailing public sentiment of the Puritans fortynine years ago. These extracts furnish a sad commentary on the clamoring cry of "treason" by the same party and the same men against all whom, while willing to aid our Government in every essential way to reduce this rebellion, and preserve the Constitution, claim and exercise the right to criticise in a manly spirit what they believe to be measures destructive of constitutional rights and civil liberty.The world has been taught that there is a vast difference between such articles as the following and a manly protest against the blow that strikes down civil rights arbitrarily, without any of those means of redress or modes of trial known to civil jurisprudence.

JAMES MADISON was often severely censured by many of his most ardent political friends for not imprisoning the utterers of the following sentiments of treason, and although the danger from these influences was imminent, and at the time threatened to finally destroy the Government, Mr. MADISON trusted to the good sense of the people to maintain this GovTREASON OF THE REV. DR. OSGOOD, PASTOR OF ernment, nor did he arbitrarily arrest a man, nor proclaim the suspension of the writ of "The strong prepossessions of so great a hebeas corpus against all the people. The se

"The Union has long since been virtually dissolved, and it is full time that this part of the United States should take care of itself."-p. 19.

THE MEDFORD CHURCH.

quel proved the wisdom of MADISON's course, for while the authors of that seditious treason

that threatened to take New England out of the Union, soon found themselves buried in disgrace, he was spared the charge of even the attempt at oppression. All will agree that he would have been justified in arresting the authors of the following:

EXTRACTS OF TREASON.

"Those who startle at the danger of separation tell us that the soil of New England is hard and sterile-that deprived of the productions of the South, we should soon become a wretched race of cowherds and fishermen; that our narrow territory and diminished population would make us an easy prey to foreign powers. Do these men forget what national energy can do for a people? Have they not read of Holland? Do they not remember that it grew in wealth and power amidst combat and alarm! That it threw off the yoke of Spain (our Virginia) and its chapels became churches and its poor man's cottages prince's palaces?" -Boston Centinel, Dec. 10, 1814.

"It is said, that to make a treaty of commerce with the enemy is to violate the constitution, and to sever the Union. Are they not both already virtually destroyed? Or in what stage of existance would they be should we declare a neutrality, or even withhold taxes and men."-Boston Centinel, Dec. 14, 1814.

stand, and recurring to first principles, view men and things as they are. The sophisticated Government which these States have witnessed for thirteen years past, has almost completed their ruin, and every day still adds to their distracted condition."-[Ipswich Memorial, Sept. 18, 1813.

"The sentiment is hourly extending. and in these Northern States will soon be universal, that we are in no better condition with respect to the South than that of a conquered people." -Boston Centinel, Jan. 13, 1813.

"We have no more interest in waging this sort of war at present, at the command of Virginia, than Holland in accelerating her ruin, by uniting her destiny with France.”—Ibid.

"The land is literally taken from its old possessions and given to strangers."-Ibid. [This is just what New England is now clamoring for in the South.]

"Either the Southern States must drag us further into the war, or we must drag them out of it, or the chain will break.-Ibid.

"We must be no longer deafened by senseless clamors about a separation of the States."Ibid.

"Should the present Administration, with the adherence in the Southern States still persist in the prosecution of this ruinous and wicked war, in unconstitutionally creating new States in the mud of Louisiana [just what we are fighting to keep in] (the inhabitants of which country are as ignorant of Republicanism as the alligators of their swamps) and in opposition to the commercial rights and privileges of New England, much as we deprecate a separation of the Union, we deem it an evil much less to be dreaded than a co-operation with them in their nefarious projects.”—Deer(Mass.) Petition, Jan. 10, 1814.

"By a commercial treaty with England which shall provide for the admission of such States as may wish to come into it, and which shall prohibit England from making a treaty with the South and West-which does not give us at least equal privileges with herself-our commerce will be secured to us; our standing in the nation raised to its proper level, and Newfield England feelings will no longer be sported with, or her interest violated.-Boston Centinel, 1814.

"If we submit quietly our destruction is certain. If we oppose them with a highminded and steady conduct, who will say that we shall not beat them all? No one can suppose that a conflict with a tyranny at home, would be as easy as with an enemy from abroad, but firmness will anticipate and prevent it. Cowardice dreads it, and will surely bring it on at last. Why this delay? Why leave that to chance which our firmness should command? Will

our wavering frighten Government into compli

ance?"-Ibid.

"We must do it deliberately, and not from irritation at our wrongs and sufferings, and when we have once entered on the high course of honor, and independence, let no difficulties stay our course, nor dangers drive us back."Ibid.

"We are convinced that the time is arrived when Massachusetts must make a resolute

"We must put away all childish fears of resistance."-Crisis No. 3.

"What shall we do to be saved? One thing

only: The people must rise in their majesty protect themselves, and compel their unworthy servants to obey their will:"-Boston Centinel, Sept. 10, 1814.

"The Union is already dissolved, practically.”—Ibid.

"You ask my opinion on a subject which is much talked of, a dissolution of the Union. On this subject I differ from my fellow-citizens generally, and therefore I ought to speak and write with diffidence. I have for many years considered the Union of the Northern and Southern states as not essential to the safety, and very much opposed to the interest of both sections. The extent of the territory is too large to be harmoniously governed by the same representative body. A'despotic prince, like the Emperor of Russia may govern a wide extent of territory, and numerous distinct nations, for