Book _■_£>_/ 4 FEDERAL CALL TO THE People of the United States, TO TIONS, AND SAVE THEIR COUNTRY. SECOND EDITIOK IMPROVED, BY HENRY BAILEY, OF "WILMINGTON, (DELAWARE.) PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR. 1812. t >-^ /I . ^ iV ^t /? FEDERAL CALL TO THE People of the United States. MY fellow labourers. T take this opportunity of call- insT your most earnest attention to the ensuing election. It may be remembered by many of you, that it is now three years since I first published this call of your atten- tion, in which the democrats, by their lying reports have involved us ; some of them I dispersed throueh the state of Delaware, through the Jerseys, and in Philadeiphia, where thousands of common labourers nad been groaning under a democratic government for nine years past, for the want of employment to support their poor families, and the consequence was you did well to search this small treatise for yourselves- for ever since that time Piiiladel- phia has chosen her own federal councils again. Neither is this all, for we have the satisfaction to see that there iS five federal states risen out of the democratic bondage again, and besides an increase of federal members more or less, all ove.r the United Stales, and it is expected by the next election that we shall have our old number of thirteen united federal states, and so have an opportunity of choosing our own federal president again, that will provide for his own country, and not for Buonaparte: therefore I call your most eaniest attention again to the approaching election. C 4 ] You have no doubt often beard, ray federal friends, Avhat those foreigners have said of you, that have come from Europe since the American war After these intruders upon our hberiies had come to our country by thousands, a'ter the war was over, I, as a labouring man, went forward as- usuaK to give in my federal vote; but alas, to my great surprise, what did I hear from these -forcip-ners, who appeared from all ({uar- ters in swarms, cursing and blaspheming the federalists for tories, and saymg that all the federalists ought to be kicked to hell. So when I came home, I told my federal frietids what strange news I had heard at the election. What is that said they. Why, said I, I heard a parcel of newcomers crying out that the federalists were all d d tories, and that they ought ail to be kicked to hell, for they want to sell the Country. Hah, said my federal friends, who knew more about these foreigners than I did, let them alone, time will show •who it is that wants to sell the country. Still, however, I heard this awful exclamation against the federalists from ci'owds of these forf^i^ners, which made me jealous for the honour of my abused countrymen. So, as I have grown old, and am not able to labour, I thought it was as little as I could do for my country, to call your attention to the ensuing election, and assert your libertv once more; whilst there is yet i;n opportunity be- jfore you. Never was there a louder call for you to recover ycur country than at this time. Though you have been led away by the lying slander of these foreigners, to vote against the peace and unity of your own country, and thereby plunged our once flourish- ing and prosperous commonwealth of America, mto the debt of millions of dollars, in the time of peace, therefore, as vou have found out the spirit of a lying democrat, Avhich is only to have the power of ruling over you. Come forward, therefore, to the ensuing election and vote lor yourself, and do not sell your vote for a glass of grog as the democrats do, to have a set of foreigners to rule over you and your families. You have long since tried the fe- del alists, how that they fou!i,ht and delivered our country from the tyranny of England, when these foreign wretches were in Europe, and after they had overrun your country that you fou-lit and bled for, by thousands : then you was [ 5 ] SO unhappy as to try the strength of their lies ap-ainst the federal government of America. And now vhat is the consequence this day ? Why, our country i;. more in debt than it was in the American war. It is proved in the following lines, that tiie d'jmon. ng a^ainFt their Maker, vvlndi "^«''•t''^7,*'""^ l-^^'Vain high lime for them to return to l^etr fee e.al head afeam, kst he turn them in'.o the prison of 1- ' ^ f ' '°. .7X, TTiented 'vith that old democrat the devil and then tati.ti ^homth^ylave served, John viii, 44. These s^aughteing armies f»> ?ht v^ith the carnal weapons of wai , "i t »n^ m^n Who laboured in his Mfer's vineyard, tnighuih the sword of the spirit, which is the word ot God that .e preached, which was mighty to pUl down the ugh looks of that old democrat's subjects to bow to the federal scep- "'alrvl^: to ci:t it vvas my happy lot to discover by him ihat I was serving that old democrat the "-;.Uand«i I possessed all the earth, yet .t I •:™;"""';t ° f,, "'to a inJiis service, 1 should at last with him. ''«''-" "'=^',''°^ l^e of f.re and brimstone, and the devil that deceased them was cas into the lake of fire and brimstone, where he beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormentea (Hv and nmht forever and ever. Rev. xx. lu. So I have returned-to my federal head again, and he has T^vomised me, that if I live and die in his service, that I ^haT rise to everlasting life ; if any man serve me let him ?oltow me ; and, whei^e I am there shall my servant be; f any mar^ serve me, him vvill my father honour John lii Ye. Reader, are you serving the Lord your federal ^''so'after the ^var was over, we formed a federal consti- tvalon. and our harbours were open to receive some ot all nations that had a mind to come and live peaceably with us But before we were aware of it, our country was so filled with the dregs of them old troublesome nations, that ve did not long enjoy our liberties, for those that left then- own countries not for building < hurches, came among us by swarms ; and said that we wanted to sell the country to England, and that we were all tones, and therefore we ou^ht to be kicked to hell. This was a pleasing .ale to thousands of refugees, that used to hide themselves in the swamps in the day time, Uke mght owis, and then at niehts they would come outof their holes, kill the mhab.tan s and then take iheir property fur their own service ; and yet C 8 3 these dregs of Europe have the impudence to call us toHes. However, we know what they did since they have j^jined •with the devil, that old wicked democrat, and their night owls, that lay hid in the day time durinj^ the war, and that was, say they, let us ever brand the federalists w'ith being tories, and that they warit to ruin the country, and to sell it to England, let us never alter tiiis tale, but stand to it to the last moment, and we shall be sure to take the coun- try. Then they sent disaffected men that were always accustomed to rebellion and discord all over the country, before the election, saying', behold, have you hoard what the federalists say, that the country never will be worth any thing until it is put into the hands of a few" leading men, and that poor men ought not to have a right to vote at the election. Come forv.'ard to the election whatever you do, and vote for such men that are good, and do not let the country be sold. So when the election came on, there were thousands of the most vile characters, who perhaps were never at an election before, and it ma^ be, knew not wiiat it v/as for, except by hearsay ; and then tliey were filled with drunkenness, Avhich naturally filled them with curses and repr: aches against the most honour- able characters that were then in the world, so that it was a shame for any man of credit to be seen among them; then our liberties were taken from us. and our country di- vided and filled with confusion by the most blackest cha- racters that was then in the known world Now, gentle readers, I will just ask you this one ques- tion, is there one man out of the many hundred thousands •who have left Europe since the American war but what is a democrat? If you can, then 1 can show you a man of credit and honour to our country : a man that is willing to live in peace and unity with all mankind. But these men that have come among us since the war, talk of liberty Was there ever a country worse opprest than ours since the democrats have got the rule ? We are load'jned with taxes upon taxes, and the country still in debt; so that the 10th congress had to borrow many mil- lions of money to answer the present demands. Besides, the very spirit of a democrat is wicked ; it make a reli- gious man lose the spirit of his station when he talks in fiivour of the democrats : for they cannot say any thing in their favour without lying, apd then he loses the life and power of rcJigion out of hib soul [ 9 ] Perhaps the devil, that old democrat, never had a great- er harvest of lies in one nation since the world be^an, than he had at the first democratic election. If common la- bourers came to the poll as usual, then these friends of tliat old democrat would say to them, " who are you going to ^oie for," why, said they, we are going to vote lor the federalists. Then they would swear and say, " you fools, arc you Roing to sell the country ?" Then they would cuise and blaspheme the federalists to hell for tories. The 'e never was a people more abused than the federalists were at that time ; and this is the way the democrats divi- ded the country and got the power in ti^cir own hands, by lying and s auder, our country was never so wicked as it is now, since the democrats have got the power. I will just state one circumstance out of many, and that was how the leading democrats ascribed their thanks to Thomas Jefferson, for the many favours they had received by the kind offices that he had bestowed upon them. And do you think, my federal fi lends, that they did it for no- thing ? No, for I knew one man out of many, who had 12 offices, because they had not men enough to trust an office with. Yet they were glad of any drunken vagabond's vote; then, afcer ihe election is over, they do not know them till the election comes on again. Now, my iriends, do not you think that this was a grand scheme of the democrats to take the country from us? Hovv'ever, their lies are begin- ing to wear thread bare; they are beginning to tremble more and more, lest they should be found out. Notwith- standing they double fortify their lies in the newspapers. But all wont do, for they find that they have to give up, so farewell po®r democrats. What an unhappy spirit a de- mocrat must be of, always under the curse of God : never satisfied unless they are telling soKie lie against the fede- ralists The democratic prints say, that when the federalists went out of power they left but one million in the treasury, and that they had run the country a hundred million of dollars in debt. Was not this a great talc to tell us that did know no better; if they had said a hundred thousannd mil- lion, it would have been just the same, for our country had not been independent long enough, for to get in debt with any one; it is true our country borrowed three million of dollars from France to carry on the war against England, and the interest upuu that, and itwould be very strange C 10 ] if that would amount to a hundred million of dollars in the course of twelve years. But see how soon this tale was altered, after the demo- crats were in power only one year. They said by the good economy of the republican government they had, sunk that enormous debt of a hundred million of dollars. See what a fool he devil can mai^e cf a democrat. Was not this a grand tale, my federal friends; the democrats can outrun you far away, by telling you such dirty tales as these. But il they settled off that ti.ree million of dol- lars that our congress boriowed from France, then they did very well. But let us see by whose good economy they did that It is well knowr- by ail that lived at that time, that England and France both fell upon our mer- chantmen, after the American war was over, and that, be- tween them both, they took better than nine hundred sail of our merchantmen. Well but, says one, that canno: be, for France was in alliance with our covmtry So they were, but they did not take any of our vessels at that time;. but after the war was over, France, our ally- made a tem- porary peace with England to snit ihemselves, and for England to withdraw her armies from America, and so on— Our governor Franklm was ui tht ttmrt of Fraac^ in all this business. But please to observe that our country had made no commercial treaty of peace with England all this time; sa Ihey seized upon all our vessels that went to their islands. However, our Congress sent governor Jay from New York to England, who made a treaty of peace with lord Grenviile, between England and America on certain con- diiions. So back Ivli. Jay comes, and the next thing to be done was, that general Washington, as our president, muht either sign the ratification that governor Jay made with England, or else enter into a new war with England. So our oldest and best of generals consulted general Rut- lage, and other secretary judges of the United States, upon it, and rather than enter into a war again tht-y sign- ed the treaty. So Fngland allowed us three million of dollars. Well, the next thing that followed, France, our old ally, got angry with us ior making a treaty of peace with England; then they set to taking our vessels. Then our Congress sent an ambassadour to France to make a treatv, but they wanted our ambassadour to give them three millions of livres before they would attempt to [ 11 3 make a treaty with him. However, after they had tk- tained our arnbassadour for many months, they made a treaty of peace to suit themselves. But before they would make a treaty with us they got to taking our vessels, so that they came into our harbours and took our vessels out. Then our congress'was called in the summer time to con- sult what they had best to do to prevent them from co- j-ning up to our towns. So they passed a resolution for all the merchants in the United States to arm their ves- sels, and to go to sea and fight their way clear if they would not let them pass, while they got ready some large privateers to help them; the mer.chants were ordered not to take any, but to sink all that would not let them pass. And while they were getti; -g ready for sea Congress laid a three months embargo. Then all America was moved as a man to meet these Frenchmen ; for America was not lightly to be insulted by every one that had a mind to im- pose upon her. So in three months lime they went out and swarnied the seas with American vessels, that were ready to give these Frenchmen a little powder and ball, if they would not let Ihem pass. However, there was one of these French^ men who thought he -vroukl cool the pride of these haughty Americans that passed along the high seas so daringly. So down he comes with a sixty gun ship, as bold as a sheep, upon one captain Truxtun,w^ho commanded a 44 gun ship, « Who commands that ship ?" " Captain Truxtun." <* Strike your colours and come along side, before I blow a broadside into you.'* " Let us try what powder and ball will do first." Captain Truxtun then addressed himself to his crew, and said, now my brave boys, if ever you played the man in your lives, try yourselves now, and let us show this Frenchman what Americans can do. So to it they went, and you never saw a wasp play round a bee hive worse than captain Truxtun did around this Frenchman, for the space of three hours; when he found his vessel hulled to that degree, that he was glad to leave captain Truxtun victorious, or he would have sunk along side of him. In this way our brave tars cleared the Ameiicaii coast of these pirates. After this the Spaniards attempted to invade us across the Mississippi. This took a i^reat army to stop them. Afterwards the whisky boys made an insurrection in the back couotieg : this cost the trouble of another army to [ 12 J suppress them Notwiihstantling all tliese troubles, wlucli the Icderal government surmounted, the democrats have the impudence to say, that the federalists are tories, and \vant to sell the country. x\fter our country had overcome these troubles, they consulted measures to settle the expenses which accrued by the raising of these armies, and for the support of the navy to clear the American coast of French pirates. To efTect this object, a tax was laid upon all real estate in pro- j portion to its value. Thus the man who possessed a poor house paid but a few cents, whilst the possessor of a splen- did one paid a large sum : than which nothing could be more equitable. But before this could be all collected, the democrats divided our country and took our hberties from us, by saying that we were tories and wanted to sell the country to England. In six months after they got into power this tax was nearly all gathered in, which amounted to 1 1 millions and a half of dollars. But this was not all, for the democrats sold the bank stock and ail but a new world of back lands, and such part of the navy as they saw proper, which made many millions more : and then they boasted that the public debt was paid, and that the e^was ro many millions in the treasury besides D\it, my feder^^l friends, by whose good economy was this done ? It was by the illustrious conduct of the old American victors, whose lives werj not dear to them when they fought themselves free from the tyranny of Britain. But the federalists do not govern for them now, and they have no more federal im- provements to sell. Is it any wonder then that our country is in debt now. The democrats say that the federalists arc hired by the Eiigli h to print against them. What an un- likely tale that is. It is just like the hundred million of dol- lars. But have not the federalists as good a right to say that the French has hired them to print against the fede- ralists Is there any so busy at our elections as tliose that have come to our country since the American tvar ? Is it any wonder then ilsuch men by their lies could fall upon the spoils of victory after the battle was over; any coward would do that if he could So then they nidy well fill their French newspapers with lies ai;ainst th federalists, after they sacrificed their lives and fortunes to clear themstives from tiic tyranny of En{;kind, and this is a fact the demo- crats cannot deny. So that when the federals print ag:.. 'St the democrats they have a cause for their complaints be- C 13 ] cause the democrats were in Europe when the federalists fought the battles of America. But when the democrats print their black cloud of lies that they send to hell every- day about the federalists, it only serves to swell the pride of their father the devil, for he was a democrat from the beginning. See how he divided the federal unity between earth and heaven. Just so the democrats have done. — After we had foeght the battles and formed a federal con- stitution, then the democrats came from all parts of Eu- rope, and divided our country, and deprived us of our li- berty. As to myself, there are two causes which I shall never betray. First, by divine assistance, I never will betray the cause of my God with respect to my own immortal soul, to have a good name among mankind. Secondly, I never will betray the federal cause of my country for the sake of interest, though as a poor labouring man there is no one stands more in need of it than I do; though many for the sake of interest have turned their backs upon the federal cause. I see the democrats advertising the 4th of July to be kept in memory of their forefathers. I wonder where their forefathers were when the federalists declared them- selves free from the tyranny of England; they were not in America, but after the war was over they came to Ameri- ca by thousands, and swelled themselves, and said the federalists were tories, and wanted to sell the country to England. When Buonaparte got our democrats to lay an embargo agamst England, all the excuse they had to make when they saw our country was ruined by it, was, We have saved our shipping by it. What a childish tale that was. If^they wanted to take them I wonder what hindered them? Was It the dreadful and tremendous gun boats, laid up in our dry docks^to rot, that Buonaparte got our democrats to build •- 1 he democrats have told us a thousand times ot the attack on the Chesapeake. They never tell us any thmgofthe French burning our vessels at sea, and seizing numbers of American vessels and cargoes in their har- bours, sellmg tliem, and putting the money into their own treasury; and of keeping our seamen prisoners from their wives and children. All the democrats have wanted this long time was, that they might land an army in America, B «^ [ 14 ] and to make a king for every state, and set Thomas Jeffer- son emperor over them all, as they did to Buonaparte. Will you suffer it, my federal friends? let it never be said that America should bow down to the slavish sceptre of a democratick despot. You have already proved what they M'ould do if it was not for the want of your treasures: therefore, though you have been ashamed to be seen at our late elections, among so many strangers, "who have come to America since the war, and stand in crowds round the election poll, cursing and swearing, and saying that the federalists ought all to be kicked to hell. Yet, for your childrens' sake come forward to our next election, for your family are five times stronger than ever; therefore, come forward with them and give your votes; for you may see youi^elf, that the congress complain of our country being ruined for keeping the embargo on so long. Time was when the democrats could boast of paying off the publick debt, with the money which the federalists had prepared for them to receive, when they got into power; but they have no more federal improvements to make mo- ney of; therefore, arise you federal friends, and come and take the government again before these poor wretches come and take the rest of your property, under a pretence of keeping the government up. The democrats say they never enjoyed such liberty in their lives as they do now Did they ever speak a truer word? After the federalists had delivered themselves from the tyranny of England, then the democrats came from all parts of Europe, and joyned with a number, that, for the sake of interest, turned their backs upon their own country, and took our liberty from us; and now these fo- reign democrats are made officers to rule over us. Are there not Americans enough to rule our country, that you have to go to Europe to get tyrants to reign over us? If a federalist disputes the rightof his cause with a demo- crat, then, because he cannot stand the power of reason, he falls to cursing, and damning, and sinking the federalists all to hell; which naturally proves that their cause is bad. JVrise then my federal friend and come forward to the election and claim your rights before the democrats get a reinforcement from France, and then take your lives as well as your country from you. Five years ago tlierc was some members in Congress offered a resolution to the house for to raise an army, and [ 15 ] a suitable naw, to defend our common lights from the robberies that we, as an independent nation, daily suffered by the French and English. Then the friends of Bonaparte in Congress cried out: What, say they, go to war, to run the country in debt; let us lay an embargo upon all our merchant vessels, and if ihe English or French offers to come on our seacoast, we will raise a number of gun boats, thai will soon make these British dogs scamper back to their own country again. So, as the democrats were a majority in Congress, this resolution was passed; there was an embargo laid that lasted seventeen months, and the consequence was, that many thousand vessels that belonged to our merchants were layed up in our dry docks, to rot in the hot mud du- ring the summer season. Neither was this all the loss our country suffered. There was the duty upon import- ed goods, which amounted to many millions of dollars every year, more than sufficient to pay our governmental tax, that now has to be paid out of every poor man's la- bour. This was a league Bonaparte had made with our Presi- dent, in hopes that England would be so starved out by it that they would be glud to humble themselves to him. But when they saw that England got her supplies from another quarter, then they laid their Berlin and Milan de- crees, to cut off the supplies of every other nation that offered to trade with England; but the brave New Eng- land states, that first delivered America from the British yoke, began to see these French tricks Jefferson wanted to impose upon them by degrees. But our New England states told Congress that if they did not take those French restrictions from among them, that they would go to sea and see who would hhider them; and for fear that the spi- rit of seventy six should spread too far and wide among those New England men. Congress was glad to take oft' these embargo laws for a while. When Bonaparte heard that, he was so enraged at our President that he threaten- ed what he would do if he did not lay another embargo. So as Mr. Randolph and Mr. Grundy, two democratick members in Congress, said that James Madison was a Fr(!nch citizen, what could any one expect but that he would obey his master the Emperour of France. And then another embargo was laid, and last of all a war ^-^ainst England; and when some ef our federal members [ 16 ] ii) Congress last winter offered a resolution to make pcarc vvith England, says the democraick members, if we make peace vvith England what will France think. Have we any inheritance in France ? Methinks 1 hear every true American saying no. Why then should we care what France thinks. Let our congress do their duty as Ame- ricans, and not as Frenchmen, then we will be ready to serve them. But if it is true what John Randolph says, that Madison is a French citizen; if he wants to go to war witli England so bad; why dont he go to France, and fi^ht like a man, and not involve our whole country in blood to satisfy a foreign despot. Time was, my fellow labourers, when we fought for the independence of our country, from the tyranny of England, but now we have to fight the battles of France, by taking Canada for them. Fellow citizens, what shall we say, or what can we do, to put a stop to these growing evils, but by voting for fe- deral members in Congress again, that will support the independence of America. It is now nearly twelve years since these foreign democrats have taken our liberties from us, and have given the government of our country to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, who have suf- fered Bonaparte to take better than fifty million of dollars worth of our merchants* property; and when our mer* chants sent their petitions to Congress for indemnification ibr the immense loss of their property that had been sto- len from them by these French pirates, their petitions is thrown under the table. O ye Americans I and fellow labourers, I hope that the sufferings you have undergone these eleven years past, during the reign of these foreign democrats, has suffi- « iently cautioned you to take care who you vote for at an election again ; therefore, as you have tried the lying prin- ciple of a dcmocratick government, almost to the ever- lasting loss of your common rights and liberties at an election, come forward then to the ensuing election, and dont sell your vote to a lying democrat again for a glass of grog, but remember the flourishing state of our coun- try\vhen the spirit of seventy six had the rule over us, us our guardians then, we poor labourers had our own houses and lots of groimd, and a horse and cow or two. But alas, my fellow labourers, where are we now. See pale poverty looking in at our doors; our houses and lands h sold to support a set of lying democrats in Congress, [ 17 ] that can set from six to eight months at one session, and not pass one bill throua^h the house except it pleases Bo- naparte — John Rancloiph said that captain Cook might sail around the world before they passed one bill through Congress— and at the expense of six dollars per day for each private member, and five and twenty thousand dol- lars a year for a foreigner to rule over us as president. If I had only five and twenty thousand cents per year I would do more business than all the whole body of demo- crats have done these 12 years past. And what would you do, says one: why, I would tolerate all the merchants in America, that had a mind to risk their property at sea, to arm their vessels, and to go and trade with these nations that would trade with them, and if any nation offered to interrupt them on the high seas, for to make the best of their way by running from them, and if they still would not let them pass, to fight their way clear. But every merchant should give sufficient security for their good be» haviour to all nations before he left the harbour, and by so doing we should draw the wealth of all nations to America, and then the European nations Would be glad to make peace with us, when they saw we were determined to defend ourselves. But for us, as an independent nation, to beg and pleadj besides hireing those old troublesome nations to make peace with us, year after year, while we have nothing to defend ourselves with, is the greatest folly in the world ; for by so doing, America makes herself a mere laughing stock to the nations of Europe. You see therefore, my fellow labourers, what a body of ruling members we have had these twelve years past in congress, fighting those European powers at a distance, and at the expence of our whole country ; for Eni^land knows that there is not a wise man in the present ruling party in congress, and Buonaparte calls them a set of fools, for he knows if he can only get the worth of fifty millions of dollars more of our merchants property, that America will not be worth much after that. However, as Thomas Jefferson saw the ruin that he and his party had brought the country into, he thought it would be best for him to make his retreat from the seat of government as soon as possible, and for fear that common labourers should find him and his office hunters out, he thought it would be best to consult his.friend GaUa- B 2 [ 18 ] tin, the Secretary, how he might best escape the everlast- ing disgrace that wouid, no doubt, fall upon him, should common labourers find out his French tricks; for he was sure that Buonaparte would conquer England in a year or two more, and then who was to be crowned Emperor of the whole continent of America, but Thomas Jefferson? And in order to hold up the faini expectations ot him and his party, they greedily reported every French lie that was printed in the democratick newspapers, till they could hide their secr^ t councils no longer, for common experi- ence taught every labouring man, that we used to have bettc! times when the federals had the government of our country liut, my fellow labourers, let us hear what a cunning plot Thomas Jefferson, and his friend Gallatin, laid to deceive the people, before he left the seat of go- vernment. Why what do yuu think, my federal friends, would unite the hearts of these foreign democrats to hini more than the news of an overflowing treasury, from the wise and glorious economy of Thomas Jefferson; and, says one, what good thing did he do, that the name of Thomas Jefferson had become so illustrious in the ears of all tltese foreigners? Why, reader, do you ask that, only read the democratic newspapers of 1808 and 9, there you will see something that would even set nations to wonder- ing at the wisdom that Thomas Jefferson was possessed of, that in eight years tmie, he did not only settle off that enoi mous debt of one hundred millions of dollars, that the federalists had run the country into, but that he had left the public treasury with forty millions of dollars, so that Mr. Gallatin reported that there was money enough in the treasury, should a war break out by France or England against us, without laying a new tax upon our country. This joyful news soon run from Dan to Beersheba, and from one democrat to another, and not a man that was a federalists was suffered to hold an office any longer, but any foreigner that had come to this country since the Ame- rican war, though he narrowly escaped the deserved halter befure he left Europe, yet if he only would be a democrat, he was put in office, to rule over us poor Americans, and to call us tories. These were trying times, my federal friends. but let us see my fellow labourers, what this most wise statesman Thos Jefferson, and his friend Mr. Gallatin re- do with this surplus money^ that [ 19 ] was in the public treasury, why, in order to strengthen the next presidential election for James Madison, they wisely recommended the public to cut new rivers, and large canals through the country, and to make new turn- pike roads wherever there was any wanting, with this un- necessary money that lay dead in the treasury. But alas for us poor democrats, we are found out at last, for when the very first congress that Madison met, they had to borrow three millions seven hundred thousand dol- lars to answer their present demands, where is the forty millions of dollars now? Deny this if you dare, Mr. De- mocrat, Well, is this all ? No, the next congress had to borrow five millions more. Well, says you, what is the present congress doing ? Wbyy tliey have passed a resolution to borrow eleven mil- lions of dollars more. What is that for, say you. Why to v^o to war with England, the only friend that America has in this world. And what is that for? Why, because Buonaparte is not able to fight England himself, so that he has commanded our democratic president to raise an army of five and twenty thousand men, to assist him to fight the battles of the whole world. So in order to strengthen the nc^Kt election in favour of Madison's party in New England, the democrats hired a traitor by the name of John Henry, for the sum of forty eight thousand dollars publick money, to report to Con- gress that the federalists in the New P^^ngland states wanted to make a private confederacy with England aaainst the present government. This is like Jefferson hiring Tom Paine the impostor to write against the federal govern- ment, and against our Lord and Saviour. So he and his party had to try this traitor John Henry, to see what ef- fect his lie might have upon the minds of poor people. But as all traitors will be clothed with shame, so was he when he returned to congress his shameful message. Not a federalist could he accuse as a traitor to his country ; for the reader will please to observe, that it was not democrats he was trying to deceive, if he had, he might have re- turned with traitors enough to have taken the whole house of congress, but it was the American victors that once fought for the liberty and inde{)endence of their country; and the reader must know th- 1 they were not to be de- ceived by a foreign traytor now. [ 20 ] Come then, my American brethren, and try a federal government again ; for to our sorrow we have tried demo- cratic government, and you see yourselves, after they had spent every thing- America was worth, then they had to borrow three miiUons seven hundred thousand dollars in the time of peace. Well, did they settle that off? No, truly ; but the very next congress passed a resolution to borrow five millions more. Well, did they settle that off? No, really that is not what a democrat can do at all, for Buonaparte says that he wants money, and he says he must have it : so that instead of paying- off our public debts, we have to raise money to answer Buonaparte's purposes. But is this all they borrowed ? No, really ; the third congress under Madison's reign had to borrow eleven millions more. And what is that for ? Why, to take Quebeck ; for Buonaparte says, all that ever has been French shall be French again. And how are these many millions of dollars to be paid again ? Why, by the sv/eat of our brows, my fellow labourers. — Thebeare facts which the democrats cannot deny. When the federalists undertook to fight for their inde- pendence from the tyranny of England, we had neither men nor money to ml^et those powerful tyrants, so that we had to hire a French army, arms and ammunition, that cost us three millions of dollars, and with that small hire, by Divine assistance, we cleared the whole thirteen United States of America from that tyrant host. But the democrats tell us poor labourers that it will cost them eleven million of dollars to take Canada, see what a vast difference there is between men that rule for the good of their own country, and men that rule to please a foreign despot. Would you then my friends, as Americans, be so unwise as to vote for such men, that are forever running us in debt as they have done. The democrats are sworn upon the ruin of our country. I heard one of those foreign democrats say that before he would vote a federal ticket, he would rather go to hell; and oh, I was surprised to hear of his death a little time after: so I suppose that he got his wish. What an awful state a democrat is in, who then would be a democrat but a wicked maji. But says some of you, if we vote for a federal govern- ment will not the farmer and the mechanic, and common ^j» [ 21 ] labourer still ha^e to pay the public debt that the demo- crats have run our country into ? I answer, No. It wi be paid by opening a free and commercial trade with all nations ; then all the nations of the whole world will come and pour out their bounties into the lap of America, and the duties upon all those foreign goods will soon cause the smile upon the face of every true American again. 15ut vou must not destroy yourself by your own consumption, such as the idle use of snuff and tobacco. There is no man that uses tobacco but what he and his family spends moie for tobacco than would pay their yearly taxes. Uh, but, says one, 1 could not live without tobacco ; this is false in the strongest terms: a man may hve without to- bacco, but without his natural food he cannot live. How often has it been known that the duties upon one ot those merchantmen has amounted to five thousand dollars ; and suppose one of those merchants should make two such trips a year to this country, that would amount to ten thousand dollars. Well, where is the most wea thy tar- mer in America that pays only five hundred dollars tax per year itself; and suppose there was one farmer in Ame- rica 'so rich as to pav hve hundred dollars tax per year, how many such farmers would ^t take^ to make up ten vliouaaiKl dollars per year r— wliy, it would take iorty ot them to pay as much tax as one merchant pays a year ; and if one merchant pays so much into our publlck trea- sury, how much more would fifteen hundred or two thou- sand merchants pay every year, if they only paid one quarter as much, hut what do 1 say, it is said ot Mr. Girard, a Philadelphia merchant, tliat he has paid three hundred thousand dollars per year. Then, my fellow labourers, if you wish well to your families, and to the commonwealth of our country, come to the ensuing election then, and vote for men that will suppo t our merchants with a free trade again, and by so doing I trust, that the name of democrat and federalist will be lost in the great name of being called American brethren, and being thus united, no power on earth will be al)le to harm us. Reader, who can deny that the curse of God is on the councils of the present rulini; party in congress; have we not greatly sinned by rebelling against the federal govern- ment of America : witness the anger of our Maktv aga.nst our country has not every state in the union tremblea at [ 22 ] the awful peesence of Almighty God in the recent earth- quakes. And now I submit this small treatise to your most im- portant consideration, that if you want to be free Ameri- cans, come and vote for men that will guard the civil and religious rights of a poor man, without the fear of oflend- ing a foreign despot. I, for my zealous attachment to my religious profession, and to the federalists, have been unjustly turned out of meeting by a set of these foreign democrats, and because 1 have published their unjust pro» ceedings against me. No savage Indian or Turk has ever used a man so bad as they have me ; but the reason is, I am a poor man, and not able to go to law with them, T have been dragged five miles on a sabbath day to jail by them. At other times I was dragged out of meeting by violence; again I have been kicked and stoned, and had my clothes torn off my back, at the meeting house door, and at last they broke my bones with the butt of a great cart-whip, and if my federal friends at Wilmington had not rescued me from their blood thirsty hands, I should have been killed on the spot. Ihe officer that granted a warrant to those democratic tyrants in our church, to have •ine put to jcul, ij) Z^^i *^ necting, c^n sTai^d ar.l heai- the sacred name 6f God Masphemcd, wirhout lakhi^ any notice of it. So the reader may see that he bears the sword of justice in vain, to his own disgrace, for it is said, they that will not hear the cry of the poor, shall not be heard themselves. But if one of those tyrants that has a little money, calls upon him for a warrant against me for going to meeting, he gives it on the first word. And, notwithstanding all this abuse that I have receiv- ed from them, I offered to make it up with them, if they will only let me alone ; the quakers and presbyteriaiis have offered money to have it made up, and governour Bassett has offered money to have it made up, but they Mali not make up with me, but have bound me to appear at the next supreme court, where I am lo be tried for ci- villy going to my own place of worship. Therefore, my federal friends, when you are met together, please to make up a small matter and send to my relief, for God only knows what they intend to do with me, and I will still endeavour to shew you those hidden tricks that those lo- reigncrs, for the sake of their own interest, want lo !i»- pobe upon us» ♦ I ( t i I ^ I \