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1 Address to the People of New-England 1809

handle is hein.beal/addpplne0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AN ADDRESS, To the People of New-England. PEOPLE OF NEW ENGLAND, IN the name of every thing that is dear and vaiuable, your happiness, the fame of your ancestors, the recollection of yrir re- volutionary services, your sectional and national honor, and the duty you owe to your country at this crisis, I invoke your attention to its present condition. I entreat you to reflect seriously on the following view of our public affairs, and of the conduct of govern- ment, in particular, as it relates to those things which at present interest your feelings, It is offered to your consideration by one who was born, educa. ted, and lives among you : who is not elevated above, nor depress- cd below a participation in your sufferings and enjoyments : aod who knows the high importance of your commerce, which he will never cease to cherish. He asks your confidence for your government, which is your shield and protection and without which you must experience all the evils of dispord and civil war -He asks it, not when you are called to declare a preference for a favorite candidate; but after an important election, which has decided for years the course of government. At a time when the two great powers who rule three quarters of the *globe, are threatening this republic with de- struction ; and attempts are made to subvert the institutions of civil order, to humble your government, or to dissever the union, and introduce all the evils which have afflicted Europe for cen- turies. While foreign and civil wars have for seventeen years marched over Europe carrying death and desolation in their train, wnile .nation after nation has been overturned, and tyranny on. tyranny generated- hile not a nation of the Old World has escaped these incatculable calamities, we have remained a quiet, prosperous, and happy people. But the day of our adversity has arrived ; our example has ex- cited hatred, our happiness, envy ; and those warring powers, -who neter united in any thing else, have manifested a unity Of sentiment in their de sire to de5t.roy our republic.

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