s
. . PCSISCRIPT s . ' . -TO
THE M REPUBLICAN." ,
There is no case, In which I would more
- Willingly exercise the jacobin right of dis
peming with nit engagement, than when the
'fulfillment of it, by laying aside the heart-,
( pleasing uk ot commendation, requires the
lath of severity to bt inflicted, that it may
-aWd but in terrortm, a rod in took, for. eye ry
nscaitily violator of a liberal conduct, or
those amiable courtesies, which sweeten the
- stream of human life. : In.myfirst :castig-
, : tion of the" " Republican," my, indignation
.. was strong, six) my arm .fell heavy like -a
skillful surgeon, I probed and cut deep into
"the wound, that tue chance of a cure might
'- be the more effectual Since its appearance,
i conjecture has been various, ana the spirit
.s)f an idle curiotity has gone abroad to disco
- vtr the aufbor of that ill advised, atrabilious
-.r- and indecent communication, which has pol
luted and forever disgraced the columns ol
the last Wilmington Gazette, signed Cast;
-atox. The texture of some minds is so
" infinitely delicate, thst the incipient swell of
lady's bosom, never fails to produce the
. reprehension of dignikti prudery, and an ac-
, cidentai exhibition of her ancle, would throw
Into- a similar lamentable situation Willi
sniss F r, in a theatre at the northward
vrho fainted a was- on seoinsr a centleraan en
teithe box with buckskin inexpressibles on.
"and probably might be. recovered from his
I inanition, with an ease and remedy equal to
' this lady', to whose nose the application of
a Key was an instantaneous resiorawvc. in
deed it is ridiculous tote' a' man ' effect the
v aqueamishntts of t prude i tho'like her also,
' his thoughts may run too 'often on , what he is
-ashamed to acknowledge in public yet loves
- to dwell on the secret recesses of his Impure
j imagination.' I am led to these remarks,
1 -which the, " Republican" may rejoice at, as
; It delays, and perhapl will soften, the casti
v gatory postcript intended for him, because I
Save heard that the exordium of mjr first
castigation has been hooted out of the domi
. cils of some gentlemen, for the reason thatsj
I it was improper to De rperusee oy jacics. it
v is not probable that any lady will attempt to
' : read a long political disputatious essay. , But
J" grant,that their predominant curiosity should
j take a peep at this highly wrought and inde
licate picture, 'What moral virtue will it de
( prive them off -.What vicious tendency will
lit incline them to f at the worst, it can only
. be termed euar, which might shock a little
their delicacy, but which very shack would be
an antidote to its supposed horrible effect.
, Shakespeare, that divine poet of . nature, in
.many of his dramas, has written with much
greater ptaihnessot expression, and yet he has
." brewing m tnipVtteTlftoy? Vhln5
.' man win prescrioe tne Dible trom the library
, tf a lady, because if contains paasaires offen.
. eive to his nice pahtejbut the very next mo
tnent ha will hand to his wife or daughters, or
, .tvviuiuiiiu kw vii bic vi jrumig laaies, some
'. novel or romance, the prurient offanrinir of a
ucaicu ana licentious imaginanon I , But I
. have done with theie Bobbin Jays' of the
. rnaie sex, and address myself to the lie
publican, 1 who may be compared to the apo
thecary of Shakespeare, for 'his business
. seems to be M cul in? of limblti."
. The RcpuWicin opens the grand drama of
. his political literary effusion, by quoting the
following lines from Mr. Gaston's address,
(indeed we muit acknowledge that the Re
Jublic&o? U so liberal in hi quotations from
fr. G'e admirable address, that we are in
dinted to sunpeet hie motives to be the ssrne
.with a mean writer, who publithed " Inte.
Istin ' Critique, . upon Shakespeare," in
which he made him bleed so copiously from
his bet veins, of abundsnt exiracts of his
most beaotiful passages, that the work joon
acquired the title of Shakespariaoa, and had
on that account a rapid sale.)
To evince how this republican unites the
grace! of composition with a profound gto
, . tnetricsl knowledge, we will state the paral
lel he draw
' Suppose person fiving at a distance,
. who never ssw Mr. Csston, should publish
to tho world (with a preliminary that he had
., to pretensions. to ascertain with precision)
that although he, Mr. Gaston, might be qua
. lifted to teach a country school, to write occa
ionWIy, paragraphs for newspapers, or that
even had he sosred so high, as to have been
, author of a pamphlet, yet, that all theie qua
lificationa, great as they are, would not fit
lh'irn fotJho.jflk.oX Xlcctor I Hmagmrhe
would enter his protest agsinst such a decU
. aion. . . . . . . . ;
Mr. Madison must at all events be proved
, to be a man of firmness. To accomplish this
Is Inserted a long biographical sketch of him
from the Monitor. The world should know
who this biographical eisayist is To all
Whom it may eoncr rn, Jit it now known, and
never hereafter dovbted, that J. CCol
tin, whom the editor of the North Ame
rican, publishing the records of the Chancery
Court as evidence, declares to be a recorded
' rogue, which -aid Colvin, speaking of the
state of New-York, hs an editorial article in
the Washington Monitor of the l5tKinsl.de
dares, M I have the most cimcluilre convic
tions that N. York will display a repablicsn,
patriotic energy, thst will shaki ethe Clintm
faction, whJch like a vmthltsi di'JS
guru her ftotitical iharaxttr ; The said
ColSft cstabUbed at Ws.hing'on city, a
paper citled the Monitor or more properly
Manitnir, under the ff , by the deiire, and
, tjpoa the powerful patroQige of the ie
I - ' ' '
cretary of state," to supercede tae editor of.
the. National Intelligencer, .whose mildness
did not uit4ha violence, that was necessary
to obtrude Mr. Madison into the presidential
cbair, wrote the story of Mr. Msqison's Ufa
aod"character . 'Ts a pity he bad aot waited
a little longer, he then would have completed
the now unfinished wotk, by relating ;and de
ploring the political death of his patron, be
fare hs hrt rhsjinled hiativihir a StMJtheOSis.
Bead again the life of this man of vaunted'
neives, aiu ten me wir. icuunyu w'i.
does it prove more than an excessive timidity
- Air. Aiauuon s nrsi appearance in puuue .
life was in the year i7"f6.; . Ife.was elected
....... ... . !L!i.
in the spring of that year a memoer ot tne
convention of Virginia fofhis nativei county;
By that convention -the present, government
of .Virginia formed, "and the delegates of Vir
ginia were instructed h the month of Mjfy
of that year, to vote in CongreW.for a Decla
ration i of I odepehdentcU- Mr. Maduob, ills'
said, took no part, in the business bf thst As
sembly owing to his extreme diffidence.
IIe was soon after wards appointed a member
'of the executive council of Virginia,' and toil
tinuea a memoer oi mat oosra unui ne was
delegated, to represent that common wealin
in the Coneress which sat In the year 1779.
During all this time it is not known that Mr.,
Aiauisoo ever mauo iuuub uiiiiaj u uia
abilities, and it is presumed he owed his ad'
tancement to the strong pledge that wss
made by some of our roost distinguished citi
cens. for .his talents. . Of that number Mr.
Jefferson is believed to have been the first to
distinguish, and the most active to brioginto
his country's service, the superior mind of
M Madison, whose diffidence and back
wardness were such, that it is possibfi his
services might have been lost to the ni'ion,
if the utmost efforts bad hot been made to
draw him into the active exercise of his paw
trs it is believed by a gentleman who anew
Mr. Madison well when he nrst went to con
gress,that he would not, in that body, small
as it was, have been able to cobquer his ex
treme embarrassment, if U had not been. for
the great pressure arising from the.jmpdr ,'
ance oi me en.is, apu ui ucugiuincuiuci
associated with men who could not, without
his aid, sastain'the. common burthen."
In proportion as it delightful tnT contem
plate the modest ingenuousness of yo'mh and
talents, it is the more painful to have 0ta re
terse forced upon our eyes.' .'The mild; the
modest Madison, who in early "yearsi tWugR
teeming, with the resources of powerful)
mind,' could not, from, excessive diffidence,
be brought to support by his talents, the de
claration or our independence, has lately,
losing that most interesting charm to talents,
TDwdoyr forced himself by the Washington
caucus, for the acts of his immediate friend
II under his own eve, I consider as his Own actst
K.yeu iuo io Tne-Trtirnn- tuimitlnfotiaT
pins oi our presidential elections, from
which, should he succeed, God only know,
if we can ever recover.
On the subject of Mr. M.'a being a French
citizen, I shall say but a word. The fact
seems generally .admitted. Colvin, of the
Monitor, 'attempted to justify h j and the
Republican" speaks of it as an honorable
compliment. ;'; .
M Frora these friends of America, these ds
fendere af the Rights of Man, it was, that
Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Madison received the
compliment of citizenship, and for which thty
are now accused of an undue' attachment to
France; forgetting that lha.t;nation is now
ruled by a Monarch, and that consequently
neither Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Madison, nor any
Ath rr.ki;n ... I J . ' '
...... f.fu.iwMi, w muj lunger rsnicnvoer-
ed." - - .-t . r-v 'n i
As a mere honorary member of a literary
institution, no improprieta can be attached to
him i : 1c although the receiving of so peculiar
a povilege as the citizenship of a foreign coun
try cortfers.whlch is lomethingmore than a li
terary honor, by admiring him to many civil
immunities and some civil efficts,might,be ii
consistent with the allegiance & duties which
previously bound him to his own country i yet
still 1 would not regard the mert fact as of sny
great consequence But when we connect
with the idea that Mr. Madison is a French
citizen, the fact, as I conscientiously believe it
to exist, of his unvarying biaa aod partiality
towards Franse, I cannot conceal the suspi
cions wnich aaue, tbat Mr. M. though ha
msy not be a corrupt President, will certain
ly be a very dangerous ope, . . r
Towards the conclusion of this farrago of
nonsense, vultrar abuse and ineonaiatetu-Ua.
J"' frying JbriUianle ffusion t ifi
" Fellow-citizens, of ihe country t You have
Iw j a a . . .
oceo asceivea. important discovery!
M And you are still deceived." Condolatory
comrouoicati6n 1 - No'w'let us hear who are
the deceivers. "What, not a word of Infor
mailon on this head ? You tell as, we are in
dsnger, yet will not point out who brought
us into this danger. That was not kind to
your fellow-citixeos. But your hooorisso
nice, tbst you will not turn informer, sad
your heart to ovei flows with the milk of hu
man kindness, thatyou coold not expose even
your enemies.' Terhaps another cause, op
rated-that you did not ll to (urn itatc'a
evidence, befora you were, sure of a pardon
and a sufficient reward for your treachery-,.
Here follows a truism, which hespcakt t pro
found kiowledge of (he philosophy af human
nature. Men art mora eUy leM by their
senses than their understsnding.w.- YiMhoa
vile disturber of human happiness, will dost
thou know that in man, passion prevails over
the blood of repulstlon, to make sanguinary
ihabeimefyourproiclytut-. Designing,
or prejudiced, men, or perbaps both, have
told you, tbat the: embargo was unnecessary
that it js oppressive, and have asked at the
same time, with emphasis V you not see
it I Do you not feel it t Has it not;reaucea
the price, and stopped the tale of your pro
ducer and haa not your property been taken
in some instances, and sold by execution, for
Wtich less tbVn it talite, to pay debts, whicsi
you would never have Ctl: but ' for the em
bargo I" Yes, we'do hear, sec and feel it.
ot a reflective mind but teems with its hor
kiblaev'da i Not a man rifted with sensation,
but shrinks from its deleterious touch, and
many arejmble, under norror-oreaiiung
ibesiilence Yet this abominable act will
' not let the por man enjoy the fruits of hard
lnaustrv ins oreaa not oiuki u uk
sweat of, a cfteeriui ana ueaun-givmg iauor,
but it is steeped in the bitter tears wrung from
an achinr heart, whose very' throb weeps
blood And yet this u Republicen'1 dares to
bring in John Qumcy Adams, tbat proiouna
statesman and, friend to his country, as he
calls him, to whom with some appropriate
tness might be applied, wht was moral blas
phemy, coming from the pen of Tpm T'aine,
in reference to our jmmortal. Washington t
h The world will be puzzled Ko decide whe
ther you are an apostate or an impotter r whe-
her yott have' abandoned food principlcsw
WIIClllr'TUH svt; ,f.i. wy a. j..-.
of the embargo";'"v " " -k.V-h
In a subsequent attack on Mr. Gaston, you.
complain that to your charges he has given
ho other answer - thart Kjat contradiction.
But when you tell me how an anony mous and
political calumniator, who skulks behind the
infamous covert of concealment, against
man, who, in broad daylight, on the eminence
of conspicuous talents, steps forward in avow-
-m,A .ml n.n r-Uamrtr-T t .nlicitm with mndnr
and unassuming, modesty., the suffrages of
his tellow citizeas, i or an omce at mis mo
ment the most Important to his country, and
in a strain of gentlemanly and trresist&ble elo
quence, shows that hit sentiments are found-
ilsd an the rock of our political salvation
.When such a vile scribbler as the Kepubli-(
can" assails with filth and faUebood such a
character av Can, what snilder aniwer can
he expect than a flat contradiction ? Contemp
tuous silence would have been, perhaps, a'
more appropriate one. v
. I understand that in this town, Mr. Gas
ton has been censured for speaking disre
spectfully of mechanics generally- This
charge, 1 am confident, is a calumny, against
tine of the gentlest dispositions, and one of
the clearest minds, with which the benevo
lence aod light of heaven has ever aniraatnd
a human frame. . He believe tbat as much
good sense and genersl information is 1o be
found in that class as any other ; that tbejr
have political and civil rights J the same un
flerslaadlng to comprehend, and propriety in
tttv-wi"l"ihr."lfcf;.IIi.t other individuals. " .
.....srai,1FVIl(II) urawn oyms owir
maiwny nana, ne must have involuntarily set
to it himself for the model. '. . '
" With Mr. Madison as' a writer, I have
long been familiar, and Jo the productions of
his pen have been accustomed to assign no
mall degree of commendation. .Thev be
speak a mind of natural accuteness, conver
sant with theories ot government, fraught
with metaphysic learping, and stored with
historical knowledge. His style is rspicu
ous, neat, often elegant, and not deficient in
energy That Mr, Madison too, is a geatle
man of mild .temper, pleasing deportment,
and personal integrity, I have always beard
and believed. Such qualification as these,
are certainly not lightly to be valued. They
give him claim to the respect and good will
ofhiefelow-nien.V , -
bad almost taken my leave without the
ceremony of bidding you Mr. Tinker Repub
lican, farewell. Your name k person I know
not. I have Islely hesrd that you are a me
chanic. I am sorry font. I feel for that very
useful and respectable dais of citizens. tVm
mechanic, for the disgrace which an unwor
thy brother has, by indecently meddling
with what he . does hot understand, with
out their, consent, knowledge or fault, cast
upon them. Retire to your anvil, and
tfy to hammer out a bad spoon, aod get
aoroethingto (ill it for the sake or
ly. , For your own sake,' 1 shall expect yoar f
v.rum.j win ww kwciui, ana lor your de
serts will be at. the charge of providing for
you the appropriate artitle of remeneration,
" CASTIGATOR.
TO THE PEOPLE
0 tht District af Wilmington amtCowtj
' J" " Sampson, , . '
' In the last Cszttte, I submitted to your
consideration, tome remarks on the condition
of the country t and tome observations
the prflpriety of testing Mr. Madison's claim !,
to the Presidency, by a review of the course 1
pursued by Mr. Jefferson and himself, in their ;
umiamrauonoi me general government
The embargo being a measure more im
mediately, and most injuriously pressing en
us, lormed the princlpsl subject of those re
marks and as It is one, which Its advocate
appear determined to dsfend, In all Its coose
qHences, .it is deserving of some further no.
tiee. Wa have seen tbat it wss a tnesture. '
fll.1,1..- K m-r ... . I ,, ' I
;vw-rT eairicaic me aoministra
tion from the embarrassment, Into which
their previous temporising policy had Involved
Jhemi nor calculated to attain the objec),
ostensibly, held out in the President'. m-
age, and reiterated ty the Republican Com- J.
mitteee, In their circular, as laducemants to '
its adoption. Indeed icsnnet suppose, either
ir. .enersoq or Mr. Alad ton. to ha u Am.
I fi'i,n't h penetrat'iorH as not to have perceiv.
' d, thatlt wsl IU caiculattd to pttssn cither
pttssn cither
tctmm, n'pi Of prflpeflf I trad tbat it would
rather diminish than increase our ability,
aaceessfully, to resist, by more , energetic :
measures, any of the belligerent powers, that
anight ultimately become our enemy. '. Soma
other object or motive, must, therefore, haw re
produced tbe measure. , If not, why were ,
our eastern end western atates, interdicted,
their accustomed trade with the neighboring'
aettlementa ot England and Spain ! Or why -were
not tbe vessels of other nations permit
ted to take off out urplu produce L Neither ;
of these indulgences would have subjected ;
our property of any descriptkft, to the nazard
ofcantnra under the decrees ot Napoleon, Qt .
the. orders or the Jiriusn iking. ' uui, roorfA;
especiallyi why were we not ourselves per
mitted to exDort. by the- employment of our
own ahippingi upwards of thirty million of.
dollars, in value, ol aoraestic proaucc, in
course of tradeerhich our merchants bad been
in the habit of pursuing, and wh;cn tney
might have continued, notwithstanding these
decrees and orders. nai we migui wiin .
afety, have exported articles of domestic,
growth to thj amount, which Is tipwards of
three fourths of what We annually shipped, i
when we had an open trade,-waa made evi
dent by f sutement of Mr; Key, represen
tative in Congress, from the state of Mary
land," It i,4rue, the republican committee, v
have undertaken to doubt the correctness of
this gentleman' opinions and inferences.
They tell us, that he is better versed in prin .
ci pies of law, than in principles of commerce) ;
and by . a hvpolhetical exhibit of their own, "
and a course of fallacious reasoning, tliey
have endeavored to establish the truth of their ;
remark, and the incorrectness or his state
ment,' I will not pretend to decide . on tne ;
information toroparatively possessed by ?iry
Ker and these . gentlemen. ' They hsve 4
very- extensive knowladge of the principle :: '
of conmeree , .but they . mast - permit u: to.
doubt their eupenority to that gentleman,:
this Dsrticular, until they furnish us' with
some other evidence of it, than, what la to be;-.
found m tbe page ot tneir circular, ilia
slstement. was founded on documents U4hVr .
before the House of Represenutivcs, and .--is
entitled to more credit than the committeel'
have a right to claim, for the one exhibited
by them. ,The argumrnt, which they KavoV
offered in support bf their opinion, is contra
dicted by all experience, and is the very op
posite to that, which would be uta 7 mrfl
ot plain and common understanding. " ;
snsn of this description Would say, that if t
any particular nation, Sweden for instance.-'
we exported produce to the amount af five
hundred thousand dollars, at ajtlme, whttt.'
the trade of all tbe work) was open to us, we
should, of course export to that nation, a
greater amount, when a number of the other
nation, and some of them neighbours te
Sweden, had prohibited us from tradingwithv
them for although Sweden, for her own con
"rnrWoar Sroduce. v-t kT'.Tn.j jrTT
a " y wsvaMeaatiA wUUII .
Sfine'!,t,?jr '"Ine the channel
through which othernatlon would be sun.
phed with those articleitbey had been accu. - -i
tomed to receive by a direct trade wUh ue .
It would be fno consequence how those other
nations should receive their supplies. -The,
rent for our produce would be enla-ged, CV
Jber by a dirert or indirect course ; and thersv
snodoubt. but either by the one or the others
. wul D,Ki h. way into their markets when.
it Is considered, that Buonaparte, notwiih- -
contrary, hasnot been able to exclude. the '
Wanufacture, tf Great Britain, from- -hi
own dominion. As these restrictions, '
therefore, could not. from the cause.
!r . ,nTly.Bwry to the Mtensitler J
other object or motive, could hsve induced is. '
It hss been long believed, by many, that it
riginated n Mr. Jefferaon'. indiffere'e 2 '
Z..T.r.u ,nw?,t H formic
r-. U.M .yaiem oi coercive poheyi whicb
the administration ha(e adonted fcr IL i
crnment of the country. T brUef la
f lih u,vocl of tbemessure. tbat
U real object waa to compel Franoak Kng.
land to rescind their restrictive regulatiomt.
agab.tourtr.de. lfw, bec.roeV. mau
terof serious enquiry, whether such a...-
em, . which iacalcete an-cpinion-
t?nt W S,rmr ,he MlnT.
terrupted, or the ether were lalriBged, 2)r
either the honour, or interest of the natiot-
oth-a poliey, would-be,-both
pusdlsnimou and destructive, but la1.
r.U,.VpeCuHrM- Iwtlianownthir
n,.t?i competitor r .
the naUona or Europe, tbat they View with a
jealous eve our growing commercial Im.
romance anrf fcnIt of Juaice
alone. Is not fuSctent td Hflraln ihem.
Irom throwing U our w,y e?er obaacle.
joytnent of a free lr,de,. in common svl.f,
hemfelye, They have ,Wr,f tn dp.
Inrie, and Ike iJa U ...-...-T:
Jhii day, that nations hiving cooflicHor
loterefl., .,,,obe blucnctd by the.V
oirreMi and in their aWi
-a r a . VfllvvMyi
each o ber, governed by a fenfe of ,r.t
UUJUj oarp,at ihat our riwi tailt
not commit injuries and depredation en
Pi, hrirever wpportsinliie and Induce,
snents Jiall offer of doing- fo with impunl,
ty,. If the ire made to btliete, w tin be
n"5 Vsr Uomh cocnpetiiloi, that ln.
Head bf fuDporUog our iIrii hr the ener.
l'cl let sulon w will cijio into cur-
t
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