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-, f - a" :i .10 f ' toff- ? 1" v i f ,r- V'' " ' di i i ' 13 : . .-j H $ I : ! - 1- ' i tf;- : ..... , P,(4 J.. . V r . .- (I '4.11:.-.-i . tL.z: p: ! . i i ! ' ' tip "NeonariffBtit expenfe of the war or Indian department," under the appropriation, for thefe purpofes, byt he act of Congrefa of the 4 Vs J'e. 7i)6 The " public re iTlcordaifShe jM:couutnt ptove that thi mo. oey came into my hands in June 1796: The authority of Judge Bratkenn'dge Wilt not be doubted, that. I paid ita.way in July, 1796, long before the ' eledion or adiiniftration,fl tor Adamgf no before my name was mentioned, or tho'ignt cTiS a candidate at the Pcnnlylvania electtoa ol 1700- . ' Wi i":'ii..,J:'"f A8 tf Mr. Lewis, who ia fid to bave i oe n an ag tr.c for the war department, and to hue hid public monies in hit handa bout the fame time, I know nothing of the man, or hit employment, 'or delin quency. I "'ay hae feeh him'," "oqcaBon aily, in the public officei ; but ttever bnd the fllghttft acquiiintance ' nr cdiwrxion with him, at any time of my life. The af fettion that Mr. Lewis's receipt and mint . happened to be on' the fame day, proses, however, that the author of "the calumny had accefa to the publit bor.k", and knew thereat time that the money firlt ad vanced in 1 796 5 butchofe to tiiftott fads and dates, fa as t: cumieft it with 179 "" 'and thereby "gtve "pKnliW'ity" Vliis i uf picion of eleftioreering corruption, as bafe in Tta nature as pitiful in ita eKifnt. ' - ; JAMES ROS3. . J EXTRACT OF A LETTER. ' It is a fubjeft of everlaftfhg regnt, nd of deep humiliation, to perceive, the lufl tf popularity" flioiikl hive fcized upon the founder of the republic, and corrupted their eaily and crrt3 principlea cf legifla. tion j who could imagine thnt Mr. Jrfer fon, the bosde l penman of the Dctlarat'ton of InUpmicn:e end wiiterof the Notts m Virginia, ) '.lie fame Mr. Jt ffrfon now Prelident of the Uni'ed State a ! Intheyfr7, we find him vindicating the ncctffity f te pnation from the government of Great JBrirsin, heeaufe (he were depend-rt on the k;n, lone, for the lenurt of th;h. offices, and the a-nount and pnyment of their Jaiitres' and bitnvfe 'the king had trken away-characters, aoliihrH our mod vrJuall laws, and altered fundamentally the form of our government ' In the lar!, (his Nates on Vnginn) we find him the advocate of tommeree, the frind of an efficient tiiivy, ah enemy to (he fylleu;, of ' liicorporatiny rehners-iottyUm b()y Witie ' a mod abte a'1.1 nectaefl advocate, f ir the 'entire inde pendrnce of the juet," eiiher oi executive' or ' legijlatlve' poe r and above all, an" i'n . cu'CMor ot the mnft deticste an,l rcrupnlotio Jy adherence tn the Writttn'znViifiMj: of our country ! Compare xck pr'mc'p'cs w ith hia pratlicet, (We he became 1 tan;;iJite for popularity,' and an inlrumetit. of popular prejudice an I ignorance; niid ho, .can re f 1 a i 11 from excluiming, ' O. Lucifer, for of the morning, how art thm fa'ltn I" The.fadt in, and however it may rrortify 'the pride .of rppublicanifm, to confefa it, yet it cannot be conct'ed, t'tat, few have virtue enough to pnt tlioff principles into - exe.rciXe. at'd to pu-lue a f; !Veni of po'iiit and iegiflKron. conf-itniable to ih- erifiate? of found vt'ifdom y-viam fp'inging out .of. epciience, anJ dirt6le4tn the fecu'ity, & he permanent, of all th'ich confitures civil liberty, and focUl hnpp'mefs ! Mr. J' ffietfon has numbered himfeif with the tribe of vair, and vifonary politiciann, who, have belitv. eel that the in But nce of perf a wtfsharB&er and pro'tfiiona ''could ftvay empire and Jix -' tl dttHmes of a people! lint tiow illufoty, how dcllrutive, the delufion Hit inau .' gtiaral fpeech, however fair, cr. 'falfe, -as .1 Pthjjig .shit, phili Crphy nothing .A.-'i lev pl'illic,! and flaitering anftbert, too weak and partisan !trt(?es, noshing"; "a ew yi'an, a fmgle froak of popular, frr.iim'enr -. will former obliterate he man and hi -cobweb aphorifmt ;If ever a fair t i I wai made of Jentimtnlal' government, France ht fu nifhed ua with it, and alfo the.re.' ! .The long fncccfli n of republican patri.. on, from Br'xffntxa Merlin, the laft of the d'feBery, atttmpted to govern, on the plan o Mr Jejftrfon th.y courted 'popularity' and fung nymnB uf philnfophy, . to their ficklrTdivini'iy, ' the people ; The people hi ru'd to" every new politic d Harltqnin, and ihtn cpnfianed him to the guillotine, and hit filiy fpeech'R and ha'rranguei to evetlalling cou'empi Lata wa no more ; y God and Religion weie Uafphemed and fevflrd j pf ' f 1 ns a nd 'T proper- y , found" not frcurity In a permanent tonflitutionni'miui . . flehdhy men not shove the, laity vanity of ' cormtry beer tioufe applaule Mr. jfef Jcrfon ca.rrie to , (he'goverhment by meant wh eh have raiftd iioufanda before him to power.. jind he will Iha're the fate if every pamjite of (thofe whom dtmagofjuea cali) - the yeople, In lyrji he toi k .tfj- fatal reWution, of oppofiifg to the aJmiitijlratitn of the etrai I government the force of lo Ht 4vds cue of a committee of five, tuba drfrt ii up, there -is fprinkted. through it many Pj HiilrANTASTiC ' phrafes, big tu'tth pimj eus nothings ! ;. . ; phiftry, calumny and mifreprefenhitlrtn ! His letter to Mdzzci, wherein he denoun ces the canftitution as monarchical, and fjeneral Wafhiagton as an apoJatt, affords accompaniyi with the r tnoft corrupt and unfeelingmeart ; He has continued the gfrA File Leader of the malcontents the rtcioq?, and .adl'whu '.Tavoui ivfftionary liberty 1 agaitij Ttch ileader.j ad fuch aoxiliaiis, n adminiHration defending on popuh favpr could lopg prevail. Inge, 'f neral, it has pioved an eafy tak . for un principled demagogue to uebauchviibe pub lic mind, or rather to gain over l(the, weak and ftifpiciopj populace, and driverom the fuppo'rt of goVemment the wife aad . virtu ; om from a fentiment of difgult. Mr. Jef feifon and his' party" however, dij not gain a fudderTvictory ever the frienda Qliie con Itiuuion, and the fupporteri of a legitimate, firm and e'r'ergetic government ' tjw, (Irug le wis long between falfe and ,.fntjndulent appeals to the p.-lTions, the errors, .and pre judices of the people-, and their innate fenfe of the purity, of govrnmeit, ahri -pcrfeA and daily conviction of its pradiical blef fings. Vet the wor"k of eiiforgartization and diTcontent went on, events favored its progTefg.-afliflhe (ffae mnCUaferd"in" Tavor of popular demagog urgover the- wife and truly patriotic This is ihe natar.d and een ain refult of Jj$em ofcaluniny iddrfTed t popular Ignoiauce and p.-fflaa 'and per fiVc-ett Z th'fUjipn'ght. the enligRTfocd and tnle peaceable at length, ceafe lo AnigglCf tiofe whom the con fpiratoTS call ihe peo ple,' but who in fat only compote the mif led and the tutbulrnt, are left to tbemftlves, and ihey crown their leaders defiled as they are, wirh power and confidence I :nd this is called the triumph of repubijcanifm ! Happy for our country, if this bad only been the, triumph of a demagogue, of a gre'at popular Mammoth, over hirfpli'iical adveirfories ! . . 1 For a fhort deiiifivc moment, rtnatttr ed ourftlVes that Mr ? Jejerhm (raving gained the otjeft of all hi's wifhes woulc), re ajfume the principles and chrcr ofa wi'te and impartial tegiflator ! ' I wai weak enough to think fo. His inaugural creed and the folemn profejjions in it, of regird tor the conftitution at d anxious fo'icitiJe to maintain the credit of our cou"try, p. re unite its citizens, in bordi of pointed har mony, were I thought pledge, thoui but a flight one. " What. I moll relied or was, the evident ' . ihtcrefLwaich. invite hiir' purfuc this line of conduft. lNe'er. fwas a man placed (cohfidering all circurnilancea) in a fitcaiion fo "propitious, for at lead re. Itoiing to fecial haimony its intttconrfc.' His partizans iiirl declared that they X pcfted from a courfe of dignity vripsriiali ty t that his meafures would be nnciliating, conjlttutional A faf:, in (hort, ttik the wife ind modera'e, every where would be fat it fied. Never did any people more aid'e'ntly defitre to lofe all (heir anxieties anddifFer 'nces under fuch an adminiflmtion. I . The Federalifts only defired a feeure and rjfaient giivtrnment, the demrcrats wtte. ptrparrd to Ve plealed and gratified with Jyrr, Jef ferfomX. all events: He had no political (lifftculf'es to encounter ; a major iVy of the peop'tawas lttorght were in his favor, maj'titifs in both hou a of conicfs a majority of (tales, all the heads of depart ments fil'rd by hirrfi-lf, ihe treafury con taining three millions of do!lari, the Eu ropean wars with all their attendant?.. ev'U drawing tca ctole, a tre.,ty j.ill made with France, the people, of the5 Unitee!1 States rich and profperouv not a cloud to obfeure the political horizon, eiiher at home or abioa'1, and more itian al, the great body of patriotic . arid . intelligent feJeralifts, (from whom 'oppofitioo might be ticjieAed heeaufe it was deferved) anKioufly looked for, and even eXpefled that Mr. Jeffetftn fui rounded by circuovftancea fo ptojjitioua would (hine out, the fupportet ofthscon ItitUtion, the patron of credit and com metce, that he would infufe into evrtyde. partment civil and tnXlitary, a confidante in his view s to afford them aid and Jlitfi'tlity ; and yet above all the American citizens looked for repofe after his folemn afTur ances, that ' political intolerence ' fhculd never (lain the anna's of his philofophic fdminiltratiofl .' Great God .' was this all a dream 1 is it poflible that a man with fuch felicity of fiuaiion, with fuch tiea of honor and inte relt, wih fuch overruling inducements to be magnanimous, and to fecure evj;n f.a g'ainlt his own narrpw views) ajulVand permanent Jame,'l is impifiible that tie (hculd falljuddenly, without temptation or motive, from thisoremandmgrrmindi and una; nto the abyfs of ititignificance and con-tenv'-fr .r" .' ' ' . Thiahaa happened from the comnjence ment- ofhi adminitlration, we liave, wit. m fled nothing buyTeriet'of grovelling and vindictive conduft ; glofTed over withifiim fey and pitiful fophiftie'dtiont, not ijinke aft ota private or public nature which his not been defigoed and calculated to. rem the he 'tis, rain the reputatian, and in mart in ftances the livelihood of thofe who; had , borne 8 part, or approved of the former mcatures ot our government! vacancies were created aeinlt the wOrds and fpirit of the conftitutiiw in the recefs of the fenate, that partisans might get pofffffmh ofefnce ; faithljl and unoffending.mcn were fudden ly thrown with families upon the wide world -The moil infamous cnvi&s who were TulTeting for crimes again (l the former adminiftration, were not wily parJ6nd but rewarded. Proft culions ,in the courts of juftice were arretted by prefllential man dates; and to crown all a Prefideiitial letter publilhed, plainly' inilnuating that the Fe deral Republicans, were unwoithy.of the rani of citizens, that they were a feS' which had corivnitted unpardonable ofienc.' es, and ' ought to be perfecuted.' I need 'not recount -tin meafures of government fince.thc 4th March i8ci. Tbe meffdire an t the adta cf rongretj, with the whole body -of executive and Ifgiflative pniceed ings, have weeded in xaA. accordance with the tirtt ftepi of the adminillration. Thefe events are recent, they fill the mind with amazement and melancholy. You afk me w Hat is the Itate of public opinion i Can you have 'a doubt; the reflecting, and the found m:r of all parties agree that Mr. Jefffrfwrt ha Iwft ihegohleti "upporturiftfTsf reftoring peace to a divided "country, that he has impaired the credit of ilu Ouiicd Sta'.eT.bv-bis fifualiutpent ions, and given a fatal fait to the To'nJKttitio'n he was bound by fo msnf tifi tn liipport ! Alf vtg'ree that, he, is feeble, vifldidtive, and 'unfit for the flat ion he fills. The ftnfible men and tuc patri ns, are looking round for a'fnc cefTor, a flafefrrian, and teat peace maker -. Mr. Jeff.jrfon may fancy hiinfetf TecUre, in the wreiche l confidence of popularity, but he is decehed, that will Vanifh, and leave him to repent at leifuie, of power "HI gotten and fcanda'ptilly a'ufed ; 1 have onlv to add to thef. fentimewts, that" fuch evnt-i are daily -"g nlirmiii the FdrraliSs in all :heir principles t on them, rnui! the prefer vation of the cotillitution and country ted ; they will riot defirt their du:y. -.- "extracts . from dALLKNDSns publication, entitled, the " ProfpeM before s " Page 72. Adams 5c Washington hae liricc been 'fhaping a fcties of thefe paper jobbers into judges and . Anjbaflad'ois. si inett wno'e courage lies in want ot ihame thefe po'tiyons, without 'rificina a ipa'nty arid .inteiiiginle defence of tht-ir- wnTfHt8f,tvrr; raifa an a'ffectei yc!p a'gainfl the.'cnrrtiption . of th? French 'Dirtry ; as if an y cor 1 ruption cou?d be moie venal or more noto rious than their own. t'nr yenr togtiher the United $tifrs refon'ndi-d w ith curfes a-' gjitiit them, while tbe Grand lima of fe deral adoration, the immacculah Divin'dy'of Mount Vernon ?j provrd of and fukf'iibed ever one ot theiri'.We meafures !"' 1. 1:43. And it was upon th:s notable foundation that the Prelident penned hi? inimitable anfu'er to the boyt 0' 'Bojloh. In that paperwith 'all ihe Cowardly infolence, arifing from l.ta aTTurance of "pertofijl fafe. ry with a'l the fury, hut-without the p'o priety or fuldimi'ty of H.imrs Arnilltt" this hkiry beaded tutendiafy t his Ubeiler t f (he governor ..o"t'-.Vlfgiiiia. tatuls oW, to arms! Then, to .irm ' P. roz. But this fpecch toe PrtjUenCs fpeechto Corrgrcfs in 1 793) h8 a clialm that comp'.etvl) unonfks Ut fcandalous bipocrify ot Wafhington ; and Ihews in what way tie '.was jlikly to' dlfirt the privileca.uf . k-ji country."-? ? " h On this hefd we r-ahrjpt ilifcover n dif tinflion betwttij he prater nul cli'aia&eis of the firlt and fccond Preli !ent Mr. Adam has only corr pleated the fcene of ignominy, which'Mt. Walhington began !" It FAD TMSJTOP. There u not a' jacobin in the country ho has dared to come forward fo-vhe tib lie, and openly jullifyJij" comlucl o! Mr. Jt(Terf(n.in rcja-ion to the'aid which lit af torded to ttte publication of r The Profpcit before U." The only way in which they fee any pofiibility of averting the. difgrace attached to the preliutnt fur his Conduit irT -this buli.;tfn, is by attacking the charefter of Cailender, and iutcruVg the falfehood of his 1tateme,ii'fs. - Dut, in laboring on ihis ground it ought to be recolleded, that, until lately,, Callen der has Hood high'tn the efteem and con fidence of Mr. Jifferfm and hisvpariyv To Jhiertiouar arctb7ttidebted tiiFm-Ocn ol their fncce'fs ; and the countenance which they afford to his publications pr vev that in tbeK ellinvatu-n, he was worthy bt bthef. , The teftimony of Callendet, jn re- gaid to public men and meafures, hag been brought forwaid by themfelves, and while he bore vj'itntfs fui them, it was.all-Teceiv-ed as jutt anu true, but -when he goesoTi to $tibt whole arjrTlhey cry out this man i a liajrM a fc Uudrel, unworthy of belief, and not deferving to be heard." .But good firs, if Calleoder' fs a liar, why have you f6 long confided in 'him i Why did Mr. JviTerfoq pay him-200 dollars out of the public money, if he jhoughf: him the poor1 bafe wretcH which you nw re prefent him to h- i But the tircum lances of this cafe are (Iroriglv in tavnr. ofthe te prefentationa which Callciuler ha made. If the ftatement is falfe, why fhould Cal lender reprefent the communist ion of the anecdote to. have beetL made to a Scotch man, we.'l known in R'chmon-t, If the ftory was falfe, would not " Calleoder have forcfen:that ihe Scotchrpan would have., denird it. Another part jaf the reprefen -tation is refpecling a commvniicfltion from'Mr. JtfTfifon to MV. Thomas Lei pr, of Philadelphia. "" Precifely the fame reafo.i here exits in favor'bf the tuith of the (lory j for if it Were falfe, it couH be fa proved by tbe ' teltimony of Mr. Leiper," It will be atfo recolleded, that Callender dates, that Mr. Jeffeifon employed Mr. George J.jftrf on to piy the fitft fifty dcllara. If tliia m not to be-be!ieved,' why are . we not favored with the teftimony of Mr. George Jefferfon, that he never paid the fifty dollars, or was not employed for the purpi)fe I Thefe things could certainly be eaiily accomplifhed if Callender'a ftory ia falfe ; and when it is done, we thd.l be rea dy to acknowledge, not only the v llainyof the reprt-fentation, but the wtaknefs with which k has been ftrmedr Oaxrtf. : - - From the Lancafer Journal . Demoniac Song "For l toi. ' T0 a AJup of good whifhey iuill male yot '" ail glad. B Rother democrats a'!, I'll ling yoli a fong . Ot the patiio'a arid flatefihen who to ua belon?, In our hie revolution who cot a great dafh Vnd nrwv in fnug offices grapple the cafh. Whi'e thry keep the feds under Let9 give them the plitnJer . " , They're patriots of '76. To Tuch MeiL-d patriot-- I'll Qick like a Bur, And blacken and biackguaid each federal cur. Then Phelim 0 Ta rim 'will foon ret a poft AnU.blefs 9G when the ocean he croft. For he and his mother His filfer and brother .'... ; Are patriots of 'jS. There's vaiiant Tenth Coxe, now the full of the traiti, ' Who took Philadelphia with ten tlioufand men, Match'd into tTie city with valorous brow, Hum bold he came.there Och, the Lord ; he kiiflws HowtT ' f.ut the valorous Tench Is a Fiiend of the Frencrt And a patriot of '7. rive Sily Bar! on w.is alfy our friend Fiom the fitil of the war till it came to r end, " An ofjicei bold arid a pitriot was hp, And to htlp the great caufe he croff'd over he fc- . V7here inJEngland he flaiJ, " )cart(l tieedom to aid t As a patriot of '76. Squires St Ner and Btannon next me.rit - our thinks. The 'one dealt i doi'-ni ihe otVr in hanks In the book' of finance their fweot namel will ef.rdl, Woo Vif-niner or dollars could find out the Wlm!e , - ' TkusBfannon and Stiver So honeft and clever " " Were patriots of '76. ' JeSt 'Dallas the handfome, polite and ur-, ban-, , ' ' . j ' The friend k ad'ifer, thje to1 of M'Kan, On tbe plains of Jdmaiia fo well play'db't 9 part, . He piere'd Bt it tyranny quite through the heart. ' Thus Stiver and Dallas, Great thank9 to the gallows, Are patriots of-76. Fcnnfy'vahiti i'tvorlhies. SAVINGS. The rVmncrates allow that Mr. JetTeTrbn has let ftp through his economical finger the following fums of the people's money. -ill. His own falary which it was expect rd, as he hd the (fewer and was fo lovingly 'difpofed, he would not infill upon j yet he has drawn it alt from the treafury, and it ia, for one year, from 41I1 March, 1801, to 4th March, i8c2. 1 Do's. JJ.OCX) . 2d. tie advanced fo Bea'i Dawfrn, for carry iffn Prefident Adam's treafyo France, which any ftipercargi-v or captain "of a mercKant vtfTtl wouTti have cairied for afking) : ' . 3O1TOO 3d. He has "Idi.l out in repairing the " Berceau,"' after ihe wag agreed to be de livered to the French and was a Frrr.ih vef feL, " . ; " .. 31,000 4 I1.. Tie has f nT- l or canfed to be raif ed the falaries of h't3 frcretaries and officera, yearly', ..'. . - iy.000 cth. By foofiilily difchjrping feveral . hundred mariners, vtr had received cloatbi wibountv, arid "then, when they wete" "wanted foon after to fend ag'ainft fhe Tri politan piraes, being, obliged 'to raife nitu t recruits, nd to pay a f refit lounly and give new , deaths, it coil . the United Statei.. Si 1 4 '. - 1 i vv ' 1 3 Mi ) ti 1 !.' 2? I;1 1 ... n i j-w -. !' V " ' ' 1 I t I- '..'' : '; s ' 1.1 ; . "
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