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Two & A HAt-F B'P 'V I PUBLISHED (WEEKLY)KWILUAM BOYLAN: Ctwo dollaIs i ak.v. Taua'Je in' Aril 3m f. AToU 8.- r-r r 'hffertmtr and liberty in a reprcftadw:;goriemmcnt,--de- .? t.1 k.'JA ha wtrtn and m- &r nnnle r and it is per: 01' Virtue IS iieccnary ukbivf1"" .: tive- fyttem ,than ;in any other form of jjovcrnment, in w'Kicb marLbasJhought proper to place hTs'hopes and his hap pinefs. A flight corruption of man- ners, whether mtroauceu oy .u.wy, the fpirit of faflionr or the arts, of in triguing demagogues, foonjaps the foundation of the fabric of liberty, the temporary expedients-ufed to prop the huildinc. crum under the unequal - 4 d . . .. . - - rt - weight, and the founders lf-they exrtt, . with every thing that is valuable to the , ' VViUUluliiiJ .w TinTc the. firnnl. virtues of republican- fnnner or laer, A4 1J 9 ' xctw 0 7 become a prey to the hypoa ify, kna nA rlrlr.r f - intriguers ; we Scaotflarteroir of always avoiding tjie faares into which na laiicn. it is umj. , we owc to ourfelvas, our pofterity, and our country, "to preferve the bleflings of freedom and conftjtutional fecunty as long as poflible; and the only means of effeaing this all important objea, is by a Irequent recurrence to the prin ciples of our conftitution,and a regu lar and conftant diffufion pf corrcft information. Virtue alone, is net faffi ' cient, virtue mud beenlightened, and the nrel's. Toeffea this interciting opject, ia editor has determined to.-.enww-a. paper, fo as to enable hirn not only to give the current news, butalfo to em brace the molt important , objecls or domeaic nature. Debates upon- inter effing fubjecinofe hejr efFea.when fpread through differfent numberof a .rn.n.i. . onM rlpt-aik to be iatisfac- nCWIl'C; i f'4" . tory, mould always be as complete as : poliible ' The doings of our admini-. ftration, "come home to the bofoms and bufinefs" or every man, are infi5 nitely motejnpomnt ,to the .American cuW, than the indemnities of Ger many, or the flioTTS and ipeftaclcs of Mum"-'" 'rfV ' The principles of the Minkrva aave beenfteady and uniform--We beheye the exifting Federal Conftitution to be America' lafi and Ufi --weeel a deep and fixt ctiaicn that when tjiat day fhall arrive, hen refult of mutual deference and . conceffion,, ffialTbeno more, our n'cxt wiilbe the refult. of chance and not ot cho:cer we fliall therefore consider n .a P" jv duty to maintain and delend thole fafe found and moral principles of government:; which form ,Ae bafis of this coiiilitution; and v?e do not hefitate to avow, that the examination of the views and condud ctnengper wiU be a leading objed ofthe xvIiner VA; The manner in which this paper has been hitherto conduced, is a pledge to the' public that thisexami nation will be fair, canoid and difpai . ficnate, tl addrciTed to the good ftnle and virtue of the nation, and not a faGious, profligate and unprincipled eppofition" ' to the admmiftration or the government RALEIGH, (n c.) MQND.JYUY 2, l0t). , . v i j f I Ttpifon - in which he-denies tlie exifl' iion, forms .the rational groun o Chrift, and reviFes our public connaence, or uic-uaiuw rei;gionto come tft-thi public x contempt and deteltation. j j ot our national fhips 'fhfflate dilDlay in iome or tne iuu r . n . b( No. 369. CllC J""" " ioTy religion to come tr' this country . n i't i in one o r ; ; ' of democratic hoftility to the :preUe areiau a '?Arjk--lrrr ftom'a faith-1 X aftachea to each other ? ; - J Wefia.entW ever officially cltedoartiC wi f r nn! ncm iul - - - i - j . - - . , . w i . i o 1 i ti - - Air. VVIliilCVCl 1II1K111 imvtutvumi. i xiviv. i VVlll 1VW..W''W - - B , n hf is' aware that the fpirit of Jacobinifm, which .now pervades a large part of the United, States, is panaged by a conclave, whofc fittings aie permanent, a'T gines are: iii perpetual aamty; he is alio aware that this lpiru auuuy, norm :ral reftraint, brooKs no coniroi, and calculates, its enjoyments . by the number Us vidims j but the editor cf a paper, in n free country,-has n hlfeiul rolemrdutylo'performnd itands pledged at lead for his nrmiW.---he may want the . talents of an 4 able editor," but in afeing the o Ace, he has avowed that 'he poffefles the f orti wde 'of a centinel,: and will . not defert his poilin the hour-rrfalarm or. danger. . this country,-' and one on whicftit wa refufal on the part of ttie majority to tc nncfl of ihf nn?fident the necefl'arv in- fnrmatlon was certainly imDroper. It n:L':A rtVir" TVTlnerVa An- ri-Jacobin'. is two dollars per annum, paid in advance ; or two and a halt do. paid half-yearly. ' & The prelent.Subfcribers to .he Tv,T:..n Uv navintr their arrears and in advance, will receive tne paper one year. :i - Advertifements of not more than afquare, inferred three-weeks for one dollar, and for each infertion after, a quanci -ui 44 'rhe" editor cxpeas a font of new Types in the .courfe of a , few weeks, when it .will be in his power to make; the "Minerva; f, Antu Jacobin, not only the cheapeft, but as ufeful and as handfomely printed as any paper in the fdutTiern Hates. " StflSt nan.'"-' w.. f.ai.'.-. rfiVitrirnr ro Thnmas 1'ame or his enmity' to" tieneral "Walhington, - v-frxA f-Tf t hp oninions of the American people, ought to havedifter. red preJuUnt oj-wkc uniua oi,ues jiuiu inviting to this country,--the man whole favorite theme is the abufe of that great and good man ; who is revered by his countrymen, and whole iervici-s will ne ver be forgotten by thole who are real American:! i hnow nothin;.: of Mr. Jef--feflonVatia-chrrient- 'to Mr. - Paine His letter of in -rhatian. to Paine is couched in very affectionate terms: r ; a. Do you think that the law of the laft fefiiou of congrefs, depriving the fudges of the circuit courts ot their commifScns, without being-convicled before the proper tribunaLof milbeijaA viour inofiice, is conlUtuf lonal ? -j.,.. 1 h -. vVno hefitation in believing "N 4 "tWr uncorilHttttionaU; ' ' f, ; .;. conftitutibnally withoid lrom certain peifons in the diftrid 'o Columbia, commiffiens appointing them jujtices ot the peace in that didndtor tive yturs which appointment had beert inproved of by the fenate and commiHions, hgued office of the iecretary of f htto bfe re corded before they were aeuvtic-u .u the peffon'fi thus appointed,' elpecially, when the ad ot the 27th February, 1801 concerning1 the diftvift of Columbia, 'dfclares. that the juftices appointed by virtue of it fhall hold their offices.for -.1. i-ln nnt. t 1 f- i-Kinlr it prr.rdient or juft in congrefs, at their laft feflionto take the taxes oil pleafure carriages, whifkey and white tugur, and to con tinue them on hohca tea, and brown iugar, coffee and fait? ' . . Ans. Whenever. the fituation of our country will warrant the tcduftibn ot taxes, it ought to be. the': object of the reprefentativcs'ot the people to unbur den thole -articles, which are.abjoluteJy neceilary to all' clak-s of our .citizens, and to-retain the taxes' on thc? luxuries -ofHfv I, threfcife,.; think the law uh iufty as the interns-, of ihe poorjare fa- :c th hhYMiilpncc''Or 'he rich. n. Do you approve ot Mr. Jcflerfon i rprnninir'tflcfl frOUl office, -fr 1)0 O- than that of their not agree ing with him in his political opinions, and puTting in their places; only fuch a; ! j .1 iiim-ih nr.hrirs : and par .Si..l.l A wrtu rMirnV? Or hlS remOV- iicmem or meafuns, 1 ihali not neii- V-a; oUr eYO, . ... i.,:rr ( i rhf - wiines or rue my- uu uh.u.o.- .- -. tateiu couiiyu'ft - r.... :mr nan n t-wnom tncre was Farmer,, You wdLtheretore S rt 'M to heir conduct-in -s ninnrTM?t'3' French or, Spaniards," or what Iteps he may have tafcen in l his bufihefs, being witnout any miuiuiauun uxi ject.'. - '-'r i'- '' 9. Po you approve or the expence and delay of fending Mr. Munroe to Spain and France, when in each coun-' try we have ininifters who have but late ly left America, and who mull: be as competent as Mr. Munroe to negociatc on .this fubjea." ' : ' ' . ' ' yini. 1 have alivaj'S fuppoiedflie.ex' ec;jtivd the belt j udges, in all affairs or 16 Do you hot think that if it is pro per to fend a fpecial envoy to France or . Spain, that he ought to have been, lent fix or ii:ne months ago ; . and 'that the V,:U. nvr,CiA'rt Vi'oe Vippn tyini Uy of in this important bufinefs4 proVt I 1.: l k.,t'r k..n TTir inttprtfivi" to the irKerett of our weftQrnritienC'v V "jits; 1 have no information on tni$ lubject ; therefore, can give no opini on. . . 1" '.--- ' T V 1 1 Do you not believe that Mr. Jet ierfoii -wrote ..the letter to Mazzei,, in which the executive, who wayGeneral Wufhingtcn, is .charged With endea vouring to introduce the principle of the 13i -itiflx government into our own & with being at the head of an anglo-mbnarcliic: and ariflocratic party ; & do you believe the cjurgi are trilfe ? ' " . .: -r'V At,u A believe that Mr. Jefferfon did write the letter to Mazei ; "and I alio be.lieve that the charges contained m it are untrue. V ';' . : r t ; - ir, ni T.nr lipitpvetnat Mr.viel- fbVlon'is a Dehl, and if (0,' is he a pro- j. who profcls' thcmfelves to be believers Frctn 'the .krumVm Mvertijer'. !;Mr. Snoavcin, r In your paper of the Lid FuaT ' a writer under the fignature of1 A l ar mer," has addrefTed to Richard Bfenf?.. Elq.' and niyt'elf, as candidates at the enfuing eleaion for.a member to rpre fentthis Jiftria in the congrefs of tne. United .'States, feveral qucftions, to which he requefts candid anfvvers,. As b have no with to conceal from the dil trift or from the world, any opinions u' I. ...Mil hnir rnrnir rnniLi i.ri m-' u mn. nr meafurej. I mall not hell- 1111.11, v . - F-ublic meafnres yill,6nly e con- ' defied with, private, charaaer, when the fecret fprings of aaion muft bL traced to the moral or phyil cat, charaaer-" of th ni?jnr The 'charafler " Iftics, whether moral or political, of parties, conrie'et themlelves jnceltantly : with the'origin'-ot-all mc'afures, and cV-y movement . of admini ftration. 7 -The' attention of the nation fliould th-refore be confliihtly turned to this ' interefting objea-, a thorough know ledr the elements of which a party H$' compofed, their activity and Idirec: republifK the .queftibns,-; m the order m Avhich they have been ofteied, with my anfwers to each. ,, ,. . . ,ftlion i -Do you: japproveof IVir. lefferl'on's ordering the mari iAl ot Vir ginia, to repay to James 1 Callender the fine of two hundied dol Vfc, which he had:received from Calle der,in'cbnfequence ot a verdict, of aju- r.y nnuing mui bui1 r 0"4s, ' w'ahtofttand fcandalovs libel on the pTehdent of the United State and G-e-r.ral VVafliington ; :;nnd of thejudg-; ment of tin court fixing the fine i ft you do, Ttaie ycur realpnJ yr. 4nf-u:er. 'he matfiial having aftual fy received the fine of James Thomplon Calknil-r. the money was then the pro perty o the United States, h ot courte beyond the comuiuuoiiai iumi prenQeiit,;arid any interference on part was certainly improper. 2. Do you: approve of Mr. Teffer- r. r'illi-nrlr :v-n riolLifS. tO enable him to write and print his-book, called nhe. propen before (r m which it contained tlie..libefouvnich he wa-fin- Cd therein he cans.-,.jenerai vv am:-x&- ton a iraiiwi-i - Adams a murderer and an hoary, head ed incendiary ? H you do, give your reafons tor men appiuuauuu. 'jnt.- I do not. T . ,a Doyen approve of Mr; Jefferfon s invYting.ThomaS Painthe writer of a moft abufive letter to ; General Wafh ington, and the author of the Age ot r.,v, 00 -rtlr,npl VV'iliiani Heath, of Petersburg, who was a valiant ohicer in our army, -anawnnc tuiicuw u. ... . cuftoms Of fcterfbufg, aSed inrfi hurfr fully towards the public, - and apntrut whom Mr. Jcflerfon could notil edge a lingle iault, cxcepMnai 01 ing with Him in politic ' -fj. 1 have always uecii i'i--" politkal JntolerDnce or , pr ofci ipt idn. - .Whenever good men arc to be driven from oftceror excluded from an equal, participation in our government, iiber ty is gone, it is but a namr-;Khaye been taught Relieve that merit alone, in a republican-government; was the grand pivot on which executive favour ought to turn, f ' ' r , ' . 8. Do you approve 01 tne coiiuw-w "the houfe of repfefentatives, refufiiig to requeft the prefident to give theinludi information as he may have received re fpe&ing the ceflioh of Louifiana, J?f Spain to France, if in his opinion, it would be preper to give the mtorma tioni ;.and do you brieve the - prefident . i tn this funicct as nas ueeii is avicHii",v. . 1 t 1 1 i.. ...t,.,.-komi ? da Vou think he has ever yet officially, ean he. French orSpaniardvto fay whether .the. ct 1 l- 1'. ry riot- f .1, . ceuion nas oeeu iuu "v-. , 1 ... Am. .1 thirik the houfe of reprefent. atives was entitled to cvcr7.1moiHwuyj.r which it was in the tpower: ot the prefi dent to gi ve ; efpedally on a fubje pf fd much importance to the mtereits ot Jus'. - Never having been hohoured with the cohfidencfc'ot Mr; Jcilerfon, I' knov.hothlhg'of his teligiouV tenets. He has beert frequently and publicly charged with deittical principles,- and never having deigned to contradia thofe chaiges if is fair to prefume they:;are true. -Whether heis'a proper or impro per perfon, to be at the head of a Chrif lian people, muff be anfwefed by the people themfelvds,'- who have the fame information m this fubjea,,,that I have. 1 think a deift ah improper perfon to be at" the head of thofCprofeiTihg Chrifti- af 4 ?'. ' Do jc-H not think thafthe demo crkcisrty in Congrefs, in r direaing , monuments to be ereaed to the memo ry of certain' officers who - were killed '.14iVillg Hit vvuij a"v. ..-j - to hav'e one ereactfto the memory of General Wafhingtch,; fhew the reafon oflhat refufal, tawit : the expence was not the real one, but that it proceeded f rom a hatred td him. arid a with to bu ry as foori as poflible m oblivion, his jer vices as a prefident of the United States ; to that- the irifl lienc which a rea'-lt cVion of the ferviceS might have, in oi'poling their views, might be fooh deflioytd. ; ' ' ''- K'''. -yffi's: 1 have never bren in favour ot . tV treaioii of monuments to.the.me-- mory of any man ; butcertainly, lLone was- denied to the memory ot general Wafhington, none ought tote granted to anv other perfon of perfons whate ver ; 'the condua of, Congrefs, r there or theW laft leffiott. On this fubjea, i meets ray difapprobation. ' . , 1 1 f-rri.iiiw itne u l nave tnus aiiiwww wuw.v., candidly the queaipnt-that have been propounded to me, "and I fliall be pleaf ed it they are fatisfaaory. . ; . -; - - j. .... . . . About thi ioth cf January, ty "TTROM the Subscriber, 1 ving In Wfe, 7 mitei el r. ha FaliV' ot 4 MULATTO W IS H AM; 19 :y; or rM -j-r with Philip Alswn f Wairen. " Mu inz A geneiws. Reward will VrlV i " t ; .Wake,, April h 1I03,V --: -; : : " J;-.... H :'...'"..' ;;"'".. .i ' ' '. ' '--; ' ''r ' --v.i- v' -. -v-1 '-- -' -.-:' "v. '."-. ,. . ; ... J :'s .'-'' ' !.. t r'-rr: . j - ... i -' ' - ' - ' ' '. . ' . ; " .'V 7(Nh & ' '" " " .... J, ' Vu'-'i 1iw - V -IA , i V-' I i. X ' V ' i I it 1 " ,"("'.; -V(..-,;'-
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