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'-'..-.: - N r . -A-.:; "l'i. -'? ' . K.fcfe :V. paBLISflED (weekly) WWltLIAM BOYLAN. f" Twopbit. m an L - - -n r .. .. VolVrlS; . . -.-.v'. ' - ' -- - - -- ' - - - : :-1 , : 1 .... - From the Albany CrisU. LETTER III. s ' from Mr. Richard Xaundersy to a friend in a neighboring State . No, my. friend, I am" far from thinking all tfe leaders of your priy bad men, but there arc of them even in your , own tow n whom you tnfltf t0 be unprincipled arid wicked, and who jjave been so from the beginning. You know tlie'man who denied his father and moiher but I hate to dwell on the dark side of human nature. Yes, I answer to yoiir question re specting the future President, if we arr obliged 'to' choose betweeaihe two men, 1 would, as the least evil, choose George Clinton, and yet God knows, to what evils-lhe choice would lead usr (jeore Clinton Jia( firmness and virtues in the revolutionary war ; he w$$ poor and honest--jc is now rich, end his age, if it dots notjiow, scon unfit him for ihe exertions of mind biclie-oflcc.4jf:esidnt4:i-quii-r4Me-' piitNv De Witt, and not himself, will be l'rcsl nt. De Witt is a man who marches strait ftrvvard over every' impediment to his object .-his i object is power, and grandeur. Hut what in the name of wonder have the Federalists to do with either Madison or Clinton, or any other xnati who hates them, and would send them all packing to the devil if he could I Your Iiiepd Chcetliam said in his last paper, that Clinton detested the, Federalistswhen, says he, did Governor Clinton promote a Federal- ;0t in i-vfVicvMi Hii-re -mi in standi dnriiif hifi lio!e term of governor of this state? 1 be I'eve Cheelhahr is right. , Sir, the Federalists in hni v tlialf lirrnpc 1-irnt p. ! f thpv vntr for one or other ol your candidates No, they have done evil long "enough that good might come qi it. w.tness incjr partial votes t B irr, who ought to have been hanged, although, -not by-his friends the democrats, whom ie brought intj- power Jn this state. Witness their more general vote for Morgan Lewis, after the contempt with which his son-in-law tTMted thrm .how have the Federalists been jjSsapiKiinied andalisgract d4)y ta ki ng up your (uondam mentis aiui they win be disgraced, tad I wish they may, if the ever again mix in your, affa$r&--touch pilcu 'and be defiled. No, I trust Uft Federal Electors will, vote for k pian in whom they can , confide and in iiich of Tour candiddtes can thev confide i Iv'-Mailisnn ? a Viri'ibian. a nunil of the man -who would make everv state kneel to the old dominion and dcitioy our trade and sea ports r or in Lhntoh,- wnose litart closes at tne sint of a Federalist, and w ho would sltut out for tve'r from his eyes, the light of heaven, cc'uld every. Federalist -be hid in darkness ? Should' we vote. for men who either love" or; k-ar France ? No, we ougiit neither to, lov.e or itcii wy nation under heaven we ought to dp jus tice to them all, and fieht them like men, when tLcy persist in duirig . us wrong. . .. - iou may think as ycuplease ot your poh fc'cal friends, but in my conscience I believe they have brctitrht us to the brink of ruin. Is -Hot tvery thing. that. was great under the ad- uiinisirations oi v asnin-;o'i anu vvuans 'e tome small, are we not- poor at .hume, and de spibed abroadour ships taken by one nation, burned by the other, our nayy dw indled to gun- uoais, ana Keti-ooats, and mud scows ; our ar. of 1800 men more ofIe'ss. commanded bv , - j a man solemnly charged aCtfiFpuKTC tribunal wiili bribery and corrtirtiori. our liberty violat- d, the habeas corpus actj set at nought, our .atwi our constitution falling daily to pieces ? uc eve ot the election nt Jetlrsnki: sav to one; and the dtrect tax, and the moderation of Mr. Jefferson In n6t prosecuting those who calum niated him. The truth is, he dared r.ot do it ; I told you beforV that I did not like this bring ing men's privatejMings before 'the wofld- Strike at their vices jf you' please, which tend to the ruin of their country, but let their pri' vate chamber vices alone, if there are zny'firi vatcvict&y which do not more or less tend to make them unfit for a high' station You know, very well however, that Me.. Jefferson's mo deration and contemnt of the cT.arLres were not . 4 reasons of his silence Ely in Massachusetts, and the men in Connecticut sam so mucn a gainst your President, and that in so public a manner, that his friends 4hougbt themselves obliged to call them to account. Was the bu siness everprosecuted I No, nor never w illjic ; your President knew better than to let them bring their proof, i he direct tax wa& made a I mg. bear of by the designing office hunters r From the iVaihingtbFidzraliat, Mr. Finklat, i; .;. f , In Sammy Smith's paper olast Wed nesday morning, a notice , appeared request-, tng a meeting of the friends of General Wil kinson, on ThuVsday evening, at thd city coun cil chafebef. Tlieobject of the meeting was! to prepare a flittering address, expressing their approhatKi of the geheral's corfcluct, and congratulating 'htm upon his late acquittal by the sham court of enquiry, which has been engaged in making a farcical investigation of the traiteroii charges exhibited agonal him. His friends were very busily engaged on Wed nesday and Thursday -ift endeavouring to procure "asrTariT and respectable -a meeting as: possible. VV htn it took (dace and the "question for. addressing,. him iras put, there apprecUob.5 oiiTy thirty-lhn c in favour of it, Whilst tdrfipne verc against it. , Thus it hunears that the tnenes ot me "He has told them to msftect and they sitsfieci and their suspicions are as deadly as the Si" ivkh. as blasiirig as the vUpas'ie fbHoW;, ing facts are .substantially ihii moment fur : 'iiished me by the Uttfomate sufferer htmelf On Saturday afternoon captain 'Barker of New Utrecht, began ' load his Pttianger, lying at Corlaers Hook, with a few articles of, pTovisions,fconsiting of Butter, liard ancj iiamv fc. to be delivered under a contract to i a grocer oil Long-Island; ' Just before even ing, the Custom House Officer, by means of some one of Ins spies, having got scent Uiat t!iis poor man's I'etiauger was thus Idadjng with provisions, immediately deemed Aer iw fiicious liccordivtr to laiv, and disuutched one -of his deputies oh hoard toTorbia Capt. Bar" ker at hia penl to taue ancttier step. wexi comes a guard on board, and the" petiaugef was put iiito safe keeping till Monday, xvheii it was remavea to vvmte-nau, wnere k suu Irtio-hpir of hv the design nff office hunters : 1 litis appears mat uic hichm w " "" " ' V, SSo s r.y t . u;.i,.a h Wmken rlmrarter. and heal his wounded country. A. formal demand of the boat.has about it said the hearths and window lights were taxed, and a thousand other stones e qually devoid of truth.,' 'The fact was that the great land holders paid the taxMy neighbor McC b, who owns wild lands ort the lake puid more tax than all the county beside there was not a man in our town who paid $-3 To, they lied to the people, and told them John Adams was to be kim'r, and they were to have lords and-a standing army,, .and their children were to be taken away from them and pud-: rKuriuchs of, to guard the" king's palace, aftel all such stufl, and scareil them to dtatn, but now they begin to find out the difference between king Adams, as they called him, and king Jef ftrson, or rather ling Democrat. An lionest man of your party told me t'oiiier day, that it was not so much fci the tax itself, for it cost him but little, but it was upstart fellows who collected it, that made him mad they pjutmen in as collectors, said he, w ho were surly and overbearmvbut I sue, said, he, that our owft people are going ou ii) the $ame way. Our o!fice-men are beginning to vide over poof people T; I-was knocked downrbccUse-I-sa:d; I had a rights to carry my produce irom Washington to Lake Chgmplain, and threat ened by the sh'snPi", it ever I dared to say such a thing, again, he would send me tojjaiU T see, said the man, that let who will 'be 'long in "power, they get too saucy, and trample on the p"cr people. - It may haye been that the federalists rode i he hii;h horse ;. but th'evr never, my friend, galloped him yt the rate your friends have done;,. it is true t'nty laid a dry tax, and an embargo for 30 days, and Itf-gan to , raise on arrny becaose they 'expected a French invasion ' Your'party raise an army when every body knows the U;itiih will not . conu and the French cannot conae. "Your embargo is eter nal, c.nd takes; from us more in an hour than all: the dry and wet taxes we have ever paid., T mi Lei per and Tench C x and,iiiily Duanev the French printer, say the people like it--We shall see if this is true. 1 know that' the people in our town, aristocrats and democrats, whig's and" torus, all say that it is a dreadful tax, which tlVty flon'l see .th use of. Sup pose you do starve 50,000 British, what good" will lhat,4d yon- U won't make our situation, any belter. -Will it pay our debts'? Y"'ir friend? call it a dignified attitude., T would however, rather sit double on a load of w heat for, wbkh I expected to get .l'-i. a buvh.el, than m to nrison in a dianilied attitude. No, the I atiitude to which wel are cominrr as fast as we I can, is the' ere epitvff, beggin g -otutude L Ve hi 4 broken character, and Heal his wounded feeling, had better have oim.ed to submit his case to public opinion. If ve reflect, that this appeal was made to that tribunal under the immediate view of an administration that has gone all lengths to support general Wil kinso;i, and in a place where .five eighths-of the citizens are mre or less dependent on that administration foi their means of subsis tence vhen. it is also recollected that Very few federalists attended, and these chiefly put of -curiosity, ind that only thirty-three of tlie citizens of Washington could be found hardy enougb to approve his conduct and the de cision of the court of Enquiry, nothing is 5 more clear than that his conduct must go through afar different ordeal, Dttore it can "meet the approbation of the people of the United Stales'. A Citizen of Whaiington. Friday, 1 5th Jub. Frtm'tic At w-York Fevreiv. The OifffVrt This ship has at last arrived, JuLliashwJX-nQ hJit.onthesialexif our aflairs with foreign nations. . Uur good uicnc must creen to Y,irffinia, and creenTto France, ,l n n Win f'lliAfnn. hnd thf4 inthrr Masked wbi'fher Jt-ffrrsnn or Itnrr stionl.t frpat men oi the nation, t.ciore Ion v.. .- .. i . . . . i ... voted Tor " If yon want your .constitution w w "nee, oie ior nine Aaron u io cue f acohsumntion. vntfc foi''l.nms Jefferson." es, fie was riirht, and you and I mv friend, farwiil live-long enough to see tvery thtui' 'aat was oi.ee thout-ht goo ;I arid honorable con?. unicu oy tae destroy uig iife ot nomocracy 'n-vUilt.th inrlin :rtf v Hi.un-w.tthih. vnn. I v 'jtion ; clown wkh 'the SiiouiV says: i ho My Puinev the friend -of iVhom as JefiVrson, tt'Js lis that i! matters not Ivhether we In lieve ia one God, oifjtwenty 1 n, I wouUl take nci-. tU. r . . . i . . . "'tr oi your candidates W e Have better men- fjfauf owni " Yes a million of hettec'-Uvn and' people of ihisjunhappy country will show. V .- .Vint 33 11, - - ., ift'ish lf hr-nvpn vnii: ivnntrl writp'to a IC".t r.ivm-,li;rl clou, ll.'in -rvrtlirifc : t tlill W to offend; or say- things which may bur--. !" ' ui ffelintrs, but when voii sneak' I nviist an r apd I cannot answer and say peace when ii u-j pcucvTnielrevTh V -'at J.ne-measures ot vour party unci io t-'i? Tl'-n f t loin n..... . ' T ntKijn m tr; "ttirfiit V is ttiveii. t.p Mlnnt.. I inii&t SDeaki and ,1ti-7 --9t- 7 - 1 ' . r -I'ara vonr friend. J ri'- ' ' " . - ; v RICHARD SAUNDERS. ' -' v" - "- . ) ;'"'-' Lf;tti:r iv; l '' Richard Siiwidera to a friend in a heiphhnriiiST SrntA. . f ... o -'--a . i - oj ; still harp, my friend, "on the gag lav? the fitimmr of France'has leen so kind'as to offer his servises to enforce our cmbago laws : good kind soul; Mr. Lewis has brought dis patches. from , his imperii.! majesty's domin ions to our worthy president. His imperial majesty w:S very kind to ih.. ..officers and c'rew of the Osage, for though the was iut U:ider uequesa'atiun for haying been spoken bv.an English Vessel, ycf'his majesty gave '1-muncr, r for hrr to depart on cenditien lhat she Uculd be 'seen there no niore. The let ter of the emperor's stcrcuuy of fore ign re lations to our indi-fiendtnt , pesident I ha e not seen and it is not probable 1 ever shall see it ; but the s-ubstance of it is pretty well un derstood. It is undoubtedly something like tin follow ini? : . : - - .' V'e .Nuioleon the first, ervperor of the 1 nnd hu?,r me uder of the universe, perpetual dm er of all tlie slave's in Europe, aid contjhuj.1 lue leader of "all the fools in America--to our insigr.iHcaht servant and of our colonies, Country. A formal. der and of the boathas leen made of tjie Collector, who refuses not. .only to deliver, itt';p, but to.g-ive the bwnef any sort of satisfactivjrt as to his motives or autho rity. The captain is a poor man, and has 4 lai -e family dependant upon him, and his chief rclianceJs on this market boat, whicli has been thus taken away from him by virtue) of a Supplementary J-'mhargo Act. State ofiarties in AJarylandThc follow-- ing ex'ract On this subject will be gratifying io many of our readers. It is selected - front a well written article in the Federal Republi,-K can1 of Baltimore: The strength of the Democratic.party jfl Maryland, particularly vJto this section of the state, has been always greatty overrateu. , , The only important occasion on which it was fairly tested; proVed that nothing' more thart concert aiid unanimity were required, to have insured success eVerr at that time. The peo pic were then taught to expect' a , milleniurri under the rtipn of Jefferson ; deluded by the arts of , ambi t .ijuA-xlemagogucs-lhey-cast-ofF-thtir true friends and confided the., care of their iuferests and safety to parasites and flat terers. Since that period important changes have taken nlace in our political affairs.. The nation have suffered every evil that could flow from a weak and improvident administration of government. Our country which under tbdfinvigorating influence of Federal princi ples, rose to a station of unrivalled prosperi ty, is now .reduced to poverty, insignificance and despair. The people feeling the pres sure of the evils under which they labour, have Wen induced to reflect : they haVe began to scrutinize- the conduct of their favourites , with unaccustomed freedom, and to pierce t he t hick cloud of prejudice which has hither- to concealed from them their, true situation. "if hat gjteat and unexpected changes haVe, taken - pla.ee throughout the State is a fact vyhich liowever anxously it may be smother- ed. capnot. be contradicteit. viiut iederansis , dl-serve no thanks, for nothing is due td 'their - fcnior.s. In our State Led si atu re the ma- ' joVity of last year did not exceed sixteen", and- A T..t- lln. r- I glilUtU "- - "i ' J . . - .ii- T.i -i . cdmOhly--'.vb't trrpivi-ousiy camu uic v rr.'ir, . t itcs tM . America. Jrnow ye oneertng lainpaiiu . i.uuiHm.M, w ! J . 1.1. .. . . ....?, U U f1njldelit ftates frmn this time forth forevcrmorer and you ouht to have known it long ago, that r.uV decrees" are like the decrees of the Medcs and JFcrsiaiiS, , irrevocable. AV.e have said tlu re should be no neutrals, and no reu tnds shall there be. You have laid an embar- w(.--.you nave . sum ) u.m Min "i '" from Y jcioie juhk-wb, know that, thoueh (iov. "Ciiiiton, as a northern man,' may dislike tlie -.embargo, vhiqlj lie sees .13 ruining his , friends, -nsvdlas bU enemies ; he would hot dAt e, was lie residmt to morv. rov talo it a way 4' the party at the norlhwardy Would be atrairl tnat it lie oiu, tne party ;u me ' soulhwurd would quit them. No? no, Avhate- rat reigns, the same measures will be pursued. The Jefferson and Aladi.soa and -Monroe men wish to .destroy the northern commerce,'- we" '-are getting richer and more po'weffu than they are ; and the Clinton men will agree wjitfi their, breihre n 'for fear:-of- the Jess' of .power.: " You knmv liouU'hings rfre go hVj oh.as well as I Ao,' you can see. p&L o.u ever htaVbf such dreadful tyranny as we groan iuiderrieither fiemr nop- brtdd nor .any thing slso can be brought from one part" of the U. Slates to another .without Ciovt-rnor Sullivan or ;;overnor'Lan'gdton, or some other democratic' vcriior shflA?ive a permit. . The stamp act . .aos a fool to' this. It iv oree t ban the mqi.i isiHoivTjTsiTt lhirfe in En- i,..i' r.ni.arrR that wot5lddare"to do such- a lliuig not letojr owh citizens eat without a permit! If merchants Or others nreaK uie laTvs, punish. thenv-ut their heads dlf if you .please but doii't st,arvc your own people for ' firth British should get a hit of bread. , It Is bad enough for-us whose grain is rotting; iut it is infinitely Jworscfor our poor eastern" neighbors w ho knovrwlere it is, bui can't get it : I -am always, not withstanding our political differences, yourfriend. .' ; .; ..i 7 .and this you -say is all yotr culd do in our favour. 1 ben, let me tell you, you are 'the uieaw st nr.d most inqotent' of all the slaves we possess. You ought to have goiie to war with England when we commanded r n,.l an. tWihn we w ould liavc vouchsiiftd to he vour fiitnd, aiKl i'Ould have sent one ot : TrnuMrr.ej ial cubs to rule over yoiu , it is, wo cbriil nouce vou'ro further than-to take care of all the propcity,cjf j ourshaf comes in our-way, fojr wefind yru arc r.ot capable of f.king care ot'yourstll. V?n we. ha ve firv ished our business with Spain we'll fix you. . F6rrnrTn; y th;i k" this is a very provoking JetteTToxoine""- from so "liberal and fi-il-ndly" a ,fel!mv as the empenr. Hut they ought to. a. rr,Ucr that bis imberial" maitsly always treats his 'frieoSls ,yorse an..i-cloei his- ene-. mics Frcm the A'tii'- York Evening Pc$t CvSTOM-HoUS-EOFFiCEBS. " .mbn the miflor grievances w hich irritat- ed the people previqius to the re volution, and Jtf roTc-t hArrrrjaFf "lJi WulttHceF Was the ibtOlerablv insolence experienced from ibe ninions f goveinntenr.in Uhe Custom Hotiles. And it must ,ccrta'ndy be allowed that the greatest of, ill- possible men at the present day," are tfur . Custom-1 louse Tifficers. Mihd I. say. menxtot the greats esT "man V for-the greatest asffi certain ly his American Majesty Thomas Jefferson, and next come his tribe of Custorh-1 louse Of ficers, who havrtirnved to a pitci of great ness under hiri) that iiothjng canrWfthsUnd. that tlie Eastern shore alone will change the majority in favour of Federalism. From a -- creditable source v.'e are" ihfOrmed, that the- - , changes in tome countie'sr produced by lhe late measures of the adrnhtiitralion, txccedi the most sanguine c'xpecutiohs. Worcester ' f ouiirr-whR. i liar, been democratic, wm now gi vea-jlJie : Federal uiajority. We are con fident that more considerable changes will take place before the end of .summer, and 7iui ttofhctitZegifilaturf. of Maryland vfiUde federal. ' ? The . National :Irittlligthcer.Jh$ print,: in notjicipg the- i.ontVtits of tbe.dlspalches Te . ccivt ri by the Oagc, states the prevalence of a general expectation, among the friends of Ihe Biitish administration,- of an insurrection : in this coui'.try I'gainst the embargo, which hai no doubrbeen exciied by the disgraceful pub lications on'.the subject. "While sveh wretch- .l ..J,-,!, o -fSnthnif. ' h'AVt hill little t( expect." On this paragraph, the editor the :Iorth-American tlius remarks : " r . ,'fAV :hat are ""the disgraceful , ptiblications this ;. - editor "me.ahs ? . The most digractful publics- lions : respecting the Embargo,: have passed ", through las and thejother dentocratical pres- jses. They represented falselv-that the peq rile are ciinfent with thembago, and willing; . . to;g(fto war with-EnglandV They gaye every BfirAiiM-ri'mpnt tQ France, to calculate that we jveuUlsubmrt-to her urrpat aUtflcd injuries-an4 thereby invited and drew i htm upon us." - Ids ,'t hot the firsttime . disgracefutmhczii le'"I?"a tbncefbTbf democrtts. have drawn V, urjoiiiusjbe hbstifities of .Erahcew -The fifie "thing happened jn 1796--7. - , . ;,-. V. ; If, the friers of the rBfitish ministry Calcljj- ? lafed upori an tfsurri'ttiojn-.:; berrreFW; have been very erroneously informed by their agents. - Itskine would certainlyneYer ' . have , given them such foolish intimations",---1 Cut if he hadj he might have gww beyond '- i
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