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revolution wanecefT rr to countcraft fu h
?eftru&ivc fraud*. Thcie was not n
who was capable or diftinguifttin- one tlm.g,
.fro v another, who was not tat.; it that he
rlccli r: of Mr. Jcft’ctTon, would ; ut it in his
power* to appoint Mr. Gallatin iecretary of
the ere- ury, wnofe talents as a financier and
p nr in, would enable him to detect, expoiV
an! punifh his predecefibr.
1 hefe points have been carried. Mr. |cf
b fon was chided,and entered upon the duties
o! his office, t n the 4th of March, iSoi. He
f“ i after made Gallatin fecrctary ot the trea
f ir--; fo that the preliminaries, which were
necefiaryto deteift theft* pretended frauds,were
obtained. I hi v have proceeded in the work, \
and hnveti-lcovcred.
' hat there was no luch combination, or
Icy- uc, as had been pretend'd.
i hat Mr. Adams had left the helm with
clean unpolluted hands.
I oat Mr. Pickering,inilead of owing mil
lioiv*', as was alledgcd by his calumniators, has
gatn.e 14,558 dollars 14 cents by t«*u wifdom
a.td caution vvi ich he ufeJ in remitting money
to Holland, and that he had voluntarily fur
gendered this fum to the United States.
< ir.it I\"i r. Wolcott does not owe otic fiiil
fi* n->r is there any caufe of complaint
again ft him.
i hat Mr. Stcddert is not in arrears, not
withftanding the great clamours a gain ft him.
That Mr. Haber!ham has gained about
20,00o dollars, by the prndencc and integrity
of his meafures.
That Mr. Bayard, a noted and influcncia!
inember of Congr-fs, forbore to receive from
the treafury 18,000dollars, which lie was cn- ;
titled to bv law.
An hundred other cafes of a furular nature
be dated; but thele are deemed fufficient,
to ihew that th; late revolution was effedted
by delufion. All thefe things either are or
ought to be well known by you ; and yet.
firange to tell, you have not communicated
them to your constituents. So far from ir,
your circular letter conveys your approbation
of the chancre; and of courfe, imTTrs the
means, and that you may not be mifutuWftood.
you conclude with heart-ft It gratification.
It is by iuch means that vou have excited
hat! d, contempt, and diflruli towards all per
fosis, who p rote is oppolite fentiinciits from vour
own; and while the word re pul In an op--, rates
with talismanic, and deluflve influence, the
'-’r organ of thefe deceptions, is calculating
with arithmetical certainty, the* difflonorablc
gams which he is likely to acquire.
b or my foul I cannot conceive how a mart,
wno has any feelings, can, day after day, fee
and convene yvitli perfons, who place implicit
c T-.'ence in him,when he knows that they en
tain ertoneous opinions; when he alfo knows i
that thefe errors proceed either directly, or
indiredbly from himfelf; when he is bound by
'n oath, as well as the higheft moral obliga
. o!i, to reprefnit the truth, without taking
bole lleps which are neccfi iry to undeceive,
hucli I think is your cafe. You have cither
mifled your conftiiuents, or fu fie red this to be
.one by others. You permit them to retain
tlwcir erroneous opinions, without making a
finale effort to rectify them ; fo far fro.ii it,
v>>! rejoice that they are deceived.
i >u are a cafuib, and l defy you to fliew
any fubliantial 'liffcrence between thr" propa
gation of untruth, and the fuppicllionof truths
which ought to be told. I expert you will
■ avc too much v/ifdom to attempt a reply, fo
that your friends may akc their choice of al
ternatives. They who acquit vou of the irlv,
will not have the effrontery to fnV that vou
nayc not been guiitv of die fecund. In either
cafe, it will amount co a breach of the com
mandment, ‘ thou /bait not btar faljc witnef*
;t againfi thy neighbour."
FEDERALIST.
&F Mr. Clopton is informed that any de
ft" nee which he may wifli to off er to the fore
:-c • ■ writer, ffinll be thankfully received ;,.;d
puhliffied in this paper.
Not a line of *ficfc lette*. comes from the
pen of the editors. They only wifh to give >
fair play to both tides. Air. Adams went out
cf office with clean unpolluted hands- Hut a
< hi* magiftrate may havfc many ertfecrabfe ,
qualities, although he is not a thief.
JONES
1 It’dgc:- himfclf to print, Turd, and deliver
;,n *;avo volume of eight hundred verv large
wnl dole printed pages, for three Ailars.
>i ■'teen of thefe o£f;?cVt pages take in more
van Seventeen of the folio pages of Mr. Davis.
■ i» b;rding alone would coft (ones at icaft
ti rce tliiltings and nine ocncc. Take /his
his three dollars" and the remainder is
fourteen (hillings and three pence or two ,
lolUr.s, three eights. For this fum he will
give eight hundred gages, putting afnle the
binding.
Dis additional arts of afj'nnbly* were not •
noun !, but only ft itched ; fo that we come I
ciofer u> the point, by putting the- expcnc of j
b di'.■ *ut cf the wnv.
d or the fake of round numbers, fay that i
t / do . . .'iid an half can procure dlybi !
bundled pages. Of coi. f., one dollar give, J
the-’ hundred and twenty. Inftead of fifty J
*» id. tnfc Recorder ol November 24th.
•'M '141 'i therefore, Jones, bv his own con- 1
lemon, < ould have afforded to stiver the execu
rive council three hundred and twenty. In
°.ther 'VordS ht paid in the proportion of
tuv.ut five hundred and feventy per cent, with
• units, h-fr. or more. And you will <>h
Ici ve that, (ome weeks ago, when wc ftafed
overplus of payment, this ’ was the
very point where we relied. There hardly
couiu have been a more exaa agreement of
calculations; although they were mnde by
two different perfom, and for two very dif
flJent purpofes. So much for the accuracy
or the Recorder. J
li Inch has been the mode of condu&im*
tnc public printer’s department, there follows
a natural and invincible fufpicion that othet
points of ex pence were managed in the fame
way. What does it fignify to harp upon the
hundred dollars for illuminating 'be capita!
upon Jefferfbn’s cle&ion, and for . rippfinr «
berie, in nil rxnirlim VA • o.:.., i'm
■'crjc\ in an cxcurficn to W; fhington r The
armory, the penitentiary, in (liort, a* far a",
we can learn, every thing has been conduced
in the fame way. If Jones can print a'thou
(and volumes, of eight hundred pages for
tn7;c thou fund dollars,'he muft have been ever
r ud hyfi* hundred per cent, when he ^ot
twenty feven hundred dollars a year as The
faiaryofa public printer. He printed'two
pan phlets, one of 56, and the other of 80
pages; of the one ecoo, of the other
copies. He printed a parcel of blanks; but
a 7 * was nke chaff, when compared with
p< fling a tnoufand copies of a volume of Soo
}. J.°PCS 08 n work very cheap, we
;iy that h,s ,alar7 have overpaid him, by
000 per cent. r
All tiiofe citizens of Richmond; who wif{\
to lee public money faved, and to fee the h *•
aminer put into more (Vent hands, will re
mind the members of aflcmbly. as foon as thev
come to town, of all thele matters.
T-ROM THE ANTI-DEMOCRAT.
A NF. VV SONG,
• Being a pare ay on an old one.)
j/iHclv introduetd in tlv' new opera of the
Caledonian D iscover V.
del 2, Seem 't.
Drieovers a modern philofopher feated in
a negro Hut, with i number of the African
race abort die fire; the younger part eating
mum out or a try»;ig pan ; over the fire plac?
' !Js theMerryiuei
f, r:;j ,a‘l:!,c! i;,d ^he door ftands a
roamed to his hrorhc , who was too Dearborn
to be free, admiring the ingenuity of a Guild
t,n 111 the chimney corner ftands a Smith,
broken nof'3 t0 ^ rmU:avo’jri,vf? to repair a
Vv hen fr.atrd with Sail, with my brats all
around,
Fold de rol de rol dc ri do,
J,in i'l^jvmdfhc fongftull go round
X ,th = h,,',ml’cr> !hl'" hert’s 10 you tm
Lomc^f'./, ,i out rn'' yellow jov,
Here Tom, be merry, drink my lad,
The fed’ralifts are ail ran mad,
A nd V ire come here to bc merry,girls and boys,
And i ve come here to be merrv.
Come ft. ike up the banjo, SamAw dive’s
yburhandj fc
r ,tl de rol de rol de ri do,
PlHnd rS °d Z0OkS’ nC’er {hil,y rnail>
I.cad up, caft down, and hands acrofc.
Now Tom, another bumper tofis
Here’s to the man that I love m’oft,
J°ln bruii— my fan'rite ioaji (Tom
Vol ]'\c corne home to bc iolly iollvboys,
| - Vr * Xc corn,t- home to be jolly.
! In glee, jig, ani! merriment,tae me
| pel's,
Ft! de ro! de tol de ri do,
; While IP idfkty in bumpers brightens Sally's
eye, J 7
Oh damme charmer give’s your hand,
\’Ly r"r VOU kr,ovv y°u c-n command,
i n piea.ui ,joy, and gay delight
^ Another glafs,afrd then, the n.oht
v .11 pais m cx’ucy and carnal joys,
hoi I’ve come home to be jdVjolly bovs '
moments fh J1
T ROM THE FEEDER ICK-TOWN HV.RaI.V.
PRESIDENT JEFFERSON.
How wn imy chriftian Americans fupport
the prrrent adminiftration of th~ Um^ed
State ? A gain, as to M r. Jefteffon’s morality!
two charges have lat.-ly been made agninft
mm, vh:ch his friends would certainIv be
hound to-contract, if they could do it with
truth.— I Heir ulsnee, however, Teems to coa
fols !us guilt- i t has been Ibid,that for?, number
of years Mr. jefterfon, the father of a familv,
has been living in cohabitation with one of hii
own mulatm flaws, againft all law divir.e or
human. Callender’s ft my, the democrats
ara the mfrlvcs unable to deny: and we arc
conftrained to fay that our own belief, of if is
fixad. Other information aftures us, that Mr.
Jefferon’s Sally and their ' hildren a;e real
periods, that the woman herfdfhas a roam to
hcrfclf at .Vionticello in »hc character of emp
n;c fs to the family* if not as houfe-keepe;; that
ftie >s an induftnous md orderly creature in
her Behaviour, but that her intimacy wiih her
mafic: s well: tn u n, and that i n ill s account j
Hie >s treated by the red of Ins houft as otic
much above the level of his other fervants.
Her ton, whom Callender calls prefident Tom,
we aKb arc afiured. beats a ftr.ong Iikcnefs to
Mr. JefFerfon. Wc make bold to mention
thefe circumftanccs of confirmation, hrcaule,
although the fubject is indeed a delicate one,
we can/jot fe • why we are to arrecd auv great
fqueamifhncfs againit fpeaking plainly of what
we confider as an undoubted matter of Fact
mtereihng to the public.—\VrJten a man talks
oi any indecent act, unlcfs he docs it in inde
cent words, it is furely not he who i> to be
blamed. —In this cafe, it is Mr. JefFerfon
h.icTeli, who aniwerabir for being the oc
cafion of this difgracehil t.iie—But further,
there is another trie concerning Mr. Jefier
lbn, which we were going to fay that we are
forty Appears al(p to be well founded.—Mat
no—u i t\c caufe we defend, fcorns the help
u of falsehood.”* To fay that wc aie forry
at any thing, which may open the eyes of the
people at large to the true character oi a man,
of whole rimvorthincl’s u'c h..ve long made
up our' own opinion, would be Weak hvpocri
fy.— We will not even pretend, that wc have
any great w:fii that Mr. JefFerfon faouk! he
proved innocenti—But it does not thence
follow, that in this, or ,ahv other iuftancu, wc
would be capable of doing wilful iniuu.ee.
Let him tlaiui cr fall, according to Ids me:
\\ hy fhould any one \v l'hto make h.irn ap
pear v/orfe than he is, ftr.ee he is reafiy b:i<i
enough for ’he purpofc of his bitferefi enemy 1 j
But, on the ether hand, why ihould we hide
anv matter all edged agamif him on reafonabie
grounds of belie:? Every motive of duty
forbids fuch timc-ferviiig* caution-—To re
iu..i men me Isconil cncumftance of
' * . u 111 i i .11 i v V* til I l^iil
my laid to Mr. Jcffrrfor.* as Hated in the Re
‘ ..er,rhiec weeks ago, it is this:—Mr. Jcf
ferf°!i,it (cents, had lived inhabits of the molt
iiicr.dly acquaintance, begpn when they, were
.choot-boys;, with a Mi. John Walker,of Al
h^fivjrlA in \7:_• '7M *
hemarle in Virginia. 1’hoc dwelt not
fa
from each other—- 1 r JefTeriotj was a fre
qut iit inmate in the houfeofhis friend. That
menu had a wife, ‘Tinivcr'faily rcprelented as
v/orthy to be the pattern to her fck.” The
‘ctum J^r* Jcfferfon made him for his kind
nils and iiofpittdity, according to Callender,
h.is attempt, .is foolifh as it was infa
nious, to injure the virtue of Mrs. Walker,
and the happineC of hcr hufband. He wav
*)u c > continuesthe Recorder, u with con
tkiupt -- I he lady, at the rftjucil of iht rrrc.9r
perfdnage-, com on ted to the concealment of
\he Jaropofa 1—She did this, on the promife oT
wetter behaviour in time to come. Matters
• emamed in tf is fituatibrq for a certain peri
od, when “ a fecond attempt was made, hv
flipping a billet into the lady's hand.—Oil
tne recplpt of T>e billet, Mrs. Walker took
, "r .u ‘!liu ,^^5’ Put the paper into his
in hi , and tolc. h;m or the former attempt, that
i.:c had conditionally prornifed to lu;,prefs.—
■* ?2. Srcat perfonage received immediate ner
to quit the houfc; arid it is almoft
neemds to adu that this pcrnilflion was accept
ouch is the ftory, well told hv CaUen
* C.r* . C 'S 'v^at "biting never fails to be,
when he thinks it worth while, keenly pointed,
ai,d happjjy contrived We ihoirbl have
publiihed the whole piece, inHead of extract
ing the fubftancc, had we received the paper
which contained it in due time. A, it has
.n circulated throughTn manv other rh .u
’ w-e now he flf'slbd with repeat :nrr
lo much may fcrve fur an order! v pro!
panrtion for proofs which arc to'follow." i*of,
' 'vC ^ha,1 Urc rhc r'-oof. to he brought
r M ’ guilt, in this cafe, tfce an
Iwer is ready. It is further ft:r< J i,. the P c
J01?* Mr. Walter himlelf has often
poke of thi s tranfadiio^ that he never rrftn
tionsMr. Jetrerron’s name but in terms rtf
dcteftation and d.fguft, ™d that on a btc oc
caiton he has related the whole affair in the
fanner in which it has already been printed.
out belli,es inis, when Calk-iiuer firir "a <
this account, lie added that Mr. Walkt r^l-.ad
4 one or n; ore letters nt Ah- . * » <*
a/T„ r -T" f . r. f 01 “'piecation from
Mr. K :,, rf »n on the fyhjea; « and tha if nv
great clamour fhouid be railed by the demo
c, > s, tho.e .etters, or that latte, fhouid burft
upon tne indignation of mankind.” It b. n.s
y > :s !afl paper, that he )S about to make
good his prom i fa j that he has got pofllff-.n
of what w;,s written hy Mr. Jeferfcn to Mr.
w.„keri and that, ,n the next Reorder, ner
t,..|ts, he is P roj.ttl.lrnt the whole. or f„< J,
parts of the letter, or letters, with 0,hcr nar..
ttco.a. , as- OraM fully convifl Mr. Jeff-r for.
o. one of the mod fl.antcful „„l wicked. ffu' ts
of outrage that ran be conceived. HaviR
hvaftort .taremr.it of the cafe, roe. ma&
our rca. tr, .early to under*,*! th, , „;den,c
wc fha.'l lay that evidence before themt,-,o
as , arr.ver In the mean time, weeanno
lil t look with anxiety for the event ol ,,i,l
when the prcftde .tof the United flucs'lUnd,'
rndirtedfn, an ...tended violation rf th,.
codes of honor, the law, of his cott.ttvfbtd
the comr landmcnts of heaven.
* A line which MrUVdcmkt„wn llrral I
<).>s borrowed f, m Dr. S rn.rr 1 I • ■ ,
Falfe Alarm. ,mrtl *
c r RCUI.. AR Lt: TTE Rs
hc v'crVgH if fomeof o rr,: ;
Jc:*, w: ! fend us a lew of t\r circular lets .
I'f t H ; J-’VIl'KM ■> ! if V 'I'.P'A « , p..( r ••r.'tw t *
entv, at the end <>f the \Ai tell? >.u. 1 ' • , ,
pea rhat they will give us an oppo.: w w
fliewing . to the people by what fort «>’ •
fome of them ire reprelented. U r «i ,
particular, be happy to have a peep n cl . \ t
lets of tyielirs. Giles and Randolph.. Wc
have, at lali, gut out iubfciiber in At*.
THE
PUBLIC PRINTER.
THE MEMBERS OK THE NEX7
GENERAL ASSEMBLY, or at icaft fu 1
oi them as wifli to prevent the wafte oftmblii
money, are requeued to live an early atter
dance in the approaching fefiion. One of :!,•
firfi: questions that are to come before theta
yviil be upon the choice ot a /> v/*//Y (» hur; .
1 he fecond will be whether it is proper i.
Pay two thonfand fevch hundred dolfrv * pet
annunii foi apiece ofbuftnefs, that can ucgo.t
equally as well done for env thoufanil. T,
' ' pofliblc that Mr. Jones may endetivo t
ro get a: ele&jon fmuggled tfirouuh the hpufe,
on the firlf or fecond day of the feffion., /j :)! -
pa.ngruph is wrote, therefore', to warn thole
UvKi.iers who,are anxiofls to lervetheir con
uuueuts, .hat they ought to come, to town in
time at the firft opening of bufinclV, in order
ro prevent an attempt of that nature; if indeed
1 “ delegate could be lupoofcd to countenance
A memorial will be prefented to the- nft'em
<’iV oa the fir ft day of their meeting, rtu;r
the co'ivnon printing price II- which tf.edu
/es public 'printer can be performed.
1 Me memorialiif will otter to perform the
v. nh!c tor a given mm. of about nine, or per
haps eleven hundred dollars. In the Recor
der ofT. 'elobtrr coth. we made funic remarks
on this fubjea. They are not entirely cnlredh,
j ic is laid that Junes, fur his falarypi int« i
1 two th ut.iC.d eight hundred copies (.] the laws
of laft (ehion. Farther information allures a.}
that jencs printed otvy two thoufand for hi-j
Talary. He printed eight hundred and fevent v
cope s a i.Ltiova! \ and for thefe he received
ei^>u hundred andTeventy dollars. Thel'e ad
thcoM.il copies, containing each of them filtv
fix toll.y pages, woii’d require. tweniy-ciffu
reams dt paper. 'Fhe highelt price* wHch
the paper coif him cou?d not be more than
tht>.c d< lars and an half per ream; or, j*'
whole, nrhcty-eijjit Jolhv s.
Paper
P refs wo i lc
Stitching
Totai exnence of Jones
Paid by trie executive
J )oHs.
9s
3°
152
870
Balance in favor of Jones _
j hu! .-Jonc* received a fraftioii more than
me do, ars and feventy-two cents, inftcad of
one dollar j juflasif you had paid five fhiliin^
™d c'ght-pence half-penny for a loaf of brciS.
uvuenwas worth only one /hilling.
1 his,, to be Tare, is a very pronrfifirig fample
01 yuy‘ executive council. Thev toft t wo
tnoufand pounds a year for fabrics; mid go
vernor Moftroe is not critrailed with a vote
among thefc venerable-fhees. No mr, r.ftiJ
bi unc* can. therefore, be attached to the pre
len'ci oi tr.e'ifeof I iiomas Paine H- at*
chicved this aft of juft ice and humanftv al
tire notorious rifk of offending tHofe who f-mr
bun to Pars* at the rifle of being recalled
ifin hi' erne a fly. Jones was no doubtlausrh
t-i:j w.tltm hiinfelf at this am iff on upon our
part, of thefe eight hundred and feventy dol
,ars' I< or its extent there is nor, and there
cannot be .t viler job., in the whole annals of
corruption. \ ou cannot /hut your eve*’
agauijt fiuls like thefi t Samuel Coleman)
hr ub'cl('r1^5>i ~hlS council, thinks it a terrible
crime to tell fuch ferrets; and fuch explana
ll ’! '*with John Guerrant, one rn
hm for affirming that Callendet is a trai
uu / ...Mar for^ a mtajre fioho pamphlet.
■ .y fix pages )-1 he very found of
words J? <n»«ragc upon common fenfe.
v/rctc-hcd fliamhling anfwers that Jones
gi ves upon this fubjeht demonftrate his con
b i out nets that the ground upon which he ft and?
;s breaking devvn under him.
Senators and delegates of the aftVmbTy of
V lrgmia ' We have been affurcrfS- fev-rai , ‘
your members that there is not one man of
> ou u ho Will fet hi« race in defence of thole
‘I'l-g'. I ney fay that the longer endurance
of inch enormities is not poffiblc. They affirm
tut lie ftory requires hut to be proved it,
",’r "° command reformation. Volt hav~
on y to pcrule the public accompts, as liter
iv be lain befdfcyou, and all doubt isat one',:
extmguiflied in a Irurfl of ronvidtion. (icr a
pubbe printer, if you pleafc. Bu(, in
nam,, let him he paid at the rate by which
other printers are ir„ • y
.1. r [. paia. if onr is readv tj
do the bulincfs for nine hundred dollars, for
,v'hl\h y™ *rc at prefent giving twenty-feven
hundred dollars to another, who, by the way
never fet a type in his fife, can v’ou be
enough tocaft away eighteen hundred dollars-'
11 cannot be.
Wc have formerly ftiu-ii that the , iblir
printer receives large fums bolides hi, falarv
d..l!arsWe 1 I'lethuf/ '“‘" 'iV ^
DOW AR^
per annum.