United States oracle and Portsmouth advertiser — Portsmouth, N.H., 1802-09-18 00:00:00, page 1

WE now (ball shew the methods]
' taken by Mr. Jefferfon to destroy the
character of Mr. Adams, at tide time
Mr. Adams was his fair competitor for
the firft Magidracy. As we intend to
complete the extracts in this number,
there frill be little 'room for accompa
nying remark,
" The reign of Mr. Adams, has, hitherto, been
one continued temped of malignant passions. As
President, he haw never opened bis bps without
threatening and scolding. The grand objeifl of
his administration has been to exasperate. the
rage of contending parties, and to calumniate
and destroy every man who differs from his o
pinfons. Mr. Adams has laboured, and with
melancholy fucctfs, to break up the bonds of
foeial affection, and under the ruins of confi
dence and friendship, to extinguish fbe only
beam of happieds that glimmers through the
dark and despicable farce of life." 31.
!Extract fr om the Aurora dire&ly af
ter Mr. Adams opened bis lips in his firft
speech after his election :—" Who can
4 “ peruse the President's inaugural ad
" dress without giving it his most un
" reserved approbation ?" Again, " It is
♦“ impossible to do justice to the feelings
“ which this address has occasioned —
, " we discover in it no little attempts
“ to wound the feelings of one party,
, “by exaggerating applause of the oth
" er," &c. &c.-—but we reserve the fub
jed of contrasts for a future number.
66 By language like this," observes a
writer of that day, “ the French fadion
thought to gain him over."
In one passage, where the Virginians
are called upon to choose between Ad
ams and Jefferfon, we find this lan
guage—“ take your choice between
innocence and guilt, between freedom
and Ilavery, between-paradise and per
dition. You will choose between that
man whose life is unspotted by a crime,
and that man whose hands are reeking
, with the Wood of the poor friendlefs
I Connecticut sailor ! I fee the tear of
indignation Looting on your cheeks!
you anticipate the name of John Ad
ams. . Yet even this most abominable
MURDER was but a single a&." 84.
Let me pray the render to recoiled
that for this libel as we underhand,
Callender was indi&ed, tried, convict
ed and punched by a fine of zoo dol
lars and imprisonment. The term hf
his imprisonment expired we believe
■ before Mr. JefT,rfon came into office,
but he certainly did all he_could for
him; he gave him an order on the
marshal to receive his two hundred
' dollars back again, and they were ac
tually paid back. Now was not this a'
praise worthy action in the “ virtuous
Jefferfon i" Does not the good man
' '' merit applause rather than censure,
for this virtuous opposition to an ini
quitous government?" “ But what ser
vice could the Profpeft render to the
election of Mr. Jefferfon? None." No?
not when such horrible charges were
circulated against his competitor,where
there was no medium or opportunity
of conveying an antidote %<he poison?
But fays the citizen agairf, it was all
“ rhapsody and unmeaning vulgarity."
Ay indeed? dnd yet it passed under the
' fan&ion of Mr. Jefferfon's unqualified
approbation and reward. What must
' the people of Virginia have thought as
ato the truth or falsehood of these charg
es, when they were informed that Mr.
Jefferfon thought the author so unjust
ly punished as to order the fine to be
returned even after it had been paid
ever to the officer. No, able editors, all
) your arts will hardly be able to pass off
this fluff upon us. But to return.
" Foreman in whatever is detestable, Mr Ad
ams feds anxiety co curb t^c frontier popula
tion?'lo,
Taking the hint from a paffitge in an
' ' English pamphlet which appeared a
bout ten years ago, entitled, Lesa to
a reg Prince, Callender has availed
bimfelf of the opportunity to died all
, the gall of his pen. It is too long to
quote at length, the following extract
imay serve to ffiew its fpiri| and-eom
' plexion. Mr. Gerry is made to addreL
{ Mr. Adams with—
„ You shall multiply, in a tenfold proportion
'the tribe of penfionera, and
fv L horhant9 and exeifemen. lou shall fill the
Jentry with adventures in blue coats faced
with red. They foil rescue the horse taler#
a„d watch falm; flog republics pruui;
+ —^^^^ & ^±!l^X^XGC^aiT4^r^Qmz^^
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR
Or ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL 1
PROSPERITY, RELIGION AND MORALITY are indispensiblej
SUPPORTS.— WASHINGTON'S Legacy.
PORTSMOUTH, N.H, Printed and Published every
JUKI!.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER iB, 1802.
From the New-Pork Evening Post.
- Nc.VIII.
JEFFERFON & CALLENDER.
Portsmouth
Political.
THniteto ^tate^
Decency retrains my pen from go
ing further.
“ And it was upon this notable foundation
that the president penned his inimitable answer
to tfcty as Bofa. In that paper, with all the
cowardly influence arising from his assurance
of perfonalfafety with all the fire,but without the
propriety or sublimity of Homer's Achillea, this
boar, beaded incendiary this libeller of tie governor
of Virginia, bawls out, to arms ! then to arms !
It was floating upon thefame bladder of popular
ity, that Mr. Adams threatened to make this
city the centrical point of a bonfire
-" Reader ! doll thou envy that unfortunate
old man, with his twenty-five thousand dollars
a year ? Alas ! He is not an obje& of envy, but
of companion — and of horror !" 144,
, “ Take your choice then between Adams,
war, and beggery, and Jefferfon, peace, and
competency." 16,. 1
Methinks I fee Mr. Jefferfon's dol
lars actually leaping from his pocket
at this tickling apostrophe. How did
he with for the palingeneftical powers
of a Rannie senior, to convey the mo
ney from his own purse into Callender's
by a prefto,pafs, and begone !
“ John Adams, that scourge, that scorn, that
Gut-call of America." Errata to 2d vol.
Qnly think, for Heaven's fake, of the con
flagration of the war-office, & of the quantity of
documents which have been consumed io the
flames of the office of the treasury. Such enor
mo>>proceedings must ascertain even to the
mod inaccessible undtrftanding that things are
not as they Should be ;in a word,as Pliny fays
of Regulus, we bfyjeen governed by the m^ ex
ecrable of all sc<t cqdrels." Vol. Id.
Os all decenniad candid attacks up
on any adminiftratidn,futely this is the
most decent molt candid, most mild.
Here the laborer was Worthy bit hire.
".This,is the system of John Adams: the sys
tem of the dictator of murder to a wretched dif
tri& judge (Judge Bee) the system of the jailor
of Thomas Cooper, the calumniator of Thom
as Paine."
" Memos Virginia tye will judge for your
felve# on the point of an American navy ; ye
will judge without regard to the prattle of a
President ; the prattle of that strange compound
of ignorance and ferocity of deceit and weakness-—
without regard to that hideous, hermaphroditi
cal character, v Jch has neither the force and
fiftnnefs of a mau, nor the gentleness and fenfi
bdity of a woman?' 57.
" But in order to give the President full jus
tice, we must recollect that the perfidy and im
posture of his kindies bear a coriefpondent pro
portion to the crack in his upper story ! that as
Dryden fays, every inch which it notfoolit rogue ;
that the *Now blasted tyrant of America, that,
the ruffian who stigmatized the governor of Vir
ginia, as a minister recalled in di,grace, is fuper
cminently entitled not only to the laughter,but
likewise to the curses of mankind/' 81.
" In summer, 1798, it was understood, that
Mr. Adams had remarked a rcfemblahce of
charader between himfelf, and the great and
immortal Frederick of Prussia. This will not
seem incredible, when we call to mind what is
pefitivcly true, that Mr. Adams, in a fit of pas
sion. has twirled off hi, wig and slammed upon it.—
I ffiould upon all common 'occasion, abhor the
smallest reference to perfonalitics like this. But
it mti& be remembered, that our American
Frederick has placed himfelf at the head of a
whole battailion of the trumpeters of personal
slander ! and that an honest traveller may, with
justice, knock down a footpad with the butt-end
of the robber's own pistol. It is not so well
known as it should be, that this federal gem,
this apostle of tire Parsons of Connecticut,^ not
only a fcpulfivc pedant, a gross hypocrite, and
ah unprincipled oppressor, but that he is in pri
vate life, pne of the most egregious &ole upon
the continent. When some future Clarendon
still illtiUrate and dignify the annul, of the pres
ent age, he will assuredly express his furprize at
the abrupt and absurd elevation of this despica
ble attorney. He will enquire by what species
of madness America submitted to accept as het
Fi'cfident, a person without abilities and with
out virtues ; a being alike incapable of attract
ing 'either tenderness or esteem The biftori^n
will search for those occult causes that induced
her to exalt an individual who has neither that
innocence of sensibility which incites us to love,
nor that omnipotence of intellect which com
mands us to admire. He will ask why the U.
States degraded tbemfclvcs to the choice of a
wretch whose foul came blasted from the hand
of nature ; of a wretch that has neither the fei
tuee of a magistrate, che politeness of a courtier,
nor the courage of a man 1" 77. #
* Tbic war after the ole&ion of Mr, fefferfon.
Having mentioned the three names of
Washington, Adams, and Hamilton as
those against whom the venom of Mr.
Jefferfon was mere especially direded
in the " Profpea before Us" a regard
to order would require us now to ex
trad those passages which are applica-1
ble to the latter of those gentlemen. —|
But the writer has here indulged in a
fl ram of abuse altogether without par.
ailel, arid so utterly gross and libellous,
that although it would serve to place
the depravity of him who patronized
and rewarded it in a-still more odious
point of view, decenty absolutely re
strains from making quotations.—The
pen tefufes to trace fuchdifguftingly feur
rilous parages. We pals therefore to
assault and flab your peaceable fellow citizens
on the streets of New-York and Boston."
No. IX.
tr iftmg^ptorareaz^cart :-rare'Kmsrcct o.CT ate. QC^
Mk. COLEMAN,
Much has been said and written a
bout the conduct of a certain Great
Magistrate in relation to J. T. Callen
der.—lt seems not to have been enough
to have rewarded his efforts in the ebufe
he had espoused, by a contribution of
one hundred dollars before the contest
for the Presidency was decided ; but
as a mark of gratitude for his eminent
services, the fine which had been a&u
ally levied for the use of the public,was
directed to be restored. Having en
tertained the highest veneration for the
present Chief Magistrate, I was fur
prized to find doubts entertained, not
as to the policy, but as to the legality
of this measure.
The policy was,indeed, felf evident ;
because without doubt, distinguished
service entitled the performers of them
to remuneration. Upon the fame prin
ciple that the grand promoter of the
whiskey infurredion, ought,in case of a
political revolution, to administer the
treasury of the government, the minor
agents in the business of opposition,
which some call Faction, if, for certain
reasons they could not receive power
and office, should at lead have, in one
way or another, the wages of their ex
ertions.—The labourer, in scripture
language, is worthy of his hire ; and
though Ido not believe that the maxim
would have an undue weight with our
President, on account of its being con
tained in his Bible ; yet as it accords
well enough with the rules of philoso
phy, I do not know that he would re
ject it merely on account of its origin.
In fhorsif the petty reward of 200 dol
lars would contribute to " restore har
mony to social" life, quieting those
endeavours to destroy public and pri
vate confidence, which are no longer
necessary, a good republican would not
have blamed the President for bestow
ing so trifling a film upon Mr. Callen
der, even out of the 25,000 dots, which
compose his annual Salary -But as the
President has a constitutional power to
grant reprieves and pardons for of
fences against the United States, ex
cept in cases of impeachment, the
* doubt that has arisen, was whether this
power would enable him; I mean le
gally, to give.the zoo dollars to Cal
lender out of the public money ihftead
of his own, and as I was, anxious thrt
this doubt Should, for the horfor of the
government, be removed, and the At
torney-General has not ' favoured the
public with his sentiments upon this
fubjed, I applied to a gentleman of the
longrobe, in the hope that his opinion
would convince the mod obflinate fed
eral devotee that the President had aid
ed in this instance, as ,well as in the ac
cordmodation of his old friend Tom
Paine, with perfect propriety.—Judge
then of my furprize when I received
from the learned Trebatius, a lineal de
scendant of the famous lawyer who
, was the friend of Cicero and celebrat
ed by Horace, the following
OPINION.
"1 have examined the question re
fpeding the money restored by the^
Marshall of Virginia, to J. T. Callen
der, by the President's order, and I
cannot think either that the order was
legal or the MarShal juftified in obey
ing it. The principle of our govern
ment is, that all power originates from
the people, and is a trust to be exercis
ed according to the conftitution.—ln
regard to the power of pardoning there
seems to be a special confidence repof
! ed in the Chief Magistracy, that he will
I only use it in cases, which if they could
have been forefeen, the law would have
excepted out of its general rules. Wheth
er the case of a man confeffedly &avowedly guil
ty of a gross libel upon the late Chief
Magistrate was of this description or
whether it was decOrus in his fucceSTor
to interfere in such a case, I do not pre
tend to determine. Perhaps the ser
vice rendered to the present Chief Mag
;iftrateia the promotion ofhis eledion,
the ad of the Prefidentin remitting the
fine of Callender and Ordering the mar
fball to repay the mnhey after having
it actually in his poffiffion. We have
taken some pains to ^certain precisely
what the fafts are, and expe& in a few
days to be able to giv, them to our rea
ders With sci upu|ous accuracy ; in the
mean time the - following, which we
have received from a much refpeded
friend may serve to (hew in what light
the fubjeft may be regarded.
For ths EVENING.POST,
by defaming his predecessor, may be
such a plea of merit as to over balance
every other consideration. But (till, if
the President was not only right, but
commendable, in pardoning a person
to whom he was indebted,and to whom
he had made only a partial payment, I
am nevertheless of opinion that a par
don, as such, does not extend co the res
titution of any thing already veiled in;
or paid to the public. The authorities
cited in sth Bacon's Abridgement, new
edition, page 296, appear to me deci
sive of this question. He might par
don the offence, or repeal a punishment
not infli&ed; but could not, I think,
re-dore the money paid, which was be
come the property of the United States
—I know, indeed, that constitutional
provisions have Sometimes been extend
ed by construction ; or at least that
such was the charge against the federal
adminiftratidh But Ido not suppose
that under the pure and virtuous ad
ministration of a Philosopher, who is
an enemy to power, and bears the fa
tigues of government with reluctance,
any such principles or practices can pre
vail. Indeed i do not scruple, in the
present instance, to pronounce the res
titution of the fine illegal, and the ex
ample dangerous ; and it is a fabjeft of
regret that when the Prefideut possessed
such ample means of rewarding his
friends as well as punishing his oppo
nents, he Should have recourse to an
expedient, so questionable, hot to fay
improper. , .TREBATIUS.”
Such, Sir, is the opinion communi
cated to me by this learned Jurifconfult
—but I cannot divest myfelfof the ex
pedation that the still more learned
Attorney-General will clear up all these
difficulties, and demonstrate by reason
and authority,that since the fun of anti
federalifm has arisen, every thing done
has been for #e equal benefit of all the
citizens, and in perfect unifori with the
constitution. The great case of the
judges, and the little question about the
fine, feera to require his early attention
least the people Should begin to think
that those who were profeffed enemies
to the adoption of the national govern
ment, mean to work his entire ruin "by.
altering fundamental Taws and confti-
Jutions."'
SIR,
I am extremely tired of these long
stories, in Cheetham and the uEgis, at
tempting to few that Mr. Jefferfon
disapproved of the contents of TbeProf
peft, and that he paid these hundred
dollars without being aware roohat kind
of a book it was to be. —The firft fifty
dollars were not paid until be had seen
a very large specimen of the book—
This had been printed in Lyon's Mag
azine. It begins with the Hiftor, of
the Proclamation of Neutrality. The
magazine sheets were irclofed in a let
ter, The answer came in a few days,
with dire&iot)s to call on George Jef
ferfon. The second fifty dollars were
not paid until y^ur months after I<was in
prison. The second volume was then
begun to be printed. I sent Mr. Jes;
ferfon a specimen ; Mr. George Jef
ferfon then called with the second fifty
dollars. As soon as he was gene, I
went out of the jail to the house of the
keeper, Mr, Role, and lodged the mo
ney with him. The old gentleman
was remarking to'me, last evening, the
absurdity of grounding Mr. Jefferfon's
defence upon his being ignorant of the
nature and stile, feeing the work had
been published, and I had been ^ried
for it so many months before the ft
6
Some little time ago Mr. Francis Blake,
alias diQus, Heitor Ironjide, Esq. the
callow editor of Levi Lincoln, Efq.the
Attorney-General of Mr. PrefidentJef
ferfon, declared in so many words that
he wanted only to be convinced that
Mr. Jefferfon had seen the Prefp est be
fore he paid the money, and his de
fence of him, and we presume Mr. Lin
coln's defence too, of course, should be
at an end. Callender observing this,
has very obligingly sent us the follow
ing letter for the perusal and amuse
ment of these candid gentlemen. He
will accept our thanks. Now if words
mean any thing, Mt. Lincoln and Mr.
Blake will both " turn tail in a fit of
cpntrition. Ratti tatti, Ratti tattoo.''
Richmond, Sept. 2, 1802.
Saturday Morning; by WILLIAM TREADVV EL, C,
PRICE 1 DOLLAR 50 CENTS Per itmum. ,[No. 50
—— — — - — —— —
(O 'ADVERTISEMENTS reasonably IS conspicuously inserted—COMMU
( NICA CIONS duly attended to —dnd everyl FAVOR THANKFULLY
2ACKNOWLEDGED.
From the n. y. evening post.
—o—
— vs. Hector Ironjide.
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, FOURTEENTH YEAR.
Advertiser.
^gue, anti
PHILARCHUS.
londI ond remittance was made. For this
latter circutuftance, George Jefferfon
can bear witness. Diene, Cheetham,^
and the TEgis may bark & grin as lohg
as they please. But-I am sure that no
man of the jeaft judgment-will believe
them, when they refer all these remit- ,
tances to charity. I fancy that I Shall
finally be provoked to print one of Jefc
ferfon's letters oil the fuhied, and lodge
the original manufcrip: with the May
or of Richmond.
Sally's business makes a prodigious
nolle here. You may save yourfelf<he
trouble of a moment's doubt in believ
ing the story. But what will your pi
ous countrymen upon the Connecticut
fay to such African amours? After
this difeovery, I do not believe that, at
the next eleftion of 1804, Jefferfon
could obtain two votes on the Eastern
fide of the Susquehanna; and I think
hardly four upon this fide of it—Ht
will, therefore, be laid aside.—As for
Madison, he is a poor consumptive
thing ; 5 feet 2 or 3 inches high;
deeply wrinkled, and nothing but Skin
and bone. He has not a constitution
capable of Supporting official fatigue;
I am, in haste, Sir, Yours, &c.-
JAS. T. CALLENDER.
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PETERSBURG, SEPT. 3.
Yesterday morning a Duel was fought'
bear this town, between Mr. Richard
Thweatt and Mr. Edwin Fort, in con
sequence of some observations publish
ed in our papers of Friday and Tuef
day last. Atthe firft fire Mr. Thweatt'
received a flight wound in his hand &
shoulder—at thefecond fire Mr.Thweatt
(hot Mr, Fort through the body, which
in a few hours put a period to his ex
igence.
We hear that curing mulatto pre
side nt begins to give himfelf a great
number of airs of importance in Char
lottfville, and the neighborhood. Jef
ferfon, as we presume, cannot, and
Maddifon Jhall not, if we can help it
be next president, the republicans mult
make haste and look about them.
[Recorder.
Let Callender enquire into attempts
and failures of Adultery. Let him en
quire into certain daring attempts on
die lady of Mr (not X, Y nor Z. but as
near to them as possible.) Let him en
quire about a billet put irtto a lady's
muff, concerning the billet's being hon
estly, chastely and immediately given w
the husband ; and concerning a certain
moral man's being forced out of a gen--
tieman's house with an insulted huf
tend's foot at his crupper. [Anti D.
0
NEW YORK, SEPT. &
Mr. Drake, postmaster at Perth Am
boy, we are informed, has been dismis
sed for being a federalift.
:6i sick persons have been landed
at the hofpitdls from the French squad
ron, since its arrival ; of these 8 have
died at the hofpitll, and 3 after return
ing on board.
Sept. 10.
We saw a man yesterday from Jer
sey, who informs tis, that on Tuefday
last, four half naked negroes, feppofed
to have ran away from the French
ships in our port, fell in with a Mr.
Jerolman, near Belville, or horse-back
—They demounted Ms. Jerolman,two
of the negroes mounted the-horse, and
the other two guarded Mr. J. In this
fituaticn they were met by a gentle
man who Gorily after gave this infer*
mation to the neighboring farmers—-
The blacks^ were pursued, taken, and
put in prison ; but they had previouf
iy murdered Mr. Jerolman, and killed
the horse, and left them dead, on the
road in a thicket of woods. .
/}: —0 • ,
LOUISIANA.
A St, Kitts paper es the 30th of Ju
ly, fays, “ By a gentleman f; run Domi-,
nique, we learn, that a dirifon of
Fienclrtioops for the ampuntof Seed,
under ihe command of General Ber
nadotte, raffed that Ifl,and a few days
ago, in their route to their newly at- .
quired territory of LouiGana, in Spzn
ilh America, A
x— — 0- -
BALTIMORE, SIFT. 6.
The Fever.—Since the official report
of August so,— there have^ j % new
cases of the fever, and 22 deaths of all
disorders.