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FROM THE AURORA.
SECOND
Commentary on Gov. Sargent 's affair.
Winthrop Sargent's diftniffion is again
brought forward, and with all the ma
lice of the old school. We detected
the fraudulent manner in which ihis
man's case was treated of last week.
It has been taken up again in the Bof
ton Centinel, —one would think that to
be defended in Congress, by Harpefy
was bad enough, but to be defended
by the Centinel, and re-defended by
the Gazette of Wayne, is indeed the
consummation of infamy.
Mr. Sargent's case was referred to a
committee of the House of Represent
atives on the 22d of December 1800/
in consequence of several complaints
and presentments of various Grand
Juries of the Miffifippi Territory, for
two ,ears preceding. This committed
No. 41.]
REPUBLICAN .GAZETTE.
.' LIBERTY aVd THE CONSTITUTION. ft
Published by E. RUSSELL^ CONCORD, [n.,] November 12, 1801.
confided of the {following members—
Mr. R. G. 77ar)ftfnairmari, Messrs.
Clairborne, Dknnu, Nott, Davis, Bird,
and Otis, giving five of the most thoro'
going partisans. Accordingly a kind
ofreport was drawnup,the united work
of Harper and Otis, in concert with an
agent of Sargent's then at Washington.
The minority protested against the
mendacious contempt of evidence dis
played in the report, but it was bro't
into the House. It was indecently
whifpeted on the ftG^fm Clairborne^
and Davis were put p 4 /me committee
only to affront them. It will be rec
olle&ed that Sedgwick was the notori
ous Speaker at that period, and that
the fallen party had a full majority of
18 on all party quest ions at that time.
In that House, howevety such was the
sense of shame that was produced by
the report introduced, that the uncom#
mon circumstance occurred, of the re
port being reje&ed by the House after
an ardent debate, in which Harper
Confe ffed the crimes, but denied the
criminality of them! and urged Mr.
Sargent's revolutionary services as a
fat off for his offences!
This custom offetting offformer good
conduct is carried to an unprecedent
ed extent. During the fate adminis
tration, revolutionary services were
considered as demerits, and Tor,ifm a
recommendation to confidence. The
only road to promotion under the last
administration, was a derePaion of re
iddutionrttyfrmaflcjra^
fion of some notorious a& of apoftac,
-—this was a fore way to entitle a man
to toe fame confidence as if he had been
a confirmed Tor,; but here we fee the
fame men who declared against revolts
tionar, principles and services, the very
men wno thought, or faid* they tho't,
that the revolutionary principles had
been carried too far, and given too
much liberty to the populace—we hear
them claiming under principles which
they had abjured ! We could point
out several other instances of this fort,-
where even before the election of Mr.
Jefferfon was warm in' the Prefiden^
tial chair, he was assailed by men with
representations of their rovolutionar,
services—one of whom we could name,
had published hand-bills declaring that
religion, order, and property, would be
deftroyedj if Mr. jefferfon should be
elected!
But to return to Winthrop Sargent,
and his services. We have now be
fore us a duplicate of a letter of Win
throp Sargent, dated 25th Aug. 1800,
addrefled to the Secretary of State;
written in consequence of a motion
made the 15th May preceding, that he
should be called to account for his
misdoings, and impeached. In which
he explicitly acknowledges his illegal
exactions; and for which he offers
as a juftification, that similar exa&ions
had been made in an older colon, !f
:'Reader, this oldcolony was the ter<
• It will be recoileded, that a number of
the Principals of the late administration strong
ly expressed these sentiments.
ritory under Gen. St. Clair's govern
ment, to whom Sargent a&ed as Secre
tary. During the absence of the gov
ernor, the secretary aEled as governor,
and in that period it was, that Mr Sar
gent himfelf, in the old colony, was
guilty of those exadions in the frrft
instance, which he quotes as pieces
dents in the second!
He ftatea another circumstance in
jollification- the former administration
never found fault with the abufe!!—
Therefore it was legal!! There wai
^a perfia coincidence in sentiment be
tween the administration of Timothy
"Picketing and him ! Therefore it was
just ! Harper sympathized with, and
defended him—therefore, he was into
maculate!!!
But there is another excuse, equally
unprecedented and curious!—He faft
that one law wa&jent to the printer, and
inadvertently signed, “ which aft was
" acknowledged as hffile to the conftite
“"fion." This is the man, who com
plains that the President treatedhim as
a gentleman, and not as he deserved
to be!
But mark the conduct of Mr, Sar
gent; he has published a pamphlet, in
which he fays, 66 he found it necessary
to the vindication of his charader to
make ajourney to the Atlantic States;
He reached Boston in May, and pre
pared to visit the feat of government.
To vindicate his chara&er observe was
the object of his miffion.# •
however, it was ng, his character in
the Miffifippi which he prepared to
vindicate. He applied to gen. Knox;
and he obtains from gen. Knox, a let
ter, containing an insinuation that Mr;
Jefferfon would condemn him without
trial. But notwithstanding this indeli
cacy towards him, Mr. Jefferfon, it ap
pears, received Mr. Sargent with po#
litenefs, and then, reader observe—he
told the President, " that the object of
his journe, was to re-ejlablijh his reputa
tion." That is, he was conscious that
his reputation was funk, and he travel
led and prepared himfelf at Boston to
vindicate and re-establish his reputa
tion !
How did he do this ? By imputing
impure motives to others, and claim
ing the suppression of Mr. Jefferfon's
judgment, because the former admins
iftration had honored him with afull
approbation. This certainly was a
Grange mode of vindication !, The
petitions of the people and the present,
ments of grand juries were to be set
aside, nay the censure expressed by
Congress in the rejedion of a report
drawn up by his partisans, these were
all to be overlooked!' But mark how
he who had prepared himfelf at Boston
to vindicate his loft reputation, pro
ceeds!
Why he tells the President that—
" for this purpose it was proper g,
should repair to Boston, where he had
left papers important to his defence,"
altho' he had prepared himfelf before
he left Boston!.
In a word, this fame Mr. Sargentis
[Vol. I.