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CALUMNY REFUTED.
AMONG the falfehoods circulated
by the lories to tarnish the fair fame
of the/officers of government, was one
refpe&ing the attorney.general of the
United States, Levi Lincoln, Esq.
which stated, that " on account of
his absence from the feat of govern
ment, one t^oufand dollars were paid
by the Treasury Department for le
gal advice.'
To refute this falfehood, Mr. Lin
coin has come forward in a lengthy
publication, in the course of which he
introduces the following certificate
from the Register of the Treasury,
Joseph Nourfe, who is a federalift :
66 Treafur,-Department, Register's
" Office, 2d; Jul, 1802.
" I certify, that not any monies have
been paid out of the Treasury of the
United States, on account of fees,
compensation, or allowance of any
kind whatever, for legal advice^or o
pinions given, by any person whatev
er, to the present Secretary of the
Treasury, since his appointment, or
to any officer of the Treasury De
partment, during that period.
66 Jos. Nourse, Register."
This certificate is concluffue proof of
the falfehood of the charge again/l the
attorne,-general. Must not the federal
^ falfmc g,w of f tame when their
calumnies are thus fairly and full, re*
futed ? Or, have the, become Jo callous
to ever, virtuous sensation, that nothing
can excite a blush ?
THE indecency of the tor, prints, if
it were confined within the verge of
the country, might be endured with
all the pit, and contempt which it ex
cites. It is deplorable, however, to
fee all tbe feurrilit, of the N. York
Evening Post, Boston Centinel, and
Callender's Recorder, copied intofor
eign prints, where the reputation of
the American morals and manners;
may be estimated by such despicable
standards. We have before us a pa
per publiffied at the new Engli^ let- ,
element ofTrinidad, in which vul.
garities of one of the tory prints are
produced as an evidepce of the bar
barism of American manors.
Aurora.
The federalifts^/ce a great fufs a
bout Callender's tale of Mr. Jefferfon
giving him 100 dollars for writing the
''Profpea; in/Which Mr. Adams was
roughly handled. They should rec
oiled that admitting Callender s state
ment to be true, the retaliation was
far inadequate to the embaff, with।
whicb/Mr. Adams rewarded Smith (
forjZ indecent and abufiveattack on
th/then vice>prefidenr, in a series of|
liters under the signature of “ Pho- (
'eion." Eaflon (Md.) Star.
/ Baltimore, Sept. 27.
A fallhood (ome time since was pro- ty
pagated concerning Levi Lincoln, n
Esq. attorney general of the United I i
States relative to a loss which was 11
said to have been sustained by the j
United States in consequence of the : 1
absence of Mr. Lincoln from the feat 1,
,s. a Year,]
TUESDAY, OCT. 26, 1802.]
AMERICAN REPUBLICAN GAZETTE.
Error of Opinion ma, be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.— Jefferson.
of Government. The lie we be
lieve, originated at Washington, in
the « Federalist," or in this city in
the “ Anti Democrat." However
this may be, Mr. Lincoln has refut
ed, by incontrovertible testimony,
the base assertion, proving by official
evidence that it was a falfe, fcandalqgs
and malicious libel on the attorney
general : Now, what does Mast. Pren
tiss do, in order to juftify said falfe
hood ? He brings forward a circum
stance, that a Mr. Nichols had been
appointed, according to conftitution
ai law, an attorney for the treasury de
partment —and this, fays Charles, is
the truth of the ma.cer. If 'his is not
an instance and a proof of insanity,
we beg to be informed what is? Mr.
Lincoln is belied, and in ord^r to sup
port it, a story is told about a Mr.
Nichols ! the moon did hot shine on
a certain night, and a filly iellow ac
counts for it by faying that he had
lighted a candle !
Frankford, Sept. 25. The newfpa.
pers of the seaports furnifh daily evi
dences of the Bankrupt principles of
the late adminift ration-—upon an ex
amination of 453 cases of Bankrupt
cy, in our maritime cities, there are
found only 27 persons ever fufpe@ed
of republican principles !—And there
are among them, to a certainty, 211
English agents or En,lifh, r^^#^
and 74 revolutionary Tories ! the re
mainder are equivocal—and yet it
was this bankropt interest that forced
on us the British treaty, the Barbary
tribute—and all the afflidions, con
neded with the ocean, to which we
have been fu^ca.
General Hamilton, we are told by
Coleman his editor, exprefled his re
gret at the publication of Callender's
infamous inventions—he has not ex
prefled his contrition for the story of
Mr, Walker, which David Daggett of
Connecticut reported on Hamilton's
authority. Aurora.
Coleman talks of the character of
Hamilton, as if there was a spark of
honorand sincerity in him—his con^
trition for the publication of Callen
ders story, did not come in time ; —
it came after Callender flood felf-con
vided of the falfehood of a material
part of the fabricated story—and after
the city police of Newyork had com
mitted to Bridewell a wretch of the
name of Bell, whom the tories had
hired to cry the libel about the pub
lic streets. ibid.
Hamilton talks of political enemies
—what created him enemies? not his
talents, nor his virtues—his bitterest
enemy was the man who wrote the
pamphlet convi&ing him of one of
the most deteEable crimes against so.
ciety. ibid.
[For the information of our New En
gland “friends^ of order and religion,"
federalifts, federal. republicans, and all
their humble satellites, be it remembered,
that Alexander Hamilton seduced anoth
er man's wife, (Reynolds) and wrote a
pamphlet in which he attempts to juftify
the crime—but Alexander Hamilton is
a good federalift ! the champion of the
LIBERTY AND THE CONSTITUTION.
PRINTED AT CONCORD, N. HAMPSHIRE, BY E. RUSSELL. *
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" friends of older !" the ver, head and
i heart of the Covers of the " Old School."
}Let Federal republicanism hide its das
tard head /]
A JIM
I A new daily paper has appeared at
Newyork, called the Morning Chroni
cle—it appears under the immediate
patronage of Mr. Burr. The firft
number which we have received is
very innocent. It promises lofupport
the present administration—and to be
decidedly republican —Time must de
termine its real charader. Aurora.
\ ___-_3fl£fer--
, THOMAS PAINE.
From the Philadelphia Gazette.
" A kind of tumultuous sensation was
produced in this city, yesterday even
ing, in consequence of the arrival of
fethe ship Benjamin Franklin from Ha
vre. 'lt was believed for a few mo
ments, that the carcase of Tom Paine
was on board, and several individuals
were seen disgracing themselves by
an impious joy. It Was finally under,
^ftood however, that Paine had miffed
his passage in this veflel; and was to 1
fail in a few days in a vessel bound to
,Newyork.l
" N. B. Under the Newyork ship
news head, we perceive a vessel from
Havre announced. Infidels, hail the
.arrival of your high priest I'
I From the Aurora.
The recent rumour of the arrival
ofthe celebrated Thomas Paine, au
thor of ''Common Sense" and the
“ Rights of Man," appears to have
been a mere tor, bubble. —We have
seen letters from a gentleman at Bour.
deaux, who t^s that Mr. Paine was
. at Paris. No baggage of his had ar.
rived at Bourdeaux, nor had any pro
position been made for his passage on
the Franklin as reported.
The return of Thomas Paine to
America has been meditated for four
years past—the alarm excited among
the tories by his being expelled, as
sumes the mask of religion ; but this
disguise is too thin—for men whose
condu& is a con ftant course of hy
pocrisy.
The Tories and their satellites, tho'
in constant disregard of religious prac
tice, are eternally employing it like
the Pbarifee of old for purpose? of
worldly deceit. They know too well
that no man has a right to interfere
with the religious optoions of another
—and'that every individual is answ
erable to God alone for his belief as
well as his practice. The attempt to
drag religion into the contest, will not
answer the ends of those who labour
to that end ; —the American people
feel the blessings of to/eratift— they
know too well from the experience of
hiftory what have been the abuses
pradifed under the pretence of reli#
gious zeal; they know thatit waflhe
religious persecutions of the Puritans
that drove the firft settlers tothe Ihores
of New England; and that the per
secution of the Roman Catholics,
peopled Maryland ; they know that
even at the earlier commencement of
the revolution in 1774, the fanatacifm
of New England against the Roman
— —C—c ■■ r- - - ._
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Catholics Was expressed in a public
declar^ticn ; but that at this happy
period it has ceased, and that the doc
trines of the church of Rome arte now
taught and preached in BoUon as well
as in Baltimore ; those who preach
so much ^bdut danger to religion are
generally the least distinguished for
an observance of the moral duties re*
ligion inculcates—Those who are for
surrendering the carcase of a man to
the flames, or to the rack, or to perfes
cation for religious opinion, will al
ways be found to pra&ife the religion
of the devil—and not the religion of
the all-wife, beneficent, & omnifeient,
God ; —fuch hypocrites are ignorant
of true religion, or abandoned to a
demon—for they cannot pretend to
persuade any one that they feel the,
least concern for the foul of a body
which they would torture or destroy.
If it is true that there was a tumul
tuous sensation felt in the citv on the
report of the arrival ofThomas Paine,
it indicates that the people of Phila
delphia cannot be charged with that
ingratitude which the insidious as well
as the avowed enemies of republican,
ism incessantly attribute to republics.
It shews, that the services rendered
by. Thomas Paine's political works
are not forgotten, nor their weight
diminiffi'd by his publications on re
ligious ffibje&s—it proves that those
who felt such sensations, know how
to diferiminate between the services
rendered by the great talents of that
man to a whole people, and the spec
ulative opinions of the individual
where his own conscience and future
bappinefs alone were concerned; if
this sensation was expressed, it proves
that those who felt and expressed it,
had some confidence in Scripture itfelf, ^
for they believed that the Scriptures
were not dependant on the will or the
wit of any man—and that what is of
inspired or igin, cannot fuffer from the
fcepticifm of a frail mortal.
The EXCISE duties in England
and Scotland for one year, ending
January 5, 1801, amounted to ten
million eight hundred and thirty two
thousand seven hundred & forty nine
pounds sterling, and the damp duties
for the fame period 2,620,250 pounds
sterling!! Happy Americans! what
a load of such accumulating blessings
has the late repeaPof our internal
taxes taken from our shoulders !
May the, never be again revived!
Raleigh Register.
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EXCELLENT ADDRESS.,
[The following address to the Republicans of
Penufylvach; contains sentiments worthy
the dignity of True Americans—it ought
to be read and treasured iu the heart of ev
ery man who level bis country, wh, loves
his freedom—who toes the blessings of a
Democratic government ]
From a Philadelphia Paper.
TO THE
REPUBLICANS
op '
PENNSYLVANIA.
Friends and Fellow Chteeu„
BY the appointment of a refpe&able
meeting of the republicans of the Ci-
Volume ll.— Number XC.
[Pa, quarterly.