The Potowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1790-1798, 1797-03-23

The People ihould be poioned with the truth that
they ihoald have their eyes ooened upon their be-
trayers: Your three thful sdhereuts have faid,
that thefe truths :old for elec,oneering ppr
poles; they are very civil indeed to diicover iuch
an important fact to ehe People, but why they
10 nu'h more ioiictous dilcorer the motives for
telling The truth, than for telling The truth ielt-
you know very well, therefore hall nor trouble
you more upon that head. he People have di-
cernnent enough to difinguiih Between i'll foundeo
f4bric' ons, calculated to an[wer particular purpo
les, and well founded facts which they ouahe to 1
know your experience Will atisiy you Of dis
When you hrft offered for The assembly, there was
litle i'll natured trivial piece put in the papers
agsnt YOU, which concerned not the People , it
treated with neglect and contt ulpt and you
were elected b. relpectable majority but now
that you have abufed the confidence of the People,
and offended agani fl'em, they hazs for lsksn yaS
and will never trutt 1ou again
You have offered to the Public an excite for your
i'll conduct which corld with you had forborn
am ferry you have brooghE upon me the necessity
of di!cuGng that point with you You fay that
you left the Assembly in conequence of the prfGing
ioiicitsions Of etad friend, and friend indpoi-
ed TO be inre the calls OF the dead are awful and
folemn, but what could you do You coald neither
bring the dead to life, remove the indifpoGtion
of the indfpoied. Precarous indeed mutt be the
representation of people, that is to depend upop
the fever of father, the death of filter hut is
poor as this txcuie is. it wants foundation in
truth the 'rue friend that brought you home YOU
have not mentioned to the public; friend that
you cordially embraced and put, in your bo(om
but in your pocket mean % dollars, which you
told many people you received at November Court
but certainly you have not forgot that you told e-
veral perions before YOU left home for the Assembly
that you .houid return TO November Court. if Won
deny this ii tha'l be proved upon you were YOU
nor Pnnctual to the time you appointed We're you
not here the night before the Court, and did Won
hat \ rot ah,,t
Won lay that the death end indilpoition Of your
TRENDS were the caufe of ycur coming hcme but
what excuIe have you tor coming home the iecoud
time Do you not remember you came home twice
during The felton, Bot how could you reconcile it to
your feeling nake ufe Of luch an execute as YOU
have done poor filter, HON YOU were too proud
TO Witt in her lite -tine-whom YOU treated with
eoldneis and contemPt-wbofe door you frequently !
passed without deigpIng to call. or even to bow !
your head to her, bat how that ihe is departed and
icarcely cold In her grave, you make her the orc.
text, in The public prints, for your ilbeha viour
towards the people. Oh ihame upon YOU cover
yonrielf with laek cloth and aihes, and repent all
the days OF your life to come, and you hali Be for
given
will iasercede for you with the people / hope |
theJ VIII forgive you though they will never truft
you again. hone ,he7 will confder that Won are |
yoong man, and can teitfy that you are natu- !
rally vel! difpoed, but that you have kept bad COM
Pany and have wretched Councillors who have |
broaaht you into I'll this diihculty ard ,hradom. |
have no doubt but that when you throw them f,
you will become good citizen and valuable men, !
Der OF iocety You have been guilty Of ore or two
little inconillencles. which mutt remar. to you.
When formerly iaid. that the diltance from |
Richmond to this place nearly TWO hundred |
miles, you very unciviEly iaid it was lie Nov |
thai you think IT viii anfwer your purpoe, you fay
it is nearly two hundred miles. You lay you were !
only ablsn, nine days from the Alsemby-,his j.. |
nine days too !ong-but let aik will it NOT take
that time nearly, to travel from Richmond and back
again, in the dead of winter ? and where was the |
time you were at Court, and other places in the
County,
You have laid that you will anfwer no more ano.
nymous wrltings-n this think you are right - !
and would sdpiie you NOT TO sniwer them, or a. |
ny other Kind, unleis you can DO it with more ho-
nor TO yourieit as man, and credit as writer |
But tell me, OF what uie would it be TO the public
or you, that ihould iga ny real name Ifthe
truth appears, does it from what iource it |
comes Your three worthy matters fay, that you |
HAL go to the Assembly again ferve them--I FAY |
you ihall not, and 10 fay
THE PEOPLE.
Ms E B.
AN former paper, Of the 9th inf ADDRESSED you