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


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M flrs, Mo. SIS AUNTtR ,PHILIP PENDLET0E,
and DAVID HUNTER,
4 HAVE obierved your learned and lengthy dif-
couds 10 he [ocforaA GAa,dtan ot the 10 h init. md
now haiteu to remove lie DOUBTS which you have
expreised that your queries " uid not be aniwer.
ed. never with TO decline de dnenhon OF a tub
Ct which cuucerus the public tho -. 1t be with
the mott emptible i5r55ltrs, and in the news-
psp"rs which you af treat with 70 much
dlidain and you teena TO be one and iudviGbls
III your plans OF speculation, weli IN de-
tence o. ihefD, mutt take the liberty of addrel hg
you and, you have all embark ID in the
po 'in you n,ult be content to be equal iAa-
OF the rude ba.is OF tay pen.
You fay, that have made On fub;ect Of abufe,
toi eleetione-rinE purPo'ss. Do yon really think
that have injured you Have you really taken
up iht pan vindeate your honour from al
perion aud taltehood :---or to ierve q friend who
naDgs Upon your heels, and who l!se ferted yos 4,
talthfoiy. at the expene OF his other coniliuentss
| am nclined believe the latter, whence the;e
exPretions -" Anxious induce tbs people Of this
county out OF heir late reprcien: atives
at The enluibg election, make room, perhsps for
hmieif or his frierd" Reprtt for the people Of
this county, and 4ttice member who has
been 10 mAlicouiY and THANKFULLY traIuced by rhis
writer aGd believe, for the b4eit purpl l Sc
Here2oc fern t. be More an%ioas for yonr late re-
preientafi9e, you call him, than for youiieivts
Afa HAT can be
hlm out. You undertake 10 poilt unr The VINO
rgos hmielf 7be Peqp@, and lis motives for writ
ing, withou; huv'ag any proof of either. Is this
candid or honeft r-or is il mean falls, and unran-
ly The VINO undertakes asert thing tn
ne true. witt, knowing whether it is 70 or not,
is equally guilty of falf hood (thouEh it should turn
Nc h. s;serted If he hsd told n
h. ne il O De beC1uif " he nag
10 litte regard truth rilis his veracity upon
uncertain I he irGnuatlcn that wilned
to IN Ike room for nyicfor t,iend, mipllr be y
Piled witt equal force to any rcrl3n, VINO iahr
1T IN oppoiIroD ynur Lite member, 10 that
per!o could easr bis ervic-s tc the public, in OPP
petition TO bim though up-rior 10 point o. ahii-
ties and integrity, without being luipccte OF fni!ttr
views, becau4 your friend has been guilty az riea-
cherous aaulc Of the conhisncr OF h- people, asd
has been luitly sccurd it. Gut truth is The FAM,
Come from where it Will, ana will be- retpsc,ed
wherever found therefore, ii have told the truth,
the P ople will not care from what motive tod
it. Ihe facts which itatea respecting your friends
conduc in tbs Assembly, has Dor h.en denied eth
BY yon or himttii J.; bu, attempts have been made
bGth Ivy you and hi'n, jntity them how Ear YEA
have iucceedea in this, hall examine hrlt, in an
lwer to the Arguments you have cfsred in iupporE
OF your petition, ana econdly in aniwer to be ex-
cues M. E has offered for abandoning the truir
repoisd in him by the people.
You lay thefs is " rkeineis a malev violence n
the representation have given of your Petition,
that you did fuppofe any perfrn upon earth
would be guilty of. is it wicked aud rnaievolenr
to tell he truth and did noi tll the truth when
laid that your Petition to tax The People
emburie you money you had lotr IL speculations,
prelented 10 tire Assembly by Mr. B. ard re-
jscted in the committee of Courts of Iuftce The
Journals will prove this. You verify believe. you
lay, that hundreds in This Coupty wonld have Gcn.
ed the Petition, If you had regretted il chat might
be- bat wonld thar make the caule any better !?
would 1T have made it worie that thouiands
thoLld con-. rbure to msnd the broken fortunes If
hundreds, than Of Tire. Members will not fanc-
tity wrong nor VIII they make tnat Eeht hieh
is wrong. Bat it is turPring, that onF OF 10 many
hundreds who intereired in the County in
the event of that Petition that YOU three GerElr-
men only thou'd think of pretet.iag iuch
You ulfy yourfelses by tsyinp, that imiiar Pet'-
tons yours, pfe:erfeh II ~ in'dV,
Ham ihire and Sberand oah Counties does tbs
prove yours TO be riphy does II not r.ther Prove
that theirs wrong beeauie hey we've hm4lar
yours that was wroege Baf an, il '''nsd ="
believe, that thoie petitions wete fmiiar -
yours :hat their ohiects we're Arrerr VIII !
expect LIQUID be able thew .uuid lay ny hands