The monitor, or, Delaware Federalist. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1801-1802, 1801-11-16
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here and there, JudicIouily dIttrlbute1,
may have its effect as to morality why,
the end iuiti6es the means
Pray. bow would you court a ladyf
certainly uwould not write to.her only,
cfpeciSN Sou would notaddrefs her with
yeaso,f4 What kind Of figure would yon
tnake>sx}h your arguments, logic, and lie
rearonabI sffeis ofthcpropofed connection
n AkpcS any thing about counting, the
HacAAinseSnderlan il the belt.
{ Th federalii, like a good honea
rouffr PAP, approaches the Govereign
epeople, Ms miltrefs, with manly air,
-<AdNays,, sMadan, sou fee 1 am a plain
h6GeN mani who viii make you good
hufbahd5 play you no tricks, and take
good care your property and children"
The jacobin puts on his dancing-fchool
airs, and as he approaches, fmiles, fqnee-
yes the hand, and prefIes the lady to his
bolom, and with tender careiies, Aatters,
fghs and lilps the foothing tale. Now.
my dear friend, which of thefe viii bear
away the prize
AS to writing and reafoning againll .
tide of. evil patton, of what, availf n
Hamilton writes and fpeaks with energy
and eloouenc4 - burr neither writes
nor fpeaks fyllable in public---and who
fucceeds? When, my, friends, will men
ceafe to preach to the winds and roaring
%avess When win they ceafe to compl-
ment that vile ferocious animal, man,
with ftale honor of being governedt BY
reason.
Aplain countryman was told time after
time, before The election, that governor
Jay had taken from the public treafury,
and applied to his own uie, feveral hum
dred thoufand dollars. The man can
neither read nor write, but he was told
this tory by men who wear rufned ihirts
and ride good horres--men, who, in or
binary buhneis, have his confidence.
When this lie is well riveted, it is not to
be removed by an atlas of realon and
truth! The lie mutt have its effect the
good governor is injured, and the liar eff
capes for the prefent: but probably in
fome future day, he is lied into neglect
and abfurdity, by freih and fuccefsful
liar.
But parties mutt have their papers /;
and they mutt be well Imported How
does this operate? Why, to convey OPT
Mons to one iide only. IF the federaliits
want to diifufe truth among their oppo-
nents they NUT do it through the demo-
cratic papers. In the federal papers, ar
guments and facts go where they are leaft
wanted. And this is more certainly fa6t,
ed purpofe of fupporting party for in
that cafe it is lnre not to get in the hands
of the other party.
In truth. one fuch appointment as
John Bartrow Prevof, to be recorder of
New-York, in the place of the learned
and amiable Harriion, does more to cure
the people of their blindneis, than a folio
of newspapers.
Yet there are times, when newspapers
and pamphlets are of excellent ufe. There
are real location and flbjects and when
they occur, write with decency and with
candor. But an inCeiiant jingle of harlh
names, falfe accufations, and undue par
tialities for foreign nation, in fome, e.
ven of the federal papers and pamphlets,
have done ten times more harm than
good /; (" RemediO irratur, seditio," fays
the Roman hiltorian, the remedy aggra-
Yates the inflammation.
Newspapers would have doubled the
effect in counteracting the evil defgns of
bad men, if they were not eftablifhed
for party purpofcs, and only ufed occafi-
onally for the propagating of truth on
controverted fubje6ts They are, howe
yer, valuable weapons in the hands of
good men, and tend, in degree, to
counterfeit the mitchell done by fimilar
weapons in the hands of faclious men.
AT the fame time one half of their value
is loft by an incorporate ufe; men often
write as well as govern too much. No
man likes to be fed daily on the fame din.
SMOKING.
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