Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-08-18

il is the upquenchable FIRE!
FROM THE FaRDERIcKTowN Herald.
To the brig.er eft&e FreA.rirk.s11s HktAM
SIR,
/ have jua 'tttafnei home from court:
after nine days abience, during which
time you may be fure / heard a great deal
Of news, as I put up at a tavern, where
many people from the different parts Of the
county as well as ftanee.s Rop at.-
Some Of them were republicans and others
democrats. They often talked about pub
lie men. and Of their doing,: But ] was
highly diverted ~wheryour paper appeared
which contained my la& letter, thsre was
60 much faid about it at the court .houfe
and at the tavern: fome faid how hat a
Lawyer wrote it, fome a fchoolmaacr,
iome a doeor, and Others wentfo far as to
name many farmers in the country as the
writer. Well thought / TO myielf, what
would ,hele people fay, if they koew 1
wrote it! For iome few got mon&rous
angry about it, becaufe as how the letter
faid Mr.. Jcfeffon kept company with bad
men, and gave away the public money
without law Or authority for it. One
little chabby, churly man from the coun-
try got very warm, and faid it was a lie,
that Jeferfon did not give Calender mo-
ney. However, he was foon flenced
when a paper was produced, in which CAL
lender fates how and in what manner Jcf-
ferfon had given him The money. The
laugh and fcorn Of the company foon turn.
ed upon this little champion, and he left the
room for one of the company had obferved
to him, that facts were lfubborn things,
and won't be beat cut of, countenance BY
the word lie, no master who makes 'nfe Of
it.. When he vas gone; a very plain
looking, grey-headed old man, who ap.
peared like myfelf to be a farmer, faid
-" he was very glad that he heard this dif-
puse, for whenever thefe things were men,
toned in his ~neighborhood over the mou2-
tain, fome one would FAY it was lie, and
no one could co::radiet him, as nom of
u.s." Jays he, take the newspapers
but now l am fatis6ed that ~eAerfon does
make improper ufe Of the public money
by giving it to bad men," Indeed Mr..
Printer, it gave me much p~Iealure tothi.k,
as how. my letter was the means of fatif-
fyiag the good oil man, and / hope he
will, as he faid he would, tell all his
neighbors about it. But, ssi told you |
had a great deal to write about one Gal
latin, tho l have much work to do on
the farm, yet as l have made the promife
/ mu9 be as good as my word; Tor never
break it, unIefs when l find that ffories
have been told to get my word from me.
Well, as I was going to tell you, my
neighbor faid, that jut after the war,
this Gallatin, a Gensyan, who like CAL
lender was a = very troublelome fellow, 10
his W country, and had to fly from it,.
bccaule he was about ridng inlurrettiops.,
JlOtS dllU (EOlO.CS, 40 'SA
began to find fault with every thing,
General Warrington, vino was the Pref
denr, did ; that he became a land fpece-
lstor, and very foon made a great fortune.
He fettled himfeIf in the back parts Of
Pennfyisanis, where the people very i'oo
through his perluadon became r'otous and'
really role up agsina the government: by
taking the public officers sad tying them
to trees in the woods without any thing.
to eat or drink, and letting their houfes
and barns on 6,e and burning them to
alhes, and making their wives and chill
dren lay under the bare heaven. without
rag to cover them but what they had on,
and meeting 10 great MEMBERS with arms
for to kill and murder any body who
hould oqpofr them-L=aa you hould
stiuk, faid my eeighbof, that ! am telling
"a ftory, I'll prove what l fay fohs Pall-
Ell out a paper, in which was ap':'' "sas