Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-10-28
From sbe Gaxets eftbe Unit1 States.
TOM PAINE,
Iavited to ibis country ), bis Right Wor-
Thy and afst7,ouate Friend,
I. JEFFERSON.
No. TX.
fCoNCLUDED.)


united e1erlioDs of Mr.. Thomas Paine &
MIR. thomas JcHerion, to dsfrey the Re-
putatioa ef Wab5ngfon, and as't6 Il the
.4duiuifration of chr Government and
upon their Eamity to tbe eogfitatiou q the
United States, liz its prs/ent Form, we pro-
coed to the lsa thing propoled, which is TO
exhibit their Eudeavegrs 10 bring Re
py2acb and caatempt upon the Cbrigiaa
Religiou.
On this head we fhall be brief. We
feel no difpoG,ion to call into NOTICE the
low bufFoonery, and difgulting DILIGENTLY.
OF Tom Paine, which he calls the Age OF
Reafon. That production has already
funk into merited contempt; and tar De
it from US to engage in the dirty work OF
raking il from the native filth by which
it is protected. 1t is }ill Efficiently re,
membered to be defpifed and TO render
The author an Object Of dilgua, of abhor
renee, of abfulute loatlling oevery decent
man except the PRECEDENT of the United
States.
1t is Efficient for our purpofe, that the
work is thus far remembered, and that Ii
is alto remembered with what induftry
and ailiduity the aaherents of Mr.. eHer-
lon diilesn;nated that vile and blafphemous
truippery among the more ignorant claflcs
of the people in this country. 1t is not
forgotten with what avidity the filthy
thing was feized al printed off in cheap
editions a, thote proRituted preaes which
publifhed the letter Of Paine to General
Waihington, and which have continually
belched forth their fhameleis pralfea OF
Mr.. Jeferfon and all his unwarrantable
conduct. 1t is not yet FIVE years fince
thofe very Prefes which are proved to be
in the pay of Mr.. Jeferfon, brought as a
fpecifc charge againit General Warrington
that he difapproved of theie writings Of
Paine, and cautioned the people OF this
country againa the effects OF them. They
the tomb of all the Capue,s. The mois
proaigate have no longer the courage open
ly to defend them. 1t is probable that
Mr.. Jeferfon himfelf would not at this
time be very lavih in their praife, efpeci-
ally in public. He ceafed TO encourage
Genet in attempting to feduce the afetti
ons and fidelity of the people from pref
dent Warrington, after fair trial had
convinced him that fuch a treafonable pro-
ject could not be achieved. He became
a pretended admirer of our federal coniti-
tuition after his efforts to prevent its adop-
tion had proved fruitlefs. He hghed, and
iobbed, and made doieful faces over the We
nerable athes of the decealed Warrington
after it was found that his letter to Maz.
zei, his National Gazette, his Profpett
before Us, and his other Ay and treache,
rous callmnies had failed to render that
worthy man an Object of popular odium.
1t is very Pofible thar, for timilar reafons,
he has now ceafed openly to commend this
bla(phemous work of Paine. Let it be 70;
and we will content ourlelves by pointing
the readers attention TO few infances of
his language and conduit which will be
fuflcient to prove that he as heartily con-
ours with Paine in his oppoftion to Chrif-
tianity as in his rancorous hatred of the
character of General Wilmington, and his
perievering oppoGtion to our federal coniti-
tuition.
tits true that upon this iubjeef, as upon
Others, in which an experiment was to be
made, and then the objettto be purified or
abandoned as the expediency of the one or
the other courle ihould be indicated by
popular lentimsnt, MIR. Jeferlon has done
more by the pens of his hired agents than
by his own. We ihall NOT, however, take
the trouble of tracing him through the
National Gazette, the Aurora and fuch-
like publications. Enough for our Prelent
purpoie will be found cufforily fcattered
here and there in the Notes on Virginia.
A few exprefions which occur to the re-