The recorder, or, Lady's and gentleman's miscellany. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1801-1802, 1802-05-12

prodigicus. The advertisements, likewife,
in al amazing proportion. All
this cannot, with iuitice, be a(cribed TO any
Jingle pen. But it mutt be granted thar the
&c Scots correspondent afforded ALWAYS large
of the original matter. In f2ss,
1890, Mr.. Jefferion remarked to one of his
friends that the Examiner had taken a jfart
In the courie OF fix months, its annual
value mutt have teen augmented by at ieait
fifteen hundred dsilars a year, and it was
mott likely macb mare. The number of ad-
ditional fubicriDerS, within that time, could
not be lefs than four hundred. The adver-
tiiements multiplied in proportion at leaf
as great. Yet this gentleman has the hard-
neis to ihamble round about an afertion that
my alihance injured the character and cir
cuiation Of his paper. The paiiage is curl
Gus; here it follows;
:" ! GU l,i.owthe cauie of my limited hlb-
fcripsion in Richmond and Manchester:
= mary .atieiD.u declared TO me thal they
{ had y. i 80 q Interruptions becaufl. u,
-" were connect "a with the paper; and it was
" believed YOU were diipoied 10 pujh things
" to greater lengths than they thought | was
" diipoied to proceed. Upon this iubje6t you
|" perfectly recolle9 the fpeech of Mr.. Call
" in the capitol, of the character which be gave
+" the Examiner previous to your connection
p" with it,
From July, 1909, to March following, the
Examiner was crouded with pieces dated from
Richmond jail. The defence of Mr.. Jcffer-
ton occupied, of itfelf, nineteen column. The
whole number Of pieces mutt have filed an
hundred, or at leait ninety. For this MATS OF
labour, not one Jingle cent was ever received,
a(sed, or expected. Mr.. Jones was only told,
in general, that he ihouid pay Cor the ifationary
articles. which his correspondent might make
ule of in prifon; and the(e, by the mott eX-
tCavagant calculation, can have amounted
but 20 ten dollars. The oddly of mans
writing fan, Jail in defiance Of the authority
/ which pur ann INTO IT. was tur5, Of it!>h, e
Intereif the curiofity of mankind. The cir
cu!ation Of the Examiner did not, in this III
terval, decline. For, when the ai4e ninth,
we're expired, rhe inldrelTon had got ~ Il
ffty-Fgoo quires, at which it fill continues.
In the lecond letter, there is quoted from
Mr.. Jones a pahage of his libel OF the 28th ult
That citation clofes with thele words: * it !,
only upon full denomination, that ihal
g yield my alFent to your ab9faey."
A fhort time before 1came out Of Jail, fher,
was an attempt made by the federal party il
congreis to ward of the election OF PRECEDENT
| An iKtsrrsgnHm magiitrate was 20 be Cho(ei
| by that party. This plan produced . ierou
alarm. The particulars are III the recollec
| ton OF every one. At that emergency,
piece, upon this fubje6t, was traninitted iron
the priion. The project OF the federal ma
jority Of congrefs was explained and reproba
ted with feverity and with juftice. On re-
ceiving this article, Mr.. Jones returned
! letter. HE therein took notice Of the luDpoiet
danger that Mr.. Jsferion would be wrongeC
out of his proficiency. IN that cafe, he lajc
that he thought the Southern i5ates 1loulc
tacede from the union. He afkcd me whe-
! Their it would not, in the mean time, be ad-
| Yiieable for US 70 make 4 3aa(s. He remark
ed that,in the event of fstsi5i0n b. the ySfR5-
| fcans, there wouid be fall icope for talents.
! He lubnitted, therefore, thele circumstances
to reflection. He added tlac he would print
the piece, if I thought fit. Re cloied with
laying, bilaiE i yon think propsr, fo return t5i5
litter. This was preclfely the iubtsancs OF
| his epiRle,
The anCwer was 10 this eac6F, thar no
fear of consequences fhould divert me from
the prolecution of my purPofe; chat IL was
| a part Of my intellectual contribution that the
}ronger oppoGtion proved to be, ! was
only the more perfectly determined II -/3rikr
it III the face, and that ] would rather itay in
prfou for thirty years, than reccde from one
fyllable, which had been wrote. There was
more in This lofty file. From that hour
forward, Mr- Jones printed whatever was
fcns him.
The reader will obierve, in 'the foregoing
initance, the contrah between the fituation OF
this man, and of ne I was in prifon, with
the command Of perhaps twenty dollars. lie
was CUE os il with revenue Of teven thou
land. He wanted to ifand fill he was
thrut forward by ne. This is the perCon
that now charges me with aPgFay.