Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-10-12
Fran tie Gag,tle IF tie Un'tsd staifi.
TOM PAINE,
UNI NIANL5S
Iavi.eIf 70 fbis country B, BIS Rigbt Wor-
Thy ard affaiouate Ffi<aa,
T. JEFFERSON.
No. II.

find il pubIiihed in the London papers
/" You expreasd with in your letter
10 return 10 America by a national fhlp ;
Mr.. Dawlon who brings over the treaty.
and who will Preient You this letter. IS
charged with orders TO the captain OF the
Maryland to receive and accommodates you
back. il you canbe ready TO depart at
fuch 4 fhort warning. You will, IN &C.
neral, find us returned to fentlments Wor-
,hy Of former times in theie 1t will be
vour glory to have iteadily labored, and
with : as much effect as any living. That
you may live long to continue your nieiul
labors, and reap the reward in the thank
fulneis of nations, is my fiucere prayer
Accept the slIurances of my high eiteem
and affeetionate attachment.
TIL: JEFFERSON
Let US now enquire what Paine has done
70 merit all this applaufe, eaeem and at
fiction from man in Mr.. Jeferfon's fla
ton. Following the order OF our expo
.ition, we will fflt attempt to thew what
lervices Paine has rendered to Jeferion, IN
his exertions to dseroy the reputation ef
WaAmstou. and qvii5 it tie admiaJarGtlou
of ar government. ),
AS faine's infolent letter to general
Warrington, while PRECEDENT of the Unit :
ted States, is probably not in the hands OF
MANY honea men, and as we write tor them
alone, we hall extract few fuoh PaEages
as will ferve to give fome notion OF the
fpirit of that performance. 1t IS dated at
Paris, July goth, 1896. The copy
which we have before US was printed the
fame year, at the prefs Of the Aurora, the
only. one in America at that time iafflcl-
emily prohibited TO enter with fuch zeal
into the view. Of Paine and je9erion-
The following pa1age is taken from tie
9Th pages
a declare myfelf oppofed to alnolt
the whole of your administration; tor !
know it TO have been 4eeeiyal ifnot even
St,fajous.''
We with TO have ii rnder(tood at the
outlet that we laall not infult the honeity
nor the good ienfe of the American people
by entering into vindicasion of the cha
raefer of Warrington againit the flanders
of Mr.. Paine and Mr.. Jefcrfon. We
conceive that nothing more is necehary
10 make theie flanders recoil upon their
own heads, than to thew that they are
the authors Of them. With this conviction
we proceed TO enquire into Mr.. eferfon's
conduct as to "alm9F the 4ybole" of ge-
neral Wahington's administration, and
60 compare it with the Sentiments of Paine
as expreifed above.
1t fhopld be remembered here, that
nothing which Teferion now fays, or has
recently faid about the " bright conael-
lations whichhave gone before him"-or
about our q 6rf and greateit revolutiona-
ry character, whole pre-. eminent Eervices
have entitled him TO the hrR place in his
country's love, and defined for him the
faireR page in the volume Of faithful hif-
torv.s' can now be admitted for any o.
ther purpole than out of his own mouth
70 condemn him. II will appear. before
we have done with him. that he has long
pofeGed that happy Versatility which is
here manifeRed, and which has generally
enabled him, with much o&entation, to
abandon and denohnce a hafe enterprife,
after fn5ing thai it could no longer be
profecnted with any hope Of fucceis.
Mr.. )efFerfon could mourn, yea, weep
outright with pure extacy of grief, over
shs rom5 of the departed Warrington, af-
ter it was found that the people ttubboTn-
w retained their affection and veneration
for their political father. in fpste of his
National Gazette, and eyea his own deal
Prypea before Us.
He alto found himfeif Immediately in
love with the conAitution, after all his
efforts TO prevent the fate of Virginia
from adopsingit had proved fruitlels.
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