The recorder, or, Lady's and gentleman's miscellany. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1801-1802, 1802-07-14

federa!itt, the ttory would have oeen III uuii-
dred times more ihooking than 1t Is; and 70
be iure VI IS a very dreadful thing 10 drink Q
gisis Of good wine, or even TO Int hye minutes
in the fame room with one OF thoie tnghtfui
federal creatures,
Now, Mr.. .IcfFerion, upon tie day that he
was made preGdeut, declared, in MS addrcis
to congrcis, thst, g Wea al! Pepublicahsi
we are ali F EDERALISTS." After this
declaration upon the part of the PRECEDENT, it
IS certainly the very funmit Of impudence
IN lhis man, Cheethan, 70 blame the vice
pteidcnt for going TO federal dinner, be-
cauie the very fame tcafon would prevent
Mr.. Burr from dining with Mr.. Federai,f
JeHerfon.
To flew that the pfeGdeiit was perfectly
N earneit, in his projections of federalifrr., we
have only to look at Thomas Melton, the
preicnt Federal attorney general, for the itate
Of Virginia. David Randolph was turned
out OF his Office, as narihali for this i}ate
and the caute was iaid 70 have been his rni3cpn-
duct upon Calender ; trial for fsd,ion. But
if the conduct of Randolph was bad, we nave
always confidered that Of Melton as being
infinitely woric. It was, indeed Woric, IF fuch
thing could be, than that Of Chafe binlef
We Rood ciotc by him, during the trial, and
one of his obierYations was &c this effect
Mr.. Calender may lay that he prefers Mr.
" jetferion. as a PRECEDENT, 70 Mr.. Adams.
" he i;aSa right to iiiy 70. But he pluf not
" FAY that Mr.. Adams is uioitnf, or PaNo-
g nafe man, for that is ihiuring his char2c-
" teF." We were, at the time, extremely
truck at the ffupidity, and effTontery, of this
obieryattani for yon viii obferye, that to
charge man with, having violent palIions,
does not imply the fraaileit accutation againtt
ms morality. We very itldQm hear of
great mar without violent paiii6ns; and as
for your dirty centry-box virtue, thai affects
to exit without any felEcns ct al Nie have
cenitant5 coriidered Samuel Chate as more
lnte.lg ibie chafacfer than Cgrits Grifin
We return to Thomas Nelfon.-In CON
Quoting Callcnder's trial, he broke every part
OF his duty. If Mr.. Jefferion approved Of
Nelion's official conduit, it was bis duty to
retain him as attorney general, IF he CON
demned Nel!on's conduct, il was lis dirty to
have turned him out And as k4r IefFcT{on
51z.Bdt discharged Melton, we mutt infer, that
so aFeiiaent aPpr0oes Of bis condut5. OF
ccourSc, Mr. }efFerfon approved of tie Rich
f5Tori fyiaf fE1 jeafFioa, for ne could not cen
derrta the trial, and, at the iaope time. approve
o. y. tno's who conducted the tysjceutian. Our
general cancellation is, that Mr.. Tefer{or
ipoEe truth, When he told congreis that he is
f.E z The retention of Tho
mas lSelion goes great way to prove the fact
opon thIs ground, we infer, that Aaron Bnrr
is Jgif as good as his neighbors::
ne dlicbargs of M. David Randolph
oocS not ProYafhat Mr.. Iefferfon atjabbr0ccd
o1 fs'e TyIiai. Ar uncommon racket had been
maze III tiSc newspapers as TO the necefity of
aich3Fging this H,arihall. A great deal Of
popularity was to be gained by VERY trifing
iacritlce. Accordingly that facri6ce wwa5
made, We had farther fated in the news
papers, that Mr.. Randolph had : cooreff;or
Dy marriage with fone of TeFerfon's 81
tionS. We had obfcrved, that this c;,-Aro-
rance would not fave him from exnulfon
ou mutt know, that Mr. feferfon is mar
llcuisTiy tore and jealous upon CHARGE Of
Pfeierrlng any OF his own relations. r wss
Iut rev weeks after he became preGdent
Inat ne retTed very trifing fituatioh 70 his
own litter ION. We had this anecdo+e 6, ~
one OF the beit men OF the fate, te, ,yhon, tbe
.isphe" made this explanation. There is apo-
eiiei cIIE II which helped to fend CHI
len DaVia to the bottom. He bad taken
Sd's' l'o D: with his tongue in fpeakinc of
t Va. ge~feFlon: / he reiult Of the whole ;s
f f ionic other motives, than thofe arifn@
ron, republican principles frtuf Fave c9n,s ,.
6 S1nee IN the diicharge of David Randojnb
lNeaon' who was much more c,lIpable. ;s
pc Teinit Of theie reflections IS that. f,f,+
1 as Ine gials Of wine Rory goes, Mr.. Tefsrf,1
appears before his employers in : r,,,oh
more rs Objectionable lhape than Mr.. B,,rr
~ nc y ICE Preadent lides intoa private fsd de-.
IA RAJ company, where he drinks % eorrs0
L.: he Prefdeut himfeif asceoJs
ms ot0cid chair, ard btambh aaI 8la;eI l'' rs
Phfale from Governor Giles dcclzres bir,
zen a EDER AIIsT. As an evidence o f' M
lncerity OF his recent converfioo. and oc ' 'le