The recorder. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1802-1803, 1802-12-15
Mr.. JOHN CLOPTON,
hrmbe,- If C,nSrfF.
No. ".

CitCu'1t letter, have pretended statements, and
cncowinms, concerning the economical ad-
miHiitrasoa IT ~ pref ut rulers They, as
well rs YOU, iiiunci vatt credit for having re-
ducej lhc taxes, and they have done It in :
wa which is calculated to induce the people
To believe that their former rulers, inpofed
ana collected high taxes, from dlihoneit mo-
tlvcs. And although there is not man of in
formation, who is free from prejudice, Whole
due or inclination leads him to make an en-
qulry into the tubicEt, who might NOT know
that thS ahumption Of credit IS 4 deception,
intended 10 enabiilh themfelves in the good
opinion of ,hc people, and thereby infure both
their popularity and power, YET the deluiion
is promoted and confirmed.
You know thar, if an opinion of any fort
is ipread abroad, II vii! require long timc,
and 70 netimes very ferrous cxertions 10 coun-
tera6f its influence, however it may have pro-
Ceeded from error or nntruth That errors
OF this fort do cxii(, have fully unfoded in
my lait, and am at lois to conceive what
apology You propoie to offer fcf the part
which YOU have acted.
If the greatcf credit ihonld be given to
your circular letter, ana - Others Of a tmilar
kind, il would leer that the preIent rulers had
!sved ieveral hundred thouiand dollars, all Of
which would or might have bsen fwa'owed
up IN avogteT Of dcpredations and pccul atoms,
by the executive departments of the fornicr
naturalization, ana their favoriteS. And when
this is connected with the accriatious agatnit
Pickering, ana others, who, IT was pretended,
had appropriated millions TO their own uie,
the aaural impreiiions, made by iuch ailega-
ITO e would be, that the pretent rulers have
fave all this 70 the public, and that, therefore,
they delerve unbounded thanks and confidence.
This, MIR. Clopton, is noe only political
fraud, but an impudent falfehood; it deieryeS
to be expoled, and to &c publifhed throughout
the country, and therefore I will eXpoie it, IS
mach as the limited means which poHets will
allow
But rs : preliminary, aver, that NOT only
Mr.. Pickering, ana his ailociatss, bur every
9th. perlon who had 4 conf cuous agency
IN tn lat administration, have been fully &C
futred of the foul charges, which were urged
againit them by y2n,, organ Duane. This
4cquittal has been aicsrtained, not Only by
the committee of inveftigatlou, bat alfo b.
Mr. GaiatiH, the far famed fccEerary of the
trealury; by h!r. TO whom yoHr party atcriOe
ttlehts which are more than huraan 10 whom
YOU have extended the mott uncomfortable
power ever the reiources of the country
Won know, Mr.. Clopten, that MIR. P;cieer-
ing was acouittcd of all the(e charges before
You lef- the City of Warrington, before Your
circular !etcer was TENT OUT, and dane you 70
dcciafe, why y7u did not, IN thar, or ione
OTHER circular letter, inform Jour confiituents
ihat this was the cafe, initcad Of this, you
we're totally iilent upon 5hat lublctf. You know
What was believed by the greater part of vo,lr
continents, and you appear perfectly willing
'Haf the deiu!Iou iboud continue. !nftcad OF
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