Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-10-11
Fran The Gazette IF The United Staiss.
TOM PAINE,
TOM PAINE,
Inpifed to tbs country By his Rigbf Wor-
Thy and afsl7ionate Friend,
T. JEFFERSON.
No. I.

crate !"*-Yes, good, reader, the fame
that very Tom Paine who competed part
in that banditti Of asheiaical murderers,
calling thenlelvesthe National C0sveati0a
whomade a formal, Legislative decree, that
Death IS an eternal SLEEP! Ths man who
publifhed in his own name, that the Bible
would be more confidently called the word
Of Demon than the word of God that
it has lerved TO corrupt and brutaiize man
kind; that it fcarceIy contains any thing
but what deieryes either our adherence or
our contempt and that for his part, ne
iincerely detensir. The fame ALTO, who IN
his own name accufed general WASHING
TON of eo4vardice, frgratstxae, intentional
falfeboOd and t,eqebey. The-man who, at
this mement, is an outlaw for treafonable
PRACTICES againf the government OF his ma
tive country. A man Whole abomlnable
habits rehder him an Object as c9eniive to
the ienfes as his crimes make him abhor-
rent TO the moral ientimen.s of man
kind.
Such is the man whom the preGdent OF
the United States, has fele6ted from the
nations, for an afettionate friend and cor
RESPONDENT; has invited him to our coun-
try under the anfpices Of the government.
making the invitation national one, by
offering | i'm the ufe of public fhip; and,
has profefed to him ailarances of his
." Mgb sfesm and a6saioaate attach
srenf.''
What could be the motives to fuch a
mcalure ?--And what ought TO be the,
feelings of the American people on luch an
occa6on!
The motives fhall be explained in the
fequel.
AS to the feelings Of the American peo-
pie, we do not heGtate TO pronounce, as
our opinion, that every decent man, and
decent woman, in the United States,
ought to look upon this invitation, coming
as it does, from the chief magiRrate of the
country as perfonal injury; an infulting
violation of the laws Of ordinary decorum.
Every perfen of refpeetabiiity and honor
can readily imagine what would be his
feelirgs upon finding invited into the fame
company and TO the fame table with him
feif, commonGreet bawler, or hefotted,
ofenfve debauchee. let thole who per-
ceive difference in the cafes felicitase
themfe!yes in the diRineion.
We offer no apology for the vehemence
of,hefe expreGions We'aiould have cauie
to defpife ourfelves, if, in fueh cafe, we
were capable Of offering one. Theie are
not the expreAions of PATTON, bu, of cool
and fteady reientment fer deliberate ate
of infult TO ourfelves and Our country. By
this diigraceful act, our nation is rendered
bye-word, butt for the finger of lcorn
TO point at. Already has the reproach
been caf into our teeth from beyond the
Atlantic. As Americans we feel the in-
lult, and as men we relent it. In this we
are not alone. II is the common ienti-
ment of the country and 70 fully and 70
generally is il realized, that upon the frtt
arrival of the intelligence, ,ha, fuch an in
viration had been given, the accufomed
hardihood of Mr.. Jeferlon's partizans for
a moment forirok them; they funk under
the preGrure OF the public Indignation, and
without attempting publication endea-
vored to lolace thernfelves and their adhe-
rents by pohtive denialofthc fact. Even.
this defperate fep anfwered little purpofe,
for the National Intelligencer in half Of
fetal way, which fhewed that the informa-
tion came from the Preident, or fome one
who, had faen his letter, announced that
Mr.. Jeierfon had not invited Paine to this
country bat that he had tent civil an
fwer to letter of Paine requefing leave
to take panage in a public flip, which
would protect him fiom the Engliih, and
had granted the ieque&. Since this civil
arfwer has appeared, and denial will no
longer anfwer their purpofe, fome of the