Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1801-1806, 1802-09-04
FRoM THE Aurora.
DuAss's LrrrER.---No. III.
70 I. z. CALLENDER.

a CONTEST with you, places your sd-
n vsIiary on very peculiar ground. Toap-
pspsch fcme animals u 10 be annoyed. Their
eebienes exci,es pity, hiie their ie,or forbids
contact. You mite The ohenivoneis of thcie
.snimals with combination OF nauicous and re-
pulfve immorality. feIdom found united in the
human fpecirs. The moa obvious truths DO
rot always edmit OF oemonnration. But sheis
truths mutt be ccnieGsd BY your warmea ad-
mireu. 81
On queiiion Of mcre faa. who is The naa
thar would call on You as creditahle evidences
On fome occafons, Gmps tact may be brc't
into quettion by the death OF a witneis. Bat
how drplorsble mutt be the dependence Of him
who can Obtain no evidence rut thar of man
Whole character is 20 all moral n'es dead. To
bring you as an evidence in iupport Of fact, no
man Of ordinary diicn ,ion or decency ~cud AZ
tcmpt--it would be introducing eadavs, 10
prove the exiaence of odcr. What thea mott
be your condition as evidence for youricsf--
who but the mott dcpraved and calous Of msu-
kind would accept your ,eiiimony in your own
Gales, when it would damn any other cauie IN
which il ihould be employed.
Your s7lh eenber has taught me TO qurf
,ion, what was ldifpoied before to treat as a
matter Of fset. have caught you, where l
expected to catch yon. trembling and fhrinkiog
into yourfelf-esading the truths which you
ought to have noriced, and taking refuge in
csiumnies long refu,ed aud exploded, initesd Of
Randing forhin defence of your conduct or de-
NAL OF its atrocify--You come forward With
additional calumny on character. whc'r char.
ity you have already repaid, as yos repaid lord
CasdenRone.
This calsmny, fball now erpoie, and
thQfe who are your admirers will Know you
belter. You had indirectly aaumed TO ynu,iclf
the merit OF particular ipecies Of writing
which conRanrly appeared in the ApIora during
the hitter part Of I7p7. and thcnceforwsrd wisI'
little intcrmifbon though 1859, Rs'rd tdat
you we're not the writer Of in.is articles, that
you bad not the capacity for ioch Writings. ard
that your attempts were calculated 10 diihcuoi
the paper and diirrve republican principlcs.---
You have not dared TO nolice or dcny shefc sf-
fertions, but Why, and how you have cvadcd
them fhall now explain. %
In I79s. / was employed by Mr.. Bsche,
as hs sfIigant, fora certain portion OF each day.
at ten dollars week. The portion OF ferviec
was TO render was wholly at my own diicre-
ton, and was neither confined to place OF time.
The funds of the HK,sya did NOT afford Mr..
Bachc the expepces Of frugal eRabliihmrp;---
nor Of family managed with exemplary econ
omy. He had cxpen9. forane OF more ttan
10000 dollars, and was about 10 part with me
through inability TO make good the engagements
entered into with INC. He propofed as an alter
native TO Isiie fun equal 10 my falary, by
contribution of number Of republicans living
10 PhiladeIphia, and on the fpot drew up witt
ten project with my content. IL was received
with iaiisfatiioo and readily filled, and con-
snued in the traDistton OF his bufineis a. ufusI,
being az the fame period engaged in t~o other
objects for publication, not Of q poI;ticsl ma
tuIe.--Ihis was in the fpring.
% an evening Mr.. Bache requeaed to Zee
me. He Rsted that he was about 70 give me
proof Of his eRcem in very oncompon way,
that was, by reqseaiog me TO relinquifh the fsl-
ary, in order 70 defeat the Bri,ih minffer Liz
tons ovcrtures for the purchafe of Calender
that fociety was already fuificienily dHgracsd by
the eroGnew Of Porcupine, that Calender add.
cd 20 him could not fail Of running the morals
and the dccency of the prefs the objeet was
now to engage him for time on the Aurora,
and as nothing could be publifhed without psG-
ing through Mr.. Bscbs's hands, check would
be kept on his vulgatify, and the objeef Of the
agent Of Liaon would be defeated.
The frsnknefs Of ihe propofal and the man
ner Of it graiihed nde-l chee'fuljy relinquifhed.
and you, Mr.. Calender, we're indueted-into
the Aurora Office, in0esd Of Mr.. Li&on's EN-.
ployment.
Thefe tfanhtiiors took place in May or
Jsne-When the Vice Pre6dent was not IN
PHILADELPHIA, was one Of The hrR confulfed,
and can fsy .haUnis name was never mention
ed on the occaGon the fubfcription was ex
prefsly confined % scw rehdenp Of Philadel.
pnia, who have no cauie to spprehend the pub
lication Of their names, a. they have never de-
ferted their political or moral principles-snd
who foon after refuied TO contribute If you were
any longer kept.
You ~e,e not kept, for returned to my
former fi.ustion Jolly 1898 Though during