The recorder, or, Lady's and gentleman's miscellany. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1801-1802, 1802-07-28
70 THE PUBIC.
'oinet'me ago, there commenced, ia this City, the
publication of Newspaper, Untitled
THE RECORDER

THE RECORDER,
F4Sf.f''sa S9esa5ys R90n yyai frat, al 7,v9 D0t
lars, PayaSls "a asvaaee.
SEVERAL gentlen1en, who approved 81
the peculiar plan of this undertaking, a,d who
were 'oieltous TO promote its iucce(S, have
repeatedly dehred the editors TO tranfrjc rs
their care, printed copies Of the plan, and OF
the terms of iubfcription They did this
With view to collect the names Of futicri-
eers, and, at the fame time, the proportiona-
bic advances Of money requihte for efeab1ifh-
ing and Importing fuch publication. We did
not win to be precipitate in complying with
TINS amicablc Fequilltion. Our reaicn was,
that editors frequently Get out vito profei-
non OF principles, and with ieile of execution,
which, to borrow the phfafe of ShakeiDeare,
has no more Remembrance to their fIbfeouent
performances, G than the hrit day Of MAJ,
mas to the lait Of December" Before we
Venruicd TO ipsak much about ourfelyes. we
Were anxious 10 give our friends full fDeci-
men OF the newspaper. The common pro.
ceiS OF iuch publication is ihortly this. A
printer, who has money 70 buy an Office. or
Credit to procure 1t, gets lomebody to write
PrniPectuS for MIN he therein, with the ut
mott gravity, informs the public, thar he is a
tIrfn friend TO our mott excellent federal con-
iti5utlon; that be abhorS all iacobins, dior
! games, and atheifts; that he approves Of
| Jay'S Treaty, Of a Standing Army, CT a Sc
dition AEt, of an AlienA8, and ESPECIALLY, OF
the ttfaiagcrn by which the flH fsdsxal con-
grels, that memorable bard Of patriots
owndled the whole continental army out OF
az ieait twenty or thirty millions Of dollars
FI'7ceett-Gg upon principles ike thele, OH
VIrtuouS and profound editor alInres ali hi:
friends and patrons, that he will follow the
OenerabEnames of Samuel Cbafe, of Tohr
Adams, and of Alexander Hamilton, through
lre ard water: He will fupport the fedora
contribution, when moit faliely confirmed. O,
mott iaopudently diiforted. ii. viii not onl,
believe If to be infalliblc, bat he will believ,
'nat every ore of its New-Eugland interpre
| tiers is likewile infalhble! And whateve
they affirm to be in the contribution, h
VIII believe TO be there. lie concludes
| bg aiiur.ng his readers, that Virginia is th
A"Ha Ct De6t5, that ihe had refuied to pa
iler mare OF the debts Of the union; that IN
| wanted 90 engage America in a war Wit
England, for'the fake Of Importing the FrencI
revolution that fae was ambitious TO ftlDpor
this athelitlcai revolution, for the fake OF in
tToducIng political ano revolutionary di
Yorce between the oppofce banks of the Pa
! fo"nac, wish mach more to the fame purpo(e
heie are not Che express words, But TIL
| IS the e%preis meaning Of many introduction
! 70 fSasj'0f new!papers which have been pub
hhed IN the United States. The fsnti,rien+
arc, 10 be iure, difguiGed; and tie language
! ioffened buG when you come 70 cake the TO
! rY 10 pieces, and fetit up again, YOU can max
| neither noEe nor lcfs Of it, han what is her
itated, We appeal to every Vneinian cen
tiernan that has filed feat in Congreis, to At
teG, that this defcription is not the caricatur
CT FANCY, but the portrait Of truth.
No~o fellow citizens letus jump over Il.
federal ditch. Let US hear whaI the gooe
honcit, independent, republican democrats
printer lays 70 bis yirtuoDs and enlghters
lubicrjbers
He iays, dat all men are by nature equal
that all authority originates from the people
that the oftner you recur 20 their Judgment, (
much The better; that, in a trNiy reprGienta
tive government, no fault car be committed
becauic, as the people knozV cgs;y f5tzR, it /
! ImPofible that they fhould be ihaken From
thele general and inconte(tible principles, YOU
GemCcractcal editor walks into his detail n
dare7 not to ipeak out; but he tries to whit
per, that eerfoIa b9litieafjn6rRh7snt is . Ne
ry queer thing. lie fays, that il was repro
bated by Patrick Henry, the greateR orator
by ten thorland degrees, that ever dignifec
OF enchanted an american audience. he lays
that experience has juaided almod yprc-
diSiion Shat had been 70 prophetical!y pro-
nounccd 5Y Patrick Henry, By Georgc Ma
ION, by Judge Tyler, and By ihe prefert 20.
! vernon Of Virginia. This democ1atical ed.