Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-10-11

afled his opinion of the character OF lord
BolinpbroLe replied, he was william and
a coward; he was villain for charging
a hlunderbufs againft morality and re-
ligion, ard coward for hiring worth
leis Scotchman to FIRE it eff after his death.
Perhaps the preddent or his friends ina
CINE that we intend TO apply thele haah
epithets TO him. By no means. Far be
il from us TO call the Man of the People,
the hrf magierate of the Union, by fuch
unfeemly names. We mutt beg him, how
ever, to execute US, if by any of cur re-
marks, we fhould unfortunately prove that
he deierves them.
We all know that Calender wrote and
publilhed an infamous book, called Prof
peel before Us, in which general Wafhlng
ton was grosly sbufed, and our federal
contribution contemptuouay Aanaered, and
that thereupon MIR. Jeferfon paid him a
hand(ome compliment and a Gill hand
fcmer fun of money. Had Mr.. ]eferion
publifhed this book himfelf, elrecially
while projecting the utmoa veneratlon tor
Warrington, and tie mott ardent attach
ment TO the contribution, and even hold
ing high office under thai contribution,
he would have been a viHam he would
have been impeached, turned out of office.
and his name would have been handed
down with infamy to the lateft generation.
The man who hires defperado to commit
crime which he dare not perpetrate him.
felt, is not only the greater VllA'n of the
two, but is ALTO defpicable eoavard-lf
any of theie remarks apply to Mr.. Jefer
ION, the fault i. his, NOT ours.
Tom Paine publihed an infamous libel
addreaed to general Warrington, in which
he declares his enmity TO our contribution
and to the administration of Warrington.
He alto publifhed collection of blafphe-
nous bufoonery, addrefed to the citizens
of the United States. In this work, the
whole chriftian world, and even the GRE
ATOR himleIf are infulted in hrain OF
ribaldry fit only for the fews. A man
who can encourage and pray for emit
nuauee" of fuch " xfetuilabors," and, to
encourage the laborer in the prolecutlon
of them, can invite him to this country
at the expenfe of the nation, nay for
aught that we know, deserve me name OF
VILLAIN; and he does all this in
fecret, fly, underhand manner, while
in open day he is pretending refqeff
and veneration for the characters and
inRitutions thus illuminated, lcn2 who
lake pleafure in the ufe of isrfh len
guage, may pronounce him aCOWARD.
Mr.. ef.rfun's views ii paronizing
the works Of Calender have been recent
" and very ably explained. We hope,
in our fubfequent remarks, TO render e
qually evident the caafes which produced
IN Mr.. Jeferlon that high efteem and az
fet1ionate attachment to Paine, Of which
we have been an'ured from his own pen.
In our invefigation of thefe caufes it
is our intention to compare Tome OF the
mott recent productions Of Paine, with the
writings and conduit Of MIR. Jeferfon,
and with writings which have been pub
lihed under the fan6tion Of his aPproba ;
ton and patronage.
Should it appear in the refult, that Mr..
Jeferfon and Paine have long harmonin
zed in exs,tious TO dsfry the rcbatatfon sf
WqlSmgtou, and with ii fbe 0dmWJfy3-
tiiou of oxv government, in t6etr enmiy 10
the contribution IF 1be United States, ia its
bys/sm fern and in their eadeavors II
bring rsbyoaeb and e0ntemtt rpm tie
CbyHiaa Rel;giou, there will no longer
be any room for furprize at hearing MIR.
Teferfon talk Of the GLORY with which
Paine has labored in thefe fubjeds; nor
will it aaonllh any one to find him ahur-
ing Paine of his high eaeem and afec-
tionate attachment.
In futute number we fhall trace the
different branches of the fubjed, in the