Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-09-03
CALENDARS CASE CANDIntv
CONSIDERED

The nature ana importance of the Gq,
latelygiven to the world by this peroo
have RATED him to fuaicient deereeoi
confederation to attract fome fhare Of Of Ub
lie attention. We hall nor concealit IN,
1t is with regret we have leen and cont.
nle to fee him made the obiea OF perloml
attack, in feveral respectable federal pa
pers. This is fort ofcondua of which
we can neither comprehend the policy
nor the jueice. | mean not to yolunpc;
as the indifcriminate apologiR of Mr..
Calender, but ferfe Of jutice comyeb
me to allow him his fair and eqlitabI.
rights: Let US render to Calender the
ljultice due TO Calender, AID to Jeferfon the
jultice dueto Jeferlon.
We fud it for inaance inherited in tn.
Federal prints that
"Hii nav, 6eyond all cmtradiRi,n, re.
aacea to a certainty, that be celebrated
letter; bsarMg the Eguatnye Of Mr.. JBlr-
Jan, 1vbrcb GvbHe Mr.. 7. qva; Jscrstary
F fate 7vsre ad4r2DSd IA Mr.. Hammad,
at thar tine BrihJ@ Mmyfsr in this cam.
try, and 7ubitb baVs FIR many years beer
aaauced BY his friends as mdeniaJh Proetj
| gfbH erxditiarai aJcbo!ar end his rgemcb-
IS as a IRatGfmau, 7Vere aRaalJ, the ir1-
duaious 2fMr. Lc5vii, qvJ5 qOas ct that
tine a, at pre(eut, a la7Uyer Of dR&gaD-
ed emus3te in The city of Pbaaaelbbia--
ill thai Mr.. J.9!y|6s did, 7oasto aAdh
Jfgnaturr."
A fenle OF juaice to Mr.. Jeftrfon in.
duces US to declare that this aG.rtioo,
dopbly fortified as it is by pleonalms is
utterly autrn.. Mr.. Lewis did not wfte
thofe letters, nor did he correct them
lit is recclleael, that az the time they
were written the miniRry confRed Of Mr.
Jeferion, Mr.. Hamilton, and MI. Ran
olph, it will hardly be fuppofed thar It
was thought neceaary to apply to Mr.
Lewis, or any other gentleman, to wrIl:
Official papers. It's true, thefe letters
are NOT iuppoled to belong excIuGVely to
Mr.. Isferion. Still it is unjuf to fay
he only Jn!Eribed b11ams to them Ger
tainly aconGderable lhsre OF their metit IS
his own, the original draught doubtless
was his bat ifthofe letters are compared
with the bea fpecimens from Mr.. Jef:r.
fon's pen, any Judge Of coGpoht'on VIII
readily dilcover internal evidence, that
that gentleman could not have been the
author OF them in the hnifhed ita'e IN
which they appeared, But TO return 70
Callender-Why is it necelaEy' G;
iuf, or difcreet, that the federal pm"
lhould continue to fay that Calender
the greatea ofliars and the ba!ett OF men,
and not to be countenanceL or forgiven
Becauie he has written the groRsit ll0si'
on our government, and on its bet up
porters. Ofall this no one IS more aware
than the writer OF this, and he has ipa'eo
no labor TO expoie the nature and t eI:11
cy of thoie lbels to the World QUIZ =
am not la,;shed that il is J1lt TO lay 1H
the fins at Callenders door i? but iupp00"S
him for moment to have been ever -
criminal when he wrote tho!e caIumn's;'
tba, it was done, if you Plcafe, OF MS
lheeer malice b,epe4Jr, is thst a 'e''y'
why the ,etentant FINER ,@oHIa nat 'f F e,
mitfea to urn and lire !? Is II 'sSI I2
thar no cont,i,ion fhould be accepts"
that he fhouId be forever Pultsed l w,'r
unrelenting ieyerity, and that 1IS 1, un
deviation from retiiude fhould DC 'o'lo1 ,
ed with unceafng reproach S"ch -. 'o's ~.
ment is enough to diicoursses Inc Us" and
iolutions, to appal the hrn9lt nerve, VS. rsIe
exclude repentance forever fFo" the ,.d r1't
Of virtue. And let me ak, "aaI " ,oore
be the tate of the beA CT Us a'' .. "
er;s iueice mec,ted oot TO ss[ n.5S?
with che fan- syen,hantsd eA"' ~: