The recorder, or, Lady's and gentleman's miscellany. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1801-1802, 1802-06-09

meet with newsprinters, that will 90 an
length to ferve them, they are willing f
make iuitabie compensation.
put what has the great body of people of thi
country TO do with tbefe petty, perfona
objects! The immutable intereR of ever,
farmer, Of every manufacture, of ever
man OF property, and of every nan o
honetty, is she fame. We want a pcacca.
bie,a viftuous, and a cheap government
1t is of very fnaIl confeouence, indeed
whether Mr. Adams, or Mr ANYBODY eIGt
IS preiident, providing that the presidential
oailnels has been, is, or ihall he, properly
conducted
bid you think that there was one man offenG,
who cared whether Mr.. Pickering, or Mr..
Madilon, was Secretary of State, if it was
equally Certain that either of thefe two
gentlemen would do the buGnefs equally
we'll? Nobody would think of fuch a dif
tintton, if it were not, chat regiment 81
newspapers has been, is now, and for ever
will Be, fapported by each OF the two pla-
toons of patriots, who want to thruf them
felyes forward.
Mr.. Paine, in his Rights Of 1dan, has a fen
renee upon this iubje6t, that cornpreiIes, in
few very plain words, whole book oil
thinking. he tays, that the national purie
WI! nor carry double. fie lays, thar il IS
Rlde and Tie, between the people who are
ont, and the people who are in. Never did
= more comprehensive, 4 more candid, or :
more luminous idea PATS from the preis toI
the public. The people, at large, can have
no other earthly concern shout the condnc-
ting OF public buiineiS, but thar it fbalI bel
propeTly conducted. But it is extremely
Poiiibe, II is the centrical point Of TIL |
chapter of pofiibilitics, that the overleer off
your plantation, or the clerk in your itors. |
mavhave a let Of wiihcs, ard Of projects.
dlffcrentfsom yours. And you may eafily
underitand, that people who are in ofice. |
or that people who want TO get into Office
are III tltnatioH fomewhar like that of the
iteward OF your farm, or the clerk OF yollr
fore
David Hume lays, that WHAT'S man, buf ?
&c heap Of contradictions :" Now, 70,
think, very likely, that perfon- whom YOU
employ, al a Ealary Of 500 dollars wear,
will eadeavouT TO make 1 Job of you and
yet. IN defiance of your own common fcale,
IN defiance q ali that is intellectual, vo
will farce vourfelyes into the weakness of
thinking thar a man, who never faw more
than one fifty fhoufandtl part Of your faces
that asp,sr, who never heard of the name
= OF .aore sssan one in Sc,coo Of yoo, IS 20
Ike you better than hmCclf. All the peo-
pie in the front rank OF conversation, all
the people, even in the iecond, o third rank
of intellect, look over their icft Ihoulders
at you, as an affemhlagc of dupes. Put two
fenhble FedcraIs, and two dityo KepnbIi-
Cans together, III the fame room; get tbeyn
into debate, for example, whether it was
proper to turn OUT Mr. Adan,s's Gxyeeu
federal judges; get them into an argument
whether this repeal was right, or wrong
and whether the country is to be ruined, il
ths Get Of men were to b. tent home again
They Will tell you. that Mils Fedeial Con
itItutioa has, before the fourteenth year O
her age, been a th0ufand times violated
But, they will, at the fame time, tell ycu
that this is a j0rf Of )efrst, which mu.} no
be communicated to the enlightened an,
rc(pe6table public, becaute, that if the,
were TO be permitted to peep through tn
curtain, they might, very pofjioly, pitch on
Of the two fquads Of patriots out at the win
dow, and, diipatch the other IN fuddcn ex
plolion, out at the Top OF the chimney
This is the pretty RjdS and Tie buGnefs
that we fpoic about, few minutes ago.
Every fenfible tfdsraEF will tell YOU, at,
every candid rePp5Hfan tells you, tba
whenever a patriot fpeaks about loving hi
country, he is unJerfood 10 mean, that b,
has very unaffected love for bimjtE. He
is underitood to mean, that be copGder,
every one as fool, who believes any thing
efe. He is underifood 70 mean, that 1t re-
quircs an uncommon command Of mufcles
to keep him from laughing in the faces o
his hmpleton admirers.
We now proceed with the quotation from
5bs Republican Wateb 1ozyer. We hope
to kecp out of quarrel with the printers
Of that paper; having already quite as much
buGnefs Of this kind on hand as i; is yofIible
to oyertakc.J