The recorder. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1802-1803, 1802-12-01

tinueS, III iotne OF The itate governments fot
example, tie atTeunbly of Pennfylvania iptnd
one half OF their time in debating wheeler
they Boaid adjearnsf Their iehions are no.
toriouly prolonged that the members mar get
three dollars per day for attendance The
patrimony of the Penn family, thar ricl'and
noble Inheritance, has been torn from the
community, by fome of thofc very men that
were appointed 20 fpreierve tit Some years
rllc Jail Of Philadelphia, and not word was
laid eff it to the Tailor. a mayor Of Phiiadei-
phia breaks up two private letters froma Bri-
tiih ambaladol and retn5lie0a governor
tends them to The prcG Is "A republicans prI1-
ter breaks into the trcafiry Office in The dead
of night, fteais the books, publiihes garbled
extracts from them,an httead of being !ent TO
| fasV mat@!e, ne is admired as hero, and in
| yited to dire with a federal preildent' All
! tiieie matters and millions more of the fame
| Tort, Ieemto prove thae,aIthough Mr.: Paine has
been three weeks in America, the Tag Atgbf of
er}or is not vet at an end. As for The gtnaiAss
! fame 81 rational H6crfy, the Alien and Sc
dision acts expired of rbcmf.ives. There is
no reafon for thinking that either .leAefion,
or the Other heads OF that party diapproved
| OF the principle OF the Sedito.i act. Il was
| the particuias cxcro:ic OF the law, which they
| did not like. The patrons of a hocfr H,reaiicr
| Sannot be fu!petted OF icruples, o. principles,
of any kind. Rational liberty itands Jatt
whereas was Ave years ago. Mr.. Paine pros
| cecis rhtls
'fAs the French revolution advanced,
" it fixed rhe attention Of che a;sd, and
&c drew from the pcnfioned PEI oi Ed
&C mund Burke q furious attacls, This
&C brought me once Iiore on the pnblic
I" theatre OF aohtics, and occalionel
the pamphlet, RIGHTS or MAN.
g 1t had the greatett run Of any work
ever publilhtd in the EngIilh Ian
guage. The number of copies cir
e cuiated in England, Scotland, and
I" Ireland, betides tranilations into To-
| reign languages, were IMr. Paine
| meant o0as] between four and FIVE hun
I" dred rhouiand.
e The principles Of rllaf work were
e the iarle as thole in Common Sane, and
sc the effe6e would have been the fame
g in England, as it had been in Ameri
e ca, could the vote of the MARION have
" been quietly taken, or had equal OPP
pottunitles OF continuing or AGING
exifed."
With all It's energy and acuten&fs,
| Rights Of Men contains much faife rea-
! foning. One OF Mr.. Paine's favorite
| topicks is the ridicuic of hereditary
| right. But fome things that feem alb
lnrd in theory are often very uiefnl in
praetice. OF the ln1ali portion Of re-
Joie that Europe hath ever enioyed.
great part may be traced to this fame
.oolilh doctrine OF be1edjfo;y ,fgh5. It
aas, upon the whole, produced much
more good thar harm. Of all forms
Of goVernmehc, All elscjiOs monarchy is.
perhaps the noit wrctched. Wisnef
Poland, Perlia, and the dynasties Of In
doitan / The French feformcrs dif-
covered, fome years ago, that il was ye-
ry wrong for man and his wife TO live
together, aftcr they had bee omc tired Of
each other. There cannoc be more
beautiful tke01y. Il was reduced TO prac- |
tice; and France, already fu4icfrnjly |
fertile of prohirufion, was immcdiately
filed with itfuupets, cuckods, taitards |
and divorces. MIR. Fame, with great
triumph, enun1erates the number Of ci- |
vii wars chat have been produced in |
England by hereditary fight. Vev |
true But if you mutt have king. fbr |
chance is that there would have been al |
mott perpetual civil war, if that king |
was to be choien by the people. Laugh |
as much as you pIeafe at the conceit of /
a nations being transferred like a herd |
Of cattle. Buc if a king is 70 be had
let him, by all means, be heredrarg |
Nothing can DC more falle or more fhai- /
low than the rideuie which has, in this !
inltancc, been ATTEMPTED ~ NJ