Jenks' Portland gazette. Maine advertiser. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1802-1803, 1802-10-25
From tie Nezv 1srt III raH.
JEFFERsoN & CALENDER.

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No. "
| THE American CITIZEN affeas 10
ccnlider it Uncomfortable how any ore
can imagine that Mr. Jsferfon paid
Callander for wri ting againit the late
adminiItration," and, warming with bis
iubjed, he aihrms that /" Mal;ghity
made Ike declaration IL The hope that
folly and iSnoran1c would accredis =
When che latement of truth fhall be-
come evidence of ralignity," aud
when the belief of what il inconteltbly
proved FALL betoken [" folly and ignor-
ance," then, and not till then the OFFER
vation may have fome force. But
| lhefe Democratic editors have fuch an
unconquersble averfion 10 every thing
like truth, that whenever they c coun-
'er if they fem TO feel fcnfation Of
itrong horror, and ineanily adsll it
with every fpeceis Of abuie. The Gill.
zen proceeds
" But vpbat - ts fan finn rpba5 he irya,eret II
s,sTpr, fbat mr.. Js5srion fei CaLsa&r? sim
ply this, that Calender. AFTER ~ had zvrif.
fea and Printed, nay partially Sub9csthe g Prof
peel received from MIR. Jtiferion fifty dol
lars Yet, although it is admitted :hat tho
Profpeet" was PRINTED anterior 70 its being
len by SIR. Jeffcrion. and before lie fcnt
Cslleadcr the dfty dollars, they have the fol
y and temerty 20 aifert that the money was
given 60 him f5z writing the work Never
was 70 grofs al isconG1ency attempted to be.
palmed upon the public.
Ii is much TO Be wondered at indeed,
if large flare of" folly and ignorance"
IS no' efentially neceAary to -accredit"
iuch Cuff as ibis. The Citizen gives
daily new proofs Of his advancement in
fcience he has of late perfoni6ed Mar.
Gus Julius Cicero quoted Julius C1iar,
and we prefumc it will not be long De.
fore he will imagine himfelf no other
than John Locke. The fample Of To-
gicial acoutenefs here exhibited is of 70
itfiklng an appearance that we fhall be
executed IL II cetains us little loneer.
The money was NOT given Jar writing,
becauie Il was given after the writing
was done. Syllogiaically, thus-Mo-
ney given for doing an act, NUT ne
ceiiatily BE- given before the act is done
or after, Mr.. Jeferfon gave the money
AFR the s6 was done, therefore be did
NOT give i bst6,e, conlCquently TO fay
he'gave the money far doing the att is
malignant lie, which nothing bur
folly and ignorance could credit.
Giles Jolt, as 1eeping in his cart he lay
Some waggifh pilf rers foe bis team away
Giles wakes and rubbs bis eyes" What's
here, dickens what
Why hows this Am Giles or am no,l
II Giles, I've If Nv oseu," 10 my fnart,
II not, why then fwear I've fund cart.
o rare Citizen! and able editor bur
did Il not occur to thy Tag cious s. refiec-
ting mind,that ifthe money was rot paid
before hand for writing a work, but
after the ipecimen lheets were examin.
ed, il is only adding to the force of The
charge' Had Mr.. Jeferfon given Cal.
lender fifty dollars 70 qprife The Hiaory
of the Adminllration of Waihin rton
and Adams, and we had heard nothing
further OF il, there might have been an
opening T. fay he had been difappointed
and deceived IN bis expectations. But
taking the fAct 10 he as it lies before US,
that the firIt fifty dollars were given on
a peruid Of the Lbecimtn Rrrt5 cf the
ira volume, and cf courle while
they were open 10 correction, and the
.econd fifty after the firt part Of the
iecond volume was put TO prels," it is
impoilible to frame tronger cafe
The citizen wants he fagaoity to per
eelve that be is only laboriog to place
his principal on the very wort ground
imaginable. According to him then,
it was after Mr. JeHetion had perufed
the nandelous lheets, and for aught we
know, after altering them to his own
taae, (for it iecms from Calender :
laIt paper &c did aid him, il was after
being completely pofshed Of their con.
tents that he returned them to Calcn.
der, with complimentary letter.
accompanied by fifty dollars as more
uncquivooal evidence Of his entire ap.
probation.
If Nj. Jefferfon did not approve o.
the work, he ihoulj without heiitatior
have thrown from him the landeroui
fleets, uphrade1 Calender Tor bis pre-
fumPtion and driven him from hi
prefence forever. This would hav,
befpoken virtuous and magnanimou
foul. But alas it was height O
virtue TO which Mr.. Jefcrfon coulc