The recorder. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1802-1803, 1803-02-23

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ihVafiabie rule 20 quote, at full length,
che paiiage that was TO be objected 70?
Were there ever any two editors wbo
tnade It en- .ayariable rule TO reprint as
lar as IL was po!hble, whatever had been
Puohihed again& them +? IN the ex-
trenaity OF contempt and defiance, has
NOT the Recorder republithed from
your paper, as we'll as from ma
ny Others, all forts, of materials thai
had oeen wrote agsi1e les editors: Ha4,
Nc not Publifhed pages upon pages, ans
lheets upon fleets, without writing one
Jingle line IN aniwe- 70 them? Aac
have not the public ditplayed an entire
conviction OF our rectitude, by fach
another rapidly of iublcripuon as few
newspapers have hadf Perhaps. Mr..
bronion, you arr noe old enough TO re-
msmoer, bur | am Did enough to re-
n'enoer the time when your prcdeceC-
ioss Mar John Fenno, boaitet}, thar hi
mad The circulation of between four and
nve hundred papers. His clndoui ad
united, chat, out OF this number, eighty
! were lent IN exchange to newsprinteys
i Now, Mr.. Broafon, if the Recordel
contains nothing bur tailehood, whal
can be the realon that this paper has
acquired more iubicribers in one wear
than Mi. kenno could collect In fous
! 10 rhe peg.onal character of MI. Fen
| 20, We nave never been able 70 learl
tbat there Was fiDgIe obiectioa. The
writer OF this arriclc was intimately ac-
| qualnced with him, and felt perfoaaI
/ alrachnens FOR him. Bur he told
! US, Tl1at IN the courfc of four years h.
/ he had NOT been aolc to inotter, ia
| Phi.sdelphia, four hundred iubfcribers.
HE pcople Of America want tyasb, and
we lhou!a DC very glad 20 know your
reaion for ipeaking 80 di'refpectfuIly Of
the Recorder, Win tuch fupcrlorlcy OF
i'bicTlpti3isS upon our pagc! 10 YOU
think tfaI plain cG'mcts farmer caIcs
who IS pref lem, or who is not pref
Gent, providing that pubic money is
properly taken care Of DO tie put
lie lnrereh tlenfeives in Icries of
nick Names ? Is il Of the iinaIief con-
tequence wheeler A, or 3. or c. fayes
el'eir money, Providiag that 1t ihan be
saved
Ne Ihenld be very glad to hear, Mr
bFon!on #'r!lc a. explicit anfwer 70 the
former part of tie Recorder, of the a 9TH
OF Nove.lber. We are entirely iatis
ned era, ne caRnog write an antwer TO it ;
one, nc chooies 10 artenptit, he is ex-
trenelY @elcclne. We are ar ali times
prepared TO give oppodrion 70 objc6tioh-
ablc matter.
III the pafage reprinted from the Re-
coSder, NC had, ~ iurpriic, fpoke of
Mi Bronion ii much larliaef erfas than
Il appears lnarhe dcicrvcd. BY rbe am
bigdous panner ii which Mr.. Dro1fon
eeSPreied h!mielf, thc writer Of the pre-
ienf paper found IL ia1polfible TO com
PEehend the gcatlenan's meaning. r
appeared 10 him, that Mr.. BrooIon had
obsalned PoGe6ion OF a private conn
GENITAL letter to Mr.. Duane. AZ o fore
OF menace Duane was told char this let
ter would be publi(hcd. The menace
was conveyed Ia ilch tone, as TO make
It be thodght chae the letter had never
been Pubilihed before. Al lat, Mr..
Bfonlon executed ms thrcaterihg, by
she publication Of the letter; when, be-
hoid. II turned OUT that it was fomethiup
which had been publiihed TWO years and
an half before, our MIR. Bronlon had
enlbelllihed his file 10 fuch degree,
tnac our cufioficy was extremely excited
to ice 70 wharh he could poaibly be referr-
ing. He poke, as if he had been MATER
OF lone Original article thar had never be-
tore been teen in Prihr. AT IaF our came
tins notable Original article; and What
was 1t! Is vas an article that had been