The recorder. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1802-1803, 1803-05-04
(Ibe Letter firm Mse2bern; (NC.J
-4pr'l 25t5, 1908.
Concluded from our lait.)

idoiatrous, tribe, who fall down before the
Puclfc VIII and woriulp it, are obitinatc and
hard ct heart, and iii not believe in the d.
vine mutton or the POLICEMAN, yet, the time
may come WREN you will relent, when your
ooduraoy viii be changed into conviction and
reverence. IL may DC, that this change is 20
DC wrought upon YOU, IS the miracle which is
90 give credence tohs divine tonmifion;-it
may poG6ly be bya club.
his Tort Of half prediction is forced upon
me here, becau!e I Zee 10 many of my neigh
oofs, who, AZ this moment believe in the d.
mnIty Of the con oS Dunn. That he is the
only true aPoitle Of che deitythcy worfhip, and
: the holy interpreter OF lis aared will. And
became hitcry teaches lomcthing of the oh.
itaec8 and difficulties, which a mere man has
20 encounter and overcome, who, Ike the
policeman, unGertakes 20 coniccrate b;nfeif
anu heitoW ou ai71feif iacred chg .oct,r 6e-
fore hGcaa bring Ire few to believe. tbst h. !.
true prophet, and PEAKS by the mouth Of :
geo ne mary are more pliabe ard kind,
%hu always ready 10 receive conviction, and
't!LefGeF up ther wills, IN the frft xhibilion
OF 'ne ierPent What itgbborn itrugele did
fhe tf1e ilinitriotie prophets and law eiyers,
quoted 'a>ovr, hold againh the contenot and
.!'CtS4.!y OF the people, before thew
cuut4 eitabi'ih general Belief In the tribe. 70
witch they ieverailY beiotlged, that their an
poin'.neEf was from the deity Of ;hcir wo-lhjn
70 eA?o"ad his will 10 them; and thoic a,nobt-
me tfibcS wi,h whom the prophets were The
inols intiuate, were Al FRI the nof} hardened
III contempt and unbelef; but who BECAME
the mott warm and eNyhuiaific diiciples after
convection. ne hrf and mott arduops chr
queh OF Mahomet, (laysGibbon )were thof, Of
MS wife, MS iervant, his pupil, and his friend
having, as ] tru}; diichafged rhe claims
WHICH phloioPhy had upon me, BY the inJuf-
tFious AID iaborious invcitigation, that have
gwen the cauie which produced the reten
csahce between your queries and the French
mans, | itlail now proceed to the main oh.
lect q this letter, which is to engage YOU 20
iei'd NE two Of your papers, ard to that end,
rave encioied YOU forty fhiIl;ng Bill Of thc
papeI currency ofthis fate Any merchant.
ans 'htre nnit be many tuch in Richmond,
"ao is5 connections in trade in this fate. will
readily -,fYe you four dollars for it, the price
men yoH demand tor your paper per year.
q o2nk h5,l OF the amount could rot be obtain.
cd have not thought it prudent to fend
pse'S rTclo!ti III letter, LEFT it might afford
teinptalon "a break it up. As NOT pcr!ons
lee1hs 10 bulk2 packet, as nv 3hi!orophicai
letter makes, d1'oreiled &c flames T hon,ion Cal
lender, would feel an itching 20 fee the infida
ofNi and there ,.fe iomc others, perhaps, Whole
occupations IT usay be, at prefsnt, TO handle
letters, VINO might have an additional motive
10 ritie 1t over, and above that Of mere c,,r;nfi
ty on feeling lcnething hard within; It.
Nothing Ratters iAelcf-loye OF a nan more
than to tITH Tl,4 r.
co'HciIe wiz thole entertained by ilh79rfo,is
ana aiitlng1'ihed rfo5ages; and it is due to
YOU that l acknowledge two inRances in
"hien you have furniired The fourcc from
whence my feelings have drawn the mott co,
pious and exquilec qualifications Of this kind.
Cjle IS, tast Climate your lfaents as all au-
Lnor, prccji@iy as the rcputSd writer Of the
declaration Of Independence did, when you
were engaged IN writing the Ffolpea Before
U.s. ne other IS, tlaf as 10 ~ conduit oil
your paper, have the honor to think with
the ciiei Jihice, that in fonoc reflects, it is the
Der ordered paper in the Unted 5atcs, par
tcuiatly in the method by Which it manaeps
the high, rs Wi! as the low and bafe organs
OF the PVoi.c will. In this, the co4duc4 is ex
cciient, becauie it is formed entirely uoon a
model % their own procuring and cdntri.
vance, executed after their own fort, bur in a
ityie i-Perior and commanding.
As tnls ray, II part be conddered p9fi-
teal iester tyiome people ipro Whole hands
E, nay pcfi5Iy fall, l ntreat you 70 accept OF
pa'9i2ehlcal apology, fol DOT fgnlnp nv
2arne toit; and as there is one already framed
70 alY hard bya great philoiopber, rather bet
t'r iut@d to my purFolc, than the corporaPs
Iettef was TO otern's in the affair with Madam
de '.s@@, occauic tayc neither to take f5e
cream gently of II, nor 70 whip it 10 IN NY
5"a 'Z1y; nor even to leave out that pr,