Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-05-16
To STANlsLAUS HOXTON, Esq.
May 3, 1903.
DEAR SIN,

WtliSU AiiuuSSo 1t1ls dkHC W duulCtS Ills
FIX extraordinary letters to the people Of
the United States it fcems to be high
time.at leaf, to difclofc to the world the
effects which this mans general conduit
and thefe letters in particular, have pro-
duced upon our people never having
feenPaine, can be atuated by nothing
ariGng from the difgufiing egotifm which
every one complains OF in his converfa-
ton. My opinions are founded upon his
own words and works, and upon know
ledge Of the political and religious creed OF
our native American Republicans fince
feventy fix it has been my pride TO be
one of this feet I hall remain one 70
long as our native virtues and .hrength
lhall be exerted to protect Us againf /ueb
Foreigners. and the intidious doctrines they
avow-! Revolution in this aans dar-
ling patton! His inefable vanity and ar
rogance has conGantly intruded him into
fcenes of convuldon-and if we could be-
lieve ilissfrantic icribblers he controuls the
definy ofthe political world!
Not.fatished with this ideal importance,
upon politics, he has flched from deifical
writers of a former age, the hackneyed
doctrines Of inflels, in hopes alto toprof-
'trate chrifianity, the fweetea confolation
of mankind !,He has done more-he has
! Get up fandard for inhdeli1y TO rally
round, and a precedent for ineratitudc to
kulk into |! Tn his Age of Reafon, he has
reviled the religion of our country-in his
letter to gen. Warrington, he has traduc-
ed his benefaeor but we thank God,
thar the religion of this wefern world is
not to be overcome by the p,gmy lucu.
brations of an uuprinc;pled revolutioniit !
Our diligens and enlightened government
will frown upon his dilorganiGng and off.
cioas impertinence, and the people will
cry ont with one voice, " away withauch
foreign milcreants Pane hasibeen CAL
lender toward Warrington, and Calender
has been Paine to Jefehon." But let
US turn this fellow round and fee what he
has done-hc tells US that after be fnid5ea
the revolution in America, hewent TO Eu.
rope Iworld ak for wha: purpofe If
he really conGders himlelf an American
citizen, why did he defcrt his favourite
country, and deprive her oihis immaculate
energies at tine when the contribution
was in the infancy of experiment he
has never dared toiay he was TENT by the
government as an agent of any kind, al
tho he has the audacity TO complain that
The executive did not claim him when he
was ieopardized in France by his own
folly No-The actual cauGe OF his leaving
this country at that time, was the very
fame which brought him here in the hrlf
infance-to pagtake in more revolutions
and in this movement we fee his own max
im verified, " that every vice has viz
tue eppoled to it," for 20 loon as our 60
vernnent aHumed fhape of virtuous en-
ergy, he fhrnnk from its terrors, and ha-
tened into the vertex of European infa
my! his Rights of Man, addrefled to the
people Of England, is of the fame com
plexion--it unhinges the fundamental p.in-
ciples of American independently The
natural right OF every nation TO govern
i;felf withou, the interference of ffTangers.
1t goe. TO Zap the foundation upon which
every well regulated political inititution
builds its hope OF wealth, peace, and hap
pinefs! BY flirting up difcontent among
the ignorant; by alarming the fears OF
the credulous by mifreprefenting the mo-
tives and actions of men in power land by
this means difplace thofe whom MAORI
ty of the nation have declared lhall be
their rulers) and by intoxicating doctrines
which go to produce civil war! This was
Paine's employment in England! and
Oh! fad to tell while this political Quix-
otte was buGly employed in Distributing
lis Rights to the people of England, bur
Tor his hidden d;fappearance the Mapif.