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ADDRESS
ADDRESS
TO THE rEorIE OF THE United STATES.
No. Al.

le,ate to Congress, which was reclteu Ia .''
two prece ing numbers, requires soii'e iui
ther comments.
As consequence necessarily resulting from
that rentleman's declaration, remarked, tha'
besides the essential interests OF numerous
nortions of our citizens more immediately
concerned, sacrificed to the views OF parry
LEADERS,, the great interests and the honor OF
our country must be sighted or ao'haohed'
lest those gentlemen should lose their places,
the mower and the einolnments OF office Eut
may be asked, What hazard to their popu-
larity would arise from their taxing those
measures which the public welfare, the honor
and safety of the nation imperiously require !!
! answer, That as the great body OF the Peo-
PIE, the nation, must necessarily desire that
the national interests, honor and safety may
be promoted and secured; of course they Will
approve the measures which they 6slIeVe are
calculated to effect those great and patriotic
purposes. But ii the nation have been de-
eetyed; il they have been taught to bsilefc,
and do believe, that the measures which alone
can maintain and secure those essential OBJ
iects, would be most injurious and destruc-
i've if to the men whom the people have
long I" delighted to honor" may be applied
the denunciation of the prophet" Woe un-
to them that call evil good and good evil; tadt
put darkness for light and light Tor darkness;
that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter"
then what will the people approve The
pernicious measures of their dccciving lead
ers-. E ven in the DAYS of WAsHINGToN they
alarmed the fears of the people, that the sys-
TEN of administration which he approved was
calculated to Introduce monarchy and nch'ii-
ty, from which, by the revolution, they had
recently been freed. Mr. Jefferson, in his
memorable letter to his friend Mage, dared
10 represent +" the Executive Power" mean-
ing WASHINGTON, in whom, as president,
the executive power was then ycstcd---" the
Judiciary" and " al! the Officers of Govern
ment," as engaged in conspiracy against X.
pnblicanism Is Instead (says he) OF that no.
BILE love of liberty and of that republican go
vernment which carried us triumphantly thro'
the dangers of the war, an English monarchl-
cal-aristocratieal party has risen up, whose d.
vowed object is to impose on US the substance,
as they have already given us the form, Of the
British government" BY TINS =" form OF the
British government" meaning the Constitn-
non of the United States, which he AID his
partissns nozu profess so rluch to ADMIRE
the people were taught TO hate every thing
pertaining to England, and to love every thing
pertaining to France: That the Chief magis-
trate Of England being king, must therefore
be tyrunt ruling over siaves while France,
calling herself republic, must be free, and
her rulers the patriotic guardians of the peo-
pies rights. No connection, therefore, no
treaty, not even OF anity and commerce, for
oar osyn benefit, and FIR tie settlement Of old
DISPUTES must De formed with England, lest
the purity Of repubicanisn should be dehied
BY her" whoredoms." In the same letter to
Mazzei, above mentioned, Mr. Jefferson re-
presented many of the most distinguished ci-
tizens OF the United States as having become
apostates from republicanism; Omen Che says)
who were Solomons in counsel and Simpsons
in combat, bat whose hair had been cut off BY
the whore of England" Meaning that England
had CORRUPTED them, and so prevented the ex,
ertion of their former wisdom, virtue & ener-
gy in administering the governments There
is no room to doubt that Mr.. Jefferson COM
pretended WAsHlNoToE in this audacious
reproach. Before the publication Of this let
ter in the United States it was first publish.
ed by Mr.. Jefferson's French friends in Paris.
W.T.. JcHCTSOn SelQOul) IL cFCiS pdoocu MOUNT.
Vernon without calling, or sending an apology
for emitting it but q,fer its publication these
ciyilites entirely ceased. A visit then, he was
sensible, would have been an insult not to be
borne.
But what was the TYRANNY under which the
Britons groaned, and for submission to which
Americans were taught to think and call them
stayes? These Slaves asserted and maintain
ed the very liberties for which the sagcs and
heroes ofsur revolution counseled, struggled,
bled and died; they commended for their birth
r*ghts"--the rights Of Englishmen," i'm
which we and our fathers always placed our
glory" the right by their representatives to
participate in the making Of their laws---and
Of giving and granting their own money for
the pablo service; the right of trial by jury
before able and independent Judges; the right
to the writ of Ha6eas Coritus, which every
Englishnlan may demand, and by virtue of
which he is secured, as We are by the same
process, against unlawful arrests and impri-
sonments by minister's, military officers, or
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