Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1812-09-12
FOR TIE GAZETTE.

FOR TIE GAZETTE.
ARIsFiDEs" having Published some
false and unioundeJ charges acs;ps,
the federi'!i,ts Of this county, Mentns
gave IL iiea the contradiction direct. ~
challenged The authorof them TO sroducs
ms ,To'is. Those charges were genera
- they were exhibited against u sarse
aud respectNhle part Of Cur societ ,--@:i
upe, they were susceptible Of demon
stratien---.irisiides is tIle aecuser and
me bhTden oil proof lie. On him. If.
l=Iiaw citizens, he can prove his accu-
sataohs just, Danish from your cons
@cncc ANA affections that class Of ne..
many OF whom, no doubt, huye eeen
ehacarei TO you by services rendered
tner country, and ny an interchange Of
atl those Offices OF Kindness AID copr-
tesles OK lie, which are ut once Ia. or
nieni and pleasure az social intercourse:
ana soine Vt whun, in the wild. circle
o. yohr acquaiaiauce. you lave thought
endowed with all the virtues and Ia
tents which exait the haulaa characier
IL, hoWeXr, his productions are to he
SohAaeFN as the offspring OF II pe;u-
ient and dlatempered mind, or as the
suggestions ola designing demaaogue
or devoted sysnphani, who wishes at
'his siarhtnS crisis to lali the public
mind Into false and fatal security.
then let his empty IceiaS,atio,> -. -,
You = LAKE he iaie wind which you re-
gard net" and his Conscience, when
rs Ini..d shall have rega;ued its natu-
f,s,., t.,I III,
Il IS 7crittea, :. thou shalt not helr false
witness aSaios thy Neighbour" Where
then are his proofs ! In his reply 20
W enioT. he so sietsmcs relets to Ne. J.
sometimes To No. 4, and affects to be-
iiese he has established ali bis charges.
The reader looks lii vain III No. 1 and
40. Tor the reply to Mentor for facts
or arguments: he find; nothing there
but bold assertions; sophisticated state
E,enta. Idle vcrhaSe and vulgar abuse.
An abstract proposition, however
true, may De veilcd in sophistry. An ia
genius writer, by an arigui combinati-
al OF a complicated series Of facts, may
deceive the MAD hut accusations like
taose riade by Aris'idcs, are susccnti-
bic III plain proet. The public will
not DE betrayed into belief u: them by
insidious professions Of eandcr and
trnth: nor will tire weakest understand
ing be convinced they are true, by the
unfartihed assertions Of an ANONYMOUS
3 writer, alifouoh made with the meg
Solemn assevcTatioEs.
Aristides in his reply to Mentor, has
not thought proper to notice he fifth
charge commented upon by Mentor,
wiz That the declarations inade
by the federalists and toasis at the late
dinner al Mr.. Powell's spring( that q.
difference in political opinion shall not
interfere with their private friendships,
arc altogether Jesuiiical ana untrue
&c. Whether, npon reflection, he grew
ashamed al J,is uncharitahle aceusati-
OF, Or whetber it WAS pretermitted IN
sdyertenlly, is known to himself. ]
wllhoweyer, fellow citizens, ASK you,
what pretensioDs do you think a writer
can have, to moderation, candour, and
truth, who viii advance so serious a
charge against so respectable "a cOmpa-
ny, aud then shrink from the supper
ofitP if, indeed, they were guilty o.
Jesuiticai insinecrity, they are as de
testable in private as they are danger
ous iii public life. You have yet t,
learn that kind oimOrality which teach
es, that odious dup!icity aud Jesuitica
insinccrity in public life, are compati
BILE with any estin,able qualities il
private life. But Aristides received
his morality in the school of isnatius
Ne has accused the federaIrsts, AT ieas
ail that were at Mr.. PowelI's spring o
the sth ult. OF those dctesfabIe traits O
character. And yet lac says that 8 h
Lses on tormsz Of intimacy and friend
ship with them, and hopes to do so dl
rinS life. - and says g that his Low
for the,a. Ethe fedcraiizts) although n'
recorded in the Gazette, IS 1t least {
great as theirs for their democrat
conntTymea." The fed eralists nes
Prstend,d TO love The political erro
iI-'i IA ecratie neighbors tat