American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-12-17

which he has, infexibly at all times adhered, or thel
federal party which he has never ceased TO oppose,
will most cordially ejoce atany good fortune winch
may befal him. Yet Of fortune he has never been
a favorite He has amassed no wealth at the public
expense. Indeed were it left to the people OF Della
ware, indeL EVIDENTLY of all political considerations,
10 point out among themselves, the individual who,
as Citizen, Father and Husband best deserved
Wealth, and Honor, and Happiness, it would be this
same MIR R0dney that would command the suHrages
Of his countrymen far beyond any other competi
tor. Even Mr.. Harker and his vile vituperating
correspondents know that every word said here IN
respect to Mr. RodRey is strictly true. II is not to
our purpose to draw up any high wrought encomi-
UNI of Mr.. ROdneyor of either of the other gen
tlemen. They all three OF them stand in relation
10 u.s. which makes it not pleasant tospeak OF either
of them but in modest and subdued terms; and yet
their friends have too deep an interest IN them to-
stand quietly by and see d avn upon them the poi
soned arrows that are thrsng for their blood with
out any effort to shame, at least, il not dsarm their
yindclive adversarics. This must be our excuse
for what we have said of Mr. Rodney; and it must
be our apology for what We have now to add respec
ting the other two.
Mr.. Hall is not proud and arrogant man. He
IS modest, unostenlatious and unassumlng, lie may
be truly said TO be at the Head OF the Bar in Della
ware; and, what may seem strange to some, altho
a Lawyer is exemplarily temperate, moral and pi-
Gus. In the county where he lives, no man is so
popular He came among them a stranger and
without fortune and without family connexions; and
has gained the affection and confidence Of all who
know him, save only Mr.. Harker, and select few
OF the contributors to his paper in Susex Kent and
Newcastle. With these good folks it is deadly SIM
that he left Washington, without feeling any desire
to be admitted member OF the ancient and renown-
ed corporation OF the long winded speech mongers
We have scarcely allowed ourselves room to speak
Of Mr.. stout the last, but not least of this trium
virate of Mr. Hirbei'S yituperation. For this gen
uemdn Mr.. Uarrer and his chosen band seek not
out the arrow dipped in their deadliest poison but
vslny expend upon him, with indiscrimnating rage
and fury the contents OF all their quive:s. Or
her, upon him, again and again is opened the full
mouthed the whole pack Of gaunt and hungry Office
hunters and their needy dependents, with the little
phiste or yelping that sets them on. 1t may be
made to become unavoidably necessary to draw up
more detailed description OF this pack. They are
not the breed OF one particular town or county,
They have been Uttered in every part OF the state
Ii is, however, but in common rankness due 10 these
gentry to acknowledge that Mr. Stout has actually
committed sins not to be forgiven by fierce and in
tolerant spirits. He was governor, and some how
or another could not be persuaded 10 believe that the
whole virtue and talents of the country was not Gu
crossed by one Of its parties and he had the as
Surance 10 afford substantial evidence of this vile
heterodoXy by preerrlng to public posts some very
able respectable and unexCeptionable characters of
the opposite side There is no reference, not the
most remote, intended here to an able and very re
spectacle gentleman nearly connected with Mr.l
Stout, and who was supposed to applicant forI
an important office during his administration. The
person preferred, aho' belonging to that vile andl
horrible body of people callel Republicans was per-
haps the best qualified for the situation of any man
in the state. here was no error committed here Il
or II there was, he erred on the safe side, in notl
giving the preference to his own family. The truly
objectionable sin he committed consisted in his
finding any man fitted for Office among his adverse
ries. He made, besides, shocking fau.c pas in
permitting himself to be persuaded by the chance
lor and other respectable men that our judicial
System was susceptible Of reformation. lie sinnedl
again, most prodigiously, by spritedy and gener-
ously espouslng the cause of of the best andl
ablest men IN the state, who was attempted TO bel
made the victim OF the most cruel, unrelentng andl
dlaboIical persecution. But he most of all, has
snned against all forgiveness, by so conducting
himself among his neighbors, as 10 make himseliI
universally beloved and con6dcd in by them. That
he committed q heinous offence in REASONING his
captui ed vessel from the Britishin dong what MIR
Grard and several citizens of this state did, we pre-
sumo Mr.. Harker and his correspondents will hardly
INSIST seeing that their own party while that affair
was recent, and all it's attendant circumstances
known to the people, elected him their SENATOR
What. will they seriously argue hat they conferred
Honor on Traitor, and that they have no obection
TO such, only when he is not one Of themselves II
Now let the right reverend Seignors tell U.S. in sober
truth, what we shall believe--for one or the other
they reduce us to the necessity Of absolutely taking
tor granted-that they receive, comfort, love and
con6de in Traitors provided they are of their own
Partyi or that they do, now, most shockingly and
Knowingly, violate all Truth or, in plain words
that they are themselves, and by their own shelving
we blush to say it, either Traitors or Liars. wei
have too much charity to set them down as Traitors;