American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-01-23
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sIn- the writer of the piece published in your paper
of Tuesday the 18th inst signed One Of Many" had
possessed any of shame his cheeks would have
led with crimson when he publishing, SO forth in
to the world the infamous cauny and defamation he has
been guilty of towards the inhabitants Of Wilmington.
Would not stranger reading that communication be-
leve that borough without law police, and in
state of continual tumut and disorder and that the
property of the citizens at least, not their lives in
danger of being taken from them by awless mob but
this the fact no. no most assuredy not for it may
be safely declared that for its SIZE there place in the
United States where life, property, and liberty,
sacred more secure than in Wilmington and that in
stead Of being disordery place, remarkable for peace
and qiietness.
1t sometimes happens when certain individuals become
unpopular and dsked by the majority of their fellow citi
zens on of their arbitrary dispositions, that the
public iw will display itself in spite of the most active
magistrates and the best regulations but while this is
be lamented and while condemn such conduct
than do, yet where have the good opinoin of
their neghbors SCENES such rs those detailed in the Ga
zette, need never be apprehended And from One OF
Manys own showing, the mischief done to the Collectors
dwelling the act of set of drunken men, who came,
he says, from house of -fame with which " One Of
Many appears to be not entirely unacqaned, as he has
named the whole the principal pat of its inmates. But
does this apply to the inhabitants in general and shcw,
because few intoxicated persons guilty of trhng
mischief that the town is without police or safeguard;
and disordery place. and that too merely because the
Collectors house happened to be the which the
of Bacchus saw fit to vent their ischicvous dspo
sitions
Your correspondent also states the COLLECTOR IS
der the necessity of keeping guard for the purpose Of
sc protecting public property, The idea which, pre-
sume he wishes convey by this, is, that there guam
ty d merchandise belonging to different merchants Of
this and other places deposited in the Custom House for
safe keeping. Now sir after such statement the ques
tons that would naturally suggest themselves to the
public mind, would bc,-What property and to whom
does belong Let those who better acquainted
with Custom House affairs than am, answer. Time
was when Wilmington had seventeen sea vcses-thcn a
guard might have been usefully employed in watching
public property but there's not barque that
turns her PROV towards the briny that claims Will
mngton her home -conscquently public property Of
the aforementioned descriptions is no longer deposited in
Custom House and if gurad at this time be kept up,
contend that it is useless waste Of public money.
any person should feel anxious to know the of this
amentable change in mercantile affairs, perhaps the
Collector himself would be of the most proper persons
10 apply to for informal ion upon that subject.
II the calumny contained in One of Many's" pieces
could possibly have been kept within the limits of the bo-
Erough reflections would have been unnecessary his
venemous tongue would have been quite harmessfr
body would have believed it, but the SANDER may go
forth to the world the antdoe ought 10 accompany the
poison. PRO BONO PUBLlCo.