The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1855-02-16

FRIDAY, EEBR Is 800


SATAN REQUIRING SIN on THE
WASHINGTON UNION BI1Y lkIII1ze
TIIE IICES sS or PARTI'
IAN WI ERg
Quite appropriate and eaify would be-
aaa rebuke b whine
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guage from
IS arecept ii tie Washington Union bead
sd, upon George Washington and otie
a american Preside The iIlustlio
Marshall So The mon n the second volume
81 SIS works 81. Washington. refers to the manner
% which Gle saviour q lis country vas traducea
10y tas abandoned politicians aud presses 81 lis
day. How these infamous attacks, theIfnien re-
marks affected AYashington. Mr. JedeEson ex-
plains ii one Of Ills letters % Mi. Madison IN
I17g8
aIhe President i not wen. Little lingering
ferers have been hanging about him for week o.
ten days and affected his looks most remarkably.
He IS also extremely affected BY the attacks made
and kept up on him IN the public papers. think
he feels those things more than any person I
ever yet met with. I am sincerely sorry 70 see.
them.
The palitical character Of the abandoned poll
ticians and presses, from whence these Infamous
attacks upon the saviour Of his country emanated
and which he felt 50 keenIy the Union omits u
explain. we viii supply the hiatus. They were
democratic which term as 8 purity appelative
was first introduced BY the societies which were
formed III this country, ii imitation Of the famous
clubs Of Paris shortly after the arrival Of Genet
tie French Minister and which were called, Dem
oe iefies a long time elapsed, however,
.I5elelo shS Aal Vas accepted by any but the
most ultra Of tho zion 4A ashingtons
Administration. a uggle eommen.
ced the result Of which for some time h..ted
quite doubtful between the executive authority Of
the United States, and Genet and the French fac
ton on the other. The leaders and organs Of tins
faction constituted the abandoned politicians and
presses referred to by the Union as having 50 in-
famously traduced Gen. Washington. These Of.
gars were the original Democratic presses Of this
country tie month-pieces Of the original Demo
cratic party Of this country. They were open and
strenuous advocates Of the exercise of large for
eign influence over the councils Of the United
States and they denounced and viliied Gen Wash
ington for resisting that Influence quite as loudly
and violently as the Democratic presses Of the
present day denounee all who deem it their duty
to limit and check foreign influence that has
grown 50 great Immediately in our midst, as to-
excite apprehecsions il the minds Of i large por-
ton Of American people
OF the original Democratic presses which thus
enlisted under i foreign influence the principle
were Frsaous Gazette and the General Aduerttssr
both published at the seat Of government (Phila
deIphia Greenleafs Patriotic Register at New
York and the Chronicle at Boston. The effect
upon the Father Of his Country, which the
infamous attacks Of these Democratic Jour-
nails with foreign sympathies sometimes pro
duced IS stated By Mr.. Jefferson il the extract
from one Of bis letters given above. MI. Jeifer
sou records elsewhere how much he was affected
by them During acabinet Consultation II 1898
in regard to The insolent language conduct Of
Genet, aliusiof hgying been made BY Gen. Knox,
the then Secretary of War to some recent Kbels,
General Washington, Mr. Jefferson records, got
into one ofthose passions when he cannot command
himself; ran on much on the personal abuse which
had been bestowed upon him: defied any man on
earth to produce any single act Of bis since he had
been III the government which had not been done
on the purest motives. He had never repented
but once the having slipped the moment Of resign
ing his Office and that was every moment since.
and BY God he had rather be ID bis grave than
lis present situation. lie had rather Be On bis
farm than to Be Emperor Of the world: and set
they were charging him With wanting to be
king. Thai rascal Freneau sent hin three papers
every day sif lie would become the distributor
81 them IN act III which he could see nothing but
al inpn6ent design 70 insult him.
Gen. ygashingtons feeling at tie violence with
vi he vas assailel are Strongly expressed il q
letter to Henry Lee n, which arnonQ other things
l,e says; he publications ii Fireman and Bache's
papers are outrages ID common decency This
Frenau tie rascal Ereneau rs MI Jefferson
says General " ashington called him Vas . por
teee Of Mr. JeiIeraons and held clerkship il the
State Depar tment under Mr. Jefferson Could
not hi Jefferson therefore have easily stoppe DE-.
Frneaus abuse q General Fashing1on2 Gus
be not to have done s. Or dismissed him fren
llr jefferson states Il bis Ana tal
Washington On one occasion opins
io ST Freneaus paper ting 70 al
S. nation that 0s interposition
dismissal d Frenean
nom atine clerk Bbt that
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