Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-01-30
ASSURANCE UNPARALLELED.

The Democratic Review we observe, is en-
bellished on the outside with likeness, or lace
Of WASHINGTON This Is about as appropriate
an establishment for that work, as the like
ness of the great reformer, LUTHER, would be
fol Brownson's Roman Catholic Review.
WAsHINGroS was no Democrat; on the con-
trary, he looked upon the Democracy OF his
day, which was far more conservative in its
character than the rampant, fillibustering, bal
lot-box stuffing Democracy Of the present day,
with adherence and dread; and he was the OBJ
ject Of the bitterest viturperation, and the most
umscrupulous falsehoods and calummy, poured
out upon him by that Democracy-that De-
mocracy which would now claim him as its
chief apostls and most yenerated saint!
WAsHNGToN seldom noticed the ISLANDERS
heaped upon him. and the constant misrepre-
sensations of his motives and measures by his
malignant enemies, the Democrats, but he did
sometimes refer to them in the strongest terms
ofindignation and complaint.
Mr.. JEFFERSON, who was the father, and is
now the patron saint of the American Democ-
racy, it is well known gave employment in his
Office Of Secretary Of State, when he held that
place in WAsnINGToN's Cabinet to man named
Freneau, who edited paper at the same time
in Philadelphin, which teemed with abuse, vii
LITIGATION, and ialsehood in regard to General
WASHINGTON and Mr. JEFFERSON himself in
forms u, that WAsHINGToN once complained to
him Of his keeping such man in his office,
but ba oHp mir cfr III bn VT n
daily abusing; but Mr.. j. adds privately, that
Freneau had rendered important services to tie
country by thus commenting upon the measures
Of the government, and he did not mean to
turn him out, even to crafty the President
We do not use his precise words, but give the
substance and purport Of them.
The pamphlets published in 1900, during the
presidential campaign Of that year, written by
that calumniator and william, Calender, enti-
tied "The Prospect before us" printed by
- Richmond, Virginia, are perfect maya
zine Of SANDER, falsehood and calumny, poured
out in polluted and foetid torrents upon
WASHINGTON, ADAMS, HAMILTON, SEDGwIcK,
HILLHoUsE, and all the eminent statesmen and
patriots of that day who were the great lead
ers Of the Federal party, and who had been all
prominent actors in the trying scenes Of the
revolution. The people of the United States,
of the present day, would scarcely believe that
such gross calumnies and foul falsehoods in re-
gard to " the father of his country" could have
been printed or circulated, much less read, and
read, too, with all the zest that heated parti-
zans now read the highly spiced political har-
rangues and calumnies Of the present day. But
so it was; those pamph cts, paid for, in part
by Mr.. Jefferson whose election they were
written to promote, had an extensive circula-
ton, and thousands of readers; and no where
were they more read and approved than in Vir-
ginia, the native State Of WASHINGTON!
Can impudence go further, then, than to
adorn Democratic Review with the portrait
of the great patriot who held Democracy in
dread and abhorrence? But this is one of the
tricks Of Democracy, and a most contempt
BILE trick, too, for it is standing falsehood