The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-27
schemes he had frustrated and whose
designs he saw through and prevented.
JEFFERSON ALSO ASSAILED.

| impregnated a very considerable por-
| tion Of the public men of that day.
| During Jefferson's residence among
| the French he had imbibed some of
| the principles "they claimed to repre-
| sent The clergy charged Jefferson
| with having assaulted the religion OF
| the fathers, and of having treated
7 with contempt the doctrines which
| Christianity taught as essential to hu-
man felicity.
| The contest for the Presidency be-
| tween Burr, Jefferson, and Adams was
| the occasion for Hamilton's greatest
| efforts to defeat Burr and Adams who
| had refused to acknowledge his dicta-
| ton. Though he disliked Jefferson he
| advised his friends to vote for him in
preference to Burr. OF Jefferson he
wrote: II admit that his politics are
| touched with fanaticism, that he is
crafty and preserving in his objects;
that he is not scrupulous about the
means of success, nor very mindful OF
| truth, and that he is a contemplate
hypocrite."
Hamilton continued to pursue Burr,
whom he denounced as being las true
a Cataline as ever met in midnight con"
clave. a bankrupt beyond redemption.
Every step in his career proves that he
has formed himself upon the model of
Catalina"
Duane, the editor of the Aurora,
one of the organs of Jefferson, was one
of the most vindictive enemies of
Washington. His paper teemed daily
with abuse. personal and political, and
| it's shafts of malice was especially di-
| rected at Washington, and John Adams
4 and his friends. Duane was the eSpe-
cial friend of jefferson, and, like Ere
neau. enjoyed what patronage he could
bestow.
Another trenchant editor of the pc
riod was Calender. In volume pub
lished by him during that time emit
tied THE Prospect Before Us" he thus
speaks of John Adams
This hoary-headed incendiary bawls
out. to arms!' Alas, he is not an OBJ
ject of envy, but of compassion and
horror" Again he says: John Adj
ans, that scourge, that scum, that out
cast of America. We have been govern
ed by one of the most execrable scoun-
drels. He is in private life one of the
most egregious fools on the continent,
The future historian will inquire by
what species of madness America
submitted to accept as her President
a person without abilities and without
virtue, a being alike incapable of at
tracing either tenderness or esteem"
FAREWELL TO WASHINGTON.
In the Aurora of March 6, 1897, Du-
ane, the favorite of jefferson, says of
| Washington: Lord, now lettest Thou
| thy servant depart in peace, for mine
| eyes have seen Thy salvation. If ever
| there was time which would license
| the reiteration of that exclamation,
/ that time has now arrived; for the man
/ who is the source of all the misfortunes
| of our country is this day reduced to
/ a level with his fellow citizens, and is
/ no longer possessed of the power to
| multiply evils upon the United States.
| II there ever was a period of rejoicing
i this is the moment. Every heart in
| unison with the freedom and happiness
Of the people ought to beat high with
| exaltation that the name of Washing
| ton from this day ceases to give cur
rency to political iniquity and to le-
i galize corruption"
| Washington was not without staunch
| defenders, however, and among them
| was one of the most noted characters
4 OI UIlN dREs AOlIdS GESSC1dEAs
| of Vermont. was born in 1771, and led
in 1887. He would hardly lbe classed
with the great poets of America,
though he selected verse as his medium
of expression. His medical poem,
THE Terrible Tractoration, he pub
lished in London. 1t was a satire on
the medical profession who doubted
the efficacy of the galvanic treatment
of disease. He was incareerated in gaol
in London for debts incurred in at
rempts to bridge the Thames by pat
emit process.
In 1904 Fessenden returned to Amer
lea and published Democracy Unveil-
ed,'' very severe attack on Jefferson
and on the party supporting him. He
edited the Weekly Inspector and other
journals, and wrote under the nom
de- plume of Christopher Caustic, M.
D." His attacks ON Jefferson were fill
ed with charges against him of desir-
ing to emulate the leaders of the
French revolution in their opposition
to religion. He says of Jefferson:
That man must have religion plenty
Who scars from no God up to twenty;
Demos may whitewash all he can,
He cannot quite disguise the man.
All of the friends of Jefferson came
in for share of the abuse that spun
from the doctors pen. He says:
I would not willingly omit
One scoundrel hypocrite to hit,
But should I chance to make omission,
I'll put him in my next edition;
For since my country's good demands
This piece of justice at my hands;
I'll string you up sans ceremonie,
From Duane down to dirty Tony.
SARCASTIC DIR. FEssENDEN.
The doctor calls Calender "the in
famous Calender, the tool and hire
ling of jefferson" But he returns
upon every occasion to Duane, of the
Aurora, and, copying in foot note
the attack on Washington of March
( 6, 1897, he thus addresses him;
/ Step forward, Demagogue Duane,
Than whom a greater rogue ingram
Meier fortified by mob-alliance
burst bid the powers that be defiance;
/ Thou art indeed a rogue as sly