The record-union., 1896-11-01

Duane, the editor of the Aurora"
che of the organs of jefferson, was one
of the most vindictive enemies of
Washington. His paper teemed daily
with abuse, personal and political, and
its shafts of malice were especially di-
rected at Washington, and John Adj
ans and his friends Duane was the
especial friend of jefferson, and, like
Freneau, enjoyed what patronage he
could bestow
Another trenchant editor of the period
was Calender. In a volume published
by him during that time entitled The
Prospect Before U.s." he thus speaks
of John Adams:
This hoary- headed incendiary bawls
out to arrns, Alas, he is not an OBJ
5ect of envy but of compassion and
horror" Then he says: John Ad-
ans, that scourge, that scum, that out
cast of America. We have been gov
erned by one Of the most execrable
of all scoundrels. 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 d person without abilities and
without virtue, a being alike incapable
of attracting either tenderness or es-
teem.''
FAREWELL TO WASHINGTON
In the Aurora of March 6, 1897,
Duane, 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 a 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.
If there ever was a period of rejoicing
this is the moment. Every heart in
unison with the freedom and happi-
ness of the people ought to beat high
with exultation that the name of Wash
ington from this day ceases to give
currency to political iniquity and to le
galiZe corruption
Washington was not without stanch
defenders, however, and among tn in
was one of the most noted charact rs
o. the age. Thomas Green Fessenden
of Vermont was born in III, and died
in 1871 He would hardly be classed
with the great poets of America, though
he selected verse as his medium of eX-
PRESTON His medical poem, THE Ter
rible Tractoration,' he published in
London. 1t was a satire on the med
ical profession who doubted the efficacy
of the galvanic treatment of disease.
He was incarcerated in gaol in London
for debts incurred in attempts to bridge
the Thames by a patent process.
In 1904 Fessenden returned to Amer
lea and published Democracy I'm
veiled,' very severe attack on Jeffer-
son and on the party supporting him.
He edited the Weekly Inspector and
other journals, and wrote under the
nom de plume of christopher Caustic,
NJ. d. His attacks on Jefferson were
filled with charges against him of de-
string 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 whtewash all he can,
He cannot quite disguise the man.
All of the friends of Jefferson came in
for a share of the abuse that spun from
the doctors pen. He says:
I would not willingly omit
One scoundrel hypocrite TO hit.
But should / 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 ceremonle,
From Duane down to dirty Jony.
SARCASTIC DOCTOR FESSENDEN.
The doctor calls Calender the in
famous Calender, the tool and hireling
of Jefferson" But he returns upon
every occasion to Duane of the ''Au-
rora," and, copying in a footnote the at
tack on Washington of March 8, 1897,
he thus addresses him:
Step forward. Demagogue Duane.
Than whom u greater rogue ingram
Neer fortified by mob alliance
burst bid the powers that be defiance;
Thou art indeed rogue as sly
As ever coined the ready lie.
Few good and great men can be named
Your scoundrel sheet has not DETAINED
And scarce a rogue that ought to hang
Who is not numbered in your gang.
DR.. Caustic was severe upon Albert
Gallatin, whom he calls the dismissed
able of Geneva" and to him and other
refugees he refers in these lines:
And now our chief with other fetches,
EMPLOYS a gang of foreign wretches,
To lie down every man OF merit,
Zen Washington, our pride and glory,
Pickering a public defalcator;
Adams a hoary- headed traitor.
Dr. Caustic charges Gallatin with be-
ing one of the leaders of the whisky in
surrection, and publishes the proceed
ings of a meeting held at Pittsburg. in
which Gallatin took part, and only es-
capped by imploring pardon of Washing
ton. He says:
For this imported fnancier
Deserves the gibbet, it is clear.
Nor shall the rogue by any fetch
Escape as he did Jack Ketch.
The doctor deals his blows right and
left, and of the chief, as he calls JEFF
ferson, of this gang of horse jockeys,
swindlers and spectators, he thus
comments:
A chief who stands not shilly-shally.
But as notorious for a sally.
Might Mars defy in wars dire tug,
Or satin in an Indian rug:
Oh. yes. your party, it SO nice is,
The best among you have your prices,
Flour merchants. public defalcatorS,
Attorneys, swindling spectators.
RALLIED AGAINST VIRGINIANS.
The doctor takes up the unfortunate
position in which Edmund Randolph
was placed by the published dispatch of
the French Minister, who said Ran
dolph demanded money to be used tc
further certain legislation pending be-
fore Congress. Fessenden, who so bit
terly spoke of the men of Jefferson's
day. was particularly incensed against