Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-02

tolleo MIN on every possible occasion.
But after he went over to France. and
TOOK part in the Revolution. and be-
came member of the French assembly.
and was one of the committee that
sentenced Louis XVI to be beheaded.
and later got into trouble with
Robespierre who thrust him into
prison, he appealed to Washington for
release. But having severed his citi-
zenship from this nation, and became
a citizen Of France. the President was
under no obligation to intercede in his
behalf. He did, however, but things
did not move as rapidly as Paine
wished, so he wrote to Washington
among other things the following:
you have as many addresses in your
chest as James Second. Monopolies of
every kind marked your administration
almost in the moment of it's COM
mencement The lands obtained in the
revolution were lavished upon parti-
sans. the interests of the disbanded
soldier was sold to the Spectator. in
justice was acted under the pretense
of faith, and the chief of the army be-
came the patron of the fraud. And as
to you, sir. treacherous in private
friendship and a hypocrite in public
life, the world will be puzzled to de-
eide whether you are an apostate or
an imposter whether you have aban-
doned good principles or whether you
ever had any,"
But the vindictive Callander, chief
muckraker of them all, never ceased to
pursue Washington with his vitriolic
spume until his death. But he and the
rest of his unsavory ilk have long been
forgotten. while the name of Washing
ton will shed its lustre as a beacon
light over the worlds history, and his
fame will endure to the end of time.
But the death of Washington did not
dry the murky pen of Callander. With
equal venom he turned it to the scor-
ing of President Adams. He referred
to him as a "Hoary traitor, who only
completed the scene of ignominy which
Mr.. Washington had began" He goes
on to say: HE is not only a repulsiye
pedant, gross hyprocite, and an I'M
principled oppressor, but that he is in
private life, one of the most egreeious
fools on the continent. That as Dry
den says, Every inch which is not fool
is rogue That the now blasted
tyrant of America, that ruffian who
stigmatized the governor of Virginia as
minister recalled in disgrace, is
supereminently entitled not only to
laughter but likewise to the curses of |
mankind"
Rev. John NJ. Mason had this to saw
in a pamphlet: Il dread the election of |
Mr.. Jefferson because l believe him to |
be confirmed inf1del. Christians, lay |
these things together. compare them.
examine them separately and collec-
lectively: ponder, pause, lay your hands
on your hearts. lift your hearts to
Heaven and pronounce on Mr.. Jeffer-
sons Christianity. You can not stiae
your emotions nor forbear uttering
your indignant sentence. inf1del,"
During John Adams's administration. L
the notorious Callander had been SEMI
fenced to pay a fine and to imprisons
men for sedition. Jefferson RENTED 1;
the fine and pardoned the muckraker
when he became President. Thereupon@
Callander took courage to demand the
Office of postmaster of Richmond.
Failing in this he scored Jefferson
worse than he did Washington. No
charged him with having family y I
negro children gby slave woman
named Sally; with having been turned
out of the house of Major Walker for
writing a secret love letter to his wife;