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GEORGIA, LOUISVILLK: —Pubhlhed every 1 uclday, by-AMBROSE DAY, at 3 dollars pei aim. payable
To the PUBLIC.
I HAVE always entertained
an averfion for thofe authors
,Jho are fond of fpeaking about
themfelves : and I have with
the utmofl folicitude, avoided
that wcakr.cfs. But a publica
tion has appeared in the Virginia
Federal ift, of lafl Saturday,
which to the candid mind, will
juflifv the freedom that 1 now
rake of faying a few words con
cerning myfelf.
Since I came to Vu hmond, I
have wrote fevcral articles for
the Examiner; but before they
went to pi eh, moP gf them have
undergone corre&ions from the
pen of Mr. Jones. In the p’o
| perfeofeof the woild, therefore,
I am not more accountable than
the Editor himfdf is, for (he
blemifhes that arc to be found in
thefc pieces. I have, upon
every occafion, carefully conful
ted him ; I have fubmitted my
opinion implicitly to his; and
I have always found reafon to
be bleffed that I did fo.
J Till Saturday lafl. I did not
think that any perfon living
would have con felled his con
nection with the fubfeription
againfi ms, It is furely a forry
projeCt for twenty, thirty, or
forty gentlemen, ro fall upon a
(ingle man, and that man an
abfolutc ft ranger among them ;
a man, who, at this moment, has
never fo much as Teen one of
■ their faces, and who, till the
■ recent explofion, had never fo
I much as heard one of their
I names,
| In the cafe of Mr. Duane,
■ the rioters had received perfonal
■ provocation. Tiuths had been
■f übhfhcd which thefe people
■found it impoffiblc to di[prove.
■But I have been fo far from any
■thing of that kind, that 1 never
■is my life wrote one word, con
■cerning the local politics of
■ Richmond. I have never med
■ u 'Cd with the refpeClivc merits,
■or demerits, of'any one of the
■if-aders or party in this city. I
■* ,ave had a little wrangling with
■f eme of the newfprinters. This
V n °t well he avoided. But
V did not attack them in their
W l^ c an d pnfonal characters.
I not 'rake up the afhts of do-
W'P*c retirement , that I might
i ; ln( Be the cinders of expiring
J -'imnity, I only took up the
■Urn.-men as they prefenred
■ ,l nr| ‘ e - Vcj in their own publma-
I confidered as fair
■c' a ' * Ihe parties have taken
B,‘ s ' arne freedom with me, and
■ arc perfcCHy welcome.
■'- v nave gone farther. They
K me to be prefent-
Bk,' V; ( * rirj d Jury. I hope
B““ 1,1 ,a *u] Ju’y will no:
THE LOUISVILLE GAZETTE.
TUESDAY, Sept k\*r e r 17, 1 79 -
rfasomahd truth impartial uuujf tji. way. —■
confift of old tories, of men
who during the revolution, we?e
obliged to give bail ro the extent j
of ten thoufand pounds fterling, |
that they xvould not aft as enemies \
to their country! I refer, in this
place, to moie than one Tingle
infamous inOance. 1 fpeak to
a fyftnn of feleClion, to a leries
of faCts, which ate equally well
known to every man in Rich
mond. Compared with fuch
tribunals as have lately been
jfeen, a republican, upon trial
; for his pdnciples, would prefer
| the Fortugucfe inquifition,
! Thefe jurors are chofen by the
marfhal ; and this gentleman
holds his office from the Prefi
dent. Thus the Prefident chu
fes the marflial, and the maifhal
chufes the jury. It is but fix
years ago, fmee Clement Biddle,
rnarfhal of the Bate of Pennfyl
* vania, found it neceffuy to give
up his office, becapfe' he had
j chofen the jury that hid acquit
ted Gideon Henfield. On* of
tire Judges blamed Mr: Biddle
from the bench for having rm de
fo bad a feleCbon. Thus the
.doClrine of packing was openly
defended; and this vas the dig
nified fituation of an American
jury. - No Englifh judge, fince
,the days of Jeffries, has dared
ro treat a jury in this manner
Such was the feene exhibited, in
the face of day, before the citi
zens of America, Mr. Lyon
was tried by a jury of his per
fonal and profeffed enemies;
and after fuch work, he has been
cenfared becaufe he did not
b'afl himfelf by afking his par-1
don from the Prefident, Ini
1794, colonel John Hamilton, |
of Pennfylvania, was an a£live!
agent in fuppreffing the Pitif-I
burgh riots. Without a veftige 1
of evidence this gentleman was
dragged three hundred and fifty
miles in the depth of winter, and
confined for (evenly davs in tne
cells of the prifon of Philadel-|
phia, before he could he admit* !
ted to bail. Not an atom of the :
probability of guilt ever was or j
could he fixed upon col. Hamil-'
ton ; and he is row a member
of the fenate of Pennfylvan'a.
Pafiing over thirty c-i s equally
horn'd.* I come tc thole of
Abijah Adams & Da id Brown.
They have already been explain
ed in the Examiner, and I be
lieve that this is the ony n.wf
paper in America, w ! ich has
daied to rifk a fen.imrnt about
thcm.t
It is ro wonder, tlierefon”, I
I that the Ex miner has become!
i # *
j the marked ebjeef of the ven-|
geance of clefpotifrn. When a
| man is, hkc David Brown, tt
Ibe in dieted for wi thing dug h
to ijic f \ce Prffidnit . it mn ft Tavc
much ill clefs trouble if
j Adams himlclf (hall make our
!*prelentmcnts nnd verdi&s. The
[apparatus will be fhoitcr, and
the illue will be piccifc y the
fame.
For the honor of Richmond,
I am happy to fay that the bro
ther ajfociatcrs, as they call thern
ielves form a very diminutive
minority of the citizens. Ma
ny gentlemen from whofc poli
tical fentimentg I have the mis
fortune to differ, have, on this
occafion, declared that they will,
if necdlary, defend me, at the
n *of their own lives. 1 hus
my ex pul (ion from Richmond
can only be accomplish'd by a
general battle iu which the ojfo
\ciators have every chance to be
worfted.
1 he committee fay, that they
I did not defjgn to pull down the j
office of tlie Ex miner. When I
once mifehief has begun, the |
leaders of a mob cannot tell
whe eitis to end, 1 never
h-ard in Britain of an afford
tion to d' flroy a political writer. I
If, mb -ngland a man does wrong, j
he is feized by the law ; but no
body thinks of brotherly ajjocia- 1
lions for putting an end to him
by perfonal outrage. 1 feel the
deepeft aftonifhmcnt that, in a I
civilized country, Inch a feheme
(hould enter into the head of
any human b ing. If I havc |
wrote nonfenfe, let me he refu
’ i
ted. If 1 have wrote fallehoodp !
let them be detected. If lam j
a criminal, the committee are
welcome to come forward with j
ia profccurion
i I again repeat-hat I had made
it rnv dudy not to imerfeie in
die. local politics of Richmond.
I have never wrote one line in
the Examiner, either to com
mend Mr. Clopton, or to ccn
fu. j Mr. Marfhall. 1 wifhed to
keep my pen facred bom every
thing oi that nature, in a part
of America, wheic I was an 1
utter ft anger.
For a fci.es. i w*irs I have
.
been a6Hvc indicator oft
the moral d dc I cha rafter j
of die ft a e \ irginia, when I
attacked ta ; n defamatory
prudes i t! * id die and eaftern
da es. 1 a I claim noth-'
I
ing mic. i i he common pro
te&io *o' 1 • ’aw, to which, as |
a citi.vn o' iis country, and j
even voufdu'cd merely as aj
human!’ * », I have the inf eft
fit e.
I jn ( -try for having engro 1 -
I 1 '.b much of the reader's i me.
I if. hon to tins fuhjccf can
i ot ■ :c.f'd mine, if, in h*znd-j
•ng t prefent publication, I j
I sve Committed «ui ciror. I limit !
that his kiridncbs will par non.
*vhat his judgment docs not ap
prove.
Janies Thcmjon Callender .
Shock e Hill, Auir i, 1799.
* Yon mil find a crui of (hem
in my (ketches of the Ililloiy of
America.
t / do h dns ohjervafieri ,
wifhlo delroH from the rmnt of
many u/e/ul and refpr [table new! -
printers ; hut their jdenct on tie.
fuhjeft of Iheje. trials , prtfnts a
melancholy preface for the freedom
0/ thepn/s . Fa* the complete / rm
and prejjiue of tyranny, roe n cd
not g 0 Jo Jar as Ireland .
From the EXAMINER.
To the PURI IC.
FcMow Citizens,
T II K h.ftorv of I lie world
j does not furnifh an in fiance of
: a more at onous outrage againfl
the laws of foricty, or a more
daring infult to the underlland
mg of a free n r d enlightened
people, than lias be- n off d
by “ toe allbci tion,” as they
have hern plcaftd o IHlc *hem
(elves, but as thev might be
more propci ly to mod “ the
band of confpirators agunft the
j liberties and rights of man/'
I A combination is foimed for the
express puip fc of c ommitting
1 die m fl flagrant violation of the
i laws of mir country, of perpe-
1 1 rating a£ls difgraccful even to
the lavage tribe ; and Hun, with
the unpa alel'ed efboirery of a
Porcupine or a Ken no, an at
tempt is made to juftify ir befoie
tbe public tribunal. Confcious
however, that they had outraged
every principle 6f law, both
human and divine, rccouiTe is
had to the lad te orf »jf excul
pating themfelveshycrimin ting
every citizen, whole political
fentimems do not accord with
their own; thereby impeaching
tnat very tribunal to which they
I had appeHed for a fair and im
partial daemon Too citizens
of Arr.ejica, will f*y whether
1 their conduct deferves vour ,p
-| probation, nr execration; and
I whether enrolled on the Jid of
American patriots, tl »oy (had he
handed down to a gia efuT n f
terity, as tha ze lous fupporters
of their freedom and independ
ence; or ranked among ihe ig
| noble band of foes to the ihcr
| lies of mankind lhall he crown
-1 cd wi'h eternal infamy and diU
| grace What mv fellow 1 n
zen.i. mu ft be vour indignation,
wh n a junto of men, who «
conduKl dem (lutes l tic cnor
| mity 01 tbnir (enumems, (had
: A»r »g ae to; aemfelves exrhiftvo
• and the right ot b^n-
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