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7? <s*r; the National TEcis.
■ • .during the subsequent communca
,\ c ft- lif our duty to (tare, th3l the ho
• 7) Hidings is thrpcrfon to whom
.I’-.jr, an i who, v,r concieve, is referred
“• it the fhuemerit of the Attorney-General.
Hui ol denied past he h.as propagated this
lepoit. Ihe public will decide whe r the
documents are i if keen: to convict him of a
lull*.noo. ♦ l nore LCditors wrto fcei an in
ti ref! mi r pel nog the Dander, will, we ore- j
n.Mi r , e i.uny j epubiiih tint effif iol refuta-j
t/Jfl.
TO Tin-: TFOrLK.
But few occur;ences w.i juftify an ind'vid
iud ? r* intruding himfelf on the attention of
the public. ]f ary will, they are thorn which,
both falk'iy implicate pnva e character, and
invoice imputations on government. No
nr*an ought, no man can feel an h.difference
for thee Deem <?c approbation of his fellow-citi
zen. Bur, no circiimfpc&icn, no reffirtude
of'inrer.tion or action, no laudabh; follcicude
to obtain, can univerfaily fee ore them. I \
has rieni long known that ccnfure and abuft
are ri e c-d;nay incidents of public employ
n cnc. f xprriencc and cblervation have
me me lupenor propriety of meet nr
them, < v.’hcn un ter no peculiar circumfianccsl, ■
vmh patience, and refuting them by heady
and f'r'v. 2di.cn ence to printuple and to duty.
and i e public attention has been diie&ed ro
me, much beyond what either my filiation or
r.iy conik ,:t in life can jvftify. Ie is not o<
i“pP ,>r: aiicc to decide on the motives or the
object or this procedure. Believing that timt
-e.nd the goo ; leak of the people, would fea
lon.ffi ft and tfhffihi.ftiy correct, in refcrrence
to myfeif, error, prejudice and mifreprefer.ra
tion, so f,r ns they depended, mrreff 01
new! pc per authority, or vulgar and untracea
bie repoits, they have been, hitherto, altoge
ther unnoticed. 0
‘i hrir MViis on the public tranquility
have b<en fubj<-6ls for lmousregr.ee. The
comy of , prrty, and personal abuse, the in
-Ilf’ nc/ {paper, ffanderous affercions, with
vvl.tdi Nr-w-Enghnd has teemed for the hft
twelve mouths, the me re efffi&s of ignorance,
pre-mace, pride or pillion, merit nothing but
ii/c.we, i. r anonymous answers. They excite
of i egret than contempt j more ot com
panion nun refer,tmenr. The availed thinks
lituv. 01 fix.*", feels Iris, will be the Drib to
turret, th** 1 1! f to deck for their authors, or. to
trouble the public concerning them. This
evil, tccibie in its operation, of a cireumficribcd
a fie predator on itlclf, ad counterac
ting its s.engned tendencies, muff soon expire,
to the conviction and ccnfution of thole who
produced it. As ftich, ct firft, was viewed
the.report, which, in the courte of the lad
winter, was hurried through the country in
nil the federal papers, and in forme, with double
indexes, in re'peft to the payment of one thou-
Gnd doftais by the Secretary of the Trcafury,
on account of the abfenc? of the Attorney-
General from the feat o; government.
Bin rh s report, and many others, have af
fu wed a coherent complexion, as originating
wiffi per fa ns who are, or have been, in au
thority i who have pledged their weight of
dm after and other impaling circum (knees,
in uppon ol them. 1 hus tr.ey have been cir
culated, psifiAioufly, with industry, and the
bcldeft nreffiffions of attachment to truth, and
of a tender and patriotic anxiety for the pub
lic mood. An indance of this kind k a charge
of mi frepreiencation, transferred to the Attor
ney-General, from one of the numbers of the
Farmer, refptccmg the Fierce ax. Another is
contained in the bold affections of Claudius.
of (nifreprefentatiens, in another number ol
the lame v riter, and the intolerance cf the pre
and the liberality of the old adminiitra
tion, in employing republican characters in
the offices of ti.e four execirive departments
of Date. This publication vw.s, o:ig:naiiy,
made in a cut paper, and containing
matter notorloujif faife, Danderous and malig
nant, was, of course, copied ir.to the rces
ter Sp\\
Faifehood fj propagated, for such nurpofes
and implicating government and individuals,
wiji jollify a resort to lb met king beyond a
naked denial, the ordinary mode of refutation.
1 uetr apparent authenticitv, from the pre
sumed refpeclabiiity of ihe'r authors, calls for
the highest documents and proofs, to con
fute them.
Had it been true tha: the Attorney-Gene
ral l.ndl been guim* or tne aiiedgcd abandon
ment of duty, and so unpjft as so haVe fub
jeefrd government to the needfty of makinc
a double compensation for a -bnole employ
ment ; had it been true that the treafurv of
fice had beer? so forgetful of right, and re
gard! el's of itself, as to have plffed an account
for one thoidand dollars, or one cent,-for per
forming the lervices allotted to a la!ary officer
during ms on need: ary atdencc, ic would,
from the principle involved, have been a
matter or feriems ahrm to the people, and ofj
jolt reproach to the government. It would j
have called for public ccnliire, or a ccogrefd
cnal inveltigatioo.
*1 ms calnrrmv fu il niace its pnbuc its ap
pearance in a Boh on an and loon
reaching the feat of government, from whence
it probably originated, wh.de congress was in 1
its lad lell:or> eng-ged, as it ought 4 , the atten- j
rion of irs n emoer, individually. F.ach had !
within his r-adi, various an’ ample means!
for afeertamir.g the f.cl. d'he lecrciary of;
the treasury, the reguler, the auditor, or the
comptroller, could have done it on a finyde !
enquiry. The records of the office, w.t'.iii;
twenty minutes travel from the camtoh woub; 1
j ■> j
have done ir, in twenty feccnds. E u.h mem- |
her in his place, co;;!il have moved for ani
enquhy, md have cauied t: e evidence of the
iitty had 11 exiited, to have been laid before
congrels. lewis undeiDood that out door
enquiries were made, and that centiemen, not
the moft and g oied to think favorably of the.
tondub oi tljC ollicers of government,
being larished of the falfuy or the report, ex
iplicidy rd.uav-A it. A member from New
Vork, in a cirri in icncr to his conftitutents,
wluc.h was puhlifhed in fcvcnl papers, and
which v.ms a naatter of ir.u< h conveilaiior.
Among the nven-ibersj fully and pointedly i'kt
ed if, among many others, as a graft rniftc
prelenut on.
There was reaffin ro hope that the asper
sion would have ended here, and char govern-
met wouid have experienced no further pre-.
injury from its efficdls. k could
not have been anticipated that any member
t would have been lb unfortunate as to have
returned nom the feat of government, (when
lin any hour he mioht h'ave learnt the faiPity,
joi the report, it he did not uiwiouDy know
ir) ro his conit.tuentw and ro them revive mu
confirm this grouncilefs and falle caluirny
jeguinlt the officers oi government—yec this
| has been the sass,
| Report la ja member of a difrrict, call of
j BoDof, made the above tlarement, in a letter
iro one or more o r ids conflituents, and that
jiince Ins return, on enqu ry, r.C has unreferv
ediy confirmed ir. If this is a midake, as the
gentleman’s character ioffers by the imputa
tion it fubje&s him to, he will be phaffid with
this intimation, which will give him a fdr
opportunity of wiping olf the xfoerfion. If
he denies that he eiiner liiued or confirmed
the reprefentatibn, which his clerical charac
ter renders peculiarly nee diary, if it can be
done, he will withdraw his name from an er
ror, to which others had attached it, for the
j purnofe of giving to it a currency,
j Being furnifhed with the proof, that a
| member from a weft cm diftridt had,under cir
j cnmftancfes peculiarly calculated to gain i>e
I lief, a dto prejudice the ] 11 lie mind, con
firmed the auovereport, and repeatedly afffirt
ed that the uationa! government had been fub
jeAed to an extra charge or near a thou land
dollars, for profeffonai advice, on account
iof my abler.ee, i felt it a duty which was, due
Ito mylelf, to the administration, and to the
peupiC, to ta..c ii-caiuics to corredft mis errone
ous and injurious reprcientaticn. In answer
to a letter addrened to the Secretary of the
I reaiiiry on tli * the iubjc<sl, I received the
! iollowing, which 1 trull will be fatisfaclory to
j;o every triend to .ruth and fairnefs. Was
{ the abuse, or its effects, confined to myfeif.
they ffoitid take their course, and the pub
qc never be troubled concerning them.
at e a fury D sparlni€V*i , ‘July itie, i So*..
oir—ln compliance with the requefb con
in your letter of the 26th ultimo, I
have the honor to enclose a letter and certifi
cate from the Remitter of the Treasury.
| Permit me ro observe, that if the report to
j which you allude, reds only on newspaper
! authority, it cannot be thought proper to re
pel it by official documents. 1 have the honor
to be with rcfpeft, fir, your obedient servant.
Albert Gallatin.
CT*L >• • /
4* 2 /itt>Cl h CJ ’ v.c i ’ti y cil #
TRifAS UR Y I)E PART MEN T.
Register’s Office, ad July, ISO 2.
I Sir—l had; he honor to received your letter
lof the itt, enclosing a copy of a letter to you
from the at :orney-general, of the 26 ultimo.
Every warrant for money paid, is register
ed in my office, and every account with its
vouchersJs lodged therein. The payment
to which the attorney-general refers,could rot
bane been marie, nvitboitt appearing cn record,
| md that not any Rich payment has been made,
j f hope the enclose and certificate will effectualiy
jeßablifTi. I have the honour to be, fir ,
j with the greateit refpecc, your mold obedient
land mcit humble servant.
Joseph Nourse, Reglfer.
Hoit. Alr r Gallatin,
**Cc ret ary or the Creatcr?.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
1 Register’s Off’cl, 2.1 July, 1802.
I certify that net any monies have been
paid out of the treasury of the United Staten, j
on account of fees, com pen fat ion or allowance I
‘ji any kind whatever, for legal advice or I
opinions given,* by any person whatever, to!
the prelim^Secretary of the treasury, Hnce his’
appointment, or to any other officer of the
It re u fury departmimt, during that period.
Joseph Nourse, Regijler.
Those have been the reprefentr.tions, and
’ these are the falls. They are now in poftel
; fail of the public. It is not my bufinels to
!decide on the motives which produced the
1 firmer, or to comment on the latter. Io
the people they are iubmitted, who will duly
AppreAurt* the motives and the obiells of the
! concerned. They ougnt to be candid, ana
•censure with camion any tranlactioa which
|can cop. fill with the prefi nption of a fair in
tention. This is one instance in which a
a delusive eticitement has been unjustly pro
duced, to the injury of our country. There
are many other?, of which an opinion may
< ow be formed, from the one which has been
’ 0 ivf
To draw a companion between all the
repeated, erroneous Ilatements of individuals,
| and the realities, between t!;e hc.ftv, malignant,
| newfpapcr calumnies, and candid communi
j cations for public information, is unncceftary.
, It wool fubie-Ct to too much odium and detef
; cation. They differ, and will be so viewed
|by integrity and candor as knavery differs
j from hon esty —truth fromfafehood, light from
jdarkr.efs, wisdom from follly, and fair inten-
I lion, :*urn the gj off ft corruption of heart.
k. LINCOLN.
{Forced:}-) Sept era her yl 1S 02.
WILMINGTON, (Dcl.J
To the Printer of th: MIRROR.
I f?
. i\,
I have been much impoled upon by fame
leading gentlemen who are called federal!fits,
v.ffioalways promised they would five true in
formation to common people, about what
had been done by our public men. This
gave me latisfadlion to think I should be able
| to get aii tne news lo cheap, and from men I
might rely on. But no Inch thing ; your pa
per, with the help of a very wife and religi
ous friend, has learnt me better, and has
caught me an uleft:l lei Ton., never to believe
one fide before I hear the other ; for I find it
s out of the quellion to expect true informa
tion from these men who aim tografp ail they
can in their own hands, and then cot to make
a good ule ot it. Actions {peak louder than
words. The con duel o* thele federal gentie
hten does not emit leathern to our confidence
* for the time to come.
Now []r, I will tell you what I have found
out to be true, but which my neighbors-, fe
dcradfts, hatfftared to me differently. They
ashed me if 1 could afford to keep a carriage
and use leaf sugar in mv tea, coffee, toddy,
Arc. ? I told them no. Well laid they—Jef
jferlori and Congress have taken off the taxes
from carriages and loaf sugar, which rich men
life-—and fuff red the tax to remain on brown
fiigar, tea, coffee, and fait—articles which e
viry poor pc rion in the country uses, and are
forced to keep every day in their families,
j Well rids daggered me.—-But I found our
| from another quarter, that the fufs they made
was intended to make bad iir.prcffions upon
I common people, that they had not diliin
guifticd the taking off taxes uuon things made
among us, from the tax ucon foreign goods
O 4 *J O s
brought into the country. They also told
jme that the federal ills in Congress had used
all their nni-eht and influence to keep it off
i brown sugar, tea, coffee, and fait *, faying that
the poor people in the country wno use them,
were not able to pay so much tax for theft
things *, that the rich who rode in their fine
.carriages, could drink loaf sugar in their tea,
coffee and toddy, and much better afford to
pay for ir, that they ought, and not the poor.
1 found that after all their fuss, that they
them Delves put all there taxes upon our
fnoulders long ago, that they never took one
off; that wh.it taxes had been taken off had
been done by Mr. jefferfon, and the repub
lican congress. I was truly aftonifned to hear
Inch tales from men who ought to have known
better, but who I find did not with- to give
me true information. I don’t know that all
ithe taxes are taken off--but I fay that the
things made among us are not now taxed. Is
there any full tax ? Is there any (lamp tax ?
Is there any carriage tax ? I ana poor man,
but I must keep an old carriage, like many
others of my‘poor neighbors.
| The federal ills told me that the republi
cans wanted to ride on the backs of the poor
people, die they would have taken off the
taxes upon fair, sugar, tea and coffee. This
! was enough to be lure to frighten an igno
rant farmer. But [ found out the caofe, that
they {truck off a: a Angle blow ufelefs of
fleers, who were riding all over the country
to col lee; the, tax, the expense of collecting
amounted to 227,431 dolls. 58 cents. The
whole amount of the excise-col left ed from the
people of the United States, was 627,431
dolls. 92 1-2 cents. I his i am told ;s all
done entirely away, after they had lived along
while cn the little money earned by the poor
people by the lsveat of their brow?? And the
taking off the other taxes would he done hy
and bv; that tea, coffee and brown sugar we.%
imported, and we could live healthier with
out them ; and they had done more good in
one fitting of Congress than the federaliftshaT
done in all tiieirlives ; for they were the very
people that heaped thele taxes upon us, in the
beginning. Then they would lay Mr. Jef
ferfon and the republicans are not your friends,
else they would not do these things, that they
were the friends or the rich; Now who makes
us pay 6 cents cn every pound ot coffee ? I
ant.vcr the fecicralitls. Who makes us pay 3
per cent on every pound of sugar ? The fede
ralifls. Who makes 11s pay co cents on eve
ry pound of tea ? The federalists. Who
makes us pay 2p cents on every bufhc! of lalff
The feueraliils laid cn our (boulders all thole
taxes upon these imported articles. Why did
not the federal congress take off any taxes
from the poor people before Mr. Jefferfon
I came into office ? They did not do it. Well,
Mr. jefferfon was not long in before he tofti
us that it was .not proper to extort the hard
earnings of labor from the poor people to
Ifupport the rich. He has relieved us from
lb me unncceftary taxes, and he will relieve
us fi om fome more, if we will only have pa
tience. Is it reasonable to expect every thing
done for us in little more than one year r Now
every body must plainly fee that the federa
lifts vvi'ih to deceive 11% by telling us they are
I the true friends of the poor, and the republi
cans the friends of the rich ; when it is knovm
to every man that inftcad of taking off* taxes,
year after year, rhey had heaped upon us as
oru* as it was in their power. Have the
republicans favored themlelves and their rich
friends in raking off these taxes more than
the federalifts ?
After this I determined to date the convrr
fiukon to you, and if you also lay so, and pub
iiiia it to the world in your paper, that Mr*
J after 10.1 and the republicans have afted ho
nestly for the people, it will determine me to
do every thing for them at the next eleflion,
for I dare fay you print for the purpose ofgiv
ing us poor people information. Pray don’t
let it be long till you answer me, as I ana ve
ry axious to know trie whole trufin of this bu
ftnefs. If you fit it home ftlent, I Daall con
clude my federal neighbors told me the truth*.
Should you answer this letter., then I will write
you all the rest of the converiktion which paft*
cd between us,
A FARMER.
I KOSEltr ci JOHN iiOLTON,
Have received per. fop Columbia # from
Liverpool ,
17 bales firft quality white and blue plains
1 ditto flannel and baize
8 ditto London duff! blankets
7 ditto Bristol, point and role do.
40 pieces blue ft roods
2 y ditto fupe ine broad cloths
24 ditto ditto caff] mere
45 ditto drab plains
jo ditto flriped and fpotced daffies
iq bales cotton bagging
4 ditto fail duck
2 cases Iriffs Linnen
12 pieces girth webbing
i <-T O
go dozen romal handkerchiefs
j ditto cotton counterpanes { .
9 calks broad hoes
2 ditto grubbing hoes and club axes
2 dozen frying pans
1* cuff; glue
2 dozen corn slopers
1 bale bed ticking
40 boxes 8 by 10 and 10 by 12 crown
window glass
100 kegs white lead
30 ditto Spanish brown
2 tens fliert lead
1 dozen tin feales
1 case Duffy’s eiixer and British oil
T dozen beams from 3 to 5 feet long
with weights
500 iron pots and ovens
4000 fcufheis of fait
38 quits Bd, iod and cod nails
4 c a Acs cutlery and hardware
i dozen cross-cut laws
24 ditto rice and sickies
1 ditto elegant fiddles
2 ditto portmanteau trunks
60 pieces durant and bombuzettc
2 trunks hosiery.
O richer 1 2- ts
N 0 7 l C E.
THE Suberibcr having receive fome things
fur dying, requeffst hose who brought
them to come, and get them by paying the
price of his work. He had received” two*
articles in March iHoc.er.ein February 1802
if they do not apply for the fame, he will fell
them at public Auction for their account, as
he intends to return in one month npou
his property, near the town of Caves Sc Louis
fouqhern parts oi St Domingo, where he ihall
be ready to render his account.
By COQUILLON.
A . * n Br ought cn forest
Savannah October iu 1802.