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iff n\.rh ot ihsnimal, he makes
f;ni;ir .experiments, and this j
vr.' the way John took. Hit
brain was teeming with projects
to overturn the liberties of
America, and the re pit tentative
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fylkm of government, and lie
began by hinting it in little
companies. The leorctary of
John j yy, an excellent painter
and a poor political!, told me
in pretence ofanothn American,
‘Daniel Parker , that in a com
pany where him felt was prefenr,
John Adams talked of making
the government hereditary, and
that as Mr. Wafhington had no
childien, it fliould be m a*le he
reditary in the family of i.und
V.\alhii)gton. John Lad not
impudence enough to propole
himlclf m the firit inftance, as
the old French Normanday
Baron did, who offered to come
over to be king or America,
and :r ccrgrcfs did not accept
Ins ofihr, iliac they would g.vc
thirty thouland pounds lor die
gentroficy ot it; but John, like
a mole, was grubbing his way
to it under ground, lie knew
that .unci Vv afhnjgwun was tin
known, for no body hearer of
him, and that as the pi c Indent
had no children to luccccd him,
the vice-prefldtnt haci, and if
the treafon had fucceeded, and
the hint with ir, the goldfmith
might be lent for to take mea-
Jure of the head of John or his
ion Q. for a golden wig. In
this cafe the good people of
31 olien might have had for a
king the man they have rejected
ns a delegate. ['he repreten
tadvc fyftem is fatal to ambi
tion.
Knowing, as I do the confurn- j
irate vamty of John Adams, !
and the fhallownefs of his judg
ment, I can cafily piblurc to
myleif, that when he arrived at
tin Federal City, he was ftrut
tir.g in me pomp of his imagi
nation before the prducnual
Ironic, or in the aud.ence hail,
end exulting in the language of
Ntbuchadnazzer, <c Is net this
gf sat Babylon that I have built
for the honor cf ray majefiy /”
But in that unfortunate hour, or
loon after, John, like Nebu
chadnarzer, was driven from
among men and fed with the
fpeed of a pod horde.
Some of John Adams’ loyal
fubjtfls, I fe, have been to,
prefer: and add refs him on his
birth-day ; bur the language they 1
ule i. t>m tame for the pcciific n.
Birth-dav addrelTes, like birth- i
day ode -, fliould not creep along
like drops of clew dow n a cab- |
bage lent, but roll in a torrent
of poetical metaphor. I will
give them a (penmen for the
next year. Here it is.
When an ant, in travelling
ever the globe, lift up its fun and
put it again on the ground, it
fishes the earth to its autre , but
'ushai TQU the mighty Put cf the
Kofi was her;:, (Pc. Lu c. C:e. and
the centre jumped upon the fur
fcce-
This, gentlemen, h the
proper ftvlc cf add refs from
well-bred ants to the monarch
of the ant-hill, and as I never
lake pay for preaching, praying,
politics o“ poetry, I make you
a pretent of ir. Some people
talk of impcaching John A
dams, but I am for ibtecr mea-
I fures. I womd keep him to
I make fun of. lie will thenan
! f.ver one of the ends for which
he was bom, and he ought to
j be thankful I am arrived ro
! ta!;e his part. I voted in earn
■ <ft to lave the life of one un
! f rtunate kinrr, and I now vote
, , «■ >
I in j< ft to lave another. It is
I my fate ro be always playing
I with fools. But to return to
federalifin and apoftacy.
The plan of the leaders of
the faff ion was to ovenhrow the
liberties of the new world, and
| place government on the cor
, rupt fyftem of the old. They
' wanted to hold their power by a
more Jailing tenure than the
I choice of their condiments. Ic
j is impollible to account for their
j conduct and the meafures they
i adopted on any other grounds.
| But to accomplilh that object
I a Banding army and a prodigal
revenue mull be raffed; and to
obtain thefe, pretences mult be
invented to deceive. Alarms
of dangers that did not txfff,
even in imagination, but in the
dire6b fpint of lying, were
fpreud abroad. Apoftacy Balk
ed through the land in a garb
of patriot! fm, and the torch of
rrealbn blinded fora while the
flame of liberty
For what purpofe could an
army of twenty-five tlioufand
men be wanted ? A fmgle rc
fleffion might have taught the
moft credulous, that while the
war raged between France and
England, neither could fpare a
man to invade America. For
what purpofe.then could it be
wanted ? The cafe carries its
own explanation, it was wanted
j for the purpofe of dtflroyrng
the reprefentacive fyftem, for it
could be employed fornoocher.
Are rhefe men federalifts ? If
they are, they are federalized to
deceive and deftrov.
The rage againft Dr. Logan’s
patriotic and voluntary million
to France, was excited by the
fhame they frit at the detection
of the falfe alarms they circulat
i ed.
As to the oppoficion given by
the remnant of the faff ion to the
repeal of the taxes laid on dur
ing the former adminiftration,
it is eafily accounted for. '['he
repeal of th ffe taxes was a ten
tence of condemnation on thole
i who laid them on, and in the
opr ft non they gave to that re
-1 peal, they are to be confide red
in the light of criminals (landing
i on their defence, and the coun
try has pa fled judgment upon
j them.
THOMAS PAINE.
City of rl afkington, I.cvel s
blot el, Nov. iy, 18 02.
N O T I CIT
NINE months afterdate, ap-
I plication will be made to the i
| i lon. Inferior Court of Burke j
| County, for leave to fell two j
; hundred and fifty acres of land in I
j lj «d County, on Chevers’s |
! Creek, adjoining [ohn Patter
; 1()n > fen. and Chriftopher Bal
! bird’s lands, the real eftaie of
! Nathaniel \v hitaker, deented,
for the benefit of the heirs of |
laid dcccafed.
Agnes Whitaker, Edrn'x.
BEN J. \V HIT AKER, Adm V* .
Aiigufi y, 1802.
I, O U I S V I L L E,
IVEDXSSDJT, n=ctra tr 15, ISO 2.
OHIO.
TheJeventeenth flute rf the United
States.
Chilicntha, n. w. t. Nov. 6.
The following is the preamble
to the conllitution as reported
by the Tcle6t committee, ta
ken op in committee of the
whole, and agreed to.
WE the people cf the callern
divifion cf the territory of the
United States, Nordi-wdl'of
the river Ohio, (having the right
of admiflion into the general
government, as a member of
the union, confident with the
conditutionof the United States,
the ordinance of Congrefs, of
one thoufand liven hundred and
eighty-feven, and the law of
Congrefs, entitled “ An ad to
enable the people of the eaftern
divifion of the Territory North
Weft of the river Ohio, to form
a conftitution and date govern
ment, and for the admiflion of
fuch date into the union on an
equal footing with the original
dares, and for other purpol'es,”)
in order to cftablifh juflice, pro
mote the welfare, and fecure
the bleflings of liberty to our
felves and our pofterity, do or
dain and eftabhlh the following
conftitiition, or form of govern
ment, and do mutually agree
with each other to form ourfrlves
into a free and independent date,
by the name of the date of
Ohio.
From the A m e r i c a n Patriot.
Mr. Paine has add re fled him
fclf once more to the American
people, with all the patriot; An
and fpirit of ('orrmou Senfe and
the Rights of Man. His letter
in this day’s paper, difplays that
energy of principal and vigor of
mind, fo peculiar to this great
man, and which have already
made fuch impreflions on the
enemies to freedom in Europe
and America.
Ik, Tides his new productions,
which Mr. Paine promifes to
the public, we hope foon to fee
a correct edition of all Ins works
reviled by his own eye.
We are pleafed to fe.e with
what dignity the author before
us, walks over the Federal ours
of America, fcarce deigning to
gkmce at this puny ana balbrd
breed, which is only calculated
to make a noife and wear collars,
the badges of their flavery and
dependence.
The Americans, we believe,
are as yet ftrangers to Mr
Paine’s mechanical genius, but
there is reafon to dunk, that in
this, he will aftonifh the world,
as much as he has done in poli
tics. He is laid to have along
with him a model of a bridge,
D J
which is really curious and An
gular—probably feme of the
Tories may have to croft the
budge one of thole days, on their
return for Nova-Scotia.
ft i.C Torie c , Ance the com
mencement of the prelent ad
rninillration, have difeovered
that the greater the lie, the left
the LißEi.j and the government
leems to have given them a pa
tent during four ye ts (or this
ncv invert ;on, as it is dercrmin
ed to puls them by with filtnt
contempt. Ky this the pater.-
tecs have lulled in their fpecs
Mr. Paine could not arrive at
a more auiplcious period than
at the prelent, when the people
are almolt all recovered front
t*'.e tielu!ion cr Monarchy ! H
conftquence of this 'happy
change, one of the fonndeis of
American Freedom, will natu
rally meet with that reception,
Ins talents and patriotifm enti
tle him to. We know full well
that the Britifh Arnolds y and
the little yankee tcries in the
printing cjjices, will yell and bark
m their ufual tone —but thefc
dogs, after all, can do no more
than make a noife and fnari at
every honed; man that pafTcs by.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 6.
We are informed that the
Executive lias received advice,
that the port of New-Orleans
has been doled again!! foreign
veflels from the ocean,including
American, anti that the right of
depoficing American property
there has been prohibited, with
out an y ocher eflabliflimentbeing
atiigned in lieu of it. The righ-;
to export property before de*
P ( 'fi.ted was excepted from the
prohibition. I liefe regulations,
fo contrary to our treaty with
Spain, were pnblifhecl, at New--
Orleans, by the Intcndant, on
the 17th of Oftober lad.
I EGIIORN, September 1.
Ihe lofs of the Americans
tr.au landed near 1 unis feema
very much exaggerated, as it
appears that not more than four
hundred were made prifoners
by the Barbarians ; the number
Ended could not amount to twe
thoufand men.
Mikamt VA.i UH«m’ xut rwim «»'?» *
TO THE PUBLIC.
HAVING called upon Mr.
Fields Kennedy, nf G re cue
County, to make fatisfabtion to
me for an irreparable injury
done my brother’s family ; and
chaftife him for his treachery
towards an unfufpedHng femai ,
Mr, Kennedy has refuted mo
that fatisfablion which is ufual If
expected upon fcch occations.
I beg leave therefore to fubmit
it to the impartial public, whe
ther to the catalogue of his
enormous crimes, he has not
alfo added the character ot an
infamous and bate coward.
Andrew Hemphill.
September 9, 1802.
The SUBSCRIBER
BEGS leave to inform bh
friends and the public m
general, that he has lately moved
from Louiivillc to Savannah,
where he has taken Mrs. Shi
ver’s large, airy and commodi
ous Houle i which lias a good
yard and liable?. Its vicinity
to the Market Square makes it
an eligible fituation as a Board
ing Houte for country gentle
men, with whom he has here
tofore hail a pretty executive
acquaintance in that line ; t’’ 1
whole patronage lie hopes uH
to meric by his afllduous atten
tion.
JOHN BARRON *
November 2, 1802.