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THOMAS PAINE,
to the citizens of the uni
ted STATES.
LETTER THE EIGHTH.
Much has been said, and much
remains to be said, of that un
deferibed and undefcribable no
things called federahfm. It is a
word without a meaning, and
designates a faction that has no
principles. Aik a man who calls
himfdf a federalift, what feder
al! fm is ? and he cannot tell you.
Aik him what are its principles ?
and he has none to give. Fe
deralism, then, wuh refpedl to
government, is similar to arheifm
relpcdt to religion, a nomi
nal nothings without prnciples.
The federal papers, especially
thole of NeWjEngland, have of
ten ibid, tha. s ‘ religion and fe
derflijm mujt go together.” But
:f their rei gi>n is related to their
federalifm ; if it is as destitute of
morals their federalifm is of
principles; and I’fcar it is $ it
will do them no good in this
world or the next. It will con
demn them as impellers and
hypocrites in both.
Thole who once figured as
leaders under the affirmed and
fraudulent name of federalifm t
(but who are spice gone, not in
to honorable and peaceable re
tirement, like John Dickinson Sc
Charles Thomffon* bur into ob
feurity and oblivion, like John
Adams and John Jay) had fome
plans in contemplation which
they concealed from their de
luded adherents, but those plans
can be difeovered through the
gauzy, but cl unify veil of con
dSkit those leaders adopted.—
“wircover is large enough to hide
> iifelff* fays the Sparnfh pro
ve.l
It Requires more artifice and
management to disguise and con
ceal sinister designs than schem
ers are aware of. A man never
turns a rogue but he turns a fool.
He incaudoufiv lets out fome
* j .hn Dickson, the refpesiable
author of the Fa mer's Letters ,
before the revolution began.
Chat les Tbompfon, the f iithfulJe
eretary of the Old Cr: g du
ring the rev.olnti ;u
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thing by which those he inten
ded to cheat cr iron fe upon
* *
begin to find him cut. Whereas
truth is a straight forward thing ;
even an ignorant man will not
blunder in a true (lory—nor can
an artful man keep a faile story
straight.
But those leaders, fuppqfirg
themselves in a higher pofitiou
than what common oblervatiori
would reach, presumed, oh th ir
supposed conlequence oc the ex
pected credulity of their adher
ents, toimpofe on the nation by
clamorous 6c falle pretences, fur
the pwpole of raffing a handing
army of fifty thouland men ; and
when th y had got that army,
the ihalk would have been
thrown ff, and their deluded
adherents would have paid ihe
price of their duplicity by being
cnflaved.
But in the midst of thus career
of delusion and impoficion, those
leaders became fools. 1 hey
did every thing they ought not
to have done. They advoca
ted plans which (hewed that rheir
intention and their cause were
not good. They labored to
provoke war. They opposed
every thing which led to peace.
They loaded the country with
vexatious and unneo ffiirv taxes,
and then opposed the reduction
of them. They opposed the
reduction of useless offices that
served no other pur pole than to
maintain their own paruzans at
the expence of the public. In
(hurt, thev run theinlelves a
ground, fir ft, by their extrava
gance, and next by their tolly.
Blinded by theii own vanity, &
though bewildered in the wil
derness of their own proje&s,
they fool ftly supposed ihem
felves above oeteltion. i'hey
had neither sense enough to
know, nor logic enough to per
ceive, that as we can reafen up
wards from cause to elicit, so ah
so we can itafon downward frrrn
efFtlt to cause, and dilcover, by
the means they make uleof, the
motives and objc ll ot any party •>
for when the means ao bad, the
motive and the end to be obtain
ed cannot be good.
The man: ers ffilo, and lan
guage of any party us another
•clue that leans t a difeovery of
their real charadtis. When
the cause and principles of a
party are goods us advocates
n akt use ot reckons argument and
good language. I ruth tan de
rive no advantage Horn boiite
rous vulgarity. But when the
motives and principles or a par
ty are bads it is neceft'ary to con
ceal than ; and its abettors hav
ing principles they dare to acknow
ledge and cannot defend avoid
every thing of aigument, and
take refuge in abuje and faljs
hccd.
i he federal oapers are an in
fiance of ihe jultnels of this re
mark. i hen pages are crouded
vv.th abule, but never with a: gu
meat; fi r the'. wind
•l, 3 co aip: c f m ; and as to
T U U R i’ D AT, July 18, iSoc.
faUhood, it is become so natu
rally their mother tongue , eiptci
ally in New-Englana, that they
seem to iiave loft the power as
well as the dfpeftion of (peaking
the truth, i hole papers have
been of great aid to the repub
lican caule, not only by the ad
ditional diig r ace they have bro’t
on their own diigracelul fad ion,
but by serving a foil to fee
off, with greater eclat, the de
cency and well principled argu
ments of die republican papers.
1 have had fome experience,
perhaps as much as mod men
have had in the various turns of
polideal life, but I never law a
greater let of fools undertake to
conduit a party than the leaders
of the federahfts have been, and
the editors of their papers.—
They coriefpond to the story
told of a man who was become
so proud and famous for lying,
that he disdained fpeakmg the
trmh lead he should iol'e his cha
racter.
Cannot those stupid people
fee, or, according to tome dog
mas of their own, are their hearts
hardened, that they lkall not ice
that the more vulgar and abu
sive thev are, the more ground
they lose, in the estimation of the
public. Every eleltion, eipe
ciaiiy in New-England, is wear
ing them down till they be loit,
even as a faltion, and Malfichu
fetts and Connecticut will reco
ver their former character. Eve
ry thing this fall ion does hastens
its exit. The abusive vulgarity
oi r.uibert, a pettifogging at
torney t'f Shcffieldj in “vlai lac hu
ll tts, and one of its kg : Gators,
l:?.s contribuiedi to bring forward
the funeral. In his late unprin
cipled speech in the legifiature
of that Hate, he has driven ano
ther nail in the coffin of tiie fe
deral fallion, and I h ave it to
the New England Palladium to
cknch it. Lisa paper worthy
of being the buffoon of luch a
fadio.n, and of luch an hypreri
tical impoilor. Thus much far
the charalter of parties, and tiie
method of after taining their mo
tives and objells. 1 now pro
ceed co other matters.
When I leturned to America
in November, 1802, (after an
absence of more than fourteen
years) I found the country in a
Hate cl disquietude. The peo
ple were divided into two claftes,
under the names of republicans
and federaliftsy and in point or
numbers appeared to be nearly
balanced. The republicans were
the majority, in congress, and
all the adminifnatiQn Were of
that cieftriptior. j but they were
a (Tailed with outrageous abuie
in all the federal pipers, but ne
ver bv argument. lam enough
acquainted with rife, and the
World to know that abuje is the
evidence or ie\.m oj a;gurnet,ts
and that thole who uie ;t have
nor right on their ft ie. I here
is a digrft.fiid calmntfs in con
scious 1 eot 11ufte v.inch dlle<nds
not. a V-.ft♦ It cau real >O, but
it cannot rage. It cann u quit
the Itrong fbrtrefs of relfrude
to fkiiirdfii in the fields ofvul
brarJT* ir
It was not difficult to per
ceive, thatthii division and agi
tation arose from fome reports
spread during the adnuniO ration
of Jolin Adams, and in ih<- lat
ter time of General Wafting
ten, which one part of the peo
ple btht ved. and the other did
not ; and the point to be after
tained was, whether those reports
were true 01 fa'fe. If either of
those cases could be afeertained
efftltually, it would unite the
people. The chief of thole re
ports was, the danger ('fan in
vafiGn from France; and this
was made a (aule fi r borrowing,
by loan, five nuliier.s of th dlais,
at the high rate of eight per cent
laying on a land-tax of two mil
lions of dollars annually, b fide s
a great nun,bur of other taxes,
and for raffing a {landing army
of fifty th- uland men.
Now, if the danger Was real,
it ought to have been provided
agair.il. If it vas a filfion, with
the ck sign of rafir.g an army to
be employed toaroorr.pl fli 1- me
concealed purpole, the country
ought to be info third of it.—
1 he party styling thunieves fe
deraiifts appealed to b; iievc the
danger, and the republicans to
ridicule it as fabulnus; and in
this (fate the parties (lood. It
was however, (dually the intrr
tft of be th to know the tiuth,
on which ever fm.e the truth
might fall.
BGngar W a filing ton the win
ter (;f 1802-3,1 talked with fome
mtmbeis of congress on the
fubjelt, particularly with Mr.
Bi eckenridge, lcnator from Ken
tucky, the fame per lon who
brought in the bill for repeal
ing John Adams’s judiciary law,
and the midnight appointments
made in confiquence of it,—
1 his repeal saved the country
thirty-two thou[and dollars annu
ally , b( fide s treeing it from aa
intended judiciary despotism.
I spoke to him of the propri
ety of congress appointing a
committee* or by fome other
method as they might think
proper, to enquire into the con
duit of the former admvniftra
tion, that of John Adams, and
to call upon him to produce the
information whether official or
ocherwife, winch he went up
on, if he had any, for put
ing the country to luch vast
texpence, under the idea, real,
or pretended, of an invasi
on from France. This would
be giving John Adams a . fair
chance of clearing himlclf, if he
coulcl, from the fulyicion that
h a a iminiftration was a grols
unp-cfition on tiie public ; and
c n the other hand, it the impo
fmon fbould be proved, it
would enlighten the country,
and put it on its guard against
future impc;filions.
Mr. Breckenridge agreed with
me in the 1 ropr c.y and ::::ids
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