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THE LOUISVILLE GAZETTE.
Vol. I.j E S D A Y, November 1799. [Xo. 4^.
JfFjSSOVs/\'P TRUTH IMPERIL,I. OG. -/7/,v ir.,T. 7
GEORGIA, LOUISVILLE, i übiilhed every iuelday, by AMBROSE UA V, at j doiiais pei aun. pa) able bait yearly.
From the Newark Ccntmel.
Men may h entered, but prin
ciples CANNOT.
Be it remembered, t liar Luther,
Baldwin b*s been prorecutedj
and fined i3O dollars cods and j
expences, P5O fo> fp-aVing fedi-;
tious words, in the whole 400'
dollars. V/e wi*l (late the fuels
with tegard £0 the time and place
where thefe words were utteied :
Some time in June, 1798,
Piefident Adams was pa (Ting
through this town, on his way
to the call ward : Luther Bald
win happening to becoming
towards [ohn Barnet's dram
(hop, a perfon that was there
fays to Luther, there goes the
Piefident, and they are firing
at his a—: Luther a little mer
ry, replies, that he did not care
if they fired through his a— : 1
then exclaims the dram feller, 1
that is (edition —a confiderable
colle&ion gathered—and the
prfetended fedeialids, being!
much diLppoinied, that the
prefident 1 ad no f (lopped that
they might have had the honor
of killing his hand, bent his 1
malice on poor I ufher, and the*
cry was, that he mud be punllii- 1
ed, he rnud be puniffied.
this he has fa len a (acnfice thro*'
the means of tines or four ty
rants of this town. Of couife
it is evident, that nothing is
warning but power with them
to peifecute and tread under,
foot all thole that refufe to be ’
duped into their meafures.
Q>iere. Of what materials
mull a man be compofed, that
will become a voluntary inform
er agdnft another for a mere ex-
p r e(lion, drawn from him when
in liquor, that did not injure any
one’s perfon or property, and
hv that means ru n a man and
dilbefs his family, tv ho # has
unce publicly declared that he
f'he Laid L ither) was a good
citizen, an hum li man, a f i*»nd
[° his cou! t’v, find m.an; no
harm in whn he i ti id ? Sarh in
con fi (lender we will leave for
the Public o rec> nc : ’?, for wc
confefs them dark to us,
LUTHER UA EDWIN,
When wi heai l that Luther
BiLwm w„s ind.acd for fedi
we f u. poied tlutuc had
? n S u,|( y of fomethine crimi
. His ‘Hal has developed
e circumftances on which he
as reen f oun d guilty, and fen
. . d t 0 a heavy fine,
£ " n e confefs ,h!t oul
or, , ma ' ment has been exceffive
« 'jP* ‘he peculiarity of the
r t r ns - for which fo formal
ttul laflim-ed. 1
This prnfecution cannot fad
of cor vincing every republican
of the extraordinary malignancy
of the federal faction, when cog
nizance is taken of lu.h a rid 1-
j culoti' exprelfion, as that uttered
jby Baldwin in the moment ol
, intox’cation. Ihr poor trur
jis confign d; prubablv* to ruin
for what he (poke perhaps as a
jefl. Tan the mod enthufiaftic
fed era! ifS s or toii* s fu ppofc 1 hat
thefe who a e oppofed to them
would feel any giatiftcation in
firing at fuch a dilgufling ta-rct
o o 00
as the of ). A. but we
c n recoiled the day when many
of the gentry would have had
no objefli n, but would have
been pleafed could they have
an opportunity topra&ife
a little in that way, as the pop
ping at lurh an obnoxious cha
ra£ler wou’d have been thehigh
-1 cfl recommendation for a forv
to the favor of a Henry Clintuu
or a Robin Ton.
We feel the utrroff aukward
nels in dwelling on luch an af-
Tair, and we fuppofe that no
court nor jurv would wifh to be
■trrubled with deciding upon
j fuch a prosecution ; hut we view
this trial in the mod leu jus
point, a> it tends to exhibit a
1 melancholy fpecimen ot the rage
of faction, . ud is an additional
in (lance that America has but
too many of thofe wretched
tools who. for the fake of a lit
tle patronage, we need not add
’a little pelf, would faenfice a
neighbour, and at the fame time
know him to be a good citizen,
an honed man, and a frLnd to
his country.
What opinion will the people
of Europe form on reading the
particulars of this curious tiial
in our pape»s ? Many rovalifts
will be p. ea 1». * 1 at Cue citoua**
dance, as evincing that the caufe
might yet fucceed in this coun
try. Many a Brhon will fay,
f hat 1# believes that the prefident
of lae Jnited Strips is treated
with as much icfpefl as a king,
and that perfons fpeaking con
empruouily of him are punidicd
in a fimilar way, as fuch peifons
o o.fending againd the king
would be in England.
COMMUNICATION.
As a number of your papers
are circulated in this town, and
are read with greater avidity,
on account of the tiouble there
is often to procure them at the
pofl office. I beg leave through
your medium to publifh a con
veifation I inadvertently over
heard at a tavern between two
lot the inhabitants, concerning
the mod eligible peifon f( r co
roner, as the clcdlion is approach
' ,n g 1—
One of the two. who was
rather eldeily* piopofcd the
dram-fdie r % the celehiated ohn
burner, as a man who dclcrvecl
any o' 7 re, which the people of
jiliac iown could beUuw on him,
I and he the?' pto r ourcfd the
jfirongefl encomium on that
uonhy zvight, the princip I fca
jture of which was that he h d
.the courage to become i n in
-1 i i . * i r
i• o• 11ic i, »*. tii e .cti u lays
( his eulogid, it icquiies no little
courage to fucceed in fnch a
I way, as in the firfl place, he had
to overcome all his own feelings,
; and to turn a deaf ear to all the
| tender hearted peifons, who
| thought it a pity to punifh fnch
lan aged man as Luther laid
,vvin, whole hoary bed would
p°rhips excite compadion n the
breads of thole p< ople ralhd
phi'anthroDhifis; bi the nob y
peifeve?ed in profecuting the old
fellow for daring to utter Inch a
contemptuous exprefhon ( f our
beloved prefident, whom every
one knows is one of the bell of
men. and tfrrk God. wo have
(i>cw n the cuilcu Ucmuciatr that
we will Irf none of them Ipeak
ddrelpedltully of any par* of
that dear man.
The old fellow ceaftd, and his
friend replied that certainly the
grog mccfiinr had done tht 'ede
rahlls a gicat benefit by irdoim
ing agamll Padwm and to tell
the truth, he had rather Jack
fhould have been the irfoimei
than himfejf, as he would be
lorry to be the caufe of di fit effing
fuch an old man and his family.
1 ha.t many perlons wwc of the
fame opinions, and th it until
the afT ir was fo’xotieanother
perfon ought to he pmpofc i as
candidate, and then mentioned
that John I (lord, the m"j\r bra
vador was the fitted peifioi in
the town (bin for that c! ice ;
that no federa ifl whatfoner
would take a gieater p ea'n e in
fitting over th p bodv of adi mo
cut, wJvm ihc fplinier of a piazza
might have :na Je quiet.
I hc old mm replied, tin t he
had no objection to I (Ford, but
as the one fie propofed had
nfqued fo much for the f i j of
i\ liial iic tu o .u iu Lc re
warded.
Oh ! N T ewarkes, veu may
boafl of having dripped the
dritiih crown of its American
jetvels ; you may bo dl of your
•iberty, but Lam th it a Jlnlifh
fubjecl m v fpe k of the king's,
head, and remember that a man
is punifhed for fpeaking of the j
prefideat’s a— ♦ 1
4. W
• ; Britifh Kner.gr ! ! /
It has been announced that
I Janies v arper Tandy, the cclc
: hiared Inlh patriot, has been
( delivered up by the fenate of
ij I lain! u»gh, to his vinditlivc
1 1 enemy, the H itilb government,
: We hu})e tire report is not true,
hut we tear that the government
_ o
of that city has rot fufficicnt
magnanimity to rrfift the im
ponuidihs of (hat infamous,
blood thri If v, and lavage tyran*
ny, wh cli treads down the lnlii
nrttion beneaih its feet.
Kobdpierre, the cruel, tyran
nicnl F old pie ne, Would appear
amiable, when compared with
the Bihifli government, Exe
crable as that man's character
was,- he* never pci Termed the
emigrants or royahfls with that
per leveling malice, with which
aPi t has purfird the liifh re
publicans. lie never requited
i any government in Fu opc to
1 deliver up even the traitors who
( had betrayed their truths, nor
lias any preccdir g or fable quenC
admiral) ration in Trance de
manded the (mrendering up tf
the in/amous Dutumrier,
It through die influence of
France the emigrants were at
. dillerent rirrus ordered by the
• governments, where they rc Hdcd
to remove from their teirilori s,
; V ct the perfons of none of them
were ever demanded; but it
remained for the B itifJi court,
a« lifnal, to fhrw the rru fl de-
I rc liable example of implacable
revetge, which the blood of
thoufands of victims could not
, t latisly, but requires the further
. | (aenfree ol an aped, rcfpt&ablo
i man whole greatcll crime is
jdr it he ioveci his country too
j wed, for hi* own peace and h. p
pinels.
A ll ocious men may extirgu ilh
a life wbic fi has been devoted lo
the (civire cf his ccuntrv men,
but they cannot rob him of his
fame, of that veneration, love
and rrfpcft whicli every honed
jlrilhman and every friend to
liberty throughout the globe wo I
cherilh lor the mem' ry of tins
| admirable man ; admirable, b* -
caufe o d age could not cool his
enthi.di dm nor prevent him from
c deavoring to change tire de
p orabie htuation of his coun
try, a- dto ameliorate the woes
and fullcrings of her opprcll d
1 cl ill l/en.
Triumphant villainy '‘r.n ne
ver forgive the honefl individual,
who has fuffi CI ent v irti e to o?*-
pofe irs nefarious dcflgn- ; and
too of en arc we difgufleJ vvtt.'i
iieeing the balcll minions of ar
bitiary pjry.vcr immolating the
1 worthy and the brave to leone
i their ufurpatioiis, but although
