The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

FEDERAL MISREPRESENTATION
No. XXVII.

FROM THE CENTINEL OF FREEDOM.

The following paragraph is copied from the Newark Gazette of last week for the publication of which, the late Governor has commenced an action against John Wallis, the editor of that paper, for a libel and demands one thousand dollars damage:

"When the Democrats found that the Federalists would have an equal number of votes in the joint meeting of the legislature, they could not conceal their chagrin and disappointment; you might know every mother's son of them by the length of his face. Their only resort then was to cozen some of the federal members by their long practised arts. For this purpose they made choice of Col. Isaac Kipp, one of the members from Bergen county, who had been in company with Joseph Bloomfield in the western expedition, as a proper subject. Bloomfield presuming on the latter circumstance, sent Col. Kipp a long letter, congratulated him on his election, renewed their old acquaintance, and in an underhanded way, solicited his vote. The effect of this letter was much calculated upon—the "Centinel of Freedom," has even gone so far as to assert, that Col. Kipp promised to vote for this office beggar. But, alas! all their hopes have been disappointed. The conduct of Col. Kipp has proved him to be too honest to desert the interest of his country—too patriotic to become the tool of their party, and too wise and too firm to be duped by their artifices."

For the truth of the above charge, Col. Kipp has been waited upon, who says it is false in every point of view. He also says that he has not had any communication with Gov. Bloomfield, either verbal or written, since the western expedition, in the year 1794, until after he saw the paragraph in the Gazette; when he called on Gov. Bloomfield, and informed him that he had no knowledge from whence this falsehood arose, as he had never received any such letter.

With what audacity must a man be possessed, who will wantonly invent a LIE, and blazon'd forth to the world against the fair character of the state, charging him with an act, which if true, would go far towards shaking the confidence which the good people of this state have so long reposed in him, and for which he has so faithfully rewarded them. Wallis, not content with openly and unequivocally charging the Governor with writing to Col. Kipp for "his vote," and calling him an "office beggar," but insinuates that he attempted to bribe Col. Kipp.