Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

Whether the thinking part of the community in the Northern Liberties, will be satisfied to exchange their churches for taverns, and will cheerfully surrender their wives and daughters to satisfy the lewd cravings of inordinate passion: in the most worthless of mankind, and the most abandoned of their species, is worthy of some consideration. It is true that, district appears to estimate lightly the right of suffrage, if we may judge from the election of characters they have already made to represent them in the present and approaching Congress of the United States; in what moral point of view the characters of these representatives would merit to be considered, could with more accuracy have been ascertained, had the legal proceedings instituted: in certain cases been brought to issue. The literary or political talents of Blair were always considered beneath mediocrity, if, indeed, there was any gradation upon the scale of learning sufficiently minute to designate his precise situation; and with respect to the other, we should have had much more certain data to proceed upon, had not private interest, which often outweighs public good, and, as the world sometimes imagines, election interest, exerted in favor of the present sheriff, been the cause why a certain action, about which he made much noise previous to his election, been suffered to sleep upon the docket.