The Daily Advertiser

For the Daily Advertiser

Mr. CHILDS,

Please to insert the following Remarks upon the incorruptible PUBLIC HACKER, HEWER and SQUEEZER.

SHOULD a person, who preferred living by his wits to living by labor, venture to disregard the good old maxim, which says, "The Shoemaker should not quit his Last;" and, by that kind of address and decent assurance, which some might call cunning and effrontery, obtain a good post, the world might admire at his ingenuity.

Should he turn Politician, and undertake to cobble the State---should he bring together, as party-colored and chequered as wampum, a number of common-place quotations from authors of note, on Power, and the People, and Liberty, and Government, and the PUBLIC MONEY, which, dealing out at random, he vainly imagined constituted him a Man of Science, and Statesman; the literary coxcomb, and pedantic ignoramus, might ride his hobby-horse until he broke his neck with downright vain-glory; and mistake the titter of contempt for the smiles of public applause.

Should such a genius (unluckily for him) be placed in a respectable public assembly, and there display his mule-headed ignorance and ill-timed obstinacy, by a fruitless and singular opposition to its general voice, on a matter of great public moment; he would as naturally become the subject of merriment to its members, as of discredit to those he was sent to represent. But should this self-created profound Politician, and immaculate Citizen, after long and loud professions of his INCORRUPTIBLE PATRIOTISM, his great attachment to the liberties of THE PEOPLE, and the ECONOMY OF THEIR FINANCES, fabricate an enormous account; and, on the most destructive principles of calculation, attempt to extort from THE PEOPLE thirty-fold more than his stipulated allowance---should he, with an unparalleled effrontery, insult a whole empire, and, by his conduct, deny that there was either truth or justice in the general cry, of public grievances to be redressed and evils to be removed---should this pretended advocate for THE PEOPLE, with the spirit of an arbitrary Bashaw, and a despotic Tyrant, do his utmost to prevent THE PEOPLE even from deliberating upon a business of the last moment to them---upon the result of the collected wisdom of their SPECIAL Delegates from all the States (except the infamous ONE)----upon the work of long and careful investigation, and agreed to with singular unanimity---I say, should such an arbitrary and avaricious being oppose himself even to THE PEOPLE'S RIGHT OF DELIBERATION, on the present momentous occasion, because it did not suit HIS OWN private, narrow, Selfish views---his name ought to be gibbeted with infamy throughout America, as an IMPOSTOR; who, with the spirit of a Tyrant, profanes with his blistered tongue the sacred word Liberty: and, with loud professions of incorruptible integrity, has exhibited himself to the world as notoriously inflamed with the rapacious spirit of an UNPRINCIPLED PUBLIC PECULATOR.

An Enemy to Impostors.