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Editorial March 17, 1798

Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

What is this article about?

Editorial from Porcupine's Gazette denounces criminals fleeing to America who continue disrupting society, specifically targeting James Callender and Benjamin Bache of the Aurora for abusing public figures and promoting Callender's book. Includes a certificate refuting claims of election intimidation by Levi Hollingworth and accuses Bache of lying and equivocating.

Merged-components note: Single editorial piece criticizing Benjamin Franklin Bache and James Thomson Callender, continued across components.

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It is observable that those villains who are fortunate enough to cheat the gallows, and thus escape the just punishment of their crimes in the old world, by flying to the new, instead of being wrought upon to penitence and an inoffensive course of life, forever, and ever after continue, the most refractory and incorrigible disturbers of the public peace; and thus show that they are enemies to all governments whatever, and plainly prove that justice has not had its due.

A reprobate of this class is at present in the employ of an infamous printer, and through the channel of his impure and scandalous Gazette, is following his European occupation, that of abusing, in the foulest language, every person of honor in public life, especially those whom the people of this country have distinguished by the highest ceremonies of their confidence.

Callender, since he has taken the superintendence of the Aurora, has transformed it into an advertiser of his vile and abominable trash, which he calls the History of the United States.

From Porcupine's Gazette.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, that Levi Hollingworth never did previous to the election, endeavour to intimidate me to vote for Benjamin R. Morgan, by threatening to turn me out of his house, or by threats of any kind, that the conversation which took place between him and me, was after the poll was closed; that I do not think he deserves the epithet of an overbearing, unprincipled landlord, having lived seven years in his house, and having always experienced conduct from him, that was kind and generous.

ANDREW BURKHARD.
Philadelphia. March 10, 1798.

Mr. BACHE,

That a publication in your paper of this morning, without signature, contains one among the numerous lies that have disgraced its sheets, and you as its editor, the preceding certificate evinces so obviously as to require no comment.

TRUTH.

A copy of the above certificate, and the observation Signed truth, were left at Mr. Bache's on Saturday, with a request that he would publish them, and that he would inform the name of the person who he positively asserts, voted contrary to his opinion, lest he should be deprived of the means of support.
The writer of this called again on Mr. Bache to-day, to learn the venal voter's name, this he could not give, and in the conversation which ensued, his mean, contemptible equivocation left no room to doubt of his being the author of the lie.

Such are the means by which this base editor endeavours to support his party. Such are the assertions by which he has rendered himself the oracle of the Jacobins, and by which he has become an object of the detestation of every unprejudiced mind.

AN AMERICAN
Philadelphia March 12, 1798.

What sub-type of article is it?

Partisan Politics Press Freedom Moral Or Religious

What keywords are associated?

Partisan Press Attacks Election Lies Jacobin Editors Voter Intimidation Refutation Slanderous Gazette

What entities or persons were involved?

Callender Benjamin Bache Levi Hollingworth Andrew Burkhard Porcupine's Gazette Aurora Jacobins

Editorial Details

Primary Topic

Attack On Benjamin Bache And The Aurora For Slander And Lies

Stance / Tone

Vituperative Criticism Of Jacobin Press And Editors

Key Figures

Callender Benjamin Bache Levi Hollingworth Andrew Burkhard Porcupine's Gazette Aurora Jacobins

Key Arguments

Criminals Escaping Punishment In Europe Continue As Disturbers In America Callender Abuses Honorable Public Figures Through The Aurora Aurora Advertises Callender's Vile History Of The United States Certificate Proves Hollingworth Did Not Intimidate Voter Bache Publishes Unsigned Lies About Election Intimidation Bache Equivocated And Refused To Reveal Source, Proving His Authorship Of The Lie Bache Supports His Party Through Base Means And Jacobin Assertions

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