The Recorder

FROM THE BALTIMORE GAZETTE.

When the strong coincidence in the principles and views of Tom Paine and Mr. Jefferson were pointed out in this gazette a few short weeks past, the inflamed zeal of their partizans urged them to take an essay of their influence upon this press; and had it existed as much upon their wills as on the independence of its editors, the Federal Gazette would be now no more. What then gave them so much offence, we believe some of them now view in a different light, and were it not childishly deemed a want of consistency by them, they would frankly avow it. They fully perceive that all things had been predicted before Paine's arrival, has since, to the shame of Mr. Jefferson, been completely verified. His flagrant and Billingsgate attack, while seated at the elbow of the president, upon the hoary-headed and venerable Adams, now in retirement, justly depicts to them the villainy of the one and the vindictive malice of the other. It will be vain for Mr. Jefferson to attempt to separate himself in the eye of the world from the ostensible author of this wanton and inhuman philippic in his paper. We saw his paper, because to him only may be ascribed the origin of the official paper at Washington. We shall not take into account the sycophantic servility of its editor, under the show of intimacy with the president: or that close connexion which has been known to subsist between the latter and the calumniating insidious scribbler. What would the revilers of Mr. Adams have said; what would the world have said, had he taken to his table, caressed with the enthusiasm of Jefferson, and patronized with liberality, the editor of Porcupine's Gazette? But even this is not a parallel; and the pursuit is quixotry, if we strive to find in the annals of united folly and wickedness, its equal in malice, cruelty and crime. The world shall not accuse us of partiality. Mr. Jefferson's two writers shall have fair play. Of Mr. Cullender's writings, he has been pleased to say, that "they could not fail to have the best effect." Thus probably said the same of Tom Paine's, at least he has "prayed" that the infidel might continue his useful labours, and receive his reward in the thankfulness of nations. That he may have an opportunity of deciding which will do the greatest good, a specimen of each is given him in this day's Gazette. In point of decency, it will be granted there is no great odds. Dare his sycophant editors here do the same?