Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

The following previous morceau appeared in the Aurora of this morning.

IMPORTANT.
Extract of a letter from Thomas Paine, dated Paris, July 30, 1796.
[The editor of this paper knows T. Paine's hand writing, and has seen the original, of which the following is a faithful extract.]

John Adams has said (and John, it is known, was always a seller after places and offices, and never tho't his little services were highly enough paid John has said, that as Mr. Washington had no children, the Presidency should be made hereditary in the family of Lund Washington. John might then have counted upon some sinecure for himself, and a provision for his descendants. He did not go so far as to say also, that the Vice-Presidency should be hereditary in the family of John Adams—He prudently left that to stand upon the ground, that one good turn deserves another.*

John Adams is one of those men who never contemplated the origin of government, or comprehended any thing of first principles. If he had, he must have seen, that the right to set up and establish hereditary government never did, nor never can exist in any generation, at any time whatever: that it is of the nature of treason; because, it is an attempt to take away the rights of all the minors living at that time, and of all succeeding generations. It is of a degree beyond common treason. It is a sin against nature. The equal rights of generations, is a right fixed in the nature of things. It belongs to the son when of age, as it belonged to the father before him. John Adams would himself deny the right, that any former deceased generation could have to decree authoritatively a succession of governors over him, or over his children; and yet he assumes the pretended right, treasonable as it is, of

Two persons to whom John Adams said this, told me of it. The secretary of Mr. Jay was present: when it was told me.

acting it himself. His ignorance is his best excuse

John Jay has said (and this John was always the sycophant of every thing in power, from Mr. Girard in America, to Grenville in England John Jay has said, that the Senate should have been appointed for life. He would then be sure of never wanting a lucrative appointment for himself nor have had any fears about impeachments. These are the disguised traitors, that call themselves federalists.