The Kentucky Gazette

There is not a single truth better substantiated, than that arrogance and vanity are the most inveterate enemies of reason, and wherever they have intruded themselves on a man's sensorium, reason has fled from its residence which nature originally intended it should inhabit ; and that you possess both, Mr. Sidney, to an extreme, needs no other proof, than a review of your late addresses to the people of this state, and to Kentucky. You are indeed one of the most pitiful scribblers that has yet attempted to impose himself on the world as a man of science, you have charged me with having fled from the subject, and avoided an investigation-are you serious Mr. Sidney, or do you think that the world will be satisfied with your assertions without examining what the subject was? if this should not be the case, what will be its opinion? have you first pointed out the merits of that constitution which is the bone of contention ? you have not, you have roundly asserted that the powers so congenial to our liberties were wisely distributed, and although this is the only instance where you touched the subject itself. you either have willfully misstated or else have proved yourself to be, that which your arrogance induced you to accuse another with,-a child in politics: because there is not a constitution within the United States. that has confined the origin of all bills to the house of representatives, when it has given to the senate a concurrent power to legislate : so far from having fled from the ground of investigation, I have taken the same ground on which you rested:-I have stript your scarecrows of their garments of folly. and exposed them to the world in their naked state ;-and in doing this, I have strictly complied with my duty as a citizen--I have exercised a right guaranteed to me by the constitution of this state, and which is paramount to any citizen's thereof.-But you mr. sidney, was prompted by your vanity to exercise the same, before the constitution had even recognized you as a citizen, or at least, a few days after.-You have told us, that the public mind was too much convulsed at that time, to decide on a subject of its importance: twenty two hundred and forty-seven citizens, have since by their example contradicted the assertion. You have said a reform was unnecessary, thirteen hundred and sixty seven of the same citizens, none of whom is less interested, and the greater part of them at least, as respectable as yourself, have, by their votes, declared the necessity of the measure.- them you have however, distinguished by the opprobrious appellations of babbling tribe , or declamatory party: what insolence, mr. Sidney :-are these the fruits of your coolness and deliberation? are we in them to discover the exalted statesman and philosopher? if so, you may satisfy your vanity; -you shall remain undisturbed in the possession of these titles-no rational man will envy you the enjoyment of them,-but sir, they are the children of that mountebank hero, whose parts you have so boldly displayed in your last address,-they are the offspring of your vanity. Unfortunately for you mr. Sidney. the public have already decided on the merits of our cause, and in their decision they left you nothing to hope-yes Algernon Sidney's, cool and dispassionate nonsense is condemned, and still you are incapable of receding from opposition, this proves beyond contradiction, what I suggested in my former address, that you are

Peyton
it mr. Sidney something is deranged, whether it happened by a bruise against that British rock of stability,