The Recorder, Or, Lady's And Gentleman's Miscellany

From the Newark Gazette

MORE OF MR. GILES.

IT is in the occurrences of private life, that the true character of individuals is developed; for, when under the eye of the public, every man will endeavour to put on a fair outward appearance; and thus we frequently see that the demagogue, who, when courting power from the people, is (or pretends to be) the disinterested patriot-- the sincere friend!-- the honest and benevolent man in every public assembly, is, in his private concerns, a selfish being, devoid of every generous sentiment not connected with his interest--- a faithless friend---a designing hypocrite. Of this stamp, appears to be the immaculate Mr. William Branch Giles, the mouth-piece of the democratic party in congress.* We shall cite the following instance to prove him so; Mr. Giles told James T. Callender, that a certain person, (opposed to them in politics) had committed a crime. This intelligence Callender published; confident as Mr. Giles was the author, and would be benefited thereby, that he would shield him from any prosecution that might be lodged against him in consequence. Callender was accordingly prosecuted, and when the trial came on, although subpoenaed, Mr. Giles very prudently kept himself aloof, and suffered poor Callender to be imprisoned for a great length of time, for publishing reports of which he was the author, and which honor, justice, humanity, and every stimulus that would urge an honest man to do another justice, compelled him to be answerable for---So much for this all-worshipped patriot of the new school.