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

From the Aurora.

THE following extract from Duane has lain by us for several weeks. As for the proposed purchase of Callender, by Mr. Livingston, we challenged Duane to appeal to five persons, who were publicly named, and who well knew the situation of C. at that time. Duane answers that he does not know where to find these people, and that his own word is sufficient. We shall give this self-recorded house-breaker a longer hearing, as soon as we have balanced accompts with his paymaster, the President. In the mean time, we insert the following upon this principle. It shall never be said that Callender kept a piece out of the Recorder which was wrote against himself, because HE DID NOT KNOW HOW TO GIVE IT AN ANSWER.

With regard to Callender, he never was respected by, nor obtained the confidence of the republican party; a few individuals, from various causes noticed him; some out of charity; others because, though they disliked his habits,
She respected the talents which produced one of the first political tracts that ever was published, the Political Progress of Great Britain, the whole merit of which was exclusively attributed to him; others upon an after knowledge of his laxity of principle and hatred of his species, pitied him, and hoped that a change in his habits of intemperance might be made by acts of generosity; and some who despaired of his reform, or of his morals, sought to preserve his talents from being prostituted and employed along with Porcupine. It is well known in this city, that such an overture was made, and the mode in which it was defeated, shall at a suitable time be made known. It was on this occasion that being sounded, Callender, said he who pays me best is my best friend. The republicans despised him; they defeated his purchase by Lyon, and they suffered him to sink in his own filth. With what justice Noah's paper can now assert that the tories have never taken a man without integrity up, the constant resort to Callender as authority by the whole round of papers of Bache, can explain. The applause bestowed on him for the most flagrant acts of baseness and ingratitude, must speak. They cannot deny that Callender is as vehemently opposed to the republican party as any tory in the country, equally gross and vulgar as Porcupine, with a double proportion of talent, of baseness of character and ingratitude.