Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.

MR. FENNO,

IN your paper of yesterday I read this sentence
in a piece signed a Federalist:

"Here we might offer exculpatory remarks con-
cerning the dispositions, which a concurrence of
circumstances like these might naturally excite in the
bosom of Secretary Jefferson; perhaps we might
fully establish his Merit on the occasion."

Tho' this very studied sentence is artfully couch-
ed in the ambiguous, cautious, and appropriate lan-
guage of the writer, enough is said to discover a
timid willingness to become the apologist of Mr.
Jefferson, and to vindicate his conduct, in reference
to Genet's intrigues. That this is the design of
the writer is explained by his introducing the Pro-
clamation of the king of England against France,
and the order of 6th November, against our com-
merce, immediately previous to his remark, which
he begins with "Here we might offer," &c. refer-
ring the exculpation of Mr. Jefferson on those facts.

Why does not this writer come boldly out and vin-
dicate his favorite? The public would be instructed
by his exculpatory remarks, and delighted at
the same time with the ingenuity of a writer ca-
pable of justifying the conduct of Mr. Jefferson in
July, 1792, by a proclamation and an order, not
issued 'till the October and November following—Let
him be plain and explicit, and if he can prove to
the public satisfaction that any act of a foreign gov-
ernment, however hostile towards us, can justify
our Secretary of State in surrendering to a foreign
agent our self government and independence, then
it will be acknowledged, to borrow the expressions
of the writer, "that the opponents of Mr. Jeffer-
"son have unconsciously steeped their pens in the
"acidulated gall of self deceiving prejudice."

This writer affects to speak well of Mr. Pinckney,
who is understood, he tells us, to be set up by the
friends of Mr. Adams; and that no objections have
been made to him by the antifederal and jacobin par-
ty; for very good reasons, because they dare not
make any objections to that virtuous and distinguished
citizen; it is true that the friends of order and
good government and self government have set up
Mr. Pinckney with Mr. Adams and that the friends
of Jefferson can say nothing against him: but does
not this writer, who is in the secrets of the other
party, know that they don't intend to vote for
him, that their ticket is Jefferson and Burr, and
that this was agreed upon at a meeting of the par-
ty just before the rising of Congress?

AN ENQUIRER.