The Daily Advertiser

The above attack on the Printer of this Paper is intended to introduce a personal controversy with him, and call off the public attention from a most infamous attempt to impose upon the Citizens of New-York, and to assist a base and designing character in the most nefarious practices; the subject matter of which has been the town-talk for several days, and very justly excited general indignation: But this is too stale a trick to be of any service to Mr. Greenleaf. And, besides, all politics are out of the question.

His proper business was to remove the stigmas that were fixed upon him by two Pieces in our Paper of Saturday last; from his silence on that head, we are to suppose, that "through multiplicity of business he had forgotten it"; and the charges are left against him in full force.

He did so once before, with respect to some news said to be brought from Virginia by an honorable gentleman; as if the standing rule of his conduct was to shuffle, and to evade. He intimates that our intention was to "invalidate his reputation, destroy his credit, and hurt his interest." we know not that he possesses either reputation, credit, or interest; but this we know, that he is an object only of our pity and contempt, and that we feel ourselves dishonored by being brought in contact with him. We never refuse Pieces which detect villainy, even in a Printer; and notwithstanding his mean artifice in attempting to change his object of attack, and infamous scurrility in conducting it, if he can, with decency and truth, exculpate himself, we shall, even yet, to evidence the strictness of our regard to justice, allow him the opportunity of that general and extensive circulation for his defence, which the same sense of duty gave to the charges exhibited against him.