Rhode Island Republican

OF J. T. CALLENDER.

As this hireling has lately been received among the fraternity of Federal Editors, and as the pages of their prints are adorned with his defence of characters, whose conduct he had formerly been in the habit of contemning, it may not be amiss to inform the public who & what he is:--Callender was an active member of one of the societies in Scotland for effecting a reform in Parliament; and his abilities, and spirited exertions in aiding the cause of liberty, in conjunction with Muir, Margarot, Skirving, Palmer, and others, rendered him so peculiarly obnoxious to government, that he fled from the fangs of his oppressors. America afforded a place of refuge to him--here was a new field of politics in which he took an active part. The administration were treading the beaten track of British policy, and pursuing measures tending to subvert the fundamental principles of Liberty, to a consolidation of the states, and a hidebound aristocracy forming on the ruins of the republic. He bore a conspicuous part in the exposure of such destructive measures: his history of the United States for '06. Sedgwick, and Col. Pickering, will ever give the lie to the damning system of politics that he has lately assumed. For the publication of the "Prospect before us," he underwent a rigorous prosecution, and the result as might be expected, was fine and imprisonment. The noted Riad, lately printer of the Washington Federalist, was the principal evidence against him. When Mr. Jefferson succeeded in the administration he gave him his liberty and remitted his fine: under this new order of things no doubt his expectations were raised to a very high pitch: rumour says, he applied for a place under government as a reward for his services, which was prudently refused him, probably on account of his intemperance. This same man is now editor of "The Richmond Recorder," and is now doing penance for his past transgressions by defending the conduct of those, the atrocity of which he had formerly exposed. Such is the defender of Sedgwick and Pickering. A traitor to his party, an apostate who disposes of his talents to the highest bidder.

True Repub.

With regard to the present of money made by Mr. Jefferson to Callender, it is not improbable that he did bestow, and unasked by Callender, some two dollars, but for what purpose did Callender send the specimen sheets of the magazine--was it merely to compliment a patron, or to solicit pecuniary assistance! Will Callender say that he had not made application for pecuniary aid; that he has not been a constant dependent on the generosity of men, who, while they admired his capacity, despised and shunned the meanness and filth of the wretch, but pitied, and threw away their charity on the man. And this charity to an unfortunate and persecuted wretch, is assumed to be not only complimentary, but the proof of approbation, and the testimony of serious interest in the writings of the individual!