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Editorial
March 12, 1798
Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
What is this article about?
An editorial in The Gazette, Philadelphia, denounces a paragraph from the Aurora newspaper as the work of an enemy to the US, full of falsehoods. It defends the US executive's conduct towards France, rejecting claims of hostility that led to contempt for American envoys in Paris. Key figures include Pickering and Charles Pinckney.
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The Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA
MONDAY EVENING, March 12
The following paragraph which appeared in the Aurora of the 6th instant, is evidently the production of a bitter enemy to the honor and independence of the United States. No American can be the author, it is the work of some imported felon; for all the native jacobins in the Union do not collectively, possess sufficient brass, to have composed and published so many falsehoods in the same compass.
"From the beginning of the present war down to this time, the conduct of our executive has been a series of ill offices towards France. It was not sufficient to reject her advances for a closer union. The declining of such a scheme was proper, perhaps or otherwise. But for the bare proposal, France and her ambassadors have been loaded with as many reproachful paragraphs, essays and letters, as would fill Johnson's folio dictionary. To these, the virulent letter from Pickering to Charles Pinckney and the inflammatory correspondence of Pinckney himself, printed by Congress last summer, we may, in a great measure, ascribe the marked contempt, in which the American envoys have been held at Paris."
PHILADELPHIA
MONDAY EVENING, March 12
The following paragraph which appeared in the Aurora of the 6th instant, is evidently the production of a bitter enemy to the honor and independence of the United States. No American can be the author, it is the work of some imported felon; for all the native jacobins in the Union do not collectively, possess sufficient brass, to have composed and published so many falsehoods in the same compass.
"From the beginning of the present war down to this time, the conduct of our executive has been a series of ill offices towards France. It was not sufficient to reject her advances for a closer union. The declining of such a scheme was proper, perhaps or otherwise. But for the bare proposal, France and her ambassadors have been loaded with as many reproachful paragraphs, essays and letters, as would fill Johnson's folio dictionary. To these, the virulent letter from Pickering to Charles Pinckney and the inflammatory correspondence of Pinckney himself, printed by Congress last summer, we may, in a great measure, ascribe the marked contempt, in which the American envoys have been held at Paris."
What sub-type of article is it?
Foreign Affairs
Partisan Politics
What keywords are associated?
Us France Relations
Executive Policy
Aurora Criticism
Pickering Letter
American Envoys
Jacobins
What entities or persons were involved?
Aurora
France
Us Executive
Pickering
Charles Pinckney
American Envoys
Paris
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Defense Of Us Executive Policy Towards France
Stance / Tone
Strongly Defensive Of Executive, Accusatory Towards Aurora And Jacobins
Key Figures
Aurora
France
Us Executive
Pickering
Charles Pinckney
American Envoys
Paris
Key Arguments
Aurora Paragraph Is By A Bitter Enemy To Us Honor
No American Could Author Such Falsehoods
Native Jacobins Lack The Audacity For It
Us Executive's Conduct Not A Series Of Ill Offices Towards France
Reproachful Writings Against France's Proposals Do Not Justify Contempt For Envoys