Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

HOW pleasing is the task to snatch from the jaws of persecution the cause of federalism, and place it beyond the reach of the low the groveling wretch, who attempts, to sap its foundation. To expose in their true colors, those who attempt to defame it, is the duty of every American, and real friend to his country.

Monsieur Mulhallon having come forward openly in the face of day, he therefore becomes fair game for every one. He complains that his enemies have circulated a report, that he has become a federalist. Gracious Heaven! is the government of the United States so lenitive as to foster and protect a wretch who has the effrontery to declare that he is its enemy! This hero of Long Island also informs the public, that he, should he even lose his election, will dispute the ground inch by inch, for M'Kean. Bold indeed, and with the weapons of his party, I make no doubt, falsehood, chicanery and intrigue. But his egregious vanity exceeds all : He says, it is false, I am become a federalist. This I believe, for even in a multiplicity of lies there is some truth. The federal party would despise a character so mean and contemptible; he is fit only to be the tool of party, and jackall of faction. Every thinking man will see his drift, and that his declarations give the lie to his principles, for in attempting to impose upon others he has overreached himself: and I trust, there yet remains patriotism sufficient, in the county of Northampton, not to give their suffrages to a man of sentiments so abandoned.

M. Mulhallon, deliberating in his garret, (for geniuses like his love to soar) on the sure means of gaining his election, and considering, that perhaps the majority of the county were anti-federalists, exclaim, I will go and make some warm expressions before characters, whose respectability will not be called in question, respecting M'Kean's election; this will make his friends mine—the office of Ralston afforded a fit opportunity, where four gentlemen were convened. He there thundered out his exclamation, and after considerable trouble, got them to certify the words of John Mulhallon, the candidate for the sheriff's office, I say trouble, for they were the friends of government, and wished not to meddle in dirty business; but his scheme was too shallow, and his plans will undoubtedly be defeated.

It may not be improper to enquire who and what Monsieur Mulhallon is, where he came from, and what he now follows: Mulhallon is by birth an Irishman, and by principles, as far as I can understand from his publication, a united one, that he has spent twenty-five years in the cause of republicanism, I think false, or in 1776, Mulhallon acted as a Lieutenant in a company of militia, was taken at Long Island received a parole—did that which no man of honor would do, broke it, and never was exchanged. If this military act deserves credit, he is entitled to it wholly, for my simple self, I will never court popularity at the expence of honor and integrity. This. I must acknowledge. is the only military atchievement of his I have ever heard of, and would stamp with infamy, any character but one so debased as his.

By fortunate events, which too often await the unworthy, Monsieur Mulhallon now graces the bench of Northampton, as an Associate Judge, every Judge prior to his taking his seat is obliged to swear he will support the constitution of this state, and the constitution of the United States, or in plain words (for fear Mulhallon should not understand) the federal constitution. The man who wears this, were he not a federalist before, must become one. How far Monsieur Mulhallon's declarations agree with this, I leave the world to judge, for my part I think it smells confounded strong of perjury; not that I would accuse his honour for one moment with a crime of this magnitude, but attribute it to forgetfulness.

The citizens of Northampton county will consider well what confidence can be placed in the man who, although twenty years have elapsed, falsified the honour of a soldier, and must have been a disgrace to the corps to which he belonged—and by this act exposing his brother officers, the companions of his danger, to the hardships of a solitary confinement, was it not for his effrontery, humanity would draw a veil over the deed and bury it in eternal oblivion. But you, my fellow citizens, will shew by your suffrages, whether you respect most, integrity and the friends of your country, or give them to a man devoid of all.

A FARMER of '76.