Jenks's Portland Gazette

The Jacobins tell us that Mr. Jefferson is abused. Inquire correctly, and it will be found that Mr. Jefferson has abused himself. Reflect that he paid for the publication of slanders against Washington, Adams, &c. yes, rank naked falsehoods; that he patronized, while it served his turn, the man who pronounced Washington to be a, "poltroon," and Adams a scoundrel;" that he now patronizes a man who has escaped from the arm of British justice, and who has a knowledge of stolen letters, and who-(the pen almost refuses to trace the words which must chill the feeling heart with horror)-and who declared, that "had not Washington left town at the time he did, (which was rather unexpected to D) he would have shot him!" Oh monstrous! He was determined, it appears, to render himself notorious by some means or other. But had the assassin ventured into the presence of that great and good man; he would have been so overawed that his trembling fingers could never have drawn the trigger; his frame had been palsied; and his dark soul had recoiled into itself, as it did before that august body, the Senate, when he was brought up for a libel.-- Say now, does not Mr. Jefferson, abuse himself by keeping such characters about him? How degrading!

[Gaz. U. S.]

It is said that Mr. Jefferson more deeply than ever deplores the "lacerations of the Press," and the "oceans of calumny with which it has been thought expedient to overwhelm his name." -He must blame himself alone for these things.

Notwithstanding the oceans of vile calumny, with which he thought it expedient, through the instrumentality of his organ, Callender, and his bag pipe, Duane, to overwhelm the names of Washington, Hamilton, Adams and all those who administered the government, the federal republicans, at his accession to the Presidency, proffered a flag of truce and would willingly have buried the past in oblivion upon the terms which he proposed in his inaugural speech.--But he instantly commenced a system of tyrannical proscription unheard of in a free country. He insultingly invited to our shores the most odious man alive, and called to one of the highest offices in government a foreigner who had instigated an insurrection against the laws.

After all this, his fitness for the confidence of the people ought to be known, and unless he voluntarily retires (as it is thought he will) before another election, it shall be known. We have long been in possession of an anecdote which would settle this business. We find by paragraphs in several papers, that others are also in possession of it. Let the friends of Mr. Jefferson look to it, and give him prudent counsel, if they wish his character should continue to be treated with a delicacy which it does not deserve.

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