American Watchman And Delaware Advertiser

A PLAIN CASE.

We have never, says the Aurora, seen a writer more completely punished by his own malign perversity, than the writer under the signature of 'Native Virginian.' No man open to fair and dispassionate reasoning, could have refused to accept the explanation of Mr. Jefferson's first letter; but it seems, that though bred a lawyer, his heart was too open and free from suspicion, to guard against the cavils of a pettifogger; and political justice has no cause to regret his exemption from this vicious disposition; his candor afforded the temptation, by which the accuser was more deeply committed and convicted: at first, the reproach of the calumny might have rested upon the obscurity or the negligence of accountants; but in the ultimate course, the writer had neither the good sense nor the prudence to resist the malignity of his passions—and now he stands doubly detected. No confidence can be reposed in a writer capable of such dishonest and uncandid conduct. Nothing that he can say—or that can be said for him, can have any other effect, than to sink him & his abettors in deeper contempt and common discredit.