The Recorder, Or, Lady's And Gentleman's Miscellany

This Aegis, which was quoted at length in last Recorder, and to which we shall again reply in our next, was set up, not long since, at Worcester in Massachusetts. Its founder and promoter is Levi Lincoln, attorney general of the United States. This is the man who calls himself a lawyer, and who at the same time, says that public money does not become public property, by being collected from the people. At any time previous to its being placed in the treasury, the president may order it to be paid back to the persons from whom it was collected. A doctrine like this is too absurd for criticism.

The Aegis is conducted by one Mr. Blake, of whom we know nothing but that he is very ignorant, very stupid, and often very scurrilous. If Sally, the coast of Guinea wench, had not been sufficient, by her own weight, for sending Jefferson to the bottom, two such defenders as Blake and Cheetham would have dispatched the business. They have taken a ground which is indefensible, and from which they cannot fail to be driven. They declare that, if certain facts can be proved, they will give up the President. Some of these facts have already been proved; and others will be proved in a few days. Thus, Mr. Jefferson, like an old Roman, falls upon the point of his own sword. -What agonies of shame and consternation must the president feel at seeing himself so wretchedly defended! Never did such pangs of terror convulse his bosom, since the day when that heroic Governor of Virginia fled from Charlottesville to hide himself in Carter's Mountain! The dagger of truth has struck his character through the heart! He dies at the first blow!