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JAMES THOMPSON CALLENDER. 835

a distinet and additional evidence that he was determined at all
events to embroil this country with France.” And also the false,
scandalous, and malicious words, of the tevor and effect following,
that is to say, “Mx, Adams (meaning the said President of the United
States) has only completed the scene of ignominy which Mr. Wash-
ington began.” And also the false, seandalous, and malicious words
of the tenor and effect following, ‘that is to sey, “This Inst presi-
dential (meaning the asid President of the United States) felony
will be buried by Congress in the said Criminal silenee as its prede-
cessors.” And also, the words of the false, scandalous, and malicious
tenor and effect following, that is to say, “Foremost in whatever is
detestable, Mr. Adams (meaning the said President of the United
States) feels anxiety to curb the frontier population.” And also the
false, seandalous, and malicious words of the tenor and effect fol~
lowing, that is to say, “He (meaning the said President of the United
States) was a professed aristocrat; he (meaning the said President of
the United States) had proved faithful and serviceable to the British
interest (inuendo against the interest and welfare of the United States).
‘And also the false, scandalous, and malicious words of the tenor and
effect following, that is to say, “Thus we see the genuine character
of the President (meaning the said President of the United States)
when but in a secondary station, he (meaning the said President of
the United States) censured the funding system, when at the head of
affairs, he (meaning tho said President of the United States) re-
verses all his former principles. He (meaning the said President of
the United States) exerts himself (meaning the said President of
the United States) to plunge his (meaning the said President’s)
country (meaning the United States of Amerie) into the most ex-
pensive and roinous establishments. In the two first years of his
{meaning the said President of the United States) presidency, he
(ineaning the said President of the United States) has contrived pre~
tences to double the annual expense of government, by useless fleets,
armies, sineeures, and jobs of every possible description.” And also
the false, soandatous, and malicious words, of the teaor and effect
following, that is to say, “By sending these ambassadors to Paris,
Mr, Adams (meaning the said President of the United States) and
his (meaning the said President) British faction, designed to do
nothing but mischief” And also the false, scandalous, and malicious
words, of the tenor and effect following, that is to say, “In that
paper, with all the cowardly insolence arising from his’ (meaning
the said President) assurance of personal safety, with all the fury,
but without the propriety or sublimity of Homer's Achilles, this
hoary headed incendiary (meaning the President of the United
States), this libeller (meaning the said President) of the governor
of Virginia, bawls out to arms! then to arms! It was floating upon
the fame bladder of popularity that Mr. Adams (meaning the said
President of the United States) threatened to make this city the
eentrieal point of a bonfire.” And also the false, scandalous, and
malicious words, of the tenor and effect following, that is to say,
“Reader, dost thon envy that unfortunate old man (meaning the said

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