American Politics and Government

CHEETHAM AND HIS TORY PAPER. from the Public Advertiser (New York), September 26, 1807. CHEETHAM is frequently giving symptoms of being the successor of Cullen, alias Carpenter, as Cullen was the successor of Cobbett, alias Porcupine. Like him he is seeking to involve the United States in a quarrel with France for the benefit of […]

THOS. PAINE, To MORGAN LEWIS, ON HIS PROSECUTION OF MR. FARMAR, FOR ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS DAMAGES from the Public Advertiser (New York), April 14, 21, 1807; and the pamphlet Misc. Letters, Essays compiled by R. Carlile, 1819. THE proud integrity of conscious rectitude fears no reproach, and disdains the mercenary idea of damages. It

OF GUN-BOATS. from the Public Advertiser (New York), March 11, 1807. A gun-boat, carrying heavy metal, is a movable fortification; and there is no mode or system of defense the United States can go into for coasts and harbors or ports, that will be so effectual as by gun-boats. Ships of the line are no

Of the term "Liberty of the Press" from the American Citizen, October 20, 1806. THE writer of this remembers a remark made to him by Mr. Jefferson concerning the English Newspapers, which at that time, 1787, while Mr. Jefferson was Minister at Paris, were most vulgarly abusive. The remark applies with equal force to the

From the original pamphlet of 1805. THOMAS PAINE TO THE CITIZENS OF PENNSYLVANIA ON THE PROPOSAL FOR CALLING A CONVENTION I resided in the capital of your State (Philadelphia) in the "time that tried men's souls," and all my political writings, during the Revolutionary War, were written in that city, it seems natural for me

Another Callender — THOMAS TURNER OF VIRGINIA — No. I from the American Citizen, July 23 & 24, 1805. Federalism and blackguardism are synonimous terms. A man of Virginia who signs himself Thomas Turner (if any body knows him) has written a letter to some nobody or other in Massachusetts (if any body knows such

Of Constitutions, Governments, & Charters. from the American Citizen, June 6, 1805. THE people of Pennsylvania are, at this time, earnestly occupied on the subject of calling a convention to revise their state constitution, and there can be but little doubt that a revision is necessary. It is a constitution, they say, for the emolument

from the Aurora, September 22, 1804 A publication having the appearance of a memorial and remonstrance, to be presented to Congress at the ensuing session, has appeared in several papers. It is therefore open to examination, and I offer you my remarks upon it. The title and introductory paragraph are as follows: "To the Congress

From the Aurora in Philadelphia of August 7, 1804: REMARKS *On Governeur Morrisis funeral oration on general Hamilton. The quotations from the oration are taken from Cheetham's N. York country paper, the Watch-Tower, of July 18. AS Governeur Morris is fond of criticizing others, he becomes a fair object for criticism himself. Give and take

Philip Foner's introduction: Monroe was recalled from France on August 22, 1796 by President Washington who had been influenced by Gouverneur Morris, still in Europe, to believe that the American Minister to France had attacked the American chief executive and was organizing an anti-Washington conspiracy among Frenchmen. On his return to the United States, in