%\ je (Bajctte. PHILADELPHIA, HURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER ig. 5 R I C E S- OF STOCKS. Philadelphia, August 14. er Cent. ij/B to 8d ,rred 6 per Cent. ee per Cent. -iNK United States, North America, Pcnnfylvania, "jranae comp. N. A. Glares 17J Pennfylvania, jhares, 17 \ per C«nt Stock—funded—» to »4 per cent. adv. • Scrip with the fix Inftaisnents I do. do the Jth and 6th Instalments tde par. Eaft-lndia Company of N. A. par. Land Warrant*, 30 tolls. per 100 acr«». COURSE OF EXCHANGE On London, 51 at 30 days 50- at 60 a 90 days Amsterdam, 35 37 a-100 per florin Hamburgh 30 23 a-100 pcrjvlarlt Banco. APPROACHING election. To the Eleftors of Pen/ifylvania. THE perlonal objections made against Mr. Rofs, are— ift. That he encouraged the spirit of hos tility to the excise law. which terminated in the infurreclion of < 794. 2d. That he is in principle a deist, and fcas contemptuously reviled the chriflian re- ligion. And 3d. That he has been a landed spe culator. The republican committee, after having attempted to repel the'charge of jaCobinism from their candidate, fay. " On this (core let the lioneft members of the federal party examine the condud of the oppolingicandi date, antecedently to the disturbances of 1794, in the western country." As more fcnadalous insinuations could not have been made, it is worthy only of the subtle meaimefs of a Dallas, or the baser cowardice of a Core ; it is an attempt to give a (tab to Mr. Rofs's charader, from which 110 purity could (hield him, and which scarcely any in nocence could cure ; it intimates that he was a traitor, without designating the condud ** V'i-> which is alledged to have made him so, and without thereby enabling his partizans to di (prove the accusation ; and while a bound* less field of calumny is opened for the ma lice ef his enemies to range in, suspicion is instilled into the bosoms of his warmest friends. The afTertion that Mr. Rofs was un friendly to the excise, may poflibly be tr"f- This tax certainly operated -with peculiar hardship upon the irtrffern country, and as evem some degree bialfed by the - local interefls ot the diftrid in which he re sides, so the federal candidate may, from this cause, have been opposed to the original formation of the Jaw. It is impossible too, that when men maintain the independence of their charaders, they should, in all re fpeds agree, even though the principles up on which they generally ad are precifelv -limilar, and although no citizen of Pennsyl vania has adhered with more., firmnefs and reditude to the general system adopted by our government than Mr. Rof:, yet he may, | without any deviation from his consistency, have thought this measure i 111 palitic and im proper. But it is fa id that Mr. Rois en couraged the spirit of mfurredion, and de clared, " that he would willingly undertake the defence of any man who fliould kill an excise officer." The eleftion committee, in their insolent, impotent and malicious address to the mayor of this city, fay, " that the recital of con versation unqualified and unexplained by the concomitant circunjftances, can only tend to eradicate and deftioy the few remaining traces ot confidence and hilarity in private ■"Jjfe." If ever there was a cafe to which this observation applies, it is that now be fore us; for when this conversation is quali fied and explained by the concomitant cir cumflances, it becomes perfe&ly innocent and harnilefs. Mr. Brackcnbridge, who certainly is not friendly either to Mr. Rols or '" s P°l'tics, has fmce publicly ft;ited, that t ie words which really "were used, fell merely in jcrt ; that upon the application of some roan who had been guilty of an unlawful op pohtioh to the excise, to know whethsr Mr. ojs trould undertake his defence, the latter replied, " why if jou bad Hilled an excise j ' I would see that you vjere legally a "Xcdfor itand that the fellow was so much mortiied at his reception, that he im mediately retreated. But even it the federal candidate had ac tua 5 °e' cn the counsel for the murderer of an excise officer, upon what principle would [" ''" Ks inculpate him ? If it be criminal to be of counsel for assassins, is it less so to be the defender of traitors? And Mr. Dallas »as undertaken the defence of all those who avc cen tried for treason iince the revolu tion. II Mr. Rofs had been guiltv of an illegal ppo ition to the exrife, is it probable that general Wafliingion would have appointed him at f 0 critical a junfture, to the office of aliaymg. the f erment he hatl ajriffcd tQ 1 t . Is it possible to suppose, that he who was lo well acquainted with the situation of "la-rs throughout the Union, could have ignorant of the charafters of these whom "was a )out to entrufl at so important a 7™ f ° in, P° rtant » ? Is it y t iat Mr. Hamilton would have omitted f ( . r ,"' Cnt "l n Cr '">inality on the part of a wherein°i United S . tates , in the report dufl e | IC P o,ntedl y reprobates the ton had A I" 1 ? influeinial characters, who feHit tbemfelves by a virulent and ! it be'her ° P S°v tio " t0 tl,e tax ? Alld j i*vedl>y a single rational man, that NL'MMK IX. any ground exists for the accusation since the late president publicly recommended in a ipecch to cpngrefs, the whole behavior of the federal candidate during the rebellion ? But with what propriety dots this atro cious calumny come from' those who still make the unpopularity ot the excile, one of their principal engines for calling odium up on our government ? If the manner in which this tax is collected, be hostile to liberty and the rights of the people surely Mr. Roi'sV opposition to it was highly commendable. How great mult be the impudent hypocrisy of the men, who themselves promoted and carried on the infurre&ion ; whom Mr. Rofs then treated with the contempt and detella tion due to their crimes; who well know that he was one of their moll vigorous and fuccefsful opponents; and who now dare to charge him with the infamy of being an ac complice in their own guilt ? It is fnid that he was elefted a frnator by the repulalicart interest in the legislature, and that it was not until after his ele&ion, that he became a. member of the federal party. The afTertion is peremptory declared to be falfe. Mr. Rofs has always been a firm friend to the fyllem adopted by our adinintftrution; when hewaschofen senator, the democratic influence in the legislature, was but trifling-. Perceiving that there was no profpeel of success, if they fixed on a candidate «f their own fa&ion, the weftcrn members resolved to lupport a federalift who came from their own country, and the contell at the time of the election was purely local; their ob je£t was not to carry a man of their own party, but from their own diftrift ; and had Mr. Rofs then been a jacobin, hp certainly would not have hien elefted. jf The feconi charge alledged against him, is, that he is a deifl, and has conteniptuowlly ridiculed the christian religion, 'l'his accu sation has been Completely dilproved by liie certificates lately pnbliHied from his n'c la bours and iitimate friends. Those certifi cates contain all the evidence which the i'ulP jeel admits of. If he had been in tWc impious practice of reviling the Chriilian faith, it inufk have been known to those with whom lie wasmoft in timately conneded, and as the persons who have given their teflimor.ies on this occasion, have risen to the eminent flatious they now hold in their church, at leafir by the appear ance of superior ptety and virtue,lt is iiflt to be fuppnfed that they would have difiob'ed ; themselves ofthegarb of fandity, which they had before worn, by fupportwig the clidion of a profligate fcoffer at religion. The ac cul'ation has never beca lupported by any o ther proof, than the annonymous aflertions of the Aurora calumniators. More than a month has e.lapted since the fad was denied in the Philadelpia Gazette, and the authors called on to produce their proofs. This, they have been unable to do, and surely no ra tional mail' will longer give credit to this, abominable and ridiculous fallhood. From nu men, however, would a charge of this kind have come with a worse grace than from the partisans of Mr. "M'Kean, for in tliu Convention which framed the State Coil ft. he seconded a motion for making tlif denial wt the being of a God, the only religious diujuali fication to office, and for firiktng out a fclaufe whereby a dilbelief in a future (late of re wards and punilhments would have created the fame incapacity. *Min. Con. p. 115 So that even in his opinion, tht prtwndtd deism of Mr. Rois would be no