J:* a s Eastqn, Sept. 3, 1799. -r* A Mr. Ffnno, THE following truly lingular advertise ment haying appeared in the Eafton pa per of Northampton county, (the den of jacobins) I wish, for the l.itisfaftion of the public, it was made more generally known, you will therefore oblige a sub. i'criber by giving it a place in your uie- J ful paper: ADVERTISEMENT. THE public already know that I have offered myfelf as a candidate for the office of Sheriff ot this county. Some of those who »re my enemies have circulated a report very industriously, that I have becone a federalifl. I should have hoped, that twenty-five years exertions in the cause of republieanifm would have prevented a 11V person from giving cre dit'to so improbable a fafchood—As, how ever, some people may poflibly be induced to believe it, although evidently circulated for electioneering purposes, I am induced to publilh the following certificate. John Mulhallon. We certify, that at a conversation which took place at the office of James Ration, Esq. on Monday the 29th of July last, it was mentioned to Judge Mulhallon, by a gentleman in company, who was a feaeralift, that if the Judge were to be more moderate in his opposition to James ftofs, the federal catiuidate for governer, he (Judge Mulhallon) would get a great many federal votes : to ■which the Judge varmly^Yeplied," that he wanted no favors of that kind, that he would support M'Kean at all rilks, and that he would dispute the ground for him, inch by inch, even if j t faould injure his own eleft ion or words to thatpurpofe. JACOB ABEL. J. RALSTON. GEO. IHRIE. * ABSALOM REEDER. I The fubferiber informs his friends and fel low Citizens, in addition to the above certi £ca.e,ythat I can make it appear, that in a large and general meeting held at the honfe oi Mixfell's, which has already appeared, with the ticket annexed, that a gentleman made the fame observation, that it would be more prudent for me tr> be mode rate in refpedt to the eleition of Governor. I then got up and told them. I would dif pwte the ground inch by inch for tIA? elec tion of M'Kean, v it" 1 Ihould lose my own ele&ior). Therefore, 1 hope, the citizens of this county will credit no report of any kind wi.ifch may be circulated with the view to injure my eieflion, unless thsy publifii it in the newfjwpers of this county, figpi their names Jo 'Stand' that so long before the elec tion that I have time to vindicate my charafter as I now have. JOHN MULHALLON. HOW pleasing is the talk to snatch from the j.iws of persecution the oaule of federal ifm, and place it bevsr.d the reach of the low the groveling wretch, who attempts , to lap its foundation. To expose in their true co lors, those who attempt to defame it, is the duty of every American, and reai friend to his country. Monsieur Mulhallon having «ame forward openly in the face of day, he therefore becomes fair game for every one. He complains that his enemiee have circu lated a report, that he has become a fede ralist. Gracious Heaven! is the govern ment of the United States so lenitive as to Foster and protest a wretch who has the ef frontery t» deelare that he is its enemy ! This hero of Long Island also inform? the public, that he, should he even lofc his elec tion, will dispute the ground inch by inch, for M'Kean. Bold indeed, with the weapons ef his party, I make no doubt, falfe hood, chicanery and intrigue. But his eg- gregious vanity exceeds all: He fays, it is £alle, lam become afederalift. I be lie-re, for ever in * multiplicity of lie? there is fojne ,truth. despise a chant (Tier so mean and contempti ble ; he is fit only to be the tool of party, and jackal! of faftion. Every thinking man will fee his drift,' and that his declarations give the lie to his principles, for in attempt ing to impose upon others he has over reached himfelf: and I trust, there yet re mains patriotism fufficient, in the county of Northampton, not to give their fuffiages to a man of sentiments so abandoned. M. Mulhallon, deliberating in his garret, (for geniufles like his love to soar) on the surest means of gaining his eleftion, and confide;- ing, that»perhaps the majority of the county were anti-fcderalifts, exclaim, I will go and make some warm expressions before charac ters, whose refpeftability will not be called in question, refpefting M'Kean's eleftion ; this will make his friends mine—the office of Kalfton afforded a fit opportunity, where four gentlemen were convened. He there thundered out his exclamation, and after considerable trouble, got them to certify the words of John Mulhallon, the candidate for the fheriff's offi«e, I fay trouble, for they were the friends of government, and wilhed not to meddle in dirty business ; but his feheme was too shallow, and his plans will undoubtedly be defeated. It may not be improper to enquire who and what Monsieur Mulhallon is, where he Came from, and what he now follows : Mufhallon is by birth an Iriffcman, and by principles, as far as I can understand from his publication, a united one, that he has spent twenty-five years in the cause of republicanism, I think falfe, for. ill 1776, Mulhallbn acted as a Lieutenant in a company of militia, was taken at Long Illand—received a parole— did that which no man of honor would do, broke it, and never was exchanged. If this military aft deserves credit, lie is entitled to The federal party would it wholly, far my fun pie felf, I will never court popularity at the ex pence vof honor and Integrity. This* I must acknowledge, is the only military atchievement of his I have eVer heard of, and would stamp with infamy, any chara£ler but one so debased as his. By fortunate events, which too often await the unworthy, Monsieur Mulhallon now graces the bench of Northampton, as an Associate Judge, every Judge prior to his taking his feat is obliged to swear he will support the constitution of this state, and the constitution of .the United States, or "in plain words (for fear Mulhallon (bould not understand) the federal constitution. The man who swears this, were he not a feder alift before, niuft become one. How far Monsieur Mulhallon's declarations agree with this, I leave the world to jodge, for my part I think it smells confounded strong of perjury; not that I would accuti his ho nour for one moment with a crime of this ' magnitude, but attribute it to fjrgetfulneis. . The citizens of Northampton county will con fider well what confidence can be placed in the man who, although twenty years have elapsed, falfifyed the honour of a soldier, and mult have been a disgrace to the corps to which he belonged—and by this a£l expos ing his brother officers, the companions of his danger, to the hardships of a solitary : confinement, was it notf or his effrontery, I humfcidty would draw a veil over the desd ! and'bury it in eternal oblivion. But you, my fellow citizens, will shew by your fuffrages, whether you refpeA most, integrity and the friends of your country, or give them to a man devoid of all. ~ A FARMER of '76. To tbe Electors oj Pennsylvania. WHEN a candidate for the highelt of fice in the State is pre fen ted for the public opinion, his charaiiter, so far as relates to fit nefs for the ftatipn, becomes an objeft of im portance, on which every citizen, capable of throwing light, would be deficient in his duty to his fellow citizens, if he neglected the opportunity before the choice was made. The ensuing election for a governor of the State of Pennsylvania, is one of the mod important crises that this State has ever ex perienced : It is to determine whether we are to govern ourfclves or be governed by foreigners ? There are but two candidate*, one of whom has given fufficient evidence of his adheience to the principles of liberty, substantiated in the constitutions of the U. States and of this State ; the other has given at pregnant proof that he adheres to nothjng but what accords with his own interests, nor . longer than thole interests are fublerved by his confiltency. So been already written on the ch'ara&rrs of these candi dates, that it woulii be unnecefTary to add to the labors of the press, if the writers hid brought thrir facts clofat togeti, and given a concise piiture of Mr. M'Kean's charafter as it rclults from thenw 1 propose to (hew from what has appear ed, that Mr. M'Kean has been for above thirty years, a man incontinent With him fiflf, varying from opinions openly avowed, to the contrary, in repeated inttances ; and that he never has maintained any opinion, which he has not in some period of his pub lic life and conduit, direftly. contradicted— that he has been a whig and tory, a consti tutionalist, and a republican, a fedcralift and an anti-frderalifl, as ofttii as his intcreft and ambition have rendered either of these cha radters molt fublervient to them. Attend to the foHowing fafts, known to ever}' body, and the result will be evident: The ft amp aft pa (Ted by the British par liament, wb«rein we 'vere not represented, and whereby a large revenue was expefted to be collefted, was to take effeft in 1765. Mr. M'Kean was among the number of thofef who after some tcuporifing entered into an opposition to it; hi was a member of that congress of delegates from most of the then Britifli colonies wV.Vh met at New York, to take raeafures to prtture appeal of the aft, and his boasts of weig'i.* of influ ence, and services in that body, aic WeL known to all who have heard him for the last twenty years, spout out his own praise. He was alio an opponent to the declaratory aft of 1766, wherein after the repeal of the ffctrno aft, the British parliament aflerted their right to make laws binding to the American colonies in all cases whatsoever; and to the aft palled the next year to enforce this aflertinn by imposing duties on tea, paper, glass and painters colors im ported into America ; and to all the afts patted for raising revenue in the.'e (then) colonies by-tbe authority of the Britiib par liament; these ideas were popular, and he joined with the people in the opposition, whereby he raised himfelf to consequence, and established a charafter as a whig, a friend to the people, to liberty, and the rights of man. Thus he continued until his interest led him t« another view of things ; in 1772 the colleftor of the cus toms ot the port of New Castle died, and Mr. M'Kean saw an office vacant worth from tool, to 150!. fterl. a-year, which he con ceived only waited his afking.for it. It was in "the gift of the governor of the Delaware counties in the firft instance, of the board of commissioners of the customs at Bofron in the second, and lastly, of the King, or ra ther of the'minifter of Gifeat Britain. Mr. M'Kean was lawyer enoagh to know that if he accepted this office, he must take an oath to carry the revenue laws cf Great Britain into execution in their fulleft extent, accord ing to their form andeffeft. This however, did not prevent him from studying his own emolument; immediately on the death of the ' colleftor, he sent a mefienger to Philadelphia, requesting from Mr. James Hamilton, (then governing as president' of the coun-' cil ad interim between the departure of governor John Penn, and the arrival of go vernor Richard Penn,) a commission, as coli . Jecltv of the cattoms of the port of New ' Caltle on Delaware: Mr. prpfident iia (Bil lon, authority under the crown, no doubt, thought iie could recommend him felf to his fuperiars by purchaiing oil" a flaming patriot with an office, whole salary paid Uy the King, was but 901. a-year, and therefore immediately granted the commil lion, and under it Mr. M'Kean took the oath of office: By this he became a complete tory, that is, a person fwurn to carry into effeft the odious duty of enforcing revenue from the colonies by a£ts ot a parliament, in which they were not represented. This is not nil, Mr. M'Kean received a second comraifiion from the coinmvffioners of the customs at Bnflon, who had the general fu perintendance of the collection ot the Britilh revenue in t';e colonies, and whom Mr. M'Kean had often, while he was a whig, Ujanded as an unconllitutional board ; under this second' connniffion, he again took the oatb, and was inft.dled colledlor of the hated duvies ; and in all probability, he would have been obliged to have packed up his alls and j gone off, with the other revenue officers of the crown, on or before the declaration of independence, if the king's pleasure notified through lord North, had not i'upercedfd him by the appointment of another collector ot the customs for the port of New Castle, ai d taken away his salary of 901. a-year and the ! contingent perquilites of 501. or 601. more. This converted him ; and he became again a whig, and was appointed a member of the congress of 1774. ' During that year and 1775, he carefully observed the political weathercock which was then against the de claration of independence, until the recep tion of thf pamphlet under the title ot Com mon Sen!!', allured hiui that the moon had changed under a favorable afpe&, and that the wind was fettled in that direftion, he then alfob-.came a fettled whig. It is need less to relate his conduit in Delaware, Jeyj fey, and Pennsylvania during the peridd of British invasion ; it will form some curious paragraphs in a future biftojy of, the revo lutionary war, when.palty spirit aud party connexions, shall have so subsided and dil folved as that historical truth may be told ; wherefore, having sftablilhed the firft afier tion, that he has been a whig and a tory, aire rnately as it suited his views of ambi tion and emolument, I proceed to the efta bliftiment of the tecond. Ttsefirft conOitution of Pennsylvania was formed by a convention, compol'ed as that . of Frjnre afterwards wat t of a tew designing , men, imitators of Cromwell, anc| eac h de sirous of obtaining the prote&orlhip of the State ; and the many, the ignorant deluded . tools of the fa&ion, wjio were ready to give all p9wer to their leaders; a letter now ex ' ift» in print,st'rom one Cannon, a fchoelmaf ! ter in Philadelphia, a man then governing the mob, as Marat afterwards did the suburbs St; Antoine of Paris, which was circularly ad drefled to the elett«rs of the several counties, recommending to them to chufe for their delegates to the convention, men of little ; learning, for that men of general or legal : knowledge only confownded out- another, and were unfit ffcr the office of framing a confiitution; his reepmmendation was so : well attended to in many of the counties, i that when thp Convention met, and a coin vnittee appointed to draft the form of a con stitution, reported, it was moved to hav« several copies of it transcribed, that the members might have an opportunity of read ing it over at their longings to which an a mendßient was offered, to fubflitute the word printed, in (lead of tra, scribed; because a ] majority of them could not read written band• This motion wa; carried, and the report was printed, and lence the origin of printing all things depen ling' before our pub lic bodies. This leaned convention efta.- blifhed the firft conftiution of Pennsylvania, and there was not to be found a lawyer whose reputation had bee i eftablifked in Pennsylva nia, who would iccept the office of Chief Justice unde.- it: Mr. M'Kean, then little j known he.-e, accepted it against his own de | cided judgment often exprefied, and became a conititutional.ft, a term of diftincVion af fuined by the friends of that form of go vernment, exercised by a ftnglr legislative branch, and he served the party who thus took him by the hand, faithfully, as long as it suited the purposes of his ambition and emolument, but no longer. In the course of a few years it was discovered that a go vernment of a single branch was equally ty rannic?!, if not more so, than a despotic monarchy; that the passions ot the many hec-ame concentred and operated with as much consistency and more violence than those of an individual, and were more into, lerant than the limited monarchy from which we had emancipated out country ; the sup porters of these opinions were ftiled republi cans, in contradiftin&ion from the coiiflitu lionalifis; they had waged wordy war in the newspapers against each other from 1779 to 1786, and in the course of ten years, the public opinion became decided in favour at republicanism, which in the public mind bore the idea of a representative government, di vided into three branches, ele&ed by and ac countable at certain to the peo pie, by periodical elections. In 1786 a pro jeft originating in Virginia, was hearkened to by many of the other states, who lent rc prefentatives to Anjiapolis, in Maryland, to consider of foine plan to render the federal government, then weak, from its composi tion of all power in one branch, more effi cient in its admiiriftration of the affairs of Thirteen States ; this meeting could effett nothing ; their defeflive powers were how ever enlarged and the-ftates more fully re presented, at a meetißg the next year (1787) at Philadelphia ; when the prcfent eopftitu tion of the United States was framed and recommended to the people of the several States for confideratlon, a convention of each to be called in the manner recom mended. Mr. M'Kean* clearly perceiving that the tide of popular opinion was coming with a full swell i» tavenr of this contYitu tion, fuff'red himfelf to fee carried like a feather along with it, and when, i'n the year following its adoption, the conft.tution of tiie state was proposed to be rendered more conformable to that of the Unit "d States, he deserted his old friends the constitutional ists, who had railed him to the Chief Juf ticefliip, who had dubb'd him with (to use his own expression from tlje Bench) the title of Docjoi of Laws, the higjjeft dignity at tainable in the profeffion, and became a re publican, The contest about the new constitutions of the United States and of this iljte, at lilts time, gave new names to the contending parties without any alteration in their views. The C«nftitutionalifts were men who, de spising all order in government, and ton tending for an exaft equality among men, whether rich or poor, learned or unlearned, whether wife or idiots, inlifled that their re presentatives should meet in one chamber, and by majority of persons decide on all afts of legislation ; while the Republicans i lfifted that the wiser and better part Ihould be fele.&ed from the people at large, and be 1 1 iced in two chambers with powers of ne gative over the a£ts of each other, in order to prevent that simultaneous effufion of pas sion which a fi'ngle branch was commonly aljpefted with by the impulse of tome aipiring demagogue who would always by popular flattery be able toinfinuate himfelf into their good opinion, and become their leader, their Gronnvell. This difference of opinion gave new names to the parties, and Federalilts was substituted for Republicans, Antifede ralifts for Constitutionalists : while the con test was doubtful, the latter submitted to the appellation and even afiumed the title, but when by the lou-d acclaim of the people the constitutions were latified, they wished to change it, and many arts have been tried to bring about a reform—Newfpapers have been set up and fallen down.in the attempt, and yet it has not succeeded but in the jargon ot the party. The Antifederalifts have a [Tu rned the na e of Repub'icans, but none be ficte themselves underltand them as meant by it, and it is left to the Aurora and a few cf its followers to designate them by it ; while the true charadler of Republicans is main tained the Federalilts, who firlt- assumed and always deserved the honored name : during this change of the Shibboleth cf Par ty it was not difficult for Mr. M'Kean to turn with the tide; he thought his intertft to be, to swim with the current, and he lut fered himfelf to be enrolled in the lift of Fe deralists : he advocated the cause of the new fonftitution of this state with energy ; nay, he exceeded the cxccllesof those of his com peers who are now called Monarchists, and advocated principles of inequality among the people which would be too tedious to enumerate—here he was a Federalist in the extreme, but his services soon pasTed into oblivictj,—he was left to be merely Chief Justice of a.single (late—he was 110: promo ted to the bench of the Union—he con ceived himfelf neglected—he waited the next change of the moon, the next turn of tide, in hope that he might met a favorite weed or straw to attach himtelf to, and flow into the port of an higher office. The clamours excited by Genet and the French party, and j by his Reporter, Dallas, feemcJ to him a fit opportunity n fcrve his purpose ; he em braced the occasion, and from a firm fuppfs is a Deist. To prevent the e fife ft of this report, or.e of the committee in this town, where Mr. Xofs li,ved mcr« than ten years, and until about five years ago, applied to such elders and other pexfons, noted for their piety and regard for religion, as have known Mr. Rofs during the whole of this time, andaseafily could be applied to, and they chearfully sig n . Ed the- enclosed certificate. It was regretted that the absence of the Rev. John M'MilUui (who is the minister nearest to this place, is Ultimately #nd has been about twenty years wejl acquainted with Mr. Rofs, and is zeal, ous for his election?) and of the other Pref. byteria:' ministers in this neighbourhood who are now fitting in Prelbytery, more than sixty tnilrs from this toivn, presented the obtainir.g of tl*sr contradidiion to this falfe and malicious report. But it was not tho't prudent for the fake of this, to fuffer the report to gain force, by the delay of another • week's poll: especially as those who have • ! fignecl, are distinguished chara&ers,forgood , sense, honefly and piety, and refpe&abfe for their stations in society. Mr. Allifon is judge of tliis county, Mr. Swearenger, Mr. Mitchell and/Mr. Ritchie are justices of the peace, and the la ft has been a member of as, fembly. Mr. Cott n and Mr. Brice, are county commiffianers, and the last has been a member of alTembly. Mr. Cunningham is a'fubffantial merchant and Mr. Mercer a substantial farmer. These gentlemen being all in town nt_the time, were readily applied to, and you be allured, that the certifi cate of any one ot them, is fufficient to out weigh the report. Many more names could have been obtained, but ca seek numbers was thought to be giving too much refpett to the slander, fele£lion of a few unqueftion abla was thought be(lv The pretence of the Rev- John Smith, of Cannonfburgh, a learned and refpeftable Se cetjer jninifter, who, about three years ago, removed to this country from O&orara, in Lancafier county, enabled us to procure his certificate also, and upon this we are content to reft the character ef Mr. Rofs and of our- selves. We conld with as much cafe have obtain ed as positive a denial of all the other mal : . clous reports lately propagated againfl Mr. Eofs, and we do pledge ©urfclves that they are folif. But we thought it not of confe querne to do so, as they are, we trust, ge nerally known to be fa'.fe; and as fnch re ports from unprincipled and designing men are ulually expected on such occasions. But there are so few means of ifcertaining the i re.lit due to a repcrt of infidelity and a re fpe Elders of Chartiers James Allifon 5 Congregation. Craig Richie Alexander Cunnirgham. Since I lived iu county, I have had opportunity at conversing and being wel! acquainted wiiji James Rofs,Efq. of Pittsburgh, and of knowing his chara&er from ferif'Hs and refpedable persona, well acquainted with his opinions and converfa t'on, and I am well persuaded that he is fin» cerely refpe&ful of the Christian Protestant Religion, and do verily believe lhat the re port of h'-s being an infidel or deist is alto gether without foundation. JOHN SMITH, Min'tjlcr of AJpic'iat;d Congregation Cl^rtieis.