ADDRESS FROM BORDENTOWN.

At an adjourned Meeting of the Republicans of Bordentown, and its neighbourhood, held at the house of Thomas Lawrence, Colonel Joseph Kirkbride in the chair.

Resolved, That the following Address, signed by the Chairman, be published in the True American, printed by Wil son and Blackwell, of Trenton, and that the patriotic Printers in other parts be requested to republish it :-··

TO OUR FELLOW-CITIZENS.

FEDERALISM and falsehood, like cursing and swearing, are become so united, that to think of one is to remember both.

The following electioneering hand-bill, drawn up by a Federal committee of the county of Rensselaer, state of New-York, was sent by post from thence to this place, but by whom, or for what purpose, is not known, as it was enclosed in a blank cover.

The aforesaid meeting of the Federal committee was held for the purpose of nominating and recommending candidates for the election then ensuing; but when the election came on, it unfortunately happened, (for lying, like a stumbling horse, will lay his rider in the dust,) that none of the candidates recommended by the meeting were elected. The Republican ticket overrun the Federal ticket more than two to one.

The introductory paragraphs in the hand-bill (as wili oe seen by the reading) are hypocritical, inserted to deceive at first sight, and make the unwary believe it is a republican hand-bill recommending Republican candidates. Those paragraphs speak the pure language of democracy and Republican government. The right of the people to elect their law-givers

is spoken of as the boast of Americans. It is thus the apostate leaders of the faction counterfeit the principles of democracy to work its overthrow. The language of their pen in the former part, but their hand-bill address is not the language of their hearts; nor is it the language of their lips on any other occasion than to deceive at an election. They have long tried the foul language of abuse without success, and they are now trying what hypocrisy will do. But let the hand-bill speak for itself.

"To the Independent Electors of the county of Rensselaer.

"Fellow-Citizens !

"The following candidates for senators from the eastern dis trict, and for Members of Assembly for the county of Rensselaer, are recommended to your confidence and support at the ensuing election, by the united voice of your committees collected from each of the towns in the county, viz.

FOR SENATORS.

Moses Vail, of the county of Rensselaer,

Stephen Lush, of the city and county of Albany,
Ebenezer Clark, of the county of Washington,
Daniel Paris, of the county of Montgomery,
William Baily, of the county of Clinton.

FOR MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY.

John D. Dickinson, of the town of Troy,
Arent Van Dyck, of Schodack,
Hezekiah Hull, of Stephentown,
Randal Spencer, of Petersburgh,
Jeremiah Scuyler, of Hoosick.

"Among the privileges, fellow-citizens, which belong to freemen, perhaps there is no one more dear to them, than that of selecting from among themselves the persons who shall make the laws by which they are to be governed. From this source arises a consolation, which is the boast of Americans, that in elective governments like ours, the people are their

own law-givers. To the exercise of this privilege, equally interesting to ourselves and important to society, we shall in a few days be called.

"It becomes us, then, fellow-citizens, when about to enter upon a duty so essential to the welfare of the community, to divest ourselves of all unwarrantable prejudices; and while with one hand we offer the names of our candidates, to be able, with the other on our hearts, to appeal to Him who knows our secret intentions, to witness the rectitude of our conduct.

"Under the full weight of these impressions, the candidates whose names we here take the liberty of offering for your support, have been selected; and without wishing to draw any invidious comparisons between them and those of our political opponents, we feel justified in saying, that they are men whose patriotism and fidelity entitle them to the confidence of their countrymen. Their principles are truly Republican. Not of that kind of modern Republicanism which consists in a heterogeneous mass of jacobinism and democracy; but that which the constitution of our country recognizes; that which the immortal WASHINGTON in his life practised, and by his invaluable legacy transmitted to the world.

"In these our candidates, we do not promise advocates of unrestrained liberty; neither can we engage that the people shall be entirely released from the burthen of supporting the government which protects them. These are promises incompatible with rational liberty. They are empty sounds, calculated to ensnare and deceive: therefore we leave the full and exclusive use of them with our adversaries, to whom they of right belong. To the syren sound of delusive and false promises are they in a great measure indebted for the power they now hold.

"We have been told that the administration of the Federal government, by Washington and Adams, was tyrannical and corrupt; that a system of profusion and extravagance was pursuing, which must ruin the nation. We have been called upon by all that was dear to us, to look to Jefferson for relief, and have been promised every thing which could allure the credulous, or delude the unwary. But what have we realised?

What, alas! but disappointment? Pause and reflect. Instead of a system of equal taxation for the support of government, we now see the lordly Virginian rolling over his plantation in his gilded coach, in the free use of all the luxuries of life, but exempt from taxes; while we are obliged to pay a duty on the necessaries of life, amounting to nearly one third part of their value. Instead of an American, whose integrity has stood the test of the severest scrutiny, we behold, with the keys of our treasury in his hand, a foreigner, famous only for having instigated an insurrection in Pennsylvania. Instead of a navy sufficient to protect our commerce against the lawless depredations of pirates and marauders, we have seen our vessels sacrificed under the hammer of the auctioneer for less than half their value; and our commerce unprotected, and a prey to the pusillanimous and detestable Spaniards.

"But startle not at these things, fellow-citizens—We could a tale unfold, which would arouse the just indignation of every friend to his country. We could tell you of millions of our money applied to secret purposes! Of immense sums sacrificed in the sale of the bank shares of the United States, amounting to nearly two hundred thousand dollars! We could tell you of another enormous sum of one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars, totally unaccounted for by the commissioners of the sinking fund. We could tell you, that instead of the salaries of the officers of government being diminished, they have increased about thirty thousand dollars!-But we forbear. While the administration of the government is in their hands, it is our duty to submit, though we should be buried in its ruins.

"But fortunately we are not without a corrective for the evil. To the good sense of an enlightened public, and the freedom of our elections, we can with confidence appeal. Let us arouse, then, and rally round the constitution of our country, which, though mangled by the assassinating hand of demo

cracy, is yet dear to us. Let us no longer be lulled to inac

tivity by these canting hypocrites, who draw near to us with their lips, while their hearts are far from us: but like freemen, indignant at the injuries heaped upon our country, come forward to the support of those principles which have heretofore

actuated us; and say to the work of destruction, hitherto shalt thou come, but no further, and here shall thy mad career be stayed.

"By order of the meeting,

"DERICK LANE, Chairman.

"JOHN E. VAN ALLEN, Secretary. “Greenbush, April 7, 1803.'

Here ends the hand-bill. We know not if it was publicly circulated at the election, or given privately among a few as a cue for the language they were to hold; but as it is come into our hands, we give it the publicity which the framers of it were probably ashamed to do; and we subjoin to it our own observations, as a guard against similar impositions at the elections in our own state, in October next.

Of the former part of the hand-bill we have already spokenwe now come to the latter part.

"We could a tale unfold," say the framers of this bill," that would arouse the just indignation of every friend to his country."

The phraseology of unfolding a tale is borrowed from Shakspeare's plays. It suits very well on the stage where every thing is fiction, but sounds fantastical in real life; and when used in an electioneering address, it suggests the idea of a comedian politician spouting a speech.

It is principles and facts, and not tales, that we concern ourselves about. But if they have a tale to tell, why have they. not told it? Insinuation is the language of cowardice and detraction; and though the manly sense of free men despise it, the justice of the country ought to punish it.

"We could tell you (say they) of millions of our money ap plied to secret purposes-Of immense sums sacrificed in. the sale of the bank shares of the United States amounting to nearly two hundred thousand dollars. We could tell you of another enormous sum of one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars totally unaccounted for by the commissioners. of the sinking fund. We could tell you that instead of the salaries