5927. NEWSPAPERS, Attacks by.—[further continued].
[I said to Colonel Burr]
that as to the attack excited against him in
the newspapers, I had noticed it but as the
passing wind; that I had seen complaints that
Cheetham, employed in publishing the laws,
should be permitted to eat the public bread
and abuse its second officer; * * * that
these federal printers did not in the least intermit
their abuse of me, though receiving
emoluments from the government and that
I have never thought it proper to interfere
for myself, and consequently not in the case
of the Vice-President.—
The Anas. Washington ed. ix, 206.
Ford ed., i, 302.
(Jan. 1804)
