5928. NEWSPAPERS, Attacks by.—[further continued] .
That tory printers should
think it advantageous to identify me with
that paper [The National Intelligencer], the
Aurora, &c., in order to obtain ground for
abusing me, is perhaps fair warfare. But that
anyone who knows me should listen one
moment to such an insinuation, is what I
did not expect. I neither have, nor ever had,
any more connection with those papers than
our antipodes have; nor know what is to be
in them until I see it in them, except proclamations
and other documents sent for publication.—
To Thomas Paine. Washington ed. iv, 582.
Ford ed., viii, 361.
(W.
June. 1805)
