nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper.

I will add that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. he who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false.

Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. divide his paper into 4. chapters, heading the 1st. Truths. 2d. Probabilities. 3d. Possibilities. 4th.

. Lies.

h. Lies.

4th. should be professedly for those readers who would rather have lies for their money than the blank paper they would occupy.

the love of justice &amp; the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a mortal<a class="ptr" id="TJ512303_6-ptr" href="#TJ512303_6" title="jump to note 1">1</a> reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain, and should have produced not a single effort, nay I fear not much serious willingness to relieve them &amp; ourselves from our present condition of moral and political reprobation.

. I had always hoped that the younger generation, recieving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every breast, and had become as it were the vital spirit of every American, that the generous temperament of youth, analogous to the motion of their blood, and above the suggestions of avarice, would have sympathised with oppression wherever found, and proved their love of liberty beyond their own <a id="TSJN-03-07-02-pb-0604"></a>share of it. but my intercourse with them, since my return, has not been sufficient to ascertain that they had made towards this point the progress I had hoped.