Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-11-13

does this conduct iqaare with the opinion
entertained by you in convention? In II
we certainly can behold nothing of that
fabftantial ans confident policy 70 eaenii-
alan a Ratefma:. But how .hail another
departure from eaabliihed principles be &C
coeated for! You delivered a lpeech In
the legillature.of Virginia ogai4f 6yen
minafIon, :" the bea ever heard or read"
and in Congrefs, only two or three years
after, you advocated this very dycrimi-
rattan. Can you reconcile rlie!e franse
contradictions? Can eyen Tie fagacious
Madion, reconcile thete Earring opinions
When you were f.G elected 10 Cougrels,
you were Imported by fedoraliGs----Your
opponent, Mr. Monroe, was ~fupported
by, the other " Sect" Ia The General
Convention, in the STATE Convention,
and during the early part of your %ferviccs
in the new Congrsfs, you were a Federal
lit. 1t is alto believed you had a conf
derable ihare in writing the bcit expedition
and recommendation of the contribution
extant, under the ~fgnasure Of Publius,---
MIR. Monroe was ah anti iederalin. This
gentleman has continued 70, and it IS be-
lieved has never deviased from his oriei-
nal principles. You are now in cordial
policy with him. Has Mr.. Monroe more
understanding than yourfeE :---Do you
yield the palm Of intel.igence TO the fath-
FIJI ex-mmyqrr 2 Or do you acknowledge
him 10 poGels more candor and more poll
teal honeRy thar your!elf! Thefe, Sir,
are fome Of the p~rorninent features in your
political portrait.
will now examine you in your prefens
fation offecretary of fate. BY the con-
aitution and the practice of the govern
mert you are made one Of the confidential
cabinet councillors OF tie PRECEDENT, and
hence il mutt be inferred, and the infer
ence is fair and irreiiftablc, that you not
only approve, but recommend the violence
and opprefion with which the PRECEDENT
INDUCES, and gratiEcs his malignant paE-
fions againtt innocent and unofending
Z" meritorious officers to make room for
Z" unworthy. creatures CT his own."
10 you, or can you with a clear con-
fcierce recommend nozv, when " the ina
g!na,ion is heated and difurbed by. faGti-
on" that political intolerance, as defpo-
tic as wicked, the dymlNxg me,in r1oxs
| aGcers? Do yon not perceive thar even
{ e calm, mild and intelligen, Msd.ion can
view with more than ta.age delight, that
tyrannical exercife of power, the abx/e Of
which in 1859, exceeded bis conception,
and to 4Dhiek bis ina iuatiou could not 4
tesa np0n any rStion4l principle? Attic
the imagixatox my he beateG ard GJaa,6-
ed BY fadin, there NUT be moments
when ,heie paiions will give place TO calm
reflection, and in thefe moments will you
be pleafed to reflect, and let me ak, do
you not now, as in 1898, think that the
PRECEDENT in the zvaniou esercW Of this
dangerous and ,oyal power deferves an I'M
PARCHMENT before the Senate! Although
you no doubt recolleef your ipeeches and
opinions in 1898, and although they have
been recently republifhed, you are again
invited TO perufe them. Your judgment
will readily fuggeG the c~onGequent deduc-
tions which will be made by the people
of America and their representatives, to
whom this folemn appeal is fubmitted.
/ have been long acquainted with you
perlonally haze long admired your ia
Tents and ufefulnefs, and Whit | lament
that the degeneracy ofthe times has mark
ed you as an apofate from original & cor
rect principles NIT hope you will foon-
err or later fee your error, and ] pray you
confder well---I bcfeech you to turn
from your prefent courfe OF poiine0l mtpA-
rance and affert your w independence &
better judgment than thar of your Chef.
Notwithstanding MIR. Jeferfon is %elevat-
ed to the frft Office in the government, |
you pofefs mole Of the public confidence
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