Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-08-25

ion tt HaSsOeen lneWns thar lie peruied
The proof fleets Of at leafs The frf 70.
lume, If not of the fscond; that lie approx
ed Of their contents in complimentary
letter, and aadally paid money as re-.
ward to the writer: Ii follows coaclu-
fvely, that he famped with his fanttiou
every part of what Calender had written !;
thar he yielded to it his full and entire
APPRECIATION. Having thus adopted the
language < fentiments ofthe /" rrofpett, I,
is isnot virtually the fam, thing as if he
had written the books him!elf Z They are
unqueaionably under iuch circumstances as.
ecu lily expyeGive OF his opinions as if he
had penaed them. This indeed is plainly
ad nisted BY his other defender, the edi-
tor Of E55is VINO fays /" the lentim.nts
which it 9Th. psolpeal contains are faid TO
be hottie 20 the late naturalization ; this
will not be denied. Is tito be fnPpafed
that the isnsimenss would be lels accepta-
BE to him tMr. Jeferfon) becanie tbey
accorded 4vifb bis 04va:s"
One of the executive advocates having
thus conceded the point, we behold before
US the Fira Magifrlte Of our country, at
once. coversly and iaGiaouGy pablihing
to the world, thar our contribution was
forced upon US without our free aiIent
that the longer we examine it, the harder
it will be to prove WHAT wehave gained
by II that every Virginian valning his
freedom, hoa.d accuGom himfalf to the
ute of firearms, 70 be prepared for the
wort that might happen; thereby lncul-
eating on terms not TO be ni(underGood,
the holy right of infurrefion--the de-
ftruttion of the conGitution, and the fe-
vering OF the Union: And we have heard
the fame man, under the iolemnity of an
oath, declare his Jealous attachment to
that very contribution, and that he conf
ders the union of,theie fates the frf
of blefiings, and the prelsrvation of the
Combination the hff of dGties.'' At one
time he fpeaks of the administrations of
WASHINGTON and ADAM: as the admin.
iarations of MoNARcHs, and that nothing
g Under the old confederation could have
/" been 70 wretchedly conducted that
:. war and beggary" marked that OF the
latter : Yet, no fooner was he placed at
the head of affairs, than he unbluihingly
conteaed, that he had found the /" Co.
yernment in the full tide of fuccefsful es-
pertinent" that its administration had, 70
far, kept US " free and firm = that the
on which it had been conducted,
formed the bright confellation" thar
had gone before him. Al one time he
lnecringly calls General WAsHINcroN
I" the Grand Lama of federal alteration,
accufes him of approving of the /" blackea
meafures - of commencing a,fcene ofin-
fanny" which his fleceaor complicated Of
being guilty Of I" fcandalous hypocrify )"
and at length reProaches him with "vi-
ola,;on ofhis OATH" proclaims him PER-
JuRED aRoBBER and TRAlToR--the
author of the Sc ruin and robbery of his
own army"-Is there an American Whole
veins DO not fwell with indignation at this
accumulated ilaBder who does not from
his foul abhor The bafe fpirit which could
fink 10 low in calumny, to gain 6 little
briet authority ?"-Yet, no fooner did
our worthy Preddent reach the apmefron1d
If ambitious ladder, than with all due hu-
mility, with qvbite up fa,ned eyes, and
folded hands, he difclaimed with becom-
ing meeknefs of fpirit, "even all pretea-
fons u thar bigb eonfdenee which had
been i4fJ ,xtsfsd in cur frf and greateit
revolutionary character, Whole pre-emi-
nent iervices estitled him to the FIRST
PLACE in his country's love, ard defined
for him the FAIRlsr PAGE in fanbf1l
hi1ory." No fooner were the remains
OF our luxurious father conGgned to the
tomb than he, who had frlved 70 blaR
his fame while living, who dared not for
years before his death TO meet the reproach