Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-06-26
FROM rHs cAzzrfE OF THE U. SrArss.



be urged in publication of the former ad-
qualifications of our government, have
as much as Podible avoided one very COM
mon msthoi of rspelling accuiations-re-
examination. I conceived it ill-fuited to
the plain line of defence, which in itfelf
was mott proper for.the expedition Of the
charges adduced in the report of the COM
misSee of inyefigation, and therefor ede-
clined enteringing into it generally.
One other reafon had weight with me:
/ am one of thofe who are IT'LL inclined to
believe that vice, and fraud, and hyPo-
Gritty viii not always fourth that hol-
low pretenGons to patriotiim will yet be
forced to yield TO the iacfed fire which
aninates and condeaies the real love OF
country !; and that the people learning at
length wifdom from experience, will once
more con6de in Heaven, and the mott
yirtuous Of their countrymen. Ibid not
decline entering int this field becauie
the harvetf would have been imall. No.
The labour of Hercules was great, for the
fables of Augeus were tenanted uncleanied
for thirty years. ihonld have had but
halfas many months But, again lay
the time is not yet come for iuch lsbour
to be rewarded with its appropriate effect.
Yet, when the hearts OF the faithful mall
once more exult in the bland rays OF the
fun OF Federalifm when the dazzling OF
its earlieit light faall drive the owls and
other protege's of the waning moon into
the d;fnal lhades and fad obicurity of their
native coverts, then it may be we'll to FAY
70 our countrymen, Behold here, theie
Juggling fends, who have 70 long deceiv-
ed you, in their true colours thefe are
thy Gods o Ifracl, and in thefe have
YOU put your true. But, God forbid,
thar they ihould ever be Judged as they
have Judged Others, or that the fame nea-
fhre which they have meted unto Others,
lhouid be meted unto them.
1t is at the preient day an inconteitlble
maxim Of Jaftice, that not only the truth
and nothing but the truth, but alto that
the whole truth fhould be told. How
have the committee acted up to this max
ims / think that il is indubitable that
at leaR nine tenths Of the perlons who may
Zee the report will never have an oppor-
tunity of feeling the accompanying. docu-
ments, and very probably not one in an
hundred will take The trouble of wading
! through the immenie MATS, and diicoyer-
ing the truth for himfelf. This, being
well knownto the committee, lhould have.
isnpreiIed upon their minds deep ienfe
Of an obligation TO particularize very full
ly in their general fatemenr. II would
not have required dozen lines more to
do this quite Satisfactorily. It was more
ESPECIALLY incumbent upon them 10 to do,
when they knew alto thar no defence, no
jna ifatfory itatement OF the perfons accu-
ated was to be prelented with the report.
Neverthelefs, it was not done. The full
amount Of the debit lide of the ac-
count, even to cent, was fated in the
report the 6 comfortable portions" of the
credit lide we loolely mentioned, and the
preciie fun merged ii the ocean of accom-
panying documents. | allude particular
ly TO Mr.. Pickering's account, the docu-
ment C. and the immenle nnie1tled balanc-
es in the War and Navy Department.
Was this fair; was it honea was it he
nourable Let me ak any upright, can
did man. what would be his opinion of
iuch conduct in private traafattions I? and
ifhe aniwer, thas it is TO be abhored
Are private individuals 70 be judged BY
one rule, and public officers by another
Lett NOT be fad that the high and ref.
pon!ible fitua,ion of thsle men oughr TO
ihield them from fufpicion of wilful O.
milton in theie particulars. 1t is mott
likely that their audacisy was encreaied
and confirmed by this confederation, bat it
never can exculpate them; it ought TO
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