Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-06-17

nnfrlendiy 10 the communication u WI.
Jeferfon."
One Object ofthis paragraph feems TO
be, to prepare the reader TO expect only
evidence of the circumeantial kind, fhort
of pohrive proof, and 10 enfure it the mott
favorable reception. The attack on the
Vice reGdent is refumed in the follow
ing paragraph:
g Habituated TO /eeref movements ard
dark Capitalization, it may be faid that the
covert manner in which Mr.. 1ourr carried
on the negotiation for the luppreflion ct
the hiaory, was nothing out of the ordl-
nary way in which he. conducts his pollti-
cal affairs. But LET it not be forgotten,
that Mr.. Burr PoGeaes fuficient powers
Of mind to diltinguilh between what re-
quires concealment and what does not -
and thar both the one and the other are
by him regulated By his mord;aafs 0ieaas
IF beyloual am6itien. In matters in which
the public are concerned, iecsecy which
abho.s diicloiure ard fauns the Light OF
day, ill COMFORTS with the general wei
fare. Nor is it to be prelaaled that the
public can with fafey, ,spele esufdsace liz
hin qvbo appears /oieifous uly 10 7sraf
bis al7ioas IN p,efon1d mFsy. Such con-
duct is calculated to inipire jealoufy and
diarpa. A fate iuggler, who retiring
from the public eye, fpreads mitchell by
his puppets, may aaonilh with his ropes
and pullies the facilities by whom he is
furrourded but a fenGbIe public know
ing their rights and valuing their liberty,
will abandon him as they would flee trom
defruttiye peftilence.
THIS Mr.. Burr is conducting his pc
litical affairs, and mounting fep by fep
TO the funmit of political authority. Yer
fed in the art Of hocus pocus, while fitting
in his rate room waiting the entrance OF
his political tools in the anti chamber, the
wretched heralds of his will his mandates
fly through the union and extend to its
extremities. Hence his invilb!e fpirit in
Gnuates itielf into every circle, ard with
It's deleterious qualities corrupts whatever
ii touches
Whether this nyferious, dangerous and
highly alarming character is juaiy afcrib-
ed TO Mr.. Burr. We ihall not take upon
ourfelves to express even the conjecture
bur let thoie who have thus pourtrayed
him look we'll TO it-what can they FAY,
| what anfwer will they make when we de-
mand of them why it is thar they have
given all their fupport TO man for the
fecond, if not for the fra place in Our 60,
vernment, whom they thsrntelyes have
drawn in the darkef colors Of unprinci-
pied ambition Let it be hereafter remem-
| bered, that it is they who afcribe to him
the character Of a CATALINE, and again
let it be remembered it is they who have
| been tor years yielding him every poaibIe
fnpport and contributing in every pofi-
bic way to this power and aggFandize-
ment.
After fonsc attempts to ridicule one Of
Mr.. ,Buer's agents for being, like Yotick's
Sufanaa, ga leaky vefel,' and incapable
of containing fecrets,s the author rsfumes
the narrative.
,sMr. w. the writer Of the fdppreG e1
kiaory, and Mr.. Burr, have long been IN
innate. When the latter frA heard that
the former was about to write a hifory
of the administration of Mr.. Adams, he
expreiled deireto ice him on the fubjed.
Accordingly an interview was had, but
for what particular purpoie, is not preciie-
ly afcertained. Il is, however, known,
and anerted as true, that Mr.. Burr fur.
niihed Mfr. Wood with materials forwrit-
ing lis oqyg 6iagrably, which is mater
piece Of the hyperbolic, and exhibits inMr.
Burr, TO whom the biography of himielf
was fabm;tted by Mr.. Wood for infpetti-
on, no common degree of vanity. His
revolutionary fcrvices, which were 70 tri-
fling as to efcape the notice of the writer's