Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-11-04
FROM THE PALLADIUM.

TO his alhes. No longe. tearing, they no
longer hate. Some OF the bittercif rot IN
frequently pretend TO iome candor and
moderation towards a departed foe, ard
hold ii to be mean and malicious to pnrlue
him beyond the grave. But it feems as
if the governments of the bsf fociey ex-
lifting, as we claim to he eonfdered,
had fallen into the hands of the very
qvorR men in il. For, although Waih-
ington is dead, and Adams in litera-
ry and doneific retirement, and although
the federal administration is gone never, as
| the Jacobins fay, to return, yet The boq0-
| e,s that be have openly revIlcd and iland-
dered the fame of their predeceilors. Mr..
Jeferion, in his New Haven letter, as well
as in that 10 Mazzei, and that to che Berk-
ley farmer, in all the calumny that he has
publiihed as his own, and in all that Calen-
der and Duane and Co. have manufactured
for bank bills or fat Offices, has miilcd
no opportunity to raife his own reputation
on the ruin of that of his betters. The
comnitlee Of Congress, MIR. Giles, in his
latt words and dying ipeech, before he was
lain by Mr.. Bayard, and all the par
ty, join their voices to speak evil OF the
de9a,itd federal administrations.
There is fome temptation, though We
ry little execute, for the mean malice of this
procedure. If the federal administrations
were not bad, but horeit and patriotic,
then there was no occafon for the change.
The Cheihire wife men might have been
ridiculous enough at home, and have faved
Their great cheele and their travelling
charges. We might have laved our pre-
cious Judiciary rights, as fecuged by the
Contribution. We might have iaved
$4,000 dollars thrown away ON the Ber-
csau TO purchale the contempt and the for
bearance of Bonaparte.
We might have faved million of dol
lars year drawn from coaches, loaf iugat
and dams, which have been thrown away
TO buy fix weeks popularity; and we
nigh, have faved one million and half
of dollars by keeping the public's bank
flares YET theie have been fold or facri.
aced to prevent the deficiencies that would
otherwiie have topped the wheels of Mon
feur Gallatin's government. When in
rome fails we mutt fell principal, every
man who is ruined we'll knows.
The queition, therefore, whether the
old administration was as bad as the new
one has Represented it, is important to the
Jeferionian feet. 1t is cafe of life
and death, for il concerns their powers,
which is dearer to every democrat than
life.
Was the Federal Administration a bad
one ! This quefion is fealefsIy aked and
already circumaantially anfwered. Read
Mr.. Wolcott's pamphlet, and be convinc-
ed, 0 ye democrats of little ienfe or faith,
that the charges made by the committee of
Congrefs are tal(e. They are not merely
expofed by confu,ation, Ithey are gibbeted
20 public derifion. The committee are
now defendants, and II they can bear the
difgrace Of their own report, they deferye
to bear it. Then let them boat that the
public icorn will not break their legs or
pick their pockets. But after this let them
lie convinced, that their tongues or pens
will not be flander.
Turn from an administration that has
elcaped unhurt from its enemies, that has
not felt icratch in the lions den, and
look at its fuccedor. Compare the de-
fences Of its conduct with thofe which
Mr.. Wo'cost, Mr.. Stoddart, and Others
have made, and lei the dullef blockhead
among the democrats, deny, if he can,
that Mr.. Ieferlon and his party have
need OF more vindication. Doubts are
not well cleared up. Even the " Far.
mer" is fierce about his thoufand dollars :.
bur, Of late, difcreet enough TO be huih
al out the $4,000 dollar affair Of the Ber-
erau. The Mazzei letter, the wages of