Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-12-03
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BY t%sitlsnony, though perhaps the Cite
may have been @fincere, when he iupnocsa
eGsrt1oa was the fynonima Of teaimsry. snI
the Aurora may very probably have rha'.
10 alio tor the editors of ibefe pans,,
neither by education nor habit, have ~.
idea Of the dieinttion between truth ~
taileheod, virtue and vice, or know arx
thing of the decencies or civilities Of l;ts.
it is therefore a little UNREASONABLE ,oi
certainly quite ule!-ls to expect from then
the lea0 accuracy in tie ue of terms
Without forther ebferyations Of this for.
we now prefent our federal reader. WI,
have not feen their eighth letter, with
The following extracts, from the C%itizrn
0 fCdober II. They viii perceive from
what follows, Why we felett thole sDcI;
cable TO Mr.: Ogden.
+" We then declare that the fAtrql er,.
kmGn ub0 nfgoeiated with Mr.. Bur-, &
who was authorised to do 70 by the lea]-
ing federal members Of Congrefs, then af-
fembled at Wilmington, is DAVID A.
OcDEN, Efq. councillor at law. David
A. Ogden, refides in this city,"
More than eight months ago we knew
that Mr.. Ogden was the negoeietor; and
it is now faied as an uadruiabk trutb."
On the 10th day CT December, r.
days only after the South Carolina new,
was received, Mr.. David A. Ogden en-.
gagged a feat IN the mail fage for PhiIa.
delphia. It's probable that previous to
his going TO Philadelphia, he conferred
with MIR. Borr, On the fubjea of eae6fine
his election TO the proficiency, by the eff,
forts Of the federal party, & that he went
to Wilmington to conluls with the leading
federal members Of ccnsrels on the cheme.
It is believed that Mr.. Ogden had no pre-.
fefioral bufnef, to ~tranlatt st Walhing-
ron, and It is therefore difficult to con-
jeauTe what induced him, ar that bleak
fe2fon of the year, to Wifi the feat Of CO.
vernmenr, unlefs TO conlult with tie f.
deral members of congrefs on the projea
TO negotiate with MIR. Burr the terms Of
his election TO The Proficiency. We be.
lieve that Mr.. Ogden went TO Walhing-
ton expressly for that purpofe, and that he
previoufy conferred with Mr.. Burr on the
defign-
"We have fa,ed that Mr.. Ogden Iefs
this ciiy in the mail fage for Philadelphia
on the 18th day of December. The fol-
lowing certificate, which proves thar Mr..
B3rr and bimfy rode tQgefbsr in Ms (ams
mail, eitabliales the fats:
"Ne0V.f York, Saturday, 27b Dec.
1900, oae o'fLock.
NAIL STAGE.
Mr.. Ogden, | feat to Philad. f..
Col. Burr, 2 feats to Princeton, 3 IS 0
[ certify that the above is a true copy
from the fagc books.
MATTHIAS C. LYON"
"Mr. Burr and Mr.. Ogden might hive
ridden together in the mail without pee
concert whether they did II or not every
reader will Judge for himfeIf. To US tns
flmsle af (peaks a pertinent and eloquent
language /; it indicates much.
"Mr. Ogden die not remain long at Wsh.
inston. While there he was authorized by
the leaders Of the Erdsrol tary to neg'-
ciate with MIR. Burr concerning The tifns
on which that party propofed to elect HI"
PRECEDENT of the United STATES. Thus en-
%miGioned, Mr.. Ogden returned 10 this
city early in January, 1901, had an w
terview with Burr, and fubmitted to nm
proportions which fhall bye and bye be
explained. Ia tb5f p~rop96A'ons Mr.. B@'
aDsnted.
That oppoiiion to Mr.. JefeEfon 10
the houfe, which alarmed the country aad
brought it to the brink Of eivl qoa', was
fsnnacd on the aegoeiat;or concluded be-
tween Mi. Burr and Mr.. Ogden"
After proceeding TO fate iome parted
lars, he thus concludes, "How then ltaoos
the account ? FirA, that Mr.. Burr ne2o"