Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-09-03
FROM THE FREDERICK TOWN HERALD.

IT has been a good while iidce / fent
YOU my laa letter, bat one thing or ano-
Their has fome how topped me till now
Twas going on then to tell you, how
WRONG it was for Mr.. tJsferfon eani his
friends, to 6ud 70 much tault with old
Adams for doing things as be did, and
when they have turned him OUT Tor il, and
GOT in Office thcnl4lyes, TO do the We 3
ry fame things they before complained of.
They uled to fay grear deal about MIR.
Adams putring nobody in office, but
thofe who were on his 1ide. This they,
aid was very bad conduG, and that it ob-
liged man to give up his own lentlments
in order to get anoAicc. That there were
good and bad men on both fdes, and that
the Prefdent in appointing man TO any
place, oughtno to ENQUIRE any thing about
which iide he was on in politics. They
slaid if Mr.. Jeferfon was elected he would
not mind who voted for or who voted
againG him, but would appoint honeit men,
on both fides,-i that cafe all our wraa.
Cling and fquabling one with a mother,
would be done away, and we thoaldall
live like friends ana brothers. To be
9ure thought Iihould like nightly TO.
Zee fuch times, and expected MIR. Jeferfon
would one way or other brIngit about.
But / find that Mr.. Jeferlon and his
( friends only made thele fine prolnifes to
turn Others out of Office, and get tbenfelves
in. While things continued as they uled
TO be, there was no likelihood that A
s.dams would turn nen out ofofice~ for no.
thing and therefore there was not much
chance for thoie who were out of Office to
ger in, unlels they could manage to make
lomebody elfe PRECEDENT. And therefore,
. !, ieems, they made all this rour and
uproar againa Adams and promifed they
: would do this and that and t'o,her for the
good of the people, if they were only
truRed for a while. But now it.is plain.
eaougl, they only wanted to get Mr..
Ieferlon elected that he might, turn out
! she men who were in Office, and 70 make
room fer thele pretended friends Of The
Seotle. Yes MIR. Printer, tina; is the
chief thing they wanted, and they were
mad with MIR. Adams bccaule he did not
put them into Office. For 70 far was Mr..
Iefesfcn from doing what his friends pro-
miled, that inaead of putting any one in
Office who voted againit him, he turned
almof all of them out, for no other rea.on
whatever; provided the .ofice was worth
holding. Now Ms. Printer, as tolo you
before / like to fee men do as they Promile.
And what did Mr.. Jeferfon's friends 6nd
70 much fault with Adams for, if they
meant TO do the fame when they got in
ofice themfelyes /? IF they thor 1T right,
what did they complain Of Adams for ?
and if they thought it wrong in him, why
do they do the fame now they have got
the power AT any rate as they promiied
not to do 70, 1 FAY again, they ought to
do as they promifed. But Mr.. Printer,
believe they never were iincere in their
promifes, and only told the people 70 i'll
order to get themlelves elected. For Mr..
Jetferfon has not only done the fame that
he blamed Adams for doing, but has gone
further, & as | wasjua faying, turned men
out of Office for not being on his hde, and
voting for him TO be prehdent. This /
think is "a great deal worle. Becauie it
Teens like, paying man to vote for him
and punilhing him very cruelty if he voted
sagainft him. For many of the officers had
given up their employments, in order to
mind their Offices, and when they were
faddenly turned out, they and their family
were near Rarying in fomc cafes. And if
PRECEDENT is allowed TO do all this he
might get great many men tovote for
: him, who would not otherwife do it. For
If they found he food chance OF being
elected Preiident, ,hoie III Office, would
be afraid TO vote again& him, leaf he
dhould turn them OUT for It, and 70 man