Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-06-25
Fyom The Fedsr,ek-T0qva Herald.
To THOMAS JEFFERSON, Esq.

10 1AOMAo JEFr EiNoO4S, L2'
SIR,
/ have hitherto been one ofthofe who
Z from principle have always been oppoied 70
your election as chief magifrate; ] could
offer numberlels reaions for my OBJECTION
to you; but having determined upon
reclamation of all my former riff and no.
NET dealing opinions, ! am luckily di-
charged from all further connexion with
any thing like reafon. However, having
not 70 entirely diyeRed myielf Of my IN
telleas, bat that fomc fmall remnant OF
thar old fafhioned ex-prefdent commodi-
ry will flick by me-; and il not being the
cuffom Of modern men of conlequence,
fuch as feel mylelf becoming, TO re-
nounce their old (entinasnts, without tell
ing their fellow citizens why, / will en-,
deavour 10 diicoverSto you Tome of my
matrices for the change of my politics,
In the frlt place, / fanguiuely expect
an appointment to the frf good and CEN
Portable Office you may have to dllpote
of lhall not be too delicate or nice as
10 the manner or circumstances IN which |
NAV hold it; I care not whether you
offer it with a with that it 1ould be
retuled, as it is ineeringly reported yon
offered the Office of Comptroller to the
Hon. G. Duvall; lbut this, fofne fay
they are authorized to fate as untrue) ard
if it is not, it was biunder and very
paTdopable ore, as You had 10 doubt often
heard Mr.. Duyall fay, he neither wlfhed
ner expected an appointments under your
Administration. Nobody can ever accafe
me OF making 20 rah declaration as this;
for if / had ever faid any thing like II, |
muft have alluded TO the late sdmlniitra-
ton; for it cannot be luppofed / meant
the pte(ens, while I, as federalia was
reviling you; declaration to this efecs
would have been totally unneceiiary.
/ always thought you unqualified in
every refpeei for the flee of Proficient
and your being a Philosopher, as then
believed you, was 20 tamong the leaf OF my
reafons fox ufing my influence againa you;
for the politician ard philosopher are lei
DON ieen 10 meet in the fame Perion. But
in this find I have been entirely miita-
ken. I believed that your deicriPtion OF
the waters of the Potomac collecting
themfelves at Harper's Ferry and making
as if by jeint conlen. one great exerlion
to pufn hole through the mountain IN
ifead of running over the top OF it or max
ing back water, ihewed deep reiearch and
was truly philosophical! but upon exa-
minasion, find this idea equally abford
with your dry dock fcheme. All this
eGeefualy eonyinces me that you are no
philo(opher; and this does away at leait
one other Of ny objections.
am now alto convinced as 70 your re-
lieioas character. was FLY enough net
10 believe you an atheia, who MIR. Swift
fays is but mad and ridiculous derlder
of piesy, but I tho'tyou hypocrite, who
makes a fober jelf OF God and religion.
In this, however / have likewise diico-
yered my error.
now Zee that you come forward ike
man, and have openly and boldly taken
by the hand, your oracle Tom Paine,
that blafphelnous burle!qae upon logic
and rearon. Now this is nor mincing
the matter but doing the thing as ! ike
it by this you have at leaf fatisfied ne
that you are no hypocfite; an tia my
neighbours could be as eatily ia'lsiied as
10 that, i, would be very great point
gained. Twas all along caught to think
You an old, dry fellow Of no iPinS, but
your good old friend Calender, twho
will bot let you DO wrong it ne can help
it, and whom you fhewed 70 much addreis
aud management in iecre;ly ietting TO
abufe and libel Wilmington, thar Idol and
old woman, as fome now days call MINI
has fully 10 my mind proved you quite
III. contrary 70 muchlo as TO make you