Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-07-27

but added there is yet a name Ct supes
rior dignity which demands my conside-4
ration and obedience. The People. The
people have placed me where now and
long have had the honor to stand. Theirs
is the right 70 Judge, and % item be tie
appeal who Shall serve them, aud IN their
decision ! will as becomes "a republican,
cheerfully acquiesce bat until that de-.
cislon shall take pace until a majority
of the citizens of the district shall signify.
their wish that should retire from tie.
pest in whiel, they have placed me, |
think it my duty to terder them my best
services. Thinking thus (howevsr Moor
rect tie opinion may beg | should lily re-
pay the confidence reposed in. me- by CIV
ing place to any man, This style in
Mr.. New was extremely well judged, it
was fighting his opponents under the plea
Of an authority against which no demo
crat could dare TO nurmur, and it was
turning against them the favorite and de
ceitful cant of their common Cause. he
canvassing therefore went on Taylor,
with his usual cunning, affected to keep
aloof, working in secret, yet publicly dis
avowing the acts of his friends, 50 that N
case of defeat he might cover his disgrace
(as he has done) under the pretext. OF his
never having been candidate, ard in
case of success he too might seem merely
to comply with the wish Of the people.
1t was therefore left to the people to ex
press their wish at the election, which
they did by giving New majority OF
about two to one over Taylor, 10 the ex
cessiye Disappointment Of his supporters at
home, and ministerial junto who had
planned his promotion. If any such trans
action as this had passed or the FEDERAL
SIDE, what Glamour would have been
raised by the democrats about the ,attempt
of a lotdly few to rule the many. But
more than this, we find the Council of
Virginia eleeting Taylor into the Senaes
of tie United States in the room Of Gen.
Mason, directly after the people had re-
fused TO trust hm as their representative.
This is not noticed, from any apprehen
sion Of Taylors powers in such body as
the Senate; for, however he might have
6 smiled and smiled'' and displayed his
arts iii The lower House, the inferior part
be acted when formerly q member Of the
Senate, confirms the oplnion that the IN
stitution, in its nature and numbers, IS
not a suitable theatre for such charac-
ter as John Taylor. But we mention
his appointment to shew the prohigate in
consistency and brazen impudence ct the
democrats that, while they and their
6 organ" Duane in the Aurora (t5e oaly
paper Ovrr qvbieb Mr.. JsBf,son ncknosO-
lsdgss be has dircf eeatrouiJ were a5us-
,ng the Lesislatureof Massachusetts, most
outrageously for appointing Mr.. Picker
'ng to the Senate, when he had failed as.
a candidate for the House of Represen-
tatives in the very midst Of this outcry,
they should on their part do the very
Same thing in Virginia in the case Of Mr..
Taylor, whom the people had just refused
tc elect.
We must not omit IN conclusion TO
mention circumstance, which has added
much to the vexatlon Of Tavlor's defeat
by New. 1t appears that Mr.. New was
once carriage maker. and perhaps as the
lordly democrats of Virginia for the most
part are known TO hate and despise mocha
rical trades, as much as their oracle let
ferson in his notes on Virginia, Mr.. New
had repeatedly tried invain to get into the
General Assembly; till at last John lay
Tor and his connections, merely to get rid
Of News importantly, agreed they would
send him there for at least one year! At
forwards a violent quarrel breaking out
between Frank Corbin, the former men,
Der to Congress, and the Taylor interest,
the latter determined to prevent Corbin's