Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-05-04

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" arges Jrem The principle 4s6hl aeeiaf
/" Meir pSkies."
As the hyperion qualifications of The
democrats 10 Fill pubic cations could
have been 70 readily illuarzsed by exam
pies, We wonder thar iome OF them hass
not been inRanced. We might have been
told OF a former Secretary of STATE "a
good denocrat) Mr.. Edmund Randolph,
who is the only man, who ever evinced his
qualifications to fill public as,ioions, by
enabezzling Sl,ooo dollars of the public
n,aey. Citizen. Gaiistin might next
have been nlanced, whole Qualifications
for oiaice were lire dieovefea ~ pronos-
ing an ~infutntsion againit the laws, and
have ince been difplayea by bis leaving
in his documents las his own friends &C.
knowleaged] onJ IA JmaAa Jun as orc
hundred and fourteen ihoufand dollars IN.
accounted for. Ina fearch of This kind
the two tlouics Of Congrefs could not
have been overlooked, who have proved
their capacity as %iervants Of the people by
hutting their doors upon their lords and
matters that they might iecyet!y place two
millions of their dollars in the hands of
the PRECEDENT.
After contemplating this groupe of
worthless, our attention might next have
been naturally directed up TO the man OF
The people himfeif. Here we could have
been fhewn abundant profs Of his hyperion
qualifications for the high aation he fills
His exploits on Carter's Mountain would
have (atished US as TO his heroifm in the
field And his wifdom in the cabinet
could have been equally sapparont by his
fuccefs in defroying our navy and then
contracting a dry dock for its preferva-
ton by uuatebiag our barbarous enc.
mics in the Mediterranean aUitb tbe 6maL-
Ell pGF6k force, 70 efeaually, that only
a few OF our hips and citizens hayefaller
into their hands and by tending Mini
fer Munroe to the Courts of Spain land
France with TWO MILLIONS OF DOL
LARS in his pocket TO purchafe for US The
u(e of one of our rivers, which an ana4.
tboyied iudiviGuDl had seeladld. How
amiably ALTO could he have been arrayed
in all the private virtues For religion,
his friend Paine would have readily vouch-
ed. And the receipts Of Calender would
| prove his warm b~encyolence, his charity
10 the diareR and his obliging eourte-
o%ninefa in publicly praifng rhofe, Whole
chaxaaers he thought it his duty iecretly
TO dearoy. AS for the morality, if any
of bis enemies had expreaed a doubt or
that fubjea, they might have been refer
red to Mr.. Walker and his lady or even
70 Bis oqvu domsfies.
But it Teens that the great maj
of talent is with the democrats" anc
"-this necelarily aries from the principles
which decide their politics." Thus il
plain Englifh, the Democrats have the
moa talent, becaufe-shey are Democrats.
We beg our readers will not lufer them
felves TO be convinced by this ingenious
realon till they have peruied the following
elegan, and appropriate extract from the
Gazette of the United States.
(" Do the virtues, talents and patriot
i'm of Warrington. Of Adams, Of Jay,
of Ellfworth, Of Pinckncy, of King, of
Ames, Of Pickering, Of Hamilton, Of
Marlhall, or of Dexter, fade in compa-
riion with ,hoe which are now prefented
in the perfons Of the faye Of Monticello,
the Genevan fecretary, or with thofe OF
our recently appointed Envoy TO France,
thofs of MI. Charles Pinckney, or thoie
Of the Worccfer Farmer!
SIS the FLY vanity, boyih petulance,
difgufing prefumption, and arifocratic
pride, of thar contraction Of man, Ran
dolph, more TO be honoured, valued,
and reipeded, than the e~xtenGye know
ledge, the comprehensive mind, the DIFF.
eliminating judgment, the clear, clofe
aud conclutlse realoning of Grifwold?
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