Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1803-12-22
From the MerO-19rk Evening Past.
NEW PAMPHLET.
NUMBER II.

We. closed our last number Of the re-
view Of this interesting and valuable per-
formaace with an extract showing that CO.
vernon Clinton had at least as poor an OPT
Mon of Mr.. Jefferson, as statesman and a
republican, as the federalists themselves
have always had. We have seen that he
declared in terms, that g he had long en-
ts,tained an aaJavorable opinio,l 81 1Nr. 1ef
teraotl's talents as a statesman, and his firm
MSS as a republican. And is it not for our
having been frank and open in expressing
these very sentiments that the Clintonians
have for years been necessarily branding
us as the most wicked calumniators p
Again; wehave seen, that Governor Gin
ION at the same time declared, that " he
conceived M. 9egersou 10 be an aecommo-
dating trimmer, zoho zDeuld change 7vith
tines and bend Nth circumstances, far The
!. purposes Of bsysonQ5 bromotion ?" Let me
now ask if the federaIists have ever pub
lished any thing worse of Mr.. Jefferson as
public man than this? Does it not indeed
amount, in plain language, to saying that
he was an unprincipied villain who would
atchieye his own personal sgrandizement
at the price, if necessary, Of his country's
rain? Ethink in al conscience this is speak
ing i'll enough Of any one; it is not, very
easy TO represent a man in much verse
light than his excelleney has Mr.. To
proceed, g Impressed 1siththese sentiments,
he c0uld nat Nth propriety, (said Governor
Chnton1 dcg5ueSce IN tlae elevation ia man
destitute ofthe qualifications essential to the
good administrator Of the government
believe not indeed. After declaring him
to be without either talents or integrity, it
gas hardly necessary to add, that g he
could not acquiesee in his elevation. 49,
G But, sale he, with energy, if Mr.. Burr
syas The candidate, l zoouia act Nth pleasure
nd uith Uigor.o Would you so Cover
nor? or did you only mean to come little
barney over the ColoaeI? Because if your
confidential friends are to be believed, you
at that time thought aim every whit as bad
a man as Mr.. Jefferson, and very much
,uch a character. That 1.-THE public may see
sc do not speak e without book we will
refresh the Governors memory with few
passages from work said to be written BY
MS hopeful nephew, De Witt Clinton, or
bv his instrument James Cheetham, but at
any rate published with his appreciation
and openly patronized by him andby all the
party, From this it viii appear that the
turPitude of Col. Burr is not a late disco
verys but was as well known to them all at
the very period when the Governor swore
he would promote his election, with all his
soul, as it isnow.
In the first open attack made on Colonel
Burr, in pamphlet entitled, g 4 nara
t'es ct The suRpression BY Col. Bu5r," &c.
page 10, he IS declared to be man sshabi.
fnated to secret moOeHsents and dark co5as1.l-
tatioaa," guided by " isordinate giews at
bersonal au1btiozl," and one in whom The
btlofsc can re7bose NJ confidence. In page
20, however, his character is thus drawn
by them at fall length: /" It's fearful to
refect ttf'on zoaat our condition 7vsula, IN all
processing DC, acre Mr. Burr at The he'd