Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-04-14

administration. They have fold our bank
fock they have fold our veGsls of war !.
fome fay they have fold the big ones, and
are going TO build litsle ones, which viii
be eafer to take into the dry docks.
In the famous Mamouth handblII, (if
is rot quite as large, in luperhcisl extenr,
as my FIVE acre clover lot) above allud-
ed TO, the fellow who wrote il, ansGin
like, has in the daik, for he conceals his
| name, made yiolent fab at the charac-
ter OF cur federal candidate, MIR. Lewis.
Among ether things a!ledged againif him,
| ne repreients him as a man OF desperate
fortune, embarrailed in his circumstances,
and, therefore, iii reafonable 10 fnppolc
thar war would be deiirable to him. Mr..
M'Ilhaney, who is Mr.. Lewis's friend,
and engaged in promoting his election, is
a rich man, and, therefore, he would with
for war!!! This is a f ecimen OF demo-
cratic logic.
The fame lying icribbler has aGer,ed,
that Col. Chaplain had declared thar he
fhould not vote for Mr.. Lewis, and ex.
prened his furprife that any body would
prefer him to MIR. Brent. To prove this
a lie, / need only here infert Col. Clap
hams certificate, which was ported over
the court houfe door, al Leefburg, on The
day Of The election.
" 70 qsbom ii may concern.
!" Whereas / am informed, that lome
6 oppofed to Mr.. Jofeph Lewis's election
to Congrefs, have, without my leave
s or content, informed many freeholders
$ that / was oppofsd to faid Lewis's
g election, &c. &c. I, therefore, leaif that
8 report lhould influence any Of my
6 friends, hereby certify, that! fad re
q port is not true and if, by any means,
my health will fafer me to be At the
&C election, ] will convince all TO the con
/" trary Ifnot, ! hereby declare, that
I" l greatly prefer faid Lewis TO his oP
& ponert, Mr.. Brent Given under my
!" hand this 9Th day of April, 1904.
tSignedl,
!" JosIAs CHAPLAIN"
Col. Chaplain, although very feeble,
did come to the elect ion and voted for Mr..
Lewis.
Mr.. John Welt, man whom ] eAeem
for his integrity and good morals, has
TENT out handbill, MIR itds thing, in.
which he complains bitterly that the good
eQgfs of republicaniim has been ezpoied-
by him. He gavsia note TO Mr.. Lewis.
certifying that a democratic member IN
the Houie OF Delegates, at Richmond laf
FELTON,, declared that he would rather give
2.7oo dolls. thar is, Of the public money,
TO printer Of their own party, than 500
dolls. to any man of different politics
Mr.. Lewis, inaead Of locking up 70 pre-
cious document, has expoled it TO pub
lie view. Mr.. Wet concluded his la.
inevitable tory, by telling US that it is
the inscref of republicans, and them only,
to fave the public money What he means
by this ! know not. For alght ! can
fee, he might as well have told US about
the tage upfetting with him laa fall, as
he went TO Richmond, and that he had
like to have had his neck broke by it.
The god eaghs would have been promoted
as much by relation of fuch fatal diff
after, as this pitiable nory about giving a
certificate TO Mr.. Lewis.
would jua beg leave to remark, thar
although there is now no danger but MIR.
Lewis will be elected yet thar the friends
of Warrington and Adams, and Of courfe
Mr.. Lewis's friends, ought not on that
account to feel caselefs about it. Let US
give proof to all the union, that there
IS Respectable majority in the difriet
bordering on the feat OF government, that
are attached 10 Good government.