Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1803-12-21

ton charged With SOpHlSlry IOF dSiSHd-
ing the constitution In the convention
His g sophistry (says the writer conceal
ed the deiorn,ty OF the Instrument" We
confess we can no more comprehend the
policy, than we can allow the truth OF this
charge, made at this time, In a work pro-
fessedly devoted TO the defence OF Mr.
Burr, and to theexposition OF the base and
unprinciPied views OF tie CIntonlans.
The writer pretends to be able to trace
b...ek the ennity, which he SAYS, the Clln-
ton family have uniformly borne Mr., i;urr,
TO Mr.. BIS having sided with Judge Yates
when he was a candidate against Governor
Clinton. He occupies several pages in a
mahDer. not very intera sting, ia answering
lie author of /" a gtetv attic polsticaI c0A-
apet Of daron Burr" Til he comes down
70 I598. aN ear, according to him, Hpreg-
nantwi portentous events At this time
he teils us, Chancellor Livingston came
forth wigF his claims on the chief magistra-
" oftle state. ITO crafty the extreme
anxiety and oficious sohcitude Of Chancd-
lor Liyingator, as well as pacify the cla-
mourous vanity of his relations, the repuo-
Ican party, after much hesitation, agreed
to support that g learned" parsonage for
the chief magistracy. His want of popula-
riSy was SO well known, hat nothing could
have induced this ine1pedient MEASURE, but
a desire to shew the fu5iliy OF MS preten-
sions, and thus in future avoid his unceas-
ing opportunities; for about this period,
this gentleman and his numerous connecti-
ous, though notol1ously destitute of claims
upon the public, and of all attachment to
the principles ofrepubiicanisn, strenuous
y advanced claims to power"
Now does this not exhibit very curious
inside view? Here there was whole party
actively engaged throughout the great state
of New-York, Clintons, Livingstons, and
Burrites, and the people in all parts of the
country, were wrought up into ferment,
10 promote the election of man to the
Chief Magistracy, who, according TO their
present confessions, had no attachment to
republican principles, and whose election
they did not themselves expect to effect,
but had taken him up as their candidate
merely to show that he had no popularity
ard could not succeed. "The result of
the election Continues he) terminated as
7uas joreseen in the defeat and modification
of SIR. Livingston, and confirmed the con-
vlctlon OF thel party, that the people had
no confidence in his political integrity -
Pretty well methinks! Go on gentlemen!
only continue as YOU have begun, and sure
enough we shall bye and byehave viezv Of
the 1Vh0le ground
Much Credit IS then assumed for Mr.. Barr FER
his exc TORS IN procuring the approp iatiop Of
money 10 fostity cur hafbours at an extra meet.
'ng OF the legislature in August 1898, "zvheu
feafral policy trad nearly iavoived rs IN qva,.,
Really We think il is high time shst the ground
less and wicked caiumay againsf the federal ad.
:fniStfatton on this score should cease. The
authors CT these sie,ders have derived all the adj
vantages from them that they ever proposed
their misrepresentation have been rewarded by
offices and power, and they should have too much
manllness TO conrioue ehe,n any longer. Of all
clanouTs ever raised by them against the fede.
rallsss this is the most barcfacea /; for if they
Will turn to the flies of Congress, they will find
that even tleir most jealous partizans there al.
lowed that the conducr OF the French towards us
az that time was too insuffe.able to receive a
countenanoe from any one. The pauphleteer in
this, as IN several OTTER things has INDUCED his
spleen or hss resentment i'll manner Injurious 70
! ttsth and unworthy of any cause.
He IS most invetesate enemy to all aliens
and TO the alien law, and pefceives that Mr. Burr
was wrong wbef he opposed the Massachusetts
amendment 10 1893, which went to exclode all
ems from our rational ccnnei!s. Those slens
have since stun8 Mr. Burr to tie very vitals. and
now all the s local dissentiops Of political ma.
ture, are said TO have sorginated exclusively
with them.
This brings him to 1900, when the assembly
republican ticker for tlis city wss made Up, as