Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-04-18

". 10 exhibit in yourcoaduct, RE. converse
.&f the sentiment, and Of sometimes acting
wisely TO i,tcu}eate All ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ent.
5 You published once, indeed, my lord YOU
did, and your fdl Notes on Virginia will
eyince il. some scA aud flowing sentences
to prove the danger OF admitting Aliens to
IN sovernment; bdr since fflat
time you have. spoken softerEe] coaches 10.
the soul to invite them 70 its prohts---slnce
that time YOU have initiated foreigners into
the secrets Of our cabinet. opened WIDE
9yosr arms ofembrsce towards then, ana
placed the Ef1 porse.striaSs OF the natfon N
their hands. Wherefore these opposite
eDinions Are they 10 be loand IL the
honest fetlipgsof sirtuaas recantation, or
in. tlaose. of a vile and sinister apostaeJ -
Iaaeknowledge ard fetfact onr errors, and
more especially political, requires maS7a-
.nimitv. ATagnaninlffy, my lord, isag great.
ness Of senl--lt deais notin low AID secret
stratageln--i. cntseat yoar Iort.shiP not to
think Of Washington and Mazsei, Of Cal
lender and Adams, aad thea to det@uce the
ingerence.
TO follow soutFsopga All tI1c wipdings
of your conduct, TO array before The pubic
each opinion you have Published wish IT'S
present contrast. wouij DC an undertaking
IS unnecessary+ss II isindelinile. The wcrjd
las seen the most Of them already, and the
thinking part of it I1trpst hes stored thern
i n indelibls record. shall leave you chen
to your own arrahsemene Of the subject
and to that seif-opera;ion Of the rnind, which
cannot fail)to bring them IN review, Be-
fore however, tender You my "hoag9so
of adieu, suiffer~rne rc ask, ny Lord, have
YOU apyrecolIection Of certain letters winch
YOU wrote from Paris in the year 1853 and
1889, upon the subject of tue constitution;
and that a frierdof yoursless fortunate than
jealous, published partial extracts from
them IN go, TO vindicat5 your federalism.
I shaifnot stophere to enqaire ofyour lord
ship, whether it was The oficious act OF
friendship which prorea you what YOU never
were, or whether YOU have since discerned,
that t. he federallst TO De tory. W5hs-
tiler you ever We're y federaIistand have ab-
iured the appellagioh or whe.il~r YOU were
then what nov tniak You, bosh an 81
= ia,b9st0f and an c5b0state.'
The extracts b 9aich aliude are row
before me-, and give me Ieava <o.soliei:yom
attant;ea tneioEov ing quotatloIt: Speak
ing of the constitution, voa say, : tie 81
m feature which dlsls&c and qreatig e,Is-
Ike Is the st,andonmeut il eye inst&nce-of
the necessity oirotati0n in otaee, AID MOST
PARTICULARLy INTHE CASE OF THE PRE-
sIDENT?" Here, my Lord, 1t us pause
together. In that DAY OF danger and ua-
certainty, when the people CT America
were, tossed upon the fembe5tno1ts sea O
liberty without an anchor-w without a ruI,
der to their bark, you raised your voice
of dissent to The only measure which al
that tire could secure both their liberties
and their safety. | say, my LORD, You
objected to tie constitution, because there
was no provision iii the Instrument estab-
fishing rotation in the presidential off e.
Its not my object to examine tile proprie-
ty Of such aprlnciple. 1t might be howe
yer but common charity TO think, thatyour
objection flowed from the purest, principle
of the love Of country. sl'he chains Of A. !
merica's political tflraldoln had Just been
rent asunder, and in the re-elgibihg OF
the President you saw too much of.pgesi-
=
RI Sc noses % Y .sginia Ian eli.ion p,sts
90. 81, .e2.
see The ~ -aagc TO ccrgrst. il B celnbes
1901
"a AIbert GslIs.tjo, 2 Gereysf:. is the Ser,
reta'y Of the i,ieafuty, The f5fns A'b2rt vito /
WIS Secretary al Etadack's % feds 10 TIC
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