Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-04-04
From the Charleston Courier.

prove If their measures were such as we
could thinks salutary, and their conduct, as
it respects the government OF the country
were such as we thought unexceptlonabie,
1bereris in the morals, the manners-the
hearts in short of the far greater number OF
their servitors, advocates, and literary a.
cents. an inveterate badness, that would
tarnish the lustre Of the best actions OF the
party; cankerworm OF injustice, false
hood and detraction, more pernlclous to
private intercourse, more injurious to pub
lie decorum, than all the political good they
could do, if ever so willing,would counter
balance. Success, which is the surest test
of the heart, renders them more tyrannlcal
and malignant. The tricks, the falsehoods
and the unworthy Vaccinations which they
have so successfully played of and made
ladder to power; now when they have got
that power, they continue, out OF useless de-
pravity, SHINING without any other object
than sin. Iniuring others without the ex~
cuse of se1f-interest to plead in extenuati-
on of their crime, as ifmalevolence were IN
them like hunger, thirst, and the natural
calls of the body for rejection, a matter of
physical necessity, the demands OF which
they must either supply, or perish of mani
ton. Now when their ravening maws
might be upposed@suficient}y, glutted with
the slaughter of their prey now when they
have driven off with their howlings, all who
escaped with life from their talons and their
teeth, like vultures they begrime their
beaks with the dead, and like the hyena and
the iackall tear up from the graves the pu-
trifed carcases, of their old worn out fabri-
cations to gorge and safe their foul and FL
thy appetites.
We have had occasion several times
within the short space Of the Curriers' exis-
tence, to call the public attention to the re-
peated attacks made upon Mr.. Timothy
Pickering, in those antl-federal prints,
which we denominate purely jacobinical.
The circumstance upon which those attacks
are founded, the length of time which has
elapsed since it took place, the forwardness
with which that gentleman met or rather
courted inquiry, and the neglect of that
party to have the matter investigated, form
altogether tissue of circumstances which
would forbid any thing short of consum-
mate depravity and impudence from over
hauling the subject SO often, and SO inetfec-
tually. Mr.. Pickering, accused by them of
being public defaulter, stands forth in de-
hance, and says to them, investigate and
prove before you brand my fame" A COM
mittee is appointed to do so, but nothing is
done. Four years elapse, and his accusers
take no other step towards making good
their charge, than those most suitable to
their views, and most congenial TO their
morals, manners and feelings; foul news
paper calumnies, in which they persevere
with an obstinacy and efrontery that the
most vicious-and impudent might blush to
own. a rational and an honest man would
argue thus---ee Either Mr.. Pickering is
guilty or he is not. II he rs guilty, it is
gross misdemeanor in you. gentlemen, who
accuse him, not to follow your accusation
UP to the execution of law and justice. If
he is not guilty, your calumnies are base,
objectionable, infamous. No proposition
in Euclid is more capable Of demonstration
than this. Then why 30 they not bring
the man to trial, or cease to calumnlate?'
But this would not answer their dishonest
purposes. Mr.. Pickerngs character is too
good to be left unblasted; it is an eye-sore,
a standing offence to them all There is a
superabundance, plethora Of good in it,
which those political Sangradoes think it
necessary to the maintenance of their own
professed quackery, to take away by occa-
sional bleeding. A trial they know would
put the thing for ever at rest, and the &C
quittal of Mr.. Pickering would deprive
them of,all pretezt, even such miserable
pretext as they are wiling to found ea-