Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-06-22
From the wAsHrNcToN FrDrRAIrsT.
To the President Of the United States
FRIEND THOMAS,

plain unsophistlcated man, tho at the
..Ine time very learned one. Will yoe
ermit me, man, as plain as you are, who
Lives by the sweat of his own brow, who
eds his mouth, and the mouths OF his
hildren by the labor ofhis own hands. who
.,as no mental endowments but li.tls
ommon good sense, to address lew
word to you?
take but one newspaper and that IS the
National Intell1gencer. 1 take this paper,
because tits the Official paper, for have
no opinion of Mr.. Smith either as an I'M
partial or honest Editor. In reading his
paper of Friday, March 2d; observed a
mighty elogium upon your virtues, talents,
aud greatness. was not at all surplzed
that Smith should be as wiling to bedaub
YOU with praise, as barber would Mac
aroni's head with pomatum, because as
with the latter the more pomatum the more
pence I; SO with Smith the more praise the
more pence also; but my surprize has been,
that YOU to Smith should be the N1acaroni
to the barber. An. idea has struck me
which wonder has not been published
elsewhere, that the publication of ehis,. Hae.
gvrick attaches an objectionable degree Of
immodesty, and iaeecency upon YOU. |
have reasoned tnus: Ii / were 70 send a
piece for publication to 5 nith's paper, COR
demnat9r, oi yoar administration, as well
rs OF ,ourp. Iitical q pertinent would it ODE
tain placs No. TIE thing has been fri
ed. The laestionic medlately occurs, WHY
nots Because it is the government paper,
il is Ir. JefF-rsoa's paper, It IS support
by HIN, a.d if would be to make the adm
n::stra;ion co.nmit kind OF felo de sc as tie
l.,wyers call II. upon itself. Il would BE- to
make MIR. !efetson cut his own throat. If
then-l aese reasons be correct, for the non
publication Of anti jeacrsonian remarks, on
account Of your own intimacy with the pa
per, surely it follows IN effect that any en-
lagy uron Yourself, is your own eulogy ujn-
on yourself, and when we hear, friend JEFF
ferson, tae sound of subimated praise up
on himself, streaming from Your own pa.
per, is not the breath which fills the some
rons horn thu breath of your own lu:gG
The cirtunsta" &C OF past bending en-
rirely TO YOUR ln?erious will, sounding your
praises AID rsi.cti"g the remotest deroga-
ton from von because voD@re the father
anci uph .'der Of the paper, makes you the
tra..., :, Ger ofvoul own per!ectipns. How
would it differ from the case of your post
ing of from the one end Oft continent 10
the other singing your own praises and
toasting your ownself with these words Ia
bel'ed on your front (the same words pub
lished inypur pafer ia the eulogium alluded
toy 81 am Thomas Jefferson the man of
= whom it may suffice to say that before
" his country called him to the exercise of
t' the highest office in its gift was emphtti
{" caly denominateI the man Of the people.
This say is the height of immodesty,
indecency and vanity, though the panegy-
rio were of the most refined and incest ma
ture. But friend Thomas you have praised
Yourself, or at least, have Willingly permit
ted Yourself to be praised, IN manner
which IS calculated not only TO rxcite alarm
among your foes, but your friends; you
have lacerated friendship more than enmi
'nity; you have braudlshed over your
frie. .,ls the threatening arm of power in tn,
first sentence of this encomiastic Moroccan
Let us now examine each sentence of j..
We may anticipate without much pre
sumption, that the nominations of Presi-
{. dent AMI Vice President made by the
"republ:can members of Congress, will be
6 universally acceptable 10 the friends o.
6 liberty throughout tie Union.
Now in the name of atl flats simple,
what is here anticlPated withope much pre-
sumption? Why that your nomi .ation to-
the Presidency again, will be universally
acceptable to the friends oflberty. This,