Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-09-02
From the CnARLEsros ceuR1ER.
.coRREGIDoR's Sd LETTER.
To Msssrs. DALLAS and his fellozs address
ers of Philadelphia.

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When men Of rank sacrifice all ideas of dignity to
an ambition without diGina object, and work with
low intrume nts; and for low ends the whole compo
ton becomes low and bale. BURKE.
There is a story sxtant of young lady
who, being very vain OF her beauty, aud of
the conques,s which her charms had made,
was unexpectedly seized with the small
pox, and that of a quality so virnlent, that
the beauty, of face, in which she took SO
much pride, was all at once converted into
downright deformity. As sooa as she re-
covered so far as to rise from her bed of
sickness, she resorted to her dear old frisRd
the looking glass, when the trighttul spec.
tacle which she saw reflected there, had
such sudden effect upon her brain, that
she became at once deranged, and SO con-
finued to be, till she died. Your address,
rsstlemen. is mirror In which the Pohti-
cal visage of your party is SO faithfully re.
fec,ed, that, if you had notsmuch more OF
that steel which resists Impressions on the
heart, than that poor young lady had, IT
might we'll be expected GO set you crazy.
If Il makes any impression at all on you,
however, beyond that of the moments ex'
pediency, i, is likely to be salutary one.
That impression, therefore, will endea.
yor % deepen, by calling back to your re-
solleetiou, in aid of your own abstract de-
acrip.ion, q picture of the abomlnaele ,Prac-
tices by which yovr party succeeded IN
driving the fedsrslisss from the government
sfthe Union; and will compare them as
so aIsng with your own observations In
your address. :.
AS the faction whichrose against the di.
vine Moses said, "ye take too much upon
psurseioes - so you gentlemen, with Judge
MsKean at your head, (the humble instra-
ments of our present ruler) did say OF the
federalists; in like manner, and by your
lauadable example Mynheer Schneidher,
aud the conspirators of Philadelphia, ROW
saw TO governor M'Kean and you, "ye
take too much upon yourselves" gou sow.
ed the wind, and you are now reaplsg the
=viIisl.virtl. And, aa Shylock says TO the
Christians in the play, SO the said Mr..
Schneidher may say teyou, T" the villainy
you taught me will execute; and it
shall 90 hard but will better the instruc.
item"
You find it-expedient atlastt to denouuce
caixmny calumny you now observe to be
q wicked thing, since il fixes Its poisoned
tooth in yourselves. What then Have
you already forgotten the infamous, the at
trocious ealumnies with which youall blast
ed the first characters inyour country, In
order to give to your fayorite, MIR. Jeffer-
son, a e-emnience which truth and nature
denied aim by means of which, you con.
triyed to eli the unthinking men ofthe
union with diecord, the very same iealou.
sies, unjust suspicious, and hatreds of the
federalists, against which you, N your adj
dress, so ably and pashetically declaim !;
and first elected those sparks OF revolution.
airy fame which now threaten to consume
yourselves, aud which you are now striving
Il hope, not in vain) to extinguish g.
What - have you forgotten the monstrous
cheatipg jargon; the low ale house cantc
the vile revolutionary commonplace gab-
bic, as destitute OF meaning as it was Preg.
nant with mischief and villaipy, which was
voided by your party upon such names as
Washington, Hamilton, Pinckney, Davie,
Marshal, Morgan, Lee, Howard. Miller,
Lincoln, Knox, Huntingdon, and thou
sand others, who you all knew had fought
for American Independence, calling them
foes to republicanism, though their sweat
and blood had established this country a re-
public? DO not your consciences tell you
that you foully belied your own hearts and
sennmea;s, when, by every vile arti6ce
which an uugovernable luss for offoe, pow
or, place, and profit could dictate or in.
vent, you represented those founders aud
defenders of our commonwsal, as enemies
to the federal constitution, and to the free.
dom of its people!
You talk of the constitution: Yes; you