Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-09-14


every solicitation of private interests.
s. You talk of secret ffibunais--you con-
denim them-you denoance them. You
are right, as to the thing; but, as con-
nected with your own past conduct, you
are unut,erably shan. sless IN mentioning
them. Did not the editor of the paper in
which these letters are published, two years
ago, in terms which one would think could
mot be controve,ted or resisted, expose to.
public view, the wicked purposes and dan
sgerous teudency of YOUR secret tribunals :
your caucuscs: which he very justly COM
pared, in their origin, nature, tendency,
and ultimate end: trust IN God ne may
mot turn out prophet In it): TO the Jaco-
bin club OF Paris, and its first institution.
How has your party triumphed over the
nation, and trampled upon It's patriots
Why, by secret trisunass-by caucuses--in
which few bad, shabby, impudent men
assumed to utter their own evil purposes as
the voice of the people, and then made
the people believe that it was really their
own voice. You too, Mr.. Logan! Has
your last transmigrasion taken place sove
~ lately that you forget the secret TRIBUNAL
1.-The caucus held q. Washington, which
you in person attended? Iimpeach YOU,
sir, before the tribunal Of American Peo-
pie, of having (shough you now set your
name tosa public condemnation ct secret
jtribunals) been one of a secret trlounal---a
caucus at Washington, which, though con-
posed of no more than ten members, did
lmpuden,ly assume to declare 1t their de.
cision (thereby cheating the people into &C
quiescence with that decision that the
people of the Uuited States should vote for
Mr. Clinton as e.president. Those Sc
cret tribunals-.hose star-chamber proceed.
ings have been fully explained, and CONS
pletely laid barein all their naked inquiry.
by MIR. Butler and Mr.. Elliot. With what
face then can you speak of secret tribunals,
without first casting yourselves in humllla-
,ion and repentance, on your knees, before
the world, and, i'll sackcloth and ashes,
begging pardon of God and your country,
for your own practices in that very kind!
Gentlemen, YOU say that much is due to
governor M'Kean for his patriotic services
as a member of the congress OF IRIS
Here you completely disclose the injustice
of your nature. Is there any thing more
due to governor M'Kean fer being q n1em-
| Der OF that congress, than to any Other OF
those persons who composed il? | should
hope that you will not openly insist that
there is. Then why had you not the same
consideration for judge Chase, when he
was under the ba'barous persecution sad
hunt, in full cry, of your whole open
mou,hed pack? Was he not member of
the congress of l775. and were not his SER
! vices cceval and coordinate with the revo-
luton? Yet it procured him no favor from
you, no indulgence, no tender consldera-
tion-No, sirs; nor would the merits OF
/ Mr.. MKean either, in the congress Of
l775-they would BIZ drowned dead, aud
left torotin cold oblivion, If the hewane
society of democrats had not brought them
to life with a dose Of the Rights of Man,
/ and good chahog before the flames Of le-
yelling liberty and equality.
! Speaking of the Schneiders, you say,
g all zuhc- could not get office, became dfSap-
| pointed, disconnected, and host'ie." A pre-
! else picture of yeur own party. Was rot
| Mr.. MtKean iederalist till general Wash.
irg,on refused TO give him Office? Thea
he became furious democrat. Was not
MIR. Livingston federallst till Washing
| ton refused to make him chief ijrStice Of
the United States? Then he found his p {"
litics shift. with MS discomfort, 4iSabiboint.
ment, and resentment, and he turned de,
mocrat teo. Was not Mr.. Charles P!nck-
ney fedeyslist till general Washington re-
fused to make him envey to Great Britain :
The sequel is kaown.
"Governor M'Kean you say IS SIR
rounded ruth spies ana, informers. zoh0 dis
tort all his actions, s. fa}sjfy allhis vords. F"
Is Dot tais the very, game which your party
nlayed arainst Mr. Adams1 Did not Mr.