Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-09-07

attSHpt 10 DeUEuI " lS'N-'Ao -
the wlckedaess of that same species OF de-
ception o aggravate the insult OF imPo.
sition, by LAYING claim TO merit tor expos
inp enormitv Nav, what is worse--to
complain Of, as a wrong done to the mseives
the most pre-eminently wicked, end bare
faced of all wrongs which they have
done 70 others. Messrs. Mskean, Dallas,
Logan, and Co. wish'you may succeed
against men much worse than yourselves
but whether you do or do not, you shall
not. escape me. You shall be laid before
the world. In that manifold and motley
tissue of political folly and wickedness, the
administration of our government for the
last four years, has any thing been SO loudly
or SO Justly complained OF, as the discharge
from public Office of the veteran revolution
rsary servants of the country? And have
you the effrontery--you the partizans OF
that administration-you, its agents, Its
councellors-you its political-artiflcers and
/ close contrvers OF harm-you abettors OF
it's Vaccinations and sharers IN itsspolls---
. have YOU the effrontery to complain, that
the merit of past services is oblIterated,
yes YOU have !!--even while all parts
of the union re-echo the groans OF its sa-,
cri6ced benefactors, and every breeze that
blows from every point OF the seaman's
card watts to our afflicted ears, the signs
ofthe revolutionary heroes driven from
their bread, and inundated at the shrine
of political vengeance, by the democratic
inquisition, by that crafty cruel priesthood
of the tights of man, of which you were
I conspicuous MISUNDERSTOOD have dared
to complain as awronG TO you, " that the
| merit of past services is obllterated. p
The whole union knows they have it still
before their eyes, it still rings in their ears
the press has not yet ceased to reVerbe
rate it day after day, without iutermission
land what is worse, you know say that
YOU know, ahayou are convinced that e.
very intelligent man, woman, and child III
the union, know that,the very worthiest of
our fellow citizens, who had profusely
squandered themselves, shed their blood,
wasted the prime of their manhood, ex'
hausted their constitutions and their means
land worn out their best years IN all the
horrors and hardships of warfare, tor this
country, have all been prescribed, by you,
and your party prescribed, mathematical,
pushed out of power, and out OF the pale
O. political salvation, and others put IN
their place, as if the only disqualification
for Office was meritorIous service TO the
country, and the only title to 1t the re-
verse. Yes ALL were prescribed /; all
bur those who were prudent enough to
consider themselves, and to atone for the
offence of having be en- virtuous, and for
the insulting plea of past services, by apos-
tscy from the good principles of their par.
ty to the pernicious views of yours, who
| wronged them.
And yet you can now insult the common
sense of the American people bv complain
ing that THE merit Of past services IS o6A-
terated." Account tor it, gentlemen, in the
| name of God conjure you-in the name
of the American people demand it OF
| you-render an account of the grounds on
which you have ventured upon this hazard
! Gus experiment of misadvised cunning
| this trick to obtain creditor services which
you never rendered, and to throw upoa
| your zdversaries the odium Of ingra!itude
/ for not paying to you debt which they ne
yer owed you. Isit that you think we arr
| all locked up in Sc much nlre than BaotIan
! stupidity, that we are ignorant OF, or in
sensible to, these truths--or so destitute
of all moral sentiment, as to look with
/ eyes of favor upon such things, accompa-
MED with avowal (efuivocal to be sure 10
words, but determinate in sense) OF their
turpitude? Cor, haveyou eat of the in.
sane root, which takes the senses prison
er?' And, with such mountain Of Of
fence on your backs, do you now talk Of
services -you of services! The men
THAT did truly serve the country, your party
have put out;of its service. Philadelphia
] has Witnessed the fall of a faithful servant