Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-09-10


an enemy to our form Of government, tho
The had devoted himself, and given his la-
lbors TO establish and defend it and which
1 pronounced Mr.. Adams to be dotard and
hoary incendiary: Pray, gentlemen, re-
collect yourselves, and assuming, for once
! in your life, little candor, answer me
for Gas Shylock says +" Tau kae5o: you
knew: none so nell: none so VelLas you.n,
who was it that did hire, and did pay, and
did weN reward Calender OF whom YOU
speak so unkipdly-Who was IL, Irepea.,
that hired him to calumniate, more fouly
and falsely than ever man was before ca
cumniated, general Washington, general
Hamilton, and other Vetrrans Of the re-
ooAution, and republicans Of the dug O tri-
ist2" Finally, answer, who trampled up
on your predecessors services anu merits,
and rose to power by doing so Wasisnot
yourselves and your party?
You complain of persons being deprived
OF Office for having asserted, and made use
Of their free rights ofe'ection. Give a jog
to your memories, and bid fhenl tell
you wha: were the motives Of your chief.
tain, Mr.. Jefferson, for putting out Of Of
flee host of federalists, of high talents,
sposless fame, eminent public services, and
names without the shadow OF reproach. II
Il; should happen that it was because they
did not, and would not vote for him, you
Ehavc driven few nails in the coffin Of his
character, in vain attempts to save your
own. fyon,are sincerein your reproba-
ton of depriving persons OF Office tor as
sorting and using the freedom OF electioa,
how comes it that you are now advocates
| for Governor M'Kean, and recommend
him to re-electioa, when y0u know-l say
you do know-that he, the said Gov. M
Kean, did turn Mr.. Campbell, Mr.. Foot
man, and others, oct of office, simply be-
tcause they had not voted for him. In
truth, Mr.. Dallas You, in particular,
have hard card to play on this occasion,
between your private interest and your new
tangled public integrity. 1t is little hard
upon you to be obhgsd TO sigma paper con-
d.mning displacement and prescription
while you are Illustrating IN the comforts
and convenences of place, out of which
Mr. Jefferson turned Mr.. John WAes Kit
terra, to accommodate you, and reward
your zeal in the cause Of free election.
When you say. Tothe elevation Of bad
men the brostrafion Of good men has ever
been fund a necessary brelude," it would
be we'll 10 inform the public, at the same
time, what you think of the men to whose
elevation the prostration of Washington,
and those who fought by his side in the re-
evolutionary war, was deemed necessary
and attempted. Had you any hand in that
attempt! And, ifyou had, was it upon
the principle just cited from your address
you did so, knowing Washington and his
brother heroes and patriots to be good |?
Or have you drawn that inference from
your knowledge of the kind of persons to
accomplish whose elevation it was thought
necessary to PROSTATE that grea. man-the
father OF his country.
=" Tie zUorst viezOs Of jaction you say }
are pursued uader Professions Of the best"
Though there is nothing very new in this
observa ion, and the papers opposed TO
| your party have reiterated it thousand
| times, notice II because am gao 10 add
such superior authority as yours must be
on thar subject, 10 that of others. When
you were an actor in,it, you knew but one
half of it; and, with your accustomed
n,odesty. remained silent. But now that
you are likely to be suf1rer by ii, you
knew all, and you speak out what you
know.
Your complaint Of 6 the yrany q prin.
1ers. is natural enough. Itis equally ma.
tural that you should have overlooked that
tyranny so long, as you were not the OBJ.
j. of it, since, in the sufrlirss Of o hers
Philosophers Tx. you are seldom wanting
in laudablc patience. Ii is htile unfor.
tuna,e for YOU however, that when that ".
ranny was exercised with degree OF 1igoi
! diaboiically uurelentng, upon your prede'
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