Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-10-09
From the PEOPLES FRIEND.
TO The HONORABLE THOMAS JEFFERSON,
Presidsnt United States.

President United States.
SIR,
The ancxampled feeblsness aud lmPo.
licy of YOUR administration, has az length
encompasssd you with difficulties OF too
: great magnitude and nanser. tor spirit
and .aleass such as yours - sncoaanter'
with the snnsIlest probability OF success
. The very arts by which you crept into pow
err, aud the wretched sySiena -ot policy ~
which YOU have for 80 many years retaihes
ycur popularity are now, IN the nasurai
course Of their operation, reyolsing PACK
upon yoursegf-to take hint trosa oae ~
your own notable cfnsiens, !" lhe fuii1iaS
of yoor experimerss'' is turning, Eowr rolls
back upon you and Gibbs apace, and you are
driven 10 an alternative the most grIevous
imaginable to your personal feshngsi ell
Their TO meet Spain or her mistress ; rance
Ia the field, or 20 betaks YOU to the more
innoxious folly of caricaturing natural PAL
losophy, snd writing notes upon gnais az
Monticello. Your situation IS, indeed, so
emphaticaiIy miserable, tina; not 20 pity yol
were grsat crime, if not 20 condemn you
were not greater.
He who has the power, the purse,
and the patronage of an oPalens nation
at his command, as you have, will never
want defenders. however worthless ne may
b. himseii, .ir however wicked his purpose.
You have had yours. Neverdid me noun,
rains of Switzerland pour down into the
rich plains of Europe. at the cali OF muir
derous ambition. more herce or unprlnci.
pied horde of hireIisgs than have graced
your march through afuincus adm;nlssra-
gsion of six years. The fernenss OF the
worle were favorable 10 you in this respect,
throwing up on The surface of society su.
perabuEdaace Of that kind OF retirement
which was most suitable TO your purpose,
and enabling you to enlist on seur side, :.
gaiDss the good Of your country, host OF
auxiliaries, who found in you en- object
they could espouse without she slighsesS de-
fecii5n from their own feelings, end in
yosrs, a System which they night defend
without apostatlzing from their own prsoc'-
piles. In one respect they afforded you an
nnsqu2lled advantage over the good men
who were your adversaries. They had
learned in lhe French schoolto allow tfl<fi,-
solves no checks from those moral laws,
which it was the primary work OF the
.FrencA revolution TO destroy. Provided
she end was attained, they f.l: no repug-
nance about the means by which they az.
tanned it. The barriers OF truth being long
broken down, or else ovsrieaped, the I'M
bounded field of invocation lay open TO
,taem, and there they ranged az large 10
search of attributes for your decoratlon,
which your modes;y never before dreamed
of, and of facts, for your support, which
never had exissance. They were at call to
enforce your purposes, By the Arguments
which it was most competent TO such heads
and such hearts TO help you to. Iheywsre
ready 20 scribble aud TO brawl IS we'll as
they - i'd, and to murder the fame ana the
means of the best men of the land. So
long, therefore. as story, no matter whe.
ther true or false, told without blush,
argued upon with hee,oring eElontsry, aud
backed with influence and Office, could
serve for your support, all went we'll with
sycu. So long as scen.ing OF putt paste
praise, was s,rong enough 10 support you,
you were safe. Your measures IN any de-
,partmens could not want for panegyrists,
since in every department. there ware emo.
luments aud Offices at your disposal. Tho
YOU had no cour,-creasure specially paid &
appointed TO pander the muses. for formal
birthday ode, you had a multitude of enco-
Smiasts who could talsify in prose and who,
however deficient 10 the inspiration which
comes from the highest heavenot inveasion,
were more than match for any Poetlsurear
of them all. IN venality. You may Indeed
be said to have converted the union into a
nation of prosers who hobble it out with
very common substitutes for the poeiical
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