Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1807-11-24
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TRIAL
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Mor1os FOR coanlrMEsr.
ANIMATION OF EVIDENCE.
MosDAY, October s.

Z throw ntS properly suAV ~ tp -
ia order 10 have scramble tor part , o.
IL. However, che general observed, 'nas
The ob;ecs of the democrats was TO Prooucs
state OF anarchy and confession; 70 seeae
cn,he property Of the federaiists and d.
vide Il among themselves !; and this TOO
he,old me with 2 very serious face. VIII
make che observation here it's that these
commentators which | had with the gene
raj. were as different times, and i IS post
be thar 4 may not have classed them pre-
ciseJy IN peinr of time but ] am certain
that they did happen and pesrly as nave
stated and If The general wlIbe CANDID,
he will acknowledge il.
General EEJilkinson. Indeed will net.
He said that Pennsylvania was consuIs'
ed by the democrats yet they would not
succeed 10 turning out Mskran or introduc.
mo their afbisrauon system tbink that
tbs ended the conversation. We gos warm,
and the general threw open the door and |
walked out.
After dinner his orderly came tor me a.
gain. Iattended was taken into hisr room
sr.l the door fastened. he assumed
milder manDer, and assured me that the
politics not only of the u, S. but OF the
executive had changed; that The difference
between he presens aDd fotmer admins.
tra,ion was merely 10 name that parties
were kept alive by the cunning, 10 orderto
help them TO cfice or TO keep them IN that
she people mistook the chsiactsr ct Mr..
jefferson; lhas want Of energy was no
Dart of il, bur rather obs,iuacy. Here he
observed that the French had not been e.
neurh attended 20 IN the territorial appoint
ments thar they were the natives. and the.
Americans were ungrsiefol intruders ADD
now rallied againsi kipg and government
which had raised them from ashes.
TMr W5rt. To whom did he allude A
r considered thar he pointed his remarks TO
MIR Austin particularly. itwas the Span
ish king and governmental which allud-
ed
He ,hep observed tha. governor Clai
borne, a miserable thing or tool, had dis
sributed the appointments 10 the lower
ccnp.ry among his American followers &
dependents, and had neglected the French
for which he was execraied, despised and
forsaken by every person of talents and he.
NOR. except by DR. Watkins, who no dcnbl
had some pelsoral views. observedtha
10 the lower country the great body OF the
people were French; but tha: IN the upper
country there were more than two Ameri-
cans for one Frenchman, and that the dis
proportion encreased daily by emigration,
and would soop entiile us 10 elections he
replied. God forbid that you should ever
see 40 election ic Louisiana; and then CD
served that il was the intention OF the &C.
yernmsns to depopolste thar country, exs
ceps the yillsges Of ST. Louis. 81. Geneva
and ST. Charles, and small district OF
country around each, merely sufficient 'c
suDpofs thcm; that land would pc offered
10 The iahabifauts on ,he east aide OF sht
Mississippi, which If they retused to1move
10. they would be pushed over at the posaf
OF the havoae,. and that shonld be en-
nlnvrd 10 that business. AS found that
nv replies only irrisatsd the genera, and
kept back lheimportant communications, I
therefore determined, when could nor &c
ou;e.ce Ia septiment with the general, !
would epdeavor to be silen. I'LL | got The
;,nboytant secret. Hnt fcunc, had al.
ready gone too far. The general appeared
10 be vexed aud disappointed; threw open
The door aud walked out.
The usxt mornipg his orderly came for
me again. attended aed we bad another
harbour conversation with closed doors, -
He assumed a friendly manner, and begged
me 10 reeollecs that IL was sometime since
had left the Atlantic siases and assured
me thar public opinion had undergone s
great change 10 favor of energetic govern;
.men,s and measures that if persisted IN
exploded Dotions, they would icjure me
mith my government, that democratic 90.