Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1808-07-29
FROM THE R1PupLIc.s tAlBAss] CRISIS.
LETTER NJ.
From Or. Richard Saunders, 70 a ffiead an
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No, nv friend, it isnot whsth@s q northern
ora southern man Snail be President, that
splits you. 1t is who Snail set the greatest
saare Of the loaves and hsl.cs. Cheetham
knows very well thatif Madisoiiis President,
heis no more printer OF tho laws Of the United
States and E,uanc knows that If Clinton is
President, he viii no more supply Congress
with pen, Ink and papes. don't however,
put Cheetham on & pArEwlth Dnane--Sheet-
ham has talents, and some fear OF Tod. and
some regard for man, and since iie got over
that madness when he wanted TO Stab the ie-
derahsts in the night, he seems to be daily
getting into better frame OF mind.
What was il split your party when Burr
was put up in our state Tor geyernor--W . hen
I.ewis WAS held up There was no southern
men in question then--No, no.. IS not. SIN
nenee raj, er TO me who is President, SO that
: ] remain i. AsAiee, or anu sue OF gettihfr an
Office This is the true language OF W out
OF 90 OF good republicans, II they would be
honest enough to tell the truth. II furr had
been mate governor, thsn your Clinton men
wouls. have beer. turned cut Lewis began to
appoint men to Office who did not belong to
the brotherhood, and the brotherhood turned
him cut, and so they would turn oar Iomp-
kins ou;, i, he dared to appoint justice Who
WA. not of the thoronghgoing breed.
You must not be angry with me if say
that the whole aim and end Of the writer's and
hrswlers for Madison and for Clinton, is TO
support the man who will support the Al
Cheetham says Madison IS a weak man,
man to paw tribute to France. aman who will
destroy co,nmeree--1'be printers on the o..
Their side say Clinton Is in his detage-tEat he
sold all our western lands for song, and has
made his sortune-that he was for the embar-
90 as well as Mallison-that Dc Witt, his
nephew, will rule him While he lives, and
after he is dead, willrule US, and the govern
mcnt will be changed into monarchy, and
30 on.
You ask whether the federal;sts will do bet
ter than the others !; heaven knows; It may
be not and yet, think thore IS chance
that they will. You see things are dreadful
bad now, and before long will grow. worse, the
different parties among the democrats or re-
nubliraiss hate enc another with more bitter
hatred than can be conceived, infinitely more
than they do the feaeralists. What Is to be
the end ofthisl Look at the parties IN france
before Ronaparte took them in hand; they cut
one another's heads of, and soft will be here
fear, if you go on as you have done, at least
In this state, for S or s years past.
Astb the fcderalists doing better, there IS
this chance a pew broom sweeps clean, as
the saying is, and as il issthe interest OF all
men setting out in life to establish good cha
racter and to make friends, think for the
first few years of their governmental least, 1t
Is likely they would try to do well; besides,
they have been SO long in retirement that they
have had time to reflect on the acts OF their
party while it was in power, and If they have
found any thing wrong, rely On Il, they will