Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1808-07-23
JULIAN.
FROM THE REpuBLIcAs ALBANY, CRISIS.
LETTER w.
Fran mr.. Richard Saundeys, to a friend IN
a neis7i6oring' state:

neis7i60rins' state:
YOU still harp, my friend, on the gas
law and the direct tax, and the moderation
of Mr.. Jefferson in not prosecuting thos.
who calumniatcd him. The truth is ne dar.
ed not to doit; / told you before that did
not like this bringing mems private failings
before the world-SStrike at their vices if
you please, which tend to the ruin Of their
country, but let tier bfiOate chamber oice,
alone, if there are any triuafe viees, which
do not more or less tend to make them IN
fit for 4 high station-You know very well
however, that Mr.. Jeforson's moderation
and contempt OF the charges were not rea-
sons OF his silcnee-Ely in Massachusetts
and the men in Connecticut said so much a
gainst your President, and that in so pub.
tic mannergthat his friends tho't them
selves obllgedto call them to account. Was
the business ever prosecuted? No, nor ne.
yer viii be; your President knew better
than to let them bring their proof. The
direct tax was made bug bear of By the
designing oihce-hunters-You know they
told most abominable lies about it--sad
the hearths and window lights were taxed,
and a thousand other stories equally devoid
OF truth. The fact was that the great land
holders paid the tax-My neiehbor Nc.
C---5, who owns wild lands On she lake
paid more tax than all the county beside
,herc was not a man in our town who paid
dcllars--No, they lied to the people, and
told them John Adams was to be king, and
they were 20 have lords and a standing ar.
envy & their children were to be taken away
from them and made E.unuchs of to guard
the kings palace, and all such stuff, and
scared them to death, but now they begin
to find out the difference between king A.
dams, as they called him, and king Tefer.
son, or rather king Democrat. An honest
man OF your parry told me t'other dav, that
it was not SO much for the tax ITSELF. for i
cost HIM but little, but it was uDstart fellows
that collected It, that made him mad-thy
Put men III as collectors, said he, who wei,
suriy and overbearing, but I see, said he,
that curoWn people are going on in the same
way Our otflce-lnen are beginning to ride
over poor people was knocked down, be.
Cause | said, | had right to carry nv pro.
duce from Washington to Lake Charnpiais
and threatened by the sheriff, if ever dar. !
cd 10 say such thing again, he would send :
me to Jail See, said the man, that k, 4
who Will De long in power they get too saucN
and tralnple OH the poor people.
1t may have been that the fsderalists rod: s
the high horse /; but they never, my frieod, 4
glilopPed ham at the rate your friends have
done; it is true they laid dry tax, and an
embargo Tor thirty days, and began to raise
an army because they expected a Frelchn' B
vasion-- Our party raise an army whenevc-
ryhody knows the British will not come
and the French cannot come. Your emu
barge is eternal and takes from us more N &
all hour than ell the dry and wet taxes VA
have ever paid. Tom Leiper and TencHiS
Cox and Billy Dun, the French printer, sapSI IL
the people like tive shall see # thi;sl.Je
true. know that the people in orr to1f
aristocrats aud democrats, wings and toIlfs E
all say that it is a dreadful tax, which feF &
don'tsee the use of. Suppose you do starN
$4,000 British, what good will that do you
1t won't make our situation any better
viii il pay our debts Your friends ca'
it disnifed attitude. | would, hoWe'el' 81
rather sit double On load Of wheat io
which expected to get 12s a bushel, thS E
go to prison in dignifsd attitude. Nom B
attitude to which we are coming as fast =
we can, is the creeping, begging attitude
We must creep to Virginia and creep J
France, and creep to De Witt Clinton an
the other great men of the nation, %
fore longYss, know that thong
governor Clinton, az a norsksra sasn, m9