Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-09-06

s.antially correct. From your resignation
as secretary ofs'a'e to your election as VICE
president little will be said. | Cannot, how
ever, avoid saying believe you was dur
ing that, as well as the subsequent periods
Of your life, as actively employed IN your
malignant laboss for the ruin Of your coun-
try, as time and opportunity would admit.
AS am approximating to the dolelul sra
which brings you in for chief pilot to the
vessel of state, shall leave you, whilst l
get some fresh air; bot not before inform
you that intend, as explicitly as time and
memory will serve, to point out few more
traits by which l hope hereafter your much
injured fellow citizens may know how to
distinguish faithful shepherds from the mot
ly crew of goasherds. !.
In 1901, sir, you was appointed chief
magistrate of the happiest people Vou' own
intricues aside) that then Inhabited any por-
ton of this globe. What pity it is you
could not act the great man the path was
plain, but your principles, [ doubt, were
corrupt. In your inaugural speech you set
out with many fair promises you then stat
ed We are all republicans all iedersi'sts but
the cloven foot would be out. With all
the cunning fiend of darkness could pos
sess, did you at that time endeavor to de
ceive, to dupe your credulous countrymen.
What, sir, was your language at subse-
quent period? VII n the f der!lists fore
saw the tendency of your measures, they
reminded you of your promise, ard in the
style of friendship advised you to contra
ny policy, which would ultimately produce
great and permanent benefits to our country:
then 70: shame but you cannot blush
you discarded the Sc very men as the most
worthless part Of the community; who
short time before you pretended were bre-
thren Of the same principles: this suppose
YOU would cell republican consistency.--
I've first garing breach you made In the
constitution was the removal Of the addi-
tional judges appointed by your predeces-
sor in Office nor will it easily be forgotten
the base attempt you made to prejudice the
Legislature against Judge Marshall in the
case of Aaron Burr. The veil you covered
your opinion with was TOO thin not to be
seen through BY the most superficial OBJ
server. Lest this assertion SHOULD te doubt
I'd let me give your own words as contain
ed in your message to congress on that oc-
casion. After stating you send the pro-
ceednes together with tie evidence on
Burr's trial, but whether added 20 or n.nsi-
lated pretend not to say. You ask con-
gress whether the fault is in the e.
violence, the law, or the administration Of
the law-that it rests with congress TO de-
tcrmine and in either case to originate or
apply remedy" Now let me- ask, did you
expect congress TO forge evidence to~~su!t
every possible case that you might choose
20 bring before them or did you think that
body bound to make laws 10 punish ln'en-
ton for we have no proof that any overt
act had been committed. Then if neither
Of the above expedirn,s was expected, it an
questionably follows that you wished an i'm
parchment Of the Judge for msl-adminis.
tration. Congress, however, did not dis
grace their journals with your foul mandate.
If Imis.ake not the constitution prohibits
the enac.ion of any ex post facto laws. VIII
you undertake to say such laws did not pass
and receive your senction IF you should,
IS proof that such is the fact, beg leave
TO refer you to therenewal Of Oliver Evans
patent right for his in, ent;on and improve
ments on merchant mills in manufacturing
flour /; as also your own letter ranked and
directed 10 Evans's agent, or order, then
on the West side Of the Blaze Ridge on E.
vans business. And further--after the
agent had received that letter, he asser ted
that Evans had sued out and recovered da-
images for the use of his improvements t.
rected between the death of the old and the
origin of the new patents. 1t is also with
in the knowledge of the writer of this arti-
Gle, that the above agent did receive CON-
pensa;ion for Evans, for his improvements
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