Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-09-13

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he would not permit them to depart. Con-
scious that further negotiation would but
more fully expose their duplieity, they with
wicked wisdom stopt their ears, aud sought
to save the farther pain OF them by prevent
ing the repetition of disagreeable verities.
The full exhibition to the public of all the
documents, and instructions from Mr.. Can
ming, have since established the correctness
of Mr.. Jaekson's positions. The admins
tration have now only to grin and bear the
lash inflicted on their reputation while Sc
Material sophists, like Giles, may resolve
and re-resolve that new fallen snowis Of a
sombrous complexion and scrubby scrib-
blers in pa,rioian habiliments, like this in
the Enquirer, may ineficiently combat the
fxt pillars of truth, by railing at the minis.
ter who leans against them for support.
But enough of Jackson. 1t is the too
prevalent airy swell of language only we
intended to notice which, like the Colum-
bad of Barlow, glitters, as glitters the icy
palace of Catharine, in splendid frigidity;
which can never withstand the full beams
of Apollo but in his broad eye betrays
the weak materials of it's creation; melts in
his sight, and mingles with oblivious OBJ
scurity. One man could dictate reams OF
such stuff as this writer, who calls himself
Valerius," has given US in the Enquirer,
faster than ten pens could tasten it to paper.
Let US try it-Ere again, Valerius, thou
shalt press the ponderous hand Of thy in
dignation on an already depressed and dis
carded minister; ere again thy digits ap
proach the frathery emanalion Of goose's
side, to draw it from It's peaceful slumber
in the darksome inkstand pause and re-
Acct on the mighty havoc which thy devas-
tating satire, and the murderous ed sc Of
thy awakened indignation must produce,
Let it suffice thee that the dagger pen of an
American secretary of state has cleft in
twain the heart of the British missionary
that the resolutions of an American Senate
and House of Representatives have unmask-
ed the &C political monster; that sudden
y convoked assembly of spirited rePubll'
cans at Albany have exposed i'll eHigy the
Geleterious en,issary Of Albion and that
thou Myself hast ground him to powder by
the AtIsnte an pressure of thy logic hast
scorched him to cindcrs by the Sun Ike IN
tenseness of thy eGugent eloquence, and
hast blown him almost without the confines
of entity by the breath of thy tempestuous
indignation. Spare then, Oh spare. For
the sake of the wife cf his bosom, and his
offspring who look to him for comfort and
support, spare, Oh spare! for shouldt thou
again breathe thy vengeance, it will come
upon him ike the whirlwind of final desc.
lation: it will blow him away like resist
less eruption of gas from the unssemly parts
Of an enraged ephemeron.
A writer In the Rhode Island American
says, {" it is upon the good sense of the pco-
pie we must rely for the preservation of oar
liberty" Frail support: the article is diff
cult to be foun1, and the democrats have tor-
hidden its being brought into Office, where
alone it can be efiicacious.
The Enquirer complains bitterly of the
dearth Of talents in the Virginia legislature,