Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-02-10
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sxzURD<Y, FEBRUARY 10.

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sxTURD<Y, FEBRUARY 10.
Il f1. The Directors Of the Cssptr Nine
Company having failed in an attempt 20
obtain = iull meeting Of Vi. coaPany o.
last svening,d now again araessIy request
the asts ndxnce Of the msmbets this even.
ing, at Brooke'S tavern, ., 6 O'Clock. The
interest Of the Company is essentially de-,
pendant on she PuocIaA,'.y Of iss memosrs
ON this occasion.' 49," 49,
February 10. ~: / Ia,"'..'.
NAn american Curr9n w. D. G. Wor-
ellington, OF Baltimore, figures IN the Ma :
ryiand Legislature. win h:'e sPeeshes, Ct
tempted to be ,vr,tten in the manaer OF bofh
CuKRAH and JuxIus. from whoa he mas
pilterrd every thug nul tn -ir genius. Hh0
manner q man ne -, may DC gathered from
the following characters" ii Mr.. Jefer-
sur and Coz. Pickering, extracted from tie
migh,iest u his declanauons. a.,....
- Thomas Jefferson, a man dramatically
sealed in the heart OF his country the
friend and benfac,or of the whole human
family, whose voluntary r. tirenent from
the most honorable post n the gift OF the
whole world, the chief magistry OF this free
nation, has rendered his reputation holy,
aud whose good fame is only comlnensu-
rate with tn: limits of this habilable glade.
Us, sir, recorded honours shall gather
round his memory. and th.ek=n over it.
When we shall be forgotten, when thu moss
grown stone shall mark our unIis,ingaish-
I'd heads, and the passing Wind sigh rhro'
nc grass that o'ergrcws our Narrow
house" when Timothy Pickering shalt On
Is BE- remembered to be hated and damn
cd 10 everlasting fame" the ma ne Of Thu.
mas 1:1erson " shall flourish in immortal
youth, unhurt amidst the war Of elements,
the wreck of matter and the crush OF
worlds" 1t shall be hsiled and blessed 10y
millions yet unborn, whose sons shail
blush their fathers wsrs his foes" How
ever, that great man docs not sand in need
Of my feeble pausgyric, either praise or
abuse Of great or conspicuous mea had
better come from persons who may rot be
deemed, like myself, unknown. We too
often see the sparrow picking At the
eagle, and hanging to His feathers, only with
the vanity Of being carried by the noble
bird into regions OF altitude and splendour
into zenith which Il could never otherwise
have arain"d!'
| TimOthy Pickering is. in my epin'sn,
the gerry uv0rst man in ,he country He 10
the 4esdly Upas tree Of the East, throwing
his blasting and poisonous inauvnce around
him. He stands pre-eminensIv bad among
a lugubrious scene Of ,s.rri:ity, d.solstion
and drsth bsneath his deieserious shade,
no veriure quick ns--ao solitary plant
takes root. (How u.,y original all this Bal
timore elequence ] Waen he movrs a.
long through our coa.in-nt, he resembles
the stillv demon Of p, stilrnce, pervading
this healthy and happy eouasry! II u web
that he has now happily arrivsd, stthe mas
turity Of corruption, where the worst ex.
amples cease to be contzsisds, Except
some few characters, d we'll in the middle
and sou,hern states a. in the eastern, who
are still in 50 high state of predisposision
to his infection, as to be inoeulated by him,
or to get fresh charged with the old mala.
d\, as he passes along
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