Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-04-13
ALEXANDRIA DAILY GAZETTE.
SATURDAY, APRIL Is.
More Official Squabbling.

Timoleon'' has again appeared in the
Wing and if we are right in our con lecture
as to the real author, he will not soon be ST.
lent. The impulse that moves his pen is not
easily resisted; powerful arc the " sinews of
war;" and they are his strengtheners After
taking another view of Mr.. Monroe's Treaty,
he proceeds to attack Mr.. Gallatin, and, thro'
him, Mr. Madison The following extract
will serve as specimen:
Mr. Madison will not or cannot perceive,
what is visible to every body else. GELATIN
crafty contrives to represent the most SIRE
nuous republicans as dangerous riyal',
which to man solely intent on . reelection,
are SYNONYMOUS with eneMies.'
Thus the president is represented as being
the complete dupe of Mr.. Gallatin, i'll spite OF
all the efforts of his disiutereated friends to
open his eyes. "Pity It's, it's true" that he
should have begun SO soon to think Of no.
thing but reelection. But who are the
rivals" alluded to Nv this writer Aye,
there's the rub 1t will ali come out 1T last !:
Mr.. Duane has promised to "speak to the
nation"
The following article on the same subject,
is copied from Thursdays Intelligencer. Al
though we do not wish to NEEDLE unnecessa-
rily with these little friendly chickering's, we
| really think Mr. Smith is rather hard to please.
When be quarrelled with Mr. Jackson, his
honor was thought to De made Of sterner
stuff than the ordinary kind but now it APP
pears to be superlatively pure We Cannot
perceive any very mighty /" Insult" in being
offered" the post Of ambassador to Russia.
Not few of our patent republicans would &C
cept of such place with heartfelt delight.
What did John Q. Adams say when thus Gin
! suited :" To be sure, when man, as the old
women say, sets his heart upon thing, it
grieves him sorely to be disappointed.
From The National hteiHgencer.
Certain republican prints, for whose intclli-
genoe entertain very high respect, have
proceeded, indirectly, to condemn the con-
duct of the President in the step which he has
recently taken of changing the terson Of the
Secretary of the Department of state. This
act, on all hands admitted to be constitution
al exercise of pow r, is arraigned on the
ground of a supposed improper motive. One
article on this subject, purporting to be an
authorised authentic statement, represents the
measure as aruhture, proceeding from q dy-
ference Of ohinion. Admitting this to be true,
is it candid, is it correct, to denounce the
President without demonstrating that his OPT
Mon on public affairs is less accurate than
! that of Mr.. Smith To say that Mr. Smith
! differed from the President is merely to say
that the President differed from Mr.. Smith !;
but this proves nothing as to the merits of the
! difference, and the merits only can explain the
! nature of the motive. If the Presidents OPT
| Mon be right, and that of MIR. Smith be zorons,
it will not be denied that to remove the wrong
opinion was the best way to strengthen the
right one and, in such case, the motive would
be laudable. Surprising ruhture to have ta-
ken place ;---that, indeed, may imply anger.
! But, in whose breast was anger cherished !!
In that of the President, who only sought tor
change without degradation or, in that OF the
| Minister, who s,ouid see In that change no
thing but an insult When we adopt and act
upon opinions different from those of other
men, it is our own determination that we with
| draw our mental aid from the counsels of those
to whom we are opposed in opinion; and OF
what benefit to the nation are personal COM
munications between men whose understand
ings are separated by conflicting ideas He
who withdraws himself intellectually, ought to
withdraw himself personally from cabinet
formed on common principles, and not SUBJ
iect US to the painful task of intmatlng to him
the necessity of the step. But, above all, ne
ought not to complain, under such circum-
stances, (the creation of his own willy when
the change, to him, was only change of Dig
mites and the path, from the one to the