Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-07-10

ever laIu DeIOrc TIE GaDlnet anu opinions
taken? Did he there oppose it Did he
not rather approre it, and giUe las cote
FOR ercry article 2 Did be ever utter a
syllable against it, till his more acute
brOt;,ar discovered the commercial bear
lug that it would have upon the house. and
concluded that tlieic interest required its
rejection ?"
From this it would appear that there
are others who can divulSe Cabinet Sc
crets, as wei! as NJ. Smith.
On the subject of the Presidents Mes
sage calling for the 10000 men, as no
dced by Mr.. Smith, the Reviewer says !:
IS He assures us that the language of
this message is Ambiguous; he has found
somebody in the Senate, as he says, who
called it Delphic Oracle; and neithep
he nor this priest Of Apollo can tell whe-
Their twenty thousand men means war or
peace. But TO save them both the pains
OF solving this enigma, We will suppose
the President himself did not know w!le-
Their it was to be war or peace. Now
there is nothing in this supposition disre-
spectful to the Chief Magistrate ; for we
ourselves, though very wise and the re-
viewers of Mr.. Smiths book, and though
now eighteen months and TIVE days older
than we were when this oracle was uttered,
do not vet know whether it is to be war or
peace; nay, scarcely know whether dur
ing these same months and days we have
been in war or peace. Did this sagacious
Secretary never hear Of such thing as a
medium state between declared war and
secure peace We should think that a
barber's block under the wig of states
man could easily catch the idea.'
Now this is modest enough quite as
modest as could be expected from the edit
OF Of newspaper to a secretary of state !!
The Reviewers third number occupies
nearly SIX columns of yesterdays Intelli-
gencer. We may notice them more at
large hereafter. The following are his
! concluding remarks Oh the subject OF Mr..
Smiths projected letter TO nj. serrurier !:
What must have been the condition
OF the President with such Secretary
Of State, awaiting himself of his official
station, particularly Of his agency between
him and foreign ministers, to teaze and
perpleX2 No wonder that the most anna
BILE and placid temper, such as Mr.. MA
olson is known to possess, should some
,imes be disturbed. We may readily al.
nit In this respect the account I'll Mr..
Smith. that frelfuiness was observed !; and
we must as readily excuse 1t, whether
the c0niiuct exciting ii he resolved into tne
folly of weak assistant, Or, as no"
seems to have been the case, the working
of secret andinstdlous.toe, Watching anu
nGar,iins every little inciuent, every wore
and ootA, for the future purposes OI amai-
tion OF revenge
While we wait with anxiety for the is
sue, we may be permitted to declare,
with the utmost imfartiality, that the
language of Mr.. Madison's defender, tie
Reviewer, is extremely harsh through
out !; language which would even injure
good cause, and which is uniformly resort
ed to in support ola bad one.
Gen. Hampton arrived at Washington
on Friday last.
From an Essay in the Baltimore Anne
riean, written probably by Robert Smith)
we select the ensuing paragraphs:
As Mr.. Madison's advocate has taken
the liberty of introducing what he has
stated to be the opinions of others as to the
qualifications of Mr.. Smith for his late
Office, l too will take the liberty of exhi-
biting the opinions of certain people as to
the qualifications of Mr.. Madison for his
Office. And this distinction will be per-
eeiyed in our statements. In his there
is nothing but general assertion without
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