Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1811-03-22
Jay and Mr.. Adams, but Mr.. Jefferson
and Mr.. Madison arc well acquainted.

knowing that the French government rem
dered TO Us important aids in our revolu-
uonary war-but not knowing its treache-
rous attempts finally to rob us of some OF
IT'S fsirest fruits and filed with gratitude
tor those aids (glven, as we then imagin-
ed, with generous magnanimity) felt the
Fsincerest friendship and attachment to
France. That these honest prsiadices in
her favor continuing unimpaired, after the
French revolution commenced, and our
own present general government was form.
ed, were eagerly seized on. by a few am
bilious men, with MIR. Jefferson at their
head. as the sure means of ingratiating
themselves into your favor by that means
to grasp the whole power of the union.
while at the same time, and with the same
object in view, they cherished and aggra-
waited against G. Britain the popular resent.
rnents and hatreds, which the evils of civil
war, and the atrocious acts of the British
forces in the early periods of it had engen-
dered; forgetting, or not feeling, the just
and magnsnimous sentiment in our decla-
ration Of independence, ITO hold The Bril-
fish, as we hold the rest of mankind, enc.
mics in war, in peace, friends"
S. That on these two foundations (your
gratitude and friendship to France, and
your prejudices and hatreds against Eng
land) Mr.. Jefferson (~stealing YOUR hearts
by athousand plausible, but hollow profess
sions of republican simplicity, republican
economy, ardent patriotism, and hatred of
royalty) on these two foundations, l say,
Mr.. Jefferson rose to power undermining
by all the arts which cunning could devise,
and concealed ambition, practice the really
republican administration OF Washington.
1t will fall in my way and It will be one OBJ
lject of these addresses, to dclineate the
character of Mr.. Jefferson, as exhibited in
his acts and writings, for a series of years,
!. before he mounted the chair of state, and
/. to describe his measures and professions
: during his eight years presidency. The re-
suit, | trust, will be your full conviction of
his systematic hypocrisy and duplicity, by
means of which you have been beguiled in
to a warm admiration Of the man, and a ia-
tai support Of his measures. trust you
: will see, that under the plain republican
f, garb, has been concealed inordinate ambi-
! ton tina, in the soft shade of affected mild
: ness and candor, lurked a malignant spirit
Of intolerance and persecution I; that deceit
was veiledb by plausible professions of since
rity and good faith hat his much talked of
economy, was a cover for waste and profu-
sion and that patriotism itself was assum-
ed for a screen, behind which he contriyed
schemes, ~dishonorable to the nation and
pregnant with ruin but in which he mani
tested a disposition and a wish to persevere,
although they should end in your destruc-
ton.
6. That by the arts aforementioned Mr..
Jefferson having risen to power he saw they
must be continued, in order to preserve it,
all, however, rested on your unlimited, bur
misplaced confidence in his supposed ability,
integrity and patriotism. Let me, my fell
low. citizens, call your pointed attention to
this matter. 1t furnishes the KEY TO the
conduct of your government for the last ten
years. Look back, I pray you, and review
that period. You will find that Zone arti-
Gle excepted, which / shall hereafter ex-
plain) all the subjects of dispute between
the United States and Great. Britain remain
unsettled; while Mr.. Jefferson and Mr.
Madison have been uttering professions
without number of their sincere d=sire to-
adjust them! Will you any longer trust in
these professions? Will you believe thzr
G.. Britain, oppressed with the weight of q
war, unexampled 10 the history of the world,
can cheese TO avoid an accommodation with
the United States! When our ~fricudship
would be so useful to her, will you believe
her nn1oiAing even to do us common justice.
in order to obtain it9 When she has not
(the broken remains of Spain and Portugal
excepted) one ally in the world, and the ma
tons of Europe, swayed by Bonaparte.
are in arms againat hers it possible, think
you, for her to be SO blind to her interest.