Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-10-16
ALEXANDRIA, D.aILY G.aZETTE
TO sHEw
I THE VERY AGE AND BoDY OF The TINE
HIS FORM AND PRESSURE
WEDNESDAY MORNING, october 10.

The Democratic party have of late years
frequently charged the. Federalists with by
pocrisy in their professions Of veneration for
the maxims and mesnosy Of the illustrious
Washington. False and absurd as this charge
is, it has been SO often repeated, as to have in
duced belief with many that our exclusive
republicans are and always have been the on
" sincere admirers of that great man. A short
recurrence to times past viii serve to shew
their sincerity in this respect.
During the contest for the Presidency be-
tween Messrs. Adams and Jefferson, series
of Essays appeared in Virginia Democratic
paper, entitled ''A Defence of Thomas JEFF
ierson,' from which we make the following
EXTRACT.
"With the most wretched timidty, as we'll
as the widest inconsistency, the republican
party in Congress, while they were in constant
opposition to the measures of this chief ma
gistrate, pretended to feel the most profound
reverence for his presidential service and abb
lilies. They Joined with the aristocrats in ali
those despicable toad-eating answers to presl-
Dental speeches, which croud and deform the
journals of the two houses. The republicans
could not have taken method more effectual
for the ruin Of their cause. The people at
large had not sufficient discernment to see
that, all This zvors. u1aon the Part Of the De-
mocrats, scaS mere hyhocrisy and ertn1ace.-
They did not, or rather they would not see,
that when a member of Congress condemned
a statute, as detestable, he must have held
correspondent aversion for the Chief Magis-
tratc who gave it his ratification. All this is
quite as self-evident as any series ofpremises
and conclusions possibly can be: and yet the
citizens OF America believed the republicans
to be sincere, when they consented to asso-
ciate in the celebration of the late President,
as the greatest and best of Chief agistrates,
that the world ever saw. In this miserable
scene Of sycQhhancy Mr.. Je6irson had NO.
share. He served the late President, as Sc
cretary of State, as long as he felt the situa-
ton consistent with his personal honor. When
his office became no longer tolerable, he retir-
cd but 1t was in respectful silence
Let it be observed that the express OBJ
jet of these publications was to promote Mr.
JeTerSon's election. Here we find an explicit
acknowledgment, that all the professions Of
profound reverence for Gen. Washington
{" upon the part Of the Democrats, was mere
HYPOCRISY end !g1fmace 20 and further, it
seems that " MIR. Jefferson had no share in
this miserable scene of sycophancy.S No;
he neither expressed nor felt any reverence
for the Father of his country. The people OF
Virginia were gfavely informed of this fact,
in order to recommend Mr.. Jefferson to their
choice. Other instances might be produced
TO prove the uniform and ardent attachment
of our Democrats to the name of Washington,
which the Federalists, they now say, only use
as as cloak. They never used it as a cloak {;
0 no and of course it is but fair, to infer
that they never zvW. They always lovedIVash-
ington excessively. A little 4" hypocrisy and
grlmace" was no such mighty affair; it was
! all {" in the way Of trade,'' and quite Ia mode
de Paris. Besides, you know, Mr. Jefferson
wept bitterly over his tomb, and his sorrow
was of course perfectly sincere
-" Qus talia fando,
Tempered tachryntis !?