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

NJ bic confidence IN Ms PfciCo@io-i0'
-ud affec.ionate as they were.i--We al re-
member how he shrrnk from the puohe We"
how he iay buried in the heart OF our oo'ln-
try for a series CT years, and lett The PeoPieto
shift for themselves.
So Ieng, and so completely vashe lost rom
the public eve, That even history spent para
Graph upon his name and consecrated h:= me-
moiy for his future admiration nc Worid
wei knows now faithfully be has PAID the til
butte.
II must CRAFTY Sir. Genet's ruling passion,
TO be snatcfled so unawares IRON OBLIVION
that he is able to anticipate the sentence Of
posterity and can build castles upon his j,affi7s
fame-Liule men frequently become great ly
connection with great oneS-Thc slave, WHO
would have poisoned Alexander, and the as
sassin of Henry the Great, hive come down to
Us along with their masters--EYen MIR Ge-
nets name stands on the same page with
Washington's. And Notwithstanding the his
torian has represented him as merry dena-
gopue, without cunning Or address, strus-
cling to DESTROY the " hero OF libcrty,S II
must still afford him rich consolation, that he
is able to live on any terms, with the fresenf
age and with the future, at the same instant
of time. That while the laurel Is yet bloom
ing on his brow, it has sprung up, as 1t were,
round his tomb. But here he could not rest.
The interval of concealment IS past. with the
motives that induced it.-lArd now, Washing
ton is dead, and Mr.. Jefferson has retired, he
comes forth again, to express new anXletes
for our welfare and fresh fears for Our safety
Accept, most excellent sir our renewed
thanks We fear, however, that suspicion is
still awake-Fair pretences SO often gid the
blacklist purposes-Our people trembie when
you fiatter The clouds shine brightest at the
approach CT night.
Very MANY OF our citizens. most respectable
and discerning men too, still believe that Mr..
Genet has no real affection for our county,
none for our government, principles or man
ners-that he would be glad to chain our des-
TIMES to the Imperial Car Of France, and hopes
vet to share, with the rest of his family, the
blood stained bounties Of French master.
Much as it is to be regretted, It cannot be de-
MED, that some Of these opinions have been
sanctioned by his own declarations. Decle-
,ations OF a recent date, made without reserve
md without blush to two of our native citi-
zens-gentlemen of distinguished rank and
probity whose testimony is before the public
With such principles and such wishes, to-
gether with his preyions life in view, there
appears still, to be prevailing opinion, that
Mr.. Genet has been amongst us from the first,
IS Alcibiades among the Spartans-an exile
from home--in an adopted country-with all
his treachercus attachment to his native soil,
without his "reach Of genius" or fascinating
manners. But it is time to speak out. MIR.
Genet's late letters to Mr.. Pickering, relative
to the af1s.ir Of the President and the Little
Belt, would have passed by among the scraps
Of the press, but for the sanction Of his name
even with that, they are only important as
new proofs of the impudence with which TO-
reigners intermeddle in our public concerns.
However impol tant the sub ject, the present is
an improper time for newspaper discussion
even among our own citizens 1t was not so
when Mr.. Pickering wrote, the case then was
this. Two ships of war Ct two allied powers
meet ard fight, and on one side there are Sc
veral kiiled-this is a state Of open war.
Whichever commenced the attack, if it was
authorised by either government under any
circumstance, it amounts to a declaration Of
zcar-If neither government authorised the act,
the officer who provoked the contest ought
~ NC tttCd anu uiSS idICu--tHC noHoI VI OOtu
nations demands it. SO that in every point
of view, the affair is deeply interesting to A
merica, involving nothing less than the peace
Of the nation the character of the first off,
Ger in our navy. Under these circumstances,
we are told iii the government paper thai the
\ We may learn the value of this gentle
mans professions, by examining his letters
sent to Congress, Dec. S, 1898, written at the
very time he was thus denounced by Wash |
ington and Mr. Jefferson. In his letter Of |
the 18th Sept. '93, to the latter gentleman, he !
tells Mr. Jefferson, that always faithful to
=" the cause of liberty, he had rendered to the !
F" Americans in the different employments he
/" had had, ali the services which depended /.
f" on him." and again, $. that nert to the !
{" French, the .fmerican hechle zvere dearest /;
+" to his heart
s See Marsialps Life Of Washinston-p. |
400, 444. Vol S.
General Henry K. Van Rensselaer, and |
the adjutant general, Solomon Van Rensse- |