Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-02-16


burton and immediately sunk.
Thence Tari1 There was yes
|teFday laid before both Hsnses, By
THE Secretary Of the Treasury. 9
plan of . new Tariff Of Duties on
Imports. This is the document
which the Secretary was directed,
|at the last session. TO prepare and
report to Congress, and which has
been looked for with considerable in
terest. We shall take an early op-
|pOrtunity to place the substance OF
|ofit before our readers.
Nat. Int.
We are little surprizell that any fe.
lderalist can suffer himself to be deluded
Tor even amused, for for one moment
with the idea, that. because the demo
|crats have been obliged TO shift their
lplans, and to take federal course, they
fare 10 be considered as having become
sincere converts tofederal policy. There
lis no time when democracy require,
more carefu! watching, than when it talks
| of union of parties; and claims support
|frsm federahsts, because. at length, all
parties think alike. The democrats
have adopt. d federal policy, because they
Ehaye rue their own entirely out. They
were afraid, it they should keep on in
their old track Of perverseness and folly.
THAT they should lose their popularity.
land with it power and places. Power
and place were all they had in view
these they obtained; aud these, at all
hazards, they mean to keep. There ne
Iver was a time when the bitterness of
lparty was greater among the democrats
towards federalists, than at this moment,
Ever now, when they have laid aside all
their own schemes and measures. and
are taking up and pursuing those Of their
lepponents, they lose no opportunity Of
|FiIifyibg aud repraachfng the men who
Originally devised and adopted those
measures, and for the very reason that
they did devise and adopt them. Can
there be any sincerity, where there is
|sach gross and palpable Inconsistency
The truth is, whenever they find it
|expedient to change their course, and
lpursase one Numerically opposite, they
are cunning enough SO to manage, as to
lose no popularity, by their contralicfo-
try conduct. By bold and impudent as
Iser,ions, and by degree OF assurance.
which dses not astoaish, only because it
has beenso often repeated, they have
succeeded, in too many instances, in
jinakiaga great portion of the people be
Ilieye, that truth and integrity resided
with them. 1t is a we'll kHowH fact, that
latter the publication of the celebrated
MazLei letter, Mr. Jefferson never had
THE eEironjefy TO visit General Washing
ton. He burst not look ran Of sucr
IunsuIlied purity and virtue, of saeh con-
sumnate dignity OF character, IN the face,
latter having meanly slanderetl him to an
insignificant foreigner. As soon. howe
yer, as General Washingtsh was quietly
laid in his grave, and his awe that haa
surrounded him was dissipated, his Ca
!umniator, and those that supported that
Ecalunniator, began to declare, that there
was the most intimate friendship, and the
most unreserved confidence, subsisting
between General Washington and Mr..
IJeilersons 'Ehis was asserted, and re-
peated so otter, and with such unblash-
my confidence, thatin very short time
iii gained extensive credit in. the country !;
land, We have not doubt, that vast
many honest, well-meaning persons, from
the bottom of their hearts believe, at
this moment, that General Washington,
to his dying day, had the highest regard
for his base slanderer and backbiter.
Just SO it is, at the present time, with
respect to the navy. Mr.. Jefferson and
Mr. Madison, and of course every other
member of the party, was the deadly enc
my OF a navy. They opposed every at
tempt. during the federal administration.
fer building a navy, and when = small
lone had been made. they to man voted
to get rid oft. At the commencement
of the late war, what few ships had sur
viyed their destructive policy, were, from
sheer necessity, equipped for service.-
Still so little confidence had the admi-
nistratiou in their exertions, or SO little
were they disposed to make the exPerl
nent, that, if we are not misinformed.
1.-THE first ships that sailed on cruises, Tor
the purpose of meeting the enemy, went