Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-04-20
The democratic leaders are not diifs.

I The democratic leaders are not difs
,ent now from what they were ten OF
twenty years ago, or certainly not any
tworse. Why then now, after SO long
supporting them and their measures, &C
icuse them of enormous imbecllity, cor
1 upton and injustice ? What is mean
,Ioy g secret and assassin-hke treache
.Iry 90 Has any thing happened ct tate
That can compare witn LETTERS ms secre
attempts to undermine the character o
.fGen. Washington 5 or 8 ms sacrifice o.
talents and services, to the vengeance o
Ignorant and profligate partlsans:" o.
( the depression,o by election from OF
lice, sol worth and virtue :" surely not
] Nor do we imagine Duane has now any
worse opinion Of the great men OF demo .o
Irracy than he ever had. But mere pro
|bably is the secret. Duane was the
lscane goat OF the leaders Of the party Tor
lpany years. His paper was open 70 81
he SANDERS that the democratic aema'
lgognes chose to publish nor qua ne
shrink in the cause; nor his 'yPes trem,
Idle at the most heIIish falsehoods thai
icould be produced. Among lnnumsra'
Isle others the gigantic lies about Mr.
chickering's accounts had vast influence e
Had thew never been published, 1t is
| .ubtful whether or not jeff rson WOULD
ave been elected. Be that as 1T may,
70 certainly would not have succeed
Eut for the Aurora and the braZen I'M
Ioudence and iron hearted v'iany OF us
leditor. Was not Duane then emitted to
some high office or great reward " ho,
Inor among-some folks" is an old
maxim.
Well. Duane went to Washington
| The patriots gave him public enter
hainmentin Georgetown, and toasted nm
Ian Mil and down as almost the saviour
|oi his country-and he dined with Mr..
Madison: but he was not appointed am
lhassador. CO! sui, collector. post master,
Ioor any thing else. Gallatln however
lnade contract with him for some pa
loer: and it was said Duane did not
Irheat him more than 1000 dollars IN the
ale or $4,000 worth. But what were a
lSlOC0 fora man who had nelped Jeffer-
on, Madison, Galla'in, &C. to tens up
IN tens of thousands ; No wonder the
! IAN wa, out Of temper; especially as
l(fallatin refused TO be cheated any inore
Inv him; and no woader re remembers
lr6e scribe Of the whiskey Instruction;
and has long labored, and still lapors t.
| destroy the good name OF that dis!hter-
Iested patriot and unequalled bnaBcier;
But Duane's character, like that OF ms
patriotic compeer in application, Callen-
der, was too low to justify his 'ecelvins
an office. Pc haps he was Paciiied by
promises. All, he was long after really
made an adjutant general. Yes, yes,
Ibut this was too little for one who bad
done SO much for his country; who had
Saved it from the devouring jaws OF tede.
Iralism. Besides, Duane bad elther slan-
Idered, or told the truth about M.hean,
Logan, and many more. whom he had
formerly exalted tohigh grades IN patr-
pti.m and was sunk so low even IN de-
|lnocratic estimation (which is almost be-
yond the lowest depths alower depth j
|that nothing was to be ieareo from his
resentment !: perhaps not halt SO much
as from his friendship and appreciation.
lNo wonder then, we say, he IS now out
lrageous. But the day Of his revenge "a
lgainst the administration is gone by un-
improved. Let him scribble these ten
Years, as fast as paper mill can supply
him with paper, it will do him no good
No one will believe him, even when he
|is correct, as in what he is quoted) whose
belief will be of any advantage.
| Why should he come forward new to
tell the people what are the characters
and principles and measures OF those
men whon. he has done his utmost to
lpiace in power; and on whole talents,
honesty and Judgment and justice he has
declared the utmost dependence might
|be placed ? Hardened as the wretch is.
lit we're mere to his credit to persevere to
1.-THE last pretend that the men whom he
ono SO represented, really are great
and good men !; and die with the lie on
Ibis lips. Some fool then might say on
his grave stone if he should not be de-
|livered over to The surgeon really so
believing or some knave might be brib-
ted to engrave, IS Here lies consistent
Towards any democratic editor OIL
some decency ofcharacter we would not
use such language. But, consider, a
moment, hew provoking it is, that, at TINS