Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-08-15
To the Eai!or Of the .qierandria Gazette.


LETTER Nv.
SIR,-I have been waiting for some of
the Editors here or in the vicinity, to re.
print in their papers Mr. Walsh's remarks
on the famous s address, that those
VINO will probably read my objections 20
them, might BE better able to judge OF
their business. But its admirers, it seems,
h We thought MIR. Walsh's eulogy poor
defence OF their taste; and even the edi-
tor of the Baltimore Patriot by an "apt-
ness madnsss often hits on has abs ain
ed from admitting it in his columns. l
now call the attention of the public to
this neglected panegyrick, as curiosity,
which exhibits the singular resources of
genius, enriched by knowledge; & the
ridicule 1t occasions, and the contradic
ton into which it is Liable to be involved,
unless guided by an upright intention.-
Courts Of justice are not the only places,
where those WAC give false testimony are
in danger of oetraying their dishonesty
M Walsh would have US consider Mr.
Albums as the second parsonage in an an
ti-1oly Alliance, and bis fourth of Juiy
Address, as counter manifesto TO the
Circulars from Laybsch Still in the
true spirit of that !ogick, which runs
throughout his long, clumsey, tedious &C.
tayo, air. Walsh thinks it proper for the
Secretary OF Sta,e, though in opposition
TO the ieagued sovereissns to initiate them
In violating " diPiomatick disci elton. and
state-Gelicacy." Since the Sovereigns OF
Europe have conspired to establish tyran-
~, &r. Walsh thinks it time that our
"response should be heard to the chorus
of despotism; that the American idea Of
Legitimacy ia government should be eX-
poEnGed, and TIE trans endant truth Of
the unslienable sovereignty o. the people.
be proclaimed i'll way, which might be
received even as official abroad" Think
ing, it would seem, that this has not been
sufficiently done by the Declaration of
Independence, or the noble lEouunient of
the Constitution itself, this courtier is de-
lighted that a member of the Executive
has performed the task. Yet he does
not mean to imply that Mr.. Adams ap-
peared officially or spoke for the Execu-
tive branch" Every one who reads the
eulogy must perceive throughout this
part OF it, the shutfling of those who haunt
the doors, whence the public patronage
IL distributed while the awkardness of
Mr.. Walsh betrays the shortness of his
residence in Washington, or his dulness
in learning the dexterity gifts courtly in
habitants.
Omitting the preparatory observations
of the Editor, have thus condensed the
substance OF the remarAs on the I" ID
dress" which appeared in the National
Gazette of the 10th o. July. Mir Adams
himself can hardly consent to have his
Grafton made utterly ridiculous, by pre-
senting it as a pGbIic document. to be re
ceived abroad even as an oGiciat counter
manifesto to those Of the Allied Sever
eigns. But if it Be not official as Mr..
Walsh believes, why was it published to
the world by the American Secretary of
Safe, most appropriately, as after the
President, the most immediate represen-
tatlye of the Confederate Repablick to-
wards the foreign world" To deduce
such a seguitUr, one must be more
thoroughly initiated than ] am in the
loyick of the National Gazette.
In his papers of the 18th and 18th, we
find Mr.. Walsh perverting history, and
stimulating his countrymen to prefer the
ms1irnaney Of retaliation to the magnan-
unity of forgiveness To effect this latter
object, lie las long ago. with more than