The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1823-05-28

slant supply OF water, many OF The lnhaoI
tants Of the parish have adopted it,whosc
example is followed by many in the adj
joining parishes, and also in the county
| OF Essex, with universal success. The
ornamental purposes also, to which il
may be applied, are innumcrable-and
present the mselyes to the men of taste, in
! endless varieties of forms, such as foun-
grounds for baths, or for ornament, as
we'll as the uses of garden and the con
| servatory but the man of science will
hereafter employ it as principle OF mo
ton, and direc; it to various mechanlcai
operations.
| For the Herald.
PRESIDENTIAL ELEC lion. No a
Ii is my principal objecr in this number
to endeavourto refute the objections made
to MIR. Crawford,by the friends OF the nor
them candidate, without particularly
pointing out by whom, or in what paper
those objections have been made anu
published.
When this gentleman was FIRST men
| toned as the most suitable person To SUI.
coed Mr.. Monroe, we heard from the
| north oil only oDe expression against him.
which was, that he had not done enough
to entitle him to that Office but, behold,
as soon as the famous "Augusta address,
made lis appearance, the former was
husbed up, and the federal papers vauDt>
ingly declared "that he was precisely
tplaced in the same situation as Mr.. A
dams, that he was once a federalisi, so
| was MIR. A. that he had expI cssed the
| most unlimited confidence in thai admi
nistration, which all republicans OF that
| day reprobated in the strongest terms. %
In regard 10 the signing OF this address,
| there appears not to be a shadow OF doubt;
bu, thai Mr.. Crawford meant merely his
belief IN the frmness with which he (pre
| sIdcntAdams) would repel the aggression
| OF the French government and indeed,
when We look to the dangers which
threatened US on ali sides, when We see
the divisions that existed between the
people of our own country, the necessity
of nnaniDity of feeling, of one universal
bond OF patriotism; we ought rather TO
applaud that address. we ought rather to
feel grateful 10 the signers for their pa
triotlsm on that occasion, than TO hold
Them up as unworthy Of filing public
station in our nation. Ii was true an ex
preston OF public confidence in president
Adams, but the exigencies of the case
rendered il necessary. ask MIR. Craw
ford's opponents,w would be their feel.
ings, 1t instead Of signing that address,
charge was produced against HIM Of
having refused his sanction to any thing
| OF the kind, of his having declared his
dissenting from that address and that he
gcould NOT refeI French inpasions under
the administration Of president adams 2
! ask them what would they say they
would declare him an enemy to his
country's rights, they would spurn him
as creature not to be trusted, and just
Ly exclaim that he was unworthy of pre-
siding over the American people. This
is what conceive to be true state
OF the case; so, in any situation in
which he might have been placed, in
regard to that address, his opponents
would have eagerly snatchec at an oppor-
tunity OF grasping any object, by when
they could throw the slightest censure
upon him. Then why this charge of fe-
deraIismI Shall an act of unspolUed pu-
lily ofpatriotism, be brought forward in
a republican government like ours, as
charge against an individual II such be
the case,;he best men in our nation would
tabor under that heavy sentence, the in.
dIgnatIoD OF the people. Is il to be
presumed, that Mr. e.. was a federaIist,
when we SEE him that very year repro
batting the conduct Of president Adams,
in supporting violent republican for The
member of congress, Abraham Baldwin,
in opposition to the federal one and so
violent was he { .ir. T.. al that time, that
he was termed Jacobin. Have moi all
the persons connected With that address
entirely cleared up the matter! But
say Mr.. Adams's friends, they were all
federalists then, and are ready TO go any
lengths To assist their friend. 1t is not
SO, judge TAFT has always been repubii
can, his whole life proves il, and yet
they doub. it. Pity it is that Mr.. A.
dams's warm and jealous friends cannot |
come out and declare that his principles
were always republican, there is no doubt |
IF they could prove it as satisfactorily as
Mr.. C's. has beeD) but that it would do |
him service but the attempt would |
be hopeless, for documentary evidence is
before the people. therefore am salts
lied, as far as this, that the signing Of this