Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-10-21

..,.,s from the French papers received
he packet ship Ilayre, says We
:. bpen informed that letters from Ha.
,opOuuce, positpsly, the death Of The
Kig.
The friends OF Mr.. Crawford. it seems.
80, iu,tatlempted, with their usual sac
new evolution. Despairing Of bis
Lection. through the fundamentally of
..,d;ealyotes alone, they have endeavored,
The way Of bargain and sale, to draw TO
-, .uppori ,he friends of that one. among
ne other candidates, who is most decided
/, onocsed TO their whole system oil poll,
,;,s II is stated in some Of the northern
n,ints, tina. no less than three or the grand
a;ooitaries oftbe caucus-three honorable
members Of Congress, from Pennsylvania,
Virginia ADD Maryland, have made their
,ooearsnce in New York, iprovided with
,lsuiisble credentials, including letter
r resignation from Albert Gsllatin, for
,bs purpose ofotfering the Vices Presidency
10 Mr.. Clay. on condition Of bis friends
suOOorting Mr.. Crawford for the Presi-
desey. The proposition, We are told,
has been Indignantly rejected; and IS con-
sidered by those 10 whom il was address
ed, as impudent rs it is unprincipled-
inpudent, because the friends OF Mr.. Clay
have no doubt that bis vote 10 the elector-
Al colleges will he greater than that OF Mr.
Crawford--and unprincipled, because il
is 40 effort, by bare-faced bribery, 10 in
duce respectable portion of the people of
iDe United States 10 contribute 10 the sue
cess OF parry, whose principles they con-
slider hostile 10 The best interests OF the IA
lion.
Tbis miserable effort leaves it still doubt-
fuL whether the leaders OF the caucus par
~ are more pre>eminenf for knayery OF
folly. II undoubtedly evinces dispos-
uUu fot tuC tiOol SS't " ="
trgue: but il also evinces, as their nomi-
naIlon of Albert Gailatin did, total want
OF the talent necessary 10 conduct their in-
trigues 10 successful issue. They very
modeslly ask Mr.. Clay TO abandon bis
pre,ensions TO the Presidency, 10 sckno"-
ledge bis inieriOrily TO Mr.. Crswford-to
give up his chance of election in The House
of Representatiyes--an above all, TO aid
10 throwing the government into the hands
Of a party, prepared to undo every thing
tina. be has been engaged. FOR the last ten
years, in accomplishing. And what are
The inducements offered A comparative
. " unimportsnt office, possessing no one
charm either of power OF OF patronage.
Did it not occur 10 those willy politicians,
that the moral feeling both Of Mr. Clay
and his friends would revolt q. such an
unprincipled proposition? Or Ut, as we
are justified in sIpposing, moral feeling
has no place in their system OF ethics, did
they not perceive that they had offered a
bribe too pallry. TO induce any man of to-
lerable understanding TO risk the frowns OF
an indignant country? Why should Mr..
Clay acknowledge bis inferiority to Mr..
Crawford? He is greatly his superior in
every endowment of the mind, artificial as
well as natural. Why should be abandon
bis prelensions TO the Presidency? With
one bali the vote of New York--and in the
present distracted condition Of that state,
il is more than probable be will command
so much, at least, of her strength he will
greatly outnumber Mr.. Crawford in the
electoral colleges. And Why, above all,
should be give up his chance OF election
BY The House OF Representatives. We ba'
card very little in saying, that were the
contest confined to Mr. Crawio and bn-
self. bis vote in that House would De IN
proportion, at all events, not less than TWO
to one. And yet all these advantages are
to be sbandoned, and all these chances 10
be disregarded, for an Office without pow
sr and whhou, patronage. We know no.
thing more rrepostsrous in the history OF
intrigue, unless il be The idea, on which
these same politicians had before acted,
hat minority caucus, political Intoller>
snce, and the name OF Albert Gaiiatin, can
give popularity 10 any cause.
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