Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-09-09

to exercise over the Presidential election
an influence at war with The obvious IN.
iention OF the constitution. and the meet.
tngs of the people, which the acts and in.
trigue OF such caucus have rendered
necessary for maintaining the constitution
in its original purity.
In re-pubishing a speech of Mr.. Craw-
lords against proposition to repeal the
first embargo act, the Editors OF the Ma
tionsl lntelligencer have emphaticalIy
marked the following sentence. In u
government AXE this, Wc should act openly,
honestly, and candidly. The people ought
% kno1U thesr situation, and the Dieys of
those who conduct heir qHairs' To this
sentiment, every honest politician will
readily subscribe; and one Of the greatest
objections 10 the election of MIR. era W ford
is, that be alone, of all the candidates, has
not acted on this principle; and that while
the views of The others, on the great ques.
tons on which the election is to turn, are,
for the most part, fully and fairly before
the public, his alone are involved in stu
died and impenetrahle obscurity.
The radical party, for instance, in con.
gress, are his steady adherents, on the
ground that be is hostile TO the prominent
measures OF the administration. The Edl-
tors OF the intelligencer, on the contrary,
s,outIy teny the fact, and claim for their
fsvorite full participation in the liberal
and manly policy by which the present ad.
ministration has been distinguished.
The friends of Dir. FRA wford in Virgil.
MIA and North Caro- ma. support him on the
ground that be is opposed to the encour.
agement of domestic manufactures by ex.
trsordinary duties, and TO The appropria>
ton OF money by the General Government
to roads and canals. Some of the members
Of Congress, indeed, from those states,
have, in their addresses to their constitu.
ents distinctly presented these considera-
tons, as the grounds on which his nomina.
ton by the caucus had been procured
The western and eastern friends OF Mr..
Crawford, on the contrary, claim him as
the advocate of domestic manufactures and
internal improvements; and Messrs Gales
& Seaton, In their commentaries on Genl
M'Clure's letter, very strongly intimate,
that il there be any OBJECTION to him, it is,
that be is, possibly, somewhat too exclu-
sive in his devotion TO these particular in>
terests.
But on another important point, 'ir.
Crswford's views are still less unders d
by those whose affairs he proposes o
conduct A caucus of between sixty and
seventy members OF Congress, consisting
not only OF the political, out of the inta-
mate personal friends oi Mr, Crawford
OF men 10 habit, o daily intercourse with
him-who, for some time past, had pen
ned his most important official communl-
cations, and discharged for him his most
important official duties-who bad con,
versed freely with him on every subject,
and Oh none more so than on the Presi-
dental election. A caucus thus constitute
ed, publicly proclaimed him as candi-
date Tor the Presidency, and urged bis e
lection, emphaticaIiy on the ground, that
be alone, oil all the candidates, couio be
relied on as party President. No one
doubted for a moment that all this had
been done in accordance with the views
and feelings of Mr.. Crawford; because no
one supposed that MIR. Forsyth, Mr.. Cuih-
bert, Mr. Ware, and bis other intimate
personal friends could have misunderstood
or would have wilfully misrepresented
him.
But doubt. it seems. has been created
even in the teeth OF the caucus. While
Mr.. Crawford is enjoying all the benefits
OF the pubhc declaration OF has friends,
tost be is the true and only democratic can.
didate, it is secretly but most actsOsfy aUhas-
pered, that in conversation with Mr..
Boyd, federal lawyer OF New York, be
uuequivocaliy disclaimed the principles
OF the caucus address, and declared, that
SO far from having seen it before its publ
cation, he had especially eWoIned il on
his democratical friends, to publish no.
thing that had not been previously SUBJ