Delaware journal., 1828-02-15
For THE DELAWARE JOURNAL.
LOUIS M'LANE..

1t is time that the serious attention OF the people
turned to the character and conduct OF this man.
With respectable talents, and great cunning, and
greater labor and industry he has for many years
toiled with the most assiuous diligence to promote
the objects of his ambition nor is he very nice or
tistdlous in the choice of the means by which these
objects are accomplished With apress at his com
nand, which he has welded more in the spirit Of
destruction than concation, he has been enabled
to disseminate such principles and notions AS were
favorable to his own advancement to power and as
this press was, for a long time, the only means by
which principles and doctrines could be incacated
upon one portion Of the people III this State, he
avaed himself Of the advantage which this gave
him to forestai public opinion on every question
which the interest of the day made it conv enient for
| hun to espouse.
| No man, however respectable, unless he entirely
accorded with Mr.. M'Lane, has escaped the CEN
sure of his press One object which have in view
is to bring home 10 the feelings OF this gentleman
sense of that bitterness which he has long poured
out upon others not that mean to deal in CO arse
and vulgar epihets, nor in those general and unde-
fined accusations which literally made in his
Gazette but that mean to state facts which are
known to every we'll informed man in the State,
and to draw the proper deductions from those facts.
This course will not only be more just, but more
severe, than that pursued by the Gazette because
hood, but on the truth.
The facts which state are we'll known to the
Citizens ofths State They have been overlooked,
forgotten, or disregarded by many but 1t shall be
my purpose, now to embody them, SO that they may
be seen at one view, and be justly appreciated and
understood.
When Mr.. Crawford was nominated by Demo
cratic Caucus at Washington, and that caucus pub
lshed an address, ustifyng their usurpation upon
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ascendency land fix the iederaliss longer in the dust
we find this gentleman espousing the cause of Mr.
Crawford, and using every means in his power tc
advance his interest. His press was set to'avork
its editorial columns did not suffice him but con-
ltrary to his usual CUSTOM he favored the members
of the Legislature with three letters under the sig
4 nature of C A Citizen of Deaware''--At the time
no man pretended to doubt, nor has it since been
denied that he was the author of these letters In
deed much pains taken to make the fact
known; for much was expected from his authority
and this expectation was not disappointed. Altho
9 the members OF that Assembly were not in favor oil
Mr.. Craworts election yet two electors favorable
to him were chosen-l remember well the means
that were used-Some of his echoes were sent &c
- Dover and there they used every argument which
had been furnished them" Mr.. M'Lane had sale
4 at Washington that the State would vote for Mr.
: Crawford and Mr.. M'Lane would be extremel,
IS mortfed II IL uiu hot his stanulnS ere Wouid OF
effected, and he would no longer be held in the
n high esteem''--he expected seat in the cabinet
and, when there, his patronage should be extended
:. to his friends" Does any man doubt that these
It guments were used, let him look at the sleters
l. .' Citizen OF Delaware addressed to the Member
e of the Legislature. The latter argument is ther
i urged with adroitness that became willy politi
& cian but not with the modesty of gentleman speak
st ing of himself On the subject of his own mpor
e tance in the event Of Mr.. Crawford's election, h
Is says Butihere is an influence which mast preva
and that is the counsel and advice which every ad
mnistration must need respecting its policy and pa
I'd ronuge in the individual States" would ask
this is not leading men into temptation? Whether
at is not an attempt to seduce by promises Remen