Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-08-08
+ From the National MieligencerJ

In the Alexandria Gazette Of yesterday, VI
find an "extract of a letter to the Editor
which we are satisfied. from the uniform Jsct'
ton OF the worthy Editor, he would not haze
published, il he had not received it from good az
thority. Relying upon its general accuracy, We
extract from it the following passages, uFU
which we annex one or two comments:
From the Alexandra Gazette, August g.
Extract Of a letter to the Editor Of The .ale1at
dr,a Gazeite, dated.
BucKLANp. (Va.) August l.
lie, Qhc President Of the U. States. passel
through this place last Tuesday. in great STATE
stopping to take breakfast. While here, some
Of his friends called on him and had some co.,
versation with him in the tavern porch-on which
occasion he held forth most LUMINOSITY, amer:
other matters relating to his Administrators, ~
on the Bank of the United States. He said
that, if 1t had not been vetoed, the liberty OF our
country would not be worth copper; that he
had no doubt it would be discovered, II suihe!eni
investigation were made, that many OF It's prob'
nent advocates in Congress were brlbed Tor Their
support; that it had lent Mr.. Webster SlO,COO
short time since Implying a charge Of bribery
otherwise the fact was not worth mentioning
Il That it had accepted him as Gales y Sea-
toms enLorser for the same amount. IT, though
he was worth nothing; and that it had, IN O''
county, (in Tennessee, Think taken mort gag
es. as securities, to the number OF hundreds u
one day; forget the precise number. lie spoke
also, Of the brides 1t administers in the shape d
fat fees to counsel. (S.) Mr. Clay, too came %
for his share Of the denunciation and abuse Of
Hero. The fees he once received from the Ba'.'
as counsel, were remembered and brought i"p
in most magnanimOus inuen1oes.
You will, no doubt, agree with me that sue"
conduct is exceeding candid and hish'mInd,d'
Thus publicly to charge honorable and emne"'
men, acting under solemn oath, upon mere 'u''
picion, in the form Of supposiior, with being H.
iluenced by brides in the discharge OF their ON
ciaI duties, is stretch Of magnanimIty Tar Dc
yond the conception of ordinary folks, andp
liar'y becoming in our Chief Magistrate.
Yours, truly.
~ We have heard before that an attemP.
would be made to convert into an eIectIoneenD:
topic the fact of money having been lent to Men
bers Of Congress. We should not he surprises
that MIR. WEBSTER had had paper discounted io
him to this amount; indeed we think we nave
heard that notes had been given to him BY wea'
thy associations or individuals, interested in hay
ing claims under some of the late treaties 10
something like this amount, which he had ha'
discounted. And why should he not? WHATS
here in his position, to debar him from tac',iIle'
hich are common to all his countrymen! no"
Infinitely beneath the dignity Of the ChIef Mass
rate is it to retail in the tavern porches those Per
ty ISLANDERS, the inventors of which did not care
to utter them here, when all parties were on wv
spot. and would have confronted one another
~ 1t is not true that Mr.. WEBSTER |.
s Gales g. Seaton's endofser" for the amour