Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION
[From the Farmer's Museum.]

TO perpetuate to posterity a melancholy recollection of the evils produced by a democratic mal-administration, and for the purpose of exposing the arts and wickedness of unprincipled demagogues, the following BEACON is erected, by way of counterpart and contrast to the elegant inscription which appeared in the Columbian Centinel, at the close of the federal administration in 1801.

On the 4th of March next,
Will expire,
To the joy of every native American, who has his country's good at heart,
And to the morbid chagrin of presidential parasites, sycophants and office-holders.

The DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION
Of the
GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
Conducted by
A JEFFERSON, A MADISON, A GALLATIN, et id genus omne:
For 8 Years.

ITS DEATH
Was occasioned by an inherent principle of mortality, which would have alone eventually extinguished the VITAL SPARK.
Had it not been accelerated by foreign intriguer and domestic traitors;
Who have been cherished and nurtured by their great foster father,
The drift of whose wretched policy has been to loosen the UNION Annihilate the CREDIT --endanger the PEACE--suspend the PROSPERITY --tarnish the HONOR --and destroy the FELICITY OF HIS COUNTRY.

At its birth it found the Union of the states Strong as the Gordian knot;
It hath left it Weak as the films of Gossamer
It found the United States. Unbounded in Credit, and respected abroad The treasury full and overflowing
It hath left them Impoverished, their name a disgrace in foreign nations And their treasury chest and its contents of little more value than the bag which contained.

The malt that lay in the house that Jack-built
It found The United States at Peace with all the world
It hath left us A dubious, if not certain prospect of WAR
It found Our arsenals full. Our magazines bursting with ammunition and warlike implements And our manufactories of cannon and muskets, in employment
It hath left Some empty; and others decaying for want of proper care
Our Seamen, a valuable and necessary part of community, Thriving and happy, without dreaming of dry docks, or want of service;
It hath left them Not a ship-biscuit for their allowance: But compelled them to be Begging their bread in our seaports, Or, Seeking subsistence in a foreign navy.
It found The commerce of our country penetrating every clime by the enterprize of her merchants and the fearlessness of her sailors; Throwing into the lap of her sister, agriculture, the rarities and the luxuries of all nations:
It hath left it Manacled by an endless embargo; Which, like the insatiable leech is suffered to drain the country of all the wealth in its veins And which has operated with the banefulness of the dog-star upon Individual enterprize and wealth, public prosperity, and the morals of
It found The yeomanry of the country, her mechanics and manufacturers Prosperous, contented and happy The produce of their farms, like the And all curious workmanship of their gold of Ophir, was good hands: and all useful labor met ready and appropriate reward.
It hath left The Farmer, though surrounded with much cattle, and his garners full. unable to realise the cost of raising them; his theses literally are "dropping fatness," and his butter growing rancid for want of A MARKET
It hath left The mechanic and manufacturer subjected to correspondent privations.
In a word. It found them the cheerful supporters of good government, increasing, as individuals, and as a nation, in Riches and honor.
It hath left them growing daily more and more discontented and disheartened.
It found The REVENUE ample and augmenting, owing to the wisdom of its FOUNDER. And completely sufficient for the purpose of a gradual abolition of the United States Debt, and the annual expences of Government:
It hath left If not an empty treasury, a deficit for the last year only, of at least fifteen millions of dollars, which would have otherwise accrued to the government from imposts, now almost altogether deprived of that source National Income.
It found The country supporting an independent and dignified Neutrality, not affected by "ignoble stooping," But by the assertion of our Rights:
It hath left us Cringing meanly to France, and by bad management destroyed the "Harmony of intercourse" with G. Brit.
It found us Possessed of a NAVY, composed of 34 ships of war, mounting 918 guns, and manned by 7350 gallant seamen.
It hath sold off A part of this National Bulwark another part is rotting in the Ship-yards. where they have been deposited; and a few are left sea worthy to remind our countrymen what our force once consisted.
It hath left us in lieu, a few paltry inefficient gun boats, better fitted to receive the peck, than for the lofty perch of the Noble Eagle
It found The Exports and Imports, composing our Foreign and Commercial Traffic, amounting to an immense sum:
It has reduced Them to a song, by a cowardly EMBARGO.
In fine, It hath left our Once UNITED, PROSPEROUS, HAPPY, WEALTHY COUNTRY-- Divided, her citizens dissatisfied, and the nation poor.
And yet, notwithstanding these things are palpable to all, there are many among us who are so lost to the sentiments of virtue, gratitude and patriotism, as professed to Prefer the administration of Thomas Jefferson, To those of his Immortal Predecessors, WASHINGTON and ADAMS.
Redeant Saturnia regna.