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Extract of a letter from a gentleman in the Western parts of Virginia, to his correspondent in Richmond, dated Sept. 16, 1800.

"You are so bent on politics, that I believe you have lost hopes. It will be well if you and I have hitherto been mistaken; the event I hope will be favorable; but no wise has changed my opinion--nay, so clearly do I conceive the principles of our Democrats to be wrong, that were it left to my determination, I would freely make choice of being governed by Buonaparte himself, rather than submit to the partiality and tyranny of our Democrats, manifested in the late proceedings of *****.

I suppose it would not be sedition only, but also little treason, to find fault with the majority of our legislature--who, it is said, are the people. Our ticket law, however, for appointing Electors to choose a President, and a Vice-President, will be a lasting monument of the lost liberties of the distressed and deluded people; and an eternal stigma on the boasted justice of true republican government. Such tyranny, such abuse of rights, will one day produce its murderous effects."