Alexandria Daily Advertiser

"We have long said that the union of the
democratic leaders is a union in which virtue
has no part. Witness their infernal ravings against
their own Vice President. The man whom they
have exalted to the second place in the government
is by themselves declared a scoundrel and a traitor!
A guillotine would not have been too bad three
years ago for the federalists who should have dared
to hold this language. But let us take their own
account of the matter—Let us allow in compliance
to their own earnest vociferations that their own
vice president is a base and detestable villain, and
what does it prove—exactly what we have always
said, that this republicanism is a mask under which
knaves mount into office. If their charges against
their vice president be true, let no man have confidence
again in the candidates whom the chief jugglers
present for his support. If on the other hand they
are false, let every honest man withdraw his
countenance from those bloodhounds of character.
Again if these charges against their own Vice
President are true. If in him they have been thus
woefully deceived, will they dare to say that in
their president himself they have not been cheated?
Surely it is not impossible that those who declare
themselves deluded in one instance, may be so in
another. How then is it that these men have the
face to instruct a free people. Men who in the
perfection of their own stupid malice are crying
their own disgrace through the land; are declaring
often and aloud that they have been the dupes of
Mr. Burr's intrigue. Are these the men to whose
sagacity we shall trust? What these dupes of Mr.
Burr? For shame let us not be moved like puppets
by the self acknowledged, self proclaimed dupes of
Aaron Burr.
The next time these keen eyed dragons are
duped, the ruin of our liberties may be the first
warning we shall have."
(Ulster Gaz.)