Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

HON. TIMOTHY PICKERING.

Our actions are our own; their consequences
Belong to Heaven. The secret consciousness
Of duty well performed, the public voice
Of praise, that honors virtue and rewards it
All these are yours--
When the world shall forget a Lycurgus, a
Numa, or a Solon, when the praises of a Pub-
licola, a Fabius, a Marcellus, or a Timoleon
shall be converted to contempt, then will the
virtuous of our community despise a PICK-
ERING. Pickering the consummate states-
man and the free man's friend; a hero of the
revolution and the champion of liberty, pos-
sesses more magnanimity of soul, than to
barter his principles; the effects of knowledge
and of well tested experience, for the fulsome
and unwholesome flattery of a party, inimical
to the interests of our country in fact, and sys-
tematically opposed to the constitution. We
find this venerable Aristides from his youth,
the true and sincere friend of his country, and
as was his sword in the revolution, so his voice
in these dark days of democracy and error
both directed to one grand and noble object,
the good of his country; we find him the ear-
ly, the steady and true friend of Washington;
the adviser and sentinel of Adams. We see
him uniformly defending the constitution, the
legacy of departed excellence, we find him
among the first to warn us from the rock of
French influence; we find him in danger a
pillar of support, and in safety a true friend.
In these days of degeneracy, a man possessing
such virtues will meet with the true reward
of merit and of virtue--the slander of jacobins
and the scoff of fools--the praise of the wise
and of the just;--but Pickering has a heart
for this, he regards the one as the passing
wind, and the other as all his earthly trea-
sure. No wild ambition turns his patriotism
to a different channel than the salvation of his
country, he fights not for the honors or plea-
sures of usurped power, he will not igno-
miniously relinquish his orthodox tenets to
the whirlwind which rages about them,--the
success or the fatality of them impress not
him, because his experience teaches him he
must not look to success as the criterion of
justice, he can retire in his own mind and
revolve all the scenes and conduct of his life,
and exclaim I have acted LIKE A HERO,
A CHRISTIAN, AND A MAN.--Conn.
Courant.