Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

"The President of the United States has received the most beastly abuse from the unclean animals who scribble for the opposition, because William Duane has been appointed Lieutenant Colonel in the new army now raising. The senseless noodles do not perceive, that instead of injuring the chief magistrate they are severely censuring a number of their own friends. If Duane be really so infamous a man as he is represented to be, it must be disgraceful to serve in the army with him: and yet we have not heard of a single federal officer (and there are many gentlemen of that description of politicks in the military service of the United States) who has resigned his commission from disgust at Duane's appointment." Do you take? Good sirs, do you take?--Moniteur.

A new way of getting rid of federalists.

"As few die and none resign," Mr. Jefferson has devised a new mode of turning federalists out of office, by associating with them blackguards and villains, he strives, to force them out of office by making it disgraceful to remain in, and the little suborner who conducts Madison's Museum, is quite chagrined that the scheme doesn't take. This deep scheme reminds us of the story of the farmer whose neighbor bored him with his frequent visits and long talks, and not liking to turn him out of his house, upon a certain occasion, when he seemed to have his setting breeches on and became extremely tiresome, knowing his pride, he resolved to force him out by introducing to his presence company not very agreeable to a gentleman. The cook, scullion, little pot boys and all their culinary retinue, which quickly banished his insulted neighbor from his house, and from that time all intercourse between them ceased.

Again--

"Are the opposition sure that the President has appointed no federalist to a post in the new army, who is a worse man than William Duane? I would have the gentlemen to con over the list of appointments, and refresh their recollections on that head: and then let us hear from them again."--Moniteur.

From this it will appear that his excellency is perfectly excuseable for appointing Duane; to keep some worse men company. In order to palliate the nefarious act of appointing a French hireling and abandoned wretch to be a centinel of American Liberty, some treacherous creatures who could not aspire to the name of federalists, have been placed by his side with a view to silence our murmurs.-- "Worse" men than Duane, for the honor of humanity we trust are not to be found even amongst the most depraved & corrupt wretches in the country. But let us suppose even that it were practicable to select from any party his equal in infamy; does it furnish any excuse for the executive in confiding the honor and safety of the nation to the care of bad or the "worse" men in the country. The times call for the best men, at least for men who are not in the pay and employment of those with whom the country is to be involved in war. The less the administration papers say upon the subject the better for them. There is not an instance of executive misbehaviour, or an act of outrage and indignity offered to the feelings of a betrayed and insulted people which they have attempted to palliate or deny, but what they have been put to confusion in the attempt. Witness last of all our celebrated messenger to Europe, the noted Haley.

(Fed. Rep.)