Alexandria Daily Advertiser

The Democrats in Pennsylvania for some time past have been at "sixes and seven," and in Kentucky "social intercourse" seems to be not a little impaired. Matthew Lyon has come forward in the Kentucky Palladium, in a production of considerable length. In the subjoined extract from it, a portion of the sovereign people, or in other words, "the poor, middling sort of people" may see the estimation in which they are held by their Democratic Brethren, after they have placed them in our national councils, while it shews the opinion of some of the predominant party, relative to the great bargain we have in the purchase of Louisiana.

"When I left this country last, (says Lyon) for the seat of government, great expectations were formed respecting the extension of the American settlements in the Louisiana country, the public mind was as much alive on this occasion as any I remember—the mail was crowded with letters to me on my arrival there, respecting the terms of settlement of that country, and how and when the lands were to be sold; on the other hand I was surprised by declarations of the southern gentlemen that Louisiana must be locked up, no body must go there:" When a reason for this was required, the public answer was, "our settlements are too scattering already;" but, in conversation, I have often heard it said by gentlemen from the same quarter, (Virginia)—"If we suffer Louisiana to be settled and give them a government that will be agreeable to the ideas of the Americans our poor, middling sort of people will all leave us, and we shall have nobody left but ourselves and our slaves, and the western country people will make such an abundance of flour, hemp, tobacco & cotton to go to the same markets with ours, that we shall get little or nothing for what we make: we know that population, wealth, power and government must eventually roll that way, and we must keep that event off as long as we can."