Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

The following modest remarks are copied from the Aurora:

"During the sitting of congress in 1809 and 1810, we discussed the measure of non importation--we exhibited the effects that it would immediately have on Great Britain; our reasoning was never attempted to be refuted either in or out of congress, in fact it was assented to by every man who gave the subject a thought; but instead of immediately substituting it for the non-intercourse law, it was to be postponed to a future day"

No wonder col. Duane should daily abuse Congress as a pack of beetle-headed dolts, when it is apparent that he had to labor two years to persuade them to do their duty. He pointed out the proper course to be pursued; convinced them of its correctness; yet, instead of "immediately" adopting it, as they ought to have done, they "postponed it to a future day." -Shameful! We really see no necessity for having an "organ of the public will," if his dictates are disobeyed in this manner.

Who can be surprised now, to find the president's recommendations neglected? It ought to be mentioned, in justice to col. Duane, that the nation is indebted to his "useful labors," and not to Congress, for the blessings we at present enjoy; although the latter never once acknowledged the lights they had received.

The Enquirer, after dismissing the late "illustrious" secretary of state, proceeds to shew that Mr. Monroe was not a proper person to succeed him. The Enquirer's principal objection is, that Mr. M. signed the rejected treaty. "And what reasons are there to believe (the Enquirer asks) that his opinions have changed any more than ours? We know of none."--If Mr. Monroe has changed his opinions he is bound, we think, to state them explicitly to the Editor of the Enquirer; indeed, it is rather astonishing that he has not done it long ago. The Enquirer promises "in his next to take up Mr. Gallatin, and frankly avow why that politician does not command his confidence." Then, to use his own elegant language, "we shall see what we shall see." It is to be lamented that these gentry do not inform the President what characters to appoint to office; at present he is precisely in the situation of the Old Man in the fable; first he rides the Ass himself; then he allows the Ass to ride him; and still there is grumbling!

The manner in which the Aurora now praises the wisdom of the Non Importation law, may surprise those who read the following sentence in that paper a few days ago:

"The course of measures pursued by our government for a considerable time past, has not only been inconsistent, equivocal, lofty in tone, but feeble, weak, imbecile, and contemptible in their operations and effects."

DEMOCRATIC WARFARE CONTINUED

From the Aurora,

"We have copied an article from the Nat. Intelligencer, on the subject of the New York election, merely to exhibit the ideas and feelings which prevail there on such subjects. The editor, very naturally for a man who has only the opportunities of information which the situation affords him, supposes the division at New-York to be mere matters of difference arising there, or out of the lust of office; and would perhaps scarcely credit the fact that the Secretary of the Treasury has been the prime mover of it--as he has been of all the political divisions in Pennsylvania, from 1802 to this day."

From the National Intelligencer.

"The Editor of the Aurora is perfectly right. We cannot credit the fact that the Secretary of the Treasury had any connection with the late election in N. York. Sufficiently occupied with the laborious duties of his department and enjoying the confidence of the great body of the American people as well as of his colleagues in office, we can discover no motive for such an interference; we have seen no proof of it; and therefore, as the Editor of the Aurora very correctly conceives, we cannot credit it. As to the political divisions in Pennsylvania, if, as the Aurora intimates Mr. Gallatin has promoted them in opposition to the sentiment of the majority, it would seem to have been to very little purpose, because the imposing majority for Simon Snyder at the last gubernatorial election, as well as the result of the Congressional election last autumn, attest the republican stability of the state. Pennsylvania has in the next Congress but one federal representative; and he derives his title to a seat from a division of the republican party in the city of Philadelphia, of which we have not understood that the Secretary of the Treasury was the prime mover. If the Secretary has really been the prime mover of all the political divisions in Pennsylvania since 1802, it must be allowed that the people have moved in a pretty compact body with him, for in no state does the republican sentiment at present appear to be more strongly cemented or more firmly based than in Pennsylvania."