The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

(To be continued.)

Frederick-Town, August 17.

GENTLEMEN,

Your favor of the 10th instant has been duly received, and in pursuance of your request communicated to a respectable meeting of the voters of that part of Frederick county attached to the 4th Congressional District, convened especially for the purpose of taking it into consideration. The proceedings of this meeting we have now the honor to enclose, by which it will appear that we have been appointed a Standing Committee, "to reply to the letter received from Washington county, and to hold such other correspondence as may be necessary to promote" and give effect to the measures and principles of republicanism.

You will observe that the meeting have approved of the nomination of our worthy fellow-citizen general Daniel Heister, and have resolved to recommend him to the confidence and support of the people, as a proper character to represent the 4th district in the next Congress of the United States. The correct and independent political sentiments of this gentleman, and his unremitting application to the duties of a representative heretofore, are sufficient to convince us of his future adherence to the same principles, and will no doubt ensure him the increasing and decided approbation of his constituents generally. With this idea of his worth, the republicans of this county, attached to the 4th district, join their fellow citizens of Washington most cordially, in giving support to his election.

If the resolution under which we now act had directed us merely to communicate the concurrence of the meeting in this place, we should stop here; but it is made our duty to "hold such other correspondence" as the occasion may suggest--Under this injunction, we will take the liberty of offering to your consideration, and through you to, the good sense of the people of the district, a few observations.

The opposition which commenced with the election of the present chief magistrate, and which still exists, is a subject of painful consideration. A retrospect of the transactions of the Adams administration, contrasted with the present prosperous, happy and auspicious situation of our public concerns, ought to excite not only the gratitude of the people of these states, to an over-ruling and beneficient Providence, but re-establish union & harmony throughout this country. That spirit of opposition, of ill-will and discontent, which has too long menaced the public peace with anarchy and confusion, ought no longer to resist the virtues and the mild spirit of republicanism. That great and inestimable character who presides at the head of the nation, has by his forbearance invited concord and unanimity. What abuse and injury has he not sustained? Yet fortified with integrity and a love of his country, he has without a murmur, returned good for evil, and has sought his recompence in an approving conscience. Is he still to be the object of persecution, and are the reforms of republicanism to be destroyed_or, what are the views of the opposition? These are serious questions, that must come home to the understandings and the feelings of the people. The virtuous heart will ache at the contemplation of them, and the designing shrink from a reply.

It is but a little while since the people have seen an army raised and a naval system established unnecessary for the occasion, and too burdensome to the people. They have also seen taxes accumulating, new excise laws, additional loans, useless offices established; the press hackled with a sedition law; an alien law enacted; the pomp, parade and etiquette of kings and princes observed by a president of the United States, and as the immediate consequence of this extravagance the public debt increased in the short period of four years, eleven millions of dollars. These are undeniable, incontrovertible facts, within the knowledge of every one of the least observation.--The subject is too unpleasant to be pursued. Let us turn to the serene and soothing prospect which has opened upon us within the two last years.

Happily for the United States a Jefferson has lived, and his country has known how to value his worth and unrivalled talents. Since his election the most sanguine expectations of the people have been realized. The army and the navy have been reduced, and by prudent measures rendered more effective than before. The internal taxes have been repealed, unnecessary offices abolished, and useless officers removed; the national debt has been reduced eight millions of dollars, the disgustful and repulsive pomp of the executive has been simplified and rendered consistent with the plain manners of a republican people, the press is unshackled, free enquiry allowed, and the spirit and principles of our glorious constitution cherished and carried into full effect--yet there are men dissatisfied, who turn from these blessings and seize on every opportunity to injure their country. The wise measures of the administration in relation to the cession of Louisiana have been condemned, because it has not been obtained by hostile means. To involve the United States in a war, perhaps long, bloody and expensive, the Louisiana country was estimated beyond all price. Fifty thousand men were immediately to seize upon it, be the consequences what they might. The wisdom of the Executive pursued a different course, and because that country is now at the option of the United States, at a comparatively small price, without the least disturbance to society, or the loss of a single life, Mr. Jefferson has received the most unqualified censure and indiscriminate abuse.

This is a just picture, within the knowledge of every one. The horrid deformity which characterizes the present opposition must sink deep into every virtuous mind. The people will not fail to perceive the solid interests of the community, and give to the administration that support to which it is entitled by every just consideration.

For us it is enough to know that our meritorious representative and candidate, general Heister, has advocated the salutary measures of the present administration, and that he is a decided Republican. He shall have our cordial support, and we doubt not, the voters of the part of Frederick county, attached to the 4th district, will convince their fellow citizens throughout the Union, that they are superior to the misconceptions and the machinations of erring and dangerous politicians.

We are, Gentlemen,

With much respect,

Your friends & Fellow-Citizens,

SAMUEL DUVALL,

FREDERICK HEISLEY,

ABRAHAM SHRIVER

JOSEPH SWEARINGEN

ROGER NELSON.