Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

UNANIMITY.

Some of the Administration-folks affect great joy at Henry's "disclosures," asserting that the Federalists are sorely galled by them. The publications in the Democratic papers, however, prove that many of Mr. Madison's ostensible friends have been stung to the quick. In the Baltimore American, which is said to be a leading republican paper in that quarter, we have noticed an Essay on the subject, from which we have only time at present to make a few extracts. The writer says:

“The custom of governments in buying state secrets, has been pleaded in vindication of the purchase made by administration of the disclosures of Henry. In reply to this plea, I assert, that if the custom has prevailed in other governments, it is so dishonorable a practice that no government has ever dared to adopt it, or to justify it, in any state document, in any diplomatic correspondence, to the best of my recollection. In truth, all governments are interested in pulling down the practice, because it exposes them to the unprincipled impositions of foreign traitors, and reduces them to the level of those traitors.”

What Federal writer ever said more than this-that our administration had reduced themselves to a level so infamous?--Read what this Baltimore Democrat says in another part of his Essay:

“I beg it to be distinctly understood, that to my mind the amount of the sum paid to Henry is of no importance. No pecuniary standard can be erected for the value of sound & honorable political principles. MILLIONS could not compensate the American nation for the conversion of their government into a government of capricious political expediency, and of vile political traffic. The constitution is not worth a cent, if the public money can be used in aid of executive patronage, to buy political adventurers of talents, whose profligacy would induce them, for money, to write down that constitution and the liberty of the nation with it.”

Recollect, gentle reader, the above is not a federal effusion: it has emanated from the pure source of genuine republicanism. The Federalists have only said that Henry fobbed fifty thousand dollars; but this writer asserts that "Millions" cannot repair our loss. We should not be surprised to hear that another mission had been "offered" in the shape of hush-money, or, in Henry's language, a consulate sinecure.

We are not about to justify either Henry or the writer above quoted. There is much truth, however, in his publication. But we are sensible, is full of hypocrisy: it is out of our power to decide who were the dupes in the late transaction,-who were the deceivers. We pronounce no positive opinion. The world, of Time, the great and unbought revealer of secrets. Yet of this much we are convinced, that
“There are men, whose visages
Do cream and mantle like a standing pool,
Who do a wilful stillness entertain,
On purpose to be drest up in opinion
As who should say,—"I am Sir Oracle,
Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit,
And when I ope my mouth, let no dog bark."
There seems to be a strong distrust prevailing among the rulers of this country. This is generally the case with a certain class of people, who, judging of others by themselves, are always suspicious of fraud and treachery