Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

From the Connecticut Mirror.

Last week, we republished a piece from the Whig, calculated to shew in what manner the legislature, and executive of the United States are treated by foreigners, who are employed in editing newspapers in this country. In doing this, we by no means intend to have it understood, that we are anxious to defend the characters thus attacked. They are the guardians of their own honor; and if they have the meanness to submit patiently to such insolence, in the opinion of all virtuous and respectable persons, they will deserve it. But we should think that the democratic majority of congress, would bite their fingers for vexation, when they see such marks of impudence, in a set of low vagrant scape-goats (if not something worse) from the justice of their own country, and reflect, that they are indebted for the benefit to the gracious disposition of their great patron, Thomas Jefferson. He found it convenient to render this country "an asylum for oppressed humanity,"--which, in plain English, means, a receptacle for culprits, who by the laws of Great Britain, ought to be in Botany Bay. but who have had the good luck to escape to our shores. Not only so, but when he had them safe landed, he found it still more convenient for his own purposes, to "use them as his tools ; that is, to edit newspapers in his service. No wonder that such fellows grow to be colonels ; and when colonels, that they become impudent, and treat their patrons with insolence.

As another specimen of foreign manners. we this week give a passage from the Aurora of July 4th, the anniversary of Independence!!!. "Brigadier general" Duane resolved not to be out-done in this game by any of his rivals, and as if jealous of his reputation, comes out in language as bold as that of his neighbor Irvine, and attacks the majority in congress over the head and shoulders. with as little ceremony as if they were a parcel of bog-trotters, contending over a dish of potatoes and whiskey. We hope the New England democrats, who have the honor of a seat in congress, especially the most distinguished amongst them, viz. such as Messrs. Varnum, Seaver, Bacon, Cutts and Cook, will get hold of this compliment to their understandings and virtue, and demean themselves hereafter a little more strictly according to the Irish standard of political integrity and patriotism.

Those who voted for a repeal of the embargo, we repeat it, are accountable for all our troubles, and are totally unworthy of public confidence in any season of great exigency. We shall indeed be told that some of them erred honestly ; but it matters not what may be their moral qualities or their integrity; "curse upon them they have undone the country" -their virtues they should display at home, where their malign imbecility cannot unhinge a nation ; men uniting virtue fit for times of danger, with intelligence & constancy of mind, should be sent to replace them. If this be not done, the government must meet 'a shock, requiring stronger nerves and more fortitude to redeem it from destruction.

The tenth Congress have done more to shake the foundations of the American republic, than it would be possible for the armed hosts of Europe to accomplish by force. They abandoned the sacred palladium of the constitution and laws at the artificial scream of a corrupt faction domineering over the legislature of Massachusetts ; by forsaking the best measure of policy that human wisdom and a free pacific people could devise, they have shaken the confidence of the people in the principles of representative government.

By abandoning the executive in a crisis when the operation of its wise policy was on the verge of consummating all its sagacious purposes: it will be in vain to expect, that any executive endowed with' wisdom equal even to that which we have lost, can ever again risk itself with a legislative body composed of such frail, incompetent, and nerveless men.

It is preposterous, under our constitution, to look to the executive for any course of procedure, while Congress invested as it is with the effective power of legislation, is composed of materials so ill assorted and imbecile; where intelligence is so limited, and public spirit is exchanged for secret cabals : for the motives of faction; for the personal gratification of some disappointed or malignant demagogue, some vindictive machinating intriguer ; for the mean object of retaining a seat on account of its petty six dollar emolument ; when the best interests of a nation are sunk in considerations such as these separately or combined, it is time the people look around them, and examine the conduct. the votes, the desertion of votes, the motives, and the tendency of such representation, or rather mis representation.

Local influence. the eagerness or petty offices, the jealousies which vice and vicious ignorance always entertain against men who are not supple enough to be sycophants, and who, conscious of their integrity, will not descend to the vile intrigues which operate in popular elections; these things should be considered in time ; men of worth and independence should not abandon their duty to their country & themselves, by leaving to those who are actuated by unworthy views, the first selections, and the general choice of candidates. The great mass of the people too seldom look beyond the ticket that is prepared for them, and never consider how or by whom the ticket was prepared.

We see motley tribes, like wandering Arabs, travelling from grog-shop to grog-shop, and there making out of their spoutings, what they call public opinion; we see the very stipendiaries who have thus crept into office, through the kennels of debasement and fraud, going forth in tribes, with the view of securing the places they had acquired by corruption, putting in nomination men like themselves, who from sympathy they suppose will assure them a continuance; and bartering in this way their trust, their oaths, and the rights of the nation ; nothing but a complete change in Congress, and the substitution of better men, can rescue us from the ignominy and danger of Our situation.