Alexandria Advertiser And Commercial Intelligencer

Mr. Jefferson's letters to Callender published in the last Gazette, arrest the attention of men of all parties, without distinction. Even some of the warmest friends of Mr. Jefferson proclaim their disapprobation by a silence which is seldom observed on the arrogant visage of democracy. But this is no ways astonishing, for to vent their spleen against Callender or to rail against his writings would be now to offer an unpardonable insult both to the taste and judgment of their President. To attempt to vindicate the contents of the letters, would be an attack upon the principles of our constitution, of which the maddest demagogue is sensible, although it escaped the notice of the Monticellian sage. Thus they are reduced to a dilemma which will require more ingenuity to surmount than even the Genevan treasurer is possessed of. All the combined forces of the Clintons, the Langdonites, the Gerrites, and the Loganiates, with their subordinate satellites will be unable to resist the effect which the last Recorder has produced upon the minds of Americans—a Recorder which will be remembered as long as there is candour to acknowledge the wide difference between the open and virtuous conduct of Washington, and the secret and clandestine policy of Mr. Jefferson; a Recorder, which will serve as a lasting epitaph of the integrity of the former, but as a monument of disgrace to the latter; a Recorder to record the infamy of a transaction, which the tears of the weeping willows of Monticello will not wash away, until the Recording Angel shall blot out the foulest crimes which ever defiled society.