The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

WASHINGTON CITY.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4.

The Festivities of the season have compelled us to issue a half sheet, and to suspend, until our next, the continuation of Mr. Campbell's speech.

On Monday a large and respectable assemblage of ladies and gentlemen repaired to the house of the President, to offer him their congratulations on the return of another year. The concourse was larger than on any preceding similar occasion, including the foreign ministers, the members very generally of the two Houses of Congress, the executive and judiciary officers, strangers of distinction and citizens. Refreshments were liberally distributed, and music played at intervals. The President as well as his guests, appeared in very good spirits. He was dressed in a full suit of homespun as well as a considerable number of other individuals, among whom were the Secretary of the Treasury and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, thus setting a laudable example which, it is to be hoped, will be followed by every patriotic American whose station or character gives him an influence on those around him. This is, perhaps, the last public occasion on which Thomas Jefferson will mingle with his fellow-citizens, or on which they will have an opportunity individually of manifesting their esteem and respect for him. In a few fleeting weeks, he will have retired from the cares of public life, which will be exchanged for private and domestic scenes. The idea is pathetic and solemn: The spectacle the most sublime the world can exhibit. Every honor, which that world can confer, every distinction which virtuous ambition can covet, have been lavished upon him by a grateful and enlightened country; until he has acquired a popularity, augmented by every act of his life, and amidst political vicissitudes which would have shattered into atoms a common reputation. This man, full of glory, and still more beloved than respected, from principle abandons the post of honor, and relinquishes the highest powers, for a private station! At such a spectacle, let the insatiate pride of royalty hide its diminished head.

Kentucky has given her electoral votes to James Madison, as President, and George Clinton, as Vice-President of the United States. This return completes the whole number of Electoral votes, which furnishes the following result:

For President.

Thus gloriously has terminated an election which has not incorrectly, been said to have decided the destinies of the United States. The contest has been animated, and the enemies of the republican cause have, in addition to their ordinary strength, rallied under their banners no inconsiderable mass of disaffection, engendered by personal, local and temporary causes. The patriotism of the nation has triumphed over all these sources of influence, and has lifted to power a man, pledged to the same political course, and devoted to the same principles with him, who now guides the helm amidst the benedictions of millions. This election, then, does not merely mark a personal preference; it is the pledge of an injured and insulted nation of freemen, that they will expend their last cent, and spill their last drop of blood, before they will become the victims of an oppression, which, once submitted to, would be as inexorable as fate, and co-eval with time.

This great election—let republicans exult at the fact—has been conducted from beginning to end, with a calmness, decorum and dignity, worthy of its importance; and, notwithstanding the predictions of the enemies of liberty, that its return would convulse our whole system, and be the signal for tumult and rebellion, our people have repelled the calumny by a deportment which honorably distinguishes them from any other people that have existed: they have discharged this high and solemn duty, with the same order that characterizes the most common act of their lives.

James Madison	123
C. C. Pinkney	48
George Clinton	6
Vice-President.
George Clinton	113
Rufus King	48
John Langdon	9
James Madison	3
James Munroe	3