Alexandria Gazette

THE RARE DEMOCRAT,—At the meeting on Tuesday evening, after Mr. L. Clayton's one of his usual and very witty speeches, and one of Mr. Webster's fires, Mr. Techner, a renegade Federalist, came forward, and spoke at considerable length. A noted Virginian, indeed, weighed and instructed his artillery by a very graphic picture of a lean democracy. His sketch of this political fungus was capital. His birthplace in Albany Register; where and by whom the nomination was made a few years since, under the auspices of Martin Van Buren, and prepared moderates and nullification democrats and manufactured to order. The modus operandi was fairly described, by which the rawest and roughest materials—a British tory, a bitter Federalist of the last war, a Burr conspirator, a follower of Fanny Wright and Robert Dale Owen—is metamorphosed into a pure democrat on the shortest notice. He showed how this machinery was transferred by Mr. Van Buren from Albany to Washington, where it has been in full operation for about ten years, filling the land with swarms of locusts as beneficial to its prosperity as the locusts were to Egypt in the days of Pharaoh.