Alexandria Daily Advertiser

The following morceau from the Enquirer, printed at Richmond, who has for some time been dancing the Hays in Callender's old shoes, is no doubt thrown out to cover some machiavelian design, it will therefore be well enough for every True American to be on the look out.

Communication—It is confidently reported and believed, that the President of the United States will serve in his present office, no longer than his present term. The reason which has been supposed to influence his determination, will cast no disgrace upon the previous lustre of his life. Mr. Jefferson is the friend of rotation in office. He is an enemy to that monopoly of it, which should keep it for any long time in the hands of a single individual. He knows, that the longer any man remains in office, the smaller opportunity can others have of acquiring it; and the smaller this chance, the smaller will be the incitements for them to deserve it. He knows too that a permanent continuance in office not only 'enables a single individual to accomplish, gradually, a system of measures, and to collect around him a set of instruments favourable to his own usurpation, but that it prepares the people themselves for an undue reverence towards particular men or particular families. Next to an unusual and extraordinary authority exercised by an individual, such as exists in the head of a nunnery, there is nothing so capable of inspiring a respect for a permanent and excessive power, as wielding the usual executive authority for any long period.

It is at the same time reported, that Mr. Jefferson is willing to give an additional proof of the honourable liberality of his views, by consenting to serve in any of the executive departments under a successor whom he may approve. Should these reports be correct, is it not time for the republicans of the Union to agree at once upon some candidate, whom they will place in the presidential chair?

It cannot but be interesting to a curious enquirer, to observe, what various shapes the principles of Democracy assumes in the different states of the Union, and with what facility they can transfuse themselves into a heterogeneous mass and form a cement of co-operation to the same end. In Pennsylvania, democracy has displayed itself in a restless disorganizing spirit of innovation, in a violent hostility against judges and lawyers and a dereliction of the practical principles of government. Good sense and honesty, though duped for a while with the utopia of political fanaticism, have turned abhorrent from its illusions and we now recognize the existence of two factions in that state, engaged in constant bickerings about precedency in point of republican purity.

In New-York it has assumed the most various shapes and the rise of the parties may be traced to the conflict of competition for office, to the opposition of commercial interests and the influence of a man deserving universal detestation. In this state, the spirit of innovation has been dilatory in its progress, compared with its rapid advances in the state of Pennsylvania; but such is the infatuation of public opinion, which it has produced, that the most flagrant delinquencies and most notorious destitution of qualification have been overlooked in the distribution of office.

In the state of Virginia, whose constitution contains more of aristocratic leaven than any other state of the Union, the established institutions have been as yet permanently supported, free from the assaults of innovators. Amidst the delusive sounds of liberty and republicanism, the poor man, who possesses no freehold estate, rests content under the exclusion from the right of suffrage, and the mechanic and merchant can still patiently bear to be deprived of their dues, under the law, which secures the real property of the debtor against their just demands. The operations of democracy in this state have originated from a spirit of hostility against the constitution of the United States. Her ambition is without bounds and her cries against the dangers of monarchy are only the voice of the Syren, that would snatch and engross the reins of power into her own hands.

In this short sketch, it is our intention to confine ourselves to those few observations on the three states that are most conspicuous for their political proceedings; yet we know in their influence on the general government of the United States, they have all co-operated, to the re-election of the Hero of Carter's Mountain to the chief magistracy of the Union.