Alexandria Advertiser And Commercial Intelligencer

There is an uproar among the democrats from one end of the country to the other. In New York, the Clintons are striving with all their might to damn Mr. Burr: and in Virginia, Callender is presenting facts to the public, which would prove, that the president is "not fit to govern; no, not to live." With respect to the systematic and decisive attack which is making upon the vice president, we cannot but regard it as proceeding from the jealousy which Mr. Jefferson is well known to entertain of him, and the mortal hatred borne him by the Clintons and Livingstons of his own state. The exhibition made of the leaders of the party should convince the people of the character of the whole "sect," and of the tendency of the democratic principles, which are sported for the purposes of elevation, and for the gratification of a thirst for office & a thirst for power.

We have examined, cursorily, the pamphlet entitled, "A View of the political conduct of Aaron Burr, &c." recently published in New York. It is a complete picture of Jacobin artifice and intrigue, and though the author has bent his bow, with an aim towards Mr. Burr and his immediate supporters, yet the shaft has flown, and the whole "sect" are but as stricken deer. The View describes the characters who compose Mr. Burr's "little band," in terms which may be fairly extended, and which will be extended by the people, to the great band of democracy, that "they are disappointed office seekers" (though some of them are so no longer) "wretched in talents—worse in principles—and most of them destitute of all the attributes of respectability."

Let the "sect" go on: they have risen by libelling virtuous men: they will fall by telling truth of themselves.

This pamphlet, which, if we might hazard a conjecture, we should suppose was the joint production of Cheetham, De Witt Clinton, and Tunis Wortman, has detailed more of the history of Jacobinism in this country, than any other work we have seen. It shows us how the democrats labor, how they intrigue, what double faces they wear, what vile ends they aim at, and what infamous means they use to obtain them. It shows us, moreover, that they have no confidence in each other, that they deserve to have none: and the honest part of the community, it is hoped, will see that they are wholly undeserving of all honorable confidence. It will furnish us matter for abundant comment hereafter.

We cannot fail to notice, however that there is some falsehood and some folly in the publication. It ascribes praises to Mr. Burr to the federal-papers, which were never uttered, and asserts that the United States' Gazette at a particular juncture shifted its course, and "suddenly appeared as his warmest panegyrist."— The fact is that all praise bestowed by this gazette upon Mr. Burr was comparative. We were free to state the superiority of his pretensions to the presidency over those of Mr. Jefferson. We knew him to be an abler man, we thought him to be a better man. Upon the representations of Callender of the one, and those of Cheetham and Co. of the other, we must still think that there is a choice remaining in favor of Mr. Burr. We have seen no act of Mr. Burr displayed which can be brought down to a lowly and degraded comparison with a mean, groveling, and malignant pursuit of falsehood and slander.

The view further states, that "the Boston Centinel preferred Mr. Burr, because the editor thought his character somewhat like that of Bonaparte!!!" & has the weakness to adduce the following sentence from the Centinel to prove the assertion.

"It is granted he is ambitious, but he is not a hypocrite; and though he is like Bonaparte in some respects, he possesses none of the cold hearted qualities of the Gallic consul."

If the man had common acuteness, he would perceive, that preference is given to Mr. Burr, because his character is unlike that of Bonaparte—"he possesses none of the cold hearted qualities" of the Gallic consul.