The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser

Extract of an Epistle, dated Philadelphia, October 24, 1812.

"You inquire of me, how will the great body of the friends vote in the ensuing choice of Electors?--I answer, they will very generally vote for the ticket which has Thomas M'Kean at the head; and who are in favour of the election of DeWitt Clinton, in preference to James Madison. They give two, among other, substantial reasons for their preference.--1st. Because they think, Dewitt Clinton will embrace the first favourable opportunity to negotiate a lasting and honourable peace; and because they hold James Madison, as his conduct proves, to be a man who delighteth in war and bloodshed. 2dly. Because Dewitt Clinton is known to them as a friend to liberty--as the patron of the abolition of negro slavery; and as being at the head of most of the humane, literary and charitable institutions in his State*; and because they know that James Madison is a very selfish man, and holds more than one hundred human beings in the most cruel and degrading slavery."

These estimable citizens are correct. Mr. Clinton besides being at the head of the Literary Institutions of New-York, is Grand-Master of all its Lodges; President of the Humane and other Societies; and Patron of the great Lancastrian school, in which the writer of this note a few weeks since saw more than a thousand of the children of beggary and wretchedness exhibiting specimens of useful education, and an amelioration of morals and condition: all of whom know Mr. Clinton to be not only their Patron, but their Guardian and Friend. It is an acknowledged fact, that in the incessant and voluntary discharge of the duties of Humanity, no man in the State of New-York has any claims which can be placed in competition with those of Mr. Clinton.