Alexandria Daily Advertiser

From the New-York Evening Post.

NEW PAMPHLET.

Number V.

Aristides proceeds to arraign the conduct of Mr. Clinton and to impeach his motives as one of that celebrated council of Appointment, which in their proceedings more resembled the Revolutionary Tribunal of France than the institution of a civilized country. All that is said on this head cannot be safely republished, and as in some other instances we must leave those who from the samples they have had, relish the dish, to help themselves.

'Where, it may be asked, was his wonted prudence, and where his boasted honor, when he caused it to be proclaimed to candidates for office, that personal devotion to a few ambitious individuals had become the standard of political merit? What elevated patriotism was it that induced him to employ two abandoned hypocrites, to pursue candidates through the town, to ascertain their personal attachments and political prejudices, and kindly to insinuate, that unless satisfactory assurances were given of future support in the political projects of himself and friends, and of strenuous opposition to the elevation and popularity of the vice-president, every avenue to promotion would be obstinately closed?

With what temporary derangement of intellect could he have been afflicted, when he personally solicited General Alden and Mr. Ezekiel Robbins respectively, on the same day, to accept the appointment of surrogate* for the city and county of New-York; to both solemnly pledged his support; betrayed both, and subsequently gave it to a third? Here is the essence of treachery, pure and sublimated.'

'The office of secretary of the state was bestowed on a man destitute of talents, and notoriously unworthy of--

A contemptible shuffling apothecary, who without talents to profit by the pursuit of an honest profession, or even to deal out medicine by the ounce, has successively assumed every character designated by human actions. To accomplish hypocritical purposes, he has travelled round the whole circle of religious denominations; he has alternately embraced every sect, and subscribed every creed, from outrageous methodism, to the harmless and inoffensive ceremonies of the Baptist, until he has terminated his career in the sports of the turf, in dealing in horses, and in political--; without ingenuity to devise, or spirit to pursue any systematic plan of iniquity.'

'Mr. Clinton certainly displayed some management in making his arrangements with Tillotson and Armstrong. The resignation of this latter gentleman, and Mr. Clinton's elevation to the vacant seat, was the only possible mode in which he could escape humiliation, and arrest the expression of disapprobation which his constituents were prepared to pronounce at the then approaching election.'

'Conscious of the fate that awaited him he fixed his views on a seat in the senate of the United States, and escaped the indignation of his constituents by stepping in the place he had induced Armstrong to abandon.'

'This lazy apostate had alternately espoused the doctrines and advocated the principles of the different parties in the state. After vibrating between each, in quest of favor and promotion, he at length settled himself permanently, as he said, on the side of the republicans, and they, as usual, rewarded his treachery with a seat in the national senate. At Washington, however, he found nothing congenial with his warlike temper, nor any thing within the influence of his mischievous disposition. There no tumult or rebellion could be raised. Distressed and hungry soldiers are the only subjects on which he can operate with success, and for his attempts at the close of the revolution, he should have received a fate which similar incendiaries seldom have escaped. Far above the sphere in which he was formed to move, unheeded and despised, Mr. Clinton found it easy, I presume, to induce him to abandon a place where neither apostates nor advocates for rebellion were received with confidence or respect. His proposition was made at a judicious moment; a proposition, which by its success, at once disgraced the national legislature, by the introduction of a ----- and an infidel, and increased the dangerous dissentions in the state, by restoring to its bosom an incendiary, whose only occupation and amusement has ever been to excite domestic broils and village mischief.'

Tillotson, the worthy relative of this honorable man, had travelled the country round, like a hungry spaniel, begging an office as he went. He journeyed to Washington to solicit in person the collectorship of New-York. The futility of his claims, and the seriousness and address with which he urged them, formed a subject of ridicule to the administration for a month. No sooner was this favorite scheme frustrated, than he ransacked Maryland, and offered to honor his native state with his residence, if any thing worthy of his attention could be offered. There fortunately he was known, and nothing was presented to induce his return. This active knight returned from his romantic expedition, cursing the vice-president, proclaiming him a federalist, and a traitor to his party, simply for having recommended another gentleman for the office of collector for the port of New York.

This preux chevalier began his life with a laudable determination to make his fortune. He practised with unlimited success upon the Livingston maxim,

Rem facias, rem
Si possis recte, si non, quocunque modo rem.

Inflamed with a zeal for office and governed by these mercenary views, Tillotson solicited the office of secretary of the state as his resource. His worthy brother was interested in his behalf, and resigned his seat in the senate of the union. The council gave Tillotson the office he desired, and Mr. Clinton was chosen to fill the seat which Armstrong had abandoned. This shameful transaction needs no further comment.'

'The appointment of --.*-

* Tillotson and Armstrong are brothers in law-- Both married Sisters of Chancellor Livingston.
is sufficient to confirm all the observations I have made, relative to the views with which the officers for the southern district were selected. This elegant personage is a living monument of the patience with which Americans will suffer themselves to be abused and insulted by men in power.-- An execrable compound of every species of vice, he is at this moment an object with whom every decent man scorns to associate. The curious who wish to view human nature in its most degenerate state, will in this man find a fit object of contemplation. To the natural enquirer he will afford an interesting subject of speculation. He will be found in the lowest class of creatures recognized as rational, if not the very link that joins the animal to the human race. This "pestilent pauper" was raised by the council from the filth in which he wallowed to the most lucrative office in the state. When called on to justify this outrage upon the honor and dignity of the city, Mr. Clinton increased the atrocity of his conduct, by exulting in the mischief he had done." "Though he is a great scoundrel he has been of service to this party, and ought to be rewarded," were the words he uttered. Here is a direct avowal of the principles upon which he acted.. A complete confirmation of the charges which have been urged against him. It is irresistible evidence that the public good had no influence in determining his conduct. It is the "ne plus ultra" of political depravity, and establishes his guilt in every mind, that is not impenetrable to conviction. "The person elected to fill the office of --n- --- has uniformly been a subject of ridicule to our political opponents, and a disgrace to the council that appointed him. The disgust and dissatisfaction which this appointment has produced, should certainly excite a pang in the bosom of Mr. Clinton, if it was susceptible of any. But however deeply involved in mischief, the world will do him the justice to acknowledge that no emotions of sorrow, repentance or remorse were ever known to enter there. This imbecile and obsequious pettifogger, abandoned the federal standard on the third day of the election in 1800. On the first he voted for the federal candidates, on the second he began to perceive that his party would be defeated, and on the third he boldly avowed himself a republican. This vain and contemptible little pett, whose political sentiments, like a weather vane, are regulated by every interested wind that blows, has been advanced to honorable and lucrative employment, in preference to men of sterling and acknowledged merit; men whom, in the days that "tried men's souls." combated with vigor the principles he then espoused. But i Pigmies are pigmies still, though perch'd on Alps." Neither the office which he holds, nor his having become the "depository of Mr. Clinton's honor." nor being the favorite companion of Mr. Cheetham, can raise this elastic puppet above contempt. While he is in office his ignorance and incapacity will expose him to disgrace. The appointment of justices of the ten pound court was unfortunate. , Instead of regarding as he ought the claims of those who had acted as magistrates under the old law, and who had been deprived of their office by the establishment of the new system, Mr. Clinton preferred young men, some of whom were strangers to the party, and destitute of claims to public favor." But he deserves some credit for adopting means, apparently well calculated to ensure success to the object he had in view. Upon his return from Albany. Mr. Clinton declared that the appointments had been made with a view of rendering the court in question unpopular, and thus to prepare the way . for its abolition. There is an unfortunate fatality attending all his attempts to justify his conduct upon these occasions. The very motives by which he professes to have been governed, should if possible, have been concealed. "I have pointed out a few of the most odious reflections that were made in that portion of the state : to enumerate them all would fill a volume, and far exceed the limits to which I am necessarily confined. In view of our political condition, and compare it with what a wise and judicious administration of the government might have rendered it. Instead of harmony and union among the friends of freedom, instead of a consolidation of the republican interest. calumny and dissensions are rapidly producing symptoms of decay and disaffection. Every part of the country is manifesting the most anxious solicitude, and the apple of discord, rolling through the land, is every where generating discord. discontent. disorder and confusion. These scenes are hazardous and alarming, and derogatory to the dignity of government. They are the awful annunciations of dissolution to one party. (To be continued.)