Alexandria Daily Advertiser

Should the election of governor in Pennsylvania, terminate in favor of M'Kean, as many expect, we are still at a loss to form an opinion, as to the political consequences. Governor M'Kean has had a very serious lesson, on the progress and effects of jacobinism. To gratify his ambition, he raised a storm against order and the federalists; this very governor M'Kean it was who with Dallas, conspired against the happiness and harmony of Pennsylvania and brought it to that pitch of confusion and licentiousness, which now disgrace and endanger it. Though he can never atone for the innumerable evils he has brought upon society, he has suffered much, and we hope his conscience has been faithful, in reminding him whence these evils proceeded. Governor M'Kean has headed a party which has been successful; he has seen the consequences of its success; ignorance and the vilest passions exalted, to enlighten and govern! Though he can never be forgiven, and though the history of his political life will contain much for the censure of posterity, he has now an opportunity of making some reparation to his fellow citizens, and of closing his public life with no inconsiderable degree of honor to himself. He will not probably wish to be re-elected. He cannot, as the constitution now stands. He is therefore in that happy situation which few of our public officers in this country enjoy, and which is favourable to purity of conduct. We mean, he has now no motive to court or flatter a mob--no inducement to enlist vice and ignorance on his side. Independent of party he is now left to the pursuit of lasting honour; to God and his conscience is he amenable, and without a motive to offend either. As worse men than Governor M'Kean prefer the approbation of the wise, good, and respectable, to that of the abandoned and base, when attained with equal facility, we are not without hopes of seeing the evening of his political life shed a lustre on his character. It is possible--we therefore hope.

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