Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

COMMUNICATION.

WHEN ALEXANDER J. DALLAS assumed to himself the office of directing the freemen of this commonwealth whom they ought to elect for their governor, I confess my feelings were wounded while I reflected on the state of degradation to which we had arrived in submitting to be thus violently dictated to by a man who has arrived here long since our revolution, under "circumstances" and having previously "acted parts" unknown to me, but has surely appeared here as "a bird of ill omen," at the head of a faction avowedly inimical to the government of our country. An address, signed by Dallas and published some weeks since in the servile gazettes of this city, and containing the most base and false assertions on the political views of the upright men of our State, by no means completed the measure of insolence of this man; but a publication addressed to Robert Wharton, Esq. has since appeared in Claypoole's impartial paper, with the signature of this Exorcist, and exhibits to my mind an instance of impudence unparalleled in any country, and indecent abuse equalled only to that which flows daily from the same factious source of vile slander and defamation. In this publication, signed by Dallas, Coxe, Leib and co. the modest Dallas says, he "would as soon have expected to have found the worthy Mayor of our city at the head of a band for the purposes of ASSASSINATION AND PILLAGE," as chairman of the meeting of respectable citizens at Dunwoody's. In thus having acted as chairman of a meeting of many of the most valuable citizens of Philadelphia, a fortune-hunting sycophant has the audacity to charge ROBERT WHARTON with "a prostitution of personal character," and with being "President of an association for the purposes of defamation and scandal." For my part I have thought that Fauchet's intercepted letter and the general conduct of Dallas that certain certificates which ascertain the value of Leib's character and Coxe's entrance into Philadelphia in the retinue of Cornwallis, all had placed the reputation of these men in such lights that it became impossible they could be defamed. But the address to Mr. Wharton, though worthy of Dallas and his co-adjutors, I fear is yet insufficient to rouse into action the indignation of a respectable committee, who appears to be tied to a mill-stone, hanging ponderously about their necks. But will the respectable citizens of Philadelphia who met at Dunwoody's, feel no resentment at the virulent abuse on them and their chairman? If the committee do not think proper immediately to reply to these publications, will the citizens calmly and silently acquiesce in opinion with Dallas and Leib, that they are the villainous band they are proclaimed to be in citizen Claypoole's paper of Tuesday? They should recollect and must remember, that Mr. Wharton merely acted as their chairman and signed their acts, therefore this insolent attack is made on them and not on him alone.

A Citizen of Philadelphia.