Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

Only an Election Trick.

However unwilling the democratic faction may be to admit any circumstance that tends to disclose the interested views of those whose lips constantly dwell upon patriotism, whose amor patrie centers in self, it is nevertheless a fact, that on various occasions they are compelled to have recourse to persons whom they cannot imitate, to support their characters as they are; i.e., they are necessitated to borrow the garb of virtue to conceal their own vicious deformity. To this cause and not to the united suffrages of his fellow-citizens, are we to impute the successful termination of a late election in a county not fifty miles from Philadelphia, in favor of a candidate whose duplicity served many well intentioned persons from their determined purpose.

A few weeks preceding the election, at a time when the genius of Columbia had called upon her sons to resist oppression offered from abroad, and to crush a growing faction at home, this disciple of Gallatin, knowing that a majority of the electors were with administration, even to their lives—artfully insinuated that he had just (then) returned from an interview with the President of the United States, at which he had tendered his service, to act in any rank he might be thought deserving of, and that his name was actually placed on the records of the Secretary at War.

But fearing lest this would not fully support his pretensions to patriotism and not trusting to his usual trumpeter, (a democratic magistrate, who, if I mistake not, is from the turbulent nation) he boldly declared that during the American revolution, he was intrusted with a command and station, which placed it in his power, to have forever disconcerted our measures, to have buried our brightest hopes in everlasting night! Can it be, that he whose wisdom and rectitude were superior to every assault of fortune? Can it be, that Washington the great, the good, would trust an individual with the holding of a balance, the nicest turn of which would have decided the fate of America and posterity? Say, ye elder Sons of Liberty—ye whose breasts never cherished one traitorous idea, can this be so?

But mark, the election over and the candidate having thus seated himself in a chair of State; his friends avow it was only an election trick he has not seen the President, nor would he take the trouble to ask any thing of him perhaps his latter assertion may be found to be a multitude's as his friends now say the first is true.

But on examination it will be found that he has made application for a military employment—Without presuming to dictate, it might not be amiss to search into the real motives of a man whose political opinion has long run counter to the wise measures of administration—Whose individual opinion may be proven to be unfriendly to the President and the Commander in Chief and whose public confession now declares, that he yet retains in idea where and when he might (Judas like) have betrayed our country's saviour with a kiss.

S.