Alexandria Gazette

Gen. R. WALLACE, OF FAUQUIER.--We are requested to copy the following article from the Warrenton Jeffersonian, in relation to Gen. Wallace. It may be as well to add that where the word "Federalist" is used, the Jeffersonian means Whig, and where the word "Republican" is used, it is put for Van Buren. The Jeffersonian has a ridiculous mode of jumbling, and confounding, and miscalling these party names, which it ought to correct.

We have heard with surprise, that it was 'stated at one of the precincts, at the late election, that Gen. Wallace had pledged himself to the Federalists that he would support whig measures if elected.' See how easily this misrepresentation is put down. Before a Federal candidate appeared, it was stated on authority deemed to be unquestionable--the authority of one or more Whigs--that all parties would coalesce in the upper end of the county, upon a candidate in favor of a division of it. Such being the fact, two members of the whig party, deeply interested in the question of division, giving credit to the information received from above, with separate notes to Gen. Wallace therein disposed to the following purport (The notes were with the reply returned!)

"Sir, as this county is unquestionably a whig county, will you if you are elected by whig votes, consider yourself thereby instructed to vote for whig measures in the Legislature?" To which General Wallace returned the following characteristic answer.

"Sir, I have received the interrogatory propounded by you. I am by birth, education and habit, a Democratic Republican, and all of my political associations and connexions have been formed upon principle with the Republican party.-- I can give no pledge incompatible with these principles or declarations. I aver it, however, to be a fundamental principle in my politics to obey the instructions of a majority of my constituents.

R. WALLACE."

Both of the gentlemen who sent the interrogatories to Gen. Wallace, voted against him, as we say every Federalist did. It is true many of the Republican whigs voted for him. The circulation of this report did, certainly, influence many Republicans at one of the upper precincts. But what foundation there was for it, the public can now judge--comment is superfluous. But we will add to this evidence a remark made by Gen. Wallace, to some of his friends who were opposed to the Sub-Treasury, in speaking of the policy of the Republicans and Federalists: "Is it not better for us to drink of a stream containing but one mote, than at a fountain from which nothing flows but muddy and bitter waters?"