Alexandria Daily Advertiser

At no period of their existence, as an independent nation, has the situation of the U. S. been so critical and alarming, as in the present moment.

The affairs of our country confided by an open suffrage, to the guidance of men altogether unequal, either in courage or capacity, to their due administration, have fallen into such derangement as scarcely to admit the hope of any issue consistent with either our internal interests or independence.

This unpardonable partiality, towards one of the belligerent powers, occasioned the decrees issued by the emperor of France, in 1806 respecting the war with Great Britain, to pass without remonstrance or notice by our government, furnishing to the other belligerent incontrovertible ground for a decree of retaliation, respecting our mutual commerce with France--and surrendering our claims to consideration under those powers: thereby involving perils which have accrued to our citizens from the detaining practices of Britain, and the edicts to burn, sink and destroy American ships and property which were issued by the government and executed by the officers of France.

This uncorrected and comprehensive element of facts every intelligent man must recognize the real cause of all the distress which we now suffer and of the dangers and devoted consequences which may result of this disgraceful submission to the first decree of France,

Mr. Jefferson has furnished a commentary * of Messrs. Champagny and Erskine are the text, on which the (Phil. Reg.)

A letter, written to a friend, in answer to many inquiries into the cause "of our present situation, and future prospects.

We daily hear the cry that our situation is very alarming but what real cause or that the times are men stand.

Our danger is few pretend fully to One evil is observer however and very perhaps by spirit.

Those whose jealousy for their rights but a little time since was awake at every sound of apparent danger, can now slumber with perfect quiet in the arms of party. The very things are now applauded, which once raised a violent clamor and were condemned as the instruments of our political destruction. There was a time when it was considered a crime but little short of treason to attempt to conceal any thing from the sovereign people; but zeal for party has now engendered a blind confidence--But we have this consolation, that the blood in American veins has not ceased to flow, and that there are bounds beyond which confidence to party will not go. Those who refuse to hear cannot refuse to feel. Our real situation is covered from the public eye, with an impenetrable darkness:--and let those remember, who are bound to hold our dearest rights with hallowed hands, that it is a darkness which is felt. The time is not far distant when the charm of party must be broken, and the voice of Americans will be heard. It will not only vibrate through the states, but thunder thro the universe."