Alexandria Gazette, Commercial And Political

Mr. Jefferson in a message to congress in 1801, observed, "It may be the pleasure and the pride of an American to ask, what farmer, what mechanic what laborer, ever sees a tax gatherer of the United States?" Almost all his messages were interspersed with something of the same kind of cant; with sly allusions to President Adams's stamp tax which occasioned a revolution in the whole administration of the government; with flattering professions of economy, of an affectionate regard to "the man of labor," and of a steadfast intention to bind no heavy burdens upon the shoulders of the dear people and especially to guard them henceforward from the odious evils called taxes.

The palaver took with hundreds of thousands of honest simple people. It was continued until the yoke was wreathed and rivetted upon the people's necks and now, instead of the two millions tax which, artfully and incessantly played upon by Mr. Jefferson and the lauding disciples of his school, made a general uproar and convulsion, and even a thorough change in the American Administration; instead of that two millions tax, for laying which the federal administration was doomed to disgrace and public execration, what do we see now? What do we feel? What have we in prospect and anticipation?

Connecticut Courant.