Alexandria Advertiser And Commercial Intelligencer

Alexandria Advertiser.
Saturday, November 21.

The editor of the (New-York) Commercial Advertiser and the Spectator, after a few introductory observations, in which he mentions his having associated with himself, a person of respectability and talents, makes the following judicious and truly American remarks :--

It is his determination that the papers shall at all times, be under the direction of a person of unquestionable talents and just views of the true interests of the United States. If they should not be distinguished, like many other public prints, for personal invective, low sarcasms, and verbal contentions with printers and editors, it will be because the proprietor is convinced, that in a crisis like the present, irritation is worse than useless. Men of narrow views, and exasperated minds, often mistake moderation for imbecility, and stigmatize prudence with the name of timidity. But mankind in general have more correct views of sound policy, and select their principles, as the Vicar of Wakefield did his wife, for "such qualities will wear well." The country abounds with newspapers, calculated for the amusement of dram shops, where men are taught to despise virtue and science, to hate government. and to riot on the spoils of injured reputation. For such uses, these papers are not intended--and should the depravity of morals, the corruption of state, and the contempt of private reputation, which the rage of party spirit is rapidly introducing and spreading in this country, render it necessary to secure public patronage, by departing from that line of temperate discussion, and impartial, regard to truth, independent of men which has hitherto characterized these papers, the proprietor will sooner abandon the business, than consent to be accessory to this degradation of national character.--

The papers solicit the continued patronage of those upright and intelligent citizens, who prefer morality to vice, truth to scurrility, good order and religion, to licentiousness and modern philosophy ; and who evince by their practice, that they love their own country, better than another.

The friends of the federal government, who have uniformly befriended these papers for years past, while they reprobate, and very justly the late arbitrary dismissals from office, by the authorities of the general or state governments, will not surely, by discontinuing their patronage of papers devoted to the best interests of our country, add the sanction of their own conduct to a procedure which they consider intolerant and exceptionable.