Alexandria Gazette, Commercial And Political

ALEXANDRIA: TUESDAY, JUNE 27.

POLITICAL HYPOCRISY.

The great art of the Leaders of Democracy, consists in preaching popular doctrines; their great crime, in acting contrary to those doctrines. None, for instance, pretended to be greater friends of revolutionary merits; indeed, they claim to be exclusively friendly to this description of persons. We did not see any thing of this foam and froth of garrulous pretence. in General Washington's cabinet: yet revolutionary men were uniformly placed in office by him. if competent, in preference to others. Mr. Jefferson turned almost every one of them out : and yet the men who pretend that none but they venerate the revolutionary worthy. never uttered one word of condemnation; but on the contrary, applauded Mr. J. to the skies. The cause was very strong indeed. General Washington had appointed men to office. because they had fought gallantly for the liberty of the country ; Mr. Jefferson. who, in time of danger, hid himself in Carter's mountain, & resigned the government of Virginia, turned these soldiers of our Independence adrift. Yet the friends, the only friends of the revolutionary heroes, applaud the revolutionary Runaway for depriving them of bread ! Fellow Citizens! These men are not Republicans--they are not friends of liberty. They Pretend to be so. that they may acquire power. But having acquired power, they show themselves to be all a lie. Hypocrites, whether in religion or politicks, always pretend to unequalled sincerity and purity ; and palpably. because it is necessary to their success that they should seem to be what they are not--for ruin would attend their seeming to be what they are. I am very free to say, that if the leaders of democracy were half as good republicans as they pretend to be, I should certainly be on their side. But a multitude of facts convince me that they are just about as false as they pretend to be true, and I have therefore pretty definitively made up my mind to adhere to the party which does not, to be sure, talk as much republican- ism as the other but which practices it uniformly. And I must say, that if the hypocrisy of politicians was a little better understood by the people. who really mean all for the best, we should be much better off than we are.