Alexandria Daily Advertiser

From the Boston Repertory of Friday last.

The event of the recent elections of state officers for the commonwealth of Massachusetts was decided on Wednesday last, and we most cordially felicitate the friends of good government and national prosperity, in our own community and throughout the U. States, in the result.

We rejoice that it is now proved, to a demonstration, that a majority of the people are capable of judging correctly of great and important political measures, and of breaking the bands of party attachment, when prompted by a sense of public good; for while a republic is actuated by such a sentiment, though we may be brought by mistaken or unprincipled men to the verge of ruin, there will be found a sovereign remedy in the public virtue. The wounds inflicted on our national character and felicity are deep, but with patience they will be cured. Massachusetts has set the union a glorious example, worthy of herself, and her exemplary conduct will excite a sympathetic spirit of regeneration through United America.

We rejoice that Massachusetts, which, through the vicissitudes to which a republic is exposed, has generally maintained a dignified and influential reputation, has resumed her former character, and again displays a predominant attachment to those well digested principles, which pointed the way, when we began our career of prosperity and glory.

We rejoice that this happy regeneration has been effected by a spontaneous impulse of the public mind-the great change which has taken place having been produced as unexpectedly to the opposers as to the advocates of those pernicious measures to which we have recently been subjected.

The counter-revolution in Massachusetts, we must candidly admit, has been caused by a personal dislike to those who were recently delegated to represent the people, but from conviction, that those measures which a majority of them thought proper to approve, threatened the destruction of the country. A disposition to unnecessary war with a nation disposed to settle all differences with our government-a servile, cringing partiality to a power of a very different character, have been observed by the virtuous, enlightened and major part of the community with just alarm and indignation. The distressing sacrifices which have been unnecessarily made, have been submitted to with impatience, and the first opportunity embraced to show that such a temper was no approved by the suffrages of a just and independent people.

We rejoice that an experiment seemed necessary to assert all the true relations of the respective classes of the community to each other. The result has shown, in a manner, which, we trust, will not soon be forgotten, that we are bound together by the ties of common interest; that the general good cannot be promoted by a base proscription of any one portion of society.

Henceforth let us live like brothers, such as providence has made us, united only to contribute to the happiness and prosperity of ALL.