Alexandria Advertiser And Commercial Intelligencer

The inauguration speech of Mr. Jefferson, is replete with wisdom and moderation. It has imparted new rays to the "Sun of Federalism" which will therefore continue to illumine our political hemisphere. It is worthy of a President of the United States. "We are all Republicans--we are all Federalists!"

"Let us then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind--let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection, without which liberty, and even life itself, are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance, as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions."

Such are in part, the sentiments delivered by President Jefferson in the presence of some thousands of his fellow-citizens. It is given to him as chief magistrate of the American people, to set before them an honorable and efficacious example of the moderation he so solemnly endeavors to inculcate.

A conduct thus regulated cannot fail to secure the approbation, and conciliate the esteem and future support, of every upright American.

In the election of officers near his person, he has sought for integrity and talents, and happily obtained men, by whom (if we may accredit fame) the public may confidently indulge a hope, every effort will be made to strengthen him in principles so manifestly promotive of the general good.

Wash. Federalist.