It found the exports of our country a mere song in value; It hath left them worth above seventy millions of dollars per annum. In one word, it found America disunited, poor, insolvent, weak, discontented, and wretched; It hath left her united, wealthy, respectable, strong, happy, and prosperous. Let the faithful historian, in after-times, say these things of its successor, if he can. And yet, notwithstanding all these services and blessings, there are found many, very many, weak, degenerate sons, who, lost to virtue, to gratitude, and patriotism, openly exult that this Administration is no more, and that the "Sun of Federalism is set forever." "_Oh shame, where is thy blush?_" AS ONE TRIBUTE OF GRATITUDE IN THESE TIMES, THIS MONUMENT OF THE TALENTS AND SERVICES OF THE DECEASED IS RAISED BY The Centinel. _March 4th, 1801._ [Illustration: The Gerry-Mander. (Boston, 1811.)] The victorious Republicans, if less skillful than their adversaries in the burlesque arts, had their own methods of parrying and returning such assaults as this. At an earlier period in Mr. Jefferson's ascendency, the politicians, borrowing the idea from Catholic times, employed stuffed figures and burlesque processions in lieu of caricature. While the people were still in warm sympathy with the French Revolution, William Smith, a Representative in Congress from South Carolina, gave deep offense to many of his constituents by opposing certain resolutions offered by "Citizen Madison" expressive of that sympathy. There was no burlesque artist then in South Carolina, but the Democrats of Charleston contrived, notwithstanding, to caricature the offender and "his infernal junto." A platform was erected in an open place in Charleston, upon which was exhibited to a noisy crowd, from early in the morning until three in the afternoon, a rare assemblage of figures: A woman representing the Genius of Britain inviting the recreant Representatives to share the wages of her iniquity; William Smith advancing toward her with eager steps, his right hand stretched out to receive his portion, in his left holding a paper upon which was written "_Six per cents_," and wearing upon his breast another with "£40,000 _in the Funds_;" Benedict Arnold with his hand full of checks and bills; Fisher Ames labeled "£400,000 _in the Funds_;" the devil and "Young Pitt" goading on the reprobate Americans. In front of the stage was a gallows for the due hanging and burning of these figures when the crowd were tired of gazing upon them. Each of the characters was provided with a label exhibiting an appropriate sentiment. The odious Smith was made to confess that his sentence was just: "The love of gold, a foreign education, and foreign connections damn me." "Young Pitt" owned to having let loose the Algerines upon the Americans, and Fisher Ames confessed that from the