The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser — Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.], 1796-10-27 00:00:00, page 1

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For the Potomak. Guardian.
Mi.. Willis, * v
THE comelr which at prefent exiftl between
two candidates in this djltrict, for a leat in
the next Federal Lrg'H-iture, has produced in your ‘
p. per many publications from the parrilans of each
ot thofe gentlemen, containing liuK tlCe than per
(no. | invective and • '*; “ceisaty c$lilequence abu
five recrimination, ibis kind of c'orfefpondence,
ihroupi; the medium of public prints, in thy opini
on. Mr. Wiliia, has only a tendency to increale the ,
(pirit of party (*lre: % too prevalent) and to plant (
i ue btnciul feeds of o.iunion in the bofoin of our
hippy country. In a war of this nature, facts are j
• I* y% tx iterated,and frequently mifreprefented, !
the hero ot one party invtfciably attempted to be
l it pot ed. not opun ihe ftable bafis of his own vif
tun, but upou the delrruction of the refutation of
- m ..j.poiiMit. Can this be right ? Can it be pro
p rf K’^loit and ca *<ii Ur aulWers the interroga
te. no. In exercilii.g • ne of the moft important
,i >. a* . belong i.g to fre< men, in choofing their
fl im, into whole hands their property and
. I1V1H are committed, can it be right to caufe
. ... view candidates for this important trufr
.yh taHr m diuius, by alarming, prejudicing,
i nro.j'ing the public mind in this manner i
!t , '-.I ibis difti ict are too enlightened (it
t emtrlvrs) not to make a prudent choice of
,, i , r. patient them in the enluingCongrefs j
;at»o<; of ideas fi nilar to the following, will
r»i place conflder that we were onceiubject
r it nutty of tlir nritun government; Miat a
- u.J knftion w,.s awakened in the breafe ol
'ft r» . n, againir the oppreflivr influence cf
t t. p , k fiualtire* j that under the banners of
» .od tne rights of man, we afsembled, and
.1 ’>y thy wile council#, oh Washington.
• . we vatitj iHied the tyrant of Britain,
* *»r .me frer. | hey wsll then remember, that
r ii...turned by the c xp. rirnce of ages* and the
. * trf* at anions, voluntarily lot tried, tor ourfeives
t u fn!l euergrtic Cutiftiiiitioo, under whole
*«. # tenet- we have line* lived in pappy fecu
* NAnrn they have made theie reflections,, they
• ■ v» w tu« iwu —inug ift-rJl-riQ
• u w j they will conliJer, and endeavour
t ii .i.i t‘c»r public conduct and political
.r. i ia, wfcutt >»f them would be thd molt likely
. tv tins ocr happy Conftitution, and there
. u a r u* f»otn ihe awful and the horrible confe
,,a- ** win. it tnr nature of man and i he hiftory of
- i nmeu- • tesihci mult inevitably flow from a
i inn ol it ; and when they have efcertajned
■ ,» .rtant point, it were ablurd, it were an in
... t -if undemanding* to lay they will hefi
i.!i in their choice. 1 hi* conteft, Mr. Willis,
*r*rr an tally it may hr kept out of tight, is not
. *>r « Mi«kh»U—1< is n>t whether Mr.
- f—Jttrijtm tWarjan thall reprelent us in the
. « c .' grets, and p*it*ke of the political loaves
•MM* u |ire, t*ut it is • conteft that prevjils iu a grea
. , i,ti decree throughout ihe United States,and
<*>•{««• p*ihaps bur political exiftance—it is a
whrslirr our happy conltitution lhall be
or drltfuyed.
f h«i« »huij* deUr>f, Sir, the molt fetious confi
U'iimto not oo'y ol the people in this diftrict,
t h'rt ighoul the union. Some people’* confcl
,m ..ate ihrm, perhaps, to imagine that I
- -»t» #m< lam cottdemuingin other people, a
(.•—*r. advocate of faction. 1 anticipate the
« #*>■’» , and «ie*iy the charge. 1 am a friend to
* p .» ■> merely from the (pint of party j fo far a J
w . !■ I teed of any party accords with what
J • to or for the good of the whole, 1 am its
» » further. I care not whether Gen.
V »< M» Rmkrrfmri goes toCongrel* j 1 only
• h. . .« io £•• who will Tupport our free and
.s-fnt i ,rc unit Hutton.and irsnlmit it entire (unlei's
t<4io«»~nJtj amended' to an admiring polierity.
A •»!»•*-* 0*u. or Mr. Rutherford \% the man,
• , * tt pr«’o*t»ly act thue rationally, Will be de
< kh s»v w» trllow citizens.
I am, Sir, four’*, kc.
Philo constituent.
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HOSE pentlemen who favour Mr. John
Ajmmi't elr.tlon, as Prrlident of tbe United
. n de.Ura ikai be i» a true Republican, in
ft f a
». (f i* and a warm favourer of repunliran forms
I .rravuai. and efpeeiaHy our Federal Govem
... i» prefersr;r lu ait orbrra whatloever ; and
1 « •!,«> dertvkr 10 prove from a book written
, M Aimmt, emitted, A Or/rnu y tht Amiri
cart Coirjiiiuiioti.'* HoW this Bands will belt be leen
Dy a mice attention to the tenor ol his oblcrvati
ous. 1 will, therefore, take a view ol a lew of
them, and by comparing others therewith, \ think
they will Ihew to all unprejudiced minds, the in
confitiency ol i'ucb a coniu uciiou ! Nay, lo lar
Irom bearing loth an interpretation, 1 otneve thaC
vet y book, will, on dole examination, be found (ta
ken collective!y) to be nothing more nor icis, than
a panegyric on the J?tiulh Government P 1 he troth
oi which let us lee. ill his preface, page io, he cx
prelses liiintclt thus, *• rl he rich, the well corn, and
the able, acquire an influence among the people, that
will loon be too much lor iimple nuneiiy auo plain
lenle, in a houle ol reprcteiitaiiv es, tin molt illuf*
trious ol them mult, therefore, be leparauu Horn t..e
majs, and placed by thttnleKe* in a icnatt." VvnaC
can lie mean by leparaiing them from the mats, un
lei's it be to lot ui a Hou.c ol Lords, or one iiunlar ?
But mark what tollows—Bage if, he proceeds, /al
ter making other obiervauons to the iahu purport)
—“ A goverhment ol laws might be jultly denomi
nated a repunuc } a litiiiied monarchy, therefore,
eJpccially when limited bjt two independent bran
ches, an aultocratical and a democraticai, power in
the conltiiution, may with in let propriety be cal
led by that name.” Thus, then, he defines the Bn
tilh government to be a republic I hence his ad
vocates declare him a I tickler for republicanilm !
i fhall next endeavour to prove h.s enure appro
bation of, and tondsiels for the conltitution ol Lug
laud, although he palscs many encomiums on tiio
American ltate governments I Speaking ol the in
Habitants ol Mdisacbulet ts, page 116 lie lays,—
“ '1 belt lources of iutqu aluy, wnidi are common to
every people, and can never be altered by any, be
came they are founded in the conlriiuiion ot na
ture. Tins natural ariiiocracy among mankind has
oeen dilated on, oecaule, it is a fact c.sential io bo
coufidered in the inlutution of government ; it is a
oody of men which contains the greater!t collection
of w/au and abilities in a free government—istha
bright'Ji ornamml anu glory of the nation, and may al«
wn)a i*e made the gnateji bhjjtng of loueiy, Jf ic*be
juuicioufly uianaguo in me comiitut ion j but, if ic
is not, it ^always. is the moit dangerous j nay, ic
may be added'bever fails to be tbe deltruction ot*
tbe comtriouwealth." Rag* 117-^" Ther* is yec
but gne expedient dilcovered to avail the (osiety of
the benefits from this body of men, whith they are
capable of affording, and at the lame time to pre
vent them from undermining or invading the pub
lic liberty, and that is to threw thun all, or at leaic
the molt remarkable of them into one alsembly to
gether ip the leg^ature; to keep all the executive
power out of their hands as a boay * to erect %
brlt magistrate over them, invelted with the whole
executive authority | to moke them dependent on
that executive magistrate for ail public executive
employments ; to give that fir11 magiltrate a nega
tive ou the legiflature, by which he may defend
both himtelf aiuf the people from all their enter
prizes in the leg,(Inure j and to erect un the other
iide of them an impregnable barrier againlt them in
a Houfe of Commons, fairly, fully, and adequately
repreleftting the people, who Iball have the power
both of negativing all their attempts at encroach
ments in the lcgiffoture, and of withholding, both
from them and the crovon^ all fupplies by which they
may be paid for their lervices in executive offices,
or even the public lervices carried on to the detri
ment of the nation."—Again, fpeaking of different
orders, page 177, “ The hiltortes and writings of
the greateli writers ferve to ihew the utility and
nectility of different orders of men, ahd of an equili
brium of powers aud privileges."—Page 208, lie
fays, “ Let us proceed then to make a few oblerva
tions upon the diicouries of Plato and Pol.bius, and
Ihew how forcibly they prove the neceflity of per
manent laws, to reitrain the paffions and vices of
men, and to fecure to the cnizms the bleffings of
lociety in the peaceable enjoyment of their lives,
liberties, and properties; and the neceflity of dif
ferent Orders of men, wirh various and oppojite pow
ers, prerogatives and privileges XQ watch otic another,
to balance each other, and to compel each other, at
all times, to be real guardians of the laws."—
Sneaking of Rome, page 224, he proceeds, “ Frpni
this example, as from all oihers, it appears, that
there can be no government of laws without a ba
lance, and that there can be ho balance without
three orders, and that even thiee orders can never
balance each other, unlefs each in its department is
independent and abiolute.
in another part of his book, he fayi, “ the chief
niagiftrate Ihould be in the fiTin of a King.' And
to crown all, when hefpeaksot England in particu
lar, he burlts forth with teeming tranfporr in thH«
words, page 70, ** I only contend that the Englilh
Conftitution is in theory the molt ftependious fa
bric of human invention* boil. lor the adjulttn* nt of
the balance and the prevention of its vibration*/
and that the Antericays ought 10 be »ppl*'udcd m