Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-12-10
FROM THE PALLADfUM.
EQUALITY,

10 beIieve tfat Elu-.Asy is home neIo ltd'e
of fociey, in which all that is will cea!e
to. be, the high are 10 De brought low and
all are to itand on an exact lcvsl. II IS
hard to make ignoraace CLEARLY compre,
head the dotsr:re, but it is Of all thing
the ea,.e,t 10 excite vice and want to car
ry it into practice. However it nay be
intended or however explained, II Is un-.
derRood by the mere rahb!e as the lfvsl.
ling principle. 1t is inconill}ent no leis
with the fenfe OF a juf fnbordination,
than with iecurity for property or indeed
OF any focal ight whatever. 1t itirs up
,hofe who are unfit to exerciie power to
claim it, and TO enlia under ambitious de-
magogues, who pretend TO aiert their
claim. The very hrf lep, therefore, OF
a rabble, to vindicate and augment their
power, is to part 7vtb ii, by entrulting
1t in the hands of the mosf treacherous OF
all Importers. All experience fhews,
that the mob Leaders betray this truit,
they forn, factions, as ioon as theie prevail
over the laws and regular government
they quarrel about the divilion Of the
fpoil, and the chief of the prevailing fac
tion becomes matter of the State and its
tyranr. He may be faid, in the French
file, and with emphatical Propriety, to
conquer Liberty. The fore fight OF this
event will be expected to refrain the null
titude from the lteps that lead to it !; and
is it really believed, tina. rhoie who fore
fee nothing, will defcry this danger,
which is even hidden from the prefumpti-
on OF philofoPhits The writer OF the let
fer to Mazzie and the Worcensr Farmer,
fe,m not 10 have the inailelt compreben-
iion of this political danger, which has
happened as regularly as the ieaions OF the
year. Democracy, or in other words, the
uncontrolled power of the people as it
feems, tu, OF faction as it proves to be,
tends with a fatal initinet, that cannot
fee and that will not hear, to tyranny
We, the Mazzie philosopher conEders the
government of the United States as the
enemy of liberty, and the obfacle to Its
Establishment, and that the removal OF
the re&raints on tie people, and OF all I'M
pediments to their acting according to
their arbitrary good tie4/ars, will eniure
its fatety and long life. " We ihall pre-
vail, we lhall,' he fays, in that letter,
1" break theie Liliiputian ties
At this criiis, therefore, it is exceeding
y important 10 know how the new rulers
urderaand the principle of equality, and
how it will Ioe underltood BY the rabble
of their adherrnts. To prevent the troop
of little fnarlers from their ufual fucsefs in
preventing the meaning of words-it is
here explicitly declared, that the houle
holders, t,raaefinen and yeomanry of the
nation are not con6dered as moi, nab5h
ard iscexdieries. The men who live by
labor, and who get regular livelihood,
tho they may lay up nothing, are never
.heleis for the Emoa part orderly, quiet,
Sl&tE-Sbss
But all large towns have rabble and
mob. Londeu has perhaps one hundred
thoufand, and P0ris as many Of the vileit
mob on earth. Wretches dettitute OF mo-
rails, knowledge or property, the aanding
army OF vice, and who need In every Eu-
ropean State another army in public ray
TO keep them from plumber ard murder.
In 1902, it is probable the United States
had no, as many as either London or Pa
ris. Since that time gov. McKEAN pro-
badly obtains ten thoufand new votes OF
rabble elected within the laf nine years
from London or Dublin. Within the Taft
10 yezrs our mob has doubled in the iou-
them Gates. 1t has not incrsafed one
tenth in New England. The fqualid
tribes of vice, and want, and ignorance
are every where rabble, unfit for liberty
and fit TO: ambitious demagogues to In
fame and combine into regular force,
with which TO menace government, and
in the end to ulurp Its powers.
Whatever interpretation the pai'oio-
pliers may give to TIE word Equality,
RE beo1k, as the democrats call this very
.abble, underaand It as emitting them to
rover, and TO uncontrolled power. Now
!, is not in the nature of man TO iuPpoie
that he is to ruls, Thou, in.asantly tuning
his thouoh,s and routing all his dailres TO