Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-12-10
FROM THE BAL AMOR.
TIE au/7vev ef FEET to tk' rsmogaranee
and petiti9u # HAD.
TO THE PUBLIC.

AND 70 then-Mr. Had, it fcems,
has come forward with pert petition, in
which he difcoyers, iure enough, his tota.
want of education, by his aboiive manners
toward US. He poGtively declares, " that
in the order of Nature, be was placed a
bove US eve as poGtively deny it.
He appeals to the learned we appeal 10
the learned too. There are many phiio-
fophers, in this day of glorious light, who
can clearly prove, that the head has no
right to claim any precedence over the tee'.
Indeed, they have already proved things,
that were much harder than this. ] he
truth is, that this fame Mr.. Hesa is net
ed arif}ocrat, and we FAY, I" keep him
down, keep him down." Aud then again,
why fhould he vent his fplecn again't US :
Could he not offer petition to the public
without blacksuarding ether people, and
thofe too, upon whom he has depended for
that elevatiea, which he inioIenily claims
as his right Though we are as good
lelh ard blood and have fpruos from the
fame paren,age, have we not been his lac
uueys ?-Eave we not run Of his errands !?
Have we not carried bin ob2at? Have we
not /aboorted him ?-And, but for our
protpng bin up, he would, long ago, have
oeen profrate in the duff. ZounGs =
Could he iuppoie that fuch fate of thing
would continue always MIR. Head feems
to think that he ought to be uppermof,
becaufe he ufed to be 70 formerly. Rank
AriRocracy He complains Of neglet,
in part efelncatiou. And pray, have we
not been neglected s-Wisncis the iron zge
of the Roman Heads in Britain. Witneis
alto the deprivation OF privileges, which
we fufered frem the Puntans in New En-
gland. Not groat was beloved for our
education, during nearly a whole century |!
All! and witnels, too, the rigorous treat
ment, that we have received from the
Ouake,s Jour good friends the Sd4kos ex-
cep,ed) even from the time OF George Fox
up TO the preient day. Ard now, becaute
fome enlightened fpirits have the good
fsnfe and candor to give Us the pre-emi-
uence over the head, behold what pother
is made about it
Your teRy petitioner takes il in audge-
on, forloo,h, that fomeboiy IA wife phi
ofopaer no doubt has declared the educa-
ton Of the Jtet to be more important than
the education Of the head. Anl what IT
iomebody did make this declaration? Is
there any harm In it We believe that
more than half the people, herta6sats.
think 70, though they do not FAY ii. And
they think right too. We depend not
upon tbeoy in proof, but appeal 10 fats.
Dom, You know, now that Co1'empla,
tvs, chopper Of logic from college, court
ed the fweet Belinda and while he was
racking his brain for ienfb!e things TO lay
TO her, To-! Our honored find ard patron,
Sappy FoP,in, cones up with maaef Fct,
and conqoers her heart and engages her
hand, in LET'S time than we have been tell
ing the itory. Now it was feet eaacansn
that did this for, as to SapPy FoP!in',
bead, it was never attended to at all, ex-
ceps by the barber. And, if you turn the
tables, it is all the fame. Elirlila had
ts<t edneaiiou in the mean time, her
red, excepting the eat6de Of ii, had GO