Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-08-24

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if ID i;,ort, i've beautiful but lifeleis latue
Of Eeous, found a dagger { ring from
her bo!om, and pierce them to the heart.
Ia what, then, does this pretended fnaila-
ri'y o. the French revolution 10 ours con-
ii,s' Is it becauie they threw down tie
mild monarchy Of Louis, to make way for
the dsipotiim Of Bonapar,e Is it beeauie
they have erected The imnenfe pyramid Of
their power, UPON the ruin ct empires,
with the bones Of whole nst,ons, and &C.
mented it with the blood of millions I
Do we lind this resemblance in an expiring
commerce, in discouraged agriculture
and annihiiated manufactures !! Is it be-
eauie We borrowed the aid of revolutionary
tribunals, fantaioned murder by law, and
encouraged aGaiiination by Legislative
bountiss Is it in the idiot ridlcuie OF
all religion, and beating projections OF mad
impiety in the alteration of iia-
tue OF liberty, bsipastered with blood
from the contiguous guiilorine! In the
before unhea.d Ct wo'lhip Of harlo',
rricke,i OCT as the geddeis Of rsafon, in a
gorgeous drapery, 70 thin and adjective as
to heighten, by affecting to concea! her
meretri,ious charms, to ttimalate infead
Of luppreiiins unauthorized deGre. Has
| any nan here, been bold enough, with his
eyes looking abroad on nature, feeling the
power Of Ged declared in all his wotks,
from the mols that crcePs round the rock
| to the fun tia. blazes in the heavens, in
full day, with the Representing light of
that fun, darting On his head, has any man
here been bold enough to deny his exit
| ence, to ipurn his mercy, to deride his
! power
In the following there is much to ap-
plaud and admire.
"Let US leha innovation, and beware
| Of pretended Improvement, however ipe-
ciou1y propelled, in this age of rafh ad-
! venture, and heedlefs experiment. The
chaRe icn;c itruSsrre of our contribution,
| admits net the corin;hian capital of nobi-
| lily and a crown would be brilliant bur-
| den, an incongruous excrelcence, which the
eye oflegitin,ase tate would oiiapprove,
. and the vir,uous, and indignant difappso-
baton of our country defroy. Yet fan
der, " more cruel than the fword," has
Imputed to fome of the beG characters Of
! our country, the very trainers of the con-
ititution, whom. one would naturally iup-
| poie to be fond Of their own work, and
| who by their actions have fhown the mott
confirmed and partial affection for tit
has attributed to them, the ttrange and
chimerical notion Of introducing monarchy
and aritocracy. And this calumny was
Propagated by ar,ful ambition, and caughs
at by itupid credulity when ,hofe charac-
| tiers were in the dutifui administration of
| their regular authorities, under conititu-
ton they had fworn to fupport, that qua
rantees republican form Of government
that excludes hars, titles, ribbons, and all
the abfurd gew gaws Of artificial pre-emi-
nence, and defines with unxamPled preciii-
on, the form of election, the duration and
extent Of the powers Of its executive. We
have TOO much reafon to believe that theie
arsful aud dangerous caIumnies, were
meant merely as cover to dark deGgns,
and understandable intentions, mere
fluff: and itraw of a party, verfed in ftrata-
gems, burnt to raiie finoke to cover their
advance, to the attack of the be& depot
tory of our rights, the mott iacred citadei
of our freedom.''
The preceding Elections are fuficient to
evince the principles and talents OF MIR.
| Hunter. They are fuch as to entitle him
to the eaeem of his coun,ryaen, and to
the refpeet Of all good men.
Phi. Gaz.
| AMERICA AND BRITAIN.