Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-12-02

rights are violated. For true Equality
and the Right. of Man, there never was
a better or wifer proviGon, as in faet il
executes itfelf. This is the precious fyffem
Of true Equality imported by our excel
lent and ever to be venerated forefathers,
which they priced as their birth. right
Yet this. glorious diRinttion of Liberty,
70 ample, 70 fable, and 70 temperate, fe-
cured by the Common Law, has been re-
viled and exhibited to popular abhorrsnce
as the fhameful bad &c Of our yet colonial
dependence on England.
As the Common Law fecures equally all
the rights of the citizens, and as tho jaco-
bin leaders loudly decry this iyGem, it is
obvious, that they extend their views Till
farther. Undoubtedly they include in
their plan of Equality that the citizens
lhall have aligned to them new rights and
different from what they now enjoy. You
have earned your efate, or it defended
to you from your father, of courfe my
right to your eRate is not as good as yours.
Am ! then to have in the new order of
things an equal right with you Certain
" not, every Democrat of any under
ftar iicg will reply. What then do you
propole BY your Equality Youhave earn.
Ell an efate. / have not. Yet have a
right and as good right as another man
to earn it. ! may fave my earnings and
deny myfeif the pIeafures and comforts OF
life till have laid up competent fun to
p.ovide for my inhrmity and old age. All
c'nnot be rich, but all have right to
make the attempt, and when fome have
fully fucceeded, and others partially, and
Others not at all, the ieveral ttates in which
they then find the nielves become their
condition in life, and whatever the rights
of that condition may be they are to be
faithfully iecured by the laws and govern
men,. This, however, is not the idea of
the men of THE ufqv ordtr Of things, for
thus far the plan belongs to very old Or
der of things.
They con6der republican government
as the only one in which this fort of Equa.
lity can exit at all. A tyrant or king,
which all democrats iuppoie to be WORD
of like import, might leave the rights Of
his iabjeds unyiolated. The Grand Seig-
Nor is arbitrary-the heavy hand of his
deipotifh1 however falls only on great men
ia Office, the srifocrats, whom it mutt be
4 pleafure to the admirers of Equality to
fee itrangled by the bow-aring. The
great body Of the fubjetts Of the Turkidh
government lead a very undifurbed life,
enjoying a fupid fecurity from the op-
pr iii rs of power. To enjoy right, with
GU. having proper lecurity for their enjoy
:nent, ought not indeed to fasisfy any
political reafoners, and this is precilely
the difficulty of the democratic feet. All
the Right. and Equality they admire are
deltitute of any rational lecurity, and are
Of nature utterly fubverGve of all true
Liberty. For on cloie examination it
turns out that their notion of Equality is,
hat all the citizens OF republic have an
eguel right to bohiNeal p94vrr. This is
called republicani(m. This hatens the
Journey OF demagogue to power, and in
vets him with the title of Tie Man .ftbe
Pobs. This the people are told is their
great cauie in oppodtion to the coaleiced
grants of Europe, and the intriguing !e-
deral ariitocrsts in America.
Let me cut our TIE tongue of that blaf-
phemer, every democratic zealot will ex-
claim, who dares to deny the rightful and
unlimited power ofths people. Its indeed
very inveterate evil in our politics, that
popular opinion has been formed rather to
democracy, than to fober republicanifm.
The American Revolution was in fact,
after r1,6, reGaance 10 foreign govern
ment. We claimed the RICH. to govern
ourielyes, and our patriots never contem-
plated the claim of the imported Unit
ed Isih, that a mob fhould govern US.
1T is true, that the checks on the pow
ers of tie people themfelves were not Deem
ed 4, neceAary as on the temporary rulers
whom We elected. We looked for dan
ger on the fame fide where we had been
uied to look, and lufpetted every thing