Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-08-27

troiuced into4ens Of his fpcculations the
following allegory, from Du Halde's &C
count of China -" Hoen Kong afked
his minifer Koan Tchong, Wbat qvas TIE
mgE tO6t Aaueated it a govsrNmsut ? Ko-
an Tchong anfwered, In my mind, no.
thing is more to be lamented than what
they call the a IN the fatae." Hoen
Kong not understanding the a!legoTy,
Koan Tchong explained it to him. You
know, Sire, iaid he, tbatit is a comnon
thing to erect fatues TO The genius of the
place; theie tatues are of wood, hollow
within, and painted without. If a rat
gets into one of them, one does 0 know
how to get at him ; one does roo care TO
make uGe of fire, for fear of burning the
wood; one cannot dip il in water, for
fear OF walning of the %colors; 70 that the
regard one has for the easue, faves the raf
thar has got into it. Saeb, Sire, are in
evsry goOsrameut tbge, zubo 7oHb0ut ia
hgts, v;;rtue Or merit, Face BY fJeb0od,
intrigue ard bypserW faed tbemleiUesm il,
to The direction Of public oGfairs: Try
threaten to ruiu tvey thing; are Fes it,
one Lameafs it; 6nt does not ka0qv b07v to
remed it," Thus much for the dllego-
~, and It's eaRera moral. To bring them
home, it will be ieen that the Goveynment
cf tbek States is the STATUE-Who
the deftruaive RAT is, is more obvious.
Bat we are not, like the Ckiref, deititute
of a remedy. Though we hsll not care TO
ule fire or qvater, yet the time will come
when it will be proper to try, what effect
A tbay9Hgb@ akmg OF the Statue, or an IN
ceaant f~aasigatiou thereof may do TO rid
it of lis miichievous tenant. Until that
time we can follow the advice Of TAc1-
rus, and while we reverence baf a9ming
traitors. and fnbmit TO the brsjeut, we
may be allowed to hope for the future.
IColum. Cent.
Cseetha ms New York Citizen is at
tempting a reply TO the Evening Pof on
the fnbje6t of Jeferfon and Calender
The citizen till adheres to It's 6rf poftl-
on, that Mr.. Jeferlon did not give TO Mr..
Calender one hundred dollars for writing
the "P,ofpea before US" To prove this,
ne extracts a number of pailages from the
Ptofpea which are p'i4tedly otpyea to
the 3rne4bk gour Iederal aziou, and 70
tie coaflx'igu a1der 7ubcb zve haze The
bqb5meG to Eve'-' His doFrines,"E Jays
the caHesu. 90 dIreRL 10 a beofetr did,
htioa Of The Uuiou /; and j tie beou ob
lain, a byaacal 0ae quH usUta61 JoE-
La4e."" Will il be believed them the
Citizen emphatically AXIS. that Mr..
Jafcrfon gave 100 dollars for writing a
gainf the very cement OF the UNION, the
guarantee Of our fTeedom?"
This is doaotlefs a arong argument,
with thofe who believe that Mr.. jefcrfon
has really become frieadiy 10 the conitltu-
tion. We have nothing to oPPofe lit but
incoetrovertible faa, which faf MIR.
George Jeferfon is ready to attef. With
tholG who think this a Rrouger argument
than that of the Citizen, perhaps a differ
ent conc!udon Willie thought to follow
from the premii.s Of the Cirizeo /: namely,
that inafnuch as the Profpett confeaedly
inculcates d5Rrines p0igtedy o4pgedfo tie
br:reiprof sur fderal arios, andinalmuch
as it's a aa incontroyertibly proved, that
Mr.. JcifeTlon paid one hundred dollars for
the Publication of the work containing
thefe doctrines, we have an additional evil
dence of Mr.. Jeiferfon's continued hofili-
ty to our lyfem Of government.
-(GaS. Z. So
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