Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-01-26


Contribution, and addrened to the People OF the
St1re cf New y ork, with the deiign OF enforcing
the propric,y and neeeffty Of it, option.
l, is principally the production OF mar
~h &c name will be held in iacred retpect long
after the pit,fuI attempts which have been mace
TO fander his fame fhaIl have funk into oblivion.
Two other gentlemen, If diiiinguiihed talent,s
occaG enaliy contributed fome eHays, which Will
be marked in the publication
All parties ieem at length united in profetllons
of regard for the Contribution; if they are lin
eere, the confederation cannot fail to enhance the
value Of work, which by employing in it's "a
vor all the energy OF argument, and all the per-
fuafSn of eloquence, en,inently uletul IN pro-
M ting it. general ratification.
VIII ever is deiirous oil beng well Informed o.
he principles and provifions If our Government,
and the manner in which they have been fup.
per,ed and indicated, Of the ohjeaiors that
were made TO the Contribution b. its firft oppoi-
ers, ano how they were anfwercd, will find the &c
volumes fraught with ample ard satisfactory III
friction. he fudy Of them mutt form an
eI. nria part Of the education OF the American
ita,eimAp. Politicians, indeed, If every coun'
try. vii; here difccver materials in the fcience o!
Government well worthy OF their attention;
fcsncs, Ct all Others, the mott interetting to
mankind. as it MOI deeply concerns human hap.
rreC. The .Federali& contains principles rhat
may be remembered and tudied with advantage
nv all clai1es of men in other countries than ou'
own, and in other ages than that in which we
live. The People Of America alone have at
torded the example Of pure Representative
Republic. In this work i. will appear, that the
prinrc,ple. Of this form of Government have been
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ihould, unfortunately, the experiment. " hieh we
bavc made, hereafter fail It will he in vain to At
tempt the rene wal Of iinilar fyAem., as no ra-
tional hope can be entertained, that more cor.
req notions on this fuhjea will prevail than are
here exhibited.
To prelerve thtie papers, therefore, which
have 70 mu,h in,rnfc merit, and fuch latting
utility, in drels fuitable TO their character, Is
the inducemcnt to their re publication.
PACIEICUS is from the pen OF the fame en-
Eph,ened isas.iman who was the chief author of
the Fe,,ers!iit. Ihele fh:.ys were written IL de-
fence of the fri leading itep " hich our Cavern
nent took to preferve that Neutrality h;sh /.
co. ,inued to maintain during the late Tran'at
!antic confi9; conflict which has aprhhiiated
the minor pswers Of Europe, and lhaken the
civilized wCrid.
Now that ne NOra mas PaIco 0'Sr, aHu thC
sng-y and ,un,us, us patliors which at that time
acita,ed our country, have in fome meatere iub
GdeL, thefe parers will be read with profit and
pIeaiurc b. the intelligent man Of every party
Candor will probably wonder. that any ihouo
have doubted Of the 6,nefs of the meafures which
this writer has 70 ably advocated, and ~h,thex-
yerience has 70 forcibly proved to have teen, the
beit adapted TO the intcrefts OF the country.
To give to thsie latter Eaays form which
iaals ousiive the fleeing imprefions of newIpa-
per, they are incorporated in thefe volumes
puhus and Paeiicus will ferve to keep IN JUL
remembrance two very important events in the
hiilory of our country.
1he 6,i gentleman here alluded TO is Ge'
neral Eamilton-,he other two, Mr.. Mad;lor
ard Mr.. Jay.