Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-06-24


full glory. Then were the rights Of man
infulted by an attempt TO rehlf the frater-
nizing arms Of France !; nor was the afro
city at all redeemed by the participation
Of man, who holds " the fairef page IN
hiaory, and the firf place 10 his country s
love-" Then was citizen arrayed againis
citizen. Then was the life OF the virtu-
Gus colonel Fries brought into jeopardy.
Then was the immaculate Robins ammo
lated. Then was the energies OF our
country exerted for the defruttion, IN
fead sf the multiplication of our fpscies.
Then armies were RATED, navies eftab-
lilhed, and burthens laid on the back, OF
the people without mercy.
From indirect taxes which were repro
bated by the patriots, as an aflont to the free
citizen, inafinuch as thay held ont the idsa,
that he was to be tricked into contribu-
tions, which, when necefary he delighted
toyield, and in yielding, delighted to feel,
the belesgured administration at length
ventured on direct tax; and prefuming,
good eafy men, that the poor would not
be intolerably aggrieved by an impohtion
on the {" Corinthian capitals" of luxury,
very GmpIy applied the match to the mine
completely prepared for their deltruction.
The exploion was instantaneous. From
Georgia to Maine not demagogne, not
an editorial, or congregational, or under
trapping jacobin was idle. Avarice was
alarmed, indulgence infuriated. The demo-
cratic powers of emoellilllment were nor
fpared, and it was Altered, that light it.
felt, the gift of heaven, was to be paid
for. Nor was the rapaciouineS ofthe ad-
minifration to top here. This was but
prelude to fyiem of taxation which
comprehenied every implement OF huibaad-
ry, and grafped at the little comforts OF the
humbIee walks of life.
Its foreignto my purpole to diiculs the
policy Of the houie tax. 1t is enough,
that its features by no means juitify the
alumny, that the federaliits have favored
tie rich at the expenie of the poor. On
the contrary, wealth and luxury have been
applied to in every exigency, and the Ut
mott tenderness has been ihewn by them
to frugal indutry and labor.
Can this be faid OF the Jeferfon;an MI
niitry? That humble fest whole bowels
yearn over the convuIhye throes, and ago
nizing fpafns of the poor Whole palCe
quickened at the aighef appearance Of in
TOLERANCE and oppreiiion Come forth
Duane, come forth thou virtuous editor !!
What though your credibility has been
ungenerou1y areaigned, from the very Ii
beral endowments your tranicendent merit
has attracted, all good republicans will till
believe. Come forth in defence of your
benefattors, and illuttrate their tender
mercies for the poor, in the repeal of the
Coach tax and the tax on refined fuggars,
80. and in the non-repcal of the
duties upon falt, brown iugar, rea and ccf-
fee. Evince their fcrupulous attention to
economy, in the milton of Mr.. Dawfon,
in the repair of the Berceau and the pay Of
her officers, in the reviyalof the once enor-
nous falaries Of; our public funttionaries,
and in their tenacious adherence to the
late odious fix dollars per day. Expa-
tiate too upon the virtue of fincerity as
exemplifed in the doctrine of fpeciac ap-
preparations, in the redemption Of the pub.
lie debt, & exult with rapture, in the unex-
ampled probity, the more than the Roma
juitice of the Committee of Inveaigatlon.
Surely you may as efettually lerve your
patrons in reconciling their conduct with
their projections, and in refcuing them
from the opprchrious aigma Of hypocrily,
about to be befowsd upon their labors,
as in resiling their predeceiiors. What
boots it that you be able to eGablilh
their vilIainy. Are we to be tranquil
led by the rejection that though our
preient feryantare bad, our former were
no better 1t was TO produce a change