Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-05-01

dufrious il ALTERNATING knowledge &
the movements and principles OF the pre-.
ient administration. The encouragement
given the Palladium in particular, has had
an Efficient beneficial coniequence.
We fhall fee thefame effect Of patron
ling the New York Evening Pof, and of
The indufry and Aeady principles of the
other federal papers in that city and fale.
Federal men fee the neeeiilty OF exertion,
fee the utility of the prefs, and the fatal
consequences of crying peace when there
is no peace. Jacobin lies mutt not go un-
anfwered; jacobin principles, not COM
ba;ed, may by the thoughtleis, be on that
account conhdered correct.
.4xti Demo.
ocosGlsymg The general teaaeney 70 IN
create expence 10 The ultimate term u 6ur-
den qvbicb The etixen can bear; it behoqes
US ( Democratic Republicans ! 10 avail arr
/elpes ef <ve,y eeeqllon sclic6 f,slenfsiyeJ
Of taAixg eff the furcharge Pres. Mei-
lage.
Admirably well ioiid- bur for mo-
ment let US fee how the Philosophers cor
duct tallies with his projections. As &c
his 07un ialary of ten tboujaud toanas Per
auaum, paid out of The ealnings of labor, :
he fays,not word abou, relinquifhing one
cent of this, and 70 Of (" taking off the
.fnrcharse'' he alludes to. BY his democra-
tie confederales, il is faid that he is
!" FRIEND Of economy tha, he holds ne
leyees; gives no expenfve entertain
ments !; affects no Gate, home or wher
abroad; OF courfe he mutt live at Tar LET'S
expenfe than his predeceilors did /; added
to which he rehdes in the mott ilnrerb pa
lace in the United States for nstbmg-
his predecefors for houie vatly inferior
in elegance and accommodation, paid out.
of the lalary of ore tbegiard pounds per
annum. Tbey lived in an espenfve, lux
urious city be lives in what may yet
be termed village. They had to tu,nJ@
the houfes rented by them-ba mariios
houfe has been furnifhed by Congrefs, at
an expence of above 1900 dollars,
Warrington and Adams held the cfice OF
PRECEDENT during the late European war,
which enhanced the rate Of living nearly
three fold--- Jeferfon occupies the fame
place in feafon of peace, when he
price of all the necenaries and comforts
of life are reduced at leaf one half Yet
under all thefe circumstances, 10 favora- 4
bic TO economy, we have not heard the
leaf intimation of the Preildent's relin-.
Quitting the fmallef portion OF his fala-
larry .s7sto take eff the furcharge from the
earnings of labor
But this new fyfem Of democratic eco 4
nomy does not reG here. All the heads
Of departments, the confidential friends
and dependents Of this :" frf feryant OF
the people" muA have their ihare OF the
crumbs that falleth from the rich mans
table," The falaries annexed to the Of
fees they now hold, which in !eafons
far more expcnfve than the preient, were
from 5000 dolls. 10000 dolls. are by
law pailed at the prejeat iefilon, in the ie-
cond year of equality, fixed al from 4, 500
dolls. TO 5000. While all the real
proofs we beholding of this tateat eco
nomy conhHs in violqtng The contribution,
in order to get rid of fxteen able and up
right judges-in difbanding the fmall reR,-
nant of our difciplined troops in reducing
the navy-in repeating the taxes on luxn-
,ies, and continuing thofe on nees0aries
IN throwing AWAY the means of defence