Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-06-03
CHARACTERISTICS
OF 4
TRUE REPU BIiCAN.
MA KIM III.

Il IrHe RcPH5i'caH rates all ./nPeyi9Uty ~
any ous mar over any other.
promifed my readers to compcnGate in
future maxins, for any ambiguity in my
hra. Indeed, from the ttrength of preju-
dice in favour of religion, and even of &C.
vernmen., it is fometimes difficult to dif-
tinguih between true republican, man
who will so all Ieng ths-and thoie occsf-
onal or temporary republicans whom we
make uie OF for fo;ne purpoies, and will
Gait off when we have got all that they
will help Us 10, and we find ourfeIves able
to 90 farther without their anillance.
Thefe who have any regard to religion
know that all men are not equal; that
there is veArl for honour ard veGel fox
5iihonour; that there is a natural and a
renewed, a good and bad man; that there
are orders in the church--bifhoPs, prieits,
ard deacons. Thofe who have any re-
gard to government, know that as in "a
mily, 70 in a fate, there mutt be fuperiori-
ty, order, and (ub.piGion tina, there NUT
be head 10 plan and hands to work, O.
ycrieers and lato5ers and, as in the natu-
raj body, head and members and un-
IFS there were thele, the fate would nor
be managed, the work would not De done,
the family would not be fupported, the DO.
dy could not iubGf, 81 all would 60 to ruin.
Theie are their prejudiccs. This comes
Of Judging from experience. Men who
think 70 are not 6t for US, but as ladders
and (caffoIds. They are excellent for thar,
but good fox nothing ellie. We mutt not
offend them yet, for fuch is the force of
iuch prejudices now, and 70 few in number
are we yer, that fhould we break with
thele men, we lhould ruin ourfelves. We
are, therefore, conRrained at prelent to
call fuch men republicans but this induces
an ambiguity in the character, and the
weaker among ourlelves cannot we'll diff.
tinguilh between true republicans and
baLf-ceay men. We mutt not dilclofe all
our fcheme at once. But the maxim
which have now laid down, is a touch
aone that will try the faith of all it is
lthuriePs pear, that will make every man
appear in his true fhape.
There is no ambiguity in this maxim.
The man that is an enemy to all fuperio-
ri,y in any one man over him mutt be
true republican. Every impudent man
mutt be true republican, for he neither
fears God nor regards man. This is the
perfection of liberty. Every man who
either fears God OF regards man, mutt be
under ieme refraint and wherever there
is re!traint, there cannot be liberty and
wherever there is not liberty, there>can
not be true republication. No man, can
be free who does NOT follow the dictates
of his own ,eaion; no man can follow the
dictates OF his own reaion, where there's
any faith, any authority, orany Gperiority
in the reaton of any one man over the rea-
lon Of any other. And as all men are
equa! and free, ali faith, authority, and
inperiof;ty muR be abolihed otherwife
there can be neilher liberty nor equality,
and without theie there can be no true re-
Publicaniin. ! grant, that to abolih
theie is beyond our power; we can not
prevent all men from believing that there
is God; We Cannot prevent all men from
believing that authority muft be placed in
the hands OF few we cannot make all men
equal In wifdom: but we can do this, we can
withdraw ell confidence in wifdom, and iay
that the vote or opinion Of the greateh
100! in the country is OF equal weight as