Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-01-12

had qIick ana thorough PERCEPTION OF!
their own intereas bur the jealouiy Of.
foon ripenins into deadly ha. {.
,reds, they became deaf 70 the cool voice i,
of reaian and followed the imYulf:s Of fe- ;
rocious pafien.
After the union of the confederate tribes :
of !irael had been broken and the nation
had become TWO dittina confsderacies, il
mutt have been known to them, that their
dealeit interstfs and even their very exis
tence, as independent nations, would de-
pend upon their mutual harmony. BUTT
has been ieeu, that considerations of pub
lie utility and general inte7eas, were en-
tire!y uaava liable IN repellicg tie Gcrms
of patton and afiussins the flames Of rival
;ealouGcs and ha,teds.
Indeed, there can he no doubt but that
diyGon of the union Of thetc con:cderat.
cd fars would Re, as it were, The lolemn
kseN to their reace and Happiness. And
there is danger that this fatal calamity
will beial our nation. In the Farewell
Addrs!s of PRECEDENT Warrington, i. is
fen that he perceived this danger, with
deep concern. But the queltion is, from
whence does the danger Of the diaolation
of the federal union arife : Let this quei.
ton be anfwered by a&ing another. -
N>k<xe can qve mare naturally look tar
ef51.s ard m4cbixatian5 to 4seakrn ard
A,Arop th- tSd<,0I uaiom, sban among the
leaders IF that parry, 4v5itb aua' q'snu-
oy6L otps/Sdte The ad2ption Of The Jsderal
government? Among men OF fortune and
of rank, there is certain pride Of opinion,
that is of a very unyielding nature: and
to this may be added, that fome Of the
leaders of the anti-federal party might
politely have had political views, which
did not comprife the general intereas Of
the whole nation. At any rate it cannot
be expected that they lhoulI now love and
venerate, the fame iy Gem Of government.
which, in its origin, they had loaded
with every epithet Of contempt and ex-
ecration, and had oppoted with a warmth
of zeal bordering on violence.
The lervant of the prophet Elijah called
to his mater from the top of mount Car.
mel, and informed him that he Jaw rif-
ing cloud, like mar, kana; and 70 il
was, that from the fpresding Of that little
cloud, the whole heavens were quickly
enveloped in darkness. There is Gmi-
lari1y between the natural and tie moral
word. Turn your eyes to the political
horizon, and you may difcern a cloud
that is mxeb larger Than Hman'. hand,
and which, by its complexion, threatens
tremendous tempeif. The few follow
ing facts will tend to elucidatc this fub-
jet. Among the leaders ofthe party that
opPolei the adoption Of the federal contfi-
tuition, fome were for amending the old
confederation, and others were Tor form
ing two or more fepara,e confcdsracies.-
In the fca!e ofoppoiition, the Rate Of Viz
ginia acted very dittinguihed part and
its violent repugnance to the contribution
arof,, at Leaf in fome meafure, from the
confederation, that its own prePonderating
influence would be diminilhed by the equa-
lily among the greater and flnalier aateL
in point Of outrage in the lenate.
This may be learned from the follow
ing paragraph in Iester from Mr.. RAM
dolph, member of the Federal Convent
o, from Virginia, written to the Afiembly
of his fate, upon that fubjeet. "Cne
point writes Mr.. Randolph in which
the Contribution is moa repugnans to my
wihes, ii The equality @Jg6rag< in the S.
nate" Virginia, however, by imall
majority, voted for the adoption Of the
Federal Coniti,u:is': but fill was 70 dit.
fati.ded with it, ths@ the Ailemb'y Of tina.
State peti'ioned Co ~ ,r 4: in its dla feaioa
that a Convention f =; be called for the
purpofe of altering , .o,!! ederal Conaitu,:-
on; and, in the o", be, fens circula,
letters to the .....oi Of the feversi
ftate,, upon the same fubjeA. The origi-
nal oppolers of1he FEEDERS. Government,
particularly the members of Cocgrels hcna
Virginia, diftinguihed themfc!yes, even