Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-11-13

Senje.
Having thus cleared away little Of
the rubbllh that might otherwife have
lain in my way, return to the point of
time at which the preient Federal Confi-
tution and your administration bsga2. It
was very well fa,d by an anonymous wri-
ter in Philadelphia, about a year before
that period, that I" .sbirsesa faces and
re'er boop zvill nj MAKE bQ,yel,, and
as any kind OF hopping The barrel, howe
yer dese cively executed, would be better
than none, il was icarcely polIble but that
comfortable advantages snua arlfe from
the federal hosping Of the l}ates. It was
with pleaiure that every hacere friend to
America beheld, as the natural effect Of
union, her rihng PROPERTY /; ard il was
with grief they faw that PROPERTY mix.
ed, even in tn. bloilom, with the germ Of
corruption. Monopolies Of every kind
marked your adminiaration aln,oa in the
moment Gifts commencement. The lands
obtained by the revolution were lavifhed
upon partizans the interef of the DIFF.
banded folder was fold to the fpecula,or !;
injuaice was acted under the pretence Of
faith; and the chief of the army became
the patron of the fraud. From fuch a be-
ginning what could be expected, but what
has happened? A mean and fcrvile fob.
milton 70 the iniults Of ore nation, treach-
cry and ingratitude TO another.
Some vices make their approach with
fuch fplendid appearance, that We icarc,-
ly know TO WHAT clais of moral diainctl-
ons they belong. They are rather virtues
corrupted, than vices originally. BIT
meannels and ingra.itude have nothing
equivocal in their character. There
is not a trait in them that renders them
doubtful. They are 70 originally vice,
| that they are generated in The dung Of O.
Their vices, and crawl into exi!leoce with
the filth upon their back. The iogisisss
1have found protection il. you, and tho !e-
yee-room is their place of rendezvous.
As the Federal Contribution is copy,
not quite 70 baie as the original, ofthe form
of the Britiih government, an imitation Of
its vices was naturally TO be expected. So
intimate is tie connexion between to,m and
p,afies, that TO ADOPT the one is to invite
the other. Imitation is naturally pro-
grefiye, ard is rapidly 70 in matters that
are vicious.
Soon after the Federal Contribution ar
rived in England, | received letter from
female literary correspondent native OF
New York, very we'll mixed with friend
hip, fentiment and politics. In my an.
fwer to thar letter, permitted my ielf to
rambls into the wilderness OF imagination,
and to anticipate what might hereafter be
the condition of America. ! had no idea
that the picture then drew was realizing
70 fat, and till lels, that Mr.. Walhing-
ton was hurrying il on. As the ex;ratt
allude to, is congenial with the fubjed
am upon, l here tranfcribe it.
You touch me on very tender point,
/" whea you fay, that my friend, on yoar
fde tie 4vater eann0f be yeeoaeiled to
the idea Of my abandoning Ameriea,
eVen FIR my xative England. They
are right. had rather fee my ho1ie
{" Button eating the grafs of Bordentown
g or Morrifenia, than fee all the pomp &
I" thew Of Europe.
/" A thoufand years hence, for l mutt
I" indulge few thoughts, perhaps in lefs,
" America may be what England now is.
/" Tbs innocence Of her character, that
" won the hearts of all nations in her ia
your, may found like romance, and
/" her inimitable virtue as if it had never
" been. The ruins Of that liberty, which
/" thouiands bled TO obtain, may ju9 fur
/" nifh materials for village tale, or ex-
tort i1gh from rufic lenhbility; Whit
/" the falhionable of that day, enveloped
in di!lipation, fhall deride the princi-