Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-08-19


fhiir ffl ne country with Adventures in
blue cos,s faced with red. They GAIL
refcue hoffe. Reslefs and wasch-ffealers,
fog republican pria.ers, -aaault and CAB
your peaceSBle fellow. citizens onihe fIeets
Of New. York and BoRsn." I,
DeeencS feftlaias my pen from going
further. . fs'> - ~. :"
I" And II was upon this notable founda-
ton that tie PfeGdent Peaned hD inimi,s-
bic anfwer 70 si6e 5eys sf Bssoa. In thar
F'papet,with Ill the cowardly inlo'enee srif-
ihs ffbmshiE aiiarance oftperlonal fafety,
with an tie fiery, but without the pro-
,yrie,y i5fufatH Mity of Honef's Achilles,
this bsaify. IsSaiatd fissff,saiay teJii6sHr. f
tie GoveFrs.,i Yrg,u;a, bawis out 10
armj Aeaa, ID Tim, T. It was floating
upon the fame Bladder Of popularity, that
Mr.. Adams threatened to make this city
tie cen,rical point ola bonfire.
!" Reader I! aoft thou envy that un'or-
tspate old man, with his twenty-five thoa-
fatd dollars year 81" AS! He IS
not. an Object ofenvy, but Of compaGen--
and Of 6err0r" IA.
Z" Take your choice then between
Adams, war and beggary and Jeferfon,
peace, and; competency. "l67. .
Methihks flee MIR. Jefstfon's dollars
aaiilIy leaping from his pocket at this
tickling spoafophe. How did ke with
for the palingenefical powers, of a. Ran.
nie fenior, to convey the money from his
own PURE into Callerder's by a prsao PCS
an16egone ? a -
r. 1fohn Adams. that ficurge, that
kosn, Thar 5ultcaa Of America" Errat0
10 "a, S.! 1'..:;. =
Hcais' think for Heavens fake, of
the eifimatiop Of the war-ofice, and ofthe
quantity of documents which have been
confuped in the flames Of the Office Of the
treaMry.; Such enormous proceedings
mutt afcertain even to the mott inacceiiible
understanding, tina. things are not as
as they, fhould be; in word, as Pliny
fays of ReguIus, qve kavebesn govsrnrd BY
tbe,msR exeernbk Of all scouNDRfLs."-
WI I'd.
|. Of all decent and candid attacks upon
any Administration, furely this is the moft
decent, mott candid, mott mild. Was
not the hborer ,quoytby bis hire =?
{" This is the fyaem olJohn Adams !;
the fyfem of the dia0tor If murder to a
wre,ched di9ria judge; Judge Bee, the
fyfem of the jailor'of Thomas Cooper, the
calumpiator Of Thomas Paine
l." Men Of Virginia We will judge for
yourielves on the point of an American
navy !; We VIII judge without regard to
the prattle Of a Pre6dent'; the prattle of
that franse compound OF igns,Hnee and
teyoeity, Of deceit and sveaknei5-without
regard to that hideous, hermarphroditical
character, which has neither the force and
6rmntfs ola man, nor the gentlenefs and
fenGbili,y Of a woman."57
." But in order to give the Prsfident full
iuAice, we mutt recolleA that the perfdy'
and in.poture of his kidnies bear COZ
respondent portion to the crack in his.
upper tory that as Dryden fays, eOey
;;aeb qvbieb is not a fool ia rogue /; that
the = Now blaaed tyrant of America, thar
the,ztfan who figmatized the governor of
Virginia, as miniffer reeallsdm dyyraee,
is faper. eminently entitled not only to
the laughter, but likewife to the CURES Of
mankind" 81,
"a In iummef, 1898, it was under
food, that Mr.. Adams had marked a re-,
femblance Of character between ,himfelf,
and the great and immortal Frederick OF
,Psuffia. This will not ieem incredible,'
when we call to mind what Is pofitively
true, chat Mr.. Adams, in fit of patton,
has ssd,iel eff BIZ, .4vig and Hamffd aton
;t.asd mould upon all honeR occaGons abb
hor.he fmalieR reference to personalities
like this. , But i. mult be remembered,
tina. our American Frederick has placed
himkk at the head Of = whole battalion
of the trumpeters ofpertonal 0agder |; and
tina. an honeft traveller may, with juttice,
knock down foo.pad with the buts-end
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