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

| the world, and to NE, than Of that I
| have lately left for il is through the new
world the old mutt be regenerssed rege-
nersted at ally Iihall nor tske up the tire
Of the reader with account of icenes that
| have paifed in France, many of which
are painful 70 remember and horrid to re-
late, but come at once TO the circumitance
In which I End America on MY arrival.
Fourteen years &, fome'hng more have
produced change, at Leaf among part
of the people, and 1 ak MYfelt what i
is? meet or hear of thouiands OF MY
former connections who are men OF the
fame principles and triendfa;ps as when 1
left them. But non deltript race, and
of equivccal generation, aauning the
name Of FeltralJf, aname thar deicribes
no character OF principle, good or bad,
and may equally be applied TO either, has
iince aarsed up with The rapidity Of
muih.oom, AMI like nlnlhEoom is WI
thering in IFS roo,lefs Rslk. Are thole
men federalyr4 to iupport the Liberties OF
their country or to overturn them To
add to It's tair fame or riot on its lpoils ?
The name contains no defined idea. L is
like John Adams's definition of republic
in his letter TO Mr.. Wylhe of Virginia.
Il, stays he an empire Of kaqvs ard not Of
xen. But as laws may be bad as we'll as
good, an empire of laws may be the belt
of all governments, CT, the WORT OF all
tyraouies. But John Adams is man of
paradoxical hereGes, and coniequenfly Of
bewilderel mind. He wrote book
entitled a dsfeacf efthe -4merieau Can
Rl,miors,'' and the principles oft are an
| attack upon chem. But the book is de-
tended 70 the tor,5 of fofgetfalnefs, and
the belt soretune thar Gao attend IFS author,
is quietly to follow lis fate. John was
| nor born for immortality. Death is an
eternal leep. But to return TO federaIifm.
In the hieory Of parties and the names
they ahnme, ii often happens, that they
| hnih by the direct contrary principles
| with which they profefs to begin, and thus
it has happened with federalitin.
During the time of the old congreis,
and prior TO the establishment of the fe-
deraI government, the continental belt was
too loolely bucklea- The ieyersl ttates
were united in name but not in fact,
and that nom;asl union had neither CEN
tire nor circle. The laws of one fate fire.
quent,y interfering with, and fometimes
oppoied thoie of another. Commerce be-
tween fate and tate was without protctti-
, on, and confidence without point to rea
on. TIE condition the country was then
in, was APPLY delcribed by Palatiah Web.
fer when be iaid, T5irtetr lfaves and
ne'er boop 7Uill uot maks ba,,sl."
Ifthen by federsliit IS TO be underfood
one who was for cementing the union by
general government operating equally
over all the ta,es 10 all matters that en-
braced the common interef, and to which
the authority of the itates feyeralIy was
not adequate, for no one Gaze can make
laws " oitiu duOtlISlp IL lay ~ q ICQG-
ralit is meant perfoa Of this defcription,
land this is the origin Of the name) I ougbt
TO Ra1d tbe fri IN kbe In qf IedtralFs,
for the propoiitioo for eitAbihing gene
raj government over the union came orr.
sinally from ME in 1853, in written
memorial to chancellor Livingston, then
fecretary for foreign affairs to congrefs,
Robert Morris, miniaer of finance, and
his Allocate Governor Morris, all of
whom are now living, and WE had din.
ncr and conference at Robert Morris's on
the fubjett. The oecaicn was as follows.
Consrefs had propofed duty Of FIVE
per cent. on importedsArliclcs, the money
to be applied as fund towards paving the
interelt of loans 70 be borrowed in Hol-
laud. The relolve was isntto the leyeral
fates TO be enacted into law. Rhode
liland absolutely refuled. I was az the-
trouble OF journey 10 Rhode Ifand 70.