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


tranilations into Foreign languages. were
between four and five hundred thouland.
The principles Of that work were the
fame as lhoie of Cannon SsxIe, and the
effect would have been the fame in En-.
gland, as it has been in America, could
the vote of the nation been quietly taken,
or had equal opportunities Of committing
or acting exited. The only difference
between the two works, was, thar the
one was adapted to the local circumstances
of England, aud the other to thoir of A
merica. As 10 MYSELF, { acted in
10th cafes alike; 1 relinquiGhed to the
people of England, as 1 had done to thcie
Of America, all profits from the work.
NV reward exiRed in the ambition to do
good, and in the independent Happiness oil
my own mind.
But faction, acting in difguife, was
riGng in America, thar had loft fight Of
6rf principles. They were beginning to
contemplate government as profitable
Hoaspoly, and the people as hereditary
property. 1t is therefore no wonder that
the Rigbt, efMan was attacked by that
faction, 'and lis author continually abufed.
But let them so on, give them rope e.
nough, and they will put an end to their
own inignifcance, There is too much
common ienfe and indel endcnce in Ame-
RIGA, TO be long the dupc Of any faction
'o.eign Or domeRic.
But, in the midft of the freedom VIZ
enjoy, the licentioulnefs of the papers
called federal land Z know not Why they
are called 70, for they are in their princi
pies anti federal and deipotic) are dit
honor to the character of the country, and
an injury TO the reputation ana importance
abroad. Trey rePrefenr theI wholes poo.
pie Of America as deifisute OF public prin-
ciple and private manners. AS TO any In
jury they can do at home TO thofe whom
they abuie, or lervice they can render to
thoie who employ them, it is to be fet
down to the account of roiiy nothingneis.
It is on themie,yes the difsrace recolls !;
for the reflection eafly reprelents itielf TO
every thinking mind, that tbgle 4vbo a
dsls h6syy zv,5en tby pagsG ii, weula
abzJe b01cer could they attain H., and
therefore they may as we'll take as &c
neral motto aorall fuch papers, WE AND
OUR PATRONS, ARE NOT FIT
!. TO BE TRUSTED WITH POWER.
There is in America, more than in any
other country, a large body of people
who attend quietly TO their farms, or fol
low their ie.eral occupations, who pay no
regard 10 the clamours of ANONYMOUS icrib
blers, who think for themfelyes, and
Judge of government, not by the fury OF
newipaper writers, but by the pruden,
frugaIiiy of Its meafures, and the encou
ragement it gives TO the Improvement and
PROPERTY OF the country, and who, ata-
ing on their oqun judgement on Whole
Judgment then, pray j never come for.
ward in an election, but on fome great
occa6on. When this body moves all the
little barkings of fcribbling and witlefs
ours pats for nothing. To fay to this in.
dependent defcription of men yeu msa furu
ant /aeb orJucb peylnos at The next rleRioa
FIR they bau< taken Eff g-f4t mary take
and leNsned The expeaees Of government ,
they baVe ajfmOsd my /oa, o. my 6,0tdtr
az myhLf, t,om a lae,atipt office IL rubiek
there qoas nothing to do, is to thew the
cloyen foot of faction, and preach the Ian
guage of ill difguifed modification. In
every part of the union this faction is in
the agonies OF death, and in proportion
as lis fate approaches it gnafhes its teeth,
and fruggles. MY arrival has truck it
as with hydrophobia it is like the Eight
of water to canine madnefs.
As this letter is intended to announce
MY arrival to MY friends, and to MY
enemies, if l have any, for 1 ought to
have none in America. and as introdueto-