Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-05-07
EaoM THE New-Yosx EVENING rosr.
THE EXAMINATION.-C0neladsd.
NUMBER XVIII.

merit, for circumstances of eqaivocal or of
friyial value. With pompous abfurdity
are we told of the (" malh5Acatiou IF
aqes, lglfepnblt of ba5piasls," las if this
lulcepsibility were a privilege peculiar to
our climate" babitaated to /eJf-gsVeru-
meat, and Valxixg its bs,fxgs ab0Ve all
price" Fortunate will it be, il the pre-
TENT favorites of the people, do not, before
their reign is at an end, transform thoie
blefIings into CURES, 70 ferrous and heavy
as to make even deipotifma defrable re-
fuge from the EIyGum ofdemocraey.
In country, the propendties of which
are oppoied even to neceaary burdens, an
, alarm is attempted TO be excited about the
general tendency Of government, "to leave
20 labor the JmGlsf portion OF It's earnings,
on which ii Can iubGf, and to GENUINE The
yeGdae of which it was inftiruted TO guard"
II might have been we'll, to have explain.
ed whether it is the qvbols ofth earnings
of labor, which government is infituted
/ 20 guard, or only the ,sfaae after the de-
Quoting what is aees0ay to enable it to
fulfil the duty of protection. Repreien-
tatiycs who >ihare with their conitituents
in an executive jealouiy OF executive abufes,
are cantinsly admoniiAed to- circumicribe
Discretionary powers over money - tho
they are known to be already 70 limited,
as that the executive, even en- the psolpec.
of rupture with a foreign power, would
nor pof1efs the means OF obtaining intel
ligence the mott necefary for the. proper
direction of its meafures. That the new
administration has not boldly invaded The
laws and withheld the funds applicable
20 the payment of principal and interef
of the public debt, it faltidiouly proclaim
ed as evidsxee thar /" the public faith has
been exae7ly maintained" The praife of
afpirisof economy is attempted to be
gained, by the iuppreaion of triAing
number Of officers, "a majority OF whom
had become unnecedary by the mere change
of circumstances and by declaiming, with
sGe6aation, againtt "tbe multiplication Of
officers, and the mereaE ofexpenee." The
proportion to reduce our Insignificant mi-
ktary xRabkjGment (the autaal number of
troops probably not exceeding that which.
is intended to be retained cannot be fug-
geaed, without tickling our ears with the
frite but favoritc maxim, that g a ,fand-
ing army eug6t not TO lie kept Up in time Of
seae<.'' To make difplay of concern
for their neutrality-suspicious., manu-
failures. commerce and navigation are in
troduced amongf the pageants OF the
piece; but, except as !" to protection
from e0/aaI embarraaments," we are ia
gaciouily informed that thefe" GREAT
.YILLARs Of sgy property, ought to be
left to take care oftbemjefves.' The carry
ing trade, however, fsens TO engage more
folicitude no doubt that we may be ter
rihed by the expectation of future evils,
from a much traduced infrument," which
in tme paf, has done nothing but good
in fpite of the. gloomy predictions OF pa
triotic feers.
Such are the minor features of this Gu
rious performance. Had thsfe been Its
only blemithes, regard co national re-
putation would have forbidden comment;
but connected as they are with icherpes of
innovation replete with great preient milf
chief, and fill greater future danger; de-
figned as they are to warmth over Pro-
ieets which threaten to pEecipltate our ma
ton from an inevitable height of profperi-
ty to that low and abjett fate, from which
it was RATED by the efablifhment and wife
administration of our prefent government;
they became entitled 10 notice as addlti-
email indications of character & difpofition.
The merits of the meifage have now
been pretty fully diicuded; but before 1t
is dilmiGed, it may be ufeful to take a
view of il in another and different light;