Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-06-24

necefiitous dafhess for prefefnent have in
MANY inaances irreiiltable claims to gra-
tihcation, yet nevertheless an equal
y-loving nabob ever attracts the ho-
mage Of the highea condensation
And this appears TO be a general ienti-
nent Of the feet. Even our own REpuBLI-
CAN Governor, the expectancy and rofe
Of the fair State" has never been con-
fpicuous in act for his attachment to the
poor. Though we fhou!d wave as apo
criphaithe apotllem, of" thew me poor
man &'I'll thew you afcoundrel, = we have
vet upon record, objectionable evidence
Of his !" anti-republican tendencies" "He
propofed in the convention for forming
the contribution Of the fate, to annex a
qualification Of property 70 certain offices
and in his juneti0uary arrangements, he
has not only been remarkably partial to
men Of pclf but Teens to have conacered
its forbid ponefion as compensation for
the abfence of every eaentiaE qualification.
Whether the governor hold with the per-
fdent, the wealth in a jacobinic direction
! has rot Yet loft its influence upon man.
kind, and will do Z" yeoman's iervices"
at an election, ! prefume not to conjecture.
When we advert to his ayowed retpect
for the principle of rotation in office, we
cannot be 70 unjut to his iincerity as to
fuppofe, that he is or indeed that he ever
had any view to comPetitionas the eniuing
election. His reGgn4tion being of courie
the good republicans have no doubt an
eye on a luitable flcce!lor.
In contcnding tia. the favouring of
| wealth is not an Object Of policy, ! would
not be undeEaood to fay, that its prctec-
ton is aiiregarded, and that men Of pro-
per1y have no interea in its lupport. All
honef men, both rich and poor, have un-
additionally an in,eref in the maintenance
| Of fyfem which holds OF, equal protec-
| tor and encouragement to every deicrip-
ton and men know, that the principles
of diforganization and anarchy, whether
cherilhed for the purpoie Of producing a
revolution in property, CT only for lifting
certain nabobs into power, equally tend to
general ruin. They therefore let their
faces asaina the hypocrirical devices of
ambition and aya1ice, and cling to poll
cy which has promoted the PROPERTY of
their country, and is Toe honef to feelS
popularity through the aid G! duplicity.
Sho1ld tie gentlemen in power, VINO
boat that they poilels TIE confidence of the
people, conceive that they are treated with
too LITTLE rc!pee by shole who, in the ia
cobinic creed, are no part Of the people,
/ beg leave TO let before them iome traits
in the charter of CaSdinal Mazairin, as
drawn by De Retz. {" fIe turned religion
into JET. Nobody could be more pro-
digal of his premifes becaule he intended to
break them all. He loved himfelf TOO
we'll, which is natural to cowardly fouls.
He refpetted himfelf TOO little which is
the character Of thoie who have no value
for their reputation. He carried the tricks
of iharper into the miniilry, which none
behdes him has ever doae; and thoie tricks
made his miniiry even when proiperous
and abiolute, appear unbecoming, and bro't
contempe uponit, which is the WORT lymp-
tom that can appear in a fate, and of
which the i'll effects are the moa eaGly CON-
municatsd from the head 10 the reft Of the
body" FABRICIUS.
FpoM sur RAIaNCE