Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-06-21

by them, are OF no political "ieet." They
| are all worhippers of Moloch and will
offer up our children in iacrifce.
This is the great political problem,
which all Europe, all enlightened men,
.nua be anxious TO fee refolved, as it will
be, by time and experience Whether a
country, once delivered over TO It's patti
ons, can be recovered back or, whether
! it mutt run the race of violence and ruin
that France has jua fnilhsd ; Faeihs de-
Genius avermi;. Sed rev9eare graaum biz
labor boo opUs Ell.
One caule of French tyranny is that
Frenehmen are vain of military glory.
| Their pride exults more in their regimen
| tai colors than their national rights.
They had rather fubjetf others to Aavery,
than enjoy liberty themielyes. We are
MOTTO likely as they to extol a tyrant be-
cauie he is great general and conquer
er. We have little location for fuch paf-
Gons--litte opportunity for their exerciie;
and our Rolands and Condorcetts are not
men of the fword. The fnell Of gun. pow
der is fuppoied to be peculiarly oHen1iye
to their nerves.
Our citizens are more difperfed. They
live leis in cities--more on farms, than
the Frenchmen; and the yeomanry, Goods
chofen people, fever he had chofen peo-
ple," are not naturally jacobinic. 1t re.
quires no little labor of the Farmer and his
Hgis to keep milerable remnant of ia
cobinifm alive in the Country of Worcef-
ter. As the fettlements grow old, and
become well civilized, il is oblersable,
that Jacobinifm declines. There is ma
nifet connexion between this and barba-
rifm. As the whilky counties Of Penniyl-
vania improve and learn they will rife a
bove Gallatinifm and M'Keanilm.
The new lettlements of our country are
continually advancing tobeold iettlements,
ard the darkness Of faction is gradually
Frightening.
Experience too may be expected to do
fomething. We may be fupPofed to learn
fomething of the character of the men who
are patriots BY rnds. Credulity, iome-
times detecting impolure, will fhut lis
lips and refnfe TO iwallow patent poifons.
If little is to be hoped from that lource,
and there is not much, we may truf the
men of ienle and virtue will looner efpy
and more relolusely oppole democratic de-
luton than they have done. For, in
1894 and 1875, many of the men of fenle
were as much dspes to the maxims of de-
mocracy, and as much infatuated with the
ipirit of France, rs the mere rabble. They
have feen their folly, and their repentance,
though late, has been deep, and vii! be
profitable.
Virginia, alto, with AN intereR Ct its
own to leaen the Rrength and efficacy Of
the union, will be placed on new ground,
other fates are riiing in point of numbers,
of people and Importance. Kentucky has
a vaf territory, and will not be always
fatellite of the ancient dominion. Virgil
MIA has u representatives N. Carolina,
New York, Pennsylvania, and, perhaps,
kentucky, will foon approach near to the
Virginia fandard, and they will affect TO
be her rivals long before they are her
equals. This immenie preponderance of
Virginia will fink, and even Che will
need the union more, and govern it leis,
than lhe has done. Whether theie great
tates will join to govern It in partnerlhip,
we prelnme not 10 conjecture. Another
reafon that may, and probably will, ope-
rate 70 raile the union in fome authority
over the great Rates, is the colonizlng
and conquering ambition of France
Fifty thoufand French and Negroes in
Louifiana might politely bring Virginia
to think the energy of the union good
thirg.
Yet as long as the government of our
country fhall be placed in the hands ofnen
who pretend TO refped nothing but the
popular pallions, who, by affecting to let