Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-03-02

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The foregoing intelligence mah afford
.pieafaFe 70 eyeryfriesa Of Tie Contribution
and Of tbs NAlpqal Geyefnment~Web Be-
lieye Esmly thar the tide D, Demseravepe-
y. svbey< I<gix, to <5b. Rational and
confederate men perceive that our spIefent
qaaek .legiGators, our governmental noun-
tabsnks, in. their. wild ieheuss of.ianosa-
tioD on the Contribution and laws Of the
United States, are going ,oofar for men
who are attached 60 q a.eady; iseand
permanoat fyatem sof government. Rapid
and material rcha.gss iusthe municipal re-
gulations Of locie.y, may very we'll fuit
a fet Of lieculators-may iuis men Of def
perate fortunes--mnkrupts. in character
and forrune-b,t commerce, manufactures,
the arts and consequently agriculture, ne
yer can fourth where the laws are Auetu-
ating-where no confidence exits IN the
wihom, the integrity, or the Resdineis
of the fupreme authority. -
To the Halcyon days Of Wafhington's
administration, we look back with min
giea yenerstion ard refpect-When ihall
we seafe TO feel the malignat influence of
the Moaa Of Democracy /? When will the
Sir gf t,u. Federation again ariie to
chale away the ihadows thar now darken
our political horizon, and to difufe the
Cheering beams of Pleafure, of temperate
liberty and focal harmony -
That period we hope is not far diaant.
TIE lcramble for Office is nearly over;
there has been /one fucceisful purluits but
mare shagrin ana diiappo n5ment- The
ast,9;adiced begin to open their eyes and
ak, 4vhere are all thoie bleilings with De.
mocrscy promifed from the neaO ordf,sf
tbng4. The bousR patriot perceiyes in
the late Glamour againa the Federal ad-
minia.ations, no,hing but the outcry OF
As/b<,ute characters, of interefed office
hunters, of ambitious demagogues, Whole
Object was poquer and p,eft, in purfuis Of
which--truth decency, private character
and loeial harmony, were all fported with
and iacrihced.
.a3 (Com. Adv.)
Captain Cook, Of the hip Diana arriv-
ed at Baltimore, itates that On the evening
Of the 9th of February at s P. n. fpoke
fch'r. Nancy Morris, from Natchez,
bound so New York; while, in the att.of
lpeaking, we were paling each other in
oppoite directions, with . brik breeze
from the 'eaIfwafd he being under my lee
he called tome apparently in great confu.
iion, that fome one was overheard; l i'm.
tnediately hove my fails back, and lower
ed down my fern boat and tent it to the
ai1ifance ofthe drowning, whom we fhould
not havefound, it being dark, had he not
kept calling out be @eald dre7un. When
the boat came to him he deGred they
would take the woman in irf, although
he Iaid fhe was dead, which apparently
was the cafe !; when ihe was taken into the
boat there was not the leaf Ggn Of life in
her, but flle ioon came to when lhe got on
board of the fchooner.
Captain Morris informed ne that the
veHel rolling heavy to leeward, the wo-
man, who was raffeuger, fell overheard /;
the man was failor and paaenger, and
jumped Immediately over after her, and
Imported her under one of bis arms till
my boat took them up. /
auc coMMUNIcArroH.
Il appeas, that the Cotton tree and
lhrab and cotton wool of the United States