Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-06-19
FROM THE PALLADIUM.
THE APPEAL.

the charge of Monarchy, had not our own
fadexperience taught US that no frauds are
too palpabIe, no talihoods too grois, no
impoftions too glazing, to be played Oft
with fuccefs upon popular credulity.-
Of fuch fronger example cannot bepro-
duced, than the impu,ation upon the Re
deral Government, of an attempt TO intro
duce monarchy.
The motives of this policy are too OBJ.
vious 10 be milunderitood. Ihofe who
prattited il, were fully ienhble thas they
were touching certain invifible iprlngs,
whole vibration would be felt. They
knew, that the people OF this country,
hardly cold from the contelt with the
Brisifh King, had aaociated with the idea
OF monarchy, all the horrid forms of ~
ra0ny. On this fubjetf their fenllbilities
were lively, their preiudices fsopg.-
The /ouud oftbe 7vo,d was apt to itir their
fpirits,, and lead them TO fufpeet a thouiand
dangers, where none exifted.
The operation of the PailionS is fndden
and powerful, the procefs of tie under
derfanding flow and laborious. Hence
thefuccets Of Demagogues, Whole batneis
It is TO excite .the violent action of the
one, as the fure means Of diaurbing the
tleady operation of the other. The mere
parrot repetition of the word Monarchy,
has not been without It's effect. The tear
tul images of human calamity have been
aGembled at the found. Tho the mon
fer had no di2intt form, he was for that
reatou, the more terrible. Imagination
invefted him with unknown powers, and
clothed him with horror, fall her
own. A Jingle remark in this place,
will fhow how unworthy the motives are,
which induced the party TO propagate a
charge offo vague and malignant ma
t1re 1t is that the very exifence Of thofe
honef prejudices and feelings, which they
attempted to abufe, were ttrong evidences
that the danger did not exit and thus
their fuccefs has ierYed only to prove the
dilhonefy of their intentions. But the
reafon it has not been more complete is
that the actual fate of things in the coun-
try was fuch, as preaed home the convic-
ton, thar the acculstion was bafeleis, and
and dictated by the wort motives.
Few honef minds, therefore, have been
the victims OF this deluion 70 powerfully
has it been counteraefed by plain and OBJ
yious faas. When we proceed one fep
farther, and inquire into the reafons which
have been adduced in fupport of this
charge, we are loft in the void, and find
nothing upon which we can faAen our at
tention. 1t has always been made in ge-
neral terms, never reduced to ipecifc
form, which could be met and ianfwer-
ed, nor applied directly TO any individual,
nor Imported by any colorado pretence.
Here then we might retf, and wait till
one plauGblc realon, drawn from the ma
tural or moral condition of the country,
the views, dilPoGtions, genius, habits
OF the people, the nature The opera
ton of the Government, or of ancient
or modern nations lhould be brought for
ward. We may fafely challenge them
to produce one from either of thefe, or any
other foarce, to give the color of probabi-
lily TO the charge.
Perhaps we may be referred to the
fpeech of Mr.. Giles. Be it 70. 1t fur
niahes a Deceive proof, that neither he or
his friends believed, or even dared TO
make the charge expressly and directly.
When Mr.. Bayard, in his able and elo-
quent fpeech on the Judiciary, began his
reply TO the wandering aaertions, and
wretched inGnuations Of Mr.. Giles, he
made the following relnarksupon the fub-
jet in quefion: " Whatever impref1ion
it might be the intention of the gentleman
to make, he does not believe that there
exits in this country an anti-republican
party. He will not venture TO anert fuch
an opinion on the floor of this Houfe. -
IL L