Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-12-01

| s'l'"'e' s'''as'ea It with alter,
Mons. .,ans, sac = one as II pleafed. VIRGIN,
ADOPTED ~ II and afterwards repealed !,
and the affair cams to nothing. Na ~
Il was then vlnblo, at LEAF 70 Mr.
that either congrsfs mua frame the l,m'
necehary for the union, and fend then NV
the feyeEal eates to be enregiaered w',b
ont any alteration, which would in ;,clf
appear like uiurpation on one part. ard
paiGve obedience on the other, or {om a
method mutt be deviied 10 acconplih ,hs
fame end by confi,u,iooal principles, A.,
the proportion | made in the men,or;,I
was, TO add eoufmeutGlzesyqature 10 Co..
grsE, 10 be eleaed by The Jrve,m aax,
Tie proportion net the foil APPROPRIATION
OF the gentlemen TO whom it was adar,r
ed, and the conversation turned on n.
manner ofbringing il forward. G. Morris.
in walking with Me after dinner wilhei
NE TO throw our the idea in the newt
papers. 1 replied that I did nor ike to
be always the propofer OF new things, ,ha,
il would have too aauming an appearance,
[tow modea and beddes that / did mr.
think tie country 7vas quite 2yrmg <nsup5
to Be PIT yigbt. 1 remember giving the
fame reaion to Doctor Ruth at Philadel
pha, ard to Gen. Gates, at whole quar-.
ters / fpent day on MY return from
Rhode. Iland, and ulpofe they will re.
member it, becaufe the obleryatlon lsemed
TO ttrjkc them.
But the entertainments encreaGn2, a.
they neceiarily mutt, from the want Of
better cenented union, the fate of Viz
GINA propelled holding commercial con-
yentisn, and that convention, which was
not efficiently numerous, propoied thar
another convention with more eytenGye
and better defined powers, hould be held
at Philadelphia, May 10, 1877.
When the plan of the federal government
formed by This convention was progoied,
and iubmitied TO the confederation OF the
feveral aates, it was trongly objected TO
in each Of them. But the objections were
not on federal grounds, but on conaitu-
tional points. Many were hccked at the
idea Of placing, what is called executive
power, in the hands ola Jingle individual.
To Them it had too much The form and ap-
pearance of military government, or
defpotic one, Others objected that the
power given to a PreGdent was too great,
and in The hands CT an ambitious detgn-
Ing man, it might grow into tyranny, as
it did in England, under Oliver Cromwell,
and as il has hnce done in France. A re-
public mua no. only be 70 in its principles,
bur in its forms. The executive parts of
the federal government was made for
mar, and thoie who confented againt
their judgments 70 place executive power
in the hands Of Jingle Individual, repof.
ed more en- the fuPpoied moderation Of The
perlon they had ia view than on the VIII
dom OF the msalure itislt.
Two considerations however overcan,e
all objections. The one was the abiolute
neceaisy of a federal government. TIE
other was the rational reflection, that as
government in America is founded on the
representative tyasm, any error IN the nrlt
efay could be reformed by The fame quiet
and rational proccis by which the conFi-
tuition was hra formed and that, either
by the generation then living, Or BY thoie
who were to fucceed. II ever America
lofea fight of this principle, ihe will beno
longer the lard IF liberty. The father
will become the ailaain cftl:e rights OF the
fon, and his defendants be race OF
llavess
AS many thoufsnds who were n'inors
are grown up to manhood fncc the name
Of fsdeyahV began, it becan,e necehsfy, Tor
their information, TO 60 back ard flew the
origin of the name, which is now no long
er what it originally was but 1t Is the
more neceGary to this, in order TO brig
forward, in the open face Of day, the apeie