Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-02-10


Gratis OF. Jacobins. Without making any
claim fof eulilves, though it has been
Our ambition TO place The Palladium in
fuch good company, We may confidently
aflert, that in the Cen.m<i, in Hudion
and Goodwin's Connecticut Cexr~xf, in
the New Turk Evsning PsR, and in The
Gazette Of .tbf U.ied States, printed at
PhiladelI hia, there have been, fnce the
fourth Of March lat, fources Of able in-
genious political edays,- Astounding in To-
lid iuformatioq and elegant writing. :,
1t is no LET'S true, that although ,hefe
performances have charged Mr.. Jeferfen
and his party with vavious great INTAKES,
and iosne fill greater violations Of con-
ftiturional duty, yet no, one cIolely srgu-
incentive or even plauGble defence has sp-
peared in the .4nrs,a or Chronicle. The
farmer has taken the mof pains, and
fpread himielf over the wideG iarface OF
paper, but we may boldly affirm, ;ha:
the very Jacobins think he has done them
more harm than good. The ob!cu.e, tur-
gid, vehement efays Of this writer were
probably more intended 10 nr1;ly than tic
eosvixet any body; for had the latter
been his dehgn, he is certainly man OF
fcme ienle and could have written better.
He chiefly concerns himieif to thew, how
many the Jacotins are, ard how terrible
to the Clergy and the Fe.e7aiiRs Their
vengeance will be. Accordingly he tends
in his No. 10, like lummoo, 70 be-
Ceiged town, to tell the garrfon Society
has made her paui., during which hort
period they may fu5mt and fad mercy.
Why is it that the Jacobin,, even
when hardly pulhel to rerl charge, on
their Chief, forbear to reafon /! why is it,
that, inaead o. lair argument, which for
ten months paf they Fave 70 deplo'ably
needed, they refort only to railing againis
Mr.. Adams and the Federaliit.? One rea-
ion fos this Gngular iorhearance may b.,
that the very fort Of mind thas fits man
to be a Jaccb;n und:s hin fer being
found reafoner. Jacobins have frsnge
vi6onary fyitem, tia, conGts in diicern-
ing exceptions and calling them rules, and
ia ioppodng the extreme cafes that never
happened, and yet affirming them to' Or
binary cafes. They treat experience juit
as fir was hypothesis, and the wander
ings Of their difordered imaginatious juit
as if they were maxims OF experience.--
If in2ances are called for, take MIR. inc.
Taylor and Governor Manroe, and ola
Mr.. Pendleton of Virginia, and the ami-
able Abraham Bilhop OF New Haven.
But the principal explanation We ihall
offer for the fience CT the Jacobin Ga
zet,es when fold truth and argument are
called for, was fuggea.d in the iira fen
tence of this eday- They make their ar
,icles to fuit their fort o: cuttomers.
When the political power in a republic
is given to the mere rabble, defti1ute alike
of property and principle, the very 6rt
thing that demagogucs viii attempt, will
be to infame and delude that rabble 70 a,
to get the eommand ef them. This is
obvious, and we have leen it tried with
fuccefs in New York by the Livingaons,
and in@Philadelphia BY Gov. M'Kean.-
The fold hou(eholders Of Baltimore we'll.
know who plays this part in that city
The attempt has been made with LET'S uni
form lucceis in Bottom, and the rea(on is,
Bottom has fubfansiai enlightened meehan-
les, who live in their own houies, and are
well.fed and we'll. difpoled.
l. may be Eaid, the doctrine of univer-
ial outrage is not adopted in this coun-
Try; property is qualification for a
vote and, therefore, the wretched fcns
of vice and ignorance have nothing to do
with our affairs, and are very properly
de}i,ute of all political power. The an
fver is, iuch is our theory, our prattice
ba. been too much to permit the jacobin
leaders 70 introduce illegal voters. Every
body knows, that abu(es arc great, and
that in the Glamour and co,,tu.ion Of an
election, regard to law and right are apt
~ he ,nfhed aide. Tn. qualifications.