Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-05-10

(My. G4iledge's Speech Concluded.
/ did not expect, Mr.. Chairman, to
hear this obferyarion from one OF the
friends of rhe executive. Since the fourth
of March lat | though, phjlolophy had
thrown her mantle over al that had pad-
ed tina, fins were to be forgotten and
forgiven, AMI to prove tae iiacerity OF
this forgiving fpirit fnners were to be
dittinguiihed by executive favors-one
would have thought 70 in reviewing ex-
ecutive condutt where perions had been
imprifoned and fned under our laws, they,
we know, were releafed where fines had
actually been paid, the officers of govern
ment had been ordered toresurn them, and
not only tories had been appointed to Of
fee, but old tories, rank old toriss who
had been baniihed. The prelent collector
of Philadelphia for the internal revenue
has beena appointed fince the 18th March
laf, and although he never, like the
gentleman alluded to, fhiyered lances in
fhe fervice Of his king, yet he was ac-
lively employed in the more lafe feivice of
giving information to the Britilh generals,
and marching before Sir William Howe,
and decorated with laurels he conducted
him into the metropolis of his native fate.
Sir, there are many ineances of this kind.
Have gentlemen forgotten the young En-
glifhman who was 70 buGly employed here
Taft winter during the Pfefdential election,
that in feeling him one would really have
fnppoled him not only a member of this
Houie, but like him of Teneaee holding
an entire vote at his command this
youngaer was fent our here by iome mer-
chants in England to collect debts due to
thcm in thi, country, and his father Whole
tory principles carried him from America
early in the revolution is now fulfilling
on royal pcnGon; this young man has
been appointed our conlul at London, and
the former conful, native and faunch
American, whole conduit had beeen ap-
proved by our merchants generally, has
been turned out to create a vacancy.
The gentleman from Virginia has re-
peated the obfervation of his colleague,
that the people are capable of taking
care of their own rights, and do not
want corps Of judges TO protect them.
Human NATURE is the fame every where,
and man is precifcly the fame fort of be-
Jug in the new world that he is in the
old. Tbs citizens Of ether republics
were as wife and valiant and far more
powerful than We are. The gentleman
from Virginia knows full well, that
wherever theRoman itandara was unfurled,
its motto Senatus PopuluCous Romani'
proclaimed TO a conquering world, that
they were governed BY chs. lsnate and the
people of Rome. But now, fir, the Ro-
man Lszaroni, who crouching at the
gates of princes palaces, begs the offals
of his kitchen, would never know that
his anceitors had been free-nos that the
people had counted for any thing in Rome,
or that Rome had ever her Senate, did
he not read it on the broken friezes
and broken columns Of the ruined temples,
whole fragments now lie fcattered over
the Roman forum. Sir the mournful hil-
tories of the republics Of Rome & Greece,
are not the OILY beacons which warn us
of the dangers Of infability and innova-
ton. All Europe was once free. But
where now is the diet ofSweden? Where
are the fates of Holland and Portugal,
and the republics of Switzerland and
Italy ? The people Of thofe countries
were once free and happy, but their GO
vernments for the want of fome, protecting
check fome Inherent principle TO defend
themfelyes, have all been fubveriel they
have all travelled the fame road-it is
as plain as turnpike-it is pointed out
by the ruins of other republics