Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-11-13


Imprened, as l was, with approximations
Of this kind, | had America conaantly in
mind in all the publications | afterwards
made. The hrA, and fill mere the e.
cond part of Rights OF Man, bear evident
marks of this wa,chfulneis; and the Diff
fertation on Firlt Principles Of Govern
ment goes more directly to the point than
either of the former. | now pas on to
other lubjeas.
Il will be fuppoied by thoie into Whole
hands this letter may fall, that have lome
perlonal reientment againa you; will
therefore lettle this point before proceed
farther.
If have any relentment, you laua ac-
knowledge that / have not been hatly in
declaring it neither would It BE now de-
clared tor what are private relentmeots TO
the public} if the caule of it did not unite
i;tslf as well viii, your public as private
character, and with the motives of your
political conduess.
The part acted in the American revo-
luton is well known; | lha!l not here re-
pear it. ! know ALTO that had it not been
for the aid received from France in men,
monev and fhiIs, that your cold and ua-
military conduct, as ! hail thew in TIE
couite Of this letter, would, 10 al proba-
b,iuy, have loft America at lealt ihe
would not have been The independent na-
ion fhe boz is. You iept away You:
time in The helo ill the finances OF lie
Country were completely exaauhed, and
yoa have but little lhare in the glory OF
the hnal event. II is time, FIR, to lpeak
The undifguiled language CT hiitollcal
truth.
Elevated to the chair of the Proficiency
you atIumed the merit of every thing to
youIieii, and the natural ingratisude Of
your contribution began to appear. You
commenced your preferential career by en-
couraging and fwallowing Ike groac& adu-
lation, and you travelled America from
one end TO the other, 10 put ,ouJleli IN The
way Of receiving it. You have as many
aJdreGe. in your chea as James the II.
AS to what were your views, 70. If ycu
are not great enough TO have ambition
you are little enough TO have vanity, they
cannot be directly inferred from exprel
fons of your own; but the partizans OF
your politics have divulged the fecfet.
John Adams has iaid land John, ii is
known, was always a fpellef after places
ADD Offices, and never thought his little
iervi1es were highly enough paid) John
has iaid, that as Mr.. Warrington had NO
child, that the Proficiency l1ould be made
hereditary in the family CT Lund Wafn-
ington. John might then have counted
upon fome Eneture for himielf and a pro-
yition for his defendants. He did not go
70 far as to FAY alto, that the Vice. Pref
dency lhould be hereditary in the family
OF John Adams. He prudently left that
to fand upon the ground, that one good
turn deterves anoher.a
John Adams is one Of thofe men who
never contemplated the origin OF govern
ment, or conprehended any thing of flFa
principles. |! he had, he mutt have feen
that the right to fet up and eRabiih here
ditary government never did, and never
can, exit in any generation, at any time
whatever, that it is of the nature Of trea-
fon; becaufe il is an attempt TO take away
the lights of all the minors living at thar
time, and of all fucceedirg generations.
1t is of degree beyond common treafon.
1t is fin againf nature. The equal
right of generations is a right fixed in the
nature of things. 1t belongs to the fon
when of age, as it belonged to the father
before him. John Adams would himlelf
deny the right that any former deceafed
generation could have TO decree authorita-
lively fuccellian of governors over him,
or over his children; and yet he ailuHes
the pretended right, trealonab!e as it is,