Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-09-09
LIBER TY's REAL FOES.

LISEK> NIfAA ToGO.
IF a State happen 70 contain within it
iuch men as CESAR and BoNAPARTE,
it is clear that il would be rather more
difncult to fecure the authority OF equal
laws than if no iach men were citizens.
For they would be TOO atpiring, and would
deem themlelves TOO great TO be govern.
ed: They would draw about them'a num-
Der of dependents, equally reitieis with
themielves, but Of LET'S capacity, and'1hus
form State within Stare-'hat1mt<,iam
in imberio, which has long been coniidef-
ed no lels the myfery than the curie OF
the people.
If free fate fhould remain free, It muf1
bend all lis cares to the checking Of this
Inbred evil-this propenGty ct the ambiti-
Gus men to form factions. More law,
ard more ieverisy in executing laws, will
be neeenary to the end of keeping the
pudlic Liberty fate, and the public tran
guilty undifnrbed, on account CT the am-
bilious great men whom egnal laws and
eguai liberty will 70, ia:isfy: They will
demand more than an equal lhare. II
happens therefore, as thing inevitable
thas the quiet citizens, whom the. very
mild laws would refrain mla fubmit to
more rigid laws, becauGe thele C4TsARs
and BoNAraRrEs of every fociety render
them receiiary. Thus the takers about
more liberty are The very men to force Us
TO take Ii? conteaiedlX wish sG. They are
the meu who 6re introduce tie idea and
propagate it, that any liberty is TOO much,
and The only rsRing place is, as in France
at this moment, in tn. tl!cnce and dark
NETS Of Defposi(n. THUS liberty is treat
ed iii,as mott pe.lons arc, by fslle friends !;
and thus too we Gee how federal conli-
tation Cor great States and little States,
includes asequals, Virgiaia and Delaqvars,
P<nsGlvania and Jeyy; the ClEsARs
and BoNAPARrEs, with the men CT peace,
the animals that Craze, are to lay down
with the BEATS ofprey. Is it not evident
that weak plan OF confederation expoies
the former TO be deyoured for upper.
And what are We to infer when Mr.. EpPEs
propofes to make the contribution weak,
bar thar Yirgiuia is become ravenous by
thirteen years confinement to veseta-
bic diet, and now demands feih. Eli
Their factions will rule, or an orderly 60
yernment will. In weak confederation
great States are 70 many organized factions.
They will rule in the name of tie Fede-
raj Union, but in manner utterly de-
Hrastive Of the rights and in the end Of
the independent exifence, of the little
States. Should not our gigantic filter then
reach her boys better than to prate about
her iecre,s out Of the family. Is it not
as plain as the Engliih language that the
ambition of Virginia is buiy now TO pro-
fit by the fhort opportunity of a democra-
tic reign that is lwiltly paiiing away, TO
alter the contribution 70 as to sfecure her
supremacy. Let thoie who think the pro-
pofed alterations too uncomfortable TO
make Virginia cur miRreE, remark, that
rhe treaties between Rome and La.ium,
and the States Of Etruria, thar placed the
latter at the feet of Rome, did not make
changes 70 great as thofe Propofed by Mr..
EppEs. There is but very little between
Virginia and the fovereign fway. That
little is the federal equality of the Sta.es.
That Mr.. EppEs would remove. They
are TO be deceived 6ra, and then led cap
tive and i'll triumph.
The principles of the French ani Areri-
Gao. revolutions.
Tk- ci.iz.u ofyeRerdap bas Tie f0lloEv.