Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-09-04
FR3M THE PALLAD1UM.

FR3M THE PALLADIUM.
For a people to look back and con!ideI
IS the only way to profit by experience.
Let Us look back to.;he fee promifss that
were made two years ago, if we woald
only let Mr.. jefsrlon be PRECEDENT.
Warrington, Adams and lheit g fe2, f"
the democrats iRGGed were monarchias,
and no men were truly friendly to The
contribution, or fl to be entruiled with it,
but Ms. Je4arfon AID bis party. The pr
ME was made and repeated thouland
times that the contribution ihouId be treat
ed by Mr.. Jefer(on with more reverence
and caution, guarded with more vigilance,
and fortified with &ronger ne5c defsnces,
than could ever be expected from the fe-
deral administrations. Compare experience
with prophecy.
MIR. Jeferlon has turned out officers and
flied their places in the recefs of the le-
nate, thereby doing alsae, an4 by fetch,
what the contribution has inveRed the e.
nate with the advilory power to adif in
doing, or to hiode: being done.
He has recommended the repeal Of The
Judiciary law, and fgned the aGf for its
repeal, asainit the plain letter as well as
ipirit of the contribution. Read Mr.. Bay
ards, MIR. Rurledge's aad other federal
fPeeehes, and let democratic obGinacy re.
main obttina,e as il nut be- bind it can
no longer be. IN eishsecn months the
Contribution has (ulf-red more blows and
more wounds than in all The other twelve
years OF IFS exiitence.
Mr.. Jeferlon's naturalization was, we
were ted, 10 fecure peace ard harmony
at home. Yet, il fatt never did political
-dilcord run higher. Never were the "a.
COLLINS more rancorous, they are 70 fierce
they cannot even refrain from backbiting
one another. Never before did 70 large
and io-enEightened a portion Of our cisl-
,zens cenfare the government. There is
no DEPOT in Eugpe, the prefent king of
France excepted, andperhaps it Is not ne
ceaary to except him, who wog!d with 70
much leyity and prefunlpsion as Mr.. Jar
PERSON has done, afront the fenfe and
morals, and alarm the ferrous apprehenG-
orS Of the wife and honelt, and wealthy Of
his tubietts. Inttead of the promi(ed har-
mony being rsttored to focal intercourle,
there is at prelent probably no govern
ment exiting where 70 few perfons hearth
ly concur in fupport of the ruling admi-
niaration. As Mr.. Burke lays, it is an
administration formed in contempt Of the
peoples election, becauie dcdutting the
blacksvotes, it holds by force Of the fuf-
frages Of the minority. The people of
New England, WHO gave not one of thefe
votes, have neither lot nor portion in it.
Nevertheless, they viii, and they ough; I
TO obey it. But they will, and they
ought, at the next election to change it, 4
if they Gao, for a better: and, in the 1
mean time, it is proper to note the alto
mining deceit of the fine pronifes that
were made when II was in. progrels and
counting popular favor. By remembering
thofe promlfes, yet frelh, and marking
the facts yet frefher, which fhew them 10
be talle, The people will be lefs Liable than
heretofore to be deceived by the fame acts
and The fame let of deceivers.
At home they will fee our government
frittered away. Its revenue, that nobody
,elt the burthen ofpaying, trucked off for
popularity. A dramyof w. India pays
tax, adram Of whlikey is free. The back
soQdfln.n.w will, no doubt, like the plan
If drawing tribute from the middle and