Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-08-18

sfRoM The PALLADIUM.
HiNTsRoR ANEW History OF
sTHE s REVOLUTION.
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You can ffsarcely liarn with patience to
Yny excnie for the revolutionary French.
men, that they have concluded their race
Of kdert with tbsgoyernment Of one man
lad he military defpot. Yoa eem to
forget that things there have come ,otheir
natural termination. To fir up the pea.
ple, by AGING on their hopes and fears,
making them fear and hate the govern
ment in being, and deGre the entertained
exerc;fe CT their own power, is the hIis
Rep. II willfoon be found thar what they
70 much defre, by a little boldnefs and
excrtior, may be obtained. Forth rufhes
a mob, in confequence, bawling, no mat
Liter what, liberty, bread, no taxe5, nojSli-
eay, no bsRAt, "koad, bleed, Ia, ,ssk-
jag Mg0d," as sHAkrsPRARE Jays, "m
qrs@ tie %ySuax; fqix tbat Eozk NJ b.
nor" This is the fecond fep. Thsmen
who contrived the mob, Of couris take,
The lead in it. They. choofs a Committee
of fafety, who are to act for the people
A tyranny is thus aaumea, and placed in
the fewea hands of any form in which Il G.
yer appears. 1t is too fimple, & is Toe ca.
ly of accels TO new rreteuders, to l.a long.
a new mob is convened ard appoints fune
additional members of the committee or
diimiGts fome Of them, as the manner of
the popular rafions direa. Thee paai
ons are thus fovereign, and as they are
row wanted they NIT be excited 70 fury.
As focn as the old government is,ds.sss the
fcrambie will begin among the ~pre.enders,
TO the rower of the people ; & in the 6rt
itages of revolution, men will be enrolled
to defend liberty, and thus become preso-
rian guards, JaniIayies, Marfeilles cut
Threats, no ratter What you call them,
but in ef.d military power to govern
the State. This is the third aep. In
fead of firing up the pafions of the MATS
of the people, which by fix months o fmob-
bling, and plunder;ng, and murder, will
begin 10 hiink from the work, the DEEPER.
ADDE'S, who never tire in fuch work, being
gathered together in the patriotic guards,
will perceive tha. they hold the foycregn
fw2y, They Will call for the fruits OF
piIlase and profcription. Tbs c ommittee
men will at ira be confsasra,es with the
Generals Of the patriotic guards, or rather
they will be thcmfe'ves generals. Caths
to live free or die, will multiplied till
the Ky fecms to grow hazy with perjury.
All property will be declared lacred ; All
pubic funds and flock of every kind will
be boaGtui.y pronounced, by decree, un-
er the fafeguard Of national faith. AT.
the momea. oflodng its morals & property
mech will be laid about the ~fecurity and
improvement Of both. For 6on, as in
France, revolution will make paper mo-
ney, or in fome other form will promie
to make the poo. rich, and will certainly
make The rich poor. The convention or
new liberty a~fTembly, vii! ieem to govern,
but viii i,lelf be governed by cabal of
lis members; and as ,hefe will fall out a.
mong themfelves, banilhments and afrsfi-
nations will multiply, till, at laR the ar
my is alone relied on as capable of giving
liability to the reigning party, and of pre-
venting the return or the ~afcendancy of
thoie who will be called counter. reyolu,i.
oniRs-mcnarchi1s enemies of Liberty,
Sc.
All the world will fee, and the officers
and folders of this army will fee as foon
as any people in it, that the power to fet
up, and to pull down, and to hold up after
having fet upis in the army. The mott
popular General becomes fole tyrant. He
immediately iets himfelf to gain she other
Generals, and to give fuch reward, and TO
hold out fuch hopes to his troops, that they
feel an intesea in his government. They
become his partners, and will indulge a
pride IN their own power and unrivaled