Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-12-06

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wife 10 live together, alter they Rad be-
come tired Of each other. There cannot
he esore beautiful akeoy. II was re-
dueed to practice; ard France, already
efficiently fertile OF pfofitution, was i'm
ncdiatsly filed with tirumpets. cackolds,
bslfarls ard divorces. Mir. Paine, with
great triumph, eoumera.es the number OF
eiyilws thar have been PRODUCED il Eng
lard by hereditary right. Very true
But if you mua have king, tie chance
is that there woxld have been ain.of
perpetual civil war, il that king vas TO
be chofen by ,hepeopls. Laugh as much
rs ca plesfg at the conceis Ct ra'ion's
berg transferred ike herd Of cattle.
But ii a king is to be had, let sim, BY all
mesns, be hereditary. Nothing Can he
more falfs or more lhalow than the ri.
dicule which his, in this infanee, besn
attempted by MIR. Paine,
The Other leg upon which Risbfs u
Man may be faid to tfand is e7aGI rflfre-
l1ut0'i0s, Upon this fuhjett Mr.. Pane
did melt completely exaiperate the B,l
,iih. As political gladiator, his merit
is of the highelf kind. He knows, be-
You'd mott men, both when and where to
itrjke. He deals his blows With force,
coolne(s and sexterity. But IN the pre-
lent cafe, the whole right OF his authority
Is turned aasinf hiE,feli. The federal &C.
vernment has not beredu2y king, nor
hou{e Of peers. The REPRESENTATION is
alonr as equal as it can be !; and YET,
Mr.. Paine tells US that The f,infifles q
'hberty qye,e expiring. We have neither
: king nor peers, nor rotten noroughs.
Fiow sf4en could thefe principles be upon
their death bed and continue 70 for thirteen
years In England, Mr.. Paine held up
America as the pinnacle Of perfection,
and he gives, IS a reafon for II, The TePub-
lican form her government. But, when
he comes to this country, the fairy ieene
vanquiihes; and republicans ere found to
be ult as coTruptable as the ref OF man.
kind. Equal reprefentation IS IN ittelt,
mott valuable and excellent thing, and 70
IS pure ipfing water. But the one will
no more lecure government from corrup-
lion than the ether viii give TO him
who drinks it ;nr1or;al life. The cyl
dence of Mr.. Paine himftlf, as advanced
in this letter proves that a conildera-
bic part Of Risbn'efM0n was piece OF
grofs deception. Nor IS there any thiDg
in the peculiar form Of the federal govern
mems that makes it more Liable than Others
to sbuses. We have contributions of all
kinds. That Of Virginia is as democra.
teal as airy body can with il TO be. Yet
a grea, Part Of is revenues have been watt
ed in the mott fooiifh manner imaginable.
Laws have paf or have been fnffered to
exit, that arc perfectly deitruttive to the
welfare of the country. If two hundred
years ago tie Britilh hou{e Of commons
had authorized debtor to ihoot the iheriff
that attempted to arrelf him if, when
mans ferysnt is hanged for crime, they
had burdened the public with the par-
chafe of another if they had taddled
merchants and ltorskeepers with an enor-
nous tax to pay for binding an armosy
thar was worle than pielefs in word,
ifparliament had framed iyiteTn of laws
for projecting the property Of frandu-
lent bankrupt, they would oaly have done,
what has been done fnce by the ahembly
Of Virginia. Ik:y would have buried
the axe IN the roof OF manufactures and
ana this the rotten borough parliamen;s
did not do. They never paf any law 70
Ike bedlam, BY ten thopflrd degrees, as
Madifon's ftheme Of emancipation, or his
gitt to Congress Of the North Weilern
territory.
Pennlylvanis has contribution greatly
different from that Of Virginia and,
fourteen wears aoo {be had another con