Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-08-13

become pecekaris q life. And, r,oreo-
yer, I gfeaily fear we fhall by and by.
fome of US at lealt, be brought down low
er ard lower, 6nce the repcdo of the Ju-
dietary law, dearoying the p~prightnefs OF
judges, By not having it IN ouraPower to
recover debts due as from fhole in power
who are friendly to this change; for what
chance fhall any of US, who are obliged 70
work at our trades for our daily bread,
Rana i, Infringing CT defendins::a iuit againit
any member of Congrefs or any Of his
friends, before judges who hold their off,
ces according to the prefent plan, at the
p~l.afure Of that Congrefs, in which he has
a feat, and by his influence may have them
trunrd out, il they fhould gain his hatred
by pafing judgment againa himl What
then, / ak in the name Of common fenic,
can be the cauGe of the Mechanics luter-
ing themfelves to be thus led a4ray from
their W true interefsby their defguing
leaders, mounting into power on their
houlders, and putting their W ~favori'es
into offices Of profit ; lfyou or any of
Your correspondents can tell me, you will
sery much oblige, 81, ~ /.
A MANUFACTURER.
Augua 8, 1907. i:
We are quite at a lois to aaignour cor.
refponden, the manufacturer" any good
r~eafon, why the mechanics o four country
hould have ever been dil1atisfed with the
late federal administrations, or ihould have
wihed to bring about The pelent demo-
cratic order OF things. Certain 1t IS, that
the former were the. beA friends, & the lat
ter are the WORT enemies to the mechanical
as well as the other interees of America.
The Virginians now rule the land, Sc there
are fcarcely any among them, who know
or who do any thing in manufactures
Or Mr.. Jeferfon's own opinion, we have
the beR evidence in writing rnder his
" hand. In his book ,d" Notes on
Virginia." publihed a graf while ago
before he and his friends fornd it necef1ary
to court the mechanics for elcdioneering
purpofs, there is the following pafage
which we have extracted OUT of much
more injurious abule which h has thrown
OH manufacturers & tradefma in general,
and which mutt be TOO Plainl! underlood
by their good fenfe to need any comments
for its explanation : In page I66 Mr..
Iefferfon fays While we have land to
labor then, let US never with TO fee our
citizens occupied ct a work bench, or
twirling a diaaf:. Carpenters, maions,
fmiths, are wanting in hufbandry : buff,
lib. general epps,afions Of manufafH't let
oat qvork@ebs remain in Europe. hH1tt-
Ter TO carry proUJoss and natrriGA 10
4vorkmen ttere,> than to bring them to the
provifons and materials, and with them
their manners and principles, The lois
by the transportation of commodities
acrofs the Atlantic will be made up in
happiness and permanently Of government.
The mobs of great cities, and jul 70 much
to The fpPort Of pure government, as 6rs'
do to the arength Of the human body
Ate. all this we cannot fee how the
honsR pride of the mechanics fhould b
~reoenciled to a PRECEDENT, who has thu
tried to ruin the very means of their live.
likoad, ard who difdsinfuly treats then
as the " me5s'' and I" G,xs'' of the coun.
try. >, ~