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

back, after any things, bur Indians, once
or twice year for their miiitia-all
which they haze heretofore charged at a
dollara day, and taken their ea>5 from
III, United States trealury. The lords OF
Virginia loll ia their gilt coaches ta@: free
while al old widows bohea and brown
iugar in New England pay tax. This /,
| fquaALy. Surely the new men viii not
dilolve the union They want rs, to pay
taxes.
Oar government, hnce the new order OF
things, has lets force than ever from the
iwoFd. By difhanding the meagrc rcei-
ments OH The frontier, it has discouraged
yonpg men Of coed hopes from taking
commldlons ia a leryice that cannot be
| expected to lat year, The reanemb-
ling Of an army, if made receGary by the
threats or preparations CT a foreign patton,
would be more diGicult than ever. Our
navy has fcarcely the remains Of lie and
energy. Our treaiury is made lean by
the repeal Of taxes that the Virsiniaus
and the wsitern and ioatheyn States had
bat juR begun to pay. Yet the Chroni-
Gle, in its wiidonl, Rates how little they
pay and how much we pay, to reconcile Us
to The repeal. Our exigencies are 10 De
met By ruinous Glles of The Baak Stock,
by exPenliye new Dutch leans to pay of
the accruing Indictments. Our govern
ment ferns to get on ike an unthrifty
farmer, who {eils a piece Of Lad 70 pay
his taxes or hired men; or like tenant
who burns the boards and timber Of your
barn, and then boats Row littl, it COTS
him for fire wood. InRead OF regularly
accruing income from Bank Shares, and
internal taxes, already our retormers re-
f3ft to lhfts and temporary expedents.
They feem not TO look quite two years
forward. For if the mof nanifeG def
c;ency in the funds hculd appear, they
dare net lay new taxes. Their popuIari-
t. will not bear !ach !l2o:l5, and what is
the general intereG of America compared |
with great mans popularity
Lock from the icenes of diicord, cor
rup:ion AID difgrace a, home, and Zee how
we'll cur affairs Rand abroad. If Great
Britain be friendly no thanks to this mans |
naturalization. Surely his hlt!e policy
ofbuyins only French buttons 'or his fer
wants llveries has not won the confidence
and good viii Of that nation. Surely the
ignofanf ralh reiolplions of Mr.. MADISON,
framed and intended TO make war On The
B,itIih trade and manufactures, while
France was then al an open war with her |
fleets and armies, was not the mea{ure
that iaved US from a ruinous CONTEXT With |
England, and a fill more ruinous Deepen |
deacc On the terrible triendihip CT France. |
Not is owing 10 the federal policy thar |
we are now and have remained a, peace
with England.
Even with France, for whom our jaco-
bins now in power were 70 eager 70 devote
the United States to poverty, if not 70
even with France we are on
bad terms. Fame lays our miniGer al
Paris is treated very much as the French
Cabinet has been in the habit of treating
our MiniitetS. Our lhips and iailors are
leized in. the Welt Indies, and we daily
exPett hottie colony in LouiGsna.
Spain too conhlcates our property in her
colonial ports. Allowing that no man more
laments ,hefe ditaiters than Mr.. JaFrER.
SON AN allowance that is made, however,
Dolly for arguments fake nevertheless we
ZEE by the event the fallacy of the hore.
that were Two years ago boafed of bsins
realized if Mr.. JEFFERSON was PfeGient.
Our affairs cannot well be concie yed ,t
land woIle il relation to France and Spain.
boNAPARTR views our Jacob!ns, as he |
.oes thofe Of Paris, with contempt; He
would as ioon truf CoRDoRcET as Con.
ooRcET's friend Mr.. JEFFERSON.
Thus at home and abroad the citizens |
c,ryav ,ha Tcena with Acknowledgement ,,I