Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-10-25
Frsmh GAssut IF tie United statf,.
TOM PAINE,
I1vited to tbs eeautry B, BIS Rigbt Wor-
lily and aGe aionate Friend,
T. JEFFERSON.
No. VIII.
TOM PAINE,

MIR. Jeferfon and his party relative to the
contribution of the United States. Not
! an eHential part of it is 10 remain until
| paired.
The magiaerial chair Of the proficiency
is to be converted into whirligig, a
play thing for boys: each demagog ne
muf have an opportunity to fep in, take
fwing, ana then fand our Of the way
till all have had their turns in the iport.
This is called the principle of rotation in
office.
The fena.orial branch Of the Legislature
is to fnfer an innovation no Ieis incontiit-
ent with The principles Of our Government:
an innovation which if made, as the feet
intend, will render the fenate nullity,
by dearoying the balance for the prefer
walton of which that body was wifely
coaGituted, and without which the 60
vernmenf, in its prefent representative
form cannot exit.
The judicial department, by making
The judges elective at fhort intervals, is to
be rendered worle than merely ulelefs 1t
is to be made an inarumeat Of tyranny and
vengeance in the hands OF a majority of
the Legislature. Let This gyeQt 4vork Of
rxtormatim jo happily commexeed, be once
completed, and we lhall ipeedily hear a
voice from Virginia, "Ihe Pbil9mesbe
upoa tire. Sama/5uh" Then indeed we
may awake but the freDgth of the union
will be gone: it will depart with the pre-
tent contribution.
There are men among thofe who Win
to prslerve this government, and who are
consequently oppofed to the dearuetive
policy of Mr.. Jeferlon and his feet, who
yet imagine that tie fource of all his milf
chevous fchemes is confined to his head,
and that his heart is innocent of the ruin
with which we are shreatened. TheEe are
kindly difpofed to alcribe all his errors to
the childilh whi.ns and yifonary dreams
Of a fpeculating philofophif. Whole head
has been turned by contemplating man as
advancing with rapid ttrides TO fate of
perfection, in which every one, by kind
of inlfintt will become moIaiit & faref-
man, in which /eJ-goverrmext will be the
only government necenary to the iafety
and happineis of iociety: A fate of things
in which, ifany individual, {" in moments
of error and Alarm" lhould fray from the
path of duty, no'hing more will be necel-
fairy to reclaim him, than that he fhould
be arraigned (not at the bar of an anglo
monarchico- ariRocratic judge, butj at the
bar Of PUBLIC REASON. Men who cha
-itably hold ,hefe opinions of Mr.. JeHtr-
fon's conduct imagine that he wilhes to get
rid ofour prelent contribution, and to iub-
ititute one by which the Senate thall be
newly elected at the end of every two
years, and by which the Judges fhall be
rendered pallive infruments Of vengeance
in the hands of indicative naiorities, for
no otker reafon than that, in the iategri-
ty of his heart, he really coniders the
ienate as too ariltocratical for the benefit
of the country, too widely diitina from
the other branch of the legislature and
the judiciary department as too indepen-
dent of the Legislature for the due and
faithful execution of law and juftice.
Such opinions of the chief magiara,e Of
the country, when none other can be en-
tertained without impeaching his heart
and his integrity are honorable to the Diff
appointment Of thole who hold them.--
Time was when we alfo believed that the
WORT of MIR. Jeferfon's character was
Judgment perverted by exsravagant theo-
ries, and beclouded by the mias or
Of philoiophilm.-- Our opinion has been
changed and we ihall nov take the H.
berty of going little OUT of our way for
the purpole OF lhewing on what we ground
the conviction thar Mr.. Jeferlon's Object,
il the charges which have been contempla-
ted, is nothing LET'S than TO enervate the