Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-12-01

of ell iuch charatfeIs.
have had doubts of John Adams ever
aoce the year 1916. In conversation
with Me at thar time, concerning the
ramphlet Cosrnoa Sesfs, he cenfured it be-
rr,uir it attacked the Englifh form Of go
yernment. John was for independence
bscaufe he expected to be made great by
\, but il was NOT difficult 10 perceive,
3or the larlinefs Of his temper makes him
81 awkward nypocrite, thas his head was
as full Of kings, quecns and knavss, as q
rack of cards. But John has loft deal ;
4 at lesf Tom holds the knaves.
When man has concealed project IN
his brain that he wants to bring forward,
aud fears will net iucceed, he often begins
with il as phyiicians do by fofpetfed poi
5,n, try it 6ra on an anifnal if il agrees
with the ltornach Of the animal, he makes
further experiments, and this was the way
that John took. Ills brain was teeralng
with projects 10 oversurn the liberties OF
Americs, and the representative iyfem OF
government, ana he began By limiting il
il liltle companies. The iecretary OF J0bu
Tny, an excellent painter and poor poll
,ician, told Me, in the prefence of ano-
sher American, Dauiel Parker, that IN
company where himielf was prefent, John
Adams talked of making che government
hereditary, ard thar as Mr.. Wilmington
Ind no children, il ihould be made heredi-
tary in the family Of Lund Wilmington.
John had not impudence enough 70 Propote
himlelf in the fra inaance. as the old
French Normandy Baron did, who offered
10 come over to be king Of America, and
if Congrels did not accept his offer, that
they would give thirty thoufand pounds
for the gererohty of ii; but John, like
mole was grubbing his way to It under
ground. He knew that Lund Warrington
was unknown, for nobody had heard Of
him, and thar as the proficient had no chill
dren to fuccccd him, the vice prefdens
had, and if the treafon had fueceeded, and
the hint with it, the goldfnith might be
ient for to take meaiuTe Of the head of
John or his fon Q. for golden wig. In
tits cafe the good people of Bottom might
have had for king the man they have re-
jeaed as delegate. The representative
fyaem is fatal to ambition.
Knowing, as I do, the confumate vanity
of John Adams, and the lhallowneis of his
Judgment I can eadly picture to MY
SELF, thar when he arrived at the Fede.
raj City, he was i1rutting in the pomp of
his imagination, before the presidential
hoafe, or in the audience ball, and exuls-
ing in the language of Observation-Disclosures,
" Is no. ibis great Babylon that 1 5aS'e
brill for The b0nor Of my -suaissfy @ But
in that unfortunate hour, or foon after,
Johr, like Northumberland, was driven
from among men and fed with the ipeed
Of poit hnrle.
Some of John Adans's loyal fubjeas, 1
fee, have been to prsiens him an addrels
90 his birth day; but the language they
uie is too tame for the occaiior. Birth
day addreHes, like birthday odes, mould
NOT creep along like DROPS Of dew down
cabbage leaf, but roll in torrent Of poeti-
cal metaphor. will give them fpeci-
men for the next year. Hare i, IS:
When an ant, in travelling O.
yer the globe, lifts up his foot
and puts it again on the ground,
1t flakes the earth to It's center!
But when YOU, the mighty Ant
of the ealt was born, &c. &c.
&c. and the center jumped up
on the iurface..
IWell done. grog
This, gentlemen, is che Proper ayle OF
addrefs from 1velY 6,sd ants 70 the monarch
Of the ant hill, and as 1 neyer take pay
ior preaching, frGyias, politics OF poetry,
make you preiens of 1t. Some people
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