Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-06-14
Fram The CHARLESTON CouRIrR.
OllsrDatiiens on DoRoy BAKERS Letter.
CONTINUED.

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WE have already declared our iincere,
undiitinguifhed opinion Of Doctor BAKER,
as he appears on the face Of his letter.
To repeat the praife we have jufly be-.
flowed upon Bis mtsntions woald be iu-
perAoous, or worle. We can readily con-
ceive, for il is matter of every day
obieryation in life, the fame perion to
be generally wife and fometiales mifta-
ken; TO contribute to the multiplication
evils, of with the mott benevolent inten.
lions /; 70 fight on the hde Of virtue, while
furthering the caufe OF vice and TO be
etsrnally fruRrating his owe koneit inten-
sicnsby the hmple unfulpicioufnef of his
heart. Hamanam sf erraye is ar apo
shegm fotrite that every PARTRIDGE ard.
STRAP have at their tongues ends; and
il truth there is this diitinttion between
The good and the wicked, and the former
are often deceived becaufe the CONTIGUOUS
rettitude OF their own hearts excludes ful-
picion, while the wicked, are never de.
ceiyed bur in thinking il good 10 deceive
others. Nothing is more familiar to our
minds, therefore, than deluiion, fuch as
thar uuder which Doctsr BAxEa writes.
But if his writing is not that Of moa
conlummate prattifed cunoing hypfocrite,
which no authority but his own lhall ever
make US believe, he will not longer re-
main in deluGon. Is
6 And cen his failings lcan'dto virtues Gde.''
This fen,iment Of the God like GoLD
SMITH iays mote than we could write
for years--a truce therefore with lucubra-
lion-let il iuffice to fay, that we know il
is the characteristic of good hearts to be
liable TO error in.the Election of their al
tachment that we iufpett is the cafe OF
the doctor; and that, 70 much do we re-
yersnee the honea prejudices and partia-
lities Of the heart, we would, if ii were
not deep public concern, and did no, To-
volve the rights Of Others, be the laf TO
break the happy generous deluhon.
But the fabjeets hehas touched upon, are
hieh matter, and mutt rot be filtered &c
mingle with atoms, and run on the fur
face Of the general current of unnoticed
Gertions.
II COTS US little effort TO oblerge, that
inthe manners OF this gentieman's favoar-
lite, Mr.. Ieferipn, there is much of that
which not only can captisate the many,
bot may captiyate thofe who rife above
The multitude. Deportmsnt commonly
genteel, afability of dcmeanor, courteiey,
kindnefs, though it ihouid he only affect
ed-thefe muf pleafe any one and ihould
the man be willing to ftoop to court the
5 vulgar, theie, with tolerable knowledge
OF the aippant common place Of fictitious
writer's, reformers, reyolution-mongers,
deiifs, and a,heias If accompanied with
the appropriate. grimace which apes
Gncerity, will do wonders. Thofe ex-
ternal Accomplishments, however hollow,
mua, in point Of e6sa, be what they are
reprefented, and the more they arelo, the
I1ore dangerous thcnotions and conduct of
thar mac mutt be who poaeiles them, if
his principles happen to be at bottom bad.
Such qualities are the cobwehs, in which
the innocent, fupid, buzzlng flies q po-
pular politics are cnmelhed, and Aimfey
though they are, they hold their long leg
ged, querolous priloners fat enough to
difgracs them. 1t is men who are endow-
ed with fuch powerful means ofcajolement
and perfuafon, who in all ages, have
. fanped temporary currency upon the
wort principles, and blandilhed and tooth
cd their fellow citizens into love and ad-
miration, while they were hammering the
riyets hard and fat on their chains, and
while they were defsoying the very ele-
mcnts ofmoral order ard liberty. 5uljus
Cg/ar, while he was laying the founda,i-
on Of the empire, which trod down the
the lat hopes of the republic under the
60. &c dafaot;fro Aaftered aD,ea led and