Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-07-13

ity; and, ! am sorry to believe, sacrificed
thou sands OF our people to professional
frailty. The Philadelphians, with the en-
bellisnments of architecture and refine
ment 10 hydsaulicks, have introduced wa
ter into their city as a preventive But,
alas it has 10 effect; because the source
OF putsldity as in their necessaries where
the water never goes and | believe if
they made the SchuylkiIl ripple over every
stone, IN every street and alley iii their
city, while the weather is hot and there
remains such sources of human feces,
their people must die with yellow fever.
Il viii admit that the same heat which
evaporates the miasnata, will also carry
up the moisture on the irrigated pavement
and render the efluvia less active, but
it cannot take away the cause of the dis
ease.
Alexandria has arrived to rank and
Importance in the. commercial world which
must soon invite considerable populate
on. ! do sincerely hope her municipality
will benefit from the errors of Philadelphia
and Baltimore, and avail themselves Of tie
experience OF older countries, so that they
may be able to perpetuate the salu-
bri1y for which she is SO cninently distin-
guished.
VIM. BAKER.
Maryland, Prime Gsorge's
County, Jaly 9.
WHAT Dodor Johnson is related by
Boswell to have said Of Foote, the cele-
brated mimic, may be applied with some
truth to the democrats. IF you get
him pinned up in a corner, (said the
3" Doefor) he is still sure to escape he
is sure either to slip between your legs
9 or leap over Your head" Thus it is
with them, when they find one line Of
conduct unpalatable TO the people, they
immediately assume another, making up
the deficiency of principle and wisdom
with cunning, or as the old fable hasit,
eking out the hons hide with the tox's
tail.
1t must be remembered that the party
to which we allude die, one and all, with
their whole might oppose the adoption of
the federal constitution: Thar after it
was adopted, they necessarily opposed the
persons whose wisdom and industry had
carried it through: That the head of thar
party, in letter to foreigner, stigma
tized it by the name of an anglo monar
che, arlstocratic government, and other
terms Of contempt and dislike-and that
every thing the party dare to do, Las been
done to frI.ter it away.
1t must be remembered that tie name
of Federalist, which the Fa.ty endeavor
to have considered as a term Of vile re-
proach, was the name bestowed on the
friends and forwarders Of that constitute
on and that the term Anti Fedcralist
speaks for itself, being assumed by them
when they did not think it their interest,
as they do now, to conceal their hostility
to it. 1t must be remembered, for many
months have not elapsed since the words
Federal, FederaIist and Federalism were
never mentioned unaccompanied with the
worst kind of reproach, or by wihes for
their ACKNOWLEDGMENT as " Anti Fede-
ralism triumphant" the sun of Fede-
raism has set''---'s all infamous federal
meetings" sc. &c =!
And lurely it can never be forgotten,
that Walhingto ton was the perpetual, never
failing theme of their reproach, csnlure,
invettive and adherence. Canth inyec.
tiyes poured forth upon tnat luxurious
character, ia certain papers, Whole names
we purpofely omit, by peIfons enjoying
the favour, the patronage and the rewards
ofthat party, and the great nan who heads
it, be forgotten by Americans Can the
rewards believed upon the author OF the